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• Howdy, Enjoy a Photo of Brendan Fraser in a Cowboy Hat

  05-01-2018 23:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  Brendan Fraser wore a cowboy hat at a Television Critics Association panel to promote FX’s Trust, in which he plays the character Mark Wahlberg played in All the Money in the World (who looks like this). It is a nice hat. He seems very proud. You know what? We’re feeling...More »
  
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• Peggy Cummins, Seductive Star of a Cult Film, Dies at 92

  05-01-2018 23:42 via nytimes.com
  The slender, blond Ms. Cummins had mostly played innocents until being cast in her best-known role, as a bloodthirsty sharpshooter in “Gun Crazy.”
  
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• Lindsay Lohan Would Like to Be in a ‘Woke’ Season of The Comeback Somehow

  05-01-2018 23:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  Twitter, once a safe void in which to shout your random ideas, has now apparently become a place where those ideas snowball into something quite different. Yesterday, Billy Eichner suggested that The Comeback should, uh, return for a third season in which Valerie Cherish decides to get political and woke....More »
  
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• What the Hell Is Brie Larson Doing in Basmati Blues?

  05-01-2018 23:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  From time to time, a piece of pop culture comes along that is absolutely enthralling in its weirdness. Something that makes you want to learn everything there is to know about it, devote your life to it the way some scholars will spend their entire careers rereading Ulysses. For me,...More »
  
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• Review: ‘Hamilton’ Conquers London (King George Slays Too)

  05-01-2018 23:21 via nytimes.com
  The newcomer Jamael Westman steps out as a fully formed star in the title role of the triumphant London production of “Hamilton.”
  
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• Bryan Singer Dropped as Legion EP Following Sexual Assault Allegation

  05-01-2018 22:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  Bryan Singer will no longer executive produce Legion for FX. According to Deadline, Singer’s removal was at his own request. “Bryan asked to take his name off the show, so we have done that,” Legion creator Noah Hawley told Deadline after the show’s TCA panel. Singer’s exit follows his involvement in...More »
  
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• The Strange Ones Is an Arty But Suspenseful Drama That Evokes Serious Dread

  05-01-2018 22:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  The arty but suspenseful drama The Strange Ones is a perfect demonstration of how the craft of storytelling is also the craft of withholding — of revealing as little as possible in carefully parceled-out amounts. Consider the fragmented opening: A man rasping a name that’s barely audible, a teenage boy...More »
  
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• Justin Timberlake’s Man of the Woods Track List, Analyzed

  05-01-2018 22:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  This week, Justin Timberlake announced his upcoming album, Man of the Woods, with a short promo video that cast him as an outdoorsman who enjoys running like a horse, running with a horse, and running in a big field under the vast American sky, presumably somewhere in the vicinity of...More »
  
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• What the Job of a Sensitivity Reader Is Really Like

  05-01-2018 21:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  For a novelist, Dhonielle Clayton has a lot of unhappy memories of reading. There was the time a teacher made the class read Huck Finn out loud, and Clayton, the only black kid in the room, sat there sweating while her classmates snickered over the prolific use of the N-word....More »
  
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• Paul Haggis: Crash director accused of sexual misconduct by four women

  05-01-2018 21:44
  The Oscar winner, whose credits also include Crash, has denied the claims with his lawyer stating: ‘He didn’t rape anybody’ Paul Haggis has been accused of sexual misconduct by four women, including two allegations of rape.The Oscar-winning screenwriter and director was originally the subject of a lawsuit in December from a publicist who claimed he raped her. Now, three other women have come forward with accusations, according to the Associated Press. Related: Hollywood after W
  
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• Paul Haggis, Oscar-Winning Screenwriter, Accused of Multiple Rapes

  05-01-2018 21:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  Three more women have come forward with sexual-misconduct allegations against writer-director Paul Haggis, including one allegation of rape, the Associated Press reports. The new allegations follow a December lawsuit by publicist Haleigh Breest, who says Haggis raped her after a movie premiere in 2013. Of the three new accusers, one...More »
  
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• Stephen Fry Steps Down as Bafta Film Awards Host

  05-01-2018 21:13 via nytimes.com
  The British Academy of Film and Television Arts says it will announce the new host on Jan. 9.
  
