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• Warren Beatty Compares Filmmaking to Vomiting: ‘It Builds Up and It Builds Up Until Something Happens’

  05-11-2016 20:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Warren Beatty: celebrated actor, Academy Award-winning director, person who does not like to vomit. Beatty has been shy about dolling out the anecdotes during his Rules Don't Apply press tour, so instead he decided to make one for everybody else: hey, remember that time you were at that panel and...More »
  
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• Lil Wayne Reportedly Tried to Stop His Black Lives Matter Nightline Interview From Airing

  05-11-2016 19:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Controversy erupted earlier this week when Lil Wayne brushed off an interview question about Black Lives Matter, but it's not as if his camp didn't try to prevent it. No, not by preparing a few follow-up remarks for Weezy in case the topic came up, but by asking that that...More »
  
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• Dave Chappelle Jokes About Clinton and Trump at Comedy Gig

  05-11-2016 19:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  Days after the announcement came that Dave Chappelle will be hosting Saturday Night Live for the first time next week, the oft reclusive comedian booked a few shows around New York City leading up to his late-night gig. According to the Observer, though, his Friday evening show was mostly dedicated...More »
  
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• Strictly Come Dancing: week seven – live

  05-11-2016 19:25 via theguardian.com
  
  Will Ed Balls live to boogie another week, and will Danny Mac and Ore Oduba bring their A-games once more? Follow along with us, every step of the way 1.43pm GMTHello world, and welcome to the Strictly Come Dancing liveblog. You will notice that I am not Heidi Stephens. Heidi is busy backstage at the Strictly studios for one reason or another. Some would say that she’s abandoned you, because she prizes cheap photo opportunities with disinterested dancers over her loyal readership, but I co
  
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• Watch Keke Palmer’s New Visual Album Lauren and Pretend It's the ‘90s again for 15 Blissful Minutes

  05-11-2016 18:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  Between the camo, midriff tops, and R&B slow jams, Keke Palmer's new visual album Lauren is as '90s as you can get while still calling to mind Rihanna. Debuting yesterday on Billboard, the 15 minute EP, which takes its title from Palmer's birth name, serves up bops like "Got Me F--ked...More »
  
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• Damn, Gary Oldman Looks Really Good As Winston Churchill

  05-11-2016 18:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Now here's a first look of an upcoming film that actually tells us something. (What a treat!) Gary Oldman — a noted master of disguise when it comes to his roles — will be starring in Joe Wright's World War II biopic Darkest Hour as Winston Churchill, and he astoundingly transformed into...More »
  
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• Vanessa Kirby and Jared Harris on Singing Together on The Crown and Why the Royals Will Approve of the Show

  05-11-2016 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Spoilers ahead for episode two of Netflix's The Crown. One of the most touching stories in Netflix’s The Crown is the brief one between Princess Margaret and her father, King George VI. Vanessa Kirby (Everest) and Jared Harris (Lincoln, Mad Men), who had never met before the series, show the...More »
  
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• Beyoncé Releases Her ‘Daddy Lessons’ Music Video on Tidal, Which Is a Great Place to Start Your Daddy’s Beyoncé Lessons

  05-11-2016 16:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  Maybe Beyoncé's Lemonade was a little too plugging-your-menses-with-pages-from-the-Holy-Book for your father, but with her Dixie Chicks collab at the Country Music Association Awards this week, Beyoncé is clearly gunning (pun extremely intended) for "Daddy Lessons" to be the cross-over hit everyone can enjoy. That is presumably the reason Bey has...More »
  
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• Kenny Chesney Wants to Assure Everyone That He Didn’t Actually Dislike Beyoncé’s CMAs Performance

  05-11-2016 16:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Eagle-eyed viewers watching Beyoncé and the Dixie Chicks' masterful performance of "Daddy Lessons" at the Country Music Association Awards earlier this week might've noticed a visibly unamused Kenny Chesney standing in a sea of movin' and shakin' audience members, seemingly not loving what was happening on the stage. His Instagram...More »
  
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• Brad Pitt Wants Joint Custody With Angelina Jolie, So Good Luck With That

