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"The Swan" tested the waters for Mar-a-Lago face (opens the original)
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Along with a few other TV critics, I have the dubious distinction of attending the last party at the late Hollywood producer Robert Evans‘ Woodland estate before its storied pool house burned down in 2003. There, I rubbed elbows with famous comedians and an assortment of UPN and WB starlets. But the guests I remember most clearly were a woman in her 40s, possibly, and her daughter, who was perhaps in her mid-20s. They were remarkable because they’d been surgically altered to look like twins. By
A homecoming for "A Different World" (opens the original)
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Five episodes into Netflix’s “A Different World” sequel, Hillman gets a bomb threat. This is a very real part of life for students at historically black colleges and universities, but that doesn’t make it any less frightening. Everyone gathers at The Pit, including Dwayne Wayne (Kadeem Hardison) and Freddie Brooks (Cree Summer) — who are Hillman faculty now — to talk it out. One student expresses shock at being targeted at a place they chose because they thought they’d feel safe. Another wonders
The TikTok tradwife tainted by an Andrew Tate connection (opens the original)
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The virality of “I Met the Tradwife Who Thinks Women Shouldn’t Vote,” Ben Zand’s documentary profile of far-right influencer Savanna Stone, can be explained by one chef’s kiss moment early in its 47 minute-run. As Stone holds forth on why women should submit to their spouses, we see her self-described full-time husband, Noah, quietly holding her purse. “Naturally, if your whole message is that a wife should submit to her husband, your own marriage becomes the evidence,” Zand deadpans. “I Met the
The curious, unsolved case of “The Black Dahlia” (opens the original)
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A version of this story first appeared in The Swell, Salon's culture newsletter. Sign up for early access to articles like this, for more culture that's made to last. Bad movies are a low-key passion of mine. This is no secret to my forbearing friends who slouched in theater seats next to me during, say, every Paul W. S. Anderson-directed disaster in the “Resident Evil” series. If I had been living in Britain in 2009, when Uma Thurman’s “Motherhood” grossed a piddly £88 during its opening weeken
There's a reason that singing along to "September" feels so good (opens the original)
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A version of this story first appeared in The Swell, Salon's culture newsletter. Sign up for early access to articles like this, for more culture that's made to last. A few weeks ago at the end of a dispiriting workday, I dragged my husband to an outdoor show headlined by The Breeders. I nearly talked us out of going, but the effort was worth it for the communal experience. It was, in a word, healing. And that gave me plenty to contemplate. The Breeders’ catalog is full of singalong possibilitie
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