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• Bored to Death’s Jonathan Ames Once Got Ted Danson So Stoned He Couldn’t Remember His Lines

  19-11-2017 23:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  The cast of Bored to Death made for pretty persuasive partiers consuming booze and pot on screen during the cult favorite’s three-season run, but behind the scenes creator Jonathan Ames might have pushed star Ted Danson a little too far one night – with an assist from one of Danson’s...More »
  
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• Ava DuVernay and Ryan Coogler Are Making the Movies They Wish They Had Seen at Age 10

  19-11-2017 23:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ava DuVernay and Ryan Coogler are currently neighbors at the Disney lot, where they’re editing their respective blockbusters A Wrinkle in Time and Black Panther, making the kind of films they wouldn’t have dreamed of seeing in theaters as kids. At Vulture Festival L.A., the two directors spoke with Vulture...More »
  
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• Jeffrey Tambor Leaves Transparent Following Sexual Harassment Allegations

  19-11-2017 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Jeffrey Tambor has said he is leaving Amazon’s Transparent, the series he stars in, following claims of sexual harassment on set. “Playing Maura Pfefferman on Transparent has been one of the greatest privileges and creative experiences of my life,” Tambor told Deadline. “What has become clear over the past weeks,...More »
  
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• The Highs And Lows of Night of Too Many Stars, Jon Stewart’s Autism Benefit Show

  19-11-2017 20:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  At the end of Saturday’s Night Of Too Many Stars benefit show, Jon Stewart summed up this year’s star-studded event as “funny, touching, chaotic. Like life.” He’s not wrong. This time, the  “bi-occasional” comedy night that raises money for autism education programs was broadcast live on HBO from the Theater at...More »
  
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• A Brief History of Lena Dunham Being Sorry

  19-11-2017 20:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  No one can issue an apology quite like Lena Dunham, which comes from years and years and years of practice. While her preferred platform for apologizing has seemingly been Instagram, she took to Twitter last night to say that she is “so sorry” for defending Murray Miller, the Girls writer...More »
  
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• Guillermo del Toro Explains How The Shape of Water Is About ‘The Beauty of the Other’

  19-11-2017 20:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  Guillermo del Toro has a not-so-closely guarded secret: his new fantasy film The Shape of Water is rife with coded commentary on the current political climate. “The movie is about today – it’s about everything that we’re dealing with today – the toxic division of the ideology of us and...More »
  
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• Saturday Night Live: Chance the Rapper leads the laughs in Thanksgiving special

  19-11-2017 19:42
  The rapper’s hosting was a highlight of the season in an episode that addressed Al Franken, and gave us an unparalleled Thanksgiving parody anthemTonight, the show opens with the Mueller Files. Kate McKinnon is Julian Assange, patchy beard and all, creeping in a parking garage next to Mikey Day, as Trump Jr, shortly joined by Eric, played by Alex Moffat. “I told you to come alone,” says Assange. “Eric’s wife had to work so I have him for the day,” Jr explains.
  
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• ‘Justice League’ a Disappointing No. 1 as ‘Wonder’ Surprises

  19-11-2017 19:38 via nytimes.com
  “Justice League” was easily best at the box office this weekend. But ticket sales of $96 million were less than expected, especially for such a costly film.
  
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• Due North Was Inspired by a Joke About Two Insecure Writers Having an Affair

  19-11-2017 19:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  Fans of HBO’s Insecure became obsessed with Due North last season, the show within a show that depicts a forbidden love affair between a slave owner (portrayed by Scandal’s Scott Foley) and a slave (Girls Trip star Regina Hall).So, how did the soap opera wind up in the comedy and...More »
  
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• Jason Jones Advises Against Looking to Hollywood for Heroes

  19-11-2017 19:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  Jason Jones, the creator and star of TBS comedy The Detour — which goes into its third season in early 2018 — has advice for anyone looking to Hollywood celebrities for role models: Don’t.When asked at Vulture Festival L.A. by moderator Stacey Wilson Hunt about comedy heroes who influenced the...More »
  
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• Russell Simmons Allegedly Assaulted a Young Model While Brett Ratner Watched

  19-11-2017 18:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  As more prominent women continue to come forward to allege director and producer Brett Ratner has a chilling history of sexual harassment, a new feature in the Los Angeles Times takes it one step further: Ratner and his friend, Russell Simmons, have a decades-long history of coercing women into sex....More »
  
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• Better Things Doesn’t Need Louis C.K.

