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WHAT I’M
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“I can’t wait to
get back to
A MILLION- Tiger King. I don’t
DOLLAR SCANDAL
know what hap-
Meet the Ingrams, the
subjects of AMC’s new
pens. I know he’s
miniseries about a a nutcase and
game show rocked by he probably did
controversy. some bad things,
BY RUTH KINANE but I watch him
and I go, ‘I would
spend the rest of

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my life watching
→ only him.’ ”
— J A R E D PA D A L E C K I

SUPERNATURAL
TAKES A BOW
After 15 years, the
monster hunters pop
some champagne
and celebrate the
show’s final season.
BY SAMANTHA HIGHFILL

OTTESSA’S RISE
46
Author Ottessa
Moshfegh gives us a
tour of her house—
and her new book.
BY SEIJA RANKIN

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pop culture to
get you through the
quarantine. ON THE COVER
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EDITOR’S NOTE
Here’s to Smiling Again
EVERY SO OFTEN, THE RUG GETS
pulled out from under us. The roof
caves in, the Dow plunges. Some-
one important intones that life
will never be the same. We see
wrenching moments—a president
shot, a beautiful September day
consumed in horror—as turning
points. They tell us our green,
happy days are gone, and the world
is cold and hard.
And then, a clutch of daffodils
pokes through the snow. We slide
back into old habits, with a few
lessons learned, a few more gray
hairs. We laugh again. And some-
day soon, we will reach out and
clasp a stranger’s hand. We will
hug our friends. We will leave our
homes, and all of us will dance.
On a rainy day this March, your
friends at EW left work and went
into quarantine due to COVID-19.
We worried for ourselves and our
loved ones. We worried about you,
and all the millions treading a
suddenly uncertain path. And we
began losing people: as of this writ-
ing, Terrence McNally, Adam
Schlesinger, Floyd Cardoz, Mark
Blum, Andrew Jack, Ellis Marsalis,
Alan Merrill, Joe Diffie, and Manu
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I am with the crew
You Need a Little
that made this page
gorgeous remotely:
Laughter —Stat!
(from top) assistant
photo editor Ava
When life kicks me in the gut,
Selbach, associate I inject comedy serum for a
art director pick-me-up. Take all of these
Erica Bonkowski, and call me in the morning.
executive editor
Clarissa Cruz, and
editorial manager
Carolyn Cutrone.
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Pure gold, especially “Rosemary’s Baby,”
when Jack (Alec Baldwin) channels the
parents of Tracy (Tracy Morgan).
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Dibango, to name a few. They join
a growing list of those we will never
know. But they all mattered, and
they will all be missed.
We are not epidemiologists. Our
only weapon against this terrible
enemy is our ability to take your
mind off things, to bring you a
ROLE MODELS � STARZ
small healing balm called fun. Like If you order Starbucks with Paul Rudd
you, I’ve weathered dark days (above, with Elizabeth Banks), just don’t
ask for a venti; watch this scene for why.
before. The specifics are for another
moment, but as a kid, I was saved
by comedy—especially screwball
comedies from the 1930s. It was only
later that I understood that much
of the pop culture I loved was made
in bleak times. Laughter wasn’t
trivial back then; it lifted people up
when they needed it most.
The dream behind this issue, NOTHING SACRED � AMAZON PRIME VIDEO
and the entire effort at EW these Hazel (Carole Lombard) thinks she’s dying.
days, is to bring Hollywood home Fredric March, far right, is a journalist
who milks her tale for headlines. A gem.
to our readers with humor and
heart. We are here to help you
smile again—while we all wait for
those daffodils to bloom. ← ¿Dónde Está Charo?
In the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, fla-
menco guitarist, Love Boat guest star, and
dose of sunshine Charo inspired us with
her Instagram videos. So we hid seven
Charos throughout this issue. See if you
can find them all. And ¡Cuchi Cuchi!
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We asked the staff:

What’s your pop culture
security blanket right now?

“James Brown’s It’s a Mother is

my go-to funk salve. It also
forces me to dance (read: get some “Survivor. Probst, Boston Rob, STAFF P OLL
EW STAFF much-needed exercise).” strategy, and challenges.
Bonus: a tropical island, What’s the best show
EDITOR IN CHIEF JD Heyman P UBLIS H ER Mike Fisher
E XEC UTIVE EDITOR & CRE ATIVE DIRECTOR Tim Leong
instead of my living room.” with the word Super
D IGITAL DIRECTOR Shana Naomi Krochmal SALES in the title?
D IRECTOR OF EDITORIAL OPERATIONS Alexandra Brez DIRECTO R Cora Howey
AC C O UNT MANAGER S Kevin Blechman (East); Melissa Gursey (West);
Can the Supernatural cover
EDITORIAL Andrea Pabst (Midwest); Alex Shumway (East); Liz Smyth (East); boys reign supreme in this
E XEC UTIVE EDITOR S Clarissa Cruz, Sarah Rodman Remy Telesco (East); Christina Tom (West); J.T. Wilde (East) highly superficial battle?
D EP UT Y EDITOR , DIGITAL Rebecca Detken SALES A S S I STANTS Kim Gary, Erica Goldstick, Shannon Marhan
E XEC UTIVE EDITOR AT L AR GE Dalton Ross 27%
EDITOR S AT L AR GE James Hibberd, Lynette Rice MARKETING & PROMOTION
SENIOR EDITOR S Alicia Dennis (Crime); S ENIO R VI C E PRES IDENT, ADVERTIS I NG &
Gerrad Hall (TV); Katie Hasty (Movies); BRAND MARKE TI NG Susan Parkes-Cirignano
23%
Jillian Sederholm (News Director); Alex Suskind (Music) VI C E PRES IDENT C LIENT S O LUTIO NS Kerri Kivlan
SPECIAL PR O JECTS EDITOR Brittany Kaplan E XEC UTIVE DIRECTO R Ilyse Wittenberg
C RITIC S Kristen Baldwin (Head Writer, East); DI RECTO R S Jennifer Lingle, Amy Mandelbaum 20%
Darren Franich, Leah Greenblatt S ENIO R MANAGER S Christina Cordero, Taylor Messiter, Featured an
SENIOR WRITER S Clark Collis, Samantha Highfill, Claudia Treacy alien monkey
Dan Snierson (Head Writer, West) MANAGER S Caroline Johnston, Shannon McHugh, named Gleek
D IGITAL FE ATURES EDITOR Seija Rankin Brittany Mutterer, Will Prigge
SENIOR DIGITAL NE WS EDITOR S Jessica Derschowitz, Oliver Gettell A S S O C IATE MANAGER Lila Camillos
STAFF EDITOR S David Canfield, Mike Miller DI RECTO R , C RE ATIVE DEVELO PMENT Barbara Bennett Sanderson
STAFF WRITER S Chancellor Agard, Devan Coggan DI GI TAL ART DIRECTO R Carlos Quintero
C ORRESP ONDENT Ruth Kinane S ENIO R DES I GNER S Billy Pennant, Marianna Perez-Santalla
A S S O CIATE EDITOR Derek Lawrence (Mayor of Sound Bite City) EVENT MARKE TI NG Cara Gorman Moreno (Executive Director);
A S SISTANT EDITOR Mary Sollosi Ai-Linh Nguyen (Associate Director); Jessica Sopher (Senior
D IGITAL WRITER S Rosy Cordero, Christian Holub, Lauren Huff, Manager); Claire O’Halloran (Associate Manager) 8%
Marcus Jones, Maureen Lee Lenker, Nick Romano
6% 6%
EDITORIAL A S SISTANTS Joseph Nolfi, Omar Sanchez DIGITAL
5% 5%
S ENIO R VI C E PRES IDENT, DI GI TAL Will Lee
DESIGN VP/ GENERAL MANAGER , ENTERTAINMENT Alicia Cervini
D ESIGN DIRECTOR Jennie Chang DI RECTO R O F PR O D UCT Jennifer Tisdel
D EP UT Y DESIGN DIRECTOR Chuck Kerr S ENIO R PR O D UCT MANAGER Debra Seeto
SENIOR ART DIRECTOR Faith Stafford (Quaran-stream Queen) DES I GN Erik Frick, Tiffany Jessup, Ryan Schroeder
A S S O CIATE ART DIRECTOR S Erica Bonkowski, Anne Latini TEC H NO LO GY Ed Benjamin, Kim Cheung, Viktoriya Eremeeva,
Joseph Freeman, Josh Miller, Andrew Resnick, John Reynolds,

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SUPERNANNY

ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN
SUPERIOR DONUTS
PHOTOGRAPHY Joe Rong, Greg Samek, Ying Zhang
P HOTO DIRECTOR Michelle Stark AC C O UNT MANAGER S Jenna Cilmi (East); Jenny Liu (West)
A S S O CIATE PHOTO DIRECTOR Ben Trivett
P HOTO EDITOR S Lauren Morgan, Alison Wild FINANCE
A S SISTANT PHOTO EDITOR Ava Selbach E XEC UTIVE VIC E PRES I DENT Michael Riggs
DI RECTO R S Diane Meyer, Kerry Winn
“Midnight Diner:
EDITORIAL OPERATIONS A S S O C IATE DIRECTO R Sian Strydom Tokyo Stories.
EDITORIAL MANAGER Carolyn Cutrone (Official Charo Counter) Every episode is
A S SISTANT EDITORIAL MANAGER Meg Smitherman CONSUMER MARKETING & REVENUE perfectly calibrated
C OPY CHIEF Dan Morrissey (Elvis & Ellipsis Expert) BRAND STRATEGY Laurie Krzywdzinski (Director); to amuse and
SENIOR REP ORTER Lacey Vorrasi-Banis Katie Sammon (Senior Manager) soothe—with a
R EP ORTER Sabrina Ford comfort-food
MEREDITH NATIONAL MEDIA GROUP kicker.”
THE 24-WORD DEBATE
PRODUCTION MEREDI TH MAG A Z I NES PRES I DENT Doug Olson
SENIOR PR OD UCTION DIRECTOR Kate Remaly C O NS UMER PR O D UCTS PRES I DENT Tom Witschi Which network is
P R OD UCTION DIRECTOR Jen Thomson “Boy Meets World PRES I DENT C H I EF DIGITAL O F F I C ER Catherine Levene
is essential. C H I EF MARKE TI NG & DATA O F F I C ER Alysia Borsa
better, The CW or its
VIDEO It has helped C H I EF REVENUE O F F I C ER Michael Brownstein parent, The WB?
SENIOR VIDEO PR OD UCER Kristen Harding to turn to MARKE TING & INTEGRATED C O MMUNI CATIO NS Nancy Weber
VI DEO PR OD UCER Ethan Bellows Mr. Feeny again.”
S ENIO R VI C E PRES IDENTS
A S S O CIATE VIDEO PR OD UCER Tara Reid CHANCELLOR AGARD,
C O NS UMER REVENUE Andy Wilson
VI DEO EDITOR Sam Gordon CORRESPONDENT
C O RP O RATE SALES Brian Kightlinger
DI RECT MEDIA Patti Follo “Nothing but respect
SOCIAL MEDIA
RES E AR C H S O LUTIO NS Britta Cleveland for The WB, but The CW
S O CIAL M EDIA DIRECTOR Chanelle Berlin Johnson
STRATEGI C S O UR C I NG , NE WS STAND, PR O D UCTIO N Chuck Howell
SENIOR S O CIAL MEDIA EDITOR Alex Steinman revitalized superhero
DI GI TAL SALES Marla Newman
S O CIAL M EDIA EDITOR S Malcom-Aime Musoni, Alamin Yohannes television and gave us
PR O D UCT & TEC H NO LO GY Justin Law
innovative shows like
COMMUNICATIONS VI C E PRES IDENTS
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and
E XEC UTIVE P UBLIC REL ATIONS DIRECTOR Claudia DiRomualdo F I NANC E Chris Susil
BU S INES S PL ANNI NG & ANALYS IS Rob Silverstone
Jane the Virgin.”
EDITORIAL EVENTS & MARKETING C O NS UMER MARKE TI NG Steve Crowe
A S S O CIATE DIRECTOR , EVENTS Christy Kamimura BRAND LI C ENS ING Toye Cody, Sondra Newkirk
SENIOR MANAGER , EVENTS Kelsey Pennell C O RP O RATE C O MMUNI CATIO N Jill Davison
MANAGER , EVENTS Cierra Cuellar
SAMANTHA HIGHFILL,
EVENTS A S SISTANT Brianna Castaneda MEREDITH CORPORATION SENIOR WRITER
PRES I DENT & C H IEF E XEC UTIVE O F F IC ER Tom Harty “I love The CW’s
CONTRIBUTORS C H I EF F INANC IAL O F F IC ER Jason Frierott
Vampire Diaries, but The
W RITER S Lynn Harris, A.J. Jacobs, Marc Snetiker, Tim Stack C H I EF DEVELO PMENT O F F I C ER John Zieser
WB launched a ground-
C H I EF STRATEGY O F F IC ER Daphne Kwon
PRES I DENT, MEREDITH LO CAL MEDIA GR O UP Patrick McCreery breaking generation of
S ENIO R VI C E PRES IDENT, HUMAN RES O UR C ES Dina Nathanson teen TV. Dawson’s Creek!
E XEC UTIVE C HAI RMAN Stephen M. Lacy Gilmore Girls! Buffy the
VI C E C HAIRMAN Mell Meredith Frazier Vampire Slayer!

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SHARPEST LINES

“ If you’re free next “ MIKE WENT

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Friday, we’re having a sex-reveal party.” FROM
“ I went to one of those in Amsterdam;
I would not invite relatives.”

—Jake (Andy Samberg), extending an invite to soon-to-be

grandpa Roger (Bradley Whitford), on Brooklyn Nine-Nine

“GOD, I WISH SOUND BITES HALL OF FAME

MODERN FAMILY
I COULD (SEPT. 23, 2009–APRIL 8, 2020)
HIGH-FIVE
SOMEONE TO
RIGHT NOW,
BUT WE’RE
OUT OF HAND
SANITIZER!”
—Samantha Bee, wanting
to celebrate Harvey
Weinstein’s prison sentence,
on Full Frontal

“ I’m the cool dad,

that’s my thang. I’m hip, I surf
“HEAR YE, HEAR YE. SO THERE’S BEEN the web, I text. LOL:
A CHANGE OF PLANS: YOU GUYS HAVE laugh out loud, OMG: oh my God, .”
BEEN REPLACED BY RIVERDALE.” WTF: why the face.”
—Ronnie, learning The Situation
—Nate (Nick Zano), going back in time and talking to Shakespeare’s —Phil (Ty Burrell), presenting his parenting persona, hung with Russians in prison,
troupe, on DC’s Legends of Tomorrow in the Modern Family pilot on Jersey Shore Family Vacation

“ I’m not a Kardashian, I can’t just get the

internet to do whatever you want it to do.”
—Maya (Rhyon Nicole Brown), firing back at her boss’ demand to ignite social media buzz, on Empire
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Bill Withers (1938-2020)

Bill Withers, who died March 30 from heart complications, was a musical titan—a once-in-a-lifetime songwriter whose
expressive vocals and lyrics influenced a generation (and are just what the world could use more of right now).

“When I wake up in the morning, love/And the sunlight hurts my eyes/

And something without warning, love/Bears heavy on my mind/
Then I look at you/And the world’s alright with me/Just one look at you/
And I know it’s gonna be/A lovely day.”
—Withers, singing, on his 1977 single “Lovely Day”

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YOU’LL LOVE THIS

NOVELL A

↓
Mr. Harrigan’s Phone

IF YOU LIKED

IF IT BLEEDS
By Stephen King
YOU’LL LOVE THIS
NOVELL A

BOOKS ↓
The Life of Chuck

IF STEPHEN KING sleuth is drawn into danger in If It

IF YOU LIKED
only wrote novel- Bleeds after becoming obsessed ↓
las he would still with a vanishing mole on a TV
occupy a place in news reporter’s face. Holly devo-
many horror fans’ tees will also be interested to
hearts, thanks to know that King fills in a lot of her
the likes of The troubled background along the
Mist, Rita Hay- way. Mr. Harrigan’s Phone, mean-
worth and Shawshank Redemption, while, further highlights King’s
and The Body, which was brought ambivalent attitude toward tech- YOU’LL LOVE THIS
to the big screen as the beloved nology (see also his novel Cell and NOVELL A

Stand by Me. His newest collection Kindle-centric novella UR) in a ↓

contains four tales of terror occu-
pying the no-man’s-land betwixt
short story and novel, and finds
the Master of the Macabre in fine,
if mostly unsurprising, form.
KING: STEVE SCHOFIELD/CONTOUR BY GETTY IMAGES
tale about the benefits and dan- If It Bleeds
gers of burying someone with
their favorite Apple product. And
IF YOU LIKED
Rat finds the author returning
↓
to the subject of the hardships

The titular story showcases endured by, well, authors, and

a character who has become
very familiar to King ’s army of
“Constant Readers”—private
investigator Holly Gibney. A
major player in the Bill Hodges
Trilogy and The Outsider (and
memorably portrayed by Cynthia
centers on a writer striking a
Faustian bargain so he can finish
his book.
The odd man out? That would be
the inventive, and by King’s stan-
dards fascinatingly gnomic, The Life YOU’LL LOVE THIS
of Chuck, a story of choreography NOVELL A

Erivo in HBO’s recent adaptation and global catastrophe—told back- ↓

of the latter), the OCD-suffering wards! —CL ARK COLLIS Rat

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In its 11-year run,
RuPaul’s Drag Race has
won 13 Emmys and
pushed a subculture to
heights taller than Trixie
Mattel’s hair. It’s also
become big business.
ViacomCBS plans to
move the RuPaul’s Drag
Race All-Stars spin-off
from VH1 to Showtime
this summer to convert
Drag Race fans into sub-
scribers, because, as
company president Bob
Bakish put it: “There’s
money and momentum
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and a call for others to
D R AG ’ S N E X T AC T join them. “Drag has
been hidden for so long,”
WE’RE HERE says Eureka. “People
are finally being exposed
to it—they’re starting to
accept that they love
TV it, and they’re seeing the
power behind it.”
The show takes the
in contemporary drag.” transformation,” says WIGS ON network gloss off an
Having grown far Shangela, 38. “We’re WHEELS often gritty subculture.
beyond its urban roots, hoping for an entire Each queen “They let us present
has their own
where will it go next? human transformation.” custom-built
these people the way we
HBO’s new docuseries Like the original Race car on the series wanted them to be pre-
We’re Here is betting and Netflix’s Queer sented, from the locals
on red-state America. Eye, Here aspires to be to the queens,” says
The show features a force for acceptance, Stephen Warren, who
Shangela
folks in six small com- helping participants cope co-created the series
WE’RE HERE: JOHNNIE INGRAM/HBO (4)
munities such as with rejection, homo- with Johnnie Ingram. The
Gettysburg, Pa., and phobia, and racism while hope, adds Ingram, is
Twin Falls, Idaho, who rocking six-inch stilettos. to bring divided commu-
are gussied up by Race At the end of each epi- Eureka nities together: “Even
alums Bob the Drag sode, a newly made- if it’s just one night to
Queen, Eureka O’Hara, over queen lip-synchs a say: We’re here, we exist,
and Shangela. “We tune at a local bar, both we belong, and we’re
don’t just do a physical a statement of identity Bob staying.” —JOEY NOLFI
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GAMES TV

After shooting 95 episodes of iCarly for Nickelodeon, MIR ANDA C O S GROVE now studies psychology at USC. Sounds about right.
It’s not enough to depict fictitious
female superheroes in entertain-
ment; it’s better to show real ones.
That’s what prompted actress
Geena Davis, with the help of philan-
thropist Lyda Hill, to executive-
produce Mission Unstoppable With
Miranda Cosgrove—a CBS Saturday-
morning show hosted by the former
iCarly star that showcases female
engineers, mathematicians, and
astronauts doing all sorts of world-
changing stuff. Davis believes their
lively reports on superstars like
Diana Trujillo—the head of the Mars
Rover program—have already
inspired young viewers in the series’
first season on CBS and its stream-
FOR SOME REASON, relocating to a remote island where ing service, CBS All Access. “There’s
resources abound, everyone is healthy, and the economy a direct correlation between what
happens on screen and what people
is a paradise of effortless productivity and zero-interest
do in real life,” says Davis, who also
loans really seems appealing to people right now. Gamers cites a study saying 63 percent
with an influx of time at home have turned to cuddly capi- of women pursued STEM careers
talist Tom Nook and his escapist getaway package in because of Gillian Anderson’s
record numbers, making New Horizons one of the quickest- forensic-pathologist character,
selling Nintendo Switch titles. Have some guilt-free social Dana Scully, on Fox’s The X-Files.
“That’s an overwhelming impact.”
time by inviting friends to your island to fish, net bugs,
chop wood, exchange gifts, or just marvel at your decorat-
ing skills. Oh, to live in a world where the museum and the
airport are open 24/7, and the worst thing that can happen
is the occasional spider bite. — E V A N L E W I S

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Minecraft Stardew Valley Journey Dreams

Anything that Escape big-city Make unspoken Design a whole new
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If you haven’t already
read Sally Rooney’s
best-selling 2018 novel,
chances are someone
has recommended it to
you. So it went for British
actress Daisy Edgar-
Jones. “My best friend
had bought it for my
family because it’s her
favorite book—she’s
writing her dissertation
on it!” says the native
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Things to Do in Dublin When You’re Red
NORMAL
PEOPL E
Londoner. But Edgar-
Jones still didn’t get
around to it until the
opportunity arose to
costar in Hulu’s splashy
adaptation (April 29).
The lyrical romance
follows the relationship of
Marianne (Edgar-Jones)
and Connell (Paul Mescal)
over several years, from
high school in small-town
Ireland to college in bus-
tling Dublin. They fall for
each other, they break
up, they try things again.
“They’re intelligent people
who aren’t the best at
communicating,” Edgar-
Jones says. “They love
each other, but they
don’t know how to talk
about the hard stuff.” The
original novel, told from
both characters’ per-
spectives in alternating
sections, was a sensation
TV
across the pond before
becoming a critically
acclaimed best-seller
Stateside last year.
The 12-episode series,
directed by Oscar nomi-
nee Lenny Abrahamson
(Room) and partly writ-
ten by Rooney herself,
maintains the book’s
authenticity, sexiness,
and emotional intensity.
But it offers something
new and rich besides.
“You have your whole
character’s psyche
written in incredible
detail on the page,”
Edgar-Jones explains.
“But [TV] is only visual.
You have to give away big
chunks of the story with
a single glance.” Trust
that both she and Mescal
do so brilliantly—and that
they’ll break your heart.
—DAVID CANFIELD
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DRIFTS
B y K ate Z ambreno
BOOKS
It may not be totally
appealing, but social dis-
tancing has made the
reclusive-author lifestyle
a lot more achievable.
This feverish account of
artistic isolation can be
read as both a how-to
manual and a chilling
warning about the dan-
gers of walling yourself
off. The very meta Drifts
follows a struggling
writer working on a mem-
oir about her day-to-day
life called...Drifts. It’s a
life of mostly sitting
around—binging TV, bick-
ering with her spouse,
and masturbating. (The
protagonist also walks
her dog every once in
a while; no word on
whether she keeps her-
self six feet away from
strangers.) As her grip on
reality begins to slip,
Drifts gives us a window
into an anxious, lonely
soul. How relatable. —DC
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D C ’ S S TA R G I R L THE HALF
OF IT

TV MOVIES

CYRANO DE BERGERACÕS much-

DC’S S TA R G I R L BRE AKS NEW
ground for DC Comics—and not
just because it’s airing on both DC
Universe (May 18) and The CW
(May 19). While most of DC’s shows
are about adult heroes in various
metropolises, this charming Greg
Berlanti-produced series is more
comparable to Buffy the Vampire
Slayer. It’s set in Blue Valley, Neb.,
a small town that may not be quite
as idyllic as it looks. While rum-
maging through her basement,
high schooler Courtney Whitmore
(Brec Bassinger) finds the glowing
tain,” says the character’s creator,
Geoff Johns, who is also an execu-
tive producer. “We see them make
mistakes and we see them succeed,
and we see them figure out who
they are and who they want to be.”
With DC’s Stargirl, Johns—also a
producer on Wonder Woman 1984
and Aquaman—wanted a cinematic
feel, which “required doing things
differently than other shows.” DC’s
Stargirl is the first Warner Bros. TV
show to use previsualization, a
technique for rendering effects-
heavy scenes that’s usually
reinvented tale gets a fresh
update, on Netflix May 1.
This time, Nancy Drew’s
Leah Lewis becomes a Gen-Z
version of the lovesick poet—
Ellie, a high schooler cursed
with awkwardness instead of
a mega-schnoz. When jock
Paul (Daniel Diemer) devel-
ops a crush on popular girl
Aster (Alexxis Lemire), he
enlists Ellie to pen his love
notes to her; what he doesn’t
know is that she longs for
Aster too. Writer-director
Alice Wu manages to weave
contemporary ideas about
race and sexuality into a
sweetly timeless yarn—prov-
ing that after more than a
century of remakes, Cyrano
has a lot of life in him yet.
STARGIRL: CW; THE HALF OF IT: NETFLIX/KC BAILEY

staff of her stepdad Pat’s (Luke reserved for blockbusters. Here,

Wilson) former partner-in-crime—
Starman (Joel McHale), a deceased
member of the Justice Society of
America. She takes the rod to
become a star-spangled avenger
and helps revive the JSA as one
of a new crop of young heroes to
fight bad guys. “I love that they’re
kids, because kids’ paths are uncer-
it’s employed to pull off such eye-
poppers as a 15-foot-tall robot suit.
Says Johns: “Utilizing the same
tools we used in the films [allowed
us to] not only have these great,
emotional, heartwarming stories
but also these visuals that you
haven’t seen in superhero shows
before.” —CHANCELLOR AGARD

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9
In her first cable-TV role
since Game of Thrones,
Natalie Dormer takes
on a devilish new chal-
lenge on Showtime’s City
of Angels (April 26), a
“spiritual descendant”
of the first Penny Dread-
ful series that trades
gothic horror for 1930s
Los Angeles. Shape-
shifting demon Magda
(Dormer) tries to use
her influence to spark a
race war. Can Det. Tiago
Vega (Here & Now’s
Daniel Zovatto) stop it?
Not if Magda can help it.
PENNY DREADFUL: JUSTIN LUBIN/SHOWTIME
Q+A
N ATA L I E D O R M E R
Why is Magda so
well suited as a villain
to tackle this story’s
themes?
№
10
THE MUST LIST
CIT Y OF ANGEL S →
SON OF
A HITMAN
Don’t mistake this for Penny Dreadful, the sequel. You won’t find Eva Green, star of the 2014 series, in a killer corset. It’s a new story, new world, new show.
PODCASTS
PENNY
DREADFUL:
Two years before Woody
C I T Y OF Harrelson won over
ANGELS hearts with his role as
Woody Boyd on NBC’s
TV Cheers, his father,
Charles, was sentenced
to two lifetime sen-
[Series creator] John characters] all move dif- tences for his third
Logan sought to write a ferently. You find a voice, alleged murder—at least
great historical drama whether it’s an accent or on record. Woody and
with the supernatural tone. There is a process his two brothers, Jordan
element raising the that happens in that hour and Brett, grew up with
tension. Therefore, he and a half when you’re the Harrelson name
created Magda, a meta- sitting in the hair-and- smeared with the blood
phor for the darker side makeup chair. It’s not just drawn by the lustful hit-
of men’s souls. Magda is physical; you’re getting man, or so people are
not the devil incarnate. your brain into it as well. led to believe. In the
She’s taken a position upcoming Spotify pod-
on mankind: They will It’s interesting to hear cast Son of a Hitman,
always choose the more Magda’s perspective host Jason Kavanaugh
selfish or baser option. and then see how real- and Brett take a deep
For me, it’s certainly world leaders act on the dive into the life of
more interesting if you’re coronavirus pandemic. Charles, a professional
doing empirical experi- Closing the borders and gambler convicted of
mentation to see how pointing fingers at other assassinating a federal
bad mankind can [be]. countries. I know...just judge. The episodes
everything being thrown bring to light revelations
Magda takes three out the window and about Charles’ relation-
human forms this values having to be ship with the law, why
season. What do you reassessed [too]. It’s he claimed to have been
have to do to prepare the whole adage of good involved in the JFK
for four roles? people can do bad assassination (you read
Costumes help. Your things. That was true in that right), and what
physicality changes the 1930s, and it’s very his sons believe truly
immediately. [The true now. —NICK ROMANO happened. —OMAR SANCHE Z
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MY (QUARANTINE) MUST LIST

J I M M Y FA L L O N
He was hosting The Tonight Show from home at press time—and introducing us to his adorable family in the process—but the
45-year-old New York native wasn’t hurting for diversions while continuing to entertain viewers. The late-night emcee, an
enthusiast of all mediums, shares a few of his antidotes for cabin fever (and a bit of theater magic he loved before COVID-19 hit).

