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Spaceman isn’t a spinoff series for Dr. Spaceman from 30 Rock, although someone please make that. It’s the new Adam Sandler movie.

Based on the novel Spaceman of Bohemia by author Jaroslav Kalfař, the Netflix film from Chernobyl director Johan Renck stars the Sandman (more like the Spaceman) as an astronaut on a deep space journey who thinks he’s losing his mind when he starts communicating with a talking spider, voiced by Paul Dano. Did I mention it’s not a comedy? Spaceman is a drama about loneliness. You can watch the trailer above.

Here’s the full synopsis:

Six months into a solitary research mission to the edge of the solar system, an astronaut, Jakub (Adam Sandler), realizes that the marriage he left behind might not be waiting for him when he returns to Earth. Desperate to fix things with his wife, Lenka (Carey Mulligan), he is helped by a mysterious creature from the beginning of time he finds hiding in the bowels of his ship. Hanuš (voiced by Paul Dano) works with Jakub to make sense of what went wrong before it is too late. Directed by Johan Renck and based on the novel Spaceman of Bohemia, the film also stars Kunal Nayyar, Lena Olin, and Isabella Rossellini.

Spaceman premieres on Netflix on March 1.

The 66th Annual Grammy Awards are coming right up, as the 2024 ceremony is set to go down on February 4 at 8 p.m. ET. Aside from seeing who ends up winning what awards (find the list of nominees here), the other main appeal of the broadcast is checking out the live performances.

Who is performing at the 2024 Grammy Awards?

The first wave of performers was announced yesterday (January 15), and it’s short and sweet, featuring Olivia Rodrigo, Dua Lipa, and Billie Eilish (all of whom previously won the Grammy for Best New Artist, coincidentally). More artists are set to be announced as the ceremony approaches.

Eilish and Rodrigo have a lot on the line this year, as they’re both nominated for six Grammys. Eilish’s Barbie hit “What Was I Made For?” is up for Record Of The Year, Song Of The Year, Best Pop Solo Performance, Best Song Written For Visual Media, and Best Music Video, while her and Labrinth’s “Never Felt So Alone” is up for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance.

Rodrigo, meanwhile, is nominated for Album Of The Year, Best Pop Vocal Album (both for Guts), Record Of The Year, Song Of The Year, Best Pop Solo Performance (all for “Vampire”), and Best Rock Song (for “Ballad Of A Homeschooled Girl.”

Lipa’s Barbie song “Dance The Night” has a couple nods as well, for Song Of The Year and Best Song Written For Visual Media.

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Heading into last night’s (January 15) Emmys, Elton John had a career full of wins at the Grammys, Oscars, and Tonys, but the Emmy Award, which would complete his EGOT, had eluded him. That changed yesterday, though, when his Farewell From Dodger Stadium concert special won the award for Best Variety Special (Live), making John just the 19th person to ever get an EGOT.

John was unable to attend the show since he was recovering from a knee surgery, but producer Ben Winston accepted the award on his behalf, saying (per The Hollywood Reporter), “He’s absolutely fine, but he wanted to send his love and thanks to the Television Academy for this incredible award. We did know this was going to be historic because it was going to win a man who has created the soundtrack to all of our lives. He’s done so much great for society, who is all of our heroes. We didn’t know that it was going to win him an EGOT.”

John also said in a statement, “I am incredibly humbled to be joining the unbelievably talented group of EGOT winners tonight. The journey to this moment has been filled with passion, dedication, and the unwavering support of my fans all around the world. Tonight is a testament to the power of the arts and the joy that it brings to all our lives. Thank you to everyone who has supported me throughout my career, I am incredibly grateful.”

The 18 EGOT winners before John, in chronological order, are Richard Rodgers, Helen Hayes, Rita Moreno, John Gielgud, Audrey Hepburn, Marvin Hamlisch, Jonathan Tunick, Mel Brooks, Mike Nichols, Whoopi Goldberg, Scott Rudin, Robert Lopez, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Tim Rice, John Legend, Alan Menken, Jennifer Hudson, and Viola Davis.

