For some people, Bruce Springsteen doesn’t just write lyrics — he sings words to live by. That’s the case for Javed (dynamite newcomer Viveik Kalra), a no-hope British-Pakistani teen feeling the financial squeeze of Thatcherism in 1987 Luton. Then he hears Springsteen for the first time, and the words of …
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Bruce Springsteen‘s previously unreleased song “I’ll Stand by You” is one of several Springsteen tracks to be included on the soundtrack to Blinded by the Light, a new film inspired by his music. The musician originally penned the song for Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, but it never made …
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There’s nothing like the impact of hearing an outrageous story from someone who experienced it firsthand. That’s why Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain wanted to publish an oral history of the Manson Family murders and the late Sixties. “It’s people making bad decisions in real time,” McNeil says. For more …
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BH90210 is a reunion of Beverly Hills 90210 in which most of the original stars of Beverly Hills 90210 play themselves as they try to mount… a reunion of Beverly Hills 90210. It would probably not make a list of the five weirdest TV revivals of all time, in part …
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UPDATE (10/2): R. Kelly was once again denied bail at a hearing Wednesday in connection to the federal charges of racketeering and sex trafficking the singer faces in New York. The judge presiding over the case also scheduled a May 2020 start date for the trial, which is expected to …
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Just how awful was Woodstock ’99, which hits its 20th anniversary this week? Consider that a bunch of dudes in the crowd audibly heckled Sheryl Crow (“show your tits,” they yelled, hideously enough) mid-set, and that moment doesn’t even make it into most accounts of the festival’s horrors. “They wouldn’t …
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More than a dozen women have come forward with sexual abuse allegations against Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced hedge fund manager who was arrested last Saturday on sex trafficking and sex trafficking conspiracy charges. In the days following Epstein’s arrest, more than four women have approached attorney David Boies with additional …
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Sammy Hagar and the Doors’ Robby Krieger perform “Roadhouse Blues” in a preview of an upcoming episode of Hagar’s music, food and travel series Rock and Roll Road Trip, airing July 14th at 8 p.m. ET on AXS TV. The episode is set in Los Angeles and centered around the …
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Renée Zellweger captures the tumultuous and remarkable final peak of Judy Garland‘s career in the new trailer for Judy, out September 27th. The film is centered around a five-week residency Garland performed at the Talk of the Town in London in the winter of 1968, just months before she died …
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This column contains full spoilers for Stranger Things 3. If you want general impressions of Season Three without spoilers, click here. Three major developments happen towards the end of Stranger Things‘ third season: 1. Eleven appears to lose her powers as a result of being bitten by a piece of …
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