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If you had the opportunity to have some voice actors casted for your iterations of Lois, Clark, Jimmy, Connor, Lex, Livewire, Rudy, and Brainiac (Basically the superman characters you've remixed so far) who would be perfect casting for each?

OOH YES here's some fancasts for my remix:

David Corenswet as Clark Kent! This is a really hard pick for me, I'm attached to Tim Daly's STAS voice for him but if I had to pick someone younger I guess this David Corenswet guy from the upcoming film looks pretty good? At least from clips I've seen of him he's got a good voice.

Brianne Tju as Lois Liando! She's a Chinese Indonesian actress and while she's young I think she's got the range. I'd love to see her twist on Dana Delaney's STAS performance because Delaney's got a fantastic hardened sassy woman voice. Tju's voice sounds great in this interview.

Haley Tju as Lucy Lane! Brianne has a sister which is PERFECT for Lois' sister Lucy! I heard Hayley's voice in Arlo the Alligator Boy as the tiger cat character and I think she sounds neat.

Michael J Woodard as Jimmy Olsen! Similarly as Haley I heard Woodard's voice on Arlo the Alligator Boy, he's the lead there as Arlo. His voice is high energy and fun! Plus he can SING which is great because I imagine Jimmy as a jack of all trades artist and shenanigans coupled with musical numbers would be perfection.

Dave Fennoy as Lex Luthor! This is locked and loaded for me. It frustrates me that no one has seen the vision here. This is the second coming of STAS Lex but BETTER. Just!! Listen to him as Bluebeard from the Wolf Among Us. This is phenomenal, the perfect voice already exists.

Toks Olagundoye as Lena Luthor! She's voiced Martha Wayne in Batman Unburied, and Cat Grant in Reign of Supermen among many roles. She'd bring the elegance Lena would need. I love her accent,,,

Donald Glover as Conner Kent/Luthor! Granted I would love a teen that can bring what he brought to Marshall Lee on Adventure Time but that performance is the Conner energy I want.

Gr33dyjay/Jhas Ean Prescott Corbitt as Rudy Jones/Parasite! While I love the Brion James' STAS voice for Parasite, I have become attached to Gr33dyjay's take on my version of Parasite. If you can bring a performance that can make me laugh like that, you're golden. If he brought just a bit of New York accent into it, even better.

ProZD/Sungwon Cho and Ellen McLain as Brainiac! I want these two to talk interchangeably and in synchronization for Brainiac. Cho serving Brau1589 realness and McLain bringing the GlaDOS good stuff. Heaven would open its gates if we ever heard a Brainiac voice like this, I believe that.

Nicole Sullivan as Livewire! This one is so, so difficult because the original Lori Petty voice for Livewire is essentially perfection. I think future takes need to find a distinct and youtuber bombastic charismatic voice for making a potentially unlikeable character fun to watch. Sullivan famously voices Shego on Kim Possible, and I think her voice has the uniqueness and sass that could revitalize Livewire. She just needs to do a version of the accent and energy.

AJ Michalka as Kara Zor El! I know Michalka's voice as Stevonnie on Steven Universe and Catra from She-Ra. I like her performance in both, it stands out and the lil rasp in her voice adds something. That gives Kara that kind of jaded world weary but still young voice. I know I haven't drawn Supergirl yet, but I've got plans.

Thanks for this ask! While I'm not familiar with tinsel town people in general, this was like a fun scavenger hunt, haha.

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i wrote an essay on donald glover's first episode of GILGA Radio a day after it was on instagram-

Even though I think of Donald Glover, aka Childish Gambino, as his past of being a self-centered dork-ass Asian fetishist weirdo that still peeks out every so often, he's a man of many talents. Not only a musician, he’s an actor, a farmer, and the proprietor of an upscale boba shop. Last night, April 14th was the start of a new rollout of new songs off Atavista, a fully realized version of his previous album, 3.15.20. Unorthodox as he is, he's done this rollout through a radio show he holds on his Instagram every Sunday night at 11, and I caught the first show last night since I was up already. It was an experience that felt like I was there for both his previous eras at the same time, to the point that I downloaded the entire show to archive it for myself.

It was nice chopping it up with an old friend of mine from school among other Childish Gambino fans archiving what he was playing, and to no surprise Glover played three new songs; one wholly new to the point where it doesn't even have a title yet and the two others were new versions of songs off of his previous album. One song, Little Foot Big Foot, featured Young Nudy who did a stellar job adding an edge to an already funky song, and the other, Human Sacrifice, was at the tail end of the show, the most anticipated track by far since it's a song that was first teased in a Google Pixel ad *6 years ago.* I personally could not shut up about it, since I've heard leaks of it and it's been my favorite song he's ever done.

Other than the music he was playing during this radio show, he had fake ads for fast food, upcoming projects, and spoofs of celebrity businesses. Celebrities like Eric Andre, Tyler the Creator, and Quinta Brunson were shouting out the radio station and calling in requests, and to top it all off, Glover was interviewed by the station host Simone Beats, an enigma on her own. I say this not only because I’m not sure she actually exists, but she used an as-yet-unknown country song as her theme, playing everything on the show from Doja Cat, Radiohead, and 2 Chainz, to some incredible artists I'd never heard of like Fousheé, Lola Young, and Tom Misch.

In the interview the host had with Glover, he talked about how Childish Gambino was a project that evolved over time because he was having fun with it, how 3.15.20 was initially rushed out because of Covid but it's been finished now as Atavista, and how beef can be detrimental to the culture rather than just talking to each other. There was also discussions about Gilga, which is not just a farm where he grows literal fruit but a place to organically grow taste in all sorts of media, as well as his next projects; a film and accompanying soundtrack called Bando Stone & the New World that will be his last Childish Gambino project, a cartoon called “Country Mouse, City Mouse” about anthropomorphic mice that started as an ad for his New Balance collab, and an anime that is yet to be seen with Zack Fox, famous for gatekeeping wings on Instagram, his music- both solo and collabs like "Jesus is the One" (I Got Depression)- and his reoccurring role as Tariq on Abbott Elementary.

This sort of rollout isn't unusual for Glover; he had written a screenplay and made a short film when he released his sophomore album "Because the Internet", had crafted a mobile VR experience called PHAROS for "Awaken My Love!", and for "3.15.20", set up an interactive website with art depicting chaos in the streets as well as a loop of the songs on the album. His collabs on different projects, ranging from artists like Chance the Rapper, Azealia Banks, 21 Savage, Jhene Aiko, Jaden Smith, and Ariana Grande show the versatility of his sound over time. As it is, anyone whose major influences are LCD Soundsystem, Wu-Tang, Funkadelic and Rage Against the Machine are bound to have a sound unlike you’ve ever heard. With Gilga, he’s taken a step further and become an active tastemaker by creating what he wants to see with other people like him.

It’s a lot better than the Donald Glover/Childish Gambino I knew of in the early 2010s, where his stuff was rife with jokes about rape, murder, and so much Asian fetishization to the point that he roleplayed as an Asian woman to hype up one of his releases. As a matter of fact, he also did a lot of weird gatekeeping about “fake gamer girls” and being a “nice guy” that it was just as much a part of his persona as his music was. He wasn't the only one, as other artists like Tyler the Creator had a similar footprint online and in their artistry. At the same time, the Internet in that age was starting to let go of the try-hard, edgelord early 2000s. With the advent of social justice in the mainstream, people started to realize making light of awful situations is uninspired and ultimately blasé. As soon as AML came out, he stopped being as weird and moved on.

A part of me wants to say that his self-centered past shines through this rollout but I truly believe that it's just a part of who he is; he rightfully hypes himself up because, in his words from the interview, "I'm the Willy Wonka of this shit." Childish Gambino, born of a Wu-Tang Name Generator and an almost 20-year career of different sounds, feelings, and moods, is weird as hell, and he's proud of it. We’ve seen it with Glover acting in Community, Atlanta, Mr. And Mrs. Smith, his roles in Star Wars and Marvel, and his multiple comedy specials. More of the weirder parts of himself have toned down over time to be more refined, as it was for artists like Tyler the Creator following him. Both have had their fair share of problematic things they’ve said, and while there's no excuse for some of what was said, it seems like they've chilled out on the worse parts. It only felt right that the two of them performed together at the first weekend of this year’s Coachella. I hope that with the next show on Sunday we get even more weird but cool shit from this man. Simply put, his work speaks for itself and shows who he is- for better or worse.

A Hippocratic aphorism goes, “Art is long, life is short.” A career in multiple disciplines can be representative of who a person is, and the evolution they go through. A release as layered as this shows so much of who Donald Glover, aka Childish Gambino, and the people he’s inspired and worked with, is.

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Prince Netflix Documentary Rumblings from Cat Glover, Jill Jones, Ruth Arzate

Prince Netflix Documentary Rumblings from Cat Glover, Jill Jones, Ruth Arzate

It’s been quiet on the Prince Netflix Documentary front, and we haven’t heard much about it for a while. Recently, Cat Glover, Jill Jones, and Ruth Arzate have shared with us their thoughts on how the documentary is being handled… and the stories aren’t all the same! Let’s discuss! Support the channel on Patreon: http://patreon.com/PrincesFriend Support the channel via Youtube Membership:…

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There’s a new group of villains on Fear The Walking Dead.

