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• Louis Theroux: Dark States – Heroin Town review: bleak as hell

  08-10-2017 23:55
  The documentary-maker is back with a tale of America’s worst ever drug epidemic and its forgotten victims. Plus: it’s party time in John Singleton’s new LA drama SnowfallA man named Nate has been telling Louis Theroux about his heroin addiction in the tent he lives in by the river in Huntington, West Virginia. Nate feels comfortable with his addiction, he says, and has never felt the need to go to rehab.The conversation turns to Nate’s 12-year-old son, who he never sees &
  
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• Kissing, Hair Color, and a Movie Among the Topics at Comic Con’s X-Files Panel

  08-10-2017 23:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  Things don’t look good for Mulder and Scully in the first trailer for the new season of X-Files, which is set to premiere in January. And yet, all is not lost, since a make-out seems imminent: according to X-Files creator Chris Carter, Mulder and Scully get “kissing close.” That news...More »
  
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• Professor Marston and the Wonder Women’s Angela Robinson Defends Her Interpretation of Lead Characters’ Sexuality

  08-10-2017 22:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  The atmosphere got a little tense during an otherwise cheery Sunday afternoon New York Comic-Con panel about the upcoming biopic Professor Marston and the Wonder Women. The film, written and directed by Angela Robinson, follows the lives of Wonder Woman creator William Moulton Marston, his wife Elizabeth Holloway Marston, and...More »
  
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• Things Look Dire for Scully and Mulder in the New Trailer for Season 11 of The X-Files

  08-10-2017 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Civilization is in its final stages, and humanity itself is at stake in the first trailer for Season 11 of The X-Files, which premiered today at New York Comic Con. The trailer is predictably mysterious, but the situation looks dire for agents Scully and Mulder; dark days lay ahead for...More »
  
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• Harvey Weinstein Is the (Whispered) Talk of Hollywood

  08-10-2017 21:41 via nytimes.com
  “It’s radio silence.” The normally voluble film industry has remained largely quiet about the harassment accusations against the film producer.
  
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• Weinstein’s Hollywood career hangs in balance after adviser quits

  08-10-2017 21:05 via ft.com
  Actors and directors criticise movie mogul following sexual harassment allegations
  
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• New Trailer: ‘Justice League’ Lightens Up

  08-10-2017 20:58 via nytimes.com
  The new trailer for the DC film reflects the touch of Joss Whedon, who stepped in after the director Zack Snyder left the project for personal reasons.
  
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• Democrats cut ties with Harvey Weinstein as fresh allegations emerge

  08-10-2017 20:40
  Senators donate film producer’s campaign contributions to women’s charities after allegations of sexual harassmentDozens of Democrats have moved quickly to sever ties with Harvey Weinstein, with many donating his campaign contributions to women’s charities, as more allegations of sexual harassment emerged.The Senate minority leader, Chuck Schumer, said he would donate $14,200 received from the Hollywood producer to women’s charities. Another senator, Kristen Gillibrand, s
  
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• The McDonald’s Rick and Morty Szechuan Sauce Rollout Went Less Than Smoothly

  08-10-2017 20:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  “You get some Szechuan sauce! And you get some Szechuan sauce!” Fans of Rick and Morty were expecting an Oprah-level euphoric experience while hitting up McDonald’s locations on Saturday to obtain, yes, some coveted packages of the vintage Szechuan sauce — but instead of reveling in its saucy delights, people...More »
  
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• In een gezellige groep toneelspelen bij Theater 55+! - Arnhemse Koerier

  08-10-2017 19:49
  Arnhemse Koerier
  In een gezellige groep toneelspelen bij Theater 55+!
  Arnhemse Koerier
  Ben je 55 jaar of ouder? Heb je zin om met een gezellige groep toneel te spelen in een verrassende cursus? Sinds dit jaar biedt De Vloer school voor podiumkunsten de bijzondere theater 55+ cursus aan. Hou je van theater? En van theaterimprovisatie?
  
