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It’s been 20 years since Lisa Kudrow and Mira Sorvino strapped on their blood-filled shoes and headed back to Tuscon for Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion, but fans of the 1997 comedy haven’t forgotten the cult classic (or the all-important formula for glue).

So, when Et’s Carly Steel spoke with Kudrow at the Boss Baby junket last month, we couldn’t help but ask where she thought the indomitable best friends would be, 20 years after proving that all you need to wow your old classmates is confidence, a loyal best friend and a perfectly choreographed dance number.

“Hopefully she would still be married to Sandy,” Kudrow said of her character, who found love at the film’s end with her class’s resident geek-turned-billionaire, Sandy Frink (Alan Cumming). “And I think, you know, maybe she and Romy still have their store and probably a reality show.”

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Did you know that three female African-American mathematicians, working at Nasa in 1962, were instrumental in getting the Mercury program into orbit and winning the U.S. space race against the Soviets? Me neither. That's why Hidden Figures is such an instructive and wildly entertaining eye-opener. There's nothing particularly innovative about the filmmaking – director Theodore Melfi (St. Vincent) mostly sticks to the record in the script he wrote with Allison Schroeder from the nonfiction book by Margot Lee Shetterly. But it's the smart move. This is a story that doesn't need frills.

Of the seismic cultural shifts that occurred in 2016, Hollywood finally embracing web series may be a tiny victory. But try telling that to the creators (a more succinct term for the writer-director-producer-actors thriving in the medium) who have turned their scrappy little web series into big-budget television deals.

Like Issa Rae, creator of the long-running YouTube series “Awkward Black Girl,” who just received a Golden Globe nomination for her new HBO show, “Insecure,” a vibrant comedy that puts black women front and center.

Or Ben Sinclair and Katja Blichfeld, the married co-creators who successfully adapted their web series, “High Maintenance,” for HBO. The stoner comedy that raised the bar for online storytelling preserved its indie charm; the six episodes of elegantly-woven vignettes held true to the spirit of the first online episodes, as each revealed little surprises in the lives of believable characters.

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Since Bhai-fever is firmly in the air with Sultan, keeping with its batty tradition, Y-Films brings you two Behens to feverishly follow! The wackiest Indian series to premiere on the internet,Ladies Room will have two of the wildest Yrf characters, the bffs (Best Friends Forever) Dingo and Khanna, setting the internet on fire with their crazy antics. Two episodes from the series are now out on the Y-Films YouTube channel for free, and a new episode will follow every Tuesday.

Watch Episodes 1 & 2 Here:

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Starring two actresses from the Yrf talent roster in its lead, the talented Saba Azad, last seen in Y-Film’s Mujhse Fraaandship Karoge and more recently ‘The Big Date’ on Love Shots and an electrifying new find,Shreya Dhanwanthary, the two soul sisters, or, err, dil-se-behens, behave – and misbehave – in a way you’ve never seen in Bollywood so far.

After a wacky and badass poster that went viral on the internet, with the motion poster itself garnering over 3 Lac views, Y-Films brings to you the wildest Yrf talents together in the raunchiest and most outrageous trailer in Yrf’s history.

Starring two actresses from the Yrf talent roster in its lead, the talented Saba Azad, last seen in Y-Film’s Mujhse Fraaandship Karoge and more recently ‘The Big Date’ on Love Shots and an electrifying new find,Shreya Dhanwanthary, the Ladies Room trailer is the craziest you’d see a pair of BFFs (Best Friends Forever)behave – and misbehave – than you’ve ever seen any time in Bollywood so far. These girls are mad, bad and completely unapologetic about it!

A story of two besties, Dingo and Khanna, and the mental adventures they go through in six different loos over the six-episode series, Ladies Room is a show about...

In the 6 odd months since Y-Films, the youth wing of Yash Raj Films, launched its original programming on YouTube, they’ve clocked over 40 million views through its massively successfully web series, Bang Baaja Baaraat and Man’s World, it’s heartwarming anthology of short films, Love Shots, and its game-changing initiative of creating India’s first transgender band, The 6-Pack Band. Keeping with its exciting tradition of tackling unexpected spaces and putting forth fresh stories, its next series, Ladies Room, will boldly go where no man has gone before: the women’s ‘loo’.

A series shot entirely in six different ladies’ rooms, it tells the story of two besties, Dingo & Khanna, who somehow always find themselves in the most incredible of situations in the most improbable of spaces, the washroom! Trying to survive one disaster after another in their lives, the six-part series will show Dingo & Khanna struggling to grow...

