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• NBC Reportedly Has No Interest in Negotiating a Payout With Matt Lauer

  01-12-2017 23:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  Matt Lauer’s lawyers may be angling to get him a nice, shiny golden parachute after his firing from the Today show for sexual misconduct claims, but according to what NBC News sources told CNN, the network isn’t planning to agree to a payout. Previously, “Page Six” reported that Lauer’s lawyers...More »
  
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• The Other Side of Hope Is Tragic, Funny, Depressing, and Inspiring

  01-12-2017 23:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  Few filmmakers are as drawn to opposites as Aki Kaurismaki, the Finnish master of quirk whose deadpan comic parables leave plenty of space for despair. In his semi-delightful, semi-sad new semi-comedy, The Other Side of Hope, characters in loudly colored clothes handle loudly colored props in pools of light amid...More »
  
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• Israel Horovitz Plays Canceled After Sexual Misconduct Accusations

  01-12-2017 23:06 via nytimes.com
  Two theaters pulled plays from their schedules after The New York Times reported the accusations of nine women.
  
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• Het zit er weer op voor het ASK- theater - Apeldoorn Direct

  01-12-2017 23:04
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  Het zit er weer op voor het ASK- theater
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  Voor een paar uur bevindt men zich niet meer in Apeldoorn, maar in het Perzische Rijk. In het dorp waar de arme Ali Baba opgroeide met zijn rijke broer Kasim. Zijn broer had een slavin, Morgiana, waar Ali Baba verliefd op werd. Maar hij was te arm om ...
  
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• Here’s Cynthia Erivo Covering Taylor Swift’s ‘I Did Something Bad’

  01-12-2017 22:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  Are you ready for the first great cover of the Reputation era? Friday afternoon brings this wonderful version of 18th-best Taylor Swift song “I Did Something Bad” from musical theater Thems Cynthia Erivo (The Color Purple) and Shoshana Bean (Wicked). Their rendition scraps the original’s intense production — miss you,...More »
  
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• Dark Sabrina Moves Her Angsty Spells From CW to Netflix, With 20 Episode Order

  01-12-2017 22:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  The TV adaptation of the comic Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, previously in development at the CW, has moved to Netflix. Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, chief creative officer of Archie Comics, and the man responsible for giving us Riverdale and Hot Archie, will be the show’s writer and executive producer, according to Variety....More »
  
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• Alex Borstein on The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and Reuniting With Her Friend Amy Sherman-Palladino

  01-12-2017 22:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  A decade ago, Alex Borstein was nearly a regular fixture on an Amy Sherman-Palladino TV show: She played Sookie in the original Gilmore Girls pilot, but scheduling conflicts got in the way, and it wasn’t until The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel that the two friends were reunited. Sherman-Palladino wrote the role...More »
  
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• James Franco to Star in Shel Silverstein Biopic, So Expect His Facial Hair Game to Get Even Stronger

  01-12-2017 21:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  Just when you thought James Franco’s thick mustache in The Deuce couldn’t be outdone, his next project promises to take it up a notch. He’ll reportedly follow up The Disaster Artist by directing and starring in a Shel Silverstein biopic, because Franco apparently wants all the Oscars. The film, about...More »
  
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• The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Recap: Family Dinner

  01-12-2017 21:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  If the pilot of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel was a bright and boisterous sugar rush, the second episode is the crash. The comedown starts in the first scene, as we see a new ending tacked onto that chase-your-dream final chat between Midge and Lenny Bruce, in which he offers to...More »
  
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• A Theater Visionary ‘Nourished by the World’

  01-12-2017 21:28 via nytimes.com
  Cultural appropriation isn’t a worry for the director Ariane Mnouchkine, who, at 78, isn’t slowing down, but knows she won’t be here forever.
  
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• Jesse Williams Pulls a Total Jackson Avery Move in This New Demi Lovato Video

  01-12-2017 21:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  Demi Lovato and Jesse Williams are two very hot people who coincidentally play two very hot people in love in her new music video. But, like, in millennial love, which means they rush into a proposal and then spend the entirety of their engagement talking themselves into it. Insecurities abound....More »
  
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• What’s New on Amazon: December 2017

  01-12-2017 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you’re a fan of Atlanta: Crown HeightsBased on an episode of This American Life, Crown Heights tells the true story of Colin Warner, a man wrongfully convicted of murder at 18, and his friend, Carl King, who dedicated his life to proving Colin’s innocence. Crown Heights flew under the...More »
  
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• Encounters: Sebastian Stan Just Likes to Watch

  01-12-2017 20:58 via nytimes.com
  The 35-year-old actor, who plays Jeff Gillooly in the new film “I, Tonya,” visits the ice-skating rink at Rockefeller Center, but avoids the ice.
  
