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• Jann Wenner Accused Of Sexual Assault by Former Rolling Stone Employee

  29-12-2017 23:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  A man named Jonathan Wells is claiming that Jann Wenner sexually assaulted him more than 40 years ago, and that the Rolling Stone founder subsequently offered him a job after the encounter. In a new report from BuzzFeed News, Wells alleges that during a night of partying with a group...More »
  
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• Jay-Z Confesses His Sins to Beyoncé in ‘Family Feud’ Video

  29-12-2017 22:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  2017 ends when Beyoncé says it does, and that is not until after she puts us all in cardiac arrest with a surprise appearance in Jay-Z’s new music video for their lone 4:44 collaboration, “Family Feud.” In it, basically everyone cool shows up for a cameo in the five-minute Shakespearean...More »
  
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• An Antidote to Digital Dehumanization? Live Theater.

  29-12-2017 22:22 via nytimes.com
  An award-winning playwright argues that the in-the-moment interplay between actors and audience can help us cope with an increasingly virtual world.
  
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• Road rage finally puts alleged 'Goodfellas' mobster, 82, behind bars

  29-12-2017 22:18
  Vincent Asaro gets eight years for tracking down and burning motorist’s carAsaro was cleared of 1978 Lufthansa robbery immortalised in 1990 filmNew York may have recorded a dramatic fall in crime this year, including the lowest annual murder total since the 1950s, but a sentencing hearing in Brooklyn on Thursday revealed the persistence of some of the city’s most famous criminal traditions. Prosecutors allege that Vincent Asaro, 82, was inducted into the Bonanno crime syndicate more
  
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• Black Mirror Recap: Of Data and Dating

  29-12-2017 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  As anyone who has used Tinder already knows, it is just absolute hell. The app subjects its users to an unending carousel of humiliations: the simple sting of right-swiping someone who will not reciprocate and then waiting impotently for your phone’s little vibration of gratification; making a connection, only for...More »
  
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• Mystery Author Sue Grafton Dies at 77

  29-12-2017 21:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  Mystery author Sue Grafton has died of cancer at 77, her daughter announced on Facebook Friday. Grafton is best known for her series of alphabetically-themed novels about private investigator Kinsey Millhone, which began with 1982’s A Is For Alibi and continued until August’s Y Is For Yesterday. (Grafton also published...More »
  
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• 2017 Onscreen

  29-12-2017 21:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  In a year that was otherwise pure hot garbage, the movies and TV shows of 2017 shined as treasures within all the trash. From portentous social horror to blockbuster superhero stories to binge-worthy serials, here are 89 moments from film and TV that best capture the last 12 months onscreen....More »
  
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• Jude Law and Johnny Depp Appear in New Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald Sneak Peek

  29-12-2017 21:35 via feeds.eonline.com
  New images have just been released from Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.The sequel to 2016's Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them will hit theaters on Nov. 16, 2018...
  
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• Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool Is Awkward, But an Annette Bening Showpiece

  29-12-2017 20:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool is as sad and awkward as its title. Annette Bening plays the star in question, Gloria Grahame, the impudent minx who held her own against Humphrey Bogart in then-husband Nicholas Ray’s In a Lonely Place and took a face full of boiling water from...More »
  
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• The 10 Biggest YouTube Dramas of 2017

  29-12-2017 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  In perhaps the worst way to chase YouTube fame ever recorded, teen mom Monalisa Perez accidentally shot and killed her boyfriend Pedo Ruiz in June during a stunt gone tragically wrong. Perez, who was then pregnant with the couple’s second child, had tweeted that they planned to film “one of...More »
  
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• France 2 Shelves Film Set During 2015 Paris Terror Attacks

  29-12-2017 19:34 via nytimes.com
  The network, the country’s main public broadcasting channel, has postponed the project, about a romance that begins during the attacks, which killed 130.
  
