Arriving just in time to win a place among the year’s worst films, Robin Hood — bursting with an entitled sense of its own non-existent coolness — falls flat on its fat one. It’s the umpteenth version of the heroic outlaw story, once more taking on the merry man that …
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Kate McKinnon skewered Laura Ingraham for the second time this month in aSaturday Night Live cold open that challenged Fox News’ voter fraud claims, a conspiracy theory also pushed by Donald Trump. In the sketch, McKinnon’s host began by commentating on this week’s current events like “celebrities in California are …
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On July 4th this year, Sir Paul McCartney took the fight to YouTube. The Beatle issued an open letter that backed European legal proposals designed to force Alphabet/Google’s video service to pay artists and record labels more money.In a clear broadside aimed at YouTube, McCartney wrote, “Today, some user-upload content …
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It’s hard to imagine now, but it wasn’t until Electric Ladyland that Jimi Hendrix was officially in charge of how his music would sound. His first two LPs had come out in 1967, a year in which he played more than 200 concerts with his trio, the Jimi Hendrix Experience. …
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Let’s get this straight: It’s all about the puppet, stupid. The main attraction ofKing Kong, now officially open for awestruck audiences at the art deco Broadway Theatre in New York City, is naturally the much-anticipated 20 foot tall, 2,000 pound wonder of the world that’s been shipped in from Australia …
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Over the past three decades, Metallica‘s Kirk Hammett has been one of the foremost collectors of horror-movie posters and paraphernalia. In a new interview with Sotheby’s— which is auctioning a particularly rare poster for the 1932 adaptation of The Mummy, starring Boris Karloff — he details his history with the …
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“I hope I’m able to give a sense of what the vibe was like in New York in the Seventies,” Blondie guitarist Chris Stein says of his new photo book, Point of View: Me, New York City and the Punk Scene, due out Tuesday. “It’s not that long ago, but …
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Foo Fighters gave fans at their Kansas City, Missouri show on Friday a night to remember by covering Metallica’s “Enter Sandman” with a twist afterDave Grohl invited a young fan onstage to play guitar for the performance. In fan-filmed footage, Grohl is seen asking the 10-year-old fan named Collier Cash …
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A massive crowd gathered on a misty Sunday to honor the late grunge pioneer Chris Cornell. The Seattle Museum of Pop Culture unveiled a life-size bronze statue of the late Soundgarden singer, which was commissioned by his widow, Vicky Cornell. She was there with their children Lily, Toni and Christopher, …
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Stormy Daniels took her description of President Trump’s penis to an awkward, hilarious new level on Tuesday’s Jimmy Kimmel Live, selecting which variety of mushroom she says most closely resembles the president’s junk. In a now-infamous passage from the adult entertainer’s newly released memoir, Full Disclosure, Daniels writes in granular …
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