All the Ways the New 'Beauty and the Beast' Is Different From the Original

The latest in pop-culture news, recaps, and reviews, plus close reads, profiles, interviews, and more from Vulture.com. [View in browser]( [Vulture]( March 16, 2017 [Follow Vulture on Facebook]( What to Read Today [All the Ways the New Beauty and the Beast Is Different From the Original The Beast gets a personal history, and we find out what happened to Belle’s mother.]( [All the Projects Ryan Murphy Is Working on Right Now, Including His Latest Series Pose Murphy just announced plans for a 1980s-set drama Pose.]( [This Is Us: The 11 Things We Want to Learn in Season Two Just tell us how Jack Pearson died, already!]( [How Beauty and the Beast Made Me the Gay Man I Am Today When you feel trapped in a metaphorical castle, sometimes it’s your own capacity for magic that liberates you.]( [Alex Trebek Has a Gift for Rapping — Here’s the Proof VIDEO: The proof is in the pudding, as they say.]( [Julian Schnabel’s New Plate Special A visit with the artist.]( [The Leftovers Season 3 Trailer: Here Comes the Flood The Leftovers begins its final season on April 16.]( [Jimmy Fallon, Chris Pine, Melissa McCarthy, and the Rock Will Host SNL’s Last Four Episodes This Season In a break from tradition, episodes will air live on both coasts.]( [We Caught Up With the Cast of Search Party at SXSW The cast of Search Party on messy relationships, dream co-stars, and the SXSW experience. #ad]( [Inside Search Party’s Unbelievably Instagrammable Activation at SXSW When Vulture meets Search Party at SXSW. #ad]( [We Humbly Request That Barry Jenkins and Isabelle Huppert Just Go Ahead and Make a Movie Together The Moonlight director and Elle actress are mutual fans.]( [Which First-Round NCAA Games Will Be the Most Exciting? If the tournament is sports’ version of prestige TV, think of these as the Battle of the Blackwater.]( [The Weather Channel Forecast: Shady, With a High Likelihood of Burns After Naming Next Winter Storm After Stephen Colbert “It’s going to blow hard, but it’s going to have little to no impact.”]( [How the Dirty Projectors’ Front Man Bounced Back From the Breakup of His Relationship and Band “Working with Kanye and feeling inspired by the way he tells his story seems like the Warholian fulfillment of fame as the ultimate art form.”]( [Those Damn Cue Cards Return With a Vengeance in the Love Actually Sequel Teaser But…where’s…Keira…Knightley…?]( [Rupert Grint on Snatch, Identifying With Ron Weasley, and Why He’s Not Thrilled About Being a Hufflepuff “That’s just not the coolest one, is it?”]( [How to Talk to All the Other People on the New York Subway Also Reading Americanah As Part of the City’s Book Program Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novel is the city’s “One Book, One New York” pick.]( [Why the NCAA Tournament Is Great TV Like the current TV landscape, the first rounds of March Madness are overwhelming and full of twist endings.]( [Rachel Maddow Discusses How She Confirmed Trump’s Tax Return Is Real “I’m happy to deal with either one of these assertions: that it’s authentic or that it’s fake. But pick one.”]( [If Anyone Can Convince Oprah to Run for President in 2020, It’s Van Jones “It takes a superstar to beat a superstar.”]( [Samantha Bee Wishes Everyone in the ‘Resistance’ Would Actually, You Know, Go Vote Marches and hats haven’t done great things for voter turnout.]( [Big Little Lies’ Music Supervisor on Creating a ‘Push and Pull’ Soundtrack and Why Jean-Marc Vallée Is the Musical Jackson Pollock And why those Monterey kids have such sophisticated taste in music.]( [Riverdale Should Just Embrace Archie, Betty, and Veronica As a Throuple Three’s a relationship.]( [Donald Trump Proposes Eliminating National Endowment for the Arts He also wants to do away with key funding for PBS.]( [Disney Refuses to Cut Beauty and the Beast ‘Gay Moment’ Despite Malaysia Objection The studio won’t alter the movie.]( [Read More on Vulture »]( REACH THE RIGHT ONLINE AUDIENCE WITH US For advertising information on e-mail newsletters please contact Giorgia.Rosenbluth@nymag.com This email was sent to {EMAIL}. [subscribe]( | [vulture.com]( | [unsubscribe](param=daily) | [privacy policy]( | [nymag.com]( | Copyright © 2017, All rights reserved New York Media LLC 75 Varick St. New York, NY 10013