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• Harvey Weinstein expelled from Academy over sexual assault allegations

  14-10-2017 23:43
  Mogul kicked out of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and SciencesAlegations from more than two dozen women include four of rapeThe disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein has been expelled from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, in an unprecedented move after a special meeting held in Los Angeles on Saturday morning.Related: The Weinstein Company faces fight for survival with or without a new nameRelated: I did not 'hunt' for Harvey Weinstein, claims alleged fixerContinue reading...
  
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• Harvey Weinstein Has Been Kicked Out of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

  14-10-2017 22:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  Earlier today 54 members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, reportedly including Tom Hanks, Laura Dean, Whoopi Goldberg and Steven Spielberg, allegedly met to discuss producer Harvey Weinstein’s membership status in the wake of his ongoing sexual misconduct scandal. In a little over a week since the...More »
  
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• Actress Alice Evans Wonders What Effect Rejecting Harvey Weinstein Had on Her and Her Husband’s Careers

  14-10-2017 20:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  In an essay published Saturday in the Telegraph, The Vampire Diaries actress Alice Evans ponders the professional consequences of rejecting Harvey Weinstein’s advances in 2002, on both her career and that of her husband, UnREAL actor Ioan Gruffudd. Evans recounts the evening at the Cannes Film Festival when the former...More »
  
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• David Letterman Dropped Off a Horse Named Dave as a Thank You Gift for Conan O’Brien

  14-10-2017 19:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  Conan O’Brien had already mentally picked out the leather driving gloves he’d buy for the vintage Porche he assumed David Letterman had purchased him upon the late-night veteran’s retirement. Instead, Letterman dropped off a horse named Dave in the Warner Bros parking lot. “The horse’s real name is Dave. He...More »
  
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• Bob Weinstein says he wants brother Harvey 'to get the justice he deserves'

  14-10-2017 19:06
  In an interview, Harvey Weinstein’s brother says ‘My brother has caused unconscionable suffering … I am heartbroken for the women that he has harmed’The movie executive Bob Weinstein has launched an extraordinary attack on his elder sibling, the disgraced Harvey Weinstein, insisting he had no idea about “the type of predator that he was” and saying he is sickened by his “depraved” sibling’s apparent lack of remorse over decades of alleged se
  
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• Eva Green Describes Harvey Weinstein Encounter: ‘He Behaved Inappropriately and I Had to Push Him Off’

  14-10-2017 18:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  In a new statement to Variety, Sin City actress Eva Green becomes the latest woman to come forward with what has unfortunately become a classic Harvey Weinstein sexual-harassment story. In it, the Penny Dreadful star allegedly met with Weinstein for what she believed to be a business meeting to discuss...More »
  
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• Bob Weinstein Says Brother “Harvey Has No Remorse Whatsoever’ in Wake of Sexual-Harassment and Abuse Scandal

  14-10-2017 17:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  In a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Bob Weinstein, who claims to have become essentially estranged from his brother over the last five years, discusses Harvey Weinstein’s ongoing sexual misconduct scandal, for which Bob believes his brother and longtime business partner should be removed from the Academy, and the...More »
  
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• Tig Notaro Is ‘Excited’ About Sexual Abusers Facing the Consequences of Their Actions: ‘They’re Everywhere’

  14-10-2017 16:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  Earlier this year, comedian Tig Notaro told the Daily Beast she wished fellow stand-up and executive producer of her Amazon show One Mississippi Louis C.K. would “handle” the sexual harassment rumors that have trailed him in recent years. (C.K. has dismissed the allegations as “just rumors.”) The most recent season...More »
  
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• Heard the One About Asia’s Comedy Scene? First, You’ll Need a Permit

  14-10-2017 14:30 via nytimes.com
  Comedians in some Asian countries must have their scripts approved while finding creative ways to joke about sex and politics so as not to offend the government.
  
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• This week’s best radio: why do creative people love gambling?