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• The Black Mirror Creator Has an Idea for a Much Nicer Version of The Matrix

  05-01-2018 21:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones, the showrunners for Netflix’s dystopian sci-fi anthology series Black Mirror, discuss a way in which the robot overlords in The Matrix could have made the virtual world more comfortable....More »
  
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• Rondleiding Chassé Theater - Breda nieuws

  05-01-2018 20:48
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  De magie van het theater huist in alle hoeken van het Chassé gebouw, van de diepste kelders tot de nok van de toneeltoren. Reserveer nu en ontdek de stilte in de regiecabine, de drukte in de laad- en losruimte, de nagalm in de orkestbak en de sporen ...
  
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• Natalie Portman on How the Time’s Up Initiative Will Work, From the Golden Globes and Beyond

  05-01-2018 20:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  On New Year’s Day, a story in the New York Times announced the existence of Time’s Up, a multifaceted effort by influential women in Hollywood to address sexual harassment, as well as other issues related to gender imbalance, in the entertainment industry and beyond.One of the influential women involved in...More »
  
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• FX’s Investigation Into Louis C.K.’s Workplace Behavior Found No Issues, John Landgraf Says

  05-01-2018 20:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  An internal investigation at FX Productions into comedian Louis C.K.’s workplace behavior while he worked there on five different TV shows has concluded and found no “issues, complaints or instances of misconduct of any kind during the eight years we worked together,” FX Networks and FX Productions CEO John Landgraf...More »
  
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• Cinema box office in UK and Ireland breaks record third year in a row

  05-01-2018 20:40
  Star Wars: The Last Jedi top earning film of 2017, with £1.38bn in overall takings showing cinema retains appeal in digital ageThe cinema box office in the UK and Ireland had a record-breaking year in 2017, with its highest grossing year to date.According to figures released by the box-office tracker comScore, £1.38bn was spent on cinema tickets, 6.1%up on the previous year. It was not expected to beat 2016, which was a 53-week year (the year includes all Friday-to-Thursday play week
  
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• LBDs are selling out but Golden Globes backlash has already begun

  05-01-2018 20:15
  Female stars will wear black dresses to highlight Hollywood sexual harassment on Sunday, but not everyone is supportiveAnyone shopping for a little black dress in Los Angeles this weekend can expect slim pickings. The Time’s Up campaign, which has called on women to wear black on the Golden Globes red carpet to support the fight against sexual harassment in Hollywood, has seen a run on black gowns.
  “Every request we’ve received thus far has been for black,” a representati
  
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• FX Is Planning to Bring Back Fargo for a Fourth Season … in 2019

  05-01-2018 20:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  Fargo’s creator Noah Hawley is a busy guy. He’s got Legion to focus on, and even a Doctor Doom movie, so we figured it’d be a while before he returned to Fargo after it finished its third season. At FX’s Television Critics Association panel today, however, the network’s CEO John...More »
  
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• Fire and fury in the Trump White House

  05-01-2018 19:59 via ft.com
  A sensational portrait of the president has hit a nerve, with reason
  
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• Golden Globes 2018: The New Red Carpet

  05-01-2018 19:57 via nytimes.com
  Will the Golden Globes rewrite the rules for awards seasons to come?
  
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• Phantom Thread Has Finally Killed the Word ‘Chic’

  05-01-2018 19:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Cut’s ever-growing list of words and phrases to avoid include fashion clichés such as “iconic,” “glam,” and “fierce.” Clothes are not to possess a “pop of color,” nor be described as “forgiving.” One does not “step out” wearing anything.The word “chic” has so far escaped this list. But Phantom Thread...More »
  
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• Here Are the Producers Guild Contenders, Led by ‘Wonder Woman’ and ‘Get Out’

  05-01-2018 19:42 via nytimes.com
  The industry group’s top winner often goes on to collect best picture at the Oscars. Also on the list are “The Big Sick,” “Dunkirk” and “I, Tonya.”
  
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• Margot Robbie Is a Revelation in I, Tonya

  05-01-2018 19:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  As a girl, whenever I heard about the disgraced Olympic figure skater and tabloid staple Tonya Harding, I couldn’t quite grasp the nuances of why she was spoken of with such venom. But I did understand that Harding was a lesson in the kind of woman I’d grown up being...More »
  
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• Removing Kevin Spacey from movie was a 'business decision', says Ridley Scott

  05-01-2018 19:25
  The director has explained his last-minute decision to replace Spacey, following accusations of misconduct, with Christopher Plummer in drama All the Money in the WorldRead Rory Carroll’s full interview hereRidley Scott’s removal of Kevin Spacey from his new movie All the Money in the World was a business decision, he has told the Guardian. In an exclusive interview, the 80-year-old director explains how he acted as soon as allegations of Spacey’s sexual misconduct came to ligh
  
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• The Empty Gesture of Red Carpet Protest

  05-01-2018 19:24 via nytimes.com
  There is something unsettling about how little these celebrities have to lose by taking “bold” stances.
  