Well not entirely new. These are the same people who’ve been scrawling “The end is the beginning” everywhere. The same people with the submarine who are looking for Morgan who took the Magical Key from the bounty hunter way back at the beginning of Season 6.

I admit, I’m just kind of tired at this point. Tired of all the bullshit and bad writing and the tedious characters and the predictable stories. Tired of the parade of mediocre villains. Bone weary. And yet here I am, still reviewing this damn show.

Let’s take a little walk down memory lane, shall we?

TV’s Greatest Villains

At the beginning of Season 5, after the Most Horrible Villain Of Any Walking Dead Show was taken care of at long last, we got a new group of bad guys who . . . just wanted their warehouse back? And directions to an oil refinery?

Truly, these were now The Most Horrible Villains Of Any Walking Dead Show Ever.

Logan (played by a woefully underutilized Matt Frewer) was the head honcho of these bad apples and he fooled Morgan’s group into flying a plane they didn’t know how to fly far, far away to help some strangers in another part of the vast continent of Texas. Then he . . . moved back into his warehouse! The bastard.

After half a season of trying to fix the plane so they could fly back across the Pacific Ocean (which we all know separates the two halves of Texas) Logan tries to pretend like he’s a decent guy and fools the Morganites into showing him where the oil refinery is. Dastardly Logan! Then, just when Morgan and Logan decide that their names are similar enough that they might as well be friends, the Rangers show up!

They show up on horses with rifles and expertly kill Logan and every single member of his crew but for reasons (reasons!) they spare Morgan and the Morganites. It turns out that Logan was working for the evil witch queen of Lawton, Virginia—Truly The Most Horrible Villain Of Any Walking Dead Show Ever (Seriously). She is so evil that she kills the people working for her, who helped lead her to the oil refinery, and spared some people she didn’t know who weren’t loyal to her at all for reasons.

Yes, you heard me. Reasons! You don’t get to know the reasons. That’s not how scripts work. Scripts are supposed to be confusing, opaque and riddled with plot holes and inexplicable character choices.

Anyways, Virginia and the Rangers with their horses and their cowboy hats and their idyllic Texas aesthetic become the new Big Bads sometime in the second half of Season 5. Morgan and Friends make a PSA documentary to make sure anyone wandering from gas station to gas station is able to know who to call (GHOSTBUSTERS!) if they’re in trouble (which, like, yeah it’s a zombie apocalypse) because Morgan really wants to make up for all the bad things he’s done and so do all his friends.

Virginia is very mean, though, and so she makes a PSA, too, and that pisses Morgan off so bad that he takes his people far, far away to an abandoned Western-themed park-town filled with zombies and they make another PSA on the way that’s even more amazing and magical but a dude dies making it, marking the Best Walking Dead Death of All Time in the process. Seriously a dude decides it’s so important to film a selfie shot for the PSA that he dies when a bridge that’s collapsing surprisingly collapses! And then everyone is very sad!

Then, uh, after a spell at the new town that has no resources or water because it’s a theme park town instead of a real town, Wes and Alicia paint some stuff and June and John Dorie get married and Daniel plays some guitar and sings and Frank Dillane is like “Holy shit I’m so glad I bailed on this show” and then Virginia comes because Morgan calls her because instead of walking somewhere else they decide they should call the Evil Witch Queen Of Lawton so she can rescue them by splitting them all up (even Skidmark the cat!) and then the season ends with Morgan getting swarmed by zombies but don’t worry he’s still alive and they’ll tell us as much in a trailer that comes out before Season 6 because AMC is criminally addicted to spoiling their own shows for no reason on social media and . . . and . . .

Somewhere between Season 5’s finale and Season 6’s premiere AMC and showrunners Ian Goldberg and Andrew Chambliss must have put their heads together with Scott Gimple and decided that the Rangers and Virginia were actually super dull villains, just like the last few villains (I skipped the whole Vultures plot because they were actually so stupid they put the stadium under siege but still let Madison and co. go out scavenging because somehow they never read the Siege 101 manual or something).

Anyways, for reasons that must be obvious by now, somebody must have pointed out that Virginia is not a very good villain after all, partly because she’s just not that convincing but mostly because she made a goddamn copycat PSA and someone thought that was actually a cool story because there is no God and life’s not fair and this is also why we can’t have nice things, son.

And they must have realized that the Rangers are a like a cartoon version of what might happen in Texas after a zombie outbreak (just compare this clown show to the far more realistic Vatos gang from Season 1 of The Walking Dead). All these realizations must have felt strangely repetitive after what I can only imagine were similar revelations about Martha, the Vultures and Logan. So many revelations, so little useful insight or meaningful changes!

The Believers

In any case, they had June kill Virginia after a weird series of events that also saw one of the only good characters left on this godforsaken show get killed by yet another brat, and came up with The Believers, a group almost entirely inspired by The Monkees. These totally realistic folk live underground where they grow crops and embalm zombies and talk about how you need to be able to “see” when you look at this one creepy zombie they have entwined in vines in their basement. They’re led by a guy named Teddy played by John Glover who must really be down on his luck to take a role on this ridiculous show, though he’s actually creepy as a villain so that’s something. But no, I’m not going to feel any hope or optimism because fool me once shame on me, fool me again and George W. Bush, man. He has something to say about this.

Wes and Alicia and Al and Luciana all find their way to these people. I honestly can’t remember how they found them, but they show up to scout things out. They get interviewed like we’re back in Alexandria. Things go bad when Wes runs into his long-lost brother and ends up killing him after a scuffle over a gun. Wes’s brother has had a little too much of that Kool-Aid if you know what I mean. Wes isn’t too shook up about it. Remember when the entire brothers Dixon conflict between Merle and Daryl played out over the course of one single episode of The Walking Dead? Yeah, me neither.

Luciana says stuff because she’s still on this show for some reason. She says stuff a few times and people say stuff back to her. Al checks an embalmed zombie with a helmet on thinking it might be her lover girl from Season 5, because you totally embalm zombies with their helmets still on, but it’s not. Boy I was really worried there for a second!

Alicia sets the embalmed zombies on fire so they can get away and the others escape but Alicia doesn’t and then she has to have a whole entire conversation with Teddy and it’s pretty damn awkward when she tells him “You wanna kill me? That’s not gonna happen.”

Teddy’s like “whoa damn I was going to kill you but now that’s not going to happen crap” and Alicia’s like “So there, Teddy. You jerk face with your crazy-man beard.”

He knows something about Madison somehow. And he wants to “save you, Alicia” but “I don’t need saving” she tells him and then he talks in more cryptic circles. Teddy’s been looking for someone like Alicia for a long, long time and she’s like “listen old man at least I got some lines this episode!” which, to be fair, is true.

THE END. CREDITS ROLL.

Verdict

Yes, I am clearly mocking just about everything about this show. But I didn’t come up with this crap. I didn’t come up with Martha and the ethanol, or the plane and the beer-balloon, or Totally Pointless Logan, or Ginny and her boring ass cowboys. Maybe Teddy will be a better villain than all these. To be fair, he is a better villain already in a lot of ways. Then again, the bar set by the Vultures, Martha, Logan and Virginia is not very high. It’s so low, it’s less a bar and more of a speed bump.

So while Teddy is far more intriguing than the rest, and it’s even possible that Glover’s brief appearance here in this episode was better than the sum of all the other villains in this show since Season 4, I imagine they’ll find a way to screw him up also and then, as soon as he’s worn out his welcome, replace him with some other group of bad guys. The Shouters, a group of post-apocalyptic crazy people who wear zombie faces and shout at each other really loud, led by a bald woman named Alphapha.

Here’s the thing.

We need more than just Good Guys vs Bad Guys. There are other struggles to work with in fiction. Friction between the group that causes realistic, compelling internal strife. Survival against the elements and just the struggle of surviving in a world laid low by a pandemic, maybe without creature comforts like walkie-goddamn-talkies. Or perhaps a compelling story about a survivalist group at odds with a Native American tribe over water rights, whose intertwined family histories are marred by murder and revenge, where our heroes find themselves torn between both sides of a bloody fight they know very little about.

Yeah, what a notion.

Like I said at the very top of this review, I’m tired. I’m tired of Fear The Walking Dead. I’m tired of the same crap happening over and over again, another absurd bad guys who ultimately make the same fatal choice: They mess with Morgan Jones. NOBODY messes with Morgan Jones.

Maybe Morgan can make a PSA about how mean and delusional Teddy is and then Teddy can make a PSA about how The End Is The Beginning, Actually, Morgan You Twit. It’s just all nonsense at this point and it has been since the end of Season 3. We aren’t dealing with actual stories about real people. We’re watching a cartoon with two-dimensional cartoon villains and a bunch of uninteresting flat characters. Except a cartoon would be more fun.

What is the point of this show now? It’s like a goofier version of The Walking Dead, which also suffers from too many villain groups at this point and too many characters but not this level of crappy writing (usually).

Let me predict the plot for the remainder of Season 6 and likely part of Season 7 if AMC is actually going to let the current showrunners continue driving this show into the ground:

Teddy wants the key from Morgan so he can use it to activate the nuclear bombs on the nuclear sub that’s in the middle of Texas (because Texas, you recall, is separated by the Pacific Ocean which has dried up because ZOMBIES and the sub is there now). He wants to nuke the planet because he wants to save everyone because they’re weak probably. From this nuclear wasteland, new life will spring eternal and his cult—well protected in their underground parking garage with their cute little gardens—will be the new rulers of the world. Or at least of Texas which—we know because of geography class—accounts for approximately 57% of Earth’s land mass.

