Amid the menagerie of women Truman Capote surrounded himself with, Joanne Carson was perhaps the oddest. Not because she seemed a tad out of step with the elegant swans around the In Cold Blood author but because she valued Truman only for his talent. In Feud: Capote vs. the Swans, writer Jon Robin Baitz has leaned, perhaps too heavily, on the notion that the second wife of the famed Tonight Show host Johnny Carson was rather off-kilter.

Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson in Fifty Shades Darker. The makers of Fifty Shades Darker, the sequel to Fifty Shades of Grey, have worked admirably to ensure that the film doesn’t eroticize violence against women. That makes things a tad tricky in regards to the sexual proclivities of its male protagonist, though. The film’s rare bits of S&M involving bookish hottie Anastasia Steele (Dakota Johnson) and muscular billionaire Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan) look only marginally more naughty than smacking in a kindergarten sandbox.

Hope he’s not afraid of big ties. There’s nothing scary about the widely adored rom-com Love Actually, but for Billy Bob Thornton, who played the American president and foil to Hugh Grant’s hapless single British prime minister, being on set wasn’t always pleasant. Thornton, who has obsessive-compulsive disorder, was required to face two of his odder phobias during filming. Martine McCutcheon, who played Natalie, described one instance when Thornton had to confront his fear of antique furniture on set to Entertainment Weekly:

In his book Funny Business, Bill Connolly explores the connection between business and comedy. With interviews from Boston’s powerhouse standup Gary Gulman to the owners of Boston’s Improv Asylum, Connolly explores how his ten comedic principles, if applied, can better any boardroom or office. For several years Connolly performed at the Improv Asylum in Boston and worked as a marketing analyst. He couldn’t deny the benefit his professional life received from his comedic one, and it inspired him to research the correlation.

Rory Scovel is a comic who, by all accounts, stands out. His talent for performing off-the-cuff spontaneous material is hard to match in the comedy scene, making each show a novel and rewarding experience. Scovel weaves skillfully in and out of his developed material and impromptu reactions to whatever seems to be happening in the room. So much so, in fact, that it’s hard to tell what’s been planned and what’s genuinely just a part of the moment.

Spoilers ahead from the last episode of Game of Thrones. Poor Loras Tyrell — right now, he’s a pawn in Cersei’s game against the Tyrells, part of a larger plot to isolate Margaery. Loras is just collateral damage for now, but you never know how things will go, as this part of the story line was created for the purposes of the show. Finn Jones, who plays Loras, was particularly excited about going off-book, and as an avid reader, happy to geek out with Vulture about his theories about his and other characters ahead of Sunday night’s episode.

She’s finally doing what she wants instead of what is expected of her. It is possible to be born too early for the world to develop a language to understand the way that you move, and to be made to feel, throughout your formative years, like the difference between you and everyone else is a crime that warrants punitive action, an errant behavior or belief system you must be made to unlearn.

The 46th season of Survivor has been an absolute mess. There was Bhanu, the simpering do-nothing who was eventually put out of his misery but shouldn’t have been cast in the first place. There was Q, who seemed to shift his entire strategy and betray his alliances based on stray comments. Not a single member of the cast executed an idol or advantage successfully. We’re now five years into Survivor’s “new era,” and few of its tricks and twists are still working.

Katy O’Brian on the journey that brought her to martial arts, an Indiana police department, bodybuilding, and a role opposite Kristen Stewart. In Love Lies Bleeding, the violent, ’80s-era amour fou that instantly and reductively came to be known as the “Kristen Stewart lesbian-bodybuilder movie” after its Sundance Film Festival premiere, Katy O’Brian plays the romantic foil: the bodybuilder. Not just any bodybuilder. Sleeping rough beneath a freeway overpass at the movie’s outset, O’Brian’s character Jackie is a stoic, front-double-biceps-posing street survivor who’s crawled out of some unspecified personal wreckage in Oklahoma en route to a musclewoman competition in Las Vegas.

Two months ago, we first learned that British actor/cutie pie Charlie Cox was going to play the starring role in Marvel’s Daredevil Netflix series. And now we get the first glimpse of him in the role — kind of. Here is Cox as Matt Murdock, Daredevil’s daytime persona. Check his cane, red sunglasses, and reddish hair. If you want to see what he looks like as Daredevil, just picture the suit as red leather.