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• ‘All I Want for Christmas Is You’ Has Finally Reached Billboard’s Top 10, Where It Belongs

  18-12-2017 23:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  Well, it only took us 23 years. Mariah Carey’s Christmas hit “All I Want for Christmas Is You” has cracked Billboard Hot 100’s top ten for the first time. The Christmas song is up from its previous No. 11 spot to No. 9. When it was released in 1994, Carey’s...More »
  
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• Matt Damon: 'one thing' not being talked about is men who aren't predators

  18-12-2017 23:19
  The actor has spoken about the ‘preponderance’ of men he’s worked with who don’t sexually harass womenMatt Damon has spoken again about sexual predators in Hollywood, claiming that “one thing” not being spoken about is the men who don’t fall into that category.In a new interview, the actor brought up the importance of remembering those around him who haven’t acted improperly. Related: Minnie Driver: men like Matt Damon 'cannot understand what abuse
  
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• Meryl Streep Responds To Rose McGowan: ‘I Wasn’t Deliberately Silent. I Didn’t Know.’

  18-12-2017 23:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  Last week, in a now-deleted tweet, Rose McGowan called out Meryl Streep’s “hypocrisy” regarding the dozens of sexual harassment and assault allegations against Harvey Weinstein. “Actresses, like Meryl Streep, who happily worked for The Pig Monster, are wearing black @GoldenGlobes in a silent protest,” she wrote. “YOUR SILENCE is THE...More »
  
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• The 10 Best Fantasy Books of 2017

  18-12-2017 21:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  Well, this was certainly a year in which we all could use a little escape from reality. Fantasy novels offered us new worlds to explore or alternate visions of our own, though hardly all of that is respite — in these new imaginings come parallels and allegories, direct or subtle,...More »
  
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• Matt Damon Returns With More Opinions on Hollywood’s Harassment Reckoning

  18-12-2017 20:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  Do you like apples? Matt Damon is willing to share more of his opinions about sexual assault and harassment in Hollywood. How do you like those apples? When Business Insider asked Damon whether Hollywood’s post-Weinstein fallout would make him more conscious of working with a collaborator accused of sexual misconduct,...More »
  
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• Start Your Holiday Week Off Right With This Tiny Desk Christmas Concert From Hanson

  18-12-2017 20:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  In September, the brothers Hanson stopped by NPR to put on an utterly delightful Tiny Desk Concert. Since they put on such a lovely show and since they had a new Christmas album (Finally It’s Christmas) on the way, the folks of National Public Radio … invited them to just...More »
  
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• Critic’s Notebook: When Disenfranchised Lives and American Ideals Collide Onstage

  18-12-2017 20:29 via nytimes.com
  Three small, powerful pieces of political theater consider those wounded by racism and xenophobia.
  
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• Amazon Passes on All Three of Its Fall 2017 Pilots, Proving That Glenn Close As Zombie Just Isn’t Enough Anymore

  18-12-2017 19:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the ultra-competitive 2017 TV landscape, having a show written by George Saunders and starring Glenn Close somehow doesn’t get an immediate pickup. Per Deadline, Amazon has passed on all three of the pilots included in its fall 2017 pilot season, including Sea Oak, which starred Close as an undead...More »
  
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• The Last Jedi Has a Snoke Problem

  18-12-2017 19:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  Spoilers for Star Wars: The Last Jedi below.Return of the Jedi has its flaws, but it does a remarkable job of upping the ante in the villain department. By the time the orchestra hits and the logo appears atop the void, the audience has already seen two movies in which...More »
  
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• Royal Court Reverses Decision to Cancel ‘Rita, Sue and Bob Too’

  18-12-2017 19:51 via nytimes.com
  The London theater has reinstated the run of Andrea Dunbar’s play following accusations of censorship.
  
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• Review: Mark Rylance Returns as a Mad Monarch to Cherish in ‘Farinelli’

  18-12-2017 19:35 via nytimes.com
  In Claire van Kampen’s strange, enchanting “Farinelli and the King,” from Shakespeare’s Globe in London, music hath charms to spare.
  
