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The stars of "Your Sister's Sister" and its director discuss the messy world of family over tapas

Summer blockbuster season is upon us, and returning this summer are those famous alien-hunting bureaucrats, who are back in Men in Black 3. This time, Will Smith's Agent J goes back in time to work alongside a young Agent K, played by the brilliantly gruff and rugged Josh Brolin. Brolin's no stranger to that kind of role—if anything, it's a stretch for him to be in a comedy. Brolin, of course, has had a decades-long career, starting out as a teen heartthrob in The Goonies. But his roles in recent years—as Llewelyn Moss in No Country for Old Men, Tom Chaney in True Grit, George W. Bush in W.—have defined him as the go-to guy to play the modern cowboy. Has Josh Brolin sparked the return of the American Man? In the cover story of our upcoming June/July issue, BlackBook Editor-in-Chief Joshua David Stein explores Brolin's career and how he might be one of the last great American men. 

Remember when MTV used to be all about the music, man? If you don't, then you're probably too young understand (and also too young to have legal sex with me), but back in the day there were these things called music videos and sometimes Alicia Silverstone would be in the videos getting her bellybutton pierced, and late at night these two cartoon bros named Beavis and Butthead made of fun of the videos and drooled over Alicia Silverstone and everyone was happy. Then reality TV took off and everything changed. These days, if you want to see bands lip-synching, you've got to watch live sporting events. But good news for music fans: MTV has just launched something really cool called $5 Cover Seattle, a web docudrama about the current Seattle music scene featuring music, interviews, backstage footage, and all that fun stuff.