Why We Can’t Get Enough of Lee Pace

The latest in pop-culture news, recaps, and reviews, plus close reads, profiles, interviews, and more from Vulture.com. [Brand Logo]( honorary degree [Lee Pace Stays Just Out of Reach]( The actor is so good at making you want more, we decided to give him an award. Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: AMC, Apple, Disney, Warner Bros In the opening scene of Lee Pace’s first major screen credit, 2003’s Soldier’s Girl, his character Calpernia Addams introduces herself in voice-over: “You may think that I’m the center of this story—the main character, as they say—but I’m not.” The film is based on real events: Calpernia is a trans woman who falls in love with an infantry private stationed at Fort Campbell, and her first lines are at least a touch disingenuous. You wouldn’t need to say them unless there was some tension over who the center was. “I admit I’ve always craved the spotlight,” Calpernia says. “I’m the rhinestones of this story.” This year, Pace received the third annual Vulture Festival Honorary Degree, a very unaccredited honor given to those whose work we like so much we just have to give them a prize. Since Soldier’s Girl, the actor’s career has taken off in TV, in film, and onstage—as Roy in the indie fantasy film The Fall, Ned in the fairy-tale-esque ABC series Pushing Daisies, Joe Pitt in Angels in America, and as part of an ensemble of ’80s tech entrepreneurs in the show Halt and Catch Fire. [Read More]( [Subscribe for 75% off]( and unlock unlimited access to Vulture and everything New York. Plus, get exclusive access to The Strategist’s Incredibly Exhaustive Gift Guide. The Latest TV Recaps • 90 Day: The Single Life: [The Singles Persist]( • Below Deck: [New Faces, New Places]( • Welcome to Chippendales: [Women Get Horny II]( [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( Stories We Think You’ll Like [Big on BookTok: What Happens When an Unexpected Audience Embraces Your Work Chelsea Summers never expected her novel, about a menopausal food critic who kills and eats her ex-lovers, to find a wellspring of Gen-Z enthusiasm.]( By Chelsea G. Summers [‘I Owe My Entire Life to Laurie Strode’ Jamie Lee Curtis traces her every success — from Trading Places to Freaky Friday to Knives Out — straight back to Halloween.]( [Andrew Stanton Remembers When ‘Nobody Wanted to Make’ Wall-E The director revisits the making of his Pixar classic, which has joined the Criterion Collection.]( [The Menu Gets That Fine Dining Is a Cult Obscure location, insufferable clientele, and staff at the end of their rope — this horror-comedy’s got a lot in common with reality.]( [‘Can We Do It One More Time?’ Dead to Me creator Liz Feldman on saying good-bye with an ellipsis …]( [Hulu Wants You Back for $2 a Month You have a week before the offer self-destructs.]( By Eric Vilas-Boas [For the Chrisleys, What’s Next? “Everything that they say on the show can be used against them by the government.”]( By Claudia Rosenbaum [How to Give Netflix, Hulu, and Other Streaming Services As Gifts For anyone who’d enjoy a log-in of their own.]( By Savannah Salazar, Emily Palmer Heller and Eric Vilas-Boas [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [Today’s Crossword]( 2-Down, Five Letters: Van Halen had one that banned brown M&Ms. Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos by Lionsgate Movies/YouTube, Illumination/YouTube and Valerie Macon/AFP via Getty Images Switched on Pop In this episode of [Switched On Pop](, DJ Jazzy Jeff talks about the concept of flow: what it is, how it applies to all music — not just hip-hop — and how any rapper’s flow can be analyzed under his guidelines. Taking his word for it, we put our magnifying glasses on to look at the bars of our favorite rappers, from Megan Thee Stallion to Babytron. [Read more from Vulture]( [logo]( [facebook logo]( [instagram logo]( [twitter logo]( [unsubscribe](param=vulture-daily) | [privacy notice]( | [update preferences]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Was this email forwarded to you? [Sign up now]( to get this newsletter in your inbox. [View this email in your browser.]( You received this email because you have a subscription to New York. Reach the right online audience with us For advertising information on email newsletters, please contact AdOps@nymag.com Vox Media, LLC 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, 12th Floor Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2022, All rights reserved