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1
TV

2016 MTV VIDEO

MUSIC AWARDS

Kanye West, Beyonc,

Adele, Justin Bieber, and
Drake duke it out for
Video of the Year at
this years cant-miss
ceremony that will also
include Britney Spears
triumphant return to the
awards after nine years
away. (Aug. 28 at 8 p.m.)

2 3 4 5
M OV I E S

B O O KS

COMPLETE
UNKNOWN

SPONTANEOUS,
by Aaron Starmer

Rachel Weisz is Oscarworthy in Joshua

Marstons Sundance
favorite about a globetrotting woman drifting
through life using
multiple identities. Its
part searing romantic
drama, part mystifying
head-scratcher. (R)

The teens in this wildly

inventive YA novel are
dealing with normal
high school issues:
college applications,
social dramaoh, and
their friends spontaneously combusting.
Can Mara Carlyle make
it to graduation without
exploding?

I L L U ST R AT I O N BY L I N C O L N AG N E W

M OV I E S

DONT BREATHE

In this twisted cat-and-

mouse game, a trio of

young burglars realize
the blind man theyre
robbing is anything but
helplessand he has no
intention of letting them
escape his home alive.
Hope youre not afraid
of the dark. (R)

MUSIC

HOW TO BE A
HUMAN BEING,
Glass Animals

The U.K. bands 2014

debut, Zaba, introduced

frontman Dave Bayley &
Co. as grade-A purveyors
of intricate beats and
trippy R&B grooves. The
follow-up swims in an
ocean of warm electro
and lush atmospherics.
You should too.

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

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10

9
10

2 E W.C O M

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

NARCOS

Follow Pablo Escobar

(Wagner Moura) on the

run of his life in the fastpaced second season of
the series that brings the
drug kingpins story to its
dramatic (and historically
mandated) conclusion.
(Premieres Sept. 2, Netflix)

B O O KS

GOOD AS GONE,
by Amy Gentry

Twists abound in

Gentrys riveting debut

about a kidnapped young
woman who appears to
return home eight years
later. It seems like a happy
endingbut is she really
who she says she is?

MUSIC

BLONDE,
Frank Ocean

The enigmatic artists

latest effort lives up

to sky-high hype with
17 sonically glistening,
lyrically ambitious tracks.
Beyonc, Andre 3000,
and many more fill
Blondes guest list.

B O O KS

THE GIRL WITH

THE LOWER
BACK TATTOO,
by Amy Schumer

The comedians essay

collection isnt just bitingly

funnyits also raw,
honest, and often heartbreaking. We dare you to
walk away without even
greater understanding
and respect for Schumer.

MUSIC

CLIMB EVRY
MOUNTAIN,
Barbra Streisand
& Jamie Foxx

On this highlight from

her duets album ENCORE,
Babs and the actor prove
to be perfect partners
with this uplifting, stringladen cover of the Sound
of Music classic.

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02
2016

FEATURES

16
Criminal Minds

NEWS AND
COLUMNS

Thomas Gibson is the

latest star to depart.
How will the CBS
drama handle his exit
on screen? And will
the actor go quietly?

The Must List

BY LYNETTE RICE

Sound Bites

18
The Girl on
the Train
Emily Blunt tries to
unravel the mystery
of a missing woman
in The Girl on the
Train. But can she be
trusted? Inside the
making of the darkest,
sexiest, most daring
thriller of the year.
BY ISABELLA
BIEDENHARN

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7
EW PopFest

8
10
News & Notes
Summers highs and
lows at the box office.
PLUS
Who could rule
next summer

64
The Bullseye

REVIEWS

40

Michael
Fassbender &
Alicia Vikander

Movies

The real-life couple

pushed the emotional
limits to play deeply
grieving lovers in
The Light Between
Oceans. Happily, their
offscreen relationship
kept them afloat.

Streaming

32

48
TV

54
Music

58
Books

Oprah Winfrey &

Ava DuVernay
With a film (Selma)
and a TV series
(Queen Sugar) under
their belts, the duo
have become a Hollywood dream team.
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Bitch Sesh
Real Housewives
superfans (and Hotwives costars) Casey
Wilson and Danielle
Schneider tapped an
obsession with the
Bravo reality franchise
for their own intoxicating pop culture
guilty pleasure.
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THE BIGGEST NAMES AND ACTS
ACROSS EVERY GENREMOVIES, TV,
MUSIC, BOOKS, AND MORE!

What if, instead of flipping

through our pages for your
weekly pop culture fixthough
please continue to do that,
too!you could experience
endless entertainment,
insight, and inside scoops up
close? Thats exactly what
to expect from EWs firstever PopFest, taking place

Oct. 2930 at the Reef in

downtown Los Angeles.
Bringing pop culture
junkies closer to the content
they love, the two-day
event will be packed with
live performances from your
favorite shows (hey, stars of
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) and
podcasters (Anna Faris!),
first-look film footage

(Stephen Kings The Dark

Tower), exclusive screenings,
panels with Hollywood
showrunners like Ryan
Murphy, and so much more.
(Watch this space for more
programming announcements!) Tickets are available
now at ewpopfest.com.
Flipping with excitement yet?
Secrets out: We are too.

The cast of Happy Endings will reunite

for a table read of a never-before-seen
episode. Now, thats ah-mah-zing.

2
Director and Oscar-winning actress
Jodie Foster will spill the secrets to
success in her very own master class.

3
Anna Faris may be Unqualified to dole
out relationship advice, but shell give it
the ol college try with a live recording
of her well-intentioned podcast.

4
Hungry? Sink your teeth into a juicy live
script reading with the cast of Bobs
Burgers (theyre just as animated IRL).

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Supernatural stars Jared Padalecki
and Jensen Ackles answer all your fan
questionstheyre ready for em.

6
See Nick Jonas in concert Saturday
night and make your friends jealous.

7
Grammy nom and Electric Lady
Janelle Mone will captivate the crowd
with a Saturday-night performance.

8
James Corden, the Late Late Show host
and crooner everyone wants to carpool
with, makes a pit stop to remember.

9
Come celebrate the 20th anniversary
of Scream with an outdoor screening of
the film and a tribute to Wes Craven.

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you were homeschooled!
Come see our show. Its
about your hero, Taylor Swift.
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For the first time ever EW hosted the

ultimate hangout for fans Con-X!
Over four days, in San Diego, guests
saw appearances by casts such as
Teen Wolf, Marvels Agents of Shield
and Con Man. At night Workaholics stars
Blake Anderson and Anders Holm spun a
DJ set while Beats Antique, Goldfish and
Bootie Mashups kept fans dancing all night.
Super fans got free shaves and water
at the Schick Hydro Super Shop and
Hydration Station, received SweeTARTS
Mini Gummies at the SweeTARTS
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lab and walked the red carpet at the
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09

02
2016

SUMMER BOX OFFICE

WINNERS
AND
LOSERS

Superheroes continued
to muscle their way to
the top of the movies
heap, but the women of
Ghostbusters couldnt bust
through the glass ceiling.
B y D evan C o g g a n

S O M U C H F O R S U M M E R B L O C K-

buster season. This year may

have kicked off with hits like
Deadpool, Zootopia, and The Jungle Book, but
as temperatures rose, box oce numbers,
well, didnt. Sure, this seasons total domestic
receipts are roughly on par with last years,
but this was still a summer of underwhelming debuts and big-budget duds. With
Labor Day on the horizon, we round up the
record-breaking highs and catastrophic
lowsof which there were many.

10 E W.C O M

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

I L L U ST R AT I O N BY R I C H A R D R O B E R T S

( From left ) Captain

America: Civil
War, Central
Intelligence, Suicide
Squad, Finding
Dory, and The Purge:
Election Year

WINNER$
SUPERHEROES AND VILLAINS
Keep your capes on, kids.
Between Captain America:
Civil War, Suicide Squad,
and X-Men: Apocalypse, this
summers three biggest
live-action movies all featured
heroes (or villains) in spiffy
activewear. Some, however,
soared higher than others:
Civil War became the 12thbiggest movie ever worldwide,
while Suicide Squad scored
a record-breaking debut
before plummeting in its
second weekend. (Though the
team of baddies has still
earned $575 million worldwide,
and counting.)
ONE FISH AND TWO DOGS
Not only did Finding Dory handily win the summer box office,
but the Disney sequel now
stands as the biggest animated
movie in domestic box office
history with $478 million as of
press time. (Not bad for a forgetful fish.) And The Secret Life
of Pets dug up $347 million
domestically, sparking a sequel
of its own for 2018.
DWAYNE JOHNSON
AND KEVIN HART
While many comedies fell flat
Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising
earned about a third of what
the original did, and Popstar:
Never Stop Never Stopping
made less than $10 million
domesticallyCentral Intelligence earned both laughs and
cash ($127.1 million domestically, to be exact). Between the
biggest comedy of the summer,
their hilarious MTV Movie
Awards hosting stint, and the
upcoming Jumanji remake
(see sidebar, page 12), Johnson
and Hart may just be our new
box office power couple.

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LOW-BUDGET HORROR
Big scares on a small bank
account usually lead to giant
profits, and this summer was
no exception. Domestically,
the creepy Lights Out made
$64 million on a reported
$5 million budget, while The
Purge: Election Year earned
almost eight times what it cost
to make, taking in $79 million.
Nothing scary about that.

LOSERS
GHOSTBUSTERS
For a normal Melissa McCarthy
comedy, a $46 million domestic
opening would be a triumph.
But for Ghostbusters, a studio
tentpole with a massive
budget, it was as disastrous as
a giant marshmallow man
attacking New York City. Few
films received as much scrutiny
as director Paul Feigs femaleled reboot, and with a reported
$144 million price tag, it needs
to make about $400 million
worldwide to break even. So
far, it has earned just over half
of that. Still, it looks like the
future is still female: Studios
are now greenlighting genderswapped updates of Oceans
Eleven, Splash, and Dirty
Rotten Scoundrels.
SURE THINGS
Even Hollywoods biggest
names werent immune to this
toxic summer. The BFG, based
on Roald Dahls classic tale,
earned only $54 million
domestically on a reported
$140 million budget, making it
one of Steven Spielbergs biggest flops ever. And bankable
stars like Johnny Depp (Alice
Through the Looking Glass) and
Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling
(The Nice Guys) werent safe
from tepid ticket sales either. 3

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n-Hur
ur

CASH-GRAB REMAKES AND SEQUELS

Dont expect to see a Ben-Hur
cinematic universe anytime soon:
The $100 million remake opened
to just $11.2 million. Overall, it was a
tough summer for both remakes
(Ben-Hur, The Legend of Tarzan)
and non-superhero sequels (too
many to count). Finding Dory was

the exception, making more

domestically than Jason Bourne,
Independence Day: Resurgence,
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out
of the Shadows, Alice Through
the Looking Glass, and Ice Age:
Collision Coursecombined.
Maybe next year studios will
round up better entries for the
summer box office chariot race.

LOSERS
CHINESE RELEASES
Just because your movie bombed
Stateside doesnt mean its a
total wash. Despite its dismal
domestic opening, Independence

Day: Resurgence made up

ground in China, and Now You
See Me 2 earned a whopping
30 percent of its global total in
China alone. And although Warcraft failed to clear $50 million
domestically, its made more
than four times that in China.
A sequel seems likely. Hmm.
Maybe its better in Cantonese?

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 concept art

Summer
2017
Preview!
Yep, we know its crazy early, but this summer
was such a snore, we thought you could use
a pick-me-up. And next years lineup already
has us feeling perkier. B Y D E VA N C O G G A N

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

May 5, 2017
Star-Lord and his crew of space rogues are
back (with a brand-new mixtape of oldies
to boot!). The last movie was about the
Guardiansthese outcasts and misfits
becoming a family, director James Gunn told
EW at Comic-Con. This ones about them
being a family. Not only does Vol. 2 introduce
actress Pom Klementieff as the alien Mantis,
but Kurt Russell is on board as Star-Lords
dad, Ego the Living Planet. Talk about an
unconventional family.
Spider-Man: Homecoming
July 7, 2017

Jumanji
July 28, 2017

Everyones favorite Amazon warrior finally gets

her own stand-alone movie. (And it took only
75 years!) After making her debut in Batman v
Superman: Dawn of Justice, Gal Gadot is once
again donning Dianas sword, shield, and
golden lasso in this epic origin story. Shes
all for good, she fights for good, she believes
in great, Gadot told EW. I want to be her.

Its Tom Hollands turn to play the wisecracking

webslinger, who will be joined by Robert
Downey Jr. as Iron Man and Marisa Tomei as
Aunt May in this reboot. We also know Spidey
will be facing off against the villainous
Vulturestrongly suspected to be played by
former Birdman Michael Keaton. Vulture is
one of the classics from the best rogues
gallery out there, and weve never seen him
[on screen], director Jon Watts told EW. Hes
never been brought to life.

Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, and Jack Black

will roll the dice with this reboot of the 1995
movieand the Rock promises it will pay
tribute to original star Robin Williams. The love
and respect I have for this man is boundless,
Johnson wrote on Instagram. You have my
word, we will honor his name and the character
of Alan Parrish will stand alone and be forever
immortalized in the world of Jumanji.

Gal Gadot as
Wonder Woman

Dunkirk
July 21, 2017
Christopher Nolan is taking on World War II, telling the true story of the 1940 evacuation of
Allied soldiers who were trapped on the beaches
of France with an advancing German army. The
films ensemble cast has a deep bench, including Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Mark Rylance,
Kenneth Branagh, andHarry Styles?

12 E W.C O M

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Alien: Covenant
Aug. 4, 2017
Grab your flamethrower. Katherine Waterston will
join Ridley Scotts pantheon of badass heroines
in this Alien prequel/Prometheus sequel, along
with Danny McBride, Jussie Smollett, and
returning robot Michael Fassbender. What we
know so far is that it chronicles the discovery
of a seemingly utopian planetand you can
bet malicious extraterrestrials will probably
wreak some havoc, too.

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GAL A X Y VOL. 2: ANDY PARK ; WONDER WOMAN: CL AY ENOS

Wonder Woman
June 2, 2017

Launched her fashion line

(Her daughter drew the cat)

Met her husband at

an improv class in LA

Studied fashion in Illinois

Baked her way to stardom

on Gilmore Girls

Grew up in a farm town

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THE TRAGICALLY HIP:

AN ESSENTIAL PLAYLIST
The Canadian rockerswho formed in the early 80s and played
their last-ever concert in Kingston, Ontario, on Aug. 20, following
frontman Gord Downies diagnosis of terminal brain cancer
never achieved commercial success in the U.S., but with 14 studio
albums to their name, theyre one of the Great White Norths most
beloved musical institutions. Here, EW celebrates Canadas answer
to the Beatles with five of their finest songs. B Y K E V I N O D O N N E L L
 WHEAT KINGS 1992
Downie wrote this
mournful ballad for
a Canadian man
who was wrongfully
accused of murder
and served 23 years
in prisonone of
the most notorious
errors of the
countrys criminaljustice system.

 FIFTY-MISSION

who died in a plane

crash in 1951.

and inspiring vocal

performance.

 COURAGE (FOR HUGH

AHEAD BY A

The gang serves up

jangly R.E.M. vibes
on this tribute to
Canadian author
MacLennan, whose
1959 novel The
Watch That Ends the
Night helped inform
the lyrics.

The Hip closed out

their final show
with this strummy
acoustic anthem,
the bands most
successful No. 1
single (it spent 26
weeks on the
charts in 1996).