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• Todd Boehly seeks to combine 3 Hollywood companies

  29-12-2017 18:41 via ft.com
  Merger planned for Hollywood Reporter, producers of Golden Globes and ‘House of Cards’
  
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• How We Looked at the Arts This Year: Our Favorite Photographs

  29-12-2017 18:26 via nytimes.com
  These images, some of the best we took in 2017, capture the power of the artists and performers we covered — and offer plenty of beauty on their own.
  
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• Dating on Black Mirror Is Way Better Than in Real Life

  29-12-2017 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  If Black Mirror is the Twilight Zone of our time, it’s natural to expect that the show’s portrait of app-based dating in the not-so-distant future would be fairly bleak: Something familiar but with a dystopian twist that offers a disturbing critique of the dark impulses that emerge when we swipe...More »
  
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• Black Mirror Recap: Nothing Stays Buried

  29-12-2017 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Iceland: rocks, dead grass, snows beyond snow. Director John Hillcoat capitalizes on a vivid, evocative setting in “Crocodile,” summoning a frostbitten grimness from forbidding territory. In the narrow paths that wind around glaciers and precipices overlooking icy waters, there’s nothing but death.At least that’s the bloody lesson for a pair...More »
  
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• Darren Aronofsky’s Favorite TV Shows Will Not Surprise You

  29-12-2017 17:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s no secret that the making of Mother! was tough on everyone: After the harrowing shoot, the studio moved up the release date a month, which meant director Darren Aronofsky spent his summer working 20-hour days to finish cutting the film — ask Jennifer Lawrence what that was like —...More »
  
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• Crikey! Luke Bryan Gifted His Wife Two Baby Kangaroos for Christmas

  29-12-2017 17:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  While you were sitting around Christmas morning waiting for a puppy with a bow on it to materialize, Luke Bryan was busy gifting his family wildlife from the outback. As a present, Bryan gave his wife Caroline “two designer bags” which is country bro code for two baby kangaroos. As...More »
  
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• Rose Marie, Hollywood Legend and Dick Van Dyke Show Star, Dead at 94

  29-12-2017 16:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  Rose Marie, The Dick Van Dyke Show star widely regarded as the longest-working actor in show business, died Thursday at age 94. The multi-hyphenate entertainer born Rose Marie Mazetta, who by her own account originated the first-name-only moniker, got her start in the industry as a 3-year-old jazz-singing prodigy sporting...More »
  
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• Cristin Milioti: Shooting Black Mirror on a Spaceship Is ‘Just As Fun As You’d Imagine’

  29-12-2017 16:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  Spoilers for the Black Mirror episode “USS Callister” below.On its surface, Cristin Milioti’s Black Mirror episode looks like a straight-up Star Trek parody. But “USS Callister” is a lot more complicated than it seems. In the episode, Milioti plays two characters named Nanette: a new employee at a tech company,...More »
  
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• The Making of Black Mirror’s Retro ‘USS Callister’ Episode

  29-12-2017 16:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  The first few scenes of Black Mirror’s standout season-four episode “USS Callister” look like a facsimile space adventure along the lines of Star Trek: The Original Series or the original Battlestar Galactica. But when the story expands, we realize that we’re seeing everything from the perspective of a single character:...More »
  
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• Why Star Wars: The Last Jedi Isn’t Actually a Box-Office Disappointment

  29-12-2017 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  There’s an odd debate happening right now around the box-office performance of Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Said debate stems from the film’s second-weekend performance, which followed the second-largest opening weekend of all time, ranking only behind its predecessor, Star Wars: The Force Awakens. But on that second weekend, The Last Jedi declined 67.5...More »
  
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• The Story Behind Annette Bening and Jamie Bell’s Sexy Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool Dance Scene

  29-12-2017 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  When we first meet Hollywood icon Gloria Grahame in the biopic Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool, it’s the 1970s, and she’s living in a U.K. actors’ boardinghouse. But that doesn’t mean the former screen femme fatale, played by Annette Bening, has lost any of her powers of seduction. So...More »
  
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• The Little Tramp and the Refugees Who Loved, Then Loathed Him

  29-12-2017 16:00 via nytimes.com
  At a film club for young women who have escaped bleak lives, Charlie Chaplin’s silents offered an escape. Then they learned about his offscreen life.
  
