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• Weinstein lawyer resigns

  07-10-2017 22:39 via ft.com
  Lisa Bloom no longer advising movie mogul over sexual harassment allegations
  
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• Lisa Bloom, Lawyer Advising Harvey Weinstein, Says She Has Resigned

  07-10-2017 22:04 via nytimes.com
  Ms. Bloom had been advising the high-powered film producer, who faces multiple sexual harassment allegations, on gender and power dynamics.
  
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• Lawyer Lisa Bloom resigns as adviser to Harvey Weinstein amid criticism

  07-10-2017 21:14
  Bloom, who helped oust Bill O’Reilly from Fox News, had been helping the film producer following allegations of decades of sexual harassmentThe attorney Lisa Bloom has resigned her role as an adviser to the movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, after facing criticism for defending a man accused of repeated sexual harassment.Related: 'We're all complicit': Were the Harvey Weinstein allegations an open secret? Here is my statement about advising Harvey Weinstein. pic.twitter.com/tGC13ZbOE3 Related:
  
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• Voice Actor Rob Paulson Performs Some Of His Famous Voices

  07-10-2017 20:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  Legendary voice actor Rob Paulson has lent his voice to shows from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to Jimmy Neutron to Rick and Morty. Hear him run through some of his most iconic characters in rapid succession while hanging out in the Vulture ball pit at New York Comic Con....More »
  
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• Lisa Bloom Has Quit As Harvey Weinstein’s Advisor

  07-10-2017 19:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  As it turns out, celebrity power lawyer Lisa Bloom doesn’t think Harvey Weinstein is kind of a hero after all. Only a few days after agreeing to advise Weinstein after a bombshell New York Times article detailed multiple, decades-spanning instances of alleged sexual misconduct against him, Bloom announced she’s stepping...More »
  
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• Jerry Seinfeld: Driving a Corvette With Obama Is the ‘Greatest Moment’ of My Entire Life

  07-10-2017 18:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  Jerry Seinfeld is a world-famous comedian, he starred in one of TV’s most beloved sitcoms, and he’s got a $100 million deal with Netflix. But as he explained at the New Yorker Festival on Friday night, nothing in his long career tops his 2015 episode of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee with Barack Obama. “It...More »
  
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• Sorry La La Land: Why Ryan Gosling Is Irresistible to the Audience and His Costars in Blade Runner 2049

  07-10-2017 18:00 via feeds.eonline.com
  By this point it's becoming one of Hollywood's most reliable witticisms: Everything Ryan Gosling touches turns to gold.
  Whether it's a cult favorite rom-com like Crazy Stupid...
  
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• Nelly Reportedly Arrested for Rape

  07-10-2017 17:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  The rapper Nelly was arrested for raping a woman while on the road for his nationwide tour. Per a report in TMZ, the unidentified woman claims she was raped in his tour bus Saturday morning around 3:45 am in Ridgefield, Washington behind a Walmart store, following a joint concert he...More »
  
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• Jerry Seinfeld Admits He ‘Sometimes’ Regrets the Seinfeld Finale

  07-10-2017 17:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  Nearly two decades after Seinfeld bowed out with an infamously divisive finale, Jerry Seinfeld still isn’t sure they made the right choice. “I sometimes think we really shouldn’t have even done it,” he told the audience during a New Yorker Festival interview on Friday night. “There was a lot of pressure on...More »
  
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• Kit Harington Messed Up His Wedding Proposal to Rose Leslie

  07-10-2017 17:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  After some of the worst onscreen nuptials ever, there’s finally going to be a real-life Game of Thrones wedding. In an interview with Jonathan Ross, Kit Harington opened up about his recent engagement to former co-star Rose Leslie — and revealed that the proposal did not, unfortunately, take place in...More »
  
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• Vin Diesel Shows Support for Dwayne Johnson Amid Fast & Furious 9 Drama

  07-10-2017 16:56 via feeds.eonline.com
  Vin Diesel is here to try and smooth things over as more Fast & Furious drama rages on.This week, Universal Pictures announced the ninth film would be released a year later than...
  
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• Hey Arnold! The Jungle Movie Trailer: Your Favorite Football Head Is Back!

  07-10-2017 16:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  More than a decade after signing off Nickelodeon to make way for the iCarlys and Zoey 101s of the new world, we can finally hear Helga wail “HAIRBOY!” once again. That’s right — the trailer for the Hey Arnold! television movie has finally debuted after far too many teases, with...More »
  
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• Stephen Colbert Has Some Fun Mocking Donald Trump’s Many Failed Attempts at Wooing Women

  07-10-2017 15:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  Donald Trump may love the famous ladies, but the famous ladies really don’t love Donald Trump, do they now? Everyone from Brooke Shields to Candice Bergen to Emma Thompson has come out in recent weeks to share the pretty cringeworthy experiences of being courted by The Donald back in the...More »
  
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• Chris Rock Goes Through a Real Journey Trying to Understand What Liam Gallagher Is Saying on Graham Norton

  07-10-2017 15:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  Liam Gallagher and Noel Gallagher don’t like each other. At all. If you already knew that, congrats, your knowledge of ‘90s Brit band sibling dynamics is very impressive! But if your only understanding of the word “Gallagher” is a generic Irish surname, you might be experiencing similar reactions as Chris...More »
  
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• Does Blade Runner 2049 Settle the ‘Is Deckard a Replicant’ Debate?