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• The Tribes of Palos Verdes Is a Sleepy SoCal Melodrama

  01-12-2017 20:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  The weirdest thing about The Tribes of Palos Verdes, which is a very weird movie without really trying to be, is that it’s not a period piece. The carpeted interiors and shearling collars and the sun-faded, nostalgic camerawork of Giles Dunning had me placing the domestic drama around 1993 at...More »
  
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• The Feds Want Martin Shkreli to Cough Up That Wu-Tang Album

  01-12-2017 20:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  While reviled pharma bro Martin Shkreli awaits sentencing on his fraud conviction, he might be forced to give up his most prized possession as collateral. Pitchfork reports that federal prosecutors are asking Shkreli to pay $7.4 million and may seize some of his assets to get what’s owed. They’ve listed...More »
  
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• Review: Sailing on Silly Seas With ‘The Pirates of Penzance’

  01-12-2017 20:20 via nytimes.com
  The Hypocrites’ blithe production of the Gilbert and Sullivan classic offers the perfect restorative alternative to holiday drudgery.
  
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• Kate Winslet and Stephen Colbert Give Titanic an Ending in Which She Actually Doesn’t Let Go

  01-12-2017 20:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  Titanic has arrived at its 20th anniversary, which means it’s time for everyone to talk about the ending of Titanic once again. Paying a visit to The Late Show, Kate Winslet answered a few trivia questions from Stephen Colbert — revealing, in the process, that it was James Cameron who...More »
  
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• Ask an Expert: Can the Plagiarism Charges Against Emma Cline Hold Up in Court?

  01-12-2017 20:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  They were little-known writers when they fell in love. Then she rose to stardom, and he did not. Now they’re suing each other in a San Francisco court.Emma Cline, the author of last year’s spectacularly successful debut novel The Girls, and her ex, Chaz Reetz-Laiolo, filed dueling federal lawsuits on...More »
  
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• Netflix’s chilling effect on cultural diversity | Letters

  01-12-2017 19:57
  Video-on-demand operators should pay a levy to national film funds to be invested in film, drama and documentary from across Britain, write Carole Tongue and Holly AylettWe cannot fault Peter Bazalgette’s piece (Cherish the TV that shows who we are, 29 November) and its brilliant emphasis on the central role for public service broadcasting in our democracy, society and economy. How right he is to mention video-on-demand (VOD) operators investing in shows with worldwide appeal but not neces
  
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• Geraldo Rivera Apologizes for Allegedly Groping Bette Midler

  01-12-2017 19:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  Shortly after mustachioed TV personality Geraldo Rivera came to disgraced Today show host Matt Lauer’s defense, tweeting “News is a flirty business,” video began circulating of a 1991 interview in which Bette Midler tells Barbara Walters that Rivera assaulter her in the ’70s. Midler said Rivera and his producer “left the crew in the other...More »
  
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• Netflix’s Dark Is Like Stranger Things, But It’s Also Nothing Like Stranger Things

  01-12-2017 19:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  Netflix’s first original German series, Dark, will inevitably be compared to Stranger Things. Both series focus on children who have gone missing; both are set, partially in Dark’s case, in the 1980s; both involve unexplained phenomena that cause lights to flicker, among other things; and both reveal underground pathways that...More »
  
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• ITV stands by The X Factor despite lowest ever viewing figures

  01-12-2017 19:17
  Show is falling short of former glories and Strictly Come Dancing, but bosses are pleased with its appeal to younger viewersITV is standing by The X Factor despite the current series of the singing competition delivering its lowest ever viewing figures.Bosses at ITV and Simon Cowell, whose entertainment company Syco is behind The X Factor, are understood to be pleased with the number of younger viewers that the show has attracted and the impact the acts have had in the iTunes download chart.Cont
  
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• Can You Tell Which Larry David Is Older? (We Doubt It)

  01-12-2017 19:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  Age creeps up on you slowly like, you know, some sort of slow creep. Unless you’re Larry David. You have to imagine his first words as a baby were used to complain about the temperature of soup. And he hit the comedy scene like a Sphynx cat: hairless and with...More »
  