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• See the First Look at Sons of Anarchy Spinoff Mayans MC

  05-01-2018 19:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  FX has officially ordered Kurt Sutter’s Sons of Anarchy spinoff Mayans MC to series, announcing that the ten-episode first season will premiere sometime in 2018. To tide fans over until then, the network has also offered a first look at its new star, EZ Reyes (JD Pardo), a prospect of...More »
  
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• Look Who Finally Got Her Very Own Fifty Shades Song

  05-01-2018 19:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  After three years on the sideline playing Christian Grey’s sister Mia, Rita Ora has finally been trusted to lead the third and final Fifty Shades soundtrack. Carrying the torch passed on by Beyoncé, the Weeknd, Ellie Goulding, and Taylor Swift (with Zayn), she duets with a different ex-One Directioner, Liam...More »
  
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• Atlanta Will Be Back for Season 2, a.k.a. Robbin’ Season, on March 1

  05-01-2018 19:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Atlanta may have deserted us for far too long as Donald Glover went off to shoot (and reshoot) the Han Solo movie, but it’ll finally be back soon. FX announced today that Atlanta Robbin’ Season, will premiere on March 1 – so not exactly what Lakeith Stanfield promised, but close....More »
  
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• Michael Wolff defends methods in tell-all White House book

  05-01-2018 19:08 via ft.com
  The New York journalist has been accused of betraying sources and embellishing facts
  
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• Berlin forced to defend hate speech law

  05-01-2018 19:02 via ft.com
  Disapproval across political spectrum amid claims it can create ‘opinion martyrs’
  
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• The End of the F***ing World Isn’t Nearly As Bleak As It Looks

  05-01-2018 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  The End of the F***ing World may be based on a 2013 graphic novel by Charles Forsman, but the style and attitude in its eight briskly paced episodes, which originally aired on the U.K.’s Channel Four, strongly suggest they were inspired by early-’90s indie cinema.“I’m James,” a skinny British kid...More »
  
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• Wonder Woman, I, Tonya, and The Big Sick Among Producers Guild Nominees

  05-01-2018 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  A PGA nomination can be a sign that a movie’s got some pretty solid Oscar chances, and so the Producers Guild of America’s announcement today is good news for films perched on the edge of Academy recognition, like I, Tonya and Molly’s Game. Other potential contenders Darkest Hour and The...More »
  
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• Bafta-winner Wunmi Mosaku: ‘I’m glad my eyes were opened after Brexit. It was an outburst of ugliness’

  05-01-2018 19:00
  The British-Nigerian actor stars in Channel 4’s blockbuster new drama Kiri, as a police officer investigating the murder of a foster child. She talks about racism, British identity and the hard time given to social workersTere must be something about Wunmi Mosaku that casting directors see and think: police officer. She is about to play her fourth in Kiri, Channel 4’s blockbuster new drama. “I feel really embarrassed about it,” she says with a laugh. “What is it abo
  
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• Wait, How Is the Weinstein Company Worth Nearly $500 Million?

  05-01-2018 18:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  As distressed assets go, the Weinstein Company has lately been causing its financial backers and shareholders no small amount of actual distress. Much of the mini-major studio’s brand value is inextricably tied to co-founders Bob and Harvey Weinstein and their alchemical skill at attracting top talent, squeezing maximum profit out...More »
  
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• Justin Timberlake’s ‘Filthy’ Isn’t Especially Filthy

  05-01-2018 18:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  Music nerd rule numero uno: Never trust what the artist tells you about the new material. By the time most performers and producers start fielding questions about “their new direction,” they’ve spent several days and weeks eyeballing waveforms and making incremental changes to try and actualize ideas they heard in...More »
  
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• Will Awards Season Ever Be the Same?

  05-01-2018 18:06 via nytimes.com
  Harvey Weinstein helped build the awards circuit as we know it. He will be gone from this year’s Golden Globes, but his presence, and questionable legacy, will be everywhere.
  
