The state of rom-coms, 20 years after "My Best Friend's Wedding"
| No Images? Click here   These days, it appears the age of romantic comedies is behind us. No longer are we dedicated to following the hijinks of a couple as they try to make it work. On the 20th anniversary of "My Best Friend's Wedding," we ask: Why?  The Miss Sofia Coppola Seminary For Eternal AdmirersSofia Coppola’s movies reveal her contradictions. She is a director whose Hollywood inauguration was a birthright, thanks to an illustrious family tree and a luckless child-acting stint she never wanted. Fleeting youthfulness lies at the center of her stories, now seen in the repressed boarding-school denizens in “The Beguiled.” Her characters seek better horizons, but Coppola is nothing if not resolute, sophisticated, singular.  The solstice has come and gone, but we're still jamming out to these potential songs of the summer for 2017. (We also loved SPIN's list of the best 50 songs of the year so far.) If you're more of a podcast person, we rounded up 11 new shows that cover philosophy, random knowledge, eco-anxiety, marijuana and more. Are you not entertained?! The typical pop star reinvention cycle is something we’ve seen many times before. Now, Miley Cyrus is going through a reinvention of her own right now, but instead of shedding a good-girl image for something more risqué ― she’s been there, done that ― she’s moving in the other direction.  A gorilla is riding a unicycle while playing a bagpipe that shoots fire, and he’s far from the most absurd performer on stage at the moment. Because just a few feet away from the grown man in the gorilla costume is Mike Myers in a game show host costume, performing the character of Tommy Maitland ― the new host of ABC’s “The Gong Show.” Read more:
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