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“It’s very fluid”, the actress Marin Hinkle said, eyes closed in apparent happiness. It was a busy Monday afternoon and Ms Hinkle, 55, had taken over the kitchen of a friend’s immaculate Upper West Side apartment to learn how to make chocolate truffles. (His own nearby kitchen needed repairs.) Her teacher was another friend: Ruth … Read more
Amy Schumer hasn’t been absent from television in the six years since the end of her on and off brilliant sketch show, “Inside Amy Schumer.” She had a few specials on Netflix and made a detour to reality TV (“Amy Schumer learns to cook”, “Waiting for Amy”). Next week she will host the Oscars. Still, … Read more
If you haven’t seen “Raised by Wolves” yet, you probably won’t understand it when you start watching it. Do not worry; that is why I wrote this article to you. But you also won’t understand “Raised by Wolves” after reading this article. You won’t understand it by the end of the first season, nor the … Read more
There are stories I can’t tell in movies because they’re too small. But with television, saying “Oh my God, I can really go into detail” – that’s why I fell in love with “This Country”, which then became “Flatch”. I was like, I want to be personally involved in this. I want to direct them. … Read more
Rupert Grint covered his left eye with his hand and attempted to read the opening lines. “E, D, F, C, E, F,” he said slowly. “Close!” said Marilyn Blumengold, sales clerk at Moscot, the Lower East Side eyewear store. It was a recent snowy afternoon. Mr. Grint, who is currently filming the fourth season of … Read more
Casting Samuel L. Jackson as a 90-year-old man with dementia is a bold move. Is there an actor more defined by his command, his composure, his sharpness? It’s like telling Bill Murray not to be funny. The funny thing is, the person who cast Jackson as the main character in “The Last Days of Ptolemy … Read more
Season 2, Episode 2: “Penance” “Show them a world they made and they’ll ask you what you did,” John de Lancie’s Q asks Jean-Luc Picard at the head of this season’s second episode of “Picard.” Such has been the modus operandi of our favorite omnipotent being who has long played with Picard as his guinea … Read more
Ahead of a sentencing hearing on Thursday, celebrities and racial justice advocates like Samuel L. Jackson and his wife, actress LaTanya Richardson Jackson; Reverend Jesse Jackson; and Derrick Johnson, the president of the NAACP, have written letters asking for clemency for Jussie Smollett, the actor convicted of falsely claiming to have been the victim of … Read more
3. The Olympics The Olympics was a very important thing [when I was growing up]. I remember we were on school break. I remember people taking days off to support the Games and the athletes. I’ve always liked it, especially gymnastics and figure skating. What it is now is great and how beautiful. I always … Read more
A comedy skit that ended with former President Trump performing a fairly heartfelt rendition of “My Funny Valentine” wasn’t the most baroque moment on this weekend’s “Saturday Night Live,” which was hosted by Oscar Isaac. (That particular honor would go to a routine on the meatball chant, which we’ll get to shortly.) But for starters, … Read more