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MOVIES TV BOOKS PODCASTS MUSIC ALIEN: ARROW THE FACT LOVETT OR SINGLES: COVENANT • The superhero drama’s OF A BODY, LEAVE IT ORIGINAL • Ridley Scott still makes best installment in by Alexandria • Former Obama MOTION PICTURE ’em like he used to. years comes to an end Marzano- speechwriter and self- SOUNDTRACK SINGLES The director’s follow-up with the final battle Lesnevich styled “straight shooter” DELUXE EDITION to 2012’s Prometheus between Green Arrow • True crime and harrow- Jon Lovett dissects • The companion to COLLECTION BROS./EVERETT WARNER : holds on to that film’s (Stephen Amell) and ing memoir collide in this the week’s political news Cameron Crowe’s 1992 weirdness (and the excel- Prometheus (Josh riveting book about a with help from a panel, rom-com is a time cap- lent Michael Fassbender) Segarra). Don’t miss this young lawyer’s obsession the self-explanatory sule of grunge’s golden but skews closer to the explosive season 5 finale, with an old murder that “Rant Wheel,” and age. This reissue features chest-bursting classic for which will feature many ends up having unex- podcastdom’s most unreleased tracks and more crowd-pleasing familiar faces. (May 24, pected and uncanny infuriatingly catchy a song breakdown from interplanetary thrills. (R) 8 p.m., The CW) parallels to her own life. theme song. (iTunes) Crowe himself.

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6 GAMES INJUSTICE 2 • Justice League 6 doesn’t arrive until November, but you can get your superhero- smackdown fix now with this bombastic game that pits DC’s greatest heroes and villains against each other.

TV THE KEEPERS • This latest true-crime 7 docuseries investigates the unsolved 1969 7 8 murder of a Baltimore nun. The search for jus- tice is chilling, thought- provoking, and com- pletely addictive. (Debuts May 19, Netlix)

MUSIC “MALIBU,” Miley Cyrus • 9 8 Shedding the bombast of Bangerz, “Malibu” is all about Miley and the music, showcasing Cyrus’ powerhouse pipes as she swoons over beau

Liam Hemsworth on KEEPERS THE this breezy new single.

TV : NETFLIX; CYRUS: TRAE PATTON/NBCU/GETTY IMAGES; CASUAL • Compelling dysfunc- 9 tion continues in this beautifully acted and thoughtfully directed third season, which finds Valerie (Michaela Watkins) and Alex 10 (Tommy Dewey) living apart from each other. (Premieres May 23, Hulu) CASUAL

MOVIES : GREG LEWIS/HULU; THE COMMUNE • Acclaimed director Thomas Vinterberg

1 THE COMMUNE (The Hunt) mines his own childhood for his bittersweet latest: an engaging, period- perfect portrait of : MAGNOLIA PICTURES a communal-living experiment in 1970s Denmark. (NR)

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FEATURES NEWS AND REVIEWS ON THE COVER COLUMNS 44 Gal Gadot as 20 28 2 Wonder Woman. HAIRCARE/ BIRNS/ORIBE CANDACE MAKEUP: Wonder Woman Summer Music Movies Photograph by Clay GRICE/WILHELMINA; REBECCA STYLING: The Must List Enos/Warner Bros. Decades after Super- Preview 50 man and Batman, Katy Perry takes us 8 Summer Music Wonder Woman gets inside her most TV Preview logo by DAVINES NA/NEST ARTISTS NA/NEST DAVINES a movie all her own. ambitious album yet; Sound Bites DOOOM. The untold story of we hang out with the 56 why it took so long— world’s coolest rock 10 Music and of the heroines band, Haim; and more. News & Notes Este, Danielle, who made it happen. PLUS The 20 biggest 58 and Alana Haim photo- BY NICOLE SPERLING albums and tours 64 Books graphed on April 19, this summer. The Bullseye 2017, in Los Angeles

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6 EW.COM MAY 26, 2017 PHOTOGRAPH BY ZOEY GROSSMAN You’re right. I should be getting commission for this. THE WEEK’S BEST TWEET OF THE WEEK It’s been “We were jokingly saying that if 5 years?! Love all the Friends was created today, you would #Desperate have a cofee shop full of people Housewives that were just staring into iPhones.” fans! What —Jennifer Aniston, summing up why Friends a wonderful wouldn’t be the same in 2017, on Arianna Hufington’s 8 years that was. Shall we new Thrive Global Podcast With iHeartRadio A BROS.; YARISH/WARNER MICHAEL PARSONS: NEWS; PG/SPLASH HUFFMAN: do a reunion? “Desperate

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Celebrating the five-year anniversary of Desperate Housewives’ series finale DOWNWARD DOG “Will you marry me?” “Oh no, what —Sheldon (Jim Parsons), FOX; SAMBERG: PIASECKI/WIREIMAGE; MARC NISTON: asking Amy (Mayim Bialik) for her hand ifIseemy in marriage, on The Big Bang Theory reflection : DONALD RAGER/ABC; ROSS: RON TOM/ABC andfallinlove with myself?” —Jake (Andy Samberg), nervous about looking at the world through the eyes of his girlfriend Amy (Melissa Fumero), on Brooklyn Nine-Nine

“The fact that I need 14 hours of sleep is not something I should feel bad about. Sleep is the foundation of “Whydoyouhavetogo a productive day.” to Africa and fight rhino —Martin (Samm Hodges), poaching anyway? a.k.a. the pooch, Who cares how rhinos on Downward Dog are cooked?” —Jacqueline (Jane Krakowski), talking to her boyfriend Russ (David Cross) on the phone, on Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt “You remind me of my favorite movies. Your fashion? Coming to America. And your smile? “Givemewhatwe’dgiveJennifer Lawrence if she was having Jurassic Park.” a baby.... I didn’t go to med school to —Sasha Velour, jokingly targeting not get the J. Law baby drugs.” fellow contestant Shea Couleé —Bow (Tracee Ellis Ross), preparing with the drag tradition of reading, for her C-section, on black-ish on RuPaul’s Drag Race

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The past will meet the present this fall on the REVIVAL FOR SURVIVAL broadcast networks, Four networks will bet on familiar when dynamic new characters titles to keep folks glued to the like Freddie Highmore’s autistic small screen this fall. The 12- surgeon and Alan Cumming’s for- episode return of Will & Grace was mer CIA operative will have to WILL & GRACE quickly orchestrated after cre- compete for attention alongside ators Max Mutchnick and David revivals of Roseanne and Will & UPFRONTS REPORT Kohan recruited the stars in Sep- Grace. If you like a dash of nostal- tember to shoot a nine-minute UNIVERSAL; : NBC gia to go with your heaping election video—which has brought portion of untraditional super- in 7.3 million YouTube views to date. heroes and oddball experts, “We never had the intention of then fall TV has something for moving forward with a reboot of you! Here’s what you need to THE GIFTED this TV show,” says Mutchnick. know about the much-anticipated “We just wrote a scene of the revamps—and a handful of other

show because we were politically (2) OCKENFELS/FOX : FRANK new dramas and comedies. TV YOU’LL inclined and believed in some- thing.” Over at ABC, execs are seeing double, rebooting not only American Idol (see page 16) but the long-running sitcom Roseanne. The eight-episode series, set to air FALL FOR in 2018, will feature original stars

Set your DVRs: The 2017–18 season is full of retro revivals, fresh-faced supes, and one crime-fighting magician (seriously). BY LYNETTE RICE THE GIFTED

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R.I.P. CANCELED SHOWS 2 Broke Girls (CBS) American Crime (ABC) APB (Fox) The Blacklist: Redemption (NBC) Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders (CBS) Dr. Ken (ABC)

10 EW.COM MAY 26, 2017 THE HARDEST WORKING 1 Arrow 3 Blindspot 5 Deception 7 Riverdale 9 Titans MAN IN TV? The CW NBC ABC The CW DC digital service Next season, producer Greg Berlanti 2 Black Lightning 4 DC’s Legends of 6 The Flash 8 Supergirl 10 You will have a whopping 10 shows on the air The CW Tomorrow The CW The CW The CW Lifetime

Roseanne Barr, John Goodman, version of S.W.A.T. from Shawn Sara Gilbert, Laurie Metcalf, Ryan (The Shield) that stars Michael Fishman, Lecy Goranson, Shemar Moore (Criminal Minds). and Sarah Chalke (in a non-Becky role). And while The CW is suds- ing up for a Dynasty reboot from A NEW KIND OF HERO Gossip Girl scribes Josh Schwartz : RON BATZDORFF/NBC; and Stephanie Savage, and star- The flights-and-tights trend is ring Grant Show (Melrose Place) cruising into uncharted territory, A.P. BIO A.P. as Blake Carrington, CBS is bust- with a spate of larger-than-life but ing down the door with a new lesser-known crime-fighting char- acters. ABC will air Marvel’s Inhumans, starring Anson Mount (Hell on Wheels) as the head of a

: MARK HILL/THE CW; family of fantastics; The CW has Black Lightning, a DC Comics title featuring an African-American DYNASTY vigilante played by Cress Williams StateofHerUnion (Hart of Dixie); and Fox boasts The Gifted, a Marvel title that’s basi- A cancellation, a conclusion, and : J SQUARED PHOTOGRAPHY/THE CW; RHIMES: ROY ROCHLIN/FILMMAGIC cally a small-screen depiction of two new contenders for ABC superproducer the X-Men about two parents (True Shonda Rhimes. BY LYNETTE RICE

: MICHAEL YARISH/CBS; MICHAEL : Blood’s Stephen Moyer and Person of Interest’s Amy Acker) whose ••• S.W.A.T. Shondaland is closing feeling on top as S.W.A.T. BLACK LIGHTNING BLACK children have mutant powers. down two of its rides. opposed to letting Though season 2 of things fizzle out.’ That The Catch promised a was a decision she lighter tone (and way felt really good more of Doctor Who’s about and we support BLACK John Simm as Rhys), wholeheartedly.” LIGHTNING the Mireille Enos and Don’t worry, there’s Peter Krause vehicle still plenty of Shonda- averaged only 4.6 mil- land to go around: ABC lion viewers and a mere will debut Still Star- 1.0 rating among adults Crossed, a new take on 18–49. The sixth season Romeo and Juliet, on of Scandal fared better May 29. The network with 8.7 million and a has also picked up two 2.3 rating, but creator new shows: an untitled Shonda Rhimes and Grey’s Anatomy spin-of ABC decided the set in a Seattle fire- upcoming seventh sea- house and For the son will be the last for People, a legal drama D.C. fixer Olivia Pope, from Rhimes and Paul played by Kerry Wash- William Davies (Scandal) ington. “[Rhimes] has that follows the defense had, for a while, a sense and prosecution in of how she wanted the high-profile cases. And story to end,” ABC in the fall, oldies but entertainment presi- goodies How to Get dent Channing Dungey Away With Murder and said. “She said, ‘Look, I Grey’s Anatomy will be really feel like season 7 back for their fourth and is where I want to wrap 14th seasons, respec- DYNASTY up this story, because tively. So buckle up and I always prefer to end a prepare for more twists

A.P. BIO show where you’re and turns ahead.

Emerald City (NBC) Frequency (The CW) The Great Indoors (CBS) Last Man Standing (ABC) Making History (Fox) No Tomorrow (The CW)

MAY 26, 2017 EW.COM 11 SAVANTSFORHIRE AND ONE THAT SOUNDS VERY FAMILIAR Several shows will focus on o- beat characters who bring very A tune-filled drama about special skill sets to their new jobs. a scruy teacher who tries to Alan Cumming plays a former rebuild the performing-arts CIA operative who works with department of a middle-America the FBI to track a serial killer on high school by making music with CBS’ Instinct; Jack Cutmore-Scott a football player and a talented is a superstar magician who ingenue who just wants to get the helps the government catch the hell out of Dodge? Is that you, world’s most elusive baddies Glee, back for an encore perfor- on ABC’s Deception; Freddie mance? Nope, it’s actually Rise, Highmore saves lives as an autistic the midseason NBC series based RISE

surgeon on ABC’s The Good Doc- on the book Drama High, executive- KRAMER/NBC; : PETER tor; and Glenn Howerton plays a produced by Jason Katims cynical Ivy League professor who (Parenthood) and starring Josh goes to work as a biology teacher  Radnor. And the competition for

on the NBC comedy A.P. Bio. Rosie Perez and Josh Radnor on Rise head of the TV class starts…now! PEOPLE WILL & GRACE (2); HUDSON: JAMIE MCCARTHY/GETTY IMAGES FOR IMAGES MCCARTHY/GETTY JAMIE HUDSON: (2);

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& Grace mingled at EW and People’s party ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY to celebrate the upfronts. Josh Radnor and Edie Falco were also on hand at Second Floor in New York City to talk about their new series, as was Jennifer Hudson, who

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 ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY ( Clockwise from top ) Will & Grace’s Eric McCormack, Megan Mullally, Sean Hayes, and Debra Messing; This Is Us’ Justin Hartley, Mandy Moore, Milo Ventimiglia, and Susan Kelechi Watson; Jennifer Hudson in the Stranger Things photo booth; Casey Cott, Jaimie Alexander, and Camila Mendes; 13 Reasons Why’s Tommy Dorfman and Brandon Flynn AND PEOPLE AND

R.I.P. CANCELED SHOWS The Odd Couple (CBS) Pitch (Fox) Powerless (NBC) Rosewood (Fox) Scream Queens (Fox) Sleepy Hollow (Fox)

12 EW.COM MAY 26, 2017 FIRST LOOK MEET THE NEWMINION What’s black and white and yellow all over? It’s Mel! The rabble-rouser makes his debut in Despicable Me 3 (out June 30). BY MARC SNETIKER

