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  1. theater review
    Divas at Dusk: Death Becomes Her as Broadway CampThe musical adaptation of the Streep-and-Hawn movie is relentlessly eager for you to laugh with and at its dueling lead actresses.
    By Jackson McHenry
  2. endings
    Wicked’s Cliffhanger Ending, Explained (and What to Expect in Part Two)Wicked tells only half a story, but we’re not exactly in the dark about what happens next.
    By Louis Peitzman
  3. buffering
    Welcome to SpinCoNotes on the debundling of NBCUniversal.
    By Josef Adalian
  4. fact check
    Ask a Roman-History Professor: Were There Ever Sharks in the Colosseum?Gladiator II director Ridley Scott famously does not care about historical accuracy in his films but we had to ask.
    By Louis Peitzman
  5. scene report
    The Party Goes Late at the 75th National Book AwardsSipping prosecco amid the black-tie crowd at the packed publishing-world event in lower Manhattan.
    By Emma Alpern
  6. the vulture transcript
    The You’re The Worst Cast Would Like Their Movie NowStephen Falk and his actors are ready for a follow-up film, if FX is ready to pay for it.
    By Jen Chaney
  7. cmas 2024
    The 58th Annual CMA Awards - Show
    The Highs, Lows, and Whoas of the 2024 CMA AwardsIt was a remarkably stale affair.
    By Justin Curto
  8. profile
    ‘I’m Not Letting You Laugh at Me. I’m Perfect.’Twenty years into his stand-up career, Anthony Jeselnik remains the king of crossed lines.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
  9. adaptive behavior
    ‘Your Nose Is Pressed Up Against the Ambiguity of It’How Patrick Radden Keefe and Joshua Zetumer captured Say Nothing’s contradictory portrait of The Troubles onscreen.
    By Nicholas Quah
  10. the pluck of the irish
    The Best Irish Novels From the Past 15 YearsWhich works by Sally Rooney, Colm Toibin, and Claire Keegan among others, reign supreme?
    Edited by Tomi Obaro
  11. everybody’s in la
    The Stars of Vulture Festival 2024Behind the scenes with Paris and Nicole, Quinta Brunson, Mike Myers, and more.
    Photographs by Sinna Nasseri
  12. scene report
    Rust Didn’t Choose to Echo Its Tragedy, But It Courses Through the FilmThe finished movie is an appropriately unvarnished western, starring a lead actor visibly shaken by his experience making it.
    By Nick Newman
  13. a long talk
    Replacing Halyna Hutchins on Rust Was the Challenge of a LifetimeCinematographer Bianca Cline on why the film had to be finished after her predecessor’s tragic death on set.
    By Laura Bradley
  14. the vulture transcript
    How The Penguin Became the Sofia Falcone ShowCristin Milioti thought through every motivation, music cue, and mullet option to craft the most sympathetic psychopath on TV.
    By Roxana Hadadi
  15. art
    The Extremely Chaotic Life of Jamian Juliano-VillaniLess than six months after her Gagosian solo show, the downtown artist-slash-gallerist lost her gallery and all her money.
    By Jay Bulger
  16. the pluck of the irish
    Why Are Irish Actors So Good at Accents?Dialect coaches share their theories.
    By Jasmine Vojdani
  17. theater review
    Out to Sea and Back With Swept AwayThe story of a whaling expedition that turned horrifying, musicalized by the Avett Brothers.
    By Sara Holdren
  18. movie review
    Wicked Is As Enchanting As It Is ExhaustingJon M. Chu’s film adaptation of the hit musical has charm, but the bloat is inescapable.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  19. the vulture transcript
    ‘We’re All Going to Die, and I Think About It a Lot’His Three Daughters star Elizabeth Olsen on why she keeps doing movies about grief and dying and why she’s decided, “Marvel, done.”
    By Rachel Handler
  20. album review
    Linkin Park’s Risky Rebirth Paid OffAn initially messy return paved the way for a balanced new album.
    By Craig Jenkins
  21. ask an expert
    NDAs for People Following the Zach Bryan DramaThe breakup updates aren’t going anywhere, so we asked a few NDA experts to breakdown the $12 million drama.
    By Claudia Rosenbaum
  22. chapters
    I Thought the Sun Rose and Set on His Sicilian AssSonny Bono was one of the most charming — and possessive — men I’d ever met.
    By Cher
  23. the pluck of the irish
    Anthony Boyle Didn’t Have To Do Much Research For Say Nothing“My mom, one of her earliest memories is the Brits raiding the house and her father getting pulled down the stairs by the British Army.”
    By Jackson McHenry
  24. theater review
    Shit. Meet. Fan. Tells Us Lots That We Already KnowNeil Patrick Harris and Jane Krakowski star in Robert O’Hara’s self-described “blistering vulgar satire.” It delivers one of those three things.
    By Sara Holdren
  25. scene report
    Oscar Season Kicks Off With Trump Impressions and a Bond TeaseEverything we saw and heard at the 2024 Governors Awards, the first big event on the awards campaign trail.
