Triple5Light Therapy

#McDonalds #McMillions #Documentary #HBO A six-part documentary tells the story of the great 20th-century McDonald’s Monopoly fraud case with quirky characters and lackluster visuals. Oftentimes when listening to one of the dozens of excellent investigative podcasts I struggle to commit to, I’ll think, “this would make a great TV show.” When watching “ McMillions ,” a documentary series premiering on HBO Monday night, mostly I thought, “this would make a great podcast.” The story is wild: The McDonald’s Monopoly game, for some reason beloved in the 1980s and ’90s, was rigged. Players were supposed to collect peel-off tickets and either amass properties à la the board game or find instant winners, but a sprawling F.B.I. investigation uncovered the ludicrous scam in which a security officer for the marketing company that oversaw the production of the game pieces secretly snatched the winning pieces and distributed them — for a fee — to friends, family and ev...

Beyoncé announced a Netflix documentary called “Homecoming” about her 2018 Coachella performance. But she had another surprise in store.Credit Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Coachella #Beyoncé #Homecoming #Documentary #Netflix #LiveAlbum  When it comes to Beyoncé releases, there is usually an element of surprise. The singer — who perfected the secret album drop in 2013, and has since toyed with the tactic for releases like “Lemonade” and “Everything Is Love,” with her husband Jay-Z — did it again in the early morning hours Wednesday, one-upping the arrival of her own Netflix documentary, “Homecoming,” with a previously unannounced live-album version of the same concert. [Read our review of the Beyoncé documentary “Homecoming.”] Both the film and the album, also titled “Homecoming,” capture Beyoncé’s performance at last year’s Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, in which the singer — the first black woman to headline the event — was backed by dozens of dancers and an ...

This may be hard to imagine in these dick-laden times, but not very long ago it was rare to even hear someone say the word “penis” on television, much less get an eyeful of one. To quote Lindsay Lohan: Oh, the story changes. As a sex educator with her own show and inimitable presence in pop culture, Dr. Ruth Westheimer was one of the few reliable “penis”/“vagina”-sayers on television in the ’80s. Thank god for her then, thank god for her now. She’s 90! She fled the Holocaust! And, like Joan Rivers, Carol Channing, Olympia Dukakis, etc., she’s hit that win/win milestone of being immortalized in a biographical documentary that we all get to enjoy. Ask Dr. Ruth is set to premiere in a few weeks at the Sundance Film Festival and will stream on Hulu later this year. Ryan White, best known for directing/producing Netflix’s The Keepers, directed it and the trailer is above. “I have an obligation to live large and make a dent in this world,” she says. “At 90, still talking about sex,...