In the 6 odd months since Y-Films, the youth wing of Yash Raj Films, launched its original programming on YouTube, they’ve clocked over 40 million views through its massively successful web series, Bang Baaja Baaraat and Man’s World, its heartwarming anthology of short films, Love Shots, and its game-changing initiative of creating India’s first transgender band, The 6-Pack Band. Keeping with its exciting tradition of tackling unexpected spaces and putting forth fresh stories, its next series, Ladies Room, will boldly go where no man has gone before: the women’s ‘loo’.

A series shot entirely in six different ladies’ rooms, it tells the story of two besties, Dingo & Khanna, who somehow always find themselves in the most incredible of situations in the most improbable of spaces, the washroom! Trying to survive one disaster after another in their lives, the six-part series will show Dingo & Khanna struggling to grow up even as they grow old.

Oh, Betty. You've come a long way in seven seasons of Mad Men, but it appears we've come to the end of the road.

It's telling that, perhaps, the most content we've seen Betty was the episode two weeks ago, which had Sally off at school, her boys out at activities, and Don finding her alone in the Francis family kitchen, reading Sigmund Freud's book Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria. Unfortunately, that happiness was short-lived as Sunday's penultimate episode revealed the former Mrs. Draper's grave fate.

Over the course of Mad Men, January Jones has really...

Betty Hofstadt Draper Francis. That’s a lot of names — as many as Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, as many as Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce. And this season, Betty has felt like several different people at once. In the season premiere, she somehow achieved the moral high ground in an interaction with a gaggle of dirty hippies, and then immediately ceded the moral high ground, dying her hair brown for vague-but-definitely-weird reasons. When Martin Luther King was shot, she was a nagging ex-wife on the phone to Don (drunk as usual) and a chastising mom for Bobby (unusually sentient). When husband...

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A few of us here from GeekTyrant will be hitting up WonderCon 2013, which takes place from Friday, March 29th to Sunday, March 31th at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California. We went for the first time last year, and we had a great time, so we're all excited to be going back for more geek goodness!

WonderCon has released the full three-day schedule! There's a ton of great stuff to check out this year! Enough cool stuff to keep you more than busy! Check out the schedule and start planning out your trip! If you're going and you see us around make sure to say hi! We can talk about geek stuff! See ya there!

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It's time to get excited for Mad Men's sixth season. The show comes back April 7, which is just enough time for newbies to finally watch (or aficionados to rewatch) the extant 65 episodes. We put together a guide last year on how to pace yourself that we're republishing here with minor revisions, adding, of course, the thirteen episodes from last season. Counting the days, kids. Counting the days. The first four seasons are on Instant Netflix, and season five is on DVD, Amazon Prime, and iTunes.February 13 Episodes 1 and 2, "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" and "Ladies Room" Hard truth: Mad Men starts a little slowly. The first few episodes are really good, but they only hint at how good the show later gets; if these two episodes don't grab you beyond "that was a pretty decent period drama," don't give up. February 14 Episodes 3 and 4,...

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It's time for another reunion... the big-screen kind.

This time, it's "10 Years," the story of a group of cohorts who return to their hometown for their 10th high school reunion. An all-star cast featuring Channing Tatum, Jenna Dewan-Tatum, Rosario Dawson, Justin Long and Oscar Isaac gathers to act out one of the most popular American fantasies-- being able to relive all that delicious high school drama in one glorious night by revisiting old flames, rivalries and friendships with ten additional years of life experience.

Much like experiencing a real reunion, however, you can't fully appreciate the value of a good reunion movie until you've seen a few already. Here are ten classic reunion films to get you in a "10 Years" mood:

"Peggy Sue Got Married"

The last thing you probably want to do after you separate from your cheating husband is attend your 25th high school reunion.

As a little girl I loved going to the Studio Drive In in Culver City where we lived.

My older sister and I would get into our pajamas, my little baby brother would be in the car seat for babies in the front seat between the driver and the passenger. We brought out own fried chicken ot eat for dinner. We'd go get popcorn or bonbons or a Holloway sucker (the best!) at the concessions stand ahead of the movies or at the intermission if we were still awake and we'd watch a double bill – usually a western and or a comedy.

When we got older and at the age of 16, we all got cars of our own. Mine was a 53 Ford convertible repainted royal blue. Groups of us would go to the Olympic Drive In and would sneak others in in the trunk.

