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• Piracy Group Leaks Louis C.K.’s I Love You, Daddy Because It’d Be a ‘Waste’ to Let It Go Unwatched

  12-12-2017 23:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  Days after Louis C.K. revealed plans to buy back his shelved feature film I Love You, Daddy, the movie has leaked online. On Monday, a 1.5-gigabyte rip of the movie was released on Pirate Bay, according to Variety. Ripped from an awards-season screener (many of which arrived in critics’ mailboxes the...More »
  
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• Why It’s So Difficult for Black Comedians to Be Political in Late-Night Sets and a Comedian Who Broke Through

  12-12-2017 23:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  Tuesday afternoon, stand-up comedian and Daily Show correspondent Roy Wood Jr. did a quick Twitter thread about what it’s like being a black comedian performing on a late-night show, inspired by the unflinchingly political set by Amanda Seales on Late Night With Seth Meyers Monday night. Wood — who has...More »
  
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• Bruce Brown, Documentarian of Surfing, Is Dead at 80

  12-12-2017 23:46 via nytimes.com
  Mr. Brown’s movie “The Endless Summer” became an unlikely hit when it was released nationally in 1966 and helped change the way surfers are perceived.
  
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• Bruce Brown, 80, Dies; His ‘Endless Summer’ Documented Surfing

  12-12-2017 23:46 via nytimes.com
  Mr. Brown’s movie became an unlikely hit when it was released nationally in 1966 and helped change the way surfers are perceived.
  
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• Jada Pinkett Smith Accuses Golden Globes of Ignoring Girls Trip

  12-12-2017 23:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  Actress Tiffany Haddish broke out this year with her rambunctious role in the summer hit Girls Trip. There’s been a social-media wave of support for her, and the New York Film Critics Circle named her Best Supporting Actress this year. The Hollywood Foreign Press, however, was not as taken by...More »
  
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• Scene City: Toasting Daniel Day-Lewis and His Potential Last Film

  12-12-2017 23:34 via nytimes.com
  Sienna Miller, Michael Shannon, Jenna Lyons and more gathered at an Upper East Side townhouse to celebrate the New York premiere of “Phantom Thread.”
  
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• Watch Hugh Jackman Express His Love for Zac Efron Through Song

  12-12-2017 23:24 via feeds.eonline.com
  Sing it loud, sing it proud.It's no secret that Hugh Jackman and Zac Efron developed quite a special friendship on the set of The Greatest Showman.And as the countdown...
  
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• Can We Survive Another Award Season Without Jennifer Lawrence?

  12-12-2017 23:21 via feeds.eonline.com
  tkJennifer Lawrence is award season and award season is Jennifer Lawrence. The A-list actress has come to be synonymous with all things Oscars and Golden Globes. If there's a red...
  
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• The Crown’s Jodi Balfour Perfected Her Jackie Kennedy Accent With Nursery Rhymes

  12-12-2017 23:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  “A middle-aged woman so incurious, unintelligent, and unremarkable that Britain’s new reduced place in the world was not a surprise but an inevitability.” This is just one of the many scathing insults Jackie Kennedy hurls against Queen Elizabeth in The Crown’s new season, effectively switching up the show’s homegrown monarchical...More »
  
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• Jennifer Lawrence Will Play an Icelandic Murderess in Luca Guadagnino’s Next Movie

  12-12-2017 23:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  Mother!’s Jennifer Lawrence and Call Me by Your Name’s Luca Guadagnino are teaming up and making a movie that disappointingly does not sound like an instruction being shouted at you. Instead, they’re adapting Burial Rights, the 2013 novel about Agnes Magnusdottir, an Icelandic woman publicly executed in 1830 after being...More »
  
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• A She-Ra Reboot Is Coming to Netflix From Lumberjanes Co-creator Noelle Stevenson

  12-12-2017 23:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s been a good few years for Noelle Stevenson. The writer-artist first gained fame for Nimona, a webcomic that presented a funny and touching spin on the sword-and-sorcery genre (and, in collected form, was one of the best comics volumes of 2015). She went on to co-create the hit all-ages...More »
  
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• ‘The Season of Womyn’ Is Coming to the Flea Theater

  12-12-2017 23:00 via nytimes.com
  The nonprofit theater in TriBeCa will offer three world premieres in its coming season, starting with a new play by Steph Del Rosso on Jan. 22.
  