MACLENNAN) 1992

CENTURY 1996

CAP 1992

On this hair-raising
anthem, the band
honors Toronto
Maple Leafs hockey
legend Bill Barilko,

 GRACE, TOO 1994

This gritty, bluesy
shuffle features what
is probably Downies
most impassioned

The Tragically Hips

final concert in
Kingston, Ontario

OSCARS 2017

THE FALL OF A
FRONT-RUNNER

The Birth of a Nation had seemed an awards-season

shoo-in. Then a 17-year-old rape charge against director
Nate Parker came to light. B Y N I C O L E S P E R L I N G

IN HIS UPCOMING FILM ABOUT

14 E W.C O M

Did The Good Wifes

Emmy dis leave you
feeling bad? Are you
smarting from The Big
Bang Theorys awards
bust, or wishing you
could travel back in
time to fix Outlanders
slight? You can! Kinda.
For the ninth year
in a row, Entertainment Weekly is giving
you the chance to
reward the Emmyignored with our
readers choice
Poppy Awards (formerly the EWwys).

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Stars and series

in the categories of
drama, comedy, and
limited series/movie
are all vying for your
vote in the race for a
coveted Poppy trophy.
The polls are currently
open and will remain
so until Sept. 9. Winners will be announced
Sept. 13 on EW Radio
(SiriusXM Channel
105). Go to ew.com/
poppyawards now to
see all of the nominees
and cast your vote!
Amy Wilkinson

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AVENGE THOSE
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the rebellion of Virginia slave Nat

Turner, The Birth of a Nation,
writer-director-producer and star
Nate Parker, 36, made a conscious
decision to not show the rape of a
female slave or the violent beating
and gang rape of another. When
asked about the decision earlier
this year, he told EW, Thats the
pathology [of most lms about
slavery], and Im not going to
exploit the pathology.
Now Hollywood is debating
whether Parker has a pathology of
his own. A 17-year-old rape charge
against him (of which he was
acquitted) has surfaced, threatening to derail hopes for his movie,
which had been considered an
Oscar front-runner. The lm, a
passion project that took eight

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Nate Parker in The Birth of a Nation

years to be realized, debuted at

the Sundance Film Festival in
the wake of the Academys
#OscarsSoWhite controversy,
and its mere existenceand
record sale of $17.5 million to
Fox Searchlightseemed the
perfect salve for an industry
reeling under the charges of
racial inequality.
Since then, Searchlight,
which plans to release the lm
Oct. 7, had been building its
awards-season campaign
around Parker, who has said
that he made Nation not as a
piece of entertainment but as
the start of a movement. This
country needs to heal, and the
only way we can heal is to be
honest about what our identity
is now, Parker told EW.
But on Aug. 12, Deadline.com
uncovered the 1999 case led
against Parker, then a student
at Penn State University, and
his roommate at the time, Jean
Celestin, who is the co-writer
of Nation. The men were
charged with the rape and
sexual assault of an 18-year-old
woman in their apartment after
a night of heavy drinking.
Parker was acquitted. (He has
said repeatedly that the

encounter was consensual.

The victim claimed she was
unconscious.) Celestin was
found guilty of sexual assault
and sentenced to six to 12
months in jail. He appealed the
verdict, and after his conviction was overturned he was
granted a new trial, but it never
occurred because witnesses
and the victim were unavailable
to testify again. She later committed suicide in 2012.
Parker, in a statement on
Facebook, said he did not
know about her death until
recently and chalked up his
behavior to immaturity and a
lack of empathy. But the
damage to his Oscar dreams
may be done. The Best
Picture winner is often the
least controversial lm of
the bunch, says one Oscar
insider. Give the Academy
voters one reason not to watch
a screener and youre done.
This is that reason.
Hollywood has long had to
reconcile the lmmaking prowess of directors Roman Polanski
and Woody Allen with the sex
scandals that have plagued
their careers. But the depth and
value of their work have helped
mitigate the damage. Whenever a lmmaker is ghting for
his career due to some transgression, says a veteran crisismanagement expert, if he has
the extensive rsum that
qualies him as a genius
despite his personalityhe can
usually be forgiven by Hollywood. This guy is new. Parker,
in other words, runs the risk of
being dened solely by these
events. The future of his lm,
and his career, rest on whether
audiences (and Academy
voters) can judge Nation by the
merits of its artistry, not by
the artist who made it.

FIRST
LOOK

John Travolta
Goes Gangster
The actor (and his turtleneck) star in next years
biopic The Life and Death of John Gotti, about the
infamous Mob boss. B Y J O E M c G O V E R N
John Travolta is back in
court. The 62-year-old
actor earned raves this
year for his uncanny portrayal of lawyer Robert
Shapiro in The People v.
O.J. Simpson: American
Crime Story. And now hes
on the other side of the
table. In The Life and
Death of John Gotti (due in
2017), Travolta plays the
notorious American gangster, nicknamed the Teflon
Don because he was
acquitted in three separate criminal trials. Gotti
was eventually convicted
in 1992 and died in prison
10 years later.
In this exclusive photo,
Gotti is flanked by traitorous friend Willie Boy
Johnson (Chris Kerson),

whos attempting to make

amends after having been
an FBI informant for 16
years. That one really
hurt John Gotti, says
director Kevin Connolly
(best known as Eric on
Entourage). This is Willie
Boy begging for his life,
for lack of a better
phrase. (Johnson was
murdered in 1988.)
Connolly promises
that the movie wont glorify the mobster lifestyle
but will candidly depict
the mans final years.
HBO made a Gotti movie
in 1996but his death,
which was horrible, hasnt
been covered too much,
Connolly says. Thats a
different angle that were
going to explore.

Chris Kerson and John Travolta

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CRIMINAL
B E H AV I O R

Thomas Gibson became the latest Criminal Minds star to depart the show
after a recent physical altercation led to his dismissal. But how will the CBS drama
handle his exit on screen? And will the actor go quietly? By Lynette Rice

I
IN THE PENULTIMATE EPISODE

of Criminal Minds 11th season

in April, a convicted serial
killer issued an ominous
warning to FBI agent Aaron
Hotchner, played by Thomas
Gibson: Theres a storm
coming, Agent Hotchner, and
youre about to be swept
away. Four months later, life
eerily imitated art on one of
TVs most violent dramas.
On Aug. 12, Gibson was
red after kicking one of the
shows writers in the shin
one of many behind-the-scenes
incidents over the years that
reportedly led to his ouster.
Though the 54-year-old actor
initially tried to downplay
the on-set encounter with
coexecutive producer Virgil
Williams by saying there
were creative dierences on
the set and we all want
to work together as a team
to make the best show possible, ABC Studios and CBS

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Television Studios (which

co-produce the drama for CBS)
released a terse statement
that said Gibson has been
dismissed and that creative
details for how the characters
exit will be addressed in the
show will be announced at
a later date. (Williams,
in the meantime, was cleared
of any wrongdoing.)
It was an embarrassing fall
from grace for Gibson, who
earned a reported $5 million
a year for playing the stoic
head of the FBIs Behavioral
Analysis Unit. As one of the
original cast members of
Criminal Minds (Matthew Gray
Gubler, Kirsten Vangsness, and
A.J. Cook are the only ones left
now), Gibson provided a constant for fans who tolerated
years of turnover on the police
proceduralstarting with
Mandy Patinkins high-prole
ameout in season 3, when the
shows lead left the program
due to his objections over the
amount of violence portrayed
on the series. I never thought
they were going to kill and rape
all these women every night,
every day, week after week,
year after year, Patinkin told
New York magazine in 2012.

It was very destructive to my

soul and personality.
And yet the cast changes
kept coming as the grisly
crimes repeated: Joe Mantegna
(David Rossi) replaced
Patinkin; Cook (Jennifer
Jareau) was red and briey
replaced in 2010 before
returning the next year; Paget
Brewster (Emily Prentiss)
left two times before returning
last spring (shell recur in
season 12); Jeanne Tripplehorn
(Alex Blake) and Jennifer Love
Hewitt (Kate Callahan) came
and went between seasons 8
and 11; and Shemar Moore
(Derek Morgan) nally threw
in the towel this past May.
Despite the high turnover,
Criminal Minds never stopped
making a killing for CBS.
Though it peaked in 2008 at
15 million viewers, it still
nished the 201516 season as
TVs 17th-most-watched show
with 12.2 million. Thats probably why there wasnt a lot
of hand-wringing inside CBS
when Gibson was given his
walking papers a month into
production on season 12.
The stories have always
been the stars, not the characters, argues one executive

 ( Clockwise from above )

Stars Thomas Gibson, Shemar
Moore, and Mandy Patinkin have all
made dramatic exits from the show

THE STORIES
H AV E A LWAYS
BEEN THE
S TA R S , N OT T H E
C H A R AC T E R S ,
says one executive
close to the show.

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close to the show. Its not

like NCIS. Even before
the brouhaha, showrunner
Erica Messer talked to EW
about feeling reinvigorated
in the wake of Moores
departure, thanks to the addition of Adam Rodriguez
(CSI: Miami ) as FBI special
agent Luke Alvez, and the
return of Brewster for multiple
episodes. The Talks Aisha
Tyler (forensic psychologist
Tara Lewis) has also been
made a series regular.
We never would have
written out Shemar, but it
opened up some really
interesting stories related to
his characters departure,
Messer told EW. That never
would have happened had he
chosen not to leave. It feels
like we just got started again
for a whole new run.
But there are still a few
loose ends to tie up before the
drama returns on Sept. 28.
The network hasnt decided
how to address Gibsons
exit, especially since there
were already two season 12
episodes with Gibson in
the can before he was axed.
And now Gibson has
decided to lawyer upa
development that could mean
hes looking to sue the studios
over wrongful termination.
I would just like to say thankyou to the writers, producers,
actors, our amazing crew, and,
most importantly, the best
fans that a show could ever
hope to have, the actor said in
a statement. I love Criminal
Minds and have put my heart
and soul into it for the last
12 years. I had hoped to see
it through to the end, but
that wont be possible now.
The question for CBS is:
Will viewers see it through to
the end without him? X

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ADDICTION.
OBSESSION.
REVENGE.
EMILY BLUNT

TRIES TO
UNRAVEL THE
MYSTERY OF A
MISSING WOMAN IN
THE GIRL ON
THE TRAIN .

BUT CAN SHE BE

TRUSTED?
INSIDE THE
MAKING OF THE
DARKEST,
SEXIEST, MOST
DARING THRILLER
OF THE YEAR.
BY

Isabella Biedenharn
@isabella324
PHOTOGRAPHS BY

Ruven Afanador

Emily Blunt photographed on

Aug. 15, 2016, in New York City

scene in The Girl on the Train isnt a murder. Theres no weapon. No

blood. No victim. Just a mirror, and a woman, and an explosion of fury.
As Rachel Watson, Emily Blunt is a woman whose mind is ripping apart.
Her husband, Tom, has left her for another woman. She has lost her job.
She has spiraled into self-obliterating alcoholism. She has been stalking
her ex in a drunken haze, and has become obsessed with a young
womana beautiful stranger with a seemingly perfect husband and
perfect lifewhom Rachel glimpses from the train every day. But when
Rachel sees this young woman with another man, she comes unglued.
In a bathroom at Grand Central Terminal, Rachel careens into a
martini-fueled rage, violently smearing her lipstick across a mirror
with both hands and screaming her desire to storm into the womans
house and grab her by the hair. I would just smash her head all over
the oor! she shrieks, voice cracking. This is the moment when a
woman at her breaking point finally shatters. Its the peak of her
unhingedness, Blunt says. It couldnt be sad, it had to be angry. You
had to imagine that she could be capable of doing dangerous things.
When Rachel wakes at home the following morning, she is covered
in cuts, caked in dirt and blood. She can remember almost nothing.
And according to the morning news, the young woman is missing.
Millions of readers of Paula Hawkins literary phenomenon already
know whats happened to that young woman, and whether Rachel is
responsible for her disappearance. Tens of millions more will discover

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the answers when the hotly anticipated lm adaptation

opens Oct. 7. But even if youve read the book, this
pitch-black thriller, directed by Tate Taylor (The Help),
will likely shock and unnerve you. It is a big studio lm
stripped of every glint of glamour, revealing the naked
bones of agony underneath. Rachel couldnt just be
the lush that you laugh at, Taylor says. You had to get
that she was really in pain. It was important that the
alcoholism was not glossed over, that it was shown for
how destructive it can be. Thats got to be a really
lonely placeknowing you let everybody down and
that everybodys talking about you.
While the history of cinema is peppered with vengeful, damaged, potentially lethal womenGlenn Close
in Fatal Attraction, Rebecca De Mornay in The Hand
That Rocks the Cradle, Jeanne Moreau in Franois
Truffauts The Bride Wore Black, and Maleficent in
Disneys Sleeping Beauty, to name just a fewthey are
seldom the heroines of their stories. But Rachel, unlike
most of her foremothers (most notably Amy Dunne in
Gone Girl), is not in control of her own (potential)
crimes. Both sheand weare rooting for her innocence. We havent seen a character like Rachel in
a movie sinceever, says Holly Bario, an exec at
Amblin, the lms production company. I cant even

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THE PASSENGERS
Meet the Train cast

R A C H E L WAT S O N

HALEY BENNETT

Edge of Tomorrow

The Equalizer

Our alcoholic heroine

takes Metro-North
into the city each day,
despite losing her
job months ago. Now
divorced from Tom
Watsonwho has
remarriedRachel
busies herself by watching two strangers,
Scott and Megan Hipwell, from the train.

Young, beautiful, and

mysterious, Megan
is married to Scott
Hipwell and lives down
the street from Tom
Watson; his new wife,
Anna; and their baby,
Evie. Megan briefly
worked as their nanny
after losing her job
at a gallery. Shes in
therapy with Dr. Abdic
when she disappears.

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think of a movie where [the female lead] is super drunk

and thinks she killed someone.
That degree of complexity in a character is dicult to
convey, however. It requires a great actor, and Taylor
worried that the studio, Universal, would saddle him
with a marquee star who lacked the chops to pull it o.
I was so glad they didnt suggest the Us Weekly cover-ofthe-month, Taylor says. Blunt had the added benet of
being just famous enough to feel familiar without being
burdened by audience expectations. Emily possesses
tremendous craft, but at the same time she just feels like
somebody you would know, says producer Marc Platt,
who worked with Blunt on Into the Woods. If you didnt
like this character, you wouldnt go on a journey with her.

( Clockwise
from top left )
Director Tate
Taylor on
set with Blunt;
Rebecca
Ferguson
and Justin
Theroux;
Edgar Ramirez
and Haley
Bennett;
Luke Evans

M EGA N H I P W E L L

EMILY BLUNT

T O M WAT S O N

REBECCA FERGUSON

JUSTIN THEROUX

Florence Foster Jenkins

The Leftovers

Anna, Toms new wife

and baby Evies mother,
started seeing Tom
while he was still
married to Rachel, but
she doesnt regret it.
She is, however, furious
that Rachel cant seem
to stop calling Tom or
dropping by the
house unexpectedly.

Tom was previously

married to Rachel,
but left her for real
estate agent Anna
after Rachels alcoholism spun out of
control. He and Anna
have a newborn
named Evie, and they
live in the house he
bought with Rachel.

SCOTT HIPWELL

LUKE EVANS

DR. KAMAL ABDIC

EDGAR RAMIREZ

Furious 7

Point Break

Passionate but volatile

and controlling, Scott
constitutes one half of
the dream couple that
Rachel fantasizes about
from the train. Hes
married to Megan and
lives a few houses from
Tom and Anna Watson.

A psychiatrist of
ambiguous ethnicity,
Dr. Abdic is Megans
therapist (and perhaps
more), who becomes
an early suspect in
Megans disappearance. Eventually Rachel
schedules her own sessions with Abdic, and
he tries to help uncover
her lost memories.

