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Refn's 'The Neon Demon' Paints Hollywood In Garish, Gorgeous, Gory Colors

5:00pm June 23, 2016

by Scott Tobias

Director Nicholas Winding Refn's latest is a blood-soaked, luridly lit and blistering riff on Hollywood beauty standards pitched "somewhere between the museum and the grindhouse."

Ben Affleck and Bill Simmons on the premiere of HBO's Any Given Wednesday.

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Bill Simmons Brings Angry Ben Affleck To His Big Night On HBO

10:33am June 23, 2016

by Linda Holmes

Bill Simmons debuted his new HBO show Any Given Wednesday with a few very strong feelings from Ben Affleck about Tom Brady.

Book Review: 'As Good As Gone' By Larry Watson

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'Good As Gone' Doesn't Quite Get To Greatness

7:00am June 23, 2016

by Michael Schaub

Larry Watson sticks to what he knows and loves in his latest novel: The cinematic badlands of Montana, and a tough, taciturn Western hero. But none of his characters truly rise above ciphers.

Tony Hale plays Gary Walsh, the personal assistant to Selina Meyer, on the HBO series, Veep.

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'There's A Reason Why I Play Anxious Characters,' Says 'Veep' Actor Tony Hale

6:05pm June 22, 2016

Hale played Buster on Arrested Development and is Gary Walsh on the HBO series Veep. "It comes from a lot of personal anxiety," Hale says. "It's really fun to bring that into the characters."

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A dish full of ground asafoetida, or hing, as it is known in India.

Meet Hing: The Secret Weapon Spice Of Indian Cuisine

3:14pm June 22, 2016

by Carolyn Beans

Uncooked, the Indian spice hing may smell of sulfur and onions to some. But add a dash to your food and magical things happen.

(Left) Hudson Yang in ABC's Fresh Off the Boat. (Center) Critic Jeff Yang. (Right) Margaret Cho in ABC's All American Girl.

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On The Podcast: Rep Sweats, Or, 'I Don't Know If I Like This, But I Need It To Win'

8:32am June 22, 2016

by Kat Chow

Kat and Gene hash out something they've been mulling over for a while: that feeling of obligation that you have to root for something, because it's theoretically for you.

Dissapearance At Devil's RockBy Paul Tremblay

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'Devil's Rock' Is An Atmospheric, Gut-Twisting Descent

7:00am June 22, 2016

by Jason Heller

Things are not what they seem in Paul Tremblay's new novel; a simple search for a missing child becomes a dizzying emotional vortex as ominous new details and old tragedies surface.

Merle Dandridge stars as Grace Greenleaf, who returns to her family's megachurch after 20 years away — and gets caught up in a swirl of secrets and lies.

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Oprah's New Show, 'Greenleaf,' Is Megachurch Melodrama

5:42pm June 21, 2016

by Eric Deggans

Oprah Winfrey returns to a regular TV drama role for the first time in two decades, appearing in Greenleaf, a scripted drama set in a Memphis megachurch. The show premieres Tuesday on her OWN network.

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Book Review: 'Hot Dog Taste Test,' by Lisa Hanawalt.

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Hot Dogs Against Conformity In 'Taste Test'

2:48pm June 21, 2016

by Etelka Lehoczky

If you're the kind of person who'd wear a hot dog costume to a princess party, you'll love Lisa Hanawalt's lushly illustrated, off-the-wall diary/food meditation/travelogue Hot Dog Taste Test.

Anti-Brexit supporters dressed as bananas protest outside a racecourse in York, England. "It is absolutely crazy that the EU is telling us what shape our bananas have got to be," says Brexit's foremost cheerleader, Boris Johnson, the former mayor of Londo

Bendy Bananas And Barmaid Bosoms: The U.K.'s Crazy Anti-EU Food Myths

2:46pm June 21, 2016

by Nina Martyris

British tabloids have long exploited the U.K.'s ambivalent ties to the European Union with exaggerated, funny and often unfounded stories about regulations aiming to undo English food culture.