“I Never, Ever Had An Issue With Being Confident”: How Chicken Shop Date’s Amelia Dimoldenberg Turned Teen “Delusion” Into Hollywood DominationIt’s five weeks later when I next chat with Dimoldenberg. She video calls me from bed in her LA hotel, bare-faced and exhausted, after a whirlwind 36 hours. Rewind a couple of days and she was arriving at the Academy Awards in a custom baby pink Gucci gown ready to do four hours of interviews.
The 19th-Century Nurse Who Was Secretly a Serial Killer“Jolly Jane” Toppan overcame a miserable Dickensian childhood to become a medical professional patients adored. She was also slowly murdering them one by one.
Opioids Came for Country Music. It’s Fighting BackD RUGS NEVER SEEMED like a problem to Elvie Shane. Dabbling in cocaine, meth, and heroin were all part of the future country singer’s college days in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Even when he got hooked on speed, the dangers didn’t seem real.
The Pitfalls of Being ‘The Most Beautiful Woman in Movie History’ How film star Gene Tierney was worshipped – and stereotyped – for her looks.
Charlotte Braun, the ‘Peanuts’ Character Who Met a Gruesome EndIn November 1954, readers of Charles Schulz’s Peanuts—by that point just four years into what would become a 50-year run—were greeted with a new agitator in the life of Charlie Brown. Her name was Charlotte Braun, and her defining character trait was being incredibly loud.
The Onyx Boox Palma is the coolest gadget I’ve used in 2024I recently checked my screen time for the month of March. It stood at just over two hours a day, less than half the time an average American spends staring at their phone. In January, those figures exceeded five hours – solely for my Android phone.
Cats Are Finally Having a Big Hollywood Meow-MentFrom ‘Ripley’ to ‘A Quiet Place: Day One’ to ‘Argylle’ to ‘The Marvels,’ cats are getting dramatic roles in live-action projects they can really sink their claws into. But why cats, and why now? Cats, call your agents.
In Justine Kurland’s Photographs, a Mother and Son Hit the RoadThe American road-trip narrative is often marked by violence.
Dance Dance Revolution?“Let’s look at the stats, I’ve got the facts / My money like Lizzo, my pockets are fat!” Boy-rat hybrid Ben Shapiro’s recent foray into the political rap arena was as insipid as it was wrongheaded, but the wild idea that music can and should be used for political interventions is not conta
132 Gut Reactions to Every Track on Taylor Swift’s Double AlbumAhem! Attention! Attention! [Taps yardstick on podium sexily.] The first official meeting of the Tortured Poets Department is officially in session. We’ve all gathered here in Donna Tartt’s storage unit to discuss Taylor Swift’s 11th studio album (not counting re-recordings).
Come for the Torture, Stay for the Poetry: This Might Be Taylor Swift’s Most Personal Album YetPoets only want love if it’s torture. And when the poet is Taylor Swift, you always have to figure love and torture are never more than a few verses apart. Taylor became a legend as the poet laureate of teen romance.
8 Takeaways From Taylor Swift’s New Album The Tortured Poets DepartmentIn the 18 months between 2022’s Midnights and Taylor Swift’s new album, The Tortured Poets Department, Swift managed to grow into an even bigger cultural force, releasing three deluxe reissues of Midnights, as well as Taylor’s Version re-recordings of 2014’s 1989 and 2010’s Speak Now.
We are all Tom RipleyPatricia Highsmith’s 1955 novel The Talented Mr Ripley pickpockets the plot of Henry James’s The Ambassadors (1903) and turns it into a detective thriller set in the early years of the Cold War.
Taylor Swift, The Tortured Poets Department review: Irresistible, country-hued tales of relationships past and presentTaylor Swift’s 11th studio album, The Tortured Poets Department, comes complete with a handwritten poem titled “In Summation”.
Taylor Swift and Jack Antonoff Have Reached Their LimitOf all the unpredictable creative exchanges Jack Antonoff has experienced, only one has been digitally immortalized forever — and it was the one.