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broke with the
church. Now, in
an aggressively
honest memoir,
Troublemaker, the
actress spares
no oneincluding
Tom Cruise.
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and spaceand
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The Oscar-winning
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in Burnt
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LARRY
WILMORE
Youve done everything from
comedy writing for TV to now
hosting your own show. Which
series do you find the funniest?
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Kathy Griffin
Lewis Black
Hannibal Buress
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Fans know you as a roast-
MARGARET CHO
Youre currently on
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Iliza Shlesinger
Amy Schumer may still be the
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Last Comic Standing, but comedian Iliza Shlesinger, who is
the only woman to ever take the
shows top spot (in 2008), is quietly coming up right behind her.
Since her win, the Dallas native,
32, has released two Netflix
stand-up specials (War Paint and
Freezing Hot), has hosted the
dating show Excused, and was
recently tapped to host TBS
upcoming relationship game
show, Separation Anxietyall
while continuing to perform on
the road. Just get up and do
stand-up and keep doing it, she
says about what advice shed
give to new comics. It takes
batting practice. So does
Shlesinger think she gets her
comedic chops from her family?
Yes, but Im not allowed to say
[who is funnier], my mom or dad,
because theyll be reading this,
she says. Youre both funny, now
give it a rest! Last important
question: Does she have a surefire way to make a kid laugh?
Fart. Fart, or call their dad fat.
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After three decades as a Scientologist, Leah Remini famously broke with the church.
Now, in an aggressively honest memoir, Troublemaker, the actress spares no oneincluding Tom Cruise.
Here are 10 of her books most surprising details. By Isabella Biedenharn and Tina Jordan
A
ALWAYS GUTSY AND outspoken,
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REMINI MARRIED HER HUSBAND,
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AT THE ITALIAN WEDDING OF CRUISE
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ACCORDING TO REMINI, AFTER
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WHEN REMINI FINALLY BROKE WITH
the church, Crash director and former Scientologist Paul Haggis sent
her a note that said, in part, Here is
what I want you to know; I will do
anything for youanything you
need. Privately or very publicly.
GLOSSARY
Asking
for
Trouble
Remini is one of
the few who have
experienced the
cultlike world of
Scientology from
a variety of
vantage points:
from the inside,
both as a child
member of the
elite Sea Org, and
eventually as a
celebrated
Hollywood star;
then from the
outside, as a
defector and
church enemy.
Full of startling,
sad information
about the church
and its shady
behavior,
Troublemaker
shows how
Reminis stubbornness became
her salvation,
keeping her sane
and driving her to
question authority. Inside reports
like this dont
come around
often, and theyre
worth reading
when they do. B+
E X C L U S I V E
F I R S T
L O O K
Harry Potters
universe crosses time and
spaceand comes to
Ne w Yo r k ! f o r n e x t f a l l s
Fa n t a s t i c B e a s t s a n d
Where to Find Them.
Deep inside the chamber
of secrets of
By
James Hibberd
@JamesHibberd
Illustrations By
Gemma OBrien
Katherine Waterston
as Porpentina Tina
Goldstein, Eddie
Redmayne
as Newt Scamander,
Alison Sudol as
Queenie Goldstein,
and Dan Fogler
as Jacob Kowalski
W E F I N D N E W T S C A M A N D E R FA R F R O M H I S N AT U R A L H A B I TAT.
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Meet the
Fa n t a s t i c
Cast
Katherine Waterston is
Porpentina
T i n a G o l d s t e i n
An ambitious MACUSA worker
relegated to an ofice well below
her abilities after she stood up for
the wrong person. She longs to
fight for whats right.
Alison Sudol is
Queenie
Goldstein
Tinas younger sister and roommate, a bighearted free-spirit
legilimens who can read minds
Dan Fogler is
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42 pagesit typically took Harry longer than
that just to leave the Dursleys houseFantastic
Beasts is a textbook, authored by Newt, that is
used by students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the Potter novels. It has no
plot to speak of. So how do you make a movie
from a slim catalog of creatures? One idea involved crafting it into a
faux documentarythink Animal Planet with hippogris instead of
hipposbut when Rowling heard about that plan, she offered up
another: She just started writing, says longtime Potter producer
David Heyman. Although Rowling had creative input into the Potter
movies, Fantastic Beasts marks the
first time she has ever written a
comes in and Redmayne
screenplay. And that made waiting
leaves the rest of that
for a draft nerve-racking for all
thought hanging in the air.
involved, especially Redmayne. The
He does this a lot, actually.
