It’s been four decades since Robert De Niro’s troubled loner Travis Bickle looked into a mirror and uttered one of the most enduring pieces of dialogue in film history — but as the legendary actor revealed last week during the Tribeca Film Festival, the line is fresh as ever in his mind.
“Every day for 40 years – 40 fuckin’ years — at least one of you has come up to me and said, You talkin’ to me?
Robin Williams. After a long career as a kinetic, childlike stand-up, TV personality, and film star, Robin Williams hung himself in 2014 after struggles with depression, addiction, a Parkinson’s diagnosis and an undiagnosed case of Lewy body dementia. This month, Williams gets a well-deserved biography with the help of New York Times culture reporter Dave Itzkoff, who got to know Williams during his final stand-up tour, Weapons of Self Destruction. The book covers the span of Williams manic, playful existence — from his well-off beginnings in suburban Chicago to his A-list acting career replete with doubts he could never shake.
Warning: The cover for Rolling Stone’s July issue may induce labor, regardless of whether or not you happen to be pregnant right now. Cardi B posted the magazine’s upcoming cover, which features the very pregnant “I Like It” rapper and fiancé Offset, to her social media on Friday. Tweeted Cardi B along with the image, “My daughter made it to the Rollin Stone cover.” Behold, the muva and child.
Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting in Romeo and Juliet. Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting, the stars of Franco Zeffirelli’s landmark 1968 version of Romeo and Juliet, have taken legal action against Paramount, accusing the studio of sexual abuse for pressuring the then-teenage actors to film a bedroom scene nude, according to a Variety report. The film was a critical success and went on to earn four Academy Award nominations despite the underage nudity — Hussey was 15 and Whiting was 16 when the movie was filmed — that stirred controversy after its release.
At a concert at the Beacon Theatre this past May, Tom Petty called contemporary country music “bad rock with a fiddle.” Asked to elaborate in a recent Rolling Stone interview, Petty offered a slightly hedged version of the critique. “I hate to generalize on a whole genre of music, but [country] does seem to be missing that magic element that it used to have,” he said. “I’m sure there are people playing country that are doing it well, but they’re just not getting the attention that the shittier stuff gets … I don’t really see a George Jones or a Buck Owens or any anything that fresh coming up.
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The Daily Show veteran’s career has brought him to this moment. If only there were the perfect job opening. Roy Wood Jr. Photo: Jonah Rosenberg Roy Wood Jr. Roy Wood Jr. knows he could’ve hired painters. Instead, he’s loading up a cart while navigating the aisles of the Home Depot on West 23rd Street. It’s a Monday morning in March, and since the 44-year-old comedian just bought an apartment in Manhattan — the first place he’s owned — he wanted to spend the morning running errands.
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The camera often lies, or at the very least obscures. That idea is at the heart of “Running From Cops,” the third season of documentarian Dan Taberski’s Headlong podcast. It follows last year’s gorgeous end-times-study-meets-memoir “Surviving Y2K” and 2017’s delirium-catalyzing “Missing Richard Simmons.” It’s also his most journalistically pressing effort, tackling one of America’s thorniest epistemological quandaries: policing and the media.
“Running From Cops,” which was produced at around the same time as “Surviving Y2K,” takes the form of a six-part sociological examination of Cops, the reality-television phenomenon, still going strong, that debuted three decades ago, developed a massive broadcast following, and forged an undeniable legacy.
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