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• Mixcloud strikes music streaming deal with Warner

  08-10-2017 19:35 via ft.com
  London start-up also negotiating with other big record labels
  
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• Transparent Recap: I Had a Secret

  08-10-2017 19:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  I’ve had mixed feelings about one of Transparent’s narrative devices this season. More than once, ideas and memories and traumas that we’ve known about for quite a while have suddenly surfaced into the current Pfefferman stories. Josh’s childhood abuse now literally follows him around in the shape of Ghostly Rita,...More »
  
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• ‘Blade Runner 2049’ Sputters at the Domestic Box Office

  08-10-2017 19:11 via nytimes.com
  Despite euphoric reviews, Denis Villeneuve’s science-fiction sequel did not attract younger audiences and women in sizable numbers.
  
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• Jon Hamm’s Number One Rule for Comedy: ‘Do Anything Tina Fey Says’

  08-10-2017 19:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  How did Jon Hamm go from playing America’s favorite philanderer on Mad Men to becoming the worst cult leader/DJ in Indiana in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt? The answer is pretty easy, the actor said at the New Yorker Festival Saturday night: “Tina and Robert came to me and they were like,...More »
  
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• SNL Begs an Important Question to Marvel: Is Themyscira Actually a Lesbian Paradise?

  08-10-2017 18:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  Beautiful body armor. Beautiful Amazonian warrior women. A secluded beautiful island without a man in sight. Themyscira seems like a pretty chill place to escape from the drama of the world, which is exactly what two lesbian besties discovered when they docked their boat — thanks to the help of...More »
  
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• $998 to Say Hello to Dolly? That’s the Price for Some Front Row Seats

  08-10-2017 18:00 via nytimes.com
  Producers are asking more for choice seats during the last weeks of Bette Midler’s run in the musical revival.
  
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• Say Hello to Betty Cooper’s Long-Lost Hot Riverdale Brother

  08-10-2017 17:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  The seedy town of Riverdale will soon be on the receiving end of even more testosterone. Per TVLine, the upcoming revelation of Betty Cooper’s long-lost brother on Riverdale won’t be a shocking twist of someone who we already knew — surprise, it’s Archiekins! — but rather a brand new character...More »
  
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• Saturday Night Live Recap: Gal Gadot Makes Out With Kate McKinnon

  08-10-2017 17:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Last summer, Israeli model-turned-actor Gal Gadot knocked people over — both metaphorically and physically — playing the Amazonian princess Diana in Wonder Woman. (It’s worth noting there are no less than four upcoming movies that will feature Gadot as Diana, including the sequel to Wonder Woman. Who knew, after playing...More »
  
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• Gal Gadot and Kate McKinnon Kiss in Wonder Woman Parody Skit on SNL

  08-10-2017 17:04 via feeds.eonline.com
  Wonder Woman is such a tease!Gal Gadot hosted Saturday's episode and reprised her role of the sexy DC superhero and the Amazon warrior princess Diana in a Wonder Woman parody skit,...
  
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• Dev Hynes Gives First Details of Next Blood Orange Album

  08-10-2017 16:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  Last night, at the New Yorker Festival, Devonté Hynes, who records as Blood Orange, sat down with the The New Yorker’s Hua Hsu to discuss a range of topics including his early career, his move to New York and his politically charged album, Freetown Sound, which Hsu reviewed in July last year.Most notably, Hynes,...More »
  
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• New Justice League Trailer: Save the World for the Sake of Amy Adams!

  08-10-2017 16:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  To be a superhero in 2017 is just asking for trouble. In the newest trailer for DC Comics’ upcoming Justice League, our ragtag crew of metahumans realize the extent of how terrible their enemy of Steppenwolf and his ragtag crew of Parademons are, and banding together to stop them all...More »
  
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• Ava Duvernay Is Not Sure If You’re Going to Like A Wrinkle in Time

  08-10-2017 16:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  Speaking at the New Yorker Festival on Saturday night, Ava Duvernay told the crowd she didn’t know what audiences will think of her vision for Disney’s A Wrinkle in Time. “We’re really really in the weeds on trying to finish the movie right now,” she said. “I love it, but...More »
  
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• Justice League Trailer Teases Superman and Will Give You Chills

  08-10-2017 16:08 via feeds.eonline.com
  CHILLS.What is believed to be the final trailer for Justice League was released on Sunday online and at 2017 New York Comic Con, about three months after the last one, and finally gives...
  
