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Abandoning her seat D-I-S-R-E-S-P-E-C-T in the audience at Radio City Music Hall, Minaj Madonna took to the stage for an alleged zipped downtown tribute to Aretha Franklin, but spared to perform a fast-paced few words for the Queen of Soul. Despite medley of songs from a huge photo of Franklin behind her, her new album, Queen: Madonna paid homage to herself for “Majesty,” “Barbie seven minutes—even managing to throw Dreams,” an a cappella in an “LOL.” Where’s Kanye when you verse of “Ganja Burns,” need him? “I’ma let you finish, but Aretha and current single “Fefe.” had one of the best careers of all time!”

12 EW.COM AUGUST 31, 2018 Crazy Rich Asians stars Constance Wu and Henry Golding photographed exclusively for EW on Oct. 21, 2017, in Los Angeles Crazy Rich Returns The producers of Crazy Rich Asians tell EW what their big box ofice debut means for the future of Asian- and Asian-American-led films. BY SHIRLEY LI

He was. Buoyed by stellar reviews, Crazy acquired the rights to Kevin Kwan’s best- Rich Asians won over audiences early: selling book in 2013. “Nina and I, as white Warner Bros. held screenings for Asian producers, never fully understood the organizations months before release, while power of representation [until now]. Asian community leaders campaigned on We’ve been blown away.” social media using the hashtag #GoldOpen “The desire to be seen and heard has to rally moviegoers. Word of mouth—and been really humbling to see,” Jacobson says. support from A-listers like Ava DuVernay, “It’s been the decision-makers who have Chris Pratt, and Reese Witherspoon— been a little slow to hear that audiences encouraged further turnout, to the tune of want more diversity and more choices.” $26.5 million the first weekend. Thanks to Crazy Rich Asians, that may be Numbers aside, the film’s success beginning to change. “We’ve been pitched marks a much-needed win for representa- terrific Asian-focused films [at Ivanhoe], tion. As the first major Hollywood produc- and it’s incredibly heartening,” Penotti says. tion in 25 years with an all-Asian cast and “We’re making sure there’s not another CRAZY RICH ASIANS IS OFF TO A CRAZY Asian-Americans in lead roles, 25-year delay.” dazzling start. Far exceeding initial projec- Crazy Rich Asians had to shoul- That definitely won’t happen tions of $18 million, Warner Bros.’ romantic der proving that a film about if a sequel is greenlit (two comedy earned $35.3 million over its open- contemporary Asian characters novels remain in Kwan’s tril- ing five days, topping the box office and played by Asian actors, sans AUDIENCES ogy). “I have no news to break, making back its $30 million budget in less whitewashing, could dominate HAVE BEEN but this weekend has given us than a week. “I refreshed my page three the box office. It did—and it’s READY FOR terrific momentum to see more times,” producer John Penotti, whose pro- been long overdue. “Audiences THIS FOR A Crazy Rich Asians in the world,” duction company Ivanhoe Pictures helped have been ready for this for a Penotti says. “It’s our complete finance the film, recalls of the first time he long time,” says producer Brad LONG TIME.” intention to do it.” Given those —CRAZY RICH saw the headline. “I had to make sure I was Simpson, who with his Color ASIANS box office earnings, they’d be PRODUCER looking at the right thing.” Force partner Nina Jacobson BRAD SIMPSON crazy not to. X

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THE QUEEN OF SOUL PASSES, LEAVING A REGAL LEGACY AND A WORLD IN MOURNING FOR A ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME VOICE By Barry Walters IN HER AUTOBIOGRAPHY ARETHA: FROM These Roots, Aretha Franklin mused on a term coined by one of her boyfriends: “The Age of Aretha.” “I loved that phrase,” she wrote. “People were growing up to my music, getting married, having babies, deﬁning their youth, and making memories that would last a lifetime.” If anyone deserved their own era, it was Franklin. Her voice is so deeply embedded in our culture that the mere mention of her name elicits a profound sense of love, strength, independence, and history. concert; and countless musicians, actors, ( Clockwise from top left ) Franklin She didn’t just sing songs, she sang battle activists, politicians, and everyday fans performing in cries—the type of music that grabbed you 1968; with Stevie were sharing memories of Franklin and Wonder in 2012; by the shoulders and shook you to life, why her work played such an integral part applying makeup in 1969; looking propelled you to the dance ﬂoor, consoled in their lives. fine and feathered your broken heart and radicalized “She was just consistently a great human in 1970 your mind. And that’s never been more being,” Stevie Wonder told CBS This clear than it was this past week, following Morning in a tearful interview in which he the Queen of Soul’s death on Aug. 16 at recounted his final conversation with her home in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., at his longtime friend. “She believed, I think the age of 76 from advanced pancreatic that most of all, she was doing God’s work— cancer. Soon after, radio stations were and she was,” he continued. “She brought playing all-day Aretha tributes; artists joy to a lot of lives, and her voice and the from all genres were covering her in essence of her will [outlive] all of us.” ARETHA FRANKLIN 1942–2018

Music fans the world over, including Franklin’s peers and those she inspired, took to social media to mourn the titanic loss. Here is a mere fraction of the tributes.

N 1970:N JOEL BRODSKY/CORBIS/GETTY IMAGES ARETHA HELPED DEFINE THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE. IN HER VOICE, WE COULD FEEL OUR HISTORY, ALL OF IT AND IN EVERY SHADE—OUR POWER AND OUR PAIN, OUR DARKNESS AND OUR LIGHT, OUR QUEST FOR REDEMPTION AND OUR HARD-WON RESPECT. MAY THE QUEEN OF SOUL REST IN ETERNAL PEACE. —BARACK OBAMA

The loss of Aretha Franklin is a blow for everybody who loves real music: Music from the heart, the soul and the Church. Her voice was unique, her piano playing underrated—she was one of my favourite pianists. I was fortunate enough to spend time with her and witness her last performance—a benefit for the Elton John AIDS Foundation at St John The Divine Cathedral. She was obviously unwell, and I wasn’t sure she could perform. TTY IMAGES; FRANKLIN IN 1969: WALTER IOOSS/GETTY IMAGES; FRANKLIN I But Aretha did and she raised the roof. She sang and played magnificently, and we all wept. We were witness- ing the greatest soul artist of all time. I adored her and worshipped her talent. God bless her.... The whole world will miss her but will always rejoice in her remarkable legacy. The Queen is dead. Long live the Queen. —ELTON JOHN

Aretha Franklin. The Queen of Soul. The Icon. The ultimate singers’ singer. The greatest singer and musician of my lifetime. The power of your voice in music and in civil rights blew open the door for me and so many others. You were my inspiration, my mentor and my friend.... I will forever cherish the moments I spent in your presence. Your indelible impact was earned not only by your incomparable

TER IOOSS JR/ZUMAPRESS; (THIS PAGE) WITH WONDER: KRIS CONNOR/GE voice but by your bigger than life personality, wit and humor. I say a BIG prayer for you. You will forever have all our RESPECT. Love, Mariah —MARIAH CAREY

IT’S A SAD DAY BUT WHAT A GLORIOUS LADY. HER VOICE SAYS IT ALL! —KEITH RICHARDS

I am so saddened by the loss of our beloved Queen of Soul, Aretha. She has always been my favorite and the greatest singer I’ve ever heard. Along with Ray Charles, she has been the most influential artist in my life. She brought the raw passion and beauty of gospel and the deepest blues, irrepressible rhythm to every note she sang.

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1967 “Halos” photo session by famed photographer Art Kane

“I DON’T KNOW WHAT HOMEWORK SHE DID BEFOREHAND. I JUST KNOW SHE SANG SONGS ONCE OR TWICE AND WAS DONE.” —Session musician Spooner Oldham on recording with Franklin Spooner Oldham, who played piano, organ, and keyboard on some of Franklin’s greatest hits (“Respect” and “Think,” among others), shared similar sentiments about his former collaborator. “She had such command of that voice and piano,” he tells EW, adding that their recording ses- sions were always loose and inspired. “The three albums I played on, she never said ‘Play this’ or ‘Do that.’ It was never a lot of work. I don’t know what homework she did beforehand. I just know she sang songs once or twice and was done.” Quincy Jones, who collaborated with Franklin through the years, may have put it best in a statement that read in part, “From the time that Dinah Washing- ton ﬁrst told me that Aretha was the ‘next The cover of Franklin’s best-selling 1972 gospel album one’ when she was 12-years old until the present day, Aretha Franklin set the bar upon which every female singer has been and will be measured.” The tributes continued for days after her The enduring power of Franklin’s gospel album Amazing Grace. BY SARAH RODMAN passing, illustrating Franklin’s wide reach. Words of love poured in from all over the Pity the poor roof at New Beyond the religious mate- globe, from artists of multiple genres and Temple Missionary Baptist rial, Franklin included popular generations—the tidal wave included Willie Church in Watts, Calif., when music in the proceedings— Nelson, Questlove, Rob Halford of the Aretha Franklin arrived to including Carole King’s “You’ve heavy metal band Judas Priest—reverently record her gospel album Got a Friend” and “You’ll Never Amazing Grace in 1972, for Walk Alone” from Rodgers paying the respect that Franklin had so righ- surely it knew its number was and Hammerstein’s Carousel. teously demanded, and earned: Ariana up. Accompanied by Rev. Those songs serve as a potent Grande sang “(You Make Me Feel Like) A James Cleveland and the reminder of how efortlessly Natural Woman” on The Tonight Show Star- Southern California Commu- she could transform the sec- nity Choir, her rafter-bursting ular into the sacred, as with ring Jimmy Fallon; country stars Miranda live performance remains her sanctified recording of Lambert and Chris Stapleton both inserted the best-selling work of Frank- Elton John’s “Border Song,” her Franklin’s “Do Right Woman—Do Right lin’s career and won the legendary take on Simon & Man” into their set lists. Then there was Grammy for Best Soul Gospel Garfunkel’s “Bridge Over Trou- Performance in 1973. bled Water,” and even her duet Kelly Clarkson, who performed a number of Certainly not everyone with George Michael, “I Knew Franklin songs during her victorious run in who is moved by Franklin’s You Were Waiting (for Me),” the first season of American Idol, paying Amazing Grace is Christian. which could be interpreted as homage on Twitter: “Aretha Franklin is the But everyone who encounters devotional. Franklin brought it doubtlessly will shiver at church with her wherever she reason why I sing from that part deep inside her ecstatic intonation of went, reaching beyond the of me that few could ever reach. She was my the word sacred in “Precious pews, tapping into our univer- favorite and will always be.” Memories,” delight in the sally shared humanity with The admiration was universal, deep, and unbridled joy of “How I Got her voice, heart, gut, and soul. Over,” marvel at the sheer force “We want you to give in well-founded. From her gospel beginnings of her surrender on the title to the spirit,” says Reverend in the early ’50s to her 2014 cover of Adele’s track, and have what one can Cleveland at the top of the “Rolling in the Deep,” Franklin wowed only hope is a common epi- performance to the assembled audiences with the power of her incompa- phany: If divinity lives any- congregation (which included where, it lived within Franklin. Mick Jagger and Charlie rably intense and instantly recognizable Watts of the Rolling Stones). mezzo-soprano and rollicking piano. One Never have more superfluous

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AUGUST 31, 2018 EW.COM 19 The Queen emerged from the disco era ready to reconquer the charts—and have a little fun. BY ALEX SUSKIND

Following a disappointing series of albums, Franklin was ready to add some ’80s flair to her repertoire. First up: a scene-stealing cameo in 1980’s The Blues Broth- ers. Then, in 1982, after signing to Arista Records, she landed a No. 1 R&B album (her 10th) with Jump to It. But duets with younger artists truly gave ’80s Franklin a synth-inspired boost, contemporizing her for the MTV generation. A friendly diva showdown with Whitney Hous- ton in 1989 (“It Isn’t, It Wasn’t, It Ain’t Never Gonna Be”), touting women’s empowerment with Eurythmics in 1985 (“Sisters Are Doin’ It for Themselves,” of the platinum-selling Who’s Zoomin’ Who?), and rejoicing with George Michael in 1986 (“I Knew You Were Waiting [for Me],” her first No. 1 hit since “Respect”) found Franklin having fun and success. How many Rock & Roll Franklin in a promotional photo from 1973 Hall of Fame members can boast of current hits at the ceremony? Franklin can—she was the first woman inducted, in 1987. time, she placed 73 titles on Billboard’s Hot 100—an achievement that has FRANKLIN IN 1973: ANTHONY BARBOZA ANTHONY 1973: IN FRANKLIN made her the second-most-charted female artist—and scored 100 entries on Franklin embracing the colorful in 1980 Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, including 20 R&B No. 1 singles, as well as 17 Hot 100 top 10s. Yet Franklin’s mark on the world goes far beyond her astronomical sales and 18 Grammys. Hits like “Respect,” “Baby, I Love You,” and “Think”—all recorded during the peak of her late-’60s popularity—brought together personal and soci- ological themes with a piercing authority that made her both a crucial inﬂuence /GETTY IMAGES; FRANKLIN IN 1980: HARRY LANGDON/GETTY IMAGES LANGDON/GETTY HARRY 1980: IN FRANKLIN IMAGES; /GETTY on the civil rights movement and an inspiration to women the world over.

THE AGE OF ARETHA DATES BACK TO MARCH 25, 1942, THE DAY FRANKLIN was born in Memphis. The fourth of five children—her mother, Barbara Siggers, was a gospel singer who died when Aretha was only 10; her father, C.L. Franklin, was a traveling preacher who settled down to become the socially progressive minister of Detroit’s New Bethel Baptist Church—Franklin displayed her prodigious talents from a young age. She was only 14 when she recorded her ﬁrst album, 1956’s Songs of Faith, at her father’s church. After touring with her dad’s close friend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., she longed to follow in the footsteps of Sam Cooke and transition from gospel to secular pop. Franklin signed to Columbia Records in 1960; that same year, she scored her ﬁrst Hot R&B hit with “Today I Sing the Blues.”

