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Time is a flat circle, especially when I am high and inside my couch looking at Vine on my phone. It is my most fulfilling comfort behavior—the closest, I think, someone can get to being in utero without actually being in utero.

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.

“I know they say you can’t go home again,” sings the lady in the saccharine new trailer for Fuller House, the Netflix sequel to the ‘90s sitcom Full House. But you can! You can!, the footage cries as it leads you through the empty-yet-familiar rooms of the Tanner’s San Francisco home. “Life is full again,” Netflix promises. I beg to differ, I whisper at my computer.

It is so wonderful to see civilians getting involved in the political process.

Brandy and Monica’s classic single, “The Boy Is Mine,” depicted the two singers vying for the attention of the same man, resulting in a stir of emotions for their fans back in 1998. Many asked, “Whose side were you on—Brandy’s or Monica’s?” Almost two decades later, Monica has revealed the truth about the meaning of the tune, as well as her and Brandy’s rumored rivalry.

Batingo! In tonight’s installment of The Big Bang Theory, CBS’s long-running adaptation of the Milgram experiment, Virgin Man Nerd (Jim Parsons) will have to decide between attending the premiere of Star War and fucking his girlfriend, Virgin Woman Nerd (Mayim Bialik). Will the nerds do sex stuff or will the nerds do nerd stuff?!

Celine Dion married Rene Angelil on this day in 1994. Please look at her absolutely astounding wedding ensemble. What’s the best part of this outfit? Trick question: All of it.

Was 2015 a good year for diversity in fashion magazines? Is it ever? The needle moves ever so sluggishly toward progression each year, but this wasn’t the best in terms of inclusion. Which is why Vogue insists that it’s on a mission to push forward.

Gigi Hadid was the star model at Tommy Hilfiger’s Spring 2016 runway show, and it looks like her hard work paid off. Next fall, Hadid will begin a run as Hilfiger’s newest global brand ambassador, and will launch a capsule collection called Gigi by Tommy Hilfiger. Not since Kendall and Kylie’s line for PacSun have we been so excited.

We have a vaccine against the virus that causes cervical cancer. It’s as safe as any other vaccine, and getting it for your tween son or daughter—or yourself, if you’re in your early twenties—is a no-brainer. Don’t buy into bogus exposés on “dangers” that don’t really exist.

Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO and corporate greed mascot Martin Shkreli is a busy guy. Earlier today he was arrested for securities fraud . But before the 32-year-old CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals got fingered by the long arm of the law, he kept up a busy livestreaming schedule on YouTube.

Writing about Donald Trump is a thankless task, made only faintly bearable by coming up with new ways to describe him. Below, an exhaustive list of every phrase this website came up with to talk about Trump in 2015.

Sing it with me now: Everyone’s talkin’ ’bout Staaar War/Everyone’s talkin’ ’bout Star Waaar. And a weather reporter in the U.K. used her forecast to incorporate a remarkable (perhaps Emmy-worthy) series of clever Star Wars puns.

“Y’all remember The Color Purple? And remember when Whoopi didn’t see her sister for a long, long, long, long, long time, and she was like, ‘Nettieeeeeeee!’? That’s how I felt. I felt like I was in The Color Purple,” is how viral star James Wright Chanel described meeting legendary diva Patti LaBelle for the first time. Chanel became a sensation via a video review of LaBelle’s WalMart sweet potato pie. The video created a buying frenzy and eventually landed Chanel a gig co-hosting a special on... Читать дальше...

A 15-year-old YouTube skateboard star has been arrested and charged with committing lewd acts on a child under 14, along with his 22-year-old manager and another skater, 27. Steven Fernandez, who’s nicknamed “Baby Scumbag,” is accused of luring a 12-year-old girl by promising to put her on a nonexistent MTV special if she performed sex acts.

If there was ever such thing as a funny rape joke, it’s this E! reporter struggling to talk to Leonardo DiCaprio about the rumors that he gets raped by a bear in The Revenant.

Comedies about naive Americans in the Middle East have been frequently attempted, but infrequently successful—it is all too easy to resort to stereotypes, to offensively make light of victims of real tragedy. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot could be the first to succeed where other studio films have flopped.

A new study looking at television portrayals of abortion found that fictional abortion patients are overwhelmingly younger, wealthier, and whiter than abortion patients in real life. “That’s true of everything on TV,” you could argue, correctly, but the authors point out it could contribute to public misunderstanding of the procedure.

For several years now, we have been in the throes of an era critics like to refer to as a “TV renaissance.” This ostensibly means that since the success of The Sopranos and The Wire, writers, directors and producers have been challenging themselves to make better, more literary and long-lasting series, built upon premises that are worthy of great literature (if not actually based on great literature). It’s gone so far that the medium once known as the brain-rotting “drug of a nation” is now so important that if you don’t watch... Читать дальше...

If David Foster saw Yolanda Foster slowly crawling to her beautiful refrigerator while moaning, “I’m so thiiiiiirsty, I’m so thiiiiiiirsty,” he would step over her, open the fridge, grab a bottle of S.Pellegrino for himself, and leave the room. Why? Because he doesn’t think she’s as sick as she claims.

Donald Trump, a tiny piece of dried cat poop that you found in your rug, went on Jimmy Kimmel last night to reiterate all of his Points about Things.

In a moment of rare national consensus, everyone quietly chuckled this morning when Bloomberg broke the news that Martin Shkreli, the pint-sized pharmaceuticals titan best known for inhumanely jacking up the price of a life-saving drug, has been arrested on suspicion of securities fraud.

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Natalie Portman is playing Jacqueline Kennedy in Jackie, a film directed by Pablo Larraín who also produced this year’s Nasty Baby and is helming the upcoming Neruda. The movie , set for release sometime in 2017, will take place following the days after President John F. Kennedy’s assassination in 1963.

We’ve seen a lot of outrageous wedding proposals in 2015. Ones that involved marching bands , Harry Potter , proposing at another person’s wedding and a particularly creepy proposal that required elaborate video editing. Just when we thought we were done with them for the year, one man decided to propose to his girlfriend using a major Texas freeway as the stage to declare his love.