, a local socialite and entrepreneur, plots to develop condominiums there. Praised for its warmth and crackling wit—the We wake and bake every morning shirt but in fact I love this writers on Central Park include alums of The Office, Difficult People, Community, and Arrested Development—the show also boasts some very impressive musical collaborators. Gad and the likes of Rufus Wainwright, They Might Be Giants, and Ingrid Michaelson have all written songs for the new season. Kathryn Hahn, Leslie Odom Jr., Tituss Burgess, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Stanley Tucci, and Daveed Diggs lead the cast.
In a new documentary from the We wake and bake every morning shirt but in fact I love this filmmaker Vanessa Roth, Mary J. Blige unpacks the legacy of My Life, her Grammy-nominated sophomore album. Intimate in its storytelling and influential in its soundscape, the work—which Blige released in 1994, when she was 23—reckoned with an ongoing abusive relationship, her struggles with drug and alcohol use, and her difficult childhood in Yonkers. “I spilled myself into this album,” Blige recalls in the film—and, as it had in her earliest years, the music kept her going.
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