  05-11-2016 16:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Last we heard in the ongoing Pitt-Jolie divorce fracas, Angelina Jolie received full custody of her six children with Brad Pitt during a temporary divorce deal, with Pitt getting limited visitation rights. It seemed that the estranged couple were working things out in private, but now Pitt wants joint custody...More »
  
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• Patton Oswalt Discusses Doing Comedy After His Wife’s Death: ‘If You Can Mock It, You Can Manage It’

  05-11-2016 15:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  If it seems like Patton Oswalt has been discussing the passing of his wife Michelle McNamara a lot lately, that's because he has. As the comedian explained on Late Show last night, the options for dealing with grief seem to be talk about it openly with the hope of healing...More »
  
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• Sharon Horgan’s Pulling Is Getting an American Remake

  05-11-2016 15:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  When is Sharon Horgan ever going to get some sleep? Deadline is reporting that Horgan's popular BBC comedy series Pulling — which was her career breakthrough in the U.K. — will be getting an American remake at NBC. Described as a "contemporary re-conception of the beloved format," the original women-fronted...More »
  
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• Gigi Hadid and Jay Pharoah Are Hosting the American Music Awards, Which Really Means Gigi Hadid Will Host With Jay Z, Drake, Katt Williams...

  05-11-2016 15:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Jay Pharaoh must be doing the Rocky training montage right now to prepare for this month's American Music Awards. What’s the Rocky montage for impressionists? Impersonating every element of the Rocky training montage, including, like, the steps? According to Billboard, the former SNL star and Gigi Hadid will be co-hosting...More »
  
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• If Fictional Ex-President Selina Meyer Can’t Motivate You to Vote, Who Can?

  05-11-2016 14:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Veep might be off until next year, but former president Selina Meyer is keeping herself and Gary (relatively) busy by encouraging all of the cool and hip millennial voters out there to make their way to a polling station on Tuesday. Remember: We can't control the weather, but we can...More »
  
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• People Are Going Nuts Over This National Geographic Soap Opera About Penguins

  05-11-2016 14:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  You thought March of the Penguins was a soapy adventure filled with crazy, dangerous twists at every turn? National Geographic is going to have you seriously rethink that. This hell of a story begins with a husband penguin returning home to his colony to chill and maybe fix up his...More »
  
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• Tragic, funny and weird: Donald Glover's Atlanta is a new high for TV comedy

  05-11-2016 14:00 via theguardian.com
  
  With its woozy vignettes and bracing violence, Donald Glover’s sitcom shatters all the moulds for the genre, without ever forgetting to be funny Related: The writers of FX's Atlanta: 'We’re not interested in being Sesame Street' Ha ha! Sob. What place for regular TV lolz in 2016, when nobody can afford anything, all our heroes have perished and the world is on fire? Good news! The modern US comedy is here to help, offering an escape from our misery into someone else’s. Louie pl
  
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• Dana Carvey and Jimmy Fallon Prove They Are Definitely Impression-y Enough for the Impression Club

  05-11-2016 13:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Dana Carvey knows a thing a two about impressions, especially microimpressions, which only last a few seconds and take place in absurd scenarios. A core, tiny essence that explodes into the stratosphere, if you will. Ever the funnymen they are, SNL alums Carvey and Jimmy Fallon decided to take their...More »
  
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• 'As dazzling and disparaging as the Queen herself': Jennie Bond fact-checks The Crown

  05-11-2016 11:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The former royal correspondent spent 30 years monitoring the Queen’s every move. Does the Netflix show capture all the stresses, shocks and shenanigans?Peter Morgan has allowed us to peek through the palace curtains into the private lives and minds of royalty. Or, at least, his version of them. And his version, The Crown, is so believable that I had to keep reminding myself that this is a drama, not a documentary, as I binge-watched all 10 hours in just one day.After nearly 30 years of rep
  
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• 'It's sunny and safe': why Gilmore Girls is perfect comfort TV

  05-11-2016 10:30 via theguardian.com
  
  The cult show is back. It’s not just escapism – it got me through the worst time of my lifeIt is autumn in Stars Hollow. There is a chill in the air and the gazebo in the town’s central square is decorated with pumpkins, porcelain pigs and cockerels that nestle among haystacks and horns of plenty. On one side of the square stands the white clapboard steepled church; across the way is the traditional, red-brick school building. The bookshop, diner and grocers are framed by wroug
  
