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• 6 Actually Good Things That Happened This Week

  13-10-2017 23:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  Man. Can we all just hug for a minute? This week has been a tough one for the entertainment industry, with over three dozen women coming forward to accuse megaproducer Harvey Weinstein of sexual harassment, assault, and even rape. These incredible women have been sharing their painful stories for days...More »
  
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• Fashion Breaks Its Silence on Harvey Weinstein Scandal

  13-10-2017 23:43 via nytimes.com
  Hollywood and the Democratic political world have turned against Harvey Weinstein. And yet fashion, his third circle of influence, has remained quiet.
  
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• Review: A Requiem Mass With a Southern Twang in ‘Animal Wisdom’

  13-10-2017 23:42 via nytimes.com
  Heather Christian communes with — and possibly exorcises — the spirits of the dead in a truly one-of-a-kind performance piece
  
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• Ex-Miramax Exec Totally Denies Delivering Young Women to Harvey Weinstein’s Hotel Room

  13-10-2017 23:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  Fabrizio Lombardo, an ex-Miramax executive, totally didn’t do all the creepy stuff he’s been accused of doing, he tells the Guardian. Lombardo’s name has surfaced multiple times in the fallout of the three dozen sexual-misconduct allegations surrounding Harvey Weinstein. Asia Argento, who said Weinstein forcibly performed oral sex on her...More »
  
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• Bob Weinstein denies company is considering a shutdown

  13-10-2017 23:03 via ft.com
  Co-founder says ‘business is continuing as usual’ in face of sexual harassment scandal
  
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• Oscar Futures: Can Kate Winslet Break Into the Packed Best Actress Race?

  13-10-2017 22:40 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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• Human Flow Is Ai Weiwei’s Exhaustive Look at the Plight of the Contemporary Refugee

  13-10-2017 22:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  Do not make the mistake, as I did, of trying to do a double feature with Ai Weiwei’s Human Flow and any other film. For one thing, the documentary very nearly reaches the three-hour mark, and you’re going to want a good stretch after that. But more importantly, after the...More »
  
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• Rita Moreno Says She Was Sexually Harassed by Legendary Studio Executive When She Was 19

  13-10-2017 22:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  Although many have been shocked by the recent Weinstein revelations, it’s clear sexual harassment in the industry is no new thing, as evidenced by a speech Rita Moreno gave Thursday night.Speaking at the Paley Honors in Hollywood: A Gala Celebrating Women in Television, Moreno claimed she had been the victim...More »
  
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• Review: Game of Thrones: The Rock Musical — An Unauthorized Parody

  13-10-2017 22:00
  The HBO fantasy series arrives off-Broadway.
  
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• Review: Arden/Everywhere

  13-10-2017 22:00
  An ambitious director finds refuge in Shakespeare's comedy.
  
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• Harvey Weinstein Is Planning to Fight His Weinstein Co. Firing From Rehab

  13-10-2017 21:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  Harvey Weinstein is reportedly determined to get the “second chance” he asked for. The ex-mogul is apparently planning to contest his firing from the Weinstein Company after three dozen women have accused him of sexual misconduct. According to TMZ, Weinstein plans to challenge his firing at this month’s board of...More »
  
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• The Weinstein Company Is in Total Meltdown

  13-10-2017 21:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that the board of the Weinstein Company is looking to sell the studio in its entirety, so that it could continue operating under new ownership. This decision comes after countless allegations that Harvey Weinstein sexually harassed and assaulted women over the course of decades,...More »
  
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• St. Vincent Pushes Her Sound in New Directions on the Wry Masseduction

  13-10-2017 21:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  St. Vincent makes mutant pop-rock records that feel at once both icy and warm. On the surface, her songs are airtight, proggy guitar workouts of breathtaking precision, but the warmth of singer-guitarist Annie Clark’s voice and the mercurial passions she uses it to stoke seem defiant to the mechanistic grooves that...More »
  
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• Twitter Users Split on Boycott Over Platform’s Move Against Rose McGowan

  13-10-2017 21:14 via nytimes.com
  Many people said they were staying off the social media platform on Friday to protest the temporary locking of Ms. McGowan’s account. Others criticized the boycott as ill conceived.
  
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• Patricia Arquette Speaks Out About ‘Weird’ Encounter With Oliver Stone

  13-10-2017 20:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  Actress Patricia Arquette took to Twitter on Friday to call director Oliver Stone out for a “weird” encounter a few years ago after they met about a “very sexual” film role, less than one week after her sister Rosanna revealed she had been allegedly sexually harassed by Harvey Weinstein.Arquette wrote on...More »
  
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• Mindhunter Series-Premiere Recap: The Act of Killing

  13-10-2017 20:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  Mindhunter opens with what we now, after Seven and Zodiac and The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, recognize as a David Fincher sequence. The camera surveying the scene from above. Rain coating the streets. Darkness shrouding the frame. Fincher can’t be credited with inventing the serial-killer thriller, but he’s logged...More »
  
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• Minka Kelly Comes Forward With Her Own Creepy Harvey Weinstein Story

