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MOVIE THE SOUND OF MUSIC It’s not just the raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens—or that underneath her wimple she has curlers in her hair—that I find especially gratifying. It’s that in this 1965 classic, the von Trapps are able to escape the Nazis via winning a singing competition. —BILL KEITH, Features Editor FEELING HAMMERED BY THE HEADLINES? WHY NOT TAKE A JOYRIDE? THESE FROM EW’S STAFF GUARANTEE INSTANT GRINS AND WARM-FUZZY FEELS.

TV TV MUSIC BOOK FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS BEYONCÉ’S BABY-BUMP “CALL ME MAYBE” MY FAMILY AND Season 1 ◆ Episode 22 REVEAL CARLY RAE JEPSEN OTHER ANIMALS I’m no football fan, but 2011 MTV VIDEO MUSIC AWARDS No song in the history of the GERALD DURRELL

watching the Panthers win state MUSIC OF SOUND THE ”Love on Top” is one of the world better captures that pre- I can always cheer myself with that final play and the single best moments in MTV cise moment of infatuation that’s by basking in the gentle and faith are compatible, that whole town cheering them on history. There’s a purple sequin all butterflies, rainbows, and warmth of this hilarious 1956 certainty doesn’t preclude a to the sweet, wry strains of Tony blazer, a mic drop, cuts to Kanye blushes. Plus you can dance to it. memoir, which recounts the constant search for truth. Bono’s Lucca’s cover of “Devil Town” and Jay Z in pure elation, and —HENRY GOLDBLATT, Editor in Chief escapades of an extremely lyrics and the Edge’s church- can fix the bleakest of moods. Katy Perry dancing with some STAGE eccentric British family during bell guitar combine to create a KRAVITZ/FILMMAGIC; JEFF BEYONCE: : EVERETT; —MEETA AGRAWAL, Deputy Editor sort of cheese block affixed “NON-STOP” a five-year sojourn on the Greek bittersweet hymn that calls me to her head. In other words, it’s HAMILTON ORIGINAL island of Corfu in the 1930s. to look up when I’m down and a gigantic win for everyone. BROADWAY CAST RECORDING —TINA JORDAN, Senior Editor keep clear-eyed when I’m TV —CAITLIN BRODY, Senior Editor Five words: “Hamilton wrote fogged. —JEFF JENSEN, Critic GILMORE GIRLS MOVIES Season 3 ◆ Episode 7 the other 51!” —KELLY CONNOLLY, ROAD HOUSE (1989) AND Lorelai and Rory always Staff Editor, EW.com Fanwatch Network POINT BREAK (1991) hit the spot, and “They Shoot PODCAST MUSIC While his action-movie Gilmores, Don’t They?” is ANNA FARIS IS UNQUALIFIED MOVIE TEENAGE DREAM contemporaries mowed down totally delightful. It centers on I find myself laughing out MUSIC THE WORLD’S END (2013) KATY PERRY Russians, Patrick Swayze Stars Hollow’s 24-hour dance VIDEOGAME loud when I listen to the Mom “I STILL HAVEN’T FOUND I’ll happily watch any film When the humidity is high extolled the merits of being nice marathon, and features lots MARIO KART: DOUBLE DASH!! star and her guests (like Chelsea WHAT I’M LOOKING FOR” that features an alien invasion, in New York and distracted (as the world’s greatest bouncer) HAMILTON of mother-daughter bonding This Super Mario Bros. off- Handler, Shaq, and the occasional U2 heavy drinking, British comic Pokémon GO players are and living life to the fullest (as and guy drama—the best being shoot for GameCube is the only cameo by husband Chris Pratt). U2’s 1987 rock-gospel anthem actor Nick Frost, or Primal bumping into me on the street, a surfing bank robber). These Dean breaking up with Rory, constant among the five apart- Her quirky humor and candid life : JOAN MARCUS : JOAN is my bridge over troubled water, Scream’s dance-rock classic I put in my earbuds and cue up are the perfect balance of making way for bad boy Jess ments I’ve lived in. And when advice are the perfect uplifting a psalm of reorientation in times “Loaded.” A movie that features this perfect pop album, and I’m earnest cheese and fun, two of (my favorite love interest I’m riding the rainbow road with distraction from the world’s of disorientation. It embraces all four? Now we’re talking! instantly transported to the my favorite movie qualities. of hers). —C. MOLLY SMITH, Yoshi in the front seat, I feel invin- somber news cycle. —CRISTINA hopeful paradoxes: that doubt —CLARK COLLIS, Senior Writer beach. —TIM STACK, Senior Writer —KEVIN P. SULLIVAN, Staff Editor Editorial Assistant cible. —CARLY KLAIRE, Designer EVERETT, Deputy Editor, EW.com