The Minions have revolted! Or union- ized, at least. It’s all thanks to Mel, the new leading lackey who calls for ( Left mutiny against reformed supervillain and below ) Gru (Steve Carell) in this summer’s Paul Despicable Me 3. As Gru settles into Bettany domesticity, the Minions—who live to aid and abet—aren’t pleased. “The Minions have been patiently waiting for Gru to get over this phase of being good, but when that doesn’t come to Paul Bettany fruition, Mel is the one who can’t take anymore. And all the others get behind him crying, ‘Preach it!’ ” says co-director Kyle Balda, a veteran Is the Unabomber of the franchise’s animation house, The British actor retreats into the wild to play the disturbing domestic Illumination Entertainment. (Fun fact: terrorist Ted Kaczynski in Discovery’s Manhunt: Unabomber. BY DAN SNIERSON Illumination was founded by Chris Meledandri, on whom Mel’s name and haircut are based.) Absent from DM3 are the trio from the 2015 spin-of Discovery is taking you to masterminded a crusade of terror Minions: Kevin, Stuart, and Bob, who an isolated cabin in the woods against universities, airlines, and will continue their own story line in this summer to unspool the others—and vowed to stop only if his Minions 2 (due summer 2020). In their story of one of America’s most reclusive 35,000-word antitechnology manifesto stead, Mel will charm audiences as and elusive domestic terrorists. was published. With the help of forensic what Balda calls “the most imperti- On Aug. 1 the network will unveil linguistics employed by criminal pro- nent and independent Minion we’ve Manhunt: Unabomber, an eight-episode filer James “Fitz” Fitzgerald (Avatar’s seen”—even if Mel’s insistence that drama about the real-life search for Sam Worthington), Kaczynski was the Minions can govern themselves the mysterious individual who perpe- ultimately captured in 1996. lands the whole gang in prison trated a 17-year bombing campaign that “Ted’s sense of persecution and stripes. Yellow is the new black, right? killed three and injured 23. Ted Kaczyn- his motivations were incredibly ski, a.k.a. the Unabomber (played by complex and twisted, and not nearly Paul Bettany), was no quotidian crimi- as idealistic as he would like to imag- nal. The math prodigy enrolled at ine,” says Bettany (Wimbledon, the Harvard at 16, was subjected to cruel Avengers franchise). “But what I am psychological experiments, and became convinced of is that he was brutalized as : ILLUMINATION/UNIVERSAL PICTURES ILLUMINATION/UNIVERSAL : a Berkeley professor before retreating a rather sensitive, brilliant 16-year-old to Montana, where he lived without boy, and it sort of weaponized him.” running water or electricity. There he The Brit delved into Kaczynski’s unpublished autobiography and reading

DESPICABLE ME 3 ME DESPICABLE list (including Crime and Punishment) to get inside his head; he rented a remote cabin during filming to glean a sense of his isolation. “Ted chose nobody,” Bet- tany notes, “and nobody chose Ted.” One reason that Bettany signed on to Manhunt was its examination of Fitz and Kaczynski in relation to each other. “If the story is ‘Fitz is a hero and Ted is a monster,’ it’s a very

: TINA ROWDEN/DISCOVERY CHANNEL (2); ROWDEN/DISCOVERY TINA : short story,” he says. “The show has no sympathy for Ted Kaczynski, but it does have empathy for him. That’s important, because otherwise the conversation stops at ‘monster.’ ” MANHUNT: UNABOMBER MANHUNT:

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DO NOT READ THIS UNTIL YOU’VE WATCHED THE MAY 18 FINALE! The Blacklist’s Big Reveal Who’s your daddy? Rather, who’s Liz’s daddy?!? That question was finally answered in the season finale...or was it? BY NATALIE ABRAMS STARS SHARE THEIR PERSONAL STORIES ABOUT GIVING BACK After four seasons of specula- tion, NBC’s The Blacklist con- firmed what most fans have always suspected about the relation- ship between criminal mastermind MATT DAMON’S Raymond Reddington (James Spader) and FBI agent Liz Keen (Megan Boone). “Liz has learned that Red is her father— and yet, there’s a much bigger secret WATER FIGHT out there that presents a real problem,” says EP Jon Bokenkamp, referring to unearthed bones that are now en CHARITY WHAT THEY DO route to Liz (much to Red’s chagrin). Water.org Work to provide clean water and sanitation through small, affordable loans We’re led to believe that they belong to Liz’s presumed-dead mother, but Bokenkamp doesn’t balk at the sugges- tion they could belong to, say, the real Red, and that this Red is someone else entirely. “This imposter theory is one that’s alive among our fan base,” he says. After all, the DNA results proving Red’s parentage come from a decades- old sample (that is not necessarily from the man we know now). Either way,

Liz will be fundamentally changed by DAMON: COURTESY PRAVEEN FOR SUNDARAM WATER.ORG.; the news. “She has a new sense of her own genetic makeup and the potential for a certain kind of behavior, a crimi- nality,” Boone says. “That awareness will give her freedom to behave in dif- ferent ways.” Sounds like the apple may not fall far from the tree—and we can’t wait to see if Liz is a bad seed. THE BLACKLIST : VIRGINIA SHERWOOD/NBC : VIRGINIA

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A WHOLE NEW WORLD Disney Darlings Who Kill Mickey Mouse has a zero-tolerance policy for murderers. So imagine his hearty “Oh, gosh!” at the news that High School Musi- cal alum Zac Efron will star in a biopic of psycho killer Ted Bundy. The role marks a hard turn against type for the 29-year-old, but he’s not the only member of the club to go homicidal. —Joe McGovern

RYAN GOSLING Despite notable exceptions like La La Land, Gosling’s acting career has veered sharply away IDOL’S RETURN: from his syrupy start on the Mickey Mouse Club (1993–95). In 2010’s All Good Things, he plays a character inspired by Robert Durst, long suspected, but never convicted, of killing his wife. Hey…girl? ARE WE READY?

It’s been just one year since the Fox behemoth that brought us Kelly Clarkson and Jennifer Hudson went of the air. Now it’s back on ABC, and network execs are singing its praises. BY JAMES HIBBERD ••• Can the roar of Katy Perry make Thing is, ABC has wanted VANESSA HUDGENS American Idol a hit again? ABC a hit singing competition series Efron’s High School Musical costar shed her hopes so. As you know by now, for years and launched one innocent image in 2013 for the berserk Spring the pioneering Fox reality TV short-lived efort after another. Breakers (costarring fellow Disney vet Selena series is getting rebooted on (Remember Duets? What about Gomez). Hudgens plays Candy, a partying college ABC in 2018 (with the music Troupe Stars? Or Rising Star? girl who is charmed by a thug named Alien superstar as lead judge), despite (James Franco) and kills a rival on his behalf. having a heavily promoted, alum-studded “farewell” season on Fox just last year (hell, they even brought back Brian Dunkle- man). News of the revival was met with fan cries of “Too soon!” Newest on Twitter, and executives at Idol judge Fox—who considered bringing Katy Perry ROSS LYNCH back the show in 2020—didn’t disagree. “We felt like this is way Known for two Teen Beach Movies and four too soon,” Fox TV chairman Dana seasons on Austin & Ally, Lynch is the Disney star du jour. And that makes his performance in this Walden told reporters May 15. fall’s My Friend Dahmer (as the teenage Jefrey “We did not see the fan excite- Dahmer, who went on to kill 17 people) ment and enthusiasm for the even more efective and unnerving. show to come back.”

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The Deadwood actor, known for his domineering onscreen presence, died at age 68. How about Sing Your Face O? BY ANTHONY BREZNICAN Yes, all were real shows. No, we’re not kidding.) So it’s no sur- prise the network outbid rivals— including NBC, which snatched POWERS BOOTHE MADE BEING A SON OF A But Boothe also stretched beyond big up former Idol luminaries Kelly Clarkson and Jennifer Hud- bitch an art form. The actor, who died in his bads, playing a downed U.S. Air Force pilot son for upcoming cycles of sleep at home in Los Angeles on May 14 at who joins up with American teen guerrilla The Voice just a few days after the age of 68, was ruggedly handsome, but fighters in 1984’s Red Dawn and White ABC closed its deal. (NBC sol- his matinee-idol looks were subverted by House chief of staff Alexander Haig in LECTION; emnly swears the Voice castings weren’t meant to pull the rug an intimidating charisma that led him to Oliver Stone’s 1995 drama Nixon. He out from Idol…honest!) play countless outlaws, madmen, and poli- spoofed his own stoic screen persona in the All of this left ABC with little choice but to dig deep into ticians (sometimes all at once). 2010 cult-favorite comedy MacGruber. their pockets and enlist Perry, “The heavies are more fun,” Boothe told Mostly Boothe walked that line between

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: KEVORK DJANSEZIAN/GETTY American Profile magazine in 2012. “And I good and evil, displaying a ferociousness on her first new album in four years, Witness, out June 9. (For think they’re more interesting.” that was chilling and a strength that was more on Perry, turn to page 28.) Born and raised in a tiny West Texas appealing, even endearing. In recent years, ABC’s entertainment

AMERICAN IDOL AMERICAN town, Boothe was a sharecropper’s son and he appeared in The Avengers and on ABC’s president Channing Dungey explains that the show’s became the first in his family to attend Agents of SHIELD as nefarious World chasing-your-dreams theme college, which led him to the theater, then Security Council leader Gideon Malick, and is very on-brand for the net- movies and TV. He made his breakthrough on Nashville he played the manipulative work—plus, they’re mulling not-yet-revealed ways to with an Emmy-winning performance in wealthy father of Connie Britton’s country freshen up the format (making 1980’s Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim star Rayna Jaymes. The Bachelor contestants Jones, starring as the real-life suicide-cult Garret Dillahunt, who costarred along- audition while on a date? Shark Tank investors as guest leader—and continued to build a villainous side Boothe on Deadwood, posted on Twit- judges?). “From where we sit,” résumé as the grinning gunslinger Curly ter the kind of rough-and-tumble tribute Dungey says, “we feel it’s a great Bill in 1993’s Tombstone, ruthless saloon the actor would have loved: “A formidable time to bring the series back.” Perhaps, but for now Idol still owner Cy Tolliver on HBO’s Deadwood, and opponent, baseball lover, poser hater. Give IMAGES; PERRY: C FLANIGAN/GETTY IMAGES; BOOTHE: TODD WILLIAMSON/INV HUDGENS: A24/PHOTOFEST; LYNCH: EVERETT COLLECTION; EVERETT LYNCH: A24/PHOTOFEST; HUDGENS: EFRON: JOHNNY LOUIS/FILMMAGIC; GOSLING: JAMES HAMILTON/© MAGNOLIA PICTURES/EVERETT COL PICTURES/EVERETT MAGNOLIA HAMILTON/© JAMES GOSLING: LOUIS/FILMMAGIC; JOHNNY EFRON: feels like a bit of a dark horse. the bloodthirsty senator in 2005’s Sin City. em hell, Powers.”

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R WOMAN GETS A MOVIE ALL HER OWN. THE WHO MADE IT HAPPEN.+++BY NICOLE SPERLING NICSPERLING ON MARCH 20, THE NEW YORK TIMES PUBLISHED A METROPOLITAN EN © DC BOOK: COMIC (2); BROS. WARNER PAGE) THIS AND SPREAD (PREVIOUS Diary column about a group of octogenarians on their way to see Fences. While taking an escalator in a movie theater near Union Square, the women chatted about the future. “I hope I live until summer,” said one. “Why?” asked another. “Because your granddaughter is getting married?” “No!” the first woman said. “Because I want to see the Wonder Woman movie.” ¶ That little exchange had a big impact on Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins. “It brought tears to my eyes,” she says. “Because I love Wonder Woman, and I have grown up seeing who else loves Wonder Woman, I know there is this huge swath of women—and men—who love Wonder Woman in this old- school way.” ¶ On June 2, Jenkins (Monster) will unveil her action-packed ode to the iconic Amazon princess, and finally—76 years after psychologist William Moulton Marston created her—Wonder Woman will star in her own film. The origin story tracks Princess Diana’s transformation from a young, curious, and somewhat rebel- lious child living on the idyllic island of Themyscira among her all-female family into

a bullheaded young woman. ¶ Played with a mix of spunk and humility by Israeli (2) TERTAINMENT actress Gal Gadot, Diana is spurred toward her destiny when Steve Trevor (Chris Pine), an American spy, crashes near the island and informs Diana of the horrors O awaiting him back in World War I Europe, circa 1918. Motivated by her duty as an 1940 1950

SOMEKINDOF 1941 1942 All Star Comics #8 Despite Marston’s WONDER-FUL introduces William hope of creating Moulton Marston’s a female leader, IN HER 76 YEARS, groundbreaking All Star Comics’ superhero: a Wonder Justice Society of PRINCESS DIANA HAS Woman who would America invites BEEN REINVENTED triumph not with Wonder Woman to BY EVERY GENERATION fists or firepower, be its...secretary. but with love. CLOCKWISE FROM FAR LEFT Robin Wright leads the Amazons into battle; Danny Huston as German general Ludendorff; Gadot and Connie Nielsen (Queen Hippolyta) confront a golden-lassoed Chris Pine (Steve Trevor)

Amazon to protect the vulnerable, she ventures to London on a mission to kill Ares, the God of War, whom she suspects is responsible for it all. “Diana starts more naive than most of us, but she ends more mature than most of us,” Jenkins says. “She learns that it’s not going to be at all what you version—have played Batman in eight major studio movies since Michael think it is to be a hero, and that what it means Keaton took wing with the Caped Crusader in 1989. to be loving and kind is complicated.” If you’re keeping score (and we are), that’s 15 movies in four decades for those Even more complicated than Wonder two titans of superhero culture. And for Wonder Woman? Just one appearance, Woman’s hero quest is the character’s last year, in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. It cannot be overstated how out- decades-long journey to the screen. It’s been size that disparity is. Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman are the foundation : CLAY ENOS/WARNER BROS. (2); COMIC BOOK: COMIC (2); BROS. DC © ENOS/WARNER CLAY : close to 40 years since Christopher Reeve of the DC Comics universe—Mount Rushmore-level pop icons who sell comic donned Superman’s cape and convinced the books, action figures, lunch boxes, and T-shirts all over the world. Batman and world that a man could fly. Since then, two Superman have been given multiple opportunities to prove their mettle at the box

