art May 4, 2015 2:00 pm By Kyle Chayka Share Share Tweet Pin It 8 Photos Photo: Bonhams A clutch of canvases on display at Bonhams auction house in advance of its May 6 sale of 19th-century European paintings should look very familiar to viewers today. The works feature languid felines and frolicking kittens engaged in activities like playing with string, crowding on top of desks, and reclining on pillows.

Cars 3. The Cars franchise is many things to many people. For young children, it is the opportunity to be transported into a world full of good-natured wisecracks and bright, shiny metal. For Disney, it is an opportunity to separate those children’s guardians from their wallets for many Christmases to come. And for those of us whose brains spiral out of control in the darkness of the cineplex, each new Cars film is a veritable rabbit-warren of unsettling thought-paths.

27 Jan 1979 — Original caption: TV Show Mork and Mindy. Actor Robin Williams and actress Pam Dawber shown in scenes from TV show. Realism in comedy has been the trend for the last several years, thanks in part to the rise of the single-camera mockumentary format. But it’s not the only way to go. The Neighbors, which premieres tonight on ABC (read our critic’s review here), attempts to buck the trend by setting itself in a posh cul-de-sac populated by aliens who disguise themselves as humans.

The temptation, when you see a work of art about a world with which you’re intimately familiar, is to get out a red pen as you watch and mark down all the places where the facts are off. It’s not necessarily a healthy or charitable way to respond, and if the rest of the piece is coherent and engaging on its own terms, it shouldn’t matter, but it can be hard to resist the knee-jerk urge to go, “well, that’s not how that works.

Herman Wouk has never been one for half-measures. His two-volume World War II saga, The Winds of War and War and Remembrance, ran to nearly 2,000 pages and was adapted into a corresponding pair of TV miniseries. His third novel, The Caine Mutiny, won a Pulitzer, spawned a Broadway play, and gave Humphrey Bogart a defining role of his career. Wouk’s meaty, breezy fiction (on the Navy, the Holocaust, Israel, Nixon, a starry-eyed Jewish girl who called herself Marjorie Morningstar) earned him millions of readers but precious few glowing reviews.

Olitz is on the fritz. #Gladiators, I’m not sure how you spent the nearly three-month hiatus of Scandal, but much of my time was focused on starting my new charity called “Jesus Be Some Wig Glue,” which is devoted to repairing the hairlines of watchers of Shonda Rhimes’s TV shows, who, week after week, get their wigs snatched after some crazy plot twist has gone down. So far, I have fixed 27 people’s scalps, and I’m pretty much waiting on the MacArthur grant to recognize my genius and give me an award.

Alison Brie is charming and funny and such but she tends to talk about only two things when she goes on talks shows: going to art school and times when she was naked. Last night on Conan, she did both in one story. Apparently, when she was in college, everyone thought it was hilarious when she would jaunt around campus with no clothes on. Sure Alison, they all liked seeing you naked because it was funny, not because you are a super attractive person.

Serbia, Israel, and Sweden’s entries in the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest. Forget King Charles’s coronation. For fans of precision-tooled pop, elaborate stage production, and voting reveals which provide more high drama than a Succession box set, this week’s most important event across the pond is undeniably the 67th Eurovision Song Contest. Standing in for last year’s winners Ukraine, the United Kingdom, specifically Liverpool, will be hosting the whole shebang for the first time since 1998.

Just one episode into the new season of American Horror Story, Evan Peters found himself facing aliens, getting hosed down in the nude, and being caned by Jessica Lange. He of course knew to expect the unexpected, having had to lube up to wear a gimp suit for the first edition of Ryan Murphy’s horror anthology. But he’s traded in the rubber for a similarly constricting straitjacket to play Kit Walker, an inmate at an insane asylum who is suspected of being a serial killer known as Bloody Face.

Rose McGowan, Lupita Nyong’o, and Mia Kirshner. On Thursday, the New York Times published a bombshell report detailing decades of sexual harassment allegations against Hollywood titan Harvey Weinstein. Since then, multiple women have come forward to share additional accusations against the powerful producer, including several instances of alleged sexual assault. By Tuesday afternoon, another report by the Times featured additional allegations by several high-profile actresses — including Gwyneth Paltrow and Angelina Jolie. We have compiled a list of all the allegations against Weinstein, which we will update continually as new accusations come to light.