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Boardwalk Empire Watch: Mother, May I Sleep With Danger?
SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, wait for that noisy train to finish passing by, then watch last night’s Boardwalk Empire.
“Let’s just say your life is pretty Jacobean all by itself,” Jimmy Darmody’s Princeton …
All-Access: Lady Gaga by Terry Richardson
Famed celebrity and fashion photographer Terry Richardson’s new book showcases over 350 behind the scenes photographs of the pop diva.
Music Monday: Rock and Roll Is Alive and Well with The Black Keys
The Black Keys play rock and they play it straight. It’s hard to believe in an age of hyphenated genres and digitally-tweaked songs that two guys, a guitar and some drums would have anything left to offer. But on their new …
Twilight Breaking a Record, Moviegoers Breaking Down
Bella and Edward squeezed another win out of a depleted audience, while The Artist, The Descendants and Shame launched their Oscar drives
Ralph Fiennes’ Coriolanus: The Paths of Gory
This robust study of a war lover, his blood-lusting mom and a nation in political turmoil has a bonus: words by Shakespeare
Grammys Fallout: The Subtle Snubbing of Kanye
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Celebrity Apprentice: Donald Trump to Moderate GOP Debate
Because the Republican presidential primary has been too stodgy and dignified lately–what with all the sex-harassment eruptions, memory-lapse gaffes and “SexyBack” parodies—Donald Trump will host a GOP debate in Iowa on Dec. …
Director Kenneth Lonergan Emerges to Tell Us He’s on Team Margaret
A Twitter movement was born this week: #TeamMargaret. The hashtag is a passion plea for You Can Count On Me writer/director Kenneth Lonergan’s second film Margaret, a film that grossed $47,185 in miniature release in late …
Galley Girl: Linda Lael Miller and the Rise of the Cowboy Romance Novel
Publishing reporter Andrea Sachs writes about the book industry here every weekend.
Move over vampires! Alpha men are back with a vengeance in romance novels, and cowboys are helping lead the charge. There are contemporary …
Shame Director Steve McQueen on Sex and Silence
After his startling debut feature Hunger, a brutal yet poetic evocation of the 1981 Northern Irish hunger strikes, Turner Prize–winning filmmaker Steve McQueen has returned with Shame, a character study that’s at turns explicit …
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Prison Break: Fox Slates Alcatraz, Idol, New Kiefer Drama for Midseason
For the past several seasons, midseason—the stretch of the TV calendar starting in January—has been when Fox’s season really began in earnest, as it brought out powerhouses like American Idol and, back in the day, 24. That’s …