Frazier Tharpe

New York

Senior Editor at GQ

@GQMagazine Senior Editor. @Complex alum. Watch Less podcast. Screenwriter.

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Beyoncé Launches Her ‘Cowboy Carter’ Tour in L.A., Reasserts Herself (Once Again) As Our Greatest Living Performer

2 weeks ago | gq.com | Frazier Tharpe

There are certain moments in life that feel inevitable in retrospect. Like, if Beyoncé is doing a stadium tour in support of a country-themed album, you can assume she will, at some point, sit atop a golden mechanical bull, and actually ride it, to the tune of one of the project’s bounciest tracks, without surrendering one gasp of breath control. Give Beyoncé a theme, and she will execute.
Sinners Director Ryan Coogler on Michael B. Jordan, That Ending, and Kendrick Lamar

3 weeks ago | gqmiddleeast.com | Frazier Tharpe

And with Mike, it's some Mike in his Oscar performance [from Coogler's debut film Fruitvale Station], some Mike in Adonis [from Creed], it's some Mike in [Black Panther's] Killmonger, but he's very far from those guys. Man, Mike's very funny and mercurial and energetic. So the Stack performance is more who Mike is, all of a sudden, than any of his other characters. And to be honest with you, crazy enough, me knowing Mike, I was actually more disturbed by his Smoke performance. Yeah.
專訪《罪人》導演「瑞恩庫格勒」：為何選擇麥可·B·喬丹？結局和 Kendrick Lamar 有關？

3 weeks ago | gq.com.tw | Frazier Tharpe

《罪人》導演「瑞恩庫格勒」（Ryan Coogler）是當下電影界寵兒，而這絕對有其道理。《罪人》現正熱映中，在全球開出亮眼票房成績，瑞恩庫格勒獲得了空前的成功，宣全期間他對電影的熱愛之情溢於言表。在《罪人》以前，瑞恩庫格勒已經為我們帶來多部電影，這些電影都給人一種個性、獨特、藝術和令人興奮的感受，而《罪人》又提升到全新的層次，也是一個新篇章。《罪人》是瑞恩庫格勒首部原創電影，由麥可·B·喬丹（Michael B.
‘Sinners’ Director Ryan Coogler on Michael B. Jordan, That Ending, and Kendrick Lamar

3 weeks ago | gq.com | Frazier Tharpe

Ryan Coogler is the film darling of the moment right now, and for good reason. He’s got a good old-fashioned heater on his hands with Sinners, which pulled in over $60 million globally this weekend—and he's been having a lot of fun, charming movie fans throughout a press run in which his love of movies has never been more evident. Simply put, this man knows ball.
Is Ryan Coogler the Best-Dressed Director in Hollywood Right Now?

3 weeks ago | gq.com | Frazier Tharpe

All products are independently selected by our editors. If you buy something, we may earn an affiliate commission. It’s a pivotal moment for Ryan Coogler. The filmmaker’s critically-acclaimed new movie Sinners—his first original, non-franchise outing since his 2013 debut Fruitvale Station—opens this weekend, and if it succeeds, it has the potential to catapult him into an entirely new echelon as a director. He’s already dressing the part.
I Was Halfway Through ‘The Pitt’ When My Father Died. Here's What It Was Like To Finish It

3 weeks ago | gq.com | Frazier Tharpe

Early in season one of The Pitt, a middle-aged woman is forced to come to terms with her father’s imminent death from natural causes. When we first meet her, she’s something of a problem patient, repeatedly rebuffing our hero, the twinkle-eyed resident surgeon Dr. Robby, when he tries to explain that any more attempts to keep her father alive will actually just bring him more pain while only temporarily delaying the inevitable.
The One Thing That Would Make ‘The Pitt’ Better

1 month ago | gq.com | Frazier Tharpe

This is an edition of the weekly newsletter Tap In, GQ senior associate editor Frazier Tharpe’s final word on the most heated online discourse about music, movies, and TV. Sign up here to get it free. When most people are recommending The Pitt to a friend—and, if the timeline is any indication of real viewership, a lot of you have been—the go-to reference point is ER, for obvious reasons.
John Mulaney's ‘Everybody’s Live’ Is Just as Delightfully Weird In Person

1 month ago | gq.com | Frazier Tharpe

We’re about halfway through Everybody's Live with John Mulaney, the latest iteration of John Mulaney’s gloriously random late-night experiment, and at this crucial juncture, the reading on the heat check comes in at “fire.” In one of the longest-running and most staid formats on television, Mulaney is a breath of fresh air still in mid-exhale.
BigXthaPlug Is Bigger Than Texas

1 month ago | gq.com | Frazier Tharpe

“Would it be unprofessional if I picked up weed?”BigXthaPlug is in the end zone of a long day. He caught a flight back to his hometown of Dallas from North Carolina—where he performed at DaBaby’s birthday bash amid a lineup of trap-rap all-stars that also included 50 Cent—then went straight from the jet to a four-hour photo shoot.
BigXthaPlug Is Bigger Than Texas

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Frazier Tharpe

Mom Saves Childhood Photo of Daughter and Neighbor. Years Later, They Recreate It at Their Engagement Party (Exclusive)Logan Schultz and Wil Warner have known each other for most of their lives. The North Carolina locals were briefly neighbors when they were very young and often had playdates together. One memorable moment was when Schultz, at age 2, and Warner, at age 3, were captured in a photo in 2003, sitting …