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• Oscar Futures: Can a 7-Year-Old Actress Get Nominated This Year?

  06-10-2017 23:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  On a regular basis between now and March 4, 2018, when the winners of the Academy Awards are announced, Vulture will consult its crystal ball to determine the changing fortunes in this year’s Oscars race. In our Oscar Futures column, we’ll let you in on insider gossip, parse brand-new developments,...More »
  
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• Top Fox News lawyer takes leave of absence

  06-10-2017 23:27 via ft.com
  Ailes ally Brandi was involved in handling harassment claims against network
  
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• Optics: ‘Blade Runner,’ Serving Sexy Replicant Looks for Fall

  06-10-2017 23:27 via nytimes.com
  ‘Blade Runner,’ Serving Sexy Replicant Looks for Fall
  
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• The Saw Creators Turn a Ball Pit Into One of Jigsaw’s Traps

  06-10-2017 22:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  We asked the creators of the Saw franchise to sit down in our ball pit at New York Comic Con and tell us how they would turn it into one of Jigsaw’s horrific tortuous traps. We certainly won’t look at beach balls the same way again....More »
  
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• Harvey Weinstein Plans Leave of Absence as His Company Investigates Allegations

  06-10-2017 22:25 via nytimes.com
  The board of the Weinstein Company will investigate accusations of sexual harassment by its co-chairman under a plan being finalized on Friday, according to people involved.
  
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• Blade Runner 2049 Review Roundup: Is This One of Harrison Ford's Best Films?

  06-10-2017 22:02 via feeds.eonline.com
  Harrison Ford is receiving much praise for his return as Rick Deckard.The 75-year-old actor, best known for his performances in the Star Wars and Indiana Jones movies, reprises his role...
  
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• The Grey’s Anatomy Firefighter Spinoff Just Cast Some of Your Broadway Faves

  06-10-2017 21:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  Shondaland shows are full of actors who can sing — consider Audra McDonald in Private Practice, or Sara Ramirez in Grey’s Anatomy — and her latest project is keeping the grand tradition alive. Deadline reports that the latest Shondaland project, a Grey’s spinoff set in a Seattle firehouse, has cast...More »
  
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• Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month by Streaming These Latin American Movies on Netflix

  06-10-2017 21:36 via nytimes.com
  The streaming service offers a generous trove of modern classics and recent festival favorites.
  
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• Former Apprentice Producer Says Trump Would Make Sexist and Racist Comments When Discussing Whom to Fire

  06-10-2017 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ever since the presidential campaign, many involved in The Apprentice have discussed Donald Trump’s inappropriate behavior and comments on the show. Though the alleged damning tapes that have been promised have not surfaced, you can get a sense of the character of Trump’s behavior in a new interview from producer...More »
  
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• Lisa Bloom: Harvey Weinstein Is Actually Kind of a Hero, If You Think About It

  06-10-2017 21:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  Lisa Bloom’s press tour in light of the sexual-harassment allegations against Harvey Weinstein is … not going well. A day after the bombshell New York Times report detailing multiple accusations of misbehavior by the producer, including asking young women for massages or to watch him shower, Bloom offered another questionable...More »
  
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• Tom Alter, Blue-Eyed Star of Bollywood Films, Dies at 67

  06-10-2017 21:19 via nytimes.com
  Born to missionaries in India, Mr. Alter went on to act in more than 300 films, often as Western diplomats, colonials, priests and police officers.
  
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• Liam Gallagher and Kele Okereke: Two Paths For the Frontman Turned Solo Artist

  06-10-2017 21:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  A shared album-release date today isn’t the only thing that brings together Liam Gallagher and Kele Okereke. Both British men first entered into public view as lead singers for their respective rock bands: Gallagher as the front man for Oasis with Definitely Maybe (1994), Okereke at the head of Bloc...More »
  
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• Report: The Weinstein Company Is Suspending Harvey Weinstein

  06-10-2017 20:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Weinstein Company is preparing to suspend Harvey Weinstein in the wake of decades of sexual-harassment allegations against the mogul coming to light Thursday, Variety reports. An official announcement is expected to come Friday evening. The studio head has taken a voluntary leave of absence but is reportedly resisting calls...More »
  
