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• Let’s Talk About the Ending of Black Mirror’s ‘USS Callister’

  08-01-2018 23:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  This story includes spoilers for the season-four premiere of Black Mirror. Black Mirror writer-creator Charlie Booker has never met a twist ending he didn’t love. “USS Callister,” the feature-length season-four opener he co-wrote with William Bridges, relies on a blend of technological cynicism, grim moodiness, inventive science fiction, and a...More »
  
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• On the Runway: The Golden Globes’ 500 Shades of Black: Did It Work?

  08-01-2018 23:47 via nytimes.com
  The choice by almost every woman to wear black to the awards show made for more personal expression than anyone expected.
  
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• Scene City: Elisabeth Moss, Mariah Carey and Reese Witherspoon Party After the Golden Globes

  08-01-2018 23:21 via nytimes.com
  Still wearing black, celebrities hit parties hosted by InStyle, HBO and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
  
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• How Male Golden Globe Winners Stood Up for #TimesUp in Their Speeches

  08-01-2018 23:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  Merriam-Webster defines “ally” as “one that is associated with another as a helper: a person or group that provides assistance and support.” Well, that word has been redefined by the brave male actors and male writers and male directors who won Golden Globes Sunday night. Here is our tribute....More »
  
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• Lovesick Creator Tom Edge on Rom-Coms, Season 3, and What’s Next for Dylan and Evie

  08-01-2018 22:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the third season of Netflix’s inventive British romantic comedy Lovesick, a single line of dialogue sums up the entire series. “I think that you two have loved each other for a very long time, but just in the wrong order,” Abigail (Hannah Britland) tells the protagonist, Dylan (Johnny Flynn),...More »
  
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• Why Is Black Mirror So Divisive This Season?

  08-01-2018 22:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you’ve taken a break from bingeing Black Mirror’s fourth season to see how people are responding to it on social media, you probably noticed something a bit unusual this week. Compared to the way viewers rallied around hit shows like Stranger Things and Game of Thrones, people have been...More »
  
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• And for His Final Act of Sexual Torture, Jamie Dornan Will Cover ‘Maybe I’m Amazed’ for Fifty Shades Freed

  08-01-2018 22:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  There have been riding crops, floggers, blindfolds, Ben Wa balls, and a whole treasure trove of BDSM devices with which Christian Grey has used to sexually torture Anastasia Steele. But it turns out, they were all just an endurance test, the buildup to the final phase of her erotic awakening....More »
  
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• Golden Globes Ratings Decrease Slightly

  08-01-2018 21:02 via nytimes.com
  Ratings for the awards show, hosted by Seth Meyers, dipped 5 percent from last year.
  
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• Review: Mankind

  08-01-2018 21:00
  Robert O'Hara's latest play imagines life after women.
  
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• Oprah Winfrey's speech marks a shift for the Golden Globes – and for women

  08-01-2018 20:36
  The speech, which has many urging Winfrey to run for president, capped a night of feminist battle cries that rendered the event unrecognizable from past yearsOprah Winfrey’s Golden Globes speech: the full textWomen in Hollywood have urged Oprah Winfrey to run for US president in 2020 after she electrified the Golden Globes with a speech that helped transform the awards show into a newly minted platform for women’s rights and social justice.The entertainment mogul reaped lavish praise
  
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• Oprah for president? A far-fetched idea just got dramatically more real

  08-01-2018 20:33
  The entertainment entrepreneur’s electrifying speech at the Golden Globes produced an outpouring of reaction urging the celebrity to run in 2020Oprah Winfrey for president? That was the burning question in American politics on Monday after the entertainment celebrity and entrepreneur delivered a barnstorming speech that had many hailing her as the antidote to Donald Trump.
  Speaking at the Golden Globe awards in Hollywood on Sunday night, Winfrey moved the audience to tears as she praised w
  
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• Bella Thorne Shares Her Own #TimesUp Story on Twitter

  08-01-2018 20:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  For the women who attended last night’s Golden Globes, the ceremony was largely used as a platform to promote the Time’s Up movement and call for solidarity in standing up against exploitation in the workplace via harassment, intimidation, assault, and other forms of violence. (Men were also in attendance.) The...More »
  
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• Could Oprah Winfrey run for US president – and win?

