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• Anatomy | ‘The Killing of a Sacred Deer’

  18-10-2017 23:56 via nytimes.com
  In this Anatomy of a Scene, Yorgos Lanthimos narrates a sequence from his film featuring Nicole Kidman.
  
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• We Could’ve Had Angelina Jolie in The Craft

  18-10-2017 23:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  Today in particularly egregious missed opportunities, the casting director for cult classic The Craft has revealed Angelina Jolie almost starred in the movie. In the film’s oral history for EW, Pam Dixon says that in terms of big-name teen stars of that era, Neve Campbell topped the list because of...More »
  
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• Laura Dern Shares Another Photo of Space Laura Dern in Star Wars: The Last Jedi

  18-10-2017 23:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  Hark the herald angels sing! 2017’s Dern-aissance continues with a new photo of Laura Dern in Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Dern’s character, Vice Admiral Amilyn Holdo, was first unveiled in the pages of Vanity Fair after the movie’s trailer (rudely) denied us a glimpse. Sure, she doesn’t have a...More »
  
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• Leatherface is a Thoroughly Unnecessary Horror Origin Story

  18-10-2017 23:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  The worst contribution of the 21st century to the pop-culture toolbox is the origin story. Full stop. At this point, I feel comfortable saying that the origin films that have worked (Batman Begins, uh … Lady Bird?) are exceptions to the rule. But there is a range of shades of...More »
  
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• Jennifer Lawrence and Other Stars Share Stories of Harassment

  18-10-2017 23:38 via nytimes.com
  Ms. Lawrence, Reese Witherspoon, Molly Ringwald and others are coming forward to talk about their bad experiences starting out in Hollywood.
  
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• Casey Affleck Teams Up With Alfonso Cuarón for a TV Horror Drama About a Cult

  18-10-2017 23:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  Casey Affleck has found a new project. Per Deadline, the Manchester by the Sea Oscar winner, whose reputation remains plastic after allegations of sexual harassment were made against him, has signed on to star in a TV horror drama that is reportedly about “the origins of a cult.” Alfonso Cuarón (Gravity,...More »
  
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• New Trailer: ‘I Love You, Daddy’ From Louis C.K.

  18-10-2017 23:29 via nytimes.com
  The comedian stars in a film with overtones of the Woody Allen comedy “Manhattan.”
  
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• This Week on The Good Doctor: Freddie Highmore Saves a Porn Star

  18-10-2017 23:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  Network TV’s new sensation is The Good Doctor, a.k.a. The Freddie Highmore Doctor Show, a.k.a. the show where the former star of Bates Motel once operated on a person’s liver on top of a stopped car on a Los Angeles overpass. See, The Good Doctor is a wild TV show....More »
  
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• Actress Marisa Coughlan on Harvey Weinstein: ‘He Wanted to Barter Sex for Movie Roles’

  18-10-2017 23:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  Speaking with The Hollywood Reporter, actress Marisa Coughlan has joined the chorus of women accusing Harvey Weinstein of sexual harassment. Coughlan alleges that in 1999, when she was 25, she met with Weinstein at his suite in the Peninsula Hotel in Los Angeles to discuss future roles, after she had...More »
  
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• Let Riverdale Make You Uncomfortable With This Cover of Kelis’s ‘Milkshake’

  18-10-2017 22:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Riverdale teens are at it again, and by “it,” we mean being needlessly sexual. On tonight’s episode of the CW drama, Archie & Co. band together to save Pop’s Chock’lit Shoppe, home to Riverdale’s best milkshakes. Like good B-list celebrities, they decide the best way to do this is by...More »
  
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• Dirty John Is a Stunning Story, But Why Is It a Podcast?

  18-10-2017 22:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  As a podcast, Dirty John is a tough listen. Not in the sense that the substance of the story that it’s trying to tell is a difficult one, though it certainly is. I mean that literally: The podcast is a crude construction, and its choices often come to the detriment...More »
  
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• Springsteen Reportedly to Extend Broadway Run, Giving You More Chances to Miss Out on Tickets

  18-10-2017 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Christmas is rapidly approaching, which means the Dad in your life will soon be in need of a gift. New Jersey’s patron saint Bruce Springsteen is here to lend a hand, as Variety reports that the Boss’s one-man show, Springsteen on Broadway, will have its run extended from the original...More »
  
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• Review: ‘Jane’ Is an Absorbing Trip Into the Wild With Jane Goodall

  18-10-2017 21:45 via nytimes.com
  Brett Morgen’s documentary tells her story through footage of Ms. Goodall’s interactions with chimpanzees in what is now Tanzania.
  
