ANIMAL EDITION
GOOD WEEK/BAD WEEK
Grumpy Cat
The dour-faced feline turned Internet celebrity will star in a feature-length film
Ikea monkey
The owner of the baby macaque found wandering around a Toronto Ikea is still fighting for its return
CRAFT BEER
Hanson’s Brew
The adorable band of brothers Hanson named its new beer Mmmhops, after “MMMBop,” its 1997 Grammy-nominated earworm. Proceeds from the imperial pale ale will benefit tornado relief in the Tulsa brothers’ home state, Oklahoma.
QUICK TALK
Rose Byrne
In the movie The Internship (out June 7), there’s nothing entry level about Byrne. She plays a Google employee and treats her role as a comic foil like it’s, well, her job. Which it is–and it’s one that, as her straight-woman turn in Bridesmaids showed, the 33-year-old does well. Here, she talks shop with Time.
–LILY ROTHMAN
Are you as tech-savvy as the Googler you play?
No, I just got an iPhone recently. I’m always a bit behind.
At least you have a scene in a nap pod. That’s technology.
I did!
Could you actually sleep in there?
I’m not that much of a napper, to be honest. I tend to feel a bit weird after.
Were you ever an intern?
It’s called work experience in Australia. I went to a theater in Sydney in the inner city. It was actually a bit dull. Envelopes and paperwork.
One of the few nonworkplace scenes in the movie addresses the topic of bad dates. What’s your spectacularly-bad-date story?
I’ve managed to dodge that bullet. I suppose I’m more monogamous or something. I haven’t had a terrible one where the guy’s actually hitting on somebody else.
That’s the No. 1 marker of a bad date.
I would say so.
Is work-life balance something you think about a lot?
I think it’s a pretty common thing, being a working person. I mean, I don’t have a family, and I think that’s far more difficult than missing out on coffee with friends.
What are your balance strategies?
I guess that’s where I’m good with technology. I’m good at e-mail.
BOX OFFICE
$130,000,000
Estimated budget of the Will and Jaden Smith sci-fi pic After Earth, which grossed just $27 million during its opening weekend in the U.S.; the movie is widely considered to be the year’s biggest box-office bomb so far
PIERCING PICTURES
Portraits are photographer Steve McCurry’s specialty. His most famous, Afghan Girl, of a young woman with penetrating eyes, was taken in 1984 during the Soviet occupation. That image and a selection of his other work, including the photo above, titled Red Boy, Holi Festival, taken in Mumbai, are on view at the Open Shutter Gallery in Durango, Colo., until Aug. 22.
TRENDING
@RedWedding Tears
This Twitter account mocks the hysterics of Game of Thrones fans who couldn’t handle the show’s recent nuptial massacre, known as the Red Wedding
JACKPOT!
Big Money …
When recent Wheel of Fortune superstar Autumn Erhard won a $1 million prize–the second such win in the show’s history–she joined an elite club of game-show millionaires. Here are some of the other big winners.
$2.18 MILLION
April 10, 2001
Kevin Olmstead on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire
$1.15 MILLION
Feb. 22, 2008
Adam Rose on The Price Is Right: $1,000,000 Spectacular
$1 MILLION
Sept. 5, 2008
Kathy Cox on Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?
$1 MILLION
Oct. 29, 2008
Tomorrow Rodriguez on Deal or No Deal
RETURN ENGAGEMENT
On the occasion of Marc Chagall’s death in 1985, TIME’s then art critic Robert Hughes wrote of the Russian-born artist, who spent most of his career in France, “He had a lyric, flyaway, enraptured imagination, allied to an enviable fluency of hand.” From June 8 to Oct. 6 at Tate Liverpool, fans can enjoy a major survey of Chagall’s work–including I and the Village, left, from 1911–his first major museum show in Britain in 15 years.
PAGEANTRY
Miss-Take
Winning a beauty contest may be a dream. But for Denise Garrido, who was crowned Miss Universe Canada, it truly was unreal. After pageant auditors found a misplaced decimal in one judge’s score, her crown was retrieved and given to Riza Santos.
3 THINGS YOU DON’T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THIS WEEK
1. Kim Kardashian’s never-ending divorce.
The reality star was legally freed from 72-day hubby Kris Humphries. The pair separated in 2011.
2. Having to tip the pizza-delivery guy.
Domino’s is testing the DomiCopter, an unmanned drone that can carry two pies. Prepare the helipad.
3. Your wedding seeming over the top.
Silicon Valley billionaire Sean Parker was fined $2.5 million after his lavish ceremony encroached upon Big Sur woodlands.
FOR RICHARD CORLISS’S REVIEW OF MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, VISIT time.com/movies
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