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• Paul Feig Explains How He Shot Spy’s Funniest Scene

  12-12-2017 23:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Paul Feig’s comedies — Bridesmaids, The Heat, Spy, Ghostbusters — are a balancing act. They have jokes, but not so many that they exhaust the audience or lower the stakes of the story. They have action and danger, but so much that the audience doesn’t laugh. Maybe the best example...More »
  
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• The Story Behind Nola Darling’s Amazing Bed in She’s Gotta Have It

  12-12-2017 22:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  We see Nola Darling’s bed before we see Nola. The headboard is romantic and imposing, with pistachio-green wooden planks extending high, each one holding a candle. It’s the centerpiece of Nola’s apartment and of her life: She’s the so-called “sex-positive, polyamorous pansexual” at the center of She’s Gotta Have It,...More »
  
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• 35 Famous People You Forgot Were in the Star Wars Prequels

  12-12-2017 22:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the lead-up to Star Wars: The Last Jedi, we look back at the first Jedi (narratively speaking) with a series of stories about the much-beloved and never-disparaged prequel trilogy.Ah, the fragile art of the cameo: There’s such a fine line between a surprise pop-up becoming a pleasant YouTube revisit, and...More »
  
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• The Punisher Renewed for Season Two Because the Sweetest Revenge Takes Time

  12-12-2017 22:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  Looks like Frank Castle’s gonna need a bigger arsenal: Netflix has renewed Marvel’s The Punisher for season two. Although New York’s most feared gunslinging antihero and former Marine (played by your crush Jon Bernthal) — spoiler! — avenged the deaths of his wife and children and cleared his name in...More »
  
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• Critics Call The Last Jedi the Best Star Wars Movie Since The Empire Strikes Back

  12-12-2017 22:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  Reviews for Star Wars: The Last Jedi hit the internet this afternoon, and many critics have showered the film with praise. Justin Chang of the L.A. Times writes that it is “the first flat-out terrific ‘Star Wars’ movie since 1980’s ‘The Empire Strikes Back,’” and Ira Madison III of the...More »
  
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• Boss Baby Is Getting His Own Netflix Series

  12-12-2017 22:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Boss Baby, the newly Golden Globe–nominated animated caper starring Alec Baldwin as baby Trump, is going big time. The wee con artist (a corporate-friendly baby who calls himself “The Boss,” but poses as a regular baby because life is just easier that way) will star in an original series...More »
  
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• Homeland Season-7 Trailer: Carrie Mathison Will Hunt You Down

  12-12-2017 21:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  When Homeland returns next season, Carrie is back in D.C. She’s hard at work trying to outwit President Keane, who arrested Saul and a bunch of other people in the intelligence community after that assassination attempt last season. Homeland, you beautiful tackboard of a TV show, never stop stuffing yourself...More »
  
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• Review: The Children

  12-12-2017 21:00
  The apocalypse is now in this London transfer from Manhattan Theatre Club.
  
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• Review: Bulldozer: The Ballad of Robert Moses

  12-12-2017 21:00
  New York City's master builder gets a new rock musical off-Broadway.
  
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• All 218 U2 Songs, Ranked From Worst to Best

  12-12-2017 20:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  On the occasion of the release of U2’s 14th studio album, Songs of Experience, it is worth noting how remarkable it actually is that this band has remained a going concern for over 40 years, since Larry Mullen Jr. put up a notice at Mount Temple Comprehensive School: “Drummer seeks...More »
  
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• Jessica Chastain Feared Speaking Out Against Weinstein Would Hurt Her Career

  12-12-2017 20:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  Jessica Chastain has been one of the most outspoken Hollywood A-listers in regards to gender equality in film. Lately, she’s addressed the current wave of sexual-misconduct allegations, tweeting about how she was warned about Harvey Weinstein and name-checking Bryan Singer for his rumored sexual misconduct. Chastain presents it all quite...More »
  
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• ‘M. Butterfly’ Will Close This Sunday on Broadway

  12-12-2017 20:37 via nytimes.com
  The revival, directed by Julie Taymor and starring Clive Owen, failed to draw an audience and will end its run even earlier than expected.
  
