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• Quentin Tarantino Admits He Was Aware of the Harvey Weinstein Allegations: ‘I Knew Enough to Do More Than I Did’

  19-10-2017 23:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  Days after the sexual assault and harassment allegations against Harvey Weinstein became public, his close friend and collaborator Quentin Tarantino said he was “stunned and heartbroken” by the news, but needed time before making a full statement. That statement has now come in the form of an an interview with...More »
  
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• What Does Roy Price’s Departure Mean for Amazon Studios?

  19-10-2017 23:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  It would be nice to think that former Amazon Studios chief Roy Price resigned from his job because company founder and CEO Jeff Bezos simply couldn’t tolerate the idea that one of his key executives had sexually harassed a key producer. Unfortunately, there’s little evidence to support that notion. Quite...More »
  
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• She Played Billie Jean King in a Movie. Now She’s Focusing on Her Own Career.

  19-10-2017 23:45 via nytimes.com
  Kaitlyn Christian was Emma Stone’s tennis double in “Battle of the Sexes,” and the weekend the movie came out she won the biggest title of her pro career.
  
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• Weinstein Company Employees Ask to Be Let Out of Their NDAs Saying They ‘Perpetuate a Culture of Silence’

  19-10-2017 23:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  Staffers of the Weinstein Company are asking to be freed from their non-discolsure agreements so they may speak out about the dozens of allegations of sexual misconduct surrounding former co-chair Harvey Weinstein. In a letter to The New Yorker, employees said their former boss formed “a toxic ecosystem where his...More »
  
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• Tarantino on Weinstein: ‘I Knew Enough to Do More Than I Did’

  19-10-2017 23:04 via nytimes.com
  Quentin Tarantino says he knew about allegations against Harvey Weinstein and feels ashamed about not taking a stronger stand.
  
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• Harvey Weinstein: Hollywood’s Open Secret — and Punch Line

  19-10-2017 22:36 via nytimes.com
  As Hollywood open up about the alleged sexual harassment by Harvey Weinstein, Melena Ryzik, Times culture reporter, finds that the industry has been making references about him in TV shows and awards programs for years.
  
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• Katy Perry Got Stuck Midair During a Concert, Reminding Us of That Time She Fell Over and Over Again

  19-10-2017 22:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  As sure as climate change, stage mishaps happen. They happen particularly when you have elaborate stages and enjoy floating in the air above your audience as one Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson does. Last night at the Nashville stop on her Witness tour, Katy Perry was sitting on a little planet soaring...More »
  
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• So What Exactly Is Going On With Gerard Butler’s Geostorm?

  19-10-2017 22:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the middle of this fall’s big tentpole movies — Justice League, Thor: Ragnarok — sits little Geostorm, the Gerard Butler movie just trying its very best. Without having seen Geostorm, because it is, ominously, not screening for critics, I can say that it looks like a total cinematic turducken: a...More »
  
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• David Blaine Accused of Raping Former Model in 2004

  19-10-2017 22:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  Magician David Blaine has been accused of raping a former model more than a decade ago. The Daily Beast reports that police in London are investigating a claim made by Natasha Prince that Blaine allegedly raped her at a private home in Chelsea during the summer 2004, in the months...More »
  
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• The Real FBI Agents and Serial Killers Who Inspired Netflix’s Mindhunter

  19-10-2017 22:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you’re watching Mindhunter, the Netflix drama based on the true story of the man who pioneered the science of profiling serial killers, you’re probably wondering just how much of it is true. The show’s fictional profiler, FBI agent Holden Ford, makes reference to infamous criminals like Charles Manson and...More »
  
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• Weinstein Company board told of bid interest 

  19-10-2017 22:16 via ft.com
  Len Blavatnik and Ron Burkle said to have expressed interest 
  
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• Weinstein Company board told of bid interest

  19-10-2017 22:16 via ft.com
  Len Blavatnik and Ron Burkle said to have expressed interest
  
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• Tracking the Wild History of Leatherface

  19-10-2017 22:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  Leatherface, the eighth entry in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre Cinematic Universe, finally hits theaters this weekend — which means it’s time to refresh our memories on the misadventures of our favorite chain-saw-wielding super-killer. While Leatherface has stayed mostly on the back roads of Texas since he first picked up a...More »
  
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• Review: Torch Song

  19-10-2017 22:00
  Harvey Fierstein's breakthrough play about gay family life in the 1970s gets an off-Broadway revival at Second Stage.
  
