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• Seth Rogen to Boycott SiriusXM Appearances Due to Steve Bannon’s Hosting Gig

  08-12-2017 23:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  SiriusXM is giving a Steve Bannon a show, so Seth Rogen is giving SiriusXM a hard pass. The actor was supposed to do press rounds on the radio network next week, but in light of Bannon reassuming his role as host of the Breitbart News Daily show (airing, naturally, on...More »
  
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• Star Wars: The Last Jedi Stars Delight Fans on Global Press Tour

  08-12-2017 22:49 via feeds.eonline.com
  Fighting a war between the Resistance and the First Order is tiring, so the stars of Star Wars: The Last Jedi have spent the last few weeks just chilling out.Just kidding! Daisy Ridley...
  
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• Alita: Battle Angel Trailer: Cyborgs, Scientists, Mahershala Ali in Sunglasses

  08-12-2017 22:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  Robert Rodriguez has adapted Yukito Kishiro’s Battle Angel Alita manga, bringing it several centuries in the future. Christoph Waltz plays a kind scientist-doctor who stumbles upon cyborg Alita (Rosa Salazar), stranded in Iron City’s scrapyard. Unsure of her past, Alita embraces a new life as a bounty hunter while trying...More »
  
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• Louis C.K. Is Buying Back I Love You, Daddy From Its Distributor

  08-12-2017 22:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  The New York Times published its damning report about Louis C.K. sexually harassing several fellow comedians right before his movie I Love You, Daddy was supposed to premiere. The red carpet was canceled. He backed out of a scheduled late-night appearance, and the movie’s distributor, the Orchard, shelved the project...More »
  
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• If You Were a Theater Kid, You Should Watch ABC’s Encore

  08-12-2017 22:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  For the small slice of the American population that participated in high-school musicals, and the even smaller sliver that is actually proud of that experience, listen up: ABC is airing a delightfully nerdy, bittersweet gift to you all this Sunday at 10 p.m. Hosted by Kristen Bell, a theater kid...More »
  
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• 11 Things We Really Want to See in Big Little Lies Season Two

  08-12-2017 22:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  Big Little Lies was a gem of a TV show, a rare self-contained achievement with a great ending, which of course means that HBO decided to green-light a second season. The good news: Executive producers Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman will return to star in the project, alongside David E....More »
  
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• The Crown Recap: Goode Times

  08-12-2017 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the middle of this big question about the season’s direction — is The Crown going to focus on Philip’s side of the marriage, or finally do a deep dive into Elizabeth’s inner life? — we now turn to an episode that is by and large devoted to … Princess...More »
  
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• Meek Mill Reportedly Rejected FBI’s Request to Secretly Tape Controversial Judge, Ending 2016 Probe

  08-12-2017 21:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  Though earlier reports suggested that the controversial judge who sentenced Meek Mill to two to four years in prison for violating probation is under federal investigation, new information has come to light clarifying that report. Philly.com now says that while there is no current FBI investigation into Judge Genece Brinkley,...More »
  
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• Big Little Lies season two confirmed with Andrea Arnold directing

  08-12-2017 21:20
  Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman to return as stars of the Emmy-winning HBO mystery, with the British director of American Honey at the helmHBO has announced a second season of Big Little Lies, with Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman returning.After months of speculation, the network confirmed that the Emmy-winning mystery would return for a seven-episode limited series, with the British director Andrea Arnold to direct.Continue reading...
  
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• How HBO Got to Yes on Big Little Lies Season Two

  08-12-2017 21:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  The worst-kept secret in Hollywood is out: Big Little Lies will be back for another chapter. HBO announced the long-rumored green light on Friday, making official what most in TV land had long expected would happen. Executive producers Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman will star, with the rest of the...More »
  
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• 15 Gifts for (Extreme) Rock-Music Nerds

  08-12-2017 21:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  The good thing about getting gifts for rock-music nerds is that their passion provides a focus — you’ll want to get them a box set. The tough thing is that it’s hard to know what to get for the rock fan that has heard just about everything. You can start...More »
  
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• Oscar Futures: Can Call Me by Your Name’s Timothée Chalamet Win Best Actor?

