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• Smash’s Josh Safran Is Making a New Musical TV Show – Hit List Lives!

  27-10-2017 23:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  For those of you who have spent the last long, cold, four years mourning the end of NBC’s Smash, good news: The show’s season two showrunner Josh Safran is making a new musical TV show. Per The Hollywood Reporter, Safran, who also created Quantico and played a key role in...More »
  
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• Did Stranger Things Finally Get Justice for Barb?

  27-10-2017 23:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  Yes, there are spoilers below about Stranger Things and Stranger Things 2. If you haven’t watched yet and want to remain spoiler-free, please keep that in mind.Stranger Things was an instant sensation when it debuted on Netflix last year. Its potent blend of frights, ’80s nostalgia, and the revival of Winona Ryder’s...More »
  
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• The Best Podcasts for Unsettling Yourself This Halloween Season

  27-10-2017 23:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  I am terrified by a great many things. Ghosts, monsters, clowns, serial killers, and a wide variety of creatures with more than four limbs, yes, but also destitution, bodily decay, global warming, the ebb and flow of human extremism, and never being truly known by the ones you love. Being...More »
  
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• Review Roundup: Is Nintendo’s New Super Mario Odyssey Any Good? (Yes, Duh.)

  27-10-2017 23:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  The big holiday-season release for Nintendo’s smash-hit console, the Switch, is what every gamer dreams about: a new Mario game. Super Mario Odyssey features everyone’s favorite former plumber throwing his hat at fantastical creatures and possessing them (in the game’s lingo, CAPturing them, ha) so that he can rescue his girlfriend...More »
  
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• The Magic Mike Musical Will Have a Number for the Straight Guys, Too

  27-10-2017 23:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  Broadway … it’s not just for gays anymore! The long delayed Magic Mike musical is definitely still happening (with lap dances), and it won’t be just an expensive male strip show with singing. At least for one song, there will be women dancing, too! “There will certainly be hot guys,...More »
  
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• James Toback’s Sexual-Harassment Defense Might Be Worse Than Harvey Weinstein’s

  27-10-2017 22:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  Just when you thought it couldn’t get any more gonzo than Harvey Weinstein’s New York Times statement: Before more than 300 women accused James Toback of sexual harassment or assault, the writer-director got on the phone with Rolling Stone to discuss the 38 accusations that had then been reported by...More »
  
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• Noah Schnapp Is the MVP of Stranger Things 2

  27-10-2017 22:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  Yes, there are spoilers below about Stranger Things and Stranger Things 2. If you haven’t watched yet and want to remain spoiler-free, please keep that in mind.In the first season of Stranger Things, Will Byers gets sucked into the Upside Down in episode one and isn’t rescued until the last...More »
  
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• In Praise of Noah Schnapp in Stranger Things 2

  27-10-2017 22:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  Yes, there are spoilers below about Stranger Things and Stranger Things 2. If you haven’t watched yet and want to remain spoiler-free, please keep that in mind.In the first season of Stranger Things, Will Byers gets sucked into the Upside Down in episode one and isn’t rescued until the last...More »
  
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• Jigsaw Is a Gruesome, Facile Reboot of a Gruesome, Facile Franchise

  27-10-2017 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  There hasn’t been a Saw movie since Saw 3D, the seventh installment, released in 2010. Wanna feel old? Here’s what was going on in the world in 2010: Jersey Shore was enjoying its second season on MTV, the first iPad was released. Vuvuzelas. The Affordable Care Act was signed into...More »
  
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• Stranger Things Recap: Bob the Brain

  27-10-2017 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Hopper really should have known better than to dig a hole in a field filled with contaminated ecto-soil, and then to climb down — all alone — into an underground tunnel that’s filled with floating Upside Down particles. He may have two goofy cop sidekicks back at the station to...More »
  
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• Alibaba co-founder buys Brooklyn Nets stake

  27-10-2017 21:49 via ft.com
  Deal by Joseph Tsai sees record valuation for basketball franchise
  
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• Natasha Leggero Has a Bold Rider Request

  27-10-2017 21:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  Before going on set at Comedy Central’s “Colossal Clusterfest,” comedian Natasha Leggero spoke with us about her pre-show rituals and superstitions, one of which is a bold rider request that no venues have yet to oblige....More »
  
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• Scandal Recap: Vermont Can Wait