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• What Uzo Aduba Can’t Live Without

  06-10-2017 20:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you’re like us, you’ve probably wondered what famous people add to their carts. Not the JAR brooch and Louis XV chair, but the hand sanitizer and the electric toothbrush. We asked Uzo Aduba of Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black what she can’t live without, from the Christmasy candle to the Korean...More »
  
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• Dear God, Please Make Peter Capaldi’s Dream Doctor Who Episode About Jimi Hendrix Battling Flower Monsters

  06-10-2017 20:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  William Shakespeare. Vincent van Gogh. A very horny Madame de Pompadour. Interacting with famous faces of yesteryear is as synonymous with Doctor Who as a sonic screwdriver at this point. However, there’s one icon who hasn’t yet graced the Whoniverse, even though the 12th Doctor himself, Peter Capaldi, is dying...More »
  
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• Kim Cattrall Tells Sex and the City Fan It's Time to Move On

  06-10-2017 20:12 via feeds.eonline.com
  Kim Cattrall is moving on from Sex and the City amid drama surrounding the now-axed third film.The 61-year-old actress recently spoke out about about not wanting to return for a sequel,...
  
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• Transparent Recap: I Just Don’t Feel Good

  06-10-2017 20:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  The first part of “Babar the Borrible” is a story where the seams are showing just a little too much. It’s yet to be especially clear what the Sarah-Len-Lila relationship is bringing to the season: I’m happy that Sarah and Len seem to be in a consensual if unconventional sexual...More »
  
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• How Peter Capaldi Accidentally Found Out the New Doctor Who Would Be a Woman

  06-10-2017 20:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  As with all Doctor Who casting decisions, the unveiling of Jodie Whittaker as the newest (and first female!) Doctor was shrouded in secrecy. Even Peter Capaldi didn’t have a damn clue who would be replacing him until a few days before the announcement — but through some deductive reasoning and...More »
  
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• Should They Have Eaten the Dog in The Mountain Between Us?

  06-10-2017 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Before you get upset: No, that headline isn’t a spoiler! There is no dog-eating in The Mountain Between Us, the new survival romance where Idris Elba and Kate Winslet crash on a snow-capped mountain and then must struggle to survive — in a sexy way — while they make their...More »
  
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• Fantastic Beasts Sequel Adds Jessica Williams to the Cast

  06-10-2017 20:00 via feeds.eonline.com
  It's a good time to be Harry Potter superfan Jessica Williams.Pottermore announced Friday that the Daily Show alum has been cast in an undisclosed role in Warner Bros.' untitled...
  
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• Battle against free digital content takes gloss off magazines

  06-10-2017 19:56 via ft.com
  Many of iconic figures of the industry have moved on, as the attraction of free content on the internet dents print and advertising sales
  
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• What Hollywood Really Thinks About the Harvey Weinstein Scandal

  06-10-2017 19:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  On the heels of Thursday’s bombshell New York Times exposé, which details numerous accusations of sexual harassment and other too-nauseating-to-even-contemplate abuses of power and station by Weinstein Company co-chairman Harvey Weinstein, the hard-charging, Oscar-winning studio mogul has become toxic in Hollywood. His public dressing-down has drawn the tweeted opprobrium of...More »
  
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• Dina Is a Slight But Sweet Look at a Neurologically Atypical Romance

  06-10-2017 19:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  Dina, directed by Antonio Santini and Dan Sickles, looks almost pastel, its colors prematurely sun-faded, as if shot through a filter of summer haze. It both softens its protagonists and desaturates them; the effect is equal parts cute and frank. Those could also be the descriptors for Dina itself, a...More »
  
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• Prince Harry to guest edit Radio 4's Today programme

  06-10-2017 19:34
  Editor Sarah Sands confirms royal input into Christmas special edition of BBC news programmePrince Harry is to guest edit Today, BBC radio’s flagship news and current affairs programme. The programme’s editor, Sarah Sands, said Harry would edit one of the Christmas specials, when a range of guest editors are traditionally deployed. Continue reading...
  
