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Christopher Walken Gets Exclusive ‘Severance’ DVDs Because He Hasn’t Joined the Streaming Age

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Walken said he hasn’t gotten a chance to watch every episode yet, because he doesn’t have the equipment." Instead, he says producers are good enough to send me DVDs.

Gwyneth Paltrow’s Ski Trial Has Been Turned Into an Off-Broadway Musical

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Gwyneth Goes Skiing is a musical comedy about Paltrow’s ski accident and the goofy-ass trial that resulted, featuring Darren Criss and Trixie Mattel.

The Humiliating Way Willem Dafoe Found Out He Had a Unique Face

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Dafoe says he overheard two dudes talking about him on the subway earlier in his career: I heard one guy say, Yeah, it’s got to be him. Nobody looks like that motherfucker. Thats when I knew.

A New Tina Turner Joint Just Dropped

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A song she recorded for 1984s Private Dancer, called Hot For You Baby, was recently rediscovered — just in time to be monetized for the 40th anniversary edition of the album.

Post Malone, Unfortunately, Has an Incredible Oreo Recipe

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It’s a stupid gimmick, but Post Malones limited-edition collaboration with Oreo sounds legitimately great: salted caramel and shortbread breme (the first time the company has twisted two creme flavors together) between one chocolate cookie and one Golden Oreo cookie.

Josh Gad Said He Was Too Fat and Smurf-Like for ‘Avatar’

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Gad says he auditioned for a part in Avatar, and while James Cameron was said to be thrilled with my audition, when I was turned into a digital Avatar I supposedly looked like a tall, overweight Smurf.

Robert Pattinson Says He Can Turn His Nose Off

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The latest bizarre entry into the Pattinson canon is a unique olfactory talent: I can weirdly turn on and off my sense of smell. I think I have a scent dyslexia, where I think something smells like something that no one else thinks it does.

Neil deGrasse Tyson Blew It on ‘Jeopardy!’

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His hint was 3 crates are shipped abroad in 1981s The Great Muppet Caper: Frog holds Kermit, Bear holds Fozzie & Whatever holds this Muppet. Instead of the correct answer, Gonzo, he misspelled another Muppets name: Who is... Snufalufagus?

Are Bill Burr and Billy Corgan Brothers?

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In a couple of uncomfortable appearances on Howie Mandels podcast, it was revealed that the two may have been fathered by the same deadbeat dad. Corgans mother pulled him aside and said, Bill Burr might be one of the children that your father sired in his days being a traveling musician. Mandel had Corgan sneak-attack Burr during an interview for an uncomfortable confrontation.

George R.R. Martin Just Published a Physics Paper

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Martin co-authored a peer-reviewed piece in the American Journal of Physics about a fictional virus in Wild Cards, a sci-fi graphic novel written by a bunch of different authors and edited by Martin. In other news, hes about 1,100 pages deep into Winds of Winter, so thats something. 

The 2025 Razzie Nominations Are Out

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Joker: Folie à Deux tops the leaderboard with seven nominations, followed by Borderlands, Madame Web, Megalopolis and Reagan with six each.

Keanu’s Sneaky ‘Severance’ Cameo

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Executive producer Dan Erickson wanted an inviting, oddly familiar voice to play the animated version of the Lumon building for a stop-motion segment called Lumon is Listening. He said the idea to cast Keanu Reeves literally came to him in a dream: I just like, experienced pure bliss for perhaps the first time in my life.

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