33-year-old actor was courted five
There was nervousness
months before Rowling turned in her
because what if I read the
script, which placed him in the unenscript and Yep. Gotcha.
viable position of potentially having
The ginger-haired Brit, who
to shoot down the globes most
earlier this year took home
loved (and most lucrative) storythe Academy Award for
teller. I read those [Harry Potter]
Best Actor for his portrayal
books and watched the films, and
of Stephen Hawking in The
you dont want to be the one who
Theory of Everything and is
Redmayne
(left) and with
Waterston
(above)
Colin Farrell is
G ra v e s
A powerful auror and the
right-hand man of the American
wizarding worlds president
Samantha Morton is
Mary Lou
The narrow-minded leader of
the fanatical Second Salemers,
a group looking to expose and
destroy wizards and witches
Ezra Miller is
Credence
Mary Lous troubled
adopted son
A Glossary of
B e a s t l y Te r m i n o l o g y
JA AP BUITENDIJK (2)
MA CU S A
No- Maj
Second Salemers
B e h i n d the C o v e r
ARCHITECTURAL
W I Z A R D RY
The Magical Congress of the
United States of America
(MACUSA) is hidden from
Muggle view inside the very
real Woolworth Building
(New Yorks tallest structure
in 1926). Wizards enter
through an ultra-fast-spinning
revolving door into a grand
lobby. While this Fantastic
Beasts stage is a rather
massive 250 feet long and
50 feet high, the ceiling will
be extended with special
efects to reach nearly
700 feet to represent an
empty cathedral of light, a
hugely impressive, brilliantly
lit space, says production
designer Stuart Craig.
THE PHOENIXES
OF THE ORDER
J.K. Rowling conceived of
these four golden phoenix
statues (two unseen) that
bracket the MACUSA
entrance, paying homage
to those who died during
the Salem witch trials. Notes
Craig: Throughout, the
magical world is grounded
in the context of the Muggle
world, born out of things
familiar and real.
G O L D, N O T J U S T
FOR SNITCHES ANY
LONGER
Loosely based on the interior
of the Gothic art-deco
American Radiator Building
in midtown Manhattan, the
MACUSA design includes a
heavy use of gold to bring a
richness to the decoration.
Given that this is the seat of
power of the government
in the magic world, its
appropriate that it is gilded.
M A G I C A L H E R A L D RY
THE CURIOUS CASE
OF NEWT SCAMANDER
Intentionally shabby and
based on a fiberboard briefcase, Newts valise contains
his creatures and their habitats, which can be hidden
from curious Muggles, and
U.S. customs inspectors,
with the flip of a secret
switch in the latch. His
wand, too, is deliberately
simple and wooden
(and contains no animal
products, of course).
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around in my bathrobe with a wand in my hand, Farrell says. There, he gesticulated meaningfully at the TV: Channel 4! BBC 1! As for those fantastic
beasts of the title, the menagerie includes the nier, a tiny treasure-hunter
attracted to shiny things; the bowtruckle, a protective stick-shaped being that
lives in Newts pocket; and the deadly lethifold, which smothers victims in
their sleep. Redmayne spent months preparing for the role by spending time
with zookeepers and other
animal handlers, making
Being a part of this
him possibly the only actor
makes me feel like Ive
in history to use immersive,
Method-y research to play a
made it to Hogwarts
wizard. Still, his colleagues
a s a t e a c h e r s a s s i s ta n t
say it paid off. The most
or something.
endearing thing is watching
Eddie interact with the
Ezra Miller (Credence)
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Oscar-winning director S A M M E N D E S
gave 007 a damaged psyche in Skyfall, and in Spectre
(out Nov. 6), he delves into the spys tortured past,
p ro v i n g t h a t d e p t h b e c o m e s h i m . B Y C H R I S L E E @ _ _C h r i s L e e
JAMES BOND ABIDES AS POP CULTURES MOST ENDURING FANTASY FULFILLMENT. FOR MORE THAN HALF A
(Clockwise
from left)
Daniel Craig in
Spectre; Sam
Mendes on
set; Craig and
Judi Dench in
2012s Skyfall
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Burnham
Kevin Spacey
Michael
Sullivan
Tom Hanks
AMERICAN
BEAUTY
1999
The journalist
turnedfastfood worker
has a midlifecrisis infatuation
with his teen
daughters BFF.
ROAD TO
PERDITION
2002
Hanks honorbound hitman
embarks on
a dark revenge
odyssey
alongside his
12-year-old son.
