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  1. profile
    Alia Shawkat, Through the Looking GlassWhat the Search Party actress has learned from her tabloid year.
  2. role call
    Patrick Fugit Answers Every Question We Have About Almost FamousFugit tells us about his crush on Kate Hudson, the legendary cast parties, and Bijou Phillips’s attempts to “corrupt” him.
  3. friday night movie club
    The Bittersweet Experience of Watching Almost Famous 20 Years OnThe movie is, by Cameron Crowe’s own admission, based on actual things that happened to him. Two decades later, it feels like his biggest fantasy.
  4. remember that time
    Kathryn Hahn and Tamara Jenkins Break Down Private Life’s ‘Vagina-Vagina’ SceneThis one goes out to all the women sitting absolutely pantsless in front of their screens right now.
  5. backstories
    Cameron Crowe Is Finally Ready to Tell Us Vanilla Sky’s SecretsThe director reflects on his famously divisive sci-fi thriller, which envisioned an empty, virtual city long before our current predicament.
  6. coronavirus
    Zoey Deutch’s Quarantine Hobbies: Recovering, Cooking, Crying Over ShallotsThe Politician and Buffaloed actress contracted COVID-19 before shutdown. That doesn’t mean she missed the internet’s latest food drama.
  7. crystal balls
    Mary-Kate Olsen Will Date Cara Delevingne: A Mystical PredictionHear us out.
  8. cabin fever
    Mandy Patinkin Contemplates Mortality and GIFs From Inside His CabinThese videos have been elevated to meta commentary.
  9. role call
    Vivica A. Fox Answers Every Question We Have About Set It OffThe actress talks ad-libbing on the roof, almost losing her role to Rosie Perez, and how Will Smith helped her prepare for her audition.
  10. backstories
    How Normal People Does Sex So GoodThe making of Connell and Marianne’s genuinely hot (but never pornographic) sex scenes.
  13. role call
    Minnie Driver Answers Every Question We Have About Return to MeAnd getting “pantsdrunk” on Instagram, bad celebrity behavior in quarantine, and the origins of her infamously raunchy Good Will Hunting joke.
  14. a long talk
    Not So Normal AnymorePaul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones are the heart of Normal People’s sexy, angsty romance. And now they’re famous.
  15. the last dance
    The Only Good Look Is Michael Jordan’s ’90s Practice UniformThe Last Dance has entirely changed my quarantine wardrobe.
  16. role call
    Kate Beckinsale Answers Every Question We Have About SerendipityAnd talks Instagram humor, John Cusack’s lack of skating skills, and the unlikely male Serendipity fans who still approach her today.
  17. a long talk
    Allow Fiona Apple to Reintroduce Herself“Nowadays, I try to remember who I was before all this started.”
  18. as told to
    The Story Behind Every Track on Fetch the Bolt CuttersFiona Apple reached into the past to confront her rapist, middle-school bullies, and herself.
  19. anonymous in hollywood
    I’m a Famous Actor and I Think It’s Disgusting We Can Get Tested for COVID-19“Here I am, able to get a test because I have a doctor who has one, and I feel a lot of shame about that.”
  20. larry you're a jew again
    How to Have a Very Uncut Gems PassoverThis year, we should all lean deeply into crazy and emulate our modern Jewish icons of drama and anxiety: the Ratners.
  21. profile
    Her Dark MaterialsWith Never Rarely Sometimes Always, Eliza Hittman takes on the “bureaucratic odyssey” of getting an abortion in the U.S.
  22. love in the time of corona
    A Coronavirus Diagnosis Won’t Stop Chloe Fineman’s InstagramThe SNL star recaps her fake Instagram wedding, which she pulled off while sick.
  25. dance dance revolution
    Crying and Twerking Through the Apocalypse With The OA’s Ryan HeffingtonHeffington is starting a revolution from his living room: cathartic Instagram dance classes, attended by upward of 6,000 strangers.
  26. friday night movie club
    Moonstruck Is the Morbid Spaghetti Rom-Com We All Need Right NowHere are five reasons you should all watch Moonstruck with me in these strange, semi-apocalyptic times.
  27. hoaxes
    Daniel Radcliffe and Erin Darke on Being the First Celebrity Coronavirus HoaxThe long-time couple talk about where they were when they first heard the rumor, how they’re quarantining, and laughing off years of unhinged gossip.
  28. it's like inevitable
    Are the Celebrities Okay?An investigation into the bonkers — and often wonderful — world of celebrity quarantine Instagram.
  29. it's cinema
    The Women of Portrait of a Lady on Fire Believe Their Movie Can Save the WorldDirector Céline Sciamma and stars Adèle Haenel and Noémie Merlant debate the power of a lesbian period drama.
