Kevin Fallon

New York

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I'm the editor of @beastobsessed, the new pop culture site from @thedailybeast. Also, I'm tired and hungry.

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Articles

I’ll Never Get Over the (Apparent) Rosa Parks Underwear

4 days ago | yahoo.com | Kevin Fallon

This week: The Met Gala moment I’ll never get over. Lady Gaga broke a record and I have questions. Kelly Clarkson, iconic again. Countess Luann, iconic always. The Fashion Nightmare of the YearI can’t stop thinking about—and may never stop thinking about—the Rosa Parks panties.
Is This Iconic Real Housewives Franchise Really Canceled?

4 days ago | thedailybeast.com | Clare Donaldson |Kevin Fallon

Everyone needs to check up on any Real Housewives of New York City fans in their lives. They are in a likely in an existential state of confusion and crisis. The news has been all over the place this week as to whether RHONY, possibly the most iconic of the Real Housewives franchises (all due respect to original series Orange County), may be canceled. Or is it? This is not a fun cliffhanger.
Are We Ready for Pope Leo to Be a TikTok Celebrity?

4 days ago | thedailybeast.com | Kevin Fallon

I know more about Pope Leo XIV—Cardinal Robert Prevost, if you’re nasty—after the last 24 hours than I’ve known about any other pope in my lifetime. Welcome to the papal digital age. The pontiff is going to be a TikTok star.
The Tonys Is the Only Award Show That Gets Things Right

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Kevin Fallon

This week: Give My Regards to BroadwaySomething truly unique happened this week. I looked at a list of nominations for an entertainment awards show and wasn’t immediately filled with rage. The worst part of being a pop culture fan—and definitely the worst part of being a pop culture fan who also tracks pop culture as his job—is witnessing how absolutely wrong so many professional organizations are when they reward their own fields. The Oscars? Deranged. The Emmys? Delusional. The Grammys?
This Movie’s Success Is the Biggest Story of the Year

1 week ago | thedailybeast.com | Kevin Fallon

It’s rare for the question to change in this way. Usually, as an entertainment journalist, when I make small talk with someone they ask me what movie they should see. It’s a mark of something significant happening when the question is flipped to “have you seen this?” instead. It’s exciting when a movie hits in a way that it transcends into somewhat of a phenomenon. The water cooler is tipped over and becomes a pool that critics, fans, and cultural commentators dive into and swim in together.
Tony Awards Snub Denzel Washington and So Many Celebrities

1 week ago | thedailybeast.com | Kevin Fallon

The Tony nominations announcement was the biggest bloodbath in voting. Apologies to everyone who covers presidential races. The Oscars. The Emmys. Heck, even Drag Race. (Oh wait, I do all of that. Sorry, Kevin. That’s OK, Kevin.)So it is with a bit of expertise that I say this was one of the strongest seasons in modern Tony history with some of the harshest decisions to be made. The exclusions were brutal. And, as it happens, very famous...
Tony Noms: Denzel Washington Leads the A-List Snub Bloodbath

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Kevin Fallon

The Tony nominations announcement was the biggest bloodbath in voting. Apologies to everyone who covers presidential races. The Oscars. The Emmys. Heck, even Drag Race. (Oh wait, I do all of that. Sorry, Kevin. That’s OK, Kevin.)So it is with a bit of expertise that I say this was one of the strongest seasons in modern Tony history with some of the harshest decisions to be made. The exclusions were brutal. And, as it happens, very famous...
Dan Bucatinsky on ‘Hacks,’ ‘Mid-Century Modern’ and Future of ‘The Comeback’

1 week ago | thedailybeast.com | Kevin Fallon

At times, a community needs their LGBT Lorax. Forget the trees. This person speaks for the gays. That’s precisely what I asked Dan Bucatinsky to do when we met recently in New York. Bucatinsky is an Emmy-winning actor (for his role on Scandal), a writer, and a producer. He recently co-starred in the Lindsay Lohan Christmas rom-com Our Little Secret. He was a producer on Lisa Kudrow‘s iconic series The Comeback, veritably a Biblical text for gay pop-culture obsessives.
‘Gypsy’ Star Joy Woods: The Show-Stopping Striptease That Could Make History

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Kevin Fallon

To successively list the impressive theater credits that Gypsy star Joy Woods has amassed, back-to-back, by age 24 would require the breath control of, well, an energetic young Broadway dynamo like Joy Woods. She was studying at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York when, at 19, she was in 2019’s revival of Little Shop of Horrors, playing Chiffon, one of the Urchins. She made her Broadway debut as Catherine Parr in the musical Six in 2022.
‘Gypsy’ Star Joy Woods: The Show-Stopping Striptease That Could Make History

2 weeks ago | thedailybeast.com | Kevin Fallon

To successively list the impressive theater credits that Gypsy star Joy Woods has amassed, back-to-back, by age 24 would require the breath control of, well, an energetic young Broadway dynamo like Joy Woods. She was studying at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York when, at 19, she was in 2019’s revival of Little Shop of Horrors, playing Chiffon, one of the Urchins. She made her Broadway debut as Catherine Parr in the musical Six in 2022.