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• Joy Behar Finally Does Her First Name Justice While Reading Mike Flynn Guilty Plea News on The View

  01-12-2017 18:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  Just as Joy Behar welcomed every mother you’ve ever met back to The View after a commercial break, a producer interrupted her to share breaking news: Michael Flynn will plead guilty to lying to the FBI, and is prepared to testify that President Donald Trump directed him to make contact...More »
  
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• What’s New on Showtime: December 2017

  01-12-2017 18:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you’re catching up on the year’s best films: Personal ShopperDespite being one of the very best movies of 2017, odds are you missed Personal Shopper during its brief theatrical run this spring. So it’s an absolute delight to find that it’s coming to Showtime this month, because regardless of...More »
  
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• The Unending Pleasures of Jenny Diski

  01-12-2017 18:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  Let’s start in the Bin, as she always called it. Jenny Diski wound up in a psychiatric hospital as a teenager after being kicked out of boarding school, getting sacked from a couple of jobs, running away from her father’s home, and returning to her mother, who was herself in...More »
  
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• Americans see a split-screen moment on sexual conduct

  01-12-2017 18:02 via ft.com
  The reckoning in business over harassment allegations does not extend to politics
  
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• Netflix Confirms That Stranger Things Will Return for a Third Season, of Course

  01-12-2017 17:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  After thinking long and hard about whether they might want to produce more episodes of one of their most successful series, Netflix has of course officially renewed Stranger Things for a third season. The site hasn’t offered any details on when the series might return, but creators Matt and Ross...More »
  
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• Netflix’s Easy Is Still One of the Best Shows No One Is Talking About

  01-12-2017 17:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  Netflix’s Chicago-based comedy-drama Easy, which debuted last year, was of the best shows that almost nobody seemed to be watching. Season two, which dropped today, will likely earn the same dubious compliment. That’s too bad, because it’s just as appealing and a bit sharper overall. Written and directed by Joe...More »
  
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• Broadway Casting Director Fired After Sexual Misconduct Accusations

  01-12-2017 17:32 via nytimes.com
  Justin Huff was fired from Telsey + Company over reports of inappropriate behavior.
  
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• Damien Hirst Couldn’t Be Happier That People Hated His Venice Show

  01-12-2017 17:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Money is a really good way to get people’s attention,” said Damien Hirst, sitting in a conference room of the Palazzo Grassi in Venice a few weeks ago, taking a break from planning the de-installation of his most colossal, and controversial, show yet. “In the Western world, people like the...More »
  
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• Can Melissa Leo Scream Her Way To Another Oscar?

  01-12-2017 17:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  Melissa Leo didn’t want to do the scene that will most likely be seared into Oscar voters’ minds as they fill out their nomination ballots this season. She’d already spent a couple weeks on the Nashville set of Novitiate inhabiting her character, Reverend Mother Marie St. Claire, chief tormentor for...More »
  
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• Photo Flash: Joseph Papp Way Officially a Part of the City

  01-12-2017 17:00
  The intersection of Lafayette and Astor Place was officially named Joseph Papp Way in a ceremony held today.
  
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• The Big Bang Theory Recap: The Other Side of the Bitcoin

  01-12-2017 16:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  If I had to predict the topic that would make for the best episode of The Big Bang Theory since Sheldon and Amy had sex for the first time, bitcoin would have been super low on the list, even if that list were alphabetical. Yet “The Bitcoin Entanglement” employs a sitcom cliché...More »
  
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• Writing Her Way From Backstage to Broadway

  01-12-2017 16:00 via nytimes.com
  Claire van Kampen worked on other people’s plays for decades. Then she wrote “Farinelli and the King.” It’s been a hit in London and makes its way to New York next week.
  
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• 8 Comics to Read in December

  01-12-2017 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Each month, Abraham Riesman offers recommendations of comics, including book-length graphic novels, comics-format nonfiction, and ongoing series. With any luck, at least one of them will be a match for you.Punisher: The Platoon by Garth Ennis, Goran Parlov, and Jordie Bellaire (Marvel)This sucker is brand synergy at its best. Just...More »
  
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• Laura Benanti’s Melania Trump Returns to Wish You a Very Grim Christmas

  01-12-2017 15:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  In order to get into the holiday spirit, Melania Trump has decorated the White House in a style that can only be described as “the nightmare you had after seeing The Nightmare Before Christmas when you were too young to have seen The Nightmare Before Christmas.” But Stephen Colbert’s a...More »
  
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• How Gary Oldman Lured a Makeup Magician Back for One More Job

  01-12-2017 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s been a strange year for Hollywood (to say the least), full of resistance and revelations. Still, the industry is determined to celebrate — and this week we look at a few of the performances, directors, achievements, and, in one case, prosthetic jowls most likely to be honored.In 2016, makeup...More »
  
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• Kate Winslet Reveals How She Would Have Saved Jack in Titanic

  01-12-2017 15:11 via feeds.eonline.com
  Kate Winslet knows she let Jack down.
  20 years after she and Leonardo DiCaprio joined cinematic history as the iconic Rose and Jack in James Cameron's Titanic, the Oscar winner is...
  