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MAY 26, 2017 EW.COM 23 FROM Bros. finally decided to launch a new super- LEFT becoming codpiece camp (1997’s Batman & Robin), Ghostbusters director Ivan hero franchise to expand its DC universe in Gadot; Reitman was linked to a Wonder Woman movie. After that sputtered, Matrix pro- Pine and 2011, they chose...Green Lantern. Gadot ducer Joel Silver took up the reins in 1999 with Sandra Bullock attached to star. Still, Why? Why has it taken 40 years, and no momentum. Silver held on to Wonder Woman’s rights for the next 10 years why—aside from good old-fashioned sex- but never got closer than hiring screenwriter Joss Whedon in 2005. The future ism—has Wonder Woman been denied her Avengers director had successfully launched TV’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which shot at the spotlight until now? Wonder appealed to both men and women. But alas, Whedon left the Wonder Woman Woman screenwriter and comic-book author project two years later, saying, “I had a take on the film that, well, nobody liked.” Allan Heinberg (Grey’s Anatomy) believes her Around the same time, Warner Bros. decided to tiptoe into the arena with narrative arc has been part of the problem. Catwoman, which began as a Michelle Pfeiffer vehicle following her scene-stealing “In the comic books, there is not a lot of time role in 1992’s Batman Returns. Production delays killed that dream, and it instead spent on her psychology—what she wants became the 2004 Halle Berry movie that was excoriated by critics and grossed a and what drives her,” he says. “Also, her mere $82 million worldwide. The next year, Fox’s attempt to turn Jennifer Garner mythology is so complex and dense. That’s into Elektra shorted out, grossing only $57 million. That was all the evidence been off-putting for a lot of people.” Hollywood needed. “America is not ready for a female superhero,” Catwoman pro- To be fair, Hollywood’s been trying to ducer Denise Di Novi told EW at the time. “Men [don’t] want to see it—especially crack Wonder Woman’s backstory—daughter teenage boys—and it seems like women don’t want to either.” BOO COMIC BROS.; ENOS/WARNER CLAY PINE: WITH BROS.; WARNER GADOT: of Zeus; possibly carved out of clay; filled with Jenkins had her own complicated history with the project. In 2005, fresh off the virtuous attributes of kindness, justice, helping Charlize Theron to an Oscar in her directorial debut, Monster, Jenkins met and love; raised on a mythical man-free with Warner Bros. about her comic-book idol. Two years later they sent her a island; armed with superstrength and not-so- script, but Jenkins, pregnant with her son, declined. In the years that followed, sexy weapons that include a shield, a lasso of Jenkins connected with the studio a few more times, always hearing the studio’s truth, and a pair of indestructible bracelets— enthusiasm but never seeing any concrete steps forward. “Frankly, I’m not even for years. As early as 1996, with Superman sure there was a conscious reason [why it never went into production],” she says. in remission and Batman on the cusp of “They always seemed interested, but it just didn’t go further.”

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“Underwear Co-writer Dann Illustrator George that’s fun to wear” Thomas becomes the Pérez relaunches becomes all the first female credited a Wonder Woman rage when Underoos with a Wonder who is stronger, less debut, with girls Woman issue (#300), sexualized—no more flocking to Wonder in which the heroine high heels—and Woman’s star- accepts Steve Trevor’s more enriched by spangled briefs. proposal and fakes Greek mythology. Diana Prince’s death. 24 EW.COM MAY 26, 2017 It wasn’t until Lionsgate took a risk on Katniss Everdeen that the industry began to reconsider. The four Hunger Games films, starring Jennifer Lawrence, grossed nearly $3 billion around the world. Just like that, the conventional wisdom that males— especially boys—wouldn’t buy tickets to movies about women suddenly looked stupid. “Sometimes you have to wait for the culture to dictate where you go,” says one studio insider. “Hunger Games was the prop- erty that broke through.” Gadot, Cinematic Universe ($11 billion and counting), Warner Bros. responded with a Patty But all that history—the difficulty of adapt- Jenkins, multiyear strategy to launch or reboot DC’s biggest heroes, including the Flash and Pine ing her story, the bad luck, the unproven on set and Aquaman, in solo films as well as in all-for-one efforts like this fall’s Justice bankability of female action heroes—still League. “Necessity breeds invention,” Wonder Woman producer Chuck Roven doesn’t explain why Wonder Woman, a char- told EW last year. “We spent a fair bit of time getting this script right, but we acter who has been adored on the page for also had a big, big motor [pushing us]. Expanding the DC universe was a major almost eight decades, never got the love from priority for Warner Bros.” Hollywood, while lesser superheroes (e.g., In January 2015, that motor ultimately brought in screenwriter Heinberg. Ant-Man, Doctor Strange, Suicide Squad, Zack Snyder (Man of Steel), DC’s cinematic godfather and Wonder Woman pro- Deadpool, Guardians of the Galaxy, etc.) did. ducer, had commissioned two screenplays and three treatments (one was set The hard fact is, for 40 years what she in the Crimean War, another in World War I), but they were looking for a new needed most was a champion to stick his or take. Heinberg’s pitch was to focus Wonder Woman’s origin story less on her her neck out for her—and to stick by her— complex mythology and more on her psychology: She is alone, a stranger in a and for whatever reason, no one did. Joel strange land, trying to find her way. “I saw it as The Little Mermaid,” Heinberg Silver ultimately wasn’t the guy, and strong says. “This is a woman who has been raised in a very sheltered environment, female producers like Nina Jacobson (The who is curious what life is like outside. She wants to be where the people are.” Hunger Games), Lauren Shuler Donner Heinberg, Snyder, and executive producer Geoff Johns (who also worked on (X-Men), Kathleen Kennedy (Jurassic Park), the script) stuck with the World War I setting. Jenkins didn’t love that idea, ini- and Gale Anne Hurd (Aliens) were occupied tially. A Wonder Woman purist, she believed Diana’s origin story should trace the with their own megafranchises. one created by Marston—and used in the late-1970s TV series—which was set Ironically, it may have been DC’s chief during World War II. But when Jenkins took over after Game of Thrones director rival, Marvel, that finally won Wonder Michelle MacLaren dropped out, she quickly saw the merits of the earlier era. Woman her green light. Faced with the “World War I is the first mechanized war,” Jenkins says. “It’s the first time civiliza- game-changing success of Marvel Studios’ tion as we know it is finding its roots. Even the way that, in WWI, it was unclear who was in the right is a really interesting parallel to our own time.” Most important, though, she and Gadot agreed who they wanted this character EW’S ULTIMATE GUIDE to be. “For a long time, people didn’t know how to approach this story,” Gadot Celebrate 76 years says. Diana is not some idealized robot, a warrior and nothing more. “She’s a of DC’s groundbreaking Amazonian princess woman—a woman with very high values—but a woman. She goes through the 2); PALICKI: JUSTIN LUBIN/NBC with a gorgeously same challenges we all go through. She wants to feel like she belongs. She wants illustrated 95-page collector’s edition, to be appreciated. She wants to help. She wants to be loved.” It may have taken available in stores May 26 decades to discover that, but it’s worth waiting for. Especially if you’re 80. X

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28 EW.COM MAY 26, 2017 THE AMERICAN ELECTION, A SEXUAL AWAKENING, AND HER MOST DIVERSE SLATE OF COLLABORATORS YET: THE POP SUPERSTAR TAKES EW INSIDE THE SUMMER’S BIGGEST ALBUM, WITNESS.

By Tim Stack @EWTimStack you’ve released. How much did the election and the aftermath afect this album? Well, it’s subversive. I’ve been the queen of innu- endo and subtext my whole life, and still am. Even with [the second sin- gle] “Bon Appétit,” it’s just like a smile and a wink. Right now in my life I feel very sexually empowered, THE KATY PERRY YOU KNOW AND LOVE IS DIFFERENT IN 2017. SHE RELEASED HER LAST ALBUM, PRISM, NEARLY rather than being taken four years ago, and in the interim has transformed both physically—peace out, advantage of sexually or long hair!—and emotionally. (She also has a new gig: American Idol judge.) being manipulated by “I embraced my 30s. I’ve been doing the work,” admits the artist born Katheryn other people. I must have Hudson, 32. Since Prism, Perry has endured a breakup with Orlando Bloom, the opened up a chakra in my 2016 election (she supported Hillary Clinton), and rumored bad blood with a hips at some point, Witness because I feel great! I know certain pop star. With her latest release, , arriving June 9, EW asked exactly what I want. Perry to open up about those big life changes—and share how they led to “Chained to the Rhythm” the most ambitious album of her career. “There’s been a lot of healing in my I wrote with Sia and Max life personally,” she says. “And that shows in the lyrical content [of the record].” Martin, and it was toward the end of the writing period. I came into the Going into this album, year. I’m really proud of it. Does your new short a lot. But I feel now, more room and it was like a week did you have a goal or haircut play into the It moves me. It makes me than ever, [that] I broke after the election, and they concept in mind? vibe of the album? move. It’s revealing, very the cycle. Someone asked were somehow okay and I After I was on tour and did Well, I think sometimes vulnerable, very empower- me the other day, “What’s was definitely not okay. I the Super Bowl [in 2015], there’s a need for a physi- ing. But very raw in a the biggest thing that’s couldn’t write a happy-go- I was just exhausted, from cal transformation when beautiful way. I’ve surren- changed about you when lucky song. I wasn’t in that the tip of my toes to the you’ve gone through such dered. I’ve healed some of you cut your hair?” I said, place. But I also don’t want top of my head. I took an emotional and spiritual my issues with my family, “I started doing my hair to preach to people because October to June just to transformation. I healed with my relationships. and makeup for myself.” I’m not that person either. kind of slack and rerack a lot of stuff with my Today I’m sober, but I don’t The hair transformation is I want to empower people and re-center. And when father [Perry’s parents are know about tomorrow! just the physical thing of and lift people up. I do that, I go to Santa One day at a time, right? Christian preachers], change, but there’s a lot Barbara, which is where [Laughs] It’s all kind of which has been quite beau- more. You can hear it in What did you learn I’m from. The energy is beautiful. I built up Katy tiful. I think I’ve had a from being so involved in the music. just totally different—it’s Perry, and she was so fun. really delicate dance with Hillary’s campaign? not thirsty or desperate or And I still am Katy Perry gentlemen and was caught You were a vocal sup- I was so grateful for the clingy. It’s a really beauti- and I love her so much, in kind of a vicious cycle porter of Hillary Clinton, experience of the election: ful, Zen-like place. I just but at the core I’m Kath- for a while. All of them and your first single, to be able to find and test went there to gather eryn Hudson, and I think were lessons, and they “Chained to the my voice. There was a myself, and I started mak- that’s being revealed as were all trying to teach me Rhythm,” is definitely lot of noise about me tak- ing a record in June of last I embrace who I really am. something, and I did learn the most political song ing a stand because I was

Tim McGraw & Faith Hill Metallica U2 THE SEASON’S 20 BIGGEST SOUL2SOUL WORLDWIRED TOUR THE JOSHUA TREE TOUR THE WORLD TOUR Through Aug. 13 Through Aug. 1 Through Oct. 27 ALBUMS AND TOURS “You want to bring some s--- Take comfort, superfans: For The country king and queen that blows up,” drummer Lars this 30th-anniversary cele- Better clear your calendar: EW has first looks will perform their hits Ulrich says of the metal gods’ bration, U2 aren’t messing at the biggest musical events (McGraw’s “Live Like You stadium tour. Along with pyro, with their classic 1987 album. Were Dying,” Hill’s “Breathe”) they’ll bring unique set lists: “There was a duty to be faith- along with new duets Ulrich says the band hasn’t ful to the record,” says cre- from their upcoming LP. duplicated one since 2004. ative director Willie Williams.

