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• Go Ahead and Put Troye Sivan’s New Video for ‘My My My’ on Repeat, We’re Not Judging

  11-01-2018 23:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  For those not running in queer, YouTube, or dream-pop enthusiast circles, Troye Sivan’s new song “My My My” might be something of an introduction to the online personality and pretty crooner. Sivan is a South African–born Australian, and is beloved by teens across the internet. He started singing in the...More »
  
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• Alan Bleviss, Veteran Voice-Over Artist, Is Dead at 76

  11-01-2018 23:31 via nytimes.com
  Mr. Bleviss lent his sonorous voice to television commercials, film trailers and political campaigns for Bill Clinton and others.
  
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• Ronan Farrow to Develop an Investigative Series for HBO

  11-01-2018 23:27 via nytimes.com
  HBO has signed Ronan Farrow, whose reporting in The New Yorker on Harvey Weinstein helped spur a national discussion on sexual misconduct, to a three-year deal.
  
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• Is Sony Ashamed of Proud Mary?

  11-01-2018 23:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  Despite generating a wave of online excitement when its gunplay-packed trailer debuted last summer, Proud Mary will slink into theaters Friday as something of a mystery. The action-thriller starring Taraji P. Henson as a badass, wig-wearing, Maserati-driving assassin for the Boston mob hasn’t been screened for critics or even reporters...More »
  
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• Breaking In Trailer: You Will Not Lock Gabrielle Union Out of Her Own House

  11-01-2018 22:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  She’s a bad mother — shut your mouth! Breaking In looks like Panic Room, Gabrielle Union–style. Your favorite BET star/courtside queen returns to the big screen with the home-invasion drama. Union co-produces and stars in the movie about a mother trying to save her two kids when bad guys lock...More »
  
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• Will This New Policy Stop New York’s Inmates From Reading?

  11-01-2018 22:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  On a freezing Monday night, a dozen New Yorkers gathered in the basement of a used bookstore. Thick stacks of letters from prisoners all over the country were piled on a worn wooden table. “I read sometimes 2-3 books a day in here, with nothing else to do,” one inmate,...More »
  
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• Crazy Rich Asians Director Jon M. Chu Is Developing a Wangs vs. the World Adaptation for Hulu

  11-01-2018 22:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  In addition to directing the upcoming Crazy Rich Asians, John M. Chu is developing a separate series about a rich family that loses everything. Chu is working with Hulu to develop a TV comedy based on Jade Chang’s novel The Wangs vs. the World, which follows Charles Wang, a rich...More »
  
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• Every Celebrity That Tahani Has Name-Dropped on The Good Place

  11-01-2018 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  You don’t have to watch The Good Place for long to realize that Tahani Al-Jamil is more than, as Eleanor Shellstrop says, “a hot, rich fraud with legs for days.” She’s also a relentless name-dropper. But when Princess Diana is your godmother and Beyoncé if your best friend, can you...More »
  
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• Greta Gerwig and Jordan Peele Score DGA Awards Nominations

  11-01-2018 22:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  Best Director has always been a top honor at award shows, but this year it’s been an especially big part of the conversation, with women and people of color glaringly absent. Both Get Out’s Jordan Peele and Lady Bird’s Greta Gerwig were missing from the field at the Golden Globes...More »
  
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• Camila Cabello Says Fifth Harmony’s Diss at the VMAs ‘Definitely Hurt My Feelings’

  11-01-2018 21:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  Months after Camila Cabello left Fifth Harmony on contentious terms to go solo, her former group members gave her a symbolic kick out the door by pretending to yank a stand-in fifth singer off the stage during their VMAs performance. In a New York Times profile, Cabello reveals she watched...More »
  
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• Streaming: A Brief History of American Independent Film: ‘Split Screen’ on FilmStruck

  11-01-2018 21:45 via nytimes.com
  Talking to John Pierson about “Split Screen,” now streaming, and indie films.
  
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• 5 Shows to See if You’re in New York in January

  11-01-2018 21:30 via nytimes.com
  For the new year, productions that aim to shake up your senses and challenge your assumptions. Plus: ’80s jargon and hair.
  
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• Oprah Winfrey is less popular among Democrats than Joe Biden, poll says

  11-01-2018 21:28
  Poll of registered Democrats about the 2020 election found more voters have a favorable opinion of Joe Biden than of Winfrey, despite enthusiasm for her to runOprah Winfrey is less popular among Democrats than Joe Biden, a new poll looking ahead to the 2020 election reveals. Related: Oprah Winfrey's stirring Golden Globes speech prompts talk of White House runContinue reading...
  
