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• TV Host Charlie Rose Accused of Sexual Harassment by 8 Women

  20-11-2017 23:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  Veteran television host Charlie Rose became the latest powerful man to be accused of sexual harassment on Monday, after eight women accused him of misconduct in a new report by the Washington Post. The allegations range from groping women without their consent to walking around naked in front of them and making lewd phone calls.According...More »
  
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• Seth Meyers Is Reportedly Your 2018 Golden Globes Host

  20-11-2017 23:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Golden Globes aren’t ready to go host-less just yet. Despite rumors that the awards gala might just let stars file through and read teleprompters while looking beautiful, Seth Meyers is close to being announced as the emcee for the ceremony, which will take place on January 7. He will...More »
  
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• Justice department aims to block AT&T's $85bn takeover of Time Warner

  20-11-2017 23:00
  AT&T has already signaled it will go to court if the deal is blocked, potentially setting up one of the biggest legal battles over a corporate merger in decadesThe US Department of Justice on Monday moved to block AT&T’s $85bn takeover of Time Warner, one of the largest media deals ever announced. Related: Trump administration uses CNN as bargaining chip in Time Warner-AT&T dealContinue reading...
  
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• Watch Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Debut Paula’s Ode to Her Sexual Awakening, ‘Very First Penis I Saw,’ at Vulture Festival L.A.

  20-11-2017 22:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  The CW’s Crazy Ex-Girlfriend premiered a new song, “Very First Penis I Saw,” on Sunday at Vulture Festival L.A., after sharing the backstories of the show’s other memorable songs. Not only has it not aired yet, but Donna Lynne Champlin, who plays Paula Proctor, seemed nervous before the clip aired....More »
  
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• ‘No, Bus, Get Out of the Way! Bus! Jesus, Get Out of the Way, Bus! Are You — You — UGH! What the F***! Goddammit! Damn, Lady!’

  20-11-2017 22:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Georgia Dome in Atlanta, which was demolished today, is no more — but if you tried to watch this morning’s implosion via the Weather Channel’s livestream, you probably missed the big event. Mostly because at the exact moment when the Dome collapsed, a city bus pulled in front of...More »
  
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• Mother of Kevin Spacey Accuser Says 8 More Men Have Shared Allegations With Her

  20-11-2017 22:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  After former Boston TV news anchor Heather Unruh publicly claimed that Kevin Spacey sexually assaulted her son, she says that eight more men have reached out to her alleging similar misconduct by Spacey. “To be honest with you, I’ve heard from at least eight other alleged Spacey victims,” Unruh told...More »
  
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• Charles Manson Is Dead, But Pop Culture Is Keeping Him Alive

  20-11-2017 21:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  Charles Manson, the man who convinced his followers to commit a notoriously brutal spree of murders in 1969, has died. But as far as pop culture is concerned, Charles Manson is alive and well.In the half-century since Manson’s acolytes killed pregnant actress Sharon Tate and four others on an August...More »
  
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• Della Reese, Singer and ‘Touched by an Angel’ Star, Dies at 86

  20-11-2017 21:23 via nytimes.com
  Ms. Reese, who first sang in church, segued from a successful recording career to a long tenure on one of prime-time television’s top-rated shows.
  
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• SMILF TK

  20-11-2017 21:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  On last night’s episode of SMILF — Frankie Shaw’s semi-autobiographical dramedy about a broke single mother in South Boston — our protagonist Brigitte (Shaw) is groped during a date with a man she meets via a Craigslist personal ad. As Shaw told me, the episode was inspired directly by her...More »
  
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• The Stories Behind 5 Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Songs and the Songs the Cast Auditioned With

  20-11-2017 20:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  Crazy Ex-Girlfriend fans, rejoice: There may be some fun, cringe-y karaoke in your future. “I am working so hard to make karaoke tracks happen,” the show’s star and co-creator Rachel Bloom announced at Vulture Festival L.A. on Sunday. To tide you over, the cast of the CW show discussed the...More »
  
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• The Detour’s Natalie Zea Hopes She’s a Better Mom Than Her ‘Crazy, F*cked Up’ Character

  20-11-2017 20:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  At Vulture Festival Los Angeles this past weekend, Detour stars Jason Jones and Natalie Zea revealed that playing on-the-run parents Nate and Robin for three seasons has possibly created a too free-and-easy approach to parenting their real-life children.“Jason has said, ‘There is now no difference between you and your character,’”...More »
  
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• Adam Driver "Undecided" About Seeing Star Wars: The Last Jedi

  20-11-2017 20:01 via feeds.eonline.com
  Adam Driver isn't sure that he'll watch Star Wars: The Last Jedi.The 34-year-old actor, who plays Kylo Ren in the movie, appears on the cover of Esquire's December/January...
  
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• Critic’s Notebook: A Night at the Theater From Your Couch? No Apologies Needed.

