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• Mindhunter Recap: Back to School

  30-10-2017 23:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  Deviant. Pyromania. Torture of small animals. Mutilation.Welcome to Career Day at Shady Lane Elementary School, where FBI Agent Holden Ford has arrived to tell fourth graders that the next Ed Kemper or Jerry Brudos might be sitting next to them. And is almost certainly a boy. And maybe throws medium-sized...More »
  
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• Kevin Spacey Issues Apology to Actor After Sexual Accusation

  30-10-2017 22:21 via nytimes.com
  The actor Anthony Rapp said he was 14 when Mr. Spacey laid down on top of him. Mr. Spacey said he had no recollection and then disclosed that he is gay.
  
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• New Accusers Expand Harvey Weinstein Sexual Assault Claims Back to ’70s

  30-10-2017 22:14 via nytimes.com
  Previously undisclosed accounts broaden the time frame of claims. “We’ll drag you through the mud by your hair,” one woman said a lawyer for the producer told her.
  
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• Cardi B Is That One Friend Who Tells You Way Too Much About Her Sex Life

  30-10-2017 22:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  There are many things you should know about Cardi B — she had a No. 1 song, she makes more schmoney than you, she is the reigning queen of the Bronx, etc. — but one thing you probably didn’t know is that she has a very eventful sex life. In...More »
  
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• With ... Jason Blum: In the Time of Trump, a Horror-Movie Maker Rules Hollywood

  30-10-2017 22:00 via nytimes.com
  “I think ‘Get Out’ did four times the business it would have done if Hillary had been president,” says Jason Blum, also producer of “Happy Death Day.”
  
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• Review: Illyria

  30-10-2017 22:00
  Richard Nelson returns to the Public Theater to tell the story of the Public Theater.
  
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• Confirm or Deny: Jason Blum

  30-10-2017 21:52 via nytimes.com
  The “Get Out” producer loves musicals.
  
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• After Spacey Accusation, Netflix Announces End of ‘House of Cards’

  30-10-2017 21:35 via nytimes.com
  Netflix said the show would end after its sixth season. That came shortly after Kevin Spacey was accused of making a sexual advance toward a 14-year-old boy in the 1980s.
  
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• ‘Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?’ Linda Nochlin Didn’t Just Ask the Un-Askable, She Forced the Art World to Give a Better Answer.

  30-10-2017 21:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  In 1971, art historian Linda Nochlin blew through the gates of art-world patriarchy with her paradigm-changing-on-a-dime essay, “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?” Nochlin’s question wasn’t a question at all. She saw that just to ask that was to bait people into asking deeper, harder questions about gender...More »
  
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• The Duffer Brothers Recap Stranger Things 2, ‘Chapter One: MadMax’

  30-10-2017 20:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  As a supplement to our recaps of Stranger Things 2, we asked Matt and Ross Duffer — recent subjects of a New York Magazine profile and the creators of the Netflix sci-fi drama — to get nitty-gritty about the creative decisions behind each of the season’s nine episodes. We present...More »
  
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• Netflix Announces House of Cards Will End After Sixth Season

  30-10-2017 20:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  The House of Cards will finally collapse. A Netflix spokesperson has confirmed to Vulture that the show’s upcoming sixth season will be its last. The streaming service would not discuss when the decision was made, but TV Line reports that this decision was several months in the making. According to...More »
  
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• Playing House Canceled After 3 Seasons, Because We Apparently Can’t Have Anything Nice

  30-10-2017 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  After three seasons USA Network will no longer be Playing House with Jessica St. Clair and Lennon Parham. In a statement provided to The Hollywood Reporter, the network and Universal Cable Productions thanked the cast and crew for being “amazing partners for three incredible seasons,” and added, “It was an...More »
  
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• Kevin Spacey Issues Apology to Anthony Rapp After Sexual Accusation

  30-10-2017 19:52 via nytimes.com
  The actor Anthony Rapp said he was 14 when Mr. Spacey laid down on top of him. Mr. Spacey said he had no recollection and then disclosed that he is gay.
  
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• Radio presenter says she was groped while working at Radio 5 Live

  30-10-2017 19:30
  Shelagh Fogarty talks about being accosted by drunk colleague at a party as Anne Robinson questions the ‘fragility of women’Shelagh Fogarty, the radio presenter, has said she was groped while working at BBC Radio 5 Live.She revealed her experience during her Monday afternoon programme on LBC. Fogarty said she had not complained about the incident but hinted that the man had subsequently groped more women. Continue reading...
  
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• New Accusers Expand Harvey Weinstein Sexual Assault Claims to Four Decades

  30-10-2017 19:27 via nytimes.com
  Previously undisclosed accounts broaden the time frame of claims. “We’ll drag you through the mud by your hair,” one woman said a lawyer for the producer told her.
  
