And, like everything Dane Cook does, it is so not funny
Ellie Goulding on Dating Skrillex, Singing “Lights,” and Performing for William and Kate
“It still feels like something that didn’t really happen, actually.”
Amanda Palmer on Her $1 Million Kickstarter Campaign: “This Is the Future of Music”
“Crowdfunding in some form or another has existed since the beginning of time.”
Public Enemy Still Fighting, Still Fresh
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TCA 2012: Katie Couric Starts Again, Again
Seven years ago, the TV business was abuzz over Katie Couric‘s reinvention of herself as a CBS news anchor, having spent years as the host of NBC’s Today Show. This year, she was back at the Television Critics Association press …
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Art Imitates Life: 10 Movies Altered Due to Real-Life Events
Changes to the upcoming film ‘Gangster Squad’ after the Aurora, Colo., movie-theater shootings were not the first cinematic alterations demanded by actual happenings
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TCA 2012: ABC’s Tea Party Screw-Up Overshadows a Ratings Win
When ABC News scheduled a panel to open the Disney/ABC session of the Television Critics Association press tour, it was probably expecting to take a victory bow. It’s been a good several months in particular for the Good Morning …
The Gaslight Anthem’s Handwritten Is About You
The band’s major label debut has lots of heart, if less edge than past albums
Can a New Comics-Only Crowdfunding Platform Help Find the Next Stan Lee?
Pow! Blam! Funding!
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TCA 2012: TV That’s Not On TV Edition
One occasional theme of the Television Critics Association press tour is the slowly creeping awareness that it will eventually become the Whatever Comes After Television Critics Association. Usually, the discussions have to do with how traditional TV is expanding to or dealing with online: web streaming, online extras, cord-cutting, &c. …
Steven Tyler Talks Dogs, Drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll
Aerosmith lead singer Steven Tyler says he thinks he took the gig hosting American Idol in place of taking heroin. “I think I’m an adrenalin junkie,” he says in TIME’s 10 Questions column
Killer Joe: Matthew McConaughey as the Creepiest Cop in Texas
Still a prime seducer, the star of Hollywood rom-coms goes weird and wild in William Friedkin’s entertainingly outrageous movie
Kurt Andersen on His New Novel, the Generation Gap and Pyromania
Meeting your heroes isn’t supposed to work, but Kurt Andersen has been nothing but nice to me since I met the cofounder of SPY—the magazine that made me want to work for magazines—more than a decade ago. Andersen has been a …