Was Grumpy Cat’s Fame Built on a Stolen Joke?

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Way back in 2011, cartoonist Kate Beaton published aseries of short comic stripson her website. However, as it turned out, the internet would jilt her when it came to this particular story. Just a few months later, a cat was born. It had a disease that caused its face to be trapped in a peculiar and perpetual grimace....

May 17, 2019 · 1 min · 169 words · Joshua Hill

Werner Herzog Has Heard Paul F. Tompkins’s Impression of Him and He Has Some Notes

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Studio 360s Kurt Andersonis asking the big questions. Namely, how do you feel about Paul F. Tompkinss impression of Werner Herzog? This question should be asked of all potential presidential candidates, Miss America, and of course Herzog himself. Anderson interviewed Herzog about his new documentary,Meeting Gorbachev,and impressions of the Teutonic Intoner came up. The snippet concerned a Yelp review Tompkins-as-Herzog had written for the Trader Joes on Hyperion in Los Angeles....

May 17, 2019 · 1 min · 115 words · Emily Johnson

Woody Allen Just Debuted His New Movie Trailer on … His Own Facebook

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Woody Allen giveth, and Woody Allencontinue to giveth, even when Amazon would rather he didnt. Things go awry, and quickly. Nevertheless,A Rainy Day in New Yorkpersists. PerPeople, the movie will be released in French cinemas on September 18. Related Tags:

May 17, 2019 · 1 min · 55 words · Teresa Mcdaniel

‘Running From Cops’ Is Already One of the Year’s Best Podcasts

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. The camera often lies, or at the very least obscures. That idea is at the heart of Running From Cops, the third season of documentarian Dan TaberskisHeadlongpodcast. It follows last years gorgeous end-times-study-meets-memoir Surviving Y2K and 2017s delirium-catalyzing Missing Richard Simmons. They watched hundreds of hours ofCopsepisodes to create an analyzable database of televised arrests....

May 17, 2019 · 1 min · 195 words · Susan Rios

Better ThingsSeason 3 Tackled Aging With Warmth and Honesty

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. But shes also feeling 50 because 50 insists that she feel it. The third season ofBetter Thingsreveals a Sam losing control. I just bought these last week, she laments as yet another pair of pants refuses to button. Her body betrays her in other, more troubling ways too. Shes going through menopause so she has hot flashes....

May 16, 2019 · 2 min · 296 words · Carrie Stewart

Chris Rock — Yes, Chris Rock — Is Making aSawSpinoff

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Ive been a fan ofSawsince the first film in 2004, Rock said on the project. I am excited by the opportunity to take this to a really intense and twisted new place. This upcoming film will still be as mind bending and intense as all the previousSawfilms. We cant wait to get started. Related Tags:

May 16, 2019 · 1 min · 70 words · Kristin Koch

Do You Have a Second for Stephen Colbert’s Beatles-y BTS Mania?

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Come for a new group of mop-topped heartthrobs, stay for Stephen Colbert talking in an old-timey voice! People are so excited, theyre it calling BTS mania. Now these boys arent from America; theyre from across the pond, Colbert explains. The one with Hawaii in the middle. BTS Army meet your BTS-mania roots. Related Tags:

May 16, 2019 · 1 min · 69 words · Benjamin Spears

Kimmel Tries to Help Some Kids Fall in Love and It’s Barely Okay

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Thats not exactly Tinders demographic (one would hope). See?Representation matters,people. Related Tags:

May 16, 2019 · 1 min · 27 words · Joseph Jackson

Robert Pattinson Is Batman! (Our Deepest Condolences to Nicholas Hoult)

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. However,Deadlineis saying that Pattinson is only on a short list that includesX-Men: First ClasssNicholas Hoult. People usually play Batman, then Dali, but R-Pattz is nothing if not an iconoclast! Reeves is still putting the final touches on the script. Both actors make sense as a Batperson. Update, May 31:RBatz is official! Youre now free to star in theConversations With Friendsadaptation we definitely want to happen....

May 16, 2019 · 1 min · 82 words · Marcus Smith

RuPaul’s Drag RaceRecap: Closing Arguments

RuPauls Drag Race Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Thats my response to this episode.Sure. The top five of our season are given the full final-four treatment? The bottom two this week wereactuallythe bottom two? She doesnt look shook, like Vanjie, or chaotic, like Silky. She is ready for television, damn it. when you see her. The bitch is branding! In her preseason Meet the Queens interview, her wig was twice as big as this....

May 16, 2019 · 4 min · 708 words · Andre Cook

The TickOfficially Doesn’t Find New Home After Extensive Fan Campaign

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Alas good chum, we hardly knew ye. Amazon has cancelled the third iteration of Ben EdlundsThe Tickafter two seasons. Destiny demands that my compatriots and I now seek a new home for this series, he wrote. Newman isnt giving up hope for the show either. Our show is very much still alive at this moment!...

May 16, 2019 · 1 min · 166 words · Alexandra Phillips

Theater Review:Happy TalkIs a Satire Full of Empty Calories

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. I was improvising during my introduction scene in Act One, which everybody just loves! she chatters to her husband Bill (Daniel Oreskes) at the start of the play. I dont even know how I do it. Its like I leave my body and enter some kind of fantasy! … Of course, it helps to be surrounded by such a wonderful ensemble....

May 16, 2019 · 1 min · 190 words · Debra Hubbard

Verve Broke With the Big Agencies and Signed the WGA’s ‘Code of Conduct’

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Verve Talent and Literary Agency is the biggest agency to sign the WGAs Code of Conduct. The Code, among other things, demands transparency from agencies and bans affiliated production companies. So far, 66 small agencies have signed the Code. Only one of them, Pantheon, is an ATA member. The Code requires our agency to share more documentation with the WGA than in the past....

May 16, 2019 · 1 min · 139 words · Gregory Gaines