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• This week's best radio: Steve Earle tunes up a songwriting masterclass

  05-11-2016 10:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Elsewhere, there’s an affecting look at the final hours of people’s lives, and a guide to speaking in publicAll the people interviewed by Julia Eisner about their experience sitting with parents during their final hours for The Vigil (Monday, 8pm, Radio 4) offer variations on the same thought. Broadly, it wasn’t like in the movies. Waiting by the bedside of somebody who won’t be getting up again is one of those experiences that leaves everyone feeling faintly unworthy. So
  
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• The Mads Mikkelsen Ford Edge advert: it makes absolutely no sense

  05-11-2016 10:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The actor stars in a glossy eight-minute drama that features greasy criminals and a woman with knives in her hair. There’s a lot to take inCar adverts sell lifestyles. That’s why they often feature a wholesome suburban family bantering about shopping bags, or a very serious man philosophising in an expensive suit like Bruce Wayne vlogging on an off-day. There’s usually dramatic music, words like “precise” spoken in a sexy voice, and a level of contrast so high it be
  
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• Catch-up and download: from Mafiosa to Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

  05-11-2016 10:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The cult French crime drama returns for series two, while the musical comedy continues to be bizarre yet oddly movingMafiosa Continue reading...
  
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• Citizen Khan review – he's back, and he's got Sadiq with him!

  05-11-2016 07:30 via theguardian.com
  
  There’s little doubt Adil Ray’s sitcom is culturally important. But even the mayor of London can’t rescue its comedy from wooden puns and 70s sex gagsWhat were you thinking, Mr The Mayor of London? Yes, Sadiq Khan makes an appearance in the opening episode of the fifth (!) series of Citizen Khan (BBC1). He doesn’t say a lot. “Yes, that’s me, Citizen Khan at your service,” he tells a police officer who’s looking for the other Citizen Khan. And then,
  
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• Saturday's best TV: China: Between Clouds And Dreams; The X Factor; Atlanta

  05-11-2016 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  A new five-part docuseries on China begins, and could there be another shock exit on The X Factor? Plus: Donald Glover’s great hip-hop comedy kicks offChina’s “environmental destiny” is explored, starting at a school where pupils are enthralled by a letter from their Russian counterparts asking them to look after endangered spoon-billed sandpipers as they make their journey to warmer climes. Meanwhile, on the Tibetan border – the global frontline of climate change &
  
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• Watch Obama's Exit Interview With Bill Maher

  05-11-2016 04:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  On the same night the Beyoncé and Jay Z raucously got out the vote for Hillary Clinton in Cleveland, one could also watch the outgoing President calmly chatting with Bill Maher. Somewhat incredibly, this was the first time President Obama sat down with the Real Time host, despite — according...More »
  
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• Rick Steiner, Producer of Broadway Hits, Dies at 69

  05-11-2016 04:07 via nytimes.com
  Mr. Steiner worked a broad variety of jobs and was, among other things, a poker champion.
  
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• Yes, Beyoncé is Performing at the Clinton Campaign's GOTV Concert in Cleveland Tonight

  05-11-2016 03:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  All rumors must either be proven false or true in time, and this one just came TRUE: Beyoncé officially took the stage at the Clinton campaign's Cleveland get out the vote event, wearing a very fetching polka-dot pantsuit to boot. Earlier reports predicted her presence, especially given that the event...More »
  
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• Watch Beyoncé Performing at the Clinton Campaign's GOTV Concert in Cleveland

  05-11-2016 03:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  All rumors must either be proven false or true in time, and this one just came TRUE: Beyoncé officially took the stage at the Clinton campaign's Cleveland get out the vote event, wearing a very fetching polka-dot pantsuit to boot. Earlier reports predicted her presence, especially given that the event...More »
  
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• Watch Beyoncé Perform at the Clinton Campaign’s GOTV Concert in Cleveland

  05-11-2016 03:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  All rumors must either be proven false or true in time, and this one just came TRUE: Beyoncé officially took the stage at the Clinton campaign's Cleveland get out the vote event, wearing a very fetching polka-dot pantsuit to boot. Earlier reports predicted her presence, especially given that the event...More »
  
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• Chicago Cubs Players Will Be On SNL This Weekend

  05-11-2016 03:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Members of the World Series-winning Chicago Cubs will be appearing on Saturday Night Live this weekend, The Hollywood Reporter reports. The episode will be hosted by Benedict Cumberbatch and will feature music by Solange. No word yet on which players will be making an appearance, or when, but our money's...More »
  
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• Richard Steiner, Producer of Broadway Hits, Dies at 69

  05-11-2016 03:07 via nytimes.com
  Mr. Steiner worked a broad variety of jobs and was, among other things, a poker champion.
  