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• Streaming: A Sneak Preview of 2018 Netflix Films and a Canine Secret Weapon

  29-12-2017 16:00 via nytimes.com
  What will a Disney-Fox merger mean to the studios’ stables of superheroes?
  
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• Cabaret News: Jeremy Jordan, Jennifer Damiano, and More Join Broadway Loves Gwen Stefani

  29-12-2017 16:00
  The No Doubt front woman will get a musical celebration at Feinstein's/54 Below.
  
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• In 2017’s Movies, Poisonous Mushrooms Were an Unlikely Symbol of Female Liberation

  29-12-2017 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  When Fanny Fern said that the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach, she probably didn’t have poisonous mushrooms in mind. But in 2017, women in film have found fungi an effective way of ridding themselves of, defending themselves from, and enfeebling men — be they troublesome, barbaric,...More »
  
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• Your Week in Culture: Cardi B’s New Year’s Eve, ‘9-1-1,’ Louise Bourgeois

  29-12-2017 14:00 via nytimes.com
  Also the week of Dec. 31: The cellist Alisa Weilerstein at the New York Philharmonic; and the Public’s dependably enticing Under the Radar Festival.
  
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• Rupert Murdoch Plants a Wind-Powered Sculpture in front of Fox News HQ

  29-12-2017 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Even as Rupert Murdoch was negotiating the sale of the Hollywood empire he spent decades putting together to Disney, leaving his family with a smaller media barony under its control, he was recommitting to his place in the New York City landscape with the installation of an enormous, mysterious kinetic...More »
  
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• Black Mirror Recap: The Dark Side of Fan Fiction

  29-12-2017 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  In 1973, writer Paula Smith published a short story titled “A Trekkie’s Tale” in the second issue of her Star Trek magazine Menagerie. Smith intended it as a semi-affectionate satire of fan fiction, writing from the perspective of a teenage girl named Mary Sue, who transparently positions herself as the...More »
  
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• Black Mirror review: the Netflix series is back – and darker than ever

  29-12-2017 13:00 via theguardian.com
  Charlie Brooker’s ambitious near-future fables return for another six episodes and deliver dread and paranoia on every corner
  Don’t be fooled by the gorgeous scenery that makes up much of the fourth season of Black Mirror (Netflix). Its near-future fables take place over mountainous snowscapes, expanses of moorland and sprawling deserts, but its world is taut and panicked, full of damaged and damaging people, and every corner promises dread and paranoia. If there’s any festive
  
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• ‘Hurtful’ romantic film dramatising Bataclan terror attack put on hold

  29-12-2017 12:20
  Petition halts TV broadcast of fictional love story about couple who meet during Paris attack in which 90 people diedFrench state TV has postponed the broadcast of a romantic film about a fictional couple who fall in love against the backdrop of the terrorist attack on the Bataclan concert hall in Paris, after a petition demanded the “hurtful” project be dropped. The TV film, Ce soir-là (That Night), finished filming last week. But after the widow of a Bataclan victim gathered
  
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• Obituaries: Dick Van Dyke Star Rose Marie Dies at 94

  29-12-2017 12:00
  The actress and singer began her career as child performer Baby Rose Marie.
  
