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• Where Did Marina Abramovic Institute’s Money Go?

  14-11-2017 23:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  Marina Abramovic called me last night from Kiev: “My blood pressure is sky-high,” she said, before sighing dramatically and detailing her struggles with Lyme disease, likely caught from an unnoticed tick at her country house outside of Hudson, New York.Hudson was bedeviling her from the other side of the world...More »
  
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• Debra Chasnoff, Whose Films Redefined Gay Families, Dies at 60

  14-11-2017 23:07 via nytimes.com
  An Oscar-winning documentarian, she addressed subjects including parenting, sexuality, bullying, nuclear power and affordable housing.
  
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• Kristen Stewart Feels "Lucky" for Twilight Experience: "It's Made Me Who I Am"

  14-11-2017 22:59 via feeds.eonline.com
  Kristen Stewart has nothing but positive things to say about the Twilight movies.The 27-year-old actress attended The Museum of Modern Art Film Benefit in New York City on Monday evening...
  
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• BBC to publish details of viewers' complaints under new Ofcom rules

  14-11-2017 22:44 via theguardian.com
  Corporation will have to reveal number of complaints it gets each fortnight and which programmes had above 100 complaintsThe BBC is to publish detailed information about the complaints it receives from viewers after Ofcom, the media regulator, demanded that the corporation become more transparent.Under new rules the BBC will have to reveal the number of complaints it receives every fortnight, identify the shows that received more than 100 complaints, and explain the editorial issues raised by th
  
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• Let Cardi B Teach You How to Hustle

  14-11-2017 22:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  Cardi B may be a natural when it comes to fame, but getting to No. 1 still involved a whole lot of hustle. Her tips for making it in New York include nonstop networking, hitting up events and clubs, and the occasional fried-chicken bribe. Watch the video above to hear...More »
  
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• Taraji P. Henson to Explore What Men Want in Gender-Flipped Nancy Meyers Remake

  14-11-2017 22:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  Partner, let me upgrade you: Taraji P. Henson will play the Mel Gibson role in a gender-flipped version of Nancy Meyers’s What Women Want due in early 2019. Where Mel was a chauvinistic libertine gifted with the (divine privilege!) of hearing every woman’s thoughts in the 2000 romantic comedy, Henson...More »
  
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• Get Out to Run As a Comedy at the Golden Globes

  14-11-2017 21:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  Blumhouse is setting up its blockbuster Get Out to bring some hardware home for the studio. Entertainment Weekly reports that the horror satire from director Jordan Peele will compete as a comedy at the 2018 Golden Globes. Get Out does provide quite a few laughs, so the classification is not...More »
  
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• Lincoln Center to End Its Namesake Summer Festival

  14-11-2017 21:15 via nytimes.com
  Jane Moss, who revived the center’s Mostly Mozart festival, will take control of all summer programming with the demise of the Lincoln Center Festival.
  
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• Bryan Cranston Says Kevin Spacey and Harvey Weinstein Can Maybe Get a Second Chance

  14-11-2017 21:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  As allegations of sexual assault and harassment continue to send shockwaves through Hollywood, Bryan Cranston told the BBC that if two of the accused — Kevin Spacey and Harvey Weinstein — take years to work through their “psychological and emotional problems,” maybe they can be welcomed back into the industry....More »
  
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• What Sarah Paulson and Evan Peters Brought to American Horror Story: Cult

  14-11-2017 21:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  American Horror Story is well-known for its repeat cast members. Lily Rabe and Frances Conroy have both appeared six times. Denis O’Hare has done five seasons, while Kathy Bates and Jessica Lange, who has won more Emmys (two) than any other AHS actor, both have four to their credit.But only...More »
  
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• Kristen Bell Will Reunite a High-School Musical’s Cast on TV, and Soon She Might Come for Yours, Too

  14-11-2017 20:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  Former high-school theater nerds, no longer will you have to spend your days insisting to friends and family that your senior-year performance in The King and I was “revelatory,” “must-see,” and “better than Kelli O’Hara’s, that fraud.” Now you will have the chance to relive your glory days on television....More »
  
