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Gunn, would this Rick James show be an original television series or a documentary? Westside Gunn: A television series. I don’t want to talk too much, but we’ve been talking twice a week to make this happen. Rick James’s brother was also his attorney, so he knows everything from the day Rick was born to

I was just trying to get jobs as an actor. Like I still do. So it’s probably 1984 or something like that. You know, you go in and they say, “Walk towards the camera.” You just went up for anything that would pay you some money. They said, “Yeah, all right. Come and do it.”

The moment I met Kamala, I knew I was in love. Not just because of who she is—the warm, funny, and compassionate woman who grounds our family—but also because of the deep resolve with which she fights for the causes she believes in. As we built our lives together, we began joining our families and

Former President of South Africa, Jacob Zuma, addresses a crowd in Johannesburg, April 23, 2009.Aexander Joe / Getty Images South African Flop Former South African President Jacob Zuma has been subject of many ignominious controversies, from rape allegations to a resignation in 2018 over corruption. He’s currently refusing to appear before South African courts. Among

“We need to know where the apartment is,” he told her. Estelle knew there must be thousands of apartments and homes within the dense tangle of streets crisscrossing the area covered by that cell tower. She began sifting through municipal records for a connection to the case. She studied arrest reports, registration documents, utility bills.

Kingsley Ben-Adir had less than two weeks to prepare for the role of Malcolm X in One Night In Miami before filming began in New Orleans. He spent most of that time waking up before sunrise and drilling the script into his memory, studying Malcolm’s dialect and consuming audiobooks and films on the revolutionary leader.

In the wake of last week’s riot at the Capitol building, the feds are presumably working day and night to track down everyone involved. For many of the rioters, this has apparently not been challenging. Some of the more prominent characters, like Jake Angeli, the “QAnon Shaman” who is currently receiving organic food for his

Of course, Vonnegut. There’s one part of it that’s great, when the American gets captured by the British soldiers, and the British soldiers are trained to, when they wake up in the morning, make their bed, do 20 minutes of exercise, 20 minutes of reading, polish their boots, shave. And although I don’t agree with

The first installment of Disney+’s long and expansive slate of Marvel shows arrives today in the form of WandaVision, which stars Elizabeth Olsen as Wanda Maximoff, a superhuman with telekinesis, telepathy, and reality-bending powers, and Vision (Paul Bettany), Tony Stark’s trusted A.I. sidekick turned sentient android. In the films, the two ex-Avengers fell in love;

The politician Andrew Yang has announced his candidacy for a new role: Mayor of New York City. In his campaign ad, “Why I’m Running,” Yang describes his relationship with the city—going, some might say, a little overboard—and describes his lofty aspirations, including fixing the Knicks, a hollow campaign promise if there ever was one. There’s

Wine in hand, Butler tried to answer his own question by talking about his ambitions and, more insightfully, all the things he loves. First and foremost, Jimmy Butler loves his daughter. He can’t get enough of her. She’s taught him that unconditional love does exist, even if she sometimes slaps him in the face in

Centineo is clearly still in the fun, unjaded phase of fame, where you love attention and embrace reporters. Where you’re unfazed by the 400 fangirls who write “I love you” or “Marry me” or “I had a sex dream about you last night ha ha” on basically every Instagram post. “I have an ego,” he

Is there anything specific in your career that prepared you to tackle something like this? Well, I think I have a sense of adventure in life that I bring to my films. I’m interested in the adventure of making a movie into going into the unknown. There’s other filmmakers, who in general, the studios prefer

Trump has been our first—and, god willing, our last—looks-first president. Indeed, he is a looks-only president, fond of describing appointees as “straight out of central casting.” He launched his presidential campaign with a hat, which quickly became an abhorrent symbol of white supremacy. He surrounded himself with an army of blondes. Female Trump supporters, peppered

Last week’s attack on the US Capitol is already one of the most unforgettable events in American history. The Capitol building was last breached when British forces invaded during the War of 1812. 209 years later, a mob of insurrectionists attacked the building at the behest of none other than the sitting, but on-the-way-out, US

The first message came on Christmas morning which, if the Trump administration has its way, will be Dustin Higgs’ last holiday. “I would like to do whatever I can do to shine a light on this most horrific thing named the death penalty,” Higgs wrote to me in an email from federal death row. “To

But few people are as famous, as ambitious, as Marvel-movie big, as Zendaya, who chooses mostly to keep private the hard work of growing into herself. Years ago, as a Disney Channel star, it seemed like she was intent on building her own mini empire, making every extension of her brand consumable. Today her objectives

Can you break down how you actually found him? Was there an article of clothing that unlocked everything or something? So the process began with an appeal. Can we find more pictures of this person? In the case of Zip Tie Guy, he had some clues. He was wearing a baseball cap from Black Rifle

Zendaya’s completed the journey from Disney star to top-tier, big-budget, headlining actor in record time, and she has the Emmy (for her starring role in Euphoria) to show for it. That doesn’t mean all this downtime’s been any easier for her. For GQ’s February cover profile, the hyper-talented 24-year-old actress dove into the existential stuff