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reductress.com | Tom Smyth
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vulture.com | Tom Smyth
An early ad for Smash’s Broadway run promised, “If you loved the TV series, it’s exactly what you want. And if you didn’t, we changed everything.” And while the stage show does pull from the songs and general premise of the cult-classic NBC series — following the tumultuous making of the Marilyn Monroe musical Bombshell — it’s a different beast altogether.
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reductress.com | Tom Smyth
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thecut.com | Tom Smyth
Photo-Illustration: by The Cut; Photos: Tom Smyth “Okay, I was worried about this,” says Kelly Marie Tran. We’re standing in line at a McDonald’s in midtown and just discovered that its ice-cream machine isn’t working. It’s not an uncommon struggle, but rather than forgo our plan to discuss her new film, The Wedding Banquet, over vanilla soft serve — one of Tran’s favorite pastimes, she assures me — we quickly adapt.
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1 month ago | 
reductress.com | Tom Smyth
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vulture.com | Tom Smyth
No one’s more game than Julia Fox. Sometimes when we’re feeling down, we turn to God and He helps us through it — and by God, we mean a brunette Sarah Michelle Gellar wearing a cocaine-filled rosary. On April 7 at the DGA New York Theater, Film Independent hosted a live reading of Cruel Intentions, directed by Julio Torres and starring a lineup of some of his most frequent collaborators and Fantasmas co-stars.
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flipboard.com | Tom Smyth
OHYUNG: You Are Always on My MindIt’s terrifying to be on the brink, staring into a convergence of hazy future and transient past. On their fourth solo record, Brooklyn sound artist and composer OHYUNG offers a missive from this sort of threshold, an in-between place. You Are Always on My Mind shifts away from the blown-out noise …
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mcsweeneys.net | Tom Smyth
Local trains along the 1-2-3 line will be running express between Chambers Street and Fourteenth Street due to urgent repairs (all of the “C” tiles fell off of the “Canal Street” mosaic). Due to track maintenance, the A train will not be running between Canal Street and Fourteenth Street. Shuttle service will be made available via the Sex and the City tour bus, with service beginning at Steve’s Bar and stretching to Magnolia Bakery, with an intermediary stop at Carrie’s apartment.
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1 month ago | 
vulture.com | Tom Smyth
Much like Bradley Jackson on The Morning Show, Gayle King is going to space. It was announced today on CBS Mornings that King’s trip on one of Jeff Bezos’s phallic Blue Origin rockets will lift off on April 14 at 9:30 a.m. ET. She’ll be joined by an all-female crew that includes former NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe; civil-rights activist Amanda Nguyen; film producer Kerianne Flynn; Bezos’s fiancée, Lauren Sánchez; and “E.T.” singer Katy Perry.
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vanityfair.com | Tom Smyth
It’s difficult to explain exactly what TLC’s The Baldwins is. The whiplash-inducing reality show about Alec and Hilaria Baldwin and their seven-child brood alternates between a quirky comedy about a family bursting at the seams and a tragic true-crime documentary about the Rust shooting. But the most fascinating part of this strange program is watching Alec, an Emmy-winning actor, awkwardly try to adapt to the medium of reality television.
