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FEATURES NEWS AND COLUMNS 15 The Emmys: 1 Secret Ballot The Must List EW talked to four anonymous TV 8 insiders about how Sound Bites they’ll be voting this year, and who they 10 expect to bring home News & Notes the gold on Sept. 20. BY LYNETTE RICE 68 The Bullseye 20 The Oscar Race REVIEWS Begins Now Yes, it’s only August, 46 but the Best Picture Movies contenders are about to enter the ring. Here’s our take on 52 which movies are TV most likely to come out on top. 60 BY NICOLE SPERLING Music 22 62 American Horror Books Story: Hotel In an exclusive first look, we learn that in playing a brutal but “Working with glam bloodsucker, attacks the Gaga in the world challenge with abso- lutely no reservations. of BY TIM STACK was truly a riveting 32 experience. Fall Music Preview She hypnotizes From Janet Jackson’s first album in seven the camera years to Disclosure’s all-star dance party with sheer power with Lorde and and control.” Sam Smith, EW has the scoop on more —Photographer Michael than 40 of the Avedon, grandson of the late photo legend season’s biggest, Richard Avedon, on buzziest records. his and Gaga’s first EW cover 42 The of Books Which novel captures ON THE COVER the true spirit of Lady Gaga photo- Iowa? How about graphed exclusively Texas? Or Rhode for EW by Michael Island? We pick the Avedon on the set of one work of fiction : that best defines each Hotel in Los Angeles state in the Union. on Aug. 12, 2015 BY KEITH STYLING: LOU EYRICH; ASSISTANT STYLISTS: ROBERT STASKIEWICZ & SPARKMAN AND SANDRA ISABELLA AMADOR; HAIR: FREDERIC BIEDENHARN ASPIRAS/THE ONLY AGENCY AND MONTE C. HAUGHT; MAKEUP: SARAH TANNO/THE WALL GROUP, ERYN KRUEGER MEKASH AND LOU ERYICH; MANICURIST: MIHO OKAWARA/ AIMO CREATIVE

PHOTOGRAPH BY MICHAEL AVEDON SEPTEMBER 4, 2015 EW.COM 7 THE WEEK’S BEST TWEET OF THE WEEK “What if a boy asks if you want to ride in his car?” “I say ‘no.’” “What if the car is a TARDIS?” “I say ‘yes’!” “Wrong!” @jenniferweiner testing her kids

“When I went down to turn off “I am still a the water, I found lawyer/taxidermist. a whole beehive But since the legal of problems. Number one: You system basically does got a beehive.” not exist in —Mark (Keegan-Michael Key), acting as handyman Nevada, I also made to keep his mind myself a judge.” off of his divorce, on Playing House —Phe Phe (Tymberlee Hill), explaining her move from Orlando, on The Hotwives of Las Vegas

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$100 Million and Runnin’ Straight Outta Compton shattered box office expectations, becoming the season’s surprise hit and turning N.W.A into the Boyz of summer. By Chris Lee

10 EW.COM SEPTEMBER 4, 2015 QUIZ OVER ITS AUG. 14 opening weekend, Straight Outta Compton hauled in more than $60 million to snag the top spot at the box office and crush every industry expec- FACE tation. Last week, the hip-hop biopic—which dramatizes the rise and demise of late-’80s/early-’90s gangsta-rap firebrands N.W.A—again claimed No. 1, crossing the OFF $100 million mark in ticket sales and besting such new movies in as Sinister 2 and Hitman: Agent 47 to become the summer’s undisputed shock-and-awe blockbuster. ’s It’s hardly a no-brainer that a $29 million R-rated film free of costumed heroes, boasting Lyndon B. no marquee stars, and centered on the hard-swearing backstory of America’s most contro- Johnson biopic, LBJ, has found versial hip-hop group would break through during popcorn-movie season—but here’s why its Jackie (and how) Straight Outta Compton shot straight to the top. Kennedy. Rela- tive newcomer Kim Allen (whom you may recognize from Army Wives) will star along- 1234 side Woody Harrelson, join- ing a long list of actresses who have portrayed the famous First Producers Street cred gone (Finally) breaking Continuing the Lady. The list is with pull social the silence conversation so long, in fact, that we couldn’t Former N.W.A mates The ’s marketers In Compton’s second Unlike Notorious, even remember Dr. Dre and Ice Cube took to the air, sky- week, a din of con- 2009’s biodrama them all without took the unusual writing Compton troversy shifted the about Notorious a little help. step (by Hollywood above Los Angeles, focus from the film B.I.G., one of Comp- Test your knowl- standards, anyway) an image that satu- to Dre’s real-life past ton’s principal talk- edge with the of producing their rated Instagram. transgressions. ing points is how the image below: own biopic. To com- Then they wisely Hip-hop journalist film is not just rever- pensate for the film’s rode the publicity Dee Barnes, R&B ent but also relevant Can you identify cast of unknowns— slipstream of Dre’s singer Michel’le (who to modern audi- the women including Cube’s son Compton (Aug. 7), has a son with Dre), ences. “The more who have played O’Shea Jackson Jr.— his first solo album and rapper-singer things change, the the Queen Dre and Cube in 16 years, which Tairrie B spoke pub- more they stay the of Camelot? became focal points hit No. 1 on the licly of having been same,” says director 12 for a promo blitz, charts. And the physically assaulted F. Gary Gray. “This appearing in teaser “Straight Outta by Dre during the movie is more than trailers and doing Somewhere” meme period depicted in just a period piece.” press alongside allowed users to the film—events Dealing with issues fellow members MC plug their home- conspicuously left of racial profiling, Ren and DJ Yella. town into the out of the final cut. police brutality, and “This one was his movie’s signature Last week Dre issued African-American baby,” Jackson says logo, becoming a an unexpected state- anger (as crystalized of his father’s bona fide viral ment: “I apologize to by N.W.A’s infamous commitment. “If sensation on social the women I’ve hurt,” 1988 song “F--- tha he couldn’t be on media with more he wrote. “I deeply Police”), it pushes set, he would Skype than 6 million labels regret what I did emotional hot but- : JAIMIE TRUEBLOOD; ALLEN: ARAYA DIAZ/WIREIMAGE.COM; SMITH, DOWNEY: EVERETT COLLECTION (2); HOLMES: SPLASH NEWS in. Him and Dre were shared by Aug. 14. and know that it has tons in an era when there every day.” Call it a team effort: forever impacted all #BlackLivesMatter 4 “Donna Langley of our lives.” has become a 3

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RIGHT BACK WHERE SAYING WE STARTED FROM GOODBYE TO CSI Chrismukkah is coming early for fans of The O.C. On Aug. 30 in L.A., Jordan Ross and Lindsey Rosin—the brains behind this spring’s ••• Cruel Intentions: The Musical—will stage The Unauthorized O.C. Longtime faves William Musical, re-creating the show’s with music and moments from Petersen, Marg Helgenberger, all four seasons. (The cast includes Autumn Reeser as Julie Cooper. It Paul Guilfoyle, and Melinda doesn’t get much better than seeing Taylor Townsend go full Clarke returned to the CSI Newpsie.) The success of the production rests in the details, which set earlier this month to help Ross and Rosin recently shared with EW. By Samantha Highfill wrap 15 seasons and more than 300 episodes of the CBS drama with a two-hour finale (Sept. 27). Newer stars, including Ted Danson and Elisabeth Harnois, team with the vets to investigate a catastrophic event that paralyzes all of Sin City, but the two-parter—titled “Immortality, Parts I and II”—also was one last excuse to reunite old . “It’s been one of the most surreal times of my life, but it seemed like the most natural thing,” says Jorja Fox. “It’s been like Groundhog Day.” —Lynette Rice

• THE LOOK will be a lip-lock hunted for replicas of  The characters had to complete with a nod Captain Oats and Brendan Robinson be instantly recogniz- to Spider-Man. Princess Sparkle as Seth able, which of course on eBay, and Cohen, means a geek-chic • THE OMG they almost found Tilky collared shirt for Seth, MOMENT exact copies: Jones as Ryan a choker for Ryan, a Nothing left us Captain Oats is as Atwood, puka-shell necklace speechless (mmmm, you remember him, and Molly for Luke, and a bikini whatcha say?) like but, sadly, he’s McCook as Marissa top for Summer. the moment Marissa missing his saddle. Cooper As for Marissa, it’s all shot Trey in season 2. about her favorite “You couldn’t do The • THE FOLLOW-UP accessory: vodka. O.C. justice without Ross and Rosin’s it,” Ross says. Despite next dream-project • THE MUSIC the display being musical would Seth and Summer quite violent, it take them from serenade each other solidifies Ryan and the coast to what with “Champagne Marissa’s love for some might call a Supernova” in a scene each other and even- devil town. “We that Ross describes tually leads them to would really like to as “Seth’s fantasy of select “their song.” do Friday Night being with Summer Spoiler alert: Lights,” Ross says. and what that could It’s “Forever Young.” “It’s a perfect piece possibly be like.” And of television.” Um, though it won’t be • THE SIDEKICKS when can upside down, there Ross and Rosin we get tickets?! For the latest news in entertainment, tune in to EW Morning Live with Dalton Ross and Jessica Shaw FIRST every weekday (SiriusXM Channel 105, 8–10 a.m.) LOOK

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ONE FAUXBITUARY DIRECTION, 2010–2016?

ONE DIRECTION, THE POPULAR boy band known for perfect hair, angelic voices, and legions of teenage fans, are : ADRIAN ROGERS/FX; ONE DIRECTION: YUI MOK/PA WIRE VIA ZUMA PRESS; NEWSPAPER: ISTOCK taking an extended hiatus (otherwise known as breaking up) come March 2016. The band, which resides in Los Angeles and London, will be just six years old. The cause of the break has yet to be ED SHEERAN GOES determined—members of 1D insist it’s

THE BASTARD EXECUTIONER just a vacation—but it is suspected that a MEDIEVAL ON THE BASTARD hunger for solo careers is at the core. Originally comprising Niall Horan, EXECUTIONER Liam Payne, Zayn Malik (who exited earlier this year), Harry Styles, and Louis ••• Tomlinson, 1D catapulted to fame after

Ed Sheeran is as used to acting as who first befriended the singer : SONJA FLEMMING/CBS; taking third place on The X Factor U.K. in

he is to singing to a group of when he covered Foy Vance’s CSI 2010. They became a pet project of screaming senior citizens—which “Make It Rain” for the penultimate superproducer Simon Cowell and went is to say, not very. So to calm his episode of Sutter’s Sons of on to release four successful albums nerves before shooting his first Anarchy. “He’s so accessible.” (a fifth will be out by year’s end), sell out : ALEX DEAN; ALEX : scene for FX’s upcoming The The West Yorkshire-born as many world tours, and star in two Bastard Executioner, the 24-year- crooner is under orders not to concert films and a documentary-style old pop star took some advice spill too many details about his film. While the rumored breakup has from costar Stephen Moyer: character, Sir Cormac, described taken some by surprise, Directioners Focus on breakfast food. “He told as an “ambitious and deadly pro- say the clues have been there all along. me when acting, I should think of tégé of a high-ranking church A lyric from the album Four signals something I like,” Sheeran told EW elder.” But Sheeran can say that impending doom: “The spaces between exclusively earlier this month on his part will throw off his fans. “I us keep getting deeper.” The now-quartet

set in Wales. “He told me to think have a reputation of being a MUSICAL O.C. UNAUTHORIZED THE will behind nearly 25 million Twitter of bacon. I didn’t do too badly.” smiley, approachable guy, so followers, fellow boy band 5 Seconds of Obviously not, since show cre- I wanted the opposite,” he says. Summer, and ’s “Style.” ator Kurt Sutter is already planning But don’t fret, “Thinking Out Mourners have already taken to Twitter to feature Sheeran in additional Loud” lovers: He knew better than to express their grief. “I don’t even episodes of the period drama to change his look. “When I remember my life before one direction about a 14th-century knight- walked into makeup they were if they break up I’ll literally turn into a turned-executioner, which debuts like, ‘We have to cut your fringe vegetable,” wrote @loveIyprince. In Sept. 15. “Ed’s got that great and give you a bowl haircut,’ ” he lieu of flowers, Cowell asks that residual medieval British look, so we found recalls. “I was like, ‘Ah, that’s not support be sent to his X Factor-produced a cool role for him,” says Sutter, happening.’ ”—Lynette Rice girl group, Fifth Harmony. GIUDICE HOUSE: JASON WINSLOW/SPLASH NEWS; NEWS; WINSLOW/SPLASH JASON HOUSE: GIUDICE

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The Emmys: SECRET BALLOT EW talked to four anonymous television insiders about how they’ll be voting for this year’s Emmys, and who they expect to take home the gold when the ceremony airs Sept. 20 at 8 p.m. ET on Fox. By Lynette Rice

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THE ESTEEMED THE SITCOM THE THE DIRECTOR WRITER SHOWRUNNER ACTRESS This two-time Emmy winner has A repeat nominee who’s worked on This Emmy-nominated writer, who This Emmy-winning actress, who helmed some of the most some of NBC’s most beloved oversees a huge critical fave, is in constant high demand, critically acclaimed series on TV. He’s comedies, this scribe isn’t too thrilled would rather pick two winners in the found it hard to pick winners in the not too keen on this year’s with one (or more) of the actress-in-a-drama category than actor categories because everyone best-comedy nominees, though. acting categories. be forced to choose. gave such great performances.

ILLUSTRATION BY JONATHAN CASE SEPTEMBER 4, 2015 EW.COM 15 Emmy Insider ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK NEW THE IS ORANGE

123 (Clock- wise from Outstanding Outstanding Lead Actor, left) Drama Series Comedy Series Drama Orange Is the New Better Call Saul, Downton Abbey, Louie, Modern Family, Kyle Chandler, Bloodline; Jeff Daniels, Black; : JOJO WHILDEN/; , Homeland, Parks and Recreation, Silicon Valley, The Newsroom; Jon Hamm, Game of House of Cards, Mad Men, Orange Is Transparent, Unbreakable Mad Men; Bob Odenkirk, Better Call Saul; Thrones; the New Black Kimmy Schmidt, Veep Liev Schreiber, Ray Donovan; Ray Kevin Spacey, House of Cards Donovan’s Liev Homeland. By process of Veep. Remember when Schreiber; Louie;

elimination. Saul should not have comedies were judged by the Parks and GAME OF THRONES been there. Abbey, Thrones, funny? Veep is the funniest, Recreation Cards, and Mad Men are with Modern Family second. Tough category. good but overrated, and Orange Louie depresses me, I’ll take Jon Hamm, please. THE ESTEEMED is just not really a drama and Schmidt’s inconsistent. He is long overdue. DIRECTOR in my book. That leaves me with Transparent? Culturally WALL/HBO; : NICK Claire and her posse, having significant, but I don’t vote for a great season. sociological political reasons.

Unbreakable Kimmy Mad Men closed out its Liev Schreiber’s performance RECREATION AND PARKS Schmidt is hilarious, but I don’t run with a cool episode, but only makes sense if we know anyone who watches. The hasn’t the world heard discover that Ray Donovan is a two funniest shows, Fresh Off Matt Weiner talk about himself robot. I’d give it to either the Boat and Last Man on Earth, enough? I’d give it to Jon Hamm for smiling [before] THE SITCOM aren’t nominated. I’d give it to Orange Is the New Black and that Coke commercial, WRITER Parks and Rec because they’ll creator Jenji Kohan, or Kevin Spacey for banging : COLLEEN HAYES/NBC; dedicate it to Harris Wittels, because she has blue hair. his fist on a desk. which will be incredibly moving.