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• TV industry is still a boys' club – Catastrophe star Sharon Horgan

  30-10-2017 19:25
  Writer and comedian says executives too often seek ‘safe pair of hands’, usually meaning an experienced male director The writer and comedian Sharon Horgan has spoken out against the “overwhelmingly male-dominated” lists of directors that still dominate the television industry, ensuring that it remains a “boys’ club”.Horgan, known best as the co-writer and star of Channel 4’s Catastrophe, was critical of the entrenched instinct of TV executives to
  
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• In Praise of Steve and Dustin’s Unlikely Stranger Things Friendship

  30-10-2017 19:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  Spoilers for Stranger Things season two ahead.Steve Harrington is the only teen on Stranger Things without a younger sibling to guide through puberty or that lesser evil of the Upside Down. But in season two, our reformed villain gets an unexpected lil’ best friend in his polar opposite, Dustin Henderson....More »
  
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• Review: ‘Red Roses, Green Gold’ Brings Back the Grateful Dead

  30-10-2017 19:05 via nytimes.com
  While the jukebox musical has a cartoonish plot, songs like “Friend of the Devil” and “Box of Rain” work smartly on stage.
  
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• New Accuser Says Harvey Weinstein Raped Her in the 1970s

  30-10-2017 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  The New York Times has reported a new series of sexual-assault allegations against Harvey Weinstein, who is under investigation by police departments in Los Angeles, New York City, and London. The piece reveals two new allegations that date back much earlier than those previously reported, and a 2004 allegation that...More »
  
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• The Weinstein Company's Amityville: The Awakening Grosses a Mere $742: See More Box Office Bombs

  30-10-2017 18:54 via feeds.eonline.com
  The Weinstein Company released the first movie following Harvey Weinstein's scandal this weekend.Amityville: The Awakening was set to be released in 2015 but finally debuted in ten...
  
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• Blue Planet returns with ratings victory over Strictly Come Dancing

  30-10-2017 18:33
  Surfing dolphins and walrus cubs help follow-up to hit 2001 series attract up to 10.6 million viewers on Sunday eveningThe opening episode of Blue Planet II, narrated by Sir David Attenborough, drew on average more than half a million viewers than Strictly Coming Dancing on Sunday evening.Related: Blue Planet II review: the ocean as you've never seen it beforeContinue reading...
  
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• Comedy Icons Larry David, Tiffany Haddish, and Chance The Rapper to Host SNL Next Month

  30-10-2017 18:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  SNL just announced its latest hosts, and the pairings are delightful. This weekend’s show will be hosted by Larry David and feature the newly reformed Miley Cyrus. Girls Trip’s Tiffany Haddish is set to host on November 11, with America’s favorite cyborg, Taylor Swift, joining her as musical guest. Haddish will...More »
  
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• Stranger Things’ Joe Keery Agrees That Steve’s Jeans Were Very Tight

  30-10-2017 17:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  What a difference one season makes: Steve Harrington started off in Stranger Things as the popular kid in high school, the jerkface boyfriend to one Nancy Wheeler, but he has emerged on the other side of the second season humbled, mature, and an awesome babysitter with hair still Farrah Fawcett...More »
  
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• Corey Feldman Defends Needing $10 Million for Film Exposing Hollywood Pedophilia

  30-10-2017 17:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  In light of the ongoing Harvey Weinstein scandal and Sunday’s accusations against Kevin Spacey, Corey Feldman is trying to tell the story of his experiences with Hollywood pedophilia. The Goonies star has long said that he and former co-star Corey Haim were sexually abused by Hollywood higher-ups, and in a...More »
  
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• More Women Say Harvey Weinstein Sexually Assaulted Them

  30-10-2017 17:33 via nytimes.com
  Previously undisclosed accounts of rape, forced oral sex and groping expand the time frame of accusations against Mr. Weinstein all the way to the 1970s.
  
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• Ron Funches Has the Best Voice in Comedy

  30-10-2017 17:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  I love it when a line from a joke gets stuck in my head like a song lyric. There probably wasn’t a week in the ’90s where I didn’t think of the way Chris Rock said “big piece of chicken” on Bring the Pain. More recently, I’ve spent the last...More »
  
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• Lin-Manuel Miranda on Adapting The Kingkiller Chronicles, How It Inspired Moana, and the Lady Lackless Song He Wrote

  30-10-2017 17:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  When Lin-Manuel Miranda first reached out to fantasy scribe Patrick Rothfuss to tell him he liked his work, the author had never heard of the composer. (“My friends were like, ‘Holy shit, holy shit, holy shit!’” Rothfuss told me in a recent interview. “But I live in the opposite of...More »
  
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• Theater News: Aladdin and Beauty and the Beast Composer Alan Menken to Be Honored by NY Pops

  30-10-2017 17:00
  Menken will be celebrated at the Pops's 35th birthday gala.
  
