Lena Dunham and Antonio Banderas. The CDC guidelines put in place to curb the coronavirus pandemic have sent a ripple effect of delays and cancellations across the entertainment and sports industries. With over 72.9 million cases of the virus worldwide, celebrities and civilians alike are still trying their best to to hunker down at home, even as restrictions are being eased on a state by state basis. On March 11, Tom Hanks announced that he and his wife, actress and musician Rita Wilson, caught the virus while traveling for work, marking Hollywood’s first high-profile case of the outbreak.
Ralph Anderson (Ben Mendelsohn) and Holly Gibney (Cynthia Erivo) function in The Outsider more or less the same as in Stephen King’s 2018 novel, but significant tweaks to the characters underscore themes that are unique to the HBO miniseries. When it was announced that HBO had tapped Richard Price to adapt Stephen King’s hit 2018 novel The Outsider for a ten-part miniseries, it was clear that the author of Clockers and co-writer of HBO’s The Night Of would be adding his own voice to the project.
The most we see of Joe Alwyn in Miss Americana. If you were expecting to get a lot of new information about Taylor Swift’s personal life in her new Netflix documentary Miss Americana … you’re going to be disappointed. As has become her M.O. in recent years, Swift is quite tight-lipped about her relationship with actor Joe Alwyn throughout the film. She talks about winning Album of the Year at the Grammys (for a second time!
From one very under-the-radar art collector to Reese Witherspoon’s publishing mole. Rujeko Hockley at the Whitney Museum on October 11. Photo: Mark Peterson Rujeko Hockley at the Whitney Museum on October 11. You may have seen that we published a list of 49 exceptionally powerful New Yorkers whose names you’ve likely never heard. You can call theirs inside power, hidden power, stealthy power — but in every case, what they wield is a distinct, sometimes frightening ability to get things done in their respective universes.
Featuring fake K-pop bands like Only1, BF2000, Gottawakka, and Ki55, whose tagline is “we are 55 boys and we love you.” This piece was originally published in April. We are recirculating it now that Beau Is Afraid is available on digital. Spoilers ahead for the plot and ending of Beau Is Afraid.
Beau Is Afraid is a zany three-hour road trip through the most neurotic recesses of the male mind, and a project that writer-director Ari Aster has been carrying around with him for nearly a decade.
Spoilers ahead for the most recent episode of Game of Thrones, as well as A Song of Ice and Fire.
We knew Ramsay was beyond despicable. We’ve known him to flay men who surrendered to him, hunt down women with his dogs, torture and castrate Theon, and rape Sansa. And ever since Roose Bolton announced that his wife was pregnant, we have feared for that baby — partly because of Ramsay’s nature, but also because we know he’s killed a brother before: In the books, Ramsay also killed Roose’s previous child.
In honor of Allison Russell’s 2024 Grammy win for Best American Roots Performance, we’re re-running our interview about the making of “Eve Was Black.”
On her 2021 debut, Outside Child, Allison Russell vividly described escaping the abuse perpetrated by her white adoptive father and finding joy in its aftermath. The singer-songwriter opens her second album, The Returner, by attempting to turn a page on that story completely. “So long, farewell, adieu, adieu / To that tunnel I went through,” she sings on “Springtime,” over a burst of strings and synthesizers.
At one point in The Road Chip, Alvin the talking, singing, wiseass chipmunk finds himself seated on a plane in first class next to the director John Waters, who stares at him disapprovingly. Alvin thinks it’s because Waters is unused to seeing a chipmunk traveling in first class, but Waters shuts that idea down. “Actually, I recently rode next to the Chipettes,” the director sniffs, noting the name of Alvin’s fellow all-girl chipmunk pop band, “and they were ladies.
At 23 years old, Wiz Khalifa has already dropped a cornucopia of material both official and otherwise. Today, though, marks a new career landmark: Rolling Papers, his first major-label release, hits stores via Atlantic Records. Last night at New York’s Marcel Hotel, Wiz flashed a taste of that major-label lifestyle: the listening party.
On hand were requisites like mini-burgers and mozzarella sticks, plus cocktails arbitrarily renamed with references to the guest of honor (the “Waken Baken” was particularly tasty).
Amber Tamblyn. Any Quentin Tarantino fan worth her salt can tell you that Amber Tamblyn played Daughter of a Son of a Gunfighter in Django Unchained, and her dad, Son of a Gunfighter star Russ Tamblyn, played Son of a Gunfighter. What that same QT-obsessive may not know, though, is how the cameos came about. And so, when Vulture spoke to Tamblyn at a Cinema Society screening of Warm Bodies, we asked her to please explain.