Anthony
Swofford
Jake
Gyllenhaal
Frank
Wheeler
Leonardo
DiCaprio
JARHEAD
2005
Alternately
gung ho and
suicidal, the
Marine Corps
sniper finds the
Gulf War less
than thrilling.
REVOLUTIONARY ROAD
2008
Hes a suburban
salary man
boxed in by
self-loathing
and a troubled
marriage.
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Best Directoras a rare hybrid: an arthouse auteur with theater bona fides as
well as popcorn-movie mass appeal. How
he went from American Beauty to Bond, I
have no idea, says Annette Bening, who
earned a Best Actress Academy Award
nomination for Beauty. He can explore
Shakespeare, do a small movie just the
way he wants. Hes doing all these blockbusters. Hes found a way to be exible.
With Spectre, Mendes return to
double-0 directing duty, hitting theaters
Nov. 6, its fair to say hes got another
blockbuster in his crosshairs. The sequel
Daniel Craigs fourth outing as James Bond,
who goes rogue to disrupt the secretive
terrorist cabal SPECTREbroke records
in the opening days of its U.K. release and
is estimated to gross as much as $80 million over its American debut weekend.
For Mendes, the superspys evolutionary journey over the past two films has
mirrored his own. The great irony is, I did
not expect that in the midst of a giant,
multi-multimillion-dollar franchise
thered be as many opportunities for
personal lmmaking as there have been,
Mendes says, seated on a sofa at his
production-company oces in Londons
West End theater district. The things I
thought the audience might reject are the
things they seemed to embrace the most.
Having cracked public consciousness
in 1992 as artistic director of Londons
Donmar Warehouse, Mendes still
fundamentally sees himself as a theater
director who made the transition to lm.
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O V E R M I XO L O GY C L A S S E S I N
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C AT C H E S A B U Z Z W I T H E W A N D
REVEALS HOW SHE FOUND
H A P P I N E S S W I T H H E R E XC E L L E N T
NEW ALBUM, DELIRIUM.
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ELLIE
GOULDING
HAS SPENT FOUR JAM-PACKED DAYS IN NEW YORK CITY
in October doing promo for her third album, Delirium (out
now). So on her last afternoon before jetting back to her
native Britain, the girl could really use a drink. But when the
28-year-old pop star arrived at the Lanterns Keep bar at
the Iroquois Hotel one afternoon, EW put her to work
with some mixology classesand got her to open up
about that Fifty Shades song, performing for British (and
American!) royalty, and why she feels lucky to be alive.
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French 75, which the bartender makes
because Ellie loves champagne
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used to describe your music: cloud,
dream, elf, wonder, neon, fairy, bubble. Do you feel like a cloud?
LOCATION: L ANTERNS KEEP AT THE IROQUOIS HOTEL NEW YORK, A TRIUMPH HOTEL; HAIR: DANILO/ THE WALL GROUP; MAKEUP: GENEVIEVE/SALLY HARLOR
FIRST ROUND
THIRD ROUND
Dark & Stormy, which Ellie spills all over
the couch and attempts to clean
Lightning round: What was the last
thing your friends made fun of you for?
Taking seles.
Are you a geek?
I went on MySpace and found [record producer] Starsmith. When I heard what he did
to my song Starry Eyed, that was it. I
loved the idea of my voice being reversed,
sped up, slowed down, and chopped up.
Most vocalists would want to cover up the
weaknesses with Auto-Tuning, but I
wanted to use the technology as an art.
Delirium is your first time working with
writer-producer Max Martin. How
personal did you have to get with him?
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Movies
Daniel Craig
Spectre
S TA R R I N G
DIRECTED BY
Sam Mendes
R AT I N G
LENGTH
REVIEW BY
PG-13
2 hrs., 28 mins.
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REEL NEWS
ONE OF 2015S
BEST MOVIES
SO FAR
Hunger Games theme parks. Lets hope the rides arent too
interactive. Mr. Movie Mr. Robot star Rami Malek nabbed
his first lead film role in the indie Busters Mal Heart.
SK YFALL: GREG WILLIAMS/AUGUST; QUANTUM OF SOL ACE: SUSIE ALLNUT T; SPOTLIGHT: KERRY HAYES
Michael
Keaton
and Mark
Ruffalo
EG
EYE GOUGING
MF
M FLASHBACKS
FH
FALLING
HELICOPTERS
PN
PRESS-ON NAILS
RANKING
C R A I GS
P R E -T I T L E S
ST U N T S
Spotlight
S TA R R I N G Michael Keaton, Mark Rufalo, Liev
Schreiber, Rachel McAdams, Stanley Tucci
DIRECTED BY
R AT I N G
R |
Tom McCarthy
LENGTH
2 hrs., 8 mins.