  14-10-2017 13:00 via theguardian.com
  A three-part Radio 4 series exploring the connection between risk and artistry opens with prolific punter Lucian Freud‘By the time we got to the pudding, the losses amounted to £900,000.” That’s art critic Martin Gayford laconically recollecting a lunch with the painter Lucian Freud, who was having a bet at the same time. Freud liked a wager. He reckoned he could carry £16,000 cash about his person without it becoming obvious. The first of three programmes called Th
  
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• Oliver Stone accused of groping by former Playboy model

  14-10-2017 12:14
  Carrie Stevens claims Stone touched her breast at a party in the 1990s, following the director’s comments about accusations against Harvey WeinsteinOliver Stone has been accused of groping by a former Playboy model, hours after he declared Harvey Weinstein had been condemned by a “vigilante system”.Carrie Stevens made the claims on Twitter in response to an article reporting Stone’s comments, which he later clarified. Stevens said: “When I heard about Harvey, I reca
  
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• Encounters: Waiting for Bruce

  14-10-2017 12:00 via nytimes.com
  Bruce Springsteen has a triumphant night for his Broadway debut, but leaves his fans at the Hard Rock Cafe to party on their own.
  
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• Camping With John Waters and His Band of ‘Filthy Freaks’

  14-10-2017 12:00 via nytimes.com
  The “Pope of Trash” hosts a sleep-away camp in Litchfield County, Conn. Yes, there were marshmallows, polyester and nudity.
  
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• ‘Carbs, fags and wine’: Roisin Conaty’s GameFace, a tragicomic portrait of a life unravelled

  14-10-2017 11:42 via theguardian.com
  The English standup has created a big-hearted comedy that manages to make depression and loneliness funny‘If you throw yourself off this building it’s going to be really bad … for me,” groans Marcella in the darkly comic GameFace (19 October, 9.30pm, E4). She only popped up to the office roof for a ciggie and now she’s stuck trying to talk down a stranger who’s intent on ending it all.To be fair, life hasn’t been kind to Marcella either. She is, as she
  
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• TV News Focuses Political Side of Weinstein Scandal

  14-10-2017 11:30 via nytimes.com
  Allegations of sexual harassment against Harvey Weinstein were the focus of a New York Times investigation last week. But if you were watching television news, the revelations about the Hollywood producer and his victims took a decidedly political turn.
  
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• TV News Focuses on Political Side of Weinstein Scandal

  14-10-2017 11:30 via nytimes.com
  Allegations of sexual harassment against Harvey Weinstein were the focus of a New York Times investigation last week. But if you were watching television news, the revelations about the Hollywood producer and his victims took a decidedly political turn.
  
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• Harvey Weinstein: Is Every Scandal Political?

  14-10-2017 11:30 via nytimes.com
  Allegations of sexual harassment against Harvey Weinstein was the focus of a New York Times investigation last week. But if you were watching network news, the revelations about the Hollywood producer and his victims took a decidedly political turn.
  
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• Decipher James Thierrée’s Entangled Dreams at BAM

  14-10-2017 11:30 via nytimes.com
  Step onstage with James Thierrée and Compagnie du Hanneton as they return to the Brooklyn Academy of Music for the Next Wave Festival with “La Grenouille Avait Raison” (“The Toad Knew”).
  
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• Harvey Weinstein: Oscars academy holds emergency meeting

  14-10-2017 10:53
  Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to discuss action as sexual harassment scandal deepensThe board of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is to hold an emergency meeting on Saturday morning to discuss action against Harvey Weinstein as the sexual harassment scandal surrounding the Hollywood producer deepens.The 54-member board made up of leading actors, directors and executives including Tom Hanks, Whoopi Goldberg and Steven Spielberg may choose to expel Weinstein from the a
  
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• Hans Klok's House of Horror zet Theater de Spiegel rond Halloween in vuur en ... - De Swollenaer

  14-10-2017 09:52
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  Hans Klok's House of Horror zet Theater de Spiegel rond Halloween in vuur en ...
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  BINNENSTAD - Illusionist Hans Klok staat tijdens het Halloween weekend, 27, 28 en 29 oktober, met zijn nieuwe show 'Hans Klok's House of Horror' in Theater de Spiegel. Weekblad de Swollenaer sprak met hem en vroeg hem onder meer wat het publiek te ...
  
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• Conferentie Vallen & Weer Opstaan in Theater Musica - Overschiese Krant

  14-10-2017 09:01
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  OVERSCHIE- Tijdens dit gratis interactieve programma op 9 november van 10.00- 13.00 uur in Wijktheater Musica gaat Saskia Hameeteman-Blanker van Totaalplan met ons 10 verschillende vormen van verlies doornemen. Van het verlies van een baan tot ...
  
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• The Duffer Brothers: 'Could we do what Spielberg did in the 80s and elevate it like he did?'

