Tom Smyth

New York

Freelance Contributor at Freelance

headline contributor @theonion, @reductress | writing in @vulture, @thecut, @latimes, @teenvogue, @mcsweeneys, @newyorker, and fan letters to Ina Garten

Articles

Mom Doesn’t Think That’s Funny

6 days ago | reductress.com | Tom Smyth

MomHumorStop Laughing Todd × WE'RE DESPERATE FOR YOUR APPROVAL.
Kelly Marie Tran on ‘The Wedding Banquet’ and Soft Serve

6 days ago | 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.
Bird Gets Off on Being Watched

1 week ago | reductress.com | Tom Smyth

Little FreakBirdsBird Watching × WE'RE DESPERATE FOR YOUR APPROVAL.
Julio Torres, Julia Fox Lead a ‘Cruel Intentions’ Table Read

2 weeks ago | 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.
The Fantasmas Cast Has Cruel Intentions

2 weeks ago | 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 …
Increasingly Inconvenient MTA Service Advisories

3 weeks ago | 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.
When Is Gayle King Going to Space on the Blue Origin?

4 weeks 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.
The Baldwins Isn’t Alec Baldwin’s Comeback-It’s Basically The Comeback

1 month ago | 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.
Kelly Clarkson Made It Back For Her Show’s 1,000th Episode

1 month ago | vulture.com | Tom Smyth

1000th episode guest Tyler Perry. What’s The Kelly Clarkson Show without Kelly Clarkson? Just The Show, I guess — with a revolving door of guest hosts who had been stepping in during Clarkson’s unexplained absence for the last few weeks. Beginning March 3, when Simu Liu stepped in at the last minute, celebrities like Brooke Shields and Kal Pen have been filling her seat. But after ten episodes and curious fan speculation,Clarkson made her return on March 18 without addressing her brief hiatus.
Disney’s ‘Snow White’ Live-Action Controversy Timeline

1 month ago | vulture.com | Tom Smyth

The drama surrounding Snow White is enough to make anybody want to take a bite out of a poisoned apple. Disney’s live-action film has become so fraught with controversy that the premiere on March 15 will be scaled back and exclude pesky, inquisitive press from the red carpet. From racist attacks on the film’s Latina lead, Rachel Zegler, to controversy over how the film is portraying its seven dwarfs to Gal Gadot’s pro-Israel stance — there’s plenty to avoid addressing ahead of the film’s release.