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• Chuck Close Apologizes After Sexual-Harassment Allegations: ‘I Am Truly Sorry’

  20-12-2017 23:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  After several women told the New York Times and HuffPost that acclaimed artist Chuck Close sexually harassed them, Close has apologized. The women said Close invited them to his studio, saying he was a fan of their work, before asking them to pose naked or topless as he made inappropriate...More »
  
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• Theater Professionals Can Seek Mediation in Sexual Harassment Cases

  20-12-2017 23:03 via nytimes.com
  The actress Marin Ireland and the lawyer Norman Siegel announced a six-month pilot project to offer the confidential service to the theater community.
  
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• Peaky Blinders recap – series 4, episode 6: The Company

  20-12-2017 23:00
  After last week’s twists and turns it didn’t feel like there was a lot left to be said. But the battle for Thomas Shelby MP’s soul is just getting startedIt’s something of a tradition that Peaky Blinders ends each series with all guns blazing. There was Grace’s showdown with Major Campbell in series one, and last year saw the mass arrests. The climax to series four, however, arguably came two-thirds of the way through the episode, when Tommy Shelby kept his promised
  
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• Review: A Runaway Slave Rides West in ‘Cross That River’

  20-12-2017 22:56 via nytimes.com
  The show features jazz, blues and country music from Allan Harris, who also plays the title character.
  
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• The Carpetbagger: Can Anita Hill Fix Hollywood’s Harassment Problem?

  20-12-2017 22:50 via nytimes.com
  The Brandeis professor is in charge of a commission backed by the most powerful players in the industry. The hard part is figuring out what comes next.
  
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• The Best Board Games of 2017, Superlatives Edition

  20-12-2017 22:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  The ongoing boom in tabletop board-gaming shows no sign of slowing any time soon; Boardgamegeek lists nearly 600 titles with a publication year of 2017 and enough user ratings to put them on the global rankings, and over 2,000 other titles that were released somewhere, somehow during the year.I of...More »
  
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• Review: ‘Pitch Perfect 3’ Keeps the Songs but Loses the Plot

  20-12-2017 22:31 via nytimes.com
  The latest entry in this movie series fares best when its director treats it as a fantastical buddy comedy.
  
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• 25 Iconic Soundtrack Songs, Ranked

  20-12-2017 22:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  In 2017, we celebrated (and continue to celebrate) the 20th anniversary of Titanic, and with it, the release of Céline Dion’s “My Heart Will Go On” — one of the most important songs of all time.Which, of course, is subjective. Where some of us had our biggest moments soundtracked by...More »
  
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• The Most Surreal TV Moments of 2017

  20-12-2017 22:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  The year 2017 was a great many things: depressing, troubling, longer than the basic standards of time would suggest is possible. But it was also incredibly, incredibly surreal. This was the WTF-iest year in recent memory, and it gave us plenty of WTF television to match.The political climate — specifically,...More »
  
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• There Was Almost a Porg–Fish Nun Party Scene in The Last Jedi, and Honestly, We Feel Robbed

  20-12-2017 21:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  In a movie as expansive as The Last Jedi, the editing room is going to be filled with hard choices. Rian Johnson’s first cut of the film was reportedly over three hours long, and with the theatrical release weighing in at a slim two-and-a-half hours, that means about 40 minutes...More »
  
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• The Crown’s Must-Watch Episode Is About Being a Man

  20-12-2017 21:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  I, like many of my fellow Crown-heads, think there has been a smidgen too much Prince Philip in season two. I’ll take Elizabeth’s clipped politesse or Margaret’s devastating side-eye (heck, even Michael C. Hall’s weird JFK impression) any day over Philip’s scowling and whingeing. Imagine my surprise, then, when the...More »
  
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• Christopher Plummer Is Getting Headlines for All the Money in the World, But It’s Michelle Williams Who Deserves Them

  20-12-2017 21:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  The kidnapping drama All the Money in the World is an elaborate demonstration of the idea that the very rich are not like you and me — and also that the oil magnate J. Paul Getty was barking mad. In 1973, when the movie is set, the octogenarian billionaire was...More »
  
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• Judi Dench Will Play a Fairy Police Officer In Artemis Fowl