  08-12-2017 21:04 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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• The 10 Best Video Games of 2017

  08-12-2017 20:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  Hard-drinking criminal fixers knock around the backwaters of the galaxy, pulling off heists and settling old scores. Heat Signature is fun when everything goes according to plan, and even more fun when it doesn’t. You may find yourself stuck in a room with the person you’re supposed to kill and...More »
  
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• In ‘Coco,’ Death Is the Point

  08-12-2017 20:34 via nytimes.com
  A villain’s demise, a parent’s absence. That’s how death used to figure in animated movies for children. Thanks to Pixar and now “Coco,” that’s changing.
  
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• Big Little Lies Season Two Is Officially Happening, Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman to Star

  08-12-2017 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  In one of the most memorable scenes of HBO’s Big Little Lies, Celeste (Nicole Kidman) and Madeline (Reese Witherspoon) confide in each other while sitting in a car, yelling things like “I want more!” and “I fucking miss it!” Fans have surely felt the same way since the show’s April...More »
  
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• Dustin Hoffman accused of 'abusive' sexual harassment on Broadway

  08-12-2017 20:21
  Actor Kathryn Rossetter claims that the actor repeatedly groped her while the pair worked on a 1983 production of Death of a SalesmanAnother claim of sexual harassment has been aimed at Dustin Hoffman, detailing a “horrific, demoralizing and abusive” experience on the set of a 1983 Broadway show. Related: Dustin Hoffman needs to realise that it’s not how he feels that matters | Deborah OrrRelated: Dustin Hoffman confronted over abuse allegations by John Oliver at public Q&A
  
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• Death of a Salesman Actress Accuses Dustin Hoffman of Sexual Harassment

  08-12-2017 20:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  An actress from the 1984, Dustin Hoffman–starring Broadway revival of Death of a Salesman has accused Hoffman of sexual harassment. In a first-person essay for The Hollywood Reporter, Kathryn Rossetter alleges that Hoffman groped her, slipped his hands under her costume to touch her inner thighs, and asked for foot massages...More »
  
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• Netflix Reveals the New Queer Eye Fab Five

  08-12-2017 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  After announcing a revival of Bravo’s beloved makeover series Queer Eye (originally with the suffix for the Straight Guy), Netflix revealed today the the series’ new Fab Five. The new cast members are Bobby Berk, focusing on design; Karamo Brown, whose focus is on culture; Antoni Porowski, specializing in food...More »
  
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• Alex Pettyfer Is Mighty Suspicious in This New Clip From The Strange Ones

  08-12-2017 19:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the new movie The Strange Ones, a grown man named Nick (Alex Pettyfer) and a young boy named Sam (James Freedson-Jackson) set out on a road trip that appears to be a casual adventure between brothers. The reality is something much more sinister. The feature-film debut of co-directors Lauren...More »
  
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• Which TV Shows Will Be Nominated for the 2018 Golden Globes?

  08-12-2017 19:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  There’s a lot going on in the news lately, so there’s a good chance you haven’t spent much time thinking about the Golden Globes, not to mention which TV shows might get nominated when Globes nominees are revealed on Monday morning. Fortunately, it’s my job — well, part of it...More »
  
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• The Grand Tour’s Jeremy Clarkson on the One Critic Who Got to His Head and Why He’s Not Optimistic About His Legacy

  08-12-2017 19:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  No matter what you think of Jeremy Clarkson, there’s no denying that he’s one of the most prominent entertainment figures of the modern era, across the pond or otherwise. During Clarkson’s reign as Top Gear’s co-presenter, alongside James May and Richard Hammond, the trio brought in an estimated global audience...More »
  
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• McGraw Hill Education scraps PIK toggle debt sale

  08-12-2017 18:48 via ft.com
  Double-digit coupon fails to attract sufficient investor support
  
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• Post-Matt Lauer, We Need to Redefine the Fatherly Image of American Journalism

  08-12-2017 18:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  For a long time now, we’ve been questioning and debating and dismantling the idea of a journalist as someone who could be entirely without human bias. With scant few exceptions, the default nonpartisan voice we want to speak to journalistic truth looks like America’s dad. To really repair the damage done...More »
  
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• The Crown Recap: The One Where Everyone Shaves