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• Scalpel, Sponge, Show Tunes: When Doctors Moonlight as Actors

  18-10-2017 21:16 via nytimes.com
  The Bard Hall Players, a theater company made up of Columbia University medical students, is marking its 50th season with a production of “Into the Woods.”
  
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• How the Harvey Weinstein Story Has Unfolded

  18-10-2017 20:58 via nytimes.com
  A look back at the major elements of the continuing story, which has spilled well beyond Hollywood.
  
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• Geoffrey Boycott makes amends over Theresa May's missing Tupperware

  18-10-2017 20:44
  Cricket pundit sends PM new containers after she accused him of taking hers when she baked brownies for TMS teamGeoffrey Boycott has attempted to make amends with Theresa May after she accused him of taking her Tupperware when she baked brownies for the BBC Test Match Special team.
  The former England cricketer sent the prime minister plastic containers embossed with gold labels reading “Property of Theresa May”. Continue reading...
  
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• The Good Doctor Tops The Big Bang Theory in Viewers As America Exchanges One Genius Man-child for Another

  18-10-2017 20:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  Network TV has a new pale, awkward male savior: Freddie Highmore. ABC’s The Good Doctor, based on a Korean drama about a pediatric surgeon with autism and savant syndrome, has become a major hit in the ratings. In addition to racking up strong Nielsen numbers when it airs on Monday...More »
  
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• Books of Style: Inside the Estate that Inspired ‘The Philadelphia Story’

  18-10-2017 20:33 via nytimes.com
  A lavish new book examines the history of Ardrossan and the old-money world of Philadelphia’s Main Line.
  
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• Mindhunter Recap: Deviant Terminology

  18-10-2017 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  On one of the most special of very special TV episodes, Robin Williams appeared on Homicide: Life on the Street as a tourist from Iowa who watches his wife get shot to death in front of him and their two young children. In a particularly memorable scene, Williams’s character overhears...More »
  
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• Chinese partijcongres niet meer dan politiek theater - IEXProfs

  18-10-2017 20:29
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  Het belangrijke negentiende Chinese partijcongres is begonnen. Wat kunnen beleggers verwachten? Zeven assetmanagers kijken vooruit. Lees meer: Chinese centrale bank is net zo belangrijk als de Fed. Blackrock: Hervormingen maken Chinese ...
  
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• The 12 Most Terrifying TV Episodes to Watch This Halloween

  18-10-2017 20:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  With Stranger Things returning on October 27 and Halloween right around the corner, it’s the perfect time for a marathon of television frights. When people think about TV horror, they probably think of the zombies of The Walking Dead or an old episode of an anthology series like The Twilight...More »
  
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• Who Is Mindhunter’s ADT Man From Kansas?

  18-10-2017 20:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you’ve been watching Netflix’s Mindhunter, you’re probably wondering what the heck is going on in those pre-credit intro scenes in which we watch a mild-mannered ADT technician from Kansas going through relatively mundane activities. The ADT man (Sonny Valicenti) tells a co-worker about his policy regarding tape refills, speaks...More »
  
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• NFL ratings down 7.5% as Kaepernick attorney bullish over 'smoking gun'

  18-10-2017 19:56
  NFL viewership down during time of protest - but so are Nascar figuresColin Kaepernick lawyer confident client will win grievance caseEagles’ Chris Long to donate rest of 2017 salary to education projectsThe NFL’s embattled season continues as the latest figures showed TV ratings are down 7.5% compared with the first six weeks of last season, and down 18.7% on the same period in 2015.Last year, the NFL said the presidential election had affected its figures, a theory that appeared to
  
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• NFL ratings down 7.5% as Goodell says league won't force players to stand

  18-10-2017 19:56
  NFL viewership down during time of protest – but so are Nascar figuresRoger Goodell says NFL will ‘encourage’ but not force players to standColin Kaepernick lawyer confident client will win grievance caseEagles’ Chris Long to donate rest of 2017 salary to education projectsThe NFL’s embattled season continues as the latest figures showed TV ratings are down 7.5% compared with the first six weeks of last season, and down 18.7% on the same period in 2015.Last year, th
  
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• Beck’s Colors Has a Few Good Ideas and Some Bad Ones Too

