New this week: Mariah Carey, Gloria Steinem & ‘South Park’

MOVIES

“The Glorias “: Julie Taymor’s film, based on Gloria Steinem’s 2015 book “My Life on the Road,” is a biopic with verve and flair. The legendary feminist leader is played by four different actresses (Julianna Moore, Alicia Vikander, Lulu Wilson, Ryan Kira Armstrong) across four stages of her life. Sometimes they meet each other. But the multitudes of Steinems aren’t just a deconstructionist trick. The feminism embodied by Steinem is an expression of women everywhere, Taymor suggests. Traversing America in time and place,

“The Glorias” finds her everywhere. Debuting Wednesday on Amazon Prime.

“Dick Johnson Is Dead”: Kristen Johnson was a veteran documentary cinematographer when she made one of 2016’s very best films, “Cameraperson,” a collage of footage captured over her 25-year career that dug into the relationship between subject and filmmaker. Johnson’s latest, premiering Wednesday on Netflix, is a playful eulogy to her father as she slowly loses him to Alzheimer’s. That may sound dark, and it is. But “Dick Johnson Is Dead,” made with love and gallows humor, is as much about life as it is death.

MUSIC

Mariah Carey has pulled from her rich vault to compile a new album called “The Rarities.” Made up of songs recorded from 1990 — the year she dropped her multi-hit self-titled debut album — and 2020, the album features previously unreleased songs and rare B-sides, some even from recording sessions for her top-selling albums like “Emotions,” “Music Box” and “Day Dream.” The release of “The Rarities” is tied to “The Meaning of Mariah Carey,” the pop icon’s memoir coming out Tuesday.

Queen and Adam Lambert have performed more than 200 shows together, and now they are releasing their first live album. They idea came after the rockers had to cancel their tour because of the coronavirus pandemic and wanted to find a way to please their die-hard fans. “Queen + Adam Live Around the World” will be released Friday and the 20-track set includes concert highlights from around the world personally selected by Roger Taylor, Brian May and Lambert.

TELEVISION

If laughter is good medicine, then it’s “South Park” to the rescue. The animated series from Trey Parker and Matt Stone takes on the coronavirus with an hourlong episode, “The Pandemic Special,” debuting 8 p.m. Wednesday on Comedy Central (repeated at 9 and 10 p.m.). The kids return to school to find the anxiety-inducing new normal evidenced in their teachers and socially distanced classroom. Meanwhile, Randy deals with his alleged role in the viral outbreak that has the town of South Park on defense. We’re on edge: the new season start date has yet to be announced.

How about a trip to Paris with Lily Collins for company and Darren Star (“Sex and the City”) as tour guide? “Emily in Paris,” a 10-episode romantic comedy debuting Friday on Netflix, stars Collins as a marketing executive who’s transferred to the City of Lights to revamp a newly acquired company’s social media strategy. Emily, of course, is not all work, with “intoxicating adventures” and romances — plural! — promised, along with envy-inducing fashion. Ashley Park, Philippine Leroy Beaulieu and Lucas Bravo co-star.

Photos and text from wire services Kamran Jebreili / Associated Press Mariah Carey has pulled from her rich vault to compile a new album called “The Rarities.”