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Broad City and Bill Nye Help Amy Schumer Explain White Women in Their 20s Explaining the Universe
2 hours ago
What is this vast, mixed-up thing we call the universe? For some "scientists," it's an ever-expanding notion of what we know as time and space, but Bill Nye has the real answer on Inside Amy Schumer: " The universe is essentially a force sending guidance to white women in their 20s." Broad City's Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer drop by to help explain this most eternal of mysteries. Yes, that girl wearing the Zayn Malik T-shirt was totally the universe's way of telling you it's time to find your own direction and leave your man. Thanks, universe! »
- E. Alex Jung
#BeyoncéAlwaysOnBeat, an Ode to Beyoncé’s Flawless Choreography, Is 2015’s Best Meme So Far
3 hours ago
One of Beyoncé's 17 million talents includes never missing a beat. (When you micromanage every aspect of your public image, that tends to be the case.) And it also freakishly applies to her choreography, which some genius on Twitter discovered when he synced snippets of her dancing in music videos and live performances with completely different songs. And like #KanyeDancing before it, #BeyoncéAlwaysOnBeat is meme magic. An infinite well of Queen B flawlessness, it's the best hashtag of 2015. Here are just a few of the best. (Warning: Once you start, you can never stop.)Beyoncé's cousin and business partner has already cuaght on, so it's only a matter of time before Beyoncé starts creating some edits of her own on Instagram. Bless you, Black Twitter. »
- Dee Lockett
Amy Schumer Got Super Real on The Bachelorette Last Night
3 hours ago
Of all the blatant charades on The Bachelorette, the most transparent is the show's insistence that its contestants are the kind of men any woman would be lucky to date, instead of complete bozos. Fortunately, the show brought on Amy Schumer last night to keep it real. The real-life Bachelorette superfan was ostensibly there to mentor the guys for a stand-up-comedy group date, but she spent a lot more time talking shit about the various dudes and then insulting them to their faces. Poor J.J. — all he's missing is "charisma, humility, and a sense of humor." »
- Nate Jones
Avid Watercolorist Howard Stern Gave David Letterman a Daffodil Painting for His Farewell
3 hours ago
In addition to trying to give David Letterman a big kiss on the mouth, Howard Stern gave the Late Show host another parting gift: a Howard Stern original watercolor. “Howard gave Dave a painting to give to his wife on his last appearance last week,” Beth Stern, wife of the radio personality, told Vulture at the Hamptons magazine party over Memorial Day weekend. “He gave David Letterman’s wife a daffodil. It’s amazing.” She said that she has “commissioned” a series of flowers from Stern that so far includes a rose, a lilac, a petunia, and a peony. “I am a collector of Howard Stern’s art, and I am the only collector,” she said, but this is not for lack of demand. “They’re definitely works of art. People want to buy them, and he’s like, ‘They’re not for sale.’” Sorry, Sotheby's. »
- Farrah Weinstein
Justin Bieber Covers ‘I’ll Make Love to You,’ Humps the Floor, Makes You Wish You Were the Floor
4 hours ago
Justin Bieber may be that bratty 21-year-old you love to hate, but, as his carpool karaoke with James Corden demonstrated, he can be quite the charmer if you look past his antics. He's also such a Boyz II Men stan. Back in 2011, he somehow convinced the R&B OGs to appear on his holiday album, featured on the song "Fa La La" (they even performed it on Dancing With the Stars). It didn't entirely work, but that was just a taste of the Biebs' love affair with Boyz II Men. With Corden, he sang "End of the Road," and over the weekend, he did an impromptu jazz cover of "I'll Make Love to You" at the W Hotel in Hollywood. Full band and everything! There's also some obligatory floor-humping, in case you weren't already swooning (or cringing, depending on your Biebs tolerance). Bring on the Boyz II Men album. »
- Dee Lockett
9 More Stories of Sex in Museums
4 hours ago
A couple of weeks ago, inspired by a nap at the new Whitney, Jerry Saltz solicited stories of people making out, or more, in museums — a pastime he worried was getting harder and harder, so to speak, now that museums were so crowded. The anecdotes told another story, and last week Jerry even showed up on “Sex Lives,” New York Magazine's sex podcast, to talk about them. Since the stories kept piling in, we figured we’d share some more (and take the opportunity to remind you that a new episode of “Sex Lives” can be found each Wednesday on iTunes orSoundCloud). I went to the James Turrell retrospective at the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra. I was with a girl who I had been seeing for a couple of weeks, and we were pretty handsy the whole time. I was pretty into the exhibition, I have a degree »
