Midway through the first episode of his new show, Painting With John, John Lurie stands on the porch of his home in the Caribbean, gazing at a serene purplish-pink sunset. “I felt I should I use this beautiful moment to say something poetic, but I don’t have anything. So just …
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This cover story was originally published in the October 27, 1983 issue of Rolling Stone. IT WAS ON APRIL 4TH, 1958, that Lana Turner’s teenage daughter shoved a carving knife into the unsuspecting stomach of one John Stompanato, her mother’s menacing boyfriend, thus not only ending Stompanato’s unpleasant career on …
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“My motto has always been ‘Be careful what you wish for,’” says Julia Fox. She’s riding in the passenger seat of an Infinity sports car making its way to Randazzo’s Clam Bar in the Sheepshead Bay neighborhood of Brooklyn because what she happens to wish for right now is a …
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“People often say that my characters carry a quiet strength about them, and I get that in life, too, from people,” says Hong Chau with a laugh. “Like, before I was an actor, they would say, ‘Oh, you’re quiet, but I can tell that you’re tough.’” That cool tenacity is …
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Even if you haven’t seen The Witcher, you’ve probably kind of seen The Witcher. Netflix’s highly meme-able high-fantasy series has been clawing its way into Twitter timelines and Reddit threads with the tenacity of a Baby Yoda, and it shows no signs of relenting. Based on Andrzej Sapkowski’s popular Polish …
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When a character grows popular enough to endure for decades, at the hands of more than one writer, the difference between sequels and fan fiction can get awfully blurry. Few writers understand that messy feeling better than Michael Chabon, the Pulitzer Prize-winning fanboy at the helm of Star Trek: Picard. …
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Don’t Fuck This Up Kevin Hart knows what it’s like to face the court of public opinion. Netflix‘s new six-part docu-series takes us back to 2018, when homophobic tweets from Hart’s past resurfaced and caused him to step down from hosting the Oscars. When an interviewer asks him if he …
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A man walks into a bar. He’s handsome enough to attract the attention of the ladies in this tavern, including Liz Kloepfer, a single mother who’s been dragged to the tavern by her best friend for a night out. He notices her, too. They meet-cute at the jukebox, talk, flirt. …
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Welcome to the last gasp of 2019, in which moviegoers can binge in blockbusters (a new Star Wars!), literary adaptations (Greta Gerwig’s Little Women!), Oscar contenders anchored by incredible performances (Bombshell, Uncut Gems), smaller films worth your time (Clemency), foreign-language gems (Portrait of a Lady on Fire), formalist spectacles (the …
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John Waters loves being called things like the “Pope of Trash,” the “People’s Pervert” and the “Prince of Puke,” but when you visit him at his home in Greenwich Village, he’s the consummate host. When you step off the elevator and you’re not sure which door belongs to him, you …
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