MOVIE TV
INDIAN SUMMER 1993 BELOW DECK
Directed by Mike Binder B R AV O
“A bunch of adults”—including Fallon loves the income-inequality-on-

FALLON: JENNA GREENE/VARIETY/SHUTTERSTOCK; BELOW DECK: KAROLINA WOJTASIK/BRAVO; THE INHERITANCE: MATT MURPHY FOR MURPHYMADE; INDIAN SUMMER: ©BUENA VISTA PICTURES/COURTESY EVERETT COLLECTION
Bill Paxton and Diane Lane— a-boat show. “It’s mega-rich people on
“go back to the camp they the upper deck, and these people
went to as kids. I never went working for them below deck. Right
to camp but always wanted now it’s Below Deck Sailing. But if you
to. It’s like, are you still the want to go back to Below Deck Mediter-
same kids you were now that ranean, you’ll love that. Whoever casts
you have adult problems? these characters, it’s unbelievable.” MUSIC
And now that you’re older, HARRY NILSSON
have you learned anything? NILSSON SCHMILSSON
It’s a fun movie, I loved it.” “It’s my favorite. It’s got
everything: a song for kids
that don’t understand music
yet—‘Coconut.’ Then as you
grow older, so many tracks
where you go, ‘Oh, that’s
beautiful.’ My wedding song
was ‘The Moonbeam Song.’ ”

S TA G E
THE INHERITANCE BOOK
Broadway had gone dark CITY DOG, COUNTRY FROG
when we spoke, but Fallon By Mo Willems
wanted to give theater a “It’s beautifully illustrated
shout-out for when curtains and geniusly written,” says
rise again. “It’s a beautiful Fallon of the canine-meets-
play,” he says of Matthew amphibian tale. “Kids love it,
Lopez’s reinvention of but also adults. It really hits
E.M. Forster’s Howards End. you right in your heart.”
“But it’s got some pretty
graphic sex scenes. I saw
that with my mother-in-law,
not really knowing what it
was about.... Andy Cohen
was sitting three rows in
front of me. And he kept
looking back like, ‘Oh my
God. Get your mother-in-
law out of here.’ She loved
it. That’s a moment we’re
always going to have.”
BONUS
CHUTES AND LADDERS
HASBRO
“I’m doing the opposite,
I’m playing ‘Ladders and
Chutes,’ where you start at
the top and you look for-
ward to getting to the slides.
So that’s what it’s come
to in my house.” —A S TOLD
TO SARAH RODMAN

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JANELLE MONÁE

HOMEC OMING
WHILE JULIA ROBERTS ISN’T BACK FOR SEASON 2, AMAZON’S GRIPPING SERIES HAS RECRUITED HEAVY HITTERS JANELLE
MONÁE, CHRIS COOPER, AND JOAN CUSACK FOR AN EVEN BIGGER DOSE OF MYSTERY. B y D e r e k L a w r e n c e

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F I R S T TA K E

H
H OW D O YO U F I L L J U L I A R O B E R T S ’

shoes? Well, according to Janelle

Monáe, you don’t. “There’s no
replacing Queen Julia,” says the
singer-actor, who stars in season 2
of Amazon Prime’s Homecoming.
Monáe admits to feeling nervous
taking Roberts’ place as lead after
the Golden Globe-nominated first
season—that is, until a surprise set
visit from executive producer...
Julia Roberts. “After we finished
shooting a scene I heard this loud
scream, and come to find out it was
her,” recalls Monáe, 34. “For her to
respond with excitement, literally,
and to meet and hug each other,
that was enough to relax me.”
For those already familiar with
the show, it’s anything but relaxing.
Based on the hit podcast of the same
name, season 1 of the stylish thriller
was set at a transition facility for
soldiers returning from war and
tracked the relationship between
Walter (Stephan James) and social
worker Heidi (Roberts). Despite the
tight grip (and brain-altering drugs)
of the center’s Homecoming Initia-
tive and parent company Geist
Group, Walter and Heidi escaped.
Season 2 continues to move
beyond the podcast, allowing the
chance to expand past season 1’s
audio-centric elements. “We were
excited about broadening the world
2
and telling story through setting

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and visuals,” shares co-creator
Micah Bloomberg. And after a sea-
son inside, the new season kicks off
outdoors with another military vet-
eran, new character Jackie (Monáe),
1
waking up in a rowboat with no rec-
ollection of how she got there—or
who she is. “[Monáe] is very known,
but her persona is still that of a cha-
meleon,” co-creator Eli Horowitz
says of casting the pop star. “There’s
a curiosity about her, and we weaved
that into the character.” To get into
Jackie’s head space, Monáe studied
PTSD and memory loss, and, of
course, watched the Bourne series.
Jackie’s search for her own iden-
tity leads her to Walter, who was last
seen enjoying his new small-town
life. Like Roberts, whose character
presumably left to make her
own peace, James thought he’d be
one and done. But the actor was
pleasantly surprised by the chance
to explore Walter’s evolution from
what Horowitz calls “a damsel in
distress” to a man on a mission.
“We’re seeing a dogged, more deter-
mined Walter,” says James, 26. “It’s
3
interesting to see how [he and
4
1. “She really nailed Jackie] use each other, need each
it,” Stephan James
says of new costar other, and bring something out in
Janelle Monáe each other.” Adds Monáe: “We’re
2. Joan Cusack
gets dirty as both searching for the truth.”
a secretive
military official
With the departure of one Oscar
3. “He’s one of my winner—Roberts—the producers
favorite actors,”
Monáe says turned to another to play Geist
of Chris Cooper CEO Leonard Geist: Chris Cooper.
4. Hong Chau’s
Audrey has gone “He took this strange idea for a
from minor charac- character and made it into the spiri-
ter to power player
tual center of the season,” says
Bloomberg. Joan Cusack was also
added to “the villain side,” where
she joins Audrey (Hong Chau),
who has skyrocketed up the Geist
ranks; she was notably using the
Homecoming drug in season 1’s
post-credits scene. “People are
going to have to watch that again
with new eyes,” teases Bloomberg.
“It was discussions around that
scene that gave season 2 its heart
and spine.” For Monáe, the result is
“even more suspenseful” than the
previous installment. She warns:
“Nothing is what it appears to be.” �
N E T W O R K AMAZON
D A T E MAY 22
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F I R S T TA K E
MEET THE CREW
Secret Society of
Second-Born Royals
P R E PA R E TO M E E T A N E W K I N D O F
Disney princess. In the sci-fi
fantasy film Secret Society of
Second-Born Royals, Sam (Andi
Mack’s Peyton Elizabeth Lee) is a
rebellious teen living in the king-
dom of Illyria—and in the shadow
of her older sister, who is next in
line for the throne. Sam soon finds
out that being a second-born royal
has its own perks: Not only does
the birth order mean she scores
superpowers, but she’s also
drafted into a top secret group of
other gifted young recruits who
are charged with keeping the
world safe. “She doesn’t want to be
a princess,” says Lee. “When she
finds this secret society that feels
the same way, they figure out how
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← “It was really fun ENVER G J OK A J
to be the older guy
on set with these
young talented M A R V E L’ S
actors,” Skylar
Astin (far right)
says about his
AGENTS OF
costars (from left)
Isabella Blake- S. H. I. E. L. D.
Thomas, Faly
Rakotohavana,
Niles Fitch, Peyton
Elizabeth Lee,
and Olivia Deeble ENVER G JOKAJ NEVER E XPECTED
to play Agent Carter’s Daniel
↙ Lee’s Sam is
not your average Sousa again, since that show’s
Disney princess,
two-season run ended in 2016.
opting for a skate-
board instead That’s what makes his guest
of an enchanted
carriage appearance in the final season
of ABC’s Marvel’s Agents of
S.H.I.E.L.D. so surprising. “It wasn’t
anywhere near my brain,” says
Gjokaj. “I would’ve been thrilled at
any moment for it to come back,
but I think as an actor you don’t
have time. You just have to move
on to the next project.”
S.H.I.E.L.D.’s season 6 finale
ended with Daisy (Chloe Bennet),
LMD Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg),
and their crew time-traveling to
1930s New York City, which is
just the start of the team’s timey-
to create their own legacy and wimey adventure. Eventually, they
have an impact on their country cross paths with Sousa, who was
and the world.” last seen in the 1940s on Agent
Leading the new class of train- Carter. “One of the things we think
ees is Prof. James Morrow (Zoey’s is so fun—especially with Coulson,
Extraordinary Playlist’s Skylar who’s just a fanboy for S.H.I.E.L.D.
SECRET SOCIETY OF SECOND BORN ROYALS: JOHN MEDLAND/DISNEY+; LEE: DISNEY; MARVEL’S AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D.: ABC
Astin), a superhuman second- history—is them just getting to
born royal himself. “James has the walk right into [that history],”
ability to multiply, so that is very says co-showrunner Jed Whedon.
convenient for teaching and com- “With Sousa, we had a good
bat,” Astin reveals. “I made sure to opportunity to hit that note with
make certain versions of him more Agent Coulson.” Gjokaj adds, “We
eager, certain ones more serious. realized once we got Coulson and
In a fight scene there’s one that’s [Sousa] in the same scene that
more aggressive. My mother is they’re very similar.” Is this the
going to love this movie because beginnings of a mutual-admiration
there will be 20 of me.” society? —CHANCELLOR AGARD
Their mission becomes more
urgent when a shadowy villain
N E T W O R K ABC
(Greg Bryk of The Handmaid’s D A T E SUMMER 2020
Tale) emerges with his eyes on the
crown. “That’s when we get to see
them make their mark,” Lee
teases. Sounds like a good time to
trade in those glass slippers for
→ Co-showrunner
combat boots. — SY D N E Y B U C K S B AU M Jeffrey Bell
says we’ll see
Agent Carter’s
Daniel Sousa
N E T W O R K DISNEY+ (Enver Gjokaj) in
D A T E SUMMER 2020 “a different light”
when he returns
 Chloe Bennet double feature
MEET THE CAST
VA L L E Y G I R L
I T ’ S A TA L E T H AT ’ S , L I K E , TOTA L LY
timeless: She’s a bubbly mall rat
with hair teased sky-high. He’s a
charming punk from the wrong
VALLEY GIRL: ORION PICTURES; ROTHE AND WHITEHOUSE: TONY RIVETTI JR./ORION PICTURES
side of the Hollywood Hills, and
her friends think he’s grody to the
max. The upcoming Valley Girl
remake pays loving tribute to the
1983 Martha Coolidge classic,
with Jessica Rothe and Josh
Whitehouse starring as Julie and
Randy, the star-crossed Angelenos
first played by Deborah Foreman
and Nicolas Cage.
But there are a few tripendicu-
lar changes: The new film is a
jukebox musical, with elaborate
sequences set to ’80s hits like the
Go-Go’s’ “We Got the Beat,” Cyndi
Lauper’s “Girls Just Want to Have
Fun,” and a-ha’s “Take On Me.” It
also reimagines some of the songs
that made up the original’s killer
soundtrack, including the Plim-
souls’ “A Million Miles Away” and
Modern English’s “I Melt With
You.” “The original was a little
rougher around the edges, in an
authentic way,” Whitehouse says.
“Ours definitely has a lot more
sparkle to it.”
The 2020 version is set in the
present day with flashbacks to the
’80s, as an all-grown-up Julie (Ali-
cia Silverstone) tells her daughter
about her teen adventures in the
Valley, and what it meant to sneak
over the hill to explore the then-
scuzzy Hollywood Boulevard with
Randy. “The juxtaposition of the
bright, poppy Valley world and the
dirty, grimy punk world was an
exciting visual idea for me,” says
director Rachel Lee Goldenberg.
As for that distinctive Valley
accent? There was a dialect coach
on set to help the actors perfect
their upspeak and nail every “gag
me with a spoon.” “We’re at a time
when people are really loving the
nostalgia of the ’80s, and it was so
fun to get to play in that world,
with the hair and the clothes and
the makeup and the affect,” Rothe
says. “It was just a neon candy
delight.” —DEVAN CO GGAN
↑ Material girls:
Chloe Bennet,
Jessica Rothe,
Ashleigh Murray,
and Jessie Ennis
S T U D I O MGM
↗ Julie and Randy R E L E A S E MAY 8
give good hair
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BY THE NUMBERS

Supernatural: The Road So You may not be able to travel, but you can still revisi
. EW compiled a comprehensive look at the series, fro
destinations to the monsters they’ve battled (and, of course, the
Concrete *At time of publi

Bainbridge Island
Seat tle Springdale Whitefish
North Cove Durham Coeur d’Alene Hoople
To quote Dean, “Dude,
WA S H I N GT O N we’re not even in NORTH
Great Falls America.” The brothers D A KO TA
Portland Pendleton Missoula visit Canada as part of
Rivergrove season 6’s Beulah
Bismarck MINN
Grangeville “The French Mistake.”

M O N TA N A
Eugene
Red Lodge
OREGON
Sioux Falls, S.D., is home to both
Greybull Bobby Singer and Jody Mills,
IDAHO making it a frequent stop for
Grants Pass Windo
Sam and Dean.
Jenny Lake
Sioux Falls
Shoshone
SOUTH
D A KO TA Hartford
Spence
W YO M I N G For
Sheridan County
Sunrise Sioux City

CALIFORNIA Laramie Alliance IOW

Ogden N E B R A S KA
Omaha
Rock River
Oshkosh Geneva
Reno Cheyenne Linco
McCook Kenesaw
Elk
Rocky Mountain National Park Boulder Stratton
Bodega Bay
N E VA D A Superior
Central City Denver Lebanon
San Francisco Grand Junction
Junction K
Lost Creek Monument Harlan City
Stanford
Black Forest Topeka
Salina
Gunnison
The Winchester U TA H
KA N S A S
road trip begins
when Dean visits COLORADO Dodge City Wichita
Sam at Stanford
University and tells Conway Springs
Las Vegas Raton Ketc
him, “Dad’s on a
hunting trip, and he
Texhoma Enid Garber
hasn’t been home in
a few days.” Tulsa
Although Sam and
Dean are from Guthrie
Los Angeles ARIZONA Lawrence, Kan., the
Oklahoma City
Men of Letters bunker
has made Lebanon
their most permanent OKLAHOMA
home.

NEW MEXICO
Richardson

Kermit
FREQUENT DRIVER MIL ES
The cities where Sam and Dean investigated the most:

St. Louis 5 TEXAS West Livin

Chicago 5
Lawrence, Kan. 6
Sioux Falls, S.D. 13
Lebanon, Kan. 17

D E AT H B E C O M E S T H E M
Number of times the boys have bitten the dust: PIE
SAM, 7 DEAN, 110
CHART

Episodes
where pie
appears:
13

102 times in the episode “Mystery Spot” CASTIEL, 5

 H O LY R O L L E R S

o Far
Fights against God and ancient gods:

God
Ancient gods

it every episode* of
om Sam and Dean’s
pie they’ve eaten).
ication, 320 (of 327) episodes had aired

MAINE

H AV E C A R , 100 Mile Wilderness

W I L L T R AV E L NEW
HAMPSHIRE
Orono

Hibbing The cities Team Free Will worked cases in:

Canaan Waterville
VERMONT
N E S O TA Duluth

Grantsburg MASSA-
Worcester CHUSETTS
Stillwater NEW
WISCONSIN Providence
YO R K
Saint Paul Menomonie Amherst Junction Saginaw Flint Andover
Bristol
Minneapolis Battle Creek Maple Spr ings L ily Dale Housatonic
Cottage Grove Fall River
MICHIGAN
m Fitchburg Farmington Hills Buf falo New Paltz
Madison Lansing New Portsmouth
Blue Earth Milwaukee Detroit Cleveland Hurleyville Canaan
Twin Lakes Dearborn Randolph
Mason City Grand Rapids Sandusky Erie Greeley Paterson Montauk
Rockford Ypsilanti
er Emery Hudson Wilkes-Barre Passaic Queens
Kenosha Washtenaw County RHODE
rt Dodge Wellington Pit tsburgh Nazareth The Pine Barrens ISLAND
Cedar Rapids Chicago Centreville Toledo
Milan Salem Kit tanning Philadelphia Hammonton
WA Ames Ankeny Pontiac, IL Calumet City C ONNECTIC U T
Fort Wayne
Canton Pike Creek Chester
Atlantic Des Moines Somerset
Peoria Limestone Prosperity
P E N N S Y LVA N I A
oln Bedford Fairfield Lafayette Muncie Ilchester
Baltimore
Columbus
Creek Lancaster Normal Cicero Elwood Washington, D.C. NEW JERSEY

Indianapolis D E L AWA R E
Monroe City OHIO
Brimson
MARYL AND
Milton Union
Kansas Greenville Fairfax WEST
City Kearney
St. Louis VIRGINIA
INDIANA
Lawrence
Jefferson City VIRGINIA
Warsaw
Dixon I L L I N O I S
Cape Girardeau K E N T U C KY
MISSOURI
Carthage NORTH
hum CAROLINA
Eureka Springs Fayetteville
Claremore
TENNESSEE

Memphis

SOUTH
Little Rock
CAROLINA

Rosedale
A R KA N S A S
ALABAMA
GEORGIA
MONSTER
MISSISSIPPI
Shreveport MASH
Who the Winchesters
fight the most:
LOUISIANA

Werewolf, 9
ngston Carencro Shape-shifter, 10
FLORIDA
The Darkness, 12
Vampire, 17
Ancient god, 18
Witch, 20
Human, 39
Spirit, 43
Angel, 64
Demon, 72
S W E A R JA R

136
Broward County
Number of times Dean says, “Son of a b----”:

C AT C H P H R A S E
Times someone says the family motto: 5

SAVING PEOPLE, HUNTING THINGS—THE FAMILY BUSINESS.

SAVING PEOPLE, HUNTING THINGS—THE FAMILY BUSINESS.
SAVING PEOPLE, HUNTING THINGS—THE FAMILY BUSINESS.
SAVING PEOPLE, HUNTING THINGS—THE FAMILY BUSINESS.
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F I R S T TA K E
P
PA R T O F B E I N G “ U N B R E A K A B L E ”
means that even after your show
wraps its final season, you keep
coming back for new adventures.
On May 12—more than a year after
her series ended—Kimmy Schmidt
(Ellie Kemper) returns to Netflix
for an interactive special, Kimmy
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U N B R E A KA B L E
KIMMY S CHMIDT
vs. the Reverend, in which viewers
choose the outcomes of the char-
acters’ story lines.
Shooting a multiple-choice-style
story came with its challenges; the
script supervisor would sometimes
have to remind the actors where
their scene existed in the course of
the timelines, Kemper says. “It was
unlike anything I’d ever done
before. It was hard to keep track of
everything as we were filming it.”
Or, as costar Tituss Burgess puts it
to EW: “Child, if I never film another
interactive special, it’s okay!”
The story follows the show’s star,
plus Burgess’ Titus, Jane Krakow-
ski’s Jacqueline, and Carol Kane’s
Lillian, on their quest to track and
take down the man who held
Kimmy captive in a bunker for 15
years (played by returning guest
star Jon Hamm). “Kimmy always
wants to right a wrong, and this is
her final act in doing that,” Kemper
says. “From the start she was always
trying to overcome what she had
been through, but now she’s lashing
out. She’s angry—not only at him,
but in the way many women in the
↘ “You can #MeToo era have been for a long
make the wrong
decisions while
time. It felt super cathartic.”
you’re watching But catharsis isn’t the only thing
and it’s still
great fun,” says
viewers will opt into—there’s
Daniel Radcliffe romance, too! Enter Daniel Rad-
↓ “Kimmy finding cliffe as Prince Frederick Windsor,
a partner she a young royal, 12th in line to the
wants to spend her
life with was British throne. “Frederick’s had a
very satisfying to
see play out,” says
very sheltered life so he’s rather
Ellie Kemper oblivious, but a very good-hearted
human,” the Harry Potter actor
tells EW from New York City’s
Plaza Hotel, where the cast was
shooting a certain special celebra-
tion. Frederick and Kimmy ’s
unique connection is shown in
little ways. For instance: Remem-
ber Jan, the backpack? Well, the
prince can see and hear her too.
Radcliffe admits his character’s
as quirky as the rest, “but he abso-
lutely loves Kimmy, and I hope
people will be happy that she
gets a prince—well, a prince with
caveats.” —RUTH KINANE
NETFLIX (2)
N E T W O R K NETFLIX
D A T E MAY 12
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A NEW TWIX ON
AN OLD FAVORITE.
 Two of our favorite
Brits, Sian Clifford
(Fleabag’s sister) and
Matthew Macfadyen
(Tom from Succession),
star in AMC’s gripping,
funny, and poignant
miniseries about the
scandal that rocked
the U.K. version of Who
Wants to Be a Millionaire?
By Ruth Kinane @ruthiekinane

♦
A: Quiz
♦
B: Masters
In September 2001, Maj. Charles Ingram (Matthew Macfadyen)
found himself in the hottest seat in the U.K., under the bright
lights on Britain’s buzziest TV game show, Who Wants to Be a
Millionaire? But after the confetti dropped and the £1 million
check was presented to Ingram,the show’s producers grew
suspicious—deciding that he, along with his quiz-crazy wife,
Diana (Sian Clifford), had conspired with a coughing audience
member to cheat their way to the top prize. Adapted from the
stage play of the same name by James Graham, Quiz (premier-
ing May 31 on AMC) brings the story back to the small screen
where it all began. We chatted with the stars to get their final
answers about working on the miniseries.

What was your initial reaction to
this project? Did you guys watch
the show back then and remember
the scandal?
SIAN CLIFFORD I was immediately
gripped. I remembered this story
so well; you couldn’t escape it if
you were living in this country.
The press attention that it got
was insane. I looked Diana up,
and I was like, “Wow, I think I
could pass for her.”
MATTHEW MACFADYEN I was on a yacht
in Croatia with all the Succession
people when the script came
more for physical traits. I stayed
clear of any newspaper reporting,
because I found it so biased. She
was not in their favor at all, por-
trayed as this Lady Macbeth
figure, and I just knew intuitively
that wasn’t who she was. Basically,
I wanted to get to the heart of her
as a human being.
Did you meet the Ingrams?
M A C FA DY E N They came to set on
our last day of filming. They were
lovely, really sweet.
C L I F F O R D Yes, them coming on the

through. It was just such a bril-
liant bit of writing. I remembered
it happening years ago, but not
vividly. I think everybody watched
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
back then. It was such a phenom-
enon. It really was event TV.
How did you go about researching
these real and still living people?
M AC FA DY E N I watched a little foot-
age, but it’s all there in the script,
really. I knew I wasn’t trying to do
an impersonation; it wasn’t rigor-
ous carbon copy. Our brilliant
makeup designer Julie Kendrick
produced the false teeth, and they
really helped. It was like putting
on a sort of magic cape: I felt com-
pletely different. Then, before we
filmed the scenes in the chair,
Michael [Sheen, as Millionaire
host Chris Tarrant] and I would
look at segments from the real
show together and then go for a
take. You take little bits and
pieces, just to get the flavor of it.
C L I F F O R D I watched Charles’ epi-
sode, but the version on YouTube
is edited with the volume of the
cough turned up, so I watched that
last day was a conscious choice, on
all our parts, to protect them and
the integrity of the show. We
didn’t want to be too influenced by
meeting them, and we wanted to
do James’ script service. He’d
spent so much time with them, I
just knew inherently that he cap-
tured them. When I met her, what
was remarkable was this radiant
sweetness that I’d picked up on—
that’s very subtle on camera—is
just so present. So, I’m glad I
stayed true to that. I really hope
that I’ve done her justice.
Michael Sheen is so convincing as
British TV icon Chris Tarrant. Did you
experience for him, but it really
helped with the whole immersive ↑
ever forget it wasn’t really Tarrant? experience. Matthew would say Clockwise from top
Matthew Macfadyen
MAC FADYEN He’s very clever, that when you were opposite as Charles Ingram
Michael. Our first scene was in the Michael, you’d forget what the real with Michael Sheen
as Millionaire’s Chris
courtroom, where Tarrant gets up Chris Tarrant looked like. Tarrant; Macfadyen
and gives evidence. Everyone just with Sian Clifford as
wife Diana; the real
spontaneously laughed, because They also built a replica Millionaire Charles and Diana
Ingram. “Their possi-
Michael had the voice just perfect studio. Was it intimidating sitting
ble culpability isn’t
and the shoulder pads in his suit.… there even just pretending to play? as interesting as
the fact they stayed
C L I F F O R D It’s a total transforma- CLIFFORD Yeah, we really relived together,” says
tion, and it took hours. The sweat the tension of those moments. Macfadyen of the
real-life Ingrams.
that would pour off Michael’s That music is designed to get “It’s a love story.”
head under those lights… I don’t under your skin, and it works. It’s
think it was the most comfortable very, very easy to get sucked in.