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• Women’s Accusations Follow James Franco After Golden Globes

  11-01-2018 21:19 via nytimes.com
  Mr. Franco’s victory on Sunday became a flash point for women who came forward to say Mr. Franco sexually exploited them or behaved inappropriately.
  
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• Three Journeys Under the Radar: Trippy, Unsettling and Affectionate

  11-01-2018 21:14 via nytimes.com
  Audiences at the Public Theater’s festival of experimental theater can hallucinate, watch a Cuban “Antigone” or get nostalgic with a New Yorker writer.
  
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• David Simon Says HBO Hasn’t Gotten Any Complaints About James Franco

  11-01-2018 21:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  After five women accused The Deuce star James Franco of sexual misconduct in the Los Angeles Times, the show’s creator David Simon has issued a statement. He’s still reading the reports, same as everyone else, he says, but he can confirm that neither The Deuce nor HBO has received complaints...More »
  
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• Ronan Farrow Gets 3-Film Deal at HBO to Keep Exposing Abuses of Power

  11-01-2018 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Following his bombshell New Yorker investigations into the Harvey Weinstein allegations, journalist Ronan Farrow has officially inked a three-film deal at HBO to develop and lead a series of documentaries tackling various abuses of power. According to The Hollywood Reporter, he’ll get working on the first project later this year,...More »
  
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• How Nicole Kidman, Sam Rockwell, and Ewan McGregor Got Their Award-Winning Accents

  11-01-2018 20:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  Like any good and dedicated teacher, Liz Himelstein keeps detailed notes of her pupils’ strengths and particular challenges. In Himelstein’s notebooks, however, the pages log the progress of students like Nicole Kidman, Gary Oldman, Naomi Watts, David Oyelowo, Emma Watson, Colin Firth, and Oprah.For nearly three decades, Himelstein has worked...More »
  
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• Mira Sorvino: I am terribly sorry for working with Woody Allen

  11-01-2018 20:32
  The Oscar-winning star of Mighty Aphrodite has penned an open letter to Allen’s daughter Dylan Farrow to say she will never work with him againMira Sorvino has penned an open letter to Woody Allen’s daughter Dylan Farrow to express regret over starring in his 1995 comedy Mighty Aphrodite. Related: Greta Gerwig regrets Woody Allen film: 'I will not work for him again'Continue reading...
  
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• Review: In ‘Humor Me,’ a Dose of Borscht Belt for a Midlife Crisis

  11-01-2018 20:30 via nytimes.com
  In Sam Hoffman’s directorial debut, a sad-sack played by Jemaine Clement moves in his with his ebullient father, portrayed by Elliott Gould.
  
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• Warm Your Icy, Jaded Heart With This Video of Greta Gerwig Directing Lady Bird

  11-01-2018 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Gather ’round Greta Gerwig stans and very baller members of the Lady Bird fan club: Vimeo has exclusive footage of Gerwig on set directing the Golden Globe winner. In an accompanying interview, Gerwig describes her DIY film school from working as an actress in her 20s. Lady Bird, which was...More »
  
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• Review: John Lithgow: Stories by Heart

  11-01-2018 20:00
  The Tony-winning actor gives Broadway a lesson in the art of storytelling in his solo show.
  
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• Diversity Is a Top Priority for a New Wave of Comics Publishers

  11-01-2018 19:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  In awkward stutter step, corporate comics have attempted to get woke in recent years. The Big Two publishers, Disney-owned Marvel and Time Warner–owned DC, have made changes that put a few nonwhite and female characters into the spotlight: a woman assumed the mantle of Thor, Iron Man was replaced by...More »
  
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• Wormwood review – LSD, the CIA and the mysterious death of an army scientist

  11-01-2018 19:48
  Frank Olson plunged from a 10th floor window, but his son was never convinced it was suicide. Here, he and Errol Morris attempt to unravel the truthWhat is it? Errol Morris probes the mysterious death of a military biochemist in the US in the 1950s.Why you’ll love it: If you have seen Morris’s dumbfounding documentary Tabloid (2010), you will be aware of his inventive storytelling and stirring command of narrative. In this six-part series, he is given, perhaps, too long to tell us ab
  
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• 11 Things Radiohead Could Do That Would Be Smarter Than Suing Lana Del Rey

