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• Roy Moore Is in a Twitter Fight With Jimmy Kimmel, Which Is Definitely Not Embarrassing for Roy Moore

  30-11-2017 23:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  Jimmy Kimmel has gone in on Roy Moore before. Two weeks ago he devoted a segment to the Alabama politician’s alleged harassment of teen girls when he was in his 30s, but it was a more recent bit that got Moore’s hackles up. Comedian Rich Barbieri, under his rabble-rousing ego...More »
  
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• Wonder Woman 2 Is Getting a Great Love Story, Baby Just Say Yes

  30-11-2017 23:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  Press play on this video, then read.Diana was young when she first saw SteveI close my eyes, and the flashbacks startI’m sitting thereIn a cinema in summer air.See the swords, see the party, the AmazonsSee Chris Pine with a sexy coat onAnd say HELLOLittle did I knowThat Steve was gonna...More »
  
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• Jack Doroshow, 78, Drag Pageant Impresario, Dies

  30-11-2017 23:38 via nytimes.com
  Mr. Doroshow organized pageants in the 1960s, before the gay- and transgender-rights movements had gotten rolling. He hosted them as Flawless Sabrina.
  
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• Anatomy of a Scene | ‘Darkest Hour’

  30-11-2017 23:28 via nytimes.com
  Joe Wright narrates a sequence from the film featuring Gary Oldman as Winston Churchill.
  
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• Theresa May's week is strictly business - and cheering on Debbie McGee

  30-11-2017 23:00
  Between taking Donald Trump to task and dealing with Brexit, PM reveals she has been watching her constituent in BBC show Strictly Come DancingTheresa May has enjoyed a tricky few days during her Middle East trip, facing questions about Donald Trump’s apparent endorsement of a British far-right group while trying to outline a post-Brexit UK policy for the region.But the prime minister has suggested she at least has something to look forward to this weekend – the latest Strictly Come
  
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• HBO Cuts Ties With Russell Simmons Amid Sexual-Assault Allegations

  30-11-2017 22:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  HBO has distanced itself from Russell Simmons following multiple sexual-assault allegations against the mogul. The network announced that while his All Def Comedy series will premiere as planned on Friday, he’ll no longer be attached to it. “Russell Simmons will not appear in the new series and we will be...More »
  
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• Review: The Parisian Woman

  30-11-2017 22:00
  Uma Thurman makes her Broadway debut in a new play by the creator of House of Cards.
  
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• Review: In ‘The Disaster Artist,’ How to Fail at Moviemaking

  30-11-2017 21:20 via nytimes.com
  James Franco directs and stars in this fictionalized look at the making of “The Room,” which fans call the worst movie ever made.
  
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• Jenny Slate Is Writing a Book of Feminist Fables

  30-11-2017 21:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  The holidays are here, and in the spirit of the season, comedian, actress, and style icon Jenny Slate has gifted us with not one, but TWO pieces of great news! Not only are she and trophy boyfriend Chris Evans back together, Slate announced today that she’s signed a deal with Little, Brown to write...More »
  
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• Bette Midler Addresses Geraldo Rivera Groping Story: ‘He Has Yet to Apologize for This’

  30-11-2017 21:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  Following news that Matt Lauer had been fired from NBC for sexual harassment, TV personality Geraldo Rivera quickly took to Twitter on Wednesday in his defense. “News is a flirty business,” he wrote in one tweetof several. “… & it seems like current epidemic of #SexHarassmentAllegations may be criminalizing courtship & conflating it...More »
  
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• What’s New on HBO: December 2017

  30-11-2017 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Because it’s one of the best superhero movies ever made: LoganElegiac, brutal, and a whole lot of other things superhero movies generally don’t try to be, Logan is both a fitting swan song for Hugh Jackman’s 17-year career as the most famous X-Man and a film that pushes the genre forward....More »
  
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• A Ronald Reagan Limited Series Is Happening at USA, the Most Patriotic of Networks

  30-11-2017 20:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  Call it Big Little Lies, Oval Office edition: A limited series about Ronald Reagan is heading to USA Network. Per The Hollywood Reporter: “The untitled limited series will explore his early days as a lifeguard, time in Hollywood and his victories and failures as a president as well as what...More »
  