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• Review: Theater, Terror, and A Room in India

  12-12-2017 20:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  In 1964 in Paris, the 25-year-old Ariane Mnouchkine did what countless young theater artists, fresh out of school and full of ideas and ambition, set out to do: She founded a company with some friends. The troupe — a collective affair where each founding member put in 900 francs and...More »
  
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• CBS Diversity Comedy Showcase Head Fern Orenstein Is No Longer Leading the Controversial Program

  12-12-2017 19:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  A month after publishing a story describing a toxic work environment at the CBS Diversity Comedy Showcase — a workshop for straight and LGBTQ writers and actors from marginalized communities, women, and those with disabilities — Vulture has learned a second program head is no longer with the showcase.Fern Orenstein,...More »
  
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• UK newspapers start publishing first joint human and robot articles

  12-12-2017 19:45 via ft.com
  Software sifts through data sets to provide localised statistics for reporters
  
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• Here’s a Video of Zendaya and Zac Efron Slamming Into Each Other on a Trapeze While Shooting The Greatest Showman

  12-12-2017 19:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  In The Greatest Showman, Hugh Jackman’s P.T. Barnum invents show business, while Zendaya, Zac Efron, Michelle Williams, and Rebecca Ferguson all do other circusy things in the background. One part of the act involves doing tricks on a trapeze, which meant that Zendaya and Efron had to learn how to...More »
  
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• Apple and Shazam sing the same tune

  12-12-2017 19:36 via ft.com
  Acquisition of music recognition app marks culmination of a long relationship
  
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• Disney close to $60bn deal to take over Fox assets

  12-12-2017 19:23 via ft.com
  Price, divestments and the future of James Murdoch remain under negotiation
  
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• Theater Review: The Performances That Carry Once on This Island

  12-12-2017 19:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  Outside Circle in the Square, the winter winds are starting to snap. But inside a different wind is blowing — literally. In Michael Arden’s vivid, celebratory revival of Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty’s Once on This Island, the elements have been brought indoors. A blanket of sand covers the long...More »
  
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• 8 Men on Seeing Themselves in ‘Cat Person’

  12-12-2017 19:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  Soon after Kristen Roupenian’s New Yorker short story “Cat Person” became a viral sensation, a Twitter account called Men React to Cat Person began compiling male responses gleaned from Facebook and Twitter. But, of course, the conversations that the story sparked — including reactions from, yes, men — were more...More »
  
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• From Good Art to Shameless Cash Grab, Everyone Is Still Making Christmas Music

  12-12-2017 19:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  Pop-star holiday albums are a time-honored tradition, a winning blend of brazen capitalism and lazy gift-giving. Don’t know what to get that finicky cousin or niece for the coming December present exchange? How about their favorite famous person’s whole album of songs about said December present exchange? Not feeling touched...More »
  
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• Nicole Kidman Has Taken on a Whole New Look (and You Probably Won't Recognize Her)

  12-12-2017 19:00 via feeds.eonline.com
  Nicole Kidman doesn't look like Nicole Kidman these days...The actress has swapped out her gorgeous red hair and ivory skin for a chopped brunette wig, a fake tan and a gaunt-looking...
  
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• ‘Head Over Heels’ Sets Sights on Broadway, After San Francisco

  12-12-2017 19:00 via nytimes.com
  The musical, which marries a 16th-century romance with the songs of the Go-Go’s, had its first production in 2015.
  
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• All the CGI Characters in the Star Wars Prequels, Ranked From Tolerable to Inexcusable

  12-12-2017 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the lead-up to Rian Johnson’s much-anticipated Star Wars: The Last Jedi, we look back at the first Jedi (narratively speaking) with a week of content about the much-beloved and never-disparaged prequel trilogy.George Lucas is a man who breaks boundaries. In 1977’s A New Hope, he stunned audiences with realistic,...More »
  
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• Anatomy of a Scene | ‘Dunkirk’

  12-12-2017 18:40 via nytimes.com
  Christopher Nolan narrates a sequence from his film, which was nominated for 3 Golden Globe awards.
  