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THE CAROL BURNETT SHOW BURNETT CAROL THE Few people grew up in a VIDEOGAME include a screen that plays it on MORGAN, Associate Photo Editor and it’s impossible not to love. backwater like North Bath, the THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: a loop, so that when people go —JOE MCGOVERN, Correspondent rotting blue-collar setting of OCARINA OF TIME to visit me, they’ll leave full of joy. Robert Benton’s adaptation of Ever since high school, playing —METTIE OSTROWSKI, Design/ Richard Russo’s novel, but drop this 1998 Nintendo 64 masterpiece Photo Assistant MOVIE in on any scene—Jessica Tandy has provided the perfect escape HAPPY GILMORE (1996) offering Paul Newman tea, from reality—or biology home- : EVERETT; : Newman telling his slow-witted What can I say? I’d watch this work. The wonderfully nostalgic movie while making things out of partner that he is his best graphics, surrounding sounds, MOVIE clay, laying by the bay, I just may. friend—and it feels like home. VEEP and melodies (“Saria’s Song”!) —ANDREA ADAMS, Editorial Manager —JEFF LABRECQUE, Senior Editor THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE : LACEY TERRELL/HBO; BIEBER: KEVIN MAZUR/GETTY IMAGES MAZUR/GETTY KEVIN BIEBER: TERRELL/HBO; : LACEY transport me to an impossibly CHRISTMAS (1993) gorgeous world that takes hours TV The stop-motion Halloween- upon hours to fully explore—and THE CAROL BURNETT SHOW town residents are adorably it’s worth every second. —KEIR Season 10 ◆ Episode 8 TV macabre in an Edward Gorey BOOK NOVESKY, Deputy Design Director In the “Went With the Wind!” THE ROYAL WE RACHEL MCADAMS sort of way (vampires with sketch, spoiled Southern belle HEATHER COCKS AND TV AND RYAN GOSLING’S umbrellas to protect them from Starlett O’Hara decides to make JESSICA MORGAN FRIENDS “BEST KISS” WIN the sun!). But the real cheer lies a dress out of drapes, like Vivien This Americanized take on Season 2 ◆ Episode 14 The only thing better than in watching Pumpkin King Jack PODCAST Leigh’s Scarlett famously did. Prince William and Kate Middle- TV When she discovers years watching The Notebook is watch- Skellington undertake an acci- But when Starlett appears in her ton’s romance has given me an BOB ROSS later that Ross (David Schwim- ing its stars reenact their iconic dental voyage of self-discovery RUPAUL: green velvet gown (designed by afterglow that’s lasted much The Joy of Painting host left mer) planned to take her to prom smooch at the 2005 MTV Movie and, in the end, find true love. Bob Mackie), it still has the brass longer than the tan I got as I tore this world in 1995, but we should after thinking she’d been stood Awards. Seeing them make out on Tim Burton and Henry Selick’s WHAT’S THE TEE? curtain rod running through the through it on the beach months all be as happy as little trees to up, Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) stage still gives me hope for love, film is an inspiration to misfits WITH MICHELLE VISAGE shoulders. Burnett masterfully ago. —BREANNE L. HELDMAN, know that his earnest, meditative kisses him, throwing the will- even if they didn’t last as a couple. and outsiders everywhere. rides the roiling waves of laugh- Deputy News Director art-instruction series now streams they-won’t-they out the window —SAMANTHA HIGHFILL, Staff Writer —GINA MCINTYRE, News Director ter from the live audience before Listening to RuPaul delivering the immortal line and squirrel friend Visage dish is “I saw it in the window and I just like eavesdropping on the most fab couldn’t resist it.” Neither will MUSIC brunch ever. Whether discussing you. —SEAN SMITH, Executive Editor “COLD WATER” MAJOR LAZER FEATURING Drag Race, lace-front wigs, or more JUSTIN BIEBER AND MØ serious issues like depression and Sure, this song’s refreshing self-esteem, Ru and Michelle always MUSIC title sounds incredibly appealing “THUNDER ROAD” during a heat wave. But along keep it real. And when they inevita- BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN with the Bieb’s relaxed vocals and bly crack each either up, it’s impossi- From the moment you hear an addictive beat, it’s a perfectly chill summer single. —NINA ble not to laugh along. —AARON those opening plink-plink piano notes and harmonica whine, how TERRERO, Senior Correspondent MORALES, Senior Associate