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“Until You Come Back to Me (That’s What I’m Gonna Do)” 1973 From soul shouters to pop confections to gospel roof-raisers and beyond, Franklin did it all. The surging single encapsulates Here are 14 of her best. BY EW STAFF the pining of wistful lovers with its sweet, soulful persistence.

“(You Make Me Feel Like) “Dr. Feelgood” 1967 “Since You’ve Been Gone “Freeway of Love” 1985 A Natural Woman” 1967 The doctor is in, and Aretha (Sweet Sweet Baby)” 1968 The synths are unmistakably wants everybody else to get out Co-written by Carole King Has a song about losing love ’80s, but the song itself is classic so they can get naked and stay and Gerry Gofin, this track is ever felt so good? Over a blast Aretha: a sly, seductive bounce that way, basically. If it was the ultimate emotional of joyful horns and a jump-up custom-made for pink Cadillacs explicit for 1967, she was clearly paean to the transformative backbeat, Aretha’s chorus climbs and stolen summer afternoons. power of love. too busy feeling good to care. all the way to the heavens.

“Sisters Are Doin’ It for “Respect” 1967 “Do Right Woman—Do “Think” 1968 Themselves” 1985 Right Man” 1967 No disrespect to Otis Redding, Pity the fool who does her It takes brio to duet with the Decades before hashtag femi- but Franklin’s signature song took wrong. The word freedom has the original and transformed it Queen, but Annie Lennox (and nism entered the mainstream, never sounded so truly free. Dave Stewart) of Eurythmics Franklin was repping for sexual into something wholly diferent went—respectfully—toe to toe and emotional equality with in both sound and meaning— “Ain’t No Way” in this ecstatic ode to women laid-bare lyrics set to one of and in Franklin’s case, the inter- 1968 taking charge. the most indelible slow-burn pretation was career-defining. A ballad as gorgeously hopeless melodies in R&B history. R-E-S-P-E-C-T. She earned it. as any lost-cause love can be. She knows her man isn’t as bad “I Knew You Were Waiting “Chain of Fools” 1967 as he seems, but he can’t seem (for Me)” 1986 “I Never Loved a Man to stop himself. And even if (The Way I Love You)” 1967 This slinky, locomotive groove there’s a will, there’s still no way. As is customary in popular He’s no good: a heartbreaker, a was initially intended for song, the rivers were deep and liar, and a cheat. So why can’t Redding before producer Jerry the mountains were high, but “Rock Steady” she walk away? Maybe it’s chem- Wexler decided it was more 1971 Franklin and George Michael istry, or maybe it’s a piano-line suited for Franklin. He was right. It was the dawn of a decade, weren’t letting that stop them hook so incendiary this guy had and a whole new funk frontier from rejoicing in this ebullient to be invented just to give her for Franklin—who found an gem, the pinnacle of her ’80s a reason to sing it. unforgettable more-cowbell pop sojourn. groove on the hip-swinging “What it is, what it is” refrain.

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By mid-decade, Franklin had racked up several strong entries on the R&B singles and album charts, but failed to achieve even one major pop crossover during her six years at Columbia. Her gospel roots were downplayed during this period in favor of standards and light jazz, but everything Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section member SPOONER OLDHAM played keyboards on some changed for Franklin once she signed to of Franklin’s greatest hits (“Respect,” “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman,” Atlantic Records in early 1967. Her first “Think”). He speaks to EW about working with the legend. single for the label, “I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You),” was both her first On recording “I Never Loved a singer, more than just a piano top 10 Hot 100 hit and her first R&B No. 1. Man (The Way I Love You)” player—she had it all going “I met Aretha in FAME Studios on. It was a fun day. It was just Its follow-up, her definitive rendition of the day we recorded [the song]. free-flowing.” Otis Redding’s “Respect,” which was sig- We were both in our mid-20s. nificantly revamped to come from a fed-up She was nice—sort of shy-ish so On recording “Respect” woman’s perspective, topped both charts. there wasn’t a lot of talking.... “The first time I heard ‘Sock it to I just started playing that rif me, sock it to me, sock it to me, It would also go on to become an anthem you hear on the record, and sock it to me’ and ‘R-E-S-P-E-C-T,’ for both the civil rights and feminist move- then she’s singing—and then you know, boy, I knew something ments. Before the year was up, she had also she played the acoustic piano was going on there that I’d scored with “Baby, I Love You,” “(You on the second verse. She had a never heard before in my life. It high command and dynamic. was a great vocal arrangement.” Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman,” She was more than just a —As told to Alex Suskind and “Chain of Fools.”

Franklin became an icon of black pride in Spooner Oldham (back to camera) in the studio with Franklin, New York City, 1968 the late ’60s while winning the heart of the American mainstream without a trace of compromise. And even while racism raged through much of the country, her work with Jerry Wexler—a white, Jewish journalist-turned-producer—proved that artists could come together to create something truly transcendent. The sheer magnitude of her emotion, combined with the precision of her vocal technique, meant that Franklin could reach nearly everyone: In the wake of Dr. King’s assassination, Time put her on its cover in June 1968. TTY IMAGES In 1970 she oﬀered to post bail for jailed activist Angela Davis, telling Jet magazine, “I have the money; I got it from Black people—they’ve made me financially able to have it—and I want to use it in ways that will help our people.” As she entered the ’70s, Franklin traded famously captured on film by the late after Grace, the pop hits dried up, and even her bouffant and gowns for an Afro and Oscar-winning director Sydney Pollack, but her major R&B victories became less fre- dashikis as her music drew deeper from her has yet to be seen in public due to a long- quent. The soul of the ’60s had morphed gospel roots. Her own songwriting chops standing legal fight (though that could into the funk and disco of the ’70s, and sharpened on such hits as “Call Me,” “Day change in the wake of her passing). “I really Franklin closed the decade with shrinking Dreaming,” and “Rock Steady.” hope people see this ﬁlm,” says author and sales and diminishing artistic returns. Then came 1972’s Amazing Grace, a live DownBeat senior contributor Aaron Cohen, Her career quickly rebounded in 1980, double LP that remains the biggest album who literally wrote the book on the album. the year she signed to Clive Davis’ Arista of her career and also the best-selling live “ I think this is one of the most magical per- Records, performed for Queen Elizabeth II

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breakout cameo as a wailing waitress alongside Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi in The Blues Brothers, one of the highest- grossing movie musicals of all time. In 1982, Jump to It—a co-production between Frank- lin and the era’s rising R&B star, Luther Vandross—became her 10th R&B No. 1. But even this was a warm-up for 1985’s Who’s Zoomin’ Who?, an emphatically youthful platinum smash that yielded four hits, including “Freeway of Love” and “Sisters Are Doin’ It for Themselves,” a feminist roof-raiser with Eurythmics. While updat- ing the fiery vibe of Franklin’s heyday, Zoomin’ positioned the diva in that sweet spot between classic and contemporary. Franklin with Mariah Carey at the VH1 Divas concert in 1998 Her second hit streak lingered through much of the ’80s with help from George Michael (’87’s pop chart-topper “I Knew You Were Waiting [for Me]”), Elton John (“Through the Storm”), and her honorary niece Whitney Houston (“It Isn’t, It Wasn’t, It Ain’t Never Gonna Be”). But following the From sea to shining sea and beyond, here are six times the Queen brought 1988 death of her sister Carolyn, who’d co- the house down in person. BY CLARK COLLIS written Franklin’s 1973 ballad “Angel,” and the ’89 death of her brother and longtime MONTREUX JAZZ FESTIVAL VH1 DIVAS LIVE manager Cecil, Franklin’s career down- 1971 1998 shifted. As she confided in a 1995 Ebony Backed by King Curtis’ band the At the inaugural event, Franklin cover story that appeared halfway through a Kingpins, and frequently accom- was joined by Mariah Carey, seven-year gap between albums, the Queen panying herself on piano, the Celine Dion, Shania Twain, Gloria slept until noon, watched her soaps, and in-her-prime Franklin ofered up Estefan, and Carole King for a a peerless set that included barnstorming performance cooked for friends and family, including her “I Say a Little Prayer for You” and of “(You Make Me Feel Like) A four sons, Clarence and Edward Franklin, a soulfully majestic version Natural Woman.” It wasn’t a Ted White Jr., and Kecalf Cunningham. “I of “Bridge Over Troubled Water.” competition—but if it had been, can wear some chitlins out,” she confessed. we know who would have won. SOUL TRAIN But in 1998, Franklin once again entered 1979 INAUGURATION OF the ring. She earned her ﬁrst accolades in BARACK OBAMA During a special episode years after subbing for Luciano Pavarotti at celebrating Franklin’s career, 2009 the Grammys, singing “Nessun dorma,” she sang a gorgeous of-the- The Queen of Soul paid tribute the Puccini aria he’d repopularized. Next cuf duet of the Miracles’ to America’s first black Com- “Ooo Baby Baby” with lifelong mander-in-Chief by singing “My up was “A Rose Is Still a Rose”—which friend Smokey Robinson. Country, ‘Tis of Thee” in freezing Lauryn Hill wrote and produced for the “We should have been a duo,” weather on the National Mall in legend between quitting the Fugees and she jokes. Replies Robinson, Washington, D.C. releasing The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill— “It’s not too late.” 38TH KENNEDY a gold single that framed Franklin’s vocals 40TH GRAMMY AWARDS CENTER HONORS with fragrant strings and thorny beats. 1998 2015 The album of the same name similarly When opera legend Luciano Franklin performed “(You Make matched her with hip-hop kingpins includ- Pavarotti fell ill, Franklin stepped Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman” ing Jermaine Dupri and Puﬀ Daddy. in as a last-minute replacement, in tribute to songwriter King, a delivering a remarkable rendi- Kennedy Center honoree. Presi- Although most subsequent records—like tion of Puccini’s aria, the testing dent Obama was again in atten- 2011’s self-released A Woman Falling Out of “Nessun dorma,” which dance, and was moved to tears

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The marquee of the famed Apollo Theater in Harlem touting a 1971 Franklin concert

“ARETHA FRANKLIN SET THE BAR UPON WHICH EVERY FEMALE SINGER HAS BEEN AND WILL BE MEASURED.” —Quincy Jones

mounting rumors of ill health, 2014’s Aretha work cut out for her: Even more than R-E-S- artist shifting the cultural trajectory, shap- Franklin Sings the Great Diva Classics reunited P-E-C-T, Franklin has always stood for truth. ing the way we hear, feel, and think about the legend with her public. Following a trib- “I sing to the realists, people who songs and life. How different would our TYRONE DUKES ute to the Queen of Soul at his annual accept it like it is,” Franklin explained political upheavals, our personal memo- pre-Grammys bash in January 2018, Clive in 1990 on the Grammy Legends show. “I ries—weddings, funerals, BBQs—our Davis announced that Jennifer Hudson was express problems—there are tears when Saturday nights and Sunday mornings have /THE NEW YORK TIMES/REDUX Franklin’s choice to portray her on the big it’s sad and smiles when it’s happy. It been without her voice guiding the way? screen. Hudson’s performances of “Think” seems simple to me, but to some, I guess, Franklin may be gone, but her music isn’t. and “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural feeling takes courage.” The Age of Aretha lives on. X Woman” that night demonstrated she is It’s courage that led Franklin’s music to clearly up for the challenge, but she has her immortality, a powerfully transformative Additional reporting by Sarah Rodman and Alex Suskind

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KURT SUTTERAND THE JD PARDO LIKES TO TALK ABOUT HOW HIS START ON MAYANS M.C. was not much diﬀerent from Charlie Hunnam’s on Sons of Anarchy, CAST OF FX’S SONS OF ANARCHY the FX drama that inspired this latest series about outlaw bikers. SEQUEL SOUND OFF ON THE While shooting one of his first outdoor scenes with his fellow leather-clad misfits, the California native (Twilight: Breaking NEW LATINO BIKER DRAMA Dawn—Part 2) lost control of his motorcycle after the wheels got BY LYNETTE RICE @LYNETTERICE stuck in some gravel. “Thank God I had the presence of mind to JD Pardo plays prospect EZ Reyes

turn off the bike, roll over with it, and put it to bed,” recalls Pardo, California motorcycle club. But unlike what happened with Jax, who prepped for his role as a Mayans prospect by attending “Har- who joined the Sons out of a sense of family tradition, EZ is heavily ley school.” “But then I heard Charlie dropped the bike on his first conflicted about riding alongside his fully patched brother Angel day too! I’m on a good path.” (Clayton Cardenas) in the Southern Cali club near the Mexico bor- Like Hunnam’s character, Jackson “Jax” Teller, Pardo’s Ezekiel der that dubs itself “God’s Assassins.” “EZ” Reyes is a hunky young man with unresolved mommy and high Their butcher-shop-owning dad, Felipe (Edward James Olmos), school sweetheart issues when he’s lured into the criminal life of a isn’t too thrilled about the development either.

