Author: Michael

Once upon a time, Werner Herzog became a meme. He never exactly sought out web stardom — Herzog is nothing if not analog — but the German filmmaker has cultivated a public persona that’s proved remarkably durable across two decades of online riffing: the unflappable adventurer, a deadpan Don Quixote who meets gunshot wounds, bear attacks and life’s general chaos with the same bemused fatalism. Manna from heaven for Internet geeks and improv comics, who promptly seized on that persona and made it their own.  That history would seem relevant to “Bucking Fastard,” a two-for-the-price-of-one oddball drama about sisters whose…

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After Miley Cyrus debuted her new era for her forthcoming album Bass Persuades by dropping her last name, her dad shared his reaction. “Family means more than ever now,” Billy Ray wrote in a Sept. 2 Instagram post. “I always called my little girl Miley. Just…Miley.” The 65-year-old—also dad to Brandi Cyrus, 39, Trace Cyrus, 37, Braison Cyrus, 32, and Noah Cyrus, 26, with ex Tish Cyrus, as well as Christopher Cody, 34, from another previous relationship—noted that his daughter by any other name would be just as sweet. “Just like I always called my little boy Braison,” he continued.…

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