It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia has been on for 16 seasons. Surely one of the greatest TV comedies of all-time has won at least a few Emmys, right? Nope: unlike the Nightman, the Emmys win has never cometh.

It’s Always Sunny has not only never won an Emmy – it’s never been nominated (Rhea Seehorn can relate). There’s an entire episode, season nine’s brilliant “The Gang Tries Desperately to Win an Award,” about it. Glenn Howerton, Rob McElhenney, Charlie Day, Kaitlin Olson, and Danny DeVito, a.k.a The Gang, never even appeared at an Emmys ceremony together until tonight, where they roasted their lack of recognition.

You can watch the video below:

(It’s true: DeVito won Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for Taxi in 1981.)

Howerton addressed Sunny‘s lack of Emmys love in a 2016 interview with IndieWire. “That episode was our way of saying it sucks and it hurts to not win an award, but we also don’t care, but we do, but we don’t because we know. Everybody knows. It’s just like winning a trophy, it shouldn’t be about that.” Day added, “It still feels like some sort of high school party that we’re perpetually not invited to.”

It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia — which is still great — will return for season 17.

At the recent Golden Globes ceremony, Succession‘s Kieran Culkin (already infamously) accepted his award (for Best Actor – Television Series Drama) while telling fellow nominee Pedro Pascal (of The Last Of Us) what he thought of the moment: “Suck it, Pedro.”

That was a total Roman Roy moment (although much kinder than that d*ck pic move from Succession itself, thank goodness) and went viral accordingly. Well, Pedro was ready for a bit of revenge at the Emmys. When he had the opportunity to take the mic, Pedro decided to tell everyone how he hurt his shoulder (not his arm): “Kieran Culkin beat the sh*t out of me.” Naturally, FOX bleeped out the profanity-laden sentence on the broadcast, but the S-bomb would not be kept down for long.

Now for the comparison reaction shot.

If you wanted to watch the “Suck it, Pedro” again, here you go.

Your move, Kieran Culkin. (Please keep this faux-feud going.)

Fortunately, the Emmys are going over far less awkwardly than the recent Globes ceremony. Awards season might finally be hitting its groove in 2024. Host Anthony Anderson is pulling off one of the more difficult gigs in the biz with much more to come in the broadcast.

The Memphis Grizzlies picked up a 116-107 win over the Golden State Warriors on Monday evening. Despite the team being in the midst of a, quite frankly, unbelievable injury crisis, Memphis defended its homecourt thanks in large part to the play of rookie forward GG Jackson.

A former 5-star recruit who spent one up-and-down year at South Carolina and went in the second round of the 2023 NBA Draft, Jackson has started to get a little more run as the injuries pile up in Memphis. Monday ended up being the best game of his young career, as he went for 23 points on 6-for-9 shooting with six rebounds, two blocks, two steals, and an assist. And after the game, Jackson got to talk to the Inside the NBA guys, which meant he got to talk to Shaquille O’Neal, which meant he got to geek out over Shaq praising him.

You could already tell that he was in a great mood — he called talking to them a “dream come true” — and then, at the 1:18 mark, Shaq chimes in and Jackson’s face just lights up.

“I don’t have any questions,” Shaq said. “I just wanna say congratulations, young fella. You’ve played a hell of a game. And if people didn’t know who you were, they know who you are now. I’m so proud of you, congratulations on being ready, brother.”

Charles Barkley then chimed in with a joke, which led to Shaq telling Chuck to count the rings. Jackson, who turned 19 less than a month ago, loved all of this, and honestly, if all of this happened to me when I was 19, I’d probably have the exact same reaction.

