Cat Marnell’s memoir has been hotly anticipated ever since 2013, when it was announced that she had scored a book deal with Simon and Schuster worth a rumored $500,000. The self-professed drug addict and New York City party-girl had just quit her job as the Health and Beauty Editor at XOJane (the irony, she knows) to famously announce that she would rather “be on the rooftop of Le Bain looking for shooting stars and smoking angel dust with [her] friends and writing a book…”. Fast forward almost four years and
Stephen Karam‘s Speech & Debate is getting a winning U.K. premiere from the Defibrillator company at London’s Trafalgar Studios. Karam – whose play The Humans won a slew of Tony Awards in 2016 – creates plays that are searingly funny and timely. Speech & Debate, which first premiered Off-Broadway in 2007, is no exception: it is a humorous and painful probe into modern American youth, warts and all. Set in Salem, Oregon, the play follows three self-interested teenagers who join their school’s speech and debate team to expose a drama teacher’s sexual crimes. Indeed, the play
On Wednesday, March 8, Survivor celebrated it’s 500th episode with the two-hour premiere of its new season titled Game Changers, Mamanuca Islands. This season’s cast features 20 returning players who were deemed to have changed the game in some way. It filmed in Fiji almost a year ago and now is finally on-air. Each week, I’ll be doing recaps of the top notable moments from each episode. If you haven’t had a chance to watch the first episode, consider yourself warned: SPOILERS AHEAD! Top Moments from Survivor: Game Changers, Episode
The latest film installment of the X-Men universe is Logan. Unlike the previous movies in the franchise, though, Logan is lot less flashy and a whole lot grittier. It’s several years after the glory of the X-Men days. Age and time have not been good to Logan. He is a hero who, because of the passage of time, has been relegated to the past and lost all of his friends. He is now a limo driver in Texas. He drinks a lot. The film opens with him asleep in his limo