Sex and the City featured a surprising number of famous guest stars over its six seasons. Now that HBO's seminal comedy is streaming on Netflix, fans who watched the show as it aired in the early-2000s and new viewers alike are discovering just how many recognizable faces appeared in an episode or two. Quite a few popped up as flings for the core four of Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker), Samantha (Kim Cattrall), Miranda (Cynthia Nixon), and Charlotte (Kristin Davis), while others played exaggerated versions of themselves.
1 Everett Collection 5. STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION (1987-1994) Lightning is hard enough to bottle once, but twice? Just the same, Trek godfather Gene Roddenberry gave resurrecting Star Trek as a TV series a go, and in doing so allowed us to take TV sci-fi seriously again. And the masterstroke was casting Patrick Stewart. By signing on as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard, the Royal Shakespeare Company veteran gave The Next Generation a gravitas-laden foundation to build on.
It’s rare to find a sale on Apple products, but Black Friday and Cyber Monday always seem to work their magic.
If you’ve been waiting all year to get an Apple watch on your wrist or upgrade your current headphones to Apple Airpods, now’s the time to pounce. After scouring the Amazon, Target, Walmart, and Best Buy deal hubs, we found some impressive discounts worthy of adding these items to your virtual cart.
Singers, rappers, and other musical acts have long used their fellow artists as fodder for lyrics — for better and for worse. Taylor Swift has practically made her music an interactive experience for sleuthing fans eager to spot real-life references to her love life. Then there's the age-old art of the diss track, in which artists like Kendrick Lamar and Drake have publicly feuded via thinly veiled attacks in their lyrics.
It’s nearly Father’s Day, which means it’s time to celebrate and remember the dads in our lives. From fathers and sons to fathers and daughters to untraditional father figures, there’s no shortage of movie dads and fatherly relationships in the cinematic world. Some screen dads are lovable, others are sources of tension for their children; some fathers are not the ones we’re given, but the ones we find along the way.
The premieres of Disney Channel Original Movies — or DCOMs, as they've come to affectionately be called — used to be like the Super Bowl of children's entertainment. (Who could forget the double-premiere of Aly & AJ's Cow Belles and the Hannah Montana pilot in 2006, or High School Musical 2 weekend extravaganza with a singalong version and the cast answering fan questions in 2007?) Since the OG DCOM Under Wraps first premiered in 1997, Disney Channel has pumped out more than 100 titles, and we've sifted through them to bring you the finest 33 picks — most of them throwbacks like Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century (1999) and The Even Stevens Movie (2003).
Radiohead kicked off a limited run of U.S. tour dates — their first in the country since 2012 — at Madison Square Garden on Wednesday night. The iconic alt-rockers played for more than two hours, blazing through 24 songs that drew from all their studio albums except 1993’s Pablo Honey and 2001’s Amnesiac. Cuts from this year’s A Moon Shaped Pool coexisted with tracks from the group’s rock-oriented early albums and the electronic-drenched cuts from 2011’s The King of Limbs, making for an evening that left Radiohead fans of all stripes satisfied.
No one has more fun at a Bob Seger concert than Bob Seger. His fans clearly enjoy themselves too, singing along to the deep repertoire of hits that likely served as the soundtrack to their own night moves. But part of the reason they do is doubtlessly Seger's own infectious, boundless enthusiasm. Saturday night, the Rock and Roll and Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee brought his still vital voice and one man pep squad stage moves– lots of pumped fists, points to his band members for their solos, and joyful clapping– and gave every ounce of energy away to the Forum in Los Angeles as part of his Travelin' Man tour, billed as his last hurrah for the road.
Stage plays can have the power to move us, make us laugh, and speak to the human condition more than most art forms. From Southern gothic character studies such as A Streetcar Named Desire to sprawling epics that encapsulate a specific place and time like Angels in America, the past century has seen some of our most defining stories originate on the stage for the benefit of rapt theatergoers. Ahead, we've ranked what we believe to be the greatest plays of the past 100 years, with links to where you can purchase them all to read (though we encourage you to seek them out if any are being mounted on the stage in your area).
If you were to go see The Giver this weekend without knowing a thing about the book it was based on, you’d be forgiven for thinking that it’s some sort of suburban Hunger Games ripoff. In reality, Lois Lowry’s 1993 novel predates just about every modern YA film franchise, from The Hunger Games to Divergent to The Maze Runner—you might even say it established the authoritarian dystopia motif that’s in vogue these days.