In Rolling Stone‘s new video franchise, Best Lines, actors share their favorite — or most memorable — lines across a career-spanning interview. In our debut episode, we dive into Rob McElhenney‘s favorite “Mac” lines from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia and wrap up with a memorable moment from the pilot …
Read More »'My Survival Nature is Very Real': Uzo Aduba on Her Newest Roles and Lessons of the Last Year
It’s been more than a year since we last saw Uzo Aduba on television, but the next week is poisedto fix that in a big way. On Friday, Aduba appears among the all-star cast of Amazon’s new sci-fi anthology series Solos, doing what’s essentially an episode-length monologue (with some interruption …
Read More »'Hacks': Jean Smart Makes 'Em Laugh in Stand-Up Dramedy
In the new HBO Max comedy series Hacks, Jean Smart plays comedy legend Deborah Vance, an aging celebrity who reluctantly hires young comedy writer Ava (Hannah Einbinder) to freshen up an act that hasn’t changed much since she was telling jokes about the space shuttle Challenger exploding. This setup is …
Read More »Seth Rogen Says He Won't Work With James Franco After Sexual Misconduct Allegations
Seth Rogen stated he would no longer be working with his close friend and frequent collaborator James Franco following years of allegations of inappropriate behavior. Rogen was asked about his relationship with Franco in an interview that ran inThe Sunday Times over the weekend. In addition to addressing the allegations, …
Read More »Movie Stars: They're Just Like Us?
“If we can get out at three hours and deliver a show that we see on paper right now,” Academy Awards co-producer Jesse Collins told the New York Times just last week, “we feel like we will have had a cultural moment where the nation, the world, will say, ‘Yes, …
Read More »Godzilla, Meet Kong. Ass, Meet Seat. Face, Meet Palm
Warner Brothers and Legendary Pictures’ Godzilla vs. Kong, directed by Adam Wingard, may not hit HBO Max or U.S. theaters until this Wednesday, but it already opened in 38 markets overseas this past weekend, setting box office records for pandemic-era releases — “the biggest debut for a Hollywood film in …
Read More »Sharon Osbourne Leaves 'The Talk' After Heated On-Air Discussion, Internal Investigation
Sharon Osbourne has left her position on the daytime talk show The Talk following a heated on-air conversation about race as well as accusations of racist comments that led to an internal investigation by CBS. “Sharon Osbourne has decided to leaveThe Talk,” CBS said in a statement Friday (via The …
Read More »'Pen15' Creators Anna Konkle and Maya Erskine Are Making Middle School Great Again
To see Anna Konkle and Maya Erskine without braces, slumped shoulders, and their signature hairdos — bowl cut for Erskine, strategic strands rigidly framing her face for Konkle — is, for the first few seconds, a little disorienting. Their Pen15 characters, middle schoolers Anna Konkle and Maya Ishii-Peters, are so …
Read More »Steven Soderbergh on the Gore, the Grind, and the Glory of Making 'The Knick'
Steven Soderbergh has directed award-winning films like Traffic and Sex, Lies, and Videotape, as well as crowd-pleasers like Out of Sight and Ocean’s Eleven. He’s gone back in time with The Good German, and looked unnervingly prescient with Contagion. No job in his long and distinguished career, though, may have …
Read More »'Silence of the Lambs' at 25: 'It Broke All the Rules'
I was terrified at the Academy Awards,” screenwriter Ted Tally says. “I can’t describe how nerve-racking it is. You go in the bathrooms, and people are boozing it up, smoking, doing lines of coke. You never saw so many famous people so nervous.” On Valentine’s Day in 1991, The Silence …
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