When Rob Lowe showed up with suddenly overgrown emo hair in this year’s season premiere of Parks and Recreation, we assumed that it would serve as a plot point or at least a withering punch line from Aubrey Plaza. Instead, Lowe’s messy Bieber do has gone uncommented upon for weeks now, though it would seem to be at odds with his character’s super-tidy vibe. Luckily, EW has gotten some answers out of executive producer Mike Schur: Lowe’s Lifetime movie about Drew Peterson was to blame for the disheveled look (the actor was shooting it concurrently), but “his hair will go back to last year’s style around episode 5 or 6. Read More...
Art This article is more than 16 years oldThe aliens have landed - at my bus stopThis article is more than 16 years oldPlotting the slow, painful demise of everyone else on your bus is just one way to distract from the interminable crawl of your commute to work. There are others. My favourite is guessing what, exactly, the person sitting beside me is listening to on their iPod - because, despite audible evidence to the contrary, it won't be a wasp in a jam jar or a fire in a pet shop. Read More...
Brian WilsonInterviewThe astonishing genius of Brian WilsonAlexis PetridisFirst came the drugs, then the voices. Brian Wilson's brain has taken a battering. Alexis Petridis tries to get inside the complicated mind of a musical legendI meet Brian Wilson in the tiny, windowless conference room of a Mayfair hotel, where he is promoting his latest series of British concerts accompanied by his musical director, Jeffrey Foskett. The former leader of the Beach Boys sits bolt upright, a portly, 69-year-old man with his grey hair arranged in a kind of quiff. Read More...