In 1990, a lot of young women took a special delight in announcing that they’d loved Pretty Woman, but that they didn’t think it was a movie they should like. There’s something uniquely American about that I-know-it’s-bad-for-me-but-I’ll-have-a-piece-anyway enthusiasm. From the outset, the guilty-pleasure aspect of Pretty Woman was the tiara of its appeal. In its candified way, the movie invited female viewers to fantasize about ”roles” as if they were projecting themselves onto an adult Barbie. Read More...
It seems hard to believe, but there was a time when comedy albums routinely went to No. 1. In the early ’60s, Bob Newhart, Allan Sherman, and Vaughn Meader shared the top of the charts with Elvis Presley, Ray Charles, and the soundtrack to West Side Story. Even Bill Cosby made his name as a recording artist before he got into TV and movies. That would never happen today. Because contemporary comedy is so much more dependent upon visuals, most stand-up doesn’t really stand up when heard on the stereo. Read More...
Mother(ship) has arrived. RuPaul is expanding her Hollywood femme-pire, as EW can exclusively reveal that the Emmy-winning RuPaul's Drag Race icon has joined Milo Manheim and Meg Donnelly among the cast of Disney's Zombies 3 movie sequel. Zombies 3 — set to premiere on the Disney+ streaming service — follows a group of space aliens who infiltrate the student body of zombies, cheerleaders, and werewolves at the series' Seabrook High, with RuPaul set to voice The Mothership, a " Read More...
