That explains it. Sacha Baron Cohen probably isn’t allowed to do a lot of things, but when has that ever stopped any of his alter egos? SBC presented at last night’s Oscars not as himself, but as the racially confused Ali G, beside a very-embarrassed-for-him Olivia Wilde. As Cohen revealed to Good Morning Britain, it was a bit he had to sneak by Oscars producers who forbade him from dressing up as any of his characters.
James Charles’s TikTok with “Roses” has over 30 million views. The fun thing about TikTok music discovery is that even when it feels like you’re hearing something new, you can guarantee that about a million other people have already heard it. Humbling. These songs have massive streaming numbers, especially YouTube views, but they don’t typically make their way onto the Billboard charts organically (see: Tekashi 6ix9ine’s recent lesson on the math behind it).
Sally Field knits her brow into those famous migraine furrows, 66 years deep, trying to decide whether to judge a book by its cover. Through tortoiseshell bifocals, she studies a $50 copy of Dante’s Divine Comedy with an unremarkable cover but vivid Gustave Doré illustrations inside. A salesman here at Argosy Books, the midtown mecca of rare editions, is trying to up-sell the two-time Academy Award winner. He doesn’t recognize the intermittent leading lady, the long-ago Gidget and flying nun, and the co-star, with Daniel Day-Lewis, of Steven Spielberg’s new biopic Lincoln.
Early on in Sally Rooney’s novel Beautiful World, Where Are You, a young man named Felix introduces the semi-famous writer he’s semi-seeing to a room full of his friends: “This is Alice … She’s a novelist.” His friends do what anyone confronted by a supposedly well-known person would do: They Google her. In front of Alice, they list the details of her Wikipedia page, from “Literary work” to “Adaptations” to “Personal life.
“Latch” was a landmine, an explosion no one saw coming, a perfect pop smash from an unknown artist. The singer, pompadoured London dynamo Sam Smith, who used the sprightly beat from the house music duo Disclosure to model a preternatural ease skating across two different octaves, didn’t appear to be all that invested in the dance of being seen and perceived in the public eye. In the Lonely Hour, Smith’s 2014 debut album, was an elaborate performance of meekness from the concept — it’s about a nagging unrequited crush — to the presentation.
Sarah Paulson and Gwen Shamblin. One thing Sarah Paulson’s gonna do is dress up as real-life people. But this time, she’s leaving behind the Ryan Murphy–produced crime anthologies for the HBO Max scripted adaptation of The Way Down: God, Greed, and the Cult of Gwen Shamblin. Paulson is set to play Shamblin, a diet coach turned cult leader accused of exerting profound control over the lives of her congregants and followers.
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This “cut for time” sketch from this weekend’s Saturday Night Live is a pretty cute parody of the Christmas classic Love Actually. Fun fact: The guy who originally held the “To me, you are perfect” cards is Rick from The Walking Dead. Pete Davidson should be so lucky.
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Saturday Night Live Ana de Armas Season 48 Episode 18 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Saturday Night Live Ana de Armas Season 48 Episode 18 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Putting together a fresh hour of live sketch comedy each week is physically and mentally taxing on a level most people will never understand.
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