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When is it OK to crack up?
Slacktory just posted a supercut of Saturday Night Live actors “breaking”-aka “corpsing,” aka not being able to keep from laughing mid-skit-from the show’s late-’70s golden age to the current cast.
Review: APO, A New Era
Thursday evening’s Auckland Philharmonia proved to be a study in contrasts, not just in terms of the programme but also in terms of the performances. Subtitled A New Age, the APO continued its exploration of music of the early 20th century with works by Debussy, Glazunov and Schoenberg.
Book chronicles hunt for Che Guevara
Icon of Cuba’s revolution. Symbol of youthful rebellion
Justin Bieber ‘looked ridiculous dancing atop bar’
Justin Bieber reportedly looked silly while “grinding up on” girls shirtless at a Boston discotheque. The 19-year-old pop star performed in the New England city over the weekend as part of his Believe concert tour.
The English language in the face of love.
One difference between me and Desiree Hartsock, this season’s bachelorette, is that I’m cursed with the inability to fall in love with someone who mistakes verbs for adjectives. Des, to her credit, is more forgiving
The origin of the latest Hollywood formula
If you’ve gone to the movies recently, you may have felt a strangely familiar feeling: You’ve seen this movie before. Not this exact movie, but some of these exact story beats: the hero dressed down by his mentor in the first 15 minutes (Star Trek Into Darkness, Battleship); the villain who gets caught on purpose (The Dark Knight, The Avengers, Skyfall, Star Trek Into Darkness); the moment of hopelessness and disarray a half-hour before the movie ends (Olympus Has Fallen, Oblivion, 21 Jump Street, Fast & Furious 6)
X Factor: Provincial pride and promises
The final performance show of the first season of The X Factor New Zealand didn’t rock my world nearly as much as the ground underneath me did yesterday.
The Fifth Estate trailer: First look
Do we need another WikiLeaks film That is the question that the first trailer for
Miranda Hart’s double life
Over the past couple of years, Miranda Hart has performed a rare double whammy: she has starred in one of the most successful TV sitcoms (Miranda) and also in one of TV’s top dramas. The latter, Call The Midwife, is now back for a second series after an acclaimed first run last year.