‘I still feel young and small in a big, big world,” says Zazie Beetz. “My inner self sometimes feels in danger of being exposed.” Exposure is certainly a risk if your career moves as quickly as Beetz’s has. As Van, the on-off girlfriend of Donald Glover’s Earn on Atlanta, Beetz, …
Read More »Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan on the Final Season of 'Catastrophe'
Over its first three seasons, Catastrophe was one of the great miracles of Peak TV, a comedy as hilariously profane as it was startlingly tender. Co-creators and stars Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan played a trans-Atlantic couple (also named Rob and Sharon) who do everything out of order: they meet, …
Read More »Sundance 2019: Crosby, Miles and Leonard Cohen's Muse
“People ask me if I have regrets,” David Crosby says, fixing his stare on someone just out of the frame. “Yeah, I’ve got huge regrets about the time I wasted … I’m afraid of dying. And I’m close. I’d like to have more time.” This candid confession comes at the …
Read More »Best Streaming TV for Dec.: Springsteen on Broadway, 'Marvelous Mrs. Maisel'
So how is 2018, the Year of Maximum Streaming TV, going out — with a bang or a whimper? Well, that depends on what you think of Emmys’ latest favorite show returning for a second season, a genre thriller featuring a telepathic dinosaur and a brand new take on everyone’s …
Read More »Revisiting Hours: 'God Told Me To,' From Mass Murder to Divine Madness
Every Friday, we’re recommending an older movie that’s available to stream or download and worth seeing again through the lens of our current moment. We’re calling the series “Revisiting Hours” — consider this Rolling Stone’s unofficial film club. This week, a.k.a. the Halloween edition: Noel Murray on one of the …
Read More »Revisiting Hours: 'Lost in America,' The Great American Economic Horror Movie
Every Friday, we’re recommending an older movie that’s available to stream or download and worth seeing again through the lens of our current moment. We’re calling the series “Revisiting Hours” — consider this Rolling Stone’s unofficial film club. This week: Matt Zoller Seitz on Albert Brooks‘ 1985 livin’-in-the-USA comedy of …
Read More »The Saints and Sinners of 'Riverdale'
S ave for the main characters’ Crayola-classic hair color — and Jughead’s signature jaunty hat — people with even a passing knowledge of the 1940s-era comic Archie might not recognize its latest incarnation, Riverdale, the TV revival entering Season Three on the CW on October 10th. While the kids of …
Read More »Who's Afraid of Tom Arnold?
When Tom Arnold opens the big wooden door of his house in Beverly Hills on a Tuesday in late spring, he’s wearing a blue T-shirt with a Superman “S” logo on it. On the floor behind him is a pink, toddler-size Minnie Mouse car, property of his two-year-old daughter, Quinn. …
Read More »Tracy Morgan and Tiffany Haddish on Painfully Funny 'The Last O.G.'
“OK, listen, I gotta play you something.” Tracy Morgan gestures to a young man, one of a gaggle of publicists and assistants and network reps hovering around the periphery of an Austin conference room. Some of them are checking their phones, or pretending to. Others are simply staring nervously at …
Read More »'Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling': Judd Apatow on His Comedy Mentor
Garry Shandling had just paid for a tuna-melt sandwich when a dark one-liner about the human condition – about his human condition, anyway – popped into his head: “I was born in hospice.” He liked it, maybe enough to use on stage, but with no notepaper available, he jotted down …
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