Since her scene-stealing turn 10 years ago in The Devil Wears Prada,
Blunt, 33, has forged a reputation as one of the most talented and versatile actresses of her generation, delivering acclaimed performances
in period costume biopics (The Young Victoria), sci- action lms (Edge
of Tomorrow), and tense, topical dramas (Sicario), but The Girl on the
Train represents a huge turning point in her career: Its the rst time
she has carried a high-prole mainstream studio movie all on her own.
Taylor suspects this is because Blunt chooses roles for artistic reasons
rather than commercial ones. A lot of the so-called carry the movie
roles for women just arent that smart, unfortunately, he says. And
indeed, Blunt shrugs o the suggestion that the role could elevate her
into a bankable movie star. I never felt a pressure, because I feel that
this lm is completely character-driven, she says. It didnt feel like
we were making something in order to get the crowds in.
In conversation with Blunt near her new home in Brooklyn in early
August, its easy to see both how invested she was in bringing Rachel
to life and how wholly unlike her she is. Warm and relaxed, Blunt is
quick to laughat others and at herselfin small chuckles and in
hearty bursts. During lming, Blunt, whos married to actor John Krasinski (The Oce), was pregnant with their second daughter, Violet.
(She gave birth this June. Their elder daughter, Hazel, is now 2.)
I have such baby brain right now, Blunt jokes when she doesnt have
a quick answer to a question. Its real. You feel like such a dum-dum.
You cant remember anything!
Despite her happy personal life, Blunt immersed herself in Rachels
world by meeting with addicts and binging episodes of A&Es

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Intervention. Whether its meth, or alcoholism, or a sex

addictionI wanted to dive into that mindset, because
I dont have an addictive personality whatsoever, she
says. Seeing them being interviewed and trying to hold
it together, what that does to your bodythat was really
helpful for me. All of which proved essential to helping
unlock Rachels intricate psyche. Youve got the selfloathing element of her, and youve got the rageful anger
of her, and youve got this obsessive, voyeuristic side
and this compulsive side, she explains. She has to
know about these peoples lives. Shes desperate to live
vicariously through others and therefore has that same
desperate desire to nd out what happened.

For all its thriller trappings and conventions, The Girl

on the Train is as much, if not more, about women than it
is about the mystery of a missing one. Made on a modest
budget of around $45 million, the lm explores the complexity of womens relationships to themselves and each
otherhow women are made to feel like failures for not
having (or not wanting) children, how we can covet not
just other womens possessions but the happiness or
fullness of their lives. Something that really upsets me
is the unkindness that can go on between women when
it comes to children, Blunt says. Youre made to feel,
by society and usually by women, less-than if you are
not a mother, and I think thats incredibly wrong.

The lm isnt just about Rachel, though. Intertwined

with her story are the lives of the two women she
envies the most: Anna (Rebecca Ferguson), the new
wife of Rachels ex-husband (Justin Theroux) who has
given birth to the baby Rachel always wanted, and
Megan Hipwell (Haley Bennett), the missing woman
with her seemingly perfect husband (Luke Evans). But
even those women arent happy. We learn through
ashbacks that Megan in particular is dealing with a
profound loss of her own and uses sex as a form of
escape. As Megan, Bennett, 28, becomes both a shadow
and a mirror to Rachel, and her performance is as
powerful and as faceted as Blunts. Both could find

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

( Clockwise
from above )
Blunt;
author Paula
Hawkins
with Blunt;
Bennett

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FOUN D IN
TRANSLATION

U. K .

U.S.

to

themselves in Oscar consideration for limning the propulsive whodunit plot with real dramatic depth. Megan is a character I would
typically shy away from, just because of her explicit nature, Bennett
says. This role probably could have been portrayed as just the sexy
girl, not a whole lot going on behind the eyes. But there was a frailty
in her, something very childlike about the way she stumbled through
life and put her hands on the hot stove. I wanted to bring a reality and
a groundedness to Megan.
Its not surprising, then, that these characters were created by a
woman and adapted by a female screenwriter, Erin Cressida Wilson
(Secretary). It was Wilson who initially had the idea to move the setting
of the story from London to New York, with its commuter trains that
run north from the city, passing through the leafy avenues and stately
homes of Westchester County along the Hudson River. (The lm was
shot primarily in the area and on sets in Yonkers.) The Metro-North
train itself is totally unsexy, Wilson says. But the river is, and the
backyards areall these places you look at when youre coming out of
the grayness of New York City and you think, I could live there. There
are a lot of dreams there.
The move from the U.K. to the U.S. required a few adjustments
(see sidebar, right), but director Taylor wanted Blunt to keep her
British accent, both as a fun wink and nod to the novel, he says, and
also to highlight how isolated and untethered Rachel is. Shes away
from her home country, unemployed, rejected by the man with whom
she had built her life in America. All of which, Taylor says, adds
another layer of loneliness.
The one central person not involved with the production, oddly,
was Hawkins herself. Unlike Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn,
who adapted her novel for director David Fincher, or E L James, who
famously has fought to retain control over the Fifty Shades movie franchise based on her erotic novels, Hawkins was happy to remain outside
the process. I basically handed it over, and everybody just got on with
it, she says. Tate came to London and we went for a drink, and
immediately, when he was talking about his vision for it, I was thinking, He sees the same things in it that I see. He wanted it to be very
dark from the start, and the thing that I was most concerned about was
that [any potential lmmaker] would take away the darkness of it.
For her part, Blunt was all about embracing that darkness, but now
after a run of heavy rolesTrain and Sicario chief among them
shes eager to lighten up. I want to nd the silliness again, she says.
Shell denitely get to come in contact with it, at least, playing Mary
Poppins in a sequel to the 1964 classic, due in theaters December
2018. She wont start shooting until early next year. Thats plenty of
time to put Rachels vodka bottlesand rageaway and find a
spoonful of sugar instead. Also: no trains. X

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LONDON EUSTON
S TAT I O N

The drab, modern Euston

Station was the destination of Rachels daily
commuteeven after she
lost her job.

WITNEY

This tranquil, stately town

rests on the River
Windrush, about 12 miles
west of Oxford. In real
life, though, it has no
active train station, and
hasnt since 1962.

VICTORIAN SEMI

A common housing style

in England, Victorian semis
are single-family homes
that typically share a wall
with another house.

OFF-LICENCE

Essentially the British

version of a liquor store:
The name implies you
drink your purchase when
youre off the premises.

CANNED GIN
AND TONIC

Rachels drink of choice

in the novel: premixed gin
and tonic in a can. Its not
widely available in the U.S.

WINE

GRAND CENTRAL
TERMINAL

Lavish and majestic, this

New York City landmark is
a transportation hub
and the best place for a
midday martini.

ARDSLEY

An elegant suburb northeast of Manhattan, on

the Hudson River. Says
screenwriter Erin Cressida
Wilson: You look out at
those backyards and think,
What a beautiful life.

PICKET FENCES

The sprawling, sleepy

houses werent what
Hawkins originally pictured,
but she says she likes
that theyre beautiful in
a slightly creepy way.
LIQUOR STORE

Where Rachel buys her

booze when shes not at a
bar and has already emptied her fridge at home.

WAT E R B O T T L E
OF VODKA

Stateside, her easily concealed poison is a

vodka-filled water bottle.
Its clear, and discreet
enough for long train rides.

WINE

At least theres one thing that doesnt need translating: Wine

drowns sorrows on both sides of the pond.

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London to New York required
some creative rewrites

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Fassbender and Vikander in The Light Between Oceans

A L I C I A V I K A N D E R A N D M I C H A E L FA S S B E N D E R L O O K E D T H R O U G H O L D

photographs together. Not of themselves. Of lighthouse keepers, she says. They were
researching The Light Between Oceans, their new film (out Sept. 2), which itself is also
a kind of scrapbooka gorgeous onefor the pair. In the movie, the two actors play a
married couple living on a lighthouse-capped island who suffer multiple miscarriages
before a rowboat mysteriously washes ashore one day with a baby on board. The drama
that ensues is heartbreaking, but its also a journey back in timeboth to the 1920s,
when the film takes place, and to 2014, when the stars met and fell in love while making it.
They are a public coupleshe kissed him, after all, before accepting her Oscar for The
Danish Girl last Februarythough theyll never be accused of oversharing. Neither is
active on social media, and on this weekend afternoon in downtown Manhattan,
Vikander, 27, and Fassbender, 39, sit on opposite ends of a couch. And though they do
address their relationship, calmly and efficiently, they would much rather talk about their
work. But that still includes the experience that brought them together. Summer camp
is something Ive used to explain filmmaking to friends and family, Vikander says.
Fassbender adds: You have to come together very quickly. Thats a very specific,
unusual thing to this businessand it can be a very powerful thing.
You guys shot in a remote part of
New Zealand. What was it like making
a movie in that environment?

Did acting in the elements make things

more difficult?
FA S S B E N D E R Easier, actually. It was a rare
opportunity to experience that place, and
that unique experience for sure lent itself
to the lm.
V I K A N D E R Like the scene when the storm is
coming and you started to collect the sheep.
FAS S B E N D E R The goats.

DAVI RUSSO

A L I C I A V I K A N D E R On the rst day of lming I

got breathless. I was on the top of the lighthouse by myself and I could look out 360
degrees and not see another human being.
I was kind of claustrophobic by the greatness of nature.
MICHAEL FASSBENDER When the wind picks up,
its pretty exhilaratingand maddening. In
the story, the previous lighthouse keeper
goes nuts and kills himself. That struck

home to me. On the first few nights, we

were in these caravans and they were rocking back and forth because of the relentless
howling of the wind. And I was like, Wow.

The goats, sorry.

Or was it sheep? I just remember
those goats and those crazy chickens.
V I K A N D E R For that night, the crew had prepared wind fans, but what you see in the
movie is pretty real. We were practically
flying off those lighthouse stairs. It was
pretty nuts.

some music or take a nice nap. And it was a

great vibe on set, because we all stayed and
had barbecues in the evenings.

The movie is a wrenching piece of

drama for both of you, especially Alicia.
What was the hardest scene to film?
The second miscarriage is devastating.

FAS S B E N D E R It wasnt the rst time in a movie

either of us had played somebody who is falling in love. There is an element of separation
there. If Im playing a murderer, I dont go
out and start murdering people.
V I K A N D E R And I think weve made a clear
statement that we keep certain things just
between us. It was very easy to unite, but
thats quite personal.

VIKANDER

FASSBENDER

V I K A N D E R That was the scene I was most

worried about, yeah. I think Ive played a
mother six times. And as a woman who
doesnt have kids, I felt that the women
in the audience who have gone through
childbirth might say, She doesnt know
what it is. So I asked a lot of women, to
make sure we told that scene with truth.

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Michael, thats also a very affecting

scene for your character, as he
shows the depth of his compassion
for his wife.

When youre playing lovers on

screen and you begin to have feelings
off screen, do you have to check
yourselfto be sure it isnt a trick of
your brain?

Youve really managed to keep your

private lives private. A lot of people in
the spotlight dont.
FAS S B E N D E R But thats other people. Each to
their own. Im not going to talk about my
private life with a total stranger, unless
I feel like I need to. Why would I? I dont.

But can you remember a time when you

were curious to know more about the
private lives of movie stars? Thats
the impulse in your fans to know more
about your relationship.
FAS S B E N D E R I might have been curious about
actors lives when I was growing up. Thats
human nature. Were all curious about a lot
of things. But my curiosity didnt obligate
them to tell me. Its the worst thing if youre
sitting there in the theater, going, Oh,
thats the guy who dates this person and
likes to do this in the morning and that in
the afternoon. Then youre just watching a
brand, as opposed to an actor.
V I K A N D E R I remember in Sweden, I used to
set the alarm for 2 or 3 a.m. and get up with
my mom to watch the Oscars. But for me,
that was the same as the stories I saw up on
the movie screen. Things have changed
with social media and technology, but I still
feel it helps when I know less about the
actors I look up to. Thats what I mean
I love the mystery behind it all. X

FASSBENDER Hes got absolute loyalty. Theres

also a scene thats not in the movie anymore where she tries to throw herself
o the cli and he saves her. Everythings
on a knifes edge, and hes concerned for
her well-being.

Hes kind of a quiet, passive man for an

actor like you to play.

T H E STA R S C H O O S E
THE PERFORMANCES
BY EACH OTHER THEY
ADMIRE MOST

FA S S B E N D E R His principles are strong. He

knows its wrong when they dont report
the child and he knows that its only going
to end in tragedy. Hes an honorable man.
Hes got dignity and stoicism and principles.
If there were more people like him in the
world, it would be a better place.

Were you drawn to the universality

of the story?

Yeah, it got me. I almost felt a tiny

bit embarrassed because of being too close
to something thats very private in somebodys life. But everyone surrounding you
has gone through similar things. The search
for love or the desire to have a family or the
loss of a child.
FA S S B E N D E R Or healing. Weve all experienced how time heals.
VIKANDER

Was it a difficult film to make from an

emotional standpoint?
V I K A N D E R It was a big emotional journey. I
had to step away in between scenes, go play

V I K A N D E R O N FAS S B E N D E R Back home in Stockholm, in this tiny independent cinema,

I had watched 1 Hunger [2008] and 2 Fish Tank [2010] and I was blown away by his
fearlessness. I was taken aback by how much I believed those characters. They felt so real.

FAS S B E N D E R O N V I K A N D E R What she did in 3 The Danish Girl [2015] was so fresh
and modern. The way she moved physically, that comes from her dance background, its
very clear to me. In 4 Ex Machina [2015], its all over that. Her specificity and attention
to detail is extraordinary. I played a robot [in 2012s Prometheus] and I thought I was a good
robot. But I just finished the sequel [Alien: Covenant] and I got to steal all of Alicias moves.
She makes me a better robot.

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Ava DuVernay and

Oprah Winfrey

FRIENDS IN

PLACES
BY N I C O L E S P E R L I N G
@nicsperling

When OPRAH WINFREY sought out director AVA D UVERNAY

it was merely to be pals. But with an Oscar-nominated film
( Selma) and an upcoming TV series ( Queen Sugar) under
their belts, the duo have become a Hollywood dream team.
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OPRAH WINFREY HAS BEEN THE OBJECT OF OUR ADMIRATION AND

adoration for decades now, but imagine if you became the object of
hers. Thats what happened to lmmaker Ava DuVernay when the two
rst met in 2013. Since then, the pair have become something of a
dynamic duo. Winfrey, 62, came aboard Selma as a producer-actress
and helped secure the dramas green light. DuVernay, 44, is following
up the favor by turning to television and giving Winfrey the bona des
she needs to transform her OWN network from a Lindsay Lohan
reality TV haven into a prestige destination with the Southern-set
drama Queen Sugar, which debuts Sept. 6 at 10 p.m. We caught up
with the two powerhouses in New Orleans, where Winfrey graced the
main stage of the massive Essence Festival for the rst time in the
African-American music-and-culture confabs 22-year history. After
her hour-long, mostly impromptu speech that read as part comedy
routine, part church revival, Winfrey and DuVernay sat down to talk
about their new showand their powerhouse friendship.
It feels to me that ever since you
two came together on Selma,
you have become co-conspirators
in the best way possible.
OPRAH WINFREY

Well, we are con-

spiring, right?
AVA D U V E R N A Y I dont know.
[Laughs] That feels a little sinister.

But youre not just putting things

out thereyou have an agenda
with what you are creating.

My agenda was that

I was going to be her friend. I
dont have a lot of friends. I have
Gayle [King], whos been my
friend since forever. And there
have been a couple of other times
when Ive tried to make friends,
but normally it doesnt go well.
WINFREY

Why is that?

When did you two first meet?

