Spoiler alert: This article discusses details of Succession season 4, episode 8.
Who is to blame for Jeryd Mencken claiming victory at the end of “America Decides,” the third-to-last episode of Succession’s fourth and final season? Maybe it’s the Menckenists or, you know, whoever it was who burned down a vote-counting cen…
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There’s a great line from the early-’80s song “I Confess” by the English Beat in which the singer, right after acknowledging—almost bragging—that he’s ruined three lives, says he didn’t care until “I found out that one of them was mine.” You could think of Ira Sachs’ half-funny, half-melancholic Passages as a riff on that line, a story of three people not necessar…
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“I’m retired from talking about my body,” Bryce Dallas Howard tells me as we sit in a fancy Manhattan hotel lobby a few days before the premiere of her new movie Argylle. It turns out, however, that she has plenty to say about it.
To be fair, I was the one who started the conversation. I had gone to a screening a few weeks earlier, and I could not take my eyes off Howard. S…
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Amber Heard’s legal team continued their defense on Monday in the ongoing defamation suit brought by her ex-husband, Johnny Depp.
Depp sued Heard for $50 million in 2019, alleging that she defamed him by describing herself as a “public figure representing domestic abuse” in a Washington Post op-ed published in 2018. While Heard did not name Depp in the article, D…
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