Новости за 20.12.2021

The best post on Instagram right now is not a picture of someone’s pet, a baby, or a celebrity doing something untoward. It’s a CGI image of a smooth and rubbery dolphin being nuzzled by its small dolphin baby. The image itself is rendered in cool pastels, with the slick sheen of a Lisa Frank Trapper Keeper,…

Stanley Kubrick’s quasi-erotic thriller, 1999's Eyes Wide Shut, is a Christmas movie. Of this we can be sure because it takes place during Christmastime and Kubrick crammed yuletide ephemera into many of its frames (here’s a supercut of just the Christmas trees that appear in the movie). We also know Eyes Wide Shut is…

In an interview that ran on Monday’s Today show, Nicole Kidman said that the criticism that circulated when her casting as Lucille Ball in Being the Ricardos was announced got to her. “I’m a human being, so there’s time when you go, ‘Gosh, maybe I’m not the right person for this, but that’s where having somebody like…

Tennis star Peng Shuai has resurfaced in a 6-minute video for a Singaporean news outlet claiming she never accused anyone of sexually assaulting her. According to the English subtitles in the latest video, Peng Shuai left Beijing and traveled to Singapore to watch a ski competition. She claims she was able to do so…

There’s something in the air (other than covid) in New York City this holiday season that looks and feels a little bit like, ugh, I guess, love. Though I’d previously dismissed the lust that lives in the hearts and loins of Pete Davidson and Kim Kardashian as a PR ploy, I’m now ready to accept that maybe there’s…

The morning of April 29, 2021, my mom woke me up with a text that Josh Duggar had been arrested by federal authorities for possession of child pornography. I had fanatically watched the Duggars and the rest of the TLC reality shows in the early 2000s that focused on having way too many kids—either through a fluke of…