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A Little Baby Owl. A Little Katharine Hepburn. All Alien.

How puppeteer James Ortiz turned a pile of steel rods and fiberglass into Project Hail Mary’s Rocky. By Emma Forgione

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‘Most of Us Long to Be Elizabeth Bennet, But Actually, We’re Mary’

The Other Bennet Sister imagines life after Pride and Prejudice for one of Jane Austen’s most invisible characters. By Sophie Brookover

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How Much Is Kristoffer Borgli Trolling Us?

An old essay about the director dating a teenager resurfacing right before his movie comes out isn’t ideal … unless … ? By Fran Hoepfner

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Did Dog Day Afternoon Get Away With It?

Take it on its own terms, and Stephen Adly Guirgis’s stage reworking of the great New York failed-heist movie mostly succeeds. By Sara Holdren

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Only Riz Ahmed Could Make Bait The question of who gets to play James Bond inspires a highly watchable variation on ideas the actor has spent his entire career considering.
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The Other Bunker The finale finally reveals who “Alex” is, but Paradise is keeping its biggest answers for season three.
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Nothing New Even if it makes sense that Valerie would have no issue starring in a series co-written by AI, it still makes for a somewhat unpleasant episode.
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Up All Night to Get Lucky Greg and Katie throw caution to the wind and embrace the drunken chaos of the college.
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Time Alone From the World Floyd, Clark, and Carol’s love triangle takes a turn for the strange, but it doesn’t feel all that deadly.
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it’s me hi Critics Aren’t Sure Whether to Marry The Drama Zendaya and Robert Pattinson’s new movie is getting cheers and jeers in equal measure. By Jason P. Frank
trailer mix What the Heck Is Going On in the Back Room in Backrooms? The new A24 horror movie tackles the final boss of liminal spaces. By Fran Hoepfner
i’d cry my eyes violet Taylor Swift’s ‘Elizabeth Taylor’ Video Is Basically a Fan Cam Rather than appear in the video herself, the singer put together a montage of the famous actress set to her song. By Fran Hoepfner

blonde ambition Kim Novak Thinks Sydney Sweeney Is Too Sexy to Play Her The Vertigo star said Sweeney is “totally wrong” for the part. By Fran Hoepfner
box office beatdown Project Hail Mary Is the Highest-Grossing Hollywood Movie of the Year So Far Should Amazon MGM cast Rocky as James Bond? By Jason P. Frank
obits Tony-Nominated Actor Mary Beth Hurt Dead at 79 Hurt had roles in films such as Young Adult, The Age of Innocence, and The World According to Garp. By Bethy Squires
obits James Tolkan, Back to the Future’s Mr. Strickland, Dead at 94 With 81 acting credits on IMDb, he was no slacker. By Bethy Squires
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Don’t Underestimate Emma, Says The Pitt’s Laëtitia Hollard

“She’s tougher than she looks. She feels comfortable in the vulnerability.” By Ben Rosenstock

drama mama West Wilson and Amanda Batula Confirm Their New ‘Connection’ “What’s developed recently was the last thing either of us expected.” By Jason P. Frank
production halt Lara Croft: Tomb Raider Stops Filming After Sophie Turner’s Injury The series has been filming for the past two months. By Alejandra Gularte
different paths Alix Earle Won’t Be Your Next Bachelorette But she will be your next reality star. By Alejandra Gularte
nightmare blunt rotation So Dakota Can Do This, But We Can’t Get The Bachelorette? He’s competing in physical and mental challenges in the Unwell Winter Games. By Alejandra Gularte

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You Wanted SNL UK to be More British? Here You Go. Flying from Bristol to Ibiza only to watch West Ham at a pub. By Bethy Squires

fact vs fiction Love Story Got JFK Jr’s Final Flight Wrong in So Many Ways Except one. By Jeff Wise
finale thoughts Paradise’s Julianne Nicholson Believes in Sinatra’s Leap of Faith “They say people don’t change, but hopefully we can learn. Hopefully we can open our hearts for a second to consider something else.” By Keith Phipps
stand-up 9 New Comedy Specials You Should Definitely Watch (When You Have a Moment) Looking for some stand-up recommendations? Here are some recent releases that are worth your attention. By Jesse David Fox and Hershal Pandya
quality time What Dan Bucatinsky Watches (and Listens to) With His Kids “My kids aren’t big watchers of anything I’m in…but if I was a judge on Is It Cake?, I guarantee you that they would see it.” By Dan Bucatinsky and Marah Eakin

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Steve Perry Was Wise to End His Journey

Chaos is afoot for the band’s farewell tour, with one member admitting he lied about Perry potentially joining them on the road. By Devon Ivie

celebrity health Lola Young Is Doing a ‘Hell of a Lot Better’ Six months after she collapsed on stage at All Things Go. By Alejandra Gularte
viva la lisa Blackpink’s Lisa Will Be in Your Area (If You’re in Las Vegas) She’s set to become the first K-pop artist to stage a residency in Sin City. By Jennifer Zhan
lawsuits FKA Twigs Is Taking a STAND Against Shia LaBeouf She’s seeking to get out of what she says is an unlawful NDA about her relationship with Shia LaBeouf. By Bethy Squires

respect the classics I Wasn’t Allowed to Vote for Phil Collins 7 Times on My Rock Hall Ballot So here’s everyone else who made my final cut. By Devon Ivie
not a rumour Lindsey Buckingham Is Willing a Stevie Nicks Reunion Into Existence He’s teasing that something big, perhaps a tour, is “in the air.” By Devon Ivie
live from the lido deck What a Puth Believes For his new album, Charlie Puth knew he wanted a yacht-rock song. So he gave Michael McDonald and Kenny Loggins a call. By Devon Ivie
the alchemy Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce Have Their First Awards-Show Date Night She thanked him in her speech for making her feel “very happy and confident and free.” By Alejandra Gularte
pussycut doll Ex–Pussycat Doll Says She’s Not in the Reunion for MAGA Reasons Jessica Sutta thinks her political views made her a “liability” to the group’s upcoming “cash grab” of a tour. By Jennifer Zhan