WINFREY

David Oyelowo gave me

And then you invited Ava to your

house in Maui to take a break
before she began editing Selma.
It was there that you gave her
the novel Queen Sugar, by Natalie
Baszile, to read. Why?
W I N F R E Y I felt that it was a good
story representing values that
meant a lot to me. There is this
thing that Ive always felt was
missing about stories told about
black people. There is a value
system, an earthiness, and a calm
assuredness about just being in
the ordinariness of life that turns
out to be rather extraordinary.
Ive always had this yearning to tell
those stories of real people, but
I didnt know how to do it myself.

a CD
D U V E R N A Y DVD
W I N F R E Y DVD, thank you. It was

Middle of Nowhere [DuVernays

second feature, which landed
her a Best Director award at
Sundance]. So I watched this

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thing at HBO. [David] Fincher was

just coming off House of Cards.
[Cary] Fukunaga had done True
Detective. I wanted it. And I said
something about that. And she
said, I have a network, you know
W I N F R E Y Which is a very hard
thing for me to do because I dont
ask anybody for anything, ever.
Not for a piece of toast.

So was that your pitch to Ava?

D U V E R N A Y It was a softball. I read it
there before I left. I had been talking about doing a series. Television
was getting really interesting.
[Steve] McQueen was doing his

Why not?

Greg Vaughan
and Rutina Wesley
on Queen Sugar

W I N F R E Y Because of the price you

have to pay. If somebody gave
me a piece of toast, I gave you that

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CONTOUR BY GET T Y IMAGES (3); QUEEN SUGAR: PAT TI PERRET/OWN

W I N F R E Y People have their agendas and they want to start their

business and they need me to start
their business. They want a house.
They need me to buy their house.
D U V E R N A Y [Laughs] Thats a
reason why a friendship may go
off the rails.
W I N F R E Y I normally end up paying
a let-me-exit friend fee. I will
loan you the money for whatever
you want, but please never call
me or speak to me again.

and I immediately wanted to

know, who did this? I Googled her.
And I saw her cute little face, and
the glasses, and the dreads. It
was such a warm and engaging
face. I studied it. I tried to make
the picture bigger. And I said to
David, Oh, Im going to be her
friend. This is going to be a friend
of mine. Then she asked me to
play that role in Selma. I dont
know if I want to play that role,
but youre my friend so Ill do it.
[Ava laughs.] I also believed so
much in what she and David were
trying to do for Selma. I just
wanted to hang with them. And
I became a producer.

see what happens. Put your

hand in my panty hose and lets
see what happens. [Laughs]
Oprah greenlit your idea for a
series off of a three-page outline,
but it sounds like writing the
script wasnt nearly as easy.

piece of toast, I need a car. I gave

you that piece of toast, I need
my loans paid off. Over the years
its been really, really challenging.
Every time, I get suckered inevery
time. This is the greatest gift Ava
could have ever given me. Im
so glad she said yes. Never, ever do
I want a birthday present; I dont
want a Christmas card. I dont
want an acknowledgment of any
holiday ever. This is it. Anytime
anything comes up, just say, Look
at Sugar. [Ava laughs.]
Listening to you talk about the
kind of stories you are missing,
all of those stories are in the first
episode of Queen Sugar.
W I N F R E Y Everything. She did it.
She got it. Its why I cried and
cried and cried when I first
watched it. First of all, when have
you seen [in the first scene of
the pilot] a black woman getting
dressed and it be that beautiful,
that sensual, that intimate, that
tender, that real? Its everything.
And her sex scenes look damn
sexy. You want to be that person.
It hits a sensual nerve. He is
unhooking her bra, and youre like,
woah! Im like, Im going to get
Stedman to unhook my bra and

D U V E R N A Y I rewrote the first script

three times. The first time I pounded
it outadapted the book and
gave it to her very proudly. And
she said, Oh, I thought it was
going to be more than this. Thats
what she said. I thought, Yeah,
okay, Im going back and adding
something. Second one, I added
people doing voodoo, murders,
stabbing, a frickin hurricane. I
added a lot. What does she want?
W I N F R E Y Im not down with the
voodoo.
D U V E R N A Y She was like, Whaaat?
In true Oprah fashion, she said,
What do you want to say? This is
a show that will be on every
week in peoples homes. I drilled
into that. And I told her, This is
the last one I will do. And Im
going to put in what I want to say,
and if its not it, then I dont know.
And that was the pilot.
W I N F R E Y That was the one.
I remembered Toni Morrison said
to me that she wrote her first
novel because that book wasnt
available to read. She wrote a
book that she would want to read.
With that in mind, I said to Ava,
What is the story you would most
want to see that came from
you that you would most want to
tell? I can be down with that.

Thats also got to be hard between

friends. Were there any hurt
feelings when she kept sending
you back to try again?

WHATS NEXT
FOR THE DUO
Family sagas and historical
films arent enough for this
power pair. Next, the duo
will collaborate on the Disney fantasy film A Wrinkle
in Time, based on the
1962 novel by Madeleine
LEngle. Winfrey will play
the role of Mrs. Which,
one of three women who
help the young protagonists travel through time, for
director DuVernay. The
movie, which is slated for a
2018 release, will also carry
the milestone of being the
first time a woman of color
directs a film with a budget
north of $100 million. Thats
a nice bit of teamwork.

D U V E R N A Y There are so few people

you can get a real answer from.
I dont show my cuts, my drafts to
a lot of people because they will
tell me its good. When someone
says, Its all right, I think you can
do betterfirst youre like, Ugh,
but then youre like, Okay.
W I N F R E Y My friendship with Ava
meant more to me then her
writing a script, although, with me
trying to build a network, Ava
DuVernay coming to lend her
name and talent to the network
would be a huge asset. But
I wouldnt let myself go there
because if it didnt work out, I still
wanted to maintain my friendship
with her. I was willing for it to be
whatever it needed to be, including for it to not be.

Whats been the hardest thing

about building this network?

W I N F R E Y Getting the right people

in place. I think the reason why
this is working now with both
Greenleaf and Sugar is because
they are the right stories to tell at
this time. I was thinking, Why
didnt I do this from the beginning
when I ended the Oprah show?
I wouldnt have even known how
to do it. I wasnt there. I didnt
believe I could do it at the time.

Did Ava ever write a role for you

on Queen Sugar?
W I N F R E Y I was originally going to
be Aunt Vi [the matriarch, played
by Tina Lifford]. And the first
time Gayle saw it, she said, How
come youre not Aunt Vi? Shes
sexy and she has a boyfriend. But
Vi didnt start out that way.
D U V E R N A Y But it was when we
started talking about the 13 episodes that she started becoming
a bigger character. You cant
run a multibillion-dollar empire
and be on the set every week.

Ava, when you were making the

decision about what feature
film to pursue after Selma, did you
two discuss your options?
D U V E R N A Y I did have a recent
thing between Intelligent Life with
Lupita Nyongo at Amblin and
A Wrinkle in Time for Disney. They
both wanted to go at the same
time. What do you do? Both were
projects with folks I admired. How
do you say no to one? Its never
lost on me that when I sit down
and talk with her about business,
Im speaking with one of the most
successful businesswomen of
our time, who manages a billiondollar empire. So its good advice.
But its not just business advice.
It always comes down to what is
your intention and what story do
you want to tell.
W I N F R E Y When I finished The
Color Purple, I remember leaving
set and I was so sad, because it
was the happiest Ive ever been in
my entire life. I learned so much.
I came to set even when I didnt
have to shoot. When I left, I said
to Quincy Jones, Gee, I hope
I see you again sometime. If you
see me, would you remember
my name? And he said, Oh, baby,
you dont have to worry. Your
future is so bright, it burns my
eyes. I feel exactly the same way
about Ava. There is a quickening
happening in her life and in her
career that is just going to blossom into somethingnot even
she can imagine what it is. Its big.
Its big for the industry. Its big
for women. Its big for herself. Its
big for the planet. Its big. X

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INSIDE

THE
BITCH

SESH

PODCAST

EVERYTHINGS

COMING UP

ROSE
REAL
HOUSEWIVES
SUPERFANS (AND HOTWIVES COSTARS )

CASEY WILSON
AND DANIELLE

SCHNEIDER
TAPPED AN OBSESSION WITH

THE BRAVO REALITY

FRANCHISE FOR THEIR OWN

INTOXICATING POP CULTURE

GUILTY PLEASURE.

BY CAITLIN BRODY @CBRODAY

PHOTOGRAPHS BY SAM COMEN
SEPTEMBER 2, 2016 | 37 | EW.COM
Casey Wilson and Danielle Schneider photographed
on Aug. 10, 2016, in Los Angeles

Its
early

,
t
s
u
g
u
A
and the Olympics are in full swing, but the echoes of cheering and gasping in Casey Wilsons L.A. home arent for
Michael Phelps wins (theyre not even for his glistening
abs). No, the Happy Endings alum and her longtime friend
and collaborator Danielle Schneider are curled up on the
couch, glued to a rerun of The Real Housewives of New York
City. Theres no new installment of the show tonight, so the
duo decided to take a trip down memory lane with the very
rst episode. This is our sport, Schneider says of the Bravo
reality series. Reunions are our Super Bowl, adds Wilson.
Between bites of salad and sips of Whispering Angel ros,
the comedians tap out thoughts on their iPhones. They squeal
as they watch a slobbery kiss between former Housewife
Alex McCord and her husband, Simon. Id rather watch my
parents have sex! says Wilson (regardless, she rewinds and
rewatches it for good measure). Afterward the two compare
notes. Schneider and Wilson are prepping to tape their culthit podcast, Bitch Sesh: A Real Housewives Breakdown, which
they record weekly at Wilsons kitchen table (lovingly dubbed
the nook). Todays agenda: analyzing the episode scene by
scene and drinking shots of Modern Alkeme, a Housewifecreated clearing tonic. The result? I might throw up, says
Schneider. She laughs so hard she hits her face on her mic.
The Housewives connoisseurs were Bravo-ites long before
they became wives and mothers themselves (Wilson, 35, has
a 15-month-old son with husband and Happy Endings creator
David Caspe; Schneider, 41, has a 3-year-old daughter with
husband Matt Besser, a cofounder of the Upright Citizens
Brigade). In 2011, they held dramatic readings of Housewives
episodes at UCB, and in 2014 came the Hotwives series, the
Hulu spoof co-created by Schneider, featuring both women.
As Im looking at the canon, Im sort of embarrassed how
much weve done involving Real Housewives, says Wilson.
But theyve found a following: A few weeks after Bitch Sesh
debuted in December, advertisers started rolling in, and
theyve performed several sold-out live tapings (I got to
realize my dream of singing a medley of Bravo theme songs,
says Wilson). At the end of the day, this is a comedy show,
Schneider says. Adds Wilson: Weve got a lot to say. Grab
some Ramona Singer pinot grigio and listen in.

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Lets start at the beginning.

How did you two meet?
CASEY WILSON The first time I laid
eyes on Danielle, she was furiously
making out with her now husband,
Matt Besser. I was titillated.
DANIELLE SCHNEIDER Its not the first
time someone has said thats how
they met me.
WILSON I knew Matt before I knew
Danielle. He was very supportive
of June [Diane Raphael, Wilsons
writing partner] and me. He
helped get our UCB show into the
Aspen Rooftop Comedy Festival.
SCHNEIDER Just as your husband
has helped me. He gave me my
first job writing in TV on Marry Me.
WILSON Thats why were friends.
I desperately need her husband.
SCHNEIDER And I desperately need
hers. Otherwise we have nothing
in common.
WILSON Its a nice friendship.
Why do you think your dynamic
works so well?
WILSON At the end of the day were,
like, hard drinkerseveryone else
falls away, but were still at the bar.
SCHNEIDER A text chain would
go around our friends about
Housewives, and maybe someone

would have a quip, but Casey and

I were still going.
WILSON Also, with Danielle, Im not
fearful about something [not]
being funny. I know Danielle will
take care of it.
SCHNEIDER I feel the same way
about you.
How did you get into the
Housewives franchise anyway?
WILSON Maybe six months after my
mom passed away [in 2005],
Orange County debuted, and
I remember lying on the couch
and getting mindlessly into that.
SCHNEIDER I got really involved
when I was having trouble
conceiving. It was a dark time,
and I was drawn to this sparkling
wish fulfillment, with crazy people
yelling at each other. Its escape.
Im not yelling at my friends like
thatI never have, never will.
WILSON I have, and I will. [Laughs]
What do you think it is about
Housewives that resonates?
SCHNEIDER Its this common language. I was sitting next to a
woman on a flight, and we didnt
speak at allin fact, I was like, Shes
on my armrest. Bitch. The last half

( From left ) Wilson and Schneider hard at work; Schneider pointing to The Real
Housewives of Atlanta star Kandi Burruss, with whom she attended elementary school:
I was supposed to be doing this with my life, she jokes; a sugar rush at the ready

on. My best friend texted me and

said, Youre probably going to disagree, but this is my favorite thing
youve ever performed in.
With Bitch Sesh, youre entirely
yourselves, not playing a
character. How does that feel?
WILSON Before I had a baby, I had
a lot less confidence. I would have
never done something like this
I was scared people would think I
was mean. But after I had my son,
I thought, Who cares? Danielle
and I are inherently kind people,
but we also have acid tongues.
Our intentions are good.
SCHNEIDER This is the most comfortable Ive been because Im
speaking my words in my voice,
and people seem to like that.

PODCAST BUT TON: A ARON NESTER /E ARWOLF; THE HOT WIVES OF ORL ANDO: HULU

hour, I noticed we were both

watching Housewives. We couldnt
stop talking the rest of the trip.
WILSON Im fascinated by female
dynamics, and this one is on a
garish scale. A moment is built out
of someone waiting for another
person! Thats amazing drama.
How do you think Housewives
relates to the role of women
in Hollywood?
WILSON When we did the UCB
show, everyone asked, Why the
Housewives? And we said,
Because there are no greater
roles for women. Theyre the
Medea of our time!
SCHNEIDER Journalists said they had
never seen so many funny women
as leads when we did Hotwives
we had a cast of seven very funny
women. That doesnt happen.
Have you been surprised by the
podcasts success?
WILSON Danielle and I would have
been happy just doing this for
ourselves. In this business were all
trying to control our career, and
laughably, theres zero control.
Its gotten a great response, more
so than things Ive worked tirelessly

Bitch Sesh is available on

iTunes and earwolf.com

How does auditioning and writing

your own projects fit in here?
WILSON We havent given up our
careers yet. [Laughs]
SCHNEIDER Were a part of a crew
of people that do a bunch of
things, so to have a lot going on
feels like the norm. If it ever
became too much, we might go
down [in episodes] for a while.
WILSON Were seeing what sticks.
June and I just sold a show to
Hulu called Unhinged about an

angry woman, who Im going to

be playing. Were also working on
a movie, and Im in [Amazons
upcoming dark comedy] One
Mississippi.
SCHNEIDER I just finished writing
on Playing House, and my writing
partner Dannah [Phirman] and
I are shopping around a female
ensemble show to the networks.
You record every episode from the
nook, which seems so magical!
SCHNEIDER People have asked for
pictures, but we want it to be in
your mind.
WILSON Im afraid people are going
to be like, Thats the nook?
Readers are seeing it now! Do you
have any other recording rituals?
WILSON We try not to go past an
hourI think all comedy is better
left wanting more. Plus, by the time
weve gotten to an hour, people
have had enough of us, Im sure.
And we try to end on a joke.
Any chance of expanding the
podcasts subject matter?
WILSON We look forward to a day
when it can broaden out culturally.
I love how I say that as if wed be
discussing Hillary Rodham
SCHNEIDER No, we mean, like, the
Kardashians. X

