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• New York Times Co. Sues Weinstein Company Over Unpaid Bills

  06-12-2017 23:20 via nytimes.com
  The Times said the film studio owed it $229,567.68, according to a complaint, for ads that featured films including “Tulip Fever,” “Wind River” and “Leap!”
  
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• Happy! Strikes a Winking Macho Pose

  06-12-2017 23:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  At once trivial and dire, SyFy’s Happy! is another one of those comic-book-inspired nihilist action-comedies that turns the carefully developed aesthetic of film noir, one of this country’s greatest cultural achievements, into a series of winking macho poses. It’s set in a rainy, grimy, dystopian metropolis. Criminal gangs rule a town in...More »
  
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• The Post Is a Perfectly Timed, Crackling Newspaper Movie — and a Meryl Streep Showcase

  06-12-2017 22:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  It isn’t necessary to know the circumstances under which the new Steven Spielberg–Meryl Streep–Tom Hanks journalism drama The Post was produced, but it makes the movie seem more immediate — more of a muckraker, and even more fun. The film came together very fast, while Spielberg was basically sitting around...More »
  
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• Review: ‘I, Tonya.’ I, Punching Bag. I, Punch Line.

  06-12-2017 22:43 via nytimes.com
  In this winking biopic, Margot Robbie plays the disgraced ice skater Tonya Harding.
  
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• Life Lessons: Fabulous Life Lessons From Gianni Agnelli

  06-12-2017 22:42 via nytimes.com
  In the new documentary “Agnelli,” the head of Fiat, who died in 2003, is revealed as that rare species of man: a fashionable playboy with gravitas.
  
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• John Boyega Was "Shocked" When He Watched Star Wars: The Last Jedi for the First Time

  06-12-2017 22:22 via feeds.eonline.com
  The force is upon us and John Boyega is here to spill some deets!The Star Wars: The Last Jedi actor gave E! News exclusive insider scoop on moments from the upcoming film and even...
  
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• John Travolta Says ''Fake News'' Caused His Film Gotti to Be Pulled 10 Days Before Its Release

  06-12-2017 22:15 via feeds.eonline.com
  John Travolta is voicing his disappointment after Lionsgate pulled his upcoming film, Gotti, from its release.The mafia flick was pulled 10 days before it was scheduled to hit theaters,...
  
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• John Travolta Assures Fans Gotti Biopic Was Never Dropped

  06-12-2017 22:15 via feeds.eonline.com
  John Travolta is voicing his disappointment about some of the false reports surrounding Lionsgate's upcoming film, Gotti.The actor maintains Lionsgate didn't drop the film. In...
  
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• The Best Performances of 2017

  06-12-2017 22:00 via nytimes.com
  A critic shares his favorite moments, from Tina Fey’s sheet-cake meltdown to the NFL’s end zone celebrations to Betty Gabriel in “Get Out.”
  
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• Here’s a Fake Trailer for That Tarantino Star Trek Movie

  06-12-2017 21:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  Quentin Tarantino reportedly wants to make a Star Trek movie after he’s finished with his Manson murders film. The sci-fi series is a far cry from the director’s normal fare of ultraviolence and pop-culture references, but it’s still fun to imagine how that film might end up looking....More »
  
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• John Travolta Insists His Gotti Biopic Did Not Get Bumped Off by Lionsgate

  06-12-2017 21:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  John Travolta and the producers of the John Gotti biopic Gotti would like you to know that contrary to recent reports, the movie didn’t get bumped off, rubbed out, or otherwise whacked by its distributor Lionsgate — the studio that was said to be canceling Gotti’s release a mere ten...More »
  
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• Zorgen bij vrijwilligers cinema/theater Roden - Dagblad van het Noorden

  06-12-2017 21:09
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  De vrijwilligers van cinema/theater De Winsinghhof in Roden vrezen dat er weinig overblijft van het theater. De reorganisatie wekt zorgen. In een brief aan bestuur en directie van Landgoed Mensinge en de gemeenteraad zeggen de vrijwilligers met lede ...
  