30 EW.COM MAY 26, 2017 “neutral girl” for a while. wanted to experiment I was okay when someone and fly away from the nest. told me, “Oh, just shut I wrote some with Jeff up and sing.” I have a song Bhasker, Mike WiLL on the record called Made-It, Hot Chip, Purity “Bigger Than Me,” and I Ring, Hayden James, think the song talks about Rationale. It’s going to be Hillary and the election interesting to watch people and something is happen- digest it. I don’t know ing that’s bigger than what to expect. But I know her. Yes, maybe at that that I’ve laid my heart moment she lost. But that out in a very authentic way. might have been a battle, and we’re [now] looking It sounds like your at a war here. I think riskiest and most diverse album yet. Are you you have to think about thinking about its long-term. I think [the commercial success? election] woke up a sleep- The artist inside of me ing giant that is now has been calling me getting its strength back to come to this position and breathing and about for a long time. I think to just slay! I have to surrender to that now. Evolution is not Ineedyou tosavesum- Katy Perry easy, and change is not performing in mer, since this year has New York City been such a bummer. easy. People say they love on May 4 What are you looking for, change, but they actually and I can tell you if I have it. f---ing hate it. [Laughs] I have to evolve as an art- A big dance song! ist. I’m not saying that /GETTY IMAGES; HILL/FILMMAGIC PERRY: TAYLOR I have one song for you: It’s this record is going to be called “Swish Swish.” You Teenage Dream—I don’t can just knock one down, think anything else will. I has a narrative and has all Swift’s “Bad Blood” Anyone. And that’s not do a death drop, and go, think it’s even hard to do kinds of subject matter in was about you. Does this to any one person, album have a reaction “Swish swish bish!” Okay? that. That has been done. it. At the end of the day, and don’t quote me that I’m really grateful for to that track? it is. It’s not about that. Okay! Who else did That album is the one everything that I’ve been Well, that’s not my ques- Honestly, when women you work with on this that made you a star and given, every opportunity tion to answer—if it’s come together and they album besides has become iconic. I’ve been given. I’m not about me. I think it’s a decide to unite, this Max Martin and Sia? Sure. But when it first trying to sabotage—I’m very empowered record. world is going to be a It’s a beautiful smorgas- came out, nobody said just trying to grow. I think There is no one thing better place. Period, end bord, honestly. Max has that. It had to age. People that growth and evolution calling out one person. of story. But let me say kind of been my longtime had to attach memories to are a beautiful thing and One thing to note is this: Everything has a guy. Drake has [his pro- it. This is really a record. nothing to be scared of. you can’t mistake kind- reaction or a consequence, ducer, Noah “40” Shebib], I think that’s what the dif- ness for weakness, and so don’t forget about and I have Max. We do our ference is: This is like a Obviously, there were don’t come for me. Any- that. [Laughs] We gotta

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J. Cole Sam Hunt Bleachers 4 YOUR EYEZ ONLY TOUR 15 IN A 30 TOUR GONE NOW June 1–Aug. 20 June 1–Sept. 23 June 2 The tour supporting the MC’s The country stud is bringing For his second LP as Bleach- fourth consecutive No. 1 along Maren Morris and Chris ers, Jack Antonoff serves up album, 4 Your Eyez Only, Janson for his irst major ist-pumping rockers like starts with a string of headlining tour. “It’s fun “Let’s Get Married.” “I just intimate shows in the to go out with your peers and roll around all day and make South before expanding play for fans that are fans noises until something feels to arenas nationwide. of the genre irst,” says Hunt. truly interesting,” he says. Este, Danielle, and Alana Haim photographed on April 19, 2017, in Los Angeles

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By Nolan Feeney @NolanFeeney Photographs by Zoey Grossman to make an album almost exactly the way they made their first one, 2013’s Days Are Gone. “The second we start focusing on what everyone else is say- ing, you’ll see me in the corner under the table in the fetal position,” Alana says. “We literally do what we do. There is no other way we can write songs. There is no other way we can HANGING IN A COZY DRESSING ROOM ON THE SET OF SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, ESTE, DANIELLE, AND produce songs. We won’t finish a song Alana Haim are munching on salads but getting very excited about pizza. It’s two until it sounds exactly like how it days before the sister act will perform alongside host Melissa McCarthy on the sounds in our brains.” May 13 show, and following an afternoon of rehearsal and promo shoots, they’re daydreaming about being back on the road. “There is nothing better than com- ing off stage and being all sweaty and not partying,” says multi-instrumentalist Alana, 25. “It’s us in our Snuggies watching random John Cusack movies and eating postshow pizza.” They keep their routine low-key because they don’t want to get sick—Alana says she has the “immune system of a squirrel,” which prompts snickering from lead guitarist Danielle, 28—and because they genuinely enjoy it. “I have the best time on stage, but also getting back on that bus and eating that postshow pizza?” says bassist Este, 31. “I wouldn’t trade that for any- thing.” Alana starts waving her arms emphatically: “Postshow pizza! Yeah!” That may not sound very rock & roll—especially for a band known for its blistering live shows—but it’s real. And being their sincere, enthusiastic selves is exactly what put Haim on track for global domination. Since forming a decade ago, there’s hardly a corner of popular music Haim hasn’t touched. Rap- pers like A$AP Ferg and Kid Cudi remixed their songs and recruited them to sing hooks. They collaborated with Calvin Harris and toured with Taylor Swift. Jay Z, who founded their management company, Roc Nation, is a fan and “gives the best hugs,” according to Alana. Recently, U2 asked to hit the studio with them, and while Haim can’t reveal much, Este says Bono “does a really good Smithers impression.” In 2017, Haim might just be the one band everyone can agree on. “They [cross genre lines] so well, and I think it has a lot to do with who they are personally,” says friend and collaborator George Lewis Jr., who records as Twin Shadow. “They don’t need to hide behind any facade. There are a lot of people who are posturing, and they just refuse to do that.” That approach is unlikely to change with their second album, Something to Tell You, out July 7. At a point in their careers when anyone in the industry would take their calls, Haim instead retreated to their parents’ living room

THE Dan Auerbach Halsey Phoenix WAITING ON A SONG HOPELESS FOUNTAIN TI AMO SEASON’S 20 June 2 KINGDOM June 9 June 2 The Black Keys frontman 2014’s Bankrupt! wasn’t lively BIGGEST enlisted legends John Prine, For her fantastical breakup- enough for Phoenix. This Duane Eddy, and Jerry Doug- inspired follow-up to 2015’s one? “[It’s] light and joyful,” ALBUMS & las to record at his Nashville Badlands, the art-pop star says frontman Thomas Mars. TOURS studio. Says Auerbach, teamed with producers “It embodies the true value “These guys…have been Benny Blanco (Justin Bieber) of what art should be, which blowing my mind for years!” and Greg Kurstin (Adele). is a world of possibilities.” ( From far left ) Bassist Este traffic to avoid being late for a Beyoncé and multi- show—and they’ve actually filmed instrumentalist Alana Haim multiple music videos with choreogra- phy inspired by what they used to watch on TRL. “We don’t overthink those things,” Este says. “As long as we’re having fun and doing what we want? Survey says yes.” This cultural omnivorousness is all they’ve ever known. Their disco- loving real-estate-agent parents, Moti

ER: SELF-PORTRAIT; SKIRT: PHILLIP LIM; DANIELLE’S JACKET: DANIELLE’S LIM; PHILLIP SKIRT: SELF-PORTRAIT; ER: and Donna, taught them to play instruments at an early age, starting LAURA LOMBARDI; HALSEY: JEFF KRAVITZ/FILMMAGIC; LORDE: TIM KRAVITZ/FILMMAGIC; LORDE: JEFF HALSEY: LAURA LOMBARDI; SWEAT with drums. For years they performed as a five-member family band called RockinHaim, doing covers of Eagles and Santana at street fairs and other events across California’s San Fer- nando Valley. But growing up in the ’90s also meant that the sisters were exposed to everything from Ace of Base to Korn to Destiny’s Child. By the time the trio started seriously writing and recording their own songs, “we were really sick of the ESS, EARRINGS: ELLERY; ALANA’S JACKET: JIL SANDER; EARRINGS:

ANDACE BIRNS/ORIBE HAIRCARE/DAVINES NA/NEST ARTISTS; ESTE’S notion of the rock purist,” says Dani- elle, who played in touring bands for Jenny Lewis and the Strokes’ Julian Casablancas during Haim’s early years. “In some circles it’d be like, ‘We have to do this to tape live, it needs to When Haim released their debut a hip-hop-flavored scorcher like “My be rock & roll!’ Why? You hate drum album, they were already adored by Song 5.” One magazine described them machines? That’s the stupidest thing music critics, but their mix of classic as the antidote to Top 40 divas, prais- I’ve ever heard in my life.” rock, ’80s pop, ’90s R&B, and other ing them for playing their instruments At SNL rehearsals, with their parents influences still confounded plenty of and eschewing choreographed dance looking on, Haim run through two listeners. One minute they’d channel routines. But Haim love that kind of songs: “Want You Back,” the first single Fleetwood Mac on a song like “Honey music—they’ll gladly tell you about from Something to Tell You, and the as- VIVIENNE WESTWOOD; ALANA’S TOP: M. MARTIN; (THIS SPREAD) ESTE’S DR MOSENFELDER/GETTY IMAGES; STAPLES: ERIKA GOLDRING/GETTY IMAGES GOLDRING/GETTY ERIKA STAPLES: IMAGES; MOSENFELDER/GETTY (PREVIOUS SPREAD) STYLING: REBECCA GRICE/WILHELMINA; MAKEUP: C & I”; the next, they’d be wilding out on how they once sprinted through L.A. yet-unreleased “Little of Your Love,”

Lorde Vince Staples Imagine Dragons MELODRAMA BIG FISH THEORY EVOLVE June 16 June 23 June 23 Expect one-third weird-pop “We were trying to create Despite the massive rock anthems like irst single a new soundscape,” the single “Believer,” frontman “Green Light,” one-third rapper says of his ambitious Dan Reynolds says the band’s vulnerable numbers follow-up to 2015’s third LP is scaled back: “We like “Liability,” and one-third Summertime ’06. “It’s not wanted to be selective about darker tunes that evoke always about what you each noise. It’s an evolution 2013’s Pure Heroine. say, it’s how you say it.” of mind and sonics.”

MAY 26, 2017 EW.COM 35 They reteamed with Days Are Gone producer Ariel Rechtshaid (who is also Danielle’s boyfriend) and brought on ex–Vampire Weekend member Rostam Batmanglij, whom the sisters have known for years. Yet the album’s lyrics touch on how their lives have changed in subtle ways. As its title suggests, Something to Tell You deals with the struggles of communication. “When we’re gone all the time, when our friends are away, the one thing we all have in common is, like, it is so hard to

tell someone anything!” Alana says. FRA THE FOR PARIS ALEXANDRINE EARRINGS: BEAUFILLE; SUIT: DANIELLE’S Technology in particular comes up on “Kept Me Crying,” which the sisters say is inspired by the “u up?” text— generally known as universal code for a booty call. “I feel like [the themes are] stuff everyone talks about: having your phone all the time, millennials,” Danielle says with a hint of aversion. “You can preoccupy yourself with all these things, but at the end of the day, you’re trying to figure out how you feel.” Lead guitarist They’re still keeping many details Danielle Haim of the album under wraps until it’s out, though it’s hard for them to think IMAGES D’ALESSANDRO/GETTY STEFANIA SHEERAN: SHOP; NKIE about July with their SNL perfor- mance looming. (Spoiler alert: They nailed it.) Apart from some tour which was one of the first songs they to write a song for Amy Schumer’s plans, “I don’t even know what hap- wrote for the album. Alana admits that Trainwreck that they came up with pens after SNL,” says Alana. “My after reconvening to write in their “Little of Your Love.” The track wasn’t brain stops this week.” Well, maybe childhood home in 2015 following ultimately included in the film, but hav- they know one thing that happens roughly three years on the road, they ing the assignment helped unlock their after the show. Este suggests what faltered at first: “We all have this voice creativity. “Everything”—Alana makes perhaps all her sisters are thinking: in our head—‘Can you do it? You lost a barfing noise—“came out [after that]. “We’re going to find a tour bus to get it!’ ” It wasn’t until the band was asked The record wrote itself at that point.” on and eat pizza.” X

Ed Sheeran Calvin Harris Shawn Mendes ÷ WORLD TOUR FUNK WAV BOUNCES VOL. 1 ILLUMINATE WORLD TOUR June 29–Oct. 7 June 30 July 6–Aug. 23 Sheeran says the production Get ready to pick your jaw These arena shows will pre- on his 60-date tour to pro- up from the loor: The DJ- serve the cozy vibe of 2016’s mote the blockbuster album producer tapped an insane Illuminate LP. “It’s going to ÷ is “deinitely bigger,” roster of all-stars to collab on feel like a theater,” says the but he promises it’ll feel inti- his ifth studio album, includ- songwriter, who just released mate: “It’s still just me, ing Frank Ocean, Katy Perry, the dancey single “There’s my guitar, and the looper.” Migos, and Ariana Grande. Nothing Holdin’ Me Back.”

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I had Kyle come out As much as I want to get I’m not a country girl This song doesn’t speak at my show in L.A. His tired of Drake, I can’t. at all, but I’ve played this to me on a lyrical or vibe is so fresh. I Everything he puts out is song a couple of times, melodic level. It has that love this record; it’s so fire. I can’t wait to hear and I can actually sing old Maroon 5 vibe, for the easy, I can’t help singing what he comes up with the hook back to you—it’s younger generations that it. What makes a great next. There are very few pretty catchy! And I weren’t around for Songs

summer song is some- artists that excite you like think Sam Hunt is really About Jane, which was HUNT IMAGES; GOLDRING/GETTY ERIKA DRAKE: IMAGES; KISBY/GETTY ROGER thing that’s not so that, and he’s one of hot. [Laughs] incredible. It’s really cool Bebe heavy and is on the hap- those artists for me. The for Joe Jonas to be a part STAWIARZ/GETTY ASTRID KHALID: IMAGES; VENTURELLI/GETTY REXHA: Rexha pier side—major chords, guys are taking over right of that, and I love Nicki, The pop star just dropped her simple and chill. now. I’m like, “Girls, come but it’s like a C version of new single “The Way I on, we gotta step it up!” “Cake by the Ocean.” Are (Dance With Some- body),” featuring Lil Wayne.

I love the pro-positivity It reminds me of being in This song reminds me of They make such wonder- movement [Kyle and a big tube in an aquarium when I lived in northern ful toe-tappers. If you’re Lil Yachty] have going on: and there’s water around New York. It was all lifted in school, you can’t help Look at what’s around me. The way he flows on it trucks, [of-roading], fish- but tap your desk or bob you! Don’t focus on the is very smooth and fluid, ing, all that stuf. This your head. I’ve always negative vibes! That’s and Drake’s melodies are song really brought me a been a Nicki Minaj fan, something I really always awesome. sense of nostalgia for my and she really adds the gravitate toward. They’re high school experience. sprinkle of fairy dust Khalid also friends of mine, so Once you find a [connec- and makes it magical. She The singer behind the that helps me enjoy it. tion] to the music, it lifts almost everything

top 20 hit “Location” kicks YACHTY: LIL IMAGES; BELIVEAU/GETTY ASHLEY GENIUS: PERFUME IMAGES;

makes it more enjoyable. she hops on. IM HEKIMIAN/GETTY JULIEN MINAJ: IMAGES; HIATT/GETTY : TIMOTHY off a tour in July to support his debut album, American Teen.

