UPDATE: TBS announced Monday that the network has officially canceled Louis C.K.‘s animated series The Cops, two months after suspending production on the 10-episode series indefinitely following the comedian’s alleged sexual misconduct. Television networks and production companies continue to sever ties with Louis C.K. following the comedian’s admission of sexual …
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In terms of opening scenes, Thelma – Norwegian director’s Joachim Trier’s toe-dip into horror, albeit one burdened with footnotes – kicks things off with a doozy. A girl and her dad (Henrik Rafaelsen) are walking across a frozen lake. She keeps peering under the ice at the fishes swimming below, …
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Last week, Ron Tutt, best known as Elvis Presley’s drummer from 1969 to 1977, did something he hadn’t done in nearly 40 years: He listened to the Jerry Garcia Band’s Cats Under the Stars. Appreciated as Garcia’s most fully realized and produced solo album outside the Grateful Dead, Cats Under …
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On a desert road hours northeast of Los Angeles, the singer Miguel stands on a small makeshift stage of wooden pallets in his first act of political protest. Across the street is the Adelanto Detention Facility, temporary home to nearly 2,000 federal immigration detainees, and where guards quietly watch from …
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Over the weekend, the Washington Post previewed passages from former DNC chair Donna Brazile’s much-anticipated “blistering” tell-all book about the 2016 presidential campaign, Hacks.The piece written by Phillip Rucker originally included a passage that read as follows: “Whenever Brazile got frustrated with Clinton’s aides, she writes, she would remind them …
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Gary Clark Jr. had never so much as considered covering the Beatles’ “Come Together” until he was approached to play on a version of it for the Justice League soundtrack. It ended up being the most fun Clark has ever had in the studio. “I don’t know what ‘toe-jam football’ …
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The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra matchesAretha Franklin‘s vocals with a new kind of sweeping soul in a reworking of the 1968 track “Think” that will appear on the upcoming LPA Brand New Me: Aretha Franklin With the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, out November 10th. The record pairs Franklin’s classic vocal takes with …
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After a summer in which many people wished Saturday Night Live could be on every weekend in order to comment on the craziness that is 2017, the show finally returned this weekend for its 43rd season. But rather than overload on topical sketches during its premiere, SNL opted to keep …
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Don’t act so surprised, Your Highness. You weren’t on any mercy mission this time. Several transmissions were beamed to this ship by Rebel spies. I want to know what happened to the plans they sent you. In my experience, there is no such thing as luck. Partially, but it also …
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Don’t act so surprised, Your Highness. You weren’t on any mercy mission this time. Several transmissions were beamed to this ship by Rebel spies. I want to know what happened to the plans they sent you. In my experience, there is no such thing as luck. Partially, but it also …
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