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• Meet Brooklynn Prince, the 7-Year-Old Who’s Going to Be Blowing Up Awards Season

  06-10-2017 19:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  Quvenzhané Wallis, Jacob Tremblay, the Stranger Things kids — sometimes it seems like a red carpet these days isn’t complete without a pint-sized charmer. Thankfully, this year’s precocious child actor is 7-year-old Brooklynn Prince, star of Sean Baker’s wonderful new film The Florida Project. Prince plays Moonee, a young girl living...More »
  
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• Harvey Weinstein legal aide calls his alleged conduct 'gross' and illegal

  06-10-2017 19:33
  Lisa Bloom: ‘The allegations if true would constitute sexual harassment’Weinstein says he intends to sue New York Times for ‘reckless reporting’One of Harvey Weinstein’s legal advisers called his behavior illegal and gross on Friday as the fallout over claims the powerful Hollywood producer spent decades exploiting and harassing young women caught in his orbit continued.In an interview with ABC News, presenter George Stephanopoulos said to Lisa Bloom, a lawyer bette
  
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• Harvey Weinstein lawyer calls mogul's conduct 'gross' and illegal

  06-10-2017 19:33
  Lisa Bloom: ‘The allegations if true would constitute sexual harassment’Weinstein says he intends to sue New York Times for ‘reckless reporting’One of Harvey Weinstein’s legal advisers called his behavior illegal and gross on Friday as the fallout over claims the powerful Hollywood producer spent decades exploiting and harassing young women caught in his orbit continued.In an interview with ABC News, presenter George Stephanopoulos said to Lisa Bloom, a lawyer bette
  
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• John Boyega Gets to Use His Sexy British Accent in First Trailer For Pacific Rim 2: Uprising

  06-10-2017 19:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  Spoiler! At the end of Pacific Rim, man won the war for humanity against an invading army of enormous kaiju. It cost us Idris Elba, but we won — or did we? The premise for Pacific Rim 2: Uprising clarifies that that was merely a battle, and the war for...More »
  
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• Lisa Bloom, lawyer who helped oust Bill O'Reilly, recruited by Harvey Weinstein

  06-10-2017 19:21
  The attorney has represented many alleged victims of inappropriate sexual conduct, and will now defend Weinstein against accusations of harassmentOne of the lawyers recruited by Harvey Weinstein as he fights accusations that he exploited women working for him is better known for representing those on the other side of sexual harassment allegations.Related: Harvey Weinstein to take 'leave of absence' as sexual harassment allegations surfaceRelated: Harvey Weinstein: bombshell allegations hint at
  
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• Take My Nose … Please Is a Buoyant But Troubling Look at Funny Women and Plastic Surgery

  06-10-2017 19:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  The title of Joan Kron’s documentary Take My Nose … Please is creepily suggestive: a Henny Youngman–esque one-liner over a world of pain. The subject is plastic surgery; the subjects are women comedians, and their habit of mining their bodies for laughs. As The Substance of Style author Virginia Postrel...More »
  
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• Weinstein star wanes amid harassment claims

  06-10-2017 19:12 via ft.com
  Movie mogul on leave of absence after allegations of decades-long sexual misconduct
  
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• Queen Sugar’s Dawn-Lyen Gardner on How Playing a Biracial Woman Informs Her Acting Choices

  06-10-2017 18:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  The second season of Queen Sugar, which returned with a two-part midseason finale this week, has many pleasures — chief among them is the equal parts tender and steely performance by Dawn-Lyen Gardner as Charley Bordelon. The midseason premiere finds Charley in a very complex position. Her divorce has now...More »
  
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• Amazon Gets Its Own Damn Sci-Fi Anthology Show With Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams

  06-10-2017 18:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  Amazon apparently looked at the success of Black Mirror and thought, “Can we have one of those, please?” In Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams, the streaming service presents ten stand-alone stories based on the prolific sci-fi writers’ imagined worlds. The cast includes Steve Buscemi, Bryan Cranston, Greg Kinnear, Maura Tierney,...More »
  
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• Spielberg Is a Rich, Personal Look at Hollywood’s Most Successful Filmmaker

  06-10-2017 18:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  Steven Spielberg has not directed and/or produced every single beloved movie of the past four decades. It just feels like he has.No American director is more well-known or more commercially successful than he is. As New York Times critic Janet Maslin puts it in the new HBO documentary Spielberg, “There...More »
  
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• Lisa Bloom, Harvey Weinstein’s Adviser, Criticizes His Behavior Toward Women

  06-10-2017 18:21 via nytimes.com
  Ms. Bloom’s comments came one day after an investigation detailed decades of allegations against the powerful Hollywood producer.
  
