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Author Joan Didion (Neville Elder/Corbis via Getty Images)

Iconic journalist Joan Didion has died

Alison Stine
Patricia Cornwell and Jamie Lee Curtis attend Live Talks Los Angeles at Moss Theatre at New Roads School on October 30, 2015 in Santa Monica, California. (Tibrina Hobson/Getty Images)

Patricia Cornwell's big Scarpetta return

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Ben Affleck and Tye Sheridan in "The Tender Bar" (Amazon Studios)

The gooey center of Clooney's Tender Bar

Gary M. Kramer
KEANU REEVES as Neo/Thomas Anderson and CARRIE-ANNE MOSS as Trinity in “THE MATRIX RESURRECTIONS” (Murray Close/Warner Bros. Pictures)

"Matrix Resurrections" busts the binary

Melanie McFarland
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Rhys Ifans as Rasputin in "The King's Man" (Peter Mountain/20th Century Fox)

Rasputin is delightful in "King's Man"

Gary M. Kramer
Hailee Steinfeld as Kate Bishop, The Pizza Dog, Clayton English as Grills, Robert Walker Branchaud as Orville, Adelle Drahos as Missy, and Adetinpo Thomas as Wendy "HAWKEYE" (Photo by Chuck Zlotnick/Marvel Studios)

The heroes of "Hawkeye" dress like us

Alison Stine
Dolly Parton attends a press conference before a performance celebrating her 50-year anniversary with the Grand Ole Opry at The Grand Ole Opry on October 12, 2019 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Terry Wyatt/Getty Images)

Why Dolly refused medal of freedom twice

Ellen Gutoskey - Mental Floss
Music streaming app Napster (Alexander Pohl/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

20 important moments in internet history

Todd Gilchrist - Mental Floss
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Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem in "Being the Ricardos" (Amazon Studios)

"Being the Ricardos" is mostly watchable

Gary M. Kramer
Jennifer Aniston on "The Morning Show" (Apple TV+)

Aniston on "nasty" no kids comments

Sandy C. - Hidden Remote
Keanu Reeves and Hugo Weaving face each other in a scene from The Wachowski's 1999 movie "The Matrix" (Ronald Siemoneit/Sygma/Sygma via Getty Images)

Where to stream all the "Matrix" movies

Sandy C. - Hidden Remote
Gizmo the mogwai hides in a tool box in a scene from the 1984 film "Gremlins" (Warner Brothers/Getty Images)

Deck the halls with films of horror

Alison Stine
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Sesame Street (Richard Termine/HBO)

15 secrets of "Sesame Street" puppeteers

Jake Rossen - Mental Floss
Macaulay Culkin in "Home Alone" (20th Century Fox)

25 fun facts about "Home Alone"

Jennifer M Wood - Mental Floss
Jacob Anderson as Grey Worm in "Game of Thrones" (Helen Sloan/HBO)

The future for "Doctor Who" companions

Dan Selcke - Winter is Coming

"The Witcher" gives women their due

Melanie McFarland
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Melanie Lynskey as Shauna in "Yellowjackets" (Kailey Schwerman/SHOWTIME)

The craving for meat on “Yellowjackets"

Joy Saha, Hanh Nguyen
A man walks past a poster of the first South Korean zombie blockbuster, "Train to Busan," at a movie theater in Seoul on August 4, 2016. (JUNG YEON-JE/AFP via Getty Images)

Hollywood, please stop adapting K-dramas

Carolyn Hinds
Weird Al Yankovic (Robyn von Swank)

Why McCartney told Weird Al no on a song

Nicole Michael
Ziwe and Amanda Warren on "Dickinson" (Apple TV+)

The intersectionality of "Dickinson"

Melanie McFarland
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Prince Albert's Angus polled ox, 1844. Exhibit at the Smithfield Club Christmas Cattle Show in London (The Print Collector/Heritage Images via Getty Images)

11 odd Victorian Christmas traditions

Keith Johnston - Mental Floss
West Side Story (Twentieth Century Fox/Ramona Rosales)

How gangs changed since West Side Story

David Pyrooz, James Densley, Scott H. Decker - The Conversation
The Expanse (Photo courtesy of Amazon Studios)

Why Expanse's last season is so short

Dan Selcke - Winter is Coming
Cate Blanchett and Bradley Cooper in "Nightmare Alley" (Kerry Hayes/20th Century Studios)

A rapturous & twisty "Nightmare Alley"

Gary M. Kramer
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