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• Review: In ‘Miss Kiet’s Children,’ Refugees Adjust to Dutch Life

  12-12-2017 18:18 via nytimes.com
  The documentary by Petra Lataster-Czisch and Peter Lataster follows young students in the classroom but doesn’t examine their lives outside school.
  
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• Podiumkunsten steunt Theater Winsinghhof Roden - Dagblad van het Noorden

  12-12-2017 18:12
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  Theater De Winsinghhof in Roden krijgt twee jaar steun van het Fonds Podiumkunsten. Per jaar is 5500 euro te verwachten. „Dit geld is speciaal bedoeld voor de programmering van bijzondere en vaak ook risicovolle voorstellingen en het stelt ons in staat ...
  
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• The Crown: Who Is the Real Antony Armstrong-Jones, a.k.a Lord Snowdon?

  12-12-2017 18:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Crown season two introduces Antony Armstrong-Jones, played in all his delightful, wry sexual fluidity by a very appealing Matthew Goode. Some elements of his character seem pretty outlandish, especially from within the relatively staid, buttoned-up world of Elizabeth II. But a surprising amount of the Tony we see on...More »
  
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• ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Is Really Good! Here’s Our Review.

  12-12-2017 18:00 via nytimes.com
  With charm and wit, the latest “Star Wars” movie unites the past and present as it looks toward the future.
  
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• ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Embraces the Magic and Mystery. Read Our Review.

  12-12-2017 18:00 via nytimes.com
  With charm and wit, the latest “Star Wars” movie unites the past and present as it looks toward the future.
  
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• Review: Psst … ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Is Really Good!

  12-12-2017 18:00 via nytimes.com
  With charm and wit, the latest “Star Wars” movie unites the past and present as it looks toward the future.
  
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• Floribama Shore Recap: Bewitched

  12-12-2017 17:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  What if you took Jersey Shore, switched up the accents, transported the whole production to the Gulf Coast, and made everything and everyone just a little bit sadder, but just as wasted? The reality-TV scientists at MTV have set out to find the answer to that question, in the most...More »
  
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• Review: Detoured From ‘La La Land’ for a Comic Stop in ‘Boulder City’

  12-12-2017 17:14 via nytimes.com
  Jimmy Fowlie’s one-man show satirizes the struggling, self-involved actress played by Emma Stone in the movie.
  
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• Theater News: Thomas Schumacher Elected Chairman of the Board of Broadway League

  12-12-2017 17:00
  Schumacher runs Disney Theatrical Productions.
  
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• Theater News: BroadwayHD Films John Patrick Shanley's Portuguese Kid

  12-12-2017 17:00
  Jason Alexander starred with Sherie Rene Scott in the Manhattan Theatre Club production.
  
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• UK box office suffers worst week in years as The Last Jedi looms

  12-12-2017 16:37
  Snowy weather and the upcoming release of the new Star Wars film created a perfect storm for the UK top 10, but things were rosier for Jumanji, Paddington 2 and The Disaster Artist A perfect storm of factors combined to depress UK box office to its worst weekend in recent years. Most significantly, the arrival of Star Wars: The Last Jedi this Thursday (14 December) means that distributors gave the 8 December date a wide berth, not wanting to release a major film and then have it knocked off scre
  
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• Marvel’s Runaways Recap: Let Your Freak Flag Fly

  12-12-2017 16:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Marvel Cinematic Universe has spent plenty of time with adult characters. Runaways’ young perspective is what has set it apart so quickly, but that comes with a downside: The adults feel like a distraction whenever they’re not interacting with their kids. In last episode’s recap, I neglected to mention...More »
  
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• Avoid Speaking to Your Family Over the Holidays With These on-Sale Board Games

  12-12-2017 16:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  Parents voted for Trump? Brother a Roy Moore apologist? Then avoid having any sort of actual conversation over the holidays and play board games instead! There are tons of classic ones on sale right now (today only), many of which — a retro edition Guess Who? among them — would...More »
  
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