Matt Damon didn’t mince words when he called Harvey Weinstein an “asshole” and a “womanizer” during an interview with Good Morning America Monday. The actor also revealed that he knew about Gwyneth Paltrow‘s allegations of sexual harassment against the movie mogul for years, long before Paltrow came forwardearlier this month. …
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Long before he became acquainted with the subject of his documentary Jane, Brett Morgen assumed that the primatologist Jane Goodall was a “goody two-shoe[s].” The filmmaker was used to tackling figures with pronounced dark sides like Hollywood producer Robert Evans and Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, not the type of scientific …
Read More »Why The Harvey Weinstein Allegations Could Change Our Culture
Someday we’ll look back on the great Harvey Weinstein scandal of 2017 as the moment the worm turned on the patriarchy, at least for a while. It was the critical mass that did it. Among the many remarkable things about the story has been the way it has unfolded, or …
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“Of course, you’re shocked,” Bruce Springsteen said two days after he dedicated the first preview performance of his New York solo residency, “Springsteen on Broadway,” to the late Tom Petty. “Tom’s only 66,” Springsteen went on, “and he had just played a week ago.” In our interview for Rolling Stone‘s …
Read More »1980s Style, Trends Revisited: Early Hip Hop, MTV Crowns New Superstars
Madonna, Run DMC, Duran Duran, Boy George, Cyndi Lauper, Prince, Michael Jackson and . . . Pretty in Pink‘s Duckie? The Eighties were a much more potent, boundary-pushing era – in music, style and pop culture – than casual armchair historians often give it credit for, as we explore in …
Read More »See Alec Baldwin's Donald Trump Fire Back at Bob Corker, Eminem on 'SNL'
After a one-week absence, Alec Baldwin‘s Donald Trump returned to Saturday Night Live with a cold open sketch where Trump distracts everyone at a rally on tax reform with rants about Mike Pence, Bob Corker and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. During the “Trucker Hat Rally,” Trump continually brags at …
Read More »Hear Pink, Eminem Get 'Revenge' on Cheater on Bubbly New Song
Pink recruited Eminemfor “Revenge,” a new song off the singer’s newly issued seventh LP, Beautiful Trauma. Seemingly channeling Eminem‘s Slim Shady LP,producers Max Martin and Shellback couch dark lyrics about revenge on a cheating ex under a bubbly musical bed that wouldn’t be out of place next to the rapper’s …
Read More »See First Trailer for Tupac-Biggie Murders True Crime Series 'Unsolved'
USA has unveiled the first trailer for Unsolved, the upcoming true crime drama focusing on the murders of Tupac Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G. Westworld‘s Jimmi Simpson plays LAPD detective Russell Poole in the scripted series, with Fargo‘s Bokeem Woodbine and Josh Duhamel as fellow investigators in the two rappers’ …
Read More »Lin-Manuel Miranda Talks All-Star Puerto Rico Benefit Song
It’s been two weeks since Hurricane Maria first raged across the island of Puerto Rico, and the crisis has only grown more complex. What first seemed like a natural disaster has also proven to be a long-standing infrastructural one; most of the island remains without electricity and water, putting its …
Read More »Rick Rubin Talks 'Breathtaking' Poetry of Tom Petty
Producer Rick Rubin wasn’t a Tom Petty fan growing up. “I usually liked more edgy music,” he tells Rolling Stone. But he fell in love with the singer-songwriter’s first solo outing, 1989’s Full Moon Fever, after “Runnin’ Down a Dream” entranced him. “The consistency and quality of songwriting on the …
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