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• Mark Hamill Remembers Carrie Fisher With Some Perfect Iconography Fit for a Queen

  27-12-2017 23:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  A year ago today, Carrie Fisher stuck a dagger through millions of people’s hearts when she unexpectedly died at the age of 60. The release of Star Wars: The Last Jedi — Fisher’s final film role — has only amplified those crushed feelings, and now, to honor the anniversary of...More »
  
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• Modern Love: Modern Love Podcast: Greta Gerwig Reads ‘Sharing a Cab, and My Toes’

  27-12-2017 22:16 via nytimes.com
  On this week’s podcast, the “Lady Bird” director tells the story of an odd encounter with a co-worker.
  
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• Encounters: Taye Diggs Doesn’t Feel Like Dancing

  27-12-2017 22:12 via nytimes.com
  The “Empire” actor and Broadway star visited his former dance studio. But he never broke a sweat.
  
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• Review: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

  27-12-2017 22:00
  Robert Fairchild plays Mary Shelley's iconic monster in Eve Wolf's latest theatrical concert.
  
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• Dustin Hoffman Accusers Thank John Oliver for Confrontation

  27-12-2017 21:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  Earlier this month, during a 20th-anniversary screening of the film Wag the Dog, Last Week Tonight host John Oliver confronted Dustin Hoffman about the growing number of sexual-misconduct allegations against him. And while Oliver has expressed his disappointment over the exchange, saying in an interview that he “tried and failed”...More »
  
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• Review: ‘Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool’ Shares a Last-Gasp Romance

  27-12-2017 20:00 via nytimes.com
  The movie, adapted from the 1986 memoir by Peter Turner, tracks the final years in the life of the actress Gloria Grahame.
  
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• Rejoice! For Laura Dern Is Living Her Best Life This Holiday Season With an NBA Player

  27-12-2017 19:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  After a year of nonstop working, no one deserves to wind down by getting satisfyingly all wound up more than Laura Dern. Coming off of scene-stealing performances in Big Little Lies, Twin Peaks, and The Last Jedi, 2017’s acting MVP was spotted having her cake and eating it, too. Us...More »
  
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• John Oliver on his clash with Dustin Hoffman: 'The whole thing made me feel sad'

  27-12-2017 19:33 via theguardian.com
  Oliver said his handling of a public discussion in which he confronted Hoffman over claims of sexual misconduct ‘didn’t really go anywhere constructive’John Oliver has expressed regret over his handling of a public discussion in which he confronted Dustin Hoffman over claims of sexual misconduct. In an interview on Sky One’s The Russell Howard Hour, the host of HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver said he felt the dialogue had “failed”. Related: Dust
  
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• Music Has Become a Little Too ‘Girly’ for Bono’s Taste

  27-12-2017 19:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  In Bono’s perfect world, a rock ‘n’ roll revelation is just around the corner because music as a whole doesn’t have as much raging testosterone as he would like. Interviewed by Jann Wenner for Rolling Stone’s newest cover story, the U2 front man expressed concern that one too many women...More »
  
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• Solange Opens Up About Her ‘Complicated’ Health Struggles

  27-12-2017 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Solange had been slated to perform at the AfroPunk festival in South Africa over New Year’s Eve. But in a Wednesday Instagram post, the Seat at the Table singer explained that she had to back out because of her battle with an autonomic disorder, which she has been “quietly treating”...More »
  
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• Why Hollywood Men Will Be Wearing All-Black at the Golden Globes

  27-12-2017 18:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  For once, Hollywood’s leading gentlemen are going to defer to some women. Following a joint announcement from prominent actresses earlier this month that they will be dressing in all-black ensembles at the Golden Globes out of solidarity with victims of sexual assault and harassment, Dwayne Johnson has confirmed that many...More »
  
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• Ascential buys Clovis to help extend reach into data analytics

  27-12-2017 18:36 via ft.com
  Cannes Lions owner sees growing opportunity in information analysis and consultancy
  
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• Ascential buys Clavis to help extend reach into data analytics

  27-12-2017 18:36 via ft.com
  Cannes Lions owner sees growing opportunity in information analysis and consultancy
  
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• Would We Actually Be Richer If We Shrunk Ourselves à la Downsizing?

