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Tuesday, August 14, 2018

Near, Far, Ariana Grande and James Corden’s Titanic Is Just an Excuse for Ari to Belt That Song by Devon Ivie

We’ve crunched the numbers, and can officially report the reason behind Ariana Grande and James Corden’s Late Late Show “soundtrack” to Titanic was not for laughs, not for guaranteed…

SOURCE: Vulture at 09:59AM
Saturday, July 14, 2018

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’s Final Season Will Be Supersized by Devon Ivie

Let this be the salve to sooth your rage over Crazy Ex-Girlfriend getting snubbed for Emmy nominations once again. (Like, really, any would be appreciated. Listen to “I Go to the Zoo,” p…

SOURCE: Vulture at 12:46PM
Saturday, June 2, 2018

Cazzie David Seems Awfully Chill With Pete Davidson and Ariana Grande Dating by Devon Ivie

As the old saying goes, if you want to date a famous person, just get a job at SNL. Such a romance is happening at the moment for repertory player Pete Davidson, when it became public last m…

SOURCE: Vulture at 02:54PM
Sunday, May 20, 2018

Lin-Manuel Miranda Has a Burn Book, and Tina Fey Is Entry #1 by Devon Ivie

Not everyone can be a Broadway double threat, much to the chagrin of Tina Fey. See, she tried. She really tried! She wants to act in her Mean Girls musical, but when she’s demoted from Reg…

SOURCE: Vulture at 11:45AM
Sunday, May 13, 2018

A Donald Trump White House Employee and Aaron Sorkin White House Employee Hung Out by Devon Ivie

But did they walk and talk? Current White House Press Secretary and joke receiver Sarah Huckabee Sanders had a hang session with former Deputy Communications Director to President Josiah Bar…

SOURCE: Vulture at 11:05AM
Sunday, May 6, 2018

Younger Ups the (Broadway Darling) Ante With Laura Benanti’s Casting This Season by Devon Ivie

As fun as playing an exaggerated Melania Trump can be, pitching a book to Millennial just sounds so much more fun. Per TV Line, Laura Benanti will be appearing in a few episodes in the upcom…

SOURCE: Vulture at 07:06PM
Friday, April 20, 2018

Watch Noah Galvin Sing a Dear Evan Hansen Showstopper With Parkland Students by Devon Ivie

Evan, meet Parkland. As part of the fundraising effort From Broadway With Love: A Benefit Concert for Parkland, USA, Noah Galvin — who recently ended his tenure as the titular lead in Broa…

SOURCE: Vulture at 11:35AM
Sunday, April 15, 2018

Jon Bon Jovi Finally Got to Trade in His ‘F-ck You’ Speech for His Thank You Speech at the Rock Hall Induction by Devon Ivie

For Jon Bon Jovi, getting inducted alongside his Bon Jovi bandmates at this year’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame was something that came many, many years too late: His feud with the instituti…

SOURCE: Vulture at 09:14AM
Sunday, April 1, 2018

The Only April Fools’ Prank Worthy of Your Time Is Lin-Manuel Miranda’s The Room Broadway ‘Adaptation’ by Devon Ivie

Well, this certainly gives new meaning to The Room where it happens. (Do whatever it takes to get his adaptation on the Richard Rogers Theater floor, hey!) For a few glorious minutes before …

SOURCE: Vulture at 12:13PM
Sunday, March 25, 2018

Netflix Films Have Been Banned From Competing at Cannes by Devon Ivie

Well, merde. The Cannes Film Festival has broken up with Netflix, announcing that the streaming service is banned from submitting films to future competition line-ups. Theirry Fremaux, the h…

SOURCE: Vulture at 11:26AM
Monday, March 19, 2018

Elisabeth Moss Joins Tiffany Haddish and Melissa McCarthy’s Clan of Irish Mob Wives by Devon Ivie

Saints preserve us! Elisabeth Moss has become the final leading lady to join the upcoming crime drama The Kitchen, putting her alongside Tiffany Haddish and Melissa McCarthy as a group of wo…

SOURCE: Vulture at 05:13PM
Tuesday, March 13, 2018

Grab Your Mops, Joy Mangano’s Life Is Getting the Broadway Treatment by Devon Ivie

Think of all of the mop-tastic choreography in our future! Joy Mangano, successful inventor and Queen of QVC, will soon be getting her life turned into a Broadway musical. Mangano has signed…

SOURCE: Vulture at 10:48AM
Saturday, March 10, 2018

Laura Benanti’s Melania Trump Justifies Her Einstein Visa By Having ‘Extraordinary Ability’ to Remain Married by Devon Ivie

We’re still not clear as to how (and why) Melania Trump was reportedly awarded with an “Einstein visa” when she moved to the U.S. years ago, but Laura Benanti’s FLOTUS impersonation …

SOURCE: Vulture at 09:44AM
Sunday, March 4, 2018

56 Years Later, Rita Moreno Wears the Same Dress to the Oscars by Devon Ivie

An EGOT recipient can do whatever the hell an EGOT recipient wants. Waltzing down the red carpet at the 2018 Academy Awards, Rita Moreno defied the general human aging process by wearing the…

SOURCE: Vulture at 06:50PM
Saturday, February 24, 2018

Saoirse Ronan’s First Oscars Was Marred by a George Clooney Dress Altercation by Devon Ivie

Sir Shaw! Our Lady Bird goddess divine will be attending her third Oscars next weekend, which has her doing a little reminiscing about the very first time she attended the ceremony back in 2…

SOURCE: Vulture at 11:33AM
Friday, February 16, 2018

Saoirse Ronan Has Thought a Lot About How Awkward It Would Be to Bring a Date to the Oscars by Devon Ivie