  13-10-2017 20:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  Amid the three dozen allegations of sexual harassment or assault and two criminal investigations surrounding Harvey Weinstein, now nearly every woman in Hollywood is coming out with their own story about the infamous producer. On her Instagram, Minka Kelly has detailed that time her agent told her Weinstein wanted to...More »
  
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• How the Stars of Riverdale Spent Their Summer Vacation

  13-10-2017 19:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  Riverdale, a milkshake of noir, murder mystery, and teen drama, returned for its second season this week, promising a story that’s darker (and hornier) than ever. While the key delight of Riverdale lies in, you know, actually watching the show, that experience goes hand in hand with the secondary joy...More »
  
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• On Carry Fire, Robert Plant Honors the Legacy of Led Zeppelin

  13-10-2017 19:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  You could argue that Robert Plant’s solo career began while he was still a part of Led Zeppelin. The band’s final studio album, In Through the Out Door (1979), was an album where Plant, in collaboration with John Paul Jones, was primarily responsible. Crippled by chemical dependence, Jimmy Page and...More »
  
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• A corporate K-drama

  13-10-2017 19:18 via ft.com
  Amazon swamped, the new worry for CEOs, the teched-up 2018 Honda Odyssey
  
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• Facebook focuses charm offensive on Congress

  13-10-2017 19:08 via ft.com
  Electrifying China, WhatsApp in Westminster, the URB-E electric scooter
  
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• The Revenge Thrillers That Inspired Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’s New Season

  13-10-2017 18:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  When we last saw Rebecca Bunch in the season-two finale of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, she had a clear goal in mind after being left at the altar: “Josh Chan must be destroyed.” As the show returns for its third season on October 13, Rebecca is still figuring out how exactly to...More »
  
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• Game of Thrones Actors Reportedly Won’t Receive Scripts for Season 8

  13-10-2017 18:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  Spoiler culture can be rough for showrunners, and few series today face the pressure to combat any leaks quite like Game of Thrones. After season seven of the show was plagued by script leaks, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau recently explained on a Scandinavian talk show how GOT plans to throw off spoiler...More »
  
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• Actress Melissa Sagemiller Recalls Being Forced to Kiss Harvey Weinstein: ‘It Was Relentless’

  13-10-2017 18:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  The list of women accusing disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein continues to grow. Actress Melissa Sagemiller, who starred in 2000’s Get Over It, which was distributed by Weinstein’s Miramax, tells HuffPost that the mogul sexually intimidated while working on the film. She claims Weinstein’s advances began early in production on the...More »
  
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• Behind the Poster: An ‘Our Town’ Image as Sturdy as a Chair

  13-10-2017 18:00 via nytimes.com
  The designer Paula Scher talks about her artwork for a revival of the Thornton Wilder play at the Pasadena Playhouse.
  
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• Scandal Recap: The President Needs a Vibrator

  13-10-2017 17:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  Should this really be Scandal’s final season? I can’t imagine myself asking that question last year, when the show was mired in the last days of Fitzgerald Grant’s lame-duck presidency. Season six felt exhausted and exhausting, with undue attention given to Peus, Ruland, and Luna Vargas, a trio that went...More »
  
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• What Courtney Love Can’t Live Without

  13-10-2017 17:23 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 musician and actress Courtney Love about the face balm, Champagne candle, and matte lipstick she can’t live without....More »
  
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• Harderwijks theater gaat voorlopig door - Het Kontakt Harderwijk

  13-10-2017 17:12
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  HARDERWIJK In een overleg tussen het theaterbestuur en de wethouders Gert Jan van Noort en Jeroen de Jong heeft de gemeente toegezegd garant te staan voor de rechtspositie van de medewerkers van het theater. Ook is de door de raad voorgestelde ...
  
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• Not Shying Away From Horror

  13-10-2017 17:11 via nytimes.com
  People of color, especially women of color, are making themselves heard in the film industry.
  
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• Beyond the Scream: What I Learned from Horror Movies

  13-10-2017 17:11 via nytimes.com
  We explore what the films teach us about ourselves and each other.
  
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• LuPone Surgery Forces ‘War Paint’ to Announce Early Closing

  13-10-2017 17:09 via nytimes.com
  The musical, about dueling cosmetics executives, will wrap up on Nov. 5.
  
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• Jackie Chan’s The Foreigner Is Weightier Than Your Standard Revenge Drama

  13-10-2017 17:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  Jackie’s back in town and it’s nice to see him in something that isn’t so campy. The Foreigner is actually at the other extreme — it’s serious to a fault. Chan plays Quan Ngoc Minh, a Chinese restaurant owner whose wife and two daughters were killed years earlier while escaping...More »
  
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• Amazon’s delayed ‘shock’ at harassment claim defies belief

  13-10-2017 16:59 via ft.com
  Studio head Roy Price suspended after allegations took off on social media
  
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• Former Playboy Model Says Oliver Stone Groped Her at a Party When She Was 22

  13-10-2017 16:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  Former Playboy model Carrie Stevens has accused director Oliver Stone of groping her breast at a party when she was 22. Stevens tweeted the claims on social media after Stone made comments in which he appeared to be defending Harvey Weinstein.When I heard about Harvey, I recalled Oliver walking past me & grabbing my boob as...More »
  