Look, I’m sorry. I’m really truly sorry but if this show continues to be a joke I don’t know why we should take it seriously. A mocking review if only fitting for a show that continues to make a mockery of itself. AMC has the resources and the wherewithal to produce a better zombie show and quite frankly audiences deserve one. There was nothing fundamentally awful about “The Holding” so I’m honestly not fully sure why I’m in such a snarky mind frame, but there was nothing very good about, either, and it’s just plain as day to me that they’re already falling into the same traps they keep falling into over and over and over again. Meet the new bad guy, same as the old bad guy. It’s all so predictable.

Because they don’t really learn from their mistakes, or because even if they do they just don’t know how to course correct. That’s the problem when you just don’t have much talent but nobody steps in and says “enough is enough!”

Because seriously, my droogies, enough is enough already.

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In Touch, September 28

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Cover: Kardashians’ $3 billion empire torn apart by greed 

Page 1: Contents 

Page 2: Who Wore It Better? Nicky Hilton vs. Scarlett Johansson, Celine Dion vs. Shailene Woodley, Camila Morrone vs. Joan Smalls 

Page 4: Cate Blanchett’s a red carpet recycler -- at the Venice Film Festival this year Cate is rewearing some of her favorite red carpet styles 

Page 5: Queen Elizabeth’s famed Sandringham Estate in Norfolk where the entire royal family celebrates Christmas every year will be hosting drive-in movie nights, Number of the Week -- 100 million dollars that Alex Rodriguez and Jennifer Lopez promised to give to charity if they become owners of the New York Mets and the team doesn’t win the World Series within 10 years, Makeover of the Week -- Brittany Snow ditched her red locks for a short blond bob, Winner of the Week -- Taylor Swift ties Whitney Houston’s record as the female artist with the most cumulative weeks with No. 1 albums, Loser of the Week -- top seed Novak Djokovic is disqualified from the U.S. Open after recklessly hitting a ball that struck a line judge

Page 6: Crib of the Week -- Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith’s daughter Willow Smith moved out on her own and into a stunning hilltop abode overlooking the Pacific Ocean for $3.1 million 

Page 9: Up Close -- Sofia Richie models the Kappa X Juicy Couture campaign 

Page 10: Olivia Wilde kicks a soccer ball then kicks back enjoying a day at the beach in Santa Monica 

Page 11: Charli D’Amelio takes a tumble in the surf, Alessandra Ambrosio avoids a wardrobe malfunction in the ocean in Santa Monica 

Page 12: Diane Kruger jumping for joy in front of her car, Mariah Carey styles daughter Monroe’s hair

Page 14: Body Beautiful -- Halle Berry and Peter Lee Thomas show off the results of their hard-core training sessions, Eva Longoria works out 

Page 15: Chris Hemsworth shows off his biceps while lifting weights, Brooke Burke teaches her Booty Burn class in her backyard 

Page 16: Josh Duhamel and a donkey, Billie Eilish with her dog Shark and the Fender Billie Eilish Signature Ukulele 

Page 17: Justin Hartley and his pooch Paisley, Annalynne McCord and her cat

Page 19: Alec and Hilaria Baldwin proudly show off their fifth child Eduardo 

Page 20: Will Smith and DJ Jazzy Jeff help rent out a wing of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air’s mansion on Airbnb, Olivia Culpo and Christian McCaffrey show off PDA, Jennifer Lopez at lunch with friends 

Page 22: Cover Story -- The end of the Kardashian era -- Keeping Up With the Kardashians made the Kardashians but now its cancellation could break them 

Page 26: KUWTK’s 25 most shocking moments 

Page 32: Katie Holmes steals another woman’s fiance Emilio Vitolo Jr. -- Katie has found love again with someone who was already taken 

Page 34: Gosselin Family Heartbreak -- Collin Gosselin accuses Jon Gosselin of abuse -- Kate and Jon Gosselin are at war again after one of their sextuplets makes a shocking claim 

Page 36: Prince Harry to Royals: We’re Even -- thanks to a $150 million Netflix paycheck Harry and Meghan Markle cut their last ties to his family 

Page 38:  Emma Stone’s baby joy -- plus she and fiance Dave McCary who postponed their spring wedding because of COVID-19 are now wearing matching bands on their ring fingers 

Page 39: On the heels of her breakup with Scott Disick Sofia Richie went public with her new romance with Jaden Smith -- they dated briefly in 2012 but they were both so young and immature but they kept in touch and would run into each other at parties so when Jaden knew Sofia was available again he made his move, three months after Colton Underwood and Cassie Randolph split she submitted paperwork for a restraining order claiming he harassed her via text messages and put a tracking device on her car and showed up uninvited to her apartment and to her parents’ home 

Page 42: The Big Interview -- Kenan Thompson on being SNL’s longest-running cast member -- he plans on staying forever -- he may be starring in a new sitcom but the sketch comedy vet will still be live from New York every Saturday night 

Page 44: Get Organized -- pro tips from The Home Edit’s Joanna Teplin and Clea Shearer on how to contain clutter 

Page 46: Beauty -- Mascara -- Katherine Langford 

Page 48: Entertainment 

Page 50: Animal Overload -- my cat looks like Kamala Harris 

Page 54: Horoscope -- Libra Donald Glover turned 37 on September 25

Page 56: Last Laughs 

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Community: Britta Perry Is the Worst, Which Makes Her the Best

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Sitcom characters very rarely come off of the page fully formed. Many classic (and not-so-classic) network sitcoms rely on time as an ally. Time spent with characters allows for not only an audience to get a better sense of them but also for the writers and actors to do so as well. 

Community was no exception. Each of the ensemble cast’s seven main characters (and tertiary characters like Ben Chang and Dean Craig Pelton) arrived in the pilot fundamentally unfinished. And each of them evolved over time, in some cases sharpening creator Dan Harmon and the writing staff’s original assumptions or defying them. No character, however, changed more from conception to execution over time than Britta Perry as played by Gillian Jacobs. 

Originally, Harmon designed Britta Perry simply as a romantic foil to series lead Jeff Winger. When Community first premiered in 2009, The Office was entering its sixth season and at the height of its popular appeal. In that context, perhaps bringing a sitcom to NBC without a “Jim and Pam” firmly in place felt unwise. The problem was that the “Jim” portion of that romantic duo, Jeff Winger, was richly realized (having been based on Harmon’s own experiences in community college and played by relentless charm factory Joel McHale), and the “Pam” portion, Britta Perry, was simply a Pam stand-in. 

In the first half of Community’s first season, several attempts are made to humanize Britta. In one episode, the pressure she feels as an older student in community college leads her to cheat on an exam. In another, she begins to establish her feminist profile and interest in psychology by (perhaps accurately) observing that her male friends desire to fight class bullies comes from a place of pent-up homoerotic energy. For the most part, however, Britta and her storylines exist only to complement Jeff’s. By episode seven, Britta is suddenly a part of a Jeff Winger-Michelle Slater love triangle whether she realizes it or not. 

Britta’s failure to properly evolve as a character in Community’s early episodes was significant enough that other characters on the show started to realize how…well, odd she was. In episode six, “Football, Feminism, and You,” Britta has a hard time connecting with her fellow female classmates, Annie (Allison Brie) and Shirley (Yvette Nicole Brown), because she views the time-honored tradition of visiting the bathroom as a group to be a sinister patriarchal conspiracy. 

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Earlier this year, Harmon revealed in an interview with EW that that plotline came directly from another writer on the show’s observation about just how much Britta sucked. 

“When I said, ‘What about Britta,’ [writer-producer] Hilary Winston said, ‘I don’t like her,’” Harmon said. “Listening to Hilary talk about Britta, which started with like, ‘I wouldn’t trust her if I was a woman. I understand that she means well and that she’s saying the kinds of things that you’re supposed to say as a woman, but that’s what makes me not trust her. I need a confidante behind the scenes, because the truth is, I do want to talk about shoes sometimes and I feel like she might sell me out if I did that — and I wouldn’t go pee with her.’ Stuff like that starts to dimensionalize Britta right away.”

By this point the show’s characters, writing staff, and audience had realized that there was something unlikeable about Britta. This was due to the show’s thin conceptualization of her as a character to begin with. But as we said above, time is usually on a sitcom’s side. Community had many more episodes of its first season order to tackle the issue. What’s interesting about how Community figured Britta out is not how it “fixed her” but rather how it leaned into her existing flaws.

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That anecdote about Hilary Winston not trusting Britta turned out to be a feature, not a bug for the character. A lot of Britta’s early traits – her political ideals, defiant attitude, and quick wit – were likely designed to make her appealing to both Jeff and the audience. In reality, they had the opposite effect. So the show just began to lean into those qualities as comedic fodder. Britta retained her same liberal political leanings but the show now highlighted how she had neither the courage or energy to follow through on them. She also quickly became known for accidentally ruining everything around her and snuffing out the joy from her friends’ lives.

