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• The 10 Best Podcast Episodes of 2017

  22-12-2017 22:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  I’m going to sneak this one in here because the limited-series podcast remains ongoing, and as a result didn’t end up making my other list. “Martha” is the opening chapter of Slate’s new series about the Watergate scandal, which seeks to answer an exceptionally pertinent question: If we were living...More »
  
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• How Billy Crudup Plays 19 People in a One-Man Show

  22-12-2017 22:59 via nytimes.com
  Billy Crudup explains how he becomes 19 characters in David Cale’s play “Harry Clarke,” which follows a shy Midwesterner as he reinvents himself as a Cockney Englishman.
  
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• Superhero Patty Jenkins Helped With Secret Recasting of All the Money in The World

  22-12-2017 21:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  After public allegations of sexual assault were made against Kevin Spacey, All the Money in the World director Ridley Scott decided to scrub the actor from the film. Wearing prosthesis and makeup, Spacey had been aged up to play the 80-year-old billionaire J. Paul Getty, and Scott had an extremely...More »
  
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• The 10 Best Video Game Moments of 2017

  22-12-2017 21:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  The worst way to talk about video games is also the most common: in summary. We do it out of necessity, because we need a shorthand, a quick sell. But mainstream games are large, unwieldy things that often tell not just one story, but many — a single vision cobbled...More »
  
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• Dick Clark Productions Cuts Ties with Miss America Following Email Leak

  22-12-2017 20:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  Dick Clark Productions will no longer work with the Miss America Organization after sexist, crude emails from the beauty pageant’s CEO, Sam Haskell, were leaked. DCP, which previously produced the annual pageant, said it has cut ties with the organization after learning of the emails “months ago,” according to Deadline....More »
  
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• Rosamund Pike on ‘Not Giving a Shit’

  22-12-2017 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  In 2014’s Gone Girl, U.K. favorite Rosamund Pike mesmerized America and wowed the Academy with the depth of her dispassion. In the role of vengeful Amy Dunne, she maintained a stony straight face while she forcibly took control of her life through murders both simulated and all too real. But...More »
  
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• A Sex Pistols Concert Film Languished for Four Decades. Here’s Why.

  22-12-2017 18:38 via nytimes.com
  The story of the documentary “D.O.A.: A Right of Passage” involved the founder of High Times and a race to capture the band’s only United States tour.
  
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• The 10 Best Comedy Podcasts of 2017

  22-12-2017 18:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  There’s a knowing joke comedy podcasters have been using as an aside on their shows for the past couple years that feels even more true than ever before in 2017: “Everyone has a podcast.” Blame it on the ease of producing a talk show with decent sound quality or on...More »
  
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• Seth Meyers Wonders If We Can Just Gaslight Trump Into Thinking He Already Did Everything He Promised

  22-12-2017 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  As the Republican tax bill made its way through Congress, Republicans fell over themselves to compliment Trump on its success, almost as much as Trump complimented himself. As Seth Meyers explains, Trump definitely did not invent the idea of branding tax reform as “tax cuts,” nor did he really get...More »
  
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• Wintercircus Arlette Hanson één dag in Theater De Vest - Alkmaar Centraal (persbericht)

  22-12-2017 18:29
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  Wintercircus Arlette Hanson één dag in Theater De Vest
  Alkmaar Centraal (persbericht)
  Wintercircus Arlette Hanson, komt deze kerstvakantie weer naar Alkmaar. Zondag 31 december is de nieuwe show 'Fraaie Fratsen!' te beleven in Theater De Vest. Het Wintercircus reist al 39e jaar langs Nederlandse theaters en de langstlopende ...
  Wintercircus Arlette Hanson één dag in Theater de Voorveghter ...Hardenberg.nualle 3 nieuwsartikelen &raq
  
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• The League of Gentlemen: did the revival work?