Who will human ray of Gaelic sunshine Saoirse Ronan strut down the Oscars red carpet with this year? Maybe a cute boy, but eh, probably not. Because she’s crunched the numbers when it come…

SOURCE: Vulture at 01:44PM
Sunday, January 28, 2018

Damn, Patti LuPone Blew the Roof Off Madison Square Garden With Her Grammys Performance by Devon Ivie

The year was 1981. Patti LuPone slayed her performance of Evita’s crowd-stopping “Don’t Cry for Me Argentina” at the Grammy Awards, and tonight, more than 30 years later, it’s like…

SOURCE: Vulture at 10:49PM
Sunday, January 7, 2018

Hail Sara Bareilles, Full of Grace, Jesus Christ Superstar Live! Is With Thee by Devon Ivie

Just imagine all of those tasteful frocks she’s going to don. Sarah Bareilles — high priestess of Broadway, wonderful singer, all around nice person — has been tapped to portray Mary M…

SOURCE: Vulture at 09:27AM
Sunday, December 3, 2017

People Dislike Olaf’s Frozen Adventure So Much That Disney Is Reportedly Removing It From Theaters by Devon Ivie

Proving too much exposure to Frozen can indeed give someone hypothermia (or rather, extreme annoyance about an overly chipper snowman), Disney has reportedly decided to remove the critically…

SOURCE: Vulture at 11:30AM
Saturday, December 2, 2017

Geoffrey Rush Resigns From Academy Presidency, Blaming ‘Unjustifiable’ Reports About Inappropriate Behavior by Devon Ivie

Earlier this week, Geoffrey Rush became the latest prominent man in Hollywood to be embroiled in the post-Harvey Weinstein reckoning — an unknown person or group of people at the Sydney Th…

SOURCE: Vulture at 02:23PM
Saturday, November 18, 2017

Morrissey Thinks People Should Stop Unfairly Attacking Kevin Spacey by Devon Ivie

Since late October, Kevin Spacey has been accused of varying degrees of sexual assault and harassment by over a dozen people — which has caused severe retribution to his decades-long profe…

SOURCE: Vulture at 02:16PM

Meryl Streep Went After an Abuser With Cher, and Won by Devon Ivie

Lending her voice to the chorus of brave women who are speaking out against sexual harassment and assault in Hollywood, Meryl Streep has revealed two instances in which she was subjected to …

SOURCE: Vulture at 11:10AM
Sunday, November 5, 2017

Richard Dreyfuss’s Son, Harry Dreyfuss, Alleges Kevin Spacey Groped Him When He Was 18 by Devon Ivie

Adding his name to a growing list of men who have come forward to allege Kevin Spacey sexual harassed or assaulted them in some way over the past 30 years, actor and writer Harry Dreyfuss �…

SOURCE: Vulture at 11:34AM
Sunday, October 29, 2017

Michael Moore and Donald Trump Are in a Social Media War About Broadway Knowledge by Devon Ivie

Honestly, it was only a matter of time before Donald Trump hurled some insults Michael Moore’s way due to Moore’s popular presidential-bashing Broadway show, The Terms of My Surrender. B…

SOURCE: Vulture at 12:08PM
Sunday, September 24, 2017

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Season 3 Trailer: Josh Chan Must Die! by Devon Ivie

Let’s take a moment of silence for our dear little puppy-eyed Josh Chan, shall we? The man wants to reboot his life and find Jesus! He’s getting out of the dead-end Aloha Tech Center for…

SOURCE: Vulture at 10:51AM
Saturday, September 16, 2017

David Letterman Bestowed Stephen Colbert With Some Very Site-Specific Late Show Advice by Devon Ivie

Who knew the Ed Sullivan Theater was something right out of a Willy Wonka factory? Stephen Colbert learned this before he even started his tenure as The Late Show’s newest host, when he sw…

SOURCE: Vulture at 10:00AM
Tuesday, September 12, 2017

Big Mouth Trailer: Nick Kroll, John Mulaney, and All of Your Favorite Comedians Want to Teach Teens About Their Genitals by Devon Ivie

Don’t say Peak TV didn’t do anything for you … or your children. Exhibit A: Netflix’s Big Mouth, the new animated series from Nick Kroll, which chronicles the exploits of a boy and h…

SOURCE: Vulture at 11:13AM
Sunday, September 10, 2017

Broadway Composer Michael Friedman Dead at 41 by Devon Ivie

Michael Friedman, a composer, lyricist, and integral member of New York’s theater community, has died, at the age of 41, from complications related to HIV/AIDS. A Saturday evening press re…

SOURCE: Vulture at 12:07PM
Tuesday, September 5, 2017

Lin-Manuel Miranda Gives Netflix’s The Magic School Bus Revival a Spiffy Theme-Song Update by Devon Ivie

While no other bus-themed song will likely rival the jam that is “Magic Bus” by the Who, who in their right mind wouldn’t get up and groove to a Lin-Manuel Miranda version of The Magic…

SOURCE: Vulture at 12:23PM
Saturday, September 2, 2017

Jennifer Lawrence Has the Honor of Being Terrorized By Michelle Pfeiffer in This Mother! Clip by Devon Ivie

Darren Aronofsky doesn’t want you to know absolutely anything about his newest psychological-thriller, Mother!, before it hits theaters on September 15, and we guess that’s cool with us …

SOURCE: Vulture at 01:35PM
Sunday, August 27, 2017

This Too-Sexy-For-TV Tulip Fever Trailer Is, Indeed, Pretty Sexy by Devon Ivie

Will we ever live to see the day when the Weinstein Company finally allows Tulip Fever to go into theaters? Who knows. Right now we’re promised a September 1 release date, but hey, it’s …

SOURCE: Vulture at 11:12AM

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