  27-12-2017 18:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  Alexander Payne’s Downsizing begins with a momentous breakthrough. A Norwegian scientist, Dr. Jørgen Asbjørnsen (Rolf Lassgård), has perfected a procedure that “downsizes” people, shrinking them down to five inches tall. Though downsizing is initially marketed as being environmentally friendly, it quickly catches on for another reason: Smaller people use less...More »
  
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• What’s Leaving HBO: January 2018

  27-12-2017 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Because it’s Spielberg Season: Catch Me If You Can A close relative to Hanks Season, Spielberg Season is when one of the best and most popular directors of our lifetime decides to make a buzzy, enjoyable prestige movie close to the holidays — a surefire agreeable pick at a time...More »
  
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• John Early Describes the Time He Crapped His Pants on the Subway in Great, Smelly Detail

  27-12-2017 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Almost everyone who’s lived in NYC in their 20s has a late night, booze-fueled story of excess. Comedian and Search Party star John Early is no different. Here, he shares his New York story about an unfortunate poop-related incident after a late night partying – you have been warned....More »
  
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• Chrissy Teigen Was Mysteriously Stuck on Flight to Nowhere

  27-12-2017 16:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  Model Chrissy Teigen is no stranger to world travel. Per her Instagram, she’s frequently bopping between continents, often with her 1-year-old daughter with John Legend, Luna. But even for seasoned jet setters, the holiday season can be challenging, especially when your plane turns around mid-flight.Tonight, according to Twitter, Teigen, who is expecting baby number two, was...More »
  
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• How Bill Nye Uses Twitter to Find Guests for His Netflix Show

  27-12-2017 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Bill Nye is a known Twitter professional, so it’s no surprise that he used the site to crowdsource guests for season two of Bill Nye Saves the World. The scientists Nye meets through Twitter, by using the handy #BillMeetScienceTwitter hashtag, take him through life-changing topics such as marijuana, time travel,...More »
  
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• Prince Harry Asks Obama the Most Important Pop Culture Question of Our Time: The Good Wife or Suits?

  27-12-2017 15:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  There are certain choices that define our lives: Betty or Veronica? Coffee or tea? Rihanna or Rihanna? Prince Harry had many controversial questions for his BFF Barack Obama in the lightning round of his BBC Radio conversation with the only U.S. president that he’ll (willingly) acknowledge. For starters, did you...More »
  
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• What’s Leaving Hulu: January 2018

  27-12-2017 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  For a touch of whimsy: AmélieFortunately, there aren’t a lot of great movies leaving Hulu this month. Unfortunately, one of those movies is Amélie. A modern fairy tale with a touch of melancholy, the 2001 French film follows the titular Amélie as she embarks on a mission to bring happiness...More »
  
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• Fierce at Heart

  27-12-2017 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  In 2011, HBO premiered Enlightened, a dark comedy created by Laura Dern and Mike White, starring Dern as Amy Jellicoe, an insufferable, self-destructive, socially inept idealist who, after losing her corporate job, becomes a whistle-blower to take down the company. During the development process, HBO had tried hard to soften...More »
  
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• 1 Year After Carrie Fisher's Death, the Bittersweetness of Star Wars: The Last Jedi's Success

  27-12-2017 14:00 via feeds.eonline.com
  There was no doubt that Star Wars: Episode VIII--The Last Jedi was going to be one of the biggest, most talked-about movies of 2017.There was also no doubt that it would stir up some...
  