In the season one episode “Physical Education,” Community finally provided the terminology for what would become the character’s recurring meme through six seasons of the show (and hopefully a movie). Britta is, quite simply: the worst. After discovering that Britta pronounces “bagels” as “baggels,” Ben Chang reflexively responds with “ugh, you’re the worst.” It’s a small moment to be sure, but one whose spirit Community would continue to capture with Britta time and time again.

Britta is the worst because she calls “bagels” “baggels.” She’s the worst because she ruins the reputations of all the guys she dates for Abed (Danny Pudi) and Troy (Donald Glover). She’s the worst because she insists on being nice to Troy’s awful grandma and gets the switch for her troubles. She’s the worst because engages with the least amount of civil disobedience allowed by Greendale policy. She’s the worst because she won’t buy her one-eyed cat a monocle as “that’s pretentious.” She’s the worst because she supports a lesbian student so enthusastically that she accidentally enters into a romantic relationship with her despite neither the student nor Britta being a lesbian. 

Britta is just the worst. And that makes her one of Community’s best creations. There are few examples of TV shows taking lemons and turning them into lemonade more apt or admirable than Community’s treatment of Britta. The show deserves an enormous amount of credit for realizing that it was underutilizing a comedic concept in Britta and a comedic talent in Jacobs and reversing course by leaning in to that same course.

And let’s be clear here, Gillian Jacobs deserves an immense amount of credit for taking that opportunity and running with it. Though Jacobs may be one of the lesser-heralded talents to come out of Community, thanks mostly to the Russo Brothers ascent to Valhalla and Donald Glover’s ascent to the top of the universe, she is just as valuable as anyone else involved. Near the beginning of season 3, it becomes clear just how much Jacobs relishes Britta getting to be the worst. From episode three “Remedial Chaos Theory” through episode 15 “Origins of Vampire Mythology,” Britta and Jacobs are on absolute insufferable fire. 

It’s in this stretch of episodes that Britta’s terribleness actually saves the day. The plot of “Regional Holiday Music” involves the evil Glee club director (played by Taran Killam) slowly brainwashing the study group into becoming Body Snatcher-esque glee club pod people. Britta succumbs in the end but when Abed encourages her to take the stage and sing what’s in her heart, the transcendent awfulness of her performance immediately snaps everyone out of their trance. That also leads to the classic line of Dean Pelton seeing the show’s program for the first time and whining “ah, Britta’s in this?”

In a way, “Regional Holiday Music” is a microcosm of Britta’s role on the show. Every character on Community has a part to play. Jeff is narcissistic, Annie is innocent, Shirley is devout, Troy and Abed are goobers, Dean Pelton (Jim Rash) and Ben Chang (Ken Jeong) are insane, and Pierce Hawthorne (Chevy Chase) is old. But the glue that ties together all of those disparate characters together is Britta Perry and her special ability to be the worst. 

She truly is the AT&T of people. And God bless her for it. 

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Alright, it’s currently 8:53 pm Illinois time (we’re still in Indiana so my phone thinks it’s 9:53, it didn’t transition for the whole day until like now apparently and is probably supposed to have changed back by now but here we are), we’re in the car on the way home from the con and I’m starting to write now because I need to go to bed ASAP when I get home because I once again could not fall asleep FOR MY FUCKING LIFE last night and of course I had to get up early so we could road trip to the con so I got like an hour and a half of sleep??? The last time I remember looking at the clock was at 5:08 am and my alarm was set for 6:45 am, so....it wasn’t good. But yeah, today was really good despite my lack of sleep. I did wake up when my alarm went off at 6:45 am, I had a message from Jess saying to give her like 10-15 more minutes than we initially planned so I got ready and waited for her to come pick me up. We got gas and then McDonald’s, breakfast sandwich and coke if I wanted to stay awake all day lol. And so we were off to Indiana for the con. The drive there was fairly unremarkable, we stopped at a rest stop for a minute but that was about it. We made it into Indianapolis around like 11:30 their time, parked in the parking garage next to the con center and got to the con. Our drive through Indianapolis revealed that today was definitely their pride parade and with a little more research we probably could’ve done the parade and the con, but oh well, not much we can do about it now. According to the online schedule the photo op for the guy Jess had a photo with was at like 1:20, so when we arrived we had to wander through the giant con center at first and then redeem our tickets and actually get to the main hall, where we located the photo op people and asked about the schedule.

It’s a good thing we checked, because he was not in fact at 1:20 anymore, he had gotten to what was first 4:45 and would then move to 5:45 in not too long. So obviously this was a bit of a curveball, since according to the earlier schedule we probably would’ve headed out a lot earlier. So now we have some time to kill. Well we wanted to see the guests anyway, and the first I wanted to see was the kid from Shazam, Asher Angel, mostly because I wanted to go on about how much positive depiction of foster children in media means to the kids out there that are constantly thought of as a problem and nothing more. He was sweet, definitely a teenage boy lol you could tell it was one of his first cons, but he was doing alright and was nice to talk to. He definitely looked bored at other points throughout the day which I can’t really blame him for, he is a teenage boy and the amount of attention the celebrities were getting at this con was definitely less than expected. Like, there were pretty much no lines for everybody....the entire con was a lot smaller than expected. So that was interesting to deal with. After that though we went and said hi to the guy Jess wanted to see from Shield and she got a selfie with him, he was really nice too. At that point we wandered the show floor for a while, Jess unsurprisingly found some kpop merch (it’s generally among the anime booths at this point) so she bought some of that which was cool. We ended up leaving the con center to get some food because con food is always trash and overpriced, and we didn’t have anything else better to do lol.

So we ended up going to steak and shake, which was a giant joke because the last time we went to a con in Indiana we got into a fight that kind of climaxed in us ending up going to steak and shake for dinner despite my request that we go literally anywhere else because my acid reflux was really bad that day, but that’s a whole other story we won’t go into, just know the fact that we ended up there was a giant fucking joke. I got a cheeseburger and a strawberry shake, and we killed some time there for a while before finishing up and walking back to the con. We returned to the main hall and ended up saying hi to John Wesley Shipp, this con was like prime for just getting to say hi to celebs because so many of them were standing around lol. He was cool, we got back to the Shield guy to get an autograph for Emily, and right next to him was Dot-Marie Jones, and I recalled that she had been at Clexacon and afterwards her wife had posted about how awful the con had been to them on Instagram and she was free so I was like if we approach this correctly we could get some quality tea about Clexacon out of this interaction lol. She had stickers that they were selling for $5, so we bought a sticker (they ended up giving us two) and were like “oh we just wanted to say hi, we wanted to see you at Clexacon but we heard it wasn’t great for you guys?” and that basically worked perfectly and launched a like, 20 minute conversation that consisted of all the terrible shit Clexacon had done to them and like, it was bad. The biggest revelation was definitely that the con wasn’t paying any of the celebrities to be there (I realize a lot of people aren’t privy to how the financial arrangements for cons work so that might not seem like a big deal but it is HIGHLY unusual and I couldn’t believe they got that many guests without paying any of them) and on top of that wanted a cut of their autograph money and shit which is just.....wild. It was a really good conversation though, not just about Clexacon but on how the voices of actual queer women should be the ones being centered, not just straight actresses that portray them but don’t live the stories (and we all know I adore my actresses, but it’s not the same) and like Clexacon had just been so shitty to her when she was one of the only actual queer women there and they could’ve had so much more but they were clearly only motivated by greed. She’s a super lovely person too and it was just overall a great conversation and it was really a pleasure to talk to her.

After that, or some time around then, the timeline might not be perfect here but I’m doing my best lol. We basically had nothing to do but I wanted some water so we walked over to their food court area and got some water bottles with the intention of just sitting at the table there for a while, which we did, but they ended up doing some like, pre-podcast launch media session with these three ladies who are launching a cold case podcast about this case from Indiana where this little girl was killed and I mean I only listened to their info about the case but I’m pretty fucking sure the abusive stepfather’s the one who did it (let’s be real, if the kid of an abusive parent dies, there is an extremely high chance the parent did it, and that chance actually goes up further by the fact that he was a stepparent, this is the reality of child abuse that I work with) so idk how much of a cold case there is to investigate there but Jess found them on twitter and they currently had like 18 followers lol so I mean maybe they’ll find their stride and build up a fan base. After their presentation and a little while of more time chilling out we ended up going back to the con area and seeing John Glover, whom we paid $20 to get a selfie with, he was again so delightfully bizarre and just absolutely hilarious to interact with and talk about Shazam with. So that was cool, and after that we chilled outside the main hall for a bit until Jess decided it was time to line up for the photo op, at which point I wandered for a bit and eventually ended up at Vanessa Marshall’s table who I kinda wanted to meet, she’s a voice actress who’s been in a ton of stuff but most relevant to me was that she did Black Canary for Young Justice and recently did an interview with the young justice podcast I listen to that was just fucking amazing about self-acceptance and that really just made me want to meet her so I paid $20 for a selfie with her and ended up having a lovely conversation with her.

After that I wandered a bit more and ended up buying a $5 “damaged” piece of Wonder Woman fan art (it was in the damaged pile but I couldn’t see anything wrong with it and it was a damn good deal) and ended up buying an adorable print of Goose the cat that was $10 and is going to go great on my Captain Marvel closet door. After that I reunited with Jess after her photo op and waited a little while longer waiting for the print while talking with a nice couple we’d previously spoken to at a con at some point lol. Once we got the photo we headed out, left Indianapolis and headed straight to the Cracker Barrel we’ve definitely been to before lol. There was a little bit of a wait but we got in in like ten minutes or so. Got our classics but they sadly we slightly less quality than we’ve previously had, but still mostly good. After dinner I raided their candy section very lightly and Jess acquired a giant stuffed goat I said I’d buy her so we paid the bill and bought that and headed out.