Jon Hamm. It’s been Mad Men. I think the last

Louie. That show captures such an iconic performance, LOUIE season did a great job the fear and the angst of and he finished on an

of closing out the series. It was : KC BAILEY/FX; growing older while raising kids, incredibly strong note. He really really surprising and had and the indignity and ran the gamut in that THE a cathartic inevitability that’s SHOWRUNNER loneliness of modern life. final season. I’m amazed he hard to achieve. hasn’t won yet. RAY DONOVAN : PATRICK WYMORE/SHOWTIME

Liev Schreiber, because Game of Thrones, because Silicon Valley, because not only is he a friend, it’s grand and epic filmmaking I love Mike Judge and I think every performance he gives and they are due for a win. it’s brilliant satire. THE is powerful. ACTRESS

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Emmy Insider

456 (Clock- Lead Actress, Lead Actor, Lead Actress, wise from left) Drama Comedy Comedy Mad Men’s , Homeland; , Anthony Anderson, black-ish; Don , Nurse Jackie; Lisa Kudrow, Elisabeth How to Get Away With Murder; Taraji P. Cheadle, House of Lies; Louis C.K., Louie; The Comeback; Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Moss; Henson, Empire; , Will Forte, The Last Man on Earth; Matt Veep; Amy Poehler, Parks and Recreation; black-ish’s Orphan Black; , Mad Men; LeBlanc, Episodes; William H. Macy, Amy Schumer, Inside Amy Schumer; Anthony Robin Wright, House of Cards Shameless; Jeffrey Tambor,Transparent Lily Tomlin, Grace and Frankie Anderson; The Last Man on Earth’s Anthony Anderson. I went Will Forte; Viola Davis. She just knocks it with the black-ish star Grace and Julia Louis-Dreyfus, but Frankie’s out of the park, even when it because he made me laugh the MAD MEN if I could have a second I would Lily Tomlin doesn’t all make sense. You just most. I know Tambor will have gone with Lisa Kudrow.

can’t take your eyes off her. win, but the hair is really : AMC; THE ESTEEMED That girl is crazy. DIRECTOR the only thing that made me

chuckle. BLACK-ISH : GREG GAYNE/ABC; GAYNE/ABC; : GREG

Tatiana Maslany’s performance on Orphan Black is a treasure. Most of the nominees in Julia Louis-Dreyfus never hits I’m just kidding, what’s this category are actually giving a wrong note ever. Isn’t Orphan Black? I’d give the award dramatic performances. They it time for this woman to finally EARTH ON MAN LAST THE THE SITCOM to Elisabeth Moss, the should give it to Will Forte. be recognized for her work? WRITER heart and soul of Mad Men Hilarious. since the start.

This is hard. Viola Davis does : JOHN P. FLEENOR/FOX; P. FLEENOR/FOX; : JOHN such a grounded and Lisa Kudrow. She’s really nuanced interpretation of a Louis C.K. He is doing fabulous in that role messy, sexualized, and something incredibly unique. and can deliver heartbreaking incredibly conflicted character. He’s so poignant and and hilarious at the same But then with Tatiana Maslany THE hilarious. That’s not easy to do. time. I don’t think anyone does SHOWRUNNER I just think, F---, no one else that better. GRACE AND FRANKIE is doing that! She just blows me away. I can’t decide.

Lily Tomlin, because I’ve : MELISSA MOSELEY/NETFLIX Jeffrey Tambor, because Claire Danes, because always loved her. I saw her one- his performance is an her commitment to that role is woman show The Search incredibly touching portrayal of always inspired. for Signs of Intelligent Life in the THE someone transitioning. ACTRESS Universe four times!

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Yes, it’s only August, but the Best Picture contenders are about to enter the ring, and the field is packed with love, violence, and strong female roles. Here’s our take on which movies are most likely to come out on top. By Nicole Sperling

revolved around a central has at least 12 other movies on female character. its heels, including the most There’s some good news, zeitgeisty film of the year, The though: This year’s race could Danish Girl, directed by Tom T signal a course correction. Hooper (The King’s Speech). Most fall movies have not It stars recently crowned screened yet—and won’t until Best Actor Eddie Redmayne the Telluride and Toronto film as Lili Elbe, a 1920s artist festivals kick off Oscar season believed to be the first person THE ACADEMY AWARDS this next month—but right now to have undergone gender- past February were a cele- the field of potential Best confirmation surgery. bration of filmmaking that Picture contenders includes Also looking for Oscar love pushed boundaries, including six films featuring women in are Sandra Bullock’s political the 12-years-in-the-making leading roles, three movies drama Our Brand Is Crisis; the Boyhood and the daring about lesbian or transgender gay-equality film Freeheld, technical prowess of the Best characters, and at least two starring Ellen Page and last Picture winner, Birdman. But with multiethnic casts. year’s Best Actress, Julianne in the end, 2014’s Oscar The current front-runner is Moore; and Suffragette, the season was an exercise in Carol, the 1950s-set love story women’s-voting-rights tale decades in the life of an OSCAR STATUETTE: OSCAR ® STATUETTE © AMPAS WEISMILLER WALLACE; homogeneity. No actors of about a married socialite (Cate starring Carey Mulligan and entrepreneurial woman. ®; BLACK MASS BLACK color were nominated and Blanchett) and a department- Meryl Streep. And then there’s If that still doesn’t seem like only one film featuring a store clerk (Rooney Mara). David O. Russell’s Joy. The a sea change from last year,

Best Actress nominee was Directed by Todd Haynes (Far director’s last three films—The consider the intense Mexican- FOLGER; : CLAIRE

included in the Best Picture From Heaven), the film debuted Fighter, Silver Linings Playbook, drug-trade thriller Sicario. CAROL category. Sadly, that wasn’t to thunderous raves at the and American Hustle—all Directed by Denis Villeneuve : WILSON WEBB

just an off year for women. Cannes Film Festival in May earned Best Pic nods. This, his (Prisoners), it stars Emily Blunt JOY

Of the 87 films that have won and nabbed a Best Actress third outing with star Jennifer as an FBI agent forced to square : MERIE Best Picture, only 13 have prize for Mara. But Carol Lawrence, examines three off against Benicio Del Toro

GOLDEN GIRLS Best Picture Winners About Women Gone With the Wind 1939  Rebecca 1940  Mrs. Miniver 1942  All About Eve 1950  Gigi 1958  My Fair Lady 1964

20 EW.COM SEPTEMBER 4, 2015 LOGO BY MATT LEHMAN Tarantino’s in which he locks seven angry men (e.g., Samuel L. Jackson, , and Tim Roth) in a Leonardo DiCaprio in The Revenant room with a captured outlaw (Jennifer Jason Leigh) and waits to see who gets out alive. Yet even those inglorious bas- tards may have nothing on the twisted killer and FBI infor- mant Whitey Bulger, played by Johnny Depp in Black Mass. Still, it’s not all blood and bullets with the boys this year. Three veteran directors exam- ine the brainier side of man. Danny Boyle (Slumdog Million- Gia Gadsby and aire) and his star Michael Fass- Johnny Depp in Black Mass Jennifer Lawrence in Joy bender delve into the mind of the enigmatic Apple cofounder in Steve Jobs; Steven Spielberg takes on Cold War espionage in the Tom Hanks starrer Bridge of Spies; and Ridley Scott tries to rescue Matt Damon from space in The Martian. With this crop of films, genders are bending and are twisting. Ultimately, Oscar Alicia Vikander and Eddie Cate Blanchett in Carol Redmayne in The Danish Girl voters may not be deciding between stories starring men and those starring women. They’ll be asked to select from and Josh Brolin, and it’s as a range of films that explore brutal as anything in the male- the transformative capacity of centric segment of the Best OF THE 87 FILMS THAT love, the transcendent power Picture pack. Those films HAVE WON BEST PICTURE, of intelligence, and the include Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s ONLY 13 HAVE REVOLVED destructive force of violence. 19th-century action-survival AROUND A CENTRAL FEMALE And that’s a much more tale The Revenant, starring compelling choice to make. X Leonardo DiCaprio as fur CHARACTER. trapper/hunter Hugh Glass, Thoughts or questions? Tweet the and The Hateful Eight, Quentin writer @nicsperling.

 The Sound of Music 1965  Terms of Endearment 1983  Out of Africa 1985  Driving Miss Daisy 1989  The Silence of the Lambs 1991  Chicago 2002  Million Dollar Baby 2004

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23 BY TIM STACK (PREVIOUS SPREAD) STYLING: LOU EYRICH; ASSISTANT STYLISTS: ROBERT SPARKMAN AND AND SPARKMAN ROBERT STYLISTS: ASSISTANT EYRICH; LOU STYLING: SPREAD) (PREVIOUS

IS IT A TRUE FOURSOME IF HALF THE HAIR: ONLY AMADOR; FREDERICSANDRA ASPIRAS/THE AGENCY AND MONTE C. HAUGHT; MAKEUP: SARAH TANNO/THE WALL GROUP, ERYN KRUEGER MEKASH, AND LOU EYRICH; EYRICH; LOU AND MEKASH, KRUEGER ERYN GROUP, WALL TANNO/THE SARAH MAKEUP: sexual participants are dead? This question for the ages is being posed on a hot Monday evening on the Los Angeles set of American Horror Story: Hotel. Lady Gaga, making her AHS debut as an enigmatic figure named the Countess, and Matt Bomer, playing her paramour Donovan, are filming their aforementioned tryst. It involves the MANICURIST: MIHO OKAWARA/AIMO CREATIVE Countess and Donovan having naked fun I with another male-female duo in her hotel penthouse—then slashing their compan- ions’ throats with razor-sharp chain-mail gloves and feasting on their blood. Next Gaga and Bomer rev up to shoot their respective killing scenes. Bomer, the weaponized black glove on his hand and only

24 EW.COM SEPTEMBER 4, 2015 CLOCKWISE FROM FAR LEFT ◆ Finn Witrock; Lady Gaga and Matt Bomer; Evan Peters; Max Greenfield; Christine Estabrook, Cheyenne Jackson, and Lyric Lennon; Angela Basset

a sock covering his junk, goes first, with co- has fueled the soundstage with a giddy, creator and director Ryan Murphy calling REVEALED! surreal energy. Case in point: Her presence out commands like “Stab! Feed!” Gaga sits attracts a visit from John Travolta, who is MORE LINKS BETWEEN behind the monitors and watches like a HORROR STORY SEASONS shooting Murphy’s miniseries American superfan. “Yaasssss, queeeeen! Work that American Horror Story co-creator Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson next Ryan Murphy dropped a bombshell last glove,” she yells at the end of a take. Murphy year when he told EW that the stories door. Still in costume as defense attorney comes back and imitates the superstar’s of AHS are all connected. It was Robert Shapiro, Travolta hugs Gaga, who’s in something that fans had theorized, but enthusiastic chant. Laughing, Gaga exclaims, then it was confirmed when both a robe and diamond pasties, and they launch Pepper and Sister Mary Eunice from “I’m gonna wet my merkin!” In between Asylum appeared two seasons later on into a conversation about Travolta’s good pal Freak Show. Now the AHS universe scenes, the six-time Grammy winner enter- is about to get even smaller with Hotel. Barbra Streisand. (Photos of Streisand enter- tains with stories about everything from her “We do go to the Murder House taining Travolta, Gaga, and Murphy at her [from the original season] for one love of the Real Housewives franchise (she episode,”says Murphy. While he home popped up on social media days later.) wouldn’t elaborate, EW did learn that watches all of them) to her celebrity pals Marcy (Christine Estabrook), the Soon enough it’s Gaga’s turn for blood- (she’s currently babysitting Cher’s horse). real estate agent for the haunted shed in the bedroom, which Travolta stays home, is also the Realtor for the The set of AHS is always lively, but the arrival similarly horrific Hotel Cortez. So many to watch. The camera is positioned on the questions remain, but our main one of a star at the level of Lady Gaga, known for is: Who the hell is still hiring Marcy? bed from the perspective of Gaga’s victim.

(PREVIOUS SPREAD) GAGA’S ROBE: VINTAGE; BOYS’ SHIRTS AND TIES: SHOES: STRIDERITE; TAZIO; J. LENNON’S CREW; SHORTS:AND JACKET: FRENCH TOAST; VESTS CANNON’S JACKET: FERRECCI; EMERY’S JACKET: MICHAEL KORS; (THISSUZANNE SPREAD) TENNER/FX (6) hits like “Born This Way” and “Applause,” Murphy says, “Action!” and the star, clad in

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015 EW.COM 25 heat to it. It’s pulsating. Every season has a different tone or a color. And I think this year for sure wouldI be blood red.”

IT’S NOT EVERY DAY YOU GET A COLD call from Lady Gaga, even when you’re Ryan Murphy. “I was at a construction site and my phone rang,” he recalls. “I didn’t recog- nize the number. [I answer and] I hear ‘Please hold for Gaga.’ I think ‘Bad Romance’ was playing [while I was on hold],” he adds with a laugh. “Then she got on the phone. At first I thought it was a prank, but we then had a lovely call.” And a brief one, too, says Gaga, who’s a huge AHS fan (Freak Show was her favorite season, for the record). “I called him and I said, ‘Ryan, I wanna be on Horror Story.’ And he goes, ‘Okay.’ And that was it.” It’s not a huge leap to connect Gaga with the spooky series. This is the same woman VINTAGE NECKLACE: FORGE; NECKPIECE: IDEZEN; EARRINGS: VU; TOUT AURA ON RINGS: LAGERFELD; VINTAGE DRESS: who wore a meat dress to the 2010 VMAs and arrived at the 2011 Grammys in a giant egg. But in recent years, the singer has shifted toward a slightly softer, safer route, collaborating on a jazz album with Tony Bennett and performing selections from those bedazzled pasties and a matching Gaga’s “go big or go home” attitude is The Sound of Music at the Oscars this past necklace, goes positively gonzo. She writhes representative of this entire season of AHS. year. She now says that she’s ready to go around on the bed like a famished animal. The FX series, which reboots every year back to the freaky-deaky figure whose fans “She’s the only actress I think I’ve worked with a new scary plot but the same core fittingly call themselves Little Monsters. with who wanted to do more explicit stuff ensemble of actors, will launch its boldest, “I’ve just been weeping while I’m here than was written,” confides Murphy. “You bloodiest, sexiest iteration on Oct. 7 with because I have returned to something I’ve write a foursome for her and you expect a lot Gaga becoming the face of the franchise believed in so much, which is the art of of questions. She never did that. She showed now that Jessica Lange has bowed out. darkness,” says the singer. “It’s not some- up and she was wearing diamond pasties, a “There’s a chance to do something Jessica thing that everyone understands, but, for Band-Aid on her hoo-ha, heels, and a black would not have done,” admits Murphy. “So the people that do—Horror Story fans, my veil that Alexander McQueen made for her it’s a different tone. But it’s still the show— fans—there is a true connection between on the day before his death. Then the crew make no mistake. I think it has what people us, and it’s a language within itself.” gasped in delight and we were off!” Remem- want.” Adds Sarah Paulson, who has After making four seasons of AHS, Murphy bers Gaga, “I walked in on my first day and appeared in all five AHS versions: “There’s is fairly familiar with that language. Last I was like, ‘I am going to give all of myself.’” something about this season that’s got real year’s Freak Show was the series’ most

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©2015 Time Inc. ESSENCE is a registered trademark and ESSENCE BEAUTYBOX is a trademark of Essence Communications Inc., in the U.S. and other countries. 15AEBIAE watched season—and its most Emmy- nominated—but Murphy and his writers WHO’S WHO IN went a different route for year 5. He knew he wanted something modern and grue- some but also primal. “I’m not afraid of THE NEW HOTEL freak shows. I’m not afraid of clowns. I’m not afraid of witches,” he proclaims. “But I’ve had a couple of very scary experiences in hotels with people getting access to rooms. People can be hiding under the bed. So I think the scares are more modern and real, and they play on people’s senses of paranoia and fear.” While bedbugs might be the biggest con- cern for most real-life travelers, AHS’ Hotel Cortez unleashes a whole slew of far more frightening vacation terrors. Built in 1930 by the rich and charming but deeply psychotic James March (Evan Peters), the beautiful art-deco hotel is, in actuality, a labyrinthine CLOCKWISE structure built to hide March’s murderous FROM TOP LEFT ◆ activities (think dead ends, secret rooms, Naomi Campbell, Wes Bentley, endless shafts). In present day, though, the Kathy Bates, and Cortez is acquired by Gaga’s Countess, a Sarah Paulson glamorous socialite who attends art open- ings and fashion shows and maintains her looks not from a steady diet of kale but from imbibing human blood. Murphy doesn’t like to call it vampirism. “I prefer the term THE RESIDENTS pops up now and (Chloë Sevigny), are ‘ancient blood virus,’” Murphy says of her again. “It’s like The Everything (and still struggling with affliction. “It’s really a form of hemophilia, in Shining almost,” says everyone) in the Hotel the disappearance Peters. “You don’t a way. There are no capes and fangs.” Cortez falls under of their 6-year-old know if he’s interacting the control of Lady son. But when Lowe The virus does have an upside, though: It with them or they’re Gaga’s bloodsucking checks into the imbues the infected with certain vampire- crazy.” owner, the Countess. Cortez in the hopes esque perks like agelessness. (Take that, of finding a killer, “Everybody works THE GUESTS Botox!) But with all that time on her hands, for her and they all the family, including NYC fashion designer their 10-year-old the Countess desires some romantic dis- have an agenda about protecting her Will Drake (Cheyenne daughter, encounter traction—or “projects,” as Gaga puts it. at any cost,” teases Jackson) arrives a whole new set of One of them is Bomer’s Donovan, her lover Ryan Murphy. Those with his young son nightmares. “Alex is and decides to willing to sacrifice for more than 20 years. And like any couple, minions include the Countess’ lover make the hotel his everything for her they’re struggling with commitment issues. Donovan (Matt atelier, which draws child,” says Sevigny. “He’s very interested in domesticity and Bomer), drug addict the fashion crowd, including impetuous THE DEMON sort of nesting and hunkering down and Sally (Sarah Paulson), cross-dresser Liz model Tristan (Finn Just one of many having her to himself every now and then,” Taylor (Denis O’Hare), Wittrock) and Vogue creatures lurking says Bomer. “And that doesn’t go over so and Donovan’s editor Claudia (Naomi in the Cortez. “He’s Campbell). well with her limitless hunger.” mother, Iris (Kathy a representation

Bates), who runs of what people (4) TENNER/FX SUZANNE Temptation arrives in the form of high- the front desk. And THE FAMILY go through when fashion model Tristan (Finn Wittrock), despite the fact that Detective John Lowe fighting addiction,” who catches the eye of the Countess. “He’s he seemingly died in (Wes Bentley) and his says Murphy. “It’s the 1930s, the Cortez’s pediatrician wife, Alex not done lightly or the guy who does what people tell him to original owner, James blithely. I think it’s do,” says Wittrock. “He’s got an addictive March (Evan Peters), very powerful.”