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• Gunpowder Is Not at All Explosive

  18-12-2017 19:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  Fans of Game of Thrones who tune in to Gunpowder, the three-part HBO mini-series that begins tonight and continues Tuesday and Wednesday, will certainly find some reminders of the Westeros epic in the story of England’s famous Gunpowder Plot.Gunpowder has stubborn, ruthless leaders and intense discussions about how to strategically...More »
  
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• Wormwood Recap: Truth and Lies

  18-12-2017 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  The name of the game in Wormwood is “misdirection.” In the busy days before Frank Olson’s death, his handlers somehow found the time to take him to see a magician named John Mulholland (of course a mystery figure in a story about the line between truth and hallucination would have...More »
  
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• What TV taught us in 2017: from David Bowie to The Crown

  18-12-2017 18:54 via theguardian.com
  This year, we learned there was no such thing as too long, complicated, dark or difficult; that every Doctor is the ultimate until the next one – and that the future is stalking us like preyIt was the best of years, it was the … no, wait, it was just the best of years: 2017 for television was like 1867 in Russian literature: alive with creativity, unexpectedness and creative works of incredible length. In the olden days, we would periodically ask why only Americans could make good T
  
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• How Eugene Mirman Turned a Parking Ticket Into One of His Very Best Jokes

  18-12-2017 18:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  In mid-July 2015, a hilarious open letter written about a parking ticket by comedian and Bob’s Burgers star Eugene Mirman to the city of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, went viral. What would soon be clear, when Mirman’s Netflix special Vegan on His Way to the Complain Store came out a few...More »
  
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• ESPN boss quits after revealing substance abuse

  18-12-2017 18:32 via ft.com
  John Skipper, who led Disney’s sports network since 2012, ‘struggled’ with addiction
  
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• How The Last Jedi Brought Back a Key Star Wars Character

  18-12-2017 18:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  Spoilers for The Last Jedi below.In a key scene in The Last Jedi, Luke Skywalker reunites with an old friend—no, not whoever was at Toshi Station with power converters, but his old teacher, Yoda. The Jedi master, or really a force ghost version of him, gives Luke some advice, and...More »
  
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• Amber Tamblyn Calls Out Rose McGowan for ‘Taunting’ Golden Globes Black Dress Protest

  18-12-2017 17:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  Amber Tamblyn isn’t down with the way Rose McGowan has chosen to call out other women in Hollywood. After learning that some actresses are planning to wear black to next month’s Golden Globes in protest of sexual abuse and harassment in Hollywood, McGowan shaded this act of solidarity on Twitter....More »
  
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• Theater News: Taylor Trensch's Dear Evan Hansen Start Date Announced

  18-12-2017 17:00
  Trensch will replace Noah Galvin in the title role.
  
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• BBC Is Developing ‘Definitive’ Harvey Weinstein Documentary, Which Will Include People Speaking for the First Time

  18-12-2017 16:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  Though plenty was in the public record about disgraced mogul Harvey Weinstein before dozens of women came forward to claim that he sexually harassed or assaulted them, those allegations have drastically changed the understanding of his persona and Hollywood as a whole. In a new documentary, the BBC plans to...More »
  
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• Terry Crews Says WME Is Spying on His Family Amid Sexual-Assault Case

  18-12-2017 16:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  As Terry Crews sues WME agent Adam Venit for sexual assault, the actor says his family is being “tracked and possibly bugged” by the agency. In a series of tweets, Crews alleges that the company asked Russell Simmons (also facing a string of sexual assault allegations) to push Crews to...More »
  
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• Oprah Winfrey Says A Wrinkle in Time Is Like the New The Wizard of Oz

  18-12-2017 16:15 via feeds.eonline.com
  Ava DuVernay didn't read Madeleine L'Engle's 1962 novel A Wrinkle in Time as a young girl. But, when she agreed to direct the $100 million movie for Disney, she had some stipulations....
  
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• Theater News: Road Show Announces Casting at Lyric Stage Company

  18-12-2017 16:00
  The Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman musical is headed to Boston.
  
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• Theater News: Memphis Team to Present World-Premiere Musical Diana

  18-12-2017 16:00
  Princess Diana is at the center of this new musical by Joe DiPietro and David Bryan at La Jolla Playhouse.
  
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• The Top 10 Underrated TV Performances of 2017

  18-12-2017 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  In recent years, television has become an embarrassment of riches. From long-running, sweetly incisive animated series like Bob’s Burgers to new, bracing science-fiction yarns like The Handmaid’s Tale, there is so much content to sift through it can be difficult to keep up. This year, we saw everything from the...More »
  
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• Tavis Smiley Denies Sexual Misconduct Allegations: ‘I’m Not an Angry Black Man’

  18-12-2017 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Tavis Smiley pushes back against allegations of sexual misconduct: “I have never groped, I have never coerced, I have never exposed myself inappropriately…I celebrate and applaud these women who’ve had the courage to come out and tell their truth.” Good Morning America (@GMA) December 18, 2017Since news of the allegations...More »
  
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• 2017, the Year Pop Culture’s Darkest Thought Experiments Came to Life

  18-12-2017 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  It wasn’t technically that long ago, if you’re going by the popular metric of revolutions around the sun, that it was cool for TV and movies to be bleak. Dark, gritty, grimly realist, whatever you want to call it — it was in vogue for a minute there. But in...More »
  