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• O.J. Simpson Is on the Hunt for Some Female Companionship on SNL

  08-10-2017 16:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  Look out, ladies! O.J. Simpson is back on the dating scene after being released from prison last week, and he’s already checking out all of the latest and greatest dating apps to help him score some dinner dates. What makes a stand-out candidate for Juice these days, you may ask?...More »
  
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• Louis Theroux: ‘For all his awfulness, I admire Trump’s shamelessness’

  08-10-2017 16:00
  The documentary-maker’s new series returns to the dark underbelly of the US. But with Trump in the White House, and fringe beliefs on the rise, is weirdness now mainstream? And does he feel scarred by his experiences?Louis Theroux has got up close and personal with pimps, paedophiles, murderers, neo-Nazis, Afrikaner separatists, religious fanatics, alien-hunters and a range of eccentrics who are often armed, deluded and volatile. They’re not what scares him. “The truth is,
  
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• Jason Aldean Opens SNL to Address America About the Las Vegas Shooting

  08-10-2017 15:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  There was no time for Trump jokes on SNL this week. Taking over the show’s cold open duties in lieu of a silly comedy bit, Jason Aldean — who was on stage performing at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas when the tragic attack occurred last week —...More »
  
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• Gal Gadot Doesn’t Do Kendall Jenner Any Favors With Her SNL Impression

  08-10-2017 15:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  We get it. With all of the shit going on in the world, sometimes you just want to sit down in front of a television and put on some mindless E! programming while eating some saltines. Well, thank god, because two more Kardashian shows will soon be gracing the network’s...More »
  
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• An Investigation Into Matt Damon's Image: How He Manages to Keep His Life Running So Smoothly as His Fellow Stars Stumble

  08-10-2017 15:00 via feeds.eonline.com
  Spoiler alert: Matt Damon just may be that great.Though admittedly no one can know what truly lurks in the hearts of men, other than the Shadow, it's been awhile now and there...
  
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• Thurgood Marshall: Activist, judge and the story of his quest for racial justice in America

  08-10-2017 13:00
  The first African American to sit on the highest court is the subject of a film that retells his relentless and epochal quest to achieve racial justice in AmericaBy the time the US supreme court banned the death penalty in cases of adult rape, in 1977, Thurgood Marshall had been a justice on the court for 10 years. He wrote a brief concurrence in the case, Coker v Georgia, citing his opposition to the death penalty, which then as now disproportionately targeted African American men.Marshall&rsqu
  
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• Saturday Night Live: Gal Gadot gives her all in a week too far for comedy

  08-10-2017 12:58
  SNL did its best to address the Las Vegas shooting and the death of Tom Petty as Jason Aldean sang I Won’t Back Down – but laughs were hard to come byIn a week bereft of laughs, Saturday Night Live went a solemn route with the cold open: Jason Aldean, the artist who was playing the music festival in Las Vegas when the massacre happened, played a cover of I Won’t Back Down by Tom Petty, who died on Monday.Related: Saturday Night Live: Gosling's game but Kate McKinnon carries the
  
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• Roku/IPOs: down the stream

  08-10-2017 12:21 via ft.com
  Outsized valuation hardly proves allegations of ‘shenanigans’
  
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• Anika Duut van Goor Scoren met naar Behoren in Der Aa-Theater - Groninger Gezinsbode

  08-10-2017 11:51
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  Anika Duut van Goor Scoren met naar Behoren in Der Aa-Theater
  Groninger Gezinsbode
  Anika Duut van Goor staat zondag 15 oktober met haar voorstelling 'Scoren naar Behoren' in het Der Aa-Theater in Groningen.
  Scoren naar Behoren in het Der-Aa theater - GroningenNieuws.nlalle 2 nieuwsartikelen »
  
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• Programmaoverzicht Theater De Koornbeurs: Foppe de Haan naar Franeker - Franeker Courant

  08-10-2017 11:21
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  Programmaoverzicht Theater De Koornbeurs: Foppe de Haan naar Franeker
  Franeker Courant
  FRANEKER – Foppe de Haan is vrijdag 13 oktober te gast in Theater De Koornbeurs in Franeker. Daarnaast is er een dag later de tweede S.O.S. Party. Hieronder een programmaoverzicht. Foppe de Haan gaat op de vrijdag vanaf 20.15 uur in gesprek met ...
  
