Each chronicle was the latest installment in a serial that began in 1492 and extended indefinitely into the future. A full-bearded Englishman (or Dutchman, or Scotsman, or Frenchman) landed on shores where everything was unfamiliar. After trial and triumph, the hero returned home to tell the tale.
Since its 1996 debut, Access Hollywood has aired nearly 12,000 episodes. Yet its most infamous segment was one that never made it to broadcast: in October 2016, weeks before the presidential election, The Washington Post obtained footage of then-candidate Donald Trump making lewd comments about women to Access Hollywood host Billy Bush.
The decision to cast 31-year-old Paul as the next Bachelorette was framed as a groundbreaking change of pace for the famously risk-averse juggernaut, aiming to breathe new life into the franchise.
I have never been more self-assured in life than I am now at 38. Every relationship in my lifefeels more secure with each waking day. I make more choices for myself now than I ever have,and I care far less about pleasing others than I ever did. But I still regularly pretend to be someone else - possibly even daily. Like Stephen, my formative years were spent playing a completely different character.
Dating while being in academia is difficult in a lot of ways, especially with my working style-I tend to go full throttle, for lack of a better word. So the full-on t
Going back to Renee Good, the idea that there was an ICE agent that was filming while involved in this life-or-death-you know, supposedly for him-situation, right? You're claiming that, but at the same time you're using your phone to document this.
In the fourth season of Industry, everyone has a story to sell: a neutered fund or loveless marriage, shamed husbands, a life aimless after retirement, a payment-processing firm hampered by its ties to porn and sex work. These labels seem to indicate mistaken priorities or misplaced trust. But they are just narratives to be refined or redefined. Everything is up for grabs if you tell the right story.
We don't need proof, says one short-seller out for the kill, because we finally have a good story to tell. Cooked books can be explained as simply a misalignment between the velocity of my vision and the velocity of regulation, according to the slippery fintech entrepreneur Whitney Halberstram. The gap in between is where smart people have always made money.
Over the last year or so, I have had a recurring dream in which I am a player on Survivor. It's not always the same dream, exactly, but the format generally holds: I have made it to the final seven or so, and I am fighting for my life. I don't think I would be good at Survivor, and that's how I always know it's a dream; I wouldn't sniff final seven.
If you haven't been living under a rock, you'd know that Heated Rivalry has taken the world by storm. Since its release, the gay hockey romance has gone from a niche fan favourite to a full-blown pop culture moment. In an extremely short amount of time, the two leads (Connor Storrie and Hudson Williams) have already gone on to present at the Golden Globes, appear on late-night TV, and even secured a confirmed second season.
Back in its 20-teens heyday - when cast members actually worked at Lisa Vanderpump's sexy, unique restaurant SUR - the series became must-see TV for its thorny, partner-swapping relationships. In a blog post reflecting on the first season of the show, Lisa lamented the "splintering of this incestuous group," terminology she and the network would return to again and again.
What's fascinating about this season of "Industry" is how well it speaks to this moment. Tender starts as a payment processing platform for adult content. The show references the very real (and still controversial) Online Safety Bill that the UK introduced, which has led to age verification and other enhanced rules for consuming adult content online. Because of its affiliation with adult content, Tender finds itself at odds with the new government's regulation and must pivot or die, as the saying goes.
The television show I'm most enjoying right now: There is a Hollywood story in David Niven's autobiography Bring on the Empty Horses, in which the screenwriter Charles MacArthur asks Charlie Chaplin how to make the comic pratfall scene of a person slipping on a banana peel new again. Chaplin suggests that MacArthur start with a lady walking down the street and cut to a shot of the banana peel on the sidewalk, which the lady steps over-right before she falls down a manhole.