UPDATE:Samantha Beeapologized to Ivanka Trump and her viewership after she called the president’s daughter a “feckless cunt” on Wednesday’sFull Frontal. “I would like to sincerely apologize to Ivanka Trump and to my viewers for using an expletive on my show to describe her last night. It was inappropriate and inexcusable. …
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A riddle for America, 2018: Could President Trump devise a conspiracy theory so unhinged that not even his base will believe it? Seeing as that the president and Fox News are usually of the same mind, one consciousness depending upon the other, this would create a paradox. But with Spygate …
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As if on cue, a Top Dawg Entertainment employee politely interrupts producer Mark “Sounwave” Spears, who was telling the story about how he linked with rap icon Kendrick Lamar more than a decade ago. “I think you’ll be pretty happy with this,” the TDE staffer slyly winks. “Is that what …
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Country Music Hall of Fame member Bobby Bare was welcomed back last month as a member of another Nashville institution – the Grand Ole Opry. Having been part of the long-running radio show’s cast in the Sixties, when he was charting with such classics as “Detroit City” and “500 Miles,” …
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Train recruited country artist Cam and Gym Class Heroes frontman Travie McCoy for their summer-ready new single “Call Me Sir.”The song follows Train‘s 10th studio album, 2017’s A Girl, a Bottle, a Boat. Each of the vocalists leads a verse in a song about how a lover can feel like …
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Innocence is a slippery concept: We’re never conscious of possessing it, only of having lost it. That’s the conceit behind writer-director Jennifer Fox’s extraordinary cinematic memoir The Tale(which begins airing May 26th on HBO) – a raw, personal chronicle of the sexual abuse she sustained as a child in the …
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The first season of ABC’s American Idol reboot wraps up with Monday’s episode as the three contestants vying for the crown offer their final performances for the judges and the voting viewing audience. With Luke Bryan, Katy Perry and Lionel Richie in the judges’ chairs, the finalists loaded the penultimate …
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Think back to the 2003 “pizza bomber” incident, and the first thing that comes to mind is probably the footage of a man sitting handcuffed next to a car, slightly blurry from a camera’s long zoom. He had a device around his neck, and seemed to be getting increasingly agitated. …
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Lyor Cohen reinvented the music business – and then he did it again, and again. But the industry veteran, who built Def Jam, reinvigorated Warner and set new rules for the record industry with 360 deals and other inventions, now faces his toughest task yet as global music head of …
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One of the greatest journalists and writers of the last century, Tom Wolfe, who died Monday at age 88, had a deep, longstanding connection with Rolling Stone. He and founder and editor in chief Jann S. Wenner met in the late Sixties, and the timing couldn’t have possibly been better. …
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