Kristen Wiig butchered Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah”during a duet with James Corden designed to bring world peace onThe Late Late ShowWednesday. The bit found Wiig and Corden easing through a soulful cover of the classic tune, though each time they arrived at the chorus, Wiig struggled to pronounce the song’s most …
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The comedian Patton Oswalt returned to Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Wednesday to perform Mike Huckabee’s Twitter jokes as if they were written for a stand-up routine. Oswalt stitched together Huckabee’s topical tweets – “zingers,” as Kimmel kindly put it – with cheerfully unimaginative segues. “You guys watch the news?” he …
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Alec Baldwin‘s Donald Trump made a secret visit to former campaign manager Paul Manafort in the Saturday Night Live cold open that focused on the first of Robert Mueller’s Team Trump arrests. After sending a life-size dummy on the president’s 13-day Asia trip, Trump popped into Manafort’s apartment to talk …
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Natalie Portman ventures into the mysterious Area X in the surreal first trailer for Annihilation, the big-screen adaptation of Jeff VanderMeer’s bestselling sci-fi novel. Written and directed by Ex Machina‘s Alex Garland, the film focuses on an all-female search party played by Portman, Gina Rodriguez, Tessa Thompson and Jennifer Jason …
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A musical adaptation of the film Pretty Woman is set to debut on Broadway in the fall of 2018. Samantha Barks will make her Broadway debut in the role of Vivian, originally helmed by Julia Roberts, while Steve Kazee will play Edward Lewis, the character first portrayed on screen by …
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Samantha Bee found constitutional enlightenment beneath the gleaming painted smile of the Insane Clown Posse on Full Frontal Wednesday. In a segment focused on recent free speech issues, Bee looked at the Juggalo March, which ICP held in protest of the FBI’s decision to label them “a loosely organized hybrid …
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Broad City‘s Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer visited Jimmy Kimmel Live ahead of the show’s September 13th return. Jacobson and Glazer talked about the promotional tour for the series’ fourth season, which included an interview with Larry King, who quickly became infatuated with Jacobson. “In the middle of the interview, …
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Grace Jones and her enviable cheekbones are the focal point of a newly released trailer for the Sophie Fiennes-helmed documentary, Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami. The film, which was created out of a decade’s worth of footage, premieres at the Toronto International Film Festival next month. In the minute-and-a-half-long trailer, …
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