When I was really little my father and mother would take my sister and me to the movies. I was always making my father take me to the bathroom. That started my habit of sitting on the aisle. As a film buyer it was known as the acquisitions seat, but to my mind, the quick getaway was to the Ladies Room. And as a three or four year old, I was always asking my mother and sister, "is this real?" I was so literal minded as a child I could never figure out why the song said “Let Freedom Ring”. How could Freedom Ring? A ring was jewelry. Ring like a bell…but Freedom is not a bell. Moving on…

We saw this Bob Hope film. He was a gambler. And he put a gun into his mouth. Instead of shooting his brains out, he took a bite and it was chocolate. That really threw my literal mind into a loop. What was real? How did that happen? The movie was called Sorrowful Jones. The joke was something I had a hard time understanding. The same with the silents which we saw at the Silent Movie Theater. Laurel and Hardy were always hitting each other and falling; Charlie Chase was always in trouble as was Charlie Chaplin. I never understood what was funny about all the accidents, falling down, hitting each other and would have terrible anxiety attacks at the silent movies. I liked movies like Francis the Talking Mule. That was funny to my childish mind.

For those wonderful Disney cartoons like Cinderella or Alice in Wonderland, Robin Hood or Peter Pan, my father would take us to Beverly Hills and we would stand in line for the Fine Arts Theater. At the corner was a shoe store which only sold sample sizes (4 ½). I would admire their high heeled shoes and couldn’t wait for the time that I would be older and could wear them. Fortunately, when my foot hit the 4 ½ size, I was in high school and so I could buy the shoes for all the formal dances we attended.

Fine Arts Theater

Every Saturday my sister and I, and later my brother would go to the ten-cent Saturday afternoon matinee at the Meralta with a newsreel, previews, cartoon, and a main feature. The Meralta introduced me to The Dream of Wild Horses.[1]"Meralta" was derived from owners' Pearl Merrill and Laura Peralta's surnames. They lived above the new plush theater. But the movies there were mostly horror and genre. My brother always went there for the latest horror film.

Meralta Theater, Culver City

If we didn’t go to the Meralta, we’d go to the Culver. When we were looking to meet other kids from other schools, we'd go to the much fancier Culver Theater.

The Culver had great films, like Little Women, Gone with the Wind, Gentlemen Prefer Blonds, How to Marry a Millionaire, River of No Return, There’s No Business Like Show Business, Easter Parade, A Date with Judy (My sister’s name!), The Three Musketeers, Words and Music, Force of Evil, Neptune’s Daughter, Adam’s Rib, Showboat, An American in Paris, Lili, Giant, Rebel Without a Cause. Looking at this list, except for the Marilyn Monroe movies which 20th Century Fox owned and the two James Dean films which Warner Bros. owned, all of the films were MGM films. That makes perfect sense because Culver City was a company town.

The Culver also had “loges”. These were fancier red velvet seats with ashtrays above the large aisle you would find on entering the theater and choosing your seat – below unless you went up to the loge. There teenagers would "make out" and bad girls and guys would smoke (Excuse my racism, but as a Jew growing up in a working class wasp neighborhood, I learned these kids were either Pachucos or white trash.) Not that we were such good Jewish kids...there weren’t any Jewish kids that I knew of who went to the movies. My friends were my school friends, and they were all white working class kids. If people weren’t working for Hughes Aircraft, they were in the crafts at MGM. We had one bit actor living down the street named Cameron Mitchell. And it was a pretty racist neighborhood…anti-Semitism was learned at home and in Sunday Schools where kids invited me (called a Christ Killer) to learn about bringing Jesus into my heart and there were no blacks that I ever saw. The Pachucos lived in another neighborhood and we’d see them in the movies, shopping or at the middle and high school next to my elementary school. Asians? There might have been a Chinese restaurant, but I don’t recall seeing Asians in school or at the theater or shopping.

Jewish kids made up my group of friends when I got to junior high and we had moved to Beverlywood from Culver City; 90% of the school was Jewish. Our parents would still drop us at the movies and we would go to Saturday matinees at the Picfair on Pico and Fairfax which eventually burned down around the time of the Watts Riots, or to the Lido on Pico.

The Picfair Theater burned down in 1965.

We’d see Academy Award winning films at the Pickfair. We'd cry at Carousel, Oklahoma, Midnight Lace, Peyton Place, Imitation of Life. Great films! Or we'd sometimes go to the other theater in Pico called Lido. It was just so boring. Maybe they showed Marty there or Country Girl and I wasn't up for slow drama.