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• Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Recap: The Math of Love Triangles

  05-11-2016 03:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  I'd like to talk about tonight's especially compelling moment on a romantic bridge — but it's probably not the one you're thinking of. Rather, it's when Rebecca and Greg discuss Darryl and White Josh. "They're a great couple," she says. "God, I ship them so hard," he responds. It's a...More »
  
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• Here's An Upside Down Stranger Things Table Read

  05-11-2016 02:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Stranger Things is back in production for season two, and yes, it's confirmed: Millie Bobby Brown will be returning, as will the rest of the kid cast. That was revealed today when the Netflix show's official Twitter account shared a delightful image of everyone (under the age of 30) in...More »
  
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• 'Dialoog en theater zijn in psychiatrie belangrijke middelen' - Volkskrant

  05-11-2016 02:04
  
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  'Dialoog en theater zijn in psychiatrie belangrijke middelen'
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  Lowijs Perquin deed baanbrekend werk in de psychiatrie en maakte als terminaal zieke patiënt ook nog furore met een theaterstuk. Door: Peter de Waard 5 november 2016, 02:00. Nadat bekend was geworden dat hij uitgezaaide prostaatkanker had, kreeg ...
  
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• Magie van Frans theater op het witte doek - Volkskrant

  05-11-2016 02:01
  
  Volkskrant
  Magie van Frans theater op het witte doek
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  Sinds kort is de Comédie-Française in de bioscoop te zien, ook in Nederland. De grande dame van het Franse theater moet met haar tijd mee. Artistiek leider Éric Ruf vernieuwt met fluwelen handschoen. Door: Peter Giesen 5 november 2016, 02:00.
  
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• The Crown Recap: Coronation Day

  05-11-2016 01:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The first several episodes of The Crown have been what you'd expect in your standard historical period drama. The storytelling is straightforward, if sometimes a tad slowly paced; there's ample time to look around and appreciate the sumptuousness of the settings and costume and design; conflicts build and events follow...More »
  
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• Watch Common's Short Film Black America Again

  05-11-2016 01:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  Common is on a bit of a hot streak lately — selling a sitcom about a fast-declining 90s rapper to Fox, releasing a new album (out today), and now there is an artful short film to add into the mix. Black America Again, which shares its name with his newly-dropped...More »
  
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• Mr Robot star Rami Malek to play Freddie Mercury in Queen biopic

  05-11-2016 00:39
  
  The actor – who won an Emmy for his performance as neurotic hacker Elliot Alderson in Mr Robot – will play the Queen frontman in Bohemian RhapsodyRami Malek, the star of Mr Robot, is the latest actor who has signed on to play Freddie Mercury in the troubled biopic Bohemian Rhapsody.The actor – who won an Emmy for his performance as neurotic hacker Elliot Alderson in Mr Robot – will play the Queen frontman, with X-Men: Apocalypse director Bryan Singer in talks to direct. R
  
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• Ben Affleck's Story About His Son Playing Near Prince George Proves the Tiny Royal Has No Respect for the U.S.A.

  05-11-2016 00:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  England’s Prince George of Cambridge has proven once again that he has no respect for prominent citizens of the United States. Earlier this year he received President Obama in his bathrobe, a move that the Commander in Chief called “a slap in the face” and “a clear breach of protocol.”...More »
  
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• Theater News: Bay Area Musicals! Set for 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

  05-11-2016 00:00
  
  Artistic director Matthew McCoy directs the musical-comedy beginning performances tonight.
  
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• Interviews: Robert Morse Is Back on Broadway — Thanks to His Pal Nathan Lane

  05-11-2016 00:00
  
  The original Finch in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying stars opposite Lane in The Front Page.
  
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