Remembering Ric Ocasek, the Magic Man of American New Wave

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. That image was of Ric Ocasek as a fly. Then, Ocasek as a tube of lipstick. And a coat hanger. And the face of an alarm clock. Like many things from the 80s, it reads different now than it did then. Now, that video looks like exhibit A in the weirdest, worst stalking case in human history....

September 17, 2019 · 2 min · 304 words · April Chen

The Amber Ruffin ShowIs Coming to NBC’s Streaming Service

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Ruffin has had other comedies in the works at NBC within the past few years. Related Tags:

September 17, 2019 · 1 min · 32 words · April Young

The Return of the Tribeca Art Scene

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Something wonderful is happening in the once and future art neighborhood of Tribeca. But the smell of money, hustling collectors, and deal-makers was nowhere to be found. A batch of galleries opened for the very first time that night. Others had been there for a while. Can a claim be staked here? Against all odds, can New York have a good art neighborhood with a walkable density of galleries?...

September 17, 2019 · 3 min · 448 words · Rhonda Hill

The Story of Country Music Is Too Vast for Even Ken Burns’s 16-Hour Doc to Tell

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. It told stories that hadnt been heard; it gave voice to the voiceless. What emerges is a history of American ingenuity, of enterprising thinkers paving ways where they hadnt yet existed. Country Musics early hours are a dance between advances in tech and developments in culture. Rodgers sang of hustlers and gamblers in tunes like Blue Yodel No....

September 17, 2019 · 2 min · 261 words · Gina Pugh

We Simply Won’t Stand for Jim Carter’sDownton AbbeyHair Erasure Anymore

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. I could never have imagined it, Carson is always wearing immaculately pressed clothes. Hes a perfect gentleman at all times. Carter doesnt have to shave those beautiful locks, right? They slack some grease in it and comb it. It takes two minutes. Can he dropanyhair-care maintenance tips? You have a fetish! Related Tags:

September 17, 2019 · 1 min · 68 words · Bridget Martinez

What It’s Like to Launch a Late-Night Show With Lilly Singh

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. And she kept all her campaign promises inher first episodelast night. But, you know, in a gangsta way. Does that change anything in the writers room?Not really. In a way, it feels kind of similar to how it felt atCorden. We put an emphasis on the next day on YouTube, a little bit, in losing the topicality....

September 17, 2019 · 4 min · 664 words · Virginia Fowler

ABC Doubles Down on Nostalgia With ‘Cast From the Past Week’

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. ABC is planning a Throwback Thursday stunt big enough to last seven nights. Related Tags:

September 16, 2019 · 1 min · 30 words · Joshua Porter

Colin Trevorrow’sJurassicShort Film Highlights All the Stuff You’ll Miss When Dinos Roam the Earth

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Its hard enough getting used to a stepbrother or stepsister in a normal situation. Such is life in the U.S. in the Jurassic Park universe. Or, lets be honest here, which oneswouldntyou want to see?

September 16, 2019 · 1 min · 50 words · Erica Norman

CouldHustlersScam Its Way Into the Oscars Race?

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Now, 12 months later, the same debate is happening again. (Julia Stiles for Best Performance by an Actor in a Role Based on Journalist Jessica Pressler!) But despite filmsstrong box officeandoutstanding reviews, Oscar-watchers are hesitant to put the film on their shortlists just yet. (Never forget thatSuicide Squadis an Oscar winner.) Even after the premiere, not everyone is convinced....

September 16, 2019 · 1 min · 136 words · Samantha Carroll

HustlersBeat the Odds at the Box Office to Become a Rare Non-Franchise Hit

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. The films marketing campaign has been solid from the start. He realizedHustlers potential to connect at the multiplex, where so many other male movie executives did not. Whether itsThe Wolf of Wall StreetorGoodFellas, people tend to love entertaining crime stories. The fact that the likable criminals were women and not men struck us as only a positive....

September 16, 2019 · 1 min · 151 words · Elizabeth Olson

Sophie Turner Fights toSurviveOver on Quibi in First Post-Game of ThronesTV Role

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. from the title?) of a plane crash, in a series based on the titular 2012 novel by Alex Morel. Mountain lions and avalanches are bad enough, but personal traumas too? Cant those wait until they find a ski resort or something? Sources Related Tags:

September 16, 2019 · 1 min · 59 words · Stanley Watson

Stalking Janet Jackson, and Other Stories Behind theHustlersSoundtrack

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. My control, continues Jackson. Control of what I say, control of what I do. And this time Im gonna do it my way. Hey, Lucy Liu, he yells. This is my boy Danny. Can you show him a good time? The camera cuts to a dead-eyed Destiny rapidly humping an old man in a private room....

September 16, 2019 · 6 min · 1185 words · Brittany Gonzalez

Stories from Below the Line

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. A box was ticked, on to the next thing. (If you prefer your metaphors more on-the-nose, theres always Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs referring toMr. Turnercinematographer Dick Pope asDick Poop.) But the subtext remained; the spotlight wants who it wants. Have a story to share about working on a recent TV show or movie? Let us know at stories@vulture....

September 16, 2019 · 15 min · 3072 words · Ronald Griffin