  19-11-2017 18:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  If Pamela Adlon’s wonderful FX comedy Better Things, which just finished its second season, survives her association with longtime collaborator Louis C.K. — and it certainly deserves to — it’ll be because C.K.’s comedy was about weird and often disturbing thought experiments, while Adlon’s is about restoring and maintaining order.Adlon co-produced and...More »
  
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• Youp: 'De Kampanje is fantastisch theater' - Noordhollands Dagblad (persbericht)

  19-11-2017 17:55
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  Youp: 'De Kampanje is fantastisch theater'
  Noordhollands Dagblad (persbericht)
  Youp van 't Hek neemt een staande ovatie in ontvangst na afloop van zijn try-out oudejaarsconference in theater De Kampanje. Ronald den Boer Vandaag, 4:46. Met schouwburg De Kampanje heeft Den Helder een fantastisch theater gekregen.
  
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• Russell Simmons Encouraged Terry Crews to Give His Sexual Assaulter ‘A Pass’

  19-11-2017 17:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the midst of the #MeToo movement last month, Brooklyn Nine-Nine star Terry Crews shared his experience of being sexually assaulted by a “high-powered” male Hollywood executive at a party, who was later revealed to be WME agent Adam Venit. As a consequence for his actions, Venit is currently taking...More »
  
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• SNL Takes a Break From Mocking Donald Trump to Take on His Son, Eric

  19-11-2017 17:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  Meeting up with Julian Assange in a spooky embassy parking garage might not be a difficult task for Donald Trump Jr., but when the unexpected variable of Eric Trump is thrown into the mix? That’s when things start to kick up a notch in the incompetence department. So goes SNL’s...More »
  
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• SNL Recap: Chance the Rapper Woos Obama Back to the White House

  19-11-2017 17:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  Until now, Chance the Rapper has been known to SNL audiences for his two appearances as a musical guest, and for appearing with Kanye West to perform Ye’s “Ultralight Beam.” When thinking about Chance as a first-time host, however, remember his fun appearance in SNL’s Run DMC holiday remix “Jingle...More »
  
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• That Male Ejaculate on Insecure Was Made of Pina Colada Mix

  19-11-2017 16:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  During Issa Rae’s Wine Down at Vulture Festival L.A., the topic of sex was naturally part of the conversation — in particular, the scene between Issa and Daniel when she decides to go down on him and ends up with male ejaculate in her eye. Did HBO have any issues...More »
  
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• The Legacy of Both Mindys on The Mindy Project

  19-11-2017 16:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  “That’s the funny thing about people changing,” Mindy Lahiri says as The Mindy Project winds down for good. “It happens so slowly.” Our heroine stands at a wedding, thinking about a dude, same as six years ago. Only nothing’s the same. Not the characters, or the world outside, where what’s...More »
  
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• SNL to Barack Obama: Will You Ascend the Presidency Again If We Give You This Sexy ’90s Slow-Jam?

  19-11-2017 16:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  Damn that pesky Constitution and not undermining the country’s various institutions that we barely hold onto as it is. While Barack Obama will never be able to claim the U.S. presidency again for those valid enough reasons, SNL’s sexy ‘90s-inspired vocal group is hoping they can perhaps entice the guy...More »
  
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• How Pixar Made Sure ‘Coco’ Was Culturally Conscious

  19-11-2017 16:00 via nytimes.com
  With a white director and a story based on a traditional Mexican holiday, the studio (mostly) pre-empted controversy through uncharacteristic collaborations.
  
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• How Pixar Created ‘Coco,’ a Culturally Conscious Blockbuster

  19-11-2017 16:00 via nytimes.com
  With a white director and a story based on a traditional Mexican holiday, the studio (mostly) pre-empted controversy through uncharacteristic collaborations.
  
