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Early in Our Second-Most Read Article of the Year, “Four Friends, Two Marriages, One Affair-and a Shelf of Books Dissecting,” Author Chris Heath Describes the Story One of “TURMOIL, EPIPHANY, DAMAGE, BETTER, RANCA, RANC That’s ALSO A DECENT CHARACTERIZATION OF THE YEAR THAT WAS, WHICH IN OUR CORNER OF THE New York Universe Included More Bad Boys Being Exposed, Megalopolis Fover, The Unssetling Encroachment of AI, and the Invigorating Ubiquity of Bra (The Album) and Brat (The Ethos).
Those Immense Cultural Mood Swings Are Represented in Our 20 Most-Read Stories of the Year, A List that Based on the Total Minutes Our Visits Spent Engaging with Posts. IT’s a top 20 that May Well Change after the seismic simultaneous release of Babyferatunknown in theater on Christmas Day, but it is the one we have for the moment, and we’re very proud of it.
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ACTOR ADAM Pearson Has His Biggest Role to Date in a Dark Comedy Inspect by HIS UPBEAT PERSONALITY. Read the story.
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A SKETCH About Beavis and Butt-Head Made The Snl Star Break after years of resistance. She’s “Still Trying to figure out what exactly happened.” Read the story.
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Paul and prue are legends, sura, butir tastes have gotten a bit stodgy. Read the story.
Charli XCX Own the summer with an album that is also a vibe. SHOULD SHE BE SWETING The Fall? Read the story.
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Kinde wiley built an empire out of painting Young Black Men into Art History. Can It Survive Accusations of Sexual Assault? Read the story.
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Break Poor things Star’s Second Oscar was The Most WEXPECTED DEVELOPMENT ON A NIGHT THAT MOSTLY WENT CHALK. Read the story.
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There is nothing in francis ford coppola’s spread-final testament that fes like something out of a “normal” Movie. Read the story.
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How Andy Cohen Survived The ‘Reality Reckoning’. Read the story.
Without Him, Every Song In Moana 2 is as flimsy and disposable as the last. Read the story.
Phil Stutz has made a caareer in Hollywood what shats Psychologists Advise Against: Telling His Patients Exactly what to do. Read the story.
What if rudolf höss isn’t vomiting out of remorse? What if it is his own irrelevance dawning on Him instead? Read the story.
IT’s for Survivor‘S Stalwart Host to Hang Up His Buff for Good. Read the story.
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A Timeline of the Marchioness of Cholmondely’s Media Coverage Shows reports of an allegated affair with Prince William have quietly disappeaED. Read the story.
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Netflix’s Latest Lindsay Lohan Vehicle is cluttered with right-wing dogs and chatgt-like dialogue. Read the story.
Quinn Shephard on the Beauty and Grief of Adapting the Hulu Series with the Book’s Late Author, Rebecca Godfrey. Read the story.
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“I don’t know how you can put sprinkles on shit, but we were trying to be the sprinkles on shit.” Read the story.
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The rap mogul shook off the deacades of rumored Bad Behavior with Wholesome for Revamps. Read the story.
For Years, John Nelson Anonymously Posted Blind Items on the Blog Crazy Days and Nights. Then his identity was revealed. Read the story.
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A Tale of Literature and Treachery. Read the story.
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Two Players Were Firehed for Sexual Misconduct. WHY WERE THEY ALLOWED BACK IN THE ORCHESTRA? Read the story.