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• Joe Biden Wants Criminal Consequences for Harvey Weinstein: ‘This Man Deserves More Than to Lose His Company’

  13-10-2017 16:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  Joe Biden told students at Rutgers University on Thursday during a speech on sexual assault that he believes Harvey Weinstein, the former studio head and longtime Democratic donor now accused of decades of sexual abuse, should face criminal charges. “It is my hope there are more consequences, that the statute...More »
  
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• Understanding Pink

  13-10-2017 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  The night before we meet in a multilevel room at the Greenwich Hotel in Tribeca, Pink was watching news about a Trump-encouraged political stunt involving Vice-President Mike Pence traveling to Indianapolis for a Colts–49ers game and walking out after several players refused to stand during the National Anthem, in solidarity...More »
  
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• I did not 'hunt' for Harvey Weinstein, claims alleged fixer

  13-10-2017 16:19
  Miramax executive Fabrizio Lombardo denies setting up Hollywood producer’s alleged sexual encountersIn the week that allegations against Harvey Weinstein rocked Hollywood, Fabrizio Lombardo has emerged as a central figure in the scandal – the so-called “Italian connection” accused of enabling the American producer’s alleged sexual harassment and abuses.Two women – Asia Argento and Zoë Brock – have claimed that Lombardo, who formerly worked as a Mira
  
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• Theater News: Roundabout Theatre Company Announces Damn Yankees Benefit Concert Reading

  13-10-2017 16:00
  Whoopi Goldberg, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and James Earl Jones will star, and Kathleen Marshall will direct.
  
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• Photo Flash: Bedlam Rehearses Their Unique Take on Peter Pan

  13-10-2017 16:00
  The company's artistic director, Eric Tucker, directs and stars in the production.
  
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• How to Get Away With Murder Recap: The Greater Good

  13-10-2017 15:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  At one point during this episode, I just screamed out, “I’M SICK OF THIS WES STUFF. WE GET IT. YOU LOVE HIM. IT’S HIS BABY. HE’S DEAD. BLAH BLAH BLAH.” That is not a good reaction to have to a pregnant law student. That’s just bad all around, but I’m...More »
  
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• Stranger Things 2 Trailer: It’s Grown

  13-10-2017 15:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  Maybe Will never left the Upside Down after all? For a Friday the 13th treat, Netflix has released its second and final trailer for the upcoming season of Stranger Things, bringing the terror back to Hawkins in even creepier ways. “It’s not like it was before,” Chief Hopper narrates. “It’s...More »
  
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• A Lie-Detector Test Is the Best Foreplay

  13-10-2017 15:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  It takes a special kind of film to take an otherwise unsexy object and canonize it eternally in the annals of sex-scene history. Ghost gave us the sexy pottery wheel. Call Me by Your Name gave us the sexy peach. And Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (out November 13)...More »
  
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• AMC’s Streaming Service Will Begin Offering Additional Walking Dead Features

  13-10-2017 15:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  Just in time for next week’s return of The Walking Dead, AMC is expanding the scope and content of its recently launched AMC Premiere subscription service, Vulture has learned. The ad-free version of AMC will offer subscribers advance access to scenes from the network’s signature zombie drama every week during...More »
  
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• Jo Nesbø’s 10 Favorite Books

  13-10-2017 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Bookseller One Grand Books has asked literary celebrities to name the ten titles they’d take to a desert island, and they’ve shared the results with Vulture. Below is author Jo Nesbø’s list. The film adaption of his thriller The Snowman is out next week.Macbeth, by William ShakespeareWhen I was asked by my publisher to...More »
  
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• Every Beck Album, Ranked

  13-10-2017 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Describing Beck’s vast catalogue with an adjective — or even five — is a fool’s errand. He broke through during the early ’90s “anything goes” alt-rock boom, hitting big with the slacker-hop anthem “Loser” and carrying that song’s momentum through downcast freak-folk and feedback-drenched jitters on his major-label debut, Mellow...More »
  
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• Emma Thompson: 'Harvey Weinstein's no sex addict. He is a predator'

  13-10-2017 14:54
  Actor says there are many men in Hollywood like the film mogul who has been accused of multiple sexual assaultsOscar-winning actor Emma Thompson has branded Harvey Weinstein a bully and a predator and said the scandal now engulfing the Hollywood mogul had echoes of Jimmy Savile. In a frank interview on BBC2’s Newsnight, the star of Nanny McPhee and Love Actually said the casting couch culture exposed in the past week was endemic and part of a systemic “public health” gender cri
  
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• Quentin Tarantino Comments on Harvey Weinstein Allegations: ‘I’ve Been Stunned and Heartbroken’

  13-10-2017 14:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  Quentin Tarantino has now commented on the three dozen allegations against Harvey Weinstein. In a statement shared via Amber Tamblyn’s Twitter, Tarantino says he has been “stunned and heartbroken” over all of the allegations, and will make a full statement soon. Distributing Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs was an early marker of...More »
  
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