  27-10-2017 21:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  Scandal has been the #Olitz show since the pilot, when Olivia Pope set out to make her married ex-lover, the leader of the free world, pay for having an indiscreet mistress killed. Even way back then, their forbidden attraction was oddly endearing. Shonda Rhimes has taken that storytelling magic trick...More »
  
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• Oh Good, Southwest Airlines to Host Live Country-Music Concerts on Flights

  27-10-2017 21:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s been some years since you probably were on an airplane that had one movie screen the whole cabin was forced to watch together, but now Southwest wants to bring that communal experience back. According to Billboard, the airline has signed a deal with Warner Music Nashville that will include...More »
  
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• Walter Lassally, Oscar-Winning Cinematographer, Dies at 90

  27-10-2017 21:10 via nytimes.com
  Mr. Lassally, who won the Academy Award for the 1964 film “Zorba the Greek,” worked for Tony Richardson, the Merchant Ivory group and many others.
  
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• Explore Festival – Grenzeloos theater - Breda nieuws

  27-10-2017 21:05
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  Van woensdag 15 november tot en met zaterdag 2 december vindt Explore Festival plaats, een reeks internationaal geprezen dans- en toneelvoorstellingen uit verre overzeese gebieden. Op de podia van maar liefst 10 verschillende theaters in 7 grote ...
  
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• Robert Rodriguez Says He Cast Rose McGowan in Grindhouse to Spite Harvey Weinstein

  27-10-2017 21:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  Robert Rodriguez knew about the incident at 1997’s Sundance Film Festival between Harvey Weinstein and Rose McGowan, where the then-Miramax boss allegedly raped the actress. McGowan told him about it years later when they met, Rodriguez said to Variety, and he cast her in Grindhouse to get back at Weinstein....More »
  
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• A New Documentary Offers a Family Portrait of Joan Didion

  27-10-2017 20:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  The new documentary Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold, shows the writer as many fans have always wanted to see her — at home in Manhattan, making sandwiches, surrounded by books and papers, and wearing two sweaters at once.Directed by her nephew, actor Griffin Dunne, the film follows Didion...More »
  
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• Why Mindhunter’s Bill Tench Is So Lovable

  27-10-2017 20:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  Mindhunter is full of interesting people, many of whom are fascinating, or off-putting, or extremely creepy, or notably charismatic, or some combination thereof. There are not so many characters you’d describe as “lovable,” though. Cameron Britton’s work as Ed Kemper is quite compelling, but he’s hardly endearing. Anna Torv is...More »
  
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• Here’s Hugh Jackman Awkwardly ‘Rapping’ on a New Song From The Greatest Showman

  27-10-2017 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Greatest Showman is a movie musical about P.T. Barnum, played by Hugh Jackman, inventing the circus. So, of course, it needed a song where Barnum explains what a circus is. Welcome to “The Greatest Show,” in which Jackman awkwardly raps and people in the background shout “Oh! This is...More »
  
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• Violence in Gunpowder TV drama needs its political context | Letters

  27-10-2017 20:25
  Robert Lawrence on reasons behind violent historical acts; Ian Beckwith on the prevalence of torture and persecution; and Denise McSheehy on gratuitous goreRebecca Rideal sees violence in 17th-century Britain as “arguably incidental” (The ugly lesson of Gunpowder, Opinion, 24 October). Unfortunately, that’s the sense here because of an absence of political context. So the execution of Charles is difficult to understand unless one knows that by the end of 1648, parliament decide
  
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• Motion Picture Academy Moves to Institute Code of Conduct

  27-10-2017 20:20 via nytimes.com
  The governing body of Hollywood said it would establish a code of conduct, after criticism the industry hadn’t done enough to fight sexual harassment.
  
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• The Ancient Greek Plays That Explain How The Killing of a Sacred Deer Got Its Title

  27-10-2017 20:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  After watching The Killing of a Sacred Deer, Yorgos Lanthimos’s brilliant follow-up to his critically beloved and surprisingly lucrative The Lobster, you may have some questions. Many of these might have to do with terrifying moral quandaries and the dizzying, incomprehensible price of blood. While I can’t help you with...More »
  
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• It’s time to cast abuse out of the audition room | Letters

  27-10-2017 20:12
  The committee of the Casting Directors’ Guild of the UK & Ireland responds to Sarah Solemani’s experiences of auditioning for roles. Plus Robert Sanderson highlights the inventive setting for a recent theatrical productionThe committee and many members of the Casting Directors’ Guild of the UK & Ireland (CDG) read Sarah Solemani’s piece (The TV and film industries are toxic – and it starts in the audition room, 21 October) with interest. Like all of the expe
  
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• Party Coverage: Scene City: ‘Hair’ Turns 50

  27-10-2017 20:10 via nytimes.com
  Galas were held last week for the Public Theater, Americans for the Arts, Save the Children and the American Ballet Theater.
  
