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The Netflix Show That Airs from the Great Beyond (opens the original)
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On Wednesday, the feminist pioneer Gloria Steinem died, at ninety-two. The news broke on Thursday morning. By 5 P.M. Eastern time, Netflix had dropped a new episode of “Famous Last Words,” a fascinating series that offers celebrity postcards from the beyond. Each episode features a sit-down interview with a notable person, filmed months or years prior, with the understanding that it will not be released until after the subject’s death. Steinem’s was the third to appear; a conversation with Jane
John Leguizamo Is a Noble Fellow (opens the original)
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Now that moviegoers have Odyssey fever, thanks to Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster, audiences are revisiting characters that they first encountered in English class: wily warriors, cool monsters, island temptresses. Be honest, though. Did you remember Eumaeus, Odysseus’ faithful swineherd, who waits in Ithaca for his master’s return? Neither did John Leguizamo, when Nolan took him out to lunch a while back, at the Odeon, and offered him the role. “I was trying not to eat, because I spit a lot,” L
A Celebrity Photographerâs Hidden Stash of Polaroids (opens the original)
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The first decade of the twenty-first centuryâwhat are we calling it, again? The two-thousands? The aughts?âis far enough in the rear-view mirror that we can finally start seeing it as a discrete pop-culture era. Recent documentaries (âReality Check,â âQuiet on Setâ) have reckoned with the dark side of its television; books such as âMeet Me in the Bathroomâ and âGirl on Girlâ have dissected its music and misogyny. Its hipster fashion has been revived as âindie sleaze.â Lik
David Wainâs Wet Hot American Comedy (opens the original)
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Itâs possible to see David Wainâs career as a skeleton key for the past thirty years of comedy. In the nineties, he was part of the State, an eleven-member troupe that formed at N.Y.U. in 1988 and had its own antic sketch show on MTV from 1994 to 1995. With its dumb-smart, self-conscious brand of anti-comedy, the eponymous show was a Gen X answer to âSaturday Night Liveââand MTVâs attempt to bottle coolness through humor the way it had with music videos. In the two-thousands, after t
David Wain’s Wet Hot American Comedy (opens the original)
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The comedian and director talks about the State, making his first film in eight years, and the challenges of creating original comedy in Hollywood’s bleak landscape.
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