Linda Holmes
Linda Holmes is a pop culture correspondent for NPR and the host of Pop Culture Happy Hour. She began her professional life as an attorney. In time, however, her affection for writing, popular culture, and the online universe eclipsed her legal ambitions. She shoved her law degree in the back of the closet, gave its living room space to DVD sets of The Wire, and never looked back.
Holmes was a writer and editor at Television Without Pity, where she recapped several hundred hours of programming — including both High School Musical movies, for which she did not receive hazard pay. Her first novel, Evvie Drake Starts Over, was published in the summer of 2019.
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Ryan Gosling plays Neil Armstrong in a story about the noise, heat and struggle it takes to overcome forces to which you're meant to surrender.
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From the big studio flicks to the festival favorites, here are some of the best and otherwise noteworthy films coming to theaters.
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On Sunday morning, CBS aired an interview with the CNN founder, who told Ted Koppel about his struggle with a disease he could describe but wryly struggled to name.
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Amazon's The Marvelous Mrs. Maiselcleaned up in the comedy categories and Game of Throneswon the big drama prize for the third time. The show on the whole, though, was awfully dull.
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Broadcast, cable and streaming networks have a lot on tap for the remainder of 2018. Our television and pop culture team has assembled a list of the most promising shows coming your way.
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The Netflix adaptation of Jenny Han's YA romance is sparkly, sweet and very well-acted by its young leads.
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If you enjoy glitter and glue and a good time, Making Itmight be just the summer diversion for the builder and baker and diorama maker in you.
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Robin Williams is the subject of a new HBO documentary called Come Inside My Mind. Using clips and interviews, it documents his unusual process and his complicated life.
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ABC was widely praised for giving up a highly rated show on principle when it canceled its Roseanne reboot. It turns out it wasn't quite that simple.
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The Tony Awards paid off for The Band's Visit, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, the Angels in Americarevival and a scrappy theater kid named Bruce Springsteen.