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• Review: In ‘Sleep,’ a Wakeful Woman Faces Long, Surreal Nights

  30-11-2017 20:45 via nytimes.com
  The Ripe Time adaptation of Haruki Murakami’s short story focuses on an unnamed housewife who finds exhilaration in sleeplessness
  
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• Frank Rich: NBC Still Has a Lot to Answer For

  30-11-2017 20:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  Most weeks, New York Magazine writer-at-large Frank Rich speaks with contributor Alex Carp about the biggest stories in politics and culture. Today: Donald Trump and the Matt Lauer scandal, James O’Keefe’s shoddy brand of journalism, and the prospect of a federal government shutdown next month.In the wake of Matt Lauer’s sudden firing from NBC...More »
  
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• Tiffany Haddish Wins Best Supporting Actress at New York Film Critics Circle Awards

  30-11-2017 19:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  With awards season officially underway, the next round of cinema accolades to be handed out was today’s New York Film Critics Circle Awards. Jordan Peele continued his streak of wins with Best First Film honors from the NYFCC, while Timothée Chalamet (Call Me By Your Name) and Saoirse Ronan (Lady...More »
  
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• Voyeur Fails to Add Much Insight to Gay Talese’s Notorious Story of the Manor House Motel

  30-11-2017 19:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  When Gay Talese’s article “The Voyeur’s Motel” came out in The New Yorker in the spring of last year, it provoked a divisive, often angry response, and a lot of soul searching over the role and responsibility of the journalist. Talese’s subject, Gerald Foos, had spent two decades as the...More »
  
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• DMGT: publish and be slammed

  30-11-2017 19:13 via ft.com
  An investment trust is being valued as if it were a publishing business
  
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• Shot in the Dark review: pure, undiluted rubbernecking – feeding on human misery

  30-11-2017 19:08
  A documentary crew follows three Los Angeles stringers as they race each other to the scene of heartstopping tragedies – but there is no attempt to justify the contentWhat is it? Nightcrawler, the documentary or Alan Partridge’s Crash Bang Wallop: What a Video gone stateside.Why you’ll love it: there are true-crime shows that hide their prurience under a classical soundtrack, arty camerawork or a Scandi-noir aesthetic. But Shot in the Dark is pure, undiluted rubbernecking with
  
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• How Guillermo del Toro Got Drunk at a Golden Globes After-party and Made Sally Hawkins the Star of The Shape of Water

  30-11-2017 18:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  Guillermo del Toro wrote the starring role in his phantasmagorical espionage-drama/fantasy-romance The Shape of Water with Sally Hawkins in mind. But, as the filmmaker revealed during his recent Vulture Fest panel, he hadn’t planned to give the five-foot-two British actress a drunken bear hug the first time he met her...More »
  
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• Nine Women Accuse Playwright Israel Horovitz of Sexual Misconduct, Including Assault and Rape

  30-11-2017 18:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  In one of the first major stories of sexual misconduct in the theater world since London’s Old Vic received 20 allegations against Kevin Spacey, nine women have spoken to the New York Times with claims of sexual misconduct, including assault and rape, against playwright Israel Horovitz. Horovitz, now 78, is...More »
  
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• Pop Music’s Feature Problem

  30-11-2017 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Over the course of a 15-year career, Maroon 5, the million-selling pop act, have released just one single featuring a rapper or R&B singer. So it was surprising when, in the lead-up to their recently released album Red Pill Blues, they put out four such singles in a row.Or maybe...More »
  
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• Mindhunter Will Live Long Enough to See Jonathan Groff (Probably) Become the Villain in Season Two

  30-11-2017 18:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  Though the clues were all already there, Netflix has made it official: Mindhunter is renewed for season two. The David Fincher drama, about the real-life FBI team who were the first to psychoanalyze and define serial killers, will live long enough to see one of its own almost definitely become...More »
  
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• What’s New on Hulu: December 2017