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• SNL Alum Al Franken Isn’t Immune to a Verbal Spanking at His Old Stomping Grounds

  19-11-2017 15:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  Current U.S. Senator and former SNL-er Al Franken has been embroiled in an unpleasant sexual-misconduct scandal this week, but you know what they say: Your former employer won’t do anything to make you look even shittier, right? Ha! The show’s Weekend Update segment decided to do just that, reminding the...More »
  
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• Twee musicals in Theater Sneek - Sneeker Nieuwsblad

  19-11-2017 14:17
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  Twee musicals in Theater Sneek
  Sneeker Nieuwsblad
  SNEEK Twee musicals, From Sammy With Love en Tina de Musical, de komende dagen in Theater Sneek. Daarnaast de muziekvoorstelling van Marcel de Groot. From Sammy With Love vertelt dinsdagavond het verhaal van de topentertainer Sammy Davis ...
  
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• Theater haakt aan bij Amnesty Schrijfmarathon - Dagblad070 (persbericht)

  19-11-2017 12:02
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  Theater haakt aan bij Amnesty Schrijfmarathon
  Dagblad070 (persbericht)
  Het Nationale Theater haakt aan bij de Amnesty Schrijfmarathon op zaterdag 25 november in Theater aan het Spui in Den Haag. Hagenaars kunnen voorafgaand aan Softmachine, een dansvoorstelling over censuur en controle in Azië, een brief schrijven ...
  
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• The Incredibles 2: watch the first trailer for Pixar's superpowered sequel

  19-11-2017 11:50
  Brad Bird reunites a voice cast that includes Craig T Nelson, Holly Hunter and Samuel L Jackson for a follow-up to his acclaimed animated comedyThirteen years on from the release of acclaimed animated comedy The Incredibles, Pixar have given us another glimpse of the superpowered Parr family in the first teaser trailer for a forthcoming sequel.The Incredibles 2 reunites a voice cast that includes Craig T Nelson, Holly Hunter and Samuel L Jackson with original writer director Brad Bird in an adve
  
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• Lena Dunham And Jenni Konner Apologize For Defending Girls Writer Accused Of Sexual Assault

  19-11-2017 11:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  Earlier this week, a writer and executive producer for the show Girls was accused of sexual assault by an actress. Actress Aurora Perrineau filed a police report in Los Angeles County alleging that Murray Miller initiated sex with her without her consent. After a night of drinking, Perrineau — who...More »
  
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• Aled Jones off air after claim of inappropriate behaviour

  19-11-2017 09:55
  BBC Songs of Praise presenter who found fame as choirboy says he strongly denies any inappropriate contactSongs Of Praise presenter Aled Jones will not appear on the BBC while the broadcaster investigates alleged inappropriate behaviour more than a decade ago.The singer and TV host, who found fame at the age of 12 with his top five Christmas hit Walking in the Air, said he was “deeply sorry” for any upset caused but strongly denied any “inappropriate contact”. Continue re
  
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• Charkov Staats Opera Theater brengt klassieker La Traviata in Schouwburg ... - RTV Amstelveen

  19-11-2017 09:43
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  Charkov Staats Opera Theater brengt klassieker La Traviata in Schouwburg ...
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  Het Charkov Staats Opera Theater staat op 24 november met Verdi's opera La Traviata in Schouwburg Amstelveen. La Traviata: Amor e morte (liefde en dood), zoals dit beroemde en tragische operaverhaal oorspronkelijk heet, is één van de beroemdste ...
  
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• Sjaak Bral – Vaarwel 2017 in Theater het Kruispunt - Barendrechts Dagblad (persbericht)

  19-11-2017 09:00
  Sjaak Bral – Vaarwel 2017 in Theater het Kruispunt
  Barendrechts Dagblad (persbericht)
  Wat een jaar. De Nederlander wordt geteisterd. Door een maalstroom van nieuws, echt of onecht. Door een instabiel levensgevoel waarbij dat van de Groningers verbleekt. De wereld is in rep – maar wie neemt het roer? Sjaak Bral is de enige cabaretier die ...
  