For really fancy movies which held premieres, like Around the World in 80 Days, we would go to the Carthay Circle Theater. Of course I’d go in the days after the premiere itself. Rarely – though sometimes we’d go to the Hollywood palaces, Grauman’s Chinese, The Egyptian or Pantages Theaters on Hollywood Boulevard. The best thing about Grauman’s Chinese was the ladies room with a room filled with mirrors and little alcoves to sit and put on lipstick. They even had lipstick blotters, white heavy weight paper shaped like your lips to blot the lipstick.

In 1959 The Fine Arts Theatre 8556 Wilshire Boulevardin Beverly Hills showed Room at the Top, (‘The Most Daring Film in a Decade’), and it played there for over six months. I was in the 10th grade and went to see it. I liked it but am not sure how much I understood.

In high school we discovered Le Chein Andalou and the Coronet and Baronet theater where Charles Laughton had played in Brecht's premiere play Galileo produced by John Houseman. Sometimes they didn't have enough foreign films (like one about a woman who turned into a panther at night) and they'd show psychological teaching films like "Folie a Deux" when madness is shared by two, in this 20 minute short it was a mother and daughter. They'd show films on Schizophrenia, etc. and it made me want to study psychology. We saw all of Bergman, Renoir and saw La Strada and La Dolce Vida. When I moved back east and went to Brandeis then movie going got great! Truffaut, Godard, Chabrol, Wajda's Ashes and Diamonds. After that I saw every Wajda film and even knew how to pronounce his name. But after Man of Marble or Man of Steel I started to get disinterested. I have no idea what theaters we went to in Cambridge or New York except for the Bleecker Street Theater where we’d often go for the weekend.

For dates we’d go up the street (Beverwil) to Beverly Hills to the Beverly Theater or the Beverly Canon. There they had programs printed for the movies (The Young Lions). Afterward we’d go to Blum’s[2] for their crunchy cake or Wil Wrights Ice Cream Parlor for ice cream sundaes.

And a theater we would always forget except when some exceptional foreign film was showing there, was the Vagabond, way down on Wilshire Blvd. toward downtown.

[1]Wikipedia: The 1953 children's film Crin-Blanc, English title White Mane, portrayed the horses and the region. A short black-and-white film directed by Albert Lamorisse, director of Le ballon rouge (1956), Crin-blanc won the 1953 Prix Jean Vigo and the short film Grand Prix at the 1953 Cannes Film Festival, as well as awards at Warsaw and Rome.[10] In 1960 Denys Colomb Daunant, writer and actor for Crin-blanc, made the documentary Le Songe des Chevaux Sauvages, "Dream of the Wild Horses". It featured Camargue horses and slow motion photography, and won the Small Golden Berlin Bear at the 1960 Berlin International Film Festival.[11]

[2]Blum's was a pink spun sugar fantasy come to life. It had a gift shop. It had shocking pink banquettes. It had surly waitresses. And it had cake. Not those plastic looking, multi colored and tasteless layered cakes offered in cafes around Union Square. No. They had Blum's Famous Coffee Crunch cake. (This legendary cake is so memorable that Nancy Silverton has included a recipe for it in her latest cookbook.)

Blum's was partly a restaurant for the ladies who didn't work and spent their days going downtown to shop, meet friends and get home before the children came home from school. (http://www.culinarymuse.com/2005/10/blums_where_are.html)...

ABC is coming out with a new sitcom called “Work It” about two guys who dress up like women to get jobs in this now female-dominated working world (?) To spare us from having to watch this future worst thing we will ever see, we’ve gone ahead and just guessed the script to the entire series, which you can read below in all its terrible glory. (Opposite of) enjoy! [Jake and Nicky are sitting at a bar] Jake (The Sort Of Reasonable Main Guy): Well, that’s it. The last job opening in the city and I just blew it! Seems like no one’s hiring these days. Nicky (His Less Reasonable Friend): Hey man, could be worse. At least you didn’t get Donnie Trumped like me! Jake: Donnie Trumped? Nicky: “You’re Fired.” [Laughtrack] Jake: But what am I gonna tell Emily, she’ll kill me! Nicky: Psh, women. “Get a job, gimmie money, do...

After some speculation on the fate of "Mad Men," AMC and Lionsgate announced Thursday the hit series will return for seasons five and six, with "Men" creator Matthew Weiner signing a long-term deal, which could extend into a seventh season.

