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• New Trailer: ‘Ready Player One,’ From Steven Spielberg

  10-12-2017 22:00 via nytimes.com
  A new promo gives more details about the adaptation of Ernest Cline’s gamer novel. Tye Sheridan and Ben Mendelsohn star.
  
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• Alec Baldwin Thinks the Post-Harvey Weinstein Movement Might Be ‘In Jeopardy of Derailing’

  10-12-2017 21:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s been a bit of a weird week for Alec Baldwin and his Twitter account — seemingly prompted by John Oliver, host of HBO’s popular Last Week Tonight, grilling Dustin Hoffman about his alleged history of sexual harassment at a Wag the Dog anniversary screening, Baldwin took to his foundation’s...More »
  
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• The Crown Season Finale Recap: Shut Up, Philip

  10-12-2017 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Paterfamilias” put the focus on Philip, but it was focused on him for reasons that made sense. The story about his childhood tragedy was downright chilling. It was a beautifully constructed episode. And more importantly for The Crown, understanding the damage Philip has done to Charles will surely be an...More »
  
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• Strictly Come Dancing semi-final results – as it happened

  10-12-2017 20:59
  The competition got serious with a two-dance semi-final, but which of the five remaining celebrities performed best under pressure, and who didn’t make the Grand Final? 7.59pm GMTThank you all for joining in and being amazing as always – you can find me on Twitter @heidistephens if you’d like to say hello, otherwise I’ll see you back here next Saturday for a 6.30pm start. Dress code: FULL GLITTER. See you then! 7.58pm GMTSo that’s it for Strictly until next week&rsq
  
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• Leslie Jones Goes Through Quite a Journey Trying Not to Throw Up in This SNL Sketch

  10-12-2017 20:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  We wouldn’t have blamed Leslie Jones, a consummate professional and very funny woman, if she walked out of Studio 8H for a good puking session after accidentally getting a bunch of blood squirted into her mouth by James Franco’s fake hand in this SNL sketch. But did she? Oh, hell...More »
  
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• Louis C.K. Will Buy Back ‘I Love You, Daddy’

  10-12-2017 19:30 via nytimes.com
  The comedian will buy back the rights to his film, which was shelved by its distributor following allegations of sexual misconduct.
  
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• Holdover Films Chug Away at the Box Office as ‘Last Jedi’ Looms

  10-12-2017 19:22 via nytimes.com
  In another quiet weekend at multiplexes, “Coco” was No. 1, “Justice League” continued to disappoint and “Wonder” crossed the $100 million mark.
  
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• Review: In ‘Today Is My Birthday,’ Love Is a Butt Dial

  10-12-2017 19:17 via nytimes.com
  Susan Soon He Stanton’s new play uses only audio interactions, from voice mail to intercom, to tell a story about the breakdown of intimacy.
  
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• Thom Yorke and BB-8 Had a Glorious Meeting of the Minds

  10-12-2017 19:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  We have no idea what Thom Yorke and his new pal, the adorable astromech droid BB-8, were talking about at the world premiere of Star Wars: The Last Jedi this weekend. But does it really matter? Just project your wildest conversational desires onto this photo and call it a day....More »
  
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• Max Clifford, Publicist and Sex Offender, Dies After Collapsing in Prison

  10-12-2017 18:46 via nytimes.com
  Mr. Clifford, once Britain’s highest-profile publicity agent, was serving an eight-year sentence for assaulting woman and girls as young as 15.
  
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• Jessica Jones Season 2 Teaser: Our Barracuda Is Back!

  10-12-2017 18:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  Chug a bottle of Jack Daniels to celebrate. And maybe some Crown Royal for good measure. Netflix surprised us with a nice weekend treat consisting of not only the date announcement for the new season of Marvel’s Jessica Jones — write it down, 13 episodes on March 8 — but...More »
  
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• The Crown Recap: School Days

  10-12-2017 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Paterfamilias” is a truly devastating episode of television. It uses the dual timelines from Charles’ childhood and Philip’s childhood to powerful effect: Young Philip walking behind the caskets of his beloved sister and her entire family, past an endless sea of Nazi salutes. Charles, hiding behind a column and weeping,...More »
  
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• Saturday Night Live: festive episode mocks men on Santa's naughty list

  10-12-2017 17:34
  In a week that saw Al Franken resign and Republicans rally behind Roy Moore, sexual harassment took the spotlight – but Michael Che’s undercover ‘liberal white woman’ stole the showIt’s Christmas at a suburban mall, and Santa (Kenan Thompson) and his helper elf (Kate McKinnon) are taking requests from a queue of kids.
  “Can you tell me,” says little Tyler, “what Al Franken did?” Continue reading...
  
