“Don’t you have a lock?” Rose Byrne asks, her forehead under her bathing cap creasing with concern. We’re in the women’s locker room at the YMCA on 14th Street, steps away from the pool — the only pool, Byrne has informed me, that she has found in her decade-plus of living in New York that even comes […]
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Babies: the ultimate answer to FOMO. One of the main things people with kids tell you when you are pregnant is that when the baby comes, Your Priorities Will Change. Upon laying eyes on the wrinkled Churchillian face of your own creation, you will feel a love so strong, so unconditionally true, actual cartoon hearts
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Our April cover star–a self-described “person who has always been politically active and passionate about people’s rights”–opens up about her most political project to date. In 1991, the year Anita Hill, a 35-year-old law professor from the University of Oklahoma, appeared at the confirmation hearing of Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, Kerry Washington was just 14 years
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The gilded mammoth skeleton by Damien Hirst. — Faena House, Miami Beach’s new clubhouse for the rich, rises just steps from the menacing turquoise sea. Photograph by Ivan Belaustegui Courtesy of Faena What would the woolly mammoth tell us, if it could speak, about what it’s like to go extinct? Probably it would point out
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In August, PBS made a surprising announcement: It was handing over the reins of its iconic children’s show Sesame Street to HBO, where new episodes will begin airing this month. To outsiders, the idea of putting Big Bird and Elmo on the same shelf as Game of Thrones and Cathouse: The Series seemed odd — not least because, as many pointed out, Sesame Street’s
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Real-life Michael Burry (left), and Christian Bale (right), who played Burry in the film The Big Short. Photo: Getty Images, Plan B Entertainment If The Big Short, Adam McKay’s adaptation of Michael Lewis’s book about the 2008 financial crisis and the subject of last month’s Vulture cover story, got you all worked up over the holidays, you’re probably wondering what
“Can we get a shot of the napkin?” Adam McKay asked his director of photography, pointing toward the table where an uncharacteristically angry-looking Steve Carell was seated, doodling fiercely. The cocktail napkin in question bore the name of Okada, the glitzy Japanese restaurant in the Wynn Las Vegas where New York hedge-fund manager Steve Eisman
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“Can we get a shot of the napkin?” Adam McKay asked his director of photography, pointing toward the table where an uncharacteristically angry-looking Steve Carell was seated, doodling fiercely. The cocktail napkin in question bore the name of Okada, the glitzy Japanese restaurant in the Wynn Las Vegas where New York hedge-fund manager Steve Eisman first
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Adam McKay’s The Big Short stars Steve Carell as Steve Eisman, a hedge-funder who shorted the market spectacularly during the crisis. We spoke with him about following up his Oscar-nominated turn in Foxcatcher and “workout pizza.” What did you think when they approached you about playing Steve Eisman, or Mark Baum, as the cranky main protagonist
Adam McKay’s The Big Short — the subject of this week’s Vulture cover story — stars Ryan Gosling as a version of Greg Lippmann, a slick Deutsche Bank trader (he also gives some interstitial, direct-to-camera informative narration). We spoke with him about how to play a guy who bets against the American economy, how to
