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Sammy J: the Phantom may be a dud superhero – but he changed my life

March 28, 2017TheGuardian

A chance encounter set off a chain of events that led to me meeting my wife and ended with police searching my attic

I should have picked Batman. Or Superman. Or the X-Men.

Pretty much any other superhero would have been cooler than the Phantom. In fact, I’m not even sure that “superhero” is the correct label, given his lack of super powers. All he had was a wolf, a horse and a skull ring which he punched his enemies with.

Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman to Produce a ‘Lincoln in the Bardo’ Movie with George Saunders

March 23, 2017splitsider

George Saunders’s new novel is headed to the big screen with some help from Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman. According to Deadline, Mullally and Offerman have acquired movie rights to the new Civil War-set bestselling novel from Saunders Lincoln in the Bardo, which was released last month along with a 166-person voice cast audiobook. Saunders […]

Cormac McCarthy Rents ‘Tin Cup’ from a Blockbuster Video, by Patrick Coyne

March 13, 2017splitsider

He stood and looked over the building. He had his fist clenched at his chest. He entered. Dust and ash everywhere. The crushing emptiness of looping monitors telecasting Pauly Shore’s Son in Law warned of death. He looked at the boy. Evening, sir. Welcome to Blockbuster, the boy said. I know. He walked down the aisles. Every clamshell case […]

An Excerpt from ‘Danger…With a Hard G’ by Matthew David Brozik

March 6, 2017splitsider

“You won’t mind if I ask to see some identification, I’m sure. It’s precinct policy.” The cheerfulness of the property clerk behind the window told me her shift had only recently started. And she was new to the squad on top of that. I could only see her head and upper torso, but that told […]

“Guys We Fcked” podcast hosts releasing advice book, “Fcked”

March 6, 2017TheLaughButton

The co-hosts of Guys We Fucked – the “anti slut-shaming podcast” – have been exploring relationships, sexuality, and gender with… MORE

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Shappi Khorsandi: ‘My worst job? Life modelling for a woman who made me recite Shakespeare as I posed’

February 18, 2017TheGuardian

The comedian and author on memories of Iran, doing things her way and buying her mum a walk-on part

Born in Iran, Shappi Khorsandi, 43, was granted asylum in the UK after her family was forced to flee following the Islamic Revolution. After a degree in drama, theatre and television, her career in standup took off in 2006 with her Edinburgh show Asylum Speaker. She is the author of A Beginner’s Guide To Acting English, and a novel, Nina Is Not OK. This spring, she tours the UK with her show Oh My Country! She is divorced, has two children and lives in London.

When were you happiest?
Right now. Ask me again when my children are grown, and I’ll sob, “When they loved me more than that woman/man they’ve shacked up with.”

Harry Potter and the Lost Generation, by Julien Darmoni

February 6, 2017splitsider

In the days after you first broke through London on the express and found the true country with the poppies and the rains and the Forbidden Forest, where the half-giant Hagrid cabined as a kindly vagrant, in those first days before the great unvirgining of the War, if you could keep from making too many […]

Ali Wong’s “Baby Cobra” to be released May 12th, new book coming in 2018

February 6, 2017TheLaughButton

For the last year or so Ali Wong’s special, Baby Cobra has been a highly buzzed about one for the… MORE

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Ali Wong Is Writing a Book of Advice to Her One-Year-Old Daughter

February 6, 2017splitsider

Standup Ali Wong is writing her first book. Entertainment Weekly reports that Wong, whose Netflix standup special Baby Cobra debuted last year, is writing a book for Random House that will be “a collection of letters to her one-year-old daughter, offering advice and sharing her own personal experiences.” The book doesn’t yet have a title […]

John Cleese on Why Most Things Don’t Matter (and a Few Things That Do)

January 27, 2017splitsider

It felt perfectly fitting that, during one of the worst and most embarrassing weeks in US history, I got the opportunity to have a brief chat with John Cleese, the comedy icon who offered this bit of wisdom to Jon Stewart back in 2014: “When you get old, you know nothing matters, really. Very little matters. […]

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