Charlize Theron’s mind-blowing transformation in 2003’s “Monster” left audiences stunned—but it didn’t come out of nowhere. Theron is just one of many award-winning actors who use ...

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Candice Swanepoel was perusing goods at a local flea market when she was scouted for modeling; Gisele Bündchen was eating at McDonald’s. We’ve all heard the stories of models who were scouted ...

You know what they say: You’re only as good as your support system. And where art is concerned, most productions are only as good as their supporting casts. If you see yourself as part of that ...

This article is sponsored by Orion Pictures/Amazon MGM Studios. To recall a scene from “Nickel Boys,” praised as one of the year’s best films, is to be replanted in it. Like a waking dream ...

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From the delightfully bizarre Bobby Durst on “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” to the nearly mythological DeDe Pritchett on “Modern Family,” TV shows are made up of dozens (or sometimes even ...

Whether you dream of becoming a mischievous weasel spirit, a powerful celestial being, or simply an animated version of yourself, VTubing lets you explore your wildest character concepts and ...

Shyness is “the tendency to feel awkward, worried, or tense during social encounters, especially with unfamiliar people,” as per the American Psychological Association. “Severely shy people ...

Just ask Metallica’s James Hetfield, who had a rough moment at the 2017 Grammy Awards when his mic failed during a duet with Lady Gaga: Holding a microphone might seem like a simple task, but it ...

It was a heated bidding war, but Netflix has officially won the rights to Callie Hart’s fantasy-romance BookTok sensation “Quicksilver.” The novel, as well as the author’s two other ...

Anagnorisis refers to the moment a character experiences a reality-shifting realization. In Aristotle’s “Poetics”—the earliest scholarship on dramatic and literary theory—the philosopher ...