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tion required. The sound cues
and lighting cues were brilliant.
Truthfully, my heart was bang-
ing away.
There are also many funny
moments. How did you amplify
the inherent comedy of the situa-
tion withoutmocking anyone?
CLIFFORD My favorite stories are
human stories that don’t have an
agenda. That’s why I love Phoebe
Waller-Bridge’s writing. It’s why
I love Succession. It’s why I love
50 : 50
Their characters might be pub-quiz pros,
but how savvy are Matthew Macfadyen
and Sian Clifford when it comes to knowing
each other and costar Michael Sheen?
We put them to the test separately—and no,
they can’t phone a friend.
You guys are at a trivia The Deal, which
night together. Matthew, is a Stephen Frears
what would Sian say film with David
is her best category, Morrissey. Then he
and Sian, what would played him again in
Matthew say is his? The Queen and again
MM Sian’s would prob- in the thing with
ably be…I really don’t Bill Clinton—Special
know. That’s terrible. Relationship. Maybe
I can think of a million my trivia specialty
things she’d be good at. should be Michael
SC I’m actually a Sheen’s career.
dreadful pub-quiz
person. I would say Which real person
for Matthew, film and do you think he
the arts and stuff should play next?
like that. I bet his SC Is there anyone
general knowledge left?
is really strong. MM Trump.
MM I’m not an expert SC That’s hilarious,
on anything. I’m just actually. I’m going
sort of moderately to say him as well.
good at a lot of things, I feel like you could
so it would just be give him anyone.
general knowledge. He’d nail it; he has
such a gift for it.
Can you name
three real people Do you know each
that Michael Sheen other’s favorite TV
has played? shows?
SC Brian Clough, MM Sian’s is Succession.
Tony Blair, and which SC Oh, I do not know
one was he in Frost/ the answer to that
Nixon? He was David question. Is it Fleabag?
Frost, right? If he said Fleabag and
I said Succession—
Do you know how how perfect!
many times he’s MM Mine was Fleabag;
played Tony Blair? now I don’t have one.
MM He’s played him Well, anything my wife
this show. It’s human, so of twice, I think? It [Bodyguard’s Keeley
course it’s funny. Of course it’s might’ve been three. Hawes] is in!
tense. Of course it’s awkward.
M A C F A D Y E N You have an ear for
what’s funny, but ultimately you
play everything straight down the
line and truthfully. If the scenes are
→
Clifford says Sheen’s
written in the right way, the humor transformation
comes out. In fact, the more seri- was “astonishing”
ously you play it, the funnier it is. I
came away more thoughtful about
people’s rush to condemn and I
think—certainly in these times we
live in now—that’s something we
should keep in check a little.
BY S A M A N T HA
HIGHFILL
@SAMHIGHFILL

P H OT O G R A P H S B Y
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A N I M AT E D C R O S S O V E R S ,
S U P E R N AT U R A L H A S
BEEN ONE OF THE MOST
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O N T V. E W A S K E D S E R I E S
S TA R S J A R E D P A D A L E C K I ,
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M I S H A C O L L I N S TO
REFLECT ON THE SHOW ’S
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O N LY G E T O N E S H O T AT T H I S . ”
Sam and Dean Winchester are
surrounded. The monster-hunt-
ing brothers are standing on the
edge of a cliff. They look to Castiel,
their brother in arms—or is it
wings?—but even he can’t help.
One move in the wrong direction
could ruin everything. After years
of fighting demons, going toe-to-
toe with Satan himself, and saving
the world multiple times, they
once again find themselves in a
position of having to perform
under pressure. But this situation
is unlike anything they’ve ever
dealt with before. All eyes are on
them as they have one shot…at
getting the perfect picture.
It’s a dry, hot August day in
Malibu—when people were still
allowed to gather outside—as
Supernatural stars Jensen Ackles,
Jared Padalecki, and Misha Col-
lins prepare for the last setup of
their final Entertainment Weekly
cover shoot. With a bottle of cham-
pagne in each of their hands,
Ackles once again reminds them
they get “one shot” to do this right.
But if their characters can shoul-
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der the weight of the world, surely
these three can handle a photo.
The champagne soaking is
meant to be a celebration of 15
years, of making television history.
Supernatural, the story of two
brothers destined to save the
world, is the longest-running
genre show in the history of Amer-
ican broadcast television. (So old,
the first three seasons shot on this
thing called film.) What started as
an underdog story, living its first
few years on the verge of cancella-
tion, has become an institution, a
milestone to which other shows
aspire. Supernatural not only survived the M AY were originally based on Luke Sky-
2020
move from The WB to The CW after its first walker and Han Solo). But no
season—it’s now the final WB show left � combination of pop culture is going
standing—but became the backbone of the P. 3 9 to perfectly describe Supernatural
now highly successful CW network. Over because the show has managed to
the years, the sci-fi series has aired on every do something remarkably rare in
weeknight, helping to launch shows includ- the age of peak TV, where audi-
ing Arrow and The Vampire Diaries. The ences are so overwhelmed with
network moved it one final time, most content that an original idea seems
recently, to Mondays, to help Roswell, New foreign: It’s created a truly one-of-
Mexico expand its audience. “Supernatural a-kind experience.
is a major link to many of the shows that we For starters, it’s a show about
have successfully built to market,” The CW’s two flannel-wearing, beer-loving,
chairman and CEO Mark Pedowitz says. blue-collar dudes from Kansas who
“Almost every one of our shows has had it as for a good chunk of their lives trav-
a lead-out or a lead-in.” eled from cheap motel to cheap
And to think, it all started as a promise to motel, paying for gas and greasy
bring horror to television. After Supernatu- diner food with a mix of fake credit
ral creator Eric Kripke had finished working cards and money they earned
with Warner Bros. on 2003’s Tarzan series, scamming people at the pool table.
he pitched the idea of a reporter who travels “Almost all television is about rich
around hunting urban leg-
ends. As he puts it, it was a
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
rip-off. But when he real- E XCLUSIVE PRE VI EW
ized the story would benefit
from having brothers at its
core, he started writing. “At
the time, The Ring and The
Grudge were huge hits in
theaters,” Kripke remem-
bers. “We said, ‘We’re going
to take that experience and
we’re going to put it on TV,’
and the initial goal was to be
scary.” After Warner Bros.
passed on his first, what he
calls “uptight,” draft, Kripke
had to reassess the kind of
‟ L A S T H O L I DAY ”
show he was creating. “I ↓
canceled all my Christmas ‟The episode when we come back is a really fun meta episode
plans and wrote that second that allows you to see basically every holiday you want Sam and
Dean to celebrate,” co-showrunner Andrew Dabb says.
draft in three weeks,” he
says. “That was when the
show got its sense of humor,
because I was locked alone,
over winter break, in my
office. I couldn’t do anything
fun, so I started entertain-
ing myself.” The show was
still scary, but it was also
funny and, over the years,
would continue to evolve.
Sure, you could say it’s a lit-
tle bit X-Files—in its early
days, the show often used
the line “The X-Files meets ‟ D E S PA I R ”
Route 66”—and there ↓
Not only will Supernatural’s final run of episodes feature the
were definite Star Wars return of the Apocalypse World’s Charlie (Felicia Day), but Dabb
influences (Sam and Dean promises our world’s Charlie is coming back as well.
‟PI LOT ” never stopped. Season 13 featured
↓
a Scooby-Doo crossover as an ani-
“I remember driving home that night thinking, ‘Okay, this might
work,’ “ creator Eric Kripke says, remembering the day they shot mated Sam, Dean, and Castiel
Sam and Dean’s first fight scene. solved a case alongside the Mys-
tery Inc. gang. And in season 14,
after giving God a sister a few
years prior, the show made the Big
Man Himself its final villain. “I
don’t think any idea, barring some
production concerns, has been
viewed as too crazy,” Dabb says.
“Because we know that our fans
are smart and that they’ll follow
these guys anywhere.”
So long as each episode features
Sam and Dean—and the occa-
sional heartfelt talk on the hood of
out that they needed to be in this
together that the series snapped
into place. Because at the end of it
all, they’re two brothers bonded
by the loss of their mother and a
life spent on the road with
an absentee father. (It just so
happens that their mother was
killed by a demon and their father
hunted them.) The familial
dynamic—the irrational codepen-
dency, as the angel Zachariah
(Kurt Fuller) once called it—is the
most important part of the show.
“The first inkling I had that we
had something special was shoot-
ing the pilot,” Kripke says. “It was

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the Impala—the show can do just the scene on the bridge when Sam
about anything, which is another and Dean talk about their mother.
reason Kripke had to rewrite his It was the first time that you really
first draft of the pilot. Originally, saw their chemistry and their con-
people or, at the very least, middle-class peo- Dean was the only brother who nection as brothers on full display.
ple,” co-showrunner Andrew Dabb says. knew about monsters growing up, Because I’ve always said this show
“The fact that we’ve been able to take this bringing Sam up to speed later in begins and ends with whether you
Midwestern blue-collar approach to this life. It wasn’t until Kripke figured believe that sibling relationship.”
genre feels like we’re breaking the mold.”
But the mold-breaking didn’t stop there.
Supernatural might’ve started out as a hor-
ror show with some snarky one-liners, but it
evolved into some of the boldest, most
experimental (and certainly strangest) sto-
ries on the small screen. “We’re a show of big
swings,” co-showrunner Robert Singer says.
“I used to say, with every idea, ‘This will be a
home run or they’ll cancel us,’ but every year
we wanted to do something
really nuts.” And when he
says nuts, we’re not just talk-
ing about the episode with
the talking teddy bear or the
murderer targeting imagi-
nary friends. Those are just
some standard monsters of
the week. We’re talking
QUERY
about the black-and-white ON, MY
episode shot like a classic WAY WA R D
Hollywood monster movie, SON
or the episode that intro- What do
t he s e b i t s of
duced Chuck (Rob Benedict), Supernatural
a prophet—who’d later reveal t r i v i a h a ve
in common?
himself to be God—who was
famous for writing a book
series called Supernatural. COMMON
KNOWLEDGE?
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 But Sam and Dean weren’t just
the center of the show. For many
years, they were the show.
Supernatural has never been an
ensemble drama. For the first 82
hours of the series, Ackles and
Padalecki were the only long-
running series regulars—Katie
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Cassidy and Lauren Cohan briefly
joined for season 3, appearing in 12
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episodes combined. But Sam
and Dean weren’t just in every
episode; they anchored every epi-
sode. (They skipped table reads
because there would’ve been only
two actors there.) “I had many
moments of not only questioning,
‘Can I keep this up?’ but an answer
of ‘I cannot keep this up,’ ” Padal-
ecki, 37, who’s been vocal about his
struggle in the early seasons, says.
“I borrowed strength from Jen-
sen.” But even Ackles, 42, admits it
was a tough job. “The 23-episode
seasons were nine and a half
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T H E M AT E R I A L W E G E T
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months of filming,” he adds. “It was a lot of
work, but I always came back to: I still enjoy
it, I still like telling the story, I still like these
characters and the people I work with.”
Not only did the guys stick around, they
built a reputation of having created one of
the warmest sets in the business, with a num-
ber of crew members staying with the
production all 15 seasons. It all dates back to
a talk Kripke had with his stars during the
filming of the series’ second episode. “I said,
2020
‘The show is about your two characters, and
with that comes this responsibility,’ ” Kripke
says. Padalecki remembers the exact setting
of what he calls their “Good Will
Hunting moment,” a bench in Stan-
ley Park in Vancouver, where they
film. It was a chat both actors took
to heart. “We’d both been on other
sets,” Ackles says. “We knew we
wanted to enjoy it, to have fun with
our crew; we wanted them to like
us and us to like them and to have
fun doing what we do.” It’s an atti-
tude Pedowitz hopes bleeds into
other CW shows, an attitude that
launched an annual tradition
where the CW chairman/CEO
takes his new casts out to dinner
with the Supernatural guys, a
chance for the vets to share advice.
“It’s always the most flattering situ-
ation,” Padalecki says, recalling a
moment he had a few years back
with the late Luke Perry, who was a
M AY part of the Riverdale cast. “Luke
was sitting next to me and he was
� like, ‘What y’all have done and
P. 4 1 what we hear about you guys, it’s
really cool to be associated with
y’all in some way, shape, or form,’ ”
he recalls. “And I’m sitting there
pinching myself.”
It’s a behind-the-scenes legacy
that’s perhaps just as impressive, if
not more so, than the onscreen
legacy. Collins, 45, who started as a
guest star and the show’s first
angel in season 4, has become the
show ’s third-longest-running
series regular, and he still remem-
bers walking onto set his first day.
“When you’re coming onto a show
as a guest star, it can be a little
bit nerve-racking,” Collins says.
“Coming to this set, it was an
immediately different vibe. Think-
ing about working on other shows
in the future, that’s something
that I aspire to bring with me.”
A similar reputation extends to
the fans as well. Not only is the
#SPNFamily one of the most dedi-
cated fandoms out there, it’s also
known to be a pretty nice one. (Not
many fandoms can say they’ve
helped launch a crisis support net-
work for their fellow fans.) But
their dedication isn’t just about
seeing what crazy twist God throws
at Team Free Will next. Thanks to
fan conventions and social media,
the viewers are just as invested in
the lives of the actors. Supernatu-
ral’s not just about the words on the
page, it’s about the actors saying
them. “When you’re dealing with
the public taste, there’s an alchemy
of great writing, a great idea, and
the close-up that’s required,” Peter
Roth, chairman of Warner Bros.
Television Group, says. “You need
stars who you want in your living
room.” And you need stars who
want to be in your living room, and
who, even after 15 years, care so
deeply that they get emotional
while taking photos in Malibu.

“IT’S GOING TO BE A LONG EIGHT

months,” Ackles declares. Stand-
ing on that same ledge, an hour
before the champagne shot, Ack-
les, Padalecki, and Collins walk
away from a group hug after
unexpectedly starting to tear up.
It might be the setting—looking
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Supernatural was my first television
show, and it honestly couldn’t have been
more fun. I look back on that time
and mischievous character so fondly.
I’m proud to be part of its legacy.

L O R E T TA D E V I N E � M I S S O U R I
My first week on Supernatural was an
unforgettable experience. I was so afraid
of the fire scenes, but I loved my char-
acter—a powerful woman with a strong
center. She was ahead of her time.

STE R L I N G K. B ROW N � GO RD ON
Working on Supernatural is one of the
most fun things I’ve done. Playing Gordon
was a pure delight. Not only are Jared
and Jensen great at what they do, they
also happen to be the salt of the earth.
out over the ocean—or the occasion: their we don’t make it to [episode] 300, I
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last-ever photo shoot. Or maybe it’s the think Ackles and I will both be
fact that they’re almost a month into film- truly bummed.” But in season 14,
ing their final season. they hit 300...and then kept going.
(2); PADALECKI, ACKLES AND DEVINE: THE WB

MA N N Y JACINTO � D I EGO
As a Vancouver kid, getting to guest-star
on one of the city’s longest-running TV
shows was truly a rite of passage. I carry
that credit on my IMDb page proudly.
It had been a question posed to the stars
for years: How long will this show continue?
How long can it continue? “Even my mom
and dad were like, ‘When are you going to be
done with this?’ ” Ackles says with a laugh. It
was a decision the network and studio had
ultimately put into the actors’ hands, and it
was a conversation they’d been having for a
while. Back in 2016, Padalecki told EW, “If
While filming episode 307, they
announced the upcoming 15th sea-
son would be the end, which will
bring them to a total of 327 epi-
sodes when all is said and done.
“[Jared] and I were always married
to the fact that we never wanted to
go out with a diet version of what
we had,” Ackles says. “We wanted

to have enough gas left in the tank
to get us racing across the finish
line. We didn’t want to limp
across.” Padalecki remembers
the moment it hit him—not the
decision to end it, but rather the
opposite. “We had that moment
where he and I both realized that
we didn’t want it to end,” he says.
“It finally got to a point, ironically,
where it was like, ‘I never want to
leave this. I could do this until the
day I die, and then if I get the
A N S W E R — All episodes directed by Jensen Ackles
choice when I’m dead, I’ll re-up!’
But you never want to be the last
person at a party. We just knew.
That’s not to say there haven’t
been vacillations, but we all trust
the decision that was made.”
Starting in July 2019, the cast
and crew returned to Vancouver to
begin filming the final season, but
in March 2020, with two episodes
left to go, they were sent home.
For years, fans had wondered
what, if anything, could stop the
Winchesters, and now it
seems we have the answer:
a global pandemic. As
sets closed amid social-
distancing measures due to
the spread of COVID-19, it
COMMON
KNOWLEDGE? didn’t take long for fans to
start connecting the dots,
“ W E E K E N D AT
BOBBY’S” sharing relevant GIFs from
�
“ S O U L S U R V I VO R ”
episodes that featured
� viruses, most notably Chuck
“ATO M I C telling Dean to hoard toilet
M O N ST E R S ”
paper “like it’s made of gold”
before the end of the world
in season 5’s “The End.”
(Did we mention that Supernatural is also
kind of psychic? In a season 6 episode, Dean
calls Sam “Walker, Texas Ranger,” which
just so happens to be the role Padalecki has
lined up after this ends.) When production
paused, it all felt a little like we were living
in an episode of the show, just waiting for
Sam and Dean to drive up in Baby, open
those creaky doors, and save us. They might
not be able to do quite that, but the thing
with the Winchesters is that they never stay
down for long. When Supernatural is able to
safely resume production, it will. And
though there are only two episodes left to
film, fans will enjoy a total of seven unseen
hours, including the return of Charlie (Feli-
cia Day) and a mystery woman who visits
the bunker and, for some reason, gives Sam
and Dean all the holidays they never got to
celebrate. “She makes Christmas for them
and Thanksgiving, birthday parties, and all
that. It’s a very good episode,” Singer says,
adding, “I don’t know when it’s going to air.”
That’s the thing—no one knows, not even
the guys who took out Yellow Eyes, stopped
Leviathans, defeated Death himself, and are
supposedly destined to be the messengers
of God’s destruction. But Sam and Dean do
know the value of a good plan B. “Obviously
it’s a horribly unfortunate situation we’re
in, but the silver lining is that it gives us an
opportunity to recharge,” Ackles says. “We
had just finished episode 18, we shot one day
of episode 19, and I was reading these two
monster scripts thinking, ‘It’s like we’re at
the end of a marathon and they want us to
sprint for the last two miles.’ I feel like this
almost gives us an opportunity to refocus
and go into the last two episodes and hit
them with everything we got.” Because
when they do return to set, shave their quar-
M AY antine beards, and step back into Sam and
2020
Dean’s shoes for the last time, they’ll have
� one shot at ending this thing...and they’re
P. 4 5 determined not to miss. �
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def ining fa c to r in my
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t hat I ’ m proud of, an d
I hop e ot her s are
proud of i t a s wel l . ”
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Ot tessa
e g h
M o s h f
may have manifested this house.
She’s sitting in her dining room, on
the outskirts of Los Angeles—a
woodsy community in the foothills
of the Angeles National Forest—in
an abode that was hand-built by its
original occupant in 1928. His
handiwork is everywhere: in the
cathedral-like windows, the deco-
rative bell plucked from a Santa
Barbara mission destroyed by an
earthquake. The sale listing that
Moshfegh found warned that the
house would “choose its owners.”
She moves to the bedroom, grab-
bing a few outfits for the photo
shoot later that day, then starts a
brief tour. The beams overhead
were sourced from a Southwestern
flour mill; the property had been on
sale for a while before she bought it.
“Nobody wanted it,” Moshfegh, 39,
says. “I saw it and thought, ‘I have
to have this. I need it.’ ” Given the
occasion for this visit, it all seems
a bit uncanny, too. Most striking
here is the resemblance the place
bears to the setting of Moshfegh’s
new novel, Death in Her Hands—
eerie, since she wrote it years
before knowing of its existence.
A murder mystery (maybe) imag-
ined by its narrator, Death takes on
a more mystical, haunting quality
than Moshfegh’s previous book, My
Year of Rest and Relaxation. That
pill-popping fever dream (EW’s
best book of 2018) embodied the
neuroses and self-erosion of early-
aughts New York life, the latest in a
career of wonderfully weird work.
Moshfegh completed her M.F.A.
at Brown University. Three years
after finishing, she entered her
thesis into a contest put on by a
small indie press called Fence; her
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first-place prize was the printing of
McGlue, her debut book, in 2014.
The next year, the 1960s-set horror
novel Eileen (published by the
prestigious Penguin Press) put her
on the literary world’s radar, intro-
ducing readers to her biting humor
and singular brand of the grotesque.
She writes thrillingly unlikable
female protagonists. In Eileen, a
self-loathing prison secretary
shares her bleak outlook on life and
love. In Rest, her millennial New
Yorker basically quarantines herself
(how timely!) in an inherited Upper
East Side apartment and makes a
habit of reminding the reader that
she’s thin and blond (see sidebar).
Moshfegh has a habit of making
sweeping pronouncements, too,
often in magazine profiles, about
her own talent: a woman who dares
to gloat. “At this point, I feel that if I
set out to accomplish something, I’ll
probably end up doing it,” she says
bluntly. There’s evidence to back
this up: In five years, she’s gone from
unpublished no-name to New York
Times best-seller, Booker Prize
finalist, and all-around literary star.
Moshfegh lives with her hus-
band, writer Luke Goebel. She wrote
Death five years ago to quell her
anxiety about an upcoming move
(a literary fellowship in Oakland
was coming to an end and she was
headed to L.A.), challenging herself
to write 1,000 words a day, without
looking back at what she’d written.
The resulting narrative opens on
Vesta, a 70ish widow isolated in a
New England cabin, discovering a
D E AT H I N H E R H A N D S
b y O t tes s a Moshfegh
Penguin Press
note on her property that seems to
be a murder confession, despite no
evidence or body. Vesta’s investiga-
tion starts innocently enough—
library visits, Ask Jeeves searches,
occasional daydreams about suspi-
cious townsfolk—but soon devel-
ops into obsession. She spirals deep-
er and deeper into insanity, drag-
ging the novel’s prose along with
her. (Sample line: “I’d been so pretty
once. And now I was ruined, an old
lady with a mouth full of dirt.”)
The book was never intended to
be published. Moshfegh uncov-
ered the draft while cleaning out
her desk in 2018: “I was like, ‘Wow,
I can’t believe I wrote this; it’s so
weird.’ ” She was writing another
novel at the time, about a woman
who assumes her deceased broth-
er’s identity. She put that project
on the back burner and focused on
her found project. But Death itself
has received a new publication
timeline due to the impact the
COVID-19 crisis is having on the
book industry at large: Originally
slated for release April 21, it’s now
set for a summer launch.
Moshfegh notes the parallel
between our current reality and
Vesta trying to make sense of her
isolation. “Reading is essential
therapy during this period,” she
says. “I hope that when this book
hits the shelves, people will find
their way to it as a story they might
relate to in an unprecedented way.”
True to its title, the brisk Death
also explores the morbid in its
many forms; Vesta often fantasizes
about potential ways to die. One
might assume that Moshfegh rel-
ishes this darkness. She happily
consumes her fair share of horror
and confesses to a deep love of true
crime as well. (Unsolved Mysteries
and America’s Most Wanted are old
favorites.) “I fall asleep with true
crime blaring in my face every
night,” she says. But her stories are
more about a desire for answers
about the things that scare her.
A brief list of Moshfegh’s fears:
the paranormal. Whether an entity
will possess her when she falls
asleep. 9/11 (which, spoiler alert,
figures into Rest and Relaxation).
Her family’s cabin. An abandoned

