No novelist can know in advance what kind of life a character might have beyond the page. When Tom Perrotta’s wry, perceptive comic novel Election was published, in 1998, he couldn’t have known that the name Tracy Flick would come to signify a certain type of young—or even not so young—woman, an ambitious overachiever with a steamroller approach to conquering th…
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As Netflix releases its second installment of The Crown’s sixth and final season on Dec. 14, fans will be met with a fictionalized retelling of how Kate Middleton and Prince William’s love story began.
Dealing with the years following Princess Diana’s death, the season shows the royal family grappling with their new realities in the early 2000s. Prince William and Prince H…
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It’s impossible to avoid Elvis Presley in Las Vegas: his image appears on street art and photographs, while impersonators can be found all over the strip. But starting on Friday, the King of Rock and Roll will get possibly his largest tribute yet: a video collage that renders him hundreds of times, projected hundreds of feet into the air, in incarnations young and old, gyrating and reclining,…
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Ivana Trump had a very definite style. She was really a product of the ’80s and early ’90s. She was tall, she was gorgeous. During that period, every major designer was clamoring to dress her. She loved life. She loved beautiful jewels, clothes, and furs. She left us too early (at age 73 on July 14).
We first met when a mutual friend invited her to one of my fashion shows. I w…
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Charles Cullen is a former registered nurse who worked in hospitals across New Jersey and Pennsylvania, where he assisted with procedures, tended to patients, and became one of America’s most prolific serial killers.
Over his 16-year career, Cullen is confirmed to have murdered 29 patients, and is believed to have killed as many as 400 people in total through multiple means, includ…
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For people who have never watched football before, the rules admittedly can be a little confusing. But today, a whole new population of prospective fans are asking the necessary questions in order to get a handle on the sport. Sunday night, Swifties decided it was time to figure out how the game works after spotting Taylor Swift at the Kansas City Chiefs game. Swift was watching in tight end Tr…
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Warning: Spoilers ahead for Daisy Jones and the Six
Sex, drugs and rock and roll abound in Daisy Jones and the Six, the rollicking, drama-filled show about a rock band from the ’70s, out March 3 on Amazon Prime. The 10-episode series, which stars rock progeny Riley Keough as the titular Daisy, was adapted for the screen from author Taylor Jenkins Reid…
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Game of Thrones’ first spinoff series, House of the Dragon, is finally here. But don’t expect to see any familiar faces. The show is set 172 years before the birth of Daenerys Targaryen and the events of Game of Thrones, the adaptation of George R.R. Martin’s fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire. Still, audiences will get to meet plenty of Da…
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Music entrepreneur Scooter Braun is in the spotlight following recent reports that some of his largest clients, including singers Ariana Grande and Demi Lovato, have parted ways with the manager. SB Projects, Braun’s entertainment and marketing company, has not publicly confirmed or addressed the reports, though on Tuesday, Braun did tweet in jest, using the same format as previous tweets rep…
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2022 Emmy nominations are out, and as you might have noticed, this year’s group feels even more random than usual. Was Sebastian Stan’s Tommy Lee impression more deserving of the lead actor in a limited series nomination than Samuel L. Jackson’s sensitive portrayal of a man with dementia in The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey? Adam Scott, John Turturro, Christopher Walken, …
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