AUGUST 31, 2018 EW.COM 29 so much time trying not to make her Gemma that she became two- dimensional,” says Sutter. “I took that mandate [of a female lead] away. This is a show about two brothers and a father with really clunky, sparse emotional skills. How do those men navigate, in their ham-fisted way, around all the high-stakes emotional problems? I real- ized that’s the f---ing show.” Filling out the mostly Latino cast are a few familiar faces (Sagal makes a cameo in the ﬁrst episode, while Emilio Rivera reprises his SOA role as Marcus Álvarez, head of a NoCal chapter of the Mayans) and a whole lot of fresh ones. Sutter takes pride in the fact that several of his Mayans have more jail time Felipe Reyes than onscreen experience. “A lot of (Edward “EZ never wanted to be a part of the M.C. He had his actors that I auditioned were pretty, brown people try- James Olmos) now has own life. He went to Stanford. He’s an intelligent young ing to act like badasses,” says Sutter. “So when JD came two sons in the Mayans, man,” explains Pardo, 38. “Then a tragic event happens in to read, there was something about him that was including and it sends him to prison, which changes him com- really unique.” To him, Pardo was the perfect counter- his former golden-boy pletely. Now that he’s out, he is trying to rebuild balance to other members of the cast who lived the life son, EZ (Pardo) himself. It’s all part of the process of EZ trying to ﬁgure and served time. out what life is for him today.” But is it just a little too real? Given the political cli- For the millions of fans who tuned in each week mate regarding immigration—not to mention how

from 2008 to 2014 to Sons—which, at an average of 12.1 Donald Trump has accused Mexico of bringing drugs GUPTA/F PRASHANT PAGE) (THIS MINCHIN/FX; JAMES SPREAD) (PREVIOUS million viewers in its final season, remains FX’s most and rapists to America—cast members like Olmos popular drama ever—Mayans will definitely fill the admit that it may not be the best time to depict the void with its violent tales of drug smuggling and turf dark side of the Latino community. “It’s going to be a wars. Danny Pino plays a kingpin who relies on the difficult journey,” says the Oscar nominee. “It could be Mayans (led by Michael Irby’s Bishop) to move his called stereotyping, because of the fact these truths heroin, while an entire subplot is devoted to a Mexico- have been understood and known before.” But Sutter based rebel group that’s looking to says there was no avoiding it. “The first frame of the destroy the cartel. pilot focuses on a portion of the border wall that says Yet helping ease SOA withdrawal ‘divided we fall.’ I actually saw that on the Mexico side was not what co-creator Kurt Sutter of the wall when we were scouting. After I put that in, EZ NEVER had in mind when he first conceived I went, ‘Wow, do I take that out? Is it too on the nose?’ the sequel. “FX was trying to work out But then it felt inauthentic. Part of what makes this real WANTED TO a deal with some Spanish-language is the fact that this is what’s going on at the border. It’s X (2) X BE A PART network or something, so they asked what makes it authentic.” Let’s ride! X me if I had any ideas that might live in OF THE M.C.” [that] world,” he recalls. The concept ended up languishing—partly because EZ is —STAR JD PARDO brought Sutter wanted to go medieval for into the club by his a change by creating The Bastard Executioner for FX brother (which lasted only 10 episodes in 2015). He also discov- Angel, played by ered that writing Mayans was harder than he’d imagined: Clayton Cardenas The network shut down production on the pilot last year after Sutter tried too hard to create a strong female lead in the tradition of SOA’s Gemma Teller Morrow (played by his wife, Katey Sagal). His original thought was to give EZ and Angel a mother, but “I spent

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PHOTOGRAPHS BY RAMONA ROSALES @RAMONA_ROSALES Almost all the songs are passionate, longing love songs, and R U I had a really good time writing O ND about that because before 1 this album, I didn’t know what me writing happy music even sounded like. It feels really up BEER front to me. If that’s admitting sides of yourself that you don’t like, if that’s talking about past My, my, my, has Troye Sivan arrived. Three years ago, on your debut experiences really frankly, or album, Blue Neighbourhood, talking about where you’re at The 23-year-old Australian show- you sang, “I’m just a lost boy, right now in a really open way, man ascended from YouTube not ready to be found.” So, do I was down to do it and deal with you feel like you have been? the consequences later. roots to young pop stardom with I do, to a certain extent. I know that growth and change are for- At 23, how does your age inspire his 2015 debut album, Blue ever, but I’m definitely the most your music? Neighbourhood. Now Sivan is a settled and secure that I’ve ever One thing I loved about Lorde’s been. I’m learning every single second album was that we got ubiquitous pop collaborator, day about myself and about the introduced to this person that a burgeoning actor, an openly gay world and about music. The we loved so much on the first, biggest diference is that there’s and then the second just made role model—and an adult ready a little bit less anxiety. complete sense. It felt like that same character has grown up. to drop his smoldering sophomore You’ve said that you didn’t want That’s the way I see my albums, album, Bloom (out Aug. 31), and to give the world a “sad gay hopefully for the rest of my life. album” right now. What, then, Just a kind of update, a diary of introduce the world to his good side. is Bloom? where I’m at. Songs like “Dance Ultimately, it’s a love album. to This,” about the fact that I

Sivan on Bloom: “Almost all the songs are passionate, longing love songs.” have a house now and, like, moments along the way, but nine out of 10 nights I’d rather I have so much faith in us stay home than go out, really to stay strong through all of that. accurately represent where I am in my life. Where do you find your glamour? As someone with very evoca- I get a lot of my glamour from tive music videos, what do your my mum. She was a model videos unlock in your music? when she was younger, and I always write really visually. we’ve got this portfolio of In my head I’m constantly all of her photos and news- picturing things, so videos are paper cuttings, and sometimes such an expressive part of I look a little like her when I’m my job, and I hope I communi- done up, and that makes me cate a lot through the visuals feel pretty glam. And, as well, I make. I would feel very empty I feel most sexy when I find that without them. line between masculine and feminine that feels most authen- Is there a lyric or visual you’re tically myself. particularly proud of? The second verse in “What a Is Bloom a sexier album for you? Heavenly Way to Die.” It makes I think so. Maybe ’cause it’s a me really soft and mushy. little more real about that stuf. It’s this idea of a little gay cou- With the first album, I felt pres- ple getting super old and wrin- sure to keep things more mild kly together, and listening to and palatable. I was a new art- that song 60 years in the future. ist—still am—openly gay, still “I get a lot of my glamour from my mum,” Sivan tells EW. I had this really sweet image young, and I just wanted to of the old man from Up listening keep things as PG as I could. to that song with his gay boy- Whereas this time, I was like, friend. [Laughs] No—I want to make music for public person, and I’m actually star thing, it’s so incredible to queer people and make some- really not, I’ve found. As I’ve watch. And the last one was see- thing real about what’s actually grown up, I feel like a very pri- ing the trailer for Boy Erased going on in my life. vate person, actually. and hearing my songs from the soundtrack underneath these U Howdidyoureconcileyour What has your YouTube back- incredible performances by RO ND parents’ listening to your more ground defined about you? Lucas Hedges and Nicole Kidman. 2 sexually suggestive songs? The relationship with the fans. That gave me chills. I literally pretend it’s not hap- There are some people who pening. I don’t think my parents follow me on Twitter who I poten- In Boy Erased, you play a teen know the lyrics to any of my tially have been speaking to at a Christian gay-conversion BLUE HAWAII songs, so I just kind of put faith for over 10 years, which is so nuts, therapy camp. How did that in that and hope for the best. but that’s a real relationship. acting experience change you? Headlines about you seem I cherish that more than anything. That movie was a really intense intent on referencing you as So, they don’t know what the time for me. My music team an openly gay artist. How song “Bloom” is about? What was your last pinch-me knew I was going to shoot this much weight do you feel is Well, now they do because moment? movie, so it was dead quiet, putonyoutorepresentthe everyone and their mum has I can think of three. Number one music-wise, for a month, and queer community? talked about it. But whatever! is performing with Taylor Swift that was the first time that’s I’ve always said that as long as at the Rose Bowl [in May]. That happened in years, and I was people are still talking about it, was crazy and overwhelming, completely absorbed on set it means that it’s something that just because it’s Taylor Swift and in Atlanta. It was amazing, but at needs to be spoken about. it’s the Rose Bowl with 60,000 the same time, it was gnarly. I’ve always been totally fine to U people, which is the biggest It’s such a hurtful thing to witness, talk about and embrace that. RO ND crowd I’ve ever played for, and even when it’s pretend. It was Am I excited for the day where 3 we were singing my song. super eye-opening and really lit [a headline is] just “Troye Sivan That’s a moment where, had a fire in me to try and change. Puts Out a Song”? Sure, yeah, I been able to fast-forward into that’s exciting. As I’m excited for the future as a 15-year-old and Dare I ask: Does Nicole Kidman VODKA TONIC the day when a trans woman seen that, I would have just lit- listen to your music? of color can walk down the street erally cried uncontrollably. I’m…not sure! She said in an and not fear for her life. We’ve What’s the biggest mis- Shooting the “Dance to This” article that she and Keith got so much work to do as a conception you think there is video with Ariana is another one. [Urban] are fans. And I was really community, and the only way is about you? When you see Ariana being gagged by that. I just don’t forward. There’s going to be I think people think that because Ariana Grande, when she turns know if it’s true or if she was just some uncomfortable and painful I came from online, I’m a really it on and does the whole pop being really nice. X SUIT: BOTTEGA VENETA; SHIRT: ATM; SHOES: ROBERT CLERGERIE

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intelligence agents and their daring mission Operation Finale to whisk him to Jerusalem to stand trial for his crimes is the true story that drives Chris STARRING DIRECTED BY Weitz’s stirring Operation Finale. Oscar Isaac, Ben Kingsley Chris Weitz In Steven Spielberg’s Munich and even Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, RATING LENGTH REVIEW BY there was something deeply and undeni- PG-13 1 hr., 58 mins. Chris Nashawaty @ChrisNashawaty ably satisfying in watching Jewish soldiers and operatives avenging the horrors of their persecution. Operation Finale taps into AS THE ALLIES MARCHED TOWARD BERLIN IN THE the same primal rush of retribution. Weitz spring of 1945 and it became all too clear that the Third and writer Matthew Orton have done well Reich would topple, Hitler, Goebbels, and Himmler all by this chapter of modern Jewish history, committed suicide rather than be taken alive. Adolf even if they occasionally steer too hard into Eichmann did not. The cold-blooded architect of the melodramatic Hollywood espionage thriller MGM PICTURES MGM Final Solution ﬂed with his family to Argentina. His clichés. Still, the reason the movie works as capture would have to wait almost 15 years. The tale of well as it does is its two stars: Oscar Isaac his top secret kidnapping by a team of Israeli and Ben Kingsley.

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Isaac—whose salt-and-pepper hair and loose, cocksure charisma call to mind a RANKING BEN young George Clooney—plays Peter KINGSLEY’S ROLES: MOST Malkin, whose beloved older sister and her TO LEAST EVIL young children were murdered by the Nazis BY CHRIS NASHAWATY during the Holocaust. And you get the OSCAR ISAAC’S sense that his day job working for the Mossad is more than just the noble calling OPERATION of a young Israeli protecting his new nation. 1 INTENSE It’s his way of reckoning with survivor’s In Operation Finale (out Aug. 29), the Star Wars guilt. Kingsley, an actor who has made a star plays a real-life Mossad agent who in 1960 career out of plumbing the extremes of OPERATION FINALE captured notorious Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann MOST EVIL ADOLF (Ben Kingsley) to bring him to trial in Israel. righteousness (Gandhi) and malevolence EICHMANN BY DEVAN COGGAN (Sexy Beast), plays Eichmann, a ruthlessly eﬃcient coward in hiding half a world away from his beloved fatherland. With his fas- : 2 What was it that initially This movie comes at a tidious manners, balding comb-over, and drew you to this story? time when Nazism has OCK self-satisﬁed grin, it’s easy to see what his- I was familiar with the trial reentered the public eye. IRON MAN 3 MAN IRON of Adolf Eichmann and the How much were you torian Hannah Arendt meant when she SEXY BEAST DON LOGAN phrase that was coined thinking about the cur- coined the term “the banality of evil” to from it, “the banality of rent political climate? describe Eichmann and his heinous deeds. evil.” But the actual opera- Well, that’s the thing. We The white-knuckle mission to capture tion was a mystery to me. were down in Argentina in If it was in a fictional script period costumes, and then and extract Eichmann is the centerpiece of 3 you’d say, “No way, that’s we turned on the TV and Operation Finale. And it unspools in pre- impossible.” Charlottesville’s happen- dictably unpredictable spy-movie fashion. ing. You’re seeing Nazi

: TRI-STAR/KOBAL/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK; : Everything that can go wrong does; each BUGSY The most harrowing flags and fascists walking MEYER scenes are where your the streets, and it horribly LANSKY BUGSY escape is narrower and hairier than the one character, Peter Malkin, becomes very clear that that preceded it. But it’s the psychological tries to persuade Eich- we’re not making a movie duel between the terrific Isaac and Kingsley mann to stand trial. What about the past, we’re mak- : NICK WALL; wasitliketofilmthose as captor and prisoner that delivers the ing a movie about what’s 4 with Ben Kingsley? happening right now. Peo- film’s most charged jolts of electricity. If He was incredibly pre- ple have been enabled by SEXY BEAST you needed any further proof that Isaac is a pared and hyperfocused. the rhetoric of those in bona fide movie star, you’ll find it here. And IRON MAN 3 When he would come on power and inflamed into TREVOR set, there would be this hatred. It’s really a testa- if you required any additional proof that SLATTERY silence, this sacred silence ment to Ben Kingsley’s /MGM PICTURES; : COLUMBIA/GOLDCREST/KOBAL/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK; ISAAC: STEWART COOK/REX/SHUTTERST STEWART ISAAC: COLUMBIA/GOLDCREST/KOBAL/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK; : Kingsley has the ability to curdle your blood that would happen natu- performance that he and freeze your veins like no other actor, rally. Partially because he [doesn’t play Eichmann as] GANDHI was in his underwear and a monster. He’s a human well, you clearly haven’t been watching 5 we were all trying to be being. It’s a reminder that

: VALERIA FLORINI enough Ben Kingsley movies. Don’t worry, LEAST EVIL very respectful. [Laughs] it’s not some mythical, far- though, you can start with this one. B+ But we were just synced away thing, but something GANDHI up in such a great way. It that can easily happen, MAHATMA GANDHI DID YOU LOVE OPERATION FINALE? You might also like was like playing tennis and even to people that ZADE ROSENTHAL/MARVEL; OPERATION FINALE OPERATION Munich (2005) and The Little Drummer Girl (1984). with a pro. aren’t seemingly evil.