  18-10-2017 19:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  Beck winning the Album of the Year Grammy for Morning Phase was like Denzel Washington winning the Best Actor Oscar for Training Day. Neither work ranks highly among the artist’s best; both wins felt like shrewd acknowledgment of the other times the Academy ought to have handed them the honor...More »
  
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• Fashion Police Will Turn In Its Fashion Badge and End This November

  18-10-2017 19:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  Fashion Police, long a platform that Joan Rivers and her daughter Melissa used to lampoon and critique red-carpet fashion, will end later this year. The show, launched in 1995, gave Rivers a second act until her death in 2014 as she used it to go after celebrities, and launch the...More »
  
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• Trevor ‘Ziggy’ Byfield obituary

  18-10-2017 19:25
  Stage and screen actor who took leading roles in Hair and The Rocky Horror ShowTrevor Byfield, who has died of pneumonia aged 73, was a star of stage musicals under the name Ziggy Byfield before becoming a prolific character actor on television, notable for his craggy face, growling voice and “dodgy geezer” roles as villains and heavies.He first made his mark in two theatrical and cultural phenomena regarded as outrageous in their time. In 1970 he took over from Oliver Tobias the rol
  
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• Is Deckard Actually a Replicant?

  18-10-2017 18:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  An investigation of the theory — and the decades-long debate — that Rick Deckard, Blade Runner’s replicant-killing protagonist, might be an android himself....More »
  
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• Pussycat Dolls Say Former Member’s ‘Prostitution Ring’ Claim Is False

  18-10-2017 18:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  Following former Pussycat Dolls member Kaya Jones’s claims last week on Twitter that the group was a front for a “prostitution ring” and they were regularly subjected to abuse, the rest of the girl group has released a joint statement disputing her accusations. “We cannot stand behind false allegations towards...More »
  
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• Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’s New Opening Casts Rebecca As Eminem and Carrie Underwood

  18-10-2017 18:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  In Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’s season-three opening sequence, Rebecca Bunch is out for revenge, and pulling quadruple duty: She’s a country singer (à la Carrie Underwood), pop diva, rock star, and … Eminem. In an interview with E! News, Rachel Bloom and her co-creator Aline Brosh McKenna say their decision to re-create...More »
  
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• Remembering the Tragically Hip’s Gord Downie

  18-10-2017 18:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  It may seem hyperbolic to say that no non-Canadian can truly understand the importance of Gord Downie, because it is, but that doesn’t mean it’s not true. Downie, who died last night at 53 after a protracted and public bout with brain cancer, was the lead singer of the Tragically...More »
  
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• New Sam Shepard Novel, Completed Just Before His Death, to Be Published This December

  18-10-2017 18:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the months before his death, and while living with Lou Gehrig’s disease, Sam Shepard wrote a novel about a man with a debilitating medical condition reflecting on his past. According to the New York Times, Shepard started writing the novel, titled Spy of the First Person, by hand, and...More »
  
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• I Love You, Daddy Trailer: Louis C.K. Does Woody Allen

  18-10-2017 18:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  Louis C.K.’s secretive new film I Love You, Daddy — a black-and-white homage to Woody Allen’s Manhattan — tells the story of a Louis-like TV writer whose 17-year-old daughter China (Chloë Grace Moretz) gets lured into a relationship with a much older filmmaker whom Louis admires, played by John Malkovich....More »
  
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• Lady Dynamite 2 Has So Many Great Cameos Because Who Wouldn’t Agree to Spend an Afternoon With Maria Bamford?

  18-10-2017 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The second season of Netflix’s Lady Dynamite, the show starring and inspired by Maria Bamford, is so overflowing with love and joy, of course a who’s who of comedic talent would want to appear in it. Not only do you get to, you know, perform your craft, you get to...More »
  
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• Watch the Real-life Interviews With Serial Killer Edmund Kemper

  18-10-2017 17:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you’ve finished watching Netflix’s Mindhunter, you’ve seen one of the year’s most chilling and unforgettable TV performances: Edmund “Big Ed” Kemper, as played by actor Cameron Britton. But the infamous “co-ed killer” is no mere writer’s concoction. Edmund Kemper is a real serial killer, and the fictional version of...More »
  
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• Scalpel, Sponge, Magic Beans: When Doctors Moonlight as Actors

  18-10-2017 17:59 via nytimes.com
  The Bard Hall Players, a theater company made up of Columbia University medical students, is marking its 50th season with a production of “Into the Woods.”
  