From there we’ve been driving, stopped once to go to the bathroom in the rain, but it mostly stopped raining so we didn’t have to deal with too much of it. The highlight of the drive home was definitely realizing Jess’ nemesis who was at the con was actually in the car behind us, and we proceeded to cut her off like three different times and it was great, I’m pretty sure she was still behind us when I started writing this and she was behind us until we hit the greater Chicago area but now we’re pulling up to our neighborhood that’s having it’s massive Nordic fest right now (“midsommarfest”) which looks pretty wild right now, but I’ll be home in a second and probably finish this off right before I go to bed, after I shower. My phone now said it’s 10:47 pm, though it should say it’s 9:47 pm Chicago time, so we’ll have to see for how much longer we’ll have to deal with that. But I’m about to get out of the car so I’ll leave this here.

Okay, it’s 10:54 pm currently, though my phone still says 11:54 pm lol. But I’m all showered and ready to go to sleep, and boy am I sleepy, so I’ll be going to bed now. Goodnight my friends. Hope you had a lovely Saturday as well.

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Cancel culture: Dave Chappelle and other comedians who have taken sides

As cancel culture becomes more and more ubiquitous in show business, comedians are finding it particularly difficult to ignore. 

When one’s profession is to take the stage to shake up and lambaste pop culture and society, the odds that a joke or train of thought will venture into cancelable territory shoots up beyond even the most outspoken of celebrities.

Most recently, Dave Chappelle has found himself in the crosshairs of people calling for him to be canceled and for Netflix to make some kind of amends for giving him a platform to espouse comments that many deemed transphobic on his latest special “The Closer.” 

However, Chappelle is far from the first comedian to speak directly about cancel culture, with some supporting it as a method of accountability to modern comedians and others likening it to McCarthyism of the 1940s. 

Below is a rundown of just some of the comics who have discussed the concept in the past. 

Jamie Kennedy

Jamie Kennedy previously said that he supports the conversation that ‘cancel culture’ sparks. (Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images)

The 50-year-old actor spoke to Fox News while promoting his new film “Last Call” about the social media phenomenon and why there doesn’t seem to be any room for forgiveness or growth.

“It’s a dicey time. I mean, let’s take [a] recent example … Pepé Le Pew. I mean, if we put a magnifying glass to everything in history, I will assure you with the new guard you can almost cancel everything. So it’s a matter of nuances and context,” he reasoned. 

“Does a cartoon have real-world implications? Yes, if enough people consume it, they believe that is a law. But the question is, do you believe a skunk can talk, and do you believe a skunk buys flowers for a cat?” Kennedy questioned. He pointed out that individuals need to have “personal responsibility” as well.

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Kennedy concluded that he’s “all about the convo” but admitted, “It’s a scary time [and] at some point you’ve got to live, right? It’s like there’s no forgiveness anymore.”

Billy Crystal

Billy Crystal discussed cancel culture and its impact on comedy. (REUTERS/Lucas Jackson)

Crystal weighed in during an interview with The New York Post.

“It’s becoming a minefield, and I get it,” said the star, 73. “I don’t like it, I understand it. … I just keep doing what I’m doing and that’s all you can do right now.”

“It’s an interesting time, it’s an interesting time,” he said.

Donald Glover

Donald Glover spoke out about the impact that cancel culture has had on movies and TV. (Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for LACMA)

The comedian, rapper and actor is typically very quiet on social media. In fact, prior to his recent three-tweet rant about TV and film, there wasn’t really any content on his page at all. However, in May, the “This is America” singer couldn’t help but speak up when he read a discussion about reviewers being sick of “boring stuff.” 

“Saw people on here havin a discussion about how tired they were of reviewing boring stuff (tv & film),” Glover said in the first of three since-deleted posts. 

“We’re getting boring stuff and not even experimental mistakes(?) because people are afraid of getting cancelled,” he continued. 

The star concluded his thoughts by writing, “So they feel like they can only experiment w/ aesthetic. (also because some of em know theyre not that good).”

Chris Rock

‘Saturday Night Live’ star Chris Rock talked cancel culture on ‘The Breakfast Club.’ (Will Heath/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)

Chris Rock spoke out against cancel culture, noting that it’s led to “unfunny” and “boring” content from comedians. 

The stand-up comedian appeared on “The Breakfast Club” in May. During the interview, Rock was asked about “cancel culture” and how it has impacted him as a comedian. He noted that, after a year in quarantine due to the coronavirus pandemic, he’s found the landscape to be drastically different.

“It’s weird when you’re a comedian because like, when you’re a comedian, when the audience doesn’t laugh, we get the message. You don’t really have to cancel us because we get the message. They’re not laughing,” he explained. “Our feelings hurt. When we do something and people aren’t laughing we, like, we get it.”

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Rock continued by calling the cancellation of comedians “disrespectful” to the audience that is at a live performance for the sole purpose of judging the content. 

“I don’t understand why people feel the need to go beyond that, you know what I mean?” he explained. “Honestly, to me, it’s a disrespect. It’s people disrespecting the audience like, ‘Oh, you think you know more than the audience?’ The audience knows more than everybody, OK. You know, but hey, some things don’t need to be said. Some people need to be looked out for, I definitely understand that, but not letting comedians work is, you know. What happens is everybody gets safe, and when everybody gets safe and nobody tries anything, things get boring.”

The star went on to lament that fear of getting canceled has led many comedians to avoid taking risks, thus leading to a slew of “unfunny comedians” as well as “unfunny” shows, movies, and other projects.

“Everybody’s scared to make a move,” Rock declared. 

“That’s not a place to be. You know, we should have the right to fail because failure, failure is a part of art,” he added.  

Seth Rogen

Seth Rogen downplayed the impact of cancel culture on comedians. (Kevin Mazur/2021 MTV Movie and TV Awards/Getty Images for MTV/ViacomCBS)

Seth Rogen downplayed the impact of cancel culture by arguing that some comedians are going a bit overboard in reckoning with past jokes that have not aged well.

Rogen, 39, appeared on “Good Morning Britain” earlier this year where he showed some understanding toward cancel culture proponents even taking responsibility for “certain jokes” that he understands would not play well today. 

“There are certain jokes that for sure have not aged well, but I think that’s the nature of comedy,” Rogen said (via Insider). “I think conceptually those movies are sound, and I think there’s a reason they’ve lasted as far as people still watching and enjoying them today. Jokes are not things that necessarily are built to last.”

The “Pineapple Express” actor went on to deride fellow comedians who rail against cancel culture when they’re taken to task over material they produced in the past. 

“To me when I see comedians complaining about this kind of thing, I don’t understand what they’re complaining about,” he continued. “If you’ve made a joke that’s aged terribly, accept it. And if you don’t think it’s aged terribly, then say that.”

He noted that facing criticism for his work is simply something that goes hand-in-hand with being an artist, particularly one in comedy. 

“If you don’t like that, then don’t be a comedian anymore,” he said. “To me, it’s not worth complaining about to the degree I see other comedians complaining about.”

Katt Williams

Katt Williams mocked comedians who are worried about cancel culture. (Jason Davis/Getty Images)

The comic, 49, appeared on “The Joe Budden Podcast” when the hosts asked him directly for his opinions on the current state of comedy and what cancel culture means for the future of the genre. Williams took a hard stance on the issue, arguing that it’s merely an invitation for talented artists to elevate their work. 

“If you ask all of the people who didn’t make it to the NBA, if you asked them if we just lowered the goal down another foot, they would all tell you they’d make it. Nobody likes the out of bounds, but the out of bounds has got to be there,” he said. “Some of these things are for the benefit of everything. Nobody likes the speed limit, but it’s necessary. Nobody likes the shoulder of the road, but it’s there for a reason.” 

He added: “My point is, [people] weren’t all that extremely funny back when they could say whatever they wanted to say. At the end of the day, there’s no cancel culture. Cancellation doesn’t have its own culture.”

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Williams went on to note that the slew of comedians complaining about cancellation and heightened sensitivity aren’t necessarily the ones the comedy world will miss when they’re gone. 

“I don’t know what people got canceled that we wish we had back. Who are they? It’s done for the reasons it’s done for and it helped who it helped,” Williams said. “If all that’s going to happen is that we have to be more sensitive in the way that we talk, isn’t that what we want anyway? I’m saying, your job as a comedian is to please the most amount of people with your art. So if you wanna offend somebody, nobody took those words away from you … But don’t call somebody this word when you know it affects all of these people.”

Jon Lovitz

Jon Lovitz compared cancel culture to McCarthyism. (OGUT/Star Max/GC Images)

The former “Saturday Night Live” comedian went as far as comparing cancel culture to McCarthyism of the 1940s during an an interview with Page Six.

Lovitz told the outlet that it’s his job to “satirize what’s going on in society and point out the hypocrisies.” He believes that cancel culture’s recent prevalence has made it difficult for both him and other comedians to do their jobs as well as they used to be able to. 