I like that it started out [Drake has] a lot of I really did not care for Whoever wrote it has with a skit about gratitude! albums and songs; it’s this. I like country, but I talent. I can feel the writ- It’s feel-good. If you listen kind of relentless. They all don’t know how much I ing, not the performance, to it enough, the lyrics are kind of blend together. like popular country. It’s which is the ultimate shady kind of f---ing weird. It’s But I can never really be like he thought of this thing you can say about goofy and surreal. Also, he mad at Drake. He just [concept] and wrote a list: it. But I do like the idea of didn’t rhyme anything with seems like he would smell Speed limits! Maps! That’s kissing a bunch of people “Oprah,” which I think is really good. I would basic. It’s cheap. I also and trying to “find some- Perfume classy. You shouldn’t try to appreciate a hug from don’t like when men sing one I trust.” I feel like I did Genius rhyme with “Oprah.” him. It’s just a feeling I about women and try to that! Maybe I’ll do an ultra- The experimental indie-pop have. I don’t fight Drake. come across as sensitive pretentious serious cover. artist recently released when it’s just the same s---

his fourth LP, No Shape, in a diferent way. AGES and is on tour now. DJ Khaled FEAT. JUSTIN BIEBER, Calvin Harris QUAVO, CHANCE FEAT. FRANK Kygo & Selena THE RAPPER & LIL WAYNE OCEAN & MIGOS Gomez Julia Michaels Future “I’m the One” “Slide” “It Ain’t Me” “Issues” “Mask O”

This is the new “Lady This song feels like cruis- The production is not An incredible record. All the girls wanted to play Marmalade,” but the guy ing down the coastline. If crazy-innovative or One thing I love flute when I was trying out version. It’s probably you had a convertible, diferent like some of the about this song is that it’s for high school marching going to be the song of you’d take the top down, others, but I think what very conversational. It’s band, and now you have all the summer. Sometimes grab an iced cofee, and makes the song really spe- not trying to be gimmicky, these rappers using it and artists will put a million blast the song with some- cial is Selena. It’s not it’s just very honest making it sound gangster! I people on one song and it one you really like. something you’d expect and real. It came don’t die for lyrics with falls flat, but this song is a her to do, and she killed it. out around the same time drugs in them, but if it’s monster. You can be a guy Her vocals are beautiful. as Noah Cyrus’ “Make honest and real, I support it. or a girl and sing along to Me (Cry).” They’re it; it’s a universal record. these really simplistic- I’m obsessed. sounding records that are very unique and very refreshing.

With all these heavy It’s a smash. What Calvin’s I’m a big fan of tropical What I love about this Literally last night I hitters, it was meant to be doing right now is house, and Kygo domi- song is the message is so was with a couple of my a No. 1. It feels like amazing: all these groovy, nates that. Selena has a real: “I got issues, you got friends and the song summer, and when you melodic tracks. Even very beautiful voice as them too!” We all have came on the radio. We think of summer, you though it’s so funk-driven, well. I like the [chopped- our personality traits that were riding down ON ARNOLD/WIREIMAGE;ON MICHAELS: have to smile. you can hear the artist’s up vocals] because that’s make us. It’s about finding the street bumping the vibe. When we got something I wish I could the person who can put song and singing all together for [Harris’ do with my voice. I’ve up with your bulls---. the words. And the “Rollin,” also featuring tried to do it before and it #MaskOfChallenge that Future] he was like, never comes out cool for happened on Twitter? “I’m not here to tell you me. Maybe one day! I’ve participated in [the what to do, do what you memes]. It’s definitely the love.” He’s super nice. song of the summer.

I don’t care for it, but I This was a little too I like that it went to a ’90s I hear it everywhere: in I was really into the flute. like the very first line beachy. If people world-music place— the car, at Target. It’s You can’t understand [when Khaled shouts out were having sex on the Enigma, Deep Forest. omnipresent. I like that anything Future says, to his record label]: “We beach or something That’s what all those it’s just strings and vocals. so you have to pick the Best Music!” I wish nasty was happening bands were, that weird That’s audacious. People something you recognize. it were just that over and [in the song], I’d afected vocal that’s cut crave that kind of thing, Is he saying “Percocet”? over for four minutes. I like it more. Just the up and sounds almost like Adele having a No. 1 This is one of my think I’d enjoy it more than beach? As a person, like chanting. It has that single with just her and the favorites on this list. the rest of the song. I don’t like to go there. fantasy element. piano. All the songs The song is a little [Michaels] wrote I really too nice and sweet. like. “Hands to Myself” [by Selena Gomez]? I wish we were talking about that one! JULIA MICHAELS/GETTY IMAGES; FUTURE: PRINCE WILLIAMS/WIREIMAGE PRINCE FUTURE: IMAGES; MICHAELS/GETTY JULIA DJ KHALED: MICHAEL BEZJIAN/GETTY KHALED: DJ KEVIN WINTER/GETTY HARRIS: IMAGES; GOMEZ: IMAGES; D

MAY 26, 2017 EW.COM 39 Isaac, Taylor, and Zac Hanson photographed on May 2, 2017, at the Rusty Knot in New York City

40 EW.COM MAY 26, 2017 THEY’RE FINALLY OF AGE! (OKAY, THEY HAVE BEEN FOR A WHILE.) WITH THE POP HEARTTHROBS CELEBRATING THE BAND’S 25TH ANNIVERSARY THIS SUMMER, EW TOASTS THEIR SUCCESS—AND HEARS A FEW STORIES FROM THEIR WILD RIDE.

By Isabella Biedenharn @isabella324 Photographs by Amy Lombard BACK IN 1997, THREE FLAXENHAIRED OKLAHOMA BROTHERS named Isaac, Taylor, and Zac harmonized their way to the top of the charts with the platinum-selling smash “MMMBop”—and became school-locker pinups for millions of teenagers around the world. Ready to feel old? Twenty years later, the guys (now 36, 34, and 31, respectively) are settled down with wives and kids and still as whole- some as can be. Well, sort of. As Hanson get set to celebrate their landmark anniversary with a world tour launching June 1, EW took the guys out for a raucous night on the town in NYC. (And if you’re curious: Yes, they still get mobbed by fans.)

You played your first us. [Isaac] got interested record for the loudest con- IMAGES; MALIK: IMAGES; GREGG DEGUI MARS: MAZUR/GETTY KEVIN MCINTYRE/GETTY show in 1992. What do in replicating things. cert of all time. It was in WOLFSON/GET RON ZAC: AND ISAAC KRAVITZ/FILMMAGIC; TAYLOR: JEFF you remember about ISAAC I just started mem- Toronto, over 140 decibels. the band’s earliest days? orizing songs. ISAAC The loudest concert Whiskey shots for Beer for Isaac, TAYLOR We lived in TAYLOR For me, it’s more ever recorded! Isaac and Taylor, hard South America for a year. like a disease, it’s not even old-fashioned for Taylor, cider for Zac ZAC It was so loud, it felt whiskey shot for Zac Our dad had taken this really a talent: If you sing like my ears were about job working for an oil something, I just hear a Youguysreleaseda to start bleeding. company—it sounds really harmony. Four women interrupt to ask beer called Mmmhops in for a group selfie with their glamorous, but he was ISAAC Our mom used to Thatwasfromthe 2013. Do you drink it friend, who is celebrating an accountant. We didn’t joke that Taylor didn’t say screaming fans? when you’re out at a bar? have that many things a word until he harmo- her birthday across the room. ZAC The screaming. You TAYLOR It’s a bit of a faux to listen to, just a little nized. He was a man of few Hanson happily oblige. could feel the audience pas to walk into a bar bit of music that was words back then. physically. You’d finish Is it annoying to still get and order your own beer. a sampling from early ZAC That’s changed a song and it would It’s like music... rock & roll. completely. stopped by fans? ISAAC If I went over to ISAAC [We had] a tape of a be like, “Ahhh!” There ZAC I’ll say this: If it’s not TY IMAGES; LAMAR: EMMA LAMAR: IMAGES; TY the jukebox and I’m bunch of singles from 1958. What’s one of your crazi- was, like, a pressure. It happening, that means like, “Yo, ‘Look at You’ And Bobby McFerrin’s est memories from being was amazing. And scary. you’re failing at certain from Middle of Nowhere— album Simple Pleasures. teenage rock stars? And awesome. parts of your job, because RE/WIREIMAGE that’s a jam!” TAYLOR So the idea of ZAC I don’t know if we ISAAC I still can’t hear we’re not known for being TAYLOR We’d have to punch singing and harmonizing technically still hold this, properly. I have long-term married to supermodels you in the face. was very much around but in ’98, we held the damage in my right ear. or being partying drug

THE Kendrick Lamar Bruno Mars THE DAMN. TOUR 24K MAGIC WORLD TOUR SEASON’S 20 July 12–Aug. 9 July 15–Nov. 11 BIGGEST The MC has kept mum on tour Uptown funk, indeed: The details—he climbed a giant stylish singer will make ALBUMS & cube at Coachella in April, arenas feel like an old-school so bet on a spectacle—but he soul revue come to life, TOURS has a deep arsenal of hits to thanks to party-starting jams perform, from “Alright” to his from his unstoppable new No. 1 single, “HUMBLE.” chart-topper 24K Magic. Was that your parents’ [making music]. We didn’t guidance or your own ever expect success savvy? to come easy, or to stay. ZAC It’s a mix of two things: One, when you’re Wait—even at that time 15, you don’t have to in the ’90s, you felt spend that much money. that your success wasn’t Fifteen-year-olds are like, a permanent thing? “I want four Xboxes.” ZAC Oh, not at all! It’s more TAYLOR And a foosball like “Hey, you have an table! opportunity to keep this. addicts or whatever. We’re ZAC Everything we’ve ZAC People want to say But it’s not yours.” Growing not known for anything done with our [makes that [getting famous as] up listening to old-school except for our music. air quotes] “MMMBop kids is a bad thing, but in rock & roll, we weren’t So for people to recognize money” is invested so many cases I think it listening to the hippest you, they have to know Whiskey and Coke into the band. Nobody was a benefit, not only in thing of the moment. We about your music. for Isaac, beer for Taylor, owns Ferraris. meeting our fans young, were listening to artists Coke for Zac ISAAC I own the same but in the experiences we who had already come and, So you never indulged car I’ve owned since had. Like, when you’re 12 in many cases, gone. So in rock-star behavior? Are you sick of talking I was 18. It’s like my leg! and girls are screaming at we already saw this as a job about “MMMBop”? Come on... ZAC Isaac owns a ’98 you, you’re like, “Gosh, that you work at to keep. ZAC It’s not that we don’t TAYLOR Usually we close 4Runner. He never wants what’s wrong with them?” TAYLOR We’re known drink beer, or that we that door, like we want to to sell that car. The And by the time you’re 18... for being pretty wholesome. weren’t smoking cigars at talk about the new album things we’ve spent money ISAAC You’re like, “What’s There’s no stories of us 15. We just never did that or whatever. But this on are, like, building up?” going to rehab and stuff on camera. year we’re opening up the a world-class studio. ZAC You’re like, “I’m really like that. floodgates to talk about Buying the equipment over you screaming at me.” ISAAC I wish I had those The women come back with history more. we use on tour that TAYLOR What he’s trying to stories! the birthday girl. most people rent. So say is there’s something TAYLOR We grew up listen- Can you live on “MMMBop” here’s a $100,000 board, wrong with him. ing to music, loving great Does that happen every- money forever? here’s a $20,000 micro- ZAC What I mean is, we songs, admiring people where you go? TAYLOR No! phone that we’re going already knew we wanted to that did great work...and ZAC Um...yeah! We’re ISAAC Especially not with to record on because it’s invest in the kind of things we still love that. My point never really surprised by it. Spotify. from the 1940s. that would help us continue is, the journey continues. X

Lady Gaga Grizzly Bear Zayn Malik JOANNE WORLD TOUR TITLE TBD TITLE TBD Aug. 1–Dec. 18 Aug. 18 Release date TBD Don’t expect the pop star The indie rockers are beeing The ex–One Directioner’s to re-create her disco-tastic up their arrangements with second solo album will blend Coachella-headlining electronic lourishes on their the sultry R&B of his debut, set. “[This] will be something irst LP in four years. Says Mind of Mine, with more entirely different,” her visual singer-guitarist Ed Droste, upbeat fare, like his director Richy Jackson “It’s my favorite thing we’ve dancehall-inspired single told EW in April. ever done. There’s no iller.” “Still Got Time.”

