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When the GQ team and I started planning a special edition of the magazine called the Modern Lovers issue, the mission was clear: We wanted to tell a bunch of love stories that we’d never heard before. No disrespect to Romeo and Juliet or Sid and Nancy, but what about marriage in the time of

And so it seems very natural to me that when you look at his later collaborations with women, whether they were with actresses like Meryl Streep or Glenn Close or Julia Roberts or Whoopi Goldberg, or with non-actors—writers like Nora Ephron and Ann Roth, the costume designer—not only was Mike not insecure about working with

This past weekend, Aaron Rodgers accepted his third MVP award with a minute-long speech in which he dropped a number of newsworthy tidbits in less time than it takes for an Oscar winner to get played offstage. The most discussed was the fact that he got engaged at some point last year. Though he chose

Between last year’s Super Bowl and last night’s Super Bowl, the country has been plagued with a pandemic, political unrest, and most of us abiding by little to no socializing of the physical sort. The more things change, however, the more they stay the same. The Super Bowl LV ads were littered with gimmicks, celebrity

Can you believe the Weeknd’s gotten this far? When Abel Tesfaye released the massively influential House of Balloons nearly ten years ago, he was cloaked in anonymity and cool. Now he’s amassed a catalog loaded with hits, he’s appearing in critically acclaimed films and not embarrassing himself, he’s collaborating with modern-day avant-garde luminaries, he’s on

And, despite the staunch individualism implied by a handle like “the Last American Man,” it was never Eustace’s intention that anyone would. From the outset, his vision has always been communal. He co-founded the Preserve with two close friends, hoping that, within a few years, they would all have families living on the property together.

Sometimes actions have consequences, even for a successful white man in Nashville. That’s the conclusion you might draw after the country music industry’s apparently swift and unequivocal response to a video showing Morgan Wallen using the phrase “pussy-ass n****r” as he returned home with friends after a night out. The video, taken by the 27-year-old

I think it was problematic for Warner Bros. at the time. I had an exec there tell me one time, “This is a great script, it just needs a different ending. It needs to have a more formulaic ending. We need to know because the audience won’t take this.” To a degree, I’m sure he

Even if you were able to accept the split rationally, as an amicable parting of ways, there’s still this hard truth to swallow: The Patriots didn’t pay to keep Brady around. They let him walk, only to turn around and see that his 43-year-old revenge body was just fine without them, pliable enough to make

When videos surfaced of Kyrie Irving — the enigmatic Brooklyn Nets guard who delights and infuriates fans in equal measure — walking the edge of the court in Boston holding a burning smudge stick in his hand, the kinds of responses you’d expect filled social media. People made jokes about Irving cleansing the bad vibes from his

Passing pairs Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga as old friends who lead very different lives thanks to one crucial detail. Rebecca Hall makes her directorial debut with this adaptation of Harlem Renaissance writer Nella Larsen’s tale of two childhood friends who reunite as adults. Irene (Thompson) has settled into life as a philanthropist and wife

By the early 2010s, pop music had forgotten how to embody the future. This, at least, was the view of Mark Fisher, the British critic and theorist who thought the cultural output of the early 21st century was defined by the persistence of the past. “It doesn’t feel like the future,” he wrote in Ghosts

There’s never been a great reason for the Golden Globe Awards to exist. At best, they’re a kind of diet soda version of other awards shows, a slimmed-down combination of the Oscars and the Emmys, At worst, they’re a pale imitation of those institutions that devalues the loftier honors by throwing out nominations and awards

Rodney Ascher doesn’t need to take the red pill to explore how deep the rabbit hole goes. The documentary director has made a career out of burrowing into the dark recesses of these modern times. His debut feature, 2013’s Room 237, looked at viewers who promote alternate readings of Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, while The

Bly’s book and accompanying gatherings sparked national attention (and plenty of blowback), but by the mid-90s his moment had largely dissipated. Now, in this age of post-Me Too reckoning, men’s groups with similar DNA have sprung up again–but this time with less Jung, greater diversity, and a lot of social media-savvy (similar nouveau-mythopoetic men’s groups

Are you two in talks for another collaboration sometime soon? Yes, we do have something in mind. It’s something he wrote a long time ago, and he never got it made. Now he’s refined it, and he wants to shoot it. Hopefully it’ll be this summer we’ll be filming. I would say, without giving the

Was that a big focal point in the original script? What I felt it was doing in the original script was creating a sense of the sort of danger that the kids are in when they’re left on their own, and when their grandmother can’t take care of them because of her illness. But then

It does not bother the members of PrettyMuch when people call them a boy band: Brandon Arreaga, Edwin Honoret, Nick Mara, Austin Porter and Zion Kuwonu embrace their place in history. That’s because they haven’t had to check their individual identities at the door. Where Zayn had to leave One Direction before he was allowed

I read a piece in the Times about how the FBI is going to build the cases against people who rioted at the Capitol a couple of weeks ago, and one of the participants in this Facebook page was actually a longtime informant. Felix’s account probably would have become FBI evidence of the conspiracy to

Lurie only lightly touches on this backstory in his show, which comes with a simple credo: Creativity is the only survival tool for cursed times. The show’s set-up is simple, too. Lurie, who has become a collected and well-respected painter since giving up the saxophone, paints from his home in an undisclosed location in the