Art Director can your heart not quicken with TV joy? This 1975 track captures that giddy roll-down-the-window-and- VEEP SEASON 5 let-the-wind-blow-back-your-hair feeling like no other. (Disclaimer: Nothing makes me more connection is enough to inspire I am from New Jersey.) —SARA hope for the future. delirious than marveling at how TV —MADELINE VILKOMERSON, Senior Writer THE WEST WING BOARDMAN, Digital Features Editor inappropriately far the writers take Season 2 ◆ Episode 8 this crew of pathological professional A dream POTUS, Martin D.C. wonks. I’m addicted to the Sheen’s Josiah Bartlet is in espe- TV endorphin high I get from Julia cially rare form in “Shibboleth,” TV ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT welcoming faithful refugees with HAPPY ENDINGS’ OPENERS Especially the original Louis-Dreyfus delivering lines I only open arms and acknowledging Six friends, just hanging out at seasons. No matter what wish I could use here in the lower his love for Charlie with the the diner/apartment, swapping happens, the show is always offices of Entertainment Weekly. bestowing of a family heirloom. punchlines at the speed of light— there on Netflix to crack me The juxtaposition of strong moral imagining penguins getting up, even when I’m bluer than —MICHELE ROMERO, Photo Editor leadership and moving human hammered off body shots or Tobias. —RAY RAHMAN, Staff Writer

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deliver a slow-building, feel- more—or been more enjoyable good space-R&B odyssey. while enjoying them—than TV Every time I hear it—especially Nick and Nora Charles, William booming from a high-end club “THE SALT AND PEPPER DINER” Powell and Myrna Loy’s tipsy, sound system—I turn into an JOHN MULANEY banter-swapping husband-wife uncontrollable, blissed-out All of Mulaney’s stand-up sleuths in the dizzy, fizzy Thin maniac on the dance floor. specials do the trick, but this Man movies from the ’30s —KEVIN O’DONNELL, Senior Editor bit is just so bizarre and so and ’40s. Bottoms up…hic! hilarious that it brings me to —CHRIS NASHAWATY, Critic tears. It’s also the reason I can never listen to Tom Jones’ Jenny Lewis’ explosive pep talk movies of Star Wars and Steven “What’s New Pussycat?” again. hasn’t lost its power to turn Spielberg. I never expected their TV —DEVAN COGGAN, Editorial Assistant THE OFFICE around a terrible day. —NOLAN passions to become my own, TV FEENEY, Staff Writer but with Cars, my little boy has Season 3 ◆ Episode 23 LAST WEEK TONIGHT made me a die-hard Lightning WITH JOHN OLIVER After three seasons of high McQueen fan. He’s a race car Articulating righteous sanity fives and candid glances, Jim BOOK who taught us both to slow down amid the sea of conflicting interrupts Pam’s talking-head inter- WHY NOT ME? MOVIE and enjoy the ride. —ANTHONY view to finally ask her out. Pam’s fractured noise, Oliver’s deep- MINDY KALING THE WONDER WOMAN TRAILER BREZNICAN, Senior Writer overjoyed face when she turns dive segments—which remix Of all the fantasy best back to the camera and says, “I’m I’ve been waiting for this long-form journalism into upbeat friends out there, Kaling—with sorry, what was the question?” movie since I was 7, running nuggets of viral entertainment— her perfect mix of brainy, Lean makes it absolutely worth the wait. around in my Underoos with soothe our ever-spinning mental In workaholism and love of juicy TV MOVIE She’s crying. I’m crying. Every metal bracelets made out of hamster wheels by assuring that, Hollywood secrets—is the tops. tinfoil, so the trailer for the debut THE COMEBACK yes, somebody at a TV news desk Jam shipper worldwide is crying. ◆ Her 2015 book feels like an inti- of the Amazonian princess was Season 2 Episode 6 really does get it, really does care, JULIE & JULIA —RUTH KINANE, Editorial Assistant mate note from your funniest pal, enough to ignite some serious In “Valerie Cooks in the Des- and can even make an impact. The relationship between Julia (Meryl!) and each essay is its own stand- joy. Wonder Woman couldn’t ert,” Lisa Kudrow’s has-been star —JAMES HIBBERD, Editor at Large alone pick-me-up. —ISABELLA be more needed now, when is forced to work on a Saturday as and Paul Child (Stanley Tucci!) might be the best love BIEDENHARN, Editorial Assistant we are desperate for heroes. her marriage crumbles—and then story in cinematic