28 EW.COM SEPTEMBER 4, 2015 personality. I think he’s hypersexual, also, Based on the Cortez’s nefarious staff and and just follows his gut. It makes him a occupants, it’s not surprising to learn that it prime candidate for the Countess’ charms, might also be housing a serial murderer nick- and he very willingly is seduced and then named the Ten Commandments Killer. turned by her.” This, naturally, does not sit LAPD detective John Lowe (Wes Bentley) is well with Donovan, and sets the stage for a on the hunt for the killer—whose methods of macabre love triangle. “She needs them offing victims are based on biblical dictates— both in different ways,” says Gaga. “What I’VE JUST and begins to think the guilty party is living makes the story interesting in both vile and in the hotel. Lowe moves into room 64 humanistic ways is she truly loves them, no BEEN WEEPING (March’s old office—cue scary music) in the matter what they go through together.” WHILE I’M hope of solving the crime. But he unwittingly Donovan is not the only one in L.A. with pulls his pediatrician wife, Alex (Chloë an ax to grind, though. One of the Countess’ HERE BECAUSE Sevigny), and their daughter into this wild former flames, film actress Ramona Royale world of bloodsuckers, dildo-wielding (Angela Bassett), also seeks revenge on the I HAVE demons, and maybe-dead 1930s hoteliers. Countess and sees Donovan as her way into RETURNED TO With each season of AHS growing in the the hotel. “They are powerful women at ratings and the addition of Gaga this year, odds with one another, each believing that SOMETHING Hotel could be the most popular yet. The they’re right,” says Bassett, who likens it to audience appetite has already led Murphy season 3’s Marie Laveau/Madame LaLaurie I’VE BELIEVED and his team to consider doing two itera- feud. “I think it hearkens back a little bit to tions a year instead of one. He reveals, Coven, a little of that vibe.” IN SO MUCH, “Next year we might do one in the fall and While the Countess might seem heartless WHICH IS THE another in the spring. We have to decide. with all this partner swapping, she does have The next [story] we’re crafting is very, very a softer, maternal side and has adopted/ ART OF different than this. Not smaller. But just not kidnapped a brood of blond, bloodsucking opulent. More rogue and dark.” children. Says Murphy, “There’s nothing DARKNESS.” Hotel hasn’t even premiered yet, but scarier than a platinum blond baby running Gaga says she’d happily come back for LADY GAGA around doing evil deeds.” Also roaming another round. While other stars might about the Cortez are Donovan’s clingy mom, balk at the bloodshed or gruesomeness of Iris (Kathy Bates)—who’s the front-desk what’s still to shoot, Gaga is positively exhil- clerk—as well as a cross-dresser played by arated. “I always wanted to be an actress,” Denis O’Hare. Explains Murphy: “He’s a she says. “I was terrible at auditioning. I businessman who had been coming to the this fella. If its eyes and mouth, which look would clam up. I was very awkward. I wasn’t hotel to live out his secret world. He would like they’re covered in melted wax, weren’t particularly pretty in high school. I was steal his wife’s fur coat and wear her slip. terrifying enough, this monster sports a sort of…blooming. Now I’m here.” Kathy And the Countess lovingly says his female conical drill-bit dildo. That last piece of, Bates is a believer: “We’ve shot one scene persona reminds her of Liz Taylor.” ahem, hardware features in a rendezvous together. She walked past me and literally AHS has tackled overarching social the demon has with both Sally and her had one line and she just scared the s--- out issues every season, from homophobia fellow junkie Gabriel (’s Max of me. She’s got tremendous imagination (Asylum) to race (Coven). For Hotel, Murphy Greenfield); Murphy has called it “the most and creativity, and she’s really throwing focuses on addiction, which is embodied in disturbing scene we’ve ever done.” Let’s just herself into this.” Paulson’s grungy junkie, Hypodermic Sally. say it is not a gentle love scene. “We were Even before Gaga arrived on set, she “She’s a real bad girl who will do anything like, ‘F---, yeah, man,’” says Greenfield. made her unique presence known. “She to fuel her addictions,” says Murphy. “And “‘Let’s push this, and let’s see how far we sent me a box of dead flowers and a ripped- she and the Countess are friends.” Sally can go.’” He jokes, “Alex [Ward, who plays up teddy bear,” says Bentley. “I think she also has a fairly intimate relationship with the demon] was easily the greatest scene sent it to a couple of people.” With this one of Hotel’s main monsters, the Addiction partner I’ve ever had in my life. I would say hotel of horrors, Mother Monster couldn’t Demon. Viewers who thought previous Damon Wayans Jr., and then Alex. Alex is a have found a more fitting home. AHS creations like Rubber Man and Bloody close second. But I will say I would take Alex Face were disturbing should prepare for over any day of the week.” Thoughts or questions? Tweet the writer @EWTimStack.

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015 EW.COM 29 THE WEAPON ◆ The Countess kills with the claws of a chain-mail glove designed by L.A. accessories wiz Michael Schmidt, who has created custom pieces for Cher and Madonna. Murphy wanted it to look “both rock & roll and old at the same time,” says Eyrich. “The nails have diamonds on the edge to slice.” GAGA’S DRESS: ALEXANDER MCQUEEN; SHOES: JIMMY CHOO; RING: GUILTY; GLOVE DRAWING: LOU EYRICH; GUINNESS: CINDY ORD/FILMMAGIC.COM;

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DAPHNE GUINNESS ◆ “I’m obsessed with Guinness (above) and B. Åkerlund,” says Eyrich GIVEN LADY GAGA’S STATUS AS A of the avant-garde muse and stylist, respectively. “They’re so elegant and perfectly put together. style icon, it’s not surprising that The nails are done, the rings, the stockings. That’s who I feel the Countess is. She’s curated.” American Horror Story’s look this year is fashionably following suit. “It’s really, really modern glamour,

which we’ve never done,” says Ryan THE WOMEN ADRIAN ◆ “Ryan loves this designer from the Murphy. Gaga, Murphy, and AHS ’30s and ’40s,” says Eyrich of the period-defining costume designer Lou Eyrich (who costumer of such classics as The Women (starring : EVERETT COLLECTION Joan Crawford and Norma Shearer, above). They nabbed an Emmy for her work on also drew from contemporary runway pieces not GAGA’S ◆ “She’s like a silent-film hitting stores till February, “so we could be ahead actress,” says Murphy, who praises the singer’s Coven) collaborated on the aes- of the game for television,” she adds. “Anything highly styled mini-movies for hits like “Paparazzi,” thetic of the Countess. Here’s an that was dramatic. It could be a pantsuit, a in which she dons boundary-pushing designs by jumpsuit, a fur cape with a bustier under it. It’s Dolce & Gabbana, Thierry Mugler, and Jeremy Scott. exclusive peek at their inspirations. just mixing it all up and making it the Countess.”

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ILLUSTRATIONS BY ARIAN BEHZADI SEPTEMBER 4, 2015 EW.COM 33 reaction for people, PAPER GODS because that’s how singing live is for For their 14th studio me.” The album isn’t album, the ’80s synth-pop icons the only place she’ll have scored an ace be expressing herself lineup of collabora- this fall: Her memoir tors, including Never Broken arrives Mark Ronson, Nile Sept. 15. Rodgers, Janelle Sept. 11 Monáe, Seal, Cana- dian pop singer CHRIS CORNELL Kiesza, and Red Hot HIGHER TRUTH Chili Peppers’ John Frusciante. (Oh, are still yeah: Lindsay Lohan going strong, but the also makes a spoken- founder has stepped word appearance out on his own in on a track.) 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I miss him sorely. an at all.” How much material did you have You’re also the subject of a Netflix Sept. 11 LANA DEL REY ready when you started recording? documentary, Keith Richards: Under HONEYMOON How about zero? But that’s the fun of the Influence, out Sept. 18. Did you recording. The way that we made enjoy making it? JEWEL The singer who once this was with Steve Jordan on drums Morgan Neville [Twenty Feet From PICKING UP dubbed herself a and me on guitar to start with. So you Stardom] directed it, and he had a THE PIECES “gangsta Nancy can just fly anything around the room, great way of not interfering. I wasn’t Jewel wanted a book- Sinatra” has wasted and every now and again we’d hit really aware of it being shot. But end to her multi- little time for her on something and say, “Oh, that’s what it’s pretty damn good: Buddy Guy and platinum 1995 debut, follow-up to 2014’s we’re looking for.” It was a barrel of some [other] cats, and a few things Pieces of You. So she Ultraviolence. Don’t fun, actually. I realized when I finished are explained. And I’m great! went back to basics, expect a radical it that I was really tipping my hat to Any update on the Stones doing a assembling much departure: Among everybody I’d learned everything from: new record? of the band that the songs she’s Robert Johnson, Gregory Isaacs, I’m trying to get them in the studio. played on that album shared are the string- Lead Belly, and Otis Redding. But I don’t quite honestly see it hap- and recording laden title track PIN/GETTY IMAGES; PRINCE: KEVIN MAZUR/ You teamed up with Norah Jones for pening this year. After we [tour] South many of the raw folk and the noirish the ballad “Illusion.” America in February and March, I’d tunes live. “I wanted “High by the Beach.” What a beautiful lady. We called up love to get in the studio in April. 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“Omen” “Magnets” “Nocturnal” “Good Intentions” “Hourglass”

RASTED/GETTY IMAGES RASTED/GETTY (feat. Sam Smith) (feat. Lorde) (feat. the Weeknd) (feat. Miguel) (feat. Lion Babe)

GUY Sam arrives with GUY We like to work with GUY We wrote that in GUY He’s quite a sexual HOWARD Lion Babe is security guards now, but singers who are great New York in Alicia Keys’ man, isn’t he? But you actually two people: as soon as the door [to writers as well. We never studio, which has the can never go too sexy. Jillian, who is the singer the studio] shuts it’s want to tell someone most amazing panoramic I feel like if we ever and the Lion Babe, exactly the same as it was what to sing. We want to view of Manhattan ever. brought him out at a and a producer named before, like on “Latch.” help them come up with It’s the only tune we show, it would probably Astro Raw. He’s got no ego. There lyrics, so that they believe wrote outside of London. melt the first three rows GUY Jillian is Vanessa was no awkwardness what they’re singing. I don’t know if it sounds of the crowd. It was a Williams’ daughter, too. because we already knew HOWARD It’s very New York-y, but it pleasure working with But she doesn’t talk each other. We had organic. When Lorde definitely has a different him. He’s an absolute about it. She’s trying to three days with him, and came in, I had this idea feel. The sun was going dude. He’s probably one do it herself. “Omen” was the first about writing about the down and it was such of the coolest people HOWARD She’s going to song we wrote. The best phrase “the point of no a lovely vibe—that defi- we’ve met. When he walks be pissed we’re telling thing about “Omen” is it return,” but we didn’t nitely informed the in the room, you’re like, everyone about it! We really cemented that know how we were going lyrics a little bit, driving “Yeah, you were born to heard about them a long “Latch” wasn’t just a one- to use that. She came around late at night, and be a pop star.” Even after time ago because they time thing. I think the up with the idea of it it’s getting dark, and the we had written the song, brought this song out partnership between us being, like, when you’re beat’s pretty slow. Abel he was like, “Cool, I’m called “Treat Me Like and Sam is going to attracted to someone [Tesfaye, a.k.a. the going to record myself Fire,” which was an awe- continue for a long time. you shouldn’t be, and Weeknd] was loving it. singing.” We were like, some track. We found out if you tell them that, then We were all feeling that “Oh really? We’ve got an recently that it was the you’ve gone past the vibe and just let it flow. engineer, or we could just first song she ever sung, point of no return. And it’s f---ing long, isn’t do it.” But he set the mic and she sounds amazing GUY It’s a nautical term, it? It’s like nothing we’ve up at the computer and on it. Like, how did she I’ve heard our dad say made before. wanted to do take after not know she was good at it—he sails yachts and take himself. He was like, singing before then? uses it a lot. “You guys just go and chill for a half hour.” SMITH: ROBERTO RICCIUTI/GETTY IMAGES; DISCLOSURE: ROBIN MARCHANT/GETTY IMAGES; LORDE: MICHAEL TRAN/GETTY IMAGES; MIGUEL: JOSH B

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015 EW.COM 35 knows what we’re began work on its “I look at all these rates a multitude of of the decade’s best EVERY OPEN EYE trying to do better third album in Nash- songs as a gift and styles and genres, stoner-rock albums. than ourselves,” ville in late 2013. But I think, ‘How in the including country “This is definitely The Glasgow synth- says guitarist Iain the sessions were hell have I wandered and blues. “I walk more of a loner pop trio became an Cook. “Plus, if it isn’t interrupted by upon this twice in around every day record,” Vile says of indie It Band with a success, we’ll be “everyone having my life?’” with a radio playing B’lieve, which he their excellent 2013 the ones standing 900 other jobs,” in my head, and this cut partly at the debut, The Bones Sept. 25 behind it saying, Mosshart says. radio station plays famed Joshua Tree of What You Believe, ‘Well, we f---ed up!’” Despite scheduling a lot of hits,” he studio Rancho de la which propelled Not a chance. headaches, the band R. KELLY explains. “But it’s Luna last year. the group onto a Sept. 25 delivers another set THE BUFFET all my songs.” “When I go to the grueling world tour of heavy guitar riffs, Sept. 25 West Coast I can tap that wrapped up last heavier grooves, and Nobody can ever call into the more ethe- winter. There’s vivid tales of ne’er- R. Kelly lazy. “I’m real drifter thing.” THE DEAD KURT VILE no sign of fatigue on WEATHER do-wells. And while sitting at a mic in the Though Vile hasn’t their follow-up. In studio right now,” B’LIEVE I’M GOIN DODGE AND BURN the members still DOWN... forsaken his hypnotic fact, the hooks have other musical he told EW during a Mobiüs-strip-like are bigger and Jack White’s gothic- projects, their bond recent interview. The Philly song- riffs, he’s placed a bolder, with dancey blues supergroup is tighter than ever. “My pillow is a writer’s sixth album higher premium anthems that (featuring the Kills’ “It’s a magical thing, piano.” Kelly says he isn’t just packed on lyrical introspec- wouldn’t sound out Alison Mosshart, finding people recorded 462 songs with jammed-out tion: “It’s not com- of place on the of the Stone you can play music for his 13th studio psychedelic grooves pletely down in the to an Age’s , with effortlessly album, which he’s like the ones that dumps,” he says. ’80s John Hughes and the Raconteurs’ like that,” Mosshart titling The Buffet made 2013’s Wakin “But it’s realistic.” movie. “No one Jack Lawrence) says of her side gig. because it incorpo- on a Pretty Daze one Sept. 25

