Paul Dano sized up the menu at Dumpling Galaxy, a brightly lit eatery inside a mall in Flushing’s Chinatown. “I’ve never been here, so I wanted to try it,” he said. “And it’s a good name, Dumpling Galaxy.” He wore Read More …
There may be no gig less desirable than the Super Bowl halftime show. It is unpaid and wildly laborious, and the acts booked to perform it are usually so deep into already prosperous careers that the lone carrot—a television audience Read More …
In “The Little Drummer Girl” (AMC), a six-hour miniseries directed by Park Chan-wook, Florence Pugh gives a performance about performing, in a John le Carré adaptation that approaches spy craft as a form of experimental art. Pugh plays Charlie Ross, Read More …
The term “successful comedian” has always been something of an oxymoron—there’s nothing funny about a rich entertainment icon. This is the premise of Ellen DeGeneres’s new, decorous Netflix special, “Relatable.” It’s DeGeneres’s first taped standup set in fifteen years, a Read More …
“The Award Equinox is upon us,” the Los Angeles Examiner reported in April, 1961. “It’s a season characterized by a brink-of-war tension in the world of entertainment, which frequently manifests itself in some rather bitter bad-mouthing and even occasional saber Read More …
We have been trying to frighten one another with stories since storytelling began. Fairy tales, ghost stories, and legends of monsters, demons, and gods, from the minotaur to the Leviathan, from Count Dracula to Frankenstein’s creature: all these tales address Read More …
“Dating Around,” on Netflix, is a dating show that plays like a glossy docu-fiction. Each installment sends an eligible person on five blind dates, each at the same venue, and the editing cuts among all five rendezvous as they progress Read More …
This fall, a new book, “Bold & Brave: Ten Heroes Who Won Women the Right to Vote,” pairs vibrantly painted portraits of early women’s-rights activists by Maira Kalman with text by Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, of New York, that outlines these Read More …
I got into jazz because of Dave Brubeck, but jazz got into me because of Eric Dolphy. I had just turned fifteen when a random encounter with Brubeck’s music made me start listening curiously to New York’s jazz station at Read More …
Televised lottery drawings, a strange and supple form of state-controlled entertainment, enter a new phrase this week, with the announcements of winning numbers for groaning jackpots in two blockbuster multi-jurisdictional games, Mega Millions and Powerball. Between the two, more than Read More …