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"I was like, 'I love this guy.'"
Sure, Kieran Culkin may be lighting up your screen with his spitfire insults and expletives in the new season of Succession. But he's been in your memory for much longer than that. Remember a thick-rimmed-glasses-wearing little boy who drank too much soda in Home Alone? ...
The Succession star is feeling introspective as the HBO series that reignited his career comes to a close. On a long ferry ride, and over several rounds of drinks, he talks about where Roman ends and Kieran begins.
Kieran Culkin sounds like he’s on mile twelve of a marathon, but he’s been running for only two minutes. We’re sprinting toward a ferry dock on the Manhattan side of the East River. As the boat we’re trying to catch pulls into ...
Time to experience the horror all over again in better detail.
It was nice these past couple of Sunday nights to get a full night's sleep without dreams of turning into a mushroom monster. The Last of Us season finale was emotionally damaging, so the franchise was kind enough to give me some time to heal. ...
Has Mike White been rewatching The Beach?
In this long, drizzly stretch of March, you would be forgiven for only having one thing on your mind: a holiday. Perhaps a long weekend in Europe, or some endless white beach. Maybe a city break, with access to an infinity pool. ...
Marlon James and Jake Morrissey preview Season Three of their spicy literary podcast, Marlon and Jake Read Dead People.
For bestselling novelist Marlon James and his longtime editor Jake Morrissey, fighting for books is all in a day’s work. But fighting over books? That’s just good, old-fashioned fun.It’s also the beating heart of their podcast, Marlon and Jake Read Dead People, now entering its much-anticipated third season. Conventional wisdom ...
How gambling on games took over one man's life.
In 2018, the Supreme Court struck down a 1992 federal law banning the expansion of sports betting, allowing states to implement sports gambling. Several legislatures quickly did exactly that and for the first time in our nation’s history, Americans no longer needed to travel ...
A recent report has confirmed the long-whispered rumor that Reagan did a deal with Iran to sink Carter's re-election.
My first major, ongoing assignment at the Boston Phoenix (may its memory be a blessing) was the 1980 presidential election, specifically the Republican half. It had the potential to be extraordinarily weird: alternative liberal weekly covers campaign that ultimately produced President Ronald Reagan. But ...
The courtship at St. Andrews will be a big plot point in season six if paparazzi shots are anything to go by.
Back in the early Seventies, Nasa decided that its Voyager space telescope would carry with it a gold-plated record full of the sights, sounds and feelings of Earth.There was music by Beethoven, Mozart, Chuck Berry and Louis Armstrong. There were pictures of ...
Denzel Washington training Paul Mescal? Have mercy.
Remember earlier this year, when we learned that Paul Mescal would trade his chain for a sword in Ridley Scott’s Gladiator sequel? As it turns out, he won't be the only Hollywood darling in the cast. Denzel Washington and Barry Keoghan are reportedly in talks to ...