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Book: Pageboy / Elliot Page

"Full of intimate stories, from chasing down secret love affairs to battling body image and struggling with familial strife, Pageboy is a love letter to the power of being seen. With this evocative and lyrical debut, Oscar-nominated star Elliot Page captures the universal human experience of searching for ourselves and our place in this complicated world." -- MacMillan [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Dec 23, 2023 - 1 comment

Pam & Tommy: Seattle  Season 1, Ep 8

Everything changes when a cocky young Internet entrepreneur comes in to the picture. [more inside]
posted by kitten kaboodle on Mar 9, 2022 - 5 comments

Pam & Tommy: Destroyer of Worlds  Season 1, Ep 7

Tommy confronts Rand in the Dodger Stadium parking lot.
posted by kitten kaboodle on Mar 2, 2022 - 2 comments

Pam & Tommy: Pamela in Wonderland  Season 1, Ep 6

A deposition pushes Pam to the emotional brink.
posted by kitten kaboodle on Feb 23, 2022 - 5 comments

Pam & Tommy: Uncle Jim and Aunt Susie in Duluth  Season 1, Ep 5

The tape ends up in the hands of Penthouse publisher Bob Guccione.
posted by kitten kaboodle on Feb 16, 2022 - 3 comments

Pam & Tommy: The Master Beta  Season 1, Ep 4

Pam and Tommy resort to increasingly desperate measures to get their property back.
posted by kitten kaboodle on Feb 9, 2022 - 10 comments

Pam & Tommy: Jane Fonda  Season 1, Ep 3

Rand teams up with an old porn-world associate to shop the tape around town.
posted by kitten kaboodle on Feb 3, 2022 - 5 comments

Pam & Tommy: I Love You, Tommy  Season 1, Ep 2

Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee meet, get high, and get married...all in four days.
posted by kitten kaboodle on Feb 3, 2022 - 6 comments

Pam & Tommy: Drilling and Pounding  Season 1, Ep 1

Handyman Rand Gauthier seeks revenge on the celebrity client who stiffs him. [more inside]
posted by kitten kaboodle on Feb 3, 2022 - 8 comments

BoJack Horseman: The Face of Depression  Season 6, Ep 7

BoJack travels around the country reconnecting with loved ones, while Mr. Peanutbutter embarks on his own national tour as the face of depression. Princess Carolyn sets a new work-life balance.
posted by filthy light thief on Nov 1, 2019 - 4 comments

Movie: Somewhere

After withdrawing to the Chateau Marmont, a passionless Hollywood actor reexamines his life when his eleven-year-old daughter surprises him with a visit. [more inside]
posted by Ten Cold Hot Dogs on Mar 24, 2019 - 0 comments

The Department of Time: Con el tiempo en los talones (With Time on His Heels)  First Watch   Season 3, Ep 1

Amelia and Alonso are sent to the premiere of "Vertigo" at the 1958 San Sebastián Film Festival, to foil a plan by Russia to kidnap Alfred Hitchcock and force him to produce propaganda films. While the Ministry is under construction, a wheelchair-bound Salvador becomes suspicious of a Sony Walkman-wearing construction worker he observes through his office window. [more inside]
posted by zarq on Jun 28, 2018 - 4 comments

Podcast: My Brother, My Brother And Me: MBMBaM 400: The Escape to Margaritaville Red Carpet Extravaganza

There are two human skills that fall completely outside our area of expertise: Having normal social interactions with celebrities, and having normal social interactions with literally anyone, ever, on the Earth. Please keep this fact in mind as you listen to this episode, wherein we were invited to record an episode of our podcast from the red carpet event at the Broadway debut of Jimmy Buffett's Escape to Margaritaville. It's not only our quadracentennial episode, it's also the start of the MaxFunDrive! As you listen to us get our asses totally roasted by famous folks who effortlessly pick apart our whole operation, please consider healing our wounds by pledging your support of our bold, journalistic endeavor.
posted by Tevin on Apr 2, 2018 - 29 comments

Movie: JCVD

Jean-Claude Van Damme gets involved in a bank robbery with a hostage situation and reflects about his life during it. [more inside]
posted by MoonOrb on Mar 14, 2018 - 5 comments

Podcast: DirtCast: Episode 2: Tom! Hiddleston! Is! Sad!

Bobby and Madeleine speak with special guest (and Jezebel Senior Writer) the Honorable Judge Kara Brown about C-list celebrities selling their souls--and Flat Tummy Tea--on Instagram. Also discussed: the tragedy of Tom Hiddleston, scary entertainment lawyers, and the vanilla sex of Fifty Shades Darker. [more inside]
posted by ellieBOA on Feb 17, 2017 - 0 comments

Podcast: DirtCast: Episode 1: Bloated Careers & Bloated Faces

On our very first episode of DirtCast, hosts Bobby and Madeleine discuss Johnny Depp's wine budget, puzzle over the continued success of of Mel Gibson, and debate whether or not Titanic's Jack and Rose would've been a successful longterm couple. We also speak to former PR agent/current gossip blogger Rob Shuter on the symbiotic relationship between celebrities and the tabloids that cover them. [more inside]
posted by ellieBOA on Feb 17, 2017 - 0 comments

O.J.: Made in America: Part 3: Rockingham  Season 1, Ep 3

The police arrived at the condo on Bundy Drive at 4:25 a.m. on June 13th, 1994. It was a gruesome murder scene, clearly the result of a violent confrontation that had left two people dead - one of whom, they'd quickly discover, was the estranged wife of O.J. Simpson. [more inside]
posted by Cash4Lead on Jul 5, 2016 - 3 comments

O.J.: Made in America: Part 2: Lack of Community Involvement  Season 1, Ep 2

There was never one Los Angeles, California. There were always two. [more inside]
posted by Cash4Lead on Jun 28, 2016 - 7 comments

O.J.: Made in America: Part 1: U.S.C. Culture  Season 1, Ep 1

To many observers, the story of the crime of the century is a story that began the night Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were brutally murdered outside her Brentwood condominium. But as the first episode of "O.J.: Made in America" lays bare, to truly grasp the significance of what happened not just that night, but the epic chronicle to follow, one has to travel back to points in time long before that. [more inside]
posted by Cash4Lead on Jun 23, 2016 - 6 comments

Movie: Sunset Blvd.

A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent-film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity. The screenwriter's ambivalence about their relationship and her unwillingness to let go leads to a situation of violence and madness. [more inside]
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome on Aug 18, 2015 - 56 comments

Movie: Maps to the Stars

A Hollywood family chasing celebrity, one another and the relentless ghosts of their pasts.
posted by ellieBOA on Mar 15, 2015 - 9 comments

Movie: My Favorite Year

A dissolute matinee idol is slated to appear on a live TV variety show. [more inside]
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome on Aug 24, 2014 - 8 comments

My Favorite Year

My Favorite Year is a 1983 comedy/drama about a young writer's experience, during one week, on the set of a variety/comedy live TV show. It starred Peter O'Toole, Mark Linn-Baker, Jessica Harper, Joseph Bologna, Bill Macy, and more in an ensemble cast. Directed by Richard Benjamin. Are people interested in planning a viewing, and discussion of, "My Favorite Year"? [more inside]
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome on Aug 7, 2014 - 12 comments

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