UNBREAKABLE Early fall

THE POP ICON, 49, HAS REUNITED WITH JIMMY JAM AND TERRY LEWIS—THE DUO BEHIND RHYTHM NATION 1814—FOR A COLLECTION THAT’S “TOTALLY DIFFERENT” FROM ANYTHING SHE’S DONE

It’s been a while since we’ve had a and then reporting to the studio to new Janet Jackson album (her last, record at night. “With Janet, it’s always Discipline, came out in 2008). And it’s about feel,” says Jam. To wit: The been even longer since she’s teamed up single “No Sleeep” was a track that with producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Jam had forgotten about until Lewis Lewis, the hitmaking duo behind 1986’s ran across it while combing through Control, 1989’s Rhythm Nation 1814, his computer. “Janet said, ‘Ooh, what’s 1993’s janet., and 2001’s All for You. But that? You didn’t play that for me!’ according to Lewis, they didn’t miss a Janet loved it. The feeling that she got beat when they convened for her latest. when she heard it is the feeling she

“This process was like the past,” he wanted the fans to have.” Other songs CHRISTOPHER POLK/BET/GETTY IMAGES says. “It’s always different, but we just include “The Great Forever” and melt into a unit of creativity.” “Night,” and according to her closest The trio began building around professional confidants, the mix of the idea of Unbreakable, which is also styles on the album is unprecedented the title of Jackson’s forthcoming in Jackson’s career. “I think it’s totally world tour. In fact, the two projects different from any of the albums,” says were conceived concurrently, with Jam. “But it feels like her.” Jackson working all day at rehearsals —KYLE ANDERSON

36 EW.COM SEPTEMBER 4, 2015 cover. “I think of this won’t find saccharine MEOW THE JEWELS album as a semester ditties on Liberman: final,” says Hughes. Her fifth full-length is When hip-hop’s “This album has full of gorgeously hottest rap duo announced last year’s gotten me as close melancholic ballads , to my goal of making and reverb-soaked they provided a host Little Richard proud vocals. (Think less of deluxe preorders as I’ve ever been.” Lisa Loeb and more for the album, Oct. 2 Kate Bush.) She’s including “The Meow also digging deep with stories about the Jewels Package,” PENTATONIX which promised a growing older PENTATONIX rerecording with and settling down. “I know I’m not “nothing but cat The Texan quintet old, but there are sounds.” “It was a made waves with times when I feel so joke that I thought a cappella versions ancient, in such a was pretty funny,” of hits by artists from relieving way,” says says El-P, who Lorde to Daft Punk, Carlton, 35, who quickly caught wind but on Pentatonix welcomed her first of a Kickstarter they’ll show off their child in January with by a fan to bring the first set of original her husband, Deer project to life. material. “We’ve Tick frontman John Instead of shutting proved we can sing McCauley. “It wasn’t the effort down, El-P and we can arrange, a planned change and his cohort Killer now we want to of topic; I’ve just Mike are making prove we can write,” finally gone through good on the online singer Scott Hoying a long enough campaign. And says. Just like the time to begin reflec- they’ve recruited a tunes they cover, tion on my life.” slew of high-profile Pentatonix’s new producers—Prince songs will range Oct. 23 Paul, Zola Jesus, and “from chill, soulful Beyoncé collaborator stuff to upbeat, 5 SECONDS OF —to make poppy craziness,” SUMMER cat-centric . Hoying says. And SOUNDS GOOD (They’re also hoping how does the group FEELS GOOD SELENA GOMEZ to donate the see its role on They’re the Rolling REVIVAL proceeds to victims airwaves dominated Oct. 9 Stones to One of police brutality.) by EDM and hip-hop Direction’s Beatles— “We figured, hey, bangers? “[A cap- THE FORMER DISNEY STAR FINDS HER and the Aussie pop- f--- it,” El-P says. pella] is something VOICE—AND SOME SEXY GROOVES—ON HER punkers promise “Let’s fight injustice entirely different, REVEALING NEW ALBUM plenty of badass, with pure, annoying and entirely driven guitar-heavy stupidity.” by raw vocals,” the anthems on a more Selena Gomez’s latest hit, “Good for You,” is one of September band’s Mitch Grassi mature follow-up this summer’s most scintillating songs, and the pop star, says. “To have a to 2014’s 5 Seconds 23, promises more blush-inducing jams on Revival, her group that solely of Summer. “The first album since leaving Disney for Interscope. “I’ve lived relies on their voices album’s a lot more such a public life, but [I’ve learned] it’s okay to let down to create their music personal,” says my walls with my music, to feel sexy and good,” she says. EAGLES OF is quite a deviation bassist-vocalist For the recording sessions, Gomez teamed up with her DEATH METAL from the monotony Calum Hood. That go-to collaborators Julia Michaels, Justin Tranter from of pop music.” means tales about Semi Precious Weapons, Hitboy, and Rock Mafia (Miley Oct. 16 Eagles of Death falling in love, late- Cyrus, Ellie Goulding) and retreated to Mexico for a week Metal may be a side night parties, and in April. “We stayed in a house together like one big fam- project for Queens one crazy trip to Big ily,” she says. “We’d wake up in our bathing suits, go to VANESSA CARLTON the beach and then the studio for hours. I wanted to feel of the Stone Age LIBERMAN Sur. Produced by leader , Good Charlotte’s the songs and be weird and have a change of environ- but it’s primarily an She’s best known Joel and Benji ment.” (She also worked separately with Britney Spears outlet for the remark- as the songstress Madden and John and Katy Perry hitmakers Stargate and Benny Blanco and able stylings of front- behind “A Thousand Feldmann (Panic! at British pop star Charli XCX.) The result is perhaps her man . Miles,” the 2002 the Disco), Sounds most confident collection yet. “I was always insecure with EODM’s fourth LP is piano anthem that Good was also my speaking voice because it’s so low,” she says. “I never the tightest and cracked the top 10 inspired by their felt like it was feminine-sounding. I didn’t know it would grooviest yet, full of and scored Carlton favorite bands, Third be such an asset to who I am now, though. It adds a killer solos, snarls, three Grammy Eye Blind and Queen. cool, personal quality. It’s exciting.” —Kevin O’Donnell

BEN COPE BEN and a Duran Duran nominations. You “We just really tried

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015 EW.COM 37 to experiment,” says material that would JUSTIN BIEBER Hood. “And we did have been a follow- TITLE TBD lots of different up to 2012’s break- Is his top 10 smash sounds like banging out LP Visions. “Where R Ü Now,” a on a slide outside of They’ll be thrilled to club-ready collab John’s house, which know a new album is with EDM masters added a different coming this year— Diplo and Skrillex, a bass-drum feel. Our and it’s seemingly hint at his new sound has evolved epic in scope. direction? Now 21, naturally since we’re “This album is two the Biebs is looking growing up, but it’s halves,” says the to dig deep with got the same roots.” 27-year-old born some of his most Oct. 23 Claire Boucher, add- ing that some tracks confessional tracks lean toward the ever, though Skrillex JOANNA pop spectrum, while is also on the NEWSOM others skew more production roster DIVERS experimental. “If here. “There’s you’re going to com- some personal stuff It’s been half a plain about one half, and some ballads,” decade since then you have the a source tells EW. the avant-garde other half.” Grimes is “There’s some harpist released her also teaming with spoken-word critically acclaimed still-secret collabora- moments with him triple LP, Have One tors, but she does literally talking about on Me, and the reveal a guest what he’s going says she appearance from through in his life. spent most of female Taiwanese It’s all about the that time crafting rapper Aristophanes. experience of being the tunes on her Jokes Grimes: “This Justin Bieber.” CARRIE anticipated follow- is the first record Mid-November up. “I was always that I’ve made that UNDERWOOD writing,” says I can listen to Newsom, whose and not cringe and downtime included feel horrified.” STORYTELLER Oct. 23 RYAN ADAMS her 2013 wedding October to SNL vet Andy 1989 TEN YEARS AFTER WINNING AMERICAN IDOL, Samberg. “Some The prolific singer- THE COUNTRY QUEEN, 32, RETURNS WITH took me years to songwriter has A “LAID-BACK” SET OF CHARACTER STUDIES write, others formed been working on a in a day or two.” BOOTS Smiths-style version Newsom used an On your last record, way and write “mommy” AQURRIA of Taylor Swift’s arsenal of nearly a Blown Away, you deliv- songs. The sound is differ- 1989 this summer, dozen keyboards You may not know ered massive country ent, but not because of posting snippets and synths (Clavi- the name Jordy anthems like “Good Girl.” him, although I definitely from the studio to chords! Mellotrons! Asher (a.k.a. Boots), How does your upcoming pay homage to him with social media. Though Marxophones?) but you definitely set Storyteller compare? a track. Having a baby there’s no confirmed and her trusted harp know his work. Blown Away was very also allowed me extra time release plan for for the process, The dramatic. And fierce. It to write because when I the final product, which she says was contributed to a was in-your-face and was giant and pregnant, Swift is an adamant “probably the number of tracks aggressive. This album’s a I couldn’t do much else. supporter. “Ryan most fun I’ve had from Beyoncé’s little more laid-back. And I could sit in a room and Adams is one of the making a record.... surprise self-titled the stories are relatable— write. It was a good time! artists who shaped The result has kind of album in 2013 and fans will relate to the It’s been 10 years since my songwriting,” she a tonal variegation FKA twigs’ latest EP, characters in these songs. you won American Idol. tells EW in a state- that’s different from M3LL155X. He’s I also feel like it’s also How have you evolved ment. “My favorite anything I did in busting out on his more twangy, if that’s a as an artist? part of his style of the past.” own this fall with word I can use to describe I’ve learned the more you a heady brew of creating music is Oct. 23 it. Twangy, yeah! do things, the better you electronic grooves his ability to bleed Did becoming a mom get at them. That’s where and dark melodies aching vulnerability to your son, Isaiah (now I’m at. I think I’m at the GRIMES with co-production into it, and that’s 6 months), change top of my game as a per- RANDEE ST. NICHOLAS TITLE TBD from Run the what he’s done with your approach to writing former and a singer and Jewels’ El-P and his cover project of music? a songwriter—and I’m Fans of the experi- Carla Azar of the my album 1989. I feel like people expect having a lot of fun with it! mental pop artist avant-garde rock When I first heard me to lose my edge in a —Dana Rose Falcone flipped when she group Autolux. that Ryan was going copped to scrapping Nov. 13 to be covering my

38 EW.COM SEPTEMBER 4, 2015 WILL THEY OR WON’T THEY? RUMOR HAS IT THESE SIX ARTISTS ARE READYING FRESH ALBUMS. BUT SINCE THERE ARE NO CONFIRMED RELEASE DATES, EW TURNED TO LAS VEGAS ODDSMAKER MATT JAMES OF SPORTSBOOK TO CALCULATE THE LIKELIHOOD OF NEW RECORDS BEFORE YEAR’S END. PLACE BETS AT YOUR OWN RISK. By Dana Rose Falcone

Beyoncé and Frank Ocean Radiohead Rihanna Gwen Stefani Kanye West Jay Z The artist promised The rockers have RiRi has dropped The No Doubt singer He didn’t debut any Reports have hinted a follow-up to confirmed they’re three new singles tweeted that she’d new SWISH tracks that the megastars Channel Orange in cutting new music, recently (and one put a third solo at L.A.’s FYF Fest are in the studio July, but it never but with Thom Yorke bonkers video), effort out in Decem- on Aug. 22, but together. James says materialized. James now signed on and James says ber 2014. But James James believes there a joint release on believes a “real as the composer for her eighth LP thinks her recently are “very strong the rapper’s Tidal release is coming Broadway’s Old could arrive in announced split chances” that new service is “imminent.” very soon.” Times, James says a “FourFiveSeconds.” from Gavin Rossdale Yeezy music will hit 78% CHANCE 91% CHANCE new LP is “unlikely.” 90% CHANCE could delay the this fall. 89% CHANCE 20% CHANCE release. 60% CHANCE /REDFERNS; RIHANNA: JON KOPALOFF/FILMMAGIC.COM; KOPALOFF/FILMMAGIC.COM; JON RIHANNA: /REDFERNS;

TITLE TBD October

THE POP REBEL, 23, BARES HER SOUL WITH A CONFIDENT ALBUM FEATURING GOSPEL CHOIRS, ROCK HOOKS, AND A TRIBUTE TO HER DAD

Demi Lovato has scored this year rock-influenced music fade.” Lovato with her smash “Cool for the Summer,” adds that she’s mixing things up one of the raciest tunes she’s on a track featuring a gospel released yet. But on her still-untitled choir—“I really go there with my fifth studio album, the singer reveals vocals”—and a song that Lovato she’s coming from a more emotional has dedicated to her late father, place. “There are definitely sexy Patrick, who died in 2013. “It’s songs,” she says. “But the ones that extremely raw [but] I definitely had ended up making the album are very some closure [with that song],” soulful.” Don’t expect a collection she admits. Lovato, who has over- of ballads, though. Lovato drew on come struggles with bipolar disorder her admiration for her favorite and addiction in the past, also female rock stars, Pat Benatar and admits that the record shows off a Paramore’s . “Pat newfound confidence. “I feel very was one of my big influences growing secure in who I am as an artist up,” she says. “There’s not a lot of and as a person,” she says. “I never powerful female vocalists in the write songs that are about things rock industry. I really looked up to I don’t relate to. I won’t be able to Hayley, too, because she’s totally like sing it if I don’t mean it.” BEYONCE: JOSIAH KAMAU/GETTY IMAGES; Z: JAMES JAY DEVANEY/GC IMAGES; OCEAN: PETROFF/DUFOUR/GETTY IMAGES; YORKE: CAITLIN MOGRIDGE STEFANI: AMANDA EDWARDS/WIREIMAGE.COM; WEST: BERTRAND RINDOFF PETROFF/GETTY IMAGES; LOVATO: MICHAEL HICKEY/GETTY IMAGES BERTRAND LOVATO: RINDOFF PETROFF/GETTY IMAGES; WEST: EDWARDS/WIREIMAGE.COM; AMANDA STEFANI: Pat Benatar. And I don’t want to see —KEVIN O’DONNELL

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015 EW.COM 39 entire album, I (Remember her THE BAND hanging out and AUSTIN M.I.A. couldn’t believe it. cryptic tweet from PERRY everyone was MAHONE MATAHDATAH It’s such an honor TITLE TBD TITLE TBD May of that year? in the hallways,” For the follow-up that he would want “Bye bye 25... See you As the boundary the band tells EW. The 19-year-old to 2013’s - to take my stories again later in the between Nashville “It was such a fun YouTube sensation busting Matangi, the and lyrics and give year,” she wrote.) Still, and pop is blurring atmosphere to says idols like Grammy-nominated them a new life. collaborators have more than ever, create in.” The trio Bruno Mars inspired renegade is scouring He’s gotten some of hinted about their the Band Perry are also wrote a song his debut album. the globe for the best musicians possible involvement. another country titled “Keep Calm” So what can his so- inspiration—and together to record Pharrell revealed in trio pushing the with Diplo. But don’t called “Mahomies” breaking away from this album, and if June that the pair had genre beyond strum expect the Band expect? “There the traditional album the clips he’s collaborated, and and twang. For Perry to stray too far will definitely be way format. M.I.A. will released are any OneRepublic’s Ryan their third LP, the from their roots. more mature stuff,” be releasing avant- indication, this Tedder told Billboard Grammy-winning “It was important Mahone says, adding pop, hip-hop, and is going to be some- in 2014 he was bring- brothers-and-sister [for] us to maintain that there will be dance tracks and thing really special.” ing his “A game” to act (singer Kimberly, what we bring to collaborations with short films as “scrolls” the studio with her. bassist Reid, and modern country— Pia Mia and his ex- throughout the fall, ADELE While the new mom mandolinist Neil) three-part family girlfriend Becky G. before a proper full- hasn’t confirmed harmony, mandolins, TITLE TBD decamped to Los “I’m coming out length release. “It’s when she’ll return Angeles’ Record banjos, and a strong. I want [fans] like a journal,” she The Girl With the with new music, Plant to cut tracks narrative lyric—and to be like, ‘This says. “And the journal Golden Voice has one thing’s for sure: with Lady Gaga pro- combine them with kid’s dope. We’ve happens to be a teased a follow-up to It’s the one album ducer RedOne. “One some really great- heard of him before, really wide journey.” 2011’s multiplatinum the world is dying night, Justin Bieber sounding, modern but now we can So far, the British– smash 21 since 2014. to hear. and Lady Gaga were stylings from pop.” appreciate him.’” Sri Lankan rapper