  08-01-2018 19:37
  Her Golden Globes speech has reignited calls for Winfrey to stand for the presidency. It would be a remarkable move from moral to political leadership for a figure who is almost the ‘mirror image’ of TrumpBack in 1999, Donald Trump was considering a run for the presidency and who might be his running mate. He told anyone who would listen his choice: Oprah Winfrey. “I threw out the name of a friend of mine, who I think the world of, she’s great,” he said at an event.
  
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• BBC faces human rights probe over gender pay gap

  08-01-2018 19:22 via ft.com
  Equality commission seeks information from broadcaster after Gracie resignation
  
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• David Bowie: The Last Five Years Brings a Pop Icon Back to Life for a Gratifying 90 Minutes

  08-01-2018 19:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s been two years since David Bowie died and it’s still hard to believe he’s no longer here. The 90-minute British documentary David Bowie: The Last Five Years, which airs tonight on HBO on what would have been Bowie’s 71st birthday, doesn’t necessarily make sense of his absence from this...More »
  
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• Helen Kellie obituary

  08-01-2018 18:58
  My daughter-in-law, Helen Kellie, who has died of lung cancer aged 52, was a broadcasting executive who helped to transform the BBC into an organisation with multiple online platforms. She then moved to Australia, where she championed diversity in broadcasting and was responsible, among other things, for persuading the Eurovision Song Contest to include Australian contestants.The daughter of James, a company director, and his wife, Angela (nee Paten), Helen was born in Sheffield and spent her ea
  
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• Should James Franco Have Blocked Tommy Wiseau From the Mic?

  08-01-2018 18:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  You were probably taking a bathroom break when it happened, but when In the Fade director Fatih Akin won the Golden Globe award for Best Foreign Film, he somewhat unconventionally brought his lead actress Diane Kruger onstage with him to accept the award. Typically, directors and producers accept the film...More »
  
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• Actor Says Disney Is ‘Browning Up’ White Extras for Live-Action Aladdin

  08-01-2018 18:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  Disney’s live-action Aladdin (and hot Jafar) is still a ways off, but the drama is already starting to brew around the Guy Ritchie film. According to the Sunday Times, actors say Disney has been tanning white actors to play extras in Agrabah, the movie’s fictional Middle Eastern city. Actor Kaushal...More »
  
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• From Veep to House of Cards: what to expect from TV shows ending in 2018

  08-01-2018 18:24
  It’s a big year of small-screen goodbyes but what do fans want to see from the final episodes of their favorite shows?There is something strangely apropos about the group of shows that will be ending in 2018. Along with beloved comedies like Portlandia, Nashville and New Girl, series like Veep, The Americans, Scandal and House of Cards – all of which involve the goings-on of the political caste and have, at some point or another, drawn comparisons to the current administration &ndash
  
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• Here’s Michael Shannon Peforming Iggy Pop With the Same Terrifying Intensity He Brings to Everything

  08-01-2018 18:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  Michael Shannon does a damn fine Iggy Pop impression. ( for Sons of the Silent Age’s tribute to Bowie’s Berlin trilogy.) Chuck Sudo (@BisnowChiChuck) January 7, 2018A shot of Michael Shannon performing as Iggy Pop at last night’s Sons of the Silent Age show. Thanks to Bobby Talamine for the...More »
  
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• New Trailer: ‘Red Sparrow,’ With Jennifer Lawrence

  08-01-2018 17:59 via nytimes.com
  The spy thriller reunites the star with Francis Lawrence, who directed the final three installments of the “Hunger Games” franchise.
  
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• Review: In ‘Unexploded Ordnances,’ It’s an Hour to Doomsday. Help!

  08-01-2018 17:46 via nytimes.com
  The longtime feminist duo Split Britches sets its new play in a situation room with “Dr. Strangelove” vibes and a general calling the shots.
  
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• What’s Going on With the The Bachelor Winter Games Edition?

  08-01-2018 17:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  In a strange bid for network synergy and a more wholesome extension of the Bachelor brand than the lurid and painfully tone-deaf Bachelor in Paradise, ABC has a new reality series this Olympics season: The Bachelor Winter Games, premiering February 13. It features former contestants from across the franchise, including...More »
  
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• Fifty Shades Freed Soundtrack Includes a Song by Jamie Dornan

  08-01-2018 17:30 via feeds.eonline.com
  The sexiest soundtrack of the year is almost available.The official track listing for the Fifty Shades Freed soundtrack was announced on the film's official Instagram page Monday....
  
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• Scene City: Partying After the Golden Globes

  08-01-2018 17:29 via nytimes.com
  Elisabeth Moss, Reese Witherspoon, Sterling K. Brown and other winners celebrating with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, InStyle and HBO.
  