  08-12-2017 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Throughout episode two, I wavered on how to feel about this Actually Philip Did Have a Hard Time sympathy tour. The episode gave us evidence of his adultery and asked us to judge his inability to stay loyal to his wife, but it also wanted us to sympathize with his...More »
  
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• Exclusive: See a Lot More of Christopher Plummer in This Footage From All the Money in the World

  08-12-2017 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  One month ago today, Ridley Scott made the tough decision to remove Kevin Spacey from his new dramatic thriller All the Money in the World and replace the actor with Christopher Plummer, all while still making the film’s end-of-year release date. Somehow, the indefatigable 80-year-old director has moved heaven and...More »
  
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• Biggest Mistakes in 9 Oscar-Winning Movies

  08-12-2017 17:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  No movie is completely perfect — even if it’s won an Oscar for Best Picture....More »
  
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• Tencent and Spotify buy minority stakes in each other

  08-12-2017 17:24 via ft.com
  Chinese internet behemoth has been expanding its global reach with a string of deals
  
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• America’s Next Top Model Will Include a Drag Race Crossover With Valentina, Katya, and Manila Next Season

  08-12-2017 17:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  It seems that the models on ANTM will have to learn a little something about how to smize in drag. VH1 announced today that the new season, hosted by Tyra Banks, returning to reclaim her throne from Rita Ora, will include a crossover that will feature RuPaul’s Drag Race’s Valentina,...More »
  
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• Thom Yorke, Who Once Called Spotify ‘the Last Desperate Fart of a Dying Corpse,’ Released His Music on Spotify

  08-12-2017 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  Just like that, Thom Yorke appears to have changed his mind about Spotify. The Radiohead front man famously yanked all his non-Radiohead work from the streaming service in 2013 due to Spotify’s notoriously paltry royalty rates for songwriters and artists. As he so prosaically worded it then, Spotify is “the...More »
  
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• Theater News: Faith Prince to Star in The Cake at La Jolla Playhouse

  08-12-2017 17:00
  Bekah Brunstetter explores the politics of wedding cakes in her timely new play.
  
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• Theater News: A Tribute to Barbara Cook Makes Free Tickets Available to Public

  08-12-2017 17:00
  Kelli O'Hara, Renée Fleming, and more will perform at Lincoln Center on December 18 in honor of the legendary soprano.
  
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• I, Tonya’s Filmmakers On Their Controversial Treatment of Domestic Violence

  08-12-2017 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The steak knife makes its flight across the screen — thrown with malicious intent by Allison Janney, sticking in Margot Robbie’s bicep like a dart — about halfway through the meta-narrative ice-skating biopic I, Tonya.In the scene, Janney (portraying LaVona Golden, the acid-tongued, alcoholic mother of disgraced figure skater Tonya...More »
  
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• Did Daniel Day-Lewis Really Freak Out His Co-star on There Will Be Blood?

  08-12-2017 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Box-office records inevitably get broken and Oscars can go missing; perhaps the surest mark of a great film is how many urban legends spring up in its wake. (Just ask that munchkin.) Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood is only ten years old, but it already has its own...More »
  
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• The Crown: season two review – the one with all the shagging … and Suez

  08-12-2017 16:27
  Attagirl, Lilibet! From the Kennedy assassination to the Profumo affair, Netflix goes bigger and better as it kicks off a truly historic second seriesWhen the dusty scrolls of television history are unfurled by future generations and all 60 episodes of The Crown promised to us are found to lie therein, this one shall be known down the ages as The One With All the Shagging – and Suez.We start this second series of creator and writer Peter Morgan’s masterpiece in 1956. Continuing the f
  
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• The 10 Best Theatrical Productions of 2017

  08-12-2017 16:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  If 2016 was the frying pan, 2017 has frequently felt like the fire. In this year of daily shifts, shocks, and sucker punches, I went from being an opinionated director to being a critic, and these ten productions, ranging from intimate to epic, all touched something expansive for me in...More »
  
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• Theater News: New York Theatre Workshop Announces Casting for An Ordinary Muslim

  08-12-2017 16:00
  Jo Bonney directs Hammaad Chaudry's new play.
  