  22-12-2017 18:00
  From its Brexit undertones and resurrection of Legz Akimbo, to Pauline’s precious pens and the return of Pop, the three-night trip return to Royston Vasey packed a lot in. How was it for you?The return to Twin Peaks might have proved 2017’s televisual highlight for many fans of more out-there TV, but coming up the rear (quite literally in the case of those Peri-Peri olives) was a welcome revival to the UK’s own kookiest community: Royston Vasey. With such a wealth of characters
  
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• Surprise! Netflix Is Releasing Another Dave Chappelle Special on New Year’s Eve

  22-12-2017 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Will Netflix be satisfied until it produces every stand-up comedy special in existence? After releasing two specials with Dave Chappelle this year — The Age of Spin: Live at the Hollywood Palladium and Deep in the Heart of Texas: Live at Austin City Limits — the streaming giant will debut...More »
  
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• Molly Bloom on How Molly’s Game Got Her Out of the Poker Life

  22-12-2017 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  As soon I started speaking to Molly Bloom over the phone, I had to check my ears — that wasn’t actually Jessica Chastain, doing interviews in character, was it? The breathy, measured tone that Chastain adopts as the infamous “poker princess” in Aaron Sorkin’s Molly’s Game was all there on...More »
  
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• Don’t Despair, Protest: Playwright Lucy Kirkwood Sees No Other Choice

  22-12-2017 17:55 via nytimes.com
  In acclaimed works like “The Children,” now on Broadway, the British writer argues for collective responsibility in the face of environmental and other challenges.
  
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• Secular traditions are steeped in Christianity

  22-12-2017 17:51 via ft.com
  God, far from dying, enjoys a comeback as those without religion make up a minority
  
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• Our secular society draws from the well of Christian tradition

  22-12-2017 17:51 via ft.com
  God, far from dying, enjoys a comeback as those without religion make up a minority
  
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• What’s Leaving Netflix: January 2018

  22-12-2017 17:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  For the original binge obsession: LostThe seeds of everything beloved in today’s sci-fi/fantasy entertainment were sown in ABC’s island mystery, which incubated images and philosophies that co-creators J.J. Abrams and Damon Lindelof would later bring to everything from The Leftovers to Star Trek to Star Wars. Watching Lost today is...More »
  
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• The 10 Best Thriller Books of 2017

  22-12-2017 17:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  The books that thrilled in 2017 are a diverse group: an excellent mix of true crime, mystery, horror, and nontraditional offerings that are gripping in their own right. As always, they offer the most unsettling version of escapism: confronted with the worst of humanity, we still manage to get lost...More »
  
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• 2017 Was a Strong Year for Americana Albums

  22-12-2017 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  This has been a strong year for Americana — country’s alternative, roots-focused cousin. While Jason Isbell has finally made his way into the mainstream consciousness as the South’s answer to Bruce Springsteen, artists like Nikki Lane and Margo Price have been making country music cool with their tattoos, Stetsons, and East...More »
  
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• Netflix Launches Wormwood Podcast to Enable Your True-Crime Addiction

  22-12-2017 17:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  Prepare to lose all your loved ones this holiday break to the rabbit hole that is Netflix’s latest true crime docuseries Wormwood. In addition to the Errol Morris six-part series (which is about a biologist who believes that his father Frank Olson’s 1953 suicide after the CIA dosed him with...More »
  
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• Morecambe & Wise top poll of nation's most memorable Christmas TV

  22-12-2017 17:14
  Comedy duo more memorable than the Queen’s Speech, though younger viewers are more likely to recall watching Doctor Who and ElfYears after they last appeared as the Christmas centrepiece on BBC One, The Morecambe & Wise Show is still the most memorable festive TV programme according to the British public. Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise were the highest-rated BBC Christmas Day show in eight of the nine years between 1969 and 1977, and they have just topped a survey of Christmas TV memori
  
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• How Thee Oh Sees Became Cult Garage-Rock Icons

  22-12-2017 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  If anyone else tried to do what John Dwyer did with his band Thee Oh Sees, they’d probably be dead by now. The 43-year-old California garage-rock cult icon has released 20 albums as Thee Oh Sees, started bands like Damaged Bug and Coachwhips on the side, toured nonstop, and continues...More »
  
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• This Is the Best Net-Neutrality Joke Because It Has a Tina Turner Impression

  22-12-2017 16:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Amber Says What” features the only net neutrality take that includes dialogue from the Tina Turner biopic What’s Love Got to Do With It, so by default it is the best. On Late Night With Seth Meyers, writer Amber Ruffin recounts the week’s news: Disney World’s animatronic Trump, Jason Priestley...More »
  
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• Why Michelle Williams Might be the Most Successful Actress in Hollywood

  22-12-2017 16:00 via feeds.eonline.com
  There are plenty of superlatives to dole out in Hollywood. Meryl Streep is the most decorated actress of our time, with 20 total Academy Award nominations. Emma Stone was 2017's highest-paid...
  