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Stranger No More Domhnall Gleeson has traveled through space for Star Wars, the Wizarding World in Harry Potter (as Bill Weasley, while his dad, Brendan Gleeson, played Alastor “Mad-Eye” Moody), and the English countryside with bushy-tailed animals for Goodbye Christopher Robin and Peter Rabbit. The 35-year-old actor’s excursions have paired him with trippy projects and directors like Alejandro Iñárritu, Alex Garland, Darren Aronofsky, and now, for a second time, Frank director Lenny Abrahamson for the adaptation of Sarah Waters’ creepy thriller The Little Stranger. EW and the Irish actor dive deeper into his career—and even a little into the ghostly realm. BY RUTH KINANE

The Little Stranger was your He’s got a lot of anger and bit- second time working with terness bottled up, and yet he’s Lenny Abrahamson. Was that a good man. Lenny gave me part of the appeal? this phrase early on and I wrote Yes. I’ve been really lucky with it on the front of my script: “If directors, but Lenny is special. you’re carrying something Originally, he sent me the script explosive, you walk carefully.” to play a diferent character, He’s maneuvering himself and I said, “I’ll do anything you through his life carefully want me to do in any project, because he’s aware that there’s but would you mind consider- something inside of him. As it ing me for the character Fara- goes on, you begin to feel the day?” There’s such a change in house is sick, the people are him over the course of the film, sick. As the doctor, he tries to and it’s so dark and unlike any- cure them, and then he gets thing I’ve ever played before. sick himself. You ask, “Where is this all coming from?” People How do you view Faraday, a always ask me if I believe in troubled doctor who’s trying ghosts and all that sort of stuf, so hard to move beyond the because that’s the center of the class he was born into? story—this child who died who

38 EW.COM AUGUST 31, 2018 may be haunting them. I’ve never believed in ghosts. But I’VEJUSTALWAYSTRIEDMUCH I’ve been terrified in the middle of the night sometimes. And I HARDERFORTHESTUFFTHAT don’t know why. And I think that’s scarier: Your mind only EXCITEDME,SOTHEREWASA gives you things that are useful. HIGHERCHANCEIWOULDGETIT.” You grew up with a parent —DOMHNALL GLEESON who’s an accomplished actor. Did that influence your view on acting as a possible career? dispelled. Then there was about is ridiculous in lots of ways, but Yes. For my dad, there was no a year between shooting and not in a hilarious way. But just suggestion [acting] was a path the movie’s release where I was anything to do with that level anyone would take in the family, going into meetings and people of...what’s the word? Pomp and and he really struck out on his didn’t know I only had two lines all the rest of it, the higher own. The industry was very in [Harry Potter], so I probably reigns of military, all the badges small in Ireland and he went for got auditions for things that I and the medals. At a certain it, which takes a bravery I can’t may not have otherwise. point you say, “Why is that man even imagine. I’ve always wearing that hat? That doesn’t understood that I’ve got a huge Since then you’ve been in an make him more powerful.” amount to learn from my father. eclectic mix of movies from Being around him...it makes me About Time to The Revenant And you were reunited with nervous, because you want to and Peter Rabbit. Do you inten- your Ex Machina costar Oscar impress him. But it’s not a com- tionally pick diferent parts to Isaac [see Operation Finale in petitive thing. keep things challenging? the previous pages]. You’ve Definitely part of it is not want- worked with amazing actors Your commercial breakthrough ing to repeat yourself too often. like Saoirse Ronan, Leonardo was the Harry Potter and the I’ve just always tried much DiCaprio, and Tom Cruise. Deathly Hallows movies. Was it harder for the stuf that excited It’s outrageous the people I’ve insane to go from a short film me, so there was a higher had the chance to work with. by Martin McDonagh to some- chance I would get it. Anna Kar- Working with Oscar on Ex thing with that level of fandom? enina terrified me, so I worked Machina was amazing. He was I was a massive fan. When they my ass of for the audition. playing this man who’s manipu- asked my dad to play Mad-Eye I lating me, and I found myself was so incredibly excited. I said, Then there’s your role as Gen- getting very paranoid around ”Listen, if one of the other eral Hux in those small indie him, but he’s, like, the nicest brothers’ parts comes up, you movies, Star Wars: The Force person in the world! I love him. need to get me in for an audi- Awakens and The Last Jedi. You do find yourself hungry to tion.” I met some amazing peo- work with them again and try a ple on that set. I loved how they Harry Potter was the best possible training for that. I felt a little diferent relationship on some- all handled themselves; they thing else, like with Margot Rob- were all good, generous peo- worried about fan reaction, but you can’t control that; all you bie. People that talented just ple—that thing about art requir- make you better. ing sufering was just kind of can do is your job. General Hux I feel like you’ve probably done Domhnall Gleeson sparkles; ( below ) Ruth Wilson and Gleeson in The Little Stranger all the accents at this point. Does that help when you’re trying to get into character? I think it helps now. I used to think about it wrong, like it was ahumpIhadtogetover.And then I started thinking about it as the character, and that’s bad too. It has to come from yourself. It has to come from who you are. And so, over time, it became a way of finding the voice and finding the character at the same time. And not making it one against the other. It’s fitting a voice and an accent to a character and then forgetting about it. It’s the only way to make it work for me.

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Papillon

STARRING Charlie Hunnam, Rami Malek

DIRECTED BY Michael Noer | RATING R

LENGTH 1 hr., 57 mins. | REVIEW BY Chris Nashawaty @ChrisNashawaty

HOLLYWOOD CONVENTIONAL Guiana off the coast of South America. wisdom says that if you’re There he befriends fellow inmate going to remake a movie, Louis Dega (Mr. Robot’s Rami it’s better to tackle one that wasn’t Malek)—a brainy, bespectacled mil- Haley Lu very good the first time around. In lionaire who’s helpless and needs Richard- son and that sense—and that sense alone— protecting. Pappi isn’t some Good Regina Hall in Danish director Michael Noer has Samaritan, though: Dega is loaded, and Support succeeded with Papillon. Anyone the money he’s smuggled into prison is the Girls who’s sat through the 1973 Steve their best ticket to escape. McQueen–Dustin Hoffman prison- Like the infinitely better Shaw- HOW TO SUPPORT escape epic can confirm that it’s one shank Redemption, Papillon traces WOMEN, ACCORDING of the snoozier and least memorable these two poor souls’ friendship over entries on either actor’s résumé. As the years through brutal stints in soli- TOREGINA HALL for the new Papillon, it wisely doubles tary and dashed flights to freedom. The Girls Trip star, who leads as a breastau- down on high adventure, but it’s still But it’s all paced so sluggishly that the rant manager in Andrew Bujalski’s new Support the Girls (out Aug. 24), has ideas as lifeless as its predecessor. Just in film begins to feel like it’s unfolding in about what girls need. BY JOSEPH LONGO different ways. real time. So much so that your mind With his air of sensitive street- can’t help but drift and ponder such HIGHER WAGES tough menace and abs so defined they questions as whose idea was it to “I got skin-care needs and hair-care needs. resemble an abacus, Charlie Hunnam have Malek play a mime in a dream I’ve got to get stuf for my feet because I’m stars as Henri Charrière—a dashing sequence? Or, more urgently, is in heels all the time. We’re taxed more jewel thief in 1930s Paris who’s Hunnam contractually obligated to go because we buy more supplies. I have on a framed for murder. Why? Beats me. shirtless in all of his movies? Based on bra. My publicist has on a bra. There is no man in this hotel that has on a bra, so we Nicknamed Papillon, or “Pappi,” after the evidence in this unnecessary and need more money to buy bras.” his butterfly tattoo, he’s shipped off to uninvolving remake, the answer a hellhole of a penal colony in French seems to be an emphatic “yup.” C BETTER PARKING

“It’s like chivalry. It gives men more of a Charlie Hunnam escapes and escapes chance to walk. You could use the exercise,

and pregnant women could have special SUPPORT THE GIRLS parking spaces. Somebody got her pregnant, whether he’s in that building or another one.”

WELLNESS ROOMS PICTURES; : MAGNOLIA

“We need rest spots. Nursing. We need to be conscious of women who are doing great things in the workplace and want to con- tinue that but also want to be a mother— PAPILLON making that transition and addition really comfortable and fluid.” : JOSE HARO : JOSE

CUTE-FRIEND WORKDAY

“Wouldn’t it be nice to just stare at a cute STREET /BLEECKER boy all day? That would make me work harder, too. I’ll get the building working harder with a Bring Your Cute Friend to Work Day.”

40 EW.COM AUGUST 31, 2018 1 The Bookshop

STARRING Emily Mortimer, Bill Nighy

DIRECTED BY Isabel Coixet

RATING PG | LENGTH 1 hr., 53 mins.

REVIEW BY Leah Greenblatt @Leahbats 2 3

IS THERE ANYTHING BILL NIGHY doesn’t make 50 percent better just by being there? The man who pranced through Love Actually like a leather- pantsed satyr and charmed the tunic right oﬀ Dame Judi Dench in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel has a way of cutting through cinema’s softer bits. He’s as spiky-delightful as ever in : GREENWICH ENTERTAINMENT 4 Isabel Coixet’s The Bookshop, though even his acerbic presence isn’t quite enough to give heft to this small, pretty doily of a drama. THE BOOKSHOP THE Emily Mortimer is Florence Green, a grieving young widow determined to open her own little bookstore in a scenic circa- 1950s coastal village—except nearly everyone

: ALAN MARKFIELD/SONY; AUGUSTISFORTHEDOGS in town, from the officious, otter-faced banker to the queenly local doyenne (Patri- ALPHA Canine companions are all over the big screen this month, making the panting heat of these dog days bearable. To celebrate, we fetched some cia Clarkson, drowning in chintz and passive ruf film facts on these silver-screen pups. BY CHRISTIAN HOLUB aggression), seems determined to thwart her. Only Nighy’s ﬁction-loving misanthrope and a pint-size shop clerk (Honor Kneafsey) : SUNDANCE SELECTS; 1 3 appear to be on her side. Steered by Spanish A.X.L. ALPHA director Coixet (Learning to Drive), the RELEASE DATE Aug. 24 RELEASE DATE Aug. 16 movie’s tone toggles oddly between blithe

PICK OF THE LITTER THE OF PICK small-town satire and minor-key melancholy, HUMANS STARRING HUMANS STARRING Alex Neustaedter, Becky G, Alex MacNicoll Kodi Smit-McPhee, Leonor Varela frilled with long, meditative shots of wind-

DOG LEAD DOG LEAD swept grass and rippling water. It’s all lovingly, A.X.L. (stands for Attack, Exploration, Logistics) Alpha (played by Chuck the wolf dog) carefully done; the ﬁlm even took home three

WHAT IT’S ABOUT WHAT IT’S ABOUT Goyas, Spain’s Oscar equivalent. But the Like a dog version of the Iron Giant, A.X.L. When an Ice Age bison hunt goes bad, a story, like the stakes, never quite resonates. B is a robot created for war. Too bad he’d young warrior bonds with a wolf to survive, rather play catch with his new best bud. kick-starting man’s greatest friendship. : JACOB YAKOB/LD ENTERTAINMENT;

2 4 DOG DAYS DOG DOG DAYS PICK OF THE LITTER

RELEASE DATE Aug. 8 RELEASE DATE Aug. 31

HUMANS STARRING HUMANS STARRING Eva Longoria, Nina Dobrev, Vanessa Hudgens Dana Nachman, Don Hardy (directors)

DOG LEADS DOG LEADS Mabel (pug), Charlie (labradoodle), Gertrude Patriot, Potomac, Primrose, Poppet, Phil (Chihuahua), Sam (dashchund mix), Brandy (shepherd mix) WHAT IT’S ABOUT This documentary follows puppies WHAT IT’S ABOUT training to become guide dogs for visually This cast of characters find their stories impaired people. : TONY RIVETTI JR./GLOBAL ROAD ENTERTAINMENT; ROAD JR./GLOBAL RIVETTI TONY : continually intersecting, but the biggest

A.X.L. similarity is all their cute pets. Emily Mortimer cracks open a cold case of books

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The Happytime Murders

STARRING Melissa McCarthy, Maya Rudolph, Elizabeth Banks

DIRECTED BY Brian Henson | RATING R

LENGTH 1 hr., 31 mins. | REVIEW BY Chris Nashawaty @ChrisNashawaty

THERE’S A CURIOUS THING Written by Todd Berger and that happens when a com- directed by Brian Henson, son of edy that should work Muppets creator Jim Henson, The John Cho doesn’t. The premise can be clever Happytime Murders strains to be as Searching and edgy, the jokes may all arrive on transgressive as Peter Jackson’s 1989 time, the punchlines are placed where felt-behaving-badly shockfest, Meet STARRING John Cho, Debra Messing they ought to be. But something’s the Feebles. But it’s mostly a drag that

