Photo: Stuart C. Wilson / Stringer (Getty Images) We’ve known for a while now that The Grand Tour as we currently know it would be going away. Back in January, Clarkson, who was fired from Top Gear for punching a producer over a sandwich, told The Times of London that he’s too “unfit and fat … Read more
Aruba’s colonial history also meant documents were spread all over the place. “Our collection was scattered,” says Edric Croes, the head of archival conservation and management at the National Archives of Aruba. There were works to be scanned across the world, including in the Netherlands, Spain, the United States, and other islands like Curaçao. Establishing … Read more
Last Action Hero is unironically one of my favorite films of the 1990s. It was a critical and commercial disappointment, but the thirty years of distance since its release have helped paint it with a sheen of nostalgia. It’s a sharp and interesting extra meta send up of the kinds of action films star Arnold … Read more
Everyone grab your Prada backpacks and lace up your Sketchers, because 10 Things I Hate About You turns 25 today! The 1999 film, which stars Julia Stiles, Larisa Oleynik, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Gabrielle Union, and the late Heath Ledger, is one of the many noughties films that gave one of the Bard’s classics a more modern … Read more
In all of Sigmund Freud’s psychosexual musings, he likely never imagined the circumstance that Damian and Elizabeth Hurley created when filming the movie Strictly Confidential: a son directing his mother in a sex scene. “It’s interesting, people are getting very up in arms about this,” Damian tells Vogue, glancing over at Elizabeth. The mother-son duo … Read more
Richard Serra, the artist who reinvented the world’s conception of large-scale sculpture, died from pneumonia at his home in Long Island, New York, on Tuesday. Much has been written about the ways in which Serra, who was 85, transformed the landscape of the art world (and, in many cases, physical landscapes, from Spain to California … Read more
People say that you’re either into musical movies, or you’re not—but perhaps those in the latter group have simply never seen the very best examples from the genre. Ever since Hollywood’s first musical film was released nearly a century ago, in 1927 (The Jazz Singer), they’ve captured the hearts of moviegoers everywhere. Ginger Rogers and … Read more
Photo: Chris Elise/Icon Sportswire (Getty Images) “Yellowstone” star and aparrent idiot Forrie J. Smith posted on Instagram over the weekend that he was “kicked off” a flight and left stranded in Houston because he refused to sit next to another passenger who was wearing a mask. What a schmuck. The Chevy Trax and Buick Envista … Read more
The deeper research—to enter the mind of someone aware of his imminent mortality—led Sharp to unexpected places. “I worked quite extensively with a few different death doulas, which was not a profession I’d heard of.” Sharp sought out these non-medical professionals, whom he calls “the angels of society,” and became increasingly familiar with death. “It … Read more
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In its newly released third season, In the Dark joins The New Yorker to collaborate with writer Heidi Blake on a four-part series about the Dubai royal women who risked everything to flee Sheikh Mohammed. The Apology Line In the early 1980s, a phone number papers New York City’s streets, allowing strangers to spill their … Read more
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