It was a fever, a bookshelf, and possibly divine intervention, that made Adam McKay realize he didn’t know Dick. In the late winter of 2016, the writer-director had just finished the awards-circuit death march for The Big Short, his look at the housing crisis. Then, a week after the Oscars, …
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Eighteen years ago, in a bar outside Kingston, New York, Mark Hogancamp — an illustrator who liked wearing women’s high-heels — was nearly beaten to death by five thugs. Waking up after nine days in a coma, the bruised, broken and brain-damaged ex-soldier had no recall of having served in …
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Britney Spears joins Jimmy Fallon to play Abby, the sleep-away camp BFF of Sara, in the recurring sketch “Ew!” from Thursday’s Tonight Show. The duo reunite in Sara’s wood-paneled basement for their first-ever home sleepover. “All your poison ivy rashes from camp, they’re all gone!” Spears tells Fallon, who’s dressed …
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