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• The X-Files Is Sublime in Season 11

  03-01-2018 23:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  There’s a moment in an upcoming episode of the new season of The X-Files that’ll bring a smile to the face of anyone who’s stuck with this show through thick and thin. FBI special agents Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) and Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) are in a cemetery, trying to...More »
  
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• New York Times to Shift Red-Carpet Coverage Following #MeToo

  03-01-2018 22:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ahead of the Golden Globes on Sunday, the New York Times is making some changes to the way it covers the glitz and bustle of awards-season red carpets. In a post-Weinstein Hollywood, the red carpet is ripe with opportunities to talk about sexism, and the paper wants to take charge:...More »
  
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• The Carpetbagger: On the Golden Globes Red Carpet, Fighting Back in Black

  03-01-2018 22:03 via nytimes.com
  Sunday’s red-carpet statement may seem superficial, but it’s part of a larger initiative that’s striking for its leap from the days of #AskHerMore.
  
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• How The Big Sick Changed Kumail Nanjiani's and Wife Emily V. Gordon's Lives

  03-01-2018 21:45 via feeds.eonline.com
  Fans fell in love with Kumail and Emily while watching The Big Sick last summer. Now, the real-life couple is reflecting on their journey and how the film changed their lives.E! News...
  
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• Octavia Spencer to Star in Apple Series From Reese Witherspoon About Our True-Crime-Podcast Obsession

  03-01-2018 20:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  Further investing in the hope that soon we’ll all watch TV on Apple, Reese Witherspoon is developing a new series for the tech company turned Netflix rival. Octavia Spencer is set to star in a show about a book about a podcast. Stay with us now: Are You Sleeping is...More »
  
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• A Close Read of the Pimp Story Dave Chappelle Tells in The Bird Revelation

  03-01-2018 19:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  Dave Chappelle’s inexplicable departure from Chappelle’s Show — and a hefty $50 million contract with Viacom — hangs over everything he does. Walking away from a massively successful television show, flying to Africa, and disappearing from the entertainment industry for 12 years is quite a thing to live down. Some people...More »
  
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• Theater aan het Vrijthof verkoopt meer kaartjes - De Limburger

  03-01-2018 19:19
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  De verbouwing ten spijt heeft het Theater aan het Vrijthof in de eerste helft van het seizoen 2017-2018 10?procent meer kaartjes verkocht dan een jaar eerder. Volgens een mededeling van het theater (ruim 115.000 verkochte tickets) is de stijging ...
  
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• Hallelujah! A Scandal–HTGAWM Crossover Episode Is Reportedly Happening

  03-01-2018 18:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  Miracles happen when you believe: A Scandal–How to Get Away With Murder crossover episode is in the works at ABC, proving that Shonda Rhimes is God and in 2018 things might be looking up. Deadline reports that the special episode will air later this season, with Scandal in its seventh...More »
  
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• Hoda Kotb Will Reportedly Make Millions Less Than Matt Lauer

  03-01-2018 18:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  Hoda Kotb is officially replacing Matt Lauer as the co-host of the Today show with Savannah Guthrie, but reportedly will make millions less than her disgraced predecessor. According to “Page Six,” sources at NBC say that Kotb will be making an impressive $7 million a year. However, Lauer made $25 million a...More »
  
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• From Louis Theroux to Jeremy Corbyn: why are young people’s heroes all middle-aged? | Sam Wolfson

  03-01-2018 18:16 via theguardian.com
  Millennials admire people who grew up before the internet age. That’s why we love Stranger Things, 80s sportswear and old-school Glastonbury headliners, tooLouis Theroux debuted his feature-length film about Scientology at the London film festival in 2015, hoping to create a buzz that would lead to a cinema release, but he couldn’t find a company willing to distribute it. Eventually, a year after the premiere, he managed to secure a very limited cinema release.Those screenings sold o
  
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• No, Christian Bale Hasn’t Gotten Around to Checking Out Batfleck in Action

  03-01-2018 18:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  Christian Bale exited the Batcave in 2012, and hasn’t had a chance to check out his Gotham City replacement. When Bale was a guest on MTV’s Happy Sad Confused podcast, the actor said that he’ll get around to Batman v Superman or maybe Justice League. “Yes, I’m interested [in seeing...More »
  
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• What’s New on Showtime: January 2018

  03-01-2018 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Because it’s one of the most promising shows of the year: The ChiShowtime is starting off 2018 strong, with one of its most promising new shows debuting in the very first week of the year. The Chi comes from Lena Waithe, who won an Emmy for writing Master of None’s...More »
  
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• Jason Schwartzman Sounds Like an Interesting Houseguest

  03-01-2018 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The theme of New York’s 50th anniversary issue is My New York — an exploration of the stories and experiences that make this city like no other. Here, Bored to Death actor Jason Schwartzman recalls his own New York story, one that involves tight jeans and questionable body positions while staying in a...More »
  
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• New Trailer: ‘Death Wish’

  03-01-2018 17:48 via nytimes.com
  Bruce Willis is “cocked, locked and ready to rock” in the latest preview for the remake of this revenge thriller.
  
