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    How the Sitcom Mirrored, and Shaped, Your Idea of New York CityAn excerpt from The Encyclopedia of New York.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
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    Were Cary Grant and Randolph Scott Really Lovers?Many have speculated about this relationship. A new book about Grant looks at the evidence.
    By Mark Glancy
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    How Steven Universe Made Its Lesbian Space Rock WeddingA behind-the-scenes look at the landmark double episode.
    By Chris McDonnell
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    Jerry Seinfeld Reflects on Coronavirus, Death, and InfomercialsAn excerpt from his new book.
    By Jerry Seinfeld
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    How Emilia Clarke Kept Her Health Issues a Secret While Filming Game of Thrones“I spent a lot of time just being like: ‘Am I gonna die?’”
    By James Hibberd
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    Why ‘Donna Martin Graduates’ Is the Essential Beverly Hills, 90210 Episode“You sound like Spiro Agnew.”
    By Tara Ariano and Sarah D. Bunting
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    How Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant Filmed One of the Sexiest Scenes of All TimeBehind the intimacy of Notorious.
    By Dan Callahan
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    Can You Hack the Jeopardy! Buzzer?Different schools of thought have emerged.
    By Claire McNear
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    Sleeping With Andy WarholIn 1962, a young poet named John Giorno met the Pop Art god, who in turn made him his first superstar. For a little while, they were in love.
    By John Giorno
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    How the 2,000-Year-Old Man Was BornThe story of Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner’s popular sketch involves a tape recorder, Cary Grant, and Queen Elizabeth.
    By Carl Reiner
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    I Tried to Be Twitter-FamousDespite how much I failed, I was convinced I needed to be if I ever wanted to make my mark on the literary world.
    By Shayla Lawson
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    An Oral History of The Office’s Insane Fire Drill EpisodeAn excerpt from Andy Greene’s The Office: The Untold Story of the Greatest Sitcom of the 2000s.
    By Andy Greene
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    Kenny Rogers Was Never Just One Kind of ArtistPop-country owes a debt of gratitude to the late singer and his debut hit “Lucille.”
    By Kenny Rogers
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    Penny Marshall Hated Working With Barry Sonnenfeld on Big“She truly disliked me as her cinematographer.”
    By Barry Sonnenfeld
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    The History of Lip-SyncingAn excerpt from Legendary Children: The First Decade of RuPaul’s Drag Race and the Last Century of Queer Life.
    By Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez
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    When Carrie Fisher Hung With the SNL CrowdInside the hard-party days that fueled and finished her friendship with John Belushi.
    By Sheila Weller
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    ‘It’s Been One Hell of a Ride’: Robert Evans Looks Back on His Legendary LifeDecades before his death at 89, the Paramount Pictures executive published a notorious account of sex, drugs, and politics in Hollywood.
    By Katherine Brooks
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    A Guide to Asian Restaurants, by Ali WongAn excerpt from the comedian’s new book, Dear Girls.
    By Ali Wong
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    When Was Diane Keaton the Most Charming in Something’s Gotta Give?An excerpt from Shea Serrano’s new book.
    By Shea Serrano
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    A Party Room and a Prison Cell: Inside the Friends Writer’s RoomIt was like a vampire, forever hungering for fresh blood to suck.
    By Saul Austerlitz
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    The John Candy Joke That Still Makes Steve Martin CryAn excerpt from the new book Wild and Crazy Guys.
    By Nick de Semlyen
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    Women Artists on Their Favorite Artworks at Their Local MuseumsFor a new book, It Speaks to Me, Jori Finkel asked 50 artists to discuss an artwork they find inspiring.
    By Vulture Editors
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    The Dream TeamCruise, Kidman, Kubrick, and the making of Eyes Wide Shut.
    By Brian Raftery
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    ‘The Unthinkable Has Happened’You learn to believe in your child’s existence. What happens when she’s killed by a piece of your daily environment?
    By Jayson Greene
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    Hear Logic Commit Murder in Audiobook Clip From His Debut Novel, SupermarketThe rapper’s debut novel, the dark comedy Supermarket, is out today.
    By Dee Lockett
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    ‘Imagine a Woman Like Barbara Walters … and I’m the New Bitch There’Jenny McCarthy on her year from hell on The View.