"I want to thank all of our wonderful fans for their support." said Weiner in a statement. "I also want to thank AMC and Lionsgate for agreeing to support the artistic freedom of myself, the...

After some speculation on the fate of "Mad Men," AMC and Lionsgate announced Thursday the hit series will return for seasons five and six, with "Men" creator Matthew Weiner signing a long-term deal, which could extend into a seventh season.

"I want to thank all of our wonderful fans for their support." said Weiner in a statement. "I also want to thank AMC and Lionsgate for agreeing to support the artistic freedom of myself, the...

Fans eager for more "Mad Men" this summer will be disappointed.

Lionsgate and "Men" creator Matthew Weiner are close to signing a new deal for the hit AMC show, according to the Hollywood Reporter, but it'll be too difficult to mount a fifth season by the summer, when the show about the 1950s advertising business has traditionally premiered.

In announcing a fifth season pickup for "Mad Men" at last January's Television Critics Association press tour,...

The season 4 finale of "Mad Men" is this Sunday, October 17. Will Sterling, Cooper, Draper, Pryce survive?

"Extra" has chosen 25 of the best quotes from the always outspoken ad men and women. Check them out!

Favorite 'Mad Men' Quotes of All TimeDon Draper

"What you call love was invented by guys like me to sell nylons."Season 1, Episode 1: "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes"

Roger Sterling

"Look, I want to tell you something because you're very...

Sherlock comes to an end, and Mad Men gets going again from the start. Plus lots of movies in this week's UK TV round-up...

This is a short, but especially sweet round-up of shows, with the highlight of the week being the third and final episode of Sherlock airing Sunday, August 8th at 9:00pm on BBC1, in a story that, even in name, holds a lot of promise: The Great Game.

In our interview with Mark Gatiss, co-creator and author of the final episode, he says, "There's a lot to be said for the fact that, when nothing's on, you get a lot of attention!" But, although the timing happens to be true, there's so much more going for Sherlock than that and it's been fun, surprising, and a real adventure on a Sunday night.

In fact, the show's been so good that it's replaced that vague and creeping...

Tune in alerts for Comedy Central's two Thursday night comedies. First, Important Things with Demetri Martin Preview - 2 - Ladies Room Thursday, 10:00pm / 9:00c Allison's best friend accompanies her to the bathroom to discuss her blind date. Important Things with Demetri MartinThursday, 10:00pm / 9:00cPreview - 2 - Ladies Roomwww.comedycentral.comJoke of the DayStand-Up ComedyFree Online Games The Sarah Silverman Program Preview Threesome Thursday, 10:30pm / 9:30c What appears to be the start of a threesome for Sarah, Andy and Andre may really be a onesome. The Sarah Silverman ProgramThursday, 10:30pm / 9:30cPreview - Threesomewww.comedycentral.comJoke of the DayStand-Up ComedyFree Online Games...

Sharing the movie references in Mad Men episodes just for fun, love of trivia, open discussions and occasional enlightenment.

1.2 "Ladies Room"

Paul: [conducting a tour of the office] Account Management: Where prep schoolers skip arm in arm a la The Wizard of Oz, joined together by their lack of skill and their love of mirrors. Account executives are all good at something ...although it's never advertising.

[Pointing to an office. In Rod Sterling voice] Submitted for your approval, one Peter Campbell, a man who recently discovered that the only place for his hand is in your pocket.

Do you watch it?!? Have you seen it, The Twilight Zone?

Peggy Olson: I don't think so. I don't like science fiction. The image of account executives skipping like pig-tailed girls from Kansas makes me smile. And speaking of pig-tailed girls... Of Course Peggy doesn't like science fiction. Is there anyone on the show more focused on reality as is? I mean apart from her temporary break from it.

Pet Pal: Lindsay Lohan, walking through Hollywood Tuesday with an antifur pin on her jacket, followed by a quiet night with gal-pal Samantha Ronson at the Dark Room bar. Says a spy, "Shane Powers from Survivor: Panama was hanging out with them and giving Lindsay a hard time for sucking at pool." Housewarming: Vanessa Hudgens, shopping at Crate & Barrel at the Grove mall in L.A. Ladies Room: Drew Barrymore, catching the Cat Power show at Hollywood's Avalon venue with Ellen Page. Fyi: Page stars in Barrymore's upcoming directorial debut, Whip It! What was Selena Gomez doing partying at a nightclub in downtown L.A.? Don't worry, it was all very PG. Sweet Tooth: Selena...