TITLE TBD November

ON HER THIRD ALBUM, THE BRITISH POP STAR TEAMS UP WITH MAX MARTIN AND LALEH FOR MORE EMPOWERING POP

Ellie Goulding has had a steady rise though, Goulding isn’t moving away the past few years, from her breakout from matters of the heart. “I swore I single “Lights” to her shimmering Fifty wouldn’t write more love and heart- Shades of Grey smash, “Love Me Like break songs,” she says. “I thought, ‘Do You Do.” So when the 28-year-old one, get it out of your system.’ So the began work on her third LP, she had first song is, like, ‘Hold me! Don’t let plans to make an even bigger-sounding me go! Stay with me!’ But it wasn’t album, writing songs with hitmaker out of my system. I’m obsessed with Max Martin and his protégée, Swedish writing love songs.” While Goulding is singer-songwriter Laleh. “I’ve never still putting the final touches on the worked with him before, but we really album, she’s psyched to bring new connected,” Goulding says of Martin. material to the stage. “I’ve probably “And I wrote this song with Laleh done a thousand shows since my first that’s probably the most empowering album, and I realized that with that song I’ve done as a woman. When I lis- one I never thought, ‘I wonder how NEIL LUPIN/GETTY IMAGES ten to it, I feel invincible.” You’ll hear this will sound live?’” she says. “Now I that come through in Goulding’s voice: can’t help but think of the live aspect, “Laleh was like, ‘I don’t want you to be and I understand the translation of the ethereal, female voice. I want music from a studio to a performance.” people to see your strength.’” Lyrically, —MADISON VAIN

40 EW.COM SEPTEMBER 4, 2015 has traveled to India a traditional pop boy and plans to touch band would do,” down in the Domini- says the group’s pro- can Republic and ducer Julian Bunetta, Jamaica. As for her who cut the album message, she’s with Liam Payne, inspired by the ideas Niall Horan, Louis of borders and “test- Tomlinson, and EW PICKS FIVE ARTISTS WE’RE EXPECTING BIG THINGS FROM ing the human idea Harry Styles in Los of that, whether THIS FALL—AND YOU CAN DOWNLOAD SOME OF THEIR MUSIC FOR Angeles, Chicago, FREE* ON ITUNES. GO TO EW.COM/FREE. By Bethany Lye it’s geographical or and the U.K. this philosophical ones.” year. “We’re experi- menting with differ- ent instrumentation.” ONE DIRECTION Bunetta says it’s TITLE TBD some of the boys’ Zayn Malik has high- best material yet: tailed it out of the “There are six songs 1D-verse, and the that could be singles.” boy band is shaking As for how they’re up its sound before doing without Malik, taking a break next Bunetta says, year. “We’re stretch- “There’s a personality Gallant Olivia Lane ing out beyond the missing, but they’re native This Nashville newcomer perimeters of what still the same guys.” Christopher Gallant, and singer-songwriter who has been collabo- counts Patsy Cline rating with Moby in and Linda Ronstadt as recent weeks, turns influences—and she’s out achingly gorgeous got bold, brassy alt-R&B, which he tunes (and incredible updates with buzzy pipes) to match those synths and glitchy beats. towering talents. HEAR IT Gallant lets his HEAR IT On the blazing powerful vocals rip track “Lightning,” Lane ALSO COMING on the stunning ballad The Bohicas splits the difference “Weight in Gold.” between retro country THE ARCS The rebellious rock & roll spirit of the Clash and and Top 40 pop. YOURS, DREAMILY FADING FRONTIER the Kinks lives on The Black Keys’ Dan Madcap genius with these impossibly Auerbach crafts baby- returns cool Brit dudes, who making psychedelia with awesomely met as schoolmates in with his new project. twisted indie rock. East London and have Sept. 4 Oct. 16 opened for Franz Ferdinand. Their killer JESS GLYNNE CHARLIE PUTH debut, The Making Of, I CRY WHEN NINE TRACK is out now. I LAUGH MIND HEAR IT “Where You At” The British siren’s The “See You Again” mixes terse new-wave debut features feel- crooner’s debut Bob Moses guitar hooks and hand- Hippo Campus good ballads and LP features his hit After wowing the free- claps with Dominic These brainy art-school dancey anthems. Meghan Trainor collab. wheeling crowd with McGuinness’ raspy wail. grads from Minnesota Sept. 11 Nov. 6 late-night sets at turn out shimmering the annual Burning Man pop-rock earworms rem- NEW ORDER SEAL festival in 2013, the iniscent of Ivy League MUSIC COMPLETE 7 Brooklyn-based grads Vampire Weekend. La Roux and The soul vet has said electronic duo serve up After releasing a debut guest on this come- his LP with longtime one of the year’s most EP, Bashful Creatures, back album from the producer Trevor Horn chilled-out, enveloping and performing blister- synth-pop icons. is their best yet. electro-pop albums, ing sets at Lollapalooza Sept. 25 Nov. 6 Days Gone By (out this summer, they’re Sept. 18). back this fall with HEAR IT The comfy, another EP, South. WRITTEN BY KYLE ANDERSON, ERIC mesmerizing jam “Too HEAR IT The infectious, RENNER BROWN, DANA ROSE FALCONE, Much Is Never Enough.” breezy “Suicide JESSICA GOODMAN, LEAH GREENBLATT, Saturday.”

LANE: KEVIN WHITE; HIPPO CAMPUS: TAYLOR HANSON HANSON TAYLOR CAMPUS: HIPPO LANE: KEVIN WHITE; KEVIN O'DONNELL, AND MADISON VAIN

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2015 EW.COM 43 Kentuckian, grappling with pain and memories of vets who returned to the country’s heartland. ALABAMA To Kill a Mockingbird LOUISIANA The Awakening Harper Lee Kate Chopin Chopin’s early feminist work, Forget the dubious sequel. Lee’s excep- which presents a woman carving an identity for herself that has tional work is a perfectly contained miracle nothing to do with wifedom about the struggle for justice in a system or motherhood, also serves as built to deny it. From Birmingham to an engrossing immersion in the historical worlds of New Orleans Tuskegee, Alabama was a burning center and the Louisiana Gulf Coast. of racial conflict, and this novel takes place right on the outskirts of that crucible. MAINE Empire Falls Richard Russo The 2002 Pulitzer winner follows Miles Roby, a diner manager in ALASKA Barbados to Connecticut and based on Robinson’s own Idaho the struggling town of Empire Julie of the Wolves must defend herself against hometown) is “chastened…by Falls, Maine, which could be just Jean Craighead George accusations of witchcraft. an awareness that the whole of one of many such cozy but rusting An Inuit girl depends on a pack of human history had occurred else- hamlets in the state. wolves in order to survive Alaska’s DELAWARE where,” a spine-tingling description brutal, beautiful wilderness. The Book of Unknown of life on the periphery. MARYLAND Americans The Accidental Tourist ARIZONA Cristina Henríquez ILLINOIS Anne Tyler Animal Dreams It’s often difficult to Maud Martha In Tyler’s gorgeous Barbara Kingsolver see what’s around you Gwendolyn Brooks -set middle- In this richly moving novel about when it’s all you know. Sure, you can always go with Saul class saga, a travel-guide a woman who returns home to Henríquez puts a Bellow’s Chicago, but if you’re look- writer loses his son, take care of her father, Kingsolver fresh set of eyes on one ing for another view of the Windy becomes estranged draws heavily on the state’s Native of America’s original City, pick up this challenging, from his wife, and moves American and Hispanic cultures. colonies, Delaware, by showing essential look at urban black life, in with his eccentric siblings. it from the point of view of with all its beauty and pain. ARKANSAS her novel’s nine Latin American MICHIGAN True Grit immigrant families. INDIANA Once Upon a River Charles Portis The Magnificent Ambersons Bonnie Jo Campbell Portis’ singular Western was FLORIDA Booth Tarkington Campbell renders backwoods adapted for the big screen twice, The Yearling Winner of the 1919 Michigan marvelously, and her but the story of Mattie Ross’ Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Pulitzer, this is the tough, prickly sharpshooter, Margo quest for vengeance with the Working with Hemingway and second book in a trilogy, Crane, is the perfect trail guide. help of hard-drinking Rooster F. Scott Fitzgerald’s editor, Rawlings charting both the Cogburn is worth getting straight was pushed to look into her own decline of a prosperous MINNESOTA from the source. history for literary fodder, which led family and the industrial The Betsy-Tacy Series to her 1938 Pulitzer winner about expansion of Indianapolis. Maud Hart Lovelace CALIFORNIA a Florida boy and his pet deer. Set in Deep Valley, Minn.—and, Play It as It Lays IOWA later, Minneapolis—the books Joan Didion GEORGIA Shoeless Joe provide a child’s-eye view of turn- Didion’s 1970 classic, Gone With the Wind W.P. Kinsella of-the-century small-town life, about a woman and Margaret Mitchell Not only was this novel—adapted a rosy remembrance of a region a marriage breaking Mitchell’s landmark novel illustrates for Field of Dreams—set in Iowa, already known for its niceness. down, is both an ode to the luxury of the Southern ante- but Kinsella also attended the the freedom of the bellum aristocracy and its downfall state’s other claim to fame: the MISSISSIPPI freeways and a eulogy through some of literature’s (and Iowa Writers’ Workshop. The Sound and the Fury for dreams shriveled by the sun. film’s) most memorable characters. William Faulkner KANSAS Faulkner set most of his COLORADO HAWAII Doc work in Mississippi, and Plainsong The Descendants Mary Doria Russell his novel about the Kent Haruf Kaui Hart Hemmings Set in the saloons of Dodge City Compson family has the While the state may be better A wealthy attorney de- in 1878 before the shoot-out at the particulars of Southern known for its mountains, Plain- scended from Hawaiian O.K. Corral, this murder mystery living imprinted into song, Haruf’s award-winning royalty struggles with paints Doc Holliday as a tragic every stream-of-consciousness masterpiece, vividly depicts life his rebellious daughters hero and gambler, bringing inflection and punctuation mark. on its expansive prairie land. and his coma-ridden one of the state’s most legendary wife, as well as Hawaii’s events and personages to life. MISSOURI CONNECTICUT complicated conceptions of The Adventures The Witch of Blackbird Pond heritage and ownership. KENTUCKY of Huckleberry Finn Elizabeth George Speare In Country Mark Twain Old East Coast spookiness and IDAHO Bobbie Ann Mason Twain’s masterpiece about Missouri’s youthful feminism combine Housekeeping Mason’s novel about the daughter most iconic literary contribution, in Speare’s YA classic, in which Marilynne Robinson of a soldier killed in Vietnam is both Huck Finn, will resonate for as long a young woman moves from The town of Fingerbone (loosely distinctly American and essentially as America’s rivers flow.

44 EW.COM SEPTEMBER 4, 2015 MONTANA NEW YORK carnivalesque, and unnerving: TEXAS A River Runs Through It Drown not unlike Portland on a given Lonesome Dove Norman Maclean Junot Díaz night. Need more? Kurt Cobain Larry McMurtry In his semiautobiographical story Choosing a single novel was a fan. McMurtry’s cattle-drive epic fea- collection, Maclean paints a sump- to exemplify the New tures some of the most beautifully tuous portrait of the state’s beauty. York area was no walk in descriptive prose put to paper. Central Park. But Díaz’s Rabbit, Run Everything is bigger in Texas, NEBRASKA book of stories stands John Updike including this novel’s ambition. My Ántonia out for its depictions of Updike’s most famous work, the Willa Cather immigrants striving for their own first of his Rabbit Angstrom novels, UTAH Cather concludes her “prairie versions of the American dream. follows a former high school The Monkey Wrench Gang trilogy” with the story of Ántonia, basketball star after he abandons Edward Abbey a Bohemian immigrant on the NORTH CAROLINA his pregnant wife and child, taking Abbey’s tale of four ecological Nebraska frontier. Jim the Boy suburban Pennsylvania ennui to a activists seeking to destroy the Tony Earley terrifying precipice. Glen Canyon Dam became a primer NEVADA A boy named Jim comes of age for other green-minded saboteurs. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas during the Depression in a RHODE ISLAND Hunter S. Thompson secluded North Carolina hamlet Spartina VERMONT Thompson’s oft-imitated paean where the state’s history looms John Casey Songs in Ordinary Time to drug-fueled Vegas depravity large and maps of the Confederacy Dick Pierce works in Mary McGarry Morris shows Sin City through the eyes still hang in his classroom. Narragansett Bay, but Morris subverts the state’s bucolic of a sinner. his true passion is the image with this dark, gorgeous tale NORTH DAKOTA unfinished boat in his of a woman taken in by a con man. NEW HAMPSHIRE Love Medicine backyard. The tale may A Prayer for Owen Meany Louise Erdrich be standard, but VIRGINIA John Irving Five decades of Casey’s lyrical descriptions of the The Known World reservation life unfurl Edward P. Jones It’s tempting to go with Rhode Island sea are anything but. through interconnected The Hotel New Hamp- This award-winning examination of tales and shifting narra- shire because of the title, SOUTH CAROLINA man’s ownership of man refuses to tors, a pattern intended but Irving’s novel about The Prince of Tides succumb to the calcifying effect to mirror the Native religion, memory, and Pat Conroy of history, presenting Virginia’s past American storytelling tradition. friendship gets our pick. A powerful, history-spanning as raw, urgent, and human. OHIO saga, Conroy’s novel follows twins NEW JERSEY Tom and Savannah Wingo as they WASHINGTON Winesburg, Ohio The Absolutely True Diary Independence Day Sherwood Anderson uncover their family’s past in Richard Ford South Carolina’s Low Country. of a Part-Time Indian Winesburg may be fictional, but its Sherman Alexie The second of four books to fea- tales capture long-ago small-town Alexie grapples with ture Frank Bascombe, a sportswriter- life in the Buckeye State. SOUTH DAKOTA turned-Realtor who’s the perfect Black Hills serious issues through sarcastic resident of that great big Dan Simmons the not-always-serious OKLAHOMA voice of a 14-year-old suburb called New Jersey. Black Hills breathes life into The Grapes of Wrath caught between his life the tale of a Sioux warrior who John Steinbeck on the reservation and NEW MEXICO believed General Custer’s ghost Steinbeck’s classic both humanizes his entry into an all-white high school. House Made of Dawn and immortalizes the pain that the entered him at Little Bighorn. N. Scott Momaday Depression and the Dust Bowl WEST VIRGINIA Momaday was one of inflict on an Oklahoma farm family. TENNESSEE Lord of Misrule A Death in the Family the authors who helped Jaimy Gordon bring Native American lit- OREGON James Agee Gordon’s tale about the down-and- erature to a mainstream Geek Love Agee’s autobiographical Pulitzer- outers at a cheap racetrack and audience. His Pulitzer- Katherine Dunn winning novel, told mostly through their various schemes and dreams winning novel is based A twisted couple populate their the eyes of a child after his father’s is both unrelenting and elegiac. on his experience living in New freak show with their own children death, describes a family coping Mexico’s Jemez Pueblo. with overwhelming grief. in this modern classic. It’s weird, WISCONSIN A Map of the World Jane Hamilton This novel—about a family trying their hand at farming, only to have their idyll torn apart MASSACHUSETTS The Wapshot by a terrible tragedy—is sharper Chronicle than any Wisconsin cheddar. John Cheever WYOMING Close Range Cheever’s glorious 1957 debut novel Annie Proulx about a decidedly unconventional Proulx’s collection may be set in America’s least populous state, but Massachusetts family was an instant its gritty stories (including “Broke- classic, combining both humor and back Mountain”) are populated by pathos in equal doses. It was also characters as hardened and vivid the first Book of the Month Club pick as the land that bore them. that used the F-word. Don’t agree with our choices? Tweet your picks to @EWTinaJordan and use the hashtag #debateyourstate

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Straight to the Top Straight Outta Compton opened to

$60.2 million, the biggest debut ever for a musical biopic.