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• 'Niet schieten' in theater Peeriscoop - DeStadGorinchem.nl

  08-10-2017 11:14
  'Niet schieten' in theater Peeriscoop
  DeStadGorinchem.nl
  GORINCHEM Cabaretgroep Niet schieten staat dinsdag 10 oktober op de planken van theater Peeriscoop met hun voorstelling Tijd voor een trio. De voorstelling begint om 20.30 ur, de entree bedraagt 17,50 euro, dit is inclusief een gratis consumptie.
  
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• Matt Lucas: ‘Losing my hair at the age of six shaped my life’

  08-10-2017 10:00
  One memorable moment defined his early childhood – being knocked down by a car. Could that explain what happened next? Matt Lucas tells all, in an exclusive extract from his new memoirOne of my earliest memories is of being three-and-a-half years old at nursery, watching the other little boys and girls skip out of the classroom and noting how the folds in the backs of their legs were unblemished. My own legs, like my arms and neck, were already riddled with scratches. I had been told repea
  
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• The week in radio and podcasts: Reasons to Be Cheerful; Adrift; Soundtracking With Edith Bowman

  08-10-2017 08:00
  Ed Miliband expands his radio talents into podcasting, while his co-host, Geoff Lloyd, has two great shows out at the momentReasons to Be Cheerful | iTunes
  Adrift With Geoff Lloyd and Annabel Port | acast.com
  Soundtracking With Edith Bowman | iTunesHold tight, Ed Mili-fans, hold tight! I bring news and it is good. Ed Miliband, last heard benignly quizzing Radio 2 listeners about the whooshiness of their lavatory flush, is one half of a brand-new, podcast-presenting duo. Continue reading...
  
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• Las Vegas shooting followed a depressingly familiar routine

  08-10-2017 08:00
  The Mandalay Bay horror was no different to all the other mass shootings: just bigger and bloodierTrevor Noah, the South African comedian who presents Comedy Central’s Daily Show, strikes a depressing note. He arrived in America two years ago – and counted 30 mass shootings since. “People are becoming more accustomed to the news. We’re shocked, sad, thoughts and prayers, then people will say, whatever you do… don’t talk about guns.”Which is why, in
  
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• The week in TV: Doctor Foster; Curb Your Enthusiasm; Tunes for Tyrants; Porridge; The Last Post

  08-10-2017 07:59
  Mike Bartlett’s drama came to a tantalisingly open ending, and Larry David made a bracingly welcome returnThe question occupying most intricate minds this week – the non-intricate were just drooling over Maygeddon – was, of course… Doctor Foster: another series? I seem to remember, years ago, Liam Neeson, asked on some sofa about the chances of a second Taken, scoffing lightly, certainly as lightly as Liam ever can scoff, and saying “He’d have to be pretty fe
  
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• Sunday's best TV: Snowfall; Louis Theroux: Dark States – Heroin Town

  08-10-2017 07:00
  An LA-set, crack cocaine-themed drama with just a touch of The Wire about it. Plus: Theroux’s latest journey to the dark side of America Continue reading...
  
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• Halt and Catch Fire Recap: A Beautiful Service

  08-10-2017 04:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Goodwill” mostly takes place in the immediate aftermath of Gordon’s death, but the episode is framed by visits to the past. It opens with Donna and Gordon in their apartment in California. Joanie is just a baby, Haley hasn’t been born yet, and in the emotionally vulnerable moments after a...More »
  
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• Ryan Murphy: Women in Hollywood Would Always Say ‘Ick’ or ‘Ugh’ When Harvey Weinstein’s Name Came Up

  08-10-2017 03:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  Though he was never privy to any “personal abuse stories,” Feud and American Horror Story creator Ryan Murphy doesn’t find the allegations of sexual misconduct against Harvey Weinstein particularly surprising. “In this society, most women have a Harvey Weinstein in their life,” Murphy told TV critic Emily Nussbaum at the...More »
  
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• Walking Dead and Fear the Walking Dead Are Crossing Over

  08-10-2017 03:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Walking Dead and Fear the Walking Dead shared universe is going to get cozier. Creator Robert Kirkman revealed at New York Comic Con on Saturday evening that a crossover is in the works for the two AMC series. “There is one character that is going to go from one...More »
  
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