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• Sarah Silverman: ‘Jokes I made 15 years ago I'd not make today’

  19-11-2017 09:00
  Sarah Silverman’s comedy has always aimed a laser into the dark corners of sexism, racism and religion. But now she’s using her wit to make sense of the huge issues facing America. Sophie Heawood meets her in HollywoodArriving at the Hollywood studio complex where Sarah Silverman has her office, I am surprised to find nobody can tell me where it is. She’s one of the biggest comedians in America, but it takes 15 minutes of shrugged shoulders and wrong turns before I find a door
  
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• Vanmiddag concert Gemengd Zangkoor Oosterheide in Theater de Bussel - oosterhout.nieuws.nl (persbericht) (Blog)

  19-11-2017 08:59
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  Vanmiddag concert Gemengd Zangkoor Oosterheide in Theater de Bussel
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  Gemengd Zangkoor Oosterheide (GZO) concerteert op zondagmiddag, 19 november 2017, om 15.00 uur in de grote zaal van Theater de Bussel in Oosterhout. Kom genieten van deze sfeervolle, romantische muziek uit Engeland met prachtige melodische ...
  
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• The week in TV: Howards End; Love, Lies & Records; Peaky Blinders and more

  19-11-2017 08:00
  Our favourite brummie gangsters are back, plus fine drama courtesy of EM Forster and Kay Mellor – but those Christmas ads…Howards End (BBC One) | iPlayerLove, Lies & Records (BBC One) | iPlayerPeaky Blinders (BBC Two) | iPlayerGregory Porter’s Popular Voices (BBC Four) | iPlayerThe Christmas ads “Sometimes I feel we are so swathed in cant – argot, jargon, hypocrisy, sanctimoniousness – that I long for someone to tell me my ideas are too sheltered and acad
  
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• The week in radio and podcasts: Haunted; The Inspection Chamber; A Culture of Encounter

  19-11-2017 08:00
  A podcast has deep thoughts on the paranormal, while the BBC’s foray into interactive storytelling does a little too much askingHaunted | iTunes
  The Inspection Chamber | BBC/Amazon Alexa
  A Culture of Encounter (BBC Radio 4) | iPlayer“Do ghosts exist? If not, why do we see them?” Haunted is a four-week-old podcast that has the personality and self-assurance of a show that’s been running for years. Presented by Danny Robins, it takes an in-depth look at ghosts, ghouls and t
  
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• Jill Soloway Wants to Make Sets Safer Following Jeffrey Tambor Accusations

  19-11-2017 07:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  During Saturday’s panel discussion at Vulture Festival L.A., Jill Soloway chose not to comment on the the accusations currently leveled at Transparent star Jeffrey Tambor. However, she explained her silence is intended to “protect the process, and make sure that we have a process with the most integrity to make...More »
  
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• Tuesday’s best TV: Guy Martin's WWI Tank; I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here!

  19-11-2017 07:00
  Martin sets himself an ambitious Remembrance Day task and Ant and Dec are back with another round of Antipodean celebrity-baiting Continue reading...
  
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• Damon Lindelof Is Adapting Watchmen for TV Because ‘We Need Dangerous Shows’

  19-11-2017 05:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  Damon Lindelof has two compelling reasons for taking on a TV adaptation of the groundbreaking comic book series Watchmen: he wants to pay homage to his father’s passion for comics, and he doesn’t think we should trust people who wear masks.During a discussion with The Good Place creator Mike Schur...More »
  
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• Alex Pettyfer’s Strange Ones Co-Star Was Terrified To Meet Him

  19-11-2017 05:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  The new movie The Strange Ones is strung tighter than a piano wire. The high-tension drama from first-time feature directors Christopher Radcliff and Lauren Wolkstein follows a man named Nick (Alex Pettyfer) and a young boy named Sam (James Freedson-Jackson) as they set out on a very strange kind of...More »
  
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• Mike Schur on Kevin Spacey: ‘It Was the Most Open Secret That’s Ever Existed’

