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Mary McNamara: How did Rihanna pull off her big-reveal heist of the Super Bowl?

A few years back, Rihanna developed something of a reputation as a criminal mastermind. Her light-fingered habit of walking away from clubs, fashion shows and hotels with a wine-glass was documented so many times that talk show host Graham Norton used it as a bit when interviewing her and her…

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Mary McNamara: Pamela Anderson is a bad-ass, wrapped in an enigma inside a bombshell

If you're planning to write a memoir any time soon, you might want to contact a documentary filmmaker first.

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Mary McNamara: It's a blast watching Harry and Meghan beat the press at its own game

Revenge is a dish best served cold, over many courses and paid for by someone else.

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Mary McNamara: Andrew Tate isn't an alpha male. He's a whiny internet huckster

If Andrew Tate is anyone's ideal of masculinity, we are in bigger trouble than I thought.

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Not sure why you say yes when you really mean no? The Consent Wizard is here to help

LOS ANGELES — I wasn't sure what I would find when I reached out to the person behind an online educational business known as "Consent Wizardry."

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Mary McNamara: This is not a defense of LAX. It's a love letter

Due to an ill-timed high school basketball event (who came up with the idea of a tournament beginning Dec. 26?), our family had to nix our plans to travel this Christmas.

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Once a Santa, always a Santa: An LA set decorator and seasonal Santa tells all

LOS ANGELES — "Santaaaaaa!!! I know him!"

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How did we let the Golden Globes back in?

I cannot believe the Golden Globes are back. How did this happen? Last year, a Los Angeles Times investigation revealed the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s gift-expecting, early-access-demanding, pay-to-play approach to its awards and lack of any Black members. Everyone was outraged. Publicists threatened a massive boycott, Tom Cruise said he…

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Let’s break down that ‘White Lotus’ finale: Our biggest surprises, disappointments

The season that launched a thousand theories concluded Sunday night with “Arriverderci,” as “White Lotus” creator Mike White and company bade farewell to Sicily in a supersized 77-minute finale. Neither predicted the ending correctly (not even close), but columnist Mary McNamara and deputy editor Matt Brennan weren’t too ashamed to…

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Mary McNamara: 'Love Actually' is like fruitcake: love it or hate it (and I choose love), it's here to stay

It's that most wonderful time of the year again, when, a full month early, Michael Buble breathes holiday tunes down the neck of every supermarket shopper, the local Christmas tree lot springs from the mulch of the local pumpkin patch and people start getting very heated about "Love Actually."

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Mary McNamara: How 'The Walking Dead' changed the course of the TV revolution

"The Walking Dead" came to an end on Sunday. Though I, like many viewers, stopped watching several seasons ago (OK, pretty much when Glenn died), attention must be paid.

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Mary McNamara: Five years after #MeToo, I am haunted by the stories we could not tell

"Says she was raped by producer."

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Mary McNamara: The best way to watch election night coverage on TV? Don't

Tuesday night was the first election night in recent memory during which I did not park myself in front of a television for hours to watch "the results." Consequently, for the first time in years, I have possession of the pertinent facts — no "red wave," but control of Congress…

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Mary McNamara: Elon Musk's Twitter and the con of online media

Before we get into Elon Musk and his bizarre attempt to drive everyone of any prominence off the website he now owns, let us breathe deeply and remember that most people, celebrated or not, are not on Twitter.

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Mary McNamara: Worker productivity has fallen, and experts are puzzled. I'm not. We're all just tired

"U.S. workers have gotten way less productive. No one is sure why."

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Mary McNamara: James Corden is out, Anne Hathaway is in. But the biggest hypocrite is us

James Corden and Anne Hathaway are both having moments. At first glance, they appear to be very different types of moments — Corden revealed as jerk, Hathaway a hero — but they are really two sides of the same problem: the whims of a public that demands authenticity while too…

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Mary McNamara: Why are TV's two big fantasy shows so epically humorless?

By definition, all fantasy epics involve a quest. Season 1 of "Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power," which ended last week, revolves around Galadriel's search for Sauron and, in the finale, sends the Stranger and Nori off on their own adventure. In "House of the Dragon," which ends…

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Mary McNamara: If Nury Martinez loves LA, what does hate look like?

Out of all the things former City Council president Nury Martinez has said, or been heard to say, this last week, her initial plea for forgiveness from "the residents of this city that I love so much" is probably the most outrageous.

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Mary McNamara: Angela Lansbury in 'Murder, She Wrote' wasn't 'cozy' — she was revolutionary

It isn't every five-time Tony winner and multiple Oscar nominee who is most famous for starring in a CBS mystery procedural. But as the many appreciations that marked her death on Tuesday made clear, Angela Lansbury was in a class by herself, and "Murder, She Wrote" was, all that quaintness…

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Mary McNamara: 'Derry Girls' is the brightest wee gem of TV's new jewel-box comedy trend

There's a scene in the second season of "Derry Girls" in which the cool new teacher at Our Lady Immaculate College oversees a bit of hurling practice, encouraging her students to hit the ball while thinking of something they really hate. "Injustice," shouts Erin (Saoirse-Monica Jackson); "Prejudice," yells Claire (Nicola…

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Mary McNamara: 'Blonde' and the new Anthony Bourdain book are suicide whodunits in which the answer is obvious

Our cultural hypocrisy toward mental illness and addiction, not to mention fame and fortune, is never more evident than when some poor famous soul dies by suicide. "Why?" we ask. "Why would a person who seemed to have it all end their own life?" And then someone writes a book…

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Mary McNamara: I'm glad Courteney Cox is talking about menopause. Now can we do something about it?

Naomi Watts says it will empower you; Courtney Cox warns that it will consume you; one recent study argues it may be a reason women are leaving the workplace; and a British company is using NASA technology to help.

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Mary McNamara: Ms. Magazine helped millions become feminists. Its workplace helped me become an adult

Ms. Magazine recently celebrated its 50th anniversary with a party in New York, and as a former staff member I was invited to attend. I went not knowing quite what to expect.

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Mary McNamara: The new J.K. Rowling book is not great, but it has nothing to do with transphobia

There are loads of legitimate reasons a reader might dislike "The Ink Black Heart," the sixth book in the Cormoran Strike series. Writing as Robert Galbraith, J.K. Rowling has spun out a 1,024-page-long mystery, which is long even by, say, Elizabeth George standards and at least 500 pages longer than…

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Column: Amid the pageantry and corgis, what made the queen’s funeral extraordinary was silence

On Monday morning London time, an unprecedented hourslong ceremony began as the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II was borne in splendid procession from Westminster Hall to Westminster Abbey, where the royal family, hundreds of Britain’s leaders and heads of state from around the world attended the funeral service for England’s…

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