    By Ramin Setoodeh
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    Almost Nothing in Arthur ‘Weegee’ Fellig’s Greatest Photo Happened by Accident“With this picture,” he said, “I matured as a photographer and human being.”
    By Christopher Bonanos
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    What We Can Learn About Gender From The MatrixTrans women have claimed it as an allegory for gender transition since at least 2012. But allegorically is the least interesting way to read anything.
    By Andrea Long Chu
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    Rick Rubin and the Early Days of Hip-hop in New York CityAn excerpt from the book Walk This Way: Run DMC, Aerosmith, and the Song That Changed American Music Forever 
    By Geoff Edgers
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    Does Tony Live or Die at the End of The Sopranos?Matt Zoller Seitz and Alan Sepinwall debate TV’s most famous ending.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz and Alan Sepinwall
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    SpongeBob SquarePants and the Indestructible Faith of ImaginationAlways hold on to your magic pencil, kids, and remember that mayonnaise is not an instrument.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
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    The Oral History of ‘San Junipero’How Black Mirror made its most hopeful story, as told by its creators and stars.
    By Charlie Brooker, Annabel Jones, and Jason Arnopp
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    There Will Never Be a Man As Perfect As The Office’s Jim HalpertAn excerpt from Lane Moore’s new book How to Be Alone.
    By Lane Moore
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    The Genderqueer Tale of “Take a Walk on the Wild Side”’s Jackie Curtis“I’m not a boy, not a girl — I’m just me, Jackie.”
    By Kembrew McLeod
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    A Tribe Called Quest and the Art of the MixtapeAn excerpt from Hanif Abdurraqib’s book Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest
    By Hanif Abdurraqib
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    How Chris Gethard Learned to Stop Trying to Fit In and Just Do His Own ThingAn excerpt from Gethard’s new book Lose Well.
    By Chris Gethard
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    The Making (and Unmaking) of Paul’s BoutiqueThe Beastie Boys made a masterpiece. And then they were foiled by Donny Osmond.
    By Michael Diamond and Adam Horovitz
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    Lin-Manuel Miranda Wrote a Poem Just for You“I wanted to wish you good morning.”
    By Lin-Manuel Miranda
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    Ellie Kemper Is a Rooster and a WarriorAn excerpt all about SoulCycle from Kemper’s new book My Squirrel Days.
    By Ellie Kemper
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    The Story Behind the Friends Classic, ‘The One With the Embryos’More widely known as the one with the trivia contest, it’s touted as either the all-time greatest episode of Friends, or a close runner-up.
    By Kelsey Miller
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    How Phoebe Robinson Hustled Her Way Out of $65,000 in DebtShe calls it the “seven‑year‑debt saga.”
    By Phoebe Robinson
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    Eric Idle on the Enduring, Powerful Legacy of the Song He Wrote As a JokeHow Monty Python’s “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life” took on a life of its own.
    By Eric Idle
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    How Hiring a Superstar Wrecked New York City OperaThe board thought Gerard Mortier would save the company. Instead, its promises to him doomed it.
    By Heidi Waleson
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    The Object Joss Whedon Will Never Let GoAs seen in an excerpt from the new book What We Keep.
    By Bill Shapiro
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    The Deals Behind Steven Spielberg’s Biggest YearHow Michael Ovitz helped get Jurassic Park and Schindler’s List made.
    By Michael Ovitz
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    How BoJack Horseman Got MadeThe origins of TV’s favorite alcoholic, narcissistic, self-destructive talking horse.
    By Chris McDonnell
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    I Was Raised by StormBlack Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson on how the Marvel heroine influenced his activism.
    By DeRay Mckesson
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    The Conspiracist Manual That Influenced a Generation of RappersHow Behold a Pale Horse found its way to the Wu-Tang Clan, Mobb Deep’s Prodigy, Busta Rhymes, Tupac Shakur, NAS, and more.
    By Mark Jacobson
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    Death, Grief, and Comedy With Adam Cayton-HollandAn excerpt from his new book, Tragedy Plus Time: A Tragi-comic Memoir.
    By Adam Cayton-Holland
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    Guy Branum Wants to See More Real Fat People on TVAn excerpt from his new memoir, My Life as a Goddess.
    By Guy Branum
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