The Culture

‘THE JURY IS STILL OUT ON BEHAVIORAL MATCHMAKING.’

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THE WEEK

RIHANNA TOURS WITH EMINEM

FIRST LOOK

MOVIES

A Very Big Bang

Director James Marsh’s upcoming biopic about the personal life of Stephen Hawking, The Theory of Everything, offers an intimate look at the renowned theoretical physicist. In this exclusive photo of Eddie Redmayne as the young scientist, Hawking courts his first wife Jane Wilde (Felicity Jones) before being diagnosed with the rare motor neuron disease that left him mostly paralyzed. The film, in theaters Nov. 7, is already generating Oscar buzz thanks to a remarkable performance by Redmayne, whose transformation into the older Hawking was the result of months of vocal coaching and work with ALS patients. “He’s unable to move the vast majority of his muscles, but he smiles, and there’s a spark in his eye,” Redmayne says of Hawking, with whom he spent time before filming. “There’s something so puckish about him.”

–SAM LANSKY

A 1965 wedding photo, below, of the real Hawking and Wilde

MUSIC

Hot Sheet

In 2012, Beck released an “album” of songs on sheet music. For Song Reader, out now, he recruited Jack White, Juanes, Norah Jones and others to cover and record the songs.

BOOKS

Never Be Royals

An Austrian empress, unfulfilled by her dull marriage and the confines of the crown, meets a handsome (but taken) equestrian in Daisy Goodwin’s novel The Fortune Hunter, out now.

MOVIES

Shell-Shocked

As the headstrong reporter April O’Neil, Megan Fox (right) teams up with some familiar reptilian heroes to save New York City in the Michael Bay–produced Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, out Aug. 8.