history. When they’re celebrating Valen- —NICOLE SPERLING, Senior Writer she has to film in the desert...in tine’s Day, he toasts to her and says, “You are the butter a car trunk...with snakes. That’s TV my worst nightmare, but Kudrow CRAZY EX-GIRLFRIEND’S to my bread and the breath to my life,” and I sob like a baby MUSIC makes it the most hilarious MUSICAL NUMBERS because it’s just so real and tender. She then flutters the “A BETTER SON/DAUGHTER” MOVIE reminder that this too shall pass. I don’t think a week has gone paper heart pinned to her chest and it’s like rainbows RILO KILEY CARS (2006) —NICK MASLOW, Digital News Editor by since this show premiered bloom over the table. —JESSICA GOODMAN, Digital News Editor Anne Hathaway and I don’t My son adores this Pixar that I haven’t binge-rewatched have much in common, except movie. It gets a shrug or a gri- all of these. If I’m forced to pick for our undying love of this indie- mace from the grown-up class, just one that makes me happi- MOVIE rock anthem (the star has said but the purity of his love for it has MOVIES est, it’d have to be “I Gave You STAR WARS: EPISODE IV— that the song is “almost like a gradually got me loving it, too— THE THIN MAN SERIES a UTI,” Santino Fontana’s ear- A NEW HOPE (1977) prayer” that she turns to in hard and seeing things I didn’t before. This time of year, nothing nestly gleeful and silly ode to This is the film I would want times). Fourteen years after it As a dad, I expected to teach my hits the spot like an icy cocktail. urinary-tract infections. MUSIC BOOK STAGE to be buried with, so that I can was first released, frontwoman kids to love Led Zeppelin and the And no one’s ever enjoyed them —DYLAN KICKHAM, Editorial Intern “NO BROKEN HEARTS” HARRY POTTER AND THE BROADWAY MUSICAL remain happy in my afterlife and BEBE REXHA FEATURING ORDER OF THE PHOENIX CAST ALBUMS still mouth along with Greedo the

NICKI MINAJ PIXAR/DISNEY;: CHANCE THE RAPPER: JEFF KRAVITZ/FILMMAGIC I know studying for exams A Broadway musical is a words “Oota-goota, Solo? Soam Summer-anthem alert! The peeta-lay!” As long as I’m watch- can be stressful, but I always promise, a guarantee of positivity CARS soaring melody and transportive find the chapter in which the trio through giddily clever rhymes, ing, I’m in a galaxy far, far away, lyrics have kept me poppin’ bot- take their O.W.L.s to be pro- catchy melodies, and an electric and nothing else matters. —JENNIE tles at the club every night—well, foundly comforting. These three alacrity that pours out of the CHANG, Managing Art Director at least it feels that way through have to worry about destroying biggest showstoppers. When I headphones, even when I’m just Umbridge and Voldemort—but don’t have two hours to devote LTD.; LUCASFILM :© sitting at my desk. —JENIFER first, they’ve got standardized to delirium via shows like GOBIE, Senior Associate Photo Editor tests to pass! The Wizarding Hairspray or Bye Bye Birdie,I TV World’s strangely normal like always count on West Side Story’s THE LEFTOVERS that. —SHIRLEY LI, Correspondent “Dance at the Gym” for a quick Season 2 ◆ Episode 10 temperamental tune-up. The world is a sad place MUSIC MOVIE —MARC SNETIKER, Staff Writer where bad things happen for no “POP! GOES MY HEART” reason, but the invigorating core CHANCE THE RAPPER FROM MUSIC AND LYRICS ideal of The Leftovers is that (2007) happiness is possible in this cruel WARS:STAR EPISODEIV—A NEW HOPE Optimism permeates Chance’s There’s a hysterical gem of MUSIC universe. Which is why Justin music. From his “Wonderful Everyday: a scene from this rom-com: “LIFE IS SOMETHING SPECIAL” Theroux singing “Homeward the cheesy music-video credit N.Y.C. PEECH BOYS Bound” at a karaoke bar beyond Arthur,” a rousing cover of the kids’-show theme sequence that showcases PoP!, The title of this 1982 disco infinity in “I Live Here Now” is song, to the gospel track “Finish Line/Drown,” a fictional ’80s band. It’s crazy classic only hints at the pure the most inspiring, joy-inducing, JONATHAN: WENK; it’s hard not to be inspired by how much joy and over-the-top, and Hugh elation contained within. And belief-in-humanity-restoring Grant does a lot of hip thrusting. for close to 10 minutes, iconic thing I’ve seen this decade. he gets out of life, and by his ability to remain

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