Sunday, January 27, 2019

How Did Jay Leno’s Old-Timey Car Wind Up in Mary Poppins Returns? by Devon Ivie

If you, like comedian Julie Klausner, fought the winter blues by transporting yourself into the fantastical world of Mary Poppins Returns at your local theater, only to be perplexed at why J…

SOURCE: Vulture at 01:41PM

Dive In With Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga Performing ‘Shallow’ Live for the First Time by Devon Ivie

Not that they had to seal the deal to be the Oscars’ frontrunner for Best Original Song or anything. Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper, co-stars and compliment givers of A Star Is Born, blew of…

SOURCE: Vulture at 12:14PM
Saturday, January 26, 2019

Pete Davidson’s Stand-Up Sets Are All About ‘Sick Genius’ Ariana Grande by Devon Ivie

The brutal world of stand-up comedy has been reuniting with a friendly face as of late, thanks to Pete Davidson slowly dipping his toes back into a non-SNL outlet for his various internal mo…

SOURCE: Vulture at 01:51PM
Saturday, January 19, 2019

Lin-Manuel Miranda Shoots His Shot At Shaming Hamilton Fan for Recording the Show by Devon Ivie

For a limited three week engagement, Lin-Manuel Miranda is returning to his ruffled shirts and period-appropriate bob hair for a very good cause: He’s reprising his titular Hamilton lead i…

SOURCE: Vulture at 01:51PM
Sunday, January 13, 2019

Lin Manuel-Miranda Isn’t Throwing Away His Shot at Performing Hamilton in Puerto Rico by Devon Ivie

Sure, the Hamilton cast might occasionally show up at fancy award ceremonies to reunite for a song or two, but for the first time since all those Ham4Hams were still a thing, Lin Manuel-Mira…

SOURCE: Vulture at 10:11AM
Friday, January 4, 2019

The Favourite, A Star Is Born Among Producers Guild Awards 2019 Nominees by Devon Ivie

We guess we can say the producers … produced … their nominees for the worthiest films of the year. Ushering in Oscars season just a little bit more, the Producers Guild of America releas…

SOURCE: Vulture at 02:11PM
Monday, December 31, 2018

Céline Dion Is on the Edge, the Edge, the Edge, the Edge of Losing Her Mind at Lady Gaga’s Concert by Devon Ivie

We have some transformer-robots, aerial stunts, a million-and-a-half wardrobe changes, and now, perhaps the most poignant thing of all: one Las Vegas icon christening the reign of another. C…

SOURCE: Vulture at 10:20AM
Saturday, December 29, 2018

Lady Gaga Is Reborn As a Las Vegas Robot Wrangler by Devon Ivie

Lady Gaga’s home for the foreseeable future will Las Vegas’ futuristic Park MGM stage, where her One Woman Rat Pack Show (or rather, her Enigma residency) will reign on the Strip for the…

SOURCE: Vulture at 03:04PM
Thursday, December 27, 2018

Hamilton Cast Reunites at the Kennedy Center Honors for Belated Holiday Present by Devon Ivie

Once again, for the easy joke, we can be in the room where it happens without dropping $600 on a mezzanine seat. We love the fiscally responsible Kennedy Center Honors! Hamilton co-creators …

SOURCE: Vulture at 11:31AM
Wednesday, December 26, 2018

Holmes & Watson Has an Elementary Zero Percent Rotten Tomatoes Score by Devon Ivie

If you solely enjoy choosing your movies based on a fluctuating review-aggregation barometer, the results are in for Holmes & Watson, and you should briskly walk away from the theaters &…

SOURCE: Vulture at 12:58PM
Saturday, December 22, 2018

Nick Kroll Wishes Kroll Show Got Inside Amy Schumer-Level Fame by Devon Ivie

A golden sketch era of Comedy Central occurred not even a decade ago, when Key & Peele, Inside Amy Schumer, and Kroll Show cohabited together on the network to indulge viewers with rando…

SOURCE: Vulture at 12:38PM

Lin-Manuel Miranda Threw Away His Shot at Performing Hamilton for Beyoncé by Devon Ivie

Hamilton maestro Lin-Manuel Miranda might’ve delighted everyone in the one percent with his take on a very sexy, very smart Founding Father, but the eight-performances-a-week schedule fail…

SOURCE: Vulture at 09:53AM
Saturday, December 15, 2018

Pete Davidson Tosses His Hat Into the Ariana Grande/Kanye West Ring by Devon Ivie

The somewhat thoughtful, somewhat tense social media discourse between Ariana Grande and Kanye West about mental health has earned itself a new supporting player: Grande’s ex, Pete Davidso…

SOURCE: Vulture at 01:14PM

Kanye West Didn’t Appreciate Ariana Grande’s ‘Foolish’ Twitter Commentary About Him by Devon Ivie

Drake is so, so yesterday. In a series of tweets published Saturday morning — or, as he’d like us to refer to them from now on, “therapy testimonials” — Kanye West expressed annoya…

SOURCE: Vulture at 09:43AM
Saturday, December 8, 2018

Charmed, Oh, Hello’s George and Gill Are Campaigning to Be Oscar Hosts, I’m Sure by Devon Ivie

With Kevin Hart in and out in a record amount of time, just about every website with “pop culture” in its mission statement is speculating who should host next year’s Oscars ceremony. …