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• The Whispers Were Deafening at the Golden Globes

  08-01-2018 17:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  At last night’s Golden Globes, everybody looked the part. Men and women alike wore black eveningwear and “Time’s Up” pins to show their support for the feminist reckoning taking place in their industry and in the world at large. Various female luminaries (and Seth Meyers) sounded out notes of optimism....More »
  
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• Review: Under the Radar 2018: How to Be a Rock Critic and Re-Member Me

  08-01-2018 17:00
  New solo shows are presented in the Public Theater's annual festival of experimental work.
  
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• Final Bow: Final Bow: Miss Saigon's Eva Noblezada and Jon Jon Briones Have One Wish

  08-01-2018 17:00
  They want to ride the helicopter just as much as everyone else does.
  
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• Oprah Reportedly ‘Actively Thinking’ About Presidential Run

  08-01-2018 16:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  If Oprah Winfrey’s stirring Golden Globes acceptance speech for the Cecil B. DeMille Award sounded like the dress rehearsal for her presidential inauguration, that’s because it just might be. CNN now reports that Oprah is “actively thinking” about running for president in 2020, at least according to two anonymous close...More »
  
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• Pink to Sing 2018 Super Bowl National Anthem, Probably Fly in on One Knee

  08-01-2018 16:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  The NFL has announced Pink as its 2018 Super Bowl National Anthem singer after a season when the National Anthem often became more controversial than any call made during the games. Keeping Colin Kaepernick’s movement alive, several NFL players, whole teams, and even owners took a knee during the anthem...More »
  
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• The Golden Globes Were the Season-Two Premiere of Hollywood’s Anti-Trump Resistance

  08-01-2018 16:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  Going into last night’s Golden Globe Awards, there were two big stories: One was about fashion. In the wake of Hollywood’s recently formed anti-harassment and abuse coalition Time’s Up, actresses attending the ceremony were asked to wear black as a statement, an initiative that drew no small amount of predictable...More »
  
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• Star Trek Discovery Recap: A Good Old-Fashioned Mirror-versin’

  08-01-2018 16:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  Thank God for the “Previously on,” because enough has happened in the last two months that I can barely remember being alive in 2017, much less what happened on this show. Which is great, because this episode opens with a moment of quiet collective panic. No one else knows where...More »
  
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• Oprah Winfrey's Golden Globes speech: the full text

  08-01-2018 16:15
  Oprah Winfrey accepted the Cecil B DeMille Award at Sunday’s Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, CaliforniaThe following is the full text of Oprah Winfrey’s speech as she accepted the Cecil B DeMille Award at Sunday’s Golden Globe Awards:Related: Oprah Winfrey's stirring Golden Globes speech prompts talk of White House runRelated: 20 Dems for 2020: who might the Democrats field next time around?Related: The Rape of Recy Taylor: behind one of the year's most vital documentarie
  
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• Photo Flash: Mint Theater Releases New Photos of Hindle Wakes

  08-01-2018 16:00
  Gus Kaikkonen directs the first revival in 95 years of Stanley Houghton's play.
  
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• Oprah Winfrey’s speech was a masterstroke of delivery

  08-01-2018 15:50 via ft.com
  The actor’s Golden Globes appearance is the defining moment of #MeToo — and beyond
  
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• Listen to a Demo of David Bowie’s ‘Let’s Dance’ Released in Honor of His Birthday

  08-01-2018 15:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  On what would’ve been his 71st birthday, David Bowie would probably have wanted everyone to keep dancing. So, in honor of the late star, Parlophone Records has put out an unreleased demo of his 1983 single “Let’s Dance.” He recorded the demo in Switzerland with Nile Rodgers, who said in...More »
  
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• Competent computers still cannot comprehend

  08-01-2018 15:36 via ft.com
  If a computer becomes able to deceive humans, then we may all be in serious trouble
  
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• Artificial intelligence and the consciousness code

  08-01-2018 15:36 via ft.com
  If a computer becomes able to deceive humans, then we may all be in serious trouble
  
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• Here’s What Tommy Wiseau Wanted to Say on the Golden Globes Stage

  08-01-2018 15:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  When James Franco won the Golden Globe for Best Actor, Musical or Comedy for playing Tommy Wiseau in The Disaster Artist, real-life international man of mystery Wiseau joined him onstage. Unfortunately for us, Franco elbowed Wiseau away from the mic before The Room’s auteur could give a speech. No matter:...More »
  
