“I find that I sleep better at night just telling the truth,” the alt-pop band’s frontman tells PEOPLE about covering his personal life in song LANY have become synonymous with painfully honest breakup anthems, something that the alt-pop band’s frontman admits has always been by design. “It’s much less stressful just being honest, and you […]
HBO and Max chief Casey Bloys thinks AI has no place in the creative process at his brands. “Two things to keep in mind when I say this: One is, remember I grew up in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, which is Steel Town,” Bloys, the chairman and CEO of HBO and Max content, told Variety co-editor-in-chief Cynthia […]
Courtesy Jensen Communications Jack Lee , who co-fronted the influential L.A. band the Nerves in the late 1970s and saw his songs turn into major hits for Blondie and Paul Young , died May 26 in Santa Monica, Calif. at age 71. His death was revealed Wednesday in a press release, which revealed Lee died […]
Despite her plans, writer Joanna Calo found herself navigating a job in television with motherhood. Editor’s note: This essay was written before the writers’ strike. I always wanted to make movies; I never wanted to have kids. When I was a kid growing up in New Jersey, I watched movies obsessively and sat too close […]
A massive talent in British fiction, we catch up with Beth Lewis to chat about everything from her writing process to her favourite characters and desert island reads… Having just released her fourth novel, Children of the Sun , Beth Lewis’s storytelling is complex and finely crafted, combining twisting plotlines, intelligent dialogue and ambiguous characters, […]
I grew up in a town of about 1,300 people in Aroostook, the northernmost county in Maine. The economy relied on lumber and farming, and the culture revolved around hunting, fishing, and snowmobiling, as well as a fair amount of gossiping about your neighbors over cups of black coffee (or perhaps something stronger). The town […]
I’ve been working on a theory about novelists lately: most of us wish we were rock stars. I’m basing this on a few things, like, for example, who wouldn’t want to be a rock star? Also, with all our anonymity, social anxiety disorders, and how we tend to be at our best while wearing sweatpants […]
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, “YOU’VE LOST THAT LOVIN’ FEELIN’”) THE RIGHTEOUS BROTHERS: (Singing) You’ve lost that loving feeling. ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’” was one of the most played songs of the 20th century. It was written by Cynthia Weil with her husband and songwriting partner Barry Mann and producer Phil Spector. Alongside […]
Striking screen writers and WGA members walk the picket line at Fox Studios in Los Angeles on Monday, May 8, 2023. (Photo by Axel Koester, Contributing Photographer) For the past few weeks the Writer’s Guild of America has been on strike, and one category of their demands stands out among the rest: barring AI from […]
Striking screen writers and WGA members walk the picket line at Fox Studios in Los Angeles on Monday, May 8, 2023. (Photo by Axel Koester, Contributing Photographer) For the past few weeks the Writer’s Guild of America has been on strike, and one category of their demands stands out among the rest: barring AI from […]