  30-11-2017 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you’re craving a great action movie: Kill Bill Definitely one of Tarantino’s coolest films, Kill Bill is also fun to revisit because it’s one of the most straightforward, and because Uma Thurman as the katana-wielding Bride is still one of the best badasses in cinema. Still as stylish as...More »
  
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• It’s Time to Do Away With ‘America’s Dad’ As Our Journalistic Standard

  30-11-2017 17:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  Matt Lauer has released an apology, of sorts, for his years of degrading, humiliating, potentially criminal behavior during his time as the anchor of Today. “Repairing the damage,” he writes, “will take a lot of time and soul searching and I’m committed to beginning that effort. It is now my...More »
  
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• Nine Women Accuse Israel Horovitz, Playwright and Mentor, of Sexual Misconduct

  30-11-2017 17:31 via nytimes.com
  He was a charismatic father figure who nurtured young writers. But in incidents from the 1980s through 2016, the women describe a pattern of abuse and betrayal.
  
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• Today Is the 217th Anniversary of Oscar Wilde’s Death. I Wish This Tribute to Him Could Remain in New York Forever.

  30-11-2017 17:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  I pledge allegiance to Oscar Wilde. Evidently, David McDermott and Peter McGough do, too. The collaborative duo and longtime art-world treasures are kindred Wilde spirits, and their reverence is clear in their transforming installation, Oscar Wilde Temple, 1917. This enchanted mise-en-scène is devoted to the tragic last chapter of Wilde’s...More »
  
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• 2017 New York Film Critics Circle Winners Announced

  30-11-2017 17:20 via feeds.eonline.com
  The New York Film Critics Circle selected its award winners for 2017 Thursday, less than two weeks before nominations for the 2018 Golden Globes are announced. Each of the NYFCC's Best Film...
  
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• Review: ‘The Shape of Water’ Is Altogether Wonderful

  30-11-2017 17:10 via nytimes.com
  Guillermo del Toro’s latest film is an unlikely and lyrical love story, inspired by “The Creature From the Black Lagoon.”
  
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• Late-night TV on the financial crisis: 'According to Trump, the real victims are the banks'

  30-11-2017 17:07
  Comics, including Stephen Colbert and Trevor Noah, addressed the sexual assault allegations against Matt Lauer, confusion at the CFPB, and tax reformLate-night hosts on Wednesday addressed the sexual assault allegations against the NBC anchor Matt Lauer, the Trump administration’s attacks on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and the GOP’s plan to overhaul the tax code. Related: Late-night on Trump: 'less interested in truth than in discrediting sources of truth'Continue readi
  
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• Video Flash: Watch Quentin Earl Darrington and Stars of Once on This Island in Action

  30-11-2017 17:00
  Michael Arden's production of the Ahrens and Flaherty musical runs at the Circle in the Square Theatre.
  
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• Theater News: Audra McDonald, Kelli O'Hara, and More to Perform in Tribute to Barbara Cook

  30-11-2017 17:00
  James Lapine will direct the event in honor of the late Tony and Grammy Award winner.
  
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• Answering Your Biggest Shape of Water Question: Does She F*ck the Fish-Man?

  30-11-2017 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  As you might be able to tell from the headline, this post spoils one particular aspect of The Shape of Water. But don’t worry, it reveals nothing else.The Shape of Water, Guillermo Del Toro’s new movie about a mute Sally Hawkins falling in love with a fish-man in 1960s Baltimore,...More »
  
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• Review: The Strange Tale of the ‘Voyeur’ and the Journalist

  30-11-2017 16:54 via nytimes.com
  This squirmy documentary follows the celebrated journalist Gay Talese’s infamous investigation of a motel owner who spied on guests.
  
