Bobby Weir Died
“You can see why the lyrics of ‘Playing in the Band’ might have meant something deep to Weir, who gave up any prospect of a normal life among normal people when he joined the Dead’s traveling circus as a teen. His ongoing devotion to life on the road, even after the band’s demise, is difficult to fathom. A few years ago, fans calculated that Weir had played something like 4,500 concerts since the ’60s: That’s a show every day for 12 years; or, given that three-hour performances were the norm for the Dead and its offshoot bands, 18 months of his life spent onstage.”
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Industry Rebooted Stars of Mad Men and Stranger Things
“We follow two characters we’ve never seen before: a young American woman, out on the London town and a British guy with a couple of years on her. He has been stalking her and engineers a meet-cute that feels creepy until it morphs into a completely different kind of ethical violation. But the most surprising thing about the sequence, from the racy flirting to the knife-wielding and quasi-racially coded threats, is that it plays out between Sally Draper and Jonathan Byers.”
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Boyfriends Couldn’t Stop Watching YouTube in Bed
“Most nights, Johnny Gaffney passes out to what he calls 'male-centric true crime' on YouTube. ‘There’s a thriving ecosystem of crime, men doing crime, regaling war stories of their crime, success and failures and adventures and misadventures,’ he says. ‘I will be falling asleep to that shit.’”
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We Went Inside Magellan, the New Historical Epic You Need to Watch
“Lav Diaz, Magellan’s director, said in a film festival Q&A that casting Gael García Bernal was discussed by him and his producers while they were ‘all having sex in Europe.’ The response, delivered with glee by Diaz, drew a stunned clarification from his translator, bashful smiles from the festival’s artistic director, and laughter from García Bernal. (‘I wasn’t sure I heard right,’ the translator remarked onstage. ‘Apparently, I did.’)”
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