Girl Scout camp in Bangor, Maine.
The forests in Bangor, home to Ste-
phen King and an inspiration for
Death’s setting. The call-is-coming-
from-inside-the-house scenario.
Writing her own stories. (“Some-
thing will work out in a way that I
hadn’t planned, and that will ter-
rify me, because I think, Who did
that?”) Whether this [gestures
around] is the real world.
Moshfegh isn’t afraid of reading
her own work, though. For her, writ-
ing allows a certain control. She’s
particularly fascinated by Death’s
story—a complex investigation that
takes place almost entirely in
Vesta’s head—and has a genuine
fondness for the character, who
leads a life starkly different from
her own, structural and thematic
similarities of their homes aside.
But did this house, overrun with
cacti and palms and with a delight-
fully creepy cabin out back, in fact
choose Moshfegh? It feels as if
Vesta and the novel brought Mosh-
fegh here: in complete, unyielding
peace, where one has only a distant
view of a neighboring property. In
comparison with her old residence
in East Hollywood, she may as well
be in Stephen King’s Maine. She’s
got her husband, at least. “Living
alone like that must take so much
f---ing courage,” she says, return-
ing to Vesta. “You have so much life
to reflect back on, all of your mis-
takes, things you missed. I get the
chills just thinking about it.” �
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A N D R EL A X AT I O N
i s t h e u l t i ma te n ove l
of t h e m o m ent
S tuck within the confines of our
homes, hit relentlessly by news
alerts or warnings, afraid for ourselves
and those we love—in the COVID-19
era, it can really feel like there’s no
way out. It’s why I can’t stop thinking
about My Year of Rest and Relaxation.
Not because of its canny craft or
scathing dialogue (its best qualities,
no doubt), but because it now reads
like pure, junky wish fulfillment.
In 2018, The New Yorker called
Ottessa Moshfegh our “most interest-
ing writer…on the subject of being alive
when being alive feels terrible.” How
prophetic. Rest follows an unnamed,
spoiled Upper East Side twentysome-
thing with depression (masked in a
cool millennial-shaded cynicism) who
decides to sleep her way through a
year—literally. Her magic cocktail fea-
tures pills and syrups, over-the-counter
and prescribed, real and not. She
orders in Thai food; braves the out-
doors for bodega coffee loaded with
sugar. Days turn into weeks. Weeks
into months. Finally, a year.
Slumbering for 365 days and
returning on the other side? The idea,
packaged in a sort of deranged ratio-
nality, has its appeal. But after
gobbling up most of Rest in escapist
glee, its ending hit me right in the gut,
harder than ever. Moshfegh finds,
within this arc of willful isolation, a
deeply sad story of grief and detach-
ment. Her heroine emerges in the
aftermath of national tragedy—sound
familiar?—reborn and exhilarated but
also, inevitably, gone, forever lost. In
its cumulative power, Rest lands as
a newly cautionary tale for this
moment: a story of quarantining gone
awry, of hiding rather than surviving—
and living. —DAVID CANFIEL D
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 It’s been tough, but you’ll get through this. Meantime, here are some fun board games, pop culture picks,
People—or most of us, at least—need people. So what
happens when a stay-at-home order stops being polite
and starts getting real? If no one can predict yet exactly
how this great (anti)social experiment will end, we do
know that pop culture is often what’s keeping us sane,
from one uncertain day to the next.
Whether it’s a solo binge of Bob Dylan B sides or a running
group text about Netflix’s insidiously bonkers Tiger King
50  M AY 2 0 2 0  EW ● COM
(The murder! The mullets! The polyamory!), we’re all doing
what we can to make the indoor time go by. So will these
methods of consumption become the new normal? “The
entertainment industry was already undergoing massive
change,” says Robert Thompson, a professor of pop culture
at Syracuse University. “And in many ways, this has simply
accelerated a lot of that. There were all these other ways that
[content] used to be delivered to us, and now it’s one single
comfort-food suggestions, and all manner of good things to make you laugh during challenging times

means of delivery, and that is online, to whatever device you
feel like looking at it with. It’s a casual, almost promiscuous
way of doing things that’s not nearly as complicated as it once
was. And once you’ve learned to stream stuff—what you want
to watch, when you want to watch it—it’s hard to go back.”
What we’d all like to get back to most, of course, is our
everyday lives. In the meantime, though, EW has taken the
liberty of filtering the fire hose of possibilities down to a
curated list of essentials. Are French arthouse films your
thing, or do you prefer watching Mark Wahlberg punch
Post Malone in the face in a jailhouse rumble? Whole
multi-season TV series, or just the best bottle episodes?
We’ve got board games and Baby Yoda puzzles, self-sooth-
ing Spotify playlists, tips for frazzled parents, and personal
picks from some of our favorite artists and creators, too.
So sit back, relax, and please—stay safe. — L E A H G REEN B L AT T

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 FOOD

Shor t Rib
Ragu

INGREDIENTS onion, carrot, and garlic

2 tbsp. olive oil to the pan. Season with
the remaining 1 tsp. of
2 ½ pounds boneless
short ribs, cut into salt. Using a wooden
3-inch pieces spoon, scrape the brown
3 tsp. kosher salt, bits from the bottom
divided of the pan. Cook, stirring
1 red onion, cut into often, for about 3 min-
⅓-inch dice utes or until fragrant and
1 carrot, peeled and cut beginning to soften.
into ⅓-inch dice Add the tomato paste
3 garlic cloves, peeled and the cocoa powder.
and smashed Cook, stirring constantly,
1 tbsp. tomato paste for 1 minute. Deglaze
with the red wine, scrap-
1 tbsp. unsweetened
cocoa powder ing up any remaining
bits from the bottom of
½ cup dry red wine
the pan with the wooden

The Most
1 (28-oz.) can San
spoon. Add the mixture
Marzano-style tomatoes,
crushed by hand to the slow cooker along
with the tomatoes and

COMFORTING
1 (2-inch) piece
Parmesan rind Parmesan rind. Set
the slow cooker to high
2 ounces 80% or higher dark

R e c i p e E ve r
chocolate, optional for 4 hours, or low for
6 hours. Using a shallow
spoon, remove any
INSTRUCTIONS oil that may have risen
Giada De Laurentiis’ Short Rib Ragu is a
to the surface during
hearty helping of happy. BY GERRAD HAL L 1 / Place a large skillet
cooking and discard.
over medium-high heat.
Add the oil and heat an
2 / When ready to
additional minute. Sea-
Being home on lockdown isn’t so bad when you can serve, use two forks or
son the short ribs evenly
a pair of tongs to pull
make Giada De Laurentiis’ Short Rib Ragu (secret with 2 tsp. of salt. Add
apart and shred the
ingredient: cocoa!): “It is so warming and satisfying,” them to the pan in a
meat. Stir the meat to
says the host of Food Network’s Giada Entertains, who single layer, being care-
coat it evenly in the
has been sharing recipes with fans and receiving “mes- ful not to overcrowd
sauce. Serve the ragu
the pan. This can be
sages of hope” via social media and her site Giadzy. tossed with your favorite
done in two batches if
com. “The ease of using a slow cooker for this ragu just pasta and Parmesan
needed. Sear the meat
adds to the anticipation by filling the house with the cheese or over creamy
until deep golden brown
savory aroma of what’s to come.” Her recs for what to polenta. Grate the
on all sides, about 12

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watch while inhaling this dish? The star has been using dark chocolate over
minutes. Remove the
her quarantine time to binge HBO’s My Brilliant the top if desired.
meat to a 4-quart slow
Friend, Netflix’s Ozark, and “of course, Tiger King.” cooker. Add the red SERVES 10

S weatpants BPT SANDWICH

Bacon. Pimento
CREAMY
TOMATO SOUP
MEATLOAF
“Everybody loves
MAC AND
CHEESE
EASY PEACH
COBBLER
Eating cheese. (Fried Paired with that their mom’s There’s twice as Can use canned
green) Tomatoes. BPT—“It still takes meatloaf, and I’m much cheese as or fresh fruit. “As it
Everyone knows that calories
“My mom used me back when no different. I still mac in her ver- cooks, the ‘crust’
consumed during a pandemic don’t to make these I make that make it her way, sion: “You just put floats up around
count. Food Network host Trisha on cold nights combo”—this is a with one egg and it all in the slow the peaches,
Yearwood reveals her favorite after high school velvety-smooth crushed up sal- cooker for three making buttery,
feel-good foods. BY GERRAD HALL football games.” bowl of comfort. tine crackers.” hours. Too easy.” crispy goodness.”

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FOR YOUR EYES ONLY, HAROLD AND MAUDE, SONGS FROM THE SECOND FLOOR, SOME LIKE IT HOT: EVERETT COLLECTION (4); PARASITE: NEON; Y TU MAMÁ TAMBIÉN: DANIEL DAZA/IFC; SORRY TO BOTHER YOU: ANNAPURNA PICTURES; WILD: ANNE
Your plans are canceled; your pass-
port is a coaster now; there is,
annoyingly, no “beam me up”
button on Google Earth. But mov-
ies, bless them, can still take you
out into the world: If you’ve man-
aged so far to miss this year’s Best
Picture Oscar winner Parasite [1],
Bong Joon Ho’s Korean master-
piece is streaming on Hulu, and so
is the French seaside swoon Por-
trait of a Lady on Fire. IFC has the
sweetly raunchy coming-of-age
classic Y Tu Mamá También [2], as
well as (paging Narcos fans) Olivier
Assayas’ epic 2010 thriller Carlos.
There’s also The Trip to Greece, the
sun-soaked fourth outing in Steve
Coogan’s amiably talky film series
(following Trips to England, Italy,
MARIE FOX/FOX SEARCHLIGHT; SULLIVAN’S TRAVELS: MPTV IMAGES;
and Spain) on VOD May 22. For
pure island-compound fantasy,
Amazon Prime Video is rolling out
21 vintage Bond [3] movies, too.
Or go crazy and lean into the
Contagion of it all: Last year’s eerie,
underrated dystopian riff Fast
THE GRE AT OUTD O OR S
panoramic films should open up your world. WILD (2014) INTO THE WILD (2007) WHALE RIDER
(2002) THE BEACH (2000) THE STRAIGHT STORY (1999) CONTACT (1997) THE PIANO (1993)
PLACES IN THE HEART (1984) BADLANDS (1973) BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID (1969)
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1962) THE SEARCHERS (1956) THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE (1948)
MOVIES
Color is on Hulu, as is the kooky
Australian zombie flick Little Mon-
sters, improbably starring Lupita
Nyong’o and Josh Gad. Hulu also
has 2018’s excellently surreal Sorry
to Bother You [4], with LaKeith
[1]
Stanfield and Tessa Thompson.
With so many projects on indefi-
nite hold, it feels oddly soothing to
watch stars like Charlize Theron
and Margot Robbie lose their filters
and their taste buds on Sean Evans’
endlessly bingable YouTube chat
[2] show Hot Ones; the Criterion Chan-
nel has no jalapeños, but it does
have Adventures in Moviegoing: a
whole archive of creators—from
Bill Hader to Guillermo del Toro—
sharing their favorite films and why
they love them. The next episode
(May 3) centers on Josh and Benny
[4] Safdie, a.k.a. the brothers who
brought you Serious Adam Sandler
in last year’s manic panic Uncut
Gems. And aren’t diamonds in the
rough exactly what we’re looking
for right now? — L E A H G R E E N B L AT T
Feeling claustrophobic, boxed in, and/or cabin feverish? These
Dire ctor
on Dire ctor
Action
Filmmakers share what
auteurs they love to binge
PHIL LORD AND CHRIS
MILLER (The LEGO Movie)
The duo bonded over their
love of Hal Ashby, particu-
larly Harold and Maude.
“It’s a movie that I showed
people as a litmus test to
see if they would be my
friend or not,” says Lord.
JAMES GUNN (Guardians
of the Galaxy) Gunn recom-
mends Preston Sturges
(Sullivan’s Travels). “He
wrote [dialogue] in a way
that felt real, and upped
the game for the screwball
comedy. He made them
more naturalistic.”
EDGAR WRIGHT (Baby
Driver) Wright is a fan of
Roy Andersson’s work
(Songs From the Second
Floor). “The phrase
‘bleakly hilarious’ is apt, as
Andersson’s movies are
as laugh-out-loud funny as
they are despairing.”
SUSANNE BIER (Bird Box)
Bier loves Billy Wilder
(Some Like It Hot) for his
balance of “comedy
with the loneliness of the
characters,” and for “main-
taining a lightness even
when things are suppos-
edly really scary or sad.”
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 TV

in Hard Times

[3]
“Please tell me you washed your
hands,” says Hank Dolworth
(Donal Logue) early in the Terri-
ers [1] pilot. I was watching the
classic beach-scruff procedural to
get away from it all. But COVID-
19 is the human experience now,
so even a 10-year-old bathroom-
etiquette joke became a topical
nudge to re-Purell.
My recommendation: Don’t
retreat under HBO Max’s warm
Friends blanket. We need bright-
hearted shows about funny
people persisting through diffi-
cult circumstances. Start with
Terriers, a laugh-out-loud noir
following lovable PIs through
coastal crimes. It’s a sacred exam-
ple of my favorite subgenre:
Awful Things Happening to Won-
derful Californians. See also:
Lo dge 49 , the modern fable
where Long Beach lonelies set off
on nobly lunatic adventures. See
also, also: Party Down [2], a cater-
ing farce with a generationally
great cast. All three are on Hulu,
and they’re newly medicinal. The
sunny settings provide vitamin D;
the occasional triumphs against
adversity are inspiring.
Like Party Down, Superstore is
a hysterical comedy about a
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terrible job. The NBC series is its
own big-box experience now,
with nearly 100 addictive epi-
sodes on Hulu. Across ponds and
streamers, the inside-TV banter-
fest W1A offers a similar vibe on
[1]
Netflix. Both ensembles are vic-
timized by looming forces they
barely understand. And every-
one’s still so peppy. Peppy is the
rare word that doesn’t describe
Atlanta [3]. The best show of the
past few years is, however, a vivid
[2] odyssey about being trapped: by
class, race, failure, success, and
other systemic factors.
Speaking of the system—yes,
you still must watch The Wire [4].
I worry that people who haven’t
seen the Baltimore crime pan-
orama think it’s a Very Important
[4] piece of broccoli. The serious
hype gets everything right except
how funny everyone is: loqua-
cious hitmen, rueful drug lords,
cops with oceanic drinking hab-
its, people yelling “Pandemic!” on
the sidewalk, an endearingly
beleaguered Idris Elba, goofball
politicians unable to protect their
citizens from society-wrecking
events. Like I said, everything is
topical now. —DARREN FRANICH

The Most
Hardcore MELVIN UDALL DETECTIVE MONK LADY MACBETH LARRY DAVID HOWARD HUGHES
Germaphobes in in As Good as
It Gets
in Monk
(Tony Shalhoub)
in Macbeth
(Marion Cotillard)
in Curb Your
Enthusiasm
in The Aviator
(Leonardo
Enter tainment (Jack Nicholson) Avoids door han­ Not technically (Larry David) DiCaprio)
History Points for wearing
gloves outside,
dles and loves
his sanitary wipes.
a germaphobe,
but qualifies
Germaphobia
as safety liability:
Isolates himself
for three months
A.J. JACOBS , author of Drop Dead then tossing them Points off for thanks to her His multiple in germ­free
Healthy, rates characters in trash. Demerits lack of focus: In impressive hand­ bottles of Purell zone. Way ahead
who were self-isolating before for bad hand­ addition to germa­ washing skills. served as an of his time on the
washing technique phobia, he has accelerant in a social distancing
everyone else was
(no wrists?!). 311 other phobias. destructive fire. movement.
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Take comfort in these “bottle The Lovebirds
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BY KRISTEN BALDWIN “My quarantine
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with random
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Self-isolation is hard on the pantry.
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VOD May 1)
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“Most of my
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friends and
I are riding
Community “Cooperative solo right now.
Calligraphy” (season 2, Every day
episode 8) Netflix we send pho-
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that inspire us. CHILL GAME There are moments where we’re
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For some
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reason, they
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Walt, ever more despondent “I’m making
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Family
Songs to Quarantine
Tips
L.A.-based counselor
Harry Shannon
tells us how to avoid
strangling each other

Yo u
1
If you weren’t one of the 40 mil- one that comes with a timely GIVE EACH OTHER SPACE
lion Americans already suffering refrain (“It’s hell on earth and the “You don’t have to
from an anxiety disorder prior to city ’s on fire/Inhale, in hell be together all the time,”
the COVID -19 outbreak, then there’s heaven”). For those says Shannon, couples
therapist to Kristen Bell
welcome to the club! Join us in shacked up with a sig nificant
and Dax Shepard.
curling into the fetal position other and in search of a romantic
[1] “If one of you is always
under a weighted blanket, eating spark, try Air’s springtime crush forcing everyone to

your feelings, and—most impor-
tant in this time of imposed
isolation—listening to something
that oh-so-briefly pacifies the
nerves. Call it aural Xanax: music
to get you through the panic of a
global pandemic.
Start by transporting yourself
somewhere beyond your living
room by dreaming about the wild
blue of the Dixie Chicks’ chart-
topper “Cowboy Take Me Away”
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anthem “Cherry Blossom Girl”; play Scrabble, it’ll be a
D’Angelo’s [3] funky acoustic jam train wreck.”
“Really Love”; or Sade’s [4] silky
smooth hit “By Your Side” (in hind-
sight, this whole playlist probably 2
could have just been Sade songs). MAKE TIME TO SOCIALIZE
[2] Lastly, if words make you With everyone WFH,
jumpy and you need something there is no perspective-
more meditative to get through a building separation from
crisis, Boards of Canada’s “Day- loved ones, so create
van Cowboy” and Squarepusher’s breaks. “Keep talking to
“Tommib” should be on the top of friends on Zoom.”

or “the stoop with the neighbor-
hood kids” in Lana Del Rey’s [1]
meandering beach ode “Venice
Bitch.” You could also take a trip
“down to Dixie” with Jenny Lewis
on the blissful harmonizer “Acid
Tongue,” whose titular hallucino-
gen makes its way into another
primo quaranstream selection:
“Solo,” Frank Ocean’s [2] spare,
organ-led track about seclusion—
your queue. You may even recog-
nize the latter’s looping electric
piano from a scene in Lost in
3
[3]
Translation, one that feels oddly PUT OFF BIG DECISIONS
Decisions made in
prophetic in our current moment:
stressful situations are
Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson) sit-
rarely the right ones,
ting listless in an empty room, “There’s a reason
staring out the window and unsure house arrest is a
of her future. Thankfully music punishment—it’s claus-
(and Bill Murray), help pull her out trophobic, and things
[4] of the mire. —ALE X SUSKIND get exacerbated.”

The Five Most 1. SNEEZY’S 2. THE 3. THE MOUNT 4. THE SUBWAY 5. JURY ROOM
Terr if ying SNEEZE
in Snow White
ELEVATOR
SCENE in Elf
RUSHMORE
CLIFF-HANGER
STATION RIOT
in Joker
in 12 Angry
Men
S c enes in Movie and the Seven Will Ferrell in North by All those New Verdict: guilty
Dwarfs Northwest
Histor y Who’s the germi-
touches dozens
of elevator but- Yes, we know
Yorkers jammed
into the subway
of ignoring social
distancing.
(As seen through a est of them all? tons in a New Cary Grant wants making non-
post-COVID-19 lens) This little super- York high-rise— to grab Eva Marie essential trips. At
spreader. He with his bare Saint’s hand least some of
BY A .J. JACOB S
doesn’t even try fingers. Naughty, and save her from them are wearing
to sneeze into not nice. falling off the masks. Plus, the
his elbow. Let’s cliff. But without Joker does know
just hope Doc first putting on enough to be wary
has a bunch of surgical gloves? of a giant bat.
N95 masks. What’s the point?

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 BOOKS
Reads
Finally time to catch up on all
that reading, right? Some of us
are learning that more hours at
home doesn’t quite translate to
more hours with a book. As
uncertainty constantly swirls,
immersion into literary worlds
feels that much harder (if also
more essential) to pull off right
now. Who has time for Infinite Jest
when unemployment is in double
digits? Perhaps we start smaller.
Perhaps the goal shouldn’t be to
finally finish that Big Book we
can’t make excuses for anymore.
Perhaps we should focus on reads
that bring joy—and relief.
Funny essay collections are the
place to start, in either short
increments or one long gulp. The
must-have: David Sedaris’ Me Talk
Pretty One Day [1], a brutal sort of
balm—autobiographical slices of
life that crackle with razor-sharp
self-deprecation. The book also
has one of the funnier American-
in-Paris stories in existence, for
those in need of a little vicarious
getaway. Then, on the more mil-
lennial end, Samantha Irby’s
prescient We Are Never Meeting
in Real Life [2] reads like a hilari-
ously thorough—and fairly gross—
manual for living in quarantine.
(One essay is called “A Case for
Remaining Indoors.” It’s persua-
sive.) This is Irby’s best in a trio
of gut-busting collections.
[1]
JAX X B L U M I L L U S T R AT I O N B Y K I R S T E N U LV E
And if things are getting a little,
um, tense at home? Escape the
constant family time by delving
into another (fictional) family’s
dysfunction. Kevin Wilson’s bril-
liantly unhinged The Family Fang
[3] imagines an oddball clan’s
everyday routine as one lengthy
act of performance art, a wonder-
ful meditation on the dynamics
we’re all a little too familiar with
at the moment. (Bonus: His most
recent novel, Nothing to See Here,
is just as good, only wilder and
st r a n g e r. ) M a r i a S e m p l e ’s
Where’d You Go, Bernadette re-
casts the family novel as a
delightful screwball comedy (and
takes you as far as Antarctica). It’s
a lot better than last year’s movie.
We all need escape from this
moment, to be sure, so why not
take that literally? Go back in
time to ancient Greece with Mad-
eline Miller’s sumptuous goddess
epic Circe, or imagine new worlds
in the thrilling sci-fi visions of
Ted Chiang’s Exhalation.
Finally, maybe this one’s a little
melancholy, but Elizabeth
Strout’s Pulitzer Prize-winning
Olive Kitteridge, a novel of inter-
linked stories, is so poignant and
full of life, it feels like the most
vital kind of read in this moment
of isolation and separation: a
reminder of what makes us
human. —DAVID CANFIELD
[2] [3]
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Jaxx of All
Trades
With Hollywood on hiatus, what’s überpublicist
JAXX BLUM to do? Here, he recommends
his favorite movies about movies—and hones
some new skills.
1
SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN (1952)
Forget Gene Kelly; the true protagonist is the
publicist tasked with making sure Jean
Hagen keeps her mouth shut. Which makes
me think about how much easier my job
would be if my clients were silent film stars.
2
THE MUPPET MOVIE (1979)
The childhood classic I put on while holed
up in my WeHo quarantine bunker, stress-
baking gluten-free bread and dodging Zoom
requests from my sister Chloe-Rose.
3
TROPIC THUNDER (2008)
Not all of it has aged well, but the
portrait of Hollywood narcissism is timeless.
I rewatched this while baking
a second, more aesthetically pleasing
loaf for Insta. Which reminds
me: Simone, can you Instacart me
more gluten-free flour? And some rosé
from T-Pain’s vineyard?
4
HAIL, CAESAR! (2016)
A movie about an overworked Josh Brolin
trying to wrangle all of the vain actors
in his life might as well be my biopic.
It’s also the reason I’ve been wandering
around my apartment in a CBD face mask,
repeating, “Would that it were so simple.”
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STAR S’
AT-HOME
FITNE S S
TIP S

How to entertain cooped-up kids without guillt

TONY HALE
To the Stars ABC’s long-running slap- SULWE [3]
(Digital April 24) stick showcase is by Lupita Nyong’o
“My wife, perfect for when your Not every celeb
daughter, and I
family needs a laugh. picture book nails it,
do these Shine
Dance Fitness —KRISTEN BALDWIN but Nyong’o’s deeply
classes moving tale of a young,
online.... Really NAILED IT! [2] (Netflix) dark-skinned girl
fun, but no
one needs
This Nicole Byer-hosted finding beauty within
to see me do baking competition has is as entrancing as it is
that. It’s a an added appeal for enlightening. Iconic
tragic sight.” kids: Each episode fea- illustrator Vashti Harri-
tures grown-ups failing in son does magical
new and hilarious ways work too. —D C
to make complicated
confections. —KB PODCASTS
SIMON PEGG
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24; VOD and
For parents, quarantining faves Star Wars and The THE PAPER KINGDOM tional podcast, award-
Digital May 22)
with kids can feel like X-Files = what’s not to by Helena Ku Rhee winning children’s
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band workouts ment in a particularly babes can’t pick up off- about a boy who Polly talk about—to para-
anywhere. resents his parents’ phrase one of their hit
diabolical nook of hell. If color language when
You can also
you are acting as there’s no actual spoken nighttime office-cleaner songs—a little bitta this
use them as
catapults teacher, medical consul- dialogue. —K ATIE HA ST Y jobs, but through his and a little bitta that
when society tant, personal trainer, imagination comes with guests both you and
completely to see them as sentinels your kids will enjoy. —LVB
and Matchbox-car GPS HUGO (Netflix, Vudu,
breaks down.”
for your brood (in addi- Google Play, Apple TV, of a kingdom inhabited
tion to working your FandangoNOW) by messy dragons. CHOMPERS [4]
paying gig), you definitely A Martin Scorsese joint, —L ACEY VORRA SI-BANIS This podcast times
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to feel guilty, but no need This underrated live- DOG MAN by Dav Pilkey episodes to little ones’
VIVICA A. FOX
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(Apple, Amazon, mon-denominator pop stars professional goo- grade series of eight two shows a day,
and VOD May 5)
culture, either. Here are ber Sacha Baron Cohen books follows a police every day. Each is filled
“Put lemon in
your water some EW-vetted picks. in a fantastic role. —KH officer whose genetic with fun facts, lively
to drink plenty makeup can be gleaned debates (tacos versus
of water. MOVIES TV from the title. Pilkey pizza), and memorization
Hydrate!”
A SHAUN THE SHEEP AFV (ABC, Hulu) delivers more of the silly games. But they’ll
MOVIE: FARMAGEDDON [1] You’re never too young plot-driven fun that also remind your kiddo
(Netflix) to discover the hilarity of he previously displayed (and you) when to
Claymation animals + dads getting hit in the in Captain Underpants. switch to brushing the
Easter eggs from sci-fi nuts with Wiffle bats. —DAVID CANFIELD bottom row. —KH
CONNIE
NIELSEN
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(VOD and
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“I have been
doing my Won-
der Woman
workouts in the
gym Warner
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me in my
garage. MyFit-
nessPal [has]
plenty of tips [1] [2] [4]
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FROM SWOONY
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R O M P S TO
GRITTY DRUG-
F UELED SAGA S ,
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THE 25 MOST ST YLISH MOVIES OF ALL TIME

1.
2.
Funny Face 1957
Breakfast at Tiffany’s is the
obvious choice: As Holly
Golightly, Audrey Hepburn’s

B R E AT H L E S S LBD, strands of pearls, and

oversize sunnies are noth-
ing short of iconic. But for
19 61
pure sartorial exuberance,
consider the Tiffany’s
predecessor Funny Face:
Jean-Luc Godard’s sexy, seminal Hepburn stars as a gamine
bookseller turned fashion
French New Wave film is a high
plate, donning couture
point of both cinematic and sarto- gowns and sporty crop
rial style—the ultimate marriage tops with equal aplomb.
“Audrey wore clothes with
of French chic and American cool.
such talent and flair that
Pixie-haired American-in-Paris she created a style, which
Patricia (Jean Seberg) styles herself in turn had a major impact
à la française with cigarette pants, on fashion,” said designer
and collaborator Hubert de
crisp striped dresses, and constant