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• The Perfect Star Wars Gift for Every Room of the House

  18-12-2017 15:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  Star Wars has always been big on merchandising: If George Lucas’s intellectual property could be spun off into a tangible good, it’s already happened. While that ultracapitalistic strategy has yielded a deluge of expected products and pricey frivolities, it has also provided fans with an array of actually useful Star Wars home goods —...More »
  
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• Tracy Letts Says Everyone Was Nervous on the Set of The Post, Except for Carrie Coon

  18-12-2017 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Post wasn’t rushed out, per se, but it did come together “with a sense of urgency,” as Tracy Letts can confirm. That urgency is earned: The story of Katharine Graham’s (Meryl Streep) decision to publish the Pentagon Papers in the Washington Post (after a restraining order stopped the New...More »
  
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• The Only Bad Thing About The Last Jedi Is How It Treated Admiral Ackbar

  18-12-2017 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Warning: This post contains spoilers for Star Wars: The Last Jedi. You should not read it if you haven’t seen the movie yet and want to go in completely unsoiled. You should read it if you want to figure out how and why Admiral Ackbar was wronged, or, in the...More »
  
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• In 2017, TV’s Streaming Revolution Made Its Biggest Leap Forward Yet

  18-12-2017 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  A few weeks from now, Netflix’s House of Cards turns five. Pop culture’s immediate embrace of the show — the 2013 White House Correspondents’ Dinner opened with a spoof less than three months after its premiere — was a watershed, signaling the streaming network’s arrival as an original-programming force. It...More »
  
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• All 147 Michael Jackson Songs, Ranked From Worst to Best

  18-12-2017 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  There was really something about Michael Jackson. He was so likable. At his most charming, he had one of the most charismatic and endearing personas we’d ever seen. You rooted for him, were happy for him. Jackson was the most sensational performer — the full package — of his era....More »
  
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• Ofcom investigates Alex Salmond's TV show on Kremlin-backed channel

  18-12-2017 14:57 via theguardian.com
  Watchdog launches inquiry into whether The Alex Salmond Show, which began last month on RT, broke accuracy rulesThe broadcasting watchdog Ofcom is investigating Alex Salmond’s new television programme on the Kremlin-backed RT network. The Alex Salmond Show, hosted by the former Scottish first minister, began airing last month on the RT channel, previously known as Russia Today. Ofcom has launched an investigation into whether the political show broke accuracy rules, and is also assessing a
  
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• When good TV goes bad: why Scooby-Doo went to the dogs

  18-12-2017 14:00 via theguardian.com
  Through all the cartoon’s iterations, one thing remained constant: the baddie was a bitter human in a rubbish costume. Then came Mystery IncorporatedGrowing up, there is no bigger worry than bogeymen hiding in your cupboard or monsters camping under your bed. But – as Scooby-Doo would advocate – there is no such thing. Because every time Scoob and the gang discover a mummy or a ghost, off comes the mask and it’s merely the janitor, shaking his head at those meddling
  
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• Theater News: American Theatre Wing Announces Henry Hewes Design Award Recipients

  18-12-2017 14:00
  Laura Jellinek, Toni-Leslie James, and more earn recognition for their theatrical designs.
  
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• Review: A Christmas Story Live!

  18-12-2017 14:00
  The much loved film-turned-Broadway musical gets a live airing on Fox.
  
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• Photo Flash: Hayley Mills and the Company of Party Face Meet the Press

  18-12-2017 14:00
  Performances are set to begin January 11, 2018, at New York City Center.
  
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• In Conversation: Eminem

  18-12-2017 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  On a snowy day in Detroit, Eminem, bearded and dressed in a white T-shirt and gray hoodie, stands in the lounge of his cavernous studio complex, nodding at a Donkey Kong arcade cabinet. “I’m halfway to a world record,” he says proudly, his high scores flickering on the screen. I...More »
  
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• Poëzieweek 2018 heeft als thema 'theater' - Nationale Onderwijsgids

  18-12-2017 13:34
  Poëzieweek 2018 heeft als thema 'theater'
  Nationale Onderwijsgids
  Van 25 januari tot en met 31 januari vindt de Poëzieweek 2018 plaats. Tijdens deze week worden verschillende poëzie-activiteiten georganiseerd rondom het thema 'theater'. De Vlaamse dichter, romancier en regisseur Peter Verhelst schreef het ...
  
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• The Carpetbagger: Meet the Youngest and Oldest Hopefuls in This Oscar Race

  18-12-2017 13:00 via nytimes.com
  Brooklynn Prince (“The Florida Project”) and Lois Smith (“Marjorie Prime”) are 80 years apart. But they had plenty to talk about, like showbiz and ice cream.
  
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