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• Here’s What It Was Like Inside the Weinstein Co. When the Allegations First Surfaced

  19-10-2017 21:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  Earlier this month, both the New York Times and the New Yorkerpublished reports on decades of sexual harassment and assault allegationsagainst Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein. And now, the New Yorkeroffers an inside look into what it was like at the Weinstein Co. on the days both exposés were released.The day the Times story was published – October...More »
  
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• The Snowman Director Can’t Stop Talking About How Terrible His Movie Is

  19-10-2017 21:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  Most directors are effusive when discussing their movies on a press our, but the director of The Snowman has been a little … icy. Tomas Alfredson, who previously directed Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Let the Right One In, seems pretty certain that his new crime thriller, which stars Michael...More »
  
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• Facebook in push to help publishers sell subscriptions

  19-10-2017 21:44 via ft.com
  Social network to roll out test targeting users of Instant Articles service
  
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• How The Florida Project’s Bria Vinaite Became an Oscar-Caliber Actress in 3 Weeks

  19-10-2017 21:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  There’s a scene in The Florida Project that’s so raw with emotion it feels more like a World Star video than part of a feature film generating Oscar buzz. A young woman bursts into her best friend’s motel room, tackles her onto the floor between two double beds, and beats...More »
  
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• Review: Lonely Planet

  19-10-2017 21:00
  Arnie Burton and Matt McGrath star in an absurdist two-hander set during the AIDS crisis.
  
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• Here Are 22 Nearly Unbearable Seconds of Megyn Kelly Trying to Dance With Hoda Kotb

  19-10-2017 20:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  Not since the early seasons of The Office has NBC aired a cringeworthy comedy as tough to watch as Megyn Kelly Today. After a stumble-filled first week, the show is struggling to find a voice as the network continues to try to make it Fun and Exciting. Today, Hoda Kotb...More »
  
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• Russian Film Executive Says Harvey Weinstein Sexually Harassed Her at Film Festivals

  19-10-2017 20:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  Katya Mtsitouridze, CEO of Russia’s state film board Roskino and host of Russian TV series This Is Cinema, is the latest woman to accuse Harvey Weinstein of sexual misconduct. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Mtsitouridze says that Weinstein sexually harassed her at the Venice Film Festival in 2004....More »
  
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• Review: ‘The Snowman’ Is a Thrill-Free Thriller Tied in Knots

  19-10-2017 20:15 via nytimes.com
  Michael Fassbender and other talented people wander through this leaden mess.
  
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• Ritchie Cogan obituary

  19-10-2017 19:25 via theguardian.com
  
  My friend Ritchie Cogan, who has died aged 75, was a producer and pioneer of social action through broadcasting and, sometimes, a thorn in the side of the BBC.In 1984 he devised Crimewatch, inspired by a German format and presented by Nick Ross and Sue Cook. He enlisted the police to bring unsolved crimes to the studio. These were re-enacted on film, the public were asked to help and a battery of police officers manned the phones to take calls from the public, live on air. This year it is to be
  
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• Where Stranger Things Left Off: Everything to Remember From Season One

  19-10-2017 19:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  The first season of Stranger Things premiered on Netflix before Donald Trump was elected president, Winona Ryder totally freaked out at the SAG Awards, and It capitalized on the magic of ’80s kids riding bikes while being terrorized by a monster. Yes, the summer of 2016 seems like a decade...More »
  
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• Here's Your First Look at Margot Robbie as Tonya Harding in the I, Tonya Trailer

  19-10-2017 19:15 via feeds.eonline.com
  "There's no such thing as truth," she says without a doubt. "I mean, it's bulls--t!"That she is Margot Robbie, and by the looks of the first teaser trailer,...
  
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• The Creators of American Vandal Reveal Their 9 Biggest Influences

  19-10-2017 19:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  At the end of American Vandal, the question remains: Who did the dicks?! But as anyone who’s watched the Netflix mockumentary will tell you, it’s so much more than a hilarious dick joke, which leads to another important question: What influenced such an excellent blend of true-crime documentaries and high-school...More »
  
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• Jane the Virgin Is Bringing Back Douche Rafael

  19-10-2017 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  After Jane the Virgin’s fourth-season premiere, fans were left once again picking sides — this time between reliable baby-daddy love (#TeamRafael) or first-love romance (#TeamAdam). The second episode presents a whole different contest: Zen Rafael versus Douche Rafael. Frankly, we’ll take Douche Rafael if means abuela will keep pining over...More »
  
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• Marshall Misunderstands How Colorism Informed the Supreme Court Justice’s Life

  19-10-2017 18:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  One of the most striking details about the storied lawyer and first black Supreme Court Justice, Thurgood Marshall, is from a professor at the University of Maryland law school. He described him as the kind of man who in his youth “wore life like a loose garment.” When researching Marshall’s...More »
  
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• Joe Hagan on His Controversial New Jann Wenner Biography

  19-10-2017 18:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  A few years ago, journalist and former New York contributor Joe Hagan ran into Rolling Stone co-founder and magazine-world legend Jann Wenner at a cafe in a small town in New York. They struck up a conversation, one that ultimately led to Hagan’s biography of the mercurial publisher, Sticky Fingers:...More »
  
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• Review: ‘BPM (Beats Per Minute)’ Captures the Fierce AIDS Fight

  19-10-2017 18:26 via nytimes.com
  This passionate historical drama from Robin Campillo follows young French activists through an emotional battle for respect and care.
  