SOURCE: Vulture at 04:36PM
Saturday, December 1, 2018

Ariana Grande’s ‘Thank U, Next’ Had Another Rom-Com Cameo Fall Through by Devon Ivie

We have the momager Kris Jenner, we have the dick-talkin’ Jennifer Coolidge, and to think we could’ve also been blessed with you got into Harvard Law? Matthew Davis, too. Ariana Grande�…

SOURCE: Vulture at 12:57PM
Sunday, November 25, 2018

Hamilton’s Choreographer Jellicles on Over to Cats by Devon Ivie

We have the cat who fucks, but now we finally have the guy who instructs the cat who fucks how to dance. Andy Blankenbuehler, who’s perhaps best known as the choreographer for the minor st…

SOURCE: Vulture at 01:58PM
Wednesday, November 21, 2018

Bradley Cooper Directed A Star Is Born’s Grammy Scene Fake-Drunk by Devon Ivie

Well, we can finally add some important context to the scene that spurred some very real, very legit headlines such as “Jackson Maine Was Blitzed Out of His Mind at the Grammys Last Night.…

SOURCE: Vulture at 10:59AM
Tuesday, November 6, 2018

Ariana Grande Drops ‘Thank U, Next’ Lyric Video for Syntax Reasons by Devon Ivie

Don’t be like Apple and have an A-name faux pas. Ariana Grande, sensing you may want to show her some respect by correctly belting the entirety of “Thank U, Next” without garbling mhmm…

SOURCE: Vulture at 01:46PM
Saturday, November 3, 2018

Ariana Grande Is Hyping Up Her Next Album, Thank U, Next by Devon Ivie

Sweetener, just like her engagement to Pete Davidson, is so last month, folks. Because in a Saturday morning Twitter-palooza, Ariana Grande confirmed the name of her next album will be none …

SOURCE: Vulture at 02:14PM

Spoilers Prevented A Star Is Born’s Soundtrack From 2019 Grammys Eligibility by Devon Ivie

While you all were out here worrying which A Star Is Born track will clinch the Oscar for Best Original Song, we’ve forgotten about the other ceremony that also hands out some brass to wor…

SOURCE: Vulture at 12:49PM

Pete Davidson’s SNL Sketch About Ariana Grande Has Reportedly Been Cut by Devon Ivie

The ethereal highs of being Steely Dan’s hypeman can only last for so long. Following the release of an SNL promo that features Pete Davidson proposing to musical guest Maggie Rogers, whic…

SOURCE: Vulture at 11:37AM
Thursday, October 25, 2018

Don’t Play This New Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Song for Any Aspiring Lawyers by Devon Ivie

Hey, you. Yes, you! You know anyone going into the law profession? Like, human rights, environmental, immigration, a small-time firm in Albuquerque? Do ‘em a solid and make them watch the …

SOURCE: Vulture at 10:57AM
Sunday, October 21, 2018

David Byrne’s American Utopia Could Be Coming to Broadway by Devon Ivie

Take a look at this news! It’s passing in-between us. For those who weren’t lucky enough to catch David Byrne’s current (and excellent) American Utopia tour over the past few months �…

SOURCE: Vulture at 05:04PM

Britney Spears Is Taking the ‘Hip-Hop’ Route for Her New Las Vegas Residency by Devon Ivie

You know our bitch is gonna work for her $500,000 per show payday! Britney Spears, whose new Las Vegas residency Domination will launch at the Park Theater at Park MGM in February, will appa…

SOURCE: Vulture at 11:05AM
Sunday, October 14, 2018

The Transparent Musical Is Coming to Amazon Next Fall by Devon Ivie

While the conclusion of Transparent is currently hanging in limbo — it could take the shape of a full season, movie, or limited series at this point — Amazon is committing to another pro…

SOURCE: Vulture at 11:20AM
Monday, October 8, 2018

Relive 3 Minutes of A Star Is Born Magic With Lady Gaga’s ‘Look What I Found’ Video by Devon Ivie

Wired: “HAAA AH AH AH AH, AAAH AAAH, AH AH AH AH HAAA.” Tired: “Look what I found / Someone who’ll carry ‘round a piece of my heart.” In the (unlikely) event you don’t want to …

SOURCE: Vulture at 04:00PM
Sunday, September 9, 2018

Ariana Grande Honors Ex-Boyfriend Mac Miller With Photo Tribute by Devon Ivie

On Friday, 26 year-old rapper Mac Miller died of a suspected drug overdose, which prompted an avalanche of trolls to flood the Instagram page of his ex-girlfriend, Ariana Grande, with nasty,…

SOURCE: Vulture at 09:43AM
Sunday, August 19, 2018

It’s Not Crazy At All How Crazy Rich Asians Won the Box Office This Weekend by Devon Ivie

You don’t have to be rich, to be my gi—ahem, sorry, you don’t have to be rich to see Crazy Rich Asians in theaters, even if tickets in certain cities are reaching upwards of $18 at thi…

SOURCE: Vulture at 02:29PM
Saturday, August 18, 2018

Ariana Grande’s Tears Flow While Discussing ‘Dark Shit’ and the Manchester Bombing by Devon Ivie

About a year after the May 2017 terrorist attack at her Manchester concert claimed the lives of 22 people, Ariana Grande revealed she wasn’t sure she’d ever perform again after the traum…

SOURCE: Vulture at 01:47PM
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

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