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5 Very Gen X Things That Got Me Through My Divorce (opens the original)
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Sharon Horgan Wants Her New Show Youth to Be ‘of Service’ — and It 100% Is (opens the original)
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I’d expect nothing less from Bad Sisters and Catastrophe creator (and hair icon) Sharon Horgan. But her new romantic dramedy, Youth, is the smartest, cackle-laugh funniest, and most spot-on commentary about dating as a 50-year-old divorcée while juggling one midlife crisis after another: sandwich-generation stuff, career pressures, and, yes, all the menopause symptoms.And, in what may be one of my life highlights, Horgan jumped on Zoom with me to talk about
Can We Still Laugh at Pat? (opens the original)
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Saturday Night Live’s early-to-mid-’90s run gave us some of the show’s most indelible characters: Dana Carvey’s Church Lady, Mike Myers’ Wayne and Garth, Adam Sandler’s Opera Man — and Julia Sweeney’s gender-ambiguous office nerd, Pat.I remember
The Practical Magic 2 Easter Eggs That Conjure Up a New Spell (opens the original)
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The ’80s Costumes in The Shards Are a Duran Duran, Brooke Shields, and Blondie Fever Dream (opens the original)
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Did you watch Ryan Murphy and Bret Easton Ellis’ The Shards, not just for the campy suspense of a Satanic Panic–esque serial killer terrorizing a group of parent-less teens across Los Angeles, but also for the absolute thrill of spotting all the MTV-era references? Because I did! So I had a very fun conversation with the show’s costume designers, Joshua Marsh and Lou Eyrich, to talk about it all. (Yes, I yelped q
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