The woodsy rolling hills and vivid green pastures of central New Jersey are about as far from the proverbial bright lights of Broadway as one can get, both spiritually and psychically. But that's where Variety is headed on a lovely September afternoon for a meeting across the river with Bruce Springsteen to discuss his career and his forthcoming 18-week-long residency at Broadway's Walter Kerr Theatre, which begins Oct. 3. His sprawling,... Full Story on Variety.com →
Netflix's Ted Sarandos on Why Aziz Ansari Is the Voice of His Generation
No comedian wants to be called the voice of his or her generation, but it is undeniable that Aziz Ansari is the voice of his. His is perhaps the first generation to think the internet is more important than television and for whom the internet is at the center of everything they do; dating, e …
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Rachel Maddow on Why Nicolle Wallace Is Her Favorite Republican
Have you read Nicolle Wallace's fiction? Nicolle is self-deprecating to within an inch of her life, so when she first told me she was writing a novel, she said I should think of it as no big thing, a "beach read." I found that "Eighteen Acres" and its sequel were, in fact, that much fun to re …
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Variety's New Power of New York List 2017
It used to be that a person's power was measured by the location of their table at the Four Seasons or the black car that idled outside their office. No more. A new group of movers and shakers is animating Manhattan, and their influence is gauged more by their Twitter follows than by the …
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