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• Hypnotic thriller that haunted a nation inspires remakes for a new generation

  13-01-2018 23:01
  Half a century after novel depicted tragedy at Hanging Rock, updated film and theatre versions shed new lightIn the searing heat of an Australian Valentine’s Day, a small party of schoolgirls set out for a local beauty spot, Hanging Rock. Some were never to return. The shocking incident, whether imagined or real, as some still believe, has haunted the national psyche ever since the publication of Joan Lindsay’s novel Picnic at Hanging Rock in 1967.Regarded as a key work of modern Aus
  
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• Netflix Cancels Lady Dynamite After 2 Seasons

  13-01-2018 21:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  Boom goes the …. well, you get it the idea. THR confirmed Netflix has chosen not to renew Lady Dynamite for a third season on the streaming network. The comedy series, which we really enjoyed here at Vulture, starred Maria Bamford and was inspired by her ferociously funny life —...More »
  
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• Phillip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams Recap: Daddy Issues

  13-01-2018 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  As I’ve said a few times in these recaps, I don’t think audiences realize how difficult anthologies are to write. You have to build an entire world in an episode. You have to take the audience on a complete journey to a definitive endpoint. You have to build to a...More »
  
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• Daniel Day-Lewis Loves Trashy Reality TV Just As Much As You Do

  13-01-2018 20:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  We’re not 100 percent certain this isn’t a method acting tactic, but let’s just roll with the punches for now, okay? It’s a fun one! Because Daniel Day-Lewis, by all means a stately British chap with a whole lotta decorum, loves unwinding after a long day at the office with...More »
  
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• Mark Wahlberg to Donate His $1.5 Million All the Money in the World Reshoot Money to Time’s Up

  13-01-2018 19:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  After becoming the subject of backlash for the major discrepancy between his and Michelle Williams’s pay for All the Money in the World reshoots, Mark Wahlberg has announced that he is donating $1.5 million — the full amount he received — in Michelle Williams’s name. Deadline reports that the money...More »
  
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• The End of the F***ing World Series Premiere Recap: When James Met Alyssa

  13-01-2018 19:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  I’ll level with you: The pilot of The End of the F***ing World teeters juuust on the edge of what I might find cloying. It’s a fantastic episode, but it succeeds in spite of its central conceit.On paper, it sounds like a goth Moonrise Kingdom reboot: Two disaffected kids decide...More »
  
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• Eliza Dushku Claims True Lies Stunt Coordinator Molested Her When She Was 12

  13-01-2018 19:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  Adding her voice to the hundreds of women speaking out about Hollywood’s sexual harassment and assault epidemic as part of the #MeToo movement, Eliza Dushku — perhaps best know for her roles in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and Tru Calling — is alleging a veteran stunt coordinator sexually molested...More »
  
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• Frankly, How Dare Mamma Mia! Reject Tom Hanks for a Role

  13-01-2018 18:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  If Tom Hanks offers to be in your movie, you’re legally only allowed to react in one of the following ways: Scream until you faint, thank him profusely through song and dance, buy him a typewriter, or cry. However, the schmucks over at 2008’s Mamma Mia! film production believed Hanks’s...More »
  
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• Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams Recap: If You Could Read My Mind

  13-01-2018 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Whoa. I’ve seen countless sci-fi attempts to tackle the subject of online surveillance and abuse, but they usually devolve into helpless paranoia and fear-mongering without exploring the emotional impact of our ability to do so. That’s not the case with the fifth entry of Electric Dreams, “The Hoodmaker,” which is...More »
  
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• Modern Family Is Planning to End Next Season

  13-01-2018 17:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  Pritchetts just aren’t cut out for the post-modern world. The co-creators of ABC’s popular sitcom Modern Family, Steve Levitan and Christopher Lloyd, have confirmed they’re intending to end the show with its upcoming tenth season. (The series is currently running through its ninth.) “Our plan is to end it at...More »
  
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• ASK-Theater is 'Apeldoorner van het Jaar' - Apeldoorndirect - Apeldoorn Direct

  13-01-2018 17:14
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  ASK-Theater is 'Apeldoorner van het Jaar' - Apeldoorndirect
  Apeldoorn Direct
  Het ASK-Theater mag zich sinds vanmiddag, zaterdag 13 januari, 'Apeldoorner van het jaar 2017' noemen. Tijdens de nieuwjaarsreceptie van de Vereniging Oud Apeldoorn (VOA) in scholengemeenschap de Heemgaard werd dit bekendgemaakt. Christian Kluft ...en meer »
  
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• Ashley Judd Thinks James Franco’s Response to His Harassment Claims Was ‘Terrific’

  13-01-2018 16:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  Five women accused James Franco of inappropriate behavior and sexual misconduct in a Los Angeles Times report this week, and while Franco has denied the allegations, one prominent figure in the #MeToo movement thinks his response has been “terrific.” In a recent interview with the BBC’s Stephen Sakur, Ashley Judd...More »
  
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• Is James Spader the Best Storyteller in Late-Night TV?