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• Sequins and Push-up Bras: How Jessica Chastain Became Molly Bloom

  22-12-2017 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The first time Molly Bloom walked into Barneys, the sales associate thought she was a sex worker. Dressed in a Denver Broncos sweatshirt and cut-offs, the ex-athlete from Colorado was trying to fit in at a new night gig that had her rubbing shoulders with Tobey Maguire and Ben Affleck:...More »
  
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• Pitch Perfect 3 Rock Star Andy Allo Takes the E!Q

  22-12-2017 16:00 via feeds.eonline.com
  Andy Allo loved getting to bring some anti-aca-attitude to Pitch Perfect 3."My character is a bad-ass rock-n-roll chick," the actress and musical artist tells E! News about her...
  
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• On DVD: Elusive Vampire Film Steps Out of the Shadows

  22-12-2017 16:00 via nytimes.com
  “Vampir Cuadecuc,” Pere Portabella’s highly regarded avant-garde film, is now available on DVD; so is Stan Brakhage’s “Anticipation of the Night.”
  
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• Dick Enberg, legendary US sports broadcaster, dies aged 82

  22-12-2017 15:37
  Hall of Famer got break covering John Wooden’s UCLA basketball teams.He also called Wimbledons, Olympics, baseball and NFL games.Dick Enberg, a Hall of Fame broadcaster known as much for his excited calls of “Oh my!” as the big events he covered during a 60-year career, died on Thursday. He was 82.Enberg’s daughter, Nicole Enberg Vaz, confirmed the death to the Associated Press. She said the family became concerned when her father didn’t arrive on Thursday on his fl
  
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• SZA Reclaims Her Time in This New Solange-Directed Music Video for ‘The Weekend’

  22-12-2017 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  On “The Weekend,” SZA introduces a fresh idea: Men are bad, so how about we just time-share them? “Having one person seems like a restriction, like a limitation,” she told Vulture when Ctrl was first released. “Everyone’s used to being overstimulated.” It makes sense, then, that the music video is...More »
  
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• Kendrick Lamar’s New ‘LOVE.’ Music Video Teases a Lovely Black Panther Surprise

  22-12-2017 15:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  Kendrick Lamar has continued the Christmas spirit after his label’s annual holiday show, which this year got Rihanna (!), now gifting us a present within a present. The first layer is his new video for “LOVE.” — which documents all of the ways men are terrible at relationships and celebrates...More »
  
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• 2017’s Biggest Movie Flops Made the Case Against ‘Cinematic Universes’

  22-12-2017 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  What can we learn from Hollywood’s recent failures? Casting a gimlet eye back on 2017’s biggest movie misfires — the critically lambasted duds, the underperformers, the would-be event films that flopped upon release — certain startling consistencies arise. All but one of the year’s eight worst-performing big-budget films were based...More »
  
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• The Women Who Run the ‘Star Wars’ Universe

  22-12-2017 15:00 via nytimes.com
  The members of the Lucasfilm story group are fulfilling fans’ expectations — and creating meaningful female characters while they’re at it.
  
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• Jeff Lemire Is the Hardest-Working Man in Comics

  22-12-2017 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  For a fleeting moment, it seemed like Jeff Lemire was finally slowing down. When I sat down with him at a hotel bar during this July’s San Diego Comic-Con, I asked the famously prolific writer-artist how he found the time to create the many comics he’s worked on. “Actually, it...More »
  
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• A Definitive Ranking of Bob’s Burgers Holiday Episodes

  22-12-2017 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Over the course of eight seasons, Bob’s Burgers has grown into a sweet-natured, brazenly weird, always hilarious meditation on the nature of family, one that rivals any live-action luminaries. And better than any other show on TV, Bob’s Burgers understands the blend of wonder and anxiety that comes with the...More »
  
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• The 10 Best Book Covers of 2017

  22-12-2017 14:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  Idioms aside, a book’s cover matters. Who among us hasn’t been swayed into buying one novel over another solely by an attractive jacket design? Publishers rolled out some especially good-looking titles this year, so we polled Gail Anderson (creative director of the Visual Arts Press at SVA), Dan Wagstaff (book-design...More »
  
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• Theater News: National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene to Present Yiddish Fiddler on the Roof

  22-12-2017 14:00
  This will be the American premiere of the Yiddish-language adaptation of the Jerry Bock-Sheldon Harnick-Joseph Stein musical.
  