DIRECTED BY Aneesh Chaganty missing. The involuntary laughs will no doubt be better enjoyed in never come. The Happytime Murders states where recreational marijuana RATING PG-13 | LENGTH 1 hr., 41 mins. is a perfect example. As high-concept is legal (being baked should bump it REVIEW BY Leah Greenblatt @Leahbats pitches go, this one’s a honey: A hard- up a full grade). Otherwise, it’s a boiled detective noir set in a skeezy botched experiment that inexplicably SEARCHING BEGINS WITH THE underworld where humans and pup- wastes a profanity-spewing Melissa unmistakable metallic skronk of a pets uneasily coexist, it’s like Who McCarthy and is hobbled by a lead dial-up modem: the first hint that Framed Roger Rabbit, but with pup- character (chain-smoking puppet PI what we’re about to see will unfold almost pets instead of ’toons. The hook is Phil Phillips) who resembles Guy completely in the digital world. That’s a great that these aren’t the cuddly, G-rated Smiley crossed with Jerry Orbach and hook for a movie, if not the easiest one to denizens of Sesame Street; they’re whose deadpan monotone (provided actually sustain. But first-time filmmaker foulmouthed, drug-addled, sexually by Bill Barretta) is likely to put you to Aneesh Chaganty (a former Google depraved lowlifes. And the cognitive sleep. There are a few spiky moments employee, appropriately) is a resourceful dissonance of kiddie characters of sick, WTF fun (a bout of rough sex man, and a very clever one; he nearly aces his dropped into extremely adult situa- that ends with a Silly String climax; high-wire conceit to the end. tions should set off taboo sparks like the first time a puppet drops an We meet David (Star Trek’s John Cho) they did in Team America: World F-bomb), but mostly it feels like a almost entirely through his desktop: a Police. So why’s it so flat and unfunny? promising idea poorly executed. C+ happily married dad whose impending widowhood is rendered through YouTube videos, Gmail, and iCal alerts within the first SEARCHING 15 minutes. His wife’s death becomes a cone of silence between him and his teenage KITCHENS : ELIZABETH daughter, Margot (Michelle La); one night she says she’s staying late at study group, but the next day, she’s still not home. So with the

help of a local police detective (Debra Mes- /SONY; sing), David becomes his own internet PI. THE MURDERS HAPPYTIME It’s a lot to carry a ﬁlm where your costars are effectively zeros and ones, but Cho’s sympathetic presence fills the screen(s); the way his eyebrows knit together like

concerned caterpillars or pause for an unex- STONE/STXFILMS : HOPPER pected laugh line feels like a call to Hollywood casting agents to give him more to do, soon. And if Chaganty can’t help overgilding his ﬁnal twist, Searching’s smart, nimble execu- tion still thrills. B+ Maya Rudolph, Melissa McCarthy, and puppet Phil Phillips (voiced by Bill Barretta)

42 EW.COM AUGUST 31, 2018 THE SEARCH FOR THE MORE ON EW.COM To read full NOW PLAYING reviews, head to TRUTH WILL Your complete guide to films in theaters this week ew.com/movies TEAR TWO SOME DRAMA FAMILIES

THE WIFE | Directed by Björn Runge Starring Glenn Close, Jonathan Pryce L APART. Close gives a hurricane of a performance in this tense, finely wrought marital drama as the long-sufering—but hardly powerless—spouse of a famous novelist. B+

BLACKKKLANSMAN | Directed by Spike Lee Starring John David Washington, Adam Driver, Topher Grace W Its fiery message couldn’t be more timely—and its rage more justified. It’s easily Lee’s best movie since 2002’s 25th Hour. B+

MILE 22 | Directed by Peter Berg Starring Mark Wahlberg, Lauren Cohan, Ronda Rousey, Iko Uwais W The only reason to see this dramatic actioner—Wahlberg’s latest ode to macho heroism—is Uwais (The Raid), who cracks skulls with thrilling ingenuity. C+

BLAZE | Directed by Ethan Hawke Starring Alia Shawkat, Ben Dickey L If Blaze gets even one moviegoer to discover the legacy that musician Blaze Foley left behind, then Hawke will have honored his subject and muse beautifully. B+

SOME COMEDY TO ALL THE

SUPPORT THE GIRLS | Directed by Andrew Bujalskki Starring Regina Hall, Haley Lu Richardson, Shayna McHHayle L

: KERRY BROWN/NETFLIX Set in a backwater boobs-and-burgers joint, this rambly, episodic dramedy never quite jells, but Hall (Girrls Trip) brings real heart and soul to her central role. B

TO ALL THE BOYS I’VE LOVED BEFORE Directed by Susan Johnson Starring Lana Condor, Noah Centineo N L A breezy high school rom-com, this Netflix original takes a dash of Mean Girls, adds a sprinkle of Can’t Buyy Me Love, “Outstanding… and stirs until it’s sweet, but not syrupy. B Ellison is at the top of her game.”

: STXFILMS; CRAZY RICH ASIANS: SANJA BUCKO/WARNER BROS.; SOME ROMANCE —Publishers Weekly, MILE 22 MILE THE GUERNSEY LITERARY AND POTATO PEEL PIE SOCIETY PIE PEEL THE GUERNSEY LITERARY AND POTATO starred review, CRAZY RICH ASIANS | Directed by Jon M. Chu Starring Constance Wu, Henry Golding, Michelle Yeoh N L on Tear Me Apart Is it a glossy globe-trotting trifle? Yes. Still, the movie’s delirious dip into the crazy-rich rainbow of Asian experieence feels not just fresh, but way overdue. B “Moves at a

/SONY PICTURES CLASSICS; THE GUERNSEY LITERARY AND POTATO PEEL PIE SOCIETY : MASHA WEISBERG/NETFLIX; Directed by Mike Newell blazing-fast pace.” Starring Lily James, Michiel Huisman, Glen Powell N L A WWII romance as snug and charming and congenitally —Lisa Scottoline British as a tea cozy, Guernsey is the kind of movie you on Lie to Me : GRAEME HUNTER don’t so much watch as wear like a Slanket. B+ THE WIFE THE BOYS I’VE LOVED BEFORE LOVED I’VE BOYS

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Gary Carr, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Emily Meade set the bar high

promising to dance the night away. The Deuce It’s a luscious kickoﬀ for an evolutionary season. The pimps of yore are struggling. DATE TIME NETWORK REVIEW BY Premieres Sept. 9 9 p.m. HBO Darren Franich @DarrenFranich Some prostitutes are now famous, porn THE DEUCE stars in the era of porno chic. A few characters look half-dissolved, addled by drugs : PAUL SCHIRALDI : PAUL AT THE BEGINNING OF THE DEUCE’S SECOND SEASON, and cruel history. “It’s not like how it was Maggie Gyllenhaal walks the Manhattan mean streets, when we started,” says ambitious ingenue late night lit bright, garbage bags looking half-eaten next Lori (Emily Meade). More money, more to cardboard boxes ﬂattened from rough sleep. In sea- problems. Clever Darlene (Dominique /HBO;

son 1, Gyllenhaal played Eileen, a prostitute barely Fishback) notices she’s making $50 less per REL : MATTHIAS CLAMER/FOX : MATTHIAS surviving in the Times Square sex trade of 1972. But now day than her white costars. Eileen seeks it’s 1977, and Eileen’s a porn star with ambitions toward financing for a passion project, a female auteurism. In a dazzling two-minute opening shot, director struggling to be taken seriously. she walks oﬀ the grimy sidewalk into a disco dream, an And there’s this macro story The Deuce after-hours club with Barry White on the soundtrack is telling, about [deep breath] the Death

THE 18-WORD REVIEWW > Rel (Fox, Sept. 9) This sitcom could have aired in 1997, but Get Out’s Lil Rel Howery gets the studio audience laughing.

44 EW.COM ( Clock- wise from above ) LOGLINES A Sweet Treat EW is sharing 50 exclusive TV scoops Zadan at the over 50 days through Oct. 1 at ew.com/50-scoops. Oscars; Cinder- Dear Diary Renée Zellweger will headline What/If, a ella; new Netflix series from Revenge creator Mike Kelley. Chicago

and Life of the American City. Urban re- development is less sexy as a show concept DOUBLE than porno showbiz drama, but The Deuce THE FUN finds deft ways to unify its saga-worthy The Deuce isn’t the only series to : PHOTOFEST depiction of ’70s NYC. “It’s not morals, it’s feature TV twins money,” says a policeman, observing the

CINDERELLA latest round of political points-scoring over midtown blight. “It’s not racism, it’s eco- nomics,” echoes a porn director, explaining 1949 – 2018 why he won’t cast a black man. But some TWIN PEAKS: characters defeat cynicism, activated by a THE RETURN

: DAVID JAMES/MIRAMAX; Remembering new era’s ambitions. Sweet Paul (Chris Kyle MacLachlan is riveting both in and Coy) is chasing moguldom on the down- out of wigs on this CHICAGO CraigZadan Showtime revival. town gay club circuit. Abby (Margarita Hollywood has lost one of the good guys—a leg- : TNT; Levieva) has the shaggy hair and ﬁery tem- endary music-loving producer. BY HENRY GOLDBLATT

CLAWS perament of Klute-era Jane Fonda, seeking justice for sex workers. IF YOU LOVE A TV OR Academy Awards, includ- It’s a lot of show, and I haven’t men- movie musical—heck, if ing Best Picture. But they tioned all the James Francos. The actor has you have ever seen aTVor put their gleeful, high-gloss AMERICAN HORROR faced accusations of sexual harassment this STORY: FREAK SHOW movie musical—then you stamp on so many projects, know the work of Craig such as a 1997 TV adapta- year, so the prospect of watching him play Sarah Paulson is deliciously two- Zadan, a beloved pro- tion of Cinderella, several : JORDAN NUTTALL/THE CW (2); twins could sound like capital punishment. faced in this FX ducer who died Aug. 20 in Oscar ceremonies, Tony- anthology series.

RINGER I understand that perspective—and why Los Angeles from compli- winning Broadway produc- cations following shoulder : FX; The Deuce isn’t for everyone. This is a por- tions, and NBC’s Smash—a surgery. He was 69. 2012 drama about the NYC trait of objectification as an industry, and “Craig’s distinguished stage community that’s on the network that brought you eight career as a passionate and still finding new audiences years of Hollywood Boobs feat. Jeremy Piven. consummate producer is of theater (and Debra eclipsed only by his genu- Messing) lovers. The Deuce has profound ambitions, but the RINGER ine love for the thousands Zadan had a socially terse realities of Mob wars clash wildly with When her twin fakes her death, Sarah of [people] he worked conscious streak, too. In the surrealities of the adult film world. Michelle Gellar’s with,” said Robert Green- 1995, he and Meron made But this is a major work, flaws and all, an Bridget takes on her blatt, chairman of NBC the TV film Serving in AMERICAN HORROR STORY: FREAK SHOW FREAK STORY: HORROR AMERICAN sister’s identity Entertainment, a longtime in this CW drama. Silence about Col. Marga-

(2); examination of porn that’s really an explo- friend who partnered with rethe Cammermeyer, ration of economic disruption. Appropriate Zadan on five live musicals who was discharged from for 1977, there’s even a new hope. Eileen’s for NBC, including The the National Guard for passion project is a new kind of adult ﬁlm, Sound of Music and The being a lesbian. The proj- a mature-content rendition of the Little Wiz. “His absence will be ect won Emmys and drew felt in our hearts and attention to the plight Red Riding Hood tale. For Eileen, it’s CLAWS throughout our business.” of gays in the military. : SUZANNE TENNER/SHOWTIME SUZANNE : unmissably autobiographical, the story of a Carrie Preston’s Zadan and his produc- The Miami native leaves girl lost and assaulted. Now she’s telling the Polly has issues on ing partner Neil Meron are behind his life partner, this TNT hit, but her best known for their 2002 Elwood Hopkins, and a

TWIN PEAKS TWIN story her way. Watch out, wolves. A– sister may embody big-screen version of treasure trove of work that the worst of them. Chicago, starring Renée will entertain generations Zellweger, which won six to come. B– —P.G.

ZADAN PHOTO BY ART STREIBER AUGUST 31, 2018 EW.COM 45 XOXO, it’s Penn Badgley—and Elizabeth Lail Getting to KnowYOU Penn Badgley makes stalking almost charming on Lifetime’s twisted drama YOU (debuting Sept. 9 at 10 p.m.) BY SAMANTHA HIGHFILL

HE IS WATCHING HER. STAND- posed in the book, and it’s the knew I would be conflicted element.” With the entirety of ing on a subway platform in New same question that showrunner about the role from day one the novel being written in sec- York City, it’s just him, her, and Sera Gamble will ask the audi- through the last day—and ond person, the show (which a homeless guy who’s paying ence on the new Lifetime series that’s why they thought I would has already been renewed for a no attention. It’s far too early in of the same name. “Joe is not be good for it, because I’m not second season) incorporates the morning. She’s been drink- so different than many of us,” psyched to play somebody of stalker Joe’s thoughts through ing. And he knows this because Gamble says. “If you’re a bit of this nature.” What that nature the use of voice-over. “You are tonight isn’t the first time he’s a romantic, you might believe is will be revealed over the inside Joe’s head,” Gamble watched her. But when she in bending the rules in ways that course of the first season’s 10 says. “It felt exhilarating to be drunkenly falls onto the tracks, are more socially acceptable, episodes as Joe follows Beck, a inside the mind of someone he’ll be there to save her. He’ll be doing a little light social media twentysomething poet played who was being completely hon- her knight in shining armor—at stalking. It’s just that Joe takes by relative newcomer Lail est about his true thoughts.” least until the end of the night… everything so much further.” (Once Upon a Time). “He is And if we’re being honest, when he steals her phone. The result is a twisted tale very different from the other when the series premieres, Based on the 2014 novel by that fluctuates between a love mindless men in her life,” it’s the audience that becomes Caroline Kepnes, YOU tells the story and any woman’s night- Lail says. “I actually think he’s the ultimate watcher. With story of Joe (Penn Badgley), a mare. Needless to say, finding much closer to the kind of guy every episode, he is watching bookstore worker who becomes an actor who could be charm- that she would be happy with, her and you are watching him. so infatuated with a girl named ing one minute and scary the except for the whole stalker Joe would hate it. Beck (Elizabeth Lail) that he next was critical for the series. starts to stalk her. But in a The answer? Gossip Girl him- world where Googling a poten- self, Penn Badgley. “My initial HE’S THE KINDOFGUYSHE’DBEHAPPYWITH, tial love interest seems like reaction [to the part] was LIFETIME due diligence, how far is too far? ‘really interested but highly EXCEPT FOR THEWHOLESTALKERELEMENT.” That’s the question Kepnes conflicted,’ ” Badgley says. “I —ELIZABETH LAIL ON PENN BADGLEY’S JOE TV

Kidding

DATE Debuts Sept. 9 | TIME 10 p.m.

