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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Whos the biggest star you ever interviewed? KATE COYNE:Tom Cruise. He would have made an excellent politician. Credit: James Westman/Hachette Books Is there an interview youd like to do over? She said she was going to invite me over to play charades. And she looked terrified. She was like, Oh my God, you crazy stalker. The quickest answer to What would I do over? is Who are the celebrities I go out of my way to avoid?...

Back in 2004, after shed been estranged from him for almost a quarter century, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Susan Faludi got an email from her father announcing her gender-confirmation surgery. Despite our long alienation, I thought I understood enough of my fathers character to have had some inkling of an inclination this profound, Faludi writes. I had none. So she began traveling to Hungary to talk with her dad, morphing from daughter to investigative reporter as she tried to reconcile her memories of the father she remembered as an imperious patriarch named Steven with the gentler, pearl-earringed Stefanie....

Who exactly is Ron Howard as a filmmaker? But when you really start wrestling with the question, it gets a little thorny. Is he the merry prankster ofNight ShiftandThe Paper? Credit: Jonathan Prime The three-hankie sentimentalist behindCocoonandParenthood? The Oscar-courting purveyor of middlebrow prestige pictures likeCinderella ManandA Beautiful Mind? Or is he the four-quadrant populist behind rollicking adventures likeApollo 13andThe Da Vinci Code? Hes an artist without a school or discernable style....

The first season ofTrue Detectivebuilt itself into a phenomenon by constantly hinting at darker forces. To me,Indoctrinationis the right book at the right time, Moreci said. Indoctrinationhits stands June 29, and is currently available as a download onComixology. Credit: Z2 Comics

EW looks back on David Foster Wallace’s masterpiece two decades after its release. It had a big purpose. He was writing about the pursuit of happiness. Credit: Marion Ettlinger It seemed to be about America at that moment. Now, 20 years on, Infinite Jest has become a cultural mainstay. But its biggest effect is still felt by other writers. It should always be blowing your mind and giving you bursts of pleasure....

More often than not, Hollywood likes to tackle the end of the world with a bang: massive epidemics, planes falling out of the sky, mindless hordes of brain-guzzling zombies. ButInto the Forest,writer-director Patricia Rozemas adaptation of Jean Heglands 1996 novel, takes a quieter and more unsettling approach, focusing on two sisters struggle to survive after the power goes outpermanently. Ellen Page and Evan Rachel Wood star as Nell and Eva, two young girls living with their widower father (Callum Keith Rennie) in an isolated section of the Pacific Northwest....

Kirkman says in the statement. So thats what were doing! Invincibleis published by Kirkmans Image Comics imprint Skybound. Credit: Skybound Entertainment Some form of that statement has always been my answer. have been chronicling the adventures of Mark Grayson and the many characters that orbit his life. So it was clear, I was writing to a conclusion and Ryan was also drawing to one. So that led to the question of what comes next?...

so you can accomplish that, we tried to use every tool we could. The results are both creepy and engrossing, particularly during the films climax. The big finale scene took a while to nail down, he explains. Theres a lot happening and there are already a few scenes by that point that have pretty high highs. The difficulty was in trying to make an even higher high to tie everything up in a nice bow....

Paramount kicked off CinemaCon 2016 with a look at its upcoming slate of films. That included an extended look at four major sequels coming to theaters over the next year. Lets run down what we saw in Vegas on Monday. Credit: Karen Ballard Also joining the cast: Stephen Amell, playing hockey-masked vigilante Casey Jones. Im not sure if this has any root in theTurtlesmythology, butat least they arent aliens. They didnt show any scenes, but Diesel did declare that the movie has the best cast ever assembled....

Even before it all fell apart,Jane Got a Gunwas a movie people talked about. A quick recasting shifted Edgerton to Fassbender’s vacated role and brought in Jude Law as the new villain. Then, on the day that filming was to begin,Ramsay didn’t report to set. Shortly thereafter, the film lost Law and cinematographer Darius Khondji. Ramsay’s camp called the accusations “simply false,” and eventually the suit was settled. But with millions already invested in the production, that couldn’t be the end....

Will Jane do the deed with Professor Chavez – or will she decide against it? Will she or wont she? First things first: Its hard to imagine anyone being able to resist someone as cute as Professor Hottie. Credit: Scott Everett White/The CW Theres ton of hand touching, eyelash batting and theres little doubt that hes totally into her. But their chemistry outweighs any of that other stuff. Come back to my place, suggests Jonathan....

Chapter 42 kicked off with Jane planning a brunch with her sorta-BFF Petra. And, for the record, so is brunch. (Its a matter of pride, you see.) Credit: Michael Yarish/The CW How much you wanna bet its going to be awkward? While Jane and Petra are on the outs, Rafael is dealing with Derek. Cant say I didnt see that one coming! (Rogelios words, not mine.) You know, stuff other than the Kardashians....

Death is excellent at turning artists into icons, but it tends to calcify them, toorecasting messy, complicated humans as the familiar demigods of dorm-room posters and greatest-hits collections.Janis: Little Girl Blueis the latest documentary this year, after memorable takes on Kurt Cobain, Amy Winehouse, and Nina Simone, to restore some of what gets lost in the process of mythmaking. Of course, even a life as brief as Joplins (like Cobain and Winehouse, she was gone at 27) cant be fully explored in just over 100 minutes....