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• Here We Go! A New Super Mario Bros. Animated Movie Is Reportedly in Development

  14-11-2017 20:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the age of supersized intellectual properties, it was only a matter of time before Super Mario Bros. got a new big-screen treatment. According to The Wall Street Journal, Illumination Entertainment is closing in on a deal with Nintendo to make the first big adaptation of the property since 1993’s...More »
  
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• MY THANKSGIVING: A Holiday From Criticism

  14-11-2017 20:09 via nytimes.com
  A.O. Scott is a film reviewer for The Times, so cooking Thanksgiving dinner is a chance to avoid work. And he’s thankful his food pleases the critics.
  
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• 20 Comedians You Should and Will Know

  14-11-2017 20:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  In 2013, Vulture assembled a list of 50 comedians we had been hearing about with such frequency that we needed to alert our readers. That was only four years ago, but it seems like it’s been much longer considering the list contained such current household names as Amy Schumer, Kumail...More »
  
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• Review: In ‘Song of Granite,’ Fragments of an Irish Folk Singer’s Life

  14-11-2017 19:45 via nytimes.com
  This biography of the singer Joe Heaney seems uncertain of what made him tick.
  
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• Why the Mother-Daughter Relationship in Lady Bird Feels So Real

  14-11-2017 19:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  As I left the theater after watching Lady Bird, I heard a familiar little nagging voice in my head. “Call your mom,” it whispered.I have a feeling I’m not alone in this. Lady Bird, Greta Gerwig’s widely lauded directorial debut, is up there with Terms of Endearment and Steel Magnolias...More »
  
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• Amber Heard Says Aquaman Was an "Exercise in Patience, Stamina and Fortitude"

  14-11-2017 18:50 via feeds.eonline.com
  With Justice League, Amber Heard found herself in uncharted waters.The actress, who briefly appears in the movie as Mera, queen of Atlantis, talked to E! News' Will Marfuggi about...
  
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• Nu in de theater: De ontvoering van Arjan Erkel - Hartvannederland.nl

  14-11-2017 18:34
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  Nu in de theater: De ontvoering van Arjan Erkel
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  Sinds zijn vrijlating gaf hij tientallen interviews aan televisie, radio en kranten. En nu staat Arjan Erkel met zijn verhaal in het theater. Dinsdagavond doet hij zijn eerste try-out in theater Walahlla in Rotterdam. In 2002 werd Arjan ontvoerd door ...
  
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• Terry Leahy’s retail career in two acts

  14-11-2017 18:25 via ft.com
  Departure from fast-growing chain B&M invites comparison with his time running Tesco
  
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• A Better Man’s Attiya Khan on Why She Confronted Her Longtime Abuser on Camera

  14-11-2017 18:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  The opening scene of A Better Man, playing Wednesday at DOC NYC, is incredibly painful to sit through. Attiya Khan, the co-director, sits at a café with her ex-boyfriend Steve and asks him directly about the violence he inflicted on her 20 years ago, when they lived together while still...More »
  
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• Why Some Artists Are Never Separated From Their Work (and Why Louis C.K. Was)

  14-11-2017 18:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  After the news broke about Louis C.K. and sexual misconduct, my mind ran over C.K.’s work, his stand-up, his curmudgeonly late-night appearances, his intimate, formally adventurous TV works, and my thoughts landed on someone else. I thought about Lena Dunham. They’ve been linked in my mind for years, ever since...More »
  
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• Den Haag FM » Ook Het Nationale Theater zondag bij ... - Den Haag FM

  14-11-2017 17:57
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  Aanstaande zondag vindt in het stadhuis, voor de vijftiende keer, het Ooievaars Kunst- en Cultuurfestival plaats. Voor jong en oud is er van alles te beleven.en meer »
  
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• Moscow prepares sweeping measures against foreign media

  14-11-2017 17:52 via ft.com
  Russia-funded RT recently required to register as ‘foreign agent’ in US
  
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• Christie’s Is Selling This Painting for $100 Million. They Say It’s by Leonardo. I Have My Doubts. Big Doubts.