  13-01-2018 16:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  Last night, James Spader — of Blacklist, Boston Legal, fedora, and ‘80s heartthrob fame — did what any NBC procedural lead would do while contractually obligated to promote a mid-season premiere: He went on a late-night show and talked about his life. But unlike other Big Three procedural actors who...More »
  
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• Open dag De Mavo voor Theater – MT010 een succes - OPEN Rotterdam (persbericht)

  13-01-2018 16:03
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  Open dag De Mavo voor Theater – MT010 een succes
  OPEN Rotterdam (persbericht)
  Wie aankomend schooljaar gaat starten op het voorgezet onderwijs, zal deze maand druk bezig kunnen zijn met het uitzoeken van een geschikte middelbare school. Om die reden hield De Mavo voor Theater - MT010 vandaag een open dag. Belangstellenden konden ...
  
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• Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams Recap: Shine On You Crazy Diamond

  13-01-2018 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  You know you’ve found something crackling when you’re ten minutes into an episode and already looking up who directed it. For this fourth episode of Electric Dreams, it turns out to be none other that one of my favorite British TV directors, Marc Munden. (If you’ve never seen Utopia, get...More »
  
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• Katie Couric Is Still Processing the ‘Disturbing’ and ‘Distressing’ Matt Lauer Allegations

  13-01-2018 15:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  Last month, Katie Couric said she wasn’t ready to talk about the numerous sexual harassment allegations against Matt Lauer, only offering an Instagram comment, of all things, to say she was “incredibly” upset at what transpired at Today. Processing her thoughts in the weeks to come, Couric is now ready...More »
  
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• Style Q&A: It’s Time for Another ‘Star Wars’ Best Costume Oscar

  13-01-2018 12:00 via nytimes.com
  The costumer designer for “The Last Jedi,” talks about Oscar snubs, Carrie Fisher and Kylo Ren’s hot pants.
  
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• Style Q&A: Designing Costumes for 'Star Wars’ Jedis, Princesses and Naked Creatures

  13-01-2018 12:00 via nytimes.com
  Michael Kaplan, the costumer designer for “The Last Jedi,” talks about Oscar snubs, Carrie Fisher and Kylo Ren’s pants.
  
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• Britannia: will Jez Butterworth’s epic new show plug the gap left by Game of Thrones?

  13-01-2018 12:00
  What it lacks in sibling sex and skeleton armies Britannia makes up for in plain weirdness with savagery, superstition and strange visions aboundCoast of Gaul, AD43. Roman commander and all-round hard bastard Aulus Plautius (David Morrissey) surveys his prisoners, an animal carcass draped fetchingly across his shoulders. Ninety years after Julius Caesar pitched up on its shores, only to meet the Druids and leg it, the Romans are finally ready to conquer the Celts. But just as the ships are set t
  
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• Liam Neeson says harassment allegations are now 'a witch-hunt'

  13-01-2018 11:34
  Hollywood A-lister suggests the treatment of some celebrities, such as Garrison Keillor, has been excessiveLiam Neeson has described the wave of sexual misconduct allegations that have swept the entertainment industry as “a bit of a witch-hunt” and appeared to dismiss breast groping as “childhood stuff” in an interview on Irish television. Speaking on The Late Late Show on RTE, the Hollywood A-lister said “there’s some people, famous people, being suddenly acc
  
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• Skyler White: the underdog who set the template for TV's antiheroine

  13-01-2018 11:00
  Priggish and perma-pregnant, Anna Gunn’s divisive portrayal of Walter White’s wife has finally been vindicated Related: Anna Gunn on leading all-female film Equity and being 'demonized' online Skyler, it seems we owe you an apology – and, yes, it has been a long time coming. It is a decade since Breaking Bad began airing on television and Skyler White no longer tops the list of TV’s Most Annoying. She’s been superseded by the likes of Piper on Orange Is the New Blac
  
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• Comedy actor Bella Emberg dies aged 80

  13-01-2018 10:13
  Russ Abbot leads tributes to Emberg, who played his comic sidekick Blunderwoman in the 1980sTributes have been paid to the comedy actor Bella Emberg, who has died aged 80.Emberg was described by Russ Abbot, with whom she appeared on The Russ Abbot Show aas Blunderwoman, as a “a woman of immense warmth and generosity”. Continue reading...
  