Schneider and Wilson tussle on Hulus The Hotwives of Orlando

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Movies
EDITED BY

KEVIN P. SULLIVAN @KPSull

ESSAY

Time to
Throw in
the Towel?
After decades of boxing moviesincluding
Hands of Stone this week and Bleed for
This in Novemberthe genre is old and tired,
but it aint goin down without a fight.
B Y C H R I S N A S H A WAT Y

DOES THE WORLD REALLY NEED ANOTHER

boxing movie? Before you answer that, consider this: If you were about to say No,
then you wouldve missed one of the best
lms of last year, Creed. Yes, the genre can
be lousy with triumph-of-the-underdog
clichs, diabetically syrupy sentimentality,
and hackneyed training montages, but Id
argue that theres still a place for movies
about the sweet science (although Im not
sure Id include the new Roberto Durn
biopic, Hands of Stone, on that listsee
review, right).
Hollywoods fascination with palookas,
tomato cans, southpaws, and scrappers
goes back to its earliest days, but the rst to
emotionally sucker punch audiences was
1931s The Champ, starring Wallace Beery
and Jackie Cooper. The movie (which was
remade as a Jon Voight and Ricky Schroder
schmaltzfest in 1979) is artless in the ring,
but outside of it, its an unrelenting tearjerker. Then again, boxing movies are rarely
about just boxing. Theyre ready-made
metaphor machines. The Fighter is about

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blue-collar pride and brotherly love. Ali is

about political deance and principle. Even
the greatest boxing movie ever made,
Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niros
Raging Bull, is less about ghting than the
myth of male honor gone toxic.
More than any other sport portrayed on
lm, boxing has a built-in embarrassment
of conictsand not just the one between
st and chin. Because of the socioeconomic
backgrounds of so many professional ghters, these tales pack a kind of skid-row
grace that movies about, say, golf or skiing
or squash simply cant. Think of Sylvester
Stallones born loser, Rocky Balboa, waking

up before dawn in his eabag South Philly

walk-up and downing a glass of raw eggs, or
wailing on a side of beef in a subzero meat
locker to get the edge on Carl Weathers
pampered, cocky champ. In the world of
boxing, upward mobility, respect, and
redemption are always just one well-timed
left hook away.
If theres one theme that plays out with
greater frequency than any other in the
genre, its the dynamic between ghter and
trainera loaded Freudian deck if ever
there was one. Rocky, of course, wants to
make his gruff, cauliflower-eared father
gure, Mickey, proud. In turn, 40 years later,

I L L U ST R AT I O N BY RYA N I N Z A N A

 Robert De Niro and Edgar Ramirez

REEL NEWS
Affleck Lawyers Up Ben Affleck is in talks to direct and
star in a new take on Agatha Christies Witness for the
Prosecution.

Thor Loses Girlfriend Natalie Portman

has confirmed she wont appear in future Marvel films.

FIGHTING
FOR GOLD
Cinematic boxers
have the upper hand
with the Academy

Hands of Stone
S TA R R I N G

Edgar Ramirez, Robert De Niro

DIRECTED BY

Pugilist characters have

earned three Oscars for lead
roles, 75 percent of all
athlete wins.
ABOVE Wallace Beery won for
The Champ (1931)

Actors playing professional

athletes have earned 17 nods.
Eleven were boxers.

THE CHAMP: MGM/PHOTOFEST; THE GRE AT WHITE HOPE:

EVERET T COLLECTION; ALI: FR ANK CONNOR; MILLION DOLL AR
BABY: MERIE W. WALL ACE; HANDS OF STONE: RICO TORRES

ABOVE James Earl Jones was

nominated for The Great White
Hope (1970)

Michael B. Jordans Adonis wants to make

Rocky proud of himan infinite loop of
paternal approval being sought. It doesnt
even have to be between men. Remember
Hilary Swanks Maggie Fitzgerald in Million
Dollar Baby? She has to fight before her
trainer (Clint Eastwood) even gives her the
chance to ght. You dont have to be a boxing acionado to see the appeal in that. Its
universal, timeless. And anyone whos ever
been underestimated can relate to it. When
movie boxing is done well, it can hit you
with the shattering force of an uppercut.
Maybe thats why we keep answering the
bell, ready for the next round.

That total averages out to a

nomination lead performance
for a boxer every eight years.
ABOVE Will Smith was nominated
for Ali (2001)

The only woman to ever win

an Oscar for playing an
athlete was Hilary Swank
in 2004.
ABOVE Hilary Swank in
Million Dollar Baby (2004)

R AT I N G

R|

REVIEW BY

Jonathan Jakubowicz

LENGTH

1 hr., 45 mins.

Chris Nashawaty @ChrisNashawaty

R O B E RT O D U R N WA S O N E O F

those boxers whose fame is hard

to separate from his infamy.
The proud Panamanian brawler rose from
poverty to become a national hero when he
beat Sugar Ray Leonard in the summer of
1980and then saw his reputation sullied
and dragged through the mud just five
months later when he stopped their
rematch mid-fight, allegedly saying, No
ms! Jonathan Jakubowiczs new Durn
biopic has some nice performances and
captures the complexity of the man with
hands of stone. But it also falls victim to
too many trite boxing-movie clichs and is
in way too much of a rush to cover too
much narrative ground. It sometimes feels
like youre watching it with a nger on the
fast-forward button. As Durn, Edgar
Ramirez conveys the ring legends inner
demons (the humiliations of American
colonialism in his home country, overnight
wealth, a fraught relationship with his
estranged GI father). And Usher Raymond,
with his thousand-watt smile and boundless charisma, is well cast as Leonard. But
its Robert De Niro, as Durns ery paternal
trainer, who commands the screenand
your sympathy. Aged with a shaved-back
hairline that exposes his jug ears and with
his chin pulled in like a tortoise, the actor
elevates the movie above its predictable,
one-dimensional script. Its just too bad
that watching him, you feel like youre
rooting for the wrong character. C+

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

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ROLE CALL

MARGO MARTINDALE
Im wearing pink underwear,
Margo Martindale says with a
raucous laugh. And I dont
even like pink. At her first costume fitting for FXs Justified
in 2010, she was told by a
wardrobe designer that pink
gave her good luck. And so in
the six years since, she hasnt
worn any other color beneath
her clothes. Who could argue
with that logic? Martindale,
65, has won two Emmys
and gone from Americas
favorite whats-her-name to a
bona fide beloved star. With
her latest film, the poignant
family drama The Hollars,
in theaters now, EW sat down
with the Texas-accented, infectiously upbeat actress to talk
about eight of her best roles.

After 30 years of
standing out by blending in, the beloved
character actress is
finally getting her due.
B Y J O E M C G OV E R N

1 | NOBODYS FOOL
1994

Youre either my favorite little

sister, director Robert Benton (Kramer vs. Kramer) told
Martindale, or my favorite
older daughter. He cast her
as a small-town bartender
who wisecracks with Paul
Newman in this effervescent
comedy. During rehearsal
when wed eat lunch, I would
take my sandwich off by
myself because I couldnt eat
in front of Paul Newman, she
says. We didnt connect bigtimeuntil we did reshoots
and hed seen the movie.
Then he said, Can I come sit
in your dressing room? From
then on, wed talk and talk,
about theater and the business and all kinds of stuff. He
was such an adorable man.

2004

Oscar winner. She shot her

brief but memorable role
after a Tony-nominated run in
Broadways Cat on a Hot Tin
Roofand during a family
tragedy. My brother had
passed away suddenly,
shortly before we filmed the
scene where I visit Hilary in
the hospital, she says. Clint
was unbelievably kind and
sweet and compassionate
with me. He made everything
very easy. Plus his sets are so
quiet and relaxed. You dont
even remember that theres
a camera there.

3 | P A R I S , J E T A I M E

Martindale had auditioned for

multiple Clint Eastwood films
before getting hired to play
Hilary Swanks low-class
mother in this Best Picture

42 E W.C O M

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

2006

Sideways director Alexander

Paynes seven-minute tearjerker is the bittersweet
dessert that concludes this

omnibus of short films about

Paris. In a role that Payne
wrote specifically for her,
Martindale plays a lonely
postal worker on vacation in
the city, narrating her trip in
beginners French. The last
scene is about being happy
and sad at the same time,
she says. And Alexander,
who I absolutely love, shot
that last scene first, so it
helped me understand this
beautiful experience right
up front. Then he said,
Margo, dont you worry
about the rest of the movie.
Weve got it.

4 | JUSTIFIED
2011

Martindale beamed while

accepting an Emmy in 2011
(Sometimes things just

take time, she said) for her

ferocious turn as a Kentucky
drug lord named Mags
Bennett. I was in California
for the premiere of [2010s]
Secretariat, and they asked
me to audition. I said, A
Southern woman who deals
drugs? Ill do this for free.
Which I almost did. [Laughs]
But it was a good investment. Originally planned as a
guest spot lasting just a few
episodes, her role turned into
a meaty, season-arching
nemesis part, and Mags ugly
world proved oddly pleasing
for Martindale to sink into.
I sweeten my voice a lot of
the time, but as Mags I just
let myself sound however
I wanted. She was easy to
find within me. I just tapped
into my inner insanity.

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AMERICANS: PATRICK HARBRON/FX; THE HOLL ARS: JONNY COURNOYER

2013

In the adaptation of Tracy

Letts blistering family drama,
she played the wife of Chris
Cooper (whom she first met
while performing theater
in Kentucky in 1981) and the
sister of Meryl Streep, her
costar in 1996s Marvins
Room and the 1997 TV movie
...First Do No Harm. The cast
lived together in Oklahoma
during production. It was
incredible. If we went to the
store, Meryl would say, Im
driving. And she would try to
cover up, so not to be recognized. But eventually she
would ask if I could please
take her cart, because the
attention would get to be too
much. Martindale pauses,
lets loose a huge giggle, and

says, Meanwhile, I still get

people asking if Im [The
Leftovers actress] Ann Dowd.

6 | THE AMERICANS

think I couldve taken her.

But then again, shes tough.
Fabulously tough.

7 | BOJACK HORSEMAN

2013PRESENT

2014PRESENT

On FXs acclaimed Cold War

drama, Martindale shines
as the Russian supervisor of
KGB spies played by Keri
Russell and Matthew Rhys.
(She took home a guestactress Emmy in 2015 and is
nominated again this year.)
Viewers were shocked by
a scene in the first season in
which Martindales face is
beaten and submerged in a
tub by Russell. I have a burst
eardrum, so the stuntwoman
did the flailing about and
went underwater. I have
more than a hundred pounds
on Keri, so I would like to

Isnt it absurd? she says of

her role on this animated Netflix sitcom starring Will Arnett
(her costar on The Millers) as
an alcoholic horse. At first I
said, Im not doing that, Will.
He said, Yes, you are. The
part is Character Actress
Margo Martindale. Who else
could do it? But the cartoon
Margo moonlights as a guntoting bank robberthe
furthest thing from her reallife persona, though not
according to the internet.
My husband was looking at
my Wikipedia page and it
said, Martindale has spent

the last year in prison for

armed robbery. We got
it removed quickly, but I told
Will and he died laughing.

8 | THE HOLLARS
2016

Martindale met actor John

Krasinski (The Office) about
15 years ago while working on
a department-store commercial. For his second film as a
director, he cast her to play his
funny, vibrant mother, who is
diagnosed with a brain tumor.
I really like how unusually
honest and unsentimental the
film is, while also having a light
touch, she says. And Ive
been offered a lot of dying
people recently. So Im going
to let this one float around a
while before I take another.

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

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43

Southside With You

S TA R R I N G

Parker Sawyers, Tika Sumpter, Vanessa Bell Calloway

DIRECTED BY
REVIEW BY

Richard Tanne |

R AT I N G

PG-13 |

LENGTH

1 hr., 24 mins.

Leah Greenblatt @Leahbats

I T S B E C O M E A SORT

of presidential rite of
passage for all but the
dullest Commanders-in-Chief
to be immortalized in celluloid. (Hang in there, Millard
Fillmore!) But the versions we
see on screen tend to exist solely
in the rareed context of their
ocehow these men behave,
or dont, when the fate of the
free world is at their ngertips.
Southside With You oers a
much rarer thing: the POTUS
as prequel, a still-private citizen
rendered in warm, ordinary
detail. At 28, in fact, Barack
Obama (Parker Sawyers) hasnt
even begun to consider a life in
politics when he asks Michelle
Robinson (Tika Sumpter) to
accompany him on what he calls
a date and she rmly, repeatedly
refers to as a platonic meet-up
between two colleagues.
Though they work for the same
Chicago law rm, shes in
her second year and hes a mere
summer associate, and it will
take much more than a knowledge of art and a few charming
anecdotes to thaw her reserve.
(Even the oer of pie leaves her

unmoved: Im an ice cream

kind of girl.) But because
history has already told us
where all this is headed, there
isnt much inherent mystery.
That leaves writer-director
Richard Tanne to build his narrative around something other
than dramatic tension, and the
route he chooses has the loose,
discursive intimacy of indie
cinema. (Southside has already
earned comparisons to Richard
Linklaters 1995 walk-and-talk
touchstone, Before Sunrise.)
It helps that Tanne also grounds
the movie in its 1989 setting
with small but telling details
Janet Jacksons Miss You
Much on the radio, Spike Lees
Do the Right Thing in theaters
and that the relatively
unknown Sawyers captures
Obamas quiet charisma without resorting to caricature.
Sumpter is stier, partly by
design, and the slight script
doesnt always hold up without
the benet of context. But
Southside doesnt hang on
epiphanies; instead, it delivers
something more modest:
a tender, unrushed love story. B

44 E W.C O M

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Dont Breathe
S TA R R I N G

Stephen Lang, Jane Levy, Dylan Minnette

DIRECTED BY
R AT I N G

R |

REVIEW BY

Fede Alvarez

LENGTH

1 hr., 28 mins.

Christian Holub @cmholub

A F T E R A H O M E RO B B E RY G O N E H O R R I B LY

wrong, three young wannabe criminals nd

themselves trapped in a creepy derelict
house with their intended target, a blind man (Stephen
Lang) whoin an inventive twistis way more vicious
than they anticipated. But if a blind, armed, and dangerous Gulf War veteran isnt enough of a monster to
sustain an entire movie, director Fede Alvarezs latest
horror lm, Dont Breathe, packs in a few bonus horrors.
Theres also a demonic dog capable of chewing through
walls and vents, as well as the crushing destitution of
modern Detroit, which forced the young burglars to
choose a life of crime in the rst place. Underlying it all
are the discrepancies in criminal justice for the rich and
the poor, which provide the blind man with his murderous origin story and give Dont Breathe a contemporary
edge thats all the more unsettling.
Alvarez appears to have consciously toned down
the gore from his blood-saturated Evil Dead remake,
trusting unnerving visuals and foreshadowing what
terrors are about to unfold. When the group rst enter
the house, the camera pans all the way around
to show the hidden implements and traps theyre
obliviously missing. But playing on this ambitious
scaletrying to make a statement about modern society
while meeting the demands of a modern thrillercosts
the movie some consistency, and the stakes start to
erode after a few too many narrow escapes. The result is
thought-provoking but rather lacking in the second-bysecond scares genre fans tend to expect. B+

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CAITLIN BRODY @cbroday

 Leynar Gomez, Wagner Moura, and Diego Catao

Narcos
D AT E

TIME

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REVIEW BY

Premieres Sept. 2

Streaming

Netflix

Jeff Jensen @EWDocJensen

WHATS NOT TO LOVE ABOUT PABLO ESCOBAR? IN AN

48 E W.C O M

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

JUAN PABLO GUTIERRE Z/NETFLIX

era of emotionally disabled heroes, virtue-challenged antiheroes, and generally miserable human beings on TV, the
central gure on the Netix drama Narcos is striking for
his profound decency. Hes an attentive, protective husband and a present, nurturing father. He has a heart for the
poor and disadvantaged children. He even marvels at the
beauty in the most common of garden plants. There are just
two knocks against him: (1) nautical-themed sweatshirts
that dont atter his Buddha-belly paunch; (2) billionaire
drug kingpin. But beyond that, a real mensch!
Portraying Escobar, a criminal responsible for so
much death and social destruction, as a paradox is
neither new nor inspired. Its been Crime Drama 101

since The Godfather. But Brazilian actor

Wagner Moura reenergizes the archetype
with an intense, deceptively minimalist
performance that imbues his Escobar with
an authentic humanity. Mouras characterization, combined with his puppy-dog
visage, warmth, and cute waddle, creates a
soulful, schlubby Everyman at odds with the
image of Escobar promoted by politicians
and the press during the Reagan/Bush-era
war on drugs. The smug, swarthy thug
smirking through a mug shot. The uncatchable menace wallowing in inexplicable freedom and ridiculous wealth. In fact, Narcos
pits Mouras Escobar against the cultural
representation of Escobar by incorporating
real news footage into the storytelling. In
doing so, Narcos provokes us to question
media representations of villainy, ctional
and otherwise, and challenges us to wrestle
with Escobars humanity and evil.

