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Are We Running Out Of Talent For Good Tributes? (opens the original)
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There comes a time in our lives—for those of us with a “19” at the beginning of our birth year—when we wake up, and everyone in the entertainment sector is someone we don’t recognize—a name that makes no sense, a moniker that’s just a bunch of letters <source type="im
Ed Sheeran, This Is Gonna Ruin The Tour (opens the original)
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Lady Gaga Welcomes Baby Gaga (opens the original)
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Now That I Mention It quietly celebrated its 4th birthday at the beginning of this month because I was having a nervous breakdown from the heat, BUT the show must go on! As such, The Emmys are coming this Monday, September 14th and I’ll be posting live with some of your fav Substack authors—Evan Ross Katz, Hunter Harris, Lex Niko and more! To follow along in the hub for TV’s Biggest Night join us here!There’s gonna be glitz, there’s gonna be glamour, and speaking of glamour, I just got out of Pr
Everything Meg Ryan Films Taught Me About Life, Love, and Grief (opens the original)
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In the span of my thirty-[redacted] years on this earth, I can easily say, movies have taught me more than anything I learned at school, or from a private tutor with beautiful green eyes who was too old for me to kiss, or (almost) anything Wishbone reenacted. Movies are such an important part of my life that I’m writing one1, and I’ve kissed a few actors you might know just to see if the chemistry was real, or if it was Hollywood magic. But there is one person’s filmography in particular that ha
In Conversation With: Djamel White, Author of The Booker Prize Longlisted Novel All Them Dogs (opens the original)
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A great philosopher once said “When you do clownery, the clown comes back to bite!” which is precisely the lesson Tony Ward—the protagonist at the center of Djamel White’s Booker Prize longlisted novel All Them Dogs—is about to learn.White, 28, is the youngest of the longlisters still in the running towards becoming the next winner of The Booker Prize in 2026. The Irish (and Algerian—more on this later) writer has written a propulsive, mesmerizing, and
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