  11-01-2018 19:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s true that Radiohead hasn’t yet filed a lawsuit demanding royalties from Lana Del Rey for allegedly copying “Creep” in “Get Free,” the album closer from Del Rey’s recent Lust for Life. Yet it’s unlikely that Lana Del Rey would tweet about the prospect of being sued by Radiohead unless...More »
  
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• The Hilarity and Horror of Ted Danson on The Good Place

  11-01-2018 19:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the season-one finale of The Good Place — Mike Schur’s inventive yet tenderly heartfelt sitcom — is a moment so bracing and clever, it immediately became iconic.The NBC series centers on the exceedingly self-involved Eleanor (Kristen Bell), who wakes up in the afterlife to find herself in a Heaven-like...More »
  
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• Dan Harmon Apologizes in Detail to Community Writer Megan Ganz, Who Accepts His Apology

  11-01-2018 19:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  After engaging in a Twitter conversation with a former writer on Community, Dan Harmon has delivered a long, searching apology for his harassment of her, which she accepted and shared as an example of how to make things right. Earlier this month, the Community creator apologized to Megan Ganz, a...More »
  
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• Phantom Thread’s Vicky Krieps on How She Went Toe to Toe With Daniel Day-Lewis

  11-01-2018 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Who the hell is Vicky Krieps, and where did she find the nerve to be so damn good? These are the questions you might be asking yourself while watching the new Paul Thomas Anderson film Phantom Thread, where Krieps holds her own and then some against the most formidable scene...More »
  
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• Every Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Song, Ranked

  11-01-2018 18:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  Over three seasons and dozens of songs, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend has covered nearly every topic and musical genre imaginable, fearlessly mocking everything from hip-hop to punk-pop, on subjects both highbrow (the stigma of mental illness) and low (period sex). As the Vulture’s CXG recapper, I’ve been astonished at what the songwriting...More »
  
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• Fifty Shades, You’ve Got Competition: Watch the Trailer for the Erotic Thriller Double Lover

  11-01-2018 18:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Fifty Shades franchise offers its fair share of sexual situations, but they’re mild compared with what Double Lover has in store. This wild, kinky thriller from director François Ozon had Cannes Film Festival audiences applauding its audacity: After all, it’s not every day you watch a film that match-dissolves...More »
  
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• Why Black Mirror’s Digital Prisons Are So Haunting

  11-01-2018 18:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  There is much to fear in Black Mirror, but one scene in particular keeps me up at night. It’s not the quadrupedal monstrosity of “Metalhead,” nor the image of making love to a swine from “The National Anthem.” It’s not the bees (not the bees!) of “Hated in the Nation,”...More »
  
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• Venom Movie Teases First Look at Tom Hardy as Eddie Brock

  11-01-2018 18:25 via feeds.eonline.com
  Feast your eyes on Tom Hardy as Eddie Brock in Venom.Fans who attended Brazil Comic-Con in São Paulo Thursday were given the first look at the actor in character as the Marvel...
  
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• Tully Trailer: The Juno and Young Adult Team Takes on Motherhood

  11-01-2018 18:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  The team behind Juno and Young Adult — writer Diablo Cody and director Jason Reitman — have reconvened for a portrait of modern motherhood. Charlize Theron plays a mother of three who, instead of attending lamaze sessions or mommy and me classes, scrolls through her phone and accidentally drops it...More »
  
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• Steven Spielberg: Oprah would make a brilliant president and I will back her

  11-01-2018 17:49
  Calling her the ‘ambassador of empathy’, The Post director endorses Winfrey and says America needs ‘a mindful, empathetic human being in the White House’The undeclared but burgeoning campaign to elect Oprah Winfrey the next President of the United States has received another boost, with the full-throated backing of one of Hollywood’s biggest figures: Steven Spielberg.“I think Oprah Winfrey would make an absolutely brilliant president,” the Oscar-winning
  
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• Now There Are Two Harvey Weinstein Documentaries in the Works

  11-01-2018 17:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  The alleged crimes of Harvey Weinstein are so vast and span so many decades that they can’t be documented in a single film. Variety reports that Britain’s Channel 4 has ordered its own Weinstein documentary rivaling another film previously announced by the BBC. Theirs will take a closer look at...More »
  
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• Slow Burn Is the Watergate Podcast You Didn’t Know You Needed

  11-01-2018 17:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It was all so fun,” said Jacob Weisberg, the host of Slate’s Trumpcast, during a recent episode. “It was a comedy that played out on a national stage.” Weisberg was talking about the Nixon-era Watergate scandal of the early 1970s, the notorious blemish on American history involving a crime, a...More »
  
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• 10 of the Most Exciting Book Releases for 2018

  11-01-2018 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s hard to get excited in January, that darkest, coldest month when the hard work of resolutions begins and the best movies, shows, and midterm elections seem so far away. But you don’t have to wait long at all for the best books (the first one arrives in a week)....More »
  
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• Josie Rourke and Kate Pakenham to Depart London’s Donmar Warehouse

  11-01-2018 17:21 via nytimes.com
  Ms. Rourke, the artistic director, will leave in 2019 and Ms. Pakenham, the executive producer, will leave in June.
  
