Gosling is part of that very first vintage of kids who broke into the industry on the then nascent Disney Channel, on one of two shows. There was The All New Mickey Mouse Club (a.k.a. MMC), a reboot of a popular 1950s variety show created by Walt Disney and originally broadcast on ABC. And then Kids Incorporated, a more narratively driven preteen precursor to Kidz Bop and Glee.
Read MoreThe coronavirus pandemic, coupled with the tumult following the 2020 election, sent shock waves through our already strained interpersonal relationships. Fifteen percent of Americans reported ending a friendship over politics, according to a June 2021 survey by the American Enterprise Institute. Add social media to the mix and you can witness the technological embodiment of the aphorism “show me who you love and I’ll tell you who you are.”
Read MoreOn Hacks, Einbinder, 26, plays Ava Daniels, a chronically oversharing, bisexual Gen Z comedy writer whose once-promising television career got derailed by an offensive tweet. (In other words, she was “canceled.”)
Read MoreHigh on the entitlement that comes with a far-flung portfolio of tax-exempt assets, billionaires are going buck wild, buying up jets, Van Goghs, and NFTs, and building penis-shaped rockets that they ride to space. The optics from earth no longer seem to matter.
Read MoreA decade after entrepreneur-turned-VC Marc Andreessen declared in the op-ed pages of the Wall Street Journal that software was “eating the world,” Silicon Valley is eating pop culture. In addition to WeCrashed on Apple TV+, on March 3, Hulu premiered The Dropout, which tells the story of Elizabeth Holmes (Amanda Seyfried), the disgraced, deep-voiced founder of blood-testing startup Theranos. Showtime’s Super Pumped, in which the adorably bedimpled actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays Uber’s toxic bro founder Travis Kalanick, dropped on Feb. 27. While the specifics of all these tales may be different, the psychological profiles of the subjects at their center, specifically their voracious appetites for risk and their wanton disregard for others, will remain signatures of the fake-it-till-you-make-it era.
Read MoreSince the early 2000s, when Vladimir Putin came to power and transferred vast quantities of wealth into the hands of loyal Kremlin-linked oligarchs, beautiful women from Russia and former Soviet bloc countries have been branded with a strikingly similar fairy-tale narrative, a Cinderella story featuring capitalism as Prince Charming.
Read MoreFor actor Michael Stuhlbarg, who has played many real-life characters in his long career–including Apple’s Andy Hertzfeld in Steve Jobs and Arnold Rothstein in Boardwalk Empire–embodying a person who is not only still alive but extremely in the news was a unique experience. Under normal circumstances, Stuhlbarg embraces any opportunity to meet the person he’s about to portray on stage or screen. But in this case, meeting Richard Sackler wasn’t going to be an option: his lawyers went so far as to send Stuhlbarg’s attorneys a letter before filming began last year.
Read MoreThe star of the hit HBO series on power, privilege, and what's next for Shiv Roy in everyone's favorite one-percent family feud.
Read MoreThe wife of WeWork’s founder Adam Neumann carved out her own little space as a New Age exec—and the company’s downfall isn’t slowing her.
Read MoreWhen I read the news last week that Bill and Melinda Gates were divorcing after 27 years of marriage, my first reaction was empathy. The pandemic has been hard on all couples, I thought, even the ones who happened to have been quarantining in a 66,000-square-foot compound with 18.75 bathrooms called Xanadu 2.0. Melinda told The New York Times in October 2020 that being stuck working from home with her husband, after years of frenetic traveling, “was a piece that I think we hadn’t really individually prepared for quite as much.” This was somewhat relatable. No matter the size of your home, there is such a thing as too much togetherness.
But then there were questions. Foremost among them: Why now?
Read MoreJudge Barrett demonstrates her utter lack of courtesy and consideration by needlessly exposing various people—her own family among them—to a deadly virus at a party.
Read MoreThis week, we shut down the debate from hell and Sen. Kelly Loeffler’s endorsement from Atilla the Hun. Brian unearths a letter he wrote to President Carter in 1980. And we explore a new service that bills itself as the Uber of bodyguards.
Read MoreThis week, Michael Caputo had a meltdown on Facebook, Donald Trump was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize and–spoiler alert–90-year-old retired Sheriff Joe Arpaio, a pardoned criminal, came out on Cameo as a member of the “furry” subculture. Also: we decide which animals emerged as the biggest winners and losers of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Read MoreThis week, in between bouts of hurling soup cans at passersby, we shut down the controversial theories of two renegade orthodontists in Britain who have become a sensation in the incel community. A woman learned of her ex-husband’s infidelity in his New York Times wedding announcement, leading her to tell her own story in the New York Post. Finally, for our final Summer Music Series we discuss Quarterflash’s “Harden My Heart” with NOPE’s corridor correspondent, Lauren Mechling.
Read MoreThe coronavirus crisis could have been abated by a president with a modicum of competence. Here’s what I learned about politics, power, and the human spirit when my husband almost died of COVID-19.
Read MorePublicly identifying oneself as an aroused woman is having a moment. Call it the hornissance.
Read MoreJournalist and podcast host Leon Neyfakh has spent much of the last few years unpacking the last half century’s worth of American political scandal—starting in 2017 with Slate’s Slow Burn and since last year with Fiasco on the subscription-based network Luminary. During that time he’s observed that there seems to be a strange kismet unleashed each time one of his series drops. It’s almost as if the podcast itself is conjuring invisible historical forces, as past disgraces and present realities coincide with astonishing specificity.
Read More“Blood Ties” is the latest in a growing wave of fictional podcasts featuring top-tier talent and compelling, ripped-from-the-headlines narratives, arriving at a time when podcasting advertising revenues are poised to exceed $1 billion for the first time by 2021.
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