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• Alec Baldwin Slams Late-Night Shows for Becoming ‘Grand Juries’

  06-12-2017 21:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  Alec Baldwin would like late-night hosts to stick to more “blithe chit chat,” please. The actor/Donald Trump impersonator went to Twitter to criticize two hosts in particular: Last Week Tonight’s John Oliver and The Late Show’s Stephen Colbert. When Oliver moderated a conversation at an anniversary screening of Hoffman’s movie...More »
  
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• Jazz Legend Sonny Rollins on Retiring His Sax, His Legacy, and the Secret to Life

  06-12-2017 20:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sonny Rollins is, inarguably, on any short list of greatest living American musicians. So vast, intelligent, and witty is his improvisational skill, and so satisfying the sheer, sensuous life force of his saxophone playing. And though the 87-year-old has very likely blown his last note in public — a diagnosis...More »
  
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• Jeffrey Tambor Says He Hasn’t Actually Left Transparent

  06-12-2017 20:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  Though Jeffrey Tambor previously issued a statement implying that he would leave Transparent in the wake of sexual-harassment allegations against him, the actor’s representatives now insist that he has not actually left the show. A New York Times investigation into the state of the show reveals that neither Tambor nor Amazon...More »
  
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• The Journey From the Calais Jungle to the London Stage

  06-12-2017 20:27 via nytimes.com
  A new play at the Young Vic portrays life in a bleak migrant camp and how theater and music united some members of that homeless, fractured community.
  
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• The NY Cat Film Festival Is Here. And No One’s Allergic to Movies.

  06-12-2017 20:24 via nytimes.com
  The festival, which has its premiere on Saturday, will tour the country with two programs of shorts devoted to the feline way of life.
  
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• Harvey Weinstein Accusers File Class-Action Lawsuit Over Sexual Harassment

  06-12-2017 20:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  Six women who have accused Harvey Weinstein of sexual harassment filed a proposed class-action lawsuit in New York federal court on Wednesday, reports Variety. The suit accuses the producer, his companies, and several of his colleagues of running a “sexual enterprise.”Filed by Zoe Brock, Louisette Geiss, Katherine Kendall, Melissa Sagemiller, and Nannette Klatt, the...More »
  
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• Poland’s flirtation with nationalism will backfire

  06-12-2017 19:41 via ft.com
  Conflict with Brussels and anti-Islamism have served the ruling party well, so far
  
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• The Carpetbagger: ‘I’d Never Seen My Fears as an African-American Man Onscreen’

  06-12-2017 19:40 via nytimes.com
  Jordan Peele, writer-director of “Get Out,” says his own concerns almost prevented it from being made. Now prize givers love it. Will the academy agree?
  
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• Jen Chaney’s 10 Best TV Shows of 2017

  06-12-2017 19:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  Before sharing my ten best TV shows of 2017, I am required to run through the standard series of TV list-making caveats so you will know, without a doubt, which ones are the best and most important.Caveat 1: There is a lot of TV. Even though watching television is my...More »
  
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• Six women file class-action lawsuit against Harvey Weinstein and 'complicit producers'

  06-12-2017 19:23
  ‘We are but six women representing hundreds’ say the women who filed the suit, after accusations of sexual assault, rape and harassment from dozens Harvey Weinstein and his former film production company are facing a class-action lawsuit from six women, who are seeking to represent “hundreds” of other women allegedly victimized by the disgraced movie producer.The proposed class action comes as Weinstein is facing numerous criminal investigations across the globe following
  
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• Chris Stapleton Is Not a Country-Music Outsider

  06-12-2017 19:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  For more than a decade, Chris Stapleton, like so many aspiring artists, was a cog in the Nashville machine. Signed to a publishing deal as a songwriter shortly after moving to town in 2001, Stapleton wrote songs for whatever artist might cut them. Kenny Chesney. Darius Rucker. Lee Ann Womack....More »
  
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• Listen to Sufjan Stevens’s Extremely Emotional Musical Tribute to Tonya Harding, Sadly Rejected for I, Tonya

  06-12-2017 19:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Tonya Harding my star, this world is a cold one, but it takes one to know one.” That is how Sufjan Stevens opens his new song, “Tonya Harding,” which is a tribute to the woman he calls “America’s sweetheart with a dark twist.” The song plays over footage of Harding’s...More »
  
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• The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Is the Ultimate ‘Winning the Breakup’ Fantasy

  06-12-2017 19:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  When we first encounter Midge Maisel (Rachel Brosnahan), the Jewish housewife turned stand-up comic heroine of Amy Sherman-Palladino’s The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, she is a woman who adores her life of moneyed 1950s matrimony: an domestic goddess who cooks brisket like Julia Child while maintaining the hip-to-waist ratio of a runway...More »
  
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• The Shape of Water, Netflix Lead 2017 Critics Choice Awards Nominees

  06-12-2017 18:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Critics’ Choice Awards nominees are here. Selected by the Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA) and the Broadcast Television Journalists Association (BTJA), the awards will be handed out Thursday, January 11, 2018 at the Barker Hanger in Santa Monica. The awards show will air live that night on the CW....More »
  
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• When Cheers Became Cheers: An Appreciation of ‘Endless Slumper’

  06-12-2017 18:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  Thirty-five years after it first premiered, Cheers remains a sitcom benchmark, a comedy institution that left an indelible mark on the modern television landscape. Over the course of its 11 seasons, Cheers perfected the workplace–cum–surrogate family template established by The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Taxi. It helped introduce TV...More »
  