LOGLINES

Carly
Chaikin

Ladies Dynamite Catherine Zeta-Jones will join Susan

Sarandon and Jessica Lange on Ryan Murphys series
Feud.

Night, Night Comedy Central canceled Larry

MOUR A, HOLBROOK, PASCAL, CHRISTIE: DANIEL DA ZA/NETFLIX (4); MR. ROBOT: PETER KR AMER /USA NET WORK

Wilmores The Nightly Show after a 19-month run.

The second season is an improvement on

the rst. It dials back on cutout protagonist
DEA agent Steve Murphy (Boyd Holbrook), a
shallow cautionary tale of gung ho soldiering.
His narration served season 1s fascinating,
inside-baseball education on the workings
of the cocaine trade and Colombian society.
But the tone was condescending, as if the
show didnt trust us to understand or appreciate Murphys work or Escobars business.
Theres less of that this season. The storytelling favors Murphys partner, Javier Pea
(Pedro Pascal); like Murphy, his angst isnt
original, but Pascal connects with his character deeply and eortlessly.
Where season 1 spanned 10 years, season 2 captures Escobars last days on the
loose. Each tightly packed episode moves
quickly without sacricing richness, chronicling the queasy alliances and gross tactics
employed to snare Escobar. History is a
spoiler, but some reasonable ctionalizations produce surprise, and the wellblended mix of grit and wit keeps things
lively. Theres an abundance of sharply
drawn secondary characters and compelling subplots. Most notable: the soul-killing
escalations of Search Bloc commander
Horacio Carrillo (Maurice Compte) and the
ailing machinations of coke queen Judy
Moncado (Cristina Umaa) to get vengeance and maintain status.
Holding the center and your attention is
Escobar and his tragic paradoxes. His arc
becomes more resonant as he becomes
trapped by fame, incapable of enjoying the
wealth he amassed by killing. On the run,
stuck in a cold house, Escobar resorts to
burning stacks of cash to keep his family
warm. In the world of Narcos, the love of
money is the root of all evil, and then it
blows you away like so much smoke. B+

C H A I K I N P H OTO G R A P H BY M AT T H I A S C L A M E R

WHERE
WE LEFT
THEM

SPOILER
ALERT
PABLO
ESCOBAR
Wagner Moura

The cocaine
king is on
the run after
escaping
prison.

Inside Mr. Robots

Stunning Twist
The sardonic sister on USAs hacker drama (Wednesdays, 10 p.m.) took
things a liiittle too far in this weeks episode. EW sits down with
Carly Chaikin, 26, to unpack her characters past and possible future.
B Y K E V I N P. S U L L I VA N

STEVE MURPHY
Boyd Holbrook

The DEA agent

is stung after
his partner,
Pea, betrays
him to the
Cali cartel.

JAVIER PEA
Pedro Pascal

Murphys
partner aims
to take down
Escobar (and
with a superb
stache).

CONNIE
MURPHY
Joanna Christie

After her
husbands
kidnapping,
Mrs. Murphy
wants out of
Colombia.

Throughout season 2
of Mr. Robot, fsociety
has camped out at the
home of E Corp chief
counsel Susan Jacobs
(Sandrine Holt), but
we only just learned
about her involvement
in Edward Aldersons
(Christian Slater)
death. The Aug. 24
episode culminated
in Darlene (Carly
Chaikin) avenging her
father with a stun
gun, electrocuting
Jacobs. Chaikin relives
the shocking scene.

When I heard you had

a big episode coming
up, I was afraid Darlene was going to die.
Oh my God, no! Dont
even put that out
there. The whole cast
is convinced were
going to die. We
always say to [creator] Sam Esmail, For
financial reasons, this
is something we
would need to know.

Before the season

started, Sam walked
me through everything and said, Youre
going to kill someone. I was like, What?
So Im a murderer
now? And he said,
No, its not like that.

How did you react?

As an actor, it was
one of those scenes
where the second
I got home, it was all
I wanted to work
on. It makes so much
sensejustifying
what Darlene is doing
and why. Its a badass

Portia Doubleday
and Chaikin

scene and my favorite

Ive ever done.

Does this change

Darlene going forward?
I dont think so. She
wasnt planning on
killing Susan. But
throughout Darlenes
life, this was the face
of E Corp and someone she could target.
You took over EWs
Snapchat during commercial breaks and will
again for the finale.
It was so funI wish
I could have gotten
more! I dabble in Snapchatting and look
like a total a--hole
most of the time, and
Im fine with it.

When did you learn

about Susans death?

Carly Chaikin will be taking over EWs Snapchat @EWsnaps during

the season finale of Mr. Robot on Wednesday, Sept. 14, at 10 p.m. ET.

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point their flamethrowers his
way on Comedy Centrals roast
(Sept. 5, 10 p.m.). Here, Lowe
readies for a skewering to
remember. B Y D A N S N I E R S O N

Can you walk me through the

intricate decision process of saying yes to this public flogging?

I figure I cant be both the person

who is obsessed with these roasts
and also the person who turns
them down every year. I just
couldnt look myself in the mirror
any further. And if its good
enough for the Biebs, its good
enough for me.
How are you prepping? Have you
practiced crying on the inside, or
your courtesy laugh for a joke that
cuts too deep?

Ive done a lot of advance work

with my shaman, my psychiatrist,
my chi massager, and my crystal
guruevery element of my spirit
is prepared to be broken.
Do you have any previous experience being roasted?

For my 50th birthday, I decided I

wanted to be roasted by my favorite people. It was a really great
groupAmy Poehler, Chris Pratt,
Aziz Ansari, and Rob Riggle. It was
so fun, so I like the process. Maybe
theres something wrong with me,
but I find a great, well-crafted joke
at my expense to be delightful.
Are there any jokes that youre
dreading?

I already said to [roastmaster]

David Spade, Look, Ive got a
family now, and Ive worked really
hard to put certain things in my
past behind me, so Im really
hoping you protect me. David
said, Oh, I totally understand.
Believe me, no ones going to talk
about Dr. Vegas.

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Did you tell producers that any

subjects are off-limits, or did you
just say, Fire away?

THE MORE I THINK ABOUT

IT, I REALLY AM A LAMB
BEING LED TO SLAUGHTER.

You cant be a p---y about this. It

has to be a free-fire zonethats the
fun of it. I had some people who
I wanted to be on the dais and
they wouldve been great, but they
had some issuesIll do it, but I
dont want to get hit on this particular thingand Im like, Then
youre not going to be on the dais.

Bo Derek to be on the roast. Not

only is she a cultural icon, but
she will be one person in the room
whos prettier than I am.

Why dont we kick off the roast

right here? Rob Lowe, rip the hell
out of Rob Lowe!

You know the pretty jokes

are coming But that was a pretty
gentle self-roast.

Well, Im very excited that we got

Would Bill Belichick [New England

Patriots head coach] talk to you

about the offensive formations he
was thinking of using in the Super
Bowl? He wouldnt. And thats
where Im at. I hate to even bring
up a subject in public for fear
that one of these other comedy
minds will go, Oh, thats a great
idea I havent thought about.
So youre playing it close to
the vest?

Im trying to lower expectations.

Ive made a career out of low
expectationsno pun intended
and Im hoping it continues to
work for me on Labor Day.

P H OTO G R A P H BY M I C H A E L M U L L E R

Youre the Worst

D AT E

Premieres Aug. 31

TIME

10 p.m. |

REVIEW BY

NETWORK

FXX

Jeff Jensen @EWDocJensen

BYRON COHEN/FX

ONE OF TELEVISIONS SALTIEST,

smartest comedies, Youre the

Worst transcended last season
with a measured dial-up of seriousness.
Gretchen (Aya Cash), the intimacy-spooked
train wreck, was diagnosed with depression,
complicating her antiromance with vain,
caustic Jimmy (Chris Geere), her soul mate
in anti-soul-mate philosophy. We left her
resolved to get some help, and with the two
of them saying those three little words they
never thought theyd say to anyone. Of
course, Jimmy was blackout drunk at the
time. Still, it meant something. Right?
Season 3 begins with a bit of a hangover in
story and tone as the show engages more
sobering themes. Gretchen and Jimmy
struggle to suss out what, exactly, I love you
signies for them, while Gretchen, fearful of
the change she knows she needs, sabotages

 Aya Cash and Chris Geere

sessions with her therapist (played by Orange

Is the New Blacks Samira Wiley, who makes an
immediate impression as the only mature
adult on the show). Creator-writer Stephen
Falk wisely depicts self-improvement not as
boundless ascension but as a chaotic, at times
self-sabotaging processbut his scenarios for
expressing that mess hurt for inspiration.
Helter-skelter personal development and
fitful comedy also bedevil the supporting
players. Edgar (Desmin Borges) experiences

sexual-performance issues with new girlfriend Dorothy (Collette Wolfe) and pursues
a risky strategy for remedying it. Pregnant
Lindsay (Kether Donohue), the shows
broadest character, suers a plausible but
still bizarre psychotic break while trying to
rebuild her marriage. Watching the shows
noxious and damaged narcissists slowly,
credibly get over themselves remains an
entertaining, worthy project. But the start of
season 3 isnt Youre the Worst at its best. B

ITS LIKE

YOUR TONGUE
CRASHED INTO
A CHOCOLATY,

PEANUTY,
CARAMEL

ICEBERG.

ICE CREAM SATISFACTION

MONDAY AUGUST 29

Watc

So You Think
You Can Dance
810PM

FOX

The show celebrates

its 250th episode.
All the dancers
will be treated to
a Nigel Lythgoeshaped cake.

A DAY-TO-DAY GUIDE TO NOTABLE PROGRAMS* BY RAY RAHMAN @RayRahman

Rizzoli & Isles
910PM

SHAQ ATTAQ
Running Wild
With Bear Grylls
1011PM

NBC

Bear is joined by
Shaquille ONeal,
who, as all basketball
fans know, is an
expert
p at traveling.
g

TNT

Aspiring novelist
Isles gets some
negative feedback
k
on her writing.
She and I must ha
ave
e
the same editor!
Season Finale
The Making of the
t e
Mob: Chicago
1011PM

AMC

A gang beef puts

the fate of the
citys Mafia ring att
risk. Chicagoans
take their meat
very seriously.
ST
MU CH
WAT H E
O F TE K
WE

Emeril
Lagasse

Series Debut

EAT THE WORLD WITH

EMERIL LAGASSE
FRIDAY, SEPT. 2

STREAMING

AMAZON

Midseason Finale
Pretty Little Liars
89PM

FREEFORM

Two secrets and a death. Thats the PLL

version of two truths and a lie. Its also
what fans can expect from the summer
finale. There are two big emotional game
changers for multiple Liars, says showrunner I. Marlene King. As for that fatality,
she promises the most spectacular
death the shows ever seen. Its groundbreaking for us in the way this person
dies, she says. But the finale isnt all bad
news. King is confident that it will excite a
few shippers: [The finale] walks that line
between great romance and great thrills.
Samantha Highfill

Go to ew.com/what-to-watch for our daily picks of What to Watch

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*TIMES ARE E ASTERN DAYLIGHT AND SUBJECT TO CHANGE

E AT THE WORLD WITH EMERIL L AGASSE: AMA ZON; PRET T Y LIT TLE LIARS: TOM RON/FREEFORM

Being friends with Emeril Lagasse pays o: On this new Amazon

series, the celebrity chef meets up with his famous friends
a couple of guests include James Beard winners Mario Batali
and Danny Bowiento, well, eat the world. When you get chefs
together, you never know whats going to happen, Lagasse
teases. And what happens on this show is a lot of cooking:
roasting pig at a family dinner in Cuba, making vegan food at a
Buddhist temple in South Korea, tossing pizzas in Italyand
some quests, too. [Batali] and I go to Shanghai to try to understand, where did the noodle come from? Lagasse says.
Although each episode takes place in a dierent country (the sixepisode rst season also includes Spain and Sweden), Lagasse
promises each half hour has something in common: Theyre all
deliciousand totally Bam!-worthy. Ariana Bacle

TUESDAY AUGUST 30

WEDNESDAY AUGUST 31

THURSDAY SEPT 1

Season Finale
Greenleaf
1011PM

Season Premiere
Chefs Table

OWN

STREAMING

GREENLE AF: OWN; SOUL MATES: SESSO; CHEFS TABLE: LUCIE CIPOLL A/NETFLIX; THE L AST SHIP: DOUG HYUN/ TNT; BUILDING STAR TREK: SMITHSONIAN CHANNEL

The church-set drama promises scandal

when Grace (Merle Dandridge) hits
the pulpit in a shocking come-to-Jesus
moment. Shes able to address everything
that shes been there to uncover, says
Dandridge, adding that a shadowy
secondary character will let a bombshell
revelation slip. He doesnt feel like he has
a lot to lose, she hints. This secret may be
key to the strained relationship between
sisters Mavis (Oprah Winfrey) and Lady
Mae (Lynn Whitfield). [They] go head-toheadits explosive, says Dandridge.
Has judgment day finally arrived for the
Greenleaf family? Nina Terrero

Series Debut
Soul Mates
STREAMING

SEESO

In Australia, Christiaan Van

Vuuren and Nick Boshier are
known for playing a pair of
trend-obsessed hipsters. (Think
Flight of the Conchords mixed
with Broad City.) Now theyre
bringing their shtick to America
with Soul Mates, a freewheeling
sitcom featuring those hipsters
as well as their other characters,
including dim cavemen and
futuristic time-travel agents.
The premiere is packed with
millennial in-jokes and pop culture gagsnot all of them fresh,
but good enough to satisfy
curious alt-comedy fans. B

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 3
My Little Pony:
Friendship Is Magic
11:30AMNOON

Building Star Trek

SEASON PREMIERE

810PM

Saturday Night
Football
8:0011:30PM

ABC

Alabama battles
Southern California
in what many EW
staffers are calling
a football game?
Ugh, when does
SNL return?

Aquarius
911PM

NBC

Like the rest of the

season, the titles of
tonights episodes
Blackbird and
Can You Take Me
Back?are inspired
by Beatles songs.
Sorry, Monkees fans,
but this show just
isnt for you.

I L L U ST R AT I O N S BY M A R T N L A KS M A N

NETFLIX

Recently on a plane I watched

Burnt, in which Bradley Cooper
plays a renowned restaurant
chef in Paris. It was garbage, but
this season of Chefs Table, set
in France, is the perfect way to
wash the lingering taste out of
my mouth. Beautifully shot, the
series zooms in on great culinary
artists as they work their magic
in some of the worlds best kitchens. The cameras also capture
the chefs charming hubris. Ive
never written down a recipe,
brags Arpges Alain Passard.
Bradley Cooper, ya burnt. B+

SUNDAY S
SEPTEMBER 4

DISCOVERY FAMILY

Applejack and
Rainbow Dash
coach Ponyvilles
Pinkie Pie and
Fluttershy in the big
buckball game
against Appleloosa.
I promise you I
didnt make any of
that up.

