John: “I always have to be the meat in the sandwich.”Photo courtesy Fox
Do kids today fantasize about an upbringing that involves military training in the jungles of Central America? This teen-centric Terminator 2 spinoff, its popular first season well under way, suggests that, yes, the plight of John Connor — the young man, played by Thomas Dekker, destined to battle out-of-control robots in the distant future — resonates with the youth.
tv guidance June 23, 2011 Fox Announces Its Fall Premiere Dates’Bones’ won’t be here till November, but ‘Glee’ and ‘The X Factor’ start in September. By Josef Adalian
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In the history of pop culture, few have been given as much, and appreciated it as little, as the sad, troll-like creature professionally known as Gallagher. By seemingly every standard other than his own, Gallagher has been obscenely, undeservedly, surreally lucky. Against impossible odds and the better judgment of the American public, Gallagher has managed to ride a silly, scatological gimmick involving taking a sledgehammer to watermelons into decades of fame, fortune and television infamy.
All Bill Withers ever needed was a team that trusted him enough to get out of the way. I spent most of my 20s toiling away in supermarkets and minor chain department stores, making just enough money to get to the next week in one piece. (My heart goes out to grocery store employees in hectic public-facing positions during the COVID-19 pandemic. It is draining, often thankless work on a good day; if their work is essential, so are their needs.
Michael Shannon, Ajay Naidu, and Paul Sparks in Waiting for Godot. There are certain folk songs, like “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face,” that shock you when you realize they were written not that long ago, in a world with cars and telephones, by a specific human being with a bank account, an address, and a name that isn’t “Trad.” In the same way, I’m never not taken aback by recalling that Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot premiered in 1953.
How Paramount’s Chris McCarthy turned Taylor Sheridan’s cable hit into streaming’s biggest franchise. Photo: Jesse Dittmar Photo: Jesse Dittmar When Chris McCarthy took control of Paramount Network at the end of 2019, he inherited a hot new hit (Yellowstone) and a really big headache: The business model of linear TV, particularly cable, was crumbling even faster than the most dire forecasts had projected. The Kevin Costner–led drama was already one of the biggest shows on cable, and yet amazingly, it wasn’t yet the money-printing machine a similar-size success might have netted even a few years earlier.
Over the next few weeks, Vulture will be publishing our critics’ year-end lists. Today, we’re looking at the best films and performances.
1. La La Land
Damien Chazelle’s romantic musical revolves around a jazz musician (Ryan Gosling) and an aspiring actress (Emma Stone) who fall lyrically in love and threaten to come uncoupled when the needle gets to the record’s end: The tension between Hollywood dreams and the reality of making art is too fierce.
Snow Jams We’re making our lists and playing them twice. Snow Jams We’re making our lists and playing them twice. You don’t become the best Christmas song of all time by being just another cute and fun bop, and sure enough, “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” captures the dark side of the holidays; it’s a song for the cynics, the sad girlies, and the lonely boys like Dan Humphrey.
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