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• The big trouble with Little Women

  22-12-2017 13:01
  Will the BBC’s new version solve the problem of Louisa May Alcott’s novel?I’m worried about the new TV adaptation of Little Women. I’m not worried it won’t be like the book; I’m worried it might be too faithful. Because since I first read Louisa May Alcott’s 1868 tearjerker as a child, I’ve come to find it more and more troubling. I’m excited to see what writer Heidi Thomas (who created Call the Midwife) will do. I want to see
  
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• Theater News: BroadwayCon 2018 Announces Lineup for BroadwayCon Industry Day

  22-12-2017 13:00
  John Leguizamo will discuss fan engagement at the one-day event, leading up to this year's convention.
  
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• The best TV this week: James Norton stars in McMafia

  22-12-2017 13:00
  The slick gangster drama has echoes of The Godfather, while Shearsmith and Pemberton return with another series of Inside No 9James Norton advances his Bond credentials in this slick, violent and intriguing thriller. Norton is Alex Godman, a London financier who despite Russian underworld family connections, attempts to remain legit. Can he maintain his moral compass? Of course not. Where would be the fun in that?
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• Leontyne Price, Legendary Diva, Is a Movie Star at 90

  22-12-2017 13:00 via nytimes.com
  The unlikely scene-stealer in a documentary about the 1966 opening of the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center reflects on the film and her career.
  
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• French & Saunders, Black Mirror and Doctor Who: your Christmas TV planner

  22-12-2017 13:00
  From Alan Partridge and First Dates to The Miniaturist and McMafia, prime your set-top box for the best telly the festive fortnight has to offer Continue reading...
  
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• Their Words to Live By: Artists We Lost in 2017

  22-12-2017 11:01 via nytimes.com
  Artists who died this year left behind gripping scenes, profound turns of phrase, unforgettable melodies and plenty of laughter. We pay tribute to a few of the most notable — through their own words.
  
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• Theater News: Jeff Hiller to Star in Extended Run of Bright Colors and Bold Patterns

  22-12-2017 10:00
  Drew Droege's solo show adds off-Broadway performances and a new star.
  
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• Review: BLKS

  22-12-2017 10:00
  Young women pursue their best lives in the debut of Aziza Barnes's play.
  
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• From Tom Hardy's hat to Blue Planet II's giant trevally: the heroes and villains of 2017 TV

  22-12-2017 08:00
  The baddies outnumbered the goodies this year. But there were still plenty to both cheer and boo. Here’s our roundup of the best Continue reading...
  
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• Bah humbug! Our alternative non-festive TV guide

  22-12-2017 08:00
  It’s a perennial problem: what do you watch over Yuletide if you hate Christmas telly? But there are plenty of options … if you’re prepared to digChristmas television isn’t for everyone. While some enjoy grimacing their way through Morecambe and Wise repeats between intermittent catastrophic blood sugar spikes, there are others who will actively go out of their way to avoid festive fare. If you’re one of the latter, relax. While digital channels tend to routinely t
  
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• 2 French Playwrights Reclaim Their Works, Bringing Them Home

  22-12-2017 08:00 via nytimes.com
  Yasmina Reza wrote “Bella Figura” for the Schaubühne in Berlin, and the Moscow Art Theater commissioned Pascal Rambert’s “Actrice.” The two authors are now directing their works on Paris stages.
  
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• Friday’s best TV: The Last Leg Christmas Special; Have I Got 2017 News for You; Al Murray’s Make Christmas Great Again

  22-12-2017 07:20
  A festive farewell from Adam Hills and the boys; Jo Brand presides over likely gags about Brexit and Trump; and the thundering landlord gets a helping hand from Richard E Grant’s sad-sack SantaThe Pogues and Kirsty MacColl, Slade, Wham!, Mariah Carey … the artists in this Christmas special are unlikely to surprise you. But, really, that’s the charm of the thing: it’s reliable, nostalgia-heavy and comes with those all-important chart facts from Mark Radcliffe. Less predic
  
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• Gordon, Gino and Fred’s Christmas Roast review – a seasonal feast for a good cause

  22-12-2017 07:00
  Gordon Ramsay and his pals serve up a treat for some of the year’s unsung public heroes. Plus there’s too little Ab Fab magic in Joanna & Jennifer: Absolutely ChampersI was going to start with Edina and Patsy decanting to champagne country, but actually this – Gordon, Gino and Fred’s Christmas Roast (ITV) – is more fun. It has a trip to France, as well, and bubbly, but it also has slebs and heroes, swearing and farting.Fred is First Dates maitre d&rsqu
  
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• Educational publishers experiment with ebooks and rentals

  22-12-2017 06:01 via ft.com
  Textbook example of changing ownership as industry looks to deal with falling sales
  
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