  30. role call
    Rosanna Arquette Answers Every Question We Have About Desperately Seeking SusanThe actress talks falling in love with Madonna, where that jacket is now, and what it feels like to know Harvey Weinstein is behind bars.
  31. the simulation
    I Can’t See My Family Right Now, So I Rebuilt Them As SimsAs the world around me falls to shit, what I really want is simulated quotidian life.
  32. vulture recommends
    You Too Can Find Love While Social DistancingTake it from these 13 rom-coms, whose objectively sterile meet-cutes are inspiring.
  33. quarantunes
    Ariana Grande Invented Staying HomeShe has been wearing a sweatshirt for years, exclusively owns beanbag chairs, and her lyrics have long urged us to stay indoors.
  34. quarantine inspo
    Let Nancy Meyers Inspire You to Self-QuarantineSome social-distance-spo from Nancy Meyers: Stay home, make a chocolate croissant, and put it under your face like a beard.
  37. brad pitt
    Now Is the Perfect Time to Watch Meet Joe BlackTrick yourself into staying home with a three-hour movie about Brad Pitt being Death and also a virgin.
  38. let us discuss
    Let’s Discuss Our Landslide of Emotions Over the Dixie Chicks’ ‘Gaslighter’Fourteen years later, the Chicks still have the right to be mad.
  39. role call
    Peter Gallagher Answers Every Question We Have About While You Were SleepingThe actor goes deep on falling asleep for the camera, eyebrow grooming, and the time he was almost run over by Roger Ebert.
  40. oscars 2020
    The Highs, Lows, and Whoas of the 2020 OscarsFrom Parasite’s winning streak to Eminem’s surprise appearance to Olivia Colman’s sex confessions.
  41. oscars 2020
    Diane Keaton and Keanu Reeves Shamelessly Flirt Onstage at the OscarsOh, what might have been for Something’s Gotta Give’s Erica and Julian!
  42. sundance 2020
    Alison Brie Based Horse Girl on Her Own Mental Health HistoryFeeling uninspired by the roles coming her way, Brie co-wrote the Netflix film based on her family’s history of schizophrenia and depression.
  43. sundance 2020
    12 Movies We Loved at SundanceHere are a dozen of our favorites from the 2020 film festival — just know that there are at least a dozen other movies we could have easily included.
  44. miss americana
    18 Things We Learn About Taylor Swift in Her Documentary Miss AmericanaThe superstar’s new doc, directed by Lana Wilson, reveals a lot: An eating disorder, the story behind her political awakening, and a cat backpack.
  45. sundance 2020
    Julia Louis-Dreyfus on What She’d Do If Her Husband Bolted During an AvalancheThe Downhill star explains the risky challenge of adapting the dark Swedish comedy Force Majeure alongside Will Ferrell.
  46. sundance 2020
    Kirsten Johnson on Fake-Killing Her Dad (Over and Over) in Dick Johnson Is DeadThe documentarian explains how and why she filmed a sob-inducing, wildly funny, preemptive eulogy for her beloved father.
  49. sundance 2020
    How The Assistant Became the First Movie to Grapple With Harvey WeinsteinDirector Kitty Green and star Julia Garner on making a movie about abuses in the film industry — and premiering it to a festival of their peers.
  50. sundance 2020
    Zola, a Stripper Saga Based on a 148-Tweet Thread, Premieres at SundanceAziah “Zola” King herself was on hand to introduce the film to a gently stoned audience in Utah.
  51. sundance 2020
    Olivia Wilde: Richard Jewell Controversy Changed the Way She Looks at RolesAfter the Sundance premiere of her Margaret Qualley-starring short film, the actress talks Booksmart, Greta Gerwig, and learning from Clint Eastwood.
  52. sundance 2020
    The 17 Movies We’re Most Excited to See at Sundance Film FestivalIncluding a transatlantic thriller starring Jude Law, a family drama from Miranda July, and a portrait of up-and-coming performer Taylor Swift.
  53. interviews
    15 Minutes With Fiona AppleThe artist, who donated $90,000 to help immigrants facing family separation, says her new album is just a few months away.
  54. nancy meyers
    Nancy Meyers Brings Herself, Instagram to Tears With Father of the Bride Score“Now I’m sobbing out loud.”
  55. investigations
    Why Am I So Soothed by Photos of the Olsen Twins Smoking?“It’s like visual ASMR, a metronome.”
  56. mad men
    What Is a White Man Mad About in This Oscar-Nominated Movie?A helpful guide to the many pissed-off white dudes in this year’s Academy-recognized films.
  57. the l word: generation q
    Jennifer Beals on The L Word: Generation Q’s Surprise Plot TwistsThe story behind the show’s shocking reveals about Tina, Kit, Jenny, and more.
  58. little women
    An Attempted Conversation With Louisa May Alcott’s GhostWe brought a psychic medium to Orchard House to ask the famous author what she thinks about all of the Little Women adaptations.
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