Catching up with Liz Garbus, director of Bobby Fischer Against the World
Liz Garbus is one of the most pre-eminent documentary filmmakers of the day. Her best-known film may be the prison documentary The Farm: Angola, USA, which won the Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award. But more recently she collaborated with Rory Kennedy on Street Fight, which was also Oscar-nominated, and she produced the Emmy-winning Ghosts of Abu Ghraib. Her new picture is a fascinating work about a fascinating man. Bobby Fischer Against the World just kicked off HBO’s Documentary Films Summer Series, which will feature a second Garbus offering in July. She joined us to talk... read more
It Takes a Community... To Embarrass a Writer
Paste writer Adam Galanter took a trip to the set of our current favorite sitcom Community, which ends its second season tonight. He spoke with the show's stars and ended up in his own little comedy. read more
Ears We Trust: Cameron Monaghan's Top 10 Songs
Cameron Monaghan plays the nerdy, music-loving Corey in the teen flick Prom that comes out this weekend. The film’s soundtrack includes songs from The Weepies, Oh Darling, Shout Out Louds and Passion Pit.... read more
Best of What's Next: Cameron Monaghan of Shameless
Coming off the first season of Showtime’s Shameless, Cameron Monaghan talks with Paste about working with William Macy and about playing a gay teen in the acclaimed TV series that truly lives up to its name. He also discusses his love of music (see side bar on his 10 favorite songs) and his nerdy role in the new teen film Prom.... read more
Catching Up With… John Oliver
John Oliver plays an uppity know-it-all on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart; in his five years on the job, he’s become a reliable fixture for full-fledged British smarminess. But there are only traces in his stand-up, where the seasoned comic is free to mock trashy American culture and politics with a much more ingratiating presence. read more
Our Favorite Cats That Look Like Ron Swanson
We’re not exactly sure where felines fall on Ron Swanson’s Pyramid of Greatness. After all, cats can’t resist fish, while Ron hunts it “for sport only. Fish meat is practically a vegetable.”... read more
Our Favorite #WatsonsNextChallenge Tweets So Far
IBM artificial-intelligence program Watson successfully accomplished its objective this week by defeating Jeopardy! legends Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. Watson, who possesses a baffling 15-trillion byte memory filled with category upon category of Jeopardy! knowledge, clearly have plenty of space in his databank take on some more challenges. Maybe Watson could prevent all future accidents on the set of Spiderman: Turn of the Dark or partner with AWESOM-O 3000 to write scripts for the next 10 Adam Sandler movies? Plenty of folks on Twitter have suggested challenges for the robot, and you can see some of our favorites in the... read more
2010 Person of the Year in TV: David Simon
For creating the wonder of Treme and assembling the stellar talents of Melissa Leo, Kim Dickens, John Goodman, Wendell Pierece, and so many other greats to bring it to life, David Simon is Paste’s 2010 Person of the Year for TV. read more
Catching Up With… ESPN Films’ Connor Schell
One of the most audacious documentary projects of 2010 was ESPN’s 30 For 30 series, in which the series found 30 of the best documentarians working today and commissioned a film from each of them on a sports-related event from the last 30 years. Volume 1 of the DVD set came out last month, and Connor Schell, executive producer of both ESPN Films and the 30 for 30 series, spoke with Paste about the series. You can hear the complete interview in the January 6 edition of the Indie Minded Film Podcast on Paste Culture Club.... read more
Luke Perry Poses with Fans at DragonCon
We’re not really sure where to start with this one. For some reason, Luke Perry (of Beverly Hills 90210 fame) was at Dragon*Con in Atlanta, and photos of him posing with eager fans have surfaced.... read more
Catching Up With... Tim and Eric
The comedic pair talks koala bears, HBO Latino and, of course, Chrimbus... read more
Five People Who Would Better Host MTV's New Punk'd Than Justin Bieber
Not that we don’t appreciate Justin Bieber in a weird way, but it’s just that we think MTV could do a little better job selecting the host of the forthcoming, revived Punk’d. Although it would allow culture commentators to verb Bieber on the regular, we think the following folks would better head up the new Punk’d. After all, The Bieb’s doing just fine with his day job, thank you very much.... read more
Gillian Jacobs Talks Community's Second Season, Foot Fetishes
"I would like Amy Sedaris to play my mom," Jacobs says. "She's one of the funniest people alive." read more
62nd Primetime Emmy Live Blog
Welcome to our 2010 Emmy Live Blog with Paste editor-in-chief Josh Jackson and publisher Nick Purdy. Join us in the comments section below or tweeting to @joshjackson. read more
2010 Emmy Predictions, Picks & Snubs
On Sunday night, the 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards will hosted by Late Night host Jimmy Fallon. Unfortunately, as far as we know, he won’t be bringing along his backing band The Roots. But we’ll be bringing you commentary throughout the night on our live blog. I’ll be joined by Paste publisher Nick Purdy and all of you in Twitter-land so check back on our site Sunday 8pm ET, 5pm PT. In the meantime, here are my gripes, faulty predictions and cocksure proclamations about the 2010 Primetime Emmys.... read more
Hannibal Buress: They Call Him the Working Man
"Hannibal Buress is going to be a gigantic star," comedic heavyweight Jim Gaffigan told _Chicago_ magazine earlier this year... read more
Schooling Mad Men: An Advertising Professor and Student Discuss the Show
This story is a part of our Mad Men Takeover. Season four of the series premieres on AMC this Sunday, July 25. — There’s a lot of information on Mad Men that the advertising-uninitiated of us might not understand. The show has been lauded for its accuracy, but if you don’t know the first thing about advertising, how can you tell? It seemed that there was a lot we could be taught by the pros. So we turned to The Creative Circus, an Atlanta-based school that trains for the creative side of the advertising, interactive development, design and photography industries.... read more
The Mad Men GIF Party: Everyone's Invited!
This story is a part of our Mad Men Takeover. Season four of the series premieres on AMC this Sunday, July 25. — Before the YouTube age, back when two-minute videos took hours to download and picking up the (gasp!) landline phone could disrupt your internet connection, short-lived hilarity was captured in the form of several frames of animation strung together in a looping picture format called an animated GIF. This fun bit of antiquated internet technology has stuck around in a semi-satirical fashion, with blogs like GIF Party giving us a reason to save images of Stephen Colbert dancing... read more
Hollywood and Smoking: A Brief History
This story is a part of our Mad Men Takeover. Season four of the series premieres on AMC this Sunday, July 25. — Hollywood has had something of a torrid affair with smoking ever since the likes of classic stars such as Bette Davis, Paul Henreid and Audrey Hepburn graced the silver screen. Celebrities like them would send puffs of smoke into the air, and they somehow made filling your lungs with grey chemicals appealing and attractive. Since then, though, the depiction of smoking in film and television has seen several boosts of support and, conversely, almost militaristic omissions from... read more
Drink Like a Mad Man: The Essentials for a Respectable Home Bar
This story is a part of our Mad Men Takeover. Season four of the series premieres on AMC this Sunday, July 25.--Drinking can be fun no matter what the excuse, but after watching several seasons of those classy fellas down cocktail after cocktail, maybe it's time to try your hand at home bar tending. Here's a few tips, tricks, and outright demands to help you get started.... read more
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