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In the second season of Transparent, Amazon’s Emmy-winning series about the ever-changing relationships of a newly out transgender woman and her family, no one knows what they want. Maura (Jeffrey Tambor), is confronted by a host of surgical and hormonal options for her transition, doesn’t know what she wants to do with her body. Sarah (Amy Landecker) is aimless (and increasingly horny) after calling off her marriage to Tammy (Melora Hardin). Josh (Jay Duplass) and Raquel (Kathryn Hahn) know what they want for themselves... Читать дальше...

The New York State Young Republicans—not to be confused with the New York Young Republicans, whose website is much nicer—is a scrappy group. Outnumbered in their home state, and somewhat less maniacal than their southern counterparts, its members seem to need a fancy Christmas gathering more than most; the occasion seemed as good a chance as any for members to keep each other warm on this tiny ideological lifeboat called life, navigating the chilly waters of northern liberalism.

The new Star Wars movie reportedly passes the Bechdel test. Doubt that.

On the tails of the likely dreadful Adam Sandler blah-fest, Netflix has announced they’ll be releasing the amazingly-titled comedy Divanation, which will reunite First Wives’ Club stars Goldie Hawn, Bette Midler, and Diane Keaton. Sing it with me: YOU DON’T OWN ME DA DA DA DAAAAA.

In Flint, Michigan, the number of children with “above-average” lead in their blood has doubled in the last year. The change is tied to the city swapping its water source from Detroit’s financially troubled water system to the Flint River. In Detroit, in the meantime, 9,200 Detroit residents are facing water shutoffs, escalating the city’s already profound water crisis. Michigan, what is going on?!

Here’s your first taste of footage from Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, the Harry Potter prequel that follows Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne), expert on magical animals and monsters (and writer of textbooks assigned to Hogwarts students), on his mishap-stricken adventure through New York City’s underground magic world.

The February 1934 issue of Modern Screen led off with a bombshell. The fan magazine had finally gotten Norma Shearer to share her biggest secrets—things long whispered about in Hollywood but which nobody imagined the actress would ever admit. She was a leading box office draw, but before she hit it big, she’d had to overcome what the magazine called “terrific handicaps,” “more physical defects than almost any star has had.” Finally, Shearer was willing to discuss them on the record.

In late November, rapper Killer Mike of Run the Jewels gave Bernie Sanders a firey introduction before an Atlanta rally , telling the crowd, “I am here as a proponent for a political revolution.” On Tuesday, he released a six-part, highly watchable interview with Sanders, conducted after that rally in his barbershop, the SWAG Shop.

“I always used to eat Milk-Bones as a kid. I thought they were very good,” Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina said in a video for IJ Review, before taking a bite of one, spitting it out, and attempting unsuccessfully to feed it to a dog.

Because we cannot get our fill of dystopian worlds where children brutally fight to the death, Lionsgate, the studio responsible for the Hunger Games films, is contemplating the possibility of prequels . But when Jennifer Lawrence was asked to comment at the Joy premiere, she called out the scheme as bullshit.

Space was the place for Monday night’s red carpet premiere of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, probably the most-anticipated movie in American history or at least since The Revenant. Not even at ComicCon have we seen such a confluence of high-fashion glamour and utter commitment to nerddom unite in one common goal, but such is the power of George Lucas (and JJ Abrams, cinematic dictator of space).

As a sort of advent calendar of kitsch, Pictorial will be counting down the final twelve days before Christmas by featuring some holiday presents of days gone by.

Today in deals, the weather gets wireless, Anker breaks into the bluetooth market, and Amazon’s your new router. Commerce Content is independent of Editorial and Advertising, and if you buy something through our posts, we may get a small share of the sale. Click here to learn more.

In a timely and brave show of solidarity with Christian Santa, 36 House Republicans signed onto a resolution Monday defending Christmas, a holiday that is basically illegal now. The resolution notes that the lawmakers “strongly disapproves of attempts to ban references to Christmas.”

You thought we might have an Iggy Azalea-free year? Oh ho ho, mais non, bright-eyed cheries. In a 2015 surprisingly packed with music that did not totally inspire us to fantasize about the industry being obliterated to flaming apocalyptic dust, there was still a lot to complain about. Lucky for you, we at Jezebel have tongues as sharp as our minds, and opinions as big as our... dicks?... and have once again scoured the hellish annals of our iTunes trash to bring you the undebatable worst joints of the year... Читать дальше...

During an appearance Monday night on The Tonight Show, Tina Fey told Jimmy Fallon about the time she met lumbering human-like tardigrade Donald Trump this year and lived to talk about it.

Every school in the Los Angeles Unified School District was shuttered on Tuesday after an unspecified, wide-ranging threat was called in.

In Missouri, a local Republican is pitching a law that would strip athletes of their scholarships if they participate in protests. The legislation is a response to the University of Missouri football team refusing to play during recent student civil disobedience at their Columbia campus, and a very bad response at that.

Last week, a United Nations working group focused on discrimination against women in the United States published their findings—they are bad, bad findings.

Beth Ditto just announced that the debut of her new plus-size clothing line is imminent and scheduled for February, thus offering a second chance to those of us who never bought anything from her 2009 collection for Evans and continue to rue that dreadful mistake.

Christina Aguilera had a better time at Seth MacFarlane’s “annual over-the-top” Christmas party than I thought it was possible to have at Seth MacFarlane’s “annual over-the-top” Christmas party. Page Six’s reporting of the incident is making me incredibly jolly this Tuesday morning, and I wish it were three times as long.

A 57-year-old Washington man has been arrested and charged in federal court with threatening employees of StemExpress, the biotech firm that used to work with Planned Parenthood to collect fetal tissue donations. Scott Anthony Orton, 57, allegedly wrote on FoxNation, “Kill StemExpress employees. I’ll pay you for it.”

In news that will scarcely impact how miserable it is to fly, United States airlines are reaching their destinations on time more often than ever before. In fact, the second half of 2015 saw performance records that were “among the best ever.”

On December 10 NBC premiered Coat Of Many Colors, a biopic about Dolly Parton and her family. The movie, which “received NBC’s biggest ratings on Thursday night since the 2009 series finale of E/R” has inspired interest in Parton’s family life and, in the spirit of the holidays, she has shared her first experience splurging on her parents after shooting to fame.

On Sunday night, 24-year-old trainer Ethan Renoe went for a run in the rain during his stay in Chicago. As some men are inclined, Renoe chose not to wear a shirt during said run due to the inclement weather. A reporter for WGN stopped him to discuss both the weather and Renoe’s shirtlessness, the latter of which afforded Chicago an aesthetically pleasing view. Renoe took this opportunity to announce that he is single, and now everyone is cuckoo bananas over the rain-slick athlete.