“As soon as you say to a comedian like me, ‘You can’t say that,’ the first thing in my head is, ‘Oh, and now I have to,'” he explained.  

He added that there is a difference between simply making a joke about something sensitive and “being outright mean.” 

“If you don’t have the ability to laugh at yourself, don’t go to a comedy club,” Lovitz cautioned. “I’m not changing my act. If you’re watching TV and you don’t like the show, change the channel. It’s very simple.”

Kevin Hart

Kevin Hart, who previously faced criticism that saw him step down as host of the Oscars, spoke out against cancel culture. (Alberto Rodriguez/E! Entertainment/NBCU Photo Bank)

Speaking to The Sunday Times, the comedian directly addressed the growing tide of cancel culture, noting that he isn’t bothered by the incident because he simply doesn’t allow it to bother him.

“If people want to pull up stuff, go back to the same tweets of old, go ahead,” he said. “There is nothing I can do. You’re looking at a younger version of myself. A comedian trying to be funny and, at that attempt, failing. Apologies were made. I understand now how it comes off. I look back and cringe. So it’s growth. It’s about growth.”

Hart made sure to note that people who have done something truly damaging to others should be held accountable and face consequences. However, he doesn’t believe that’s always the case when it comes to cancel culture, specifically in his situation.

“When did we get to a point where life was supposed to be perfect? Where people were supposed to operate perfectly all the time? I don’t understand,” he continued. “I don’t expect perfection from my kids. I don’t expect it from my wife, friends, employees. Because, last I checked, the only way you grow up is from f—ing up. I don’t know a kid who hasn’t f—ed up or done some dumb sh–.”

Hart likened the situation many comedians are facing to someone getting out of jail to find that public scrutiny has extended their punishment far beyond what any judge ordered.

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“People get locked up so they can be taught a lesson,” he explained. “When they get out, they are supposed to be better. But if they come out and people go, ‘I’m not giving you a job because you were in jail’ then what the f— did I go to jail for? That was my punishment? How do you not give those people a shot? They’re saying that all life should be over because of a mistake? Your life should end and there should be no opportunity to change? What are you talking about?” 

Whoopi Goldberg

Whoopi Goldberg discussed cancel culture. (Walt Disney Television/Lou Rocco)

The EGOT winner, 65, addressed the social phenomenon at the Edinburgh TV Festival. Per Variety, Goldberg said she feels like “the truth doesn’t seem to matter as much these days.”

“The View” co-host was asked about her own experience with cancel culture after allegedly making a joke about President George W. Bush in 2004 at a fundraising event. 

“I would describe that situation as a lot of people covering their backsides, because the joke was never about him,” Goldberg recalled. “But no one ever stood up and said, ‘Hey, here’s what actually happened.’ And they put it in the newspaper. And you notice, they’d never seen what I exactly said, or what I said at all. But all somebody has to do is say you said it.”

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“Because there is cancel culture, people will call or text and say, ‘I’m not buying your product. This is who you have talking about your product, me and my 5 million followers, if you keep her, we’re not going to buy your car, or we’re not going to buy your shampoo or we’re not going to buy your toothbrush or we’re not going to buy your Pampers,'” Goldberg mused.

David Spade

David Spade arguably benefited a bit from cancel culture. (Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Comedy Central)

It can be argued that Spade benefited a bit from cancel culture, recently wrapping up a guest-hosting stint on “Bachelor In Paradise” after regular host Chris Harrison departed the franchise amid a racism scandal. 

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Speaking to Variety about his time on the show, Spade noted that “Bachelor” producer Mike Fleiss gave him the freedom to say what he wanted during his time on the show, even if that meant lightly mocking the series. While the former “Saturday Night Live” cast member enjoyed his freedom as a guest host, he was asked about the fact that many comedians find themselves under more restrictions than ever these days.

“It’s very dicey. It’s very tricky,” Spade responded. “You used to have to say anything to go as far as you could, to push the envelope, to get attention, and people would be like, ‘I like this guy. He’s pushing it.’ And in comedy clubs, audiences really appreciate that.”

He added: “Now you say the one wrong move and you’re canceled. It’s a very tough world out there.”

Cedric the Entertainer

Cedric the Entertainer spoke about cancel culture ahead of hosting the 2021 Emmys. (Photo by Gregg DeGuire/Getty Images)

Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, the “Neighborhood” executive producer said the possibility of getting canceled over just one joke is not lost on him.

“Nowadays, it’s crossing the line, right? It’s not bad if you’re the news for a couple of days, but you don’t want to be the guy that ruins the night or someone’s moment,” he said. “At the same time, you’ve got to be yourself. As comedians, we’re up on a tightrope trying to make sure people are entertained. But, again, we’re living in a hypersensitive society. You don’t know where that line is sometimes. It moves from day to day.”

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The star went on to discuss why he’s tweaking his approach and compared the risk of delivering humor on a national stage these days to writing “an English paper.”

“You have your joke, then you look at the words and think about how you can transform them. Should I say ‘yo mama’ or ‘a mama?’ It’s about making sure the joke lands in a way that you say what you wanted to say – but don’t necessarily direct it at anybody specifically.”

Fox News’ Jessica Napoli and Nate Day contributed to this report

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CLUBESKIMO facts

Their logo is an igloo with a palm tree.

They chose the name Club Eskimo because of the people that lives in igloos, the eskimos, who eat raw meat and live a rebellious life in the cold wilderness. They want their music to be like that, rebellious and raw.

DEAN

His real name is 혁권  / Hyuk Kwon.

He is also known as Deanflluenza.

He was born on 10th November 1992.

He was born in Hongeun-dong, Seoul.

He made his debut in the US on July 2015, and in Korea on October 2015.

He is 177cm.

His bloodtype is 0.

He is signed under Universal Records and Joombas Music Group.

He is also a member of the crew Fanxy Child with Crush, Zico, Penomeco and Millic.

He has a younger brother called Hyuk Bom.

He can speak English.

His favourite colour is green.

His influences are Kanye West, N.E.R.D, Childish Gambino (Donald Glover), Cashmere Cat and Chance The Rapper. 

He is Catholic.

He gave the name REBELS to his fanclub.

He chose his stage name because of James Dean.

His favourite food is sushi. He also likes pizza, jelly and chocolate.

He is friends with JeongHan from Seventeen and ChanYeol and BaekHyun from EXO.

He is close with Jay Park, Crush and Zico.

He admires IU and would like to work with her.

He produced K-Pop songs such as “Voodoo Doll” for VIXX and “Black Pearl” and “Unfair” for EXO.

He also produced songs for international artists such as “One Less Lonely Girl” for Justin Bieber.

He started his musical career when he was 16 as a hiphop artist. During this time he collaborated with other artists and was part of the hiphop crew The Cohort with Keith Ape. When he was 19 he went to the US, where producer Hyuk Shin discovered him. He currently works with him both in the US and in Korea.

When he started writing music in Highschool, he used to keep it a secret from his parents. When they found out, they supported him.

If he has to describe his music in three words: raw, rebel and root.

He thinks his lips are his main attraction.

His ideal type is someone who understands him and his weird antics.

He was a producer in Show Me The Money 6 with Zico (Team CODEAN).

CRUSH

He was born on 3rd May 1992.

He was born in South Korea.

His real name is 신효섭 / Shin HyoSeob.

He is in Amoeba Culture.

He made his debut on 7th December 2012 with the song “Red Dress”.

He is Christian.

He is 175cm.

His calligraphy is bad.

He has a dog called 두유 (Doyou).

Doyou is an American Skimo Miniature (not confirmed, but pretty sure it is).

He used to be in a duo called Masterpiece with female rapper Cheetah.

He always cries when he listens to “Sofa”’s lyrics.

He chose his artistic name, Crush, because his real name is Shin HyoSeob and when you pronounce it quickly it sounds like “Shi Shup”. He though that this would be written like “CSub” in English, but since he has a pretty bad calligraphy, one of his friends asked him if it said “Crush”, and so he liked this better and that’s how he chose it.

Zion.T was his bestfriend and they used to live together. They were so close that, according to Dynamic Duo, they gestures and way of speaking were almost the same.

When Zion.T left Amoeba they stoped following each other on social media and rumors said that they were not friends any more. They follow each other again nowadays and their relationship seems to be good.

He is a member of VV:D, with Zion.T, Elo and Loco.

Before debuting as a singer, he helped other artists producing their music.

He is a member of the crew Fanxy Child with Dean, Zico, Penomeco and Millic. 

CAMPER / RAD MUSEUM

His real name is So Haejoon.

He is a graphic artist and  a DJ, singer and producer.

He created their logo and helps with album work.

He has two instagram accounts. In one he posts his graphic works and Rad Museum is his main account.

2XXX!

His name is pronounced “twotriplex”.

He is a producer at Joombas Music Group.

JUSÉN

His real name is Kim Jusen. (I have doubts with wether it is “Jusén” or “Juisen”.

He is a composer at Joombas Music Group.

CHEK PARREN

His real name is Cho Daehee.

He is a DJ.

His birthday is 16th August.

MILLIC

His real name is s 천승현 / Cheon Seung Hyun.

He was born on 24th April 1993.

He is signed in HIGHGRND.

He is part of the crew Fanxy Child with Dean, Zico, Crush and Penomeco.

His bestfriends are Dean and Crush.

He started rapping in the same amateur community as Dean.