R E V I E W B Y Chris Nashawaty
@ChrisNashawaty
WILD
Spectre (2015)
Helicopter hijack over
Mexico City
Skyfall (2012)
Train-top fight in Istanbul
Quantum of Solace
(2008)
Highway chase in
Siena, Italy
TA M E
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Movies
AN ORAL HISTORY IN 500 WORDS
PG-13 |
REVIEW BY
Home Alone
25 Years Later
Catherine Hardwicke
LENGTH
1 hr., 52 mins.
Casting
Macaulay Culkin
Drew
Barrymore
and Toni
Collette
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Movie
DIRECTED BY
R AT I N G
G |
REVIEW BY
Steve Martino
LENGTH
1 hr., 28 mins.
Joe McGovern
@jmcgvrn
CO-WRITTEN BY A
HOME ALONE: PHOTOFEST; THE PE ANUTS MOVIE: T WENTIETH CENTURY FOX & PE ANUTS (2)
Scoring the
Composer
The Oscar-nominated
score is integral to the
movies successthink
Kevin fleeing the
church with Carol of
the Bells pulsing
behind himbut its
composer, John
Williams, wasnt the
films first.If you see an
early poster for Home
Alone, the credits
read Music by Bruce
Broughton, Columbus
says. As we were getting closer to finishing
the film, we got a call
from Bruce saying that
he was under a deadline to finish his score
for The Rescuers
Down Under. Steven
Spielberg ultimately
helped Columbus land
Williams. His score
took the movie to a
diferent level.
CATC H I N G U P
WITH KEVIN
What does Columbus
think his pint-size hero
would be up to 25 years
later? If we were ever
going to do a reboot of
the moviewhich
would probably not be
a good ideaI think
33-year-old Kevin
McCallister inherited
the home from his
parents, and hes living
there with his own
precocious son, and
Harry and Marv are
sort of hanging out, still
seething. They want
their revenge. They
want to get back into
that house, and they
want to get Kevins kid.
Thats my little fantasy.
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JONATHAN
Movies
The real
Hedda
Hopper;
(inset)
played by
Helen
Mirren
KELLERMAN
and JESSE
KELLERMAN
EXTRAORDINARY . . . Like
nothing Ive ever read before.
STEPHEN KING
J O N AT H A N K E L L E R M A N . C O M
J O N AT H A N K E L L E R M A N
JESSEKELLERMANAUTHOR
Audio available
In Trumbo (out now), Dame Helen Mirren plays Hedda Hopper, the
1950s diva of Hollywood dish. Here, the actress chats about the ugly side
of celebrity lifeand getting the eyebrows right. By Kevin P. Sullivan
Youve played lots
of strong women,
but Hedda Hopper
is sort of in a class
by herself.
Shes very fierce.
Shes a woman who
was very successful
in that era, all of
her own volition.
To become that
kind of force to be
reckoned with
has always been
interesting.
Gossip is a
whole industry
now, but no one
person has the
kind of power
Hopper did.
Are you glad
she hasnt been
replaced?
Absolutely. The
whole business of
celebrity gossip is
very anti-art. I would
say that most actors
and directors feel
uncomfortable
HEDDAS
POISON PEN
HEDDA ON HOLLY WOOD
NOBODYS INTERESTED IN
SWEETNESS AND LIGHT.
TRUMBO: HIL ARY BRONW YN GAYLE; HOPPER: BOB GOMEL /GET T Y IMAGES
ON SALE 11/3/15
The Queen
Of Gossip
All Things
Must Pass
DIRECTED BY
R AT I N G
Colin Hanks
NR | L E N G T H 1 hr., 40 mins.
R E V I E W B Y Chris Nashawaty
@ChrisNashawaty
Brooklyn
R.I.P.
Tower
Records
SAOIRSE
RONAN
S TA R R I N G
DIRECTED BY
John Crowley
R AT I N G
LENGTH
REVIEW BY
PG-13
1 hr., 51 mins.
