The first character we meet in Sisters in Hate is Corinna Olsen — a mortician who was, in a former life, a bodybuilder and an adult film actress. She's also a former neo-Nazi who eventually turned on her fellow white nationalists, became an FBI informant and left the movement. Since then, she has converted to Islam. These days, she tweets about her faith — not to mention her funeral business and her support for Black Lives Matter. Read More...
Updated The ever-changing romantic pairings on "Friends" have gone down in pop-culture history. I looked at 15 of the major couples on the show and ranked them on a scale of 0 to 10. Ross and Elizabeth came out on the bottom, and Carol and Susan were named the most compatible. Elizabeth and Ross never should've dated in the first place. Alexandra Holden and David Schwimmer on "Friends." NBC While working as a professor, Ross dated one of his students, Elizabeth, for a short time. Read More...
StageReviewHarold Pinter theatre, London
Some called it torture porn, others a masterpiece. Ivo van Hove brings Hanya Yanagihara’s novel to the West End, complete with spurting blood, relentless sadism and not a little nudity
Hanya Yanagihara’s sprawling, relentlessly graphic door-stopper of a novel about sexual abuse and self-harm divided the room when it was published in 2015. Some called it torture porn, others hailed it a masterpiece. So it is perhaps not surprising that its West End adaptation began making lurid headlines well before opening night. Read More...