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“The 1989 film
‘Back to the
Future II’
showed
life on Oct
21 2015 --
Inefficient
Post Offices.
(Still got ’em)”
Neil deGrasse Tyson
@neiltyson
“I don’t read
(the scripts) in
the evening,
because the
ideas and
images they
create (stir)
an active
imagination.
They follow
you to your
dreams .”
“‘AHS: Hotel’: Angela
Bassett on Her
Relationship With Lady
Gaga’s Countess”
“I’m dying to find
out what this
major political
commitment
was. Usually, it
means he had to
go on CNN to call
someone an idiot,
or something.
Why did he
cancel? We told
him there were
cameras here,
right? Are Tuesday
nights the night
he volunteers
down at the
orphanage?”
“Jimmy Kimmel
Mocks Donald
Trump Following
‘Live’ Appearance
Cancellation”
‘Contenders Conversations’ Video
Series Launches on Variety.com
In the first installment of Variety’s intimate new series, Matt Damon talks about the epic
journey of B.O. hit “The Martian” as it catapults into the awards discussion. Further episodes of
“Contenders Conversations” will be released every Wednesday throughout the Oscar season.
Brian Lowry
Tuning In
For AMC’s ‘The
Walking Dead,’
Death Is a
Fact of Life
“The Walking Dead” has clearly
established by now that the real
evil isn’t in the slavering, mindless
zombies but rather the horrors that
people will commit in a world turned
lawless and desperate. Yet the series
still occasionally needs to remind its
audience of that fact.
Variety.com/TWDDeath
Variety.com/DamonVideo
Brent Lang
Box Office
‘Steve Jobs’:
What Went
Wrong With
Apple Drama
When Amy Pascal allowed “Steve
Jobs” to leave Sony for Universal,
the studio chief fretted that she
had let a modern day “Citizen Kane”
slip through her fingers. After its
wide debut flopped at the box office,
however, her wariness appears
entirely justified.
Variety.com/SteveJobsFlop
Controversial,
newsworthy and
popular online
1
Ricky Gervais
Returns to Host
73rd Golden
Globes Awards
• 44 COMMENTS
• 379 TWEETS
2
Yahoo Loses
$42 Million on
‘Community,’ 2
Other Original
Series
• 18 COMMENTS
• 247 TWEETS
3
‘Empire’ Boss
on Cookie’s New
Man, Jamal’s
Woes & Hakeem’s
Dangerous
Cliffhanger
• 11 COMMENTS
• 202 TWEETS
4
‘Harry Potter’
Stage Play Will
Be Two-Part
Sequel About
Harry’s Son
• 6 COMMENTS
• 492 TWEETS
5
‘Batman v
Superman’: Ben
Affleck, Henry
Cavill Reveal
Plot Details
• 4 COMMENTS
• 229 TWEETS
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