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It’s been a week of “Weird Al” on Billboard.com. Our recent cover star and indie spirit award recipient comes to us at a fascinating place in his career, where despite having recorded only sporadically over the past decade, he’s in many ways at a career peak — culturally ubiquitous, about to embark upon the biggest tour of his career and still very much unchallenged in his lane as the world’s No. 1 song parodist. It’s a four-decade-plus-long reign, which was cemented in 1984 with his true breakout hit: “Eat It,” his parody of both Michael Jackson’s Billboard Hot 100 No.…

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By Beatrice Verhoeven Jessica Biel has been drawn to psychological thrillers as of late. “I have been [interested] in these types of projects with complicated humans, exploring the question: Why do people do the things that they do?” Biel tells The Hollywood Reporter. “We’re all capable of goodness and evil — it’s all inside of us — so it’s hard to say, ‘Well, I would never do that,’ because maybe I would.” Noting she often turns that question on herself, asking, ” ‘What if I was in this situation?’ ” Biel adds, “I like exploring [those ideas for myself] in…

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All products and services featured are independently chosen by editors. However, Billboard may receive a commission on orders placed through its retail links, and the retailer may receive certain auditable data for accounting purposes. Ever wanted to dress like Addison Rae? Well here’s your chance. The “Headphones On” singer partnered up with Free People to curate an outfit for her new music video “Times Like These.” You can spot this specific look in the scene where Rae is sitting in a dressing room before a large mirror surrounded by a squad of equally well-dressed girls. Both the top and bottom…

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Raphael Bob-Waksberg, the man broadly credited with reinventing animation with his 6-season, three-time Emmy-nominated Netflix hit Bojack Horseman, is back with more family trauma, but no taking animals, in Long Story Short. The new Netflix animated series, which Bob-Waksberg premiered at the Annecy international animation film festival on Thursday, follows the trials and tribulations, or as Bob-Waksberg puts it, the “small t traumas,” of the Schwoopers, a fairly ordinary Jewish family. “On one hand, it is an animated family comedy like Bob’s Burgers or King of the Hill, that kind of show, we have two parents, three kids,” he said,…

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I’m Literally Choking On My Sandwich Laughing At These 29 Pictures That Are Pretty Much Physically Impossible Not To Smile At 2. Fool-proof teaching methods: 4. The beginning of a legendary conversation: 5. A question of strategy: 8. The joke of the century: 11. A breakthrough moment: 13. Some cold, hard math: 14. Some beautiful names: 15. Grandpa’s deal of a lifetime: 17. The beautiful countryside: 18. All the time in the world: 19. A fascinating design: 20. Grandpa’s one simple question: 21. The masculine way to carry food: 22. A deal you cannot pass up: 23. Another question of…

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For a lot of people — Sabrina Carpenter included — the online drama surrounding her supposed part in Olivia Rodrigo‘s “Drivers License” love triangle drama feels like a lifetime ago. But in 2021, the debacle was pretty much all anyone could talk about, with the internet casting the “Espresso” singer in the “other woman” archetype after actor Joshua Bassett reportedly broke up with his High School Musical: The Musical: The Series castmate to start dating Carpenter. It all stemmed from lyrics on Rodrigo’s Billboard Hot 100-topping debut single, on which she sings, “You’re probably with that blonde girl, who always…

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Harvey Weinstein’s rape charge ended in mistrial after the jury foreperson refused to return to the jury room Thursday after saying he faced threats from other jurors.  The 12-person jury in Weinstein’s trial had found him guilty Wednesday of one count of a criminal sexual act against former Project Runway assistant Miriam Haley, but not guilty of the other count of a criminal sexual act against former model Kaja Sokola. At the time, the jury had yet to reach a verdict on rape in the third degree related to aspiring actress Jessica Mann, but jurors were sent home midday Wednesday…

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