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1 9 4 22 0 1 5
THE CONTENDERS
BEST ACTRESS
BOUNTY
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Sure Things
CATE
BLANCHETT
The laconic
character actor
who also served in
the U.S. Senate for
eight years and ran
for presidentdied
from lymphoma
at age 73 on Nov. 1
Carol
SAOIRSE
RONAN
Brooklyn
JENNIFER
LAWRENCE
Joy
Serious Threats
BRIE
LARSON
Room
CHARLOTTE
RAMPLING
45 Years
CAREY
MULLIGAN
Suffragette
EMILY
BLUNT
Sicario
Potential Spoilers
FRED
THOMPSON
SANDRA
BULLOCK
Our Brand
Is Crisis
BLYTHE DANNER
10
11
Mad Max:
Fury Road
LILY TOMLIN
Grandma
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KOPALOFF/FILMMAGIC.COM; R AMPLING: JB L ACROIX/ WIREIMAGE.COM; MULLIGAN: ANDREW TOTH/FILMMAGIC.COM; BULLOCK: A XELLE/BAUER- GRIFFIN/FILMMAGIC.COM; BLUNT: NICHOL AS HUNT/GET T Y IMAGES; DANNER:
GUSTAVO CABALLERO/GET T Y IMAGES FOR 2015 SAR ASOTA FILM FESTIVAL; THERON: DIMITRIOS K AMBOURIS/GET T Y IMAGES; TOMLIN: STEVE GR ANITZ/ WIREIMAGE.COM; THOMPSON: PHOTOFEST
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and access to 38 million movies, TV episodes, songs, books, apps
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LOGLINES
Netflix Orders 13 Reasons Why The YA adaptation
series will be exec-produced by Selena Gomez. AMC to
Ride With Norman Reedus The Walking Dead actor is
set to go hog wild on his own motorcycle reality series.
TIME
NETWORK
REVIEW BY
Debuts Nov. 8
8 p.m.
Starz
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STAR Z
FLESH AND BONE isnt a Black Swan rip-o. Yes, the eightpart limited series focuses on the extreme physical and
mental demands set by a New York ballet company, and
it stars Black Swan performer Sarah Hay as Claire, a talented
young dancer with a traumatic past. But Black Swan was a
psychodrama written and directed by men, and its fears
T H E C E N T E R STAG E
C O N N EC T I O N
Claire. Claire counters by lacing up the stilettos the benefactor gave her, right in front
of Mias face. Each woman is in charge of her
own objectication, and its no accident that
both experiment with self-harm. The strongest woman wins by destroying herself
before anyone else can, but that mutual selfdestruction also bonds them in a surprisingly
intimate way that looks a little like love.
All of this makes Flesh and Bone sound
more serious than it is. Consider that it also
features strip clubs, catty dialogue (He
jumps like a Chelsea queen when they
announce the Barneys Co-Op sale!), and a
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RIPPED-OFF TOENAILS
MB
MUSCLED BODIES
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TV
BEHIND
THE
SCENES
Jessica
Jones
Heart of
Darkness
Make room, Daredevil. Netflix
introduces its newest Hells
Kitchen hero on Nov. 20and
you dont want to get on
her bad side. By Kevin P. Sullivan
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P O P C U LT U R E P E R S O N A L I T Y Q U I Z
Niecy Nash
Nurse, security guard, beauty salon ownerNiecy Nash plays them all these days. With HBOs Getting On returning for
its third and final season on Nov. 8 at 10 p.m., lets see how the actress handles one more job: quiz taker. By Dan Snierson
NIECY NASH: PAUL ARCHULETA /FILMMAGIC.COM; MAKEUP: GET T Y IMAGES (2); GR AHAM NASH: DOUGL AS GORENSTEIN/NBCU PHOTO BANK /GET T Y IMAGES; OGDEN NASH: DAVE MATHIAS/THE DENVER POST/GET T Y IMAGES; STEVE NASH:
ANDREW D. BERNSTEIN/NBAE/GET T Y IMAGES; NASH BRIDGES: CBS PHOTO ARCHIVE/GET T Y IMAGES; MOUSE: MINDEN PICTURES/GET T Y IMAGES; OBAMA: CHIP SOMODEVILL A /GET T Y IMAGES; K ALING: IMEH AKPANUDOSEN/GET T Y IMAGES
B. Carol
Hathaway
from ER
C. Jackie
Peyton from
Nurse Jackie
D. Morgan
Tookers from
The Mindy
Project
Choose a Nash:
5
A. Graham
Nash,
musician
B. Ogden
Nash,
poet
C. Steve Nash,
basketball
player
D. Nash
Bridges,
San Francisco
cop
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MONDAY NOV. 9
Bigfoot Captured
Gotham
89PM
911PM
FOX
HISTORY
I cant believe it
he seemed like
such a nice, quiet
guy, Bigfoots
neighbor later told
the media.