NETWORK Showtime

REVIEW BY Kristen Baldwin @KristenGBaldwin

IN THIS BITTERSWEET DRAMEDY, JIM Carrey plays Jeﬀ Pickles, star of a beloved children’s TV show and the face of a “$112 million licensing industry,” as his producer/father Seb (Frank Langella) reminds him. When the Pickles family endures a terrible loss, everyone is allowed to react—Jeff’s estranged wife THE WOMAN BEHIND YOU (Judy Greer) gets a tattoo and a new boy- Author—and former EW stafer—Caroline Kepnes gives an friend (Justin Kirk); his son (Cole Allen) inside perspective of bringing her hit novel to TV starts smoking weed—but Mr. Pickles must remain TV’s Mr. Pickles at all costs.

DID YOU PLAY THE GAME for this show. Beck has a lasciv- Though Jeff acts out on and off screen, the Telephone when you were a ious professor. Peach introduces Mr. Pickles machine, including his puppet- kid? You whisper a little some- Beck to a suspect literary agent. maker sister Deirdre (Catherine Keener), is thing to the person next to This is fantastic, and this is new. you, who then whispers to About a year ago, I was in always there to stop the man from bleeding someone else, and so on. The New York, on my way to see into the brand. Must Jeff go mad in order to words evolve. It’s a magical, YOU’s bookstore set. I was dying be heard? The easy answer is yes—but creative high, a brain trust. to see the bookstore. After all, Kidding seems to be aiming for more than That’s the key in all collabora- YOU is about a bookseller who tions, that combination of lis- cherishes books, all the feelings “Mr. Rogers loses his s---.” Director Michel tening and being original. squished into the pages, por- Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) I was nervous going into tals to other worlds. Now here I cultivates a mood of reality-adjacent dreami- was on a soundstage, mean- that first meeting with [series ness, and the story is rooted in relatable creators] Greg Berlanti and dering through a dream I had, Sera Gamble. These are power- but it was real life. I looked themes: loss, isolation, change. Carrey, his house people. I felt like Diane at Sera and she was beaming. elastic face settled into a melancholy mien, Keaton meeting with the Food That’s a meaningful smile, shows us a man whose kindness is also his Chain in Baby Boom.Yes,my the kind that is shared. It’s the strength in the face of messy emotions. legs were shaking. spirit of this show, the kinetic When I wrote YOU the novel, Telephone energy that encap- “It’s terrifying for kids to have a feeling and I put on virtual-reality headgear. sulates all things YOU. not be able to describe it,” says Jeff. He’s I was in my lead character speaking for himself, his audience, you and Joe’s head at all times for this exercise in possessive vision. me. Kidding will probably send Mr. Pickles to With novels, you’re the casting crazytown, but for now, it’s a compelling director, the lighting designer. story about giving your pain a name. B+ Greg and Sera were attuned to the atmosphere of the book Catherine Keener and Jim Carrey kid around and they were determined to preserve that intensity while : ERICA PARISE/SHOWTIME ERICA : opening up the world. Joy! The voice-over in the pilot would KIDDING be called “Joe’s thoughts,” a bril- liant way to convey that sense of intimacy/claustrophobia. They would give Joe a neighbor, a neglected child who lives next door (Luca Padovan). The scripts were rolling in and everyone at Lifetime was on fire KEPNES: JESSE GRANT/GETTY IMAGES;

AUGUST 31, 2018 EW.COM 47 TV GETTINGDIRTY Connie Britton and Eric Bana bring the hit podcast Dirty John to TV on Bravo’s new scripted drama (debuting in late fall) BY DAVID CANFIELD

THERE’S NOTHING QUITE LIKE the podcast, and she jumped at For Cunningham, Britton was mom,” says Cunningham. “I your first (obsessive, deceitful, the chance to adapt it when the exactly who she envisioned want to show what that’s like— deadly) love. Or so it goes on opportunity was ofered to her as Debra. “They both have the when John, in the body of Eric Dirty John, Bravo’s true-crime late last year. She was inspired most amazing hair in the uni- Bana, turns his eye upon you saga based on Christopher Gof- by her time as a writer and con- verse,” the creator cracks. and is like, ‘You’re a goddess.’” fard’s breakout 2017 podcast. sulting producer on Bates Motel. “Connie is the actress that you The series has already been The audio hit traced a doomed “It was a great example of taking think of when you want to tap renewed for season 2, but Orange County, Calif., romance a story that everyone’s familiar into the headspace of intelligent Cunningham confirms the first between Debra, a lonely busi- with and really going into the women on screen.” Cunningham is closed-ended. So what will nesswoman and mother, and psychology of it,” she says of the hopes Britton’s work—and the be Dirty John’s through-line? John, a dashing but dangerous Psycho-inspired A&E drama. “I’d storytelling—quiets the podcast “The nature of manipulated love mystery man she meets online. love to think that I’m doing even listeners who’ve considered is a great seed,” she teases. Series creator Alexandra Cun- a fraction of what they did.” Debra “stupid” for falling under “Lord knows there’s been many ningham is among the 26 million Leading the Dirty John cast John’s spell. “He goes to church horrific crimes committed in people who have downloaded are Connie Britton and Eric Bana. with her, he loves that she’s a the name of that.”

Eric Bana embraces Connie Britton—but will he let go? NICOLE WILDER /BRAVO MEDIA

48 EW.COM AUGUST 31, 2018 It’s time to take a stand for homeless pets. It’s time to adopt change. Every day, more than 4,100 dogs and cats are killed in shelters across the country — but with Best Friends Animal Society leading the way, and your support, we can help our nation’s shelters and Save Them All. save-them-all.org TV

F- END-O SUMMER SPECIAL

“CIAO ADIOS” TO SUMMER With the sunny season almost over and Labor Day parties on the horizon, English singer Anne-Marie shares a playlist of jams that will always remind her of the balmy days of 2018

“I LIKE IT” CARDI B, BAD BUNNY & J BALVIN

“I’ve been listening to ‘I Like It’ by Cardi B on repeat,” Anne-Marie says. “When I got that album, it was the song that just made me freak out as soon as it came on.”

All Ears for Labor Day GRILLED CORN, BACON, AND CHILE CROSTINI: BEN FINK; BURRELL: FOOD NETWORK; ANNE Take advantage of seasonal fresh ingredients and rustle up this recipe for Grilled Corn, Bacon, and Chile Crostini by Worst Cooks in America’s Anne Burrell to send summer of in style. BY RUTH KINANE

1 Preheat grill to high 3 Cook bacon and from grill and rub INGREDIENTS (450°F to 500°F). remaining tablespoon with garlic cloves. “SWEET” Lightly brush corn of olive oil in a Drizzle extra-virgin BROCKHAMPTON 2 ears fresh corn (13 oz. with 1 teaspoon of the medium skillet over olive oil evenly over total), husks removed olive oil, and sprinkle medium, stirring baguette slices, “I love ‘Sweet’ by Brockhampton so 1 tbsp. plus 1 tsp. olive with ¼ teaspoon of occasionally until and top each with much,” she says. “My photographer oil, divided the salt. browned and crispy, 1 heaping tablespoon introduced me to this band on tour, ½ tsp. kosher salt, 10 to 12 minutes. Add corn mixture. and now I’m hooked. It’ll definitely divided remind me of this summer.” 4 bacon slices, cut 2 Place corn on chiles, and cook, stir- into thin strips oiled grates; grill, ring constantly, until SERVES 12 Active Time 30 minutes 2 red Fresno chiles, uncovered, turning slightly softened, Total Time 50 minutes sliced into thin rounds occasionally, until about 1 minute. Add with seeds removed corn is slightly corn kernels, and stir “What could be better (⅓ cup) charred all over and to combine. Stir in than supersweet corn 3 tbsp. red wine paired up with the

kernels are soft, 15 to vinegar and remain- -MARIE: SHIRLAINE FORREST vinegar 20 minutes. Remove ing ¼ teaspoon salt. deliciousness of bacon 4 scallions, thinly sliced and chiles on a crunchy from grill and let sit Stir in scallions, and at an angle (½ cup) crostini?” says Burrell. 24 diagonally cut until cool, about 5 remove from heat. “It’s the perfect late- baguette slices minutes. Cut corn “THIS IS AMERICA” summer snack. Big fat CHILDISH GAMBINO (½-in.-thick) kernels of the cobs. 4 Grill baguette yum.” 2 garlic cloves, peeled slices, uncovered, in “Childish Gambino’s ‘This Is America’ ¼ cup extra-virgin Worst Cooks in America

batches, until lightly /WIREIMAGE olive oil airs Sundays at 9 p.m. on was a massive moment in music charred, about 1½ Food Network. and just in general,” says the minutes, flipping singer. “I’m addicted to that video, often. Remove bread and I listen to the song nonstop.”

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Seeason Finale Season Premiere Thhe Proposal Greenleaf 100–11PM | ABC 10–11PM | OWN Inn the season (likely series) Fire and brimstone (afair revelations, teen finale, we meet Amber, who’s drama, a custody battle) rain down on the tit- loooking for the “perfect mix of ular megachurch-founding family as season Mr.M Rogers and Christian Grey.” 3 begins, making this addictive series wor- Everyone will Thhis episode was supposed to air ththy of f every didiscip i lle v iiewer. BB– —GGdHllerradHall be talking aboutt inn June, but ABC pulled it after a it tomorrow coontestant was accused of facili- taating a sexual assault. He’s been eddited out, so if you still want too watch...well, as host Jesse Paalmer says, there’s nothing to bee ashamed of. —Kristen Baldwin

TV IN THE BAKING Chopped Series Debut Grill Masters: The Shop Reality Cupcakes Finale Showdown 11–11:30PM | HBO 10–11PM | FOOD NETWORK 9–10PM | FOOD Cut to: barbershops After cakes resembling po’boys are NETWORK across the country, served to Brooklynites in episode 1 of this Sixteen chefs have where NBA star double installment, it’s a relief when the been narrowed LeBron James and second episode—titled “Dirt, Grease and to four in this his friend/business Cupcakes”—produces nothing worse championship manager Maverick It’s okay to let than milkshake treats. But hold on to your episode where Carter have candid aprons! Later, a plucky vegetarian chef ultimate barbecue chats with enter- these build up proves she’s no chicken by ordering turkey bragging rights are tainment and sports on your DVR drumstick cakes. But will anyone want on the line. Oh, and stars. Snoop Dogg to gobble them up? $50,000! You could and Jon Stewart feed an army with are among those in that. Or just me the premiere. for a couple weeks.

Season Finale THE PROPOSAL Younger STREAMING | TVLAND.COM The fifth season (ending Aug. 28, 10 p.m.,

TV Land) was made for Team Charles fans COHEN/ABC; : BYRON and the romance they’ve been waiting for— complete with a Christmas episode in July to make us feel merry. Holiday cheer aside, “A Christmas Miracle” was star Sutton Foster’s favorite this year. “It’s a perfect Devour GREENLEAF romantic-comedy episode with a huge OWN; it all at once payof,” she says. “Darren Star is a master YOUNGER

storyteller, and even I find myself gasping ROWDEN/ : TINA and becoming so invested in all of these

characters and their stories—even though LAND : TV I know what’s going to happen!” But what of the fate of publishing, Sutton?!

