How hustle icon Gary Vee found his inner Ted Lasso

The hustle mindset made Gary Vaynerchuk famous. But another quality has been increasingly important to the 49-year-old serial entrepreneur’s staying power: empathy. “And I can see it in your eyes that you don’t think you could. And it’s so blatantly obvious to me that you could. The audience ate it up. He has 50 million social followers, including 15 million on TikTok. He’s also drawncriticswho say he glorifies a toxic hustle culture and capitalism....

December 6, 2024 · 3 min · 485 words · Michael Cunningham

Interstellar’s Most Enduring Quality Is Exactly What People Used to Hate About It

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. And no expense had been spared for his most ambitious effort to date. Nobel Prizewinning astrophysicists had been consulted for the movies visions of intergalactic travel and black holes. The science would be tight, we were assured, and the special effects groundbreaking. Exclusive early Imax, 70-mm., and 35-mm. Still, no science-fiction or space movie had ever won Best Picture....

December 6, 2024 · 3 min · 455 words · Samantha Conway

Nobody in That Room Knew What Holding Space for ‘Defying Gravity’ Meant

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Sometimes words have meaning. I didnt know what any part of it meant, Grande said toVariety. I didnt understand the first sentence, and then I definitely didnt understand how [Erivo] responded. And I just wanted to be there. Because I knew something big was happening, and I didnt know how to be there. I dont know what the tapping was about....

December 6, 2024 · 1 min · 130 words · April Lyons

SiloRecap: Judge Not

Silo Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Theres so much to discuss with The Harmonium that I almost dont know where to begin. So lets begin with an ending: the sad and shocking farewell of Judge Mary Meadows. First, she has an extended conversation with Lukas, whos trying to avoid being sent to the mines. (She doubts hell survive even one.)...

December 6, 2024 · 2 min · 329 words · Eric Mcconnell

Southern CharmSeason-Premiere Recap: The Cup Runneth Over

Southern Charm Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. However, much like the image of plantations, the relationships on the show need a lot of repair. Wait, I take that back. We dont need to repair the image of plantations. Even if Blake Lively wantsto have her wedding in one. The biggest relationship that is fractured is the one between the three main bros of this here reality-television program....

December 6, 2024 · 2 min · 349 words · James Martinez

The Best Comedy Books of 2024

The most delightful, thought-provoking, educational, and just all in all funny. Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. And it isnt humor, either. Nevertheless, books remain the vehicle for the truly interesting, experimental, and most pointed comedy content. A big reason to read is to expand ones horizons and experience something from someone elses point of view. Men can be monsters. This book only exaggerates that a little and gets the point across with its oceanography-meets-psychology text and gorgeous design....

December 6, 2024 · 2 min · 234 words · Christopher Ramsey

The Best Movies of 2024, According to John Waters

An enthusiastic recollection of the outre offerings you should have seen this year. Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. The movie business as I knew it is now over. Here they are my ten best. See them and suffer … joyously. 1.Love Lies Bleeding(Rose Glass) 1. Even the pig-men are cute. 2.Queer(Luca Guadagnino) 2. Oh, if todays homos were this radical, Id be a much happier queer myself....

December 6, 2024 · 2 min · 276 words · Katelyn Kennedy

The Transformation Puzzle

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December 6, 2024 · 1 min · 26 words · Joseph Patel

Turn Off the Captions on Stand-up Specials (If You Can)

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. I have a friend who works for the FBI, he says. On X, where it was posted with captions, it had the benefit of neither. If this had been the first time Id seen it, it wouldnt have made me laugh. In 2019, comedian Moses Storm mocked stand-ups who pander to algorithms in aComedy Central set....

December 6, 2024 · 1 min · 134 words · Kevin Mcdowell

Twice Is Strategizing with Megan Thee Stallion

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Now theyve collabed not once, but … twice. And the confidence is still going strong in their second link-up. Call her Megan Thee Unnie. Related Tags:

December 6, 2024 · 1 min · 41 words · Michelle Brown

Tyler Perry’s Cosplay of a War Movie Hardly Does Its Subjects Justice

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. This review was originally published on December 6, 2024. We are recirculating it now thatThe Six Triple Eightis streaming on Netflix. Its not set in the 1940s so much as its cosplaying the era. But its issues go beyond its visuals to the framework in which Perry attempts to fit the 6,888th. But hes less compelled by the work they did than the abjection they faced from a racist military....

December 6, 2024 · 1 min · 89 words · Mark Watson

Who Needs Gods When You Have Ralph Fiennes?

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Odysseus is dressed as a beggar, ragged and ruined. Nobody recognizes him, and hes repeatedly humiliated. Its a fine showcase for Fienness physicality not just in movement but stasis as well. I say this with nothing but admiration: Ralph Fiennes makes for a great burning sausage. He can do coiled menace and rage, but he also knows how to use his stillness....

December 6, 2024 · 1 min · 179 words · Betty Mathews

Y2KWill Make You Nostalgic for a Funnier Comedy

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Mooney and his co-writer, childhood buddy Evan Winter, havent just nodded to the pop culture of 99. It would be a shame to even reveal this belated turn if the trailer didnt spill the beans already. Y2Kis audacious in concept but pretty slapdash in execution. It doesnt really pull off its big genre pivot. Maybe this kind of balancing act between chuckles and screams just requires a steadier hand behind the camera....

December 6, 2024 · 1 min · 180 words · Cindy Elliott