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Givenchy. Hepburn may
vocabulary questions for her have learned everything
dashing French boyfriend Michel from the movies, as she
famously quipped, but we
(Jean-Paul Belmondo), who self- learned everything about
consciously emulates Humphrey effortless elegance from
Bogart. They are each other’s best her. —MAUREEN LEE LENKER

accessories (along with Michel’s

jaunty hat), and six decades later
the striking pair proves that truly 3. 4.
great style doesn’t fade over time— The Royal
Tenenbaums 2001
or get lost in translation. —MARY SOLLO SI Wes Anderson’s dram-
edy is an ode to faded
glamour, and costumer
Karen Patch gave every
Tenenbaum a signature
’70s-inspired look, from
Ben Stiller’s fire-engine-
red tracksuits to Luke
Wilson’s sweatbands.
But it’s Gwyneth Pal-
trow’s chain-smoking,
eyeliner-wearing Margot
who endures as a
fashion icon, rocking MARIE ANTOINET TE 2006
a fur coat, blunt bob, Despite the centuries gone by, Marie Antoinette
and general sense of remains a style icon (just look at Moschino’s fall/
malaise like no other. winter 2020 collection), and Sofia Coppola’s lavish
—DEVAN CO GGAN period piece is an exhilaratingly fresh take on the
doomed monarch. Oscar-winning costumer Milena
Canonero created star Kirsten Dunst’s gowns to
reflect Marie’s teenage perspective, which—along
with some cheeky anachronistic details—renders
her 18th-century taste eternally, essentially mod-
ern. But there’s a darkness in those dainty pastels.
The decadence is as damning of Marie as it is
intoxicating, a testament to the seductive power of
style. It’s enough to make a girl lose her head. —MS

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 SCI-FI,
BUT MAKE IT
5. FA S H I O N
Not unlike technology in
cinematic visions of the future
(flying cars!), the fashion of sci-
ence fiction can be a thrilling
reminder of clothing’s endless
possibilities—and a surprising
source of creativity. In 1999,
The Matrix costume designer Kym
Barrett’s cyberpunk aesthetic
went from the rabbit hole to the
runway, inspiring designers like
John Galliano and Vera Wang.
Recently, the film’s slick leather
trenches and skinny sunglasses
have enjoyed a comeback; call it
a glitch, but the fashion industry
thrives on déjà vu. Also playing on
repeat through style history is
the “droog” uniform from A
Clockwork Orange (1971), which
HIGH SOCIETY 1956 heavily influenced David Bowie’s
Any mention of Grace Kelly tends to evoke a single phrase: classic beauty. God stagewear and the work of Jean
Paul Gaultier (who lent his outré
may have gifted her those impossible cheekbones, but it was Oscar-winning
vision to another sci-fi adven-
costumer Helen Rose who crafted the exquisitely elegant looks for what would
ture, 1997’s The Fifth Element).
be the star’s last screen role (Rose also designed the wedding dress Kelly wore Costume designer Milena
to marry Prince Rainier III of Monaco that same year). Every drape and swirl Canonero (see No. 4, Marie Antoi-
HIGH SOCIETY, CLUELESS: EVERETT COLLECTION (2); THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS: JAMES HAMILTON; THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE: MURRAY CLOSE/LIONSGATE

of Kelly’s wardrobe in this breezy romantic farce is impeccable; from the blue nette) dressed the droogs by
organza cloud of a party gown to a pristine white swimming costume, she’s rebelliously piecing together
clearly already a princess—everything but the crown. —LE AH GREENBL AT T mismatched class and gender
signifiers, to disturbing effect.
Fashion is a weapon of social sta-

6. 7. tus again in the 2010s’ dystopian

Hunger Games movies. The privi-
leged classes’ outlandish attire
Mahogany 1975 presents a spectacle (see
The breathtaking Elizabeth Banks as Effie Trinket,
images in Berry Gordy’s below), but the series’ most
romantic drama are in meaningful look is oppressed
part thanks to star Diana heroine Katniss Everdeen’s gown
Ross, who designed that literally burns into a symbol
the film’s costumes. of hope. Only in sci-fi can a
As aspiring fashion dress start a revolution. — M S
designer Tracy, she
twirls in a striking rain-
bow outfit. But it’s the
dreamy montage where
she transforms into
supermodel Mahogany
that cemented Ross as
the prototype for mod-
ern black Hollywood CLUELESS 1995
glamour. —MARCUS JONES A list of fashionable movies without Amy Hecker-
ling’s teen comedy? As if! It’s been 25 years since
Alicia Silverstone’s Cher Horowitz welcomed us
into her automated closet, teaching us that
yellow plaid is its own statement and Alaïa is, like,
a totally important designer. Costumer Mona May
mixed ’90s grunge with high-fashion European
streetwear, and Clueless has been influencing
designers like Versace, Chanel, and Calvin Klein
ever since. “That was the most fun part, creating
that unique look,” May tells EW. “Something that’s
from the runways mixed with the malls.” —DC

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THE 25 MOST ST YLISH MOVIES OF ALL TIME
8.
ANNIE HALL 1977
Say what you will
about Woody Allen
(no, really), but noth-
ing can take away
the genius of the
borrowed-from-the-
boys fashions in Annie
Hall. With barely more
than suiting and a
well-placed hat, the
wardrobe adds whimsy
to the film’s neurotic
tableau. The movie is
at its aesthetic peak
whenever Diane
Keaton (the epony-
mous Annie) is on
screen, and her much-
copied, menswear-
influenced ensem-
bles—which Keaton
herself embraced
before lending it to
the character—is that
rarity: a look that
never goes out of
style. –SEIJA RANKIN
9.
Black Panther 2018
When Ruth E. Carter
joined the Marvel
Cinematic Universe
with Black Panther, she
didn’t just design cos-
tumes—she designed
an entire nation.
Wakanda is rooted in
ancient African tradi-
tions and sleek tech-
nology, and Carter won
an Oscar for her innova-
tive, Afrofuturist vision
of T’Challa’s homeland.
From the Dora Milaje’s
warrior armor to the
royal family’s ceremo-
nial garb, every look is,
well, heroic. —D C
H O N O R A B L E M E N T I O N S → BULLITT (1968) /
11.
LEWKING
GOOD
E W S TA F F E R S ’
UNEXPECTED
STYLE PICKS
In the Mood for
OVERBOARD Love 2000
1987 Wong Kar-wai’s swoon-
With her bedazzled ing portrait of two
sunglasses, slick
updos, and that
neighbors (Tony Leung
zebra-print swimsuit, and Maggie Cheung)
Goldie Hawn’s heiress
in 1960s Hong Kong
Joanna always knew
how to rock the boat bonded by their
with an over-the-top spouses’ mutual infidel-
ensemble.
— D E VA N C O G G A N ity comes dressed in
10. 12.
LOVE STORY 1970
Jenny (Ali MacGraw) first endears herself to Oliver
(Ryan O’Neal) by calling him “preppy”—and it’s pre-
ANNIE HALL: PHOTOFEST; BLACK PANTHER: MATT KENNEDY/© MARVEL STUDIOS 2018; LOVE STORY, OVERBOARD, KIDS,
cisely that tweedy East Coast vibe that this film KIDS
helped popularize. MacGraw came from the fashion 1995
world—she was a former assistant to legendary Anti-fashion; dead-
stock streetwear;
Harper’s Bazaar editor Diana Vreeland—and brought
dirtbag couture.
much of her own taste to the set. With Jenny’s Call it whatever you
camel coat, striped scarf, and knitted beanie, want, but the looks
MacGraw helped define 1970s trends and spurred
in Larry Clark’s vérité The Philadelpia
drama captured a
legions of women to copy Jenny’s boho-meets- pop culture moment Story 1940
like nothing else. In this classic rom-com,
preppy look. Because love—and enduring
WHITE MEN CAN’T JUMP, THE PHILADELPHIA STORY: EVERETT COLLECTION (5)
— L E A H G R E E N B L AT T
style—means never having to say you’re sorry. —MLL Katharine Hepburn
vacillates between
Cary Grant and Jimmy
Stewart. But it’s Hepburn
who wears the pants.
Literally. The actress
fought to depict her
character in trousers.
WHITE MEN And her casual ele-
CAN’T JUMP gance, paired with
1992
costumer Adrian’s
Whether it’s Woody
Harrelson’s tie-dye designs, helped define
hat or Wesley Snipes’ an iconic American
layered tanks, the
looks in this basket- style more practical and
ball movie is so peak individualistic than its
early-’90s that it’s
back in style. then-fussier European
— D E R E K L AW R E N C E counterparts. —MLL
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 14. 16. 17.
A Single Man 2009
Everything about
designer Tom Ford’s
directorial debut is
hauntingly beautiful:
the cinematography,
the interior design,
and the early-’60s
costuming. Ford, who
helmed Gucci for a
decade, brought his eye
The Thomas Crown Velvet Goldmine 1998
for sensual luxury to the
Affair 1968 Todd Haynes’ dazzling
small screen with pre-
In Norman Jewison’s ode to glam rock is
cision; star Julianne
heist caper, Steve a mad fever dream of
THE Moore donned era-
McQueen’s smooth L E AST glitter bombs and
specific details (a
criminal sports a series ST YLISH (Ziggy) stardust: span-
MOMENTS sheath dress here, a
of impeccably tailored gles and satin, fringe,
OF drop earring there) that
three-piece suits—a feather boas, and pants
ALL TIME feel contemporary, no
the most exquisitely fit still embraced by so fitted they’re practi-
matter the era. —SR
period-perfect cos- fashionable types. Still, cally X-rays. Costume
tumes: a parade of McQueen’s debonair designer Sandy Powell
tailored suiting and pat- vibe didn’t come natu- earned two Oscar nods
terned cheongsams so rally: “He worked for that year, for Goldmine
dreamy, it’s still hard weeks until he mas- and Shakespeare in
to believe they could tered life in a suit,” Love. She took it for
even exist on the same costar Faye Dunaway Shakespeare but years
planet that contains has said. Practice made MARRIAGE later declared, “I won it
sweatpants. —LG perfect. —L AUREN HUFF STORY for the wrong one.” —LG
2019
ScarJo played a

13.
mom, so of course
15. they had to
dress her like a 18.
BLOW-UP, THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR, AMERICAN GIGOLO, VELVET GOLDMINE, SCARFACE: EVERETT COLLECTION (5); MARRIAGE STORY:

depressed cashier
Blow-Up 1966 at a yarn store.
Michelangelo Antonioni’s
tale of swinging London
centers on a celebrity
of that era—the hotshot
fashion photographer.
David Hemmings stars
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as Thomas, an amal-
gam of real-life figures,
THERE’S
but the film’s style ped- American SOMETHING
igree doesn’t end there: Gigolo 1980 ABOUT MARY
1998
Veruschka has an indel- Paul Schrader’s erotic
As if that tan tux
ible cameo, writhing in thriller stars Richard wasn’t tragic enough,
a slinky, shockingly slit Gere as a male escort the zipper did serious
damage to Ted’s junk.
dress while Thomas whose moves are as
straddles her, taking smooth as his lapels,
his best shots. —MS every ensemble a sleek
symphony of slate and
sand and camel hair.
The man behind those
looks? A then-obscure S C A R FA C E 1983
Italian designer named Elvira Hancock (Michelle Pfeiffer)—love interest
Giorgio Armani, whose PRETTY IN PINK of drug kingpin Tony Montana (Al Pacino)—had
clean-lined, gorgeously 1986 the slinkiest of uniforms: low-cut, spaghetti-
louche fashions for Every other outfit in strapped, made of fabrics that render under-
the movie is flawless
the film became his (see No. 20), so why garments utterly meaningless. Add the coolest
American calling card— is Andie’s homemade blond bob in movie history, and her silhouette
prom dress such
and an indelible piece a frumpy misfire?
of choice is as minimalist and devastatingly chic
of movie history. —LG —KRISTEN BALDWIN as the ’80s were not. —CL ARIS SA CRUZ

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THE MOST MEMORABLE MOVIE HAIR

L E T ’ S C E L E B R AT E T H E S E I N D E L I B L E B I G - S C R E E N H A I R D O S , W H I C H R U N T H E
F O L L I C U L A R G A M U T F R O M ’ 4 0 S G L A M O U R T O A M U LT I C O L O R E D M A S T E R P I E C E .
BY KRISTEN BALDWIN I L L U S T R AT I O N S B Y K A G A N M C L E O D

R I TA H AY W O R T H M I A FA R R O W PA M G R I E R CARRIE FISHER JON CRYER

Gilda 1946 Rosemary’s Baby 1968 Foxy Brown 1974 Star Wars 1977 Pretty in Pink 1986
Even in black and white, Farrow created her ’do, In this seminal blaxploi- George Lucas said Prin- Duckie’s perfectly
Hayworth’s voluminous the most famous pixie tation movie, Grier’s cess Leia’s hair was crafted pompadour
red mane was an cut in celluloid history, Foxy posed as a prosti- inspired by a “South- exemplified the retro
instant showstopper. by cutting her hair with tute while seeking to western Pancho Villa craze of the 1980s. In
As the titular femme fingernail scissors. In avenge her boyfriend’s woman” look, but Fisher his memoir So That
fatale in Gilda, the Roman Polanski’s death. The character’s called the ’do “hairy Happened, Cryer said
actress made her horror classic, Rose- Afro was a symbol of earphones.” The style he also wanted his
entrance with a hair flip mary’s husband, played black pride and a useful took two hours to com- character to have a
that gave viewers (and by John Cassavetes, tool: Foxy pulls a gun plete, and Fisher often “little ponytail,” but it
the prisoners at Shaw- (wrongly) declares her from her hair during a fell asleep in the chair looked “too weird,” and
shank) goose bumps. new look “awful.” climactic showdown. while getting it done. the idea was scrapped.

CHRISTOPHER JA N E T JAC KS O N KIM BASINGER A U D R E Y TA U T O U K AT E W I N S L E T

“KID” REID Poetic Justice 1993 L.A. Confidential 1997 Amélie 2001 Eternal Sunshine of
House Party 1990 Director John Singleton Basinger earned a Best French actress Audrey the Spotless Mind 2004
Hip-hop duo Kid ’N Play said that Justice’s long Supporting Actress Tautou became an Winslet said she was
made their big-screen braids were inspired by Oscar for her role as a international star with willing to dye her hair to
debut in Reginald a dancer named Jossie 1950s call girl in Curtis Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s play Clementine, whose
Hudlin’s cult fave. Harris, who wore a simi- Hanson’s noir thriller. romantic comedy about bright locks changed
Kid’s high-top fade lar hairstyle in Michael Lynn Bracken’s long, a plucky waitress. Her color with her moods.
became his trademark, Jackson’s star- silky blond waves were short, striking banged But, thankfully for her
but as he rapped in studded, Egyptian- meant to make her bob blended youthful hair shafts, the logistics
“Kid Vs. Play (The Bat- themed “Remember look just like ’40s whimsy with sex of shooting the film out
tle),” he was more than the Time” video—which silver-screen siren appeal, prompting of sequence required
hair and a smile. Singleton also helmed. Veronica Lake. countless makeovers. her to wear wigs.

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DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN, BONNIE AND CLYDE, DRIVE, PRETTY IN PINK, SHE’S GOTTA HAVE IT, WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN: EVERETT COLLECTION (6); THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA: THE KOBAL COLLECTION/SHUTTERSTOCK; ATOMIC BLONDE: JONATHAN PRIME/FOCUS FEATURES
19. 23. 24.
Bonnie and
Clyde 1967
Costume designer
Theadora Van Runkle
shaped Faye Dunaway’s
Bonnie Parker look with
tweed, Norfolk jackets,
and V-neck sweaters—
A N OT E O N ancestors of today’s
THE DEVIL menswear-inspired
WE AR S PR ADA
trends. To top it off,
2006 Drive 2011
Bonnie’s beret became
“Even reading a script, I
While we’d be the accessory du jour.
picture the jacket first,”
the first to genu- In the French village
says Drive costumer
flect at the altar of shops where the hats
Patricia Field—the Erin Benach. Consider
originated, sales soared
costumer respon- Ryan Gosling‘s custom
sible for Sex and from 5,000 to 12,000
satin bomber her proof
the City’s legend- per week. —LH
of concept. The gar-
D E S P E R AT E LY ary looks—we take
issue with Prada. ment took her and the
SEEKING SUSAN 1985 The characters star months to perfect.
Madonna was already schooling everyone in the art dress the way Benach remembers day
people who don’t
of reinvention here. With her chaotic layers—mesh one of shooting, when
work in fashion
over lace, religious pendants over lingerie—the pop think fashion peo- the camera panned up
star’s Susan embodies an edgy liberation fantasy ple dress. (And the nameless driver’s
for Rosanna Arquette’s yuppie housewife Roberta who also appar- back to reveal the
ently believe
(and the film’s Reagan-era audience). In Susan’s embroidered scorpion:
clothing samples
hip city-kid world, Roberta finally finds the person don’t need to “I was like, ‘Oh, this is
she’d been desperately seeking: herself. —MS be returned.) gonna be a thing.’ ” —MJ

20. 21. 22. 25.

She’s Gotta AT O M I C B L O N D E 2017
Have It 1986 James Bond probably thought he’d cornered the
Spike Lee’s first market on fashionable ultra-spies…that is, until
feature follows Nola Lorraine Broughton. The MI6 agent—played with
(Tracy Camilla Johns), ass-kicking excellence by a (duh) platinum blond
a sexually liberated Charlize Theron—dominates the masculine world
artist in Fort Greene. of Cold War Berlin armed with sky-high stilettos
Pretty in Pink 1986 What she and her Women on the (so many stilettos), sharply tailored trench coats,
The precociously cohorts wear—high- Verge of a Nervous oversize sunglasses, and dramatic leather gloves
stylish teens in this waisted denim, boxy Breakdown 1988 by the likes of fashion heavy hitters John Galliano,
John Hughes classic button-downs, state- There’s something so Margiela, and others. (The cars, the weaponry,
were just so damned ment accessories— fantastically extra and the set pieces are also stunning, for those
assured in their may not seem ground- about the clothes in who are into that sort of thing.) —SR
fashion choices: Duckie breaking today, but its a Pedro Almodóvar
(Jon Cryer) with his enduring ubiquitous- movie. The color! The
bolo ties and artfully ness is a testament exuberance! The polka
rolled sleeves; Blane to a Brooklyn-bred dots! Breakdown’s
(Andrew McCarthy) look that has since women may be on the
with his expensively become the normcore verge of madness, but
slouchy suits. And hipster uniform the they won’t go down
then there’s Andie world over. —CC without a fight—or a
(Molly Ringwald), well-structured bustier.
whose eclectic style— Hot pink, leopard prints,
vintage cardigans, stripes, and spandex,
costume jewelry, and even a pair of earrings
florals, florals every- shaped like tiny coffee
where—is as enviable pots: It’s all outra-
now as it was geously ’80s, and
34 years ago. —CC perfectly Pedro. —LG

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MOVIES P. 74

TV P. 8 4

MUSIC P. 9 6

B O O KS P. 1 0 4

MUSIC

R O C K IN
A HARD PL ACE
IN THE WAKE OF 9/1 1, FIVE SCRUFFY T WENTYSOMETHINGS
EMERGED FROM NEW YORK CITY WITH AN ERA-DEFINING
ALBUM. SEVEN YEARS AFTER THEIR L AST LP, THE STROKES
RETURN WITH THE APTLY TITLED THE NEW ABNORMAL.

By Leah Greenblatt

SOMETIMES THERE’S JUST MAGIC IN
the moment. When the Strokes first
stumble-swaggered into fame
nearly two decades ago, they hardly
seemed primed for breakfast before
2 p.m., let alone immortality. Their
defiantly lo-fi videos beamed like
dispatches from some lost cable-
access frequency; their clothes were
a thrift-store freebie pile; even the
name of their debut, Is This It, came
on like a cool-kid shrug, so offhand-
edly blasé it couldn’t be bothered
with the implied question mark.
To a world still reeling from the
aftershocks of 9/11, though, that
record, with its blown-speaker
fuzz and shaggy, sweetly laconic
melodies, felt like a revelation.
Frontman Julian Casablancas sigh-
ing at the wizened age of 23, “In
many ways/Still miss the good old
days” over the kick-drum clatter of
“Someday” was undoubtedly a nod
to his own nostalgia for guitar
heroes gone by, from the Ramones
to the Velvet Underground. But it
also seemed to speak to a larger
urge to get back to something
rawer and more real than the stuff
clogging the pop charts. (The best-
selling artists of 2001? Grim
rap-rock behemoths Linkin Park;
Shaggy had a big year too.)
Maybe there’s some kind of full-
circle symmetry to the band
returning on the verge of another
national nervous breakdown—
whole cities shuttered; the future
of everything suddenly, drastically
uncertain. The name of their first
album since 2013’s Comedown
Machine, at least, couldn’t be more
fitting: The New Abnormal. And
once more, they seem to have
tapped into a collective conscious-
ness; galloping opener “The Adults
Are Talking” paints a cryptic cau-
tionary tale, low-grade dread with
a killer bass line. “Selfless” unfurls
like a spiraling psych-rock lullaby;
“Brooklyn Bridge to Chorus”
dances between manic glam-rock
theatrics and squiggly disco.
T H E ST R O K E S
A L B U M THE NEW ABNORMAL
L A B E L + G E N R E CULT/RCA + ROCK

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Nearly every refrain on the
shimmery, falsettoed “Eternal
Summer”—“I can’t believe it, this
AUGHTS’ RAUCOUS GARAGE-ROCK REVIVAL. BUT WHERE ARE SOME OF THEIR
is the eleventh hour,” “They got
the remedy but they won’t let it
happen”—takes on eerie new
shades of circa-COVID-19 panic.
Twenty years on from the band’s
first flush of stardom, they repre-
sent, in retrospect, maybe the last
true spark of rock & roll as a
marker of cultural currency. The
few acts today finding even modest
mainstream success in the slim
margins left between contempo-
rary pop and hip-hop tend to do so
largely by trading in old tropes and
timeworn nostalgia. Early on, of
course, the Strokes and their peers
(see sidebar) earned those same
critiques, their sound a knowing
pastiche of past alt and indie icons.
But they also connected to the
zeitgeist in a way that today’s
major-label calculations rarely
seem to. As did the group’s indeli-
ble image: a scruffy quintet whose
careless air of sex and cigarettes
telegraphed the idealized romance
of an already vanishing New York
bohemia. (Was anyone ever so
young and so weary? Maybe,
though to paraphrase Dolly Par-
ton, it takes a lot of effort to look
that indifferent.) But if all five
members are now circling early
midlife, grown men with kids and
mortgages, they don’t sound
any less urgent for it. Abnormal
offers something even better,
possibly, than reckless youth: rock
stars finally old enough to truly
miss those good old days—and
wise enough now, too, to give us
the soundtrack these strange new
times deserve. AÐ
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Alt Together Now
THE STROKES WERE HARDLY THE ONLY ACT TO EMERGE FROM THE EARLY
BEST-KNOWN COMPATRIOTS NOW? EW INVESTIGATES. By Leah Greenblatt
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Frontwoman Karen O’s elec-
tric stage presence made
immediate scene stars of
the downtown New York
trio; aside from a few slated
2020 festival dates, the
band’s members now focus
mostly on their own side
projects, including Lux
Prima, O’s 2019 collabora-
tion with Danger Mouse.
Bloc Party
The Brit foursome broke out
with their gorgeously moody
2005 debut, Silent Alarm.
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After three more studio
albums, an extended hiatus,
and several personnel
changes, they returned—
and mounted an Alarm-
centered tour in 2019; singer
Kele Okereke promises a
new Party record soon.
The Hives
Their natty suits and strut-
ting post-punk made these
antic Swedes—fronted by
bowl-cut Iggy Pop acolyte
Pelle Almqvist—alt-MTV sta-
ples with singles like “Hate to
Say I Told You So.” Though
recording has gone quiet
since 2012’s Lex Hives,
they’re still slated for festival
dates throughout Europe.
Jet
These Aussies were never
critical darlings—Pitchfork
once famously trolled them
with a wordless, wildly scat-
ological review—but they did
sell a lot of records before
dissolving in 2012. Reformed,
they opened for Bruce
Springsteen in 2017, then
toured again to mark 15
years of 2003’s Get Born.
Franz Ferdinand
The stomping single “Take
Me Out” catapulted the
glam Scotsmen to fame.
Though their output slowed
in the past decade, they’ve
maintained a steadier
presence than most,
releasing the well-received
Always Ascending in 2018
and coheadlining several
shows last year with Interpol.
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CHRIS HEMSWORTH UNITES WITH CAPTAIN AMERICA
MISSION WITH EXTRACTION (ON NETFLIX APRIL 24)
E D I T E D B Y → K AT I E H A S T Y
AV E N G E R S :
E XTR ACTED
(KIND OF) FOR AN ACTION-PACKED
By Derek Lawrence
JUST LIKE THOR’S HAMMER, THE
MCU seems to follow Chris Hems-
worth wherever he goes. While
last year’s Avengers: Endgame
marked the end of an era for
the franchise, some key contribu-
tors have reunited for Netflix’s
Extraction. Written by Endgame
filmmaker Joe Russo and directed
by Chris Evans’ former Captain
America stunt double Sam Har-
grave (who was also Endgame’s
@ K AT I E H A S T Y
second-unit director), the action
extravaganza stars Hemsworth,
36, as Tyler Rake, a mercenary
CHARO: CHARLEY GALLAY/GETTY IMAGES FOR PROJECT ANGEL FOOD; EXTRACTION: JASIN BOLAND/NETFLIX
with emotional and physical scars
who is sent to India to rescue the
kidnapped son of an imprisoned
crime lord.
Did Extraction come together as you
were filming the Avengers films?
SAM HARGRAVE We were working on
Infinity War and Joe and Anthony
[Russo] were giving me more
responsibility, and Joe mentioned
he had a script. Once he saw my
interest, we were looking at differ-
ent actors when Hemsworth got
wind of this. I’m sure Joe dropped
a little bread crumb.
CHRIS HEMSWORTH Joe gave me the
script during filming, and the idea
of working with them again
was exciting. A lot of stunt guys
shoot impressive action without a
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M OV I E S / T V / M U S I C / B O O KS
physicality to
it that was equally ence add? weren’t moments where a stunt
as impressive as HARGRAVE It was unlike anything guy could jump in, so it was nice to
[my] superheroes,”
says Thor actor I’d ever experienced. Part of Joe’s step up to that challenge.
Chris Hemsworth
(left, with
genius was setting a big Western HARGRAVE In my opinion, Chris has
Randeep Hooda) action film in a location that most never been pushed. He has a lot of
↘ “I never asked
people haven’t seen. physical ability, and I’ve seen
Chris to do any- H E M S W O R T H It gave a grit and flashes of brilliance in the Thor
thing I hadn’t
done,” says Sam reality that we couldn’t have repro- movies, so I wanted to test him. I
Hargrave (left, duced. And there was no acting still don’t think we got to his full
with Hemsworth)
needed with the exhaustion and potential, but we pushed him fur-
discomfort that the characters ther than he’s ever been.
were feeling, because it was as hot HEMSWORTH It’s hard not to show up
as it gets, and there was no luxury when the director is strapped to
available. We were in the thick of it. the front of a car with a helmet on.
HARGRAVE A lot of people would not
have done what Chris did, and he While theaters are closed and
did it with a smile. most films are delayed, Extrac-
H E M S WO R T H [Laughs] A gritted- tion’s audience pool is bigger than
teeth smile. ever with so many people at home.
Do you think this offers escape?
The stunts and combat scenes H A R G R AV E We are facing a very
are next-level here. What was unique challenge in the world, and
that process like? as an entertainment consumer
HEMSWORTH That was a big reason myself, I think it would be nice to
for doing the film. The way Sam lose yourself in the beauty of cin-
ema for a couple hours.
H E M S W O R T H That is always the
hope with any film: entertainment
and escape. I feel very thankful
I’D NEVER EXPERIENCED that the film is at Netflix, and
THIS AMOUNT I believe we’ve made something
pretty special. I’m so proud of
OF ACTION BEFORE.” this film, more so than a lot of films
—CHRIS HEMSWORTH ON
SHOOTING EXTRACTION I’ve made. �

purpose—outside of looking cool—

whereas Sam was a storyteller, and
I knew that would translate.