T. Rexes and TIE Fighters Jurassic World’s Colin Movies Trevorrow will helm Star Wars: Episode IX. EDITED BY STEPHAN LEE @stephanmlee

THERE’S A SCENE in last year’s clever, disori- enting art-house drama Clouds of Sils Maria in which the elegant fortysomething actress Maria Enders (played by ) is debating whether to take a part opposite a much younger American ingenue—a wild child known for her scandalous personal life and star-making turn in a critically reviled movie franchise. Maria is doubtful, but her personal assistant insists that the girl is smarter than she seems: “She’s not com- pletely antiseptic like the rest of Holly- wood…. She’s brave enough to be herself. At her age, I think that’s pretty f---ing cool.” Because director ’ entire film is a kind of fun-house mirror, Kristen Stewart— no stranger, of course, to billion-dollar fran- chises and tabloid frenzies—is cast as the assistant, not the ingenue. And her impas- sioned defense of the not-antiseptic could easily be autobiographical. Stewart even presaged that line, with another F-bomb for emphasis, in a 2012 EW interview: “I’ve never been able to fully form this thing, this persona, that some people are so f---ing good at. That’s an art,” she said. “And thank God! I don’t like people like that, people who are a complete nonperson but somehow through the lens seem like they are on and interesting and engaged. I care way more about the people standing in the room.” At 25, Stewart has been in show business for well over half her life, but she’s never IMAGES BY GETTY PITCHON/CONTOUR HADAR seemed at ease with the bizarre personal Kristen Stewart, transactions it demands. It’s a quality that can read as petulant, ungrateful, or simply awkward in interviews; even when she Reconsidered accepted the French equivalent of an Oscar It’s been almost three years since the sun set on The Twilight Saga. Now with films like Still Alice and the American Ultra (out now), the 25-year-old earlier this year for Best Supporting Actress is carving her own offbeat career path, refusing to be boxed in by in Sils Maria—the only American ever to Hollywood—or anyone else. By Leah Greenblatt take home that prize—she stuttered and

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flailed like an honors student caught stealing a candy bar. But she’s fantastic in the movie: unmannered and utterly convincing as a smart, self-possessed young woman living adjacent to fame but not in it. And her real- 3 life reluctance to trade her soul for fawning profiles and TMZ clicks does feel like it comes from genuine discomfort, not coy- ness. In other words, she might actually be 5 that rare star who doesn’t want or need to 2 perform when she’s off screen. That’s probably not something most people who never need to hear the word STEWART’S BEST ROLES Twilight again—and who have already Five of her standout performances—smart and nuanced and entirely free of sparkling vampires. By Leah Greenblatt decided that Stewart is a subpar actress and/ or human Grumpy Cat—will believe or even CLOUDS OF the wayward daugh- interest, her perfor- 1 care to investigate. It also may have kept SILS MARIA ter is less showy mance as an alt- them away from her latest project, American 2014 but still beautifully dreamgirl in this wry Stewart goes toe-to- wrought. indie dramedy—set Ultra. It’s true that Ultra, billed as a sort of toe with Juliette in a run-down ’80s CAMP X-RAY amusement park— Manchurian Candidate–meets–Pineapple Binoche in French 3 filmmaker Olivier 2014 feels as poignantly Express action-comedy, isn’t much: a sticky, Assayas’ mesmeriz- As a young soldier layered as the lead. short-fused little cherry bomb full of ing meditation on stationed at Guantá- art, acting, and the namo who strikes up PANIC ROOM wham-bam dialogue and winky violence. 5 tricks of memory. a friendship with 2002 Still, Stewart and Jesse Eisenberg (who also a prisoner, Stewart David Fincher’s STILL ALICE delivers a stark, appeared alongside her in 2009’s under- 2 follow-up to Fight 2014 egoless perfor- appreciated Adventureland) bring something Club, this high-wire ’s mance, even if the home-invasion tender and goofy to their stoner-Bonnie- depiction of a film failed to con- thriller cast a then- and-Clyde roles—a distinction that likely professor struck by nect with audiences. unknown Stewart early-onset Alzheim- as Jodie Foster’s wouldn’t exist if those parts had been filled er’s won her a fistful ADVENTURE- 4 daughter—a little girl by a pair of prettily vacant CW starlets of prizes, including LAND 2009 who often proves an Academy instead. As a couple caught up in the kind of Though second- to be smarter and Award. Stewart’s billed as Jesse braver than anyone CIA conspiracy that mostly exists in Bourne supporting role as Eisenberg’s love else in the room. movies or on deeply paranoid subreddit boards, they’re not exactly heroes. Even as the body count reaches cartoonish levels of Tarantino-style splatter, though, you still root for those crazy kids to make it. CRITICAL MASS Ultra essentially slots Stewart in a glori- For 10 current releases, we compare EW’s grade with fied girlfriend role, not exactly a great leap scores averaged from IMDb, Metacritic, and

: EVERETT COLLECTION EVERETT : forward for her. But her choices, from Sils

Maria to last year’s Oscar-winning Still Alice META - ROTTEN EW IMDb CRITIC TOMATOES AVG. and the Guantánamo drama Camp X-Ray, PANIC ROOM have been consistently interesting even A– THE GIFT 76 78 93 82 when they’re not successful. (And certainly B+ STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON 84 72 89 82 better than other Twilight alumni: Robert B MERU 84 69 91 81 : ABBOT GENSER; Pattinson has mostly misfired in strenuously eccentric indies, while Taylor Lautner’s last B+ GRANDMA 68 76 89 78 big project, a heist flick set in the criminal C MISTRESS AMERICA 73 76 83 77

ADVENTURELAND underworld of parkour—apparently that’s a C– THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. 76 55 66 66 thing—topped out at 22 percent on Rotten Tomatoes.) To millions of fans and detrac- B AMERICAN ULTRA 65 50 38 51

: BETH DUBBER; DUBBER; BETH : tors, Stewart will always be Bella, and that’s C– SHE’S FUNNY THAT WAY 62 43 35 47 fine. They should see what they’re missing, C+ HITMAN: AGENT 47 59 29 9 32

CAMP X-RAY CAMP though; they might be surprised. C– SINISTER 2 57 30 5 31

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ROLE CALL Robert Redford The movie legend, 79, has appeared in more than 40 films and has directed nine. His leading-man looks may have made him a matinee idol, but he never relied on them, opting for roles and films that mattered to him. Now, as he prepares to go into the wild with Nick Nolte in A Walk in the Woods, Redford takes EW on a stroll down memory lane. By Joe McGovern

Barefoot in and thought, ‘Hmm, was able to take 1 the Park I’m going to make the somewhat 1967 this work.’... The flawed script, shift Redford was 27 studio wanted a a few things around, years old when he name as big as Paul and turn it into turned down a TV Newman’s, and I was something damn show in Los Angeles quite a ways down near perfect.” and instead got on the stardom ladder. I’d never met The Way paid $130 a week 4 for a Bucks County, Paul, but he insisted We Were Pa., tryout of Neil that the studio 1973 Simon’s Barefoot in support George, Redford originally the Park, directed by and because it was turned down the a young comedian Paul Newman, they role of a WASP named Mike Nichols. agreed. The only college student who “I’d never really done thing they did was romances Barbra a comedy before,” change the title. Streisand’s liberal says Redford. “And It was called The activist. “He was a Nichols had never Sundance Kid and bit of a Ken doll with directed theater, so Butch Cassidy—but no dimension. I said, we both shared a they wanted Butch’s ‘I’ll be interested bit of insecurity.” name first because if we can find some Redford went on to that’s the part Paul flaws in him.’ ” star with Jane Fonda was playing.” Speaking of flaws, in the 1967 film Redford had been adaptation, estab- The Sting warned that his 3 lishing himself as 1973 costar possessed a the quintessential Four years after few. “I’d heard all golden boy—a Butch Cassidy, kinds of crazy things type he’d spend Redford reunited about Barbra, but much of his career with that movie’s none of them bucking against. team for The Sting, applied to our rela- which won seven tionship. I loved Butch Oscars, including working with her. 2 We had a ton of fun.” Cassidy and Best Picture. It also All the the Sundance earned Redford his President’s Men sole acting nomina- All the Kid 1969 5 “When I first met tion. He attributes President’s [director] George the lion’s share Men 1976 Roy Hill, I told him of the success to While Redford was that I much more his director. “George promoting his related to the outlaw Roy Hill loved politically charged character, the Sun- reading the funny film The Candidate dance Kid, which papers. He loved in 1972, he had was not the role he the idea of telling the opportunity a story in four or Butch Cassidy and wanted me for. But to kibitz with news- the Sundance Kid George got excited five panels, so he papermen. “They

48 EW.COM SEPTEMBER 4, 2015 were all gossiping the late fall and I saw All Is Lost about a break-in at a this woman bundled campaign head- up in her overcoat, quarters,” he says. and she seemed “And I became very sad. When I intrigued by the pro- realized it was Mary files of the two guys Tyler Moore, it hit me writing about it, like a ton of bricks: Woodward and ‘Wow, she could do Bernstein. And then this.’ When I asked President Nixon her to be in the film, resigned over the she wanted it even break-in and a lot of more than I did. people said it was yesterday’s news— She wanted to but I said, ‘No, it’s the explore that side of dynamic between herself and gave these two guys 100 percent.” that’ll make it sing.’ ” Redford costarred Quiz Show 7 opposite Dustin 1994 Hoffman, and the If Ordinary People is film was a box office about the lies peo- smash, winning four ple tell themselves, Oscars, including Redford’s master- one for sound piece Quiz Show, design. “We took all based on a TV scan- the elements of

: dal, is about the lies their work—the type- writers, telephones, people get told. pens on paper— “It’s all about how and kicked up the audiences are sound. Every scene tricked. That’s a story where the typewriter about much more ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN PRESIDENT’S THE ALL : DANIEL DAZA is used, there’s a than one quiz show real bang. What in the ’50s.”

ALL IS LOST does it sound like? It’s sounds like a All Is Lost 8 weapon.” 2013 For this minimalist The Sting Ordinary 6 by People director J.C. Chandor

: © JOHN SPRINGER COLLECTION/CORBIS; COLLECTION/CORBIS; SPRINGER JOHN © : 1980 (Margin Call), “This story was Redford received : UNIVERSAL PICTURES/PHOTOFEST; PICTURES/PHOTOFEST; UNIVERSAL : about feelings that perhaps the best can’t be reached, reviews of his THE STING THE like with the mother career as a mariner The Way We Were character,” says attempting to sur- Redford of his direc- vive while his ship torial debut, a family sinks in the Indian drama that won

: BRIGITTE LACOMBE; Ocean. “This was

BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID Oscars for Best guerrilla filmmaking Picture and Director. all the way around,” “The first studio I took it to said, ‘You he says. “No special ORDINARY PEOPLE ORDINARY can’t have Mary effects, just raw-to- Tyler Moore in that its-core filmmaking. It was very tough, : THE KOBAL COLLECTION; role, she’s America’s With Mary Tyler but I loved it. Moore and Donald sweetheart.’ But I Sutherland remember sitting I loved the feeling of on the set of pure cinema in Ordinary People at my house in WARNER BROS./PHOTOFEST; BROS./PHOTOFEST; WARNER THE WE WAY WERE Malibu one day in my bloodstream.”

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: TONY RIVETTI JR. SMPSP RIVETTI JR. TONY : just citizens of an Waterston) bucolic lake mentor’s (Wes Bentley) scope of the apocalyp- unidentified Asian house to recuperate— much younger girlfriend tic story could have nation who are given but only unravels (Emily Ratajkowski). made for a thoughtful no depth or motiva- further when Ginny Directed by Max Joseph parable about human tion beyond wanting begins a romance with (MTV’s Catfish), the nature and race, but the to kill innocent white a neighbor (Patrick film fakes emotion with lack of drama and heat WE ARE YOUR FRIENDS people. Even ignoring Fugit). The result is flashing lights and a keeps Z for Zachariah the racism—which chilling and beautifully pulsing soundtrack, joyless without much is pretty much impos- composed, a stylish and before Cole real- despair. It’s the end of sible—No Escape study of disintegration izes the music was in the world as we know : ROLAND NEVEU; NEVEU; ROLAND : is a cliché-ridden, that is easier to admire him this entire time it, and you’ll feel  (From top) Sterling Jerins, Lake Bell, artless relic. D than enjoy. B —Leah (ugh), the story falls flat. bored. C+ —Kevin P. Claire Geare, and Owen Wilson in No Escape;

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 Julian Morris and Ron Perlman

Hand of God is a confounding, sometimes Hand of God infuriating, and poorly focused drama, but it’s too interesting to dismiss out of hand. DATE TIME NETWORK REVIEW BY Perlman is powerful and persuasive as the Debuts Sept. 4 Streaming Amazon Jeff Jensen@EWDocJensen dishonorable Pernell Harris, and his char- acter possesses a spirited . Distraught after PJ’s blown suicide bid, Harris falls A WOMAN IS raped. The villain responsible forces her prey to a sleazy preacher (Julian Morris) husband to watch. Many months later, the rapist who sells him on Christianity and coaxes a remains at large, and the husband, PJ (Johnny Ferro), $50,000 check from him. Harris immediately tries to commit suicide. He botches it, though, and is starts receiving divine messages (via his left in a coma, shattering his wife, Jocelyn (Alona Tal), comatose son) providing cryptic clues to the all over again. You’d think a show that proceeds from rapist’s identity and a conspiracy behind the such a premise would organize around Jocelyn. This is crime. He’s convinced that if he gets justice her horror. This should be her story. But Hand of God, for PJ and Jocelyn—not by bringing the Amazon’s newest binge, isn’t that show. Instead, it culprits to trial, but by murdering them— belongs to PJ’s dad (Ron Perlman), an ethically sketchy God will restore his son to health. So much judge, cheating husband, and neglectful parent. for that What Would Jesus Do? stuff. The born- Another hideous white male antihero? Heaven help us. again judge is all about the eye for an eye.

