March 30 2018

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THE WEEK’S BEST Sound Bites
“If you can’t love yourself, how the hell you gonna love somebody else? Can I get an amen up in here?” —RuPaul, repeating his mantra while becoming the first drag queen to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame “I want a great big giant caree
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The Must List
1 TV SUPERNATURAL In its 13th season, the fantasy drama still delivers new twists (alternate universes are a thing) and keeps things fun and fresh. Case in point: The Winchesters meet Scooby-Doo in an animated crossover. Zoinks! (The CW, Thursdays,
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Anatomy Of A Shake-up
Jessica Capshaw and Sarah Drew are the latest beloved cast members whose time in Shondaland has run out.
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Inside the Mind of TV’s Most Terrifying Tyke
The Family Guy team explains why they used a therapy session to give Stewie a new voice—and perhaps his darkest turn.
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Virtual Insanity
NO CHEAT CODES NECESSARY! EW TAKES YOU BEHIND THE SCENES OF STEVEN SPIELBERG’S ADAPTATION OF READY PLAYER ONE, THE BIGGEST POP CULTURE SMORGASBORD TO EVER HIT THE SCREEN.
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Silence Is Golden
MAKING A PROFOUND THRILLER CAN BE SCARY, BUT DIRECTOR-WRITER-ACTOR JOHN KRASINSKI AND COSTAR EMILY BLUNT—WHO ARE SPOUSES IN REAL LIFE—EXPLAIN THAT CREATING THE HORROR FILM A QUIET PLACE (OUT APRIL 6) WAS DRAMA-FREE.
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Country • Strong
SINGER JASON ALDEAN WAS ON STAGE IN LAS VEGAS WHEN THE SHOOTING STARTED AT THE ROUTE 91 HARVEST FESTIVAL. SIX MONTHS LATER, HE’S GOT A NEW ALBUM—AND PLENTY TO SAY.
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THE Angels HAVE Landed
After a sold-out run at London’s National Theatre, Angels in America—Tony Kushner’s epic about love in the time of AIDS—opens on Broadway March 25. The cast, which includes Nathan Lane and Andrew Garfield, talks about performing the masterwork 25 yea
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Why Wes Anderson Went To Japan
The stop-motion-animated feature Isle of Dogs may contain some of the filmmaker’s most trenchant idiosyncrasies, but in his interview with EW, the director of The Royal Tenenbaums and The Grand Budapest Hotel says that Japanese film and art set him o
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Isle of Dogs
STARRING Bryan Cranston, Koyu Rankin, Greta Gerwig DIRECTED BY Wes Anderson RATING PG-13 LENGTH 1 hr., 41 mins. A CERTAIN BRAND OF CINEMATIC whimsy—wry, goldenrod-tinted, fastidiously retro—is to Wes Anderson as spots are to a Dalmatian, inna
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South by Standouts
Crowd-pleasing studio premieres dominated the schedule at Austin’s South by Southwest film fest (March 9–17), but debuts—particularly those from women—proved to be beyond SXSWorthy. THIS YEAR, THE BIGGEST films premiering out of South by Southwest w
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Cannon Hasaball
Kay Cannon’s parenthood and prom-night comedy Blockers, starring Leslie Mann and John Cena, explores young womanhood, coming out, growing up, and consent. But also butt chugging and puking. Lots of puking. Why does John Cena’s brand of comedy jibe w
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Legion
DATE Premieres April 3 TIME 10 p.m. NETWORK FX I TREASURE THE MADCAP VERVE OF LEGION, THE WAY every throwaway line of dialogue gets filmed like the climactic battle of an Infinity War. The FX series is a spin-off of the X-Men franchise, though
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Fantastic Failures
Netflix’s latest must-watch, Nailed It!, highlights some incredible baking fails. (Though, if we’re being honest, they’re still better than we could do ourselves.) THE DONALD TRUMP CAKE “I’m putting politics aside.… I can’t let who or what the cake
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The Crossing
DATE Debuts April 2 TIME 10 p.m. NETWORK ABC THE CROSSING BEGINS WITH hundreds of bodies washing up on a rocky, picturesque stretch of Pacific Northwest coastline. The 47 people who arrive on dry land alive say they are from the future, fleeing