Other than each other, what was

the appeal of this opportunity?
HARGRAVE Wrapped up in this mus-
cular action film was a very tender,
emotionally charged story, and “Okay! That
those are few and far between. was great!
But this time
HEMSWORTH There was a relatable, could you be
authentic character that I hadn’t more…angrily
embarked on before. It was a tor- handsome?”

tured soul, with this lack of

courage to face his previous expe-
riences, and yet, as far as his job
went, there was a kamikaze
ISHIKA MOHAN MOTWANE/NETFLIX

approach; he did not care for his

own safety, and that makes for a
dangerous individual.

You shot in India, a country with

its own booming film industry.
Not many American productions

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L A SHI NG O UT
“Grace Davis is all
about hair and lashes.
And when I say hair and
lashes, I mean in the
vein of Cher in the ’70s.
And even when she’s
just at home, we tried
to keep her with, like,
this Twiggy, pixie eye-
lash situation going on.
I, Tracee, do not wear
fake eyelashes, ever.”
N AIL I NG I T → whole life.”
“I feel like Grace Davis is
a woman who matches
her nail polish to her
look. If she changes
twice in a day, she’ll get
her nails done twice
in that day.”
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TRACEE ELLIS RO S S TELL S US HOW SHE
ST EP P ED U P TO T H E M I C A N D I N TO
THE HIGH HEEL S OF GRACE DAVIS IN THE
ROM-COM THE HIGH NOTE (OUT MAY 8)
As told to Rosy Cordero
→
CL AIMIN G TH E ←
SP OTLIGH T
“I am born of a woman
[music legend Diana
Ross] who is extraordi-
nary and uses her
light and her gifts to
make the world a bet-
ter place,” says the
actress, 47, who bears
a striking resemblance
to her famous mother
here. “And music has
such a special power
in the human experi-
ence. I think so many
women hide parts of
themselves because
they think it’s not
what the world wants
from them. That’s what
I connected to in this
character: because I
was hiding the fact that
I wanted to sing my
OWN IN G H ER ←
LO OK
“Grace didn’t shy
away from the fact
that she’s grown; she
wasn’t trying to look
younger. Her look is
high-drama glamour.
On stage, where she’s
wearing that red
fringe dress... She’s
just like, ‘I’m a woman.
I’ve earned my place
GLEN WILSON/FOCUS FEATURES
in this world, and this is
how I clothe myself.’ ”
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1 2

4 3

1967
Southern town fundamentally
shifted representation on screen.

3 / The Graduate
THE MO ST RE VOLU TIONARY The story of disaffected college
YEAR FOR FILM grad Benjamin (Dustin Hoffman)
BONNIE AND CLYDE: MPTV.NET; IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT, COOL HAND LUKE, THE GRADUATE: EVERETT COLLECTION (3)

and his affair with an older woman

JUST AS AMERICA WAS UNDERGOING SEISMIC CULTURAL SHIFTS, was the No. 1 film of the year,
THE FILMS OF 1967 GAVE BIRTH TO A NEW HOLLYWOOD marking a win for original, indepen-
dent filmmaking. While Hoffman’s
By Maureen Lee Lenker
star-making turn redefined what
a movie star could be, the groovy
Simon & Garfunkel soundtrack
From bank robbers to disaffected youth, cinema in 1967 catapulted a new type of filmmak- transformed the role of pop music
ing to the top of the box office, forever altering the entertainment landscape. That year was on screen. The Graduate seduced
“a moment in which several transitional moments happened at the same time,” says Mark young audiences hungry for
Harris, author of 2008’s Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New
stories that reflected their lives.
Hollywood (and former EW executive editor). “It was pivotal...a wake-up call to Hollywood in
terms of who the audience was.” Here are four titles that spurred change.
4 / Cool Hand Luke
1 / Bonnie and Clyde 2 / In the Heat of the Night Paul Newman helped cement
Already in tatters, the Production With the words “They call me a growing love for antiheroes and
Code was virtually demolished by Mr. Tibbs,” Sidney Poitier became crazy individualists with this film
the frank sexuality, brutality, and the biggest box office star of about a prisoner who refuses to
irresistible style (see our Most 1967. Though he also starred in submit to the system—exemplified
Stylish Movies feature, page 60) of To Sir, With Love and Guess Who’s by Luke winning a bet to eat
this famous crime movie. “[It] was Coming to Dinner that year, In 50 hard-boiled eggs. “This joyful
unprecedented in not only the the Heat of the Night topped them act of insurrection against the
explicitness of the violence, but in all by winning Best Picture. This establishment traces down through
the way it uncomfortably mingled tale of a black police detective later movies—that spirit of ‘I’m
violence and comedy,” says Harris. investigating a murder in a hostile going to live by my own rules.’” �

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THE SHOT

American
Psycho
INSIDE THE CREATION OF
A CL ASSIC SCENE

→ In American Psycho, there’s

a reason Jared Leto nailed
his character’s look of total
surprise when Patrick Bateman
(Christian Bale) came at him
with an ax: Leto was actually
surprised. “We decided
to shoot the rehearsal of the
actual murder without telling
Jared,” reveals Mary Harron,
director of the 2000 satire.
After scoring Leto’s genuine
first reaction, Harron shot
Bale repeatedly swinging at the
Plexiglas-covered camera
while faux blood was squirted
on his face. “When you look at
[Christian] head-on, his face
seems covered in blood,” says
Harron. “But when you look at
him from the side, his face looks
quite clean. It was a perfect
metaphor for the Jekyll-and-
Hyde aspect of Bateman:
pristine on the outside, bloody
and psychotic on the inside.”
Leto, as the hapless Paul
Allen, lay in a pool of blood
during a brutal all-night shoot
for the filming of Bateman’s
post-murder celebration, seen
here. “It’s not easy to do an
ax murder,” shares Harron.
“[The crew’s] feelings mirrored
the image of Patrick Bateman
on the sofa, breathing a sigh
of relief, rewarding himself with
his cigar, reflecting on a job
well done.” —DEREK L AWRENCE

Fun Fact → Leonardo DiCaprio very nearly played Patrick Bateman in American Psycho; Christian Bale slid in when Lionsgate and the Titanic actor
M OV I E S / T V / M U S I C / B O O KS

couldn’t agree on a start date.

M A N ’ S (OT H E R )
BEST FRIEND
National Velvet
1944
She had seven husbands, but
none ever captured Liz Taylor’s
heart like a boy named Pie.
YAY O R NE I G H R ATING
Wild Hearts Can’t
Be Broken
1991
Just a girl, standing in front of
a horse, asking him to jump blind
off a stupid-high platform.
YAY O R NE I G H R ATING
Hidalgo
2004
Viggo Mortensen stars in this epic
Western about a sexy unstoppa-
ble beast. Also, there’s a mustang.
YAY O R NE I G H R ATING
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The Black Stallion
1979
Snakes, shipwrecks, desert
islands: This movie has everything,
plus Mickey Rooney’s mustache.
YAY O R NEI G H R ATIN G
The Horse Whisperer
1998
Redford again! And baby ScarJo
as a traumatized teen finding
peace through double denim.
YAY O R NE I G H R ATIN G
War Horse
2011
Poor pal Joey, has there ever been
a less lucky thoroughbred? Okay,
fine, besides that Godfather scene.
YAY O R NE I G H R ATIN G
JUST IN TIME FOR THE REAL-LIFE RACING
BIOPIC DREAM HORSE (MAY 1), EW LOOKS BACK
AT THE BEST HUMAN-EQUINE BFFS ON FILM
By Leah Greenblatt
The Electric Horseman
1979
DREAM HORSE
Robert Redford’s a rhinestone S T A R R I N G TONI COLLETTE,
cowboy on the run; Jane Fonda’s DAMIAN LEWIS, OWEN TEALE
the pretty filly he can’t quit. D I R E C T E D B Y EUROS LYN
R AT I N G + T I M E
YAY O R NEI G H R ATIN G PG; 1 HR., 53 MINS.
Some people soothe
NATIONAL VELVET, THE BLACK STALLION, THE ELECTRIC HORSEMAN, THE HORSE WHISPERER, RACING STRIPES: EVERETT COLLECTION (5); SEABISCUIT: FRANCOIS DUHAMEL/UNIVERSAL;
their midlife crisis
with a fast boat or a
fancy car; all Jan
Seabiscuit Vokes (Toni Collette)
2003 wants is a horse.
Her kids are grown,
her husband (Owen
Teale) is a sentient
WAR HORSE: ANDREW COOPER/DREAMWORKS/DISNEY; LEAN ON PETE: SCOTT PATRICK GREEN/A24; DREAM HORSE: KERRY BROWN/BLEECKER STREET
lump on the couch.
What else is there to
look forward to?
Euros Lyn’s gentle
drama is based
on the true story of
A broken, too-small colt; a an unlikely champion,
half-blind Tobey Maguire. But though the film has
this little ’biscuit’s all heart. less in common
with hoof-pounding
YAY O R NE I G H R ATIN G
epics like Hidalgo or
Seabiscuit (see left)
than with the modest
charms of a movie
like The Full Monty.
Lean on Pete Jan pools the towns-
2018 folk of her small
Welsh village—mostly
local drunks and
lonely grandmothers,
excepting a bright-
eyed Damian Lewis—
to buy a breeding
mare. There’s not
much question that
her little foal will go
far, so what’s left,
An orphaned boy tries to save an
aging racehorse, and shut your mostly, is just for you
face I’m not crying you’re crying. to sit back and watch
Collette’s sweetly
YAY O R NE I G H R ATIN G
scrappy dream come
true. B —LG
Racing Stripes’ zebra → “Hey, what about me?!”
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N E W YO R K
C E N T E R S TA G E ( 2 0 0 0 )

Though it wasn’t a box office smash, Center Stage twirled its way into audiences’ hearts and became a beloved cult phenomenon—
20 years later, it still resonates as an homage to dance and New York City. Amanda Schull, who starred as ambitious
dancer Jody Sawyer, and production designer David Gropman take EW behind the scenes of the film’s most iconic locations.

MAP ILLUSTRATION BY TIM VIENCKOWSKI; CENTER STAGE: SONY PICTURES; SCHULL AND RADETSKY, SCHULL AND STIEFEL: EVERETT COLLECTION (2); SCHULL: JEROD HARRIS/FILMMAGIC
1 5

1 / Lincoln Center
The filmmakers shot all the perfor-
mance and backstage scenes at
the David H. Koch Theater (then
called the New York State The-
ater), part of the Lincoln Center
complex. “It was beautiful to dance
on stage there,” Schull, 41, says. “I
remember getting really choked
up being on stage at Lincoln Cen-
ter, bowing for this fictitious
audience. I was just so swept up in
the entire experience.”
2 / The Kit Kat Club
Jody, Charlie (Sascha Radetsky),
and Eva (Zoe Saldana) blow off
steam—and work up some “sweet
sweat”—salsa-dancing at this
former bar in Times Square. “In
the late ’90s it was a pretty popular
club,” Gropman says. “It looked
perfect, didn’t it? We didn’t have
to do much to that location to
make it work.”
3 / Jody’s Jazz Class
Gropman chose to shoot at Paul
Taylor Dance Company’s former
location in SoHo because of a per-
sonal connection: He previously
served as production designer for
↑ Amanda Schull Taylor. “It was sentimental,” he says.
was impressed by
the “perfectly “It has that great view, and we added
curated” dance a little bit of neon in the window.”
studios on set
After Jody accidentally runs into
Cooper Nielson (Ethan Stiefel) in
the class, he whisks her away for a
spontaneous date on the street out-
side the studio. “Ethan actually is a
motorcycle fanatic, but for insur-
ance [reasons] I wasn’t supposed to
be on it,” says Schull. “But after we
had done a few takes, Ethan just
took off for the first and last motor-
cycle ride of my life.”
4 / Cooper’s Loft
Jody and Cooper’s date ends in his
apartment in pre-gentrified
Dumbo, Brooklyn. “It was a loft
with a great view of the city in a
wonderfully rough neighbor-
hood,” Gropman says. “It was cool
and bohemian, perfect for Coo-
per.” And Schull remembers the
loft as steamy—but not because of
the hookup session. “It was prob-
ably close to 115 degrees because
it was in the middle of summer,”
she says. “Between every single
smooch I was sopping up sweat.”
5 / The City Tour
In a scene reminiscent of Fame’s
Times Square dance party, Jody,
Charlie, Eva, and the rest of their
crew ride a limo through the iconic
neighborhood and take a ferry to
see the Statue of Liberty. “They
actually chartered a boat and we
went out to sea. I get seasick, so I
spent that entire day barfing my
brains out,” Schull says. “I just
remember them having a bucket off
camera for me.” —SYDNEY BUCKSBAUM

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 DEFENDING
JAC O B
CHRIS EVANS AND MICHELLE DOCKERY STAR IN THE
L ATEST DRAMA FROM APPLE TV+ ABOUT T WO PARENTS,
ONE VERY TROUBLED TEEN, AND WHAT HAPPENS
WHEN WE START QUESTIONING THOSE WE LOVE MOST
By Samantha Highfill
T
THE TEENAGE YE AR S ARE NEVER
simple. There are the hormones,
the ridiculous high school hierar-
chy, the peer pressure, the
homework, and, in Jacob Barber’s
case, the murder accusation. Okay,
so Jacob’s not a normal teenager.
But until recently, his parents
thought he was.
In Defending Jacob, the 14-year-
old title character (Jaeden Martell)
EDITED BY → SARAH RODMAN @SARAHARODMAN
goes from homeroom to a jail cell
when a fellow classmate turns up
dead and he’s suspected of the mur-
der. Based on the 2012 best-selling
novel of the same name by William
Landay, the Massachusetts-set
Apple TV+ limited series stars Chris
Evans and Michelle Dockery as
Jacob’s parents—his defenders, if
you will. But when their son
becomes the biggest news story in
town, their seemingly normal exis-
tence is thrown into a blender of
accusations, rumors, and curious
stares. “Their lives are completely
turned upside down,” Dockery, best
known for her six-season run on
Downton Abbey, says. “The show
asks how far you would go for your
DEFENDING JACOB: APPLE
family.” That question especially
applies to Jacob’s father, Andy
(Evans), who is not only an assistant
district attorney but, up until the
moment his son is identified as a
 suspect, part of the team investigat-
ing the death of Jacob’s classmate.
But as the title suggests, Jacob’s par-
ents stand by his side…at least at
first. “The entire show is about mak-
ing these kind of small concessions:
Where do you stand your ground?
Where do you acquiesce for the sake
of a belief system?” Evans says.
Although the mystery at the cen-
ter of Defending Jacob is strung
together with the kind of precision
reserved for the best dramas on
television today, it’s less of a
whodunit than most of the other
programming out there. This
thriller is just as much about the
toll such an accusation can take on
a family, and furthermore, what
happens when parents start to
doubt their own child’s innocence,
as it is about who’s responsible for
the crime. “Laurie goes through so
many different emotions, and the
guilt was something that was there
in the text,” Dockery says. “Some-
thing that was very important to
portray is the guilt that you feel as a
parent in any situation, but partic-
ularly this. ‘Why are we in this
situation? Where did it go wrong?’ ”
Over the course of eight epi-
sodes, as the Barber family is put
through the wringer, Laurie and
Andy will learn just as much about
each other as they will about their
son, because Jacob’s not the only
one with secrets. It’s a complicated
tale, so compelling it got Captain
America to return to the small
screen in his first major television
role since 2000’s Opposite Sex
miniseries. (He’s also an executive
producer.) “We’re hoping that it’s
the type of thing that forces you to
digest and process what you just
experienced hours after you watch
it. I hope the viewer [is] still think-
ing about it,” Evans says, adding,
“or thinks about it while they’re
washing their hands.” �
IT’S A REAL ROLLER
COASTER FOR THE FAMILY.
INSECURE: HBO
THEIR EMOTIONAL
JOURNEY IS INCREDIBLE.”
—MICHELLE DOCKERY
← Michelle Dockery
INSECURE
and Chris Evans
play concerned
parents of a
teen suspected
of murder
↘ Yvonne Orji
N E T W O R K HBO
and Issa Rae are A I R S SUNDAYS
social, yet distant T I M E 10PM
AS I WRITE THIS, ALL EVENTS ARE
canceled and friendship requires a
Zoom membership. Meanwhile, in
the extremely extra fourth season
of Insecure, Issa (co-creator Issa
Rae) plans a giant concert-food-
fest and has regular yoga-hiking
dates with best pal Molly (Yvonne
Orji). It feels nostalgic, not just
because “public gatherings” are
suddenly science fiction. Time
hasn’t passed for the characters
despite a 19-month hiatus. Molly
continues circling laconic Andrew
(Alexander Hodge) toward a rela-
tionship status. Tiffany (Amanda
Seales) is still pregnant. Issa longs
for her ex Lawrence (Jay Ellis) like
it’s summer 2017 all over again.
Insecure remains funny and
moving, a chill show about the hus-
tle. Issa lives in her workplace,
apartment-managing upset ten-
ants while pretending to be her
own assistant (named Sapphire!)
on calls with music bigwigs. In the
annals of sex-comic gross-outery,
what happens in episode 2 makes
American Pie look like the least
M OV I E S / T V / M U S I C / B O O KS
erotic Doris Day movie. And the
vibe’s so stylish you hit pause for
every T-shirt. But the charming
Ellis is awkwardly wedged back
into Issa’s story. And there’s an
outbreak of Successful Sitcomitis,
every character turned up to
11 (forcing Natasha Rothwell’s Kelli
to 11,000).
There’s a bit of specificity miss-
ing. Once upon a last season,
Insecure made you care about the
unique professional ambitions of
supporting love interests like
Y’lan Noel’s Daniel. (His track
really was better with strings!)
Now Andrew’s a handsome cipher
designed around a weekly resolv-
able New Couple problem. The
first half of season 4 tracks Issa
assembling her Block Party, and
event planning just isn’t as inter-
esting as her nonprofit work was.
The Block Party is pretty cool,
though, an exultant Inglewood
celebration on a series that’s got-
ten more community-focused in
its middle age. And there’s an
intriguing thread about the fray-
ing central friendship. “We’ve
been off,” says Molly. “Yeah,
I know,” Issa responds. If they
know there’s a problem, they can
fix it. Right? B —DARREN FRANICH
 H U R R AY
RYAN MURPHY’S L ATEST FOR NETFLIX, HOLLYWOOD (MAY 1), OFFERS VIEWERS AN ALTERNATE—
AND WISH-FULFILLINGLY REVISIONIST—HISTORY OF THE GOLDEN AGE OF HOLLYWOOD
“ SE XIER!”
Standing in front of the storied
Paramount gates, surrounded by
hundreds of extras in bolero jackets
and fedoras, Hollywood star David
Corenswet is radioed that direction
from creator Ryan Murphy. The
moment is an apt metaphor for
Murphy’s shows—and his ability to
zhuzh up any setting, be it teen glee
club or murderous asylum.
With Murphy’s seven-episode
1940s-set drama, the subject matter
is glamorous in the extreme—expos-
ing the inner workings of the studio
system. Yet Murphy has made it
sexier, literally, in the show’s tackling
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By Maureen Lee Lenker
of sex work (“The first episode has
very little filmmaking and a lot of
nakedness,” quips Corenswet), and
figuratively, in its view of a more
inclusive Hollywood that welcomed
women, people of color, and the
LGBTQ community.
Hollywood stars Corenswet, Dar-
ren Criss, Jeremy Pope, Laura
Harrier, and Jake Picking as young
dreamers teamed with long-
overlooked Hollywood insiders
played by Jim Parsons, Patti
LuPone, Joe Mantello, and Holland
Taylor. Together they chase glittery
dreams and tackle (continuing)
systemic ills. “It showcases how
everything has changed,” says Pick-
ing, who plays Rock Hudson, “and
nothing has changed.”
Murphy and fellow executive
producer Criss conceived this alt-
Hollywood over rosé. As Criss
tells it, Murphy was looking to do
something “young, period, and
optimistic.” Reading Hollywood
pimp Scotty Bowers’ memoir, Criss
↓ “What if women,
was inspired by the dichotomy
queer people, between opulent dream factories
people of color
[were] given and the seedier underbelly, exacer-
opportunities? bated by the postwar milieu. “You
How different
could Hollywood introduce a wild polarity between
look now?”
asks Jeremy Pope
people who have just seen hell and
(center left) now are in paradise. What did that
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The Real Faces

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and sense of ambition and
dreams?” ponders Criss, before of Hollywood
underscoring the show’s sunniness AMID A BEVY OF CL ASSIC CAMEOS,
in spite of that. “It’s candy, fantasy, ROCK HUDSON AND HIS AGENT
HENRY WILLSON GET A TINSELTOWN
and escapism at its original, most DO-OVER. By Maureen Lee Lenker
golden form.”
For most of the cast, that fan-
tasy is highly personal. Criss stars
as Raymond, a half-Filipino direc-
tor passing as white (something
the actor has spoken frankly about
in his own career). Raymond is in
an interracial relationship with
Harrier’s Camille, an aspiring
actress. While the cast did their Being not just accepted but ↑ Claire (Samara HENRY WILLSON
Weaving) and
requisite retro research, they celebrated for decades is a tantaliz- Jack (David
JIM PAR SONS
admit there wasn’t a true model. ing vision. “The retelling of history Corenswet) bond
at the iconic Behind every star is a star-maker,
HOLLYWOOD, PARSONS: SAEED ADYANI/NETFLIX; WILLSON: COURTESY EVERETT COLLECTION; HUDSON: HULTON ARCHIVE/GETTY IMAGES; PICKING: NETFLIX; LUPONE: DAVID M. BENETT/DAVE BENETT/GETTY IMAGES

“Given censorship at the time, it allows people to bask in the nos- Hollywood land-
and manipulative, abusive agent
mark Schwab’s
seems like there weren’t interra- talgia,” Corenswet enthuses. Henry Willson was one of classic
cial relationships, and there “Watching old movies or period Hollywood’s most notorious.
weren’t people in queer relation- pieces is bittersweet because you With discoveries like Rock Hudson
ships, and that’s obviously not can’t [fully] indulge in nostalgia and Tab Hunter, he popularized
true,” reflects Harrier. “People knowing it wasn’t that great for the “beefcake” craze among male
have been living and loving how everybody.” A guilt-free Golden Age stars. “He was creating his own role
they are now for forever.” with room for all? Now, that is sexy. � in this society and new business,”
Parsons explains.
All that remains of Willson are
photographs and written accounts,
which the actor found freeing.
he knows my energy and they were “You develop a real empathy for
level and how to write incredibly generous. [your characters],” he reflects,
for that, and thank God. “and that was multiplied knowing
Avis gets intimate he was a real person.”
Is Avis based on with David Corenswet’s
a real person? character very quickly.
Very, very, very Did you all get to
Q&A
loosely based on know each other?
Patti Irene Selznick, wife It was “Hello, I’m

LuPone of a studio head,

David O. Selznick.
David Corenswet.”
“Hello, I’m Patti
THE BROADWAY And I read [her book] LuPone.” And now,
LEGEND (WHO’D BEEN A Private View, which here we go. [Laughs]
SL ATED FOR THE was an extraordinary We had an acting
COMPANY REVIVAL)
account of the begin- shorthand because
MIXES BUSINESS WITH ROCK HUDSON
nings of Hollywood. we’re Juilliarders, JAKE PICKING
PLEASURE AS HOLLY-
WOOD STUDIO-BOSS
even though we’re
WIFE AVIS AMBERG. How was it working several generations A star of classics like Magnificent
By Sarah Rodman with your younger apart. I mean, I don’t Obsession and Pillow Talk, Rock
costars? have any hang-ups, Hudson shocked the world when
This part is so juicy I can’t say enough for lack of a better the long-closeted actor revealed
and well-rounded, about the kids—I’m word, about [sex his AIDS diagnosis in the 1980s.
from power business going to call them scenes]. I am totally Here, he’s offered a glimmer
moves to power bed- kids—on the show. open to anything of a life different from a tragic
room moves. That They were disciplined. and everything. existence caught between a rock
must’ve been exciting They were not and a hard place.
to see in the script. entitled. They were What’s on your quar- Picking felt a “level of obligation
I was thrilled to death. talented. They were antine reading list? and gravity” portraying him, given
I mean, I will get juicy generous. And these I’m reading I Will Hudson’s place in Hollywood his-
parts on stage, be kids are young. Be Cleopatra: An tory. “I found myself falling in love
it large or small, but They’re in their 20s, Actress’s Journey by with Rock,“ Picking says. “I just
it doesn’t happen in and I don’t know how Zoe Caldwell and [Erik wish he was alive and well so he
film.... [Ryan Murphy’s] much they know Larson’s] The Devil could see the social progress [and]
seen me on stage, so about generosity, in the White City. open-mindedness we’ve adopted.”