  07-10-2017 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Spoilers for Blade Runner 2049 below.The history of science fiction is littered with intractable debates. What defines “hard” science fiction? Should anime be watched with English dubbing or English subtitles? How is Data so sexy? But one question rises to the top of the genre pile this week: Is Rick...More »
  
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• This week’s best radio: Bing Crosby and the road to rock’n’roll

  07-10-2017 13:00
  Elizabeth McGovern celebrates the 40th anniversary of the crooner’s last visit to the UK and his unlikely duet with David BowieThe Road to Rock’n’Roll (11 October, 10am, Radio 2) is a slightly misleading title for a programme that should content itself with emphasising just how massive a star Bing Crosby was. This documentary features the voices of a number of the people who worked with Crosby on his final trip to the UK, which was 40 years ago this month, and is presented by E
  
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• Dynasty: a camp classic rebooted for the 21st century

  07-10-2017 11:58
  Rejoice, all ye lovers of bitch-slaps and all-day evening wear – the Carringtons are back and better than ever
  ‘Family dynasties flow through blood, from parent to child,” says Fallon, coolly adjusting her hair. “Wives, they just come and go.” We’re less than half an hour into the first episode of the all-new Dynasty (Netflix, available from 12 October) and we’ve already had the first display of hair-to-hair combat. It won’t be the last, either: th
  
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• Empire’s Lee Daniels: ‘I always see myself as one step away from a flop’

  07-10-2017 11:00
  He made his name with Monster’s Ball and Precious but, as Empire begins a new season, the writer-director-producer insists his work isn’t just for black audiencesLee Daniels tells stories of divas who storm into meetings and demand their due; of washed-up addicts propelled onwards by unflagging ambition; and of scrappy orphans who couldn’t afford a bushel to hide their light under, even if they were so inclined. This autumn he’s all over UK television, with the fourth sea
  
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• Maxus CEO Lindsay Pattison on Ian McEwan and ‘Big Little Lies’

  07-10-2017 08:00 via ft.com
  London Tube ride is the perfect opportunity to research people’s media habits
  
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• Saturday's best TV: Basquiat – Rage to Riches; Black Lake

  07-10-2017 07:00
  A feature length examination of the late, great artist and the concluding double bill of the Scandi chiller Continue reading...
  
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• Porridge review – send for the sitcom police!

  07-10-2017 07:00
  The original Porridge creators return with a weak, watery throwback to the Ronnie Barker classic. This isn’t a sequel, it’s a forgery … bang ’em up this instantThe other day I had a craving for a childhood favourite – semolina pudding. So I bought some semolina and made one. It was … OK, I suppose, not quite the heaven on a spoon I remembered. The next generation weren’t impressed. Tastes change. There’s plenty left in the packet, but I won&rsquo
  
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• TV Reporter Accuses Harvey Weinstein of Forcing Her to Watch Him Masturbate

  07-10-2017 05:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  One day after a New York Times report revealed decades of sexual-harassment accusations made by women against The Weinstein Company’s Harvey Weinstein, including but not limited to “appearing nearly or fully naked in front of them, requiring them to be present while he bathed or repeatedly asking for a massage...More »
  
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• Company Scrambles as Weinstein Takes Leave and a Third of the Board Resigns

  07-10-2017 05:15 via nytimes.com
  The moves came as employees and business partners of the company voiced concern about sexual harassment allegations, revealed in a New York Times investigation.
  
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• USA Releases First Trailer for True Crime Anthology Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and the Notorious B.I.G.

  07-10-2017 03:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  Marcc Rose’s Tupac Shakur and Wavyy Jonez’s Biggie Smalls might be the titular subjects of USA’s upcoming true crime anthology Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and the Notorious B.I.G., but as the first trailer for the show confirms, Unsolved’s true focus is the investigators tasked with solving their murders, among...More »
  
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• Harvey Weinstein on Indefinite Leave as His Company Investigates Allegations

  07-10-2017 03:07 via nytimes.com
  The board of the Weinstein Company will investigate accusations of sexual harassment by its co-chairman.
  
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• Weinstein investigated as three directors resign

  07-10-2017 02:54 via ft.com
  Movie mogul on indefinite leave of absence after allegations of decades-long sexual misconduct
  
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• Mediator: Harvey Weinstein’s Media Enablers

  07-10-2017 02:27 via nytimes.com
  The making of an open secret.
  
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• Harvey Weinstein Goes on Indefinite Leave as His Company Investigates Allegations

  07-10-2017 01:57 via nytimes.com
  The board of the Weinstein Company will investigate accusations of sexual harassment by its co-chairman.
  
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• Comedian Ralphie May Dies at 45

  07-10-2017 01:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  Fans and fellow comics alike remembered stand-up Ralphie May on Friday after his publicist confirmed the Last Comic Standing alum had died at the age of 45. As his publicist explained in a statement to Deadline, “We are heartbroken to announce the untimely death of our friend, Ralphie May. Ralphie...More »
  
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• Marvel’s Runaways Trailer: Parents Just Don’t Understand, Especially If They Are Actual Supervillains

  07-10-2017 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s tough being a TV teen: You have to deal with a ton of friendship drama, you have a mysteriously great bone structure, your parents just don’t understand you, and your parents are also supervillains. In Marvel’s Runaways, Hulu’s foray into superhero dramas by way of the Gossip Girl team...More »
  
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• Commentary: First Person: Alessandro Camon on the Trauma of Isolation in Time Alone

  07-10-2017 00:00
  The author's new play deals with incarceration and the "walls that divide us."
  
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