Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Monica Schipper/WireImage Like a high-speed rail service in a nation that actually invests in infrastructure, the 2023 Emmys in 2024 were accelerated, predictable, and smoothly unremarkable. The three big shows that entered the night as expected winners — Succession for drama, The Bear for comedy, and Beef for limited series — stream-rolled… Continue reading Emmys 2023-2024: Highs, Lows, and Whoas
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Golden Globes 2024: Highs, Lows, and Whoas
Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Rich Polk/Golden Globes 2024 via Getty Images The 2024 Golden Globes had highlights, sure. There was Lily Gladstone’s win for Killers of the Flower Moon, some excellent speeches from Ayo Edebiri and Kieran Culkin, and deserved appreciation for Anatomy of a Fall. A few of the presenter duos also figured out the… Continue reading Golden Globes 2024: Highs, Lows, and Whoas
4 Lessons From a Summer of Box-Office Highs and Lows
What have we learned about the new normal in audience behavior, beyond the Barbenheimer of it all? Photo: VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images In years to come, in eons yet un-dawned, when cultural historians cast a backward glance across the financially topsy-turvy summer of 2023 — when almost every expectation surrounding popcorn-movie season was overturned… Continue reading 4 Lessons From a Summer of Box-Office Highs and Lows
The Highs, Lows, and Whoas of Hip-Hop 50’s Yankee Stadium Celebration
To see hip-hop today is to see a genre that rose from the depths of despair in the Bronx into a global cultural behemoth. That makes Yankee Stadium — which sits less than two miles from where DJ Kool Herc unofficially gave birth to rap at a 1973 party — the ideal locale to celebrate the… Continue reading The Highs, Lows, and Whoas of Hip-Hop 50’s Yankee Stadium Celebration
William Friedkin on His Career Highs and Lows
William Friedkin. Photo: Tullio M. Puglia/Getty Images This interview was original published in 2013. We are recirculating it again in light of Friedkin’s recent passing. In 1971 and 1973, William Friedkin found himself on top of the film world with the one-two punch of The French Connection and The Exorcist. Then things got interesting: Friedkin’s… Continue reading William Friedkin on His Career Highs and Lows