- Jerry Saltz
The Secret History of Ultimate Marvel, the Experiment That Changed Superheroes Forever
5 hours ago
A reboot is a delicate thing. When a once-profitable franchise of characters becomes stale, outdated, or overly complex, there will always be voices calling for the slate to be wiped clean: to take the characters back to their basics, retell their origin stories, make them contemporary. But all too often, those rebooting efforts are laughable, pandering failures. Ultimate Marvel was the rare exception. It was a compendium of stories that saved the company that launched it, revolutionized the comics medium, and became the foundation of the multi-billion-dollar Marvel cinematic empire.It began as a Hail Mary maneuver. Ultimate Marvel was a publishing experiment launched by Marvel Comics — the superhero-comics company that had invented the Avengers, Spider-Man, the X-Men, and countless other icons — during its darkest hour. The idea was simple: Launch various comics series where all the famous Marvel characters are young again and just starting their superhero careers in »
- Abraham Riesman
Dennis Feldman’s Guide to Hollywood Boulevard’s Fantastic Weirdos, 1969–72
5 hours ago
“I would walk Hollywood Boulevard with this Rolleiflex camera,” remembers Dennis Feldman. “I would say to someone, ‘Would you mind if I take your picture?’ They would usually ask me ... ‘How do you want me to be?’” His new book Hollywood Boulevard came out of that. It’s a time capsule of the long-ago outlandish. He captured Southern California characters who strutted up and down the Walk of Fame between 1969 and 1972 with square-format portraits. “I kind of made this book in 40 years, and I also made this book, I guess, in the last two,” he says. “There’s a famous story where William Goldman supposedly wrote a screenplay in two weeks, and he explained that ten years earlier he had written a first draft and put it in a box, and he’d taken it out ten years later and wrote it in two weeks of intense work. He »
- Ian Epstein
A$AP Rocky’s Album Is Here Ahead of Schedule
9 hours ago
A$AP Rocky released his sophomore album, At.Long.Last.A$AP, a week earlier than planned late Monday night. The record was originally supposed to drop June 2, but Rocky inexplicably tweeted a few hours before midnight (in all caps, as is tradition) that those plans had changed: "Official album release in stores and online @ midnight tonight, thanx for listening, hope yalh enjoyed." And then the 18-track album found its way onto iTunes and Spotify even before midnight. Wow, double surprise! It's here with features by Future, M.I.A., ScHoolboy Q, Lil Wayne, and even Yeezus himself, among others, as well as with a special dedication to A$AP Yams. If you want another treat, go over to the mobile version of Rocky's Instagram page. Better yet, look at his Instagram and stream his album (via Spotify) at the same time. Boom, enjoy (hopefully). »
- Sean Fitz-Gerald
Channing Tatum: Gambit Will Be an Unconventional Origin Story
9 hours ago
Channing Tatum has revealed that his solo Gambit X-Men movie will be an origin story, according to SlashFilm. Score. The actor was talking about the project in the most recent issue of Empire and mentioned that its first draft is done. "[I]t's killer. None of us were sure how [Josh Zetumer] was going to deal with the X-Men world," he says. "But we're going to be changing some of the tropes of these movies. It's always about saving the world, but maybe we're going to shift things a little bit." Zetumer is reportedly working off of a treatment penned by Gambit's creator, Chris Claremont. The Ragin' Cajun, as Tatum pointed out in his interview, is not exactly a straightforward superhero; his badass kinetic energy control is offset by his vice-driven sketchiness and penchant for thievery. Naturally, Tatum is pumped because that makes for some fun acting, but also because he »
- Sean Fitz-Gerald
New Girl’s Max Greenfield Grabs a Room in American Horror Story: Hotel
11 hours ago