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• Catt Sadler ‘Immensely Grateful’ Actresses Stood Up For Her on E!’s Red Carpet Coverage

  08-01-2018 15:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  The 2018 Golden Globes saw women calling “time’s up” on Hollywood’s systemic inequality, with the red carpet being no exception. The night got underway with various actresses criticizing E! live on its own network for paying former host Catt Sadler nearly half of what it paid her male counterpart, a...More »
  
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• Theater News: Sutton Foster, Gavin Creel, and More Set for Thoroughly Modern Millie Reunion Concert

  08-01-2018 15:00
  The Actors Fund benefit will take place in February.
  
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• Review: Under the Radar 2018: Margarete and Thuderstorm 2.0

  08-01-2018 15:00
  New plays from Poland and China take part in the Public Theater's annual festival of experimental work.
  
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• Oprah Winfrey's stirring Golden Globes speech prompts talk of White House run

  08-01-2018 14:35
  After Winfrey gave a powerful speech about sexual harassment, racial injustice and press freedom, celebrities on Twitter urged her to run for officeOprah Winfrey brought the Golden Globes audience to their feet with a powerful speech as she accepted the Cecil B DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award on Sunday night, prompting speculation about a run for the White House. Related: Golden Globes 2018: Three Billboards wins four but Oprah steals the nightRelated: The Rape of Recy Taylor: behind one of t
  
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• Apocalypse TV: why can't we get enough of world-ending telly?

  08-01-2018 14:07
  Hard Sun’s apocalyptic setting isn’t the first show to signal the end of the world as we know it. From The Leftovers to Under The Dome, the end is always nighWe know what happens when the world ends. Well, we’ve seen it on TV. The Walking Dead shows how our most primal forms emerge as survival eclipses existence. Societal collapse ignites our desire for normality, à la The Stand. Vultures swoop down, aiming to refashion what’s left in their own image, as we see on
  
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• When good TV goes bad: how The League of Gentlemen became no laughing matter

  08-01-2018 14:00
  After two successful seasons, the eccentric sketch show adopted an ambitious concept for the third – at the expense of its best gagsWhen The League of Gentlemen hit our screens in 1999 it was like watching Monty Python remake The Wicker Man from inside Alan Bennett’s fever dream. Set in the fictional northern town of Royston Vasey, the sketch show was a weekly parade of monsters, tragicomic oddballs and one-off grotesques. Its most outrageous characters stuck most firmly in the popul
  
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• Five fiery moments from the Golden Globes 2018 – video report

  08-01-2018 13:28
  Hollywood stars gathered for the Golden Globes ceremony, the first big industry event since the Harvey Weinstein allegations surfaced. Women wore black in solidarity with victims of sexual abuse and many, including Oprah Winfrey, Natalie Portman and Reese Witherspoon, used the platform to demand change in the industry Continue reading...
  
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• From Seinfeld's cable guys to Viktor Petrov: a TV history of Russian baddies

  08-01-2018 13:10
  Red-scare-inducing Russian villains litter US programmes. As McMafia updates the trope for the modern world, we take a look at its forebearsMcMafia recap – series one, episode threeIn McMafia, James Norton is back on our screens as Alex, the effete London-raised son of a dirty-dealing Russian oligarch, who must go round the world attending to his mobster family’s business. An adaptation of Misha Glenny’s non-fiction survey of global organised crime, McMafia seems keen to avoid
  
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• Theater News: Kinky Boots Welcomes Scissor Sisters' Jake Shears to the Company

  08-01-2018 13:00
  Shears makes his Broadway debut alongside J. Harrison Ghee as Lola.
  
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• Golden Globes 2018: Why The Handmaid’s Tale and Big Little Lies had to win

  08-01-2018 12:12
  Any other year, the two runaway successes might have felt odd, but on an evening of activism, they helped put a torch to the entertainment industry as we know itThese were always going to be a difficult Golden Globes to navigate. Before the ceremony began, it looked as if it would be yet another night where external events had outpaced the awards, forcing Hollywood to struggle to locate an appropriate tone.But last night, Hollywood just about pulled it off. Because a decade from now, or a year f
  
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• Theater News: TADA! Youth Theater to Honor Leslie Uggams and Tommy Tune at Annual Gala

  08-01-2018 12:00
  The nonprofit youth theater celebrates another year in New York City.
  
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