Drag Race RuCap: "RDR Live!"

For the next few months, Nick Taylor and Cláudio Alves will be following and recapping RuPaul’s Drag Race season sixteen…

Last week's episode was an eleventh hour tearjerker. Everybody cried.

CLÁUDIO: As ever, I’m disappointed with the Drag Race take on comedy challenges. In this episode, the dolls reprised an idea from All-Stars 8, doing RuPaul’s take on Saturday Night Live. Indeed, they even recycled some of the archetypes and scenarios from that latest All-Stars season, causing some in the fandom to accuse one of the new queens of copying an old gal who found herself in the same shoes. But we’ll talk about that later. All in all, this was my pick for the worst episode of the season so far even before its heartbreaking finish. But I know you have more affection for Drag Race comedy challenges than I do, so your reaction may have been radically different. Was it? 

NICK: This one let me down. I suppose the mediocre writing of the bits made it more authentic to the SNL experience, but almost everyone felt ill-served by the format of the challenge and the bits as scripted . . . .

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Happy birthday, Sarah Michelle Gellar!

by Matt St Clair

from Sarah Michelle Gellar's active Instagram account

Happy 45th, Sarah Michelle Gellar !!!

As a way of celebrating this marvelous occasion, we’ll be taking a look at the three projects that came during her star-making year in 1997 and asserted her place in the scream queen pantheon along with such names as Jamie Lee Curtis, Adrienne Barbeau, and Neve Campbell.  The best one to start off with is the series that featured her career-defining role: Buffy the Vampire Slayer. What started off as a mid-season replacement for the show Savannah on the WB became a real game-changer for the landscape of television...

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1998: The Year of the (Blonde) Ingénue

Team Experience is revisiting '98 in the lead up to the Supporting Actress Smackdown on July 26th

by Mark Brinkerhoff

For as long as motion pictures have existed, ingénues have been central to Hollywood. Yet while pretty young things have never been out of style in the film industry, they do appear more dominant—or at least ubiquitous—in certain eras. And in 1998, ingénues, notably of the blonde variety, were seemingly everywhere in entertainment—on screens big and small...

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Showbiz History: Richard Farnsworth, The Women, Shirley Maclaine's daughter and more

8 random things that happened on this day in showbiz history...

1920 Richard Farnsworth, the very talented actor (Comes a Horseman, The Grey Fox), who started in film as a stuntman, was born on this day 100 years ago in Los Angeles. Happy Farnsworth Centennial.  Sadly he died 20 years ago, shortly after delivering his tremendously moving Oscar-nominated performancee in The Straight Story...

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Soundtracking: Southland Tales

by Chris Feil

Recently resurfacing with repertory runs of its original catastrophic Cannes cut, Richard Kelly’s notorious Donnie Darko follow-up Southland Tales plays like the most bizarre time capsule. It captures not only a specific ideological moment in the timeline of post-9/11 anti-Bush anxieties, but it also captures the aura of MTV in its dying days as a culturally dominant force. For the uninitiated: imagine a Nashville porn parody peppered with internet conspiracy theories and set to the Pixies, then edited for television. It doesn’t all work by a long shot but it’s kind of awe-inspiringly out there, and at its best when it realized that it’s really meant to be an opera.

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