  14-11-2017 17:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sandwiched between onlookers who’d waited on line outside in the cold to be ushered into the dimmed Christie’s gallery to gaze and gawk at what the auction house trumpets as “the greatest and most unexpected artistic rediscovery of the 21st century” — that is, a brand-new Leonardo da Vinci lost...More »
  
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• John Hillerman obituary

  14-11-2017 17:30 via theguardian.com
  Actor who was best known as Higgins, the supercilious English estate manager, in the TV series Magnum PIThe actor John Hillerman, who has died aged 84, was best known for his role in the television series Magnum PI, playing Jonathan Quayle Higgins III, the English caretaker of the Hawaiian complex in which Tom Selleck’s eponymous private investigator was based. It was the culmination of a series of supporting parts in TV series in which he played characters who displayed officious arroganc
  
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• Who Are Rey’s Parents?

  14-11-2017 17:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  We investigate the 12 people (and things) who might be Rey’s parents in the upcoming Star Wars: The Last Jedi....More »
  
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• Theater News: Jay Armstrong Johnson Extends in The Mad Ones

  14-11-2017 17:00
  Johnson steps in while Ben Fankhauser takes doctor-imposed vocal rest.
  
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• Theater News: Hamilton Offers Chance to Win Tickets to Opening Night in London

  14-11-2017 17:00
  The contest will help raise funds for climate change organizations.
  
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• Late night on Roy Moore: Republicans 'use politics as a shield for sex crimes'

  14-11-2017 16:56 via theguardian.com
  Comics, including Stephen Colbert, Trevor Noah and Seth Meyers, addressed the sexual misconduct allegations against the Alabama Senate candidateThe Guardian Mobile Innovation Lab is testing a new way to tell stories on mobile. View coverage of this topic and sign up for updates (recommended for Chrome users on Android)Late-night hosts on Monday discussed the mounting sexual assault allegations against the Alabama senatorial candidate Roy Moore, who is running for attorney general Jeff Sessions&r
  
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• Paddington 2 makes marmalade of the UK box office competition

  14-11-2017 16:44
  The charming bear’s return looks set to capture Christmas, while the outlook is far from terminal for Murder on the Orient ExpressGiven the huge box office success of the first Paddington movie audience affection for the bear and critical acclaim for Paddington 2, a big opening for the sequel was a given. The only question was: how big? Its predecessor debuted in the UK just under three years ago with £5.13m from 518 cinemas. This time around, distributor StudioCanal achieved a sligh
  
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• The 10 Best Rom-Com Tributes in The Mindy Project

  14-11-2017 16:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Mindy Project never met a rom-com trope it didn’t like. Mere minutes into the pilot episode, Dr. Mindy Lahiri exclaimed, “I’m Sandra Bullock!” The majority of its characters have participated in some form of dramatic rom-com run. (In the best iteration, Jeremy ran in the rain all the way...More »
  
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• Eugene O’Neill and Meredith Monk, in BAM’s New Season

  14-11-2017 16:20 via nytimes.com
  Among the highlights of the winter-spring season is a production of “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” starring Lesley Manville and Jeremy Irons.
  
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• Joe Biden, Soul of the Nation, Tells Colbert He Hopes Trump Will Be the ‘Single Exception in American History’

  14-11-2017 16:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Joe Biden is worried, too. Though the former vice-president previously said he’d give Trump an “even shot to do the job,” that was many months and several headaches ago. Now, he tells Stephen Colbert in another insightful conversation, time’s up. Biden says the turning point for him was Trump’s refusal...More »
  
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• Photo Flash: The Wolves Take Lincoln Center Theater

  14-11-2017 16:00
  Sarah DeLappe's acclaimed play returns off-Broadway.
  