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• My 2018 resolution? No more self-doubt

  13-01-2018 09:59
  I’ve been working on a book for over a decade, but like Jack in the Shining I’ve found myself recording the same things again and again. What am I waiting for?I don’t believe in New Year resolutions, but I do believe in becoming so fed up with doing – or not doing – something that you realise something has to give, whatever the date. It just so happened that this came to me on 2 January, when I realised I’d been researching a long-planned book for (the dates o
  
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• Musicalweken in Theater Junushoff - Hoogenlaag

  13-01-2018 08:31
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  Musicalweken in Theater Junushoff
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  WAGENINGEN Nog nooit stonden er in één maand zoveel musicalsterren op het podium van de Grote Zaal in Junushoff. Naast Paul Groot, Marjolein Keuning en Brigitte Heitzer staan ook Lenette van Dongen, Carolina Dijkhuizen en Esmée Dekker te schitteren op ...
  
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• Mata Hari in het Posthuis Theater - Heerenveense Courant

  13-01-2018 08:03
  Heerenveense Courant
  Mata Hari in het Posthuis Theater
  Heerenveense Courant
  Hier vindt om 20:15 uur de voorstelling 'Façade: De laatste dagen van Mata-Hari' plaats, gemaakt door muziektheater Transparant uit België en gespeeld door Claron McFadden (sopraan) en Claire Chevallier (piano). Mata Hari: in vredestijd werd ze als ...
  
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• Franeker Filmweekend bij Theater De Koornbeurs - Franeker Courant

  13-01-2018 08:03
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  Franeker Filmweekend bij Theater De Koornbeurs
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  FRANEKER – Het Franeker Filmweekend staat voor de deur. Dat vindt plaats van vrijdag 19 tot en met zondag 21 januari. Er zijn dan zes films te zien in Theater De Koornbeurs. Er kunnen zowel losse kaarten per film worden gekocht, evenals een passe ...
  
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• They’re so vain: pop culture’s most misguided vanity projects

  13-01-2018 08:00
  A rundown of pop culture’s infamous vanity projects in TV, film and music, featuring Alex James’ cheese, John Travolta’s Battlefield Earth and beyond Related: Don't be afraid of vanity projects 30 Rick Stein’s Long Weekends
  Considering Rick Stein is so charming and watchable, it doesn’t matter what he’s doing as long as he’s on screen. So Long Weekends was probably an easy pitch. “What if Rick travels around, eats delicious food then talks about ho
  
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• Liam Neeson says harassment allegations have become 'a witch-hunt'

  13-01-2018 07:51
  Hollywood A-lister suggests the treatment of some celebrities, such as Garrison Keillor, has been excessiveLiam Neeson has described the wave of sexual misconduct allegations that have swept the entertainment industry as “a bit of a witch-hunt” and appeared to dismiss breast groping as “childhood stuff” in an interview on Irish television. Speaking on The Late Late Show on RTE, the Hollywood A-lister said “there’s some people, famous people, being suddenly acc
  
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• The Wine Show review – like The Trip, minus the existential crises

  13-01-2018 07:00
  Actor pals Matthew Goode and James Purefoy drive around Provence in search of the perfect wine to have with dinner. Nice for them, but is it tasty TV?I got into a minor Twitter spat with a few people in the wine community recently. I’d made an ignorant comment in a review about wine being deeply boring and some readers took exception. “Only deeply boring if you don’t care about taste, economics, sociology, history, politics, geology, climate, etc,” retorted one, a Master
  
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• Saturday's best TV: Hard Sun; Spiral

  13-01-2018 07:00
  The deliriously OTT apocalypse drama continues as does its polar opposite, the meticulous, subtle French policier Spiral. Continue reading...
  
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• How the ‘Fit Hot Guys’ of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Shot Their Strip Scene

  13-01-2018 05:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  In classic Crazy Ex-Girlfriend fashion, it’s the men of the show who usually get ogled and objectified. But in Friday’s episode, White Josh (David Hull), Nathaniel (Scott Michael Foster), and Josh Chan (Vincent Rodriguez III) perform a Magic Mike-inspired sendup that pushes the joke to its funniest end yet. It’s...More »
  
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• Liam Neeson Thinks Hollywood’s Sexual Harassment Reckoning Is ‘A Bit of a Witch Hunt’