  20-11-2017 19:52 via nytimes.com
  Streaming services have more stage offerings than ever — from great actors in early roles to recent Broadway musicals, captured live. Plus “Hamlet” in Lithuanian.
  
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• How Roy Wood Jr. Wrote the Best Joke About Colin Kaepernick’s Protest Without Ever Saying His Name

  20-11-2017 19:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s been 15 months since Colin Kaepernick first decided to not stand during the national anthem to protest police brutality and this country’s treatment of African-Americans. In the time since, his message has been both amplified and subverted. Now, everyone had an opinion about it: football fans and not, all...More »
  
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• Bell Pottinger’s Middle East arm sold to Hanover Group

  20-11-2017 19:32 via ft.com
  European consultancy picks up staff and clients from collapsed UK firm
  
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• Review: A Girl’s Kerouac Dreams Go Astray in ‘The Mad Ones’

  20-11-2017 19:16 via nytimes.com
  Kait Kerrigan and Brian Lowdermilk’s musical is about a high school senior who finds inspiration and danger in “On the Road.”
  
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• Review: In ‘Diaspora,’ an Ancient Siege for the Snapchat Age

  20-11-2017 19:11 via nytimes.com
  Toggling between the years 2017 and 73, this play about American Jews on a trip to Israel seems confused about what it is trying to say.
  
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• The Weinstein Company: Contrarian thinking

  20-11-2017 18:46 via ft.com
  The disgraced producer’s stake is one obstacle to a women-led bid for his company
  
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• Natalie Portman on Hollywood’s Sexual Harassment Problem: ‘I Have 100 Stories’

  20-11-2017 18:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  Like many actresses, Natalie Portman is still unpacking decades of work tainted by sexism and sexual harassment amid the deluge of allegations emerging from Hollywood.“When I heard everything coming out, I was like, wow, I’m so lucky that I haven’t had this. And then, on reflection, I was like, okay,...More »
  
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• Stop Trying to Make Pink Versus Christina Aguilera Happen (Again)

  20-11-2017 18:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  Pink and Christina Aguilera do not have beef. Pink and Christina Aguilera had beef. Past tense. In the former. But here on the present-day internet, their feud lives on. At last night’s AMAs, Christina performed a tribute to Whitney Houston for the 25th anniversary of The Bodyguard. There were high...More »
  
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• Review: A ‘Peter Pan’ That Never Takes Flight

  20-11-2017 18:02 via nytimes.com
  The Bedlam production of the J.M. Barrie classic is both too childish to tell the story properly and too adult to access its wonder.
  
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• Brimstone and Glory Is a Dizzying, Poetic Ode to the Art of Explosions

  20-11-2017 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The link between fireworks and warfare is one of the first examples of symbolism many Americans encounter as children. We enjoy the hallucinatory spectacle of the Fourth of July while being reminded that the pretty displays stand for bombs and guns and bloodshed. Indulging in an annual pretend reminder of...More »
  
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• Soul of a Woman

  20-11-2017 17:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  Reels of tape are constantly crossing the graffitied threshold of the House of Soul, a Bushwick rowhouse that has been home to Daptone Records’ studio since 2003. Daptone’s co-owner, producer, and bandleader of the Dap-Kings, Gabriel Roth, has his own studio close to his home in Riverside, California. His trips back...More »
  
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• Sharon Jones: Soul of a Woman

  20-11-2017 17:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  Reels of tape are constantly crossing the graffitied threshold of the House of Soul, a Bushwick rowhouse that has been home to Daptone Records’ studio since 2003. Daptone’s co-owner, producer, and bandleader of the Dap-Kings, Gabriel Roth, has his own studio close to his home in Riverside, California. His trips back...More »
  
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• Batman Is Bad at Flirting in Justice League

  20-11-2017 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  When it came to my attention that the much-ballyhooed Justice League reshoots upped the “sexual” “tension” between “Gal Gadot” and “Ben Affleck,” my frown turned not necessarily upside down, but it went wide, into a Grinch grin. In my opinion, the only thing better than sexual tension that crackles onscreen...More »
  
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• Pirates of the Caribbean, Practical Magic and More Leaving Netflix in December 2017

  20-11-2017 17:30 via feeds.eonline.com
  Netflix giveth and Netflix taketh away.In addition to announcing which new movies and TV shows will become available for streaming in December--including Bright, Fuller House, Guardians...
  
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• Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Planet Earth II and The Santa Clause Coming to Netflix in December 2017

  20-11-2017 17:15 via feeds.eonline.com
  With three days until Thanksgiving, Netflix gave subscribers an extra reason to be grateful by announcing which movies and TV shows will be available to stream in the month of...
  
