Netflix Blurs Fact and Fiction With ‘Mank’ and ‘The Crown’

By Malcolm Jones

“Based on a true story” is Hollywood’s ultimate get out of jail free card, and it usually means you won’t learn much but you will have fun.

By Kevin Fallon

How creator Moisés Zamora faced off against the legacy of Latin music’s most beloved entertainer and Jennifer Lopez’s pitch-perfect film performance to create “Selena: The Series.”

By Marlow Stern, Kevin Fallon

WarnerMedia announced that its entire 2021 theatrical slate of movies would be going to HBO Max—and all hell broke loose. Marlow Stern and Kevin Fallon sort through the wreckage.

By Laura Bradley

Olivia Jade is out to prove that she knows the bribery scheme that got her into USC was wrong, and that she’s committed to making a change. Will the public buy it?

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By Steve North

Forty years ago, on the night of Dec. 8, 1980, John Lennon was murdered. And Steve North, a young broadcast reporter for the Long Island radio station WLIR, broke the news.

By Matt Wilstein

This veteran stand-up comic knows why it took so long to land her first special. “I was never the hot, skinny, flirtatious female comedian,” she tells “The Last Laugh” podcast.

By Nick Schager

The new HBO documentary “40 Years a Prisoner” revisits the events that led up to the infamous 1978 shootout between Philadelphia police and the Black revolutionary group MOVE.

By Laura Bradley

From getting locked up at the House of Mouse to shooting a pair of “horrible” films with Eartha Kitt in South Africa, the man behind Kronk has a lot of backstory to share.

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The visionary but troubled former CEO bought up swaths of property in Park City. But his world collapsed as he experimented with oxygen and sleep deprivation, drugs and alcohol.

In the middle of a pandemic that’s nearly wiped out international air travel, it’s hard to believe but the go-faster crowd are likely to get their dream—another Concorde.

The High Court’s ruling to limit access to puberty delaying medication for trans teens was the latest blow in what feels to many trans Brits like an endless onslaught of prejudice.

David Chang Swears by This Cheap-O Paring Knife, and So Do I

Your paring knife is meant to be used, not looked at.

Direct to Consumer cookware offers a lot more beauty than your standard run of the mill cookware, but is it worth it? Yes.

If you spend a lot of time staring at screens, LOOK OPTIC’s blue light glasses are just for you.

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