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 NEVER HAVE I EVER
N E T W O R K NETFLIX
D A T E APRIL 27
“I JUST WANT TO BE A NORMAL GIRL
who isn’t called mean names and
could actually have a boyfriend,”
sighs Devi Vishwakumar (Mai-
treyi Ramakrishnan), the teen at
the center of Never Have I Ever. In
this sweet, shrewd comedy cre-
ated by Mindy Kaling and Lang
Fisher, Devi has to navigate what
“normal” means for a girl who’s
juggling two cultures, coping with
grief, and above all, totally “ready
to bone.”
After the death of her father
(Sendhil Ramamurthy), Devi
heads into sophomore year deter-
mined to have a “sexy high school
experience,” ideally with swim-
team dreamboat Paxton (Darren
Barnet). While her best friends
Eleanor (Ramona Young) and
Fabiola (Lee Rodriguez) are on
board, there are several unsexy
obstacles in Devi’s path, like her
smug academic rival Ben (Jaren
Lewison) and her no-nonsense
therapist (Niecy Nash). Devi’s
demanding mom, Nalini (the slyly
amusing Poorna Jagannathan), is
a devout Hindu who pushes her to
emulate her cousin Kamala (Richa
88  M AY 2 0 2 0  EW ● COM
Moorjani), a grad student headed
for an arranged marriage.
Never Have I Ever is narrated by
legendary (and legendarily tem-
peramental) tennis champ John
McEnroe. It’s a strange but bril-
liant choice; like McEnroe, Devi is
DUCKTALES
a “hothead” prone to outbursts of
anger. (When Ben tells her she has N E T W O R K DISNEY XD
a “difficult personality,” Devi A I R S SATURDAYS
T I M E 9:30AM
snaps, “I’m a goddamn delight!”)
Newcomer Ramakrishnan has
remarkable comedic swagger; she HUEY (VOICED BY DANNY PUDI) HAS
delivers Devi’s savage takedowns perfected the s’more. “Point-eight
with the cheerful confidence of a ounces of marshmallow per every
young Amy Poehler. McEnroe is two one-and-three-quarters gra-
skilled at self-parody, and he tog- ham cracker squares,” he dictates.
gles his tone between supportive Then a hungry Beagle kid adds two
observer, frustrated scold, and OK doughnuts and three galumps of
boomer (“Damn, Devi! Preeti’s sis- cookie dough. This recipe must
ter really schooled you”). also be the DuckTales writing
Never Have I Ever anchors its process: brainy precision pumped
hormonal high jinks in authentic full of sugar joy.
female friendships. Devi’s pals are The cartoon hit a new high on
more than sidekicks: Fabiola is a season 3’s premiere night with
robotics whiz coming to terms with a ’90s sitcom parody, all meta
her sexuality, and drama-club diva jokes and Goofy asides. Show-
Eleanor has her own family issues runners Matt Youngberg and
to deal with. Though Devi’s obses- Francisco Angones worship the
sion with Paxton sometimes makes cozier Disney of pantsless-animal
her a bad friend, the writers always yesteryear, drawing even more
lead their heroine back to her BFFs. familiar icons into their reboot’s
And even when Devi is a bit of a big ensemble. They’re also post-
jerk, she’s still a goddamn delight. modern kitchen-sinkers, sending
A– —KRISTEN BALDWIN the Duck family down rainbow
curves of imagination. A gala heist
DUCKTALES: DISNEY XD; NEVER HAVE I EVER: LARA SOLANKI/NETFLIX; KINGS: ELIZABETH FISHER/CBS
left-turns into a lovedrunk musi-
cal number. There’s a sky-battling
anime homage, with a robo-boy
bike-chasing through 2-D Tokyo.
The world serpent of Norse myth
hosts crowd-pleasing wrestling
matches in Valhalla, turns out.
Season 3’s evil-agency master
plot is kind of a serial snooze,
but this has become Disney’s
looniest toon. Did I mention
all the wordplay? Giant bee
soldiers are “the Swiss Swarmy of
↗ Got a mystery?
Microbeesia.” Swarmy!!! With
Tales’ Ducks will apologies to pun-loving Dewey
quack the case.
(Ben Schwartz) and the adverb
← Never Have police, DuckTales is lovably
I Ever’s Darren
Barnet and Maitreyi ridewculous, visually kaleidew-
Ramakrishnan
share a touching
scopic, and totally dewpendous.
moment A– —DARREN FRANICH
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M OV I E S / T V / M U S I C / B O O KS
MICHELLE A ND ROBERT KING
WITH THE GOOD FIGHT (THURSDAYS ON CBS ALL ACCESS) AND CBS’ EVIL,
MICHELLE AND ROBERT KING ARE PRODUCING SOME OF THE MOST ENGAGING SHOWS ON TELEVISION.
HERE, THE MARRIED WRITERS SHARE THE POP CULTURE THAT HAS SHAPED THEIR WORK.

By Chancellor Agard

1 / The Marx Brothers
“At 9 years old, [their]
films were the funniest
things I’d ever seen,”
says Michelle. “The sight
gags, the puns, the
chaos. I loved all of it.”
2 / The Dick Van Dyke Show
Carl Reiner’s classic
sitcom gave Robert an
“overriding sense of
television,” he says.
“I thought it was a know-
ing and cunning show
that was very funny and
showed you could do
excellent work over
a long stretch of time.”
↓ Christine Baranski advice. During season 1
confronts the
growing absurdity
of The Good Wife, Wells
of the justice cautioned him against
system (and world)
taking credit on rewrites,
as lawyer Diane
Lockhart on because the writers “will
The Good Fight believe you’re only doing
it as a credit-grabber,”
Robert says. “I thought
that was incredibly good
and strong advice.”
5 / The News
“Nothing in the land of fiction
frustrates me [because]
I can just change the
channel,” says Michelle.
“The real world is what
can be frustrating and
spur wanting to do some-
thing about it.” For her,
writing The Good Fight is
“an emotional reaction “[He] is the one who con-
to what’s going on in the
world. It borders on group
therapy in the writers’
room.” Case in point: The
current season of The
Good Fight is “influenced
by people seemingly
being willing and able
to reject subpoenas,”
says Robert, referencing
the presidential-
impeachment inquiry.
6 / David Lynch
The Kings’ surrealist sensi-
bilities can be traced back
to the 74-year-old auteur.
nects us to our dreams,”
says Robert. “It’s ghastly
to compare ourselves in
any way to [him]. All we’re
saying is that it’s inspired
a bit. We’re still carnival
barkers wanting people
to come in the tent and
watch what we show. And
if we can grab any of that
dreamlike logic, that’s all
great, because why not?”

3 / Steven Bochco
Watching the late produc-
er’s Hill Street Blues was
the “most valuable thing”
Michelle did in college.
“It just didn’t get any better
then in terms of how you
could do procedural and
continuing stories and
[have] characters that
you care so much about.”

4 / John Wells
“[He] basically, in my mind,
created the modern
concept of showrun-
ners,” says Robert about
the ER, West Wing, and
Shameless producer, to
whom Robert turns for

Q+A
CHANCE
T HE R A P P E R
SEVENTEEN YE ARS AF TER ASHTON KUTCHER PIONEERED
THE CELEBRITY PRANK SHOW, THE BIG DAY MC BRINGS
PUNK’D TO QUIBI FOR A NE W GENERATION OF TARGETS
B y A l ex S u s k i n d
You were a big fan of the original
Punk’d. What’s been the most sur-
prising thing about finally having
the curtain pulled back? / That
it’s f---ing real. Like, it’s a prank,
obviously, but it’s real people
involved—it’s not just getting a
celebrity; we’re tricking their
security. It’s borderline dangerous
sometimes. You start to feel crazy
being on this side. I’m in the
broadcast truck watching all this
happening. Part of me is feeling
bad, part of me is laughing hard.
How much rehearsing is there for
each prank? / I’ll walk through the
prank at least twice with our crew.
It’s weird because you have to put
yourself in the mindset of trying to
trick somebody and not have them
ask questions that can’t be answered.
90 M AY 2 0 2 0 EW ● COM
So has anyone figured out they’re
being pranked midway through?
No one figured it out because when
we were shooting, [the new] Punk’d
wasn’t announced yet. The craziest
part was me having to come out and
be like, “Ah, I got you.” And they’re
like, “Why are you here, Chance?”
And I’m like, “Punk’d is back.” That
cools them down a little. So it wasn’t
that they thought they were on a
prank show. They were just like,
whoever I’m dealing with right now
is the worst at their job or an a--hole.
Going into this you had a wish list
of people you wanted to punk. Did
you get any of your friends? / Megan Thee
I got a bunch of my friends good. One
of them got really mad. I haven’t seen
the episode so we’ll see if we kept the
violence in, but it’s insane.
One Final Act
of Murder
THE HOW TO GET AWAY WITH
MURDER TEAM TEASE THEIR
SERIES FINALE (MAY 14, ABC).
By Maureen Lee Lenker
Annalise Keating is facing the death
penalty. On trial for murder(s), she
stares down the courtroom and
declares, “What I am is a survivor.”
It’s one of the last speeches Viola
Davis will ever give as this complex,
fierce woman who’s shepherded
her law school charges through six
seasons of murder, manipulation,
and Machiavellian plotting. The
entire set is rapt as Davis delivers it,
flawlessly, through multiple takes.
Davis, chatting on a bench in the
hallway of the soundstage court-
room that’s been Keating’s domain
for the past six years, feels the
weight of this moment. Launching
in 2014 with twisty homicides and
the immortal question “Why is your
penis on a dead girl’s phone?,” How
to Get Away With Murder blew up
expectations for a legal ensemble
drama. “It redefined the leading lady
on television—what it means to be
a woman, what it means to be sex-
ual, what it means to be valued
without being a Mr. Potato Head of
male desirability,” the Emmy-,
Tony-, and Oscar-winning actress
muses. “It’s redefined how we see
television.”
Davis promises an “honorable
goodbye,” while creator Peter
Nowalk pledges answers to key
questions, closure, and…tragedy.
/ “Each of the characters makes a
really strong choice about who
they want to be, that you might
hate, but that’s what that character
would do,” he teases. “It’s going to
be really emotional.”
Perhaps Amirah Vann, who plays
attorney Tegan Price, sums it up
PUNK’D: QUIBI; HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER: ABC/RAYMOND LIU
best: “Bring the tissues and the
wine.” ’Cause you won’t get away
with saying goodbye without a little
trauma—blunt force or otherwise.
↖ Chance the
Rapper’s Punk’d
will include
pranks on Offset,
Stallion, and more
↗ “It’s perfect,”
Viola Davis says of
Annalise Keating’s
final stand
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TO
YO U R GU I D E * TO M AY ’ S E S S EN T I A L T V. B y D a n S n i e r s o n
(*Times are Eastern Standard and subject to change, especially in light of the global pandemic)

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BECAUSE SOMETIMES A COUCH PARTY IS THE BEST KIND OF PARTY

MOM’S T HE WORD
IN HONOR OF MOTHER’S DAY MAY 10, WE ASKED
OUR OWN MOMS WHAT THEY LIKE TO WATCH WITH THEIR
ENTERTAINMENT-JOURNALIST CHILDREN

By Ruth Kinane
SIX FEET UNDER: HBO; ZOEY’S EXTRAORDINARY PLAYLIST: SERGEI BACHLAKOV/NBC; LUCIFER: FOX; ESCAPE TO THE COUNTRY: BBC; LAW & ORDER: SVU: PETER KRAMER/NBC; THE SOUP: MATTHEW MISISCO/E! ENTERTAINMENT

Six Feet Under • HBO

“When David was a teenager, we spent a few
weeks binge-watching all five seasons of
Six Feet Under. It was Dave’s introduction
to what he came to refer to as ‘quality televi-
sion’ and probably represents the birth
of the monster we know and love today.”
—LISA CANFIELD, MOTHER OF
STAFF EDITOR DAVID CANFIELD
Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist • NBC
“My daughter is a theater person; I’m a music
person. We absolutely love watching this
show together. [It] has just the right mix of
drama and comedy with characters from
both our age groups. I also adore Zoey’s
sweater/blouse combos and her raincoats!”
—LUCI URSICH, MOTHER OF
DIGITAL WRITER MAUREEN LEE LENKER
Lucifer • NETFLIX
“I dislike fantasy television shows. To my
surprise, I soon became entertained by
Lucifer’s innocent yet sometimes wily
behavior—he reminds me of the comic-
book character Dennis the Menace and
of my real-life Dennis the Menace.”
—CLAIRE N. AGARD, MOTHER OF
STAFF WRITER CHANCELLOR AGARD
Escape to the Country • BBC ONE
“It’s about properties in the countryside.
It’s interesting to see the sort of houses
people like for the money that they’ve got.
I live in the British countryside and it’s
nice if the show is about an area I know.
Is there a prize at the end of this?”
—KATH COLLIS, MOTHER OF
SENIOR WRITER CLARK COLLIS
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit • NBC
“Olivia Benson is so cool. She’s
raised awareness for victims of
abuse. Even Tyler Swift has named
her cat Olivia Benson! Did you
know that Tyler Swift’s cat is named
Olivia Benson?”
—JOYCE GOLDWEITZ, MOTHER OF
SENIOR WRITER DAN SNIERSON
PLAYING WITH FOOD
Jade
Catta-Preta
THE COMEDIAN, 36, AND HOST OF
E!’S THE SOUP ANSWERS EW’S
BURNING CULINARY QUESTIONS.
By Ruth Kinane
If you could have dinner with any
three famous people, dead or
alive, who would they be and why?
Salvador Dalí, Lady Gaga, and Joan
Rivers. He would be feeding us
an insane meal at his extravagant
mansion with silverware he
designed, while Gaga breaks into
song and Joan Rivers makes fun of
it all. Perfect night. Oh, and I speak
Italian in this fantasy, clearly.
If you were a type of soup,
which type would you be?
I love a loaded potato soup, so
that’s me. It’s a new spin on an
old classic and it’s a bit weird.
It’s got a little bit of everything
in there. All my close friends call
me “Loaded Potato Soup.” Really.
Pick your desert-island food.
Sushi. Love yellowtail. So hopefully
I can catch some fish? Or fingers
crossed this is a trendy island with
a sushi bar?
Taste, Binge, Trash: Bridget Jones’s
blue string soup, Indiana Jones and
the Temple of Doom eyeball soup,
Seinfeld “Soup Nazi” soup.
↗ The Soup airs
Wednesdays at
I’d trash them all after guiltily tasting,
10 p.m. on E! then binging, all three. I go all-in.

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MUSICAL MO OD BOARD One of Williams’ strongest influ-
Hayley
ences was Thom Yorke’s 2019
album Anima, along with the
Williams
accompanying Netflix short film
directed by Paul Thomas Ander-
son. “It’s beautiful choreography,
the lighting is really gorgeous, and
of course the songs are…it’s Thom
The Paramore singer, Yorke!” Williams explains. “But
31, reveals the music, that album came out [and] it
films, and “gruesome reminded me that some of my
s---” that inspired favorite introspective artists still
dance and move in a lot of differ-
her soul-searching
ent ways, and it gave me a nudge
solo debut, Petals for to remember movement and my
Armor (out May 8) body and to feel rhythms again.”
Even though Petals’ lyrics can
By Devan Cog gan tackle some somber topics—like
struggles with mental health and
her split with her ex-husband,
New Found Glory’s Chad Gilbert—
Williams still wanted to imbue the
record with a sense of movement
and buoyancy. “I think the start of
my writing journey was very
heavy, and it was like I was carry-
ing two buckets of cement on
either side, just kind of trying to
get through the day,” she says.
“Once you’re able to put those
down and call them what they are,
I think that I was lighter. I was so
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inspired by rhythm and percus-
sion, and I needed that reminder.”
2 / Women Who Run With the Wolves
by Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Ph.D.
The album’s title, Petals for Armor,
is a reference to finding strength
in femininity. While writing,
Williams says she tried to immerse
herself in distinctly female
stories—like Estés’ pioneering col-
lection of folktales.
“It was such a surprise to me,”
she says. “My life is mostly made
up of dudes. I’m working around
guys all the time. This was rec-
ommended to me by one of my
girlfriends, and it just makes
you feel less alone. It really
explores the wild-woman arche-
type [and] women as these soulful,
earthy creatures who are wild as
wolves—and how wolves are a
pack animal as well.”
For Williams, who’s been playing
and recording with an all-male
band since she was a teenager,
going solo was an excuse to tap into
WILLIAMS: LINDSEY BYRNES
her inner wild woman. “It’s one of
those things I compartmentalized
because [I thought] I needed to be
tougher,” she says. “And in my
mind, [after] being out on tour all
 those years and everything, tough 5 / Frist Art Museum in Nashville

didn’t look feminine. [But] actually,
I think it’s more feminine.”
3 / Joker
“I was watching Joker recently,
which is so dark and probably not
for everybody, but I’m drawn to
those types of narratives,” Wil-
liams says of the 2019 Joaquin
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Williams made much of Petals at
her home in Nashville, and while
she was co-writing with Paramore
touring bassist Joey Howard, he
moved into her downstairs guest
bedroom. “He loves art museums
and so do I, so we would go to the
Frist in Nashville a lot,” she says.
“We saw [a] Frida Kahlo [exhibit]

Phoenix-starring flick. “When he there recently, and we saw an

dances in the movie, it says so
much, and it’s very eerie and poi-
gnant. He doesn’t speak at all. And
I find that I get a lot out of express-
ing just with my body. I do it on
stage without thinking.”
exhibit that was a bunch of French
artists throughout history. We did
that on my birthday, when I turned
30. I love an art gallery in general,
and it did affect the writing of
the album because when we

4 / The Handmaid’s Tale

Fiery lead single “Simmer” was
one of the first songs Williams
wrote for the album, and she says
that while writing the lyrics, she
reflected on memories of watching
The Handmaid’s Tale, Bird Box,
and Peppermint—“very gruesome
s---,” she says with a laugh. “It
reminded me of how powerful peo-
ple who were once thought of as
weak can be when they just under-
stand what they’re made of. I love
character arcs like that. I love
underdog moments. I just love jus-
tice. I mean, Handmaid’s Tale is
obviously such a heavy [watch],
and it feels a little too real some-
times, but to be a woman watching
it is a whole different experience.”
weren’t writing, Joey and I spent
time trying to fill our minds with
other things.”
6 / Her dog, Alf
“I got Alf when he was, like, 11
weeks old. I raised him, but I feel
like he raised me,” Williams says,
laughing. “I was 23 or 24 when I
got him. He keeps me present
because he’s present all the time:
He’s so happy and very in tune
with me when I’ve gone through
life-altering changes or moments.”
So how accurate is that line in
“Simmer” where Williams sings
about wandering around her
house and talking to her dog? “I do
talk to him!” she insists. “I’m not
being cute in the song. He’s one of
my therapists.” �
2
Kenny’s Best
Duets
THE CROSSOVER KING, WHO DIED
IN MARCH AT 81, WAS OFTEN AT
HIS BEST WHEN PARTNERING WITH
A FRIEND. By Sarah Rodman
“Islands in the Stream,”
with Dolly Parton (1983)
The top of the heap when it comes
to his work with longtime friend
and singing partner Parton. The two
fit hand in glove for this marvelous
Bee Gees-penned ambler that
hit No. 1 as well as every karaoke
playlist everywere, ah-ha.
“Don’t Fall in Love With a Dreamer,”
with Kim Carnes (1980)
If Parton/Rogers was sugar and
salt, Carnes/Rogers was like smoke
and sandpaper. This keening hit
ballad gives timeless advice about
the perils of hitching your wagon
to a rolling stone.

“What Are We Doin’ in Love,”

3 with Dottie West (1981)
Another favorite microphone buddy,
# country legend West and Rogers
5 scored a number of hits, including
6
this wistful song about opposites
attracting, anticipating hard times,
but hoping for the best.

1 “We’ve Got Tonight,”

4
with Sheena Easton (1983)
This version of the intimate and
tenderly weary Bob Seger classic
about loving the one you’re with is
so ludicrously overwrought and syr-
upy in the hands of the Gambler
and Scotswoman, it’s impossible to
resist. A perfect relic of an exact
moment in the early ’80s.

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A L B U M FUTURE NOSTALGIA
L A B E L WARNER RECORDS
G E N R E POP
DUA L IPA’S ASCENT FROM YOU TUBE
sensation to pop powerhouse was
one of the 2010s’ more refreshing
stories. Her throaty alto and no-
nonsense attitude gave extra bite
to big-beat tracks like “New Rules”
and “Blow Your Mind (Mwah).”
Lipa’s second album builds on
those singles’ promise in thrilling
ways. For the most part, the songs
on Future Nostalgia manage to
live up to the record’s title—their
insistent hooks and impeccable
construction make them as well
suited for dance crazes as they are
for spins around the roller disco.
Take “Don’t Start Now,” which
has had one of its opening
lines—“Did a full one eiiiight-y”—
reappropriated as a way for TikTok
users to switch outfits, political
issues, or other aspects of their
lives. On the electro-tinged title
track, Lipa declares herself a
“female alpha” who has her sights
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another on
Danzig Sings Elvis
set on changing the game, while the
sparkling “Cool,” skeletal “Pretty
Please,” and stardust-dipped
“Hallucinate” bear out those claims.
Elsewhere, hits from decades
past are flipped in exciting ways,
with Lipa resisting the urge to let
familiarity do the heavy lifting.
“Physical” borrows its central cry
from Olivia Newton-John’s 1981
aerobics anthem. “Love Again”
uses the British trad-jazz cut “My
Woman” as the backbone for a
disco strut, and “Break My Heart”
Danzig
Zags
builds on the jittery rhythms of
INXS’ smash “Need You Tonight”
with bouncing-ball bass.
The album falters near its
end—“Good in Bed” tries to meld
the jauntiness of Lily Allen with
Glenn Danzig (of the Misfits and Dan-
the wordless vocalizing of early
zig fame) will unveil an Elvis Presley
Gaga, a mix that never quite jells, covers album, Danzig Sings Elvis, in
while the anti-misogyny lament the spring. This may sound surpris-
“Boys Will Be Boys” muddles its ing, but Elvis was a key influence on
message with gloppy strings and a Danzig, and these bold, black-maned
choir of shouting voices. But even baritones share more in common
with these lapses, Future Nostal- than you think. —DAN SNIERSON
gia offers up high-octane pop
bliss. A– —MAURA JOHNSTON 1.
Presley earned a black belt in Kenpo
karate and became an instructor.
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Danzig earned a black belt in Jeet
Kune Do and became an instructor.
2.
Presley recorded the hit song
“(You’re the) Devil in Disguise.”
Danzig recorded the song
“Devil’s Whorehouse,” in addition to
“1000 Devils Reign,” “Devilock,”
“Devil’s Plaything,” “Heart of the Devil,”
“Blackacidevil,” “East Indian Devil
(Kali’s Song),” and “Devil on Hwy 9,”
as well as “I Luciferi.”
3.
Presley was romantically linked to
many women, and, in unrelated
news, he loved to ride horses around
his Graceland estate.
Danzig is the name of one of the
most celebrated sires in thorough-
bred racing history.
4.
Presley famously pulled out his
.357 Magnum and shot his television.
Danzig’s father worked as a
TV repairman.
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prior to the current worldwide pandemic, its dozen

songs are rife with bad news on the left, bad news
on the right, as she sings on “Bad News Blues.” It’s
a spare, midtempo tune where the singer laments
a litany of “fools and thieves, clowns and hypocrites.”
But the narrative behind her 14th studio al-
bum leans more political than personal. Co-
produced by Ray Kennedy, who worked on Williams’
iconic 1998 album, Car Wheels on a Gravel Road,
Good Souls Better Angels is the Louisiana singer’s
most fully realized work in more than 20 years.
She kicks off the collection with the empowering
“You Can’t Rule Me.” Here, Williams’ voice is tough
and certain, as she evokes the take-no-prisoners
attitude of Deadwood heroine Calamity Jane. Else-
where, she excoriates the titular gent in “Man
Without a Soul,” which has been interpreted as a dig
at President Trump. While the singer-songwriter
delves into a black cloud of depression in the slow
churn of “Big Black Train,” it’s on the pointed, lyri-
cally rich story-songs that her vocals are at their
most forceful and effective. “Wakin’ Up” details an
abusive relationship with a drug user, and she hear-
kens back to the blues of Robert Johnson and his
ilk in “Pray the Devil Back to Hell.”
In the 40 years since her debut, Williams has
turned into a truth-telling musical treasure. With
Good Souls, her intimate vocal delivery may seem
ideal for dim musings, but in these “dark new days,”
as she notes on “Shadows & Doubts,” her voice is still
a balm for the distressed soul. A– � K AT H ERI N E T U RM A N
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M OV I E S / T V / M U S I C / B O O KS
“The Steps” is fourth in the
line of singles from the band’s
upcoming album, Women in
Music Pt. III (out this summer).
The record hints at the sisters’
diverse musical upbringing, and
has them sounding more care-
free than ever. “I think we’re the
most confident we’ve ever been,
and I think that vibe permeates
the album,” says Danielle. “We’re
saying it now, but at the time it
was very spontaneous. We wrote
‘The Steps’ in a day, a week
before the album was going to
be turned in, and just stuck it on
there. It was really important
to us to be spontaneous—to just
have fun with it and not take
everything seriously.”

