Veep's Anna Chlumsky On Youth, Television And Tolkien
Ophira Eisenberg talks to this week's VIP, Anna Chlumsky, who plays Chief of Staff Amy Brookheimer on HBO's Veep.
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The Best Piece of Trivia You Learned This Week: Teary Edition
True or false: in outer space, tears stick to your eyeballs, effectively blinding you if you can't wipe them off.
In This Test Kitchen, The Secret To A Great Cookbook Is Try, Try Again
Yotam Ottolenghi and his partner have a thriving food empire that includes wildly successful cookbooks. We go inside their London test kitchen as recipes are put through their paces.
Veep Of The Rings
In this game, VIP Anna Chlumsky is quizzed about something near and dear to her heart — Lord of the Rings.
Ampers And What?
Mork & Mindy, Laverne & Shirley, Will & Grace — how hard was it to come up with those titles? In this game, we quiz contestants on TV show titles that are just two words plus an ampersand.
Back In Time
In this game, we've rewritten the famous Beatles song "Get Back" to be about movie characters going back to their own time period, where they once belonged.
I'm Quitting The Band
It's hard to keep a good rock band together; you're always losing members. In this game, we take the names of famous bands and drop a letter to make a whole new band.
Give 'Em The Go-Ahead
We all remember Clint Eastwood's character Dirty Harry and his famous line, "Go ahead, make my day." In this game, contestants deliver that line... Ask Me Another-style. So go ahead, make our pâté.
Wardrobe Of Games
For this final round, every answer contains an article of clothing or wardrobe accessory. So if we said, "colorful wasps sometimes mistaken for bees," the answer would be "yellow jackets."
Fat Is Not A Four-Letter Word In 'Dietland'
There are different kinds of fat people in literature — funny or comforting, sometimes despicable. But Sarai Walker's Dietland gives us a new fat protagonist — complex, compelling and dangerous.