He speaks at least a bit of English.

He is a DJ and producer.

MISO

She is a producer, singer and DJ.

OFFONOFF

They are a duo.

They debuted on 2016.

They are signed under HIGHGRND.

Colde is the vocalist and 0channel the DJ.

Colde was born on 10th May 1994.

Colde is both a singer and composer.

0channel was born on 16th April 1994.

0channel is a DJ, producer and composer.

PUNCHNELLO

His real name is  이영신 / Lee Young Sin.

He was born on 28th May 1997.

He was born in Anyang, Kyonggi-Do.

He is signed in HIGHGRND.

He is 162.5 cm.

He debuted on September 8th, 2016 with "Lime”.

He appeared in Show Me The Money 6 as a contestant. 

He was eliminated during the battle against MyunDo because they got a tie and were requested to perform another song. Punchnello couldn’t concentrate and didn’t rap anything. He explained later on that it was due to his mother being ill and her conditioning worsening at the time.

He participated on the song “Show Me The Money” with other eliminated rappers such as Penomeco and Olltii.

During the interview with the eliminated artists he explained that his mother was doing well.

He loves cats and has one.

crds to @bbyeskimo

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Proust Interview

During my Proust interview with Marquis, I became acquainted with him. He is very open minded and calm. Marquis’s good sense of humor and sarcastic responses made the conversation more enjoyable. These were his responses to the Proust questions.

What is your idea of perfect happiness?

Being with myself and the world.

What is your greatest fear?

Lying in bed and reflecting on not trying hard enough.

What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?

Too forgiving.

What is the trait you most deplore in others?

Arrogance.

Which living person do you most admire?

My aunt because she has gone through great adversity and she managed to come out successful.

What is your greatest extravagance?

Pair of sneakers cales Huaraches shoes. Twice.

What is your current state of mind?

Panic, because I will be graduating in a month and a half. Trying to figure out how to transfer out of school.

What do you consider the most overrated virtue?

Reverence, overly caring or praising of someone or something. Not everything is special.

On what occasion do you lie?

When you don’t know how to tell the truth (to avoid hurting someone’s feelings).

What do you most dislike about your appearance?

My skin acne. 

Which living person do you most despise?

Donald Glover. I don’t really despise him. It's more of a love and hate kind of thing and asking myself “how he is so talented?”

What is the quality you most like in a man?

Sense of humor and sarcasm

What is the quality you most like in a woman?

Sense of humor and sarcasm

Which words or phrases do you most overuse?

Metaphors. Give metaphorical answers

What or who is the greatest love of your life?

My mom for always trying

When and where were you happiest?

When I got a rare Pokemon card, Charizard

Which talent would you most like to have?

Swimming. To avoid drowning.

If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?

I would change how cautious I am.

What do you consider your greatest achievement?

Being able to admit to being. Admitting to being wrong.

If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be?

My aunt’s cat because she eats and sleeps all day.

Where would you most like to live?

Japan, went there once and felt surreal

What is your most treasured possession?

Grandma gave me some rings that are pretty special.

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?

Wasting your life.

What is your favorite occupation?

Amusement park designer

What is your most marked characteristic?

I was told I was very kind and open minded

What do you most value in your friends?

Sarcasm

Who are your favorite writers?

Stephen King, like the horror genre and his style. I enjoy his books

Who is your hero of fiction?

Angela Abarn from the Watchman

Which historical figure do you most identify with?

Life is complicating 

Who are your heroes in real life?

Someone who has a diverse career. I admire people who try out a variety of careers, to venture out of their passion and explore with many interests. 

What are your favorite names?

Wellington

What is it that you most dislike?

Wet socks

What is your greatest regret?

I don’t know. I will get back to you when I am 90

How would you like to die?

In my sleep

What is your motto?

‘Don’t worry about the weather’ (Don’t worry about what is out of your control)

How do you usually react when you are angry?

I take a mental pause. Process thoughts. Accept and understand my faults.

Are you a cat or a dog person?

I am probably a cat person. There is always a cat beside me

Are you more inclined to follow your head or your heart?

I am more inclined to follow my head. I usually follow what I think even though I know my heart is right, which is conflicting.

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2021 is shaping up to be a momentous year, and that includes celebrating the 50th anniversary of these notable horror films released in 1971. Time waits for no man, but time does sometimes seem to wait for movies. Some movies take decades to catch on with audiences, whether that be in the form of being elevated to the status of revered classic, or simply becoming a cult item with a devoted, if small, fanbase. Of course, there are also the instant hits, which standout for their greatness now just as they did back then.

At this point, the 1970s seems like a long time ago, but in the grand scheme of things, it's really not. Compared to the totality of human endeavor, 50 years ago is a mere drop in the bucket, even though in that time millions of new films have been produced, both inside of the horror genre and outside of it. Still, the big 5-0 remains a major milestone to reach, both for people and the art they create, including motion pictures.

Related: Every Horror Movie That Turns 40 Years Old In 2021

The 1970s is often considered one of the greatest decades for horror ever, playing host to such iconic classics as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Exorcist, and Halloween. While none of those released in 1971, a lot of good horror options did, and here are the most notable.

When it comes to iconic horror actors, few are more synonymous with the genre than Vincent Price. The Abominable Dr. Phibes gave Price one of his greatest roles, as a vengeful husband who holds the doctors attending to his wife when she died during surgery responsible for her demise. This leads Phibes to enact horrible vengeance upon them. The film was well-received, and received a sequel in 1972, Dr. Phibes Rises Again.

When most people think of slasher progenitors, films like Halloween and Psycho come to mind, but one shouldn't underestimate the influence of Italian giallo films on the sub-genre, such as director Mario Bava's A Bay of Blood. Featuring a string of graphic murders and a mystery surrounding the killer, and even directly inspiring kills in Friday the 13th Part 2, A Bay of Blood is essential viewing for slasher fans.

A film of Belgian origin, Daughters of Darkness is a vampire film that manages to be extremely classy in style and tone, while also bursting with sex appeal. The story sees a newlywed couple check into a luxury hotel, only to be preyed on and corrupted by a vampire countess named Elizabeth Bathory, a descendant of the famous one. It's one of many erotic vampire movies to come out of the 1970s.

Related: Interview With The Vampire: What Happened To Lestat After The Movie

An extremely controversial piece of religious horror from director Ken Russell, The Devils is actually loosely based on the real life downfall of a 17th-century Catholic priest named Urbain Grandier (Oliver Reed), who's accused of witchcraft thanks to the word of a nun (Vanessa Redgrave) who's obsessed with him. The Devils is far from traditional horror, but it's definitely horrifying at times, and downright shockingly graphic at others. The film was heavily censored or banned in multiple countries for decades.

Without Duel, all of Steven Spielberg's amazing films wouldn't exist, as it was his first feature as a director, and got him his first taste of widespread acclaim. Originally aired as a TV movie, Duel is a white-knuckle horror/thriller about a traveling salesman who's targeted and menaced by the driver of a semi-truck for seemingly no real reason. It's a very tense film, and shows that Spielberg's talent was there even in his earliest projects.

Let's Scare Jessica to Death, directed by John Hancock, centers on the titular woman, recently released from a mental hospital. Jessica, her husband, and their friend, head to a remote farmhouse, only to find a young woman named Emily already staying there. They become friends, but before long, Jessica begins to suspect Emily might be a vampire. The problem is, no one wants to believe her, due to her mental illness. Though not a hit upon release, the film has developed a loyal cult following.

Rosemary Baby's Mia Farrow stars in See No Evil, not to be confused with the later WWE Studios horror film starring Kane. Farrow's Sarah has recently been rendered blind, and while staying at her family's secluded estate, is targeted by a psychotic killer. See No Evil is another that wasn't a big success upon release, but has gone on to gain a cult following.

Related: See No Evil: Why WWE's Slasher Movie Franchise Is Underrated

Directed by the great Sam Peckinpah, Straw Dogs is another film that's been met with much controversy over the years, despite enjoying a generally stellar critical reception. Dustin Hoffman and Susan George star as a married couple who moves to a house in the English countryside, only to be harassed by local thugs, with things progressing to absolutely horrifying degrees, including graphic sexual assault. Before long, the couple is forced to defend their home against their enemies.

Tombs of the Blind Dead is a Spanish/Portuguese horror film, and the first in director Amando de Ossorio's Blind Dead franchise. It focuses on a group of college kids who end up preyed upon by undead Templars, a group of malevolent knights that terrorized the 13th century, leaving death and mayhem in their wake. The title comes from the fact that post-execution for their crimes, birds pecked out their eyes.

Unlike several of the other horror films turning 50 this year, Willard was an immediate hit, and was actually the 12th-highest grossing movie of 1971. Bruce Davison stars as the titular character, a social outcast whose only friends are rats. One day, Willard grows fed up with the abuse he receives from various tormentors, and uses his little rodent friends to exact revenge. Willard got a sequel named Ben, which holds the odd distinction of being a horror film with a theme song by Michael Jackson. Willard was also remade in 2003, starring Crispin Glover.

Also turning 50 in 2021 is The Mephisto Waltz, in which a dying Satanist looks to put his soul into the body of a much younger concert pianist. Then there's the creatively titled demonic possession flick The Blood on Satan's Claw, Dario Argento giallo The Cat o' Nine Tales, Hammer's gender-bending Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde, Amicus anthology The House That Dripped Blood, and another creatively titled film, giallo The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave. Those charmed by Daughters of Darkness also shouldn't overlook the sexually-charged Vampyros Lesbos.