FRIDAY SEPT 2

The Last Ship

910PM

TNT

Were invading a country with a

single ship, one of Captain Chandlers
(Eric Dane) crew members says as
they return to an America taken over
by self-appointed rulers. Its never
happened in the history of the
world! Chandler, of course, has the
perfect, gravel-voiced response:
Nothings impossible. Thats quite
a setup, but the ensuing battle
against a group called the California
United Forces fails to deliver on
thrills; a bland shoot-out atop a moving train has all the danger and
excitement of an Amtrak quiet car.
It seems that building tension on this
s
show is, well, impossible. C+

SMITHSONIAN

Star Trek turns 50 this year, and a lot

of people are geeking out about it.
Among them: actual geeks! This
documentary examines how the
spacefaring series helped inspire scientists to turn sci-fi into sci-fact. We
meet researchers whove been developing real-life tractor beams, phasers,
and invisibility cloaks. Things get a bit
technical at times, but goofy narration
helps keep it engaging. Simon Pegg,
series writers, and various other Trekkies also pop up to muse on the shows
legacy.
g y Ideal for would-be Spocks.
p
B

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Music
EDITED BY

KEVIN ODONNELL
L @ODtron
@O
n

Barbra
Streisand

TITLE

ENCORE:
Movie Partners Sing
Broadway
LABEL

Columbia
GENRE

Pop

A Tale of Two Divas

Celine
Dion

With bold new albums, Barbra Streisand and Celine Dion both prove
theyre still worthy of a standing O. B Y J I M FA R B E R

TITLE

Encore un Soir
LABEL

Columbia
GENRE

Pop

STREISAND: KEVIN MA ZUR /WIREIMAGE.COM; DION:

GILBERT CARR ASQUILLO/FILMMAGIC.COM

D I VA S D E M A N D E N C O R E S B A R B R A S T R E I S A N D A N D C E L I N E D I O N

know that. On new albums, both released the same day, two of the biggest
voices in pop have stuck that word right in their album titles. But in an era
when the D-word might conjure images of Beyonc or Adele, these two
stars are proving they still deserve a place on the stage.
Streisand and Dions latest efforts find both stars looking back. On
ENCORE: Movie Partners Sing Broadway, Streisand is reecting on her Broadway roots, but with fresh perspective. The 74-year-old delivers 10 tracks

B E ST T R AC KS At the Ballet Streisand nails the Chorus Line tune with Anne Hathaway and Daisy Ridley | Loving You Streisand and Patrick Wilson capture the frustration of a ruined romance

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BIG
BREAKING

NOTEWORTHY
Taylor Swift is donating $1 million to help victims
of the Louisiana floods.

Metallica return with

Hardwired...To Self-Destruct on Nov. 18; its the Grammy-

KIIAR A: MIREYA ACIERTO/GET T Y IMAGES

winning metal bands first album in eight years.

performed with movie stars like Anne Hathaway, Hugh Jackman, and Antonio Banderas.
With Encore un Soir, meanwhile, Dion is
hitting a somber note: The title refers to the
memories stirred by the loss of her husband,
Ren Anglil, and her brother Danielboth
of whom died from cancer this year. And the
48-year-old underscores the familial bond
with her rst album in four years thats sung
entirely in her native French.
Throughout her nearly six-decade career,
Streisand has always been a tricky collaborator; compared with Babs outsize voice,
everyone sounds small. Such was the case
with her 2014 No. 1 record, Partners, where

she also performed alongside a top roster

of stars. But ENCORE is a more satisfying
listen: With high notes now out of her
reach and her vocal sustain more contained, Streisand has become easier to sing
with, and she strikes a deep rapport with
actors like Hugh Jackman and a surprisingly strong Chris Pine. There are moments
that bomb: On Anything You Can Do,
from Irving Berlins Annie Get Your Gun,
Streisand and Melissa McCarthy update the
tune to reect their own lives. (Can I call
you Babs now? asks McCarthy. No, says
Streisand. Too soon!) Its edgeless and
self-indulgent. But when Streisand duets
with her male counterpartsthe better to
exploit her gift for playing a pining lover
she glows. She has real chemistry with Pine
on Ill Be Seeing You, aided by his jazzy
phrasing, and with Jamie Foxx, who adds
soul to Climb Evry Mountain and meets
Streisand at the songs peak.
No stranger to bravura ourishes herself,
Dion purposely selected uplifting themes
for her album. Yet the best tracks here are
the ones that express her pain. On Les
Yeux au Ciel (Eyes Toward the Sky),
Dion sings of a godless rmament, while on
the title track, she philosophizes about the
moments we waste in denial of death. Dion
may have one of musics most bombastic
voices, but for her French-language albums,
she brings nuance. Amid some lingering
overkill, Dion nds a rare acoustic intimacy
on Plus Quailleurs. Better, on the Quebecois classic Ordinaire, she inhabits the
lyric with a deance that makes you wish
shed sideline her usual Titanic blowouts
and opt for more gorgeous encores like this.
ENCORE: B Encore un Soir: B

Encore un Soir For Dion, heartbreak has never sounded so stunning | Ordinaire Dions most soulful performance on the album

WHO

KIIARA
W H Y YO U K N O W H E R

Her viral internet hit Gold is

climbing the Hot 100.
W H Y YO U W I L L K N O W H E R

Her debut album is one of 2017s

most anticipated pop releases.
Kiiara had played only five
shows when she performed at
Lollapalooza in late July, but her
greenness didnt stop thousands of fans from braving the
rain to see heror from singing
along. Thats no small feat considering her breakout single,
Gold, features unintelligible,
cut-and-paste vocal samples
that have hypnotized everyone
discovering it on Spotify (where
its scored more than 225 million
streams) or on TV (where it was
featured in an Apple Watch ad).
We thought maybe a thousand people would hear it,
Kiiara (born Kiara Saulters) says
of the unlikely hit, which she
posted on SoundCloud in 2015
and included on this years low
kii savage EP. Hailing from Wilmington, Ill., Kiiara first wrote
Gold on guitar a few years
ago before giving it an electropop makeover in 2015 with producer Felix Snow, whom she
met online. I didnt know if I
was going to die, she jokes of
their initial encounter. When
you first meet someone [on the
internet], you dont know.
Now, EDM tastemakers like
Dillon Francis and Marshmello
are hitting her up on social
media to collaborate on songs
for her debut full-length. Shes
tight-lipped about the details,
revealing only that shes over
the chopped-up vocals that
have become her trademark.
It was a one-time thing. Its
cool, but whats next? she says.
I want people to be surprised.
Nolan Feeney

Music

Frank
Ocean
TITLE

Blonde |

REVIEW BY

L ABEL

Def Jam |

GENRE

Pop

Eric Renner Brown @ericrennerbrown

PERHAPS NO RECORD THIS

decade has been as anticipated as

Frank Oceans sequel to his 2012
breakthrough Channel Orange. For years,
internet sleuths have been dissecting the
enigmatic artists every move. Yet Ocean
has confused them at every step, even
releasing a surprise 45-minute visual album,
Endless, two days before Blondewhich,
intriguingly, is being promoted with both
the masculine and feminine spellings of the
word. So is the hype deserved? Denitely.
With these 17 tracks, Ocean shows himself
to be one of pops foremost innovators.
Like Channel Orange, Blonde has a stunning array of sounds: Theres cinematic soul
(the Beyonc-aided Pink + White), serene
gospel (Solo), outr electronica (Pretty
Sweet), steamy blues (Self Control)
even spoken-word segments (Be Yourself).
High-prole collaborators also pitch in, from
superproducer Rick Rubin to Radioheads
Jonny Greenwood to OutKasts Andre 3000,
who delivers an astounding verse on Solo
(Reprise). Despite all that wattage, its
Oceans message that strikes the deepest:
Blonde reflects the anxieties many Americans might feel today, whether brought
on by racial tension (Nikes), domestic
uncertainty (Seigfried) or social media
(Facebook Story). Its ambitious, sure, but
Ocean tackles those concepts with such
strikingly intimate tunes, it feels as if youre
sl
l scrolling
ll through
h
h his
h texts.. A
slyly

pants! And some days Im like,

No way! [Laughs] My stylists and
I customize everythingthe more
rhinestones the better! This is
country music, after all.

Carrie
Underwood

The 33-year-old country star, who kicks off

a 48-date fall tour on Aug. 31, opens up
about her life as a road momand why shes
finally embracing pyro. B Y M A D I S O N VA I N

For your latest tour, youve been

performing in the round for the
first time ever. How did you
come up with that approach?
Because of the name of my [latest]
album [Storyteller], it seemed to
fit. When you think about telling
stories, you think of a lot of people
surrounding you. It was intimidating at first. I kept thinking, I hope
Im bigger than the production!
But after the first show I was like,
This is incredible.
This is the second leg of the tour.
How are you mixing things up?
I wanted to freshen things up with
the outfits. And I like having different options because some days
its like, Oh, I can wear those tight

The show starts off with you

rising from beneath the stage on
a giant jukebox. Where did that
idea come from?
[My production team] found this
jukebox, took out the insides, and
put a lift in it. We wanted it to be
fun and cool, and to make sure it
[wasnt] cheesy. Its our first pyro
moment.
What stopped you from using
pyro on your other tours?
On American Idol, when we were
going into the finale, [the producers] were like, Whoever wins, get
to the front of the stage because
the pyro will go off behind you!
They told me, Were going to tell
[the stylists] not to put any hairspray in your hair. And Im like,
Have you met me? Have you met
them? No one is going to listen!
And they didnt! From that
moment on, I was horrified of
pyro. [Laughs]
Are you still doing your own hair
and makeup before shows?
I am! Its my quiet time before the
storm. Its just how I do my
makeup. [But] if I do a magazine
shoot and someone does

something different, Ill be like,

What are you using? How are you
doing that?
What have been some of your
favorite downtime activities
while touring this year?
We happened to be in Scotland
for my birthday and I wanted to
stay in a haunted castle, so we
found one and rented out the
whole place. We had this big dinner and then went out trekking in
the middle of the night. We didnt
find any ghosts, but thats okay.
[Laughs] Next time!
Hows touring while raising your
18-month-old son, Isaiah?
Its great! Every day is Bring Your
Kid to Work Day. But it definitely
poses some challenges. Sometimes I feel guilty that hes not in
day care with other kids, but we
do the best we can to keep him
entertained.
What helps you cope with road
stresses?
I work out. It helps with fatigue if I
blow off steam that way. I try to do
it almost every day.
Storyteller came out last
October. Are you working on
the follow-up?
Im not. Im a multitasker in life, but
as far as work goes, Im better at
focusing my energy on one thing
at a time. So now we tour, then Im
going to get off the road and take
time to breathe.

OCE AN: C FL ANIGAN/WIREIMAGE.COM; UNDERWOOD: JOHN SHE ARER /WIREIMAGE.COM; CYRUS: RON GALELL A/WIREIMAGE.COM; ROSE: PETER STILL /REDFERNS/GET T Y IMAGES; MADONNA: MICK HUTSON/REDFERNS/GET T Y IMAGES; TLC: KEVIN MA ZUR /WIREIMAGE.COM

Billy Ray
Cyrus,
Guns N Roses
Axl Rose,
Madonna,
and TLC

CHART FLASHBACK

1992

Twenty-four years ago this week, the Hot 100 was an achy-breaky wonderland of unseasonable weather (hi, Axl!), emotional roadwork, and deathless odes to booty. B Y L E A H G R E E N B L AT T

B OY Z I I M E N

End of the Road

First they came for our sixth-grade
slow dances. Then, after 13 weeks
at No. 1, they went nuclear: Funerals,
friendships, graduationsno 90s
milestone went unmarked by Phillys
R&B angels. Thats how strong their
sweet, silky death grip was. A

TL C

Baby-Baby-Baby

M A D O N NA

This used to be her part-time job,

making songs for movieslike this
vaguely depressive ballad penned
for the lady-baseball dramedy A
League of Their Own, a.k.a. Desperately Seeking Center Fielders. B

Baby Got Back

L.A. face with an Oakland booty?
Sir Mix-A-Lot celebrates you! Cleveland knees and a Pittsburgh pelvis?
Youre on your own, Becky. A

J O N S E C A DA

Just Another Day

B I L LY R AY C Y R U S

Achy Breaky Heart

Behold the Billy of simpler times
peak mullet, pre-Mileywhen all it
took to rocket from obscurity to
country-crossover stardom was a
basic grasp of cardiology and a super
boss collection of tank tops. C+

November Rain

SI R M IX-A-LO T

Giving Him Something

He Can Feel

Oh, Secada, so sad-ah. His girl has

gone AWOL and his synthesizer is
such an inadequate cuddle sub. B

GUNS N ROSES
A glorious last gasp of rock maximalism, from the full orchestra to the
supermodel-stacked video and the
Slash guitar solo that goes so long
its basically February by the end. A+

E N VO G U E

Pop quiz: Youve just covered a

perfect song already made famous
by Aretha freaking Franklin. Are you
(a) batcrap crazy or (b) a standing
member of En Vogue? If you chose
(b), congratulations, and carry on. A

This Used to Be
My Playground

Life Is a Highway
Life after Highway hit a real cul-desac for this raspy Canadian export, at
least Stateside, but the chorus lives
on in karaoke bars and overly literal
car commercials forevermore. B+

T-Boz, Chilli, and Left Eye are all in

for a man who can fully commit. But
If youre half-stepping, please refer
to the item above; some Boyz have
a road theyd like to show you. B+

TOM COCHRANE

10

SHAKESPEARS SISTER

Stay
This is what happens when
a member of Bananarama goes
rogue and names her new band
after a Smiths song and then
writes a freaky-amazing ode to
sex and death and Macbeth:
goth magic. A

SOURCE: JOEL WHITBURN PRESENTS THE BILLBOARD HOT 100 CHARTSTHE NINETIES

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

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EDITED BY

BETWEEN THE LINES

The Harry Potter world continues to expand: On
Sept. 6, Pottermore will release three e-books brimming
with new details about Hogwarts.

Lady Gaga will

write the foreword to her dads Italian cookbook.

TINA JORDAN @EWTinaJordan

Though alien, of course, is exactly how many of them feel

when they arrive: unmoored, unseen, unassimilated. Jende
lands in New York City in 2004 with more than some but
less than most; he has a temporary visa and a few tenuous
connections. Still, within three years hes managed to earn
enough at odd jobs to bring over his girlfriend, Neni, and
their son, Liomi, and lucked into a coveted post as a driver
for a wealthy executive, a brusque but not unfriendly man
named Clark Edwards. The splendor of the Edwardses
worldthe penthouse with park views, the
sprawling second home in the Hamptons,
the clothes and toys and countless other
A FRESH,
luxuries they treat as thoughtlessly as dollar
ENGAGING
billsstands in stark contrast to the Jongas
ENTRY IN THE
careful budgeting and cramped Harlem
EVOLVING
apartment. But ordinary abundance seduces
NARRATIVE
them too, to dierent degrees: Liomi learns
OF WHAT IT
to love sugar cereals and lose his accent, while
MEANS
Neni, newly pregnant, receives the castos
TO BE AN
that Mrs. Edwards casually passes along like
AMERICAN.
holy totemsmaterial down payments on a
brighter, more prosperous future. For Jende,
his familys stability is its own reward; the
most elusive luxury is a green card.
Certain historical realities of 2008that
a black man with African heritage is running for President of the United States and,
less auspiciously, that the financial company Clark works for is Lehman Brothers
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traces in clean, quick-moving paragraphs.
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(The Edwardses, for the most part, remain
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sketches.) If the book ultimately falls short
at some point an immigrant story. And Jende Jonga, the
of the emotional impact its sweeping premCameroon-born hero of Imbolo Mbues furiously anticise and seven-gure advance portend, its
ipated debut, fits neatly into the slipstream of the
still a fresh, engaging entry in the eternally
millions who have come before himfar-ung hopeevolving narrative of what it means to be an
fuls eeing chaos and hardship for a place where the
Americanand how human beings, not
pursuit of happiness isnt just words enshrined on a
laws or dogma, dene liberty. B+
monument but an unalienable right.

