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New York Times
05-03-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
In ‘The Electric State,' Jolting a Robot to Life
Kid Cosmo's head is enormous, as robot heads go. The primary nonhuman hero of the film 'The Electric State' (on Netflix March 14), Cosmo has a bright yellow globe of a head the size and shape of an exercise ball, propped atop an incongruously spindly frame. Cute? Yes. Mechanically feasible? Not really. Cosmo's character was inspired by Skip, the similarly bigheaded hero of Simon Stalenhag's graphic novel. A cult hit when it was first published in 2018, the book 'The Electric State' is set in an alternate 1990s universe after a mysterious war has ravaged the California landscape, leaving the husks of enormous drones and robots in its wake. 'Simon Stalenhag's work is what attracted me to this movie to begin with,' said Matthew E. Butler, the film's visual effects supervisor. 'But his designs are often aesthetically cool and engineeringly impossible.' In the film, Cosmo and his young companion, Michelle, played by Millie Bobby Brown, embark on a journey across the American West to find Michelle's brother. Along the way, they meet up with scores of other robots, many just as improbably designed as Cosmo. Of course, Cosmo doesn't really need to make mechanical sense in either the graphic novel or the feature film, given the flights of physics fancy regularly found in both mediums. But Anthony and Joe Russo, the film's directors, wanted to ground their movie in reality, even more so given the story's 1990s setting (think Orange Julius and MTV News with sci-fi enhancements), and the film's fanciful robots, which include a midcentury postal carrier (voiced by Jenny Slate) and an urbane Mr. Peanut (Woody Harrelson). Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
Yahoo
13-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Lady Gaga Confirms She Wrote 'Born This Way' in '10 F---ing Minutes'
Lady Gaga was born this way. During an appearance on Hot Ones with Sean Evans on Thursday, Feb. 13, the "Abracadabra" singer confirmed that she did write her 2011 song "Born This Way" pretty quickly. Discussing her music, Evans, tkage, brought up that Gaga, 38, once likened writing "Born This Way" to "immaculate conception," saying she wrote it in "10 f---ing minutes." Gaga was aghast, "Oh my God, I said that?" she said before confirming that she did in fact pen it that fast. "For 'Born This Way' and a lot of my songs, I hear it pretty quickly and then I just have to follow it." Related: Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars Team Up for 'Die with a Smile' Video — Watch! "To me when I'm making music, I say that I'm listening, so it's a feeling of receiving, which is probably why I made that really dumb comment about myself." The 14-time Grammy winner's song "Born This Way" would go on to be certified platinum six times, immediately reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and was iTunes' fastest-selling single of all time, as per MTV News with over one million downloads in five days. She also explained how she finds and develops a good hook, reflecting on another quote of hers: "without a good chorus, who really gives a f---?" Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. "Sometimes I know something's done because that image feels whole to me, but you really don't know if something is good until the people tell you — and they will tell you." Gaga, who just took home a Grammy Award on Feb. 2 for best pop duo/group performance with Bruno Mars for "Die with a Smile," is releasing her album Mayhem next month. "The album started as me facing my fear of returning to the pop music my earliest fans loved," Gaga said, as per a press release shared with PEOPLE. Related: Lady Gaga Thanks Fans After 14th Grammy Win: 'All I Want to Do Is Tell Stories That Touch People's Hearts' She described her upcoming music as different than her previous work, and this album is akin to "reassembling a shattered mirror: even if you can't put the pieces back together perfectly, you can create something beautiful and whole in its own new way.' Rather, Mayhem is about "chaos and transformation, celebrating music's power to unite, provoke, and heal." Mayhem drops on Friday, March 7. Read the original article on People
Yahoo
26-01-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Jennifer Lopez's Surprise Sundance Performance Shows Where She Is at in the Healing Process of Her Ben Affleck Breakup
Let's be real, Jennifer Lopez knows how to command a moment, whether it's on the big screen, a red carpet, or, as Park City partygoers learned this weekend, behind a DJ booth. So when Lopez gave a surprise performance at Tao for the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, you know it wasn't just an 'out of the blue' type of decision. Her impromptu choice? The 2002 hit 'All I Have,' which, coincidentally (or not), is a breakup anthem that cuts deeper given her recent split from Ben Affleck. For those who don't recall the ballad, 'All I Have' is a duet with LL Cool J about navigating life post-breakup. At the time, Dave Meyers, the music video director, told MTV News of the video: 'They keep seeing visions of each other, and you get the feeling that they are still very much in love, yet they don't get back together because they feel that this is the best thing for them. It will have a very happy winter wonderland-type feel, but a sad vibe.' With Lopez having emphasized a desire for her and Affleck's families to stay close following the breakup — namely for the holidays — the choice feels somewhat pointed. (Watch the performance HERE.) More from SheKnows Eagle-Eyed Fans Believe Ben Affleck May Have Called Jennifer Lopez & Kevin Costner's Romance Years Prior Of course, Lopez isn't exactly mired in heartbreak. The multi-hyphenate has been linked to Kevin Costner since last December, and even when Lopez and Affleck were still together, Affleck joked about his then-wife's fondness for the Costner-led series Yellowstone. Still, Lopez's next steps feel a bit complex. She's reportedly eyeing a $20 million mansion in Brentwood, an affluent Los Angeles neighborhood bordering the Pacific Palisades neighborhood recently devastated by the wildfires — and where Affleck's ex Jennifer Garner and their three children live. And as for that performance? Whether Lopez meant to craft a double entendre-filled breakup declaration or simply felt like revisiting a classic, one thing's for sure — knows how to keep us of SheKnows 15 Books to Read ASAP If You're Obsessed With Grey's Anatomy 34 Times Dolly Parton's Fabulous Red Carpet & Onstage Fashion Stole the Show 14 Rare Times Dolly Parton Revealed Details About Her Ultra-Private Relationship
