Nearly 30 years ago, a handful of smart people set out with one mission: To make some silly movies. What followed was a true golden age of Hollywood comedy that saw the arrival of megastars still with us today, a commercial explosion, and then, an eventual splintering that changed the genre forever.…

The company is a leap of faith, to put it mildly. Photographer: David 'Dee' Delgado/Bloomberg Photographer: David 'Dee' Delgado/Bloomberg I get paid to write words for a living, and I am nearly at a loss for words about WeWork Cos. The company on Wednesday released the financial paperwork for its…

Jyske Bank is the first mortgage lender to offer a negative rate. Some banks are considering moving to negative rates on deposits.Photograph: Alamy A Danish bank has launched the world’s first negative interest rate mortgage – handing out loans to homeowners where the charge is minus 0.5% a year.…

Phoebe Waller-Bridge says she feared her ideas would dry up after Fleabag but is now working on a new film that she intends to direct and act in.Photograph: Amy Sussman/Getty Images Phoebe Waller-Bridge is working on a new feature film that she intends to direct and will likely end up acting in. The…

Painted emoji on a house in Manhattan Beach, California, on Wednesday.Photograph: Natalie Rice/AP A California woman’s decision to plaster emojis on her outside walls, a move neighbors say came after they reported her for renting out her home on Airbnb, has made headlines around the world. But the…

Photo-Illustration: Maya Robinson/Vulture and Photo by Amazon Looks directly into camera: Did you really think we’d choose another show? No, but seriously. We considered other very good series for this honor but kept coming back to Fleabag , the same way Fleabag, the character created and played by…

Illustrations by Elliot Snowman . E very morning for more than three years, I woke up with the fear that someone would call me out as a fraud. The same scenario ran through my mind: A woman stops me on the street, grabs my arm and starts calling me a crook, a fake, phony and heartless rogue.…

Antimicrobial Therapy, which publishes “The Sanford Guide to Antimicrobial Therapy,” bought 34 of its handbooks from Amazon and Amazon’s third-party sellers. At least 30 were counterfeits. Credit Isabelle Baldwin for The New York Times Leer en español SPERRYVILLE, Va. — “The Sanford Guide to…

Co-founder and CEO of DoorDash Tony Xu speaks onstage during TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2016 at Brooklyn Cruise Terminal on May 11, 2016 in New York City. Photo: Noam Galai (Getty) We’re getting quite used to our algorithmic overlords. We’ve ceded, for the most part, that complex and invisible rulesets…

The first public video stream was in 1995. A decade later, YouTube was founded. In 2007, Netflix and Hulu launched. A decade after that, Sony launched the first virtual MVPD. We’re now in the third decade of OTT video and there are many clear winners. What’s more interesting are the prognostications…

What do self-driving cars and community-driven hospitality have in common? From the outside, almost nothing. But over the course of my career—which has included working on driver and self-driving experiences at Uber, and on the guest experience at Airbnb—I’ve learned that designing for a diverse…

This week marks the release of Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood , director Quentin Tarantino’s ninth feature film. To celebrate, we’re looking back at the best of QT—the best scenes, the best stunts, the best dialogue. We’ll drill down on his extraordinary rise from video store clerk to filmmaking…

Climate change could make water even more scarce in naturally dry areas, the report warns. Australia’s ranchers have struggled under a drought for years. Brook Mitchell / Getty 1. There is no shortage of scary facts in the major new report on climate change and land, a summary of which was released…

Epstein Suicide Conspiracies Show How Our Information System Is Poisoned With each news cycle, the system grows more efficient. Mr. Warzel is an Opinion writer at large. The Metropolitan Correctional Center where Jeffrey Epstein was found dead on Saturday. Credit Jeenah Moon/Reuters Even on an…

Stamps collected from letterboxing on Dartmoor. Christopher Jones/ Alamy Across the world, a network of hobbyists is exchanging clues and secretly hunting down caches they use to communicate with each other, all while closely guarding their search from the “muggles” around them. They share the clues…

There are few desires more deeply human than the desire to escape whatever reality you’re in. The problem is not the details of any particular life — and the nicer your life is, the more resources you have to escape it — but rather the limits of being a person. You are stuck with you. It is a…

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“I wanted to have the mystery of the old stars, always preserved in an enigmatic aura.” Mamadi Doumbouya for The New York Times Nicolas Cage on his legacy, his philosophy of acting and his metaphorical — and literal — search for the Holy Grail. By David Marchese Photograph by Mamadi Doumbouya There…

John Cuneo “T his is my kit.” Alicia Rodis, who since early last year has been HBO’s lead intimacy coordinator, a new title that translates roughly to chief sex-scene coach, held up a clear vinyl case filled with what at first glance appeared to be toiletries and packages of pantyhose. On closer…