LIFETIME
GUEST-BUSTER
Michelle Obama
and Jill Biden help
celebrate female
veterans and
caregivers.
Jane the Virgin
910PM
THE CW
Season Premiere
The Curse
of Oak Island
W/ BOB & DAVID: SAEED ADYANI/NETFLIX; DOC MARTIN: ACORN T V; GR ANDFATHERED: ROBERT TR ACHTENBERG/FOX
Series Debut
910PM
NETFLIX
With four short seasons back in the mid-90s, HBOs Mr. Show
With Bob and David left a legacy that influenced alt-minded,
nerd-absurd sketch comedy (Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great
Job!; Portlandia); helped launch Tenacious D and Sarah Silverman; and, of course, gave us Bob Odenkirk (Better Call Saul) and
David Cross (Arrested Development). This four-episode semirevival is a concentrated blast of their neo-Pythonesque
irreverence, tailored to our geeky present (time travel is
involved). Each episode is dense with loosely linked sketches,
some sharply satirical (Better Roots, a white-friendly reimagining
of Roots), others just strange, like a silly take on the man-huntsman short-story classic The Most Dangerous Game. Even the
misses have some impish kick. A bit about the power of a certain
C-word goes from whi to hilariously weird in a blink and sums
up the obeat pleasures of this edgy gem. A Jeff Jensen
ACORN TV
Alien star
Sigourney Weaver
guests. So I suppose well find
out if anyone can
hear you scream
in rural England.
TUESDAY NOV. 10
M S
T
WAU
OF TTCH
H
WEE E
K
FRIDAY, NOV. 13
Doc Martin
STREAMING
Grandfathered
88:30PM
FOX
Jimmys smooth
moves fail to
impress one of
Saras co-workers.
She does know
hes played by John
Stamos, right?
The Flash
89PM
THE CW
Barry decides
to confront Zoom.
Ah, but like the
Aretha Franklin
song goes, Whos
zoomin who?
(Huge fan of The
Flash, Aretha.)
HISTORY
THE CW
NBC
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What to Watch
TUESDAY NOV. 10 (cont.)
WEDNESDAY NOV. 11
The Middle
88:30PM
ABC
Modern Family
99:31PM
Series Debut
Donny!
10:3011PM
USA
Supernatural
910PM
DISCOVERY
ABC
910PM
American Horror
Story: Hotel
1011PM
FX
THE CW
Castiel wants to
stop the Darkness.
Although this really
sounds like a task
for the Light Switch.
The League
1010:30PM
FXX
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 12
Scandal
Series Debut
Project Runway: Junior
910PM
910PM
LIFETIME
Bones
89PM
FOX
An escape artist
with possible enemies in the magic
community is killed.
How is Neil Patrick
Harris not a guest
star in this episode?
Mom
99:30PM
CBS
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ABC
CBS
Sherlock mistrusts
the motives of his
father, Morland.
If that is his name!
How to Get Away
With Murder
1011PM
ABC
Season Premiere
2 Broke Girls
9:3010PM
CBS
DONNY!: PATRICK HARBRON/USA NET WORK ; AMERICAN HORROR STORY: HOTEL: R AY MICKSHAW/FX; THE LE AGUE: MAT THAIS CL AMER /FXX; PROJECT RUNWAY: JUNIOR: BARBAR A NITKE/LIFETIME; BONES: JEFF LIPSK Y/FOX; 2 BROKE GIRLS: MONT Y BRINTON/CBS
Mike tries to
help Brick win a
cornhole tournament, about which
I have absolutely
no comment
whatsoever.
Season Premiere
Alaskan
Bush People
What to Watch
FRIDAY NOV. 13
SATURDAY NOV. 14
MasterChef
Junior
Series Debut
Spotless
89PM
1011PM
FOX
The contestants
must make a scallop
dish. Which will be
trickyscallops are
a notoriously tightlipped species.
John Mulaney: The Comeback Kid
JOHN MUL ANEY: THE COMEBACK KID: SAEED ADYANI/NETFLIX; SPOTLESS: ESQUIRE NET WORK ; THE ROYALS: JIM MARKS/E!; THE WALKING DE AD: GENE PAGE/AMC; INTO THE BADL ANDS: JAMES MINCHIN III/AMC
STREAMING
NETFLIX
Americas
Next Top Model
910PM
ESQUIRE
THE CW
Chrissy Teigen
gives tips on
making it in the
modeling industry
but presumably
not on marrying
John Legend.
Shark Tank
910:01PM
ABC
An entrepreneur
has a product he
thinks should be in
every college dorm
room. Is it soap?
