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Sarcasm as Global Export; Or an Ode to Matthew Perry’s Chandler Bing

Sarcasm as Global Export; Or an Ode to Matthew Perry’s Chandler Bing

Shaan Sachdev on the Best Global Export to Come from Friends

By Shaan Sachdev | December 14, 2023

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What’s Old is New Again (and Again): On the Cyclical Nature of Nostalgia

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Rumaan Alam on the Surreality of Seeing Leave the World Behind Come to Life on Screen

“I had a debilitating crush on Ethan Hawke as a teenager and now he’s playing a character I created. Deranged!”

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When the Culture Wars Came for <em>Monty Python’s Life of Brian</em>

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What Really Went on Between Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Sheen During the Filming of <em>Apocalypse Now</em>?

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