  20-12-2017 21:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  Artemis Fowl is a series of eight science-fiction-slash-fantasy novels written by Irish author Eoin Colfer, which follow the tween criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl. Kenneth Branagh is directing a live-action adaptation of the first book, and Disney just announced some delightful casting news. In addition to Josh Gad in the role...More »
  
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• How Mrs. Maisel Put Together Its Marvelous 1950s Soundtrack

  20-12-2017 21:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  With all of the TV shows with standout soundtracks this year, it was a particularly welcome surprise to end 2017 on a sonic note that harkened back to the 1950s. In The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, co-creators Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino created a diverse musical world that’s not only as...More »
  
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• A Scene From ‘Molly’s Game’

  20-12-2017 20:59 via nytimes.com
  Jessica Chastain and Idris Elba in a sequence from the film “Molly’s Game,” adapted for the screen and directed by Aaron Sorkin.
  
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• Star Wars Breakout Kelly Marie Tran on The Last Jedi and Kylo Ren’s Shirtless Scene

  20-12-2017 20:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  Star Wars: The Last Jedi has a lot of characters to service, from franchise icons like Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) and Leia (Carrie Fisher) to heroes introduced two years ago in The Force Awakens, including Rey (Daisy Ridley) and Poe (Oscar Isaac). It’s a testament to Kelly Marie Tran, then,...More »
  
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• A Christmas Prince Is Total Garbage, But You’ll Love It Anyway

  20-12-2017 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Earlier this month, Netflix used its Twitter feed to neg viewers of its own holiday programming.To the 53 people who've watched A Christmas Prince every day for the past 18 days: Who hurt you? Netflix "Mariah Carey's Merriest Christmas" US (@netflix) December 11, 2017I could not get that tweet out...More »
  
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• Chappaquiddick Trailer: A Kennedy Biopic That Plays Like a Thriller

  20-12-2017 19:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  Chappaquiddick is based on the true story of a car crash in 1969 that ended with Ted Kennedy escaping from a submerged vehicle and a woman named Mary Jo Kopechne being left inside of it to die. The Kennedys being the political dynasty that they were, the incident was whitewashed...More »
  
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• Bouw theater Vianen begint volgende maand - AD.nl

  20-12-2017 19:50
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  De bouw van het nieuwe theater in Vianen begint volgende maand. Vanaf 8 januari wordt de hellingbaan bij het sportcentrum Helsdingen afgegraven. Ook wordt een deel van het dak verwijderd. Het nieuwe pand wordt tegen het sportcentrum aangebouwd. Raymond ...
  
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• Samuel L. Jackson Wants to Do TV, and Other Things We Learned Talking to Him About His MasterClass

  20-12-2017 19:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  Can you imagine being an acting student and having Samuel L. Jackson coach you through Pulp Fiction’s final diner scene? A lucky handful of budding thespians got to experience just that as part of Jackson’s first and only online teaching gig, with the video-lecture series MasterClass, wherein, for a fee,...More »
  
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• New York Times: Slim fit

  20-12-2017 19:16 via ft.com
  The paper’s revenue is little changed but that counts as progress
  
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• Tom Hanks is Preemptively Declining Any Invitations to Screen The Post For Trump’s White House

  20-12-2017 19:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  In 1971, top editors at the Washington Post published a series of stories about the Pentagon Papers, despite President Richard Nixon’s threats. Today, President Donald Trump calls almost all media “fake news” and has tweeted that major media organizations should lose their broadcasting licenses. One of his top aides introduced...More »
  
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• Air Force Veteran Granted Dying Wish to See Star Wars: The Last Jedi

  20-12-2017 19:04 via feeds.eonline.com
  Star Wars superfan Ron Villemaire didn't need the power of The Force to fulfill his dying wish; just the kindness of strangers.The 69-year-old air force veteran and cancer patient,...
  