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• Arthur Miller scorned 'public mourners' of Marilyn Monroe, archive sale reveals

  11-01-2018 17:21
  A 1962 essay by the playwright after the death of his ex-wife is one of many unpublished works in a huge archive sold to the Harry Ransom Center in TexasArthur Miller’s anger at the death of his second wife Marilyn Monroe is expressed in an excoriating and never before published essay from 1962, in which the playwright attacks the “public mourners” who “stand there weeping and gawking, glad that it is not you going into the earth, glad that it is this lovely girl who at l
  
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• Review: A Man and a Woman (and Another Woman) in ‘Lover for a Day’

  11-01-2018 17:20 via nytimes.com
  In Philippe Garrel’s drama, a 23-year-old woman moves in with her father and his 23-year-old girlfriend. Complications ensue.
  
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• What Scott Rogowsky of HQ Can’t Live Without

  11-01-2018 17:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you’re like us, you’ve probably wondered what famous people add to their carts. Not the JAR brooch and Louis XV chair, but the hand sanitizer and the electric toothbrush. We asked HQ host Scott Rogowsky about the translucent glasses, dinosaur boxers, and, uh, snug-fit condoms he can’t live without....More »
  
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• Theater News: John Lithgow Set for Carnegie Hall Candide Benefit Concert

  11-01-2018 17:00
  The evening will also star Paul Appleby, Erin Morley, Patricia Racette, and William Burden.
  
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• Theater News: Ann McDonough Replaces Dana Ivey in Joshua Harmon's Admissions

  11-01-2018 17:00
  Rehearsals are now underway for the Lincoln Center Theater production.
  
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• Theater News: A Bronx Tale to Donate to Families Affected by Deadly December 28 Bronx Fire

  11-01-2018 17:00
  The fire was the deadliest in New York City in the past 25 years, killing 13 men, women, and children.
  
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• James Franco accused of sexual misconduct by five women including former students

  11-01-2018 16:26
  Spokesperson repeats actor’s earlier denial over claims of inappropriate or sexually exploitative behaviour, describing them as ‘not accurate’James Franco has been accused of sexual misconduct by five women, including former students at the actor-director’s New York acting school.The allegations, which have been reported by the Los Angeles Times, include claims that Franco engaged in inappropriate or sexually exploitative behaviour by the women, four of whom were coached
  
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• Is Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams the New Black Mirror?

  11-01-2018 16:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  The author Philip K. Dick sounded alarm bells about alternate realms and the dehumanizing effects of technological advancement decades before anyone carried smartphones — a.k.a., their own personal black mirrors — in their back pockets. So when the buzzy Black Mirror packed up its cautionary futuristic tales and moved them...More »
  
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• 'I have dad moves': Barack Obama discusses dancing on David Letterman's new Netflix show - video

  11-01-2018 16:01
  Former US president talks dad dancing on Letterman's new chat show, explaining that the key is 'staying in the pocket'. After almost three years away from television, Letterman's hour-long show will place the veteran host in competition with his long-time counterpart Jay LenoDavid Letterman's comeback: can his Netflix show take him back to the top? Continue reading...
  
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• Photo Flash: EXCLUSIVE: Eva Noblezada's Girl No More Cabaret Extends at The Green Room 42

  11-01-2018 16:00
  Tony winner Cynthia Erivo stopped for a photo after Noblezada's January 10 performance.
  
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• Photo Flash: EXCLUSIVE: Eva Noblezada's Girl No More Cabaret Extends at Green Room 42

  11-01-2018 16:00
  Tony winner Cynthia Erivo stopped for a photo after Noblezada's January 10 performance.
  
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• Marvel Developing Black Widow Solo Film for Scarlett Johansson

  11-01-2018 15:55 via feeds.eonline.com
  Persistence pays off.Scarlett Johansson has been pitching a Black Widow standalone film for years, and on Wednesday, multiple outlets said screenwriter Jac Schaeffer has been hired to...
  
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