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What’s On at Flavorpill: The Links That Made the Rounds in Our Office
Today at Flavorpill, we met a woman who is truly terrified by kittens. We watched an all-too-brief preview of the Ab Fab holiday special. We got an interesting look at Tom McCarthy’s computer desktop...
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Let It Snow: A Pagan Holiday Playlist
If you find yourself in any indoor public space this month, you’ll most likely be subjected to the usual barrage of Christmas and holiday music, from “Carol of the Bells” to “O Holy Night.” We admit...
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12 Hangover Cures from the Boozy and Famous
Playboy recently shared its colorful history of correspondence with gonzo legend Hunter S. Thompson. Amongst the letters and other notes in the collection was a wild cure for a hangover that suits the...
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10 Great Biographies and Memoirs Spotlighting Right Hand Men
Everyone loves a good memoir — we don’t know what it is, but there’s just something about a true, personal story that gets us every time, especially when it comes from someone we’ve already been...
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25 Famous Actors Ridiculing Their Profession
If you needed one more reason to love Jennifer Lawrence (and frankly, between her candid interviews and terrific performances in Winter’s Bone, The Hunger Games, and Silver Linings Playbook, we’ve been...
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The 20 Best Musical Moments in ‘Veronica Mars’: A Playlist
Music has always been an important part of Veronica Mars. The show was ace at making a great scene even better by pairing it with just the right song, creating thoroughly affecting moments that have...
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The 25 Best Sports Comedies Ever Made
These kinds of things are always hard to say definitively, due to rampant deterioration and poor documentation, but Harold Lloyd’s 1925 masterpiece The Freshman may well have been the cinema’s first...
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The 30 Harshest Actor-on-Actor Insults in History
In the current ultra-managed, publicist-controlled, sound-byte-driven media atmosphere, you don’t get to hear stars really speaking their minds anymore — at least, not about anything fun, like how they...
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Unusual Library Collections Around the World
Imagine walking into the home of a recently deceased resident after getting a mysterious phone call about a massive collection of maps. That’s what happened to Glen Creason, the map librarian at Los...
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Flavorwire Interview: ‘Gremlins’ Director Joe Dante on the Rituals of...
Gremlins director Joe Dante started his career cutting trailers for King of the B’s Roger Corman. Hollywood Boulevard was his feature film directorial debut, co-directed with Allan Arkush — the result...
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Pure, Unfiltered Id: Reappraising Jerry Lewis’ Brutally Unfunny Comedy
There’s nothing comforting about Jerry Lewis. Charlie Chaplin (his greatest influence) had balletic grace, but Jerry was a gawky, screeching, fumbling mess. Jim Carrey (his most obvious successor) has...
View ArticleWe Lost Two Comic Legends Last Weekend
Two giants in the world of comedy died last weekend, following long lives of both making people laugh, and inspiring others with their activism. Dick Gregory, who died Saturday at age 84, made his name...
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