Page 20 - Inside Hook News Today

New Documentary Explores the Cut of "Uncle Buck" We Never Got to See Tobias Carroll, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail John Hughes’s 1989 film Uncle Buck has had a particularly fascinating second act. It’s been adapted for television — twice! — and was remade in India in 1991. The film reunited frequent collaborators writer-director John Hughes and star John Candy; that the supporting cast included Amy Madigan, Gaby Hoffmann, Laurie Metcalf and a pre- Home Alone Macaulay Culkin doesn�...

Can You Lift Weights Properly Without Those Oversized Gym Mirrors? Tanner Garrity, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail I was in the middle of a track workout last winter — four one-mile repeats at half-marathon pace — when the running club’s coach asked everyone to take off their GPS watches. “No Strava, just for these last two,” he said. The idea was to rely on our pacing instincts. To focus on feel, instead of anxiously eyeing our wearables every time we rounded the final straight. Th...

Why Is Herpes Stigma Still a Thing? Michael Stahl, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Late one evening four years ago, Erica Spera, then 25, noticed two bumps blooming in her vaginal area. The discovery alarmed her because, a week earlier, after not having sex for about six months, the New York City comedian twice hooked up with a new partner. Spera believed she was generally on the careful side of the spectrum, landing there in part because, during college, a friend of hers had contracted genit...

Are There Any Tangible Benefits to Chugging Water First Thing in the Morning? Tanner Garrity, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail A month ago, The New York Timesprofiled John Foley, the CEO of Peloton, for its classic “Sunday Routine” column. The piece offered some interesting revelations about the surging entrepreneur, whose company reported a 232% increase in sales last year. The highlights? He keeps his Peloton Tread in the downstairs bathroom of his West Village apartment, he eats sushi ...

David Hasselhoff Is Selling His 14-Foot Statue and Personal "Knight Rider" Car Alex Lauer, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Let’s say, hypothetically, you suddenly come into possession of a 14-foot-long statue of a shirtless David Hasselhoff. What would you do with a bare-chested effigy like that? Put it in your rec room? Display it on your roof? One-up your neighbors who bought that 12-foot Home Depot Halloween skeleton? That’s a dilemma one lucky person — maybe even yourself — is goi...

Why the Hell Are People Body-Shaming Kumail Nanjiani? Tanner Garrity, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail America woke up on December 16, 2019, and the Pakistani-American actor of Silicon Valley and The Big Sick fame was suddenly shredded. It felt fake at first, like a class clown running for president had dropped his face on a bodybuilder’s torso and put fliers up all over school. Nanjiani, of course, is a comedian, with recurring appearances on Broad City, Portlandia. He’s hosted Satur...

New Study Indicates Women Are Directing More Films, But Parity Remains Distant Tobias Carroll, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail The American film industry abounds with inequality, much of it systemic. One way that gender inequality manifests itself is in the relatively low number of films directed by women. The fact that Vulture’s Oscar Futures column currently lists 2 women as likely favorites for a Best Director nomination this year — Nomadland‘s Chloe Zhao and This is but one sign o...

Illegal New Years Party in France Draws 2,500, Lasts 36 Hours Tobias Carroll, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail As the pandemic continues, so too have reports of events organized in defiance of regulations intended to reduce the spread of COVID-19. Such events have been held at bars, restaurants and clubs. But all of these have been relatively small affairs compared to a New Year’s Eve party recently held in France, which lasted for 36 hours and drew 2,500 people. No, that’s no a typo. 2,5...

Peloton Makes Foray into Music With Trio of Elvis Remixes Tobias Carroll, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail In the second half of this year, Apple debuted its foray into the world of online fitness courses, Apple Fitness Plus. Plenty of discussion of the new service noted that it put Apple in direct competition with Peloton — and in a world where the lines between tech companies, media studios and electronics manufacturers are blurring, it seemed entirely of a piece. But if Apple is getting i...

10 Important Rules to Keep in Mind When Running at Your Local Track Tanner Garrity, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Your local track is going to be more crowded than usual in 2021. We’re still in the midst of a nationwide running boom, gyms are months from fully opening, and according to Strava, “outdoor walking” was actually the top activity of the year. If this winter looks anything like last year’s — which included the warmest first two months of meteorological winter in America...