  19-11-2017 04:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Good Place creator Mike Schur says he chose to speak out on social media about Louis C.K., a regular guest star on the Schur-produced Parks & Recreation, because he felt it’s time that people in Hollywood start seriously talking about sexual harassment – including those like himself who had...More »
  
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• Why the Duffer Brothers Decided to Make Steve Harrington TV’s Best Babysitter

  19-11-2017 04:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  Babysitter Steve Harrington memes have certifiably taken over the internet. The evolution of the bad boy-turned-chaperone (Joe Keery) was a move creators Matt and Ross Duffer weren’t originally planning, but once Steve unexpectedly took Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo) under his wing, they saw the potential in expanding on that storyline.It all...More »
  
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• Erika Jayne Hung Out with Dorinda at the Regency

  19-11-2017 02:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  Erika Girardi, aka Erika Jayne, is ready to tell her story, and Vulture’s resident Housewives expert Brian J. Moylan is co-authoring the reality TV queen’s upcoming tome, Pretty Mess. She said she wanted to write the book “because it’s important to recount your life. It’s a great way to tell...More »
  
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• Stranger Things’ Lost Sister Was Originally Intended to Be a 30-Year-Old Man

  19-11-2017 02:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  The addition of Linnea Berthelsen’s “Lost Sister” character on Stranger Things deepened Eleven’s backstory (Millie Bobby Brown) (and made for one hell of a controversial episode). But El’s lost sis wasn’t originally intended to be played by newcomer Berthelsen, or a woman at all — it was intended to be...More »
  
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• Sofia Coppola Can’t Resist Editing Her Kids’ Videos

  19-11-2017 02:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  When Sofia Coppola was young, she made videos to get out of writing reports at school. (Her first was one of George Washington, made with clay figures.) Still, she told New York editor Adam Moss during their Vulture Festival conversation that she only got the confidence to actually make films...More »
  
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• Robert Pattinson Based His Good Time Character on a Man Who Lives in a Hole in the Ground

  19-11-2017 01:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  Robert Pattinson has avoided acting in commercial movies following his Twilight breakout, and his latest film Good Time is no exception. In the crime thriller by directors Josh and Benny Safdie, Pattinson plays Connie Nikas, a lost soul trying to survive the streets with his brother, Mark. The unwashed, skinny Connie fancies...More »
  
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• Bryan Cranston: the TV star electrifying the London stage

  19-11-2017 01:05
  In the hit TV series, he made his name as a master of transformation and the same could be said of his career. Now he has become the latest US actor to light up British theatreThe American actor Bryan Cranston received rave reviews last week for his performance at the National Theatre in Network, the stage adaptation of the Oscar-winning film from 1976 that starred Peter Finch and Faye Dunaway. Just as American film and television can’t seem to get enough of British theatre-trained actors,
  
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• Bryan Cranston: Breaking good… TV star electrifies the London stage | Andrew Anthony

  19-11-2017 01:05
  In the hit TV series, he made his name as a master of transformation and the same could be said of his career. Now he has become the latest US actor to light up British theatreThe American actor Bryan Cranston received rave reviews last week for his performance at the National Theatre in Network, the stage adaptation of the Oscar-winning film from 1976 that starred Peter Finch and Faye Dunaway. Just as American film and television can’t seem to get enough of British theatre-trained ac
  
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• Why Shonda Rhimes Doesn’t Like the Word ‘Diversity’

  19-11-2017 00:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  Scandal is anything but homogeneous when it comes to the makeup of its cast. It prominently features characters who vary in age, sexual orientation, and race, earning the show and its creator, Shonda Rhimes, praise for its diversity. But Rhimes herself isn’t a fan of that term. “Shonda really does...More »
  
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• Amber Tamblyn: There Shouldn’t Be a ‘Sliding Scale’ for Punishing Harassers

  19-11-2017 00:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Speaking before a packed room during Vulture Festival LA’s “Feminist AF” panel, Amber Tamblyn minced no words when an audience member asked about what it means to be a feminist during the current wave of sexual misconduct accusations: She has no patience for people who want to save the careers...More »
  
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