Amy Nicholson

Someday there will be a serious academic study on Tyler Perry, the battered and sexually abused child who legally changed his first name at 16 to distance himself from his estranged father and grew rich playing a caricature of his mother in pantyhose and a dress, like a sass-talking Norman......

Three types of musicians hinge on authenticity: punk bands, folk singers and rappers. Actors, like Oscar Isaac, are by definition phonies. But the star of Joel and Ethan Coen's new film, Inside Llewyn Davis, understands that pressure to keep it real. In high school, he was a straight-edge punk frontman......

The age of the riot grrrls entered like a screaming woman and exited like a cooing teen. The woman was Kathleen Hanna, the Bikini Kill frontwoman who kicked boys out of her mosh pits and insisted, "I'm not going to sit around and be peace and love with somebody's boot......

Once upon a time — in the 1980s — you could walk into a movie theater any day of the year, plop down a few bucks and watch one man kick another man's ass. Not every action flick was great, but most were good enough, the film equivalent of pizza......

Michel Gondry likes video stores. He is, after all, the director of the ultimate VHS sonnet, Be Kind Rewind, in which Jack Black and Mos Def re-create classics such as Ghostbusters from plastic bags and tinsel. (Sad about the death of Blockbuster? Give it a watch.) One night, Gondry was......

Imagine an alternate history for Vince Vaughn. What if, 18 years ago, instead of rehearsing Swingers during the day and sampling Los Angeles' starlets at night, he had channeled his sexual energy into masturbating for cash at a sperm bank? He could have become Delivery Man's David Wozniak, father of......

In 1997, 87-year-old Richard Lusk flew from California to Florida to claim an $11 million prize he believed he'd won in a sweepstakes. The day after he returned home empty-handed, he had a stroke. Four months later, he bought a second plane ticket to Florida and stubbornly knocked on their......