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44 EW.COM MAY 26, 2017 directly over it. (Yeesh. Has the dude never seen Alien?) The result is something that certainly looks like Alien. Thanks to the confident direction of a filmmaker who is pushing 80, plus some strong, lived-in If the original Star Wars performances—including the opened in theaters for two bravura ones that Michael the first time tomorrow, Fassbender delivers as different it wouldn’t become Star Wars. models of the same android— It’s easy to idealize the all-time all of the dread and helplessness great films and think that every- of the original is there. thing annoying about movies 3 QUESTIONS FOR What’s most remarkable, today could be fixed if someone however, is that Covenant feels just made them like they used to. like Alien, much like The Force But by today’s standards, A New DANNY M BRIDE Awakens feels like Star Wars. Hope is too slow, the structure C There are drawbacks, though. too odd, the plot too light. And The Vice Principals star crosses over to horror with This isn’t the shockingly new yet...it’s utterly perfect. Alien: Covenant. BY SARA VILKOMERSON blast of space-born terror that That’s part of the genius of audiences discovered nearly Star Wars: The Force Awakens. four decades ago. It’s a rerun, Director J.J. Abrams’ threaded You’re a funny guy. Were you but a damn good one. surprised to ind yourself in an needle of a film is both modern Alien movie? Besides, queuing up a bunch and retro. The Force Awakens > It turns out Ridley Scott is a fan of of victims to die at the bony translates the ’77 epic into the Pineapple Express. Seth Rogen told hands of a deep-space monster language of modern movies and me so after that movie came out. doesn’t automatically make for whips up fresh excitement for When my agent told me Ridley an entertaining two hours, any old-school visuals, sound effects, wanted to meet with me, I was like, more than, say, sticking a lonely “Are you sure he has the right guy?” and characters—even as it traces It’s been unreal. kid on a desert planet always (sometimes too literally) the makes for a grand adventure. same thrills and rhythms of the But Alien: Covenant is fun and original trilogy. In short, it’s a builds a compelling case for ven- You’re in a movie where you know remake that is new where it people are going to die. Did that turing out to an actual theater. counts, and it worked. The Force affect you guys as a cast? The audience laughs because it Awakens grossed $937 million. > It was funny. Before we started doesn’t know what else to do Director Ridley Scott has shooting, there’d be these big with its terror. Nervous giggles plotted a similar course for cast dinners. As the movie ripple through the crowd like Alien: Covenant, his sequel to continued, the reservations got whatever thing is crawling under smaller and smaller. 2012’s Prometheus, which was that sick guy’s skin. We root for itself a prequel to his 1979 Waterston’s Daniels, the new classic, Alien. (Got all that?) tough-as-nails brunette, to kill Covenant picks up some of You and your Pineapple Express that thing! You’re not just watch- director, David Gordon Green, the mythological threads are currently working on a new ing a movie next to strangers. that Prometheus puts down, but > Halloween movie. What’s that You’re in this together. the setup is a throwback. Stop been like? So maybe Hollywood can’t me if you’ve heard this one: The We’re aiming for it to be in theaters really make them like they used ragtag crew of a space vessel—in by next Halloween for the 40th to, but there’s a way to come anniversary. It’s been so cool this case Katherine Waterston, to study that franchise. It’s so close. Turns out the secret to Billy Crudup, and Danny McBride good and simple and just works. creating a movie almost as (see sidebar), among others— David [who is directing] knew what exhilarating as Alien is both detect a mysterious signal on a fan I was and asked if I’d be impossibly simple and at least up for helping to write and produce

: TWENTIETH CENTURY (2); FOX their way to a much-less-deadly a little disheartening: having destination and divert course to with him. We got to go to John already made Alien 38 years earlier. Carpenter’s and pitch to him, which check it out. Once there, one of was insane! It’s given me a great the crew decides to examine a excuse to watch horror movies For our full review of Alien:

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FIRST Hugh LOOK Jackman in The Greatest Showman

The Logan star heads to the big top with Michelle Williams, Zac Efron, and Zendaya for next Christmas’ epic original musical about the life of circus maestro P.T. Barnum. BY TIM STACK

Walking the trapeze is the circus was the equivalent of a breeze compared some dark-alley-strip-show kind with getting an original of thing,” Jackman says. Initially, musical about P.T. Barnum of Showman was a traditional the ground. But after seven biopic, but changed after Gracey years of development, planning, suggested adding song-and- and production, The Greatest dance numbers. “I said, ‘If you’re Showman—starring Hugh going to call it The Greatest Jackman as the godfather of the Showman, you should play to modern circus and Michelle your strengths and we should Williams as his wife, Charity—will make it a musical,’ ” the director finally hit screens on Christmas says. “That ridiculous remark Day. “Up until La La Land, every- cost me seven years of my life.” one was saying there hasn’t The biggest surprise in been an original musical in Showman is that although it’s 23 years,” Jackman says. “So the set throughout the mid-1800s, prevailing thought in Hollywood the songs—from La La Land’s was, unless you have a brand Oscar-winning songwriters Benj people know, it’s not a done Pasek and Justin Paul—sound thing. So it just took a long time.” like current pop hits. “We Showman, helmed by com- were clear from the beginning ( Clockwise from top ) mercial director Michael Gracey, that this wouldn’t feel like a Hugh tracks Barnum’s rise from period movie or a historical Jackman; poverty-stricken childhood to the piece,” Jackman says. “What Zac Efron and launch of his first circus in New would Barnum do now? I have Zendaya; York. Efron is Barnum’s business an almost-12-year-old daughter. Jackman partner, who falls in love with a I wanted [the movie] to be as and trapeze artist played by Zendaya. exciting for her as listening to Michelle Williams; “This was also a time in America Katy Perry’s new song.” Spoken Efron and where puritans kind of ruled and like a true Showman. Jackman

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This year’s TV fund-raiser The Red Nose Day Special (May 25, 10 p.m., NBC) has an extra-lovely reunion in store. BY JOE MC GOVERN

It might be only one-tenth the length of 2003’s rom- com treasure Love Actually, but the upcoming short-film sequel is still cause for celebration—and a great cause. As part of the star- packed charity drive Red Nose Day, which raises money for disadvan- taged children, the original film’s writer-director, Richard Curtis, has

assembled much of his cast for Red WAKEFIELD Nose Day Actually, to air on NBC’s Wakeield The Red Nose Day Special. Included are drop-ins by Liam Neeson, back : GILLES MINGASSON/IFC FILMS; STARRING Bryan Cranston, Jennifer Garner on the Thames park bench; Keira Knightley, again answering her door DIRECTED BY Robin Swicord | RATING R | LENGTH 1 hr., 48 mins. to Andrew Lincoln and his cue cards; REVIEW BY Chris Nashawaty @ChrisNashawaty Bill Nighy as rock idiot Billy Mack; Laura Linney as the lovesick Sarah, now home in the U.S.; plus cameos WE’VE ALL SEEN MEN LIKE family that you should have to live in by Patrick Dempsey and Kate Moss. In the film’s funniest and most RED NOSE DAY ACTUALLY Howard Wakefield before. it day after day?” he asks both himself poignant segment, Hugh Grant, still He’s the sort of well-off, and the audience in one of the many the U.K. prime minister, laments the white, middle-aged commuter who darkly funny voice-overs that make state of the world: “Usain Bolt has run his last Olympics, the Harry Potter populates the gin-soaked pages of us his co-conspirators. Instead, How- films are finished, Piers Morgan is

John Cheever novels and suburban ard decides to hide out in the attic still alive.” But, he adds, “Metallica’s : NICK BRIGGS/COMIC RELIEF movie satires like A Shock to the Sys- above the garage, spying on his panic- album is an absolute cracker. And on a deeper level, I’m optimistic. tem. He’s invisible, unfulfilled, and stricken loved ones from close range. Wherever you see tragedy, you see fed up. But the fact that he’s played by What starts off as a temporary escape bravery, too.” Curtis tells EW: “It’s Bryan Cranston elevates what could snowballs into something more been delightful to revisit these characters and see the cast again, have felt like a familiar midlife-crisis permanent as days, weeks, then with everyone looking a bit older— caricature into a fresh, living, breath- months pass, with Howard digging apart from Hugh Grant, of course.” ing character—something that’s through the trash at night to survive about to become harder and harder to as his family slowly learns to move find as summer movie season ramps on. Writer-director Robin Swicord, an up. Based on a 2008 E.L. Doctorow Oscar nominee who co-wrote 2008’s story, Wakefield is a sly, scabrous one- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, man show about a working stiff shows a real high-wire daring with who returns home one night and the story’s tricky tone. But like How- wonders what would happen if he ard’s scheme, the film can’t quite decided not to walk through the door figure how it’s supposed to end. and face his dissatisfied wife (Jennifer Unfortunately, the answer is: not very Garner, doing a lot with a little) and convincingly. Until then, though, teenage daughters. What if he just... Cranston is utterly hypnotic as a cer- disappeared? “I ask you, what is so tain kind of American male on the sacrosanct about a marriage and a verge of a nervous breakdown. B  Chiwetel Ejiofor and Keira Knightley

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When conceiving the looks for Hulu’s 2 5 dystopian hit The Handmaid’s Tale (streams Wednesdays), Ane Crabtree was adamant that “it not look like a costume drama,” she says. And since the series is set in a world in which women are stripped of all rights, the form and function of the actresses’ clothing was absolutely crucial. Here, the designer reveals how her aesthetic choices play into making viewers “deathly afraid that this could happen to themselves or the woman down the street.” BY CAITLIN BRODY

Elisabeth 1 2 Moss THE INSPIRATION THE DESIGN

Once Crabtree (here For the uniform, sketching at her desk) Crabtree put herself in signed on to the the mind of the man project, she opted to behind the madness: avoid Margaret the Commander Atwood’s novel and the (Joseph Fiennes). “He 1990 film adaptation, doesn’t want to spend so as not to influence money on Handmaids, her own vision for so the clothing is cost- the series. “I read the effective.” That’s why scripts instead,” Crabtree designed she says. “I researched a wrap skirt and cape present-day cults, with fishhook closures: religious groups, “If they got pregnant, Hitchcock films, and it would still fit.” French and Italian New Wave cinema.”

50 EW.COM MAY 26, 2017 LOGLINES Abigail Breslin and Colt The Banana Stand Lives On! Jason Bateman announced Prattes via Twitter that he’s signed on for a ifth season of

Arrested Development. • Have a Little Fey Tina Fey

will guest-star in season 2 of NBC’s Great News.

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OFFICIALLY UNOFFICIAL The Dirty Dancing Drinking Game Baby (Abigail Breslin) gets to have the time of her life in ABC’s musical remake of Dirty Dancing (May 24, 8 p.m.)— so why shouldn’t you? EW has you covered with this drinking game that may well lead to some tipsy dancing to keep your spirits, ahem, lifted. BY SHIRLEY LI

The word Johnny (Colt Johnny flexes baby appears in Prattes) his abs and/or the lyrics and Baby other muscles... of a song... gaze longingly at each other Push away Hum along (maybe for a thoughts about and take appro- little too long)... the gym and eat priately small the fruit garnish sips until the Drink while on your drink. song ends. trying not (That’s healthy, to giggle. right?)

Penny (Nicole Something that Baby and Lisa Scherzinger) didn’t occur in (Sarah Hyland) encourages the original film talk about Baby’s happens.... The Feminine 3 4 5 dancing... Mystique... THE VISION BOARDS THAT PERFECT RED THE ICONIC WINGS Do the twist and Dance to “Don’t invent a new Take a whiskey Cha” by the drink. May shot and airm, “The walls of my office After considering end- For day one of filming,

: Pussycat Dolls we suggest a “Nobody puts were a little bit nutty,” less paint swatches, Crabtree created 100 says Crabtree, who lay- Crabtree finally looked linen “wings,” the Hand- during a com- “marga- Betty Friedan in ered so many images on beneath her feet to maids’ lampshade- mercial break. remake”? the corner.” top of one another the nail the Handmaid’s esque headgear. “We surfaces were covered hue. “I was working in a made slightly different Baby insists Marjorie (Debra Baby and Johnny many times over. “You former glass factory wings for each actor

THE HANDMAID’S TALE THE she’s no longer Messing) talks pull of that lift... would think you went and there was this with a speaking part— a baby... fondly about into someone’s mental bloodred paint on the they were all custom- her daughters, Belt “The Time : GUY D’ALEMA/ABC GUY : cave. But it was the only concrete. I told every- fit,” she says, and some way that I could visually body, ‘This is the versions were even Shotgun calling them of My Life,” share with my team— color!’ ” She says the made with plastic to a can of beer, “the girls”... because you’ve the tailors, actors, and shade reminded her of withstand rain scenes. because neverrr felt like directors. My office was blood, and found it to Why were so many you’re—hic—an Sober up with this before— DIRTY DANCING DIRTY our meeting ground.” be a universally flatter- necessary? She laughs: adult! some water and and you’ll really ing color for the many “They don’t stay white!” text your mom be feeling it HULU (5); HULU MOSS: GEORGE KRAYCHYK/HULU; GEORGE MOSS: skin tones of the cast. a heart emoji. tomorrow.

MAY 26, 2017 EW.COM 51  Josh Dallas, Ginnifer Goodwin, Colin O’Donoghue, Jennifer Morrison, Jared S. Gilmore, Lana Parrilla, Beverley Elliott, Emilie de Ravin, and Robert Carlyle in the season 6 finale VEEP’S SAM RICHARDSON GETSOURVOTE As Richard Splett, the former president’s awkwardly innocent chief of staf on HBO’s political satire (Sundays, 10:30 p.m.), the 33-year-old scene stealer (and secret sneakerhead) has become a fan fave. How does he thrive inside the show’s irresistible insanity? He says it all Inside Once Upon a goes back to a childhood of feeling like an outsider. BY NICK MASLOW