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• James Franco’s SNL Monologue Somehow Became the Opportune Time for Famous Comedians to Bitch About James Franco

  10-12-2017 17:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  There are a lot of layers of bottled-up aggression finally seeping into the open during James Franco’s SNL monologue. Franco and Seth Rogen have some stoner awards-season beef that’s yet to be addressed. There’s an aura of negativity surrounding Rogen and a very svelte Jonah Hill. Steve Martin doesn’t seem...More »
  
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• President Trump has a chance to bring peace to the Middle East

  10-12-2017 17:23 via ft.com
  The city first and foremost belongs to its people, Arab and Jew
  
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• Max Clifford, Publicist and Sex Offender, Dies After Collapse in Prison

  10-12-2017 17:17 via nytimes.com
  Mr. Clifford, once Britain’s highest-profile publicity agent, was serving an eight-year sentence for assaulting woman and girls as young as 15.
  
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• The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Recap: Do You Have a Dick?

  10-12-2017 17:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel has been a lot of things in its first season — funny, ravishingly gorgeous, frustrating — but one thing that it hasn’t really been is surprising. Even when Midge had her doubts about doing comedy, it seemed certain that with the right attitude, hard work, and Susie’s well-honed...More »
  
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• SNL’s Santa Claus Is Making a List, Checking It Twice, and Dealing With the Most Politically-Charged Gift Requests of All Time

  10-12-2017 16:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  As if working as a mall Santa Claus isn’t a pain in the ass enough for seasonal workers — the nylon costumes, the permanently sore legs, the lack of adequate cigarette breaks — SNL wants to throw in an additional hellish factor for our viewing pleasure: Why should kids keep...More »
  
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• Saturday Night Live Recap: James Franco (Almost) Makes Leslie Jones Puke

  10-12-2017 16:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  This marks James Franco’s fourth time hosting, which means he’s both a familiar and reliable presence at SNL. Since his first turn in 2008, the sunny, squinting heartthrob with the perma-stoned glaze has played everything from a bridge troll to James Dean. More than willing to indulge the writers’ whims...More »
  
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• Hannibal Buress Arrested for Disorderly Conduct: ‘Am I Under Arrest?’

  10-12-2017 16:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  Comedian Hannibal Buress was arrested on Sunday morning in Miami on a misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct, according to the Miami Herald. A video that captured the arrest, and currently circulating on social media, shows Buress challenging the police officers to explain their rationale for booking him. “Am I under...More »
  
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• Star Wars: The Last Jedi world premiere – in pictures

  10-12-2017 13:48
  From R2D2 to the Praetorian Guard, Mark Hamill to Daisy Ridley, everyone turned out for the premiere of The Last Jedi in Los Angeles Continue reading...
  
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• Blue Planet II: from octopus v shark to fish that crawl, the series’s biggest discoveries

  10-12-2017 12:25
  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 breakthrough momentsIt is testament to the number of spectacles packed into Blue Planet II that a giant wrasse’s strategetic change of gender is – scientifically speaking, at least – one of the least remarkable. Changing gender, or sequential hermaphroditism, is a fact of life for more th
  
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• Star Wars: The Last Jedi premieres with tribute to late Carrie Fisher

  10-12-2017 11:02
  Writer-director Rian Johnson introduces screening remembering actor who died last year after finishing work on the filmThe galaxy far, far away was brought to life in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday for the world premiere of Star Wars: The Last Jedi where the anticipated first screening was dedicated to the franchise’s late star, Carrie Fisher.“I want to dedicate tonight to Carrie, who is up there right now flipping me the bird, saying ‘Damn it Rian, don’t you dare make
  
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• The Square triumphs with six prizes at European film awards

  10-12-2017 10:24
  Brexit, the rise of nationalism and sexual harassment in the film industry were recurring themes for speakers in BerlinThe Square, a surreal, freaky and at times difficult to watch satire set in the world of contemporary art, has dominated the 30th anniversary of the European film awards.The film followed up the Palme d’Or it took at Cannes by taking six awards at a ceremony in Berlin for prizes that aim to be the European arthouse equivalent of the Oscars. Continue reading...
  