Behold the Dreamers

BY

Imbolo Mbue

OPENING LINES Hed never been asked to wear a suit to a job interview. Never been told to bring along a copy of his rsum. He hadnt even owned a rsum until the previous week

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Fall Books
Preview
Its a season of surprises: an unlikely memoir (by the Boss!), follow-ups from the likes of
Zadie Smith and Jay Asher (finally!), and even a graphic novel from Margaret Atwood (for real!).
Read on for the rest of autumns best bets. B Y T I N A J O R D A N & I S A B E L L A B I E D E N H A R N

Novels

SEPT. 6

Mischling
Anity Konar

SEPT. 6

The Fortunes
Peter Ho Davies
Davies, a master
storyteller, blends
fact with ction in
this saga of immigration, acclimation,
and Chinese
culture, which he
tells through the
experiences of
Chinese-Americans
at dierent points
in history.
SEPT. 6

A Gentleman
in Moscow
Amor Towles
The same gorgeous,
layered richness that
marked Towles
debut, Rules of
Civility, shapes this
novel about an
early-20th-century
Russian count
sentenced by a Bolshevik tribunal to
spend the rest of his
life in Moscows
Metropol Hotel.

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Twins Pearl and

Stasha are imprisoned in Auschwitz
as part of Mengeles
Zoo. When Pearl
disappears shortly
before the camp is
liberated, Stasha
searches through the
ruins of Poland to
nd her.
SEPT. 13

Commonwealth
Ann Patchett
This deeply pleasurable novel about a
big blended family
meanders through
ve decades,
shedding light on
secrets, tragedies,
and relationships.
SEPT. 13

Jerusalem
Alan Moore
Ten years in the
making, this worldbuilding 1,184-page
epic from the creator of Watchmen
tells the fantastical

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

story of Moores
hometown:
Northampton,
England.
SEPT. 20

The Wonder
Emma Donoghue
In the new novel
from the author of
Room, a nurse visits a
remote Irish village
to determine
whether a young girl
who has apparently
survived without
food for months is
a miracle or a
dangerous hoax.

OCT. 4

OCT. 4

Today Will
Be Different
Maria Semple

The Wangs
vs. the World
Jade Chang

This all-in-one-day
narrative about
a Seattle mom may
not have the rash,
slapsticky charm of
Semples best-seller
Whered You Go,
Bernadette, but its
every bit as quirky
and blade-sharp.

In this wacky
road-trip novel, the
fractured Wang
family embark on
a cross-country
journey after the
2008 stock-market
crash decimates
their fortune.
NOV. 15

Swing Time
Zadie Smith
OCT. 18

OCT. 4

Nicotine
Nell Zink
When everyone in
your family is a bit
unconventional, the
only way to rebel is
to be squareso
thats what Penny
Baker does. That is,
until she inherits her
fathers childhood
home in New Jersey
and becomes
enthralled by the
squatters she nds
living there.

The Secret
History of
Twin Peaks
Mark Frost
Prepare for the
cult-favorite TV
shows 2017
revival with
co-creator Frosts
deep dive into his
creepy town.

The author of White

Teeth and On Beauty
returns with a novel
that spans decades
and continents as it
plumbs the friendship of two young
women who dream
of being dancers.
NOV. 22

Moonglow
Michael Chabon
Chabon renders the
emotional story of
his maternal grandfather as a novel,
albeit one heavily
spiked with memoir.

Mysteries
& Thrillers
SEPT. 20

Home
Harlan Coben
After a ve-year
break, Coben is
bringing back Myron
Bolitar, his beloved
basketball star
turnedsports agent
who dabbles in
detective work.

OCT 18

IQ
Joe Ide
Ides crackling
page-turner of
a debut follows a
brilliant loner, IQ,
who tackles
cases the LAPD
wont touch.

OCT. 4

The Trespasser
Tana French
The books in
Frenchs loosely
connected Dublin
Murder Squad
series, technically
classied as police
procedurals, also
happen to be beautifully crafted literary novels. This one,
starring the bitter,
cynical Det. Antoinette Conway, may
be her best yet.
OCT. 18

The Fall Guy

James Lasdun
As the pages turn,
the nervous tension
ticks ever higher in
Lasduns combustible psychological
thriller, which
involves an auent
banker and his wife,
a neer-do-well
cousin, a hot summer, and an upstate
vacation house.

OCT. 25

The Whistler
John Grisham
Grisham, who just
keeps getting better
and better, likes to
delve into hotbutton issues in
his ction: This
time, he takes on
corrupt judges.
NOV. 7

Night School
Lee Child
Child recently told
EW that his new Jack
Reacher book is a
prequel set in 1996
Reacher is still in the
Army, and hes moved
to an emergency task
force because the
intelligence services
in Europe have
plucked a menacing
phrase from the air:
The American wants
a hundred million
dollars.

OCT. 25

Fields Where
They Lay
Timothy Hallinan
Burglar Junior
Bender might be our
favorite literary PI:
When hes not committing crimes
himself, hes a selfprofessed detective
for crooks in some
of L.A.s seediest
neighborhoods.

I L L U ST R AT I O N S BY A N D R E S LOZ A N O

DEC. 6

Beyond the
Truth
Anne Holt
Jo Nesb has called
Holt the godmother
of Norwegian crime
ction. If you arent
familiar with her
Hanne Wilhelmsen
novels, its okay to
dive in with this
oneNo. 7but
then do yourself
a favor and bingeread the rst six.

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Graphic
Novels &
Nonfiction

Getting the
Draw on
Two Horror
Classics

SEPT. 6

Angel Catbird
Margaret Atwood;
art by Johnnie
Christmas
The celebrated
author of The Handmaids Tale brings
her delightfully
peculiar sensibility
to another genre
with this story of
a genetic engineer
who accidentally
adds owl and cat
DNA to his own.

OCT. 4

Ghost
Stories of an
Antiquary:
Vol. 1
M.R. James
Two artists
illustrate classic
tales from the
macabre
British writer.

SEPT. 13

Ghosts
Raina Telgemeier
In Telgemeiers
novel, Catrinas
family moves to hot,
dry Mexico to help
her sister Mayas
cystic brosis.
Catrina soon realizes
their new town may
be hauntedand
to her horror, Maya
wants to meet
a ghost.

OCT. 25

The Lottery
Miles Hyman
Shirley Jacksons
dreadful smalltown tale comes
alive in the hands
of her grandson,
Miles Hyman.

Dutch underworld,
introduced readers
to the six badass
teenagers whose
adventures continue
in this second novel.

herself o a bridge
into the roiling river
below. Or did she?
The story unspools
from the points of
view of other kids at
the school.

SEPT. 20

OCT. 4

The Arab of the

Future 2
Riad Sattouf

Our Chemical
Hearts
Krystal Sutherland

What Light
Jay Asher

Grace is enigmatic
(and doesnt shower
as often as she
should); Henry is
cute but hopeless
around girls. This
much-buzzed-about
debut captures the
messy, awkward, allconsuming emotions
of a teens rst love.

Fans have been

clamoring for
another Asher novel
ever since the publication of Thirteen
Reasons Why, and
this romancestarring a girl who grew
up on a Christmastree farmwont
disappoint.

Sattouf picks up
where his successful
2015 graphic memoir
left o in 1984. Now
settled in Syria after
an unstable early
childhood, he and
his family must learn
to live amid a terrifying regime.
OCT. 11

Tetris
Box Brown
Brown takes us into
the fascinating world
of Tetris, from the
story of its Russian
inventor, Alexey
Pajitnov, and the
bidding war it
sparked to what
happens in your
brain when you play
the videogame.

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SEPT. 20

Kids of Appetite
David Arnold
In Arnolds funny,
sweet, utterly heartwrenching novel
his rst since
Mosquitolanda kid
with a rare brain
disorder enlists his
friends to help him
scatter his fathers
ashes in a meaningful place.
SEPT. 27

Crooked
Kingdom
Leigh Bardugo
Bardugos Six of
Crows, a 2015
fantasy-heist novel
set in an alternative

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

OCT. 18

OCT. 4

OCT. 25

We Know It
Was You
Maggie Thrash

The Death and

Life of Zebulon
Finch, Vol. 2
Daniel Kraus

Thrashs Twin Peaksesque whodunit

the rst in a new
seriesstarts o
with a bang, when a
gorgeous cheerleader throws

In Vol. 1, Fincha
17-year-old gangster
known as the Black
Handmet his
demise in 19thcentury Chicago.
Sort of. His ability
to move, think, and

NOV. 1

The Beach
at Night
Elena Ferrante
Famous for her
violent Neapolitan novels, the
pseudonymous
author isnt necessarily lightening things up for
her forthcoming
childrens book.
Dark and eerie,
The Beach at
Night follows a
doll who is abandoned on a sandy
shore and must
face scary figures
on her ownlike
the Mean Beach
Attendant and his
Big Rake.

speak remained
intact as his body
disintegrated, and
he began roaming
through time and
countries trying to
make sense of his
predicament. Now
the curiously
appealing, globetrotting dead kid is
back for a second
installment.
NOV. 8

Heartless
Marissa Meyer
The Lunar Chronicles author knows
how to breathe new
life into old tales,
and Heartless imagines Alice in Wonderlands Queen of
Hearts long before
she set heads rollinghere, shes just
a lovesick teen who
wants to be a baker.

The New
Celebrity
Memoir:

A BOOK OF
ESSAYS!

Nonfiction
OCT. 4

Lauren Graham
NOV. 29

Just in time for

Gilmore Girls revival
mania, Grahamwho
already has a novel
under her belttries
her hand at nonfiction in Talking as
Fast as I Can.

Anna Kendrick
NOV. 15

The Pitch Perfect

star can sing, act,
and write hilarious
tweets. Fortunately
shes imbued the
pieces in Scrappy
Little Nobody with
that same humor.

Memoirs
SEPT. 6

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Swimming in
the Sink
Lynne Cox
Cox, an open-water
swimmer who
famously crossed
the Bering Strait
without a wet suit,
covers a period in
her life marred by
grief and illness.
SEPT. 20

The Fortress
Danielle Trussoni
Trussoni has
already written a
remarkable comingof-age memoir,
Falling Through the
Earthlargely
about her relationship with her dad,
a Vietnam vet
and now delivers
a scorching account
of her marriage.

Mara Wilson
SEPT. 13

After starring in
beloved films like
Matilda as a child,
Wilson left the spotlight. She returns as
a talented writer with
Where Am I Now?

SEPT. 27

OCT. 18

A Life in Parts
Bryan Cranston

Is the notoriously
private rock star
nally going to
spill all? Hes been
writing Born to
Runeasily this
falls most anticipated bookfor the
past seven years.

By turns gritty,
funny, and sad, this
ercely intelligent
book from the
Breaking Bad star
dees celebritymemoir tropes.

SEPT. 27

In what looks to be a
groundbreaking
work, the gender
revolutionary and
artist reminisces
about his East
Village upbringing
and early life.

At a time when gun

control (or the lack
of it) is hotly
debated, Younges
book, which proles
10 children killed
by gun violence on
Nov. 23, 2013, is particularly prescient.
OCT. 4

Born to Run
Bruce Springsteen

Darling Days
iO Tillett Wright

Another Day
in the Death of
America
Gary Younge

OCT. 18

The Princess
Diarist
Carrie Fisher
The diary she kept
while lming the
original Star Wars
inspired Fishers
latest memoir.
OCT. 25

Not Dead Yet

Phil Collins
The musician has
promised an unvarnished warts-andall look back at his
life and career.

Mary Astors
Purple Diary
Edward Sorel
The golden age of
Hollywood wasnt all
glitz and glamor, as
Sorel shows in this
copiously illustrated
examination of the
great American sex
scandal of 1936,
which revolved
around the dirty
laundry aired at
actress Mary Astors
child-custody trial.
OCT. 4

Rogue Heroes
Ben Macintyre
Macintyre, the great
chronicler of World
War II (Agent Zigzag;
Double Cross), investigates the backstory of Britains
secret ghting force,
the SAS.
OCT. 18

Knives & Ink

Isaac Fitzgerald
& Wendy
MacNaughton
One of the falls
most unusual books
is a gorgeous look at
the tattoos (and the
stories behind them)
of 65 chefs, some
famous, some not.

OCT. 18

Truevine
Beth Macy
Would that it were
ction. But Macys
impeccably reported
taleabout albino
African-American
brothers snatched
from a Virginia
tobacco eld in 1899
and forced to work
in a circus sideshow
is all too true.
OCT. 25

The Wasp That

Brainwashed
the Caterpillar
Matt Simon
Simon, a science
journalist at Wired
who writes the
Absurd Creatures
column, likes
animal stories
the weirder, the
betterand here
hes amassed
a bizarre collection
of evolution tales.
NOV. 15

Bellevue
David Oshinsky
The professor who
won a Pulitzer Prize
for his biography of
polio here recounts
the tumultuous
history of Americas
oldest hospital, New
York Citys Bellevue.
DEC. 6

The Wood for

the Trees
Richard Fortey
Its rare to nd
nature writing as
precise and elegant
as Forteys, which
follows the changes
in a few acres of
English woodland
through all
four seasons.

A Terrifyingly
Good Bio Trio

SEPT. 13

In the
Mountains
of Madness
W. Scott Poole
This H.P. Lovecraft bio delves
into the writers
life and influence
on pop culture.

SEPT. 27

Shirley
Jackson:
A Rather
Haunted Life
Ruth Franklin
The Lottery
author finally gets
the critical biography she deserves.

OCT. 4

Something
in the Blood
David J. Skal
Skal plumbs the
intriguing mysteries of Bram
Stokers life.

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B Y MARC SNETIKER @MarcSnetiker

Karma, meet Greg.

Cryy
Cr
aat Southside With
Crying
You is the new crying that
the Obamas are leaving us.

Carly Rae Jepsen

announces Emotion Side B,
and were B Side ourselves
with Emotion.

The Jim Gaffigan Show

canceled, and your Jim
Gaffigan show canceled
Google alert comes
in handy once again.

s
Apple to fix Siri
Siris
pronunciation of Barbra
Streisand; however,
remains unable to fix
Meet the Fockers.
Our Florence Foster Jenkins
dream cast

Halt what youre doing

and turn on AMC.

If someone kills off

Foxs Clue remake,
dont look at us.

Our two
favorite Blondes

Matthew McConaughey
on YouTube: Subscribe,
subscribe, subscribe.

In a summer of superheroes, make

some room for this second-String.

Lady Gaga
to release Italianfood cookbook,
although we
assume vegetarian
options will
be limited.
Ryan Lochte, much like the first
Olympics, is ancient history.

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MTV Cla
Classic: what
happens when TV stops
being polite and starts
getting real (good again)

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Imagine all the

lyrics to Taylor
Swifts Style,
but opposite.

Are we 100 percent sure

Ryan Lochte was even telling the
truth about being a swimmer?

Ryan Lochte, really putting the

finished in finish line.

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