May 2026

Morgan Wallen posted on Instagram this week with a five-word caption: “the Ol’ Ball Coach.” The phrase belongs most famously to Steve Spurrier, one of the most decorated coaches in college football history. Spurrier won the Heisman Trophy as a quarterback at Florida in 1966. He came back to Gainesville as head coach in 1990…

Chappell Roan‘s Sunday Instagram caption was two words: “Cute !!” Her followers had questions. The post came with no preview and no announcement. That was the whole thing. Roan has tended her online presence carefully over the past few years. A caption this spare reads as deliberate rather than accidental. She’s not someone who fills…

Gordon Ramsay put River Restaurant’s dessert menu firmly in the spotlight on Monday, sharing a photo on his Instagram account of what he called “the perfect slice.” The dish was the restaurant’s creamy custard and nutmeg tart, served with a quenelle of rhubarb sorbet. That’s a generous compliment from someone who has spent decades holding…

Monday night belonged to Nicolas Winding Refn at Cannes and though his trippy psychedelic female ensemble pic, Her Private Hell, is playing out of competition, it spiced up the Grand Theatre Lumiere with a 12-minute standing ovation, the second such of the night after Fjord. Those are the longest plaudits of the festival, though Refn…

EXCLUSIVE: WME has signed actor, comedian, producer, and writer Josh Gad for representation in all areas. Perhaps most widely known as the voice of Olaf in Disney’s blockbuster Frozen franchise, Gad has appeared in more than two dozen film and television projects, both live-action and animated, over the last two decades and change. On stage, Gad originated the…

The phrases “low hanging fruit,” “hit or miss” and “luck of the draw” come to mind as one not very funny moment after another counts down to the end of the 90-minute Celebrity Autobiography, the much-staged oddity finally making its Broadway debut tonight. The premise, which I assume is more suited to the many small,…

David Harbour’s Chief Jim Hopper is a key figure in Stranger Things‘ fictitious town of Hawkins, Indiana, eventually coming to serve as surrogate father to Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) and helping to unravel the central sci-fi mystery of the Upside Down. However, the twice Emmy-nominated actor was not the original choice to play the role,…

Memories of cinema past and present come rushing at you like 2001’s Star Gate sequence in Nicolas Winding Refn’s Her Private Hell, his first return to cinema since 2016’s Neon Demon and his first project since dying for 20 minutes from a serious heart condition three years ago. Somehow, it was excluded from the Cannes…