An interview with Kay Cannon, Pitch Perfect screenwriter, on how her a cappella comedy might be changing the definition of cool.
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The Nerd Hunter
How “Freaks and Geeks” casting director Allison Jones is reshaping American comedy, one outsider at a time.
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The True Story of Pretty Woman’s Original Dark Ending
Pretty Woman‘s original script was far darker than the romantic comedy millions of us have seen. Vanity Fair talks to the filmmakers about how the movie got its happy ending.
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David Letterman’s Reluctance on Becoming an Actor
From The AV Club’s oral history of Airplane!, which looks back on how the hit 1980 comedy was made.
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‘Something Great is Ending’: On ‘Parks & Recreation’
“Parks & Recreation” may have begun as a The Office spinoff, but it ended its seventh season on its own delightful, lauded terms. At Uproxx, Ashley Burns and Chloe Schildhause compiled a spoiler-free oral history of “Parks & Recreation,” the biggest little show that could. This one’s for you, Pawnee.
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Session In Progress: Five Stories About Therapy
We’re going all over the world: from improv classes, hospitals and living rooms in Belgium, New York City and Minnesota.
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Romantic Love: The Dominant Subject Matter of Western Popular Music
[Ted] Gioia shows that song lyrics about love, sex, marriage, and fertility can be traced all the way back to the ancient Egyptians and Sumerians, and that once Jewish and Christian religious leaders came to terms with the iron determination of their own people to write and sing about romantic love, it quickly emerged as […]
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Session In Progress: Five Stories About Therapy
We’re going all over the world: from improv classes, hospitals and living rooms in Belgium, New York City and Minnesota.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Our favorite stories of the week, featuring, The New Yorker, Toronto Life, The AV CLub, The Atlantic, and Radio Silence.
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‘A Few Words About Breasts’ From Nora Ephron
I was about six months younger than everyone else in my class, and so for about six months after it began, for six months after my friends had begun to develop (that was the word we used, develop), I was not particularly worried. I would sit in the bathtub and look down at my breasts […]
