Eric Andre. Over a decade ago, Eric Andre was still an up-and-coming stand-up when he saw Cops on the TV at the gym and couldn’t believe that the show, which glamorized the police to the point of being essentially propaganda, was still on the air. So he wrote a joke about how gross the show was and the incongruence of its reggae theme song. What he couldn’t have imagined — or what he probably hoped wouldn’t be the case — is that all these years later, as he’s set to release his first hour-long comedy special Legalize Everything on Netflix on June 23, the joke would still be relevant.
The author Eric Jerome Dickey, who died Sunday at 59. There are grown-folks books, and there is grown-folks business, both of which I found myself often meddling in too much as a kid. I came up in a household — and in a neighborhood — where reading was a sometimes unfiltered experience. Particularly in the months when kids were out of school, looking to fill time on the days when the rain wouldn’t let up and the basketball courts were soaked or the sidewalks were ill-suited for bike riding.
Game of Thrones actress Esmé Bianco and singer Marilyn Manson (real name Brian Warner) have settled the sexual-assault lawsuit Bianco filed against both Warner and his business, Marilyn Manson Records, Inc., in 2021, according to Rolling Stone. In statements to Rolling Stone, lawyers for both parties said Bianco “agreed to resolve her claims against Brian Warner and Marilyn Manson Records, Inc.,” with Bianco’s lawyer, Jay Ellwanger, adding “in order to move on with her life and career.
the toughest scene i wrote Feb. 8, 2019 How Paul Schrader Made Ethan Hawke Float in First ReformedSchrader on writing the film’s levitation scene, where Ethan Hawke and Amanda Seyfried float up into the cosmos. As told to Hunter Harris
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“I know it ain’t right / But I don’t care.” It’s a tale as old as time: Sponge meets girl, Sponge has baby with girl, Sponge meets Ponytail? Sponge files for divorce from girl. The Sponge, of course, is Ethan Slater. Slater filed for divorce from his wife on Wednesday, July 26, according to TMZ. On July 17, Ariana Grande was reported to be divorcing her husband, Dalton Gomez.
Eugene Levy. As Jim’s dad in the American Pie movies, Eugene Levy is a hilariously deadpan presence in a series of movies that are, by all accounts, shocking. (Within the first minute of the newest film, American Reunion, Jim slams his laptop on his penis.) In the new film, which centers on the gang’s high-school reunion, Levy jumps right into the fold as a newly single dad who is excited to just get out of the house.
Role Call is a series in which Vulture talks to actors about performances they’ve probably forgotten by now, but we definitely haven’t. Role Call is a series in which Vulture talks to actors about performances they’ve probably forgotten by now, but we definitely haven’t. “Even though there were lots of nude scenes, I was desperate to do it. I was like, ‘I don’t care!’” Bernardo Bertolucci’s 2003 movie The Dreamers is as much a ménage à trois between three young students — wide-eyed American Matthew (Michael Pitt) and incestuous French twins Théo (Louis Garrel) and Isabelle (Eva Green) — as it is between politics, sex, and film.
Spend 47 days in the art world with Seen. Spend 47 days in the art world with Seen. Eva LeWitt’s show Untitled (Flora) at the Jewish Museum. Right now, on the walls of the lobby gallery of the Jewish Museum, there is a site-specific installation called Untitled (Flora), by Eva LeWitt. Made out of Plexiglas and cast polyurethane foam, the work resembles floppy if somewhat abstract bundles of — yes — flowers.
The internet moves from joke to joke with the speed of something really fast, but Simpsons shitposting may be eternal. At a live taping of Jordan Jesse Go! in Portland, former Simpsons showrunner and current fast-food reviewer Bill Oakley revealed that his favorite Simpsons meme is “The Dud.” The meme comes from the season-seven episode “Summer of 4 ft. 2,” in which the Simpsons (and Milhouse) go to a beach town.
Early Man. The easiest way to tell if you’re watching a film produced by Aardman Animations, a British animation studio based out of Bristol, is to check for fingerprints. If you look closely enough at any frame of their stop-motion short or feature films, you can see fingerprint ridges left by an animator who literally moved the Plasticine figures with their own fingers to create movement and expression. Computer animation may be the dominant model for commercial cinema, but there may not be a better illustration of the power of “homemade” animation than literal impressions on the screen.