Author Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club, published in 1989, was much different from other novels that were occupying the bestseller lists at the time. In describing the emotional connection between Chinese-Americans and their immigrant mothers who gather for g...
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Judging the merits of television shows is a highly subjective business. But sometimes a series is just so good that it doesn’t really seem up for debate—classics like The Wire, Fleabag, Seinfeld, and so on. Anyone even moderately plugged into pop culture ...
From her apartment’s rooftop just as the sun sets, Rosa Marín curves her left index and thumb to form a circle in the air. Her two fingertips meet and create a little tunnel that seems to erase the rest of the landscape before her. With the improvised pee...
On April 28, 2022, Paramount+ premiered the first three episodes of The Offer, a limited series about the making of The Godfather, based on the experiences of the film's producer, Al Ruddy, who serves as an executive producer on the series, in which h...
Thanks in part to Baz Luhrmann’s 2001 film Moulin Rouge!—and the Broadway musical based on it—the actual Moulin Rouge in Paris’s Montmartre district is well-known among a larger demographic than Francophiles, tourists, and cultural history buffs. Now, as ...
SMART NEWSCool FindsConstruction Workers Uncover Massive 800-Year-Old Aztec Dwelling in Mexico CityThe accidental discovery has a long, layered history An electrical works project led archaeologists to uncover this Aztec-era dwelling.Mexico's Nationa...
In The Offer, the new series streaming on Paramount+, viewers are getting a closer look at the tumultuous production of 1972’s The Godfather. Widely considered a classic, it was a challenging effort for director Francis Ford Coppola, producer Al Ruddy, an...
Fans of This Is Spinal Tap are getting something special for the film’s 40th anniversary in 2024: A sequel.According to Deadline, director Rob Reiner is helming a sequel that will bring together original cast members Christopher Guest, Harry Shearer, and ...
You can buy a lot with $200 million. A Burgess Jubilee superyacht. (Two of them at $100 million each, actually.) A couple dozen miles of interstate highway. The services of Aaron Rodgers for four years in the NFL.Or you could purchase a 1964 silkscreen pa...
");});//-->Dogs have a long history of working in partnership with humans. Building on this partnership between humans and dogs, U.S. CustomsBorder Protection (CBP) detector dogs are a key tool for screening passengers and cargo to prevent the in...
HBO Max is the premium streaming service from the Warner-owned media giant. For $14.99 a month, subscribers can choose from a vast library of movies and television shows. If you’ve already made your way through their superhero slate and simultaneous day-a...
The ’80s was an era of big hair, even bigger shoulder pads, and a trendy hairdo called the mullet. Only it wasn’t called the mullet yet: The term wasn’t attributed to the hairstyle until Beastie Boys’ 1994 song “Mullet Head” was released. (Though mullet h...
This article contains affiliate links to products selected by our editors. Mental Floss may receive a commission for purchases made through these links.Uh-oh, here comes the apocalypse. What should we do? That question, a classic of science fiction, has b...
Antidisestablishmentarianism, everyone’s favorite agglutinative, entered the pop culture lexicon on August 17, 1955, when Gloria Lockerman, a 12-year-old girl from Baltimore, correctly spelled it on The $64,000 Question as millions of people watched from ...
Over the course of her 62-year career in film, Katharine Hepburn portrayed an array of comedic and dramatic characters who were sometimes witty, often independent, and never, ever dull. Hepburn—who was especially well-known for her unapologetic attitude a...
If the only thing Jeff Buckley ever did was record his 1994 cover of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah,” he would still have a permanent spot in music history. Buckley’s stark and sensual rendition of the song has arguably become the definitive version, and it’...
Did you know that Disney briefly employed the world’s most famous surrealist?Salvador Dalí was approached by Walt Disney himself in 1945 to propose a collaborative film. Entitled Destino, the picture would be based upon a Mexican folk song of the same nam...
This year marks the 50th anniversary of HBO, the premium cable network that grew from televising the 1973 Pennsylvania Polka Festival to ushering in the Golden Age of television dramas with The Sopranos. In between, the channel produced a number of series...
Hulu (which is also part of the Disney+ bundle) has become a thriving destination not only for great original programming, but also for terrific series you might not have caught elsewhere. Accordingly, we searched through the streaming service’s library o...
The divine procession ls led by Hadad, Mesopotamian god of storms (far right, clutching a trio of lightning bolts); the moon god Sîn; the sun god Šamaš; and Atargatis, the region’s goddess of fertility, all identified using local Aramaic inscriptions.Phot...
