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• Weinstein accuser says she was scared to go public with harassment claim

  21-10-2017 23:02
  Katherine Kendall, who starred in Swingers, says worries over being blackballed in Hollywood prevented her from speaking out earlierThe actress Katherine Kendall has revealed how the fear of being “blackballed” by Hollywood’s powerbrokers stopped her from making claims of sexual harassment.Kendall, 48, publicly alleged earlier this month that Harvey Weinstein had harassed her in his apartment in 1993, claiming that the producer “literally chased me” and stopped her
  
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• How Harvey Weinstein’s accusers gave women worldwide a voice

  21-10-2017 22:55
  It is no longer about just one disgraced man: testimonies of sexual harassment and abuse are emerging from Hollywood to politics via sport and fashionDrop a stone in a deep enough pond, and you never know how far the ripples will spread. It is more than a fortnight now since Harvey Weinstein was first accused of sexually harassing actresses in an article for the New York Times, and still the repercussions show no sign of ending.The film mogul now faces police investigations in two countries, inc
  
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• Report: Fox Settled $32 Million Harassment Case Against O’Reilly

  21-10-2017 21:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  The New York Times reported on Saturday that in January, Fox News paid $32 million to settle a previously undisclosed allegation of sexual harassment against Bill O’Reilly, just weeks before the network agreed to a contract with O’Reilly that would pay him $25 million a year.The star anchor was dismissed...More »
  
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• You Could’ve Flown to Europe and Back in the Amount of Time It Took Justin Bieber to Get His New Tattoo

  21-10-2017 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Justin Bieber is a fella who knows what he wants. And what he wants is a massive, complex tattoo covering the vast majority of his torso … and maybe a few more number one records? That seems pretty reasonable. The Biebs debuted this new ink on Instagram earlier today, where...More »
  
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• It Looks Like Jane Lynch Is Getting Her Very Own Daytime Show

  21-10-2017 19:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  Look out, Ellen: Another lovely, blonde haired lady might be joining you soon in the talk-show wars. Jane Lynch is currently in the midst of getting a new daytime show created just for her, with the hopes of debuting in the fall of 2018 on a broadcast network. Per Deadline,...More »
  
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• Daniel Day-Lewis Will Throw Ladies Into a Tizzy As Reynolds Woodcock in Phantom Thread

  21-10-2017 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Daniel Day-Lewis’s presumed last film is going to go out with a big, sexy bang. Perhaps quite literally. The full plot details for the highly secretive Phantom Thread — directed by Paul Thomas Anderson — have finally been unveiled ahead of the drama’s Christmas Day release, and the fashion designer...More »
  
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• Jon Stewart Infiltrates Jimmy Kimmel Live! With His Funky Fresh Jewish Dance Crew

  21-10-2017 17:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  You know how the old saying goes: If things start getting a little repetitive at your farm sanctuary, take up some breakdancing to feel young and alive again. Jon Stewart seems to be benefiting highly from this extremely specific, 1 percenter advice, as the former host swung by Jimmy Kimmel...More »
  
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• Angelina Jolie and Daughters Zahara and Shiloh Have a Girls' Night Out at The Breadwinner Premiere

  21-10-2017 17:08 via feeds.eonline.com
  Friday was a girls' night out for Angelina Jolie and her two eldest daughters.The Oscar-winning actress brought Zahara, 12, and Shiloh, 11, to the premiere of her latest film, The...
  
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• Harvey Weinstein: a list of the women who have accused him

  21-10-2017 16:45
  A growing number of actors and others in the film industry have made accusations against the Hollywood film producer• Léa Seydoux: the night Harvey Weinstein jumped on me• Could Harvey Weinstein be jailed?More than 50 women have made allegations against Harvey Weinstein and the number continues to grow each day. Among the Hollywood mogul’s accusers are household names who were still looking to establish themselves when the alleged offences took place. Below are some of the
  
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• CBS to Answer ‘Is There Anyone As Sexy Today As 1980s Tom Selleck?’ By Rebooting Magnum P.I.