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• Revisiting Animal Collective’s Influential Sung Tongs

  06-12-2017 18:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  Whether you thought the Strokes’ 2001 debut was the second coming or else asked “Is this it?” when it played, Lizzy Goodman’s oral history Meet Me in the Bathroom tirelessly documented the debauchery and unfulfilled promise of the New York City rock scene in the early 21st century. But as...More »
  
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• Facebook's interactive BuzzFeed dating show: 'Ham-fisted and unwatchable'

  06-12-2017 18:19
  RelationShipped is the latest attempt by the social network to move into original content and its vote-influenced Bachelor-esque style is more miss than hitInrecent months, Facebook, like Apple, has made a concerted attempt to make gains in the world of streaming. In order to establish itself as a destination for binge-watchers who take to Netflix, Amazon and Hulu, the social network launched Facebook Watch, where dozens of series – ranging from scripted comedies such as Nicole Byer’
  
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• Matt Lauer’s Firing Gave Today Show a Rare Ratings Win Over Good Morning America 

  06-12-2017 18:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  It won’t matter much in the long-term, but Matt Lauer’s ignominious firing lifted NBC’s Today show to an increasingly rare ratings win over rival Good Morning America last week. Per Nielsen, the Peacock’s breakfast show averaged 4.9 million viewers between November 27–December 1, a five-day frame which included three days...More »
  
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• The Evolution of the Movie Trailer

  06-12-2017 18:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  Movie marketing has always been an art form in and of itself, and movie trailers have now enticed audiences for more than a hundred years. With the passage of time, trailers have evolved from straightforward descriptions of films, to ominously voiced-over montages, to frenetic and spoiler-phobic teasers. Watch how trailers...More »
  
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• Vogue Seems to Have Accidentally Published Taylor Swift’s Tumblr Poetry

  06-12-2017 18:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  Cover star Taylor Swift seems to have accidentally published a poem in British Vogue’s January issue instead of posting it at 1 a.m. on Tumblr and regretting it in the morning, as was intended. The budding poet, who also provided some verses alongside Reputation in those exclusive magazines, has written...More »
  
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• The Cult of Tonya Harding

  06-12-2017 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  We’re Matt and Viviana, best friends, roommates, and co-curators of the Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan Museum (THNK1994 Museum, for short), in Brooklyn, New York. We weren’t born museum owners, like the Guggenheims or the Whitneys or the great MOFAD dynasty — rather, we sort of fell into it. One...More »
  
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• How Doug Jones Became Guillermo del Toro’s Favorite Monster

  06-12-2017 17:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  Betty Grable had the legs. Paul Newman had the eyes. Doug Jones has the hands.Unless you’re a hardcore fan of director Guillermo del Toro, you might have trouble placing the 57-year-old actor’s face, which is usually hidden behind all kinds of rubber and silicone. But you remember those long, expressive...More »
  
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• The 10 Best Books of 2017

  06-12-2017 17:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  Angela Carter was a pathbreaking English novelist and story writer. She was the one who brought magic realism into the language with brilliant novels like The Magic Toyshop, The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman, and Nights at the Circus. Her masterpiece, The Bloody Chamber, reinvented the fairy tale as...More »
  
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• The Director and the Pharaoh: How Tom Hoving Created the Museum Blockbuster

  06-12-2017 17:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  In celebration of New York Magazine’s 50th anniversary, this weekly series, which will continue through October 2018, tells the stories behind key moments that shaped the city’s culture.The “Treasures of Tutankhamun,” which landed at the Metropolitan Museum in 1978 at the end of a six-city American tour, abounded in riches...More »
  
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• Sally Field to Publish Memoir in 2018

  06-12-2017 17:20 via nytimes.com
  Grand Central Publishing has acquired the memoir, “In Pieces,” by Ms. Field, the Academy Award-winning actress and star of films like “Norma Rae.”
  
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• Call Me by Your Name Author André Aciman on Writing Sex Scenes and the Film’s Sequels

  06-12-2017 17:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  Call Me by Your Name, a love story between two men replete with references to the classics, is not the kind of novel that typically becomes a film. The book, which takes place “somewhere in Italy in the mid-’80s,” focuses on Elio, a bookish 17-year-old who barely knows but is...More »
  
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• Theater News: BroadwayCon Partners With Paley Center to Screen Best Theater on TV Moments

  06-12-2017 17:00
  The 1967 ABC telecast of Carousel, starring Robert Goulet and Mary Grover, is among the free events.
  
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• Review: A Room in India

  06-12-2017 17:00
  The entire globe fits onto the stage of the Park Avenue Armory in Théâtre du Soleil's latest creation.
  
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