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• Garrison Keillor: the downfall of a beloved figure accused of misconduct

  30-11-2017 16:23
  The host of A Prairie Home Companion has been fired after accusations of sexual impropriety, tarnishing a legacy that stretches back to the 70sThe mellifluous baritone was compared to a down comforter, or a slow drip of midwestern molasses or your grandfather telling a bedtime story, a voice millions of Americans grew up with.Garrison Keillor told strange, funny, idiosyncratic tales of small-town America in A Prairie Home Companion, a homespun variety show which over four decades reshaped public
  
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• Russell Simmons Steps Down From Def Jam After Jenny Lumet Accuses Him of Sexual Assault

  30-11-2017 16:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  Russell Simmons has announced that he will “step aside” from the companies he founded, Def Jam Records and his Phat Farm clothing line, after being accused of sexual assault by screenwriter Jenny Lumet. Lumet, who wrote Rachel Getting Married, detailed her experience with Simmons on a night circa 1991 in...More »
  
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• Charlie Rose Has Been Calling Ex-Staffers to Thank Them Individually

  30-11-2017 16:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  Charlie Rose’s “crusty paw” has been glued to the telephone lately, according to CNN. The ex–CBS This Morning anchor, who was fired after eight women accused him of sexual assault or harassment, has been dealing with fallout from the end of his eponymous PBS show. Per CNN: “According to multiple...More »
  
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• This Clip of James Corden and Armie Hammer Dancing Is Almost Too Hard to Watch

  30-11-2017 16:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  For many viewers of Call Me by Your Name, the moment Armie Hammer starts flailing around at a dance party to an ‘80s jam is when you’ll fall in love with his Oliver. As in full swooning, heart-eyes-emoji love. But for the uncoordinated gentle giant that is Armie Hammer, that...More »
  
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• The Shocking True Crime Story Behind This Season's Most Controversial Movie

  30-11-2017 16:00 via feeds.eonline.com
  Come Christmas weekend, audiences will likely be glued to the big screen to see the final product of All the Money in the World. The one-time (and possibly still) Oscar frontrunner made major...
  
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• A Partner in the Mad Science of Documentary Making

  30-11-2017 16:00 via nytimes.com
  Recruited to film Bedouin women in a Lebanese refugee camp when the male director was barred, a sculptor finds herself at the center of the project.
  
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• How the Late-night Hosts Addressed the Matt Lauer Sexual-Misconduct Allegations

  30-11-2017 15:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  Yesterday morning, Savannah Guthrie and Hoda Kotb broke the news that Matt Lauer had been fired for “inappropriate sexual behavior.” Later that day, various late-night hosts took the time to sound off on Lauer’s firing, and the larger trend of powerful men committing sexual harassment. Seth Meyers, who had to...More »
  
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• What’s Leaving Showtime: December 2017

  30-11-2017 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  Because it’s a bona fide classic: Thelma & LouiseRidley Scott’s road movie and feminist cinema landmark is leaving Showtime this month, so give it a good sendoff before it does, as is befitting of a movie whose very title has entered the cultural lexicon. And why not? It’s one of...More »
  
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• Review: ‘Wonder Wheel,’ Woody Allen’s Coney Island Memory Palace

  30-11-2017 15:34 via nytimes.com
  Kate Winslet plays an unhappily married woman whose affair with a local Romeo is derailed when he falls for her stepdaughter.
  
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• James Corden Set Up a Carpool Karaoke Date Night for Kelly Clarkson and Her Husband That Is Definitely Not a Porn

  30-11-2017 15:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I feel like we’re making a porn,” Kelly Clarkson’s husband, Brandon Blackstock, says midway through his Carpool Karaoke–organized date night. At the beginning of the bit, Kelly joins James Corden in the front seat, and the two reminisce about her old hits — the angsty, eternal “Since U Been Gone,”...More »
  
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• Al Franken Accused of Groping Army Veteran During 2003 USO Tour

  30-11-2017 15:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  Another woman has come forward to accuse Senator Al Franken of sexual assault. Stephanie Kemplin, an Army veteran, tells CNN that Franken groped her in 2003 during a USO tour in Kuwait. She claims that Franken cupped her breast during a photo op. She’s the fifth woman to accuse Franken...More »
  
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• Theater News: Marin Mazzie, Douglas Hodge, and Jay Armstrong Johnson to Star in Fire and Air

  30-11-2017 15:00
  John Doyle will direct the new production of Terrence McNally's play at Classic Stage Company.
  
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• Theater News: Ken Jeong, David Alan Grier, PrettyMuch Join Cast of A Christmas Story Live!

  30-11-2017 15:00
  The Benj Pasek-Justin Paul musical will air on Fox December 17.
  
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