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• A Philadelphia Theater Heading, and Sweating, in a New Direction

  03-01-2018 17:47 via nytimes.com
  Repertory companies have largely disappeared on American stages. But with an eye on Europe, and highly physical training, the Wilma Theater is going against the grain.
  
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• The 11 Best Jokes From Dave Chappelle’s New Netflix Specials

  03-01-2018 17:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I didn’t come here to be right,” Dave Chappelle says in The Bird Revelation, his fourth Netflix special of 2017. “I came here to fuck around.” This line could be a preamble spoken before just about every joke in both Bird and the other special he released on New Year’s...More »
  
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• Grown-ish Still Has Some Growing to Do

  03-01-2018 17:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  Grown-ish, the Black-ish spinoff that follows Zoey Johnson to college, is a lot like its protagonist. Both are still adjusting to their independence and trying to figure out how to evolve into the best versions of themselves. Like Zoey (Yara Shahidi), Grown-ish has a lot of obvious potential, but based...More »
  
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• Black Mirror shows who’s really losing their minds in the digital age – parents

  03-01-2018 17:32 via theguardian.com
  In Arkangel, directed by Jodie Foster, helicopter parenting spirals into obsessive hyper-surveillance. Are we wrong to think children are most at risk from technology?• Warning: this article contains spoilers Related: Black Mirror review: the Netflix series is back – and darker than ever ‘Digital native” is a necessary but insufficient descriptor for the people who were born after the internet. There are the people who can’t remember a life before Google (indole
  
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• Dan Harmon Apologizes to Community Writer for Harassment

  03-01-2018 17:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  Community creator Dan Harmon’s difficulty as a showrunner is well-documented, but a new thread on Twitter gives us more insight into what it was like working for him. Former Community writer Megan Ganz asked Harmon to be more specific after he christened 2017 the “Year of the Asshole.” Harmon gave...More »
  
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• Late-night on Trump: not since Harrison Ford was president have we felt so safe

  03-01-2018 16:57 via theguardian.com
  Comics, including Stephen Colbert, Trevor Noah, and Jimmy Kimmel, addressed Trump’s latest tweets about North Korea, global warming, and airline safetyLate-night hosts on Tuesday discussed the stream of tweets with which Donald Trump began the new year, touching on topics such as the North Korean nuclear threat, commercial aviation and global warming.“Brutal cold is tormenting the US, and reports say the worst is yet to come,” Stephen Colbert began. “‘The worst is y
  
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• If There Must Be a Bright Sequel, Can Chance the Rapper Just Write It?

  03-01-2018 16:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  Despite lackluster reviews, Will Smith’s buddy cop Orc film, Bright, is officially getting a sequel. Netflix has confirmed that Smith, Joel Edgerton, and director David Ayer will all return. Max Landis, who penned the original screenplay that sparked a bidding war, however, will not be back; Ayer is instead writing...More »
  
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• Lorde Is Not a Bigot

  03-01-2018 16:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  On Christmas Eve, Lorde announced that she would cancel an upcoming concert in Israel. Since announcing the Tel Aviv show, she had been flooded with complaints from supporters of a Palestinian movement to boycott, divest from, and sanction Israel for its ongoing military occupation and illegal settlement of the West...More »
  
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• Rose McGowan Claims Robert Rodriguez Used Harvey Weinstein Rape Against Her to Play ‘Mind Games’ on Grindhouse

  03-01-2018 16:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Though director Robert Rodriguez paints himself as a hero who cast his then-girlfriend Rose McGowan in his film Grindhouse to spite Harvey Weinstein, aware that Weinstein had allegedly raped her in 1997, McGowan remembers his intentions differently. Recalling the incident to Vanity Fair in a teaser chapter from her forthcoming...More »
  
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• Hollywood on the Brink

  03-01-2018 16:00 via nytimes.com
  Will the industry learn from this moment of reckoning or will it be business as usual? Our chief critics see small signs of hope.
  