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 15
SuperSoul
Sunday
78PM
Season Premiere
The Royals
1011PM
E!
OWN
Guest Shonda
Rhimes probably
plants the Shondaland flag and then
sets of to invade...
Brooklyn
Nine-Nine
8:309PM
FOX
FOX
CSI: Cyber
10:3011:30PM
CBS
A woman is killed
while video-chatting
with her parents.
But thats no
excuse not to call
your mom!
Daryl (spoiler)
(spoiler) (spoiler)
motorbike.
Series Debut
Into the Badlands
1011PM
AMC
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Music
NOTEWORTHY
Steve Martin and Edie Brickells musical, Bright Star, opens
on Broadway next March. Sia drops a new album, This Is Acting,
on Jan. 29. Haim are working with Vampire Weekends
Rostam Batmanglij on new music.
TRAILER PARK
Whats
That Song?
From David O. Russells go-to group for soundtracks
to stadium-folk by Of Monsters and Men, EW scouts
out the tunes featured in falls most anticipated
movies. By Eric Renner Brown and Kyle Anderson
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SISTERS
ALSO AVAILABLE
BY THE SEA
HAIL, CAESAR!
Kidnapping, sabotage,
and George Clooney in gladiator garb feature in the Coen
brothers homage to Old
Hollywood tomfoolery. British
swamp-funk maestro Jamie N
Commons Rumble and Sway
keeps the levity rolling.
FIND IT On 2013s Rumble and
Sway EP
JOY
CREED
10
RACE
All-American Rejects
Tyson Ritter has scored a
role in this drama starring
Drew Barrymore and Toni
Colletteand his group also
contributes a new track: the
sentimental acoustic weeper
Theres a Place.
FIND IT On iTunes
Little Mix
Ty Dolla $ign
Get Weird
Free TC
Natalie Merchant
Paradise Is There
For the 20th anniversary of her solo LP
Tigerlily, the ex10,000
Maniacs singer delivers
revamped versions of
those 11 tracks. Her
inspirational hit Wonder is overly earnest,
transformed from a
funk-lite rocker into a
spare ballad. But her
jazzy spin on Jealousywith Merchant,
now 52, sounding as
youthful as everfeels
like hanging in a cozy
cofee shop for openmic night circa 1995. B
Kevin ODonnell
Tim McGraw
Damn Country
Music
With more than 40 million albums sold, the
country king isnt giving
in to Nashville trends,
so on his 14th studio LP,
McGraw does what he
damn well pleases:
The album avoids bro
country for slow-rolling
soul-searchers and
uplifting soft-rockers.
While hes not taking
riskseven a duet with
daughter Gracie is a
lovely echo of his classic songs with wife
Faith Hillthese tunes
are as comfy as a pair of
worn Lucchese boots. B
Madison Vain
Tim
McGraw
Hailee Steinfeld: A
Pop Princess Is Born
The actress, 18, got her start in movies like Pitch Perfect 2. But on her debut EP, Haiz,
out Nov. 13, she proves shes a fierce force to be reckoned with. By Madison Vain
BOOTS
The brain behind tracks on
Beyoncs surprise 2013
album delivers one of
the years wildest debuts
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There is a lot of Bob Dylan on the new six-CD, 111-track set The
We sifted through the alternate takes, song fragments, and
1 Subterranean
Homesick Blues
(Take 1, Remake)
A fascinating take
on Dylans verbose
hit single, which
finds him understandably losing
track of his lyrics.
2 It Takes a Lot
to Laugh, It Takes
a Train to Cry
(Take 1)
Bob Dylan
efective piano on
this bluesy take
of a future classic.
Like a Rolling
Stone (Take 11,
Remake)
3
Twenty(!) versions of
this tune make up
disc 3 of the box set,
from this slightly
diferent version...
4 Like a Rolling
Stone (Master
Take, Guitar)
Music
Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, John Lennon, and George Harrison
IM SO USED
TO HAVING
A SCRIPT, THE
INITIAL IDEA
OF WRITING
MUSIC WAS
SORT OF
TERRIFYING.
D S N E W B O O T L E G
6 Visions of
Johanna (Take 5)
Members of the
Band back Dylan on
a rockier version
of this track, which
appeared on his
1966 double LP,
Blonde on Blonde.
7 Stuck Inside
of Mobile With
the Memphis
Blues Again
(Take 13)
This features a
jarringly diferent
rhythmic backing
than the finished
versionbut Dylans
vocal performance
is spot-on.
