An oral history of the most important deal in sports TV history, when Rupert Murdoch and Fox stole the NFL and John Madden out from under the Big Three networks and launched a television empire.
How the VFX industry plateaued —and where it might go from here.
A profile of Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
When Patricia Douglas was raped by an MGM salesman at a 1937 studio party, the 20-year-old dancer filed charges, taking on Hollywood’s most powerful institution.
The enormous life of Anthony Bourdain, according to those who knew him best.
Lena Dunham comes to terms with herself.
An oral history of Garry Shandling’s secret pickup basketball game.
Searching for the star behind Dlisted.
Ezra Miller is the gender-bending, goat delivering Hollywood star of the future.
Behold the marvel of the animal’s fabrication.
She’s trying to keep comedy alive at a moment when Hollywood—and its audience—can’t seem to crack a smile.
The platform’s entertainment for children is weirder—and more globalized—than adults could have expected.
Should art be a battleground for social justice?
On growing up, writing, and succumbing to bullshit.
On A Star Is Born and the celebrity industrial complex.
Toward a materialist history of the blockbuster movie.
A profile.
An oral history.
From HBO to ‘Star Wars’ to Shakespeare, he has discovered how to excel beyond tidy genres.
A profile of the director.
A profile of the actress.
The director’s provocative new film will change the way you think about racism
Inside Arnold’s manic, occasionally dishonest quest to find tapes of Trump using slurs on the set of The Apprentice.
Dick Cavett, the “last great intellectual talk-show host,” at 81.
The strange saga of the real-life Simpsons house in Nevada.