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• Tragically Hip Front Man Gord Downie Dead at 53

  18-10-2017 17:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  Gord Downie, the lead singer of Canadian rock band Tragically Hip, died last night after years of living with brain cancer. “Gord knew this day was coming,” his family said in a statement. “His response was to spend this precious time as he always had — making music, making memories and...More »
  
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• Rewind: In ‘Maigret Sets a Trap,’ Pack Your Pipe and Track a Killer

  18-10-2017 17:46 via nytimes.com
  After a recent digital restoration, this French film noir adapted from a Georges Simenon novel will have a weeklong run at Metrograph.
  
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• What Daniel Radcliffe Can’t Live Without

  18-10-2017 17:43 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 actor Daniel Radcliffe, whose new film Jungle opens Friday, about the jeans, workout shoes, and protein bars he can’t live without....More »
  
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• Book News: A New Novel From the Late Sam Shepard to Be Published in December

  18-10-2017 17:30 via nytimes.com
  Knopf will publish “Spy of the First Person,” which the actor and playwright wrote in the final months of his life.
  
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• Trevor Noah: Trump's response to Niger 'was basically the dog ate my homework'

  18-10-2017 17:24
  Broadcasting live from Chicago, The Daily Show’s Trevor Noah addressed Trump’s press conference with Mitch McConnell, where he claimed past US presidents did not call the families of fallen soldiersOn Tuesday Night Trevor Noah, broadcasting live from Chicago’s Athenaeum Theatre, addressed Donald Trump’s impromptu press conference with Mitch McConnell and his claim, made that day, that other presidents did not call the families of fallen American soldiers. Related: Late-ni
  
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• Which Netflix shows are being binged the fastest?

  18-10-2017 17:08
  A rare release of stats from the streaming service reveals an obsession with nostalgia and a lack of interest in critical acclaimWhat to watch on TV this fallNetflix is notoriously secretive about ratings. We may never discover how many people watch any of its shows. For all anybody knows, The Get Down’s entire audience consisted of a single confused child watching distractedly in a shed. We have no way of proving otherwise, so for now we must accept that this is true. Related: Can Faceboo
  
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• Ted Danson on The Good Place, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and Why He Hopes Heaven Has Mashed Potatoes

  18-10-2017 17:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  On the verge of turning 70 years old, the weighty TV roles for Emmy winner Ted Danson keep coming. He’s currently having a ball playing an immortal demon on NBC’s The Good Place and a fictional version of himself on HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm, even if Larry David’s mockumentary left...More »
  
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• Video Flash: The Last Match Gets Played at Roundabout's Laura Pels Theatre

  18-10-2017 17:00
  Anna Ziegler's new play is directed by Gaye Taylor Upchurch.
  
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• Theater News: Theatre Communications Group Gala to Honor Phylicia Rashad and Condola Rashad

  18-10-2017 17:00
  The event will recognize individuals that have impacted the U.S. theater field for multiple generations.
  
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• Theater News: The Skivvies to Join Cast of Desperate Measures for One-Night-Only Concert

  18-10-2017 17:00
  Lauren Molina, who plays Bella Rose in the York Theatre Company show, makes up one-half of the musical duo.
  
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• Theater News: The Dramatists Guild of America to Present Awards to Paula Vogel and David Yazbek

  18-10-2017 17:00
  Vogel will be recognized for Indecent, while Yazbek will be honored for The Band's Visit.
  
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• Photo Flash: Trinity Rep Completes Fall Rep Season with Skeleton Crew

  18-10-2017 17:00
  Tiffany Nichole Greene directs Dominique Morisseau's play.
  
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• Audio Share: EXCLUSIVE: Mandy Gonzalez Sings "Smile" from Her New Album

  18-10-2017 17:00
  The song is written by Bill Sherman, Grammy-winning producer of the In the Heights cast album.
  
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• Ex–Amazon Chief Reportedly Asked If Big Little Lies Stars Would ‘Show Their Tits’

  18-10-2017 16:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  Roy Price resigned as Amazon Studio’s programming chief on Tuesday, mired in sexual-harassment allegations and continuing fallout over the Harvey Weinstein scandal. According to a new Hollywood Reporter story, as other bidders made straight-to-series offers for Big Little Lies (Amazon passed), Price asked a group of staffers at a company...More »
  
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