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• The Good Doctor Is Breaking All Sorts of Ratings Records

  27-10-2017 19:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  The great news for The Good Doctor keeps on coming. Barely a month after its premiere, ABC’s feel-good Freddie Highmore hospital drama has emerged as the No. 1 drama on network TV, edging out NBC’s red-hot This Is Us and CBS’s perennial leader NCIS to claim ratings supremacy among hour-long...More »
  
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• BBC hopes to bury ghost of Top of the Pops with new music show

  27-10-2017 19:29
  Sounds Like Friday Night will feature comedy sketches with celebrities as well as live music performances across many genresThere was a time when live music was a staple of primetime TV, and one brand cast a shadow over every rival: the BBC’s much imitated, rarely rivalled flagship chart show, Top of the Pops.Then the internet happened – and TOTP died in 2006. For the last decade, every attempt to wrest the pop agenda back from YouTube and co has been met with failure and inevitable
  
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• Great British Bake Off reaches biggest young audience for TV series this year

  27-10-2017 19:22
  Show’s move from BBC was controversial but Channel 4’s £75m investment seems to have paid offThe Great British Bake Off on Channel 4 has been watched by more young people than any other series on TV so far this year, delivering vital success for the state-owned broadcaster as it awaits the arrival of a new chief executive and battles government attempts to force it to relocate from London.Bake Off’s move from the BBC to Channel 4 was controversial and the latest series ha
  
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• A New London Theater Aims to Stage a Revolution

  27-10-2017 19:18 via nytimes.com
  The Bridge, overseen by Nicholas Hytner, wants to narrow the divide between the commercial and subsidized sectors. Its opening play: “Young Marx.”
  
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• Fourth Man Accuses Fired APA Agent, Alleging He Offered to Trade Career Help for Sex

  27-10-2017 19:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  Former APA agent Tyler Grasham was fired last week after three men accused him of sexual assault. Now, a fourth man has come forward, accusing Grasham of offering career advice in exchange for sex, according to Deadline. Michael Podraza, now a business and legal affairs manager at Lionsgate, issued a...More »
  
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• Jay Hunt, television’s hit-picker, moves to Apple

  27-10-2017 19:01 via ft.com
  The hire will help the tech company to polish its brand as it moves into content
  
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• Stranger Things Recap: Inner Demons

  27-10-2017 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you’d never seen an episode of Stranger Things season one, you’d think that Barb’s mysterious disappearance immediately left Nancy an emotional basket case, unable to carry on after her best friend’s shocking death. Sure, Nancy “Let’s Burn That Lab to the Ground” Wheeler sobbed when Barb’s body was spotted...More »
  
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• Nicki Minaj and Cardi B Join Migos’s New Song ‘Motor Sports,’ Blessing Us With ‘Trap Selena’

  27-10-2017 18:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  Cute couples costume idea: Nicki Minaj and Cardi B taking over Migos’s new track “Motor Sports.” The boys invited rap’s reigning queens to join their newest single, and the ladies brought a cornucopia of one-liners. Consider, courtesy of Cardi, a praise to the most high, Selena Quintanilla-Pérez: “So tell me,...More »
  
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• Opera Review: Surrealism Explored in The Exterminating Angel

  27-10-2017 18:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  A few sheep are already grazing onstage at the Metropolitan Opera as the audience files in. Soon, a flock of human characters enters the set, having attended another opera in another city. Dressed in white tie and floor-length satin, they are gathering in a private mansion, a wonderland of crystal...More »
  
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• How to Get Away With Murder Recap: May Day

  27-10-2017 18:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  I’ll be honest: I would happily watch 45 minutes of Jimmy Smits facing off against Bonnie or Annalise. The other five minutes could just be filled with Annalise doing victory dances. I require nothing else from this show.This week, Michaela continues to reluctantly scheme, Asher continues to model over-the-top eagerness,...More »
  
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• Rose McGowan Gives Powerful Speech on Sexual Assault in Hollywood: ‘It’s Time to Clean House’

