"Girl Bye," the fifth episode of Swarm, is chock full of strange, wild, and intense moments, including a sly jab at former President Trump, co-written by the daughter of his predecessor. Malia Obama used to love to rib her father for his dad jokes. And it seems all those years of turkeys, both the jokes and the birds he pardoned annually, really honed her own comedic sensibilities. While folks are having the whole nepo baby conversation, one of the world's most famous progenies was recruited by Donald Glover for his new series on Prime Video, Swarm, a brutal and brilliant meditation on toxic fan culture. Read More...
The hero of this Pulitzer-winning novel, Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser, rises from bellboy to hotel entrepreneur before he is felled by dreams of greatness. B+ ncG1vNJzZmidp2OwsLmOmqmtoZOhsnB9mHJuaGhlZH90e8yaqa2hnmKxs7HSrKOeql2prq2xjJqknqqZmK6vecOrnJqllad8
Even to the rock world, which is accustomed to such monotonously depressing news, the untimely death of Blind Melon frontman Shannon Hoon, 28, from an apparent accidental drug overdose still was a blow. ”This definitely came as a complete, devastating shock,” band manager Chris Jones says of the death of Hoon, who was found at 1:20 p.m. on Oct. 21 in the group’s tour bus, hours before a show at the New Orleans club Tipitina’s. Read More...
