Ethan Coen wasn’t exactly a scholar on Jerry Lee Lewis. You wouldn’t even have called him a fan, really. Sure, the Oscar-winning filmmaker — who, along with his brother Joel, has given the world The Big Lebowski and Barton Fink and Fargo and No Country for Old Men and a …
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Maybe — hopefully — you’ve seen Jackass Forever in a crowded theater over the past week, laughing your ass off, tears running down your cheeks and onto your N95 mask. If so, then you know the furniture store gag: Head jackass Johnny Knoxville is in prosthetics as his old-man character …
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It was inching close to midnight after a long day of filming The Louie Show in front of a live audience. The crew was ready to wrap, and Paul Feig still had to reshoot a scene from earlier in the day where his character’s lines were filled with medical jargon. …
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Do you remember Alanis Morissette? Not the Buddhism-practicing, essential-oil-mixing, Earth-mother figure we know today. The first Alanis Morissette. The one who threw on Adidas low-tops and an oversized T-shirt and thrashed her hip-length, un-straightened, un-blonde hair around any stage she could find while absolutely destroying a hook about how her …
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When last we saw the gang from Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Andy Samberg’s Jake Peralta was passing his new baby son McClane —named, of course, for Bruce Willis’ character in Jake’s beloved Die Hard —off to wife Amy Santiago (Melissa Fumero) so he could watch a cell phone video of Captain Holt …
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Maude Apatow, the eldest daughter of writer-director-producer Judd Apatow and actress Leslie Mann, got an early taste of the indignities of showbiz. As a grade-schooler, she shot small roles for Kicking and Screaming, Talladega Nights, and The 40-Year-Old Virgin, only to see herself sliced out of all three. By the …
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The fantastic final season of IFC’s baseball comedyBrockmiretakes place in the early 2030s, in a world ravaged by climate change, income inequality, and an inescapable sense that the apocalypse is already happening. Yet there is still baseball, and the series ends on a hopeful note for its announcer hero Jim …
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Sports are shut down. Live theater is shut down. A visit to a movie theater sounds downright terrifying. Group activities are a nonstarter. But you know what we still have as America begins The Great Shut-In? We’ve got TV. Suddenly, the overwhelming quantity of television has gone from something that …
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About a mile out, the man says, they’ll put on the music. The kid looks confused: music? Just a classical piece — the boys love it. “Put on ‘PSYWAR OP,’ ” he barks into his headset. “Make it loud.“ The reel-to-reel starts up. Wagner’s “Ride of the Valkyries,” from the …
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The afternoon before Ramadan starts, Ramy Youssef is sitting in a restaurant in downtown Manhattan, dressed in sweats and a black Nike snapback hat. He’s loading up on food: a hearty stack of lemon curd pancakes, a side of turkey sausage, ketchup he liberally seasons with pepper. The 28-year-old has …
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