Saturday Night Live mocked Donald Trump‘s questionable health exam results in a cold open sketch where Beck Bennett’s White House physician Ronny Jackson spoke glowingly about the president’s physique and mental faculty. Aidy Bryant’s White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders first acknowledged the millions of women marching Saturday “to …
Read More »Rob Sheffield: Steven Soderbergh's 'Mosaic' Muddles the Murder Mystery
There’s a tense moment that sums up Mosaic, Steven Soderbergh‘s HBO thriller about a murder in a Utah ski-resort town. A character confronts another over a moment from their tangled past, to make sure they’ve got their story straight for the cops. She smiles warily. “Is this like a 12-step …
Read More »Mark Wahlberg Donates $1.5 Million Reshoots Fee to Time's Up
Mark Wahlberg announced Saturday that he would donate $1.5 million – his salary for All the Money in the World reshoots – to Time’s Up. The actor’s donation comes following reports that Wahlberg’s co-star Michelle Williams was only paid a per diem of approximately $1,000 a day – less than …
Read More »Jerry Van Dyke, 'Coach' Actor and Comedian, Dead at 86
Jerry Van Dyke, the younger brother of Dick Van Dyke and longtime sitcom actor who starred on Coach and The Middle, died Friday at the age of 86. Van Dyke’s wife Shirley told TMZ that the comedian died Friday at their Hot Springs, Arkansas ranch, adding that his health had …
Read More »Golden Globes 2018 Predictions: What Will Win, What Should Win
This time last year, we kicked off our annual Golden Globes predictions with a warning: The Golden Globes are impossibly hard to predict. And we didn’t even know the half of it:From labeling Get Out a comedy to snubbing Twin Peaks almost entirely, this year’s suite of nominees is wild …
Read More »10 Best TV Episodes of 2017: 'Better Things'
This year, we’ve asked 10 writers to pick some of their favorite TV episodes from 2017 and weigh in on why they were great stand-alone eps and the highlights of our viewing year. Today: Our final entry, David Fear on Better Thing‘s “Eulogy.” Being a parent sometimes sucks. This is …
Read More »Dana White: 'We're Talking to Floyd Mayweather About Doing a UFC Deal'
The UFC is in talks with Floyd Mayweather about a possible deal that would bring him into the world of mixed martial arts, UFC president Dana White told ESPN on Wednesday. It’s still unclear what the deal would look like, but UFC commentator Joe Rogan confirmed on his podcast this …
Read More »Daisy Ridley: 'The Last Jedi' Interview
When Daisy Ridley sat down at a crowded Montreal wine bar in late October to do her interview for Rolling Stone’s Last Jedi cover story, she had been in Canada for three long months, on a “chaotic” shoot for the Doug Liman sci-fi movie Chaos Walking. She hadn’t seen the …
Read More »'I, Tonya': Margot Robbie on Becoming Tonya Harding
Tonya Harding is still best known as the woman who maybe, possibly, potentially played a part – for the record, she denies it – in her figure-skating rival Nancy Kerrigan getting hit in the knee just before the 1994 Olympics. Margot Robbie knows this – the Australian actress spent months …
Read More »Marc Maron Addresses Louis C.K.'s 'Vile, Inappropriate' Actions
Marc Maron addressed the sexual misconduct accusations against his friend Louis C.K. in the latest episode of his WTF podcast, with the host calling the comedian’s actions “vile, inappropriate, hurtful, damaging selfish shit.” Maron admitted that he had heard rumors of C.K.’s misconduct for years. “Sadly, I knew what most …
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