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• Justice League’s Villains Came From the Wildest Experiment in Comic-Book History

  20-11-2017 17:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Y’know,” the late Jack Kirby told his assistant, Steve Sherman, “I’m competing against myself.” It was 1970, a little over three decades after Kirby stopped being Lower East Side street brawler Jacob Kurtzberg and became a professional writer-slash-artist under his percussive nom de plume. In that period, he had dreamt...More »
  
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• The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Disco Fever

  20-11-2017 16:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  What kind of filler episode is this? Did everyone forget they were supposed to be feuding with each other and just scrambled at the last minute to make some plans? Even the little spat Porsha has with her sister feels pretty perfunctory and doesn’t amount to much. What was this...More »
  
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• Blue Planet II: what have we learned so far?

  20-11-2017 16:50
  The documentary’s marvels are not just new to television – many are new to science as well. From hyper-intelligent fish to the origin of life itself, we round up the series’s biggest discoveries It is testament to the number of spectacles packed into Blue Planet II that the strategic change of gender a giant wrasse is – scientifically speaking, at least – one of the least remarkable. Changing gender, or sequential hermaphroditism, is a fact of life for more than 400
  
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• Armie Hammer Calls Out Last Year’s Nate Parker-Casey Affleck Double Standard

  20-11-2017 16:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  When The Hollywood Reporter asked Armie Hammer about the sexual-assault scandal that engulfed Nate Parker’s The Birth of Nation, which Hammer co-starred in last summer, the actor spoke openly about the double standard he saw at work. As Parker was put in director’s jail for a series of non-apologies following...More »
  
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• Call to stub out on-screen smoking in French films

  20-11-2017 16:02
  Injecting morality into films is ‘like pouring cola into a Château Lafite’, one critic of idea declaresThe French actor Jean-Paul Belmondo spent almost an entire film – the 1960s classic À Bout du Souffle (Breathless) – with a Gauloise dangling from his lips. Audrey Tautou portrayed the designer Coco Chanel pinning haute couture dresses while smoking. Jacques Tati was rarely without his pipe and Brigitte Bardot, Jeanne Moreau, Catherine Deneuve, Gérard
  
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• Woman Says Al Franken Touched Her Inappropriately During First Senate Term

  20-11-2017 15:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  Another woman has come forward to accuse Senator Al Franken of inappropriate touching. Lindsay Menz, a 33-year-old woman living in Frisco, Texas, told CNN that Franken grabbed her butt during a photo op at the Minnesota State Fair in 2010. This is the first allegation against the SNL alum turned...More »
  
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• I'm a Celebrity returns – and Stanley Johnson makes it a must-watch

  20-11-2017 15:41
  Boris’s dad looks like he’ll be guaranteed entertainment. And with Ant McPartlin returning from rehab and the inclusion of former Scottish labour leader Kezia Dugdale, season 17 in the jungle is leaving other reality TV shows in the dustWith the 14th seasons of BBC1’s Strictly Come Dancing and ITV’s The X Factor showing the risk of reality TV shows becoming repetitive, the 17th run of I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here!, launched by ITV on Sunday night, fel
  
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• Doctor Who theme's co-creator honoured with posthumous PhD

  20-11-2017 15:04
  Career of Delia Derbyshire, an under-appreciated electronic music pioneer, recognised by hometown universityThe under-appreciated electronic music pioneer behind the Doctor Who theme is to be honoured posthumously with a doctorate from her hometown university as the programme gears up for the debut of its first female lead.Largely ignored in life and barred from working in studios because she was a woman, Delia Derbyshire, will be awarded an honorary PhD from Coventry University on Monday. Conti
  
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• Marvel’s Runaways Isn’t Quite a Teenage Dream

  20-11-2017 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Marvel’s Runaways is what happens when you mix The O.C., Veronica Mars, the seventh episode of Stranger Things 2, and a Marvel Universe property, then put it on Hulu instead of the CW or Netflix. It’s the sort of mystery-driven, slightly X-Men-ish drama that could easily suck you in on...More »
  
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• How Will Justice League Affect the Wonder Woman Brand?

  20-11-2017 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s hard to faze Wonder Woman. Her fans? Well, they’re mere mortals, and thus prone to worrying. It’s not unreasonable for those who adore the immortal battlin’ Amazon known as Diana to be a little concerned about Justice League. In it, Gal Gadot reprises the role she originated in Batman...More »
  
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• Every Netflix Original Movie, Ranked

  20-11-2017 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Netflix has spent the last few years and several billions of dollars on a crusade to be taken more seriously. The online video-streaming platform first got some hair on its virtual chest in September 2013, when it racked up a whopping 14 Emmy nominations in its first year of eligibility,...More »
  
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• 5 Merchant Ivory Films to Revisit Before or After Call Me by Your Name

  20-11-2017 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  While Call Me by Your Name owes many of its achievements to the work of Luca Guadagnino, much of its DNA develops from the script the director co-wrote with James Ivory. Ivory — a longtime director, writer, and producer — helped found Merchant Ivory Productions, which released a series of...More »
  
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