  13-01-2018 04:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  “There is a bit of a witch hunt happening,” The Commuter star Liam Neeson said while a guest on Ireland’s The Late Late Show. When prompted by host Ryan Tubridy, he continued, “There are some famous people being suddenly accused of touching some girl’s knee, or something, and then suddenly...More »
  
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• Facebook’s Sandberg and Twitter’s Dorsey to quit Disney board

  13-01-2018 03:38 via ft.com
  Latest sign of competitive tensions between Hollywood and Silicon Valley 
  
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• David Harbour Crashed Someone’s Yearbook Photos, Just Like He Promised

  13-01-2018 03:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Reaffirming once again that you should always try to make ridiculous bets with your favorite celebrities, David Harbour made good on a Twitter wager he placed in October. The Stranger Things star promised to stop by for a yearbook photo cameo if a particular California high school student, identified as...More »
  
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• Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’s David Hull On How His Career Is a Commentary on Whiteness

  13-01-2018 03:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  It might seem obvious to say that David Hull plays white guys (because, well, he’s white), but the actor is on two shows – Crazy Ex Girlfriend and Insecure – that consciously acknowledge that fact. On Crazy Ex Girlfriend, David Hull plays White Josh (affectionately known as WiJo by the...More »
  
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• Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Recap: Thinking It Through

  13-01-2018 03:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  One of the guiding principles of comedic TV has long been that lessons are either never learned, or learned once and definitively, preferably at the end of an episode. But in showing Rebecca’s quest to become a saner person, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend has taken a much more realistic tack: Lessons are...More »
  
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• Jon Hamm Has A Lot of Questions in the New Beirut Trailer

  13-01-2018 01:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the new trailer for his upcoming drama Beirut, Jon Hamm’s character Mason Giles returns to Lebanon in 1982, ten years after the murder of his wife at the behest of the CIA. There, he will have to negotiate with a terrorist organization for the return of a friend, and...More »
  
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• Starz Announces Neil Gaiman As New American Gods Showrunner; Neil Gaiman Disagrees

  13-01-2018 00:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  At Starz’s Television Critics Association panel today, CEO Chris Albrecht announced that Neil Gaiman, American Gods author, would step in as showrunner of the network’s TV adaptation following the departures of Bryan Fuller and Michael Green. “Neil Gaiman will be moving into a more traditional showrunner function,” Albrecht said at...More »
  
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• Just joking: John Humphrys defends remarks on BBC gender pay gap

  13-01-2018 00:34
  Today broadcaster had come under fire for leaked comments to colleague Jon Sopel sparked by Carrie Gracie’s BBC campaignRadio 4’s John Humphrys has defended his “jocular exchange” with Jon Sopel over colleague Carrie Gracie and the BBC’s equal pay controversy.The presenter of the Today programme told ITV News on Friday that he was “totally totally in support of equal pay for equal work”.Continue reading...
  
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• How Stevie Wonder Helped Make MLK Day a National Holiday

  13-01-2018 00:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  After a bill to commemorate the civil-rights hero’s life with a national holiday stalled in Congress, Stevie Wonder stepped in....More »
  
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• 2018 Was Just Begging Ansel Elgort and Scott Storch to Drop Some Heat

  13-01-2018 00:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ansolo has teamed up with aughts-era super-producer Scott Storch, and the result is a “Supernova.” The baby driver turned baby DJ turned baby singer adds to his repertoire of musical one-offs with this melancholy assemblage of word salad (e.g. “this supernova could cause a commotion, my mind’s of the notion...More »
  
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• Rebecca Hall says she won't work with Woody Allen again

  13-01-2018 00:23
  Actor apologizes for role in Allen’s new film and will donate wages to Time’s Up initiative: ‘My actions have made another woman feel silenced and dismissed’Actor Rebecca Hall, who has a role in Woody Allen’s new film, has announced that she would not work with the embattled director in the future and was donating her wages to the Time’s Up initiative. Hall, who starred in Allen’s 2008 film Vicky Cristina Barcelona, is the latest high-profile actor to de
  
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• Review: Under the Radar 2018: Mugen Noh Othello and Antigonón, un Contingente Épico

  13-01-2018 00:00
  Offerings from the Japan Society and Cuba's Teatro el Público take the stage at the Public Theater's annual festival of experimental work.
  
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• Rebecca Hall Says She Regrets Working With Woody Allen, Too

  13-01-2018 00:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Rebecca Hall is the latest actress to renounce working with Woody Allen. After Greta Gerwig said she would not work with Allen again and Mira Sorvino said she believes Dyan Farrow’s allegations of molestation, Hall posted a Time’s Up graphic on Instagram, and addressed her professional history with Allen. Hall...More »
  
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