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Archives for December 2014


Here’s what actually happened.


The comedian retold the story at a show in New Orleans.


She talks her new Netflix show Marco Polo and why the most popular Chinese films are ones you’ve never heard of.


On Twitter, Cher is a digital oracle. Here are some of her best tweets.


Some of the hacked emails reflected the often absurd way Sony executives chat with each other.


“I have dreams,” Beyoncé says, “and I feel like I have the power to actually make those dreams become a reality.”


Here’s what happened when Smaug showed up on set.


Modern students are hardly the first ones to zone out while reading a textbook.

All of these were critically praised but made under $1 million.


On Thursday, the nominations for the 72nd annual Golden Globe Awards were announced. Here’s a brief look at the nine biggest surprises.


Television is all about possibility. Why are so many shows now about closing that off?


They aren’t the first women in country to do so, but they’re certainly leading a new, more direct feminist country charge.


Imagine a movie written by an atheism subreddit, the congregation of a small evangelical Christian church, and a particularly excitable high school model UN team.


How, and why, the CIA used some of America’s most beloved, iconic songs as an instrument of torture.


“My sisters who came before me had already handled it.”