    By Jason P. Frank
  26. the pluck of the irish
    Six Degrees of Saoirse-ationIf you look at the Irish acting scene, you’ll see a close-knit web with Saoirse Ronan at the center.
    By Fran Hoepfner
  27. the pluck of the irish
    How the Irish Came to Rule Pop CultureArtists from the island continue to punch above their weight. Online, they’ve gained a rep as the “good Europeans.”
    By Nate Jones
  28. vulture festival 2024
    Everything You Missed at the 2024 Vulture FestivalAll the weird and wonderful moments from this past weekend.
    By Zoë Haylock
  29. theater review
    Grey Henson and Sean Astin in 'Elf.'
    Elf: The Musical, Where They Sing Really Loud for All to HearEveryone’s trying, but the show itself is a cotton-headed ninny-muggins.
    By Jackson McHenry
  30. overnights
    Saturday Night Live - Season 50
    Saturday Night Live Recap: When Charli XCX Shows Up, SNL Is BratThe fashionably bored Brit got big laughs without breaking a sweat.
    By Joe Berkowitz
  31. tv review
    Stuck in Prequel QuicksandDune: Prophecy’s derivativeness is both its greatest flaw and its most defining characteristic.
    By Roxana Hadadi
  32. vulture festival 2024
    Katt Williams: ‘If I’m at the Diddy Party, I’m There to Tell’Sounding off on Mike Tyson vs. Logan Paul, his infamous Club Shay Shay interview, and more.
    By Hershal Pandya
  33. oscar futures
    How Every Oscar Movie Can Be the Anti-Trump MovieLike it or not, we’re in for yet another awards season operating in the shadow of Donald Trump. Which campaigns can take advantage of the vibe shift?
    By Nate Jones
  34. ho ho ho
    Vulture’s 2024 Holiday Gift GuidePresents for your pop-culture-obsessed friends, loved ones, and enemies.
    By Vulture Staff
  35. hear me out
    In Defense of the Sexiest Man AliveIs it time to put the Sexiest Man Alive out to pasture? Call me a hopeless romantic, but I say no.
    By Nicholas Quah
  36. movie review
    ‘Some People Call It the City of Dreams, But I Don’t’Payal Kapadia’s new film, All We Imagine As Light, is a shimmering portrait of a Mumbai where everyone goes and nobody feels at home.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  37. theater review
    The Lighter Side of Christian Nationalism: Tammy FayeSpinning an evangelist grifter into a camp icon and sorta-feminist heroine is a little hard to take right now.
    By Sara Holdren
  38. theater review
    King Lear at the Fountain of YouthKenneth Branagh’s production is fleet and facile.
    By Sara Holdren
  39. your sandworm syllabus
    5 Things to Remember About Dune Before Dune: ProphecySpice sex. It’s a thing!
    By Roxana Hadadi
  40. tv review
    How to Get Away With More MurderSharon Horgan delivers a second season of Bad Sisters with fewer laughs but plenty more twists.
    By Jen Chaney
  41. superlatives
    Cyndi Lauper on the Freest and Most Provocative Music of Her Career“They looked at me and were like, What the heck?”
    By Devon Ivie
  42. tv review
    Tell Everyone About Say NothingFX’s exploration of the Troubles captures the thrill and romance of revolution — and the cost of its violence.
    By Nicholas Quah
  43. endings
    The Diplomat Is Testing the Limits of My Feminism AgainSeason two ends in a catfight cliffhanger and a Margaret Thatcher namedrop. Bleak.
    By Roxana Hadadi
  44. up up and away
    All 43 Live-Action DC Comics Shows, RankedThe Penguin is in pretty good company.
    By Joshua Rivera
  45. oscar futures
    Are Netflix Normies Ready for Emilia Pérez?An indefinable musical by a French auteur is headed for millions of streaming subscribers. Most of them will be entirely unprepared.
    By Nate Jones
  46. art review
    Maps of Things PastThe brilliant art-world cartographies of Loren Munk.
    By Jerry Saltz
  47. emergency discussion
    We Have Urgent Questions About the Unholy Provenance of Netflix’s Hot FrostyWho built this ripped, anatomically graphic snowman? Is there a world of snowmen offscreen waiting to be turned into sex objects for widows?
    By Rachel Handler and Jackson McHenry
  48. theater review
    When Robots Meet Cute: Maybe Happy Ending“It might feel like 2064 on the surface, but in its nostalgic, rechargeable heart, the show parties like it’s 1999.”
    By Sara Holdren
  49. finale thoughts
    Alba Rohrwacher Unearths the Mystery of My Brilliant FriendAfter seven years of voicing Elena Ferrante’s ambitious heroine, the Italian actress brings Lenù Greco home.
    By Jasmine Vojdani
  50. serious questions
    So, Which Celebrities Will Donald Trump Pardon This Time?The likelihood of one of them being a sexual abuser is not zero.
    By Victoria Bekiempis
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