Some of the jokes land like bad cabaret, but The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, the Australian smash about three drag queens storming the outback in a pink bus, still has exuberance to spare, plus a lovely turn from Terence Stamp as the wry Bernadette. EXTRAS A making-of doesn’t offer much, but director Stephan Elliott’s commentary compensates with loads of entertaining war stories about the cash-strapped shoot. (Materials for the outrageous Oscar-winning costumes were bought at Kmart.
Warning: This article contains spoilers for the season 2 finale of The Afterparty, "Vivian and Zoë." After a wild finale that somehow encompassed both campy horror and 1980s soap opera, season 2 of The Afterparty has officially closed the case on Edgar's murder. That's right: After many more mind movies of misdirection, it was revealed that Funcle Ulysses (John Cho) was the murderer all along, albeit unintentionally. Turns out, he wanted to kill Feng (Ken Jeong) in a last ditch attempt to get Vivian (Vivian Wu) to himself, but his glass of poison got switched at the last moment with Edgar's (Zach Woods), killing him instead.
After a long, traffic-plagued drive back home from our Thanksgiving trip, my wife Christine and I finally got our kids to bed, and I prepared to watch and write about The Amazing Race. As I checked my e-mail one last time before starting the show, my wife was trying to plug in an extension cord, and in doing so, accidentally yanked out the plug for the cable box. When we replugged it, the box wouldn’t reboot correctly.
I’m filling in for Jessica Shaw this week, and brother, did I luck out! I spent six months studying abroad in Germany, so I was loving last night’s sauerkraut-infused episode. Jet and Cord did not share my excitement: the move from South America to Central Europe definitely put Team Cowboy off balance. Early in the episode, perhaps anticipating the trouble they’d soon be having with subways and beer halls, Cord told his partner, ”There’s cities all over the world, Jet.
There was at least one undeniably amazing moment at Michael Jackson’s recent two-night stand at New York City’s Madison Square Garden. It came during the opening night’s finale, when a team of musicians and singers trooped on stage to perform the feel-good chestnut ”We Are the World.” It wasn’t the song itself that was so moving—it was the crazy-quilt assortment of talent assembled in one place. Old-school jazz greats such as Clark Terry and David ”Fathead” Newman stood side by side with vapid pop royalty like ‘N Sync and reggae-lite rapper Shaggy.
Cookie Lyon (Taraji P. Henson)’s style is deliciously over-the-top, and her outfits for the season 2 finale did not disappoint. Whether rocking a fabulous Gucci turban or vintage leopard-on-leopard Givenchy runway gown for Hakeem’s wedding, Cookie looked every inch the fearless matriarch she is. As for the hour’s pièce de résistance, that’d be the head-to-toe monogrammed Le Snob outfit Cookie rocked while heading to her old ‘hood to pay Shyne (Xzibit) a visit.
Robbie Robertson, the legendary Canadian musician best known as the former leader of The Band and a frequent collaborator ofMartin Scorsese, has died. He was 80. Robertson died Wednesday morning after battling a long illness, EW can confirm. He had recently completed his work as a composer on the upcoming Killers of the Flower Moon with Scorsese. Paying tribute to his longtime collaborator in a statement, Scorsese dubbed Robertson "one of my closest friends, a constant in my life and my work.
The Batman premiere Robert Pattinson and Zoë Kravitz. Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Befitting the Caped Crusader's color palette of choice, the stars of The Batman (opening Mar. 4) painted the red carpet black at its L.A. premiere. Directed by Matt Reeves, and written by Reeves and Peter Craig, The Batman stars Robert Pattinson as the titular Dark Knight with Zoë Kravtiz playing his foil and paramour Selina Kyle, a.k.a. Catwoman.
Renée Ahdieh is moving into the world of vampires for her next series, EW can announce exclusively. The best-selling YA author (Flame in the Mist, Wrath and the Dawn) will publish The Beautiful next fall, a romantic murder-mystery set in 19th century New Orleans. The book, which kicks off a new series, marks a major return for vampires in the YA space, where the creatures had become less popular in the years following major breakouts like Twilight and Vampire Academy.
America’s cherished immigrant narrative — that triumphal tale of striving and assimilation, of quaint old-world traditions giving way to the enticements of the new — gets a melancholy revision in Dinaw Mengestu’s understated first novel, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears. ”I did not come to America to find a better life,” says narrator Sepha Stephanos. ”I came here running and screaming with the ghosts of an old one firmly attached to my back.