New Girl's Max Greenfield has joined the cast of American Horror Story: Hotel, according to series creator Ryan Murphy. No specifics about Greenfield's character have been shared, but Murphy broke the news with a tweet that held a cryptic clue. "This October, Max Greenfield (like you've never seen him) is checking in to the hotel," he wrote, "but not checking out." Whatever that means (he forgot his card key, he's destroyed by Lady Gaga, he gets stuck in an elevator, etc.), right? Greenfield joins Matt Bomer, Kathy Bates, Sarah Paulson, Chloë Sevigny, and Angela Bassett, among others. Production should start this summer, so we'll know more about what this tweet means in October. Happy early Halloween. »
- Sean Fitz-Gerald
Cary Fukunaga Isn’t Directing It Anymore
13 hours ago
Cary Fukunaga will not direct New Line's It, according to the Wrap, which adds that the summer project has been stalled indefinitely. Fukunaga reportedly butted heads with the production company because his first scripts were coming in over the two-part adaptation's budgets, and he "did not want to compromise his artistic vision in the wake of budget cuts that were recently demanded." The Wrap's sources also noted that Fukunaga tried to bring Ben Mendelsohn onboard (but couldn't because of a slashed paycheck), and that shooting locations were problematic because Fukunaga wanted pricy New York spots. It's unclear if New Line will replace Fukunaga right away; the helmer shake-up is also up in the air in terms of how it will affect Will Poulter's role in the movie. The Wrap and its sources speculate that the next move will probably involve re-conceptualizing the two-part adaptation as one long movie, with »
- Sean Fitz-Gerald
B.B. King’s Daughters Claim Their Father Was Poisoned
14 hours ago
Two of B.B. King's daughters have prompted a homicide investigation into their father's death because they believe he was poisoned, the AP reports. Patty King and Karen Williams say that King's business manager, Laverne Toney, and assistant, Myron Johnson, did not see to the blues legend's medical needs and might've expedited his death. "I believe my father was poisoned and that he was administered foreign substances," Patty King and Williams said in affidavits provided to the AP by their lawyer. "I believe my father was murdered." Patty King, in her affidavit, added that she saw Johnson give King two drops of something unknown every night for several months before his death, according to the AP. Las Vegas authorities told the New York Daily News that an autopsy was performed on King's body, and that homicide detectives are officially probing King's death. No other details have yet been provided.King's »
- Sean Fitz-Gerald
Game of Thrones Recap: The Turning Point
25 May 2015 4:57 AM, PDT
Plot is Game of Thrones’ greatest asset and its heaviest burden. There’s so much pleasure to be derived from watching skillful storytellers manipulate a complicated set of characters and situations — not to mention our expectations — and when the Got writers are on the ball here, the show really shines. But plot can also be where Got falls down, just because there’s so much of it to move. How do you properly set expectations so that plotlines make sense, while also having those outcomes feel surprising, earned, and satisfying?This season has featured a lot more foreshadowing, it seems, than previous ones, and as I watched “The Gift” I wondered if that was part of what made last night’s episode feel a little inert. Several plotlines built to points we’ve seen coming for a while now, only to rest on those turning points without delivering much else. »
- Nina Shen Rastogi
Cersei Lannister Is the Queen of Bad Decision-Making
24 May 2015 10:23 PM, PDT
This piece originally ran at the beginning of the season. It’s been updated to address Sunday night’s episode of Game of Thrones. Spoilers ahead! Is Cersei her own worst enemy? Now that the queen mother — or the queen regent, depending on the day of the week — has been tossed in a cell, arrested for crimes against the crown, we might want to consider how she got there, and why. How much of Cersei's downfall stems from her own clumsiness as a ruler? Game of Thrones’ fifth season opened with a glimpse into Cersei's past. As a young girl, she visits a fortune-teller to learn her future and receives a disturbing prophecy instead. Yes, she will be queen one day, but she will have a rival: "Another, younger and more beautiful, to cast you down and take all that you hold dear." She would have children, but they would »
- Jennifer Vineyard
Silicon Valley Recap: Outed by Wi-Fi
24 May 2015 10:21 PM, PDT