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• Streaming: Lost and Found in Translation: Streaming Isn’t Afraid of Subtitles

  06-10-2017 18:16 via nytimes.com
  Subtitling is not a problem for viewers, particularly younger ones with specific enthusiasms.
  
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• This New Web Series Features Some of Today’s Most Influential Thought Leaders

  06-10-2017 18:14 via feedproxy.google.com
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• 7 Hollywood Gatekeepers on What They Look for in a Script

  06-10-2017 18:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  As part of our ongoing investigation into how movies are written now, Vulture talked to some of Hollywood’s most powerful executives and producers about what exactly they’re looking for in a script in 2017. Below, find out what drives these gatekeepers nuts, why they do (or don’t) care about spelling...More »
  
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• Theater News: Broadway's Once on This Island Announces Complete Casting

  06-10-2017 18:00
  Emerson Davis and Mia Williamson will take on the role of the Little Girl.
  
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• Kelela Is R&B’s Futurist

  06-10-2017 17:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  Kelela makes music that lives in intersections: Sometimes she sounds like ’90s R&B, sometimes she veers progressively electronic, but it all blends together into an amorphous, exciting new form of sound. It makes perfect sense when you hear it but feels slippery when you try to pin it to any...More »
  
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• Eros International: court short

  06-10-2017 17:50 via ft.com
  Investors should wait for the evidence before buying a ticket
  
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• A Eugene O’Neill Marathon: 1 Actor, 1 Script, 5 Hours

  06-10-2017 17:44 via nytimes.com
  David Greenspan has been rehearsing his solo take on the epic “Strange Interlude” for four years. Now it’s show time.
  
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• Going to Iraq Apparently Made Sam Smith Woke

  06-10-2017 17:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sam Smith has built a reputation on his falsetto, lovelorn ballads, and saying the wrong thing at the worst possible time. In his 2016 Oscars acceptance speech for his Bond theme, Smith repeated a quote from Sir Ian McKellen that he’d misunderstood to mean that no openly gay man had...More »
  
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• Harvey Weinstein’s Lawyer Gave $10,000 to Manhattan D.A. After Office Dropped Sexual-Assault Case

  06-10-2017 17:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  A new report from the International Business Times says David Boies donated $10,000 to Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. in 2015, months after the D.A.’s office declined to bring charges against Harvey Weinstein over a sexual-assault allegation. Boies has represented Weinstein publicly in many of the producer’s high-profile tussles,...More »
  
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• Theater News: Casting Announced for the Old Globe's 20th Annual Production of The Grinch

  06-10-2017 17:00
  Broadway veteran Edward Watts will take on the lead role.
  
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• Photo Flash: Oedipus El Rey Begins Performances at the Public Theater

  06-10-2017 17:00
  Chay Yew directs Luis Alfaro's adaptation of Oedipus Rex.
  
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• Photo Flash: First Look at Love Never Dies National Tour

  06-10-2017 17:00
  Andrew Lloyd Webber's sequel to The Phantom of the Opera makes its North American debut.
  
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• BOOGIE - sneak preview nieuw jazzalbum in Theater Bouwkunde - Deventer Post (persbericht) (Blog)

  06-10-2017 16:54
  Deventer Post (persbericht) (Blog)
  BOOGIE - sneak preview nieuw jazzalbum in Theater Bouwkunde
  Deventer Post (persbericht) (Blog)
  Deventer - Op zondagmiddag 15 oktober is in Theater Bouwkunde de sneak preview van BOOGIE. BOOGIE is het nieuwste project van DASH!, het vrijgevochten jazz en funk trio van saxofonist Maarten Ornstein. Geïnspireerd door Jon Spencer, Chris Whitley, ...
  
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