Новости за 18.09.2018

On Sunday, in an interview with Queerty, former Sesame Street writer Mark Saltzman answered the question that’s been on everyone’s mind about Bert and Ernie. When asked, point blank, “In the writer’s room, you’re all adults. Were you thinking of Bert & Ernie as a gay couple? Did that question ever come up?” Saltzman…

The mystery woman from the Houston-area home surveillance video, seen frantically ringing the doorbell in the middle of the night with shackles hanging from her wrists, has given her first interview about the ordeal.

Two hundred and seven years ago this September, novelist Fanny Burney—whose works include Evelina and Cecilia—had a mastectomy. She wrote about the experience in detail that can only be described as excruciating.

The White House is launching a public relations campaign in the hopes of salvaging Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination and ushering in a new era of American conservatism on the high court.

A couple months ago, I bought some Pampers diapers for my baby and opened the box to find the unthinkable inside: a highly pleasant design. Gone were the Sesame Street characters that had at every diaper change reminded me of the ever-advancing creep of commodified childhood. Instead, there was a range of…

Nicole Holofcener first gained attention in 1996 for her powerful comic drama Walking And Talking, a film that also provided one of the first starring roles for her longtime collaborator Catherine Keener. Since then, she’s continued to follow her muse of small, intimate stories about troubled middle- to upper-class…

You can always save big at REI Outlet, it’s basically REI’s clearance page, but now you can take an extra 15% off your entire order with code OUTSEPT18. Some very notable items are included too, like Marmot’s Precip and Minimalist, both of which landed top spots in last week’s co-op for Best Rain Coats, while Smartwool

Over the weekend, Jared Leto—frontman of the unfathomably popular American rock band Thirty Seconds to Mars and intolerable yet highly hireable actor (Requiem for a Dream, Suicide Squeeze)—exited LAX wearing a bright pink hoodie printed with the names and salaries of America’s highest-paid models, organized by wealth,…

The first thing Rick MacArthur, the president and publisher of Harper’s Magazine—which last week published a long essay from former public radio host John Hockenberry regarding allegations of sexual harassment and workplace bullying—says to defend the piece on Anna Maria Tremonti’s CBC radio show is that Hockenberry…

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Brett Kavanaugh will not be able to sail through a Supreme Court nomination this week as Republicans had previously hoped: On Monday, the Senate Judiciary Committee plans to hear testimony from Christine Blasey Ford, who has accused Kavanaugh of attempted rape when he was 17 and she was 15, alongside testimony from…

Cher is in Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again for all of 10 minutes, but her forthcoming album of ABBA covers may prove to be more culturally significant than the film that inspired it.

For Kim Lawson, who began working at a McDonald’s in Kansas City, Missouri last year, sexual harassment seemed to come with the job. Almost immediately after she started, she said, a coworker began brushing up against her numerous times and went out of his way to be near her, always standing too close. He would give…

“A bit of earnest spontaneity in a world where everything is programmed,” is how my editor Clover Hope summed up the appeal of Glenn Weiss segueing from acceptance speech to marriage proposal during Monday’s Emmys ceremony. It’s true. It was a very nice thing that also harnessed the power of live TV to its fullest…

The last time Gucci came for the hearts of Directioners was in June, when the luxury brand revealed Harry Styles was one of its stars for an upcoming Gucci Tailoring campaign. In those images, Styles walked a mutt outside a chip shop, held a live chicken inside said shop (which seems a bit on the nose), offered some…

At Monday night’s 70th Annual Emmy Awards, diversity was a punchline. After an involved opening skit and musical number that referenced the diversity of the nominees, Regina King won best actress in the limited series category, ending a streak of white people winning, albeit briefly. Critical darlings like Atlanta…

The long-awaited trailer for Captain Marvel, starring Brie Larson, is finally here. She’s a fighter pilot! She falls from the heavens into a Blockbuster! She punches an old lady!

Just days after Rihanna hosted the fourth annual Diamond Ball to benefit the Clara Lionel Foundation, which works to give children all over the world access to education and health services, the artist and humanitarian has written an op-ed in the Guardian detailing the global education crisis and her desire to “be…

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There’s another royal wedding in the works across the pond, but Britons won’t be coming together one Saturday afternoon to watch it together, because it’s not going to air on television.

Stormy Daniels’s presidential tell-all Full Disclosure isn’t out yet, but the Guardian snagged a copy, which is why we now have a working description of Donald Trump’s dick.

Consider, if you will, the headlamp. I’m willing to bet that you’re picturing an elastic strap with a big lump on the front containing the light and the battery. That is, after all, how most of them are designed. But BioLite has a different idea.

It’s been more than a month since the last of the boys on the Thai soccer team were rescued from Tham Luang cave, and you know what that means: It’s finally not gauche for Universal Pictures to start developing a movie!

Pickles! Confusing, right? Are they cucumbers or no?? Kim Kardashian has been wondering about this for nearly a decade.

*Wipes sweat from my brow* Somehow we all survived an Emmy Awards hosted by Colin Jost and Michael Che! #MeToo jokes were made, diversity was lampooned, and interns were paraded. And in case you weren’t aware, many people tonight did win tiny golden statues who weren’t a part of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. So here are…