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• Photo Flash: Meet the School Girls of Jocelyn Bioh's African Mean Girls Play

  14-11-2017 16:00
  The new comedy is directed by Rebecca Taichman.
  
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• ITV shares hit by content division’s ‘weak’ performance

  14-11-2017 15:56 via ft.com
  Broadcaster reports falling ad revenues and rising property costs but says trends are improving
  
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• Ben Affleck and J.J. Abrams Bring Jimmy Kimmel’s Preteen Comic Book to Life With This Very Silly Trailer

  14-11-2017 15:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  Jimmy Kimmel turned 50 on Monday, so it was only right that his most famous friends (and his most infamous enemy) got together to bring his childhood dreams to life. As a preteen, Kimmel created his own Kimmel Comics universe starring the “The Terrific Ten,” and J.J. Abrams has brought...More »
  
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• Aalten Vooruit - Winterswijks Muziek theater zoekt mannen! - Aalten Vooruit (persbericht) (Blog)

  14-11-2017 15:41
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  Aalten Vooruit - Winterswijks Muziek theater zoekt mannen!
  Aalten Vooruit (persbericht) (Blog)
  Het Winterswijks Muziek Theater is op zoek naar mannen uit de regio Achterhoek die mee willen zingen, dansen en acteren bij dit actieve amateur ...
  Primeur voor Winterswijks Muziek TheaterSlingeland FMalle 8 nieuwsartikelen »
  
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• Future Man Is a Bawdy, Tiresome Riff on Sci-Fi Classics

  14-11-2017 15:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  Future Man is not unwatchable, but it’s pretty bad. Hulu’s time-travel comedy about a janitor recruited to save humanity from extinction is produced by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, the minds behind This Is the End, Superbad, and Pineapple Express, and written by Kyle Hunter and Ariel Shaffir, who penned the screenplay for Rogen and...More »
  
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• Jimmy Fallon Pays Tribute to His Late Mother, Gloria: ‘I’ll Never Stop Trying to Make You Laugh’

  14-11-2017 15:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Tonight Show went dark last week as Jimmy Fallon took time to be with his family after the death of his mother, Gloria. Returning to TV Monday night, Fallon began his show with a tribute to her life. “She was the best audience, she was the one I was...More »
  
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• Warps and all: has Star Trek Discovery been a voyage worth taking?

  14-11-2017 15:17 via theguardian.com
  The show’s mission was to boldly disrupt all Trek lore that had gone before – and it has done, with space discos and even a dropping of the F-bomb. It feels worth sticking with, even if some fans haven’t taken to it ... For decades, Star Trek TV shows have loved and lionised their Federation spacecraft. You can see it in that signature visual flourish, where the USS Enterprise – or Voyager, or Defiant – languidly comes about like a proud old galleon before stretchin
  
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• Dancing With the Stars Recap: Double Time

  14-11-2017 15:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  If I sound a little depressed, it’s because I’m about to watch my first Dancing With the Stars episode of the season that doesn’t have Terrell Owens on it. If you’ve read my previous recaps, which I’m sure you have, you know that Terrell was my personal favorite. Was it...More »
  
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• Theater News: Kara Lindsay, Randy Blair, and More Set for Industry Reading of In the Beginning

  14-11-2017 15:00
  The new musical features a book by Padraic Duffy and music and lyrics by Bill Fisher.
  
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• The Middle’s Eden Sher on the ‘Unbreakable’ Sue Heck and Why She Wishes the Show Got More Political

  14-11-2017 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you were to list the most relentlessly optimistic and resilient characters in television history, The Middle’s Sue Heck might be close to standing on her own podium at this point. Throughout the ABC sitcom’s nine-season run — which will come to its conclusion next year — Eden Sher’s portrayal...More »
  
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• Film News: Maria Dizzia Directs Sarah Stiles, Arian Moayed, and Rebecca Naomi Jones in New Film

  14-11-2017 15:00
  Olli Haaskivi and Joseph Medeiros's Karens Unanimous, directed by Dizzia, is now fundraising on Indiegogo.
  
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