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• Photo Flash: Red Roses, Green Gold Opens Off-Broadway

  30-10-2017 17:00
  The new musical features songs by Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter of the Grateful Dead.
  
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• Photo Flash: Billy Porter and Stark Sands Don Thigh Highs Once Again

  30-10-2017 17:00
  The pair appear in Kinky Boots through January 7.
  
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• More Than Nuns Gone Wild

  30-10-2017 16:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  Early in Novitiate (out this month), we catch aspiring teenage nun Sister Cathleen (Margaret Qualley) in an intimate moment with her lover. She is kneeling at the foot of her single bed, eyes squeezed shut, her hands clasped together in prayer. “Thank you for letting me be here,” she whispers in...More »
  
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• 'Striving for cake nirvana': who should win this year's Great British Bake Off?

  30-10-2017 16:30
  Artistic Steven, driven Sophie or have-a-go Kate – who are you backing in the final? Our writers nail their colours to the mastSteven deserves to win Bake Off because he’s the best baker, a fact neither his detractors, nor those cheering another team, would seriously dispute. Whether making a savoury sandwich illusion cake, a 100-element chess set or a manchego clutch with breadstick chain, he treats every challenge as if life on Earth depended on it. He’s never heard of pacing
  
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• John Oliver on Trump's opioid epidemic response: 'Literally two cents per addict'

  30-10-2017 16:19
  The Last Week Tonight host took apart the president’s speech on opioids and spoke of the impending news from Robert Mueller’s investigationJohn Oliver criticized Donald Trump’s recent speech on the opioid epidemic, calling his solutions “underwhelming”. Related: John Oliver on Weinstein: 'Everyone knew and they just went with it'Continue reading...
  
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• Theater News: Dear Evan Hansen Celebrates One-Year Anniversary With Free Tickets

  30-10-2017 16:00
  A "Fan Appreciation Day" special performance will be presented in partnership with Atlantic Records.
  
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• Theater News: Come From Away, Waitress Casts Set for Thanksgiving Day Parade on CBS

  30-10-2017 16:00
  The annual broadcast will air November 23.
  
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• Photo Flash: First Look at The Band's Visit on Broadway

  30-10-2017 16:00
  Tony Shalhoub and Katrina Lenk reprise their roles in the musical from Itamar Moses and David Yazbek.
  
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• John Early Teaches Amy Sedaris a Thing or Two About Acting, a.k.a Lying, in At Home With Amy Sedaris

  30-10-2017 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  John Early is so thrilled to be on TV with Amy Sedaris in her new hospitality series At Home With Amy Sedaris – actually, no, he’s not, that was just acting. In an exclusive clip from the new series, the Search Party star plays Russell Schnabble, a turtlenecked aficionado who...More »
  
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• House of Cards Creator Beau Willimon Claims He Was Unaware of ‘Deeply Troubling’ Allegations Against Kevin Spacey

  30-10-2017 15:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  House of Cards creator Beau Willimon has responded to the allegations that the show’s star Kevin Spacey made sexual advances toward actor Anthony Rapp when the Star Trek: Discovery star was 14. Following Spacey’s subsequent apology (and public coming out), Willimon has released a statement saying he had no prior...More »
  
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• The Weinstein Company’s First Post-Scandal Release Grossed a Paltry $742

  30-10-2017 15:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  There’s one Weinstein-related story you might have missed over the weekend: Amid the ongoing sexual-assault and harassment scandal surrounded its co-founder, the Weinstein Company released a movie. Dimension Films’ Amityville: The Awakening started streaming for free free exclusively on Google Play on October 12, and had a limited one-day theatrical...More »
  
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• Kevin Spacey Apologizes to Anthony Rapp After Sexual Accusation

  30-10-2017 15:05 via nytimes.com
  The actor Anthony Rapp said he was 14 when Mr. Spacey laid down on top of him. Mr. Spacey said he had no recollection and then disclosed that he is gay.
  
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• A Salute to Bob Newby, the Best Character on Stranger Things 2

  30-10-2017 14:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  There are spoilers about Stranger Things 2 all over this article. Please proceed with that in mind.Bob Newby, the boyfriend of Joyce Byers in the second season of Stranger Things, is the equivalent of dad jeans in human form. He is unabashedly dorky but comfortable, someone who initially elicits snickers...More »
  
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