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Lisa Marie Presley’s Daughter Riley Keough Has a Daughter of Her Own “I hope I can love my daughter the way you loved me,” she shared at Lisa Marie’s memorial service.
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Nov. 19, 2021
Tom Petty’s Daughter on the Ambitious Future of His Legacy “I’d love to see a museum dedicated to my father. I think that’s an undertaking that will take a great deal of time.”
The Enduring Legacy of Buffy the Vampire Slayer The series was at its best charting women in moments of fraught transition.
What Would It Take to Strip New York City of Slaveholders’ Names? They’re everywhere, from streets to schools, and there’s a lot of red tape involved in changing that.
The Greatest Godfather Ending of Them All Coppola closed his trilogy with a grandiose, explosive ending that works not just as a finale to a single film, but to the entire series.
Eric Jerome Dickey Wrote Books We Couldn’t Wait to Grow Into The books were in the homes of my friends; their mothers left them unattended on nightstands. We held them close knowing they were for adults.
Christo Made Us Feel the Awe-Inspiring Impermanence of Human Achievement Some scoff at these works as mere spectacle. They are spectacle. But that isn’t nothing.
On Watching Mad Men in the Middle of a Pandemic You can see our world’s present-day crisis peeking through the negative spaces in Matthew Weiner’s 1960s saga.
How to Get Away With Murder Was Queer TV RoyaltyThe unsung legacy of the show that risked putting queer sex front and center on network TV.
Elizabeth Wurtzel Took Up Space, Even When the Literary World Wouldn’t Have Her She was often looked down upon by a literary community that saw her as too much everything.
John Baldessari Was Anything But Boring His art was mystically simple: splendid when it was good, entrancing and gleeful when it was great.
Transparent ’s Greatest Trans Legacy Is How Quickly It Grew IrrelevantThe cultural conversation Transparent helped usher in has made it so trans stories set even five years ago now read like historical fiction.
Transparent Changed TV As an Art FormIt defined an entire genre of TV comedy and opened new avenues for TV storytelling.
Selina Meyer Was Awful. That’s What Made Her Great. For seven years, she was the best kind of nasty woman.
What Is Game of Thrones ’ Legacy in Epic Fantasy? George R.R. Martin’s books, and the series they inspired, are a reflection of our anxious times.
Is Game of Thrones the Last Show We’ll Watch Together? It marks the end of the era of television as an epic, communal journey.
Luke Perry Made It Cool to Be Kind He set the template for the tenderhearted bad boy that pop culture still mimics today.
No One Deserves As Much Power As Michael Jackson Had We gave a performer carte blanche to live however he wanted because the music was more important to us.
The Complicated Legacy of Bernardo Bertolucci On the late director’s fearsome, beautiful films and the Last Tango in Paris controversy that haunts him, even in death.
The Many Legacies of Harlan Ellison The sheer size of his bibliography makes discussion of the influence of Ellison tricky.
Anthony Bourdain’s Crusade for Fine-Dining Democracy Nobody did more than Bourdain to reveal the grimy realities lurking under big-city restaurants’ luxurious veneer.
The Enduring Legacy of Roseanne , 30 Years Later The show’s originality resides above all in the character of Roseanne herself.
The Sopranos Ended 10 Years Ago — Yet Italian Restaurants Keep Its Legacy AliveA decade after the famous finale, memorabilia and stories are still fixtures in the city’s eateries.
Should Princess Leia Be Crowned a Disney Princess? One petition-making father of five girls thinks so.
Donald Glover’s Long, Strange Trip From Atlanta to Atlanta The comedian/writer/actor/musician has made a career out of redefining expectations.
The Story Behind The Get Down ’s Kung Fu Connection “If it wasn’t for Hong Kong cinema, hip-hop street dancing culture would be a bit different.”
Quentin Tarantino ‘Plans to Stop at 10’ Movies For those of you playing at home, that’s only two more films (Kill Bill counts as one film).
Why Roots Was So Important The nearly 40 years haven’t dimmed its ability to illuminate one of the grimmest aspects of U.S. history.
Idol Changed the Pop-Culture Landscape for GoodLike a big, glittery fire hose, Idol blasted a whole bunch of new faces, ideas, and concepts into our living rooms.
Garry Shandling Was One of American Television’s Greatest Artists He made the kind of comedy you could barely stand to look at, and couldn’t look away from.
The Decline of Harper Lee The iconic 88-year-old author is involved in a messy tussle over a new biography. Does this mean she’ll never tell her own story?
The Paradox of the First Black President As the historic administration nears its final year, African-American leaders debate: Did Barack Obama do enough for his own community?
The Paradox of the First Black President As the historic administration nears its final year, African-American leaders debate: Did Barack Obama do enough for his own community?
Key & Peele Knew How to Tell a Race JokeTheir willingness to skewer racial expectations is always accompanied by an optimism that we can be more than how society sees us.
Why Mr. Robot Is Not a Great Show (Yet) There’s something not quite there about it, and it’s frustrating.
The Alarming Math Behind Barack Obama’s Library The president’s foundation for his library and museum will likely be the most richly endowed in the nation’s history.
Jon Stewart May Be Irreplaceable…and That’s Just Fine In a hallway adjacent to the Lawrence High School auditorium, you’ll find the Hall of Honor, a collection of plaques plastered to the wall […]
Wet Hot American Summer ’s Undefinable Brand of Smart StupidityCall it dumb-smart, its dumbness freshly imbued with a deep, winking self-awareness.
The Rewriting of David Foster Wallace How the author of Infinite Jest became the center of a self-help cult.
David Letterman’s Lasting Impact: A Smudge on the Collective Unconscious The real-time creation of a talk show was every Letterman broadcast’s true subject.
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