  14-10-2017 08:00 via theguardian.com
  The Stranger Things creators on what to expect in season two, their unexpected success and their long, arduous journey towards the Upside Down .e met in the womb. It was very dark. We’ve been together our entire lives.” From their offices in Los Angeles, over Skype, Matt Duffer and his twin brother Ross are discussing the origins of their creative partnership, and how, 32 years later, it gave birth to the spooky TV phenomenon Stranger Things. It’s been just over a year since th
  
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• The Duffer Brothers: 'Could we do what Spielberg did in the 80s and elevate it?'

  14-10-2017 08:00 via theguardian.com
  The Stranger Things creators on what to expect in season two, their unexpected success and their long, arduous journey towards the Upside Down .e met in the womb. It was very dark. We’ve been together our entire lives.” From their offices in Los Angeles, over Skype, Matt Duffer and his twin brother Ross are discussing the origins of their creative partnership, and how, 32 years later, it gave birth to the spooky TV phenomenon Stranger Things. It’s been just over a year since th
  
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• The diary of Barb in the Upside Down

  14-10-2017 08:00 via theguardian.com
  What if Nancy’s Stranger Things BFF isn’t actually gone – what if she’s just selling hot drinks from her artisanal coffee bike in an alternate dimension?Continue reading...
  
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• Reality bites: why Hollywood wouldn’t let Winona Ryder grow up

  14-10-2017 08:00 via theguardian.com
  After a career spent playing misfits and ingenues, depicting a grieving mother in Stranger Things gave the screen icon a whole new lease of life.inona Ryder first became a mother on film when she was 36. In 2007, she was hired by Star Trek reboot director JJ Abrams to play Spock’s mum. It was a cameo and only a handful of lines – basically amounting to her being a proud mother – before she fell off a cliff. Abrams had chosen Ryder as an homage to Richard Donner’s Superman
  
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• In Russia, nobody's laughing at Iannucci's The Death of Stalin

  14-10-2017 08:00
  In the centenary year of the Russian Revolution, Veep creator’s feted satire on the Soviet leader faces a hostile reactionIn Britain, early reviews of Armando Iannucci’s dark satire on the aftermath of Joseph Stalin’s death have been glowing. In Russia, nobody is laughing.The Death of Stalin, which chronicles the Kremlin infighting in the aftermath of the Soviet leader’s death in 1953, stars Steve Buscemi as Nikita Khrushchev, who eventually succeeds Stalin, and Simon Rus
  
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• Ronny Chieng: International Student review – giant beers and overbearing mums

  14-10-2017 07:30 via theguardian.com
  From essay panic to projectile vomiting, the stereotypes are ruthlessly exploited in the Daily Show star’s hilarious new sitcomYou might know Ronny Chieng from The Daily Show. You need to get to know him in Ronny Chieng: International Student (BBC3). He and his show are immensely likable. Ronny plays himself in this comedy based on his experience of being a student in Australia. Mom, back home in Malaysia, is phoning him all the time and spying on him on social media, checking he’s n
  
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• Saturday’s best TV: Lucy Worsley’s Nights at the Opera; Strictly Come Dancing

  14-10-2017 07:00 via theguardian.com
  The BBC try to persuade sceptics that opera can be a good idea, while Strictly waltzes on, sadly without the dancing Reverend Continue reading...
  
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• Weinstein’s case shows how power corrupts in legal settlements

  14-10-2017 06:15 via ft.com
  Ideas of equality are undermined when negotiating agreements in sexual misconduct cases
  
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• Mayim Bialik Reflects on Working in Hollywood as a ‘Nontraditional’-Looking Feminist in Wake of Weinstein Scandal

  14-10-2017 05:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I have always had an uncomfortable relationship with being employed in an industry that profits on the objectification of women,” Mayim Bialik, who got her start as the titular adolescent star of the ‘90s sitcom Blossom, wrote on Friday. Now, three decades into her acting career, the fallout from Harvey Weinstein’s...More »
  
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• Harvey Weinstein May Get Kicked Out of the Oscar Club

  14-10-2017 04:24 via nytimes.com
  The academy has long insisted that professional achievement is what counts, but now it stands at a precipice, and Harvey Weinstein could change everything.
  