52 EW.COM SEPTEMBER 4, 2015 Creature Features Since we’re smack-dab in the dog days of summer, what better time to rank a sudden raft of hairy moments from reality TV’s wild kingdom? By Amy Wilkinson

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The authenticity of Harris’ spiritual expe- rience is presented as a mystery, but the Ashley S. smooches a crab deeper you get into Hand of God, the more you BACHELOR IN PARADISE (ABC) realize the rightness of his beliefs is beside You have to kiss a lot of crustaceans to find your prince. After being dumped by Dan, Ashley S. the point. Showrunner Ben Watkins is more rebounded with a hard-shelled hookup. interested in exploring Harris’ chaotic inter- nal life and of faith, not faith itself. It’s a fine but refreshing distinction: Hand of God is certainly cynical about religion, but here, the problem of evil is more a proof of man’s sinfulness rather than an indictment of God. The best character is KD (Garret Dillahunt), a dim, damaged,

devout ex-con, desperate for redemption Home cooks find animal heads in a box and warped by Harris into an instrument of MASTERCHEF (FOX) violence. His dilemma isn’t God, but those Like something out of a Fincher fever dream, contes- tants were given mystery parcels—with lamb, pig, acting as his hand. and cow noggins nestled inside. Return to sender! It’s clear Watkins has ideas to spare, but he struggles to make meaningful drama with them. The early episodes in particular don’t encourage a full binge. The setup is absurd, the vision stuff is silly, and the tone is uneven. Jocelyn isn’t the only woman who’s poorly served. Dana Delany, playing Harris’ suffering, pot-smoking wife, doesn’t get much more to do than react to her hus- EJ and Jeff spear an electric eel band’s foolishness. The show’s other NAKED AND AFRAID XL (DISCOVERY) virtue-challenged servants-of-a-cause It’s not the wildest entry, but it is the most shocking. characters—Reverend Paul, his girlfriend/ Literally. Two bare hunters repeatedly got zapped chief acolyte (Elizabeth McLaughlin), and a by their would-be dinner. Electrifying TV indeed. hustling, realpolitik mayor (Andre Royo)— overcome rocky starts to become more coherent and compelling, but it’s not enough. Hand of God has its saving graces. It needs more. C

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Michelle Rodriguez eats urine-mouse stew SITSPEAKING IN TONGUES TR TATTOO REMOVAL RUNNING WILD WITH BEAR GRYLLS (NBC) Grylls’ celebrity survival series reached new extremes when the Fast & Furious star sampled a rodent mari- ETCEVIL TECH COMPANIES WBY W.B. YEATS WILD DOVE: GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTO DOVE: nated in her own pee. Worst pit stop ever. Survival Mode After years of ensem- ble and supporting roles, the veteran actress takes the lead on AMC’s new drama (Sundays, 9 p.m.)—yet still finds time in the midst of a zombie apocalypse to eat birthday cake. By Dalton Ross

KIM DICKENS HAS a hammer, and she’s not afraid to use it. Well, that’s not entirely true. She’s here in a trashed community-college cafe- teria on the Vancouver set of Fear the Walking Dead preparing for a scene in which she is supposed to whack a zombie on the head repeatedly with a rubber hammer, but the actress is worried about inflicting some real-life damage. During a rehearsal, the director encourages her to really have at it. Dickens delivers a blow but immediately winces. “Are you sure you’re okay?” she asks. “Yeah, I’m good,” Try it for free at nextissue.com replies the zombie. (Wait, zombies can talk?!?) “It’s hard to enjoy this,” she says to herself, but as soon as the director yells ”Action!” Dickens engages in an epic hammer-swinging struggle that involves the destruction of many containers of pudding and fruit cups along the way. (P.S. She looked like she enjoyed it.) The scene is

PHOTOGRAPH BY MICHAEL MULLER “Wise, wildly unique.” —Entertainment Weekly captured—her last of the Patrick Fugit and Kim Dickens in Gone Girl day—but before Dickens can clock out, the cast and crew have a surprise Can you love for her. Out comes a big cake with white frosting, and soon everyone is someone who singing “Happy Birthday” to the actress, who is turning 50 today. After is different blowing out the candles and making a speech, every day Dickens proceeds to ? catering, where she is presented with yet THE WALKING DEAD- another cake. GONE GIRL LINK The lady has earned her double-confection The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman must celebration. After really love the movie Gone Girl: He cast the delighting TV audiences film’s police partners Kim Dickens and Patrick as part of ensemble Fugit as the leads in two of his shows. While casts on shows like Dickens is playing Madison on Fear the Walking Deadwood and Treme, in Dead, Fugit will star as Kyle Barnes on Cine- recurring roles on Friday max’s Outcast, a 2016 adaptation of another Night Lights, Sons of Kirkman comic book. And the connection goes Anarchy, and House of even deeper. “I first saw The Walking Dead with Cards, and in a guest- Patrick because we were shooting some starring turn on Lost, Gone Girl driving scenes in the cop car,” says Dickens is now No. 1 on Dickens. “We were waiting in the car, and he the call sheet for the said to me, ‘Have you ever seen this show?’ highly touted Walking He started playing it on his iPhone, and we Dead companion series. would just sit there quietly and watch it in But when she was first between takes. Pretty great that we both end approached about up on a Robert Kirkman show.” —DALTON ROSS starring as widowed The instant guidance counselor New York Times bestseller! Madison on Fear, Dickens Nick (Frank Dillane), over- But Dickens is now wasn’t sure the zombie- achieving daughter Alicia comfortable among all apocalypse drama was (Alycia Debnam-Carey), the chaos and wreckage, the right fit. and boyfriend Travis (Cliff and the genre that once “It’s a totally new Curtis)—trying their best seemed so foreign now genre for me,” she says to navigate a full societal feels like home. “I had a while taking a break on shutdown, one that we great birthday,” Dickens set. “When I first was pre- will begin to see more of reflects on set the next sented with the option to in the Aug. 30 episode. day. “I had intended to audition, I thought, ‘I “I think it plays into our be on a beach some- don’t fit in there.’ And biggest fears of, well, where, and then when I then I read the script and what if we’re not pro- realized the schedule was like, ‘That’s an amaz- tected?” says Dickens. wasn’t going to free me ing character. But still, I “And what if we can’t up to leave, it dawned on don’t know.’ And then protect ourselves? And me that it was the great- finally it just became this those are very human est birthday I’d ever had. much more universal fears and realities that we To be working on this story than just an think about. This family show, it’s like there’s no apocalypse, and that’s is sort of the audience’s greater gift. I’m having what I responded to.” surrogate, and they a great time, I’m chal- Now she hopes audi- get to watch as these lenged, I’m surrounded ences will also respond characters experience by amazing talent, and to the story of a blended this crumbling of it’s just like, well, this is family—including civilization and how exactly where I’m The highly anticipated companion! Madison’s junkie son rapidly that happens.” supposed to be.” Start reading at

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A DAY-TO-DAY GUIDE TO NOTABLE PROGRAMS* BY RAY RAHMAN @RayRahman

Season Premiere Awkward

9–9:30PM MTV Spring break is over in the world of Awkward, where Jenna (Ashley Rickards) & Co. are prepping to finish out their senior year by plotting plenty of pranks—and by attempting to figure out their lives. Jenna’s still hanging with her latest fling, a Marine named Brian (Cayden Boyd), while also trying to be a good friend to her currently off-again beau Matty (Beau Mirchoff). Spoiler: That’s harder than it looks. This season—the show’s fifth— is filled with just as much teen-centric drama as ever, but it’s all more urgent and more compelling thanks to the characters’ impending separation from one another. In T’s (Jillian Rose Reed) words? Its return is the bomb-dot-com. A– —Ariana Bacle

Significant Running Wild Mother With Bear Grylls MUST WATCH 9:30–10PM THE CW 10–11PM NBC OF THE Ready to meet a Dropped into a WEEK significant rough and rocky Season Premiere grandmother? environment, movie (Dallas) star Michael B. guest-stars as Jordan must find a DRUNK HISTORY Gammy, Lydia’s way to escape the uptight mom. situation unscathed. TUESDAY, SEPT. 1 10:30–11PM COMEDY CENTRAL But enough about DRUNK HISTORY Fantastic Four— Midseason Premiere he’ll also be in this. Will the slurry show’s third season be its drunkest ever? Maybe! The Faking It : COMEDY CENTRAL; CENTRAL; : COMEDY premiere kicks off in New Jersey, with the likes of Justin Long (above, 9:30–10PM MTV SEASON PREMIERE left), Christopher Meloni, and Stephen Merchant (back as Abe A tough new school principal Fashion Police Lincoln) reenacting the Garden State’s past. Co-creator/host Derek starts cracking 8–9PM E!

Waters says it only gets tipsier from there. “We’ll have more themed down on AWKWARD the students. Melissa Rivers episodes this year,” he teases. “There’s one that’s going to cover jour- Mr. Belding joins Giuliana strikes again! Rancic and Brad : MTV; RIVERS: CHRISTOPHER POLK/NBCUNIVERSAL nalism, which I talked to David Simon for. And we’ve got a whole epi- Goreski to critique sode about spies! Will Ferrell is Roald Dahl”—did you even know the previous Season Finale night’s VMAs fash- Dahl was also a spy?—“and Octavia Spencer plays Harriet Tubman. The Whispers ion. Expect lots of praise for . It’s pretty surreal.” Waters adds that the season will also feature such 10–11PM ABC boozy locales as Las Vegas, New Orleans, and L.A. But it’s during the The supernatural series’ season Miami episode that Waters meets his match, in the form of Dan finale is finally Harmon. “I’ve never been more drunk, and never will be that drunk here, Whispers fans! The two again,” Waters says of going toe-to-toe with the Community creator. of you must be “That was a learning experience. I’m not going to beat Dan Harmon.” so excited.

56 EW.COM SEPTEMBER 4, 2015 *TIMES ARE EASTERN DAYLIGHT AND SUBJECT TO CHANGE MONDAY AUGUST 31 (cont.) TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 1

Series Debut Series Debut challenging as spell- Todrick Puffin Rock ing crustaceans.

10–10:30PM MTV STREAMING NETFLIX Hollywood Dancer/YouTube sensation Todrick Hall is bringing his No, it’s not about Game Night viral-video expertise to the (bigger) screen with a new healthy cereal: The 10–11PM NBC reality show. Each week, he and his band of fellow Chris O’Dowd- dreamers will hustle to produce one of their signature narrated kids’ show Featuring the Jonas videos, complete with new music and choreography, follows the adven- Midseason Finale Brother pictured and all within a tight time frame and even tighter budget. tures of a puffling Rizzoli & Isles below. If you can

: JEREMY FREEMAN/TRUTV JEREMY : “It’s about artists trying to find our way and doing named Oona. name him, then 9–10PM TNT something every single day to get closer to our goals,” congrats on being Hall says. Viewers can also expect to see a few familiar From Dusk Till The duo looks into younger than me! faces (Joseph Gordon-Levitt!) helping out. “People Dawn: The Series a mysterious old would think we’re the least likely to make it in Holly- watch...that’s found 9–10PM EL REY wood,” Hall says. “Yet here we are with our own reality in a balloon of IMPRACTICAL JOKERS IMPRACTICAL show. If we can do it, anyone can.” —Megan Daley Seth and Kate pull off cocaine...that was a heist, and Freddie in a dead woman’s has nightmarish stomach. This plot visions. It’s like Mr. brought to you Robot, but with more by Magnetic Poetry. Wilmer Valderrama! Chopped : BARBARA NITKE/LIFETIME;: Zoo 10–11PM FOOD 9–10PM CBS For week 2 of the The team flies to Teen Tournament, PROJECT RUNWAY PROJECT Zambia to procure the young cooks leopard DNA. must use expensive Hopefully they’ll at crustaceans in their least buy the leop- appetizers. That ard dinner first. sounds almost as : VIVIAN ZINK/BRAVO; ZINK/BRAVO; VIVIAN :

WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 2 THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 3

Season Premiere Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles

9–10:15PM BRAVO MILLION DOLLAR LISTING LOS ANGELES We’ve always been thankful for Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles—it’s the only way we’ll ever see inside an $8 million home in the Holly- wood Hills (at least until some smart person brings back MTV Cribs). In their eighth sea- Project Runway son, the show’s thirsty brokers—Josh Altman, 9–10:30PM LIFETIME Josh Flagg (who finally owns up to loving a bit of nip and tuck), James Harris, and David The designers split Parnes—are still busy sabotaging each into two teams Impractical Jokers other’s deals, not to mention self-sabotaging that compete in an their personal lives. But this time, we’re not intense paintball 10–11PM TRUTV as sold. In true L.A. fashion, the drama feels match. Let’s hope To ring in their 100th episode, Joe, Sal, Q, and Murr are as phony and manufactured as Flagg’s nose. camo is in style this getting high: The gang will walk across a five-story- And ears. And chin. B– —Stephanie Schomer season. tall tightrope in Manhattan—live. Whoever gets the

: DOUG HYUN/TNT (2); JOE JONAS: CINDY ORD/GETTY IMAGES; farthest wins. (Fear not, joker lovers: There’ll be an air- Documentary bag.) “We’re working with [Ringling Bros. vet] Bello Nock Now! to train them,” showrunner Pete McPartland Jr. says. “But we’re not doing a test run. When you see them go 10–10:30PM IFC RIZZOLI & ISLES up 50 feet in the air, it’ll be their first time.” If you’re the The real Helen Mirren betting kind, McPartland has some things for you to presents Kunuk consider. “Murray is the most athletic, but he’s by far the Uncovered, a fake most scared of heights. I might put money on Q, since doc about whether he was a firefighter, but that was a long time ago. And

: SHAWN ADELI/MTV; or not another Sal is scared of everything! His neurosis is going to come fake documentary into play no matter what we do.” As for Joe? “He’d be

TODRICK is real. Got all that? eating doughnuts on the tightrope if he had his choice!”

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015 EW.COM 57 What to Watch

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 4 SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 5

Masters of Survivor’s Illusion Remorse

8–8:30PM THE CW 9:30–10PM STARZ Tonight’s roster of Cam’s mom starts magicians includes dating again. Do one named Murray I smell a Significant SawChuck, who will Mother crossover presumably cut Blunt Talk episode? (No.) Zachary Levi in half. 9–9:30PM STARZ America’s Next American Masters The court orders Weatherman Walter to attend 9–10:30PM* PBS 11PM–MIDNIGHT TBS AA meetings. Is the U.S. Open If he doesn’t, he’ll Want even more giving you tennis be demoted to Brad Goreski on fever? Then check Jimi Hendrix: Electric Church The View. your TV? Oh, really? out this profile of Well, he’s the special 9–10:30PM SHOWTIME Althea Gibson, the Midseason Premiere guest tonight.

first African- The central section of this documentary features Tiny House JIMI HENDRIX: ELECTRIC CHURCH American player never-before-seen footage of guitar legend Jimi Hunting to win Wimbledon. Hendrix, bassist Billy Cox, and drummer Mitch Mitchell 9–10PM FYI *check local listings blasting through what amounts to a greatest-hits set (which includes “Purple Haze,” “All Along the Watch- In the 1700s, British Atlanta Plastic tower,” “The Star-Spangled Banner,” etc.) at the Atlanta aristocrats took to Pop Music Festival in 1970, just a couple of months employing “orna- 10–11PM LIFETIME before the rock icon’s death. Equally fascinating are the mental hermits”— AND PICTURES GENOWER/BUFFALO NEIL

Dr. Jones meets a bookending sections, which include new interviews with real men who’d live in : SAM FEINSILVER/AUTHENTIC HENDRIX, LLC/SHOWTIME; Michael Jackson both locals and musicians about the chaos that ensued small dwellings on impersonator. Wait after hundreds of thousands of people descended on the the estate. This show a second...is tiny city of Byron, Ga., to see the acts—and, in at least isn’t about that, but that you, Tito? one case, publicly copulate! B+ —Clark Collis man, what if it were?

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 6 MASTERPIECE

Happy Valley Bachelor in Season Premiere Paradise The Great British Baking Show AND /ITV 6–8PM A&E

8–10PM ABC 7–8PM* PBS BLUNT TALK In time for college MASTERPIECE football, this doc Professional While Gordon Ramsay might be its best- covers Penn State’s taupe-suit model known export, much of the U.K.’s reality TV is : JUSTINA MINTZ/STARZ; MAYER/WIREIMAGE.COM; JEFFREY GORESKI:

sex-abuse scandal. Chris Harrison actually addictively tranquil, full of endear- ; spends one more ing personalities and whispering narrators— SHIP LAST THE SEASON FINALE week in Mexico. in a word, pleasant. Baking Show’s second season is a perfect example of that: The

Miniseries Debut Ray Donovan premiere begins with 13 very polite, very HYUN/TNT; : DOUG The Last Ship Arthur & George British apron-clad bakers making cakes with 9–10PM SHOWTIME 9–10PM TNT humility, not hubris. They’re egged on by 8–9PM* PBS The crew tries to Bunchy’s wedding friendly judges who offer such measured Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Martin Clunes) get all Americans faces a threat. Are praise as “It’s a very good cake” and “I like is bored. Not just that, the famed Sherlock to take , you telling me some- that.” We like that too. A– *check local listings SHOW BAKING BRITISH GREAT THE Holmes author is a depressed mess: His but certain people one doesn’t want wife has died, and so has his spirit. That is, are still resisting. to be Mrs. Bunchy? until a real-life case involving a possibly “Are you sure framed half-Indian solicitor named George it’s gluten-free?” The Strain (Arsher Ali) grabs his attention—and ours. 10–11PM FX Based on true events (plus a Julian Barnes novel), Arthur is a gripping, even frightful Justine must counter ARTHUR & GEORGE ARTHUR detective tale that depicts a nation’s many a surprise invasion. WILLIE/PBS : DES social hang-ups. Clunes and Ali are great, At this point, though, but watch for Downton Abbey vet Charles they really shouldn’t Edwards to steal scenes as Doyle’s be “surprised” secretary Alfred Wood. B+ *check local listings by invasions. :

58 EW.COM SEPTEMBER 4, 2015 1 in 6 people struggles with hunger in America.

Join the Feeding America nationwide network of food banks to help provide meals to people in need. Visit FeedingAmerica.org. Music EDITED BY KEVIN O’DONNELL @ODtron

IS THERE A MORE UNLIKELY The Weeknd pop ascent than that of the Weeknd? The Canadian R&B TITLE LABEL sensation (born Abel Tesfaye) CHELSEA LAUREN/WIREIMAGE.COM Beauty Behind the Madness XO/Republic Records began as a mixtape phenomenon, grew into GENRE REVIEW BY an indie favorite, and is now dominating R&B Kyle Anderson @KyleAEW the Hot 100 this summer with the unstop- pable “Can’t Feel My Face.” Not bad for a dude who began uploading spacey sex jams anonymously to the Internet.

