- 5/16/13 /
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Benedict Cumberbatch, Out of Darkness
The Star Trek actor on playing the villain, Sherlock, and learning from Meryl Streep
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- 5/13/13 /
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Michael Douglas on Playing Liberace, His Son's Imprisonment, and Beating Stage-Four Cancer
After what he went through these past few years, the part was a piece of frosted cake.
- 5/11/13 /
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Richard Linklater’s Nine-Year Itch: The Before Midnight Director on Revisiting (and Revising) the Past
His career path may be erratic, but it is of a piece with a filmmaker fascinated by the meandering and discursive.
- 4/29/13 /
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Penn Badgley’s Mission to Reclaim His Own Celebrity With Greetings From Tim Buckley
Freed from the Gossip Girl machine, the actor is looking for a philosophy that he can truly embrace.
- 4/22/13 /
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An Afternoon With Mark Wahlberg
On his new film Pain and Gain: “It’s like a mash-up of Boogie Nights and Pulp Fiction and Fargo.”
- 4/22/13 /
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Salman Rushdie Turns Screenwriter for Midnight’s Children
“This is a very important book for me, it’s a book that actually gave me the confidence that I could be the writer I had hoped I could be.”
- 4/15/13 /
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The Defiantly Weird Wayne Coyne Gets Dark
His new album with the Flaming Lips, The Terror, is a jagged, dyspeptic ramble of hypnotic beats spiked with psychedelic echoes and atonal bleats
- 4/1/13 /
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19 Things You Learn by Following Eva Mendes Around
She wants to work with Pedro Almodóvar so badly she found his e-mail. And more.
- 3/25/13 /
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Shopping for Skulls and Talking Unibrows With Eva Mendes
The Place Beyond the Pines star doesn't mind getting ugly for a role—just don't get too personal.
- 3/18/13 /
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The Rise of the Rapping, Stripping, Snake-Charming Brooke Candy
With more than a million YouTube views and plenty of social-media notoriety, she hopes her debut album will push her into the mainstream.
- 3/4/13 /
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David Edelstein on His Acting Crush Rachel Weisz
The earnest, rational, slightly unknowable Weisz gets to be a bad girl again in Oz the Great and Powerful.
- 3/4/13 /
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Has the World Finally Caught Up With Post-Punk Author Sam Lipsyte?
A decade ago, publishers viewed him and his funny-bitter Gen-X alter egos as out of touch. A Times best-seller and new story collection, The Fun Parts, later, it’s clear the times have changed.
- 2/4/13 /
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Gael García Bernal Has No Interest in Mainstream Stardom, But He Would Play Zorro
He ducks zombies, goes on a Honduran odyssey, and plans to leave “crossing over” to Shakira.
- 1/21/13 /
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The Trials of Art Superdealer Larry Gagosian
For the past two decades, he's been the most powerful gallerist in the world by a wide margin. Now he’s facing two bruising lawsuits.
- 1/21/13 /
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Bret Easton Ellis’s Real Art Form Is the Tweet
He doesn’t write books much anymore.
- 1/8/13 /
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Nineteen Things You Learn by Following Jimmy Kimmel Around
Fun facts about the talk-show host, from the writer who shadowed him.
- 1/7/13 /
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Justified’s Walton Goggins Defends the South’s Good Name, In Bad-Guy Roles
“I would never have gotten the jobs I did without the advent of cable television, which brought back the kinds of raw, authentic leading actors you had in the seventies.”
- 12/24/12 /
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Listening to Beck: The Artist on His New Album, Which Isn’t Really an Album At All
He's still making music. Differently from anyone else.
- 11/26/12 /
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Ewan McGregor Morphs Into an Everyman for The Impossible
A pantsless Jedi no more.
- 11/19/12 /
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Can Whitney Cummings Get Some Respect?
“I am not a sociopath.”
- 11/12/12 /
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Eight Things We Learned From Jennifer Lawrence’s New York Times Profile
And what else we learned from her New York Times profile.
- 11/12/12 /
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Sally Field Spent a Decade Getting Into Character for Lincoln
“I’m not that bold, I’m not that tenacious. I certainly hadn’t been feeling that way for the last fifteen years of my life.”
- 11/5/12 /
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Solange Knowles: Singer, Producer, Blue Ivy Babysitter
Beyoncé’s younger sister relishes going it alone.
- 10/1/12 /
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How Edward Albee Is Still Redefining Himself, 50 Years After Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
The playwright used to get compared to his own merciless, apocalyptically bickering characters. Now 84, with a new production of Woolf set to open next week, he’s thawing — a little.
- 8/23/12 /
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David Byrne and St. Vincent Take A Chance On Brass
The two musicians talk about their new horn-heavy collaboration.