  27-10-2017 18:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  In her first public appearance since accusing Harvey Weinstein of raping her, Rose McGowan gave an impassioned speech at the Women’s Convention in Detroit on Friday. Addressing the approximately 5,000 people in attendance, McGowan said, “Hollywood may seem like it’s an isolated thing, but it is not. It is the...More »
  
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• All 8 Saw Movies, Ranked

  27-10-2017 18:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  Unlike the slasher movies of the 1980s or the exploitation horror films of the 1970s, the modern wave of torture films (or, as New York’s David Edelstein dubbed it, “torture porn”) has been marked by highly stylized violence with landscapes designed for and devoted to pure punishment. The subgenre thrived...More »
  
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• Rose McGowan: my silence on sexual assault and harassment is over

  27-10-2017 18:16
  Actor says harassment and abuse ‘cannot stand and will not stand’
  McGowan thanks audience at Women’s Convention ‘for giving me wings’
  In her first public comments since accusing film producer Harvey Weinstein of rape, Rose McGowan said Friday she has been “silenced for 20 years” but won’t remain quiet about sexual assault and harassment.McGowan, delivering opening remarks at the Women’s Convention in Detroit, thanked the audience “for g
  
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• Taylor Swift Can Be Anything She Wants, So Long As It’s Computer-Generated

  27-10-2017 18:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  Is there a message to be found in the video for Taylor Swift’s “…Ready for It?” As our first responders aptly noted, the video, directed by Joseph Kahn, makes a hash out of the visual designs of various sci-fi franchises: the orb thing from Prometheus, Blade Runner’s kanji-pockmarked claustrophobic nightlife,...More »
  
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• Why It’s Time to Reconsider Witch House

  27-10-2017 18:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  In TV, movies, and real life, women have been at the forefront of the year’s biggest stories — so this Halloween season, we’re looking at pop culture’s most wicked depictions of female power.In 2000, nu-metal band Papa Roach released a video for the song “Broken Home.” It’s about the fallout...More »
  
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• It’s Always Fishnets Season Somewhere

  27-10-2017 18:00 via nytimes.com
  The prostitute, courtesan, sex worker — all as presented in popular culture — are exerting a strong influence on the looks you may want to wear now.
  
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• Andy Cohen, Who Definitely Knows Who Kathy Griffin Is, Pretends Not To

  27-10-2017 17:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  Another victim of Kathy Griffin’s Trump beheading photo scandal (which has already claimed her friendship with Anderson Cooper) seems to be Andy Cohen’s memory of Griffin’s existence. Ambushed by TMZ at LAX, Andy Cohen, who will replace Griffin as Cooper’s New Year’s Eve co-host on CNN, pretended not to remember...More »
  
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• Mark Halperin’s Publisher Shelves Book About the 2016 Election Amid Sexual-Harassment Allegations

  27-10-2017 17:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  Penguin Press will not be publishing Mark Halperin’s co-authored book about the 2016 presidential race. The publisher is the latest in a line of companies that has severed ties with the veteran political journalist after six women accused him of sexual harassment. CNN reported that Halperin committed the alleged incidents...More »
  
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• Taylor Swift Was Apparently the Only Person Who Liked Ghost in the Shell

  27-10-2017 17:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  The live-action Ghost in the Shell movie might have been a flop, but at least one pop star dug it. On Thursday night, Taylor Swift released the music video for the second single off her upcoming Reputation and the internet was not prepared for all the movie references in “…Ready...More »
  
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• Rosie O’Donnell Joins Cast of David Rabe Play

  27-10-2017 17:35 via nytimes.com
  She will perform alongside Ed Harris, Amy Madigan and F. Murray Abraham in the New Group production of “Good for Otto.”
  
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• Clea DuVall Will Play Alexis Bledel’s Wife In The Handmaid’s Tale, Where Gay Marriage Is Definitely Not Legal

  27-10-2017 17:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  Clea DuVall, who has been doing recent television stints on Veep and Better Call Saul, is moving to Gilead as she joins the cast of The Handmaid’s Tale for its second season, per THR. DuVall will play Sylvia, the wife of Emily (Alexis Bledel), who was condemned in the first...More »
  
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• Mindhunter Recap: Private Eyes

  27-10-2017 17:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  The skeleton key for unlocking the seventh episode of Mindhunter arrives in the second conversation Bill and Holden have with their latest subject, Jerry Brudos (Happy Anderson), who’s serving out a life sentence for killing and mutilating at least four women between 1968 and 1969. Among Brudos’s notable possessions are...More »
  
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