Richard Hendricks finally grows a pair, and Silicon Valley rewards him with the best episode of season two. Amy Aniobi’s script has everything I love about the show: physical humor, challenges for our underdog heroes, repeatable catchphrases, more self-sabotage from Dinesh, double-talk from Gavin, and some worthwhile evil committed by the patron saint of programmers, Gilfoyle. Hell, even my nemesis, Russ, contributes some big laughs. And it ends with one hell of a cliffhanger, too.With Pied Piper on the ropes after the End Frame/Homicide partnership, Richard has no choice but to fight for his company. The team heads to End Frame headquarters in San Francisco, and while waiting in a brick-walled office that looked suspiciously like one of my company’s old office locations, the receptionist mistakes Erlich for Pied Piper’s CEO. Before Richard can protest too much, Dinesh interrupts him with something even more important. »
- Odie Henderson
Game of Thrones’ Carice van Houten on Melisandre’s Obsession With Blood, and Why People Love to Hate Her
24 May 2015 10:05 PM, PDT
Spoilers ahead for the most recent episode of Game of Thrones. Melisandre (Carice van Houten) sure likes her king's blood. It comes in handy for lots of things, whether you want to make a shadow baby or throw leeches on the fire. But king's blood has been in short supply in the North, which is probably why the red priestess thought Stannis's daughter, Shireen, needed to come along. If we suspected ulterior motives before, they were confirmed in Sunday night’s episode, when Melisandre asks Stannis to sacrifice Shireen. (And just when the two were getting so cuddly!) Carice van Houten chatted with Vulture about Melisandre's penchant for blood sacrifice, getting Twitter hate, and why she thanks Seth Meyers for convincing her to take the part.Why should Stannis listen to Melisandre right now? We are in quite some trouble at this point, because we are in the middle of a snowstorm. »
- Jennifer Vineyard
Aemon Targaryen, the Man Who Turned Down the Iron Throne
24 May 2015 10:00 PM, PDT
Spoilers ahead for Sunday night's episode of Game of Thrones. On Sunday night's episode of Game of Thrones, Maester Aemon joined an exclusive club, becoming the rare person in Westeros to die of old age. Congratulations, Aemon — in a world full of war, famine, and pestilence, you managed to survive to age 100. Your devoted friends will light a candle in your memory, and then immediately burn your body. (At the Wall, friends don't let friends turn into blue-eyed zombies.) But Aemon had an even more singular achievement than being one of a handful of centenarians in Westeros. As he revealed to Jon at the end of season one, Aemon was in fact the only surviving Targaryen in the Seven Kingdoms — the last remaining member of a family that once ruled the land. And, even more shocking, Aemon could have been one of those rulers himself, but instead became the first, »
- Nate Jones
Game of Thrones’ Nell Tiger Free on What Myrcella Would Do As Queen, and Shooting Kisses on Her Birthday
24 May 2015 10:00 PM, PDT
Spoilers ahead for the most recent episode of Game of Thrones. If you thought Myrcella's changed a lot since season two of Game of Thrones, you're not wrong. Just as the part of Tommen was recast, so was his sister’s, the princess whose betrothal to a Dornish prince was arranged by her uncle Tyrion so he could keep her safe, arrange an alliance with the Martells, and root out Cersei's spy, in one fell swoop. The actress who plays Myrcella now, Nell Tiger Free, is still sorting out what to call Jaime Lannister ("My dad? My uncle?"), but in this, her first-ever interview, she chats with Vulture about princesses for hire, what Myrcella would do if she were queen, and shooting kisses on her birthday.Did you ever have an occasion to talk to the previous Myrcella, Aimee Richardson? She posted a picture of herself with a sign, "Princess for Hire. »
- Jennifer Vineyard
Veep Recap: Mighty Duck
24 May 2015 8:00 PM, PDT
We don’t know exactly what is in the Families First bill Selina has been championing all season, but we do know something perhaps even more important than its substance: It is unpopular. The press has taken to calling it the “Mommy Meyer” bill, despite Mike’s efforts to control the narrative; the people, contrary to Selina’s belief, doubt that it could be effective.We’ve had the great pleasure of seeing Gary, Amy, and Dan lose their minds and/or their jobs because of the absurdity that is working for Selina, and this week it’s Mike’s turn. Poor Mike, who, as his dear wife Wendy points out, doesn’t have the cheekbones for depression, is failing at his job. Sure, he’s got a thoughts-and-prayers template for whenever a mass shooting goes down, but mostly his foolish mistakes get turned into GIFs and he finds himself »
- Jessica Goldstein
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