Tori Amos, 2015. Given the heavily metaphorical nature of Tori Amos’s seminal third album Boys for Pele, it’s surprising how emphatic of a statement that 1996 record remains to her today. At the time, Amos, riding the swell of female singer-songwriters edging their way toward the mainstream, was coming to terms with herself and with femininity in the wake of a split from Eric Rosse, who had produced her 1992 debut Little Earthquakes and its follow-up Under the Pink two years later.

See? This is why Twilight actors can’t have nice things. First a copy of the New Moon screenplay winds up in a St. Louis trash can (suspiciously near the set of the Anna Kendrick–starring Up in the Air), and now another of the series’ stars has apparently gone and uploaded the Twilight Saga: Eclipse script straight to the damn Internet. Nikki Finke has, somehow, deduced that said script — the first page of which can be seen above — belonged to Jackson Rathbone, who plays Jasper Hale in New Moon and Eclipse.

Around 14,000 people and I watched paint dry to be among the first to see the Camp Flog Gnaw 2023 lineup. Tyler, the Creator’s marquee music festival unveiled the full slate via Twitch stream on August 18, where a mural containing the lineup was painted on the side of a building. SZA will headline the festival, together with the Hillbillies (a duo formed by Kendrick Lamar and his rapper cousin, Baby Keem) and the host of the whole thing, Tyler, the Creator.

Nathan Fielder famously graduated from“one of Canada’s top business schools with really good grades.” A more relevant education to his future show-business success, though, are the comedic sensibilities he honed after graduation uploading DIY sketches and short films to YouTube between 2006 to 2011 and performing as a correspondent on Canadian television’s comedy-news institution This Hour Has 22 Minutes from 2007 to 2009. Many hallmarks of Fielder’s later work, from the zealous commitment to character he demonstrated in Nathan for You to the interpersonal struggles he explored in the first season of The Rehearsal, can be seen in these early videos, making them a fascinating time capsule to track his evolution.

Criss Angel knows the rules: Show us our card and we will sleep with you. What woman in her right mind would forfeit the chance to bed a wizard? [Videogum] Watch a Commercial for Criss Angel’s Ridiculous Magic Kit ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57kWloaWdgbXy4rdOcn5iZj5i8rrnEq5qimZyUs7C%2BvpypoqujlK5vtNOmow%3D%3D

Worried about climate change? Hart of Dixie cast member Wilson Bethel has a solution in this fake PSA: Take your clothes off. Works for us! [CW] Watch Actors From The CW Get Shirtless for a Cause ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57kWloamdhZXy4rdOcn5igkafBoLvFmJuisJmarKSt0q2WrqaUp7JvtNOmow%3D%3D

“When you have cable …” apparently you become depressed, need a drink, stumble to the nearest Turkish bath, where you meet Charlie Sheen, who, next thing you know, is pointing a crossbow at your head from behind a ficus plant. [EW] Watch Charlie Sheen Reenact Platoon in a DirecTV Ad ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57kWloa2dgaHy4rdOcn2abmJa%2FrbXEZqqhnZWjerOxxKeYnKxdpbmiwM6opWahnmKxqr7EnKuvZZGZe6nAzKU%3D

It feels like Star Wars comes earlier and earlier every year! Now that we’re only 15 days away from the release of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, the first entry in your informal advent calendar is this cute little clip from the film, in which Felicity Jones’s Jyn Erso and Diego Luna’s Cassian Andor scamper away from some Imperial Stormtroopers in the desert world of Jedha. Brawling and shooting ensues, as does a close call for Alan Tudyk’s reformed battle droid K-2SO.

The Weeknd, a.k.a. Starboy, continues his stratospheric rise with the release of a video for “I Feel It Coming,” featuring those alien motorcycle-helmet enthusiasts Daft Punk (who also gave their signature spin to the song, natch). The video extends the album’s space metaphor with a very 1970s sci-fi-novella cover meets Doctor Who plot twist that places poor Abel Tesfaye on a planet where he can, indeed, meet a beautiful, perfect, elemental woman, though the romance shall be brief indeed for … reasons unspoiled.

Still from Preacher. One of the strangest developments in modern entertainment is the explosive rise of the comic-book adaptation. Twenty years ago, it was damn near impossible to get a television or film studio to green-light a story based on stuff that originated in the the then-niche world of comics. Now, such studios are in a race to adapt as many of them as they can: Not only do comics provide the basis for big-budget superhero movies, they also gave birth to the top-rated show on cable, AMC’s The Walking Dead.