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• Jodie Foster: ‘I make movies to figure out who I am’

  10-12-2017 10:00
  Directing a new Black Mirror film gives Jodie Foster the chance to look back at her own upbringing. The Hollywood titan talks to Tim AdamsLast week Charlie Brooker was recalling for me the moment he learned Jodie Foster would direct an episode of Black Mirror, his inspired series of one-off dramas about the ways our gadgets are colonising the idea of “human”. Brooker had written a script for the new series in which a neurotic single mother uses technology to spy on her young daughter
  
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• Miranda Sawyer’s best radio of 2017

  10-12-2017 09:00
  Podcasts moved the dial, from life in prison to politics, while Ed Miliband, Hilary Mantel and the dying Steve Hewlett shone
  • Observer critics’ reviews of the year in fullThis year felt different. For the first time, I found myself reviewing more podcasts than radio programmes. S Town grabbed multiple headlines for its sophisticated take on the popular real-life whodunnit genre. Remainiacs in the UK and Pod Save America in the US, both firmly partisan in political outlook, proved mor
  
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• Euan Ferguson’s best television of 2017

  10-12-2017 09:00
  Alias Grace, Peaky Blinders and Broken shone out in a bumper year as terrestrial and online channels upped their game in the battle for viewers• Observer critics’ reviews of the year in fullIt was a year in which Netflix strode out, re-emboldened, on its quest for global if not interplanetary domination, abetted by doughty lieutenants Amazon and Sky, and yet something odd and oddly likable may be happening. The terrestrials are fighting back.I wonder if there’s a peak penetratio
  
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• The week in TV: The Crown; Invasion! With Sam Willis; Peaky Blinders; The A-Word

  10-12-2017 08:00
  Claire Foy excels in the Netflix drama’s second series, Cillian Murphy’s gang are back in force, and BBC1’s autism drama is superbly smartWe still have a little time to wait for Olivia Colman’s much-heralded appearance as the middle-aged Queen in The Crown, though it’s hard to see how even she could match Claire Foy’s perfectly pitched performances so far. In the meantime, the second 10-part season was released on Friday, and… could it match season the
  
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• The week in radio: Newsbeat: My Mind and Me; Mysteries of Sleep: Sleepwalking; The Art of Living: When Words Fail, Music Speaks

  10-12-2017 08:00
  Teenagers with mental health problems took centre stage on Newsbeat – and has sleep ever been so interesting?Newsbeat: My Mind and Me (Radio 1 and 1Xtra) | iPlayer
  Mysteries of Sleep: Sleepwalking (Radio 4) | iPlayer
  The Art of Living: When Words Fail, Music Speaks (Radio 4) | iPlayerRadio 1 understands its audience. It knows that, despite Ofcom’s worrying about too many old people tuning in (ban their ancient ears!), the people who really listen to it – as in take it seriously
  
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• Sunday’s best TV: Blue Planet II; I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here!

  10-12-2017 07:00
  Another Attenborough masterpiece ends with an environmentalist polemic and I’m A Celebrity gets out of here too. Continue reading...
  
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• Start-ups see opportunity in tackling fake news

  10-12-2017 06:00 via ft.com
  Fighting misinformation on social media has proved lucrative for some companies
  
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• Start-ups scent opportunity in tackling fake news

  10-12-2017 06:00 via ft.com
  Tactics developed to counter hackers deployed in campaign against misinformation
  
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• John Boyega Makes It to Star Wars: The Last Jedi Premiere in L.A. After Snow Delay in Atlanta

  10-12-2017 04:49 via feeds.eonline.com
  He made it!John Boyega attended the Star Wars: The Last Jedi premiere on Saturday evening in Los Angeles, hours after tweeting about being delayed in Atlanta. The city received major...
  
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• As Snow White turns 80, inspiring images of gentle innocence go on sale in Big Apple

  10-12-2017 01:05
  Original artwork from the Walt Disney film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs could fetch $10,000 at auction in New YorkAn obscure German folk tale about a beautiful woman undermined by her evil stepmother before becoming housekeeper to seven miners was perhaps an unlikely hit in early 20th-century America. But during the California Christmas of 1937, Walt Disney’s romantic retelling of the Snow White story proved a game-changer for popular culture.Now, 80 years after his animation Snow White
  
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• Agyness Deyn’s first TV drama is an end of the world, buddy police drama

  10-12-2017 01:04
  The model turned actress reveals why she was drawn to play a cop with a cause in Hard Sun, the BBC’s new dystopian seriesShe has won rave reviews for her intense performances in independent films such as Electricity and Sunset Song. Now model-turned-actress Agyness Deyn is to star in her first television role playing Elaine Renko, an enigmatic cop with a damaged past in the pre-apocalyptic drama Hard Sun, a new thriller from Luther creator Neil Cross.“One of the things that really dr
  
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• From The Crown to Misery: the best of film and TV streaming in Australia in December

  10-12-2017 00:09
  This month, the Windsors struggle with modernity, a filmmaker seeks out an extinct bird, and Snoop Dogg and Martha Stewart host a bizarre dinner party TV: She’s Gotta Have It season one (US, 2017) by Spike Lee – out now Continue reading...
  
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• Photo Flash: See Pics From the Set of A Christmas Story Live

  10-12-2017 00:00
  The production is set to air December 17 on Fox.
  
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