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• Trump White House to Screen Feature-Length Trump Subtweet The Post

  05-01-2018 18:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  In between the president’s late-night McDonald’s runs and early-morning subtweeting, the Trump White House will reportedly screen The Post. Per The Hollywood Reporter, 20th Century Fox gave the White House access to the movie for both 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and Camp David, where the president is scheduled to host a...More »
  
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• Big star judges can't save bland new singing competition show The Four

  05-01-2018 18:02
  The new American Idol-aiming show boasts a panel of celebrity judges, including Diddy, and a prized time-slot, but it adds nothing to an already oversaturated genreFox’s new singing competition show The Four, which premiered its two-hour season opener on Thursday night, tries very hard to reinvent a genre that introduced us to Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood, Susan Boyle, Jennifer Hudson, and One Direction. And just five minutes into the first episode, it gives itself a big, pre-emptive p
  
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• What the Smiles Concealed

  05-01-2018 18:00 via nytimes.com
  Some red carpet photos have become a metaphor for the difficulty of confronting or rejecting powerful men who harass or assault.
  
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• The Red Carpet Is Its Own Economy

  05-01-2018 18:00 via nytimes.com
  Make no mistake: Many of the outfits you see on awards nights are now part of a deal. Could the Golden Globes break the pattern of celebrities paid to pose?
  
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• After #AskHerMore and #MeToo, Time’s Up

  05-01-2018 18:00 via nytimes.com
  This year, it is the celebrities, in particular the women, who are defining the agenda.
  
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• David Letterman, His Beard, and His Big-Name Guests Are Here in the Trailer for His Netflix Series

  05-01-2018 17:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  Netflix may have pried David Letterman out of retirement, but there’s no way they’re getting him to shave. In My Next Guest Needs No Introduction, Letterman will interview big names, including George Clooney, Malala Yousafzai, Jay-Z, Tina Fey, and Howard Stern over the course of six 60-minute episodes. The first,...More »
  
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• 20 Questions We Have About Bright and Its Sequel

  05-01-2018 17:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  The movie Bright — hailed as “The Worst Movie of 2017” by IndieWire — was … a lot. A lot of looks, a lot of big swings at saying something Important about Racism, a lot of dropped plot points. But somehow, the big-budget Netflix feature about cops and interspecies relations...More »
  
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• Insidious: The Last Key Makes Very Little Sense

  05-01-2018 17:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  I regret to report that I didn’t understand most of what happens in Insidious: The Last Key. Several successful genre films in recent months have been criticized as playing fast and loose with their own fantastical in-film logic (It, Star Wars: The Last Jedi) but the fourth installment of Leigh...More »
  
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• 23 Exciting Theater Productions Taking the Stage in 2018

  05-01-2018 17:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s a tricky thing to pull together a “Most Anticipated Shows” list, partly because most of the productions generating buzz this early in the year have enough resources to hitch a ride on the Hype Machine, which runs on cash. I have no doubt that some of the coming year’s...More »
  
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• Ben Vereen Accused of Sexual Assault While Directing Florida Production of Hair

  05-01-2018 16:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ben Vereen, a Broadway veteran known for his performances in musicals like Hair, Jesus Christ Superstar, and Pippin, has been accused of sexual assault, intimidation, and other abusive behavior by several women he directed in a volunteer production of Hair at the Venice Theatre in Florida. The women claim that...More »
  
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• White House to screen Spielberg's pro-media drama The Post

  05-01-2018 16:48
  The Oscar-tipped film, starring Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks, will receive screenings at both the White House and Camp David this weekendThe White House has been granted access to a print of Steven Spielberg’s Oscar-tipped newspaper drama The Post for screenings this weekend. Related: The Post review – Streep and Hanks scoop the honours in Spielberg's big-hearted storyContinue reading...
  
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• An SNL Audition Tape That’ll Make You Say, ‘It’s Crazy, Like, for a While There I Was Like, ‘I Don’t Know,’ But Then, Yeah, It Came Out Pretty Good, So, Yeah’

  05-01-2018 16:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  Remember that Incubus lyric about how the ocean looks like “a thousand diamonds strewn across a blue blanket?” The internet is like that but instead of diamonds, it’s SNL audition reels or impression reels that are essentially SNL auditions (oh, you have a video of you doing a Nancy Pelosi...More »
  
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• Not to Be Outdone by His Brother, Jake Paul Caught Dropping N-Word in Leaked Video

  05-01-2018 16:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  Today in the controversial Paul brother power rankings, young Jake has gained some leverage. Following the uproar over his older brother Logan’s vlog of an apparent suicide victim, Jake is back to reclaim his title as Most Problematic Paul Brother. TMZ has leaked a video of Jake “freestyling” over his...More »
  
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