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• How Ethan Slater Became Broadway’s SpongeBob SquarePants

  03-01-2018 15:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  Literalists who arrive at SpongeBob SquarePants: the Musical hoping to see a man sing and dance in a big, yellow, sponge-shaped outfit are bound to be disappointed. Instead of mimicking a cartoon, the show’s young star Ethan Slater somehow inhabits its spirit. He wears a red tie and a pair...More »
  
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• Meryl Streep Calls Out Dustin Hoffman for Kramer vs. Kramer Slap: ‘It Was Overstepping’

  03-01-2018 15:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  Meryl Streep has broken her silence on the sexual-harassment claims against her Kramer vs. Kramer co-star Dustin Hoffman. After the actor faced several allegations of sexual harassment and assault, an old interview with Streep made the rounds on the internet. In the resurfaced interview from 1979 with Time magazine, Streep said Hoffman...More »
  
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• Bill Burr Doesn’t Think People Are Too Easily Offended These Days

  03-01-2018 15:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  Bill Burr likes to make word hard for himself. Where most comedians start a joke out nice and easy, explaining the context and getting everyone onboard, Burr does the equivalent of throwing the audience into the deep end and then trying to pull them back safely. Take a joke near...More »
  
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• Everything We Learned About Arie Luyendyk Jr. by Watching Him Lose on The Bachelorette

  03-01-2018 15:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  On Monday night, a man who is not named Peter Kraus made his debut as the Bachelor. But 36-year-old Arie Luyendyk Jr. is no stranger to the franchise: America’s first salt-and-pepper Bachelor almost won then-Bachelorette Emily Maynard’s heart in 2012.Still, five years is a long time. And Arie — a...More »
  
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• Dave Chappelle Is Mostly Disappointing in His New Netflix Specials

  03-01-2018 15:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  Dave Chappelle has two new stand-up specials out, and the two best descriptions of them come from the specials themselves. Both occur in the closing hour, titled The Bird Revelation.In one of the bits, Chappelle segues from a long riff on the recent sexual-misconduct scandals and announces, “We must never...More »
  
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• Theater News: January 9 Talkback Announced for Off-Broadway's 20th Century Blues

  03-01-2018 15:00
  Susan Miller's new play is directed by Emily Mann.
  
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• Music News: Muriel's Wedding Musical to Release World Premiere Cast Album

  03-01-2018 15:00
  The cult hit comedy is now making its stage debut at the Sydney Theatre Company.
  
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• Gabrielle Union’s 10 Favorite Books

  03-01-2018 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 actress and author Gabrielle Union’s list.Americanah, by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieOne of my favorite novels of all time. A sweeping, beautifully told love story that spans two...More »
  
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• Annette Bening Loves California Pizza Kitchen and Dancing at Weddings, Sans Warren Beatty

  03-01-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Dancing onscreen is tricky (just ask Armie Hammer), but in Annette Bening’s latest role, as movie star Gloria Grahame in Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool, Bening makes it look as natural and unself-conscious as breathing. In one of the film’s most memorable scenes, the unassuming Peter Turner (Jamie Bell)...More »
  
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• BFI abandons plans for £130m national centre for film and television

  03-01-2018 14:50
  Planning deadline could not be met, with situation partly blamed on state of political and economic climate as Brexit loomsPlans for a £130m national centre for film and television on the South Bank in London have been abandoned by the British Film Institute, in a decision partly blamed on the uncertain political and economic climate as Brexit looms.A huge disappointment and setback for the BFI, the decision was taken shortly before Christmas and was confirmed on Tuesday.Related: Harvey We
  
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• What’s New on Amazon Prime: January 2018

  03-01-2018 14:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  Because you probably missed it: WonderstruckA quiet favorite among the many great movies to come out in 2017, Todd Haynes’s Wonderstruck follows the parallel journeys of two children 50 years apart. In 1927, Rose runs away from her father in search of her mother, the actress Lillian Mayhew. Rose’s story is...More »
  
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• Alas, poor Owen Wilson, your TV ad Shakespeare quote is made up

  03-01-2018 14:09 via theguardian.com
  In a festive sofa advertising campaign, the actor claims the bard once exclaimed: ‘People usually are the happiest at home.’ One problem – the oft-cited line is pure bunkumWhat was Shakespeare thinking when he wrote: “People usually are the happiest at home”? Not only is it a banal observation, it isn’t even in iambic pentameter. Could he really have been so inconsistent? One minute he was fretting over the “slings and arrows of outrageous fortune”
  
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• Theater News: Sweeney Todd Finds Its New Leads in Thom Sesma and Sally Ann Triplett

  03-01-2018 14:00
  Hugh Panaro and Carolee Carmello will play their final performances.
  