More: The Best Decade for Horror Movies: 1970s vs 1980s

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Sam Bowring

Sam Bowring is a stand-up comedian and author living in Sydney, Australia. As well as the acclaimed Broken Well Trilogy and the Strange Threads Duology, he has also written children's books, plays, and for a number of television shows.

He writes for children, with titles such as THE LITTLE BAD WOLF and SAM THE CAT.

Sam Bowring has been writing and performing stand-up comedy since he was 16 and since then has been on ABC 702 with Richard Glover, and on Triple J, including a regular spot on the breakfast show with Wil Anderson and Adam Spencer in 2004. In 2006 Sam was nominated for Best Emerging Comic at the Adelaide Fringe Festival, and for Best Newcomer at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Sam's television writing includes The Big Bite (Channel 7), Ronnie Johns Half Hour (Channel 10), The Mansion (Comedy Channel) and Rove Live (Channel 10). He has also written several plays.

What are one to three books that have greatly influenced your life?

My dad read me the Hobbit when I was small, which imbued me with a love of the fantastical that has lasted ever since. After that we went through an awful lot of Pratchett.

What purchase of $100 or less has most positively impacted your life in the last six months (or in recent memory)?

Hmm, tricky one. I am greatly enjoying a game called Pistol Whip on my VR headset, it cost something like $30. It gets me stretching and leaping about shooting bad guys to music, getting an aerobic workout that is actually fun. I feel less tightly wound when I sit back down for countless hours at the desk. Does the increasing popularity of VR mean we going to see a generation of accidentally ultra-fit nerds?

How has a failure, or apparent failure, set you up for later success?

I’ll let you know when I experience the success bit.

Are there any quotes you think of often or live your life by?

Absolutely not. Okay fine, I have one that I made up myself, does that count? ‘As long as the books get written’. It basically means that, no matter what else is going on in life, I must always remember to write.

What is one of the best investment in a writing resource you’ve ever made?

An ergonomic chair. For a person who sits all day, this is a must!

What advice would you give to a smart, driven aspiring author? What advice should they ignore?

Don’t start each session re-reading what you already wrote. You are chipping away at a chunk of marble, it’s not going to look like David right away, so don’t dispirit yourself by examining his misshapen head the day after you begin, and thinking ‘this isn’t exactly what I wanted it to look like’. It is easier to work with an entire imperfect object than to try and carve the perfect finger first and then everything else around it. Finish your book, then spend as much time polishing as you need. You don’t have to show it to anyone until you’re ready! But if you never finish, then all you’ll wind up with is a drawer full of fingers. This metaphor is getting confusing.

What are bad recommendations you hear in your profession often?

I immediately lose interest when people start recommending proscribed structures and writing rules, i.e. the Hero’s Journey, three acts, ‘Save the Cat’ and all of that. By all means understand these things, but also, meh.

In the last five years, what have you become better at saying no to (distractions, invitations, etc.)?

Freelance work. It’s tempting to always say yes, because ‘make hay while the sun shines’, right? But if the sun shines too bright for too long, all of sudden you’re not writing anything of your own, but instead rephrasing ‘the stakes could not be higher’ a dozen different ways for an episode for some dumb reality talent show.

What marketing tactics should authors avoid?

I heard about a guy who would go into bookstores and sneakily place glowing ‘staff review’ signs under his books. When he was found out, he got banned, although his books did not. I would not recommend this tactic.

What new realizations and/or approaches have helped you achieve your goals?

These interview questions have a very positive spin to them, and that’s not really my vibe. 

When you feel overwhelmed or have lost your focus temporarily, what do you do?

I clear the decks of immediate natty tasks as quickly as possible, so there aren’t noises come at me from a dozen directions.

Any other tips?

When you start thinking of them as ‘bed rags’, it’s time to buy new pajamas.

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In Touch, November 26

Cover: Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie divorce bombshell -- the kids choose Brad

Page 1: Contents 

Page 2: Who Wore It Better? Irina Shayk vs. Katie Holmes vs. Uzo Aduba 

Page 4: Britney Spears’ Las Vegas show is a disaster 

Page 5: Matthew McConaughey still upset he didn’t get the part in Titanic, Alexis Ren broke 2 ribs on DWTS, Makeover of the Week -- Elizabeth Olsen got bangs, Dry Spell of the Week -- Teresa Giudice, Jennifer Garden’s wardrobe malfunction 

Page 6: Jamie Dornan selling his L.A. home, Channing Tatum brings his 5-year-old son to girlfriend Jessie J’s concert, J.K. Rowling sues her former assistant for using a business credit card to buy cats and candles

Page 8: Prince Charles is so spoiled 

Page 9: Man Candy of the Week -- Anthony Joshua, Winner of the Week -- Breaking Bad fans are getting a movie, Loser of the Week -- Alec Baldwin’s talk show moved to an undesirable time slot after his arrest, Chad Johnson can’t stop trashing the rest of Bachelor Nation 

Page 10: Oh Baby -- Jessica Alba and kids Hayes and Haven and Honor, Jim Edmonds of RHOC’s son Hart, Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz’s son Bronx, Heidi Klum and Seal’s son Johan, Katherine Heigl and Josh Kelley’s daughter Naleigh, Kim Zolciak and Kroy Biermann’s twins Kane and Kaia 

Page 12: Up Close -- Victoria’s Secret -- Gigi Hadid, Kendall Jenner, Sara Sampaio, Bella Hadid and Halsey, Adriana Lima 

Page 15: Gisele Bundchen, Busy Philipps 

Page 16: Ellen DeGeneres and Ariana Grande, Jon Hamm and Sarah Silverman, Millie Bobby Brown and Finn Wolfhard of Stranger Things, Jerry O’Connell and Katie Holmes 

Page 18: Martha Stewart and Jessica Simpson

Page 19: Jewel, Reese Witherspoon 

Page 20: Emily Ratajkowski 

Page 21: Kristin Chenoweth, Priyanka Chopra and Sophie Turner 

Page 22: Matthew McConaughey, Mariska Hargitay and Peter Hermann, Shia LaBeouf and Dakota Johnson and Zack Gottsagen 

Page 24: Russell Crowe, Michael B. Jordan, Carrie Underwood 

Page 26: E! People’s Choice Awards -- Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani, Busy Philipps and Jimmy Fallon, Chrissy Teigen and Kim and Khloe and Kourtney Kardashian and Kendall and Kris Jenner, Nicki Minaj, Melissa McCarthy, Mila Kunis 

Page 28: Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie custody bombshell -- the kids finally speak 

Page 32: Kate Middleton’s showdown with the Queen as the Queen bends the royal rules again for Meghan Markle 

Page 33: Doria Ragland nervous about Christmas 

Page 34: Megyn Kelly’s career crisis 

Page 36: Rita Ora robs from Pretty Woman 

Page 40: Hollywood ravaged by wildfires 

Page 41: Jon Gosselin wants custody of son Collin, Mark Wahlberg helping Octavia Spencer lose weight, blind item, Star Sightings -- Mariah Carey, Heather Thompson, Tommy Dorfman, ‘NSync’s JC Chasez and Joey Fatone, Mat Kearney, Ashley Tisdale 

Page 42: Why Chip and Joanna Gaines are returning to TV 

Page 43: Demi Lovato’s new guy may be trouble, Ashlee Simpson and Evan Ross’ chilly date night dinner, Rami Malek’s love triangle between Lucy Boynton and Portia Doubleday 

Page 46: The Big Interview -- Mercedes Javid of Shahs of Sunset 

Page 48: The Kardashians are crazy for Keto 

Page 50: Style -- Pleats -- Leslie Bibb, Jaime King, Charlize Theron, Victoria Beckham, Awkwafina, Olivia Palermo 

Page 52: Puff Sleeves -- Nina Dobrev, Elizabeth Olsen, Carey Mulligan, Priyanka Chopra, Isla Fisher, Mandy Moore 

Page 54: Beauty -- Charcoal -- Shay Mitchell 

Page 56: Did I Really Do That? Lindsay Lohan, Bebe Rexha, Anne Hathaway 

Page 58: Sneak Preview -- Escape at Dannemora 

Page 60: What Team Are You On? Jackie Goldschneider 

Page 61: Blast From the Past -- 25th Anniversary of What’s Eating Gilbert Grape -- Leonardo DiCaprio, Johnny Depp, Juliette Lewis, Darlene Cates, Crispin Glover, John C. Reilly 

Page 62: Animal Overload -- My dog looks like Sienna Miller 

Page 64: My Night at Home -- Jake T. Austin, Guess Whose Moustache -- Jesse Plemons, Luke Evans, Benedict Cumberbatch, Adam Lambert, Brooklyn Beckham, Michael Cera 

Page 66: Double Take -- Haylie Duff 

Page 68: Horoscope -- Scorpio twins Nikki and Brie Bella 

Page 70: The Top 10 Hottest Toms -- Tom Welling, Tom Selleck, Tom Cruise, Tom Sturridge, Tom Schwartz, Tom Hiddleston, Tom Ellis, Tom Holland, Tom Brady, Tom Hardy 

Page 72: Last Laughs