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About 40 minutes into his 1976 grimy neo-noir drama Taxi Driver, Martin Scorsese appears in the back seat of protagonist Travis Bickle’s cab with a series of demands. He orders Bickle (Robert De Niro) to pull over to the curb, put the meter back on, and just sit. “I don’t care what I have to pay,” Scorsese says in a pushy New Yorker’s staccato. “I’m not getting out.” He then directs Bickle’s gaze toward a silhouette of a woman in a second-floor window, explains that it’s his wife in another man’…
about 1 year ago
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No one on the newest iteration of the dating show is trying to become an influencer or launch a tequila brand. It’s just a bunch of earnest boomers looking for a second—or third, or fourth—chance at romance.
about 1 year ago
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Twitter’s name and blue bird logo are no more. Moving forward, the platform will be called X. What does that mean? What’s behind Musk’s decision? And what does this signify about where the company formerly known as Twitter is heading?
over 1 year ago
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Ryan Gosling’s character in ‘Barbie’ brings to life a question that has plagued the doll for more than 60 years: What kind of man can Ken be in the shadow of a woman who’s designed to be larger than life?
over 1 year ago
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How David Grann ascended from magazine journalist to the muse of Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio, and a myriad of others in Hollywood
over 1 year ago
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Sunday’s nuptials marked the series’ third ceremony set piece—and the third time the specter of Logan Roy loomed over the proceedings. The people behind those scenes talk about the always lavish—and always dysfunctional—events.
over 1 year ago
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When the E! show that birthed America’s most famous family ends Thursday night, it’ll do so having revamped the concept of celebrity altogether
over 3 years ago
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What started as a TikTok trend in the middle of the pandemic became a Disney-sanctioned, one-night-only virtual Broadway show helmed by Jeremy O. Harris. Here’s how it all happened.
almost 4 years ago
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Once in a while, a movie so unsettlingly bizarre comes along that you can only look to the sky and say, “Why?” This is one such movie—but instead of petitioning the gods above, three Ringer staffers found solace in each other’s horror/confusion.
about 5 years ago
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Eighteen years after its launch, iTunes is going the way of the 8-track—but we’ll never forget the joy of compiling our first digital music libraries
over 5 years ago
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When the series ends in May, so will an era of collectively watching—and obsessing over—television. What made ‘Game of Thrones’ the last popular TV show?
over 5 years ago