  21-10-2017 16:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  The current reboot mania has claimed one of the most gorgeously mustachioed men of our generation. Per Deadline, CBS is currently in the process of rebooting Tom Selleck’s insanely popular ‘80s crime-drama series Magnum P.I. — but instead of having the central quartet be all-male, the character of Higgins will...More »
  
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• Brent Briscoe, Beloved Character Actor of Parks and Recreation and Twin Peaks Fame, Dead at 56

  21-10-2017 15:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  Brent Briscoe, who’s perhaps best known to recent television audiences for his portrayals of the soft-spoken diner owner JJ on Parks and Recreation and Buckhorn’s capable detective Dave Macklay in Twin Peaks: The Return, has unexpectedly died at the age of 56. Per Variety, Briscow was treated in a hospital...More »
  
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• Behind the Scenes of Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again

  21-10-2017 15:00 via feeds.eonline.com
  "Ooh, see that girl! Watch that scene! Dig in the dancing queen!"Nine years after the movie musical Mamma Mia hit theaters, Universal Pictures announced some the good news:...
  
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• This week’s best radio: Neil MacGregor's Living with the Gods

  21-10-2017 13:00
  The British historian returns to explore the role of beliefs around the world, while Ed Reardon’s Week finds our hero working at Your Motorhome, both on Radio 4The reliably fascinating Neil MacGregor returns with Living with the Gods (Weekdays, 9.45am, Radio 4), a series in 30 daily parts, produced in partnership with the British Museum, as were earlier series on Shakespeare and Germany. This time he focuses on the role played by systems of belief in human history. He begins with
  
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• Phobiarama Utrecht: Theater in het spookhuis van de angst - Ad - AD.nl

  21-10-2017 12:15
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• What Would Diplo Do? A mockumentary for the EDM generation

  21-10-2017 12:00
  Starring Dawson’s Creek’s James Van Der Beek as the superstar DJ, Viceland’s first scripted comedy is so meta it hurts‘You know you’re not Jesus, right?” barks Brian in What Would Diplo Do? (Wednesday, 9pm, Viceland). Brian is Diplo’s manager and he’s had it up to here with his crap, but Diplo isn’t bothered: “I mean, we won’t really know till I’m dead, right?”A vision in all-day athleisure, Diplo, AKA Wes Pentz, is a
  
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• Thor: Ragnarok May Be Marvel's Funniest Movie Since Guardians of the Galaxy, According to Early Reviews

  21-10-2017 12:00 via feeds.eonline.com
  Thor: Ragnarok is poised to be a (Hulk) smash.The embargo on reviews lifted Thursday, and the Marvel movie is by and large earning raves from critics. In the third installment in the...
  
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• 'I'm not always going to play swords and horses': Kit Harington on life after Game Of Thrones

  21-10-2017 10:00
  The man behind Jon Snow talks about Thronesmania, being a sex symbol and his personal link to the gunpowder plotKit Harington is reminiscing about his drama school days. “You think you know the world, and you’re so overly serious about what you’re doing, and how important it is, sitting on the steps, with coffee and a script, in black…”He smiles, but his arms are folded defensively across his chest, and he occasionally brings a hand up to play with his moustache. H
  
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• Travel Man: 48 Hours in … Rome review – a gentle mini-break for the mind

  21-10-2017 07:30
  Richard Ayoade takes Matt Lucas on a surreal whistlestop tour through the byways and white-knuckle highways of RomeTravel Man: 48 Hours In …, in which we visit various cities around the world in the company of presenter Richard Ayoade, is back for a sixth series “with some of the most available and affordable names in light ent”. In last night’s opening episode, Ayoade visited Rome with comedian Matt Lucas, who provided the complementary rather than competitive guest pre
  
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• Saturday's best TV: Gunpowder; Lucy Worsley's Nights at the Opera

  21-10-2017 07:00
  Kit Harington brings his shaggy charisma to prime-time BBC1 in this three-part rendering of the Gunpowder Plot. Plus, Lucy Worsley’s opera explainer concludes Continue reading...
  