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Lemony-Fresh Sets
Production designer Bo Welch offers a preview of season 2 of A Series of Unfortunate Events (out March 30 on Netflix). ESMÉ SQUALOR’S APARTMENT To convey the gaudy wealth of Esmé Squalor (Lucy Punch), the Baudelaire orphans’ compulsively trend-obse
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Carrie-anne Moss
The actress, 50, brings EW down the rabbit hole that led her to season 2 of Marvel’s Jessica Jones (streaming now on Netflix). 1 BAYWATCH 1994 When asked to revisit her guest appearance on the lifeguard drama as twins who—24-year-old spoiler alert
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Sandra Oh: After Anatomy
Nearly four years after Grey’s, the actress returns to TV in the spy thriller Killing Eve (debuting April 8 at 8 p.m. on BBC America). In Killing Eve you play an MI5 analyst who becomes infatuated with a female assassin named Villanelle (Jodie Comer
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Speak Of The Devil!
According to the calendar—if not the forecast—spring has sprung! Grab your light sweater and some snacks, like these deviled eggs from Fixer Upper’s Joanna Gaines, and hit the park.
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Blue Crush
We love the red carpet and all, but what we really want to know is how to get up in these jeans.
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What to Watch
MUST WATCH OF THE WEEK Season Premiere Roseanne TUESDAY, MARCH 27 | 8–9PM | ABC When ABC first announced it was reviving its blue-collar comedy—which premiered way back in 1988—someone actually asked showrunner Bruce Helford who would be taking o
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The Long Reach Of Jack White
You’re famously sparse in the studio, but your new record, Boarding House Reach, feels almost maximalist, and so sonically diverse. Oh yeah, for sure. It’s sort of the fruits of me telling myself that I don’t care if it’s analog, digital, three drum
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Hendrix’s Final Trip
A new collection, Both Sides of the Sky, exhumes studio work that Jimi Hendrix recorded before his death in 1970 at age 27. Longtime engineer Eddie Kramer and Hendrix’s sister Janie walk EW through the highlights.
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This Girl Is On Fire
She’s been anointed by Reese, is a celebrated force on Twitter, and both of her books are being adapted for the screen. How Celeste Ng became a thoroughly modern novelist.
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The Italian Teacher
BY Tom Rachman PAGES 339 | GENRE Novel BEHIND EVERY GREAT MAN IS A GREAT BIG shadow, cast long over all the friends, lovers, and acolytes lucky (or unlucky) enough to land inside his world. And then there are the children, who never actually get to
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Tangerine
BY Christine Mangan | PAGES 308 GENRE Thriller THE CROWDED BOOK-TO-MOVIE pipeline has another hot title to welcome. Tangerine, the thriller debut by Christine Mangan, sold in the seven figures to HarperCollins in 2016 and was swiftly optioned by no
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Game On!
The Walking Dead’s Andrew Lincoln trades zombies for broomsticks in the audiobook version of Quidditch Through the Ages.
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New & Notable
TRUE STORIES THE BIG PICTURE BY BEN FRITZ HISTORY E From the Marvel boom (sparked by Robert Downey Jr. in Iron Man) to the dwindling of star power, Hollywood has dramatically transformed over the past 20 years. Fritz offers fascinating tidbits in h
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A Star Is (Re)born as a Book Mogul
She’s conquered your TV and your closet. Now passionate reader Sarah Jessica Parker wants your bookshelves, too. She tells EW how her lifelong literary fandom has led to her own book club and, launching this June, a fiction imprint.
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Merry And Quite Contrary
An update of classic fairy tales from the writer formerly known as Mallory Ortberg mixes humor, horror, and a healthy dose of feminism.

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