Tina Fey sat down with David Letterman in an upcoming episode of Netflix’s My Next Guest Needs No Introduction and gave the host a crash course in a comedy fundamental: improvisation. “Whatever I say, you add to it and add new information,” Fey explained. In the clip, an audience member …
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If there’s one thing you know about Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson just from looking at him, it’s this: The man is large. Six-foot-four and 260 pounds, with charm and enthusiasm to match – it’s no wonder there’s more of him than could fit into our recent cover story. Johnson stretches …
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A teen punk fan unwittingly falls in love with an alien in the new trailer for How to Talk to Girls at Parties. The movie was co-written and directed by Hedwig and the Angry Inch director John Cameron Mitchell, based on an original story by science fiction author, Neil Gaiman. …
Read More »Watch MGMT Turn 'Colbert' Performance Into Retro Music Video
MGMT transformed The Late Show with Stephen Colbert into a gauzy disco for their performance of “Me and Michael” Monday. The track appears on the band’s new album, Little Dark Age. MGMT gave the performance the feel of a retro music video, complete with a four-line title card in the …
Read More »Rose McGowan Wishes Former Manager 'Peace' Following Suicide
Rose McGowan offered her condolences to the family of Jill Messick, her former manager, who committed suicide last week – though the actress did not directly address allegations about her role in Messick’s death. The Brave author shared an image of the sun rising over planet earth to her Instagram, …
Read More »Watch Stephen Colbert Relinquish 'King Nerd' Crown to Elon Musk
When the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida on Tuesday afternoon, one thing was resoundingly clear to Stephen Colbert. “That’s right, this is absolutely true: A giant phallus crankin’ rock ‘n’ roll, releasing a red convertible into the dark void,” Colbert joked. “And the award for Most …
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Roughly three years before David Bowie died, the man who sold the world sat down with a recorder to capture his memories of Spiders From Mars guitarist Mick Ronson on tape. He was urged to do so at the behest of Mick’s widow Suzi Ronson, Bowie’s former hairdresser and the …
Read More »Margot Robbie Met Ellen, Obama During Embarrassing Honeymoon Encounter
Margot Robbie’s first encounter with Ellen DeGeneres was unexpected and mortifying for her husband, producer Tom Ackerley, but the chance meeting in Tahiti is still Robbie’s “favorite story ever.” On Wednesday’s episode of The Ellen DeGeneres Show, DeGeneres requested that Robbie tell the audience how the two women first met, …
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Oprah Winfrey‘s passionate, headline-making speech at Sunday night’s Golden Globes was interpreted by many as a preemptive hint at a possible presidential run in 2020, but on Tuesday’s episode of CBS This Morning, her BFF Gayle King tempered the assumption with a few careful responses. “It is a very interesting …
Read More »'Jeopardy!' Host Alex Trebek Takes Leave After Brain Surgery
Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek will take a brief hiatus from the long-running game show after undergoing brain surgery. “Some of you may have heard by now that during the holiday break I had a slight medical problem, subdural hematoma, blood clots on the brain caused by a fall I endured …
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