It’s been a long time since Alex Winter was a vampire. Here, lest we get sued for libel, I should stress that Winter was never actually a vampire and that I was exaggerating for comic effect; and because it is October, the spooooookiest month; and because of Winter’s involvement in the series AMC Visionaries: Eli…
Samin Nosrat has a job anyone with tastebuds would envy. She’s a contributing writer to The New York Times; author of the James Beard-award-winning book Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat; and now she’s the star of her own Netflix series. The four episodes that just debuted track Nosrat as she travels all over the globe to examine…
Christine McConnell, an author, artist, baker, photographer, and the star of the upcoming Netflix series The Curious Creations Of Christine McConnell, was asked by 20th Century Fox to make a cake. The occasion: the birthday of Freddie Mercury, the subject of the studio’s forthcoming film Bohemian Rhapsody. She did so.…
Samin Nosrat has a job anyone would envy. She’s a celebrity chef, a food columnist for The New York Times, and is known as the person who taught author Michael Pollan how to cook. In her new Netflix series Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat—based on her best-selling, James Beard Award-winning book of the same name—she travels the…
If a male American actor has plenty of gravitas, odds are he’ll end up playing the President someday, or if not the President, someone like him—your Mayors, your Captains, your Senators, your Supreme Court Justices. These people don’t always have gravitas in life. Some of them really don’t. But the fictional versions…
Here’s a missed opportunity: I didn’t start my brief conversation with Nick Kroll by saying, “ohhhhh, hello.” Nor did I drop into the voice of Parks And Recreation’s The Douche. I did not quote The League or Kroll Show or I Love The ’30s, you get the idea. In some ways, it’s a relief, because that’s tacky. In others,…
There are concepts that intrigue us here at The Takeout. Is there such a thing as too much pepperoni on a pizza? Do we eat soup or do we drink soup? Is Milwaukee-style pizza a thing? What’s bologna? But nothing, nothing has captured our imagination, nay, consumed our minds so much as the question of what, exactly,…
When a piece of pop culture becomes insanely popular, like really, really ubiquitous, it starts popping up everywhere. When it comes to HBO’s mega-hit Game Of Thrones, that ubiquity started years ago (I’m a casual fan, and I’ve got pint glasses with the sigils of House Targareyn and House Tyrell in my cupboard). Now…
When actor, writer, and comedian Lil Rel Howery said, as Get Out’s Rod Williams, the immortal words, “Leave, motherfucker!,” one believed him. That’s not simply because the shining star of the T.S.A. was unassailably right—it was, in fact, some Eyes Wide Shut situation—but because Howery’s voice rings with authority.…
Leslie Jordan is the type of person who, were he seated next to you on an airplane, you’d actually want him to talk to you, and you’d maybe dread that the flight would end. Perched on his knees and leaning over the back of a sofa like you’ve just met at a slumber party he’s throwing, Jordan holds court with reporters…
To call Nicholas Sparks a man of few words would be laughable. The prolific author of The Notebook, Message In A Bottle, A Walk To Remember, The Longest Ride, and other tearjerkers has a seemingly endless font of words at his disposal. Hell, he’s got a book out next month, and we didn’t even know about that when we…
Today was strange. Did everybody get that feeling? After dumping coffee on your lap on the train and walking into the wrong morning meeting, in the midst of taking a hopefully solace-filled Twitter break at lunch, you probably came across the following announcement on your feed:
There are opportunities in this life that, when they present themselves, you simply cannot fail to act. These golden moments seem to sparkle, to shine, and some primal part of you knows that its light will fade soon, that the window will close, so you must simply act, and act now, leap into the fray and grab the ring…
As the saying goes, our next guest needs no introduction. What should we say here? Meredith Vieira is Meredith Vieira. She’s been a fixture on American television since the ’80s. She’s a journalist, an expert interviewer and moderator, and a practiced host, helping anchor everything from Today to Who Wants To Be A…
Today in News That Made My Eyes Roll So Hard They Tickled My Frontal Cortex: Variety reports that Food Network has teamed up with People magazine for a special program called “Sexiest Chef Alive,” a tie-in with the magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive issue. (Presumably, this means no chefs who are women will be a part of…
Let us peel back the curtain for a moment. When you ask a bunch of people if hot dogs belong in the sandwich taxonomy, some patterns start to emerge. Those in the ‘yes’ camp often say that, as there are two pieces of bread with something in between, that makes a hot dog a sandwich. Case closed. Those who say no often…
What would you do if someone asked you if a hot dog was a sandwich?
It’s always nice when a celebrity gives back. Like when T.I. decided to pay for a year of lunches for a student who got her lunch dumped in the trash by an outstanding cafeteria worker. Or when Jimmy Fallon picked up the tab for the rich-ass people sitting next to him in a fancy-ass restaurant.
I, Tonya introduced a new generation to the tabloid-headline story starring world’s most infamous figure skater; since the film’s debut, its subject Tonya Harding has enjoyed something of a pop-culture renaissance. She appeared on Dancing With The Stars and was the topic of an NBC News special called Truth and Lies:…
It’s a testament to Anthony Bourdain’s legacy that his fans continue to want more of his singular style of food and travel commentary after his death in early June. Recently announcing it would air the final seven episodes of Parts Unknown this fall, CNN also tells Vanity Fair it is in the preliminary stages of…
