Hillary Busis

hillary.busis@gmail.com

This is me as a cartoon

I write Google Offers and various things for Entertainment Weekly’s website—currently, I’m both liveblogging and recapping Once Upon a Time and Smash for EW each week—and The Wall Street Journal online. I’ve also had stints at InterviewMagazine.com (associate online managing editor), EW.com (full-time intern slash Tumblr-er), and Mediaite (associate editor, and the brains behind their Tumblr). This is my blog, and my Twitter is over here.

Additionally, I’ve interned at NPRSlateCollegeCandy.comNewsweek On Airbc magazine in Hong Kong, CosmopolitanAOL Television, the Columbia Journalism Review, and Overlook Press.

There are, somehow, two Wikipedia entries that use me as a reference.

Here’s a list of links to some stuff I’ve written. Please assume that I wrote the funny headlines and someone else wrote the bad ones. You can see my full resume on LinkedIn.

InterviewMagazine.com:

Anna Kendrick Takes Her Chances 9/28/2011

Kate Beaton, History Girl 9/28/2011

Casting Call: Robopocalypse, The Corrections, Frankenstein, Les Miserables, Just Kids, Dirty Dancing, Flowers For Algernon, Bonnie and Clyde, Paradise Lost, The Giver

The Curious Case of Tyler Labine 9/2/2011

Lake Bell Dives Right In 8/30/2011

Lisa Kudrow’s Post-Comeback Comeback 7/26/2011

A (Mostly) Clean Slate [interview with Jenny Slate] 11/11/10

With Spitzer Documentary, Alex Gibney Explores Another Dark Side 11/4/10

Mr. Porter:

Bomber Jackets: Five Ways to Wear [interview with Jeff Hephner] 10/25/11 

EW.com:

Smash, Season 1: Episode 1

Once Upon a Time recaps, Season 1: Episodes 8, 9, 10, 11

The X Factor recap, Season 1: Episode 17

The Office recaps, Season 7: Episodes 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25

Parks and Recreation recaps, Season 3: Episodes 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 & 14,

The Voice recaps, Season 1: Episodes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

America’s Next Top Model recap, Season 16: Episode 8

Glee Live 2011: The shrieks shall inherit 6/20/2011

Who’s the coolest Muppet Baby? 6/17/2011

Has Christina Aguilera’s image rehab been successful? 6/15/2011

Movie Math: Pirates 3 minus Pirates 1 equals Pirates 4, give or take one mermaid  5/20/2011

19 Movie Battles of the Sexes gallery 5/20/2011

Movie Math: The Hangover-free Bridesmaids formula 5/13/2011

Royal Wedding Liveblog 4/29/11

Summer Movie Decision Tree 4/27/11

The Game of Thrones Book Club: Introduction, Week 1, Week 2, Week 3

Think M. Night Shyamalan should go back to film school? There’s a website for that 4/11/11

Skins season finale: When controversy’s not enough to carry a show 3/22/11

Let’s hear it for the return of ’90s Nickelodeon: It’s about time 3/10/11

Mean Girls 2: When is a sequel not a sequel? 1/24/11

We’ve read Snooki’s book: The most (and least) surprising things about A Shore Thing 1/4/11

All my posts on EW.com:

Popwatch

Inside TV

Inside Movies

Shelf Life

Music Mix

News Briefs

Mediaite:

My author page

WSJ.com:

The Vampire Diaries recaps, Season 3: Episodes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Season 2: Episodes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Season 1: Episodes 15, 20

‘Mad Men’ Finale: Should Don Draper and Megan Be Together? 10/18/10

Jersey Shore recaps, Season 2: Episodes 2345678, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13

Mad Men recaps, Season 4: Episodes 2, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

Gossip Girl recaps, Season 4: Episodes 1, 2, 5, 6, 7
Season 3: Episodes 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20

Work of Art recaps, Season 1: Episodes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

High Society recaps, Season 1: Episodes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

‘Hot in Cleveland’ Season 1, Episode 1 Review 6/16/10

Casey Johnson and the Death Tweet: What Would Emily Post Say? 1/6/10

Lemondrop.com:

‘America’s Greeting Card Divide’ 8/30/10

Project Husband — She’s Got the Gown, Now She Needs The Groom 8/9/10

Slate:

And Now A Message From Chuck Lorre [full article and slide show] 9/20/10

The Mane Event [Explainer] 4/30/10

Bored? Check Out Mark Twain’s Trivia Game 4/22/10

How Do Movie Theaters Decide Which Trailers To Show? [Explainer] 4/15/10

ALT Does ANTM 3/18/10

The Olympics Sap-o-meter: Falling in a winter blunderland 2/25/10

Can Bariatric Surgery Be Reversed? [Explainer] 2/24/10

Double X:

Say Yes to This Dress? 3/12/10

College Candy:

Bad Advice Women Get column: Know Your Fashion Sex; Get Fit for Prom; Try Not to Be Too Happy; You’re Never Fully Dressed Without a Smile; Grocery Store Glamour; Date Like a D-Bag; Settle Down. Now.; Let Guys Be Guys; Always Look Your Best; Laugh Away Those Pounds; Grape Expectations

Breaking News: Ivy Boys are Weird 12/4/09

Thanksgiving Makes For Some Great TV 11/22/09

It’s a Twihard-Knock Life 11/20/09

Hey Jon Gosselin: The Jews Don’t Want You! 10/16/09

Tucker Max: WTF? 9/25/09

bc magazine:

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince review 8/1/09

Re-Enter the Dragon [cover story] 7/16/09

A Plastic Tax 7/16/09

Love Knots 7/16/09

Where There’s Smoke [cover story] 7/2/09

Improv 101 7/2/09

Macau page: Zaia 7/2/09

AOL:

TV Stars Turned Politicians 8/25/08

50 Stars & States: Celebrity Hometowns 6/30/08

The Eye, weekly magazine of The Columbia Daily Spectator:

We’ve Got Spirit—Yes We Do! [cover story] 4/15/10

It’s Kind of a Funny Story… [cover story] 11/5/09

Counting His Chickens [pdf, p. 6] [interview with Simon Rich] 10/30/08

Model Airheads [pdf, p. 12] [behind the scenes at a Top Model casting call] 4/3/08

Columbia Daily Spectator:

To be and not to be 4/28/10

And Another Thing columns: Bring Of Montreal (Out)back; Movies so bad they’re good; This Pesach, don’t pass over the Rugrats; Winter’s pure gold; America’s Next Top Miss America; Spice up your life 1/27/10

Top 10 Commercials of the Early Mid-Nineties 12/8/08

NY or LA, the Rich, Pouty Rule TV 9/8/08

The Secret’s Out, and It’s Not Worth Repeating 7/22/08

Dane Cook Nearly Spoils Another Movie 10/29/07

Prep School Sexcapades Fall Flat on Their Faces 9/25/07

Instructions for Shear Genius: Cut it All Off 4/11/07

Old Popstars Find Some New Dolls 3/20/07

Why We Care About Anna Nicole 2/27/07

Columbia Political Review:

Politicians: They’re Just Like Us! [pdf, p. 29] march 2010 issue

The Current, a Columbia magazine:

Shakespeare, Eliot, and Me spring 2007 issue

Trash as Treasure winter 2006 issue