McCarthy

It’s the depth of the darkness that spooks Bobby Western, the haunted man at the heart of Cormac McCarthy’s extraordinary new novel. Western works as a salvage diver in the Mexican Gulf, tending to sunken barges and stricken oil rigs. He’s kicking up clouds in the clay-coloured water and pressing further into the unknown with every weighted step. His colleagues are blase but experience has taught him to take care. He asks: “You ever bump into something down there that you didn’t know what it was?”Published a full 16 years…

Published a decade and a half ago, The Road might have aptly concluded Cormac McCarthy’s extraordinary career in fiction. What better way of bowing out than with a novel that imagined, in horrifying verisimilitude, the end of all things? But no! Nearing his 90th birthday, McCarthy has returned with two linked novels: one relatively substantial and typical, and the other – presented as a coda and published a month later – spare, sinister and radical.First, the former. Set in the early 1980s, The Passenger charts the…

While accepting an award named for Robin Williams, Melissa McCarthy recalled Wednesday how the late comedic legend’s comic performances in film and TV inspired her, as a farm girl growing up in rural Illinois, to know “it’s OK to be different, it’s OK to be silly.” The Robin Williams Legacy of Laughter award for McCarthy came from Bring Change To Mind (BC2M), the San Francisco-based mental health nonprofit co-founded by Glenn Close. At the organization’s gala fundraiser at Bimbo’s 365 Club Wednesday night, bookended by…

Melissa McCarthy Reveals Having The Awkward Conversation About S*x With Daughter (Pic Credit: Instagram) Actress Melissa McCarthy messed up a s*x talk with her daughter as she did it while picking up dog poo. The 52-year-old actress revealed that she is aiming to do “better” next time she tackles the subject, which she initially tried the day before her 15-year-old girl Vivian’s school covered the topic in health class, reports aceshowbiz.com. Melissa McCarthy said that she didn’t want to let “someone else initiate…

Music icon Alanis Morissette will join Oscar-nominated star Melissa McCarthy and a lineup of other performers at a gala in San Francisco Wednesday night to benefit Bring Change to Mind, the nonprofit co-founded by Glenn Close to end stigma and discrimination surrounding mental illness. The 10th annual Revels and Revelations fundraiser for Bring Change to Mind (BC2M) takes place Wednesday night at Bimbo’s 365 Club in San Francisco. The lineup features musical and comedy performances by Morissette, musician Andy Grammer and…

Just when you thought you’d never get “Part of Your World” stuck in your head ever again, The Little Mermaid’s live-action remake is here to remind you that an earworm can last over three decades. We’ve got the first peek at the highly anticipated film courtesy of the D23 Expo, and while it doesn’t showcase much of the star-studded cast, it definitely telegraphs some appropriatelydreamy underwater vibes.The Little Mermaid - Official Teaser TrailerIf you’ve seen the animated film (and seriously, who hasn’t?) or even read…

Maggie O’FarrellRemind me…Born in Northern Ireland and now living in Edinburgh, O’Farrell published her first novel, After You’d Gone, to critical acclaim in 2000 and won a Betty Trask award. In 2020 she won the Women’s prize for fiction for her novel Hamnet, which imagined the short life of Shakespeare’s son. She has also written a bestselling memoir, I Am, I Am, I Am. The Marriage Portrait is her ninth novel. New book in a nutshellSet in the gilded world of Florence in the 1560s, The Marriage Portrait tells the story of…

Halle Bailey can do some seriously special things with her vocals, but we’re just now learning that those pipes can make her co-stars cry. The Chloe X Halle singer and soon-to-be star of Disney’s live-action adaptation of The Little Mermaid did that for the film’s co-star Melissa McCarthy, the actress has revealed in an interview on Watch What Happens Live  on Thursday. McCarthy, who is set to play Ursula in the movie, was presented a fan question on the potential of Bailey having original songs in the film when she…