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• Amazon Drops David O. Russell’s Weinstein Company-Produced Series Starring Julianne Moore and Robert De Niro

  14-10-2017 04:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  As the personal toll of Harvey Weinstein’s alleged decades-long campaign of sexual harassment continues to climb, so too does the professional price. Amazon announced Friday that they will no longer be making David O. Russell’s untitled drama starring Julianne Moore and Robert De Niro; the project was a co-production with...More »
  
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• The Story Behind Jane the Virgin’s Female Narrator

  14-10-2017 04:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The fourth season premiere of Jane the Virgin began with its usual, narrated exposition: “When Adam Eduardo Alvaro was 25 years old, he found a love letter in a floorboard that altered the course of his life.”But it wasn’t the Latin-lover, pillow-talking narrator fans have come to think of as...More »
  
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• Jane the Virgin Season-Premiere Recap: A Tale of Two Narrators

  14-10-2017 04:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  From the start, Jane the Virgin has been remarkably adept at juggling one of the hardest things about long-running romance stories: namely, how to move between love interests. The first two seasons were fueled by a Jane-Michael-Rafael love triangle that had juice for a surprisingly long time, and season three...More »
  
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• Riverdale’s Lili Reinhart Pens Post About Former Coworker Who ‘Tried to Force Himself’ on Her as a Teen

  14-10-2017 03:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  Actresses Rose McGowan, Minka Kelly, Gwyneth Paltrow, Asia Argento and many others have made public accusations against producer Harvey Weinstein, including sexual harassment, coercion, assault and even rape, following a New York Times report detailing similar allegations against the former studio head. Meanwhile, performers like Terry Crews have opened up...More »
  
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• Festival Moves Event After Church Objects to Gay-Themed Content

  14-10-2017 03:04 via nytimes.com
  A human rights festival slated for a church hall has moved to a new venue after archdiocese officials expressed their disapproval of some parts.
  
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• Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Season-Premiere Recap: A Scorned Butterfly

  14-10-2017 03:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  When we last saw Rebecca Bunch, she just experienced the ultimate blow: After two years of obsessively courting Josh Chan, he left her at the altar to join the priesthood, ending all possibility of the two of them ever getting together. But while season two ended on Rebecca (and her...More »
  
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• Jimmy Fallon Reflects on Late-Night’s Handling of the Trump Presidency: ‘I Don’t Really Even Care That Much About Politics’

  14-10-2017 01:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  Of all the late night shows and their respective hosts, Jimmy Fallon has gotten the most heat for seemingly offering his tacit approval of Donald Trump’s presidency, famously ruffling the former Apprentice star’s hair when he stopped by The Tonight Show last September. But when asked by Today’s Willie Geist...More »
  
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• Woody Allen’s Wonder Wheel is Obvious and Old-Hat

  14-10-2017 00:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  Woody Allen’s Wonder Wheel, the highly anticipated closing night presentation of the 55th New York Film Festival, opens with Justin Timberlake as a 1950s Coney Island lifeguard named “Mickey Rubin” (Irish? Jewish? Baptist like Timberlake?) addressing the camera, explaining that he wants to be major American dramatist like Eugene O’Neill...More »
  
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• Charlotte Gainsbourg on Hating Aging and Her Love-Triangle Movie With Marion Cotillard

  14-10-2017 00:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sometimes, the world is in such a state that you just need the wisdom and European perspective of Charlotte Gainsbourg. Gainsbourg stars in the racy — and confusing — new love-triangle movie, Ismaël’s Ghosts, the director’s cut of which is premiering at the New York Film Festival (after opening Cannes). Gainsbourg plays an...More »
  
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• Breathe Is a By-the-Numbers Prestige Romantic Drama With a Cause

  14-10-2017 00:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  The sound of a respirator is nearly inescapable throughout Andy Serkis’s directorial debut, and for good reason: It represents the yoke attached to Robin Cavendish’s neck, the delicate bit of machinery between him and asphyxiation. Cavendish, played by Andrew Garfield, is an adventurous newlywed working in Kenya in the late...More »
  
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• Rosario Dawson Doesn’t Want You to Forget About Puerto Rico: ‘We Need to Remember That These Are Things That Take a Long Time to Make a Difference’

  14-10-2017 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Residents of Puerto Rico are running out of potable water and only 16 percent of the island has electricity in the wake of Hurricane Maria. “And then you have Agent Orange throwing paper towels at people?” Rosario Dawson, whose mother is Puerto Rican and Cuban, says grimly. I was speaking...More »
  
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• Pink Picks the 5 Best Songs She’s Ever Written

  14-10-2017 00:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Pink has to thumb through a Wikipedia page on her phone detailing her album credits to remember all the songs she’s written. After 17 years and seven albums — each of which she’s written or co-written nearly every song — it’s hard for her to keep track. “Oh fuck!” she exclaims,...More »
  
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