BEST TRACKS In the Night A powerful funk juggernaut | Shameless A dirty-minded quiet storm with a killer guitar solo | Can’t Feel My Face A joyous genuflection at the

60 EW.COM SEPTEMBER 4, 2015 NOTEWORTHY

CMT will debut an intimate doc about the late Johnny Cash on Sept. 12. Lionel Richie named 2016 MusiCares Person ALSO AVAILABLE of the Year; the singer will be honored with performances by ALBUMS on the couch. But on collection yet. Over Pharrell and Lady Antebellum at the 2016 Grammys. their latest, they 13 tracks, he unspools go grandiose with anthemic power Atlas Genius weighty tunes that chords, swaggering Inanimate Objects explore love and horns, and gimlet- On their second melancholy. Singer eyed tales of his record, Australian Victoria Legrand journeys around the brothers Keith and has a refreshingly world, from London Michael Jeffrey double unshowy croon that’s to Bangkok. A– Tesfaye has gone from hermetic genius to down on their angular one of the most —Madison Vain keyboard-soaked seductive in pop, and genuine pop star, and judging by Beauty alt-pop. They manage her gorgeous synth Behind the Madness, his third proper album, to strike an even drones and guitarist Foals What Went Down he’s still adjusting to the arc of his own career. greater balance ’s effects- between blockbuster laden riffs are exquisite. The British quintet The 25-year-old has clearly retained many of sing-alongs (“Stock- Cue up the breezy began as a dizzying the left-field instincts that made him a favor- holm,” “Refugees”) “PPP” and bliss out. A– dance-rock act and ite of heady R&B fans (and Drake) in 2011, but and explorations of —Eric Renner Brown have been gently he’s also making a concerted effort to bend more ethereal terrain, evolving since their like the gloriously 2008 U.S. debut. Their his sound in a more mainstream direction. disorienting “Friends Destroyer fourth album is a Poison Season Tesfaye resolves that schism best on “Can’t With Enemies.” The great leap forward: a Feel My Face,” an ebullient disco kick that duo may not be Canadian songwriter heavy-hitting, slightly swells with surgical precision. He finds a reinventing the wheel, broke scuzzier blend of but they spin it in through with 2011’s Britpop melodics and similar high on “In the Night,” a confident thrilling new ways. Kaputt, an exuberant indie-rock noise, strut that sounds like a lost jam from Thriller. B+ —Kyle Anderson blend of smooth jazz- best captured by the But anyone looking for a collection of pop, chugging rock, propulsive “Albatross” homages to the King of Pop will be dis- and amped-up glam- and the stomping Beach House folk. He was only single “Mountain at appointed. Those masterpieces are outliers, getting started—his My Gates.” With a and they end up making Madness’ missteps Over five albums, the follow-up is his summer that’s been all the more jarring. The Kanye West Baltimore dream-pop most adventurous light on rock thrills, duo have provided What Went Down is a co-production “Tell Your Friends” is dull, Atlas plenty of fodder for welcome savior. A– borrowing limp atmospheric tricks that Genius late-night comedowns —Kyle Anderson West abandoned years ago. The album- closing “Angel” begins with Meat Loaf-level bombast and only gets goofier. And when Tesfaye teams with Ed Sheeran on “Dark Times,” the result is a confounding imitation of ’ arena-rock schlock. In the middle of those two poles lies a series of bass-heavy throb-and-moan blasts with the signature oddness (shape-shifting melodies, twitchy percussion) that makes the Weeknd a compelling artist. While his talent is undeniable, once he fully harnesses it, he’ll really be dangerous. B

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Big deal Showtime optioned Loving Day, Mat Johnson’s

wildly funny novel about family, identity, and race. Tweet

talk “A plan is like an automobile —if it’s wrecked it might Books have a more interesting shape.” —@lemonysnicket EDITED BY TINA JORDAN @EWTinaJordan

exception: The title nominally belongs to Purity “Pip” Tyler, a 23-year-old adrift in postcollege malaise, shacked up in an anarchist squat in Oakland and bringing home a paycheck that can’t begin to chip away at her student loans. But when a beautiful German woman—one of many freelance radicals drawn into the squat’s mutinous orbit—recruits her to intern for a Julian Assange-like figure named Andreas Wolf in Bolivia, Pip sees an opportunity to escape her grim finances and neurotically needy mother. And Franzen has his spring- board to widen the story’s scope, tracing Andreas from his wayward youth in Stasi-era Berlin through his rise as the cult-hero head of the Sunlight Project (“It’s about honesty, truth, transparency, freedom”) and unravel- ing the parallel mystery of Pip’s parentage. As the narrative weaves across six decades A NEW and three continents, some threads inevitably JONATHAN become more compelling than others. The FRANZEN book is at its heady best when it takes on two NOVEL of Franzen’s favorite subjects: the strange ARRIVES compromises of modern life and the more ONLY EVERY timeless mysteries of human behavior. But it FIVE OR can be exhausting, too, in part because—not 10 YEARS, to beat a dead literary mare—of his often AND WHEN IT shockingly ugly take on women. To be fair, DOES IT his so-called Female Problem may be more FEELS LIKE A a function of general misanthropy than BANQUET.” misogyny; each unhappy novelist is unhappy in their own way, and Purity’s male char- acters hardly come out unscathed. Still, he Purity seems to see shrews and toxic vixens every- where, and the book’s comparatively gentle

BY PAGES GENRE REVIEW BY treatment of Pip begins to feel less like kind- Jonathan Franzen 563 Novel Leah Greenblatt @Leahbats ness than mere disinterest in her inner world.

Maybe Franzen did grow tired of his cre- SHELBYFRANZEN: GRAHAM A NEW JONATHAN Franzen novel arrives only every five ation; the book ends suddenly, somewhere or 10 years, and when it does it feels like a banquet. His between a bang and a whimper. It’s as if after books are almost always centered on familial entangle- more than 560 enraging, engaging pages he’s ments and identity, but they’re never just that: There are pushed his chair away from the table, finally brilliant stand-alone chapters to devour, detours to savor, full—whether or not his reader feels the bitter little scraps to nibble and spit out. His latest is no same. B

THE OPENING LINES “‘Oh pussycat, I’m so glad to hear your voice,’ the girl’s mother said on the phone. ‘My body is betraying me again.’”

62 EW.COM SEPTEMBER 4, 2015 The Scribe Behind a New Dragon Tattoo When Stieg Larsson’s father and brother decided to continue the late author’s best-selling Millennium series, they found a brilliant successor: Swedish crime journalist David Lagercrantz. By Isabella Biedenharn

who didn’t speak. savant herself. George One day they drove Yeah! So I have a BY Alex Gino past a streetlight, character that sort

and the next day, of mirrors her. I think PAGES 195 without knowing that was important. anything about per- GENRE Middle Grade spective or how to How did your REVIEW BY Amy Wilkinson draw, he drew the years as a crime @amymwilk streetlight exactly. I reporter help with had an idea of a the book? character like this I learned the impor- A TRANSGENDER tale witnessing some- tance of details. I for readers too young thing horrible—a remember when I murder, for exam- wrote about a horri- to peruse a Vanity ple—and Lisbeth ble murder, there Fair profile or watch an E! has to save him. I was this Finnish guy, reality series, this debut follows couldn’t write a and he told [his a tenderhearted fourth grader conventional story. victims] to get named George, who was born a down on their knees Rumor has it and beg for mercy. boy but knows she is a girl— Larsson left some I wrote about the even if no one else does. When outlines behind. crime a number of auditions for a class produc- Did you use them? times, but it didn’t tion of Charlotte’s Web are No, the only notes I really get into me. announced, George decides to announced I would used were the ones Then I read in the write the book, all I took reading the police report that try out for the role of the the papers sent out first three books. I’m one of his victims female arachnid, hoping her news flashes, as if it kind of a Larsson hadn’t tied his shoe- performance will convey about were some govern- nerd, so I found lots laces because he her gender identity what she ment crisis. But I of threads that I’m ran so fast from his has been unable to vocalize. think that feeling of sure he would have house as he tried to danger drove me to developed. Then, of get away. It was a Unfortunately, she’s met with write better. course, there are small detail that resistance from both trusted Taking over this questions about the got me to under- adults and schoolyard bullies series must Where did you mythology of Lis- stand the horror of until her best friend, Kelly, get the idea for have been daunt- beth Salander. She’s the moment. encourages her to persevere. ing. How did the book’s plot? such an extraordi- you approach I was nervous about nary character. Her Does your loyalty George is a timely book for the project? the plot, because childhood: her evil lie more with Lars- parents to share and discuss DAVID one of the great father beating and son or Lisbeth? with their children, whether LAGERCRANTZ things about Stieg raping her mother, Both, of course. I dealing with similar issues or Larsson is that his First of all, I reread Lisbeth fighting can’t violate Lisbeth simply to foster understanding. the books. I had plots are so com- back. There are so Salander, you know. read them when plex. One day, I many questions we She can’t have three Though recommended for read- they came out, [but remembered that I haven’t had an kids and a Volvo. ers ages 9–12, preteens might this time] I took had done a story answer for yet. Why But I also have to find that their own experiences notes. When I about an autistic is she such a good develop the book in have surpassed prepubescent savant—a Rain Man started writing, I hacker, for example? some way. I have to George’s. Hopefully that only

LAGERCRANTZ: MAGNUS LIAM KARLSSON LIAM MAGNUS LAGERCRANTZ: was scared to character. I remem- Things like that. put something of death. Could I live bered speaking to myself in it; other- encourages publishers to turn up? Would I be a parents who had a She seems wise it wouldn’t be this thoughtful novel into a very disgrace? When we deaf, autistic kid like a bit of a any good. necessary series. B+

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EXCLUSIVE EXCERPT The Tale of The Tapes In an exclusive peek at Tom Roston’s I Lost It at the Video Store—out Sept. 24 from the Critical Press—directors Nicole Holofcener, Kevin Smith, , and dish about their life-changing jobs at video stores

QUENTIN TARANTINO I found called New Video opened Video Archives in Manhattan up in my neighborhood on Beach and I thought it was University Place. I got to take the coolest place I had ever home stacks of movies and seen in my life. copy them, of course, to start KEVIN SMITH My mother was my own collection. It was a up my ass, “You got to get a whole movie culture. job.” That summer, 1989, I went SMITH I didn’t want to be a film- through three. I worked at maker. I just wanted to work at Domino’s for one day and I a video store. I thought I was never came back. They made going to be sitting behind the me wear slacks, and I look counter on a little footstool for terrible in slacks. I went to work the rest of my life. And brother, at a cemetery. And they asked that suited me just fine. My me to dig a f---ing grave. Right father hated his job at the post then and there, I was like, office. He worked nights as a “I am too young.” And I worked letter carrier. I saw how having at an Italian bakery, which a job he hated affected my you’d imagine I’d love, but I old man. Here was a job I loved, Jackie Gleason?” I was pretty hate Italian pastries. and I got it. good that way. TARANTINO [In 1985] the owner TARANTINO I could definitely SMITH I always liked being help- asked if I wanted to have a job push the stuff that I liked, or ful, and I’d try to tell people there. He didn’t realize he was what I thought was interesting what to rent even if it was the saving my life. And for three and challenging. For the same stupid s--- over and over years, it was really great. The most part, I tried to gear it for again. I loved talking with case could be made that it was the customer. A housewife people. There was no Internet, really too terrific. I lost all my comes and, say, she wants so you couldn’t jump on a ambition for the first three something. I am 24 and she’s message board or Twitter. years. I stopped trying to act 54, so I’m not going to try to You got to do that in person and trying to direct. give her Eraserhead or with people. SMITH So I am combing the Forbidden Zone or some TARANTINO Me and the other want ads. And I see the dream kung fu movie. If she likes Tom guys would walk into the local job. “Help wanted. Video Hanks? I am not going to steer movie theater and we’d be store.” And I go to RST [in her toward Bachelor Party, heading toward our seats and © 2015 Tom Roston; reprinted by New Jersey]. I was like, “This but I could very well steer her we’d hear, “There go the guys permission of the Critical Press is the Cocoon of jobs.” toward Nothing in Common. from Video Archives.” We were NICOLE HOLOFCENER I was “Have you seen Nothing in known all over that town. In a going to NYU and a video store Common with Tom Hanks and strange way, Video Archives in

64 EW.COM SEPTEMBER 4, 2015 ILLUSTRATION BY KELSEY DAKE saunter back to the porn room and reach for the filthiest thing on the planet and then have to bring it up to the counter with Turner & Hooch. It was one of the particular joys of the video store. DIRECTORS HOLOFCENER I had a really big WHO crush on this actor. He wasn’t LIVED THE famous, but he was well known CLERKS and he rented a lot of movies. LIFE And then one day he rented gay porn. SMITH There was one lady, a married mom. She had to be maybe 45. She would rent the action movie, the kids’ movie, and a hardcore flick. She just got down to, “Just give me what’s new.” Once you’re com- fortable with someone renting NICOLE HOLOFCENER porn, you can have conversa- Known for helming indies like Friends With Money tions with him or her. Having a and Enough Said, frank conversation with some- Holofcener also directed one about his or her sex life Amy Schumer’s “Last F---able Day” sketch. informed my work a great deal. TARANTINO The store was my Village Voice and I was the Andrew Sarris. At a certain point I got to know everyone’s taste. And after three years, it got to be a real drag putting movies in people’s hands. KEVIN SMITH When I started getting sick The View Askewniverse of the place, I started to mastermind launched his reconnect with my ambition. career with Clerks, set in the actual video and SMITH I was not the rude clerk. convenience store Bryan [Johnson, who also where he once worked. worked at RST Video] is a creature of pride. To serve anybody is not in his matrix. It makes his skin crawl. To kowtow to someone who’s renting Problem Child instead Manhattan Beach was a primer For the porn section, it’s like, of a good movie— to what it would be like to be “Okay, you are into taboo sex. that would drive Bryan nuts. famous. Everyone in Manhattan You keep renting the taboo JOE SWANBERG TARANTINO At one point, I Beach knew who I was. I series.” I would say, “Yeah, I A prolific director and brought all of the employees pioneer, couldn’t walk down the street heard this one is really good. Swanberg is best known together to talk with them without people calling, “Hey, You’re going to like it. Tell me for his low-key dramedies about an employee takeover. Quentin. Hey, Quentin!” how it came out.” like Drinking Buddies Now, none of us had any and Happy Christmas. JOE SWANBERG We were order- SMITH There was porn at RST. money, but this was a legiti- ing fifteen films a day for the And it was stocked, son. mate business thing. “Go to store, and the manager didn’t Blockbuster never did porn, your parents and borrow the care. She was like, “Yeah, and so the mom-and-pops six thousand dollars, you and whatever. Here’s the password stayed in business with their you and you and you. This to order what you want.” porn rooms. Watching is all legit.” Nobody was inter- The little store in Naperville, people interact with the porn ested. I loved the place. I was Illinois, this corporate video room was awesome. Once you really, really invested in it. The QUENTIN TARANTINO store, had a massive foreign get comfortable with people, The Oscar-winning truth of the matter is, if we film section. It had a massive they wouldn’t do this dance, director of Reservoir Dogs had done that, I may not have documentary section. “Oh, what’s in the kids’ and Pulp Fiction has a made Reservoir Dogs. I would new film—The Hateful HOLOFCENER It’s very personal section? Ah, this looks good.” Eight—hitting theaters have been working at, and

HOLOFCENER: STEVE GRANITZ/WIREIMAGE.COM; STEVE HOLOFCENER: BOCZARSKI/ DANIEL SMITH: GETTY IMAGES; SWANBERG: JASON MERRITT/GETTY SIRIUSXM FOR KILLILEA/GETTY IMAGES IMAGES VIVIEN FORTARANTINO: SUNDANCE; renting videos to people. Pick up a drama. And then on Christmas. owning, Video Archives.

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