Mike Myers discussed the cyclical nature of his relationship with the Queen hit “Bohemian Rhapsody”: how he went from head-banging to the song inWayne’s World to playing a cantankerous record exec in the new Queen biopic onThe Late ShowWednesday. Myers said the iconic Wayne’s World scene, in which the characters …
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M. Night Shyamalan totally M. Night Shyamalan’d Samuel L. Jackson with the ending of his 2016 comeback hit, Split. Shyamalan told Jackson he needed to set up a screening to see the film, adding, “Call me when it’s over.” Split’s final moments offer one of Shyamalan’s best twists ever (spoiler …
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Tom Steyer, the liberal billionaire who has gotten more than 6 million Americans to sign a petition calling for the impeachment of President Trump, was a target of the alleged MAGABomber, Cesar Sayoc. Last Friday, postal authorities intercepted an improvised explosive device mailed to Steyer, similar to those sent to …
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On Thursday, the Russian Duma held its first reading of a new bill: “On the Citizenship of the Russian Federation.” According to the newspaper Kommersant, the government has prepared a paper representing a “first step toward a serious review of immigration policy.” Included is the idea that: Russia should be …
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Draco Rosa’s first studio album in five years opens in some confusion, salted with dark humor. The singer is one of the biggest and most notorious stars in modern Latin music. But when he walks into “Hotel de los Encuentros,” he gets the cold shoulder at the registration desk. The …
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When Dave Grohl filmed the Nashville episode of his HBO music docuseries Sonic Highways, he spent time talking swamp rock with gravelly-voiced singer-guitarist Tony Joe White. The Louisiana native, who died Wednesday at 75, went on to jam with Grohl and the Foo Fighters a few times afterward, including a …
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Kim Kardashian, Meek Mill andThe Sentencedirector Rudy Valdezwill be among the speakers at the upcoming Criminal Justice Reform Summit co-hosted by Rolling Stone and Variety. The event, featuring a keynote address and conversation with activist Van Jones, will take place November 14th at Los Angeles’ Jeremy Hotel. The summit aims …
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In 2016, Donald Trump became the first presidential candidate since James Polk to lose both the state he was born in and the one where he resides. New York rejected the real estate scion by a margin of more than 22 points, and the gap was even greater in New …
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Geddy Lee recently spoke to Rolling Stone’s Ryan Reed about the new reissue of Rush‘s 1978 LP Hemispheres, and at the end he casually mentioned that the band may find a way to continue on after Neil Peart‘s retirement. “I would say there’s no chance of seeing Rush on tour …
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The original Halloween plot was pretty simple: a masked psycho offs a bunch of unwitting babysitters in a small town. “It was basically a good, old-fashioned haunted house movie,” director John Carpenter, who co-wrote the screenplay, once said. “There’s something awful in this dark house and these poor people are …
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