If you tap on links we provide, we may receive compensation. Read an excerpt from LIFE’s Van Halen special issue. The year was MCMLXXXIV. Credit: David Tan/Shinko Music/Getty Images Or, yes, 1984. Here, Kostya Kennedy explains why1984made everyone snap, er, “Jump” to attention. This is Van Halen? Warner Bros. Synthesizer everywhere, electronic bass drum this was not your big brothers VH. (Sales of synthesizers spiked in the aftermath.) 2 on the Billboard charts and wound up as Van Halens best-selling album since the debut....

Beep beep, ladies. The present is a mess; the future is an apocalyptic question mark. Can you blameBruno MarsandAnderson .Paakfor looking backwards? Silk Sonic.Harper Smith 1 spot on the Hot 100 twice this spring, and lingered in the top 10 for months. But Silk didn’t come to talk politics. ‘An Evening With Silk Sonic’.Atlantic

The prize pot is bigger than ever, but the challenges are even riskier. Fun fact: Teenagers have a hard time understanding consequences, so this probably won’t end well. But a weekend of pondering found him drawn back into the scandalous lives of Manhattan’s elite. Chuck Zlotnick/Marvel Studios Nonetheless, some things remain guaranteed. We already know we’ll love her. “We get to tell stories of abuse and isolation,” says Smith. Matt Lankes/Amazon Studios...

“just come back,” the restaurant employee pleads. “I used to serve him regularly,” TikTok user Drew Talbert said. “Never served a nicer person.” Credit: Steven Ferdman/FilmMagic “The fact he could have said ‘I’m Adam Sandler’ and didn’t is amazing. Most celebrities would use their status to get them places,” added another user. And it’s always nice to see celebrities being treated like regular people, especially in these pandemic times. A representative for Sandler confirmed that he was at the restaurant but had no comment....

“It was strange and thrilling,” he tells EW. “I sent two texts. I’m like, ‘Somehow we are trending on Netflix.’ Hugh Jackman and Evangeline Lilly in ‘Real Steel’.Melissa Moseley/DreamWorks An airport meet-cute HUGH JACKMAN (CHARLIE): I remember meeting Shawn in an airport lounge. What city was that? SHAWN LEVY (DIRECTOR):It was New York, and we were strangers. Atom and Zeus robots from ‘Real Steel’.DreamWorks I believe we were both with our families....

We checked in with the director and his cast to see how it all went down. Francis Ford Coppolawas feeling depressed. They had chosen me to direct it. ‘The Outsiders’ director Francis Ford Coppola, with C. Thomas Howell, Ralph Macchio, and Matt Dillon.Warner Bros. The reason the letter was so fat was because it had pages and pages of kids' signatures. They more than come through. I’d rewrite some dialogue and Francis would say, “Susie, is this in the book?...

Every family road trip, no matter how meticulously mapped out, will face at least one unforeseen crisis. Maybe its a blown tire on a little-traveled back road. Maybe its a beloved stuffed animal left at a rest stop, 150 miles back. Sony Pictures Animation Such is the premise ofConnected,Sonys upcoming animated film from director Mike Rianda and producersPhil LordandChris Miller. Broad CityalumAbbi Jacobsonvoices Katie Mitchell, an artsy aspiring film nerd whos just been accepted to her dream college....

The actress went from Blonde to Bond and back again. But what does the film’s star,Knives OutactressAna de Armas, think of her newNetflixproject? “It was the most intense work I’ve ever done as an actress,” she said. Ana de Armas stars as Marilyn Monroe in the new biopic ‘Blonde.'.Sean Gallagher/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images; Frank Povolny/Twentieth Century Fox/Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images “It took me a year to prepare for that research and accent and everything you might imagine....

We asked the SNL alum if she’s under the Tree mask. As far as Im concerned, the internet is all telling me it might be Marie Osmond. Various clues have EW stafferslogging many hours parsing why Gasteyer is the strongest possibility for Tree. Its definitely a character that seems to be confusing a lot of people, muses Gasteyer. Look, Robin [Thicke] really believes its Rachael Ray. So, Im going to go with that or Marie Osmond....

Haimare no strangers to flipping the script in the music industry handbook. Over the last seven years the sister trio have worn their cheesy family band like a badge of honor. At the height of rock is dead declarations, they scored hit after hit with their unabashedly guitar-driven jams. Credit: Reto Schmid Scream It Out The Steps began with a lyric. It kind of just felt like therapy to scream the line, You dont understand me!...

It’s better than the movies, at least. Warning: This review contains spoilers for the first two episodes ofAnd Just Like That. For years now, I’ve felt a little weird aboutSex and the City. Cynthia Nixon, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kristin Davis on ‘And Just Like That’.HBO Max It’s like I need to defend the franchise while I throw it out the window. It was a pioneer in premium cable’s mature content revolution, and a then-rare phenomenon of female-focused storytelling....

Tony Award winnerSara Ramirezwill be joiningSarah Jessica Parker,Cynthia Nixon, andKristin Davisin HBO Max’sSex and the Cityrevival,And Just Like That, in a series regular role. TheGrey’s Anatomyalum will portray podcaster Che Diaz, a nonbinary, queer, stand-up comedian who often hosts Carrie Bradshaw (Parker) on their show. Che, who uses the pronouns they/them, is described as a big presence with a big heart whose outrageous sense of humor and progressive, human overview of gender roles has made them and their podcast very popular....

WARNING: This interview contains spoilers for the first two episodes ofAnd Just Like That. Television giveth, and television taketh away. for the character who has done nothing but tried to find love from this one person. Sarah Jessica Parker on ‘And Just Like That’.Craig Blankenhorn/HBO I also felt comfortable because the DNA is the same. People forget, Carrie never had Big in the series. She had him briefly a minute or two....