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• Theater News: John Cariani, Jason Danieley, and More to Star in Transport Group's Man of La Mancha

  01-12-2017 15:00
  Jack Cummings III will direct the concert presentation of the famous musical.
  
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• The Totally Insane Behind-the-Scenes Stories From James Franco and Seth Rogen's The Disaster Artist

  01-12-2017 15:00 via feeds.eonline.com
  Come this weekend, longtime BFFs and frequent collaborators James Franco and Seth Rogen will reunite onscreen (and off) yet again. But The Disaster Artist is going to be monumental for a wholly...
  
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• The Signature Looks of Riverdale’s Very Fashionable, Very Retro High-Schoolers

  01-12-2017 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  In terms of teen programming, the CW’s Riverdale isn’t that relatable for the modern youths these days: To our knowledge, there isn’t a black-hooded killer roaming around a sleepy suburban town that also doubles as a major heroin mecca. But when it comes to the show’s fashion, things take a...More »
  
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• The Disaster Artist: An Oral History

  01-12-2017 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  When the people behind The Disaster Artist spoke to Vulture about how they re-created the most iconic scenes from The Room, they didn’t just talk about those four scenes. Much like The Room itself, these conversations spiraled in many directions — enough, it turns out, to create an entire oral...More »
  
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• Dark review – a classy, knotty, time-travelling whodunnit for TV

  01-12-2017 14:52
  If you enjoyed Stranger Things but are actually an adult, then you’ll want to watch Dark, a sophisticated, grown-up, German-language thriller that revels in its own distinct and foreboding vibe‘Stranger Things for grown-ups” is the TV shorthand that’s stuck for Netflix’s new German-language thriller, Dark. Is that a little too simplistic? Perhaps, but when a storyline includes odd goings-on at a mysterious government facility in a small town, the disappearance of a
  
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• Oscar Futures: Lady Bird’s Oscar Chances Look Very Baller

  01-12-2017 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  On a regular basis between now and March 4, 2018, when the winners of the Academy Awards are announced, Vulture will consult its crystal ball to determine the changing fortunes in this year’s Oscars race. In our Oscar Futures column, we’ll let you in on insider gossip, parse brand-new developments,...More »
  
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• Three Billboards and Big Little Lies Star Kathryn Newton on Playing Emo Teens

  01-12-2017 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Kathryn Newton has perfected the angsty teen-girl sneer: an eye-roll paired with a muttered insult, plus a glare icier than anything at Morgenstern’s. At best, her characters disrespect their mothers; at worst, they’re downright mean. But while playing a trio of teen girls across some of the year’s best offerings,...More »
  
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• An Upright Citizens Brigade Theater Closes With Filthy Fanfare

  01-12-2017 14:00 via nytimes.com
  The Chelsea space gets an appropriate send-off — an improv marathon complete with dance party and Dumpster comedy — before the group moves to Hell’s Kitchen.
  
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• Meghan Markle: a breath of fresh air for the royal family

  01-12-2017 13:31 via ft.com
  Mixed-race, divorced and American, the actress promises to be an unconventional bride
  
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• This week’s best TV: Scandal threatens the monarchy in The Crown

  01-12-2017 13:00
  Philip and Margaret are brought to heel in season two of Peter Morgan’s regal drama, while LA crack epic Snowfall comes to a satisfyingly tortuous climaxA young couple who find that the demands of royal duty clash with their dreams of personal happiness? It’s fair to say that season two of Peter Morgan’s regal drama has suddenly become extremely topical. How will Claire Foy’s Queen Elizabeth cope with the increasingly maverick tendencies of her husband?
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• Theater News: South Korean Production of Titanic Hoping to Sail to Broadway

  01-12-2017 13:00
  Eric Schaeffer directs the musical for the OD Company in Seoul.
  
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