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• Review: Life is Soccer, and Soccer is Life, in ‘/peh-LO-tah/’

  19-10-2017 18:13 via nytimes.com
  Marc Bamuthi Joseph’s dance-theater show considers racism, colonialism and aging as refracted through the world’s most popular sport.
  
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• Dynasty review – an unashamed fun-ride of a reboot that’s trashy as hell

  19-10-2017 18:04 via theguardian.com
  The 80s oil-family soap has had a moreish makeover with the feuding Carringtons and Colbys reimagined as more interesting charactersWhat is it? A reboot of/love letter to the 1980s US soap juggernaut.Why you’ll love it: If you loved 1980s Dynasty with its heady mix of bastards, bitches, weaponised manicures and shoulder pads you could land a plane on, you’ll be into this new version like crude up a pipeline. Continue reading...
  
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• Photo Flash: Friends! The Musical Parody Brings New Life to an Old Favorite

  19-10-2017 18:00
  Bob and Tobly McSmith's comedy plays at St. Luke's Theatre through December 31.
  
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• Review: ‘Wonderstruck,’ Todd Haynes’s Imitations of Life

  19-10-2017 17:51 via nytimes.com
  Mr. Haynes’s lovely adaptation of Brian Selznick’s book centers on a girl in the 1920s and a boy in the ’70s whose lives are mysteriously connected.
  
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• Roseanne Barr Got Into a Drunken Argument With Rob Reiner About Russia

  19-10-2017 17:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  In case this is something you were once considering: Maybe don’t drink too much, run into Rob Reiner, and pick a fight with him about the state of our democracy. It might not go well. Roseanne tweeted an odd story Thursday morning involving the director. When she ran into Reiner...More »
  
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• Review: Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman and ‘The Killing of a Sacred Deer’

  19-10-2017 17:46 via nytimes.com
  Yorgos Lanthimos’s follow-up to “The Lobster” is a family drama that doesn’t reach the same imaginative peaks of his earlier films.
  
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• Rolling Stone’s Jann Wenner Is Reportedly Unhappy With How Much His New Biography Focuses on His Sex Life

  19-10-2017 17:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  Next week, the first biography on influential Rolling Stone co-founder and publisher Jann Wenner will be released on Knopf, mostly against Wenner’s wishes. The New York Times reports that Wenner has distanced himself from the book, titled Sticky Fingers, after a falling out with his biographer, former New York writer...More »
  
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• Danielle Darrieux, French Film Star Over 8 Decades, Is Dead at 100

  19-10-2017 17:34 via nytimes.com
  Ms. Darrieux’s career of sophisticated roles spanned indelible incarnations as ingénue, coquette, femme fatale and grande dame.
  
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• Get Out Scores Most Gotham Awards Nominations, and Mudbound Gets Special Jury Award

  19-10-2017 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Rose needs to get the keys … because Get Out is heading into awards season. The Jordan Peele horror movie is the top nominee at the 27th Annual IFP Gotham Awards. As the first major indie awards handed out every season, the Gotham Awards are a good place to start...More »
  
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• Crazy Ex-Girlfriend: anger, catharsis ... and show tunes

  19-10-2017 17:26 via theguardian.com
  Rachel Bloom is back as Rebecca for a third season of the dazzling musical comedy with its clever takedowns of sexism and awareness of mental healthNot many shows feature song and dance numbers about violent obsessions. But then Crazy Ex-Girlfriend – the third outing of which just landed on Netflix – wears its musical sadcom credentials proudly. Indeed, the season started with titular ex, Rebecca, too depressed and humiliated to get out of bed – a sure sign that the laughs are
  
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• Harvey Weinstein has BFI fellowship removed

  19-10-2017 17:24
  British Film Institute withdraws award it handed the producer in 2002, following similar action by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and BaftaThe British Film Institute has announced it will remove its prestigious fellowship from disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein.Weinstein had been given the award – for “outstanding contribution to cinema” –jointly with his brother Bob in 2002; the pair at the time were co-chairmen of their first company Miramax which had
  
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• How to Dress Like Your Favorite Film Characters for Halloween This Year

  19-10-2017 17:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  Halloween! It’s here soon, and if you’re reading this, you probably don’t have a costume yet. (And if you do, click out of this tab and stop gloating.) But what should you be? The streets will likely be full of Wonder Women, and any idiot with a balloon and a...More »
  
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• Watch Margot Robbie As Tonya Harding in the I, Tonya Trailer

  19-10-2017 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Will Margot Robbie skate her way to an Oscar nomination by playing one of the most infamous Olympic athletes, Tonya Harding? The judges are still deliberating, but the Australian actress certainly commits to the part if the I, Tonya trailer is any indication. The movie version of the 1994 scandal...More »
  
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