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• Report: Nelly Being Sued by His Rape Accuser for Sexual Assault and Defamation

  20-12-2017 18:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  In October, Nelly was arrested for rape after being accused by a 21-year-old college student, who later declined to cooperate with prosecutors. Instead, she issued a letter excoriating the culture of shaming women and victim-blaming, concluding that she wishes she “had not called 911 because she believes the system is...More »
  
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• 7 Amazon Alexa Products That Will Make Great Gifts for Entertainment Lovers

  20-12-2017 18:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  Amazon’s Alexa — the voice-activated AI assistant that can order you a pizza, tell you the weather, control your household’s lighting, and, above all else, dunk on Apple’s Siri — has now made its way into enough devices that it can manage just about every item on you and your...More »
  
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• The Best Photography Books of 2017

  20-12-2017 18:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  Anything can be a coffee-table book if you put it on your coffee table, but a great photography book can be a coffee-table book that reads like a novel. Unlike art forms like painting or sculpture, the book is often the ideal form for photography, underlining the medium’s potential as...More »
  
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• 2017 Was the Year of the Replacement Movie Director

  20-12-2017 17:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  Landing the job to direct Bohemian Rhapsody would stand as a career-defining achievement for almost any filmmaker, let alone one with a not-quite-blue-chip movie oeuvre like actor turned director Dexter Fletcher. The bio-drama — which follows the ’70s ascendancy of multi-platinum-selling rock quartet Queen — features I, Robot star Rami...More »
  
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• The Greatest Showman Is the Fakest Show on Earth

  20-12-2017 17:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  There is a dubstep drop in The Greatest Showman. It’s so weak you might miss it, since it’s about as anemic as an “I Knew You Were Trouble” sound-alike in a YouTube pre-roll ad for Samsung’s latest phablet. It arrives at the first refrain in “The Other Side,” a duet...More »
  
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• Eight Former Child Actors Accuse Hollywood Producer Gary Goddard of Sexual Abuse

  20-12-2017 17:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  Eight men have told the Los Angeles Times they were sexually abused by Gary Goddard, the Hollywood producer and theme-park designer. Actor Anthony Edwards, former actors Mark Driscoll, and Bret Nighman, and four other men who have asked to remain anonymous said Goddard abused them on Disneyland rides, during overnight...More »
  
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• Russian censors wanted to remove gay character from Mrs Brown's Boys

  20-12-2017 17:14
  Creator of the hugely popular sitcom says he turned down a ‘nice licensing fee’ that would have meant writing out character of RoryThe creator of the sitcom Mrs Brown’s Boys has rejected a lucrative licensing deal in Russia after being told he would have to remove a gay character from the storyline. Brendan O’Carroll said other eastern European countries had raised concerns about an openly gay character, but the Russian deal would have involved removing the role altogethe
  
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• Theater News: Signature Theatre Announces Casting for 4,380 Nights

  20-12-2017 17:00
  The play is written by Annalisa Dias.
  
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• Theater News: Quiara Alegría Hudes's Elliot Trilogy to Play Concurrently in Los Angeles

  20-12-2017 17:00
  Center Theatre Group and the Latino Theater Company will be presenting all three plays at around the same time.
  
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• The TV quiz of 2017

  20-12-2017 17:00
  How did Doctor Foster end? What form did David Bowie take in the rebooted Twin Peaks? And what did Elisabeth Moss find in her wardrobe?Which of the following was not a real item produced during The Great British Bake Off’s cake week showstopper challenge?A cake that looked like a pork pie.A cake that looked like a bag of flour.A cake that looked like some pancakes.A cake that looked like a loaf of bread.In what state did Peter Capaldi find himself for much of this year’s series of Do
  
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• Photo Flash: The Play That Goes Wrong Celebrates 300 Disastrous Performances

  20-12-2017 17:00
  The play, directed by Mark Bell, continues performances at Broadway's Lyceum Theatre.
  
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• 10 More Plays Where the Future Forecast is Grim

  20-12-2017 16:59 via nytimes.com
  Theatrical dystopias are in the air, as playwrights conjure nuclear fallout, insectoid aliens and everyday assassinations.
  
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• Capturing the Short, Glamorous Life of a Forgotten Broadway Lyricist

  20-12-2017 16:56 via nytimes.com
  Howard Pollack on writing “The Ballad of John Latouche,” the first biography to explore the cult figure’s prolific career.
  
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• Robert O’Hara Thinks ‘Men Are Stupid.’ His New Play Shows Just How.

  20-12-2017 16:53 via nytimes.com
  In “Mankind,” the playwright imagines a world in which women are extinct. “You have to go for the throat,” he says.
  