8 Just Like a
Woman
(Take 4)
An awesome Bo
Diddley-ized version
of yet another mid60s Dylan classic.
9 Sad-Eyed
Lady of the
Lowlands
(Take 1)
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Books
The Mare
BY
PA G E S
GENRE
REVIEW BY
Mary Gaitskill
441
Novel
M E M O R A B L E L I N E The social worker walked around in little high heels, squishing out of tight pants like shes a model, but with her face frowning like a mask on Halloween.
P H OTO G R A P H BY M E T T I E O S T R OW S K I
KEY
= E-BOOK
= CD
= AUDIBLE
In Graphic Detail
This falls terrific crop of graphic books includes Stan Lees
memoir, a sweetly sad coming-of-age novel, and even
a peek into the strange-but-true world of trash collection.
By Isabella Biedenharn
Daniel Kraus |
REVIEW BY
The Arab of
the Future
Riad Sattouf
Derf Backderf
Daniel Alarcn
Amazing Fantastic
Incredible
Stan Lee, Peter David,
and Colleen Doran
P H OTO G R A P H BY M I C H A E L C H I N I
Edward Ross
Honor Girl
Maggie Thrash
City of Clowns
Filmish
Trashed
Ruins
Peter Kuper
PA G E S
642 |
GENRE
YA
Z E BU L O N F I N C H , K N OW N as the Black
Hand, is a 17-year-old gangster operating
on the streets of 19th-century Chicago, distributing death and visiting whorehouses. Its a lifestyle that earns him a bullet in the back of the head and
a trip to the bottom of Lake Michigan. Only Finch does
not dieat least not in the normal sense. His ability
to move, think, and speak stays intact, but his body is
slowly decomposing. With no clue why this has happened, Finch sets o on a long journey in search of
what? Love? Atonement? Without anyone to explain
what hes supposed to be doing, Finch wanders
through cities and decades, all the while transforming from a villain to someone worthy of sympathy.
Through the rotting eyes of his leading man, Kraus
spans some of the most turbulent eras in American
history, from the battleelds of World War I to moonshine distilleries in Prohibition-gripped Georgia
to the golden age of Hollywood. Finch plays an active
role in each conict, using his inability to die (again)
to his advantage as a soldier and as a bootlegger,
although his decaying flesh is problematic in the
bright lights of moving pictures. Time passes, but he
grows no closer to understanding his predicament.
Despite its length, the novel never lags; the separate time periods constantly propel the narrative
forward. Kraus globe-trotting dead kid is by turns
cavalier, playful, and thoughtful, and his singular
voicea debonair turn-of-the-century murdererturned-victimis utterly riveting. A
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BOOKS OF MY LIFE
John Irving
What I read as an adolescent
I remember those first-love
feelings that drew me to reread
certain novels, as if I needed to
memorize them before I could
move on. I dont feel very
connected to American literature, but to my fellow New
Englandersyes. I had just
started high school when I read,
and immediately reread, 1 The
Scarlet Letter. Nathaniel Hawthorne helped me understand
those vestiges of American
puritanism that would drive me,
as a novelist, to give prominence
to sexual minorities. Im a sexually explicit writer on purpose.
And Melvilles Moby-Dick
most notably, Queequeg and
his cofin life-buoytaught me
that foreshadow is the storytelling companion of fate.
The other students in my class
complained; they said the
novel was too long, and there
was too much about whales.
I couldnt wait to read it again.
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Some of my earliest
influences
As for fate, and how you cant
escape yours, I love Thomas
Hardys 2 The Mayor of Casterbridge. In the first chapter, the
protagonist gets drunk and
sells his wife and daughter to a
sailor. By the way, you can never
atone for that.
Great Expectations was the
novel that made me want to
be a writer, but only if I could be
a novelist like Charles Dickens.
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chapter in 3 David Copperfieldwhen Steerforths body
washes ashore, and Copperfield
sees the remains of his childhood idol and tormentor. On
the beach, Steerforth lies
among the ruins of the home
he had wronged. Theres no
need to say more. But Dickens,
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Its the most hotly anticipated
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is City on FireGarth Risk
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tale of 1970s New Yorkliving
up to its enormous advance
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GA RT H R I S K H A L L B E RGS
story is already the stuf of publishing legend: A debut novelist
toils for seven years on his book
while juggling three teaching
jobs and caring for his two
kidsand then, in short order,
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Thats an unheard-of figure
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running around in 2007 like,
Bring me your 900-page
manuscript! In fact, he points
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American attention span. And
bookstores, gutted by Amazon,
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I IMMEDIATELY
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