Ice-Cold
That attitude found its way to
the music-video shoot for “The
Steps.” Directed by frequent
collaborator Paul Thomas Ander-
son, the clip follows the sisters
ANATOMY OF A SONG ↑ Danielle, Este,
and Alana Haim as they wake up and stomp

H A IM
around a big house in L.A. In one
scene, Este, 34, takes an epic
plunge into the backyard pool.
THE CALIFORNIA-BRED SISTER TRIO OF DANIELLE, ESTE, “It was, like, minus-two degrees,”
AND AL ANA BRE AK D OWN THE SECRETS BEHIND says Alana, who struggled to
THEIR L ATEST UNABASHED GUITAR TRACK, “THE STEPS”
keep a straight face during the
jump. “Este is the one that does
By Aly Comingore
the most s--- in our music videos.
Este’s the choreographer, Este
does the stunts, Este is the MVP
Scream It Out never happens. That’s where we ↓ Haim’s hand- of Haim music videos.” Adds
written lyrics
“The Steps” began with a lyric. “It all went, ‘Wait—there’s something the eldest Haim sister, “I like to say
for their single
kind of just felt like therapy to good about this.’ ” “The Steps” yes rather than no.”
scream the line ‘You don’t under-
stand me!’ ” says Alana, 28. “I Spark Notes
remember when we were writing Danielle is Haim’s resident Garage-
it, we would just scream, ‘You Band wizard, but she’s also a big
don’t understand me!’ and see fan of her Voice Memos app. “I’m
how it felt.” pretty sure my phone is f---ed
“The inspiration was just a feeling because I have literally dozens of
of making a really bare-bones rock Voice [Memos] on there,” says the
song,” adds Danielle. “We wanted 31-year-old singer-guitarist with
to write something we could really a laugh. When they started working
perform—something uptempo that on “The Steps,” the hardest part
felt like a karate kick to the face. was trying to channel the energy
The riff is tough and straight to the of that iPhone recording. “It’s
point. I’ll never forget when I first always a puzzle,” says Alana, “to
sang that really high note. Normally try to capture the magic of that
RETO SCHMID

we come up with the melody first, first hour that you wrote some-
but I think the melody and the lyric thing. We all strive to have our
came at the same time, and that music have that spark.”

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HIS SERIES
OUT WITH A BANG.”*

STO R I E S B E H I N D T H E S O N G S

R YA N T E D D E R
H E H I T S H I G H N OT E S W I T H O N E R E P U B L I C ( T H E I R N E W
ALBUM, HUMAN, IS DUE THIS SPRING), COACHES HOPEFULS
O N N B C ’ S S O N G L A N D , A N D W R I T E S P O P ’ S B I G G E ST H I TS

By Samantha Highfill

The thrilling conclusion to the

“Bleeding Love”
award-winning, New York Times Leona Lewis
“I was working with
and USA Today bestselling Jesse McCartney and
he told me, ‘I want
The Interdependency series this album to have a
Prince vibe.’ I started
playing those chords
AVAILABLE NOW on the organ, mocked
it together, and then
*Publishers Weekly, starred review Jesse’s A&R told me,
‘I don’t think this song’s
a hit.’ I sent it to Clive
Davis and Simon Cowell,
and they wanted it
for Leona. It had been
years since a British
artist had had a hit in
the U.S. I remember
“Halo” Beyoncé
“Beyoncé wanted me to
write her a song like
[OneRepublic’s] ‘Come
Home.’ I was like, ‘I’ll
write you a song, but let
me do whatever comes
naturally.’ I turned on my
keyboard, and the very
first thing that came out
sounded like a bunch
of angels singing, and
that’s the intro of ‘Halo.’
It was total luck that
the particular keyboard
patch that came on
sounded like angels. I was
like, ‘If you’re looking
at an angel, you can
“Rumour Has It”
Adele
“Adele had written ‘Roll-
ing in the Deep’ and
‘Someone Like You,’ and
she said, ‘What do
you want to do?’ I said,
‘I just don’t want to
do a ballad.’ She’s like,
‘All right, let’s do some-
thing that moves.’ I
started stomping and
playing the guitar riff.
But it came from a con-
versation: She walked
into the studio and was
so pissed off, saying,
‘I’m so mad, all my
friends are spreading
DENNIS LEUPOLD

the day I got the call that see their halo. What if rumors—rumor has it
it hit No. 1. Simon told me, you’re staring at the Adele did this, rumor
‘This is going to cross person you love and you has it Adele’s sleeping
the pond.’ ” can see their halo?’ ” with this guy....’ ”
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M OV I E S / T V / M U S I C / B O O KS
IN DESPERATE NEED OF SOMETHING FRESH TO LISTEN TO? HERE ARE A FEW SONG SUBSTITUTIONS YOU
CAN MAKE TO YOUR (LIKELY ALREADY-OVERPL AYED) AT-HOME SOUNDTRACK.

B y A l ex S u s k i n d

LOVE THIS? TRY THIS! LOVE THIS? TRY THIS!

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“Stupid Love” “Who I Am” “Intentions” “Happiness Over Everything (H.O.E.)”

by Lady Gaga by Melanie C by Justin Bieber by Jhené Aiko
Throbbing synths, pulsing kick Another catchy, synthy dance There is the Biebs (plus Quavo) ...Or, with her slick come-ons,
drums, an anthemic hook; you number—but one that favors showering all of his unreserved you could let Jhené (plus Future
LANCHES: GRANT SPANIER; THE STROKES: JASON MCDONALD; CAR SEAT HEADREST: CARLOS CRUZ; RODDY RICCH: ATLANTIC; LIL UZI VERT: SEAN DOUGHERTY; MOSES SUMNEY: ALEXANDER BLACK

can practically smell the club self-empowerment (and breath- attention on you in this analog- and Miguel) do the same in this
sweat dripping off Gaga’s single. ier vocals) over codependency. tone R&B bop... sly and moody slow-burn.

→ →

“Heartless” “La vita nuova” “Everything I Wanted” “Garden Song”

by the Weeknd
It’s peak Weeknd—a glossy look
inside a world of endless money,
drugs, and, yes, women (specifi-
cally one who can “fix” him).
by Christine + the Queens feat.
Caroline Polachek
A similar sonic brush—but with a
more enlightening approach to
love—awaits in Christine’s latest.
by Billie Eilish
A haunting, brooding number from
Billie that has probably been
bouncing around in your head
since the first listen.
by Phoebe Bridgers
Bridgers sits in a different genre
but draws from the same reserve:
ASMR vocals, filtered sounds,
perceptive lyrics.

→ →

“Dance Monkey” “Running Red Lights” “Bad Decisions” “Martin”

by Tones and I
It’s impossible to miss the world-
wide pop smash from this Aussie
upstart that was inspired by her
life as a street performer.
by the Avalanches feat. Rivers
Cuomo and Pink Siifu
An (almost) equally catchy, multi-
layered pop track from the
sample kings/fellow Australians.
by the Strokes
This mischievous comeback single
is pure Strokes: puckish solos,
loud distortion, and lyrics about
making questionable choices.
by Car Seat Headrest
Car Seat Headrest has a Strokes
vibe, just with 50 percent less
garage-rock grease. This one even
comes with a horn solo!

→ →

“The Box” “Yell Oh” “P2” “Polly”

by Roddy Ricch
That fingers-sliding-on-a-window-
pane sample is now as ubiquitous
as the song itself, which spent
11 weeks at No. 1.
by Trippie Redd, Young Thug
This trap collab is more
uptempo—and way more explicit—
but includes an equally indeli-
ble hook.
by Lil Uzi Vert
The sequel to Uzi’s breakout hit
“XO Tour Llif3” is basically
acoustic singer-songwriter meets
cosmic trap music.
by Moses Sumney
Like Uzi’s, Sumney’s music is hard
to classify and pulls in a multitude
of styles; his “Polly” kicks off
with an evocative “P2”-esque riff.

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 WA R H O L’ S
WORL D
IN HIS TOWERING, TEA-SPILLING BIOGRAPHY
WARHOL: A LIFE AS ART, BL AKE GOPNIK
GOES BENEATH THE WIG OF ONE OF THE
GREATEST ENIGMAS OF THE PAST CENTURY
By Leah Greenblatt
E D I T E D B Y → D AV I D C A N F I E L D @ D AV I D C A N F I E L D 9 7
WHO EXACTLY WAS ANDY WARHOL?
It always seems to depend, more
or less, on who’s asking. He could
be The Man Who Wasn’t There,
and also everywhere; a lightning
rod, a walking Rorschach blot, an
art star of both the highest and
lowest order. All of those Andys
exist—sometimes simultaneously
over a single paragraph—in Blake
 ← All Tomorrow’s
MEMOIR

M OV I E S / T V / M U S I C / B O O KS
Parties: Andy Warhol
with Liza Minnelli,
Bianca Jagger, and
REVIEWS
designer Halston at
Studio 54 in 1978

STRAY GOOD MORNING,

DESTROYER
OF MEN’S SOULS

A U T H O R STEPHANIE A U T H O R NINA
DANLER RENATA ARON
Gopnik’s frank, gossipy, but not The outlines, at least, of what P A G E S 256 P A G E S 304
unacademic chronicle of one of follows will be familiar to fans and
the 20th century’s most founda- even casual observers of the War- If Stephanie If “codepency
tional and confounding figures. hol myth, as well-documented as it Danler’s 2016 is a girl’s song,”
debut, the as Nina Renata
Seemingly no biographical detail is: the rise of Pop Art; the silver-
blockbuster res- Aron writes, her
is too big or too small for his 976- walled Factory that served as both
taurant-world scorching mem-
page colossus: Warhol’s eccentric business headquarters and a kind chronicle Sweet- oir proves it can
diet (ice cream sundaes and mashed of counterculture Narnia; the mot- bitter, was about be a beautiful
avocados); his sex life (mostly dis- ley crew of beauties, eccentrics, and the thrill of self- one, too. She
mal, though he was also...blessed in hangers-on who became his Super- discovery—a writes an addic-
at least one department); the wigs stars. But the man who turned soup heady whirl of tion story from
and nose jobs and prolonged efforts cans and silk-screened Elvises into fine wine, bad the perspective
to treat his problematic skin. (The high art is only one part of the boys, and white of the helpless
artist’s insecurities often played as portrait here. Love—despite a tablecloths— partner, the
her second, a lover too stuck
much a role as pure aesthetics did string of gorgeous young compan-
memoir, offers in a dangerous
in his legendary personal style— ions, it mostly seemed to elude the
something far dynamic to find
like the dark glasses that concealed lifelong romantic—takes up many more sobering. her way out. The
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severe nearsightedness.) pages, as do the rise and fall of Though sober addict in ques-
The book begins with an incident numerous friendships. probably isn’t tion is K, a wild
that effectively divided Warhol’s Gopnik’s background as historian quite the word heartthrob with
life into before and after: the 1968 and critic can sometimes lead him for a Southern a debilitating
shooting by a disturbed scenester down esoteric paths, and he tends to FIVE ACTORS California girl- heroin habit.
WHO PLAYED
and sometime collaborator named give his subject more credit for cer- hood steered by She’s attracted
ANDY WARHOL
Valerie Solanas that tore a ragged tain creative choices than might be parental neglect to his chaos;
1
and addiction— their romance
hole through his abdomen, nearly due; the sheer volume of material, Crispin Glover a chaotic birth- started as an
killing him. From there Gopnik dips too, can be both exhaustive and The Doors (1991)
right she carries affair while she
back into the Pittsburgh childhood exhausting. But the book also into her own was married
2
of the boy born Andrew Warhola; a grounds its mad whirl of sheikhs, terminally messy with a kid. Aron
David Bowie
backstory not unlike that of many freaks, movie stars, and tweaked Basquiat (1996) young adulthood. details the spiral,
working-class immigrants raised bohemians by the steady anchor of Stray can feel of screaming
3
between the two World Wars, put- its muse: a man who, through the both piecemeal matches and
ting aside its early glimmers of fond eyes of his biographer, comes Jared Harris and blinkered by vomit and things
I Shot Andy
artistic promise. A postcollege off maybe as wholly, maddeningly its own privilege thrown across
Warhol (1996)
move to Manhattan in the late 1940s human as he ever has—both sweet (private schools, rooms. It’s her
4 last-minute trips side, the nagger,
brought him some recognition as and strange, mercenary and tender-
Guy Pearce to Spain), but the enabler, told
an illustrator and window dresser— hearted. “Was his art a put-on, or Factory Girl it’s powerful, in a rich, intense,
though financial success paled next was the put-on his art?” Gopnik (2006)
too: a raw, often hard package—
to the extracurricular wonders of asks several hundred pages in. “Was lyrical portrait a gritty tribute to
5
city life, even in an era in which he himself a joke or a genius, a ra- of pain, loss, the women who
Greg Travis
homosexuality still remained a dical or a social climber? As Warhol Watchmen and learning to stick around too
sort of unspeakable mortal sin. would have answered: Yes.” B+ (2009) let go. B+ —LG long. A– —D C

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POP CULTURE OF MY LIFE
Susan
Choi
My literary crush
[Jane Eyre’s] Mr. Rochester, which
is pretty disturbing. He’s really not
the best guy.
An illicit book I read in secret as a kid
There’s a sexy scene in The Thorn
Birds (1) that I surreptitiously read
on many occasions after stealing
the book off my aunt’s shelf. I can’t
remember anything about that
book—sheep? Australia?—[except]
the orange cover and feeling like
such a little criminal about it.
My favorite high school story
I love Tom Perrotta’s novel Election.
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champ, 51, whose novel Trust Exercise
lands in paperback May 5, reveals her
artistic inspirations. � By David Canfield
The movie version (2) is great too,
but the book is just perfect.
My favorite literary twist
(Spoiler alert!)
That moment in Jennifer Egan’s
novel The Keep when you find out
that everything you’ve read up to
that point is actually a book-within-
the-book being written by an
incarcerated person in a creative-
writing class. I just love that.
My all-time favorite movie
This is kind of embarrassing, but
Warren Beatty’s Reds holds a
really singular place in my heart.
The last TV series I binged
Fleabag (3). Please bring more!
A classic that I’m embarrassed
to say I’ve never read
I could give you a list longer than
this feature. One is The Brothers
Karamazov. I carried it around for
a long time in college. There were
boys I was trying to impress.
The last album I listened to
It’s funny, we hardly ever listen to
albums anymore, do we? I [just]
played the entirety of Different
Light by the Bangles for the first
1.
time since I was probably 14 years
old. It was so good, track by track.
Pure time-machine happiness.
The first album I bought myself
Voices by Hall & Oates (4). More
pure time-machine happiness.
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2.
A book that people might be
surprised to learn that I loved
That biography of John Travolta
that I found at the drugstore when
I was about 10 years old and first
3.
allowed to ride my bike to the
drugstore and spend my allow-
ance. I read that book literally
countless times. I was so moved
by the story of John Travolta
nursing his older lady love, Diana
4.
Hyland, when she had cancer.
The fictional place I wanted to live in
When I was a kid I always dreamed
of moving to Narnia, but now
that I’m an adult and see how
depressingly racist those books
5. are, that dream is sadly dead.
My ideal quarantine read
Charles Dickens’ Bleak House (5).
I might actually run out of it—this
worries me. [It’s 1,036 pages long.]
 M OV I E S / T V / M U S I C / B O O KS
HIGH ANXIETY
WITH...

Mike
Birbiglia
THE COMEDIAN AND THE NEW ONE
AUTHOR, 41, REVEALS THREE
THINGS THAT SCARE HIM ALMOST AS
MUCH AS A GLOBAL PANDEMIC.
As told to Rachel Yang

1.
PARENTING A TEENAGER
When I was a teenager, I remember
saying to my parents, “I hate you.”
If I reach the point where my 15-year- V. F O R V I S I O N A R Y
old daughter says, “I hate you,” I just
don’t know what I’m going to do. WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM A BIBLICAL LEGEND, ANNA
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A POLICE STATE
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the next to go is military takeover
of our country. I have no upper-body
strength and a fear of weapons.
I’m probably not going to punch THREE WOMEN, CONNECTED ACROSS in the desert camps outside the
anybody, so I will most likely lose.
millennia: Esther, fabled consort to castle walls, Esther is an unlikely
3. the king of ancient Persia; Vivian, royal, elevated by her exceptional
THE WRITING PROCESS a young senator’s wife in Nixon- beauty and improbable luck. But
After I wrote Sleepwalk With Me, I said era Washington, D.C.; and Lily, palace life doesn’t bring the kind of
to myself, “I am never doing that again. frazzled archetype of modern-day power she hoped for to save her
That’s the hardest thing I’ve ever Brooklyn motherhood. increasingly endangered people,
done.” But here we are. I mean, I’ve
Each one takes up roughly equal let alone her own small freedoms.
basically done everything I said that
I was afraid of. I have no more fears.
space in Anna Solomon’s deftly The problems faced by stay-at-
interwoven round-robin of a novel, home mom Lily, with her un-
their stories both compulsively finished laundry and middle-age
readable and thrumming with ennui, are hardly the stuff of presi-
deeper cultural themes. At 29, dents and empires. Still, it’s her
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Vivian (or Vee, as she’s called) is frank, self-deprecating voice that

conspicuously childless for her era,
and in no rush to change that—one
of many facts her husband hardly
knows about her when he asks her
one evening for a humiliating favor
to help shore up his reelection.
Neither of them is prepared for
what comes next when she denies
him, though readers of the Hebrew
Bible or Old Testament might rec-
ognize the outlines, because it’s the
story of Esther’s predecessor, too:
Queen Vashti, whose own refusal to
obey the king paved her replace-
ment’s way. Born a low-caste Jew
often anchors Book of V. as it
toggles back and forth through
time—an easy presumption to
make, maybe, of the novel’s most
contemporary character. Much like
Michael Cunningham did in The
Hours, though, Solomon (Leaving
Lucy Pear) has the gift of making
you sad to leave each protagonist as
her respective chapters end, before
plunging happily into the next. Like
Cunningham, too, she manages
a great novelistic trick: blending
real history and radical fiction into
one enthralling whole. AÐ

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F O U N D IN
T R A N S L AT I O N
S H E ’ S B E E N A L I T E R A RY STA R I N JA PA N
F O R OV E R A DECADE. NOW, WITH HER
FEMINIST MA STERWORK , MIEKO KAWAKAMI
IS FINALLY RE ACHI N G T H E U.S.
By David Canfield
A
ABOUT A MONTH OUT FROM THE
American launch of her novel
Breasts and Eggs, Mieko Kawakami
wants to make something clear:
“Fiction is not about sending a
message.” She’s preparing for a new
audience to read her work, and
hopes they take it on their own
terms. But the book is hardly arriv-
ing in a vacuum. This publication is
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loaded with meaning, the first time
a novel of hers has been translated
in English—despite more than a
decade of literary stardom.
Kawakami, 43, has found many
high-profile fans in her native
Japan. Writer Haruki Murakami
says she’s his “favorite young novel-
ist,” and also said of Breasts and
Eggs, “It took my breath away.” Her
style is singular, intimate and spe-
cific portraits of the Japanese
day-to-day, typically written in a
(very) distinctive Osaka-ben dialect.
Her politics—subversive, pointed,
and feminist—are embedded in
deeply human stories. But like many
other female Japanese authors (like
Yoko Ogawa, who broke out in the
U.S. last year with The Memory
Police), it’s taken a long time for her
work to reach this part of the world.
Partly, you could say, it’s because
she challenges the establishment.
Her readership developed via her
blog, which eventually got 200,000
hits a day; Breasts and Eggs started
in blog form, too, in the mid-2000s,
and “astonished literary conserva-
tives,” per The Independent, when it
won one of Japan’s highest literary
honors. Kawakami senses why. “The
characters and stories that appear
in Japanese literature tend to per-
petuate Orientalist views—the idea
that Japanese people are slightly
odd and mysterious, but harmless,”
she explains. “I don’t want to write
anything that helps to reinforce
that kind of a misunderstanding. I
made an effort to depict life as it
truly feels to live it in Japan.”
Divided into two parts, the novel
follows Natsu, a struggling writer
in Tokyo whose sister and 12-year-
old niece come to visit from Osaka.
The story evolves into a meditation
on motherhood, with Natsu con-
templating her very limited options
as a single woman in Japan. A knack
for the minutiae of everyday life
sings throughout, but Kawakami’s
prose sharpens as she explores the
CHARO: JON KOPALOFF/FILMMAGIC
mechanics of oppression—Natsu
considering artificial insemination
in a conservative culture, her sister
obsessing over potential breast
augmentation. Kawakami also pos-
sesses a poet’s soul. “[People] know
nothing lasts forever,” goes one
passage, “but still find time to laugh FICTION

M OV I E S / T V / M U S I C / B O O KS
and cry and get upset, laboring over REVIEWS
things and breaking things apart.”
The translation is by Sam Bett
and David Boyd, experts on Japa-
nese literature and culture. (They
also translated Kawakami’s inter-
view responses for this story.) Boyd
read Kawakami as a student in
Japan and recalls a class discussion
on whether elements of an earlier
version of Breasts and Eggs were
“untranslatable.” “[It] got me think-
ing about how I would translate
Mieko’s writing, if given the chance.”
(He’s since translated several
Kawakami stories into English.)
Of her stature, he says the author THE KNOCKOUT QUEEN PERFECT TUNES ALL ADULTS HERE
is “one of Japan’s brightest stars.”
Breasts and Eggs may take some
A U T H O R RUFI THORPE A U T H O R EMILY GOULD A U T H O R EMMA STRAUB
adjusting to as a reading experience. P A G E S 288 P A G E S 288 P A G E S 356
It presents a unique vision of
Japan—its sounds, its absurdities, its Michael is poor and Emily Gould is a great Meet the Stricks:
gay and vaguely goth; novelist, a fact that got widowed matriarch
pain—that simply isn’t found in
Bunny is the sporty a bit lost in the frenzy Astrid; her eldest, type
much writing available in English.
blond Amazon who surrounding her 2014 A construction mag-
Yet this speaks precisely to its value. lives in the marbled debut, Friendship (on nate Elliot; middle
Kawakami believes her novel holds McMansion next door. her tour, she spoke at child Porter, maker of
universal appeal, calling it “a story They have nothing length about an eve- artisanal goat cheese
about the joys and sorrows of people,” in common, really, ning spent with Lena and soon-to-be single
except that they’re Dunham, leading to a mother by choice;
neighbors—and that very public falling-out), baby of the family
neither quite fits into and that inconsistently Nicky, reluctant teen
the monied conformity emerges in her latest, heartthrob–turned–
MIEKO IS A STAR, of Southern California’s a tale of women, music, boho Brooklyn
NO QUESTION. THINK North Shore. So they and choices. The first wanderer; and his
ZADIE SMITH AND TAYLOR spend hours talking half is a treat, layered precocious 13-year-
about boys and in grimy pre–9/11 NYC old daughter, Cecelia.
SWIFT, COMBINED.Ó dreams and Drag Race nostalgia, as aspiring They have issues like
SAM BETT, BREASTS AND EGGS
CO-TRANSLATOR and wait impatiently musician Laura, 22, all families do: long-
to graduate. But when moves to the city and nursed resentments,
the social Darwinism falls for Dylan, a sexy, rivalries, secret love
adding: “This thing called life is truly of high school takes troubled drummer. affairs. But Emma
incomprehensible, and the feelings a darker turn, their In the tenuous bond Straub (The Vacation-
of shock and fear and resignation unlikely friendship between Laura and her ers, Modern Lovers)
is more than tested. buoyant roommate is in her sweet spot
created by this incomprehensibility
Through Michael’s Callie, Gould finds a with exactly this
are at the core of my writing.”
clear-eyed gaze, familiar groove, and her kind of breezy-smart
This is the first in a major three- Rufi Thorpe (The Girls spiky affection for New storytelling—even if
book deal between Kawakami and From Corona del York could sustain a her piling-on of certain
Europa Editions, her international Mar) unfurls a coming- whole book’s worth of strenuously 2020 topics
publisher: the latest big moment in of-age tale that asides on cramped stu- (trans kids, gentri-
a wild career. Did you know she feels both fresh and dios, scrappy artists, fication, late-life sexual
sang, too? Before her books went familiar: a shrewd and thwarted ambition. fluidity) can feel a little
global, before her blog went viral, exploration of all But Gould’s got more too tidily invoked. Like
she was a fixture on the J-pop the ways people find on her mind. The world Celeste Ng or Cynthia
to pass on the hurt changes; Laura makes D’Aprix Sweeney,
scene, releasing three albums. (She
and anger they’ve sacrifices in prep for she has the gift of
no longer sings in public.) Now it’s
been given and a a life in motherhood. investing what’s dero-
all writing, all the time. It hasn’t tender, furious ode to The final act lacks emo- gatively called “domes-
always been easy; she used to feel the connections that tional pull, a structural tic fiction” with a kind
“overwhelming tension” in the pro- somehow still endure, gambit that’s themati- of wit and heart that
cess. “I can be a real perfectionist,” despite everything. cally rich but never only seems easy when
she admits. Good news for us. � A– —LE AH GREENBL AT T quite in tune. B —DC it’s done so well. B+ —LG

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least six
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where all
the masks
went.

Showing remark-
Just remember, able restraint for a
the world Ryan Murphy produc- Coronavirus
can’t end until tion, it takes almost testing is so
after James nine minutes for slow you won’t get
Cameron releases someone in Hollywood results until George
Avatar 5. to say, “This is R.R. Martin publishes
Hollywood, kid!” The Winds of Winter
(which, silver lining,
he is actually
working on!).
Thanks,
late-night hosts,
for tastefully
filming quarantine
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palatial corners of
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part of living
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says Harley Quinn,
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imagines that Hillary’s
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plot against prevented #MeToo,
America will be a bold provocation we
if Zoe Kazan will properly analyze
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an Emmy. ing our hands every
The more 10 minutes.
we say “Hunker
Down,” the more
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handsome Canadian Tiger King’s
actor Greg Berlanti disturbing revela-
will cast on an tions about the
Arrow spin-off. unethical Big Cat
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virtual reunions.

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