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"This is the closest thing I’ve done to Pulp Fiction," Tarantino says of his new film. On DiCaprio: Suit by Dior Men; polo shirt by Salvatore Ferragamo. On Pitt: Polo shirt by Tom Ford; trousers by Prada; Breitling watch worn throughout, his own. On Tarantino: Jacket, shirt, and trousers by Dolce &…

A bowl of oats is a blank canvas, ready to be paired with a truckload of other high-quality, nutritious ingredients. Photo by john shepherd/iStock. In a world of green juice and chia seed pudding, this age-old dish is the original, and perhaps most powerful, superfood, especially for athletes…

Advertisement Pocket Worthy · Stories to fuel your mind. The Illegal Ramen Vendors of Postwar Tokyo Black markets and American wheat imports popularized ramen. A bowl of traditional Shoyu ramen. Lombroso / CC BY-SA 3.0 . When Japan surrendered in the Second World War, the country was in a state of…

This article is part of an investigation with Underunderstood, a podcast that explores stories the internet missed. You can subscribe to Underunderstood on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , or wherever you listen to podcasts. A few months ago, I opened the Yelp app, typed in the name of my favorite sushi…

As Chris Morgan began conceiving the script of Hobbs & Shaw , the Fast & Furious spinoff featuring franchise latecomers Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham, the writer-producer pivoted from his usual process. Responsible for penning the series’ last six screenplays, filled with requisite family banter…

AVQ&A Welcome back to AVQ&A, where we throw out a question for discussion among the staff and readers. Consider this a prompt to compare notes on your interface with pop culture, to reveal your embarrassing tastes and experiences. Prev Next View All We spent this week talking about the 50 best films…

The two musicians discuss their friendship, the shared love for vintage equipment, and how Hip-Hop breaks can gel with psych rock Raj Anand May 8 · 13 min read My introduction to Jack Waterson and Adrian Younge took place at The Midnight Hour tour last December. Adrian was the de facto conductor of…

T here There are more electric scooters than people in Pacific Beach, a crowded neighborhood in San Diego known for its bars, surf, attractive college students, and increasingly unaffordable rent. Scooters from Lime, Bird, Lyft, Uber, and Razor are parked along the main path. People can even rent…

Director Ari Aster refers to cinematographer Pawel Pogorzelski as his closest collaborator, as the pair has been working together since they were just grad students at AFI. Aster is more in charge of composition and camera movement, Pogorzelski the lighting and visual look, yet the two get on the…

Netflix thought I was four different people. I was being paid through an app to watch its trailers over and over again, racking up digital points I could eventually trade for Amazon gift cards or real cash. But rather than just use my own phone, I bought four Android devices to churn through the…

Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images . On the surface, it seemed like an impossible task. Take an $8800, NASA-approved interface glove running on $250,000 worth of computer hardware, then replicate the performance in a consumer-grade toy with parts costing less than $26. The twist? “We had about…

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Ringer illustration Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio were starstruck. “Luke Perry!” DiCaprio exclaimed, deep into May’s daffy Esquire cover-story chat with Pitt and Quentin Tarantino to promote their new movie, Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood , and the great many famous people who would appear…

She flirts with a priest. Then she flirts with the camera. The fourth wall breaks and — suddenly — we’re complicit in her self destruction. Credit Photo illustration by Najeebah Al-Ghadban It’s late. A man and a woman sit together in a garden and agree never to sleep together. He is a priest,…

Denise Truscello/WireImage After months of vlogs, Instagram Stories, and intense build up, YouTube stars Jake Paul and Tana Mongeau brought their closest friends, families, hundreds of strangers, thousands of online viewers, and a full MTV camera crew to Las Vegas on Sunday to watch the two…

Credit: iQiyi (edited) Mobile video is a big deal, but you don’t need me to tell you that. Big Tech has been fast-moving into the mobile video space for a few years now , and recently a slew of mobile-specific content has arrived. Instagram launched IGTV in 2018, and is pushing creators to explore…

I was owed about $5,000 from late-paying publications. I tried to hold them all accountable. Here’s what happened. Wudan Yan Jul 22 · 8 min read In late May, I returned home after four weeks on the road. I spent two of those weeks on vacation, and another two on the East Coast, visiting family and…

Uber plans to launch a restaurant accelerator program in London to cater to unmet demand from customers on its Uber Eats food delivery platform. Uber is planning the accelerator in partnership with Karma Kitchen, a kitchen-space rental company in East London, Karma Kitchen co-founder Eccie Newton…