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A Real-Life Rock Groupie Inspired Miley Cyrus’s Drive-Away Dolls Cameo Ethan Coen’s new caper takes cues from Cynthia “Plaster Caster,” an artist known for casting the erect penises of famous rock stars in plaster.
how i get it done
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How the Owner of the Los Angeles Lakers Gets It Done After 40 years in the family business, Jeanie Buss is looking to conquer a new arena: women’s wrestling.
Hope Davis on Supplanting Stewy As the Roys’ Foremost Adversary The Succession actor talks improvisation, the truth about Sandy’s diagnosis, and that shaky Shiv alliance.
parts unknown
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The Most Surprising Stories From the Anthony Bourdain Doc Roadrunner Morgan Neville’s film, which includes extensive unseen footage of the chef, attempts to piece together a person and a tragedy.
How Behind Her Eyes’ Eve Hewson Calibrated Her Performance for That Final Twist The actress breaks down what playing Adele taught her about astral projection and channeling another actor’s performance.
all creatures great and small
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All Creatures’ Nicholas Ralph Got ‘Right in There’ With His Animal Co-StarsFrom almost getting face-kicked by a horse to driving vintage cars, the newcomer breaks down James Herriot’s most memorable season-one moments.
Industry’ s Creators Decode the Show’s Most Jargony Trader TalkMickey Down and Konrad Kay walk us through what you need to know to understand the season’s major plot points — including Harper’s big screwup.
the real story
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How Bad Was The Trial of the Chicago 7 ’s Judge Julius Hoffman, Really? Here’s how Frank Langella’s pro-prosecution jurist stacks up against the real man, whom Abbie Hoffman called “a shande far die goyim .”
backstories
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How to Make a Coronavirus Rom-com in Isolation Love in the Time of Corona director Joanna Johnson breaks down what went into remotely filming the miniseries’ cast in their own homes.
documentaries
May 22, 2020
In AKA Jane Roe , a ‘Deathbed Confession’ Was Never the Plan “I was shocked,” documentarian Nick Sweeney says of Norma McCorvey’s onscreen confession. “It was not what I expected.”
The True Story Behind Bad Education The wild tale of a school superintendent who hoodwinked a Long Island town to the tune of $11.2 million.
Naomi Ackie on The End of the F***ing World , Eating Lipstick, and Star Wars “I was like, ‘You know what? I’ll just eat it.’ I wanted people to feel grossed out.”
explainers
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The True Stories Behind Unbelievable The Netflix true-crime series hews close to the reported facts of the case while lightly fictionalizing its main players.
hardest things
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The Hardest Effect I Ever Pulled Off 42 filmmakers, cinematographers, and effects artists on making the impossible happen.
catastrophe
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How Catastrophe Handled Carrie Fisher’s Death “We wanted to make sure we showed the world that we loved her,” says Sharon Horgan.
The Umbrella Academy ’s Aidan Gallagher Is an Old SoulThe breakout star of Netflix’s superhero show on why it’s a “dream” to play a middle-aged time-traveling assassin.
special effects
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How Mary Poppins Returns Turned a Bowl Into a Fantasia Director Rob Marshall on combining live-action, 2-D animation, and 3-D computer rendering to create a passage of eye-popping originality.
The Stories Behind the Songs in Cold War Writer-director Pawel Pawlikowski goes deep on the folk songs at the heart of his tale of star-crossed lovers.
behind the scenes
Dec. 5, 2018
How My Brilliant Friend Filmed Its Most Disturbing Scene Director Saverio Costanzo employed a body double and a closed set for the show’s gut-wrenching molestation scene.
vulture lists
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A Beginner’s Guide to Mexican Narco Films: The 10 Best Vintage Drug Dramas The Mexican outlaw oeuvre known as narco cinema has been training a B-movie lens on drug dealers for decades.
Diego Luna on Narcos: Mexico and Playing a Notorious Drug Lord “Younger generations that live now in Mexico, they don’t get it. They don’t get how things got this bad.”
theme songs
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Why The Deuce Got a New Theme Song Elvis Costello’s “This Year’s Girl” is a perfect fit for the HBO show.
blackkklansman
Aug. 13, 2018
Laura Harrier on Her ‘Nerve-racking’ Performance In BlacKkKlansman The star of Spike Lee’s latest on how Spike sought her out for her role, filming with Harry Belafonte, and what she’d love to do next.
Why Kate Walsh’s Wig Looked So Bad in 13 Reasons Why Season Two “If you’re not proficient in wigs, you think that you can cut one like you do hair, but you can’t.”
11 Delightful Things We Learn About Mr. Rogers in Won’t You Be My Neighbor? Including the fact that he loved pranks, scared Yo-Yo Ma, and based his puppets on his family members.
Here’s the Story Behind That Russian Movie Philip Watched on The Americans The showrunners talk us through some of Philip’s erratic behavior — and his meaningful choice of video rental.
anatomy of a scene
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Behind the Scenes of Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri The blood-red signs became the talk of the town in more than just the fictional town of Ebbing.
backstories
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Narcos Star Matias Varela on Season 3 and the Real Jorge Salcedo“Nobody pointed a gun to his head and said you have to come work for us.”
Pedro Pascal on Returning to Narcos As Its Leading Man “It’s the first opportunity I’ve ever had to play a character for this long.”
vulture recommends
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It’s Time to Start Watching The Bureau It’s the series practicing the best spycraft these days.
power rankings
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The Gilmore Girls Cast Power Ranking Could you have guessed the guy who played a nebbishy Yale newspaper editor would become an Emmy Award–winning TV writer?
Sarah Baker on Typecasting in Hollywood “People tend to be very unimaginative.”
How Narcos Filmed Pablo Escobar’s Death “The reality is he died with half his head missing, on a rooftop in Medellín, grossly overweight, and alone.”
emmy insider
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Talking to 2016’s Sole Woman Director Emmy Nom “I get calls all the time, even from someone directing a pilot who wants advice. That’s how it should be; that’s how changes happens.”
Alexis Wilkinson on Joining Veep at 22 And why she’s moving to Brooklyn Nine-Nine next season.
Director Susanne Bier on Women in Hollywood “My worry: I don’t want us to be fringe. We are more than half of the world’s population, and we are always put in a box as if we’re a minority.”
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