It’s been 30 years since Terry Gilliam first dreamt of making a movie about the foolish, windmill-chasing knight Don Quixote — and it’s been roughly 29 years since it became his nightmare. As the tragicomic documentary Lost in La Mancha proved, Gilliam’s Quixote picture is the dictionary definition of a …
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Dinosaur Jr.‘s J Mascis unveiled a cover of Tom Petty’s “Don’t Do Me Like That,” giving the 1979 hit a distinct slacker makeover. The new cover finds Mascis filtering the Florida rocker’s upbeat track through the Western Massachusetts sludge, transforming the song into a hard-rock stomper packed with plenty of …
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As the biggest pro-wrestling event of the year, WWE‘s WrestleMania is typically stuffed full of celebrity antics and shenanigans, and this year’s was no exception. Saturday Night Live‘s Colin Jost and Michael Che appeared on Sunday at the WrestleMania 35 pre-show to compete in the Andre the Giant Memorial Battle …
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Winter has come on Game of Thrones, but laughter barely did this week on Saturday Night Live. The Kit Harington-led episode suffered the same malaise as many middle episodes do in a three-week consecutive run: While it’s not fair to say the show should never do back-to-back-to-back episodes, you probably …
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When a young man found wandering the streets of Newport, Kentucky identified himself to police as missing child Timmothy Pitzen, many were hopeful that the sad story of Pitzen, a six-year-old boy who disappeared in 2011 after being kidnapped by his mother, would have a happy ending. But in a …
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For the first time in a decade, Celine Dion is heading out on a U.S. tour, leaving behind her longstanding residency in Las Vegas after 16 years. “I think there was a miscommunication. I was supposed to be there for two months,” Dion joked to a crowd gathered Wednesday for …
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The music of the Avett Brothers has inspired a new musical. Swept Away will premiere at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre in Berkeley, California, in June 2020. Written by John Logan and directed by Michael Mayer — both Tony Award winners — Swept Away‘s music draws from the North Carolina band’s …
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Nearly 50,000 people who have been convicted of marijuana-related offenses will have their convictions erased or reduced, according to a statement on Monday from the district attorney of Los Angeles County. In partnership with Code for America, a nonprofit tech organization, Los Angeles County will identify decades-old court cases that …
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It’s the home stretch to the final season of Game of Thrones, which returns April 14, and HBO is teasing the new episodes with a behind the scenes feature on the show’s special effects. In the feature, “A Story in Visual Effects,” VFX producerSteve Kullbackand VFX supervisor Joe Bauer supervisor …
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Rob Thomas breaks down his upcoming solo album, Chip Tooth Smile (due April 26th) along with the whole rest of his career on the latest episode of our podcast, Rolling Stone Music Now. In an in-depth interview with host Brian Hiatt at our SiriusXM studio, Thomas touches on his short-lived …
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