Jerry Seinfeld calls out the many shows that have ripped him off while riding a segway in the new season trailer for Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, which returns to Netflix on July 19th. “Here at Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, we have noticed that we have shall we say…influenced …
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Gender bias gets knocked backwards on its ass in this rousing doc named after the first ship crewed by an all-female team in the Whitbread Round the World Race. The year was 1989, when male chauvinists were dripping with disbelief that these “girls” could survive a nine-month yacht race, much …
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“Mom. Dad. I know you don’t want to talk about this, but I do. I might get married to a man, like you so clearly want. And I might not. Because this is not a phase, and I need you to understand that. I’m bisexual.” That’s Rosa Diaz (Stephanie Beatriz), …
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In honor of Father’s Day, Jimmy Kimmel Live took to the streets of Los Angeles to quiz dads on how well they know their own kids. Spoiler alert: They don’t. As these model fathers prove in Kimmel’s #PopQuiz, they can’t correctly answer even the most routine of questions about their …
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On Last Week Tonight, John Oliver lobbied for one U.S. state — but preferably not Florida, for snarky reasons — to cement gender equality in the constitution by ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment. “It’s been an especially rough few years in America for women — from abortion bans to the …
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Amazon Studios has shared the new teaser trailer for the Transparent series finale. Following the death of the show’s central character Moira Pfefferman (brought on by actor Jeffrey Tambor’s firing from the show following a series of sexual harassment allegations), the Pfefferman clan are brought together for one last musical …
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Timothy Olyphant was never happy with his performance during the original three-season run ofDeadwood. “I recall barely having my head above water,” he told me in the fall, “and I recall regretting every single choice made and begging David [Milch] to let me walk him back and change it.” Actors …
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Please, not another teen coming-of-age movie! That was your first thought, right? Hold your contempt. Booksmart changes the game and opens the genre up to greater possibilities. Directed by the actor Olivia Wilde in a smashing feature debut, this femcentric spin on Freaks and Geeks is high on girl power. …
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A review of “Cinco de Mayo,” this week’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine, coming up just as soon as I know the associate principal cellist in the New York Philharmonic… I was once in the Parks and Rec writers room to watch the staff pitch ideas for their fourth season premiere. Several writers, …
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A review of “Show Me The Magic,” this week’s Better Things, coming up just as soon as I eat my grandfather… Midway through “Show Me the Magic,” Sam asks David Miller to pose as a medium to make the girls feel better about Duke‘s belief that Murray‘s ghost lives in …
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