The Emmys have made a lot of mistakes since the first ceremony aired 75 years ago. Remember when Modern Family won Outstanding Comedy Series five years in a row? That was weird. But in recent history, one of the most galling snubs is Better Call Saul star Rhea Seehorn only been nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series twice — and losing both times, including during tonight’s ceremony.

No offense to Jennifer Coolidge, who is thriving, but she already has an Emmy. And Seehorn gave an all-time great performance as Kim Wexler.

At least she’s the people’s champions.

“Of course, the awards are not supposed to be everything. They’re not always a meritocracy. People who are great don’t always get them, or people you didn’t think were great do,” Seehorn told the AV Club in 2022 about her Emmy-less streak. “The snub thing is weird because who were you replacing if you were snubbed, right? There’s just a lot of great work out there. You do get hopeful.”

Better Call Saul has actually never won an Emmy. It has five more chances: Best Drama Series, Best Drama Actor for Bob Odenkirk, and Best Drama Writing for both Gordon Smith (“Point and Shoot”) and Peter Gould (“Saul Gone”). Stay tuned.

The 75th Primetime Emmys are rolling with winners to be celebrated all evening. First, however, Christina Applegate popped onstage early in the ceremony to present an award, and the audience was ready for the former Kelly Bundy of Married… With Children fame. Applegate previously predicted that the 2023 Screen Actors Guild Awards would be her final awards show as an actor, and she attended that ceremony with a cane brandished with a “F*ck MS” message.

Let’s just say that it’s a good thing that Applegate was wrong, and although she didn’t win her supporting actress category (for Netflix’s final Dead to Me season) tonight, everyone was thrilled to see her onstage. The standing ovation tells the tale:

The third Dead to Me paused filming for several months when Applegate received her MS diagnosis. She still managed to embrace rage metal during the season, but on a more serious note, she told Variety, “[I]t was about kind of learning — all of us learning — what I was going to be capable of doing.” Additionally, “I had to call everybody and be like, ‘I have multiple sclerosis guys. Like, what the f*ck!’”

Calling it now: Christina Applegate needs to show up at every TV awards ceremony from here on out.

Proving that science and religion can, in fact, overlap, University of British Columbia researcher Evan Thompson has confirmed the Buddhist teaching of the not-self, or “anatta,” is more than just a theory.

“Buddhists argue that nothing is constant, everything changes through time, you have a constantly changing stream of consciousness,” he tells Quartz. “And from a neuroscience perspective, the brain and body is constantly in flux. There’s nothing that corresponds to the sense that there’s an unchanging self.”

This reality that nothing stays the same should be liberating, because if people believe it, they’ll no longer define themselves by their thoughts or be limited by a fixed idea of who they are. Their possibilities will be endless.

Buddhist Monks have known for thousands of years what science is just now learning: the mind can be changed by training it. Neuroplasticity, as it’s called, endows people with the ability to grow and evolve, triumphing over bad habits and becoming more like the individuals they want to be.

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Still, exactly how consciousness relates to the brain eludes both Buddhism and neuroscience. Buddhists suppose there’s an iteration of consciousness that doesn’t require a physical body; neuroscientists disagree.

“In neuroscience, you’ll often come across people who say the self is an illusion created by the brain,” Thompson says. “My view is that the brain and the body work together in the context of our physical environment to create a sense of self. And it’s misguided to say that just because it’s a construction, it’s an illusion.”

This article originally appeared on 09.23.17

I’ve written tons of things about minimum wage, backed up by fact-checkers and economists and scholarly studies. All of them point to raising the minimum wage as a solution to lifting people out of poverty and getting folks off of public assistance. It’s slowly happening, and there’s much more to be done.

But when it comes right down to it, where the rubber meets the road is what it means for everyday workers who have to live with those wages. I honestly don’t know how they do it.

Ask yourself: Could I live on this small of a full-time paycheck? I know what my answer is.

(And note that the minimum wage in many parts of the county is STILL $7.25, so it would be even less than this).

This story was written by Brandon Weber and was originally appeared on 02.26.15