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• The Chi review – dazzling small-screen drama avoids racial stereotypes

  03-01-2018 13:00 via theguardian.com
  Emmy-winner Lena Waithe’s nuanced ensemble drama highlights life in Chicago through a richly drawn set of characters, brought to life by outstanding performers“It’s not, ‘Let’s show black people in Chicago in a positive light,’” Lena Waithe told Entertainment Weekly about her new Showtime drama The Chi. “I want to show people in a human light.”A different writer may have visibly struggled to “represent the race,” particularly in a
  
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• Theater News: The Bench to Have 12-Week Run at East Village Playhouse

  03-01-2018 12:00
  Robert Galinsky extends the off-Broadway life of his self-penned solo show.
  
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• Blake's 7: 40 years on, the dystopian sci-fi drama still packs a punch

  03-01-2018 11:54 via theguardian.com
  Pitched by creator Terry Nation as ‘the Dirty Dozen in space’, the ground-breaking BBC science-fiction drama is fondly remembered by fansIt was 40 years ago this week that my parents sat their seven-year-old son down to watch a new BBC One show about spaceships. “It will be like Doctor Who,” they no doubt told me. Instead, broadcast at 6pm on a Bank Holiday Monday, the first episode of Blake’s 7 was a procedural drama about a fascist state framing a political dissid
  
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• Theater News: Hamilton in San Diego Gets a Digital #Ham4Ham Lottery

  03-01-2018 11:00
  Lin-Manuel Miranda's record-breaking musical is set for its sitdown at the San Diego Civic Theatre.
  
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• Theater News: American Repertory Theater Announces Casting for Hear Word! Naija Women Talk True

  03-01-2018 11:00
  The production is written and directed by Ifeoma Fafunwa.
  
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• Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks on Power and the #MeToo Moment

  03-01-2018 11:00 via nytimes.com
  In a wide-ranging conversation, the stars discuss President Trump, the fallout from the Harvey Weinstein case and why they hadn’t worked together until “The Post.”
  
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• Black Mirror, season four: step away from your smartphone! Discuss with spoilers

  03-01-2018 11:00 via theguardian.com
  From dating to Star Trek, the new season of Black Mirror mixed it up like never before, but was it too dark and did it reach the peaks of previous years? This article contains spoilersBack with big-name actors and directors, and a bigger budget, the new series of Black Mirror is an international event – not just a late-night curio on Channel 4. This season’s six episodes delivered the usual mix of dark meditations on our relationship with technology, but did Charlie Brooker and colle
  
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• Theater News: The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show Offers Free Tickets to 1000th Performance

  03-01-2018 10:00
  A lottery for the freebies will be held January 3-10.
  
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• Theater News: Miles for Mary Begins Rehearsals at Playwrights Horizons

  03-01-2018 10:00
  Lila Neugebauer directs the show, created by the Mad Ones, with performances set to begin January 11.
  
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• Royal Mail releases Game of Thrones stamp set – in pictures

  03-01-2018 09:03 via theguardian.com
  Collection features 15 first class stamps to mark the significant British contribution to the production of the award-winning fantasy series. The stamps will be available from 23 January Continue reading...
  
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• Star Wars battles Beauty and the Beast for year's top spot at UK box office

  03-01-2018 08:00
  Jumanji reboot strengthens its position as The Greatest Showman sweeps in – and The Last Jedi edges towards top spot for 2017Cinemagoing in the UK is usually pretty robust ahead of New Year’s Day but even so, Disney and Lucasfilm should be pleased with a slim 22% decline for Star Wars: The Last Jedi from the previous, pre-Christmas session. Third-weekend takings of £7.98m push the total after 18 days to £68.3m.Continue reading...
  
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• Stephen Colbert Started 2018 as He Ended 2017: Making Fun of Donald Trump’s Tweets

  03-01-2018 07:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  TONIGHT: POTUS rang in the new year with an onslaught of tweets, so Stephen's got plenty to talk about on our first new show of 2018. The Late Show (@colbertlateshow) January 3, 2018...More »
  
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• Wednesday’s best TV: A Stitch in Time; Miriam’s Big American Adventure; Girlfriends

  03-01-2018 07:00 via theguardian.com
  What can Charles II’s clothes tell us about the man and his era? Another fish-out-of-water experience for the gregarious actor; plus another cracking Kay Mellor dramaThe extraordinarily well turned out fashion historian Amber Butchart heads back in time to study the sartorial choices of historic figures, hoping to discover what their clothes reveal about their eras. Opening with the subtly dapper royal Charles II, we find that he used clothing to send a message that he was a man of the peo
  
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