52 EW.COM AUGUST 31, 2018 *TIMES ARE EASTERN DAYLIGHT AND SUBJECT TO CHANGE What to Watch

KEEPING LEAST MOST ITREAL PAINFUL PAINFUL This week sees the premieres of a few unscripted series. Some, of course, are better—easier, even— INK MASTER (Aug. 28, MARRIED TO MEDICINE PRETTY LITTLE MAMAS to watch than others. 10 p.m., Paramount Network) (Sept. 2, 8 p.m., Bravo) (Aug. 30, 9 p.m., MTV)

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Season Premiere Series Debut MUST-SEE ACTION-PACKED TV Property Brothers One Dollar 9–10PM | HGTV STREAMING Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan Great Scott! The charming CBS ALL ACCESS STREAMING | AMAZON PRIME VIDEO Canadian twins are back for A dollar bill tra- The latest adaptation of the season 13 of their HGTV hit. First verses a small town, Tom Clancy character stars up, they help a couple with a revealing racial and John Krasinski as a young Jack $1 million budget, but a house socioeconomic dis- Ryan. “It picks up at this criticaal full of asbestos. Floor plans will parities. The central moment where he goes from be opened up, structural issues mystery is involving, being an analyst to being an will be discovered, and good- but the sprawling operative in the CIA, and it natured sibling insults will be tone is painfully explores that journey,” show- traded. So, brotherly business stilted. Think Crash runner Carlton Cuse says of the as usual. B+ —DevanDCCoggan but more murder-y. season, which includes eight B– —Darren Franich episodes. —Samantha Highfill

Mr. Mercedes Jersey Shore Whistleblower 10–11PM | AUDIENCE 8–10PM | MTV 9–10PM | CBS Youu didn’t think a coma could On vacation in Sin Defrauding the keeep Brady down, did you? City, the gang gets government with Thee cat-and-mouse game lucky when they win an elaborate scam? between Hodges (the sublime big at the casino! No, it's not an accu- satory tweet from a Breendan Gleeson) and Brady Later, Ronnie discov- high-up oficial, just (Harry Treadaway) continues ers the truth about the logline for the in season 2, as the show deftly his tumultuous rela- true-crime series’ balances a new mystery and tionship—and so season finale, where neww characters (including does the rest of the a for-profit company Boaardwalk Empire’s Jack Hus- world, thanks to a targets discharged ton as the corruptible Dr. Felix bunch of MTV cam- veterans, and a Babbineau) with quiet medita- eras. What happens biofuel company tionns on aging, purpose, in Vegas doesn’t stay swindles investors. andd death. B+ —Kristen Baldwin in Vegas after all! God bless America.

Ozark STREAMING | NETFLIX : There’s no better place to spend the end of summer PROPERTY than the Ozarks. Ahead of the dark series’ return (Aug. : NETFLIX

: MTV; 31), showrunner Chris Mundy suggests streaming the debut season, the finale of which essentially serves as a OZARK pilot for season 2. “Every story line from the second sea-

MARRIED TO MEDICINE TO MARRIED son has its emotional jumping-of point in that episode,”

: AT&T AUDIENCE: AT&T NETWORK; shares Mundy, who points to [spoiler’s] death as “the emotional centerpiece of the changes that take place in PRETTY LITTLE MAMAS both Marty [Jason Bateman] and Wendy [Laura Linney].” And while Bateman scored an Emmy nomination for his MR. MERCEDES MR.

: AUSTAP WOLFGANG/CBS; performance as the money-laundering Byrde patriarch,

: PARAMOUNT NETWORK; Mundy is looking forward to “the women on the show : HGTV; completely taking charge” in season 2. —Derek Lawrence INK MASTER INK WHISTLEBLOWER BROTHERS ANNETTE BROWN/BRAVO; ANNETTE

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Reese Witherspoon, Bradley Cooper, Katie Couric, Kathy Bates, and more are standing up MARK YOUR CALENDAR WITHERSPOON, COOPER: IMAGE GROUP LA/AB GROUP IMAGE COOPER: WITHERSPOON, STANDUPTOCANCERR A who’s who of celebrities will raise millions of dollars for cancer research in this biennial special (now in its 10th year), airing Sept. 7 at 8 p.m. on more than 30 networrks. C (2); COURIC AND BATES: KEVIN MAZUR/ABC; KEVIN BATES: AND COURIC C (2);

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Pink Collar Crimes Fear the Walking Dead 8–9PM | CBS 9–10PM | AMC In this episode of the stylish docuseries, The storm may be over, but an Arizona housewife turns coupons into a the danger is not for Althea $40 million scam. “The stories are compel- (Maggie Grace) and June ling,” says host Marcia Clark, and told (Jenna Elfman). “We saw our with“areal sense of humor.” —Gerrad Hall characters struggle to survive

Everyone will during the hurricane,” says CRIMES PINK COLLAR be talking about co-showrunner Andrew it tomorrow Chambliss. “This is the first episode where we will really see just how hard it is to survive in the aftermath.” : SONJA FLEMMING/CBS; : SONJA —Dalton Ross

Seasona Premiere Insecure MyyCat From Hell 10:30–11PM | HBO

8–110PM | ANIMAL The first part of this series’ third FEAR THE WALKING DEAD PLAANET season saw Issa being consid- A sspecial double ered for a property manager job eppisode sees the and spending the night—platon- cat whisperer tame ically—with Daniel, listening to attroubled feline his latest beats. It all signals a

that’s terrorizing a new direction for the character, : RICHARD PHIBBS/AMC; neewborn baby, who is focused on making more

It’s okay to leet GRANITZ/WIREIMAGE; STEVE beefore meeting a mature decisions this season. these build upp cathlete who can do “She’s definitely all about trying on your DVRR sit-ups and under- to adult, which is all about hav- waater treadmill ing to make hard decisions that

traaining! I’m not kit- kind of go against what her pri- MY CAT FROM HELL ten—get your claws mal instincts may want,” says EP intto this quality TV. Prentice Penny. —Aja Hoggatt THE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF BEVERLY HILLS BEVERLY OF HOUSEWIVES REAL THE

OLIVIA MUNN RECOMMENDS... (2); PLANET : ANIMAL

The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills STREAMING | HULU “My one guilty pleasure is all the House- wives. But I always find it funny when people get excited and say they want to INSECURE meet them or they want to be friends with

them,” says Olivia Munn. “I mean, there are MUNN: W. WALLACE/HBO; : MERIE Devour a few of them that I think are amazing and VOSMIKOVA/BRAVO : ISABELLA epic—like Erika Jayne seems like a really it all at once cool person, Yolanda [Hadid] seems really cool—but for the most part, the rest of them you watch and go, ‘Yeah, that’s how you don’t treat friends.’ [Laughs] It really seems like there are a lot of borderline personality disorders on these shows, you know?”

54 EW.COM AUGUST 31, 2018 ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY CAST REUNIONS BREAKING BAD EXCLUSIVE ORIGINAL EPISODE

10 YEARS AFTER THE PREMIERE THE CAST REUNITES

NOW STREAMING ON DEMAND PEOPLETV is a registered trademark of Time Inc. Music

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TITLE LABEL Sweetener Republic Records

GENRE REVIEW BY Pop Larry Fitzmaurice @lfitzmaurice

OVER THE PAST FIVE YEARS, ARIANA Grande has demonstrated that she is an on-the-rise pop star with an impressive and canny sense of taste. Armed with a coterie of producers and songwriters, the 25-year-old singer has established her versatility and range, shifting from electro-pop’s neon glow to various strains of big-tent EDM and the perpetually evolving conﬁnes of hip-hop and R&B without batting so much as an eyelash. The sonic palette that Grande works from frequently reﬂects the current moment of chart pop, or the point at which it’s about to arrive—which is precisely what makes Sweetener such a surprising left turn. A practical album-length collaboration with Pharrell Williams, who holds writing and production credits on seven of its 15 tracks, Sweetener is boldly out of step with contemporary pop sounds. Instead

56 EW.COM AUGUST 31, 2018 ILLUSTRATION BY LAMBUJA NOTEWORTHY In His Feelings During Drake’s tour stop in Chicago, the Scorpion rapper dissed hometown star Kanye West by saying he “flopped.” On With the Show Lana Del Rey said her decision to play a festival in Israel was “not a political statement” after receiving backlash from fans.

the music retreats into the breezy, clean, and nerdy (not to mention N.E.R.D.-y) Nicki Minaj tones of the 2000s. Despite possessing a nearly incompara- TITLE Queen

ble vocal range, Grande leans on her lower LABEL Republic Records | GENRE Hip-hop register more than ever. As much as the REVIEW BY Stephanie Smith-Strickland @Perstephon3 album’s commitment to an overarching vibe represents new artistic territory for Grande, it’s also a throwback of sorts to the AT ITS CORE, CHESS IS A GAME OF STRATEGY, beginnings of her career—specifically, her one of calculated death and death-dealing. debut, Yours Truly, which featured writing The unspoken dynamics are familiar to Nicki and production from Kenneth “Babyface” Minaj, working in an industry that doesn’t always make Edmonds to craft a youthful take on ’90s- room for talented women who play by their own rules. era hip-hop and R&B. On the rapper’s fourth studio album, Queen, she once But more than with any of her previous again positions herself on the attack. works, Grande is in the driver’s seat for The record opens with “Ganja Burns,” an off-the-rip Sweetener. As she revealed earlier this year, introduction to New York Nicki, an uninhibited MC the album represents the first time she who dismantles her foes with lyrical one-two punches. took on lead writing credits, and the LP From there, she transitions into the Eminem-featuring feels unmistakably personal as a result. “Majesty,” a boastful affair that ultimately makes known Sweetener is most raw in its evocation of that Minaj can and will have it her way.Meanwhile, the dizzying smack that new love can “Barbie Dreams,” a modern flip on Biggie’s “Just Playing deal out—a vibe cultivated, no doubt, by (Dreams),” sets her up as the sole assassin in the Red Grande’s much-discussed engagement to Wedding of rap. From reigniting the rumors of Future’s Saturday Night Live star Pete Davidson alleged affair to scolding DJ Khaled for claiming to not (whose name adorns the title of the album’s SWEETENER give oral sex, Minaj unapologetically gorges herself on brief, undulating penultimate track). Sen- wordplay at everyone’s expense. suality abounds elsewhere, particularly on IS MOST The success of Queen lies in these moments. In fact, the title track, with its plush, declarative it seems imperative that Minaj direct her words toward passion—but there are also smaller details RAWIN ITS a tangible target. When there isn’t one, her larger-than- reflecting the thrill of exploring human life persona can lose some of its dimension. On connection. “Goodnight n Go” has Grande EVOCATION “Thought I Knew You,” she hints at a betrayal of trust imploring her paramour to skip the train OF THE within a relationship, but the lyrics are so open-ended, home in favor of staying up all night and they do little to connect on an emotional level. talking, before exclaiming, “We’d be good, DIZZYING That isn’t to say Minaj is incapable of creating last- we’d be great together.” It reflects an ing connections with her audience. Her fans, the Barbz, explicitly devotional take: the intoxicating SMACK are likely only rivaled in passion by the Beyhive, and desire to lose oneself in a new romance— THAT NEW they respect Minaj and her ability to master the art of and it’s similarly impossible not to give in the personal—particularly in the context of being the to Sweetener as a whole, a sneakily complex LOVE CAN underdog (or, as she says in “Chun-Li,” “the bad guy”). pop album that adds new creative wrinkles Queen is an extension of this ideology, and ultimately a to Grande’s already estimable repertoire. A– DEAL OUT. celebration of embracing your own power. B

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8 FALL’S 25 MUST-READS New books by Stephen King and Haruki Murakami. Michelle Obama’s long-awaited memoir. Stunning tales tackling slavery, Hollywood’s golden age, and the dawning of the Trump era. It may be cooling down outside, but reading season is just heating up. BY DAVID CANFIELD & SEIJA RANKIN

58 EW.COM AUGUST 31, 2018 PHOTOGRAPHS BY BRIAN HENN BETWEEN Hat Trick N.K. Jemisin (The Stone Sky) won the Hugo THE Award for best novel for the third straight year—a LINES complete sweep for her breakout Broken Earth trilogy. Presidential Picks Barack Obama touted the memoir Educated and the novel An American Marriage in his annual summer reading list.

1 5 LAKE SUCCESS TRANSCRIPTION Gary Shteyngart Kate Atkinson FICTION SUSPENSE

What do you do if you’re a Atkinson (Life After Life)ofers wealthy hedge-fund manager, up an intriguing thriller about a the subject of an SEC investiga- woman whose past—tracking tion, and avoiding dealing with the movements of British Fascist your son’s autism diagnosis? If sympathizers in WWII—comes 9 you’re Barry Cohen, center of back to haunt her. (Sept. 25) this social satire, you escape to the country with an ex-girlfriend. 6 That may sound like a downer, ALL YOU CAN EVER KNOW but Shteyngart’s clear wit makes Nicole Chung sure it’s anything but. (Sept. 4) MEMOIR Becoming

2 The former Toast editor beauti- BY GENRE RELEASE fully tells her life story, from THE WINTER SOLDIER Michelle Obama Memoir 11.13 growing up with adoptive white Daniel Mason HISTORICAL FICTION parents to uncovering the truth of where she came from. (Oct. 2) Mason’s lyrical WWI-era romance From the woman who needs no depicts an afair between a doc- 7 introduction comes a book that tor and a young nurse. (Sept. 11) THE WITCH ELM needs no exposition. Becoming is the Tana French 3 MYSTERY memoir (the words highly anticipated WASHINGTON BLACK don’t even begin to describe it) from Best known for her Dublin Esi Edugyan the First Lady who changed every- HISTORICAL FICTION Murder Squad series, French is back with her first stand-alone thing. It was acquired in a landmark book deal in early Washington Black paints an mystery. “I wanted to try some- 2017, along with the promise of a tome penned by her unflinching portrait of American thing completely diferent,” she husband, and has been kept under a shroud of secrecy slavery before tracing one boy’s says of The Witch Elm, a spooky ever since. Obama herself has promised a “deeply arduous, globe-trotting journey tale of a man who unearths to freedom. Says the author, terrifying secrets at his family’s personal” literary journey, which her publishers have “I wanted to show what happens ancestral home. “I’ve always had noted will include her upbringing in Chicago, her time [after] achieving a measure of detectives for narrators; I liked as a young mother, and her historic turn in the nation’s freedom, with the cruelties of the idea of seeing the story from most famous building—and far be it for the former what happened still resonating the other side.” (Oct. 9) throughout your life.” (Sept. 18) FLOTUS to do anything but deliver. “A work of deep 8 reflection and mesmerizing storytelling, Michelle 4 HEAVY Obama invites readers into her world,” publisher THE CAREGIVER Kiese Laymon Crown, an imprint of Penguin Random House, teases Samuel Park MEMOIR FICTION of the book. Whatever she chooses to reveal—and Laymon provocatively meditates how much she makes mention of the current political This luminous mother-daughter on his trauma growing up as a situation—the countless readers who (to this day) saga marks a posthumous gem black man, and in turn crafts an from Park, who died of stomach essential polemic against Ameri- look to the Obamas as the pinnacle of hope will show cancer last year. (Sept. 25) can moral rot. (Oct. 16) up in droves. This one’s going to be big.