Selina isn’t known for being feelsmorelikeasobering Time’s Big Reset a softy, but your character, documentary.” What’s your take With six cast members exiting the ABC drama ahead of Richard, has become somewhat on Veep in the era of Trump? next fall’s season 7 (farewell, Jennifer Morrison and of her pet this season. Why Veep shows how things really Ginnifer Goodwin!), OUAT will jump ahead a decade. do you think that is? work on Capitol Hill. Even with EPs Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis spill on the I think she values Richard’s opinion political lines, people are just out changes ahead. BY NATALIE ABRAMS almost more than anybody else’s. to achieve their goals. What’s She’s the nicest to Richard—nicer happening in politics is not funny, than to her own daughter! Nega- so at least Veep is making it NEW FACES but continue the dual story- tivity flows o his back so easily, human again. Right now, we’re so I think she mistakes his incom- dealing with robots of doom. Following those major telling with flashbacks. petency and views it as positivity. departures—which also As in season 1, “you’re prob- [Laughs] On Veep, they’re humans. include Josh Dallas, Jared S. ably going to see a world Gilmore, Rebecca Mader, with no magic” part of the You just had an epic sperm- Even though Richard is as tame as and Emilie de Ravin—the time, Kitsis says—but likely donation scene in which Richard a baby lamb, Veep is as crude as show will center on an adult not in Storybrooke. revealsthathe’snevermastur- it comes. Do your parents watch? Henry (Andrew J. West). bated before. Care to share? They’re super into the show. I have Also along for the ride will NEW VILLAINS I was trying to make sure it was another series on Comedy Central be his daughter Lucy In the season 6 finale, adult believable that a grown man called Detroiters [on which Rich- (Alison Fernandez), Regina Henry inexplicably disap- doesn’t know how to masturbate. ardson is a co-creator and star], (Lana Parrilla), Hook (Colin peared from the Enchanted [Laughs] I got to improvise extra and there was an episode that my O’Donoghue), and Rumple- Forest after a surprising bits that didn’t make it into the dad didn’t like because he thought stiltskin (Robert Carlyle), baddie arrived—but first, he episode, like “Oh, these are wom- there were too many poop jokes. as well as a slew of fresh put his daughter in charge en’s magazines. They’re all naked. regulars. “We’re going to of protecting the storybook. I think I’m in the wrong room.” DwayneJohnsonisinterestedin meet a whole new universe “This is a darkness that Or “There’s a video here. These running for president. What’s your and group of people,” Kitsis best tip for a wannabe politician? grown-up Henry has to deal two women are washing this says. But rest assured, the car. Oh, and their tops came o! beloved Morrison will return with, and it has a big impact on season 7,” Horowitz I should try to turn this o.” for at least one episode.  teases. And though a trio of How involved will Richard be in ( From left ) Sam Richardson and Tim NEW LEADING MAN reformed villains are stick- Robinson on Detroiters; David Pasquesi, the baby’s life? Henry will have a new ing around, the show won’t Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Richardson, Even though he’s not really the and Tony Hale on Veep family—Kitsis likens the retread old stories of father—he’s the sperm donor—he romance with Henry’s mys- redemption. “Once you get doesn’t quite see it that way. He is tery wife to a “Once epic ahold of one issue, there love”—but his old one is in are always three others [to ready to go gung ho and be a dad. peril after the Author left to tell],” says Kitsis. That’s a fun story line that will be find his own story. “Henry’s expanded as the season goes on. loss in faith”—due to as- NEW DIRECTION, BUT of-yet unrevealed circum- SAME OLD HEART What’s the best part about work- stances—“is the jumping-of Despite the aforementioned ing with Julia Louis-Dreyfus? point,” says Kitsis. “He’s changes, the EPs insist She has such amazing specificity, got to be the hero.” that the core of OUAT will and you watch the detail of what remain intact. “The DNA is she does. She’s got superpowers. NEW LOCALES still the same,” says Kitsis. Season 7 will explore never- “Fairy-tale characters in the In her 2016 Emmys speech, she before-seen fairy-tale realms real world in search of hope.” said the satirical comedy “now

52 EW.COM MAY 26, 2017 TV Is American Gods the Most Outrageous Show on TV? On a series where ancient mythological gods feud with new digital deities, there are bound to be more than a few shocking OMG moments. Here are just some highlights from Starz’s American Gods (Sundays, 9 p.m.) that’ll make you clutch your pearls and prayer books. BY MARC SNETIKER

HOLY S---

CARNAL WORSHIP The goddess of sex (Yetide Badaki) receives power by consuming lovers whole with her man-eating vagina— which, in fairness, eats all genders equally.

A DISTURBING LYNCHING Ex-con hero Shadow (Ricky

: STARZ ENTERTAINMENT, LLC (6) Whittle) is strung up by faceless goons—a violent scene that fuels his post- prison purpose of bringing down the new gods. AMERICAN GODS AMERICAN THE GAY GENIE A sex sequence between a gay Arab salesman (Omid Abtahi) and an ancient jinn You can say whatever you want places, I was always a bit of an (Mousa Kraish) could be and nobody will check you on it— outsider. What an outsider does : COMEDY CENTRAL; the most graphic, ground- breaking TV scene of its kind. as long as you’re a dude. [Laughs] is find these avenues to develop a sense of humor to help get

DETROITERS “HEY, YOU EVER WANTED You were raised between Detroit through it. TO SEE LUCY’S TITS?” and Ghana, where your mother That’s an actual quote from is from. How did that influence Youweremadearegularin the digital goddess Media, your comedic sensibility? season 4, and the series is now (Gillian Anderson), who makes Ghana was a world of all black in its sixth season. Still feel the seductive ofer when people, or at least the majority. like an outsider? she appears as Lucy Ricardo.

: JUSTIN M. LUBIN/HBO; Maybe don’t tell Ricky. That [was very dierent] juxta- As long as I keep getting invited posed with Detroit, which was to EW parties, I’ll feel like a Holly- VEEP THE VIKINGS BURN THEIR EYES OUT also a place of all black people, wood insider. [Laughs] A smoldering act of self- but [they’re perceived as] a sacrifice kicks of the series, minority. That gave me a pretty We’re always happy to have you! with America’s first Norsemen broad worldview. Being from both I hear you’re a big sneaker collec- blinding themselves to tor. Will we ever see Richard kick summon Odin to our shores. back in sneakers, out of his suit? You will, and as a matter of fact, A FIRE BUFFALO I was very excited they let me pick In the pilot, a flaming white the outfit. That comes up later bufalo gives warnings of this season. You’re going to see death in a haunting recurring him on a day o, and Richard has nightmare set in an ominous forest made of bones. Fun! fine taste in sneakers, just like Sam Richardson does. UNDEAD WOMAN WALKING Dare we ask—could a love interest It’s normal for a dead woman for Richard be on the horizon? ARCHIVE; JONES/TRUNK SAM RICHARSON: ROWAND/ABC; JACK : (Emily Browning) to come back to life with superhuman I really hope so, because who strength, sew her arm on wouldn’t benefit from being with craft supplies, and go in a relationship with the kindest find her husband...right?

man in the world? TIME A UPON ONCE HOLY MOLY

MAY 26, 2017 EW.COM 53 MONDAY MAY 22

The Late Late Show Carpool Karaoke Primetime Special 2017

1011PM CBS The second annual special brings Katy Perry into the passenger seat. “When you’re going through covers for other Carpool Karaokes, something from Katy Perry is almost always on the list,” says executive producer Rob Crabbe. “She’s a top 5 dream guest.” Also, last year’s Carpool guest, Jennifer Lopez, tries her hand(s and feet) at something called Toddlerography, in which she and James Corden try to keep up with kiddie dance numbers. “There’s a lot of running back and forth in Toddlerography,

but this time these kids showed up with a lot THE BACHELORETTE of moves,” notes Crabbe. “There were some high kicks and floor work that I don’t think James or J. Lo were ready for.” —Dan Snierson : CRAIG SJODIN/ABC (2); SJODIN/ABC : CRAIG

TUESDAY MAY 23 MUST  WATCH Rachel OF THE Lindsay WEEK Season Premiere SPECIAL PRIMETIME CARPOOL KARAOKE 2017 THE LATE LATE SHOW THE BACHELORETTE

MONDAY, MAY 22 9–11PM ABC

When Rachel Lindsay arrives at Bachelor Mansion, she’s not messing around. “She’s a very accomplished woman, and she’s tired of playing games,” executive producer Chris Harrison says. Season Premiere Lindsay, known for her stint on Nick Viall’s season of The Bachelor, Casual is being touted as the first black Bachelorette, but aside from a STREAMING HULU Season 3 of Hulu’s melancholy comedy more diverse (and older) group of suitors, Harrison says viewers about three lonely family members trying : SONJA FLEMMING/CBS; shouldn’t expect anything different from a typical season— to get through life begins with a change: Valerie (Michaela Watkins) and her daugh- except maybe for a bit of added mystery. Unlike years past, there ter, Laura (Tara Lynne Barr), no longer won’t necessarily be one “villain” in the house. “A few people live with her brother, Alex (Tommy Dewey). Thankfully, this doesn’t take away from get to wear the crown, and it gets passed around several times,” the dysfunction; in fact, their father’s death CASUAL Harrison says. “It’s like a good movie where I’m not sure if I’m last season has only increased it, and Val- erie and Alex’s codependent relationship : GREG LEWIS/HULU supposed to love this person or hate them.” And Lindsay, adjusts accordingly. While the series isn’t a successful Dallas attorney, will be left to try to figure things out broaching new territory in its exploration of intimacy, superb acting and occasional on her own. “It’s damn good,” Harrison says. “There’s seasons poignancy will compel viewers to spend where you just know: We’ve got a good show.” —Samantha Highill time with these saddies. B+ —Chancellor Agard

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Dirty Dancing Season Premiere Take 5 811PM ABC Technically, it’s all here: the soundtrack, the STREAMING swiveling pelvises (pelvii?), the wild summer SUNDANCE NOW romance. Somehow, though, ABC’s earnest, The short-form docu- anodyne remake has managed to surgically extract the magic—leaving the story and series explores the signature lines intact while suctioning out all concept of “patrio- the subtlety, charm, and lead chemistry that tism” via hot-button defined the iconic 1987 original. Abigail Bres- topics like protest lin is Baby; improbably named newcomer and immigration. Colt Prattes is Johnny Castle; together, they Season Finale dance like nobody’s watching, and kiss like strangers trying not to get mono. Debra Survivor Series Debut Messing and Katey Sagal flesh out two 810PM CBS traditionally sidelined supporting roles, and Beat Shazam the movie does its best to bring some circa- After catching up 89PM FOX 2017 wokeness to the script. But this baby on news back in the belongs in the corner. C– —Leah Greenblatt U.S., the winning Everyone’s had the experience of hearing a song they castaway asks if recognize but then have trouble naming. Fox’s Beat they can just stay on Shazam transforms that experience into a game show the island instead. where three teams of two are pitted against one another (and then Shazam itself) to see who can guess hit songs Season Finale first. Presiding over it all is host Jamie Foxx, a musical Empire star and Oscar winner who’s liable to break into song at any time. “We have a piano on the stage for Jamie,” 910PM FOX exec producer Mark Burnett says. “At the end of a round, Demi Moore, full when everyone’s buzzed in and we find out who won, drama: The actress if it’s such a huge song that Jamie loves, then he’ll play joins as a nurse with and sing it, and the audience will [join in]. This show a mysterious past. is gonna be one giant sing-along.” —Christian Holub

FRIDAY MAY 26 SAT MAY 27 SUN MAY 28

Season Premiere Doctor Who Bloodline A THEROUX JOB 910:05PM STREAMING NETFLIX The Leftovers BBC AMERICA If you’ve been keeping up with the trials (and crimes!) of the 910PM HBO Rayburns (Kyle Chandler, Linda Cardellini, Norbert Leo Butz, Every clock on Sissy Spacek, and the spectral presence of Ben Mendelsohn’s Earth suddenly Kevin Garvey takes Danny), you know last season ended with multiple clif-hangers. begins counting on an alternate Co-creator and executive producer Todd Kessler says to brace down to the identity for the sake

: JEFF DALY/NETFLIX JEFF : yourself for this third and final season, which picks up where end of the world. of a mission. “Oh, the action left of. “It’s a sprint from the start, and you’re sucked Perhaps the only hello there, my right back into the craziness,” he says. “If season 2 was about thing that can name is, um...Gevin.

BLOODLINE ‘Will they get away with it?,’ then this season is about how this help is...daylight Gevin...Karvey.” family can deal with the mess they’ve created.” —Sara Vilkomerson saving time?

All for Love

911PM HALLMARK

: JAMES DIMMOCK/FOX; JAMES : Sara Rue (Popular, Less Than Perfect) stars as a burned-

BEAT SHAZAM BEAT out romance novelist who tries to rekindle her creative spark by engaging in “immersive

: GUY D’ALEMA/ABC; GUY : research” with a hunky Navy SEAL. Hmm, maybe I should try to get

DIRTY DANCING DIRTY writer’s block!

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CELEBRATING THE BEATLES’  Ringo Starr, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison in 1967 MASTERPIECE

On June 1, 1967, John, Paul, SGT. PEPPER’S LONELY George, and Ringo changed the world when they released Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, one of the greatest albums of HEARTS CLUB BAND all time. Now, for its 50th anni- versary, the band’s label is putting out a massive reissue featuring two discs of out- takes—that offers an unprece- dented look at the making of a masterpiece. Giles Martin, the TURNS50 son of late Beatles producer George Martin who helped over- see the effort, and Jann Haworth, codesigner of the iconic album art, take EW behind the scenes of the Fab Four’s finest. BY ERIC RENNER BROWN

56 EW.COM MAY 26, 2017 NOTEWORTHY

That’s Our Girl Ex–Fifth Harmony singer Camila Cabello What to is readying her irst solo effort, The Hurting, The Healing, The Loving, for 2017 release. EW has learned she’s worked Stream with Diplo, Max Martin, and others for the LP’s sessions. EW’s guide to this week’s essential new releases