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• Black Mirror Recap: Parents Just Don’t Understand

  29-12-2017 10:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  In order for an episode of Black Mirror to function properly, it has to obey the Yeah, No Shit Rule. The show usually excels in bridging the gap between the outlandish and the frighteningly plausible, but every suspension of disbelief has its limits. The rule comes into effect when a...More »
  
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• Blue Planet II chosen by TV critics as best show of 2017

  29-12-2017 08:00 via theguardian.com
  In poll by Radio Times, wildlife series comes out on top ahead of Line of Duty, Big Little Lies and The CrownBlue Planet II has been named the best television programme of 2017 in a poll of TV critics.The seven-part wildlife series, narrated by Sir David Attenborough, has proved a big success for the BBC and attracted more viewers than any other programme this year. Continue reading...
  
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• Friday’s best TV; Vic & Bob’s Big Night Out; Frankie Boyle’s 2017 New Year World Order

  29-12-2017 07:20 via theguardian.com
  The much-missed duo are back with dodgy accents and gags that wander off up dead-ends, while Frankie Boyle will direct his scabrous sense of humour at the year of turmoil we have just enduredBad accents, the return of Graham Lister, and “Idris Elba” worrying about his kestrels getting wet. Yep, Vic and Bob are back with a one-off episode of their much-missed show. As ever, they offer meandering comedy that isn’t afraid to disappear up a cul-de-sac, provided there’s a gag
  
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• Natural World: Attenborough and the Empire of the Ants review – another fascinating insight into the insect world

  29-12-2017 07:00 via theguardian.com
  Our greatest naturalist gives the impression he would spend all day watching ants fight, if he could. Plus: Still Open All Hours catches the mood of the post-Christmas lullThe Jura mountains on the Swiss-French border give their name to the Jurassic period, thanks to the limestone strata first identified there. They are also home to a lot of ants, which may not sound that exciting at first; ants are everywhere.In Natural World: Attenborough and the Empire of the Ants (BBC2), Sir David Attenborou
  
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• Juliet Rylance on playing a moll in McMafia: 'The Russians taught us how to kiss'

  29-12-2017 07:00 via theguardian.com
  She’s the star of the BBC’s flagship New Year drama about ruthless Russian gangsters exiled in Britain. Juliet Rylance talks about blind love, working with her stepdad Mark – and how she helped bring peace to two billion peopleFor far too long, mob dramas have focused almost entirely on the Italian mafia, from The Sopranos right back to The Godfather. What has not been adequately explored is the rise of their Russian counterparts. True, TV has teemed in recent years with Russia
  
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• Beijing court seizes assets of LeEco’s Jia Yueting

  29-12-2017 06:08 via ft.com
  Cash, stock and homes recovered ahead of new year deadline for founder’s return to China
  
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• What’s New on Netflix: January 2018

  29-12-2017 06:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you can’t stop staring at your phone: The Truman ShowNot every movie gets to be the namesake for a psychological disorder. But more importantly, Peter Weir’s 1998 satire about an average guy (Jim Carrey, never better) who’s the unknowing star of a reality show anticipated the way our media-rich...More »
  
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• James Norton 'got death threats' after playing Happy Valley baddie

  29-12-2017 01:01 via theguardian.com
  Actor, starring in BBC crime drama McMafia, says threats would be nothing new after playing Tommy Lee RoyceThe actor James Norton has revealed that he received death threats after playing the villain in the BBC drama series Happy Valley and dismissed rumours that he could be the next James Bond as “mad”.Norton, who also starred in War & Peace and Grantchester, said his role as Tommy Lee Royce in Happy Valley led to death threats when he was buying milk in his local shop. Continue
  
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• Damian Green pushed for BBC overhaul in 1992

  29-12-2017 01:01 via ft.com
  Adviser suggested sharing licence fee cash among commercial broadcasters
  
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• Video Flash: Flashback Friday: Kelli O'Hara and Aaron Tveit Class Up New Year's Eve

  29-12-2017 00:00
  The Broadway favorites rang in 2015 with a jazzy throwback.
  
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• Special Reports: Broadway Shockers 2017: 1984 Gives Audiences Truly Visceral Reactions

  29-12-2017 00:00
  The stage adaptation of George Orwell's novel left theatergoers trembling on their way to the exit.
  
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