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• Ranking All the Relationships in Love Actually

  20-12-2017 16:15 via feeds.eonline.com
  Forget hot chocolate and candy canes, our favorite something sweet every holiday season is cozying up by the TV to watch Love Actually.We cry with Emma Thompson, stand up and sing along...
  
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• Theater News: Cast and Creative Team Announced for He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box

  20-12-2017 16:00
  The Theatre for a New Audience world premiere is Adrienne Kennedy's first new play in a decade.
  
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• Should Zac Efron Return to Musicals Forever?

  20-12-2017 16:00 via feeds.eonline.com
  Zac Efron has spent a lot of time trying to distance himself from High School Musical. He hasn't fully eschewed the source of his early fame the way that some other Disney alum have, but his...
  
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• Writer of the Viral Short Story ‘Cat Person’ Scores a Tasty Treat: A 7-Figure Book Deal

  20-12-2017 15:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  The meowing over “Cat Person” continues. In a move that feels like a Girls subplot, Kristen Roupenian, the debut writer of The New Yorker’s viral short story about online dating, has scored a book deal. Based on the success of “Cat Person,” according to The Hollywood Reporter, Simon & Schuster...More »
  
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• Rap Dominated Pop in 2017, and It’s Not Going Anywhere Anytime Soon

  20-12-2017 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  When writers used to ask if rock was dead, it wasn’t actually a question of life or death. The real issue was power; what was meant by “rock” wasn’t rock music, but the genre’s imperial stature relative to the rest of popular music. Rock was more than a genre. It...More »
  
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• The Post’s Liz Hannah On How Her Spec Script Launched an Oscar Campaign

  20-12-2017 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  On the day that I visit Liz Hannah’s leafy Hancock Park neighborhood in Los Angeles, there’s a fuchsia truck blocking her street. What looks like a hipster ice-cream vendor turns out to be something called the Headshot Truck, a mobile photography studio where aspiring actors can get their head shots...More »
  
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• The 10 Best Musical TV Moments of 2017

  20-12-2017 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ladies and gentlemen, the Roadhouse is proud to welcome a year’s worth of wonderful music cues from around the TV dial. Yes, the problem of so-so shows using classic songs remains endemic, but the sheer volume of TV being made today is its own form of quality control. Just as...More »
  
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• In Praise of the Bizarre 1980 Star Wars Christmas Album, Christmas in the Stars

  20-12-2017 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  One of the great virtues of Star Wars as a piece of science fiction is how it de-centers the viewer. Our planet and our history mean nothing in that galaxy far, far away. Earth is nowhere to be found, everything’s happening a long time ago, and though many of our...More »
  
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• Cillian Murphy’s 10 Favorite Books

  20-12-2017 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Bookseller One Grand Books has asked celebrities to name the ten titles they’d take to a desert island, and they’ve shared the results with Vulture. Below is Peaky Blinders star Cillian Murphy’s list.The Ginger Man, by J.P. DonleavyOne of those books that you read as a young man and become intoxicated with, yet it...More »
  
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• Where We Dwell: How DJ Premier Changed Hip-Hop

  20-12-2017 14:38 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.In 1989, DJ Premier managed to get Charlie Parker, Big Daddy Kane, Brian Eno, and James Brown on the same record, without any...More »
  
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• Photo Flash: Max von Essen Joins the Cast of Anastasia

  20-12-2017 14:00
  The Tony-nominated actor took his first bows as Gleb on December 5.
  
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• Jeff Garlin review – Curb Your Enthusiasm comic goes off-script

  20-12-2017 13:43
  Larry David’s accomplice makes up for the fitfulness of a half-assembled show with infectious off-the-cuff comedy about bras, body lotions and creepy old men‘I’m aware it’s not been the best show,” says Jeff Garlin – and he’s right. It has been some unconnected bits of material cribbed from notes – a rehearsal for a forthcoming off-Broadway run, he tells us. It should be billed as a work in progress, but isn’t: tickets start at £26. Yet
  
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• Theater News: Pascale Armand, Molly Camp, Richard Masur Complete Cast of MCC Theater's Relevance

  20-12-2017 13:00
  They join the previously announced Jayne Houdyshell in the world premiere of J.C. Lee's new play.
  
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