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BY GENRE RELEASE Barbara Kingsolver Stephen King FICTION SUSPENSE Haruki Murakami Fiction 10.9 In a story of two families living Castle Rock, but make it happier. on the same corner during two This novella returns to the No one can deny Murakami’s range. diferent centuries, both surviv- iconic fictional town to bring the ing periods of tumult, Kingsolver community together as they rally The beloved Japanese novelist (Nor- explores the question of what around a neighbor plagued by wegian Wood, Kafka on the Shore) has shelter really means in her first a mysterious disease. (Oct. 30) written near-1,000-page epics and novel since 2012. (Oct. 16) 18 intimate slices of life to equal praise, 16 peppered as they always are with his FAMILY TRUST THE LIBRARY BOOK Kathy Wang humane surrealistic flourishes. His latest, Killing Com- Susan Orlean FICTION mendatore, is an homage to The Great Gatsby, centered NONFICTION Money and family make for a on a lonely painter who hits the road to find inspiration. An investigation into the still- potent mix, and the Huang fam- Murakami fans can likely guess it’s no ordinary trip. unsolved Los Angeles Public ily proves just that as they butt “[Everything] we love about his fiction [is] there,” his Library fire of 1986 becomes a heads over an inheritance that love letter to book centers every- is haunted by long-held resent- editor Lexy Bloom promises. “But it’s also this incredi- where and a poignant reminder ment, cultural expectations, and ble adventure story.” Get ready for a wild ride. of how desperately we need a possibly exaggerated amount these institutions. (Oct. 16) of wealth. (Oct. 30) 11–14 EVERYTHING’S TRASH, THE GREATEST LOVE I MIGHT REGRET THIS BUT IT’S OKAY STORY EVER TOLD ABBI JACOBSON HILARIOUS PHOEBE ROBINSON MEGAN MULLALLY & NICK OFFERMAN A cross-country trip MEMOIRS The Dope Queen leads to musings on Some of Hollywood’s most takes on tough sub- An oral history of the purpose of life confessional comedians share jects—getting per- the celeb duo—pun and the importance even more of themselves this fall sonal and political. intentionality TBD. of tucked-in shirts.

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20 BUZZY Y.A.

19 NOVELS It’s easy to get lost in these addicting, whip- smart teen tales

BRIDGE OF CLAY MARKUS ZUSAK

Calling Book Thief fans: It’s the author’s 21 first novel in 13 years.

19 SEDUCTION TheFeralDetective Karina Longworth HISTORY BY GENRE RELEASE BROKEN THINGS Jonathan Lethem Fiction 11.6 LAUREN OLIVER The You Must Remember This podcast host reexamines Oliver’s dark who- the golden age of Hollywood dunit explores obses- through a #MeToo lens. (Nov. 13) Lethem’s newest is generating hype sion and friendship. for a couple of reasons: One, movie 20 rights were acquired way back in May, MY SISTER, THE SERIAL KILLER Oyinkan Braithwaite via Warner Bros. exec-turned-producer SATIRE Sue Kroll (A Star Is Born); and two, it’s

This slim, scathingly black the author’s first detective novel since comedy delves into two sisters’ his 1999 breakout, Motherless Brooklyn—also soon to be a tenuous dynamic—heightened film, starring and directed by Edward Norton. DEAR EVAN HANSEN: since one of them is, erm,a The Feral Detective follows Phoebe, a disillusioned THE NOVEL serial killer. Such morbidity only VAL EMMICH sharpens the book’s comic edge, New Yorker searching for her friend’s missing daughter which emerges via Braithwaite’s in the SoCal desert. She pairs up with a strange loner Yep, the hit musical will make you cry just deadpan prose. She admits, named Charles Heist to solve the case. Another impor- as much in book form. “It was fun to write—even though tant detail: The novel takes place over a 10-day period people were dying.” (Nov. 20) surrounding Donald Trump’s inauguration. “I felt para- lyzed and confused,” Lethem says of the period following the 2016 election. But then a hero emerged. THIS WILL ONLY “Phoebe is a sassy, unhappy, disgruntled runaway New HURT A LITTLE BUSY PHILIPPS Yorker—who better to say what I was feeling?” the author cracks. “I decided...‘What if I tried to take a The soon-to-be talk- snapshot of how it felt for those 10 days?’ ” With one WILDCARD show host transfers MARIE LU her mega-popular IG big difference, of course: “Really, she had a lot more Lu’s Warcross sequel stories to the page. reasons to be angry than I did; she’s a woman.” places her among YA’s top fantasy writers. EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW The Fall of Gondolin

BY J.R.R. Tolkien

PAGES 304

GENRE Fantasy

REVIEW BY Evan Lewis @ealewis333

The Fall of Gondolin was the first story J.R.R. Tolkien penned in his Middle-earth mythology—decades before The Lord of the Rings—but it sadly remained incomplete in its creator’s eyes. This new volume, compiled J.R.R. by Tolkien’s son Christo- Tolkien pher, explores that story’s evolution and makes for an essential historical reference for Middle-earth fans. Tolkien’sLastGreatTale The edition presents One of the pillars of Middle-earth’s history is getting a new and scholarly various iterations of the tale repackaging with The Fall of Gondolin. BY CHRISTIAN HOLUB of Tuor, a fated hero of man and last hope to an elven stronghold. The Fall of Gondo- THE MOST MYTHICAL sure he’ll be happy to have those books in his lin traces the story from its element of J.R.R. hand. This particular journey is completed.” origins in 1916 as the kernel Tolkien’s Middle- The Fall of Gondolin centers on Tuor, a of a new legendarium to later, earth stories is that man living in a desolated Middle-earth domi- shorter rewrites that empha- they never really nated by Morgoth (Sauron’s mentor). Only size its place in the wider seem to end. Just the hidden city of Gondolin remains free. canon of Middle-earth’s First last year, the late Tuor is sent to find it, but as the title suggests, Age. For enthusiasts, these author’s son Christo- this story does not have a happy ending. glimpses into the burgeoning pher Tolkien pub- Tolkien never perfected the Gondolin story, interconnectedness of lished Beren and instead leaving behind several versions writ- Tolkien’s fiction are fascinat- Lúthien, a book- ten over the course of decades. Christopher’s length treatment of new book collects them all, along with expla- ing, and culminate in a one of Middle-earth’s nations of the diferences. heartbreakingly unfinished early legends, and warned it might be his The Fall of Gondolin is a diferent read from version from 1951. father’s last. That has now proved false, The Hobbit, but it echoes the more popular Casual Lord of the Rings thanks to The Fall of Gondolin, which tells stories. Its mountainside duel between the elf readers may struggle to com- the third of the “Lost Tales” (along with 2007’s Glorfindel and a demonic Balrog, for instance, prehend much of Gondolin The Children of Húrin). With this trilogy finally prefigure the wizard Gandalf’s battle against beyond the striking illustra- concluded, Christopher now writes that another such creature centuries later. tions from longtime Middle- “The Fall of Gondolin is indubitably the last” “You get all these echoes of the earlier earth artist Alan Lee, as the of J.R.R. Tolkien’s writings, but even so, the stories running through the later ones,” Lee book assumes significant prior doors to Middle-earth remain open. says. “It makes the whole thing richer and knowledge of other Tolkien “I think working on these books gives more satisfying.” sources. Deep-lore delvers, [Christopher] a new lease on life,” says illus- The Fall of Gondolin marks the end of an however, will be rewarded trator Alan Lee, who has been working on new era. J.R.R. Tolkien once described it as “the with a thorough under- Tolkien books and Peter Jackson’s film adapta- first real story of this imaginary world.” For standing of one of modern tions alike for decades now. “He threw himself now, it is the last. But as with mythologies, it’s fantasy’s seminal works. A– straight into Fall of Gondolin. We didn’t actu- only a matter of time until a new generation

ally know about it until this time last year. I’m reconfigures the Middle-earth myths anew. JOHN WYATT /HARPER COLLINS

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62 EW.COM AUGUST 31, 2018 EVENTS

COMIC-CON SAN DIEGO | JULY 20-23, 2018

Entertainment Weekly took Comic-Con by storm to celebrate the ultimate fan festival. Atop the Hard Rock Hotel San Diego, EW’s Photo and Video Suite hosted nearly 80 casts, including Doctor Who and Aquaman. While there, stars went live on Facebook to share exclusive scoop about upcoming projects. Guests also snacked on treats from Pure Organic, Skinny Dipped Almonds and My/Mo Mochi Ice Cream. The weekend closed with EW’s 8th annual Comic-Con bash at FLOAT at the Hard Rock Hotel. HBO was the presenting sponsor of the blow-out where VIPs posed in the Game of Thrones photo booth and mingled in two Westworld themed lounges. Guests also danced long into the night with music by DJ Michelle Pesce.

CLOCKWISE, FROM TOP LEFT: Jason Momoa (Aquaman), Elena Kampouris, Kiana Madiera & Kevin Carroll (Sacred Lies), Lili Reinhart & Madelaine Petsch (Riverdale), Aisha Tyler (Archer), Regina King (Watchmen), My/Mo Mochi Ice Cream sampling, Arielle Kebbel, Jason Lewis, Dylan Bruce and Liz Godwin (Midnight Sun) plus guests, Ashleigh Murray (Riverdale), Skylar Samuels, Natalie Alyn & Jamie Chung (The Gifted), Asher Angel, Zachary Levi & Jack Dylan Grazer (Shazam!), Kat Graham (The Rise of TMNT), HBO Westworld Cabana Activation, Pure Organic and Skinny Dipped Almonds sampling, Eric Guggenheim, Zachary Knighton, Stephen Hill, Jay Hernandez, Perdita Weeks & Peter M. Lenkov (Magnum P.I. Cast and Directors), Cole Sprouse (Riverdale), Sarah Jefery, Madeleine Mantock & Melonie Diaz (Charmed), Kelly Ripa (Riverdale Panel Moderator), Marisol Nichols (Riverdale), Zoë Kravitz (Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald), HBO #GOT Ice Sculpture, FLOAT rooftop pool, Rachel Bloom & Vincent Rodriguez III (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) THIS WEEK’S HITS & MISSES

Congratulations, Oscar the Grouch, you’re BY MARC SNETIKER @MarcSnetiker SSending love andd light to officially no longer thehe trashiest Muppet. Nico Tortorella afterhis traagic run-in with a dumpster outside of a Hot Topic. JENNIFER GARNER AND JUDY GREER: ALBERTO E. RODRIGUEZ/GETTY IMAGES; GARNER AND JUDYJENNIFER GREER: ALBERTO E. RODRIGUEZ/GETTY ZIMMERMAN/GETTY IMAGES; NORMANI HAMILTON: JON KOPALOFF/FILMMAGIC JON HAMILTON: NORMANI IMAGES; ZIMMERMAN/GETTY

Are i Max Joseph to depart BARON MATT TORTORELLA: The Hil thout Catfish, having made the DINAH JANE: DONATO IMAGES/VANITY FAIR/INGRANITZ/WIREIMAGE; SARDELLA/GETTY Denise Richards joins Laur announcement over text Real Housewives Kristin? FLAT. because his webcam of Beverly Hills. Et tu, “isn’t working right now.” Heather Graham? Blake Lively is so excited for back-to-school

shopping, she went as VAS NOEL RICHARDS: IMAGES; KING/GETTY BARRY JOSEPH: /SHUTTERSTOCK; one of the highlighters!

Liam Neeson to play vengeful snowplow driver in Hard Powder, as the

Liiam Neeson Cinematic Workforce DESTINATION WEDDING

noww expands to include seasonal jobs! MATT ALLY BROOKE: IMAGES; VLASIC/GETTY SLAVEN CABELLO: ; CAMILA STAGRAM; : ROSENFELD/REGATTA/EPK; ROBB

Our favorite Sweetener since Stevia THE HILLS

Crazy in love with this movie IMAGES; QUEZ/GETTY : MTV; LIVELY: SAY CHEESE!/GC IMAGES; LIVELY: SAY CHEESE!/GC : MTV; CRAZY RICHCRAZY ASIANS MULAN : DISNEY; : SANJA BUCKO/WARNER BROS BUCKO/WARNER : SANJA TO ALL THE BOYS I’VE LOVED BEFORE THE HAPPYTIME MURDERS HAPPYTIME THE WINKELMEYER/GETTY IMAGES/PUMA; LAUREN JAUREGUI: STEVE Allfi fvvee Fifth Harmony memm bbers n solo deals, so only three gift ideas left to make this your daughter’s best Hanukkah yet. To all the boys we’ve loved 13 Going on 30 going on before: Why couldn’t one of 14 years and counting If yoouu thinkthin this is weird, wait you be Peter Kavinsky? until you see Monica and Jack’s coo : STONE/STX HOPPER ENTERTAINMENT . (2); Maybe the real Aretha tribute was THE GREY

hiding somewhere PAUL MADONNA: : NETFLIX; under that dress. : KIMBERLEY FRENCH; : KIMBERLEY Unfortunately, Destination Wedding may be missing one key scenenene: an annulmment.

Live-action Mulan won’t feature songs from the animated version the second time Christina Aguiler music is being ignored this year. NEW SERIES AUGUST 31