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• Mike Schur Is Developing a Mexican-American Family Sitcom Pilot with Writer Shea Serrano

  21-10-2017 05:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  According to The Hollywood Reporter, Mike Schur, creator of The Good Place, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Parks and Recreation and two other upcoming comedies will also be developing a pilot with Shea Serrano, staff writer at The Ringer and author of the 2015 New York Times best-seller The Rap Year Book: The...More »
  
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• Tudor surveillance state has 21st-century echoes

  21-10-2017 05:00 via ft.com
  The first Elizabethans also lived in a time of cultural conflict and upheaval
  
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• Bob Weinstein’s Former Assistant Says She Told Him About His Brother Harvey’s Sexual-Harassment Over 25 Years Ago

  21-10-2017 04:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  Throughout producer Harvey Weinstein’s sexual abuse scandal, his brother and Weinstein Company co-founder Bob Weinstein has maintained that, while he knew Harvey was chronically unfaithful to his wife Georgina Chapman, Bob believed his brother was taking part in many consensual affairs, not sexually harassing, abusing or assaulting women as has...More »
  
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• Jane the Virgin Recap: The Past Adventures of Adam and Jane

  21-10-2017 04:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  I’ve been recapping this show for a good long while, but I haven’t spent enough time writing about Gina Rodriguez’s performance as Jane. Sure, I’ve mentioned it now and again, in the way you say things like, “And of course Gina Rodriguez was really great as Jane again,” or, “Even...More »
  
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• Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Recap: Holy Ghosted

  21-10-2017 03:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Considering season one’s theme song was absurdly catchy and season two’s turned out to be a surprise major plot point, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend had a high bar for this year’s opening theme — and Rachel Bloom and Aline Brosh McKenna absolutely cleared it. A pricey visual whirlwind with the density of...More »
  
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• And the Nine Queens Competing for the Crown on RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 3 Are…

  21-10-2017 03:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Faster than you can say “She already done had herses,” RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars is back with a third season. In a preview episode, RuPaul revealed (excuse us, ruvealed) the lineup of nine contestants who would be competing for a place in the Drag Race Hall of Fame next...More »
  
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• Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s Armed Security Team Confronted a Car Burglar Friday Morning

  21-10-2017 02:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s only been a little over a year since Kim Kardashian was bound and robbed at gunpoint in a Parisian hotel, so you can imagine the Kardashian-Wests have a pretty low tolerance for random people sneaking up to their residence in the dead of night. According to TMZ, a man...More »
  
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• The meaning of the F-word — feminism in five voices

  21-10-2017 01:56 via ft.com
  FT writers give very different and personal views on what the movement means to them
  
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• The New Taylor Swift Sounds Like A Scrapbook of Pop Music

  21-10-2017 01:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  In leaving the old Taylor behind, the songwriter seems to have borrowed from well-worn pop clichés rather than mining her cleverly intellectual, emotionally sensitive side....More »
  
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• Pink Fondly Looks Back on the Night a Young Christina Aguilera Tried to Punch Her in a Club

  21-10-2017 01:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  Pink is, without question, the last pop star you’d want to square off against in a bare-knuckle fist fight. According to the Beautiful Trauma singer’s visit to Watch What Happens Live, however, that’s exactly what Xtina tried to do one night when the singers found themselves out at the same...More »
  
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• Federico Luppi, 83, Actor Known for del Toro Films, Dies

  21-10-2017 01:07 via nytimes.com
  A slim and stately Argentine with a shock of white hair, Mr. Luppi endowed his characters with complexity and a sense of gravity.
  
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• Hollywood Agent Accused of Sexual Assault Fired From Agency

  21-10-2017 00:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  Hollywood agent Tyler Grasham has been fired from talent agency APA following multiple allegations of sexual misconduct, The Wrap reports. “Tyler Grasham’s employment with APA has been terminated effective immediately,” APA spokesperson Manfred Westphal told the site. Grasham was placed on a leave of absence earlier Friday, as the agency...More »
  
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• Interviews: The Millennials of The Portuguese Kid Talk Love and Marriage

  21-10-2017 00:00
  Aimee Carrero and Pico Alexander represent the youngest generation in John Patrick Shanley's modern-day romantic comedy.
  
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