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Dream-Casting an American Version of Last One Laughing

We begrudgingly accept keeping Jimmy Carr. By Anne Victoria Clark, Fran Hoepfner, and Hershal Pandya

lawsuits It’s the Circle of Strife What to know about the $27 million lawsuit over a comedian’s Lion King lyric translation. By Jennifer Zhan
this week in late night Fact-Checking Chris Fleming Won Late Night This Week Plus the Kid Mero on The Daily Show and Jimmy Kimmel Live’s Niall Horan superfan staffer. By Bethy Squires
buffering You Won’t Have to Wait As Long to Watch SNL UK This Week American SNL will still come first, though. By Josef Adalian

hosting duties All the Saturday Night Live Season 51 Hosts and Musical Guests Colman Domino is making his SNL hosting debut. By Jason P. Frank
coming soon Netflix Is Making a Giggly Squad Sitcom Paige DeSorbo and Hannah Berner are getting the Broad City special from Amy Poehler and Kay Cannon. By Bethy Squires
don’t break Last One Laughing UK’s Second Season Should Not Be This Good The ultimate boss of panel shows dares comedians not to break. By Fran Hoepfner
quality time What Pete Holmes Watches (and Reads) With His Daughter “My daughter and I talk about The Baby-Sitters Club like we’re girlfriends.” By Pete Holmes and Marah Eakin
international affairs Saturday Night Live U.K. Should Be More British The premiere episode of the adaptation was a mixed bag that replicated the original’s format and sensibilities to a fault. By Hershal Pandya

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Soon You Can Marry Mariska Hargitay on Broadway

She’s taking over Daniel Radcliffe’s role in Every Brilliant Thing. By Jason P. Frank

theater review Anchors Reweighed: No Singing in the Navy Milo Cramer’s play tries to interrogate Comden-and-Green-style sailor musicals but ends up looking hardest at itself. By Sara Holdren
theater Last Dance for the Groffies The women swooning over Jonathan Groff and spending a small fortune to see him before his final performance in Just in Time. podcast By Alexandra Starr
the maria bamford questionnaire Daniel Radcliffe Wishes He Played an NBC Page on 30 Rock And that he could warn his younger self about the dangers of a long autograph. By Hershal Pandya
theater review Big, Tall, Terrible Roald Dahl Comes to Life in Giant John Lithgow plays the author as a Vermicious Knid, a flexible and increasingly nasty creature. By Sara Holdren

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The Trouble With Fame, Both Lost and Found: Bughouse and Tru Truman Capote craved recognition and was destroyed by it; Henry Darger never sought it at all. By Sara Holdren

theater review A Production of Chekhov’s Ivanov That I Wish Everyone Could See The New American Ensemble shucks off the daintiness and goes big. By Sara Holdren
theater review A Play About the Play Becomes the Thing: Hamnet Onstage in D.C. Lolita Chakrabarti’s stage adaptation of the novel is at its best when it focuses on the travails of Agnes Shakespeare, the playwright’s wife. By Rhoda Feng
epstein files Trey Parker and Matt Stone Are Still Writing The Book of Mormon New lyrics appear in the 15th-anniversary show. By Bethy Squires
theater review Four Sisters and a Knife: Jeena Yi’s Jesa A drama about siblings and assimilation adds a dollop of the supernatural. By Sara Holdren

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religious studies The Harry Potter Pilgrims J.K. Rowling’s transphobia turned off many readers. Some still treat the series she created as a sacred text. By Séamas O'Reilly
book review I’m Obsessed With This Novel About a Gay Romance Wayne Koestenbaum’s My Lover, the Rabbi is a hilarious depiction of an intense infatuation. By Daniel Felsenthal
what’s the sitch? Christy Carlson Romano Announces Her Child-Stardom Memoir Call me, beep me, if you want to read me. By Bethy Squires
ai girl We Have Our First Big-Five AI Scandal Mia Ballard’s horror novel Shy Girl has been canceled, Hachette Book Group announced yesterday. By Emma Alpern
a long talk Tom Junod’s Family Secrets How an acclaimed magazine writer wrote his new memoir about his father, who had numerous affairs and may have sexually abused the author’s sister. By Jack Denton

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2026 preview 10 Art Shows We Can’t Wait to See in 2026 Will the New Museum actually reopen? By Jerry Saltz
art review The Crazed Cataclysms of Nicole Eisenman Her paintings at David Zwirner are delirious indictments of politics, art, and money. By Jerry Saltz
furniture Bianca Censori Made Some Medical Sex-Dungeon Furniture The designer and wife of Kanye West says it’s about “collapsing the distinction between object, body, and idol.” By Clio Chang
reasons to love new york How the Painter Sasha Gordon Marshaled Her Monsters “People assume I’m a bitchy, confident artist when I’m actually really afraid of everything.” By Adam Moss
rip Frank Gehry, World-Famous Postmodern Architect, Dead at 96 Gehry is one of only two architects to guest star on The Simpsons. By Bethy Squires