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• Mark Hamill pays tribute to Carrie Fisher one year after her death

  27-12-2017 13:48
  Star Wars actor posts Instagram image and quotes dialogue from The Last Jedi, saying ‘no one’s ever really gone’Mark Hamill has paid tribute to his late co-star Carrie Fisher on the first anniversary of her death with a quote from the new Star Wars film.Mirroring a piece of dialogue in Star Wars: The Last Jedi – Fisher’s final film in the sci-fi franchise – Hamill wrote on Instagram: “No one’s ever really gone.” No one's ever really gone... #
  
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• Marvel’s Runaways Recap: How to Train Your Dinosaur

  27-12-2017 13:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  No matter how much Runaways fits into a teen soap-opera mold, there is one element that will always set it apart: Gert’s pet dinosaur, Old Lace. (She’s still unnamed on the series, but I’m going to use her name from the comics.) The soap genre has delivered plenty of evil...More »
  
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• Photo Flash: First Look at Robert O'Hara's Dystopian Mankind

  27-12-2017 13:00
  The world premiere play is now running at Playwrights Horizons.
  
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• The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Recap: The Ice Woman Cometh

  27-12-2017 12:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  This week on our favorite program, Rich Women Doing Things, the rich women did things. They lounged by a small plunge pool wearing gigantic disco-ball sunglasses and fringed bikinis while a bunch of muggles in one-piece bathing suits stared at them and sipped their margaritas. They sat in a gigantic...More »
  
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• Video Flash: Kennedy Center Honors Brings Performances by Robert Fairchild, On Your Feet!, and More

  27-12-2017 12:00
  Fairchild joined Misty Copeland for a dance to "Bill" from the classic musical Show Boat.
  
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• Theater News: 20at20 Will Offer $20 Dollar Tickets to Off-Broadway Shows at 20 Minutes to Curtain

  27-12-2017 12:00
  Dates and participating shows have been announced.
  
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• Prince Harry: Meghan had 'fantastic' Christmas with Queen and royals

  27-12-2017 11:09 via theguardian.com
  As he guest-edits Today programme, prince interviews Barack Obama and says fiancee enjoyed royal Christmas at SandringhamPrince Harry has said Meghan Markle had a “fantastic” time with the Queen and his family over Christmas.
  Harry was interviewed about his holiday with his fiancee during his guest-editorship of BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. Continue reading...
  
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• Theater News: Simon Jones Joins the Cast of Broadway's Farinelli and the King

  27-12-2017 11:00
  Mark Rylance stars in the Shakespeare's Globe production.
  
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• Theater News: The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show Extends Off-Broadway

  27-12-2017 10:00
  The kid-friendly production runs at Union Square's DR2 Theatre.
  
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• Theater News: Beth Leavel Takes Her Turn as Rose in Gypsy at The Muny

  27-12-2017 10:00
  The Tony-winning actress will take on Arthur Laurents's iconic leading lady.
  
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• Marlene Dietrich 1901-92

  27-12-2017 08:26
  Philip French’s screen legends: No 21‘I am not a myth,’ she said - one of her least convincing statements. Born in Berlin, the daughter of a military family, she broke on to the international scene with the coming of sound as the nightclub performer Lola Lola, humiliating and destroying schoolteacher Emil Jannings in The Blue Angel (1930), a role on which she was to play variations for the rest of her life. The film was directed in Berlin by Joseph von Sternberg, the Hollywood
  
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• From Dirty John to S-Town: the 25 best podcast episodes of 2017

  27-12-2017 08:00 via theguardian.com
  It was a stellar year for the booming medium. With more shows to choose from than ever, we have highlighted the moments you shouldn’t miss True crime hit a new high with the story of how Debra Newell’s online romance with a charming man spiralled into horror. Alarm bells rang when she came home to find a strange woman in her house – and the lies kept coming. So, why was his nickname “Filthy”? That is not the only revelation this tense unravelling gifts the listener,
  
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• Little Women review – perfect for the onset of Boxing Day choco-torpor

