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EW
Entertainment Weekly is hiring writers! as long as those writers don’t want to get paid
Because why on Earth should a multibillion-dollar global corporation like Time Inc. have to pay its employees? That’s an unnecessary burden on a business.
Doctor Who thing: Steven Moffat threatens fans, wants to keep a lid on 50th-anniv promos
Comic-Con audience got two trailers, but no one else can see them (yet). What could possibly be the benefit to withholding trailers like this?
“Benedict Cumberbatch: Here’s how Sherlock survived his fall”
Spoiler: It’s not really a spoiler. But it does involve a small stuffed monkey. Naturally.
question of the day: Whither the American art film?
I will leave you to interpret that yourself. Has there ever been a genre of “American art film”? If not, why not? If so, where has it gone?
question of the day: Is it too soon for an Amy Winehouse biopic?
Is there a “right” amount of time after someone famous has died for a biopic to be considered? Who should be the ones to decide this: the family? the public? the studios?
things you need to know: toddlers make adorable fairy-tale prostitutes
If you were worried that tweens watching Pretty Woman at slumber parties meant they were coming to the “it’s so awesome to be a whore” concept too late, you may put your fears to rest.
question of the day: Jimmy Kimmell live via webcam: surprise success, or should he keep his day job?
I don’t watch Jimmy Kimmel Live, but I’m wildly intrigued by the episode that aired last night (which I only just heard about this morning). When Kimmel’s studio lost partial power on Monday night, laying low cameras and the control room, he turned on his laptop, fired up his webcam, and, as Dave Itzkoff at … more…