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• Theater News: Geffen Playhouse Production of Ironbound Announces Additional Casting

  08-12-2017 16:00
  Marin Ireland will reprise her off-Broadway performance on the West Coast.
  
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• Theater News: Brandon Uranowitz, Alexandra Silber, and More Join Man of La Mancha in Concert

  08-12-2017 16:00
  Transport Group Theatre Company brings together Broadway stars for a one-night-only event.
  
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• The Untold Story of Nancy Kerrigan: Sacrifice, Scandal and Family Tragedy

  08-12-2017 16:00 via feeds.eonline.com
  Like the phenomenon that affects many people in the spotlight, it seems there were two different Nancy Kerrigans.
  There was the Nancy that the media portrayed, the woman with style and...
  
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• Bryan Singer Denies That The Usual Suspects Was Shut Down Due to Kevin Spacey’s Misconduct

  08-12-2017 15:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  Earlier this week Gabriel Byrne said production on The Usual Suspects was briefly suspended because of Kevin Spacey’s misconduct. Not true, director Bryan Singer told TMZ Thursday. Singer said the whole movie was shot in 35 days, and he’s not sure why Byrne would say otherwise. “I don’t know. It...More »
  
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• 'Shocking' levels of harassment in UK TV industry – report

  08-12-2017 15:39
  Nothing being done to prevent abuse, critics say, as survey finds 84% of respondents not reporting sexual harassmentBullying and sexual harassment are prevalent across the TV industry, a report has found.More than half of people surveyed, from producers to commissioners, had experienced sexual misconduct in the workplace, a joint Edinburgh International TV Festival (EITF) and Channel 5 News investigation revealed. Continue reading...
  
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• We Could’ve Had James Corden As Taylor Swift’s Backup Dancer

  08-12-2017 15:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  Running a concert like iHeartRadio’s Jingle Ball is a difficult task. There are a lot of moving parts. Sometimes the backstage décor isn’t up to par. Not all the channels on all the TVs in the artists’ dressing rooms are working. Ed “Gingerbread Man” Sheeran’s security detail is in shambles....More »
  
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• Theater News: Zac Efron Announces Launch of The Greatest Week in New York City

  08-12-2017 15:00
  The Greatest Showman hosts a series of fan events to celebrate the film's premiere.
  
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• Allison Janney Goes for the Gold

  08-12-2017 15:00 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.Before she uttered...More »
  
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• 10 Great Christmas-Adjacent Movies That Aren’t Die Hard

  08-12-2017 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Whenever we discuss our favorite Christmas movies, there’s always that one guy (and it’s always a guy) who chimes in, “What about Die Hard?” In fact, I’m sure that someone in the comment section of this article will say something like, “Dude, you forgot Die Hard!”Listen, Die Hard is a...More »
  
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• Premier League plans primetime Saturday night kick-off

  08-12-2017 14:25 via ft.com
  Full rounds also to be broadcast for the first time allowing fans to choose matches
  
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• James Murdoch, the son of the empire strikes back

  08-12-2017 14:19 via ft.com
  Eclipsed by his powerful father, the media scion is about to move into the spotlight
  
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• James Murdoch steps out from Rupert’s shadow

  08-12-2017 14:19 via ft.com
  Long eclipsed by his powerful father, the younger son is ready to strike out for himself
  
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• The Grand Tour: season two review – another lap of spectacle and sexism

  08-12-2017 14:02
  The boys are on the road again, with more of the same old jokes, same old stunts and same old attitudesAnd they’re off again, another series of Not Top Gear, AKA The Grand Tour (Amazon Prime). May has had a haircut, Clarkson had pneumonia, Hammond was in a car crash. They’re all a little older, a bit jowlier. And they’re not doing the tent thing in different countries any more, they’ve got a permanent studio base in the Cotswolds, not far from Clarkson’s house. So n
  
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• Your Week in Culture: Thom Yorke, JCVD, ‘The Ballad of Lefty Brown’

  08-12-2017 14:00 via nytimes.com
  Also the week of Dec. 10: Nicholas Nixon’s “Brown Sisters” portraits in Boston; Merce Cunningham alumni in Brooklyn.
  
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