  27-12-2017 07:59 via theguardian.com
  The Louisa May Alcott adaptation hit all the right spots, with four perfectly pitched sisters and a magnificent Marmee. Plus, a creepy little masterpiece in the form of The MiniaturistJust as Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without any presents, so the aftermath wouldn’t be complete without a brace of sumptuous adaptations of popular novels before which to slump bonelessly on the sofa on Boxing Day while the meat sweats wear off and the choco-torpor moves in.This year, we h
  
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• Margaret Atwood: the unlikely style soothsayer of 2017

  27-12-2017 07:00 via theguardian.com
  Thanks to two hit adaptations of her books, the writer has had a big impact on fashion this yearDid you ever suspect that one of 2017’s key fashion references would be “dispossessed 1842 Upper Canadian housemaid”? How about “enslaved walking womb in a dystopian future”? Perhaps not. But in an unsettling year the TV shows that had the biggest impact on our wardrobes centred on two such protagonists.In case you missed the references, I’m talking about Alias Grac
  
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• Wednesday’s best TV: Turtle, Eagle, Cheetah – A Slow Odyssey; Six Robots & Us

  27-12-2017 06:59 via theguardian.com
  Three wild creatures are kitted out with cameras in one of the TV events of the year; robot helpers descend on ordinary families. Plus: Alan Partridge – Why, When, Where, How and Whom?Imagine soaring above the west coast of Scotland, as if in a dream; chasing prey through the Bushveld of southern Africa; or riding on the back of a green turtle, Finding Nemo-fashion, as it navigates the coral reefs of Indonesia. Now you (virtually) can. In one of the TV events of the year, saved till last a
  
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• Chance the Rapper Wants to Talk About Race and Netflix’s Bright

  27-12-2017 06:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  Hopefully the long weekend gave you and your family plenty of time to relax and consume hours of Netflix, in between celebrating your respective holiday traditions. If you happened to watch Netflix’s Bright, you might want to not read this post as to avoid the spoilers ahead. You also might...More »
  
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• Podcast Network Feral Audio Being Shut Down By Founder Following Abuse Claim Against Him

  27-12-2017 06:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  Feral Audio — the popular podcast network that houses shows like My Favorite Murder, Harmontown, Call Chelsea Peretti, Sleep with Me, and The Sklar Brothers’ Dumb People Town — is shutting down at the top of the new year.The circumstances behind the news are complicated and sensitive. Founder Dustin Marshall...More »
  
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• Lavazza buys €25m ticket in Italian video-on-demand company

  27-12-2017 06:00 via ft.com
  Family behind coffee brand joins Sony Pictures and Paramount with investment in Chili
  
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• Mark Hamill Regrets Expressing His ‘Doubts and Insecurities’ About The Last Jedi

  27-12-2017 03:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  In recent interviews, The Last Jedi star Mark Hamill seemed to some to be coming down pretty hard on the version of his classic Star Wars hero found in director Rian Johnson’s new film, expressing surprise or even shock at Luke Skywalker’s new character arc. However, as with many beloved/hotly...More »
  
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• Sony Might Be Into a Mad About You Revival

  27-12-2017 02:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  NBC’s Mad About You ran from September 1992 to May 1999, earning a Golden Globe, a Peabody, and four Outstanding Lead Actress Emmy wins for Helen Hunt in a row. So it makes sense that Mad would be the next sitcom to join the ongoing television revival… revival. According to...More »
  
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• Roseanne Has No Patience for Dan Romanticizing the Past in New Roseanne Teasers

  27-12-2017 00:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  The reboot of Roseanne is going all in. Not only will fans get both Beckys, but they’ll get Dan back, too! After one of the saddest TV finales maybe ever, the team behind Roseanne opted to pull a Will & Grace and just ignore their original ending entirely — because we...More »
  
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• Special Reports: The 5 Best Broadway Shows of 2017

  27-12-2017 00:00
  These are the must-see shows from the past year.
  
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• Special Reports: Broadway Shockers 2017: Afterglow Becomes Sleeper Hit of the Off-Broadway Season

  27-12-2017 00:00
  The ever-extending gay drama has been packing audiences and garnering headlines.
  
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