LITTLE STEVEN Soulire The E Street Band guitar- ist’s first solo full-length in nearly two decades includes fresh recordings PAUL AND RINGO WERE HEAVILY “STRAWBERRY FIELDS of vintage songs originally INVOLVED IN THE REISSUE FOREVER” AND “PENNY LANE” written with Bruce COULD’VE ENDED UP ON Springsteen, such as For this edition, Martin created an THE ALBUM 1977’s “Love on the immersive stereo remix of Sgt. Wrong Side of Town.” Pepper’s to rival the 2009 remaster. The Beatles began these sessions But he wasn’t on his own with such by recording “Strawberry Fields a Herculean task. “Paul has to be HELIUM Forever” and “Penny Lane,” but The Dirt of Luck happy, and Ringo has to be happy,” those tracks didn’t make it onto the says Martin. “I had a huge safety net, Led by guitarist Mary LP and were instead released as 5 ESSENTIAL Timony, one of the ’90s’ and the safety net is them.” one 7-inch single. While outtakes OUTTAKES most underrated indie-rock of both songs are featured on the FROM bands is reissuing their reissue, George Martin had hoped THE REISSUE entire catalog. The center- EVEN THE WORLD’S BEST BAND to include them on the original piece is this 1995 LP, on MADE GOOFS SOMETIMES release. “For my dad, ‘Penny Lane’ which Timony’s dreamy vocals soar high above her and ‘Strawberry Fields’ were the tough, crunchy guitar rifs. Sure, every note of Sgt. Pepper’s is catalyst for the making of Sgt. “STRAWBERRY perfect—but that’s because some Pepper’s,” says his son. “It was a FIELDS FOR EVER (TAKE 1)” weird ideas were cut, Martin reveals. sea change for the way things were ALEX G One take of “A Day in the Life,” for recorded. They wanted to paint An eerie instance, found the band humming version puts Rocket pictures with sound and create It’s easy to see why a music the song’s final chord in unison. a world that they couldn’t perform John’s vocals “I was like, ‘Oh my God, were they at the fore. visionary like Frank Ocean live. My father said he regretted would recruit this 24-year- seriously going to do this?’ ” Martin them not being on the album.” old to play guitar on says. “What’s reassuring is that his 2016 LPs Endless and even on an album full of good ideas, “WHEN I’M Blonde: G’s latest is a they came up with bad ones—which FAMOUS FIGURES WERE CUT SIXTYFOUR quirky indie-rock gem that is heartening for us mere mortals. FROM THE COVER ART (TAKE 2)” veers from lilting country Their willingness to try things shows Even without to pummeling noise. how they got to where they got.” The Beatles tapped pop artists the clarinets, Peter Blake and Jann Haworth to Paul’s melody help create the iconic image, which shines. FAITH EVANS & THE PAUL AND JOHN WERE A showed the band surrounded by NOTORIOUS B.I.G. SYMBIOTIC UNIT IN THE STUDIO cutouts of 58 historical figures. The King & I The late rapper’s wife brings John had lobbied to include Hitler, “A DAY IN THE While their creative partnership Ghandi, and Jesus—but those LIFE (TAKE 1)” the hip-hop titan back to were nixed. “It would’ve been a life on this duets album, would be strained after Sgt. The orchestral which features previously Pepper’s—the Beatles announced disaster [if Hitler were included],” swells are unreleased rhymes set to their breakup just three years says Haworth. “He was not gone, but it’s new instrumentals. Snoop later—the pair were still in tandem infallible, our John.” As for the just as epic. Dogg, Busta Rhymes, for these sessions. “You hear them celebrities who were living at the and others join in to pour giving each other guidance,” says time, the Beatles had to secure one out for Biggie Smalls. Martin about the outtakes. “There’s their permission. “Mae West said, “SGT. a bit where ‘Lucy in the Sky With ‘What would I be doing in a lonely PEPPER’S Diamonds’ ends and Paul goes hearts club band?’ ” recalls LONELY through how John should be singing Haworth. “So the Beatles had to HEARTS CLUB BAND (TAKE the verses: ‘Don’t go cell-oh-phane write a letter [explaining the idea], 1—INSTRU flowers, go cello-phane flowers.’ and then she said, ‘Fine.’ ” MENTAL)” The album is the sum of their parts.” This kick-ass GRAMMARIANS, TAKE NOTE: mix is pure garage rock. SGT. PEPPER’S WAS GEORGE THERE IS AN APOSTROPHE MARTIN’S FAVORITE BEATLES LP It’s a question long debated by “GOOD MORN The late producer and arranger Beatlemaniacs: Is it Sgt. Peppers ING GOOD worked on just about every Beatles or Sgt. Pepper’s? The cover art’s MORNING recording. And, to him, nothing bass drum famously omitted an (TAKE 8)” compared to Pepper’s. “It was my apostrophe, but Haworth is setting The stripped- dad’s favorite Beatles record and the record straight. “It was a back version the one that he was most proud of,” mistake. There should have been evokes their Giles Martin says. “It was the peak an apostrophe. Sgt. Pepper is the Cavern Club

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Living in Australia, Sarah Schmidt had never OPENING LINES heard of Lizzie Borden until a pamphlet about the ax murderer literally dropped onto “He was still bleeding. I yelled, her feet at a used-book store. She wasn’t ‘Someone’s killed Father.’ interested, but Lizzie was interested in I breathed in kerosene air, licked her: “That night, I had a dream Lizzie was the thickness from my teeth. The SCHMIDT: PURCELL NICHOLAS sitting [on] my bed, poking me in the legs. She said, ‘I have something to tell you about clock on the mantel ticked ticked. my father. He has a lot to answer for.’ ” I looked at Father, the way hands The resulting novel is compelling, scary— clutched to thighs, the way the little and gruesomely visceral. “I want people gold ring on his pinkie inger sat like to feel uncomfortable,” Schmidt says. a sun. I gave him that ring for his “Murder is an uncomfortable subject.” birthday when I no longer wanted it.” NOVEL JUNE 6 NOVEL AUG. 1 GRAPHIC NOVEL JUNE 1 THRILLER JUNE 20 02 THE MINISTRY OF 03 NEW PEOPLE 04 BOUNDLESS 05 THE SILENT CORNER UTMOST HAPPINESS Danzy Senna Jillian Tamaki Dean Koontz Arundhati Roy Maria and Khalil, both mixed-race, Cartoonist Tamaki (This One Sum- With The Silent Corner, Koontz Twenty years after the publication are engaged and participating in mer) dazzles with her impressive launches a new series starring of The God of Small Things, Roy a documentary about golden- range in this collection, marrying widow Jane Hawk, who embarks finally returns with another novel, skinned “new people” like them. each short story to a dierent on an investigation into a phe- the gorgeously wrought tale But as Maria works on her disser- artistic style. Whether she’s writ- nomenon of happy, successful of two women living tation, she becomes ing and drawing about people spontaneously on the fringes of New infatuated with a the pitfalls of tech- committing suicide Delhi: Anjum, who stranger. You’ll gulp nology or ruminating (like her late husband). was born with both Senna’s novel in a sin- on nostalgia, her work But Jane’s questioning male and female geni- gle sitting—but then is lush, vibrant, and makes her the target talia, and Tilottama. mull it over for days. packed with emotion. of a powerful group.

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Sherman Alexie has written extensively about MEMORABLE LINES his family and life growing up as a reservation Indian. But he could never bring himself “My late mother...was one of the to write about his fiery mother, Lillian, until last luent speakers of our tribal lan- after her death. “I was scared of her!” he says. guage. She was small, just under “The size of her anger, the size of her love, ive feet tall when she died. And she the size of her lies, the size of her magic. All of it.” The resulting memoir blends poetry was so beautiful and verbose and prose, and varies widely in tone as he and brilliant she could have played explores old memories and new grief: “I tried a ictional version of herself in 11 to make the book feel like I felt—mixed a screwball Hollywood comedy if and confused and hilarious and grotesque Hollywood had ever bothered to cast and meditative and theological.” real Indians as ictional Indians.” MEMOIR JUNE 13 HUNGER Roxane Gay People inflicted all kinds of cruelties on NOVEL JUNE 6 ESSAYS AUG. 8 THRILLER JUNE 20 cultural critic Gay (Bad Feminist) because she 07 DO NOT 08 LIFE IN CODE 09 THE FORCE was overweight, so BECOME ALARMED Ellen Ullman Don Winslow she decided to write Maile Meloy Ullman, a computer programmer The author of The Cartel pours a memoir about body Every parent’s nightmare comes since the ’70s, expands on the years of NYPD research into this image, telling EW last true in Meloy’s literary page-turner themes she covered in 1997’s thriller about Denny Malone, year, “I’m gonna take as two families on a cruise get Close to the Machine with pieces a detective sergeant who wants control of the narra- separated from their children about what it was like on the fore- desperately to be good—but tive—and of my body.” during an oshore front of the tech revo- has a corrupt past excursion in Central lution, being a woman of his own. As tensions America. As panic sets in a male-dominated between police and in, the novel alternates industry, and how the citizens simmer, Ma- between the kids’ and tech landscape has lone’s secrets threaten adults’ perspectives. (and hasn’t) changed. to emerge too. ALEXIE: LEE TOWNDROW; ALI: ANDREA STENSO; GRABIEC JAY GAY: AMERICAN FIRE

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Over a five-month period in rural Accomack County, Va., local officials were stumped by close to a hundred cases of arson. But after the culprits—a couple—were arrested, Washington Post reporter Hesse was only more intrigued: “I was completely enamored,” she says. “Were they doing it out of spite? Was it two people in love who had a beef against the town? The driving force was to figure out what had gone wrong.”

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“It was cold and dry, and Deborah Clark found herself wondering, briely, whether the dryness was important. Fire had to come from somewhere, and if the dry ground had caused an electrostatic spark, then that would explain why, less than a hundred yards from her back steps, there were giant orange lames licking the night sky.” 13

THRILLER JULY 11 NOVEL JULY 25 FANTASY JUNE 13 FINAL GIRLS 14 CAREERS FOR WOMEN 15 THE RISE AND Riley Sager Joanna Scott FALL OF D.O.D.O. Neal Stephenson & You know the cold In the vein of Mad Men and Nicole Galland dread that washes over Hidden Figures, Scott’s novel you while you’re watch- follows women working humdrum Set in the near future, D.O.D.O. ing a slasher flick? That’s clerical jobs during the building of imagines a world in which magic how you’ll feel reading the World Trade Center: once existed but mysteriously dis-

this blood-spattered Maggie, an Ohio trans- appeared during the HESSE: ROBERT COX mystery about a group plant with big dreams; Great Exhibition at Lon- of women sharing Pauline, a single don’s Crystal Palace a terrible bond: Each mother hiding a scan- in 1851, leading a group was the sole survivor dalous past; and their to go back in time of a massacre. volatile boss, Mrs. J. to try to resurrect it.

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YOUNG ADULT JUNE 27 NOVEL JUNE 6 NOVEL JUNE 20 17 THE GENTLEMAN’S GUIDE 18 THE PEOPLE WE 19 OUR LITTLE RACKET TO VICE AND VIRTUE HATE AT THE WEDDING Angelica Baker Mackenzi Lee Grant Ginder Greed, financial intrigue, and This 18th-century European In Ginder’s glitzy beach read, family drama roil the pages of road trip—equal parts rollicking things spiral out of control Baker’s debut, which is centered adventure, sweet love story, in the days leading up to on a Bernie Mado-like invest- and tender coming-of-age tale— a wedding as a charmingly dys- ment banker. When his firm stars an endearing trio functional family— implodes, the women of characters: Monty, brimming with in his life—including a bisexual British lord; oddball stepsiblings— his teenage daughter, his sister Felicity; does everything his wife, and the and his best friend it can to sabotage nanny—narrate the and crush, Percy. the nuptials. story of his downfall.

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Marion Palm is a Brooklyn mom who’s been OPENING LINES embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from the tony private school where she works, “Marion Palm is on the lam. A blue splurging on vacations and renovations—not JanSport backpack illed with that her dim-bulb husband has noticed. But $40,000 rests between her ankles. with the school facing an audit, Marion grabs She’s taking a train to a midwestern some hastily bundled cash and strikes out. “I’m a Brooklyn mom myself,” says the book’s city. She said goodbye to her two editor, Jennifer Jackson, remembering when daughters an hour ago and lied THRILLER JUNE 27 she first saw the manuscript. “And reading about where she was going. about this Brooklyn mom who does the She did not say goodbye to her 16 THE DESTROYERS unimaginable felt completely subversive, husband. He’ll need to igure Christopher Bollen totally thrilling, and wildly fun.” this one out on his own.” Whis of Patricia Highsmith course through this literary thriller about a kid named Ian who’s been cut out of his father’s will. Looking for a job or at least a place to stay, he shows up at a rich pal’s house ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY (ISSN 10490434) IS PUBLISHED WEEKLY EXCEPT FOR ONE WEEK IN JANUARY, FEBRUARY, APRIL, MAY, JUNE, AUGUST, SEPTEMBER, OCTOBER, NOVEMBER, DECEMBER AND TWO WEEKS IN MARCH AND JULY BY ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY INC., A WHOLLY OWNED SUBSIDIARY OF TIME INC. PRINCIPAL OFFICE: 225 LIBERTY STREET, NEW YORK, NY 10281. PERIODICALS POSTAGE PAID AT NEW YORK, NY, on the Greek island AND ADDITIONAL MAILING OFFICES. U.S. SUBSCRIPTIONS: $49.92 FOR ONE YEAR. CANADA POST PUBLICATIONS MAIL AGREEMENT NO. 40110178. RETURN UNDELIVERABLE CANADA ADDRESSES TO: POSTAL STN. of Patmos—but A, P.O. BOX 4327, TORONTO, ON M5W 3H5. GST 888381621RT0001. POSTMASTER: SEND ADDRESS CHANGES TO ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY, P.O. BOX 62120, TAMPA, FL 33662-2120, CALL 1-800-274-6800, OR VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT WWW.EW.COM SUBSCRIBERSERVICES. ©2017 ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. REPRODUCTION IN WHOLE OR IN PART WITHOUT PERMISSION IS PROHIBITED. ENTERTAINMENT first a bomb goes WEEKLY, EW, CRITICAL MASS, LISTEN TO THIS, THE MUST LIST, AND THE SHAW REPORT ARE REGISTERED TRADEMARKS OF ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY INC. FANUARY IS A TRADEMARK OF ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY o, and then his INC. SUBSCRIBERS: IF THE POSTAL AUTHORITIES ALERT US THAT YOUR MAGAZINE IS UNDELIVERABLE, WE HAVE NO FURTHER OBLIGATION UNLESS WE RECEIVE A CORRECTED ADDRESS WITHIN TWO YEARS. YOUR BANK MAY PROVIDE UPDATES TO THE CARD INFORMATION WE HAVE ON FILE. YOU MAY OPT OUT OF THIS SERVICE AT ANY TIME. MAILING LIST: WE MAKE A PORTION OF OUR MAILING LIST AVAILABLE TO REPU-

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