Shawn Cooke

In the beginning, it was easy to both underestimate and overestimate the extent to which everything would change. Now that we’re one year out from the pandemic, it’s quaint to remember even the most hopeful entertainment prognosticators thinking…

Some disclaimers: The Grammys are often the least watchable of the major award shows. You have the long, meandering runtime; the nonsensical performance pairings; the minimal awards on the broadcast, which often result in uproar or apology. While…

We’re getting closer to better days — the weather’s warming up, vaccines are being distributed in the millions per day, and there’s a genuine chance that this summer could be significantly better than the last. This doesn’t mean things are going…

One generation had the “Copa take” from Goodfellas; and the next might have the Bryant Lake Bowl & Theater drone shot. This week, a short video filmed in a Minneapolis bowling alley circulated heavily on social media, and it’s the rare viral…

Coming into Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s interview with Oprah Winfrey on Sunday night, it was hard to imagine the blast radius extending so far. In just a few short days, Buckingham Palace is still sweeping up the shrapnel, Piers Morgan is…

If an elevator pitch is good enough, two words are all you need. Cocaine bear? Cocaine bear! Sold. It might have taken a bit more to get this one across the finish line at Universal, but the movie is in fact happening. As The Hollywood Reporter…

Sometimes the TikTok trend chooses you. Doja Cat hasn’t had to tailor her songs to viral dance challenges, because they just seem to find their way back to her 2019 album, Hot Pink, anyway. After “Say So” generated billions of plays on the platform,…

It’s hard to imagine how you might configure a Twitter feed that wasn’t inundated with posts about Prince Harry and Meghan and Markle’s splashy sit-down with Oprah by Monday morning. On Sunday, Meghan and Harry bulldozed whatever was left of…

When it comes to enormous pop stars sending discreet messages to their fans, Drake, well, isn’t always the most discreet. So calling something Scary Hours 2 — a sequel to the EP that preceded the gargantuan double-album Scorpion and spawned "God’s…

No matter your vantage point, there’s almost never a good reason to ascribe coherent ideology to the ebbs and flows of TV ratings. They’re usually headed in one direction — down — and that isn’t due to any lib-owning or other unified political…

Let’s be clear about this much — money is fake, and can be anything to anyone. But in the wake of cryptocurrencies, there’s now an even more porous type of luxury item for fans to trade and invest in online: NFTs, or non-fungible tokens. What are…

After a Virginia school district and the Biden administration recently disentangled Dr. Seuss from “Read Across America Day,” which occurs on the author’s birthday, six Dr. Seuss books will no longer be published. The call came from Dr. Seuss…

Nobody’s boiled their public persona down to the pandemic essentials quite like Seth Rogen. Refining his favorite hobbies in quarantine — making ceramic pottery, skinning Ted Cruz alive on Twitter, watching House Hunters, and smoking a ton of weed —…

The Golden Globes are always the Oscars’ unbuttoned, freewheeling, tipsy cousin, so why would you expect it to go any differently over Zoom? With Tina Fey and Amy Poehler hosting on separate coasts and a vast majority of winners holed up in their…

With your sound off and limited familiarity of his golf swing, the Tom Cruise deepfakes taking TikTok by storm are convincing enough. There he is at the tee, stumbling in a hallway, and performing a magic trick — with the trademark scrunched-face…

Post Malone will forever be the most Mad Libs-y artist working in music. Post Malone raises more than $2 million for COVID relief with a Nirvana covers livestream? Oh sure. Post Malone joins the rest of the Bud Light Cinematic Universe for its…

On Thursday morning, TMZ reported that an unknown sicko attacked and shot Lady Gaga’s dog walker in Hollywood last night, before kidnapping two of her French bulldogs. The doggies in question, Koji and Gustav, were also walked with a third, which…

Before Alex Trebek was even in the ground, betting markets began to speculate on his successor. You had your obvious, long-rumored choices — Ken Jennings, who just took hosting duties for six weeks, and George Stephanopoulos — along with the more…

Just days after posting that “‘attention’ is the most addictive drug known to mankind,” Meek Mill sure managed to secure some for himself. It’s been three years since his last proper album, Championships, and he’s been teasing a new project of some…