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adaptations

Spike Lee to Direct 80’s Hip-Hop Romeo and Juliet Adaptation Prince of Cats Lakeith Stanfield is out; Spike Lee is in.

feuds

Taylor Swift Goes For The Nuclear Option With Scooter Braun and Scott Borchetta She’s calling on the Swifties.

christmas music

The Kacey Musgraves Christmas Show Is Gunning for Mariah’s Icicle Crown Arriving November 29 in a sleigh drawn by Troye Sivan, Lana Del Rey, and Fred Armisen.

overnights

RuPaul’s Drag Race U.K. Recap: Family Affair Can the notorious family-makeover challenge shake things up before the finale, or will we get the top three we were basically given from the start?

tv ratings

Over 13 Million People Watched the First Day of Impeachment Hearings Wednesday’s congressional hearings drew a bigger audience than anything else on TV.

the race to animate

Courage the Cowardly Dog Is Still Terrifying Twenty years later, the cartoon’s stew of mythology, anthropomorphism, surrealism, and vaudeville seems like a minor miracle.

By Sean Malin

lawsuits

Mo’Nique Sues Netflix for Racial and Gender Discrimination She claims they made her a “biased, discriminatory” offer.

writers

Ariel Dumas Is The Late Show Head Writer and Zelda Is the Boy We support this promotion!

one grand books

Sara Quin’s (of Tegan and Sara) 10 Favorite Books White Teeth, Priestdaddy, and more.

tv review

Dollface Is a Frothy Feminist Comedy in Search of Deeper Meaning The Kat Dennings–led Hulu series tries to speak to millennial women’s concerns but ends up talking down to them.

renewals

Brooklyn Nine-Nine Gets an 8th-Season Guarantee Before Its 7th Even Airs Thanks, NBC.

life coaching

Kristen Stewart to Shia LaBeouf’s Existential Despair: ‘Take a Pottery Class’ Doctors hate her! Kristen Stewart recommends this one easy trick to cure being deeply dissatisfied with life!

vulture lists

Every Matt Damon Movie, Ranked For nearly three decades, moviegoers have been rooting for Matt Damon. We take a closer look at the actor’s career.

let him be

Paul McCartney Thought Yesterday Was ‘a Terrible Idea’ at First But he didn’t tell writer Richard Curtis that.

the good class

Of Course The Good Place Got Its Own College Seminar Auditing The Good Class with guest lecturer Michael Schur (and 17 very lucky Notre Dame students).

By Lauren Chval

song review

Billie Eilish Has a Freak-out About Sudden Fame on ‘Everything I Wanted’ It’s an impostor-syndrome fantasy, feeling like the love and respect you enjoy are undeserved and easily withdrawn.

kellyoke

How a ‘Kellyoke’ Cover Is Made, According to Kelly Clarkson’s Music Director “My goal is either to enhance her vocal or stay out of the way of it.”

the race to animate

The Story of the Beauty and the Beast Screening That Changed Everything An in-progress version of the Disney film premiered at the New York Film Festival in 1991, and upended animation as we knew it.

By Bilge Ebiri

this week in comedy podcasts

This Week in Comedy Podcasts: The Star-Studded Passable in Pink Rounding up our favorite comedy podcast episodes of the week.

By Vulture Editors

trailer mix

I’m Ready! I’m Ready! I’m Ready for Keanu Reeves in The SpongeBob Movie! More specifically, Keanu Reeves’s head.