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• Aziz Ansari, ‘Cat Person,’ and the #MeToo Backlash

  16-01-2018 23:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  Over the weekend, a website called babe.net published the story of an anonymous woman’s sexual encounter with comedian Aziz Ansari. The woman describes Ansari repeatedly ignoring her “verbal and non-verbal cues” and aggressively pursuing sex; she says she left his apartment in tears. Later, she texted him to express how...More »
  
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• The New York Times Is Definitely Not Bitter About The Post, Why Would You Even Ask?

  16-01-2018 23:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Post tells the ripped-from-the-headlines true story of the Washington Post’s decision to publish the Pentagon Papers … after the New York Times had already broken the story, of course. Many were puzzled to learn that Steven Spielberg’s Pentagon Papers movie would focus not on the Gray Lady — which...More »
  
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• Fox Renews 9-1-1, TV’s Best Drama About Connie Britton Answering Phones

  16-01-2018 23:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  9-1-1, a TV series designed to showcase Connie Britton’s ability to project a feeling of deep concern while picking up the telephone, will return for a second season. Fox announced the news today, making a quick decision about the freshman series, which is produced by Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, and...More »
  
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• The Brattiest Teens in TV History, Ranked

  16-01-2018 22:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  As long as there’s been TV, the family has been one of its favorite go-tos. All week long, Vulture is exploring how it’s been represented on our screens.The TV Teenager is a curious species. They run the gamut from earnest and relatable portrayals of the teenage experience (hello, Mariana on...More »
  
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• How Wyatt Cenac’s Stand-up Is Inspired by Brooklyn

  16-01-2018 22:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  As stand-up comedy has moved beyond the comedy club over the last 15 years, it’s become ever more common for comics to host their own weekly stand-up shows. When those shows are good, they allow a comic to find their people and write for their audience. For five years, Wyatt...More »
  
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• Remembering the Cranberries’ Dolores O’Riordan

  16-01-2018 22:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  The biggest and most widely accepted lie about ’90s teen culture is that everyone was disaffected, aloof, and cool. We were nothing of the sort. We were dreamers and bleeding hearts whose world was changing perhaps much faster than the generation before — digitizing at a rate we couldn’t understand...More »
  
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• PBS to Air New Mini-series Called #MeToo, Now What?

  16-01-2018 21:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  The #MeToo movement is quickly expanding, but where is it going? That’s a question the new PBS mini-series #MeToo, Now What? plans to address, according to Deadline. The network announced today at a Television Critics Association event that author and advocate Zainab Salbi will serve as host and executive editor...More »
  
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• Russian Theater Director’s House Arrest Is Extended

  16-01-2018 21:53 via nytimes.com
  Kirill S. Serebrennikov has been under suspicion of embezzling a sum equal to $2.3 million.
  
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• Paul Rudd and Evangeline Lilly Suit Up in Newly Released Ant-Man and the Wasp Promo Photo

  16-01-2018 21:45 via feeds.eonline.com
  Ant-Man and the Wasp are ready for action.
  Ahead of the July 6 release of Marvel Studios' Ant-Man sequel, fans are getting a better glimpse at both superheroes all dressed up and...
  
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• The Ataris’ Ex-Bassist Allegedly Masterminded a $27 Million Real-Estate Scam

  16-01-2018 21:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  Today in crucial updates on music that mattered in 2003: A member of that one band popular for a Don Henley cover may have turned to a life of crime, running a national real-estate scam that stole millions. According to the Santa Barbara Independent, the Ataris’ former bassist Michael Davenport...More »
  
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• Sufjan Stevens on the First Time He Saw Call Me by Your Name

  16-01-2018 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sufjan Stevens has now seen Call Me by Your Name four times, but the very first time he went to watch it, he was dreading the experience. It was a little over a year ago when director Luca Guadagnino invited the singer-songwriter to northern Italy to watch an early edit...More »
  
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• Which of Hugh Grant’s Paddington 2 Disguises Is Most Delightful?

  16-01-2018 20:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  Oftentimes, actors seem to appear in kids’-only movies under great duress. But the casts of the Paddington films, all stellar British thespians, elevate the genre of earnest, goofy performance to a new level of art. Ben Whishaw, who replaced Colin Firth at the last minute before the first movie, delivers...More »
  
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• Informa in talks to acquire UBM and create £9bn exhibition group

  16-01-2018 20:41 via ft.com
  Deal would help companies build scale and diversify geographically
  
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• What RZA Can’t Live Without

  16-01-2018 20:23 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 RZA of Wu-Tang Clan about his Tom Ford glasses, perfectly sized guitar, and King James Bible....More »
  
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• Seth Meyers Highlights the Many, Many Ways News Anchors Attempted to Say ‘Sh*thole’

  16-01-2018 19:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  Seth Meyers slammed Donald Trump’s reference to Haiti, El Savador, and African nations as “shitole countries” last night. “What Trump’s private comments reveal is that he doesn’t actually want a merit-based system at all. He wants a system that takes in more white people, and keeps out people of color,”...More »
  
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• Matt Damon Apologizes for Harassment Comments: ‘I Really Wish I’d Listened a Lot More’

  16-01-2018 19:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  Matt Damon has had some time to think about those things he said about #MeToo and now wishes he had done more thinking prior to speaking at all. Asked by Kathie Lee Gifford during an appearance on Today about what, if anything, he learned from the backlash from his attempts...More »
  
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• Review: In ‘Beuys,’ a Portrait of the Artist as a Socially Conscious Provocateur

  16-01-2018 18:59 via nytimes.com
  A new documentary chronicles the work of the conceptual artist Joseph Beuys and the depression he suffered in the 1950s.
  
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• Don’t Expect Alec Baldwin to Donate His Woody Allen Salaries Anytime Soon

  16-01-2018 18:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  Unlike other actors who have recently come to regret working with Woody Allen, Alec Baldwin is standing by the director. Tweeting in response to his peers who have pledged to donate their salaries from Allen films to charity in solidarity with Dylan Farrow’s allegations of sexual abuse (The Tick’s Griffin...More »
  
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• Russian film stars offer support to director in fraud case

  16-01-2018 18:43
  Kirill Serebrennikov, an outspoken Kremlin critic accused of embezzlement, has house arrest extendedSome of Russia’s most famous actors and directors have rallied around an award-winning film and theatre director who faces up to 10 years in prison on fraud charges that critics allege are Kremlin payback for his outspoken views.Kirill Serebrennikov, 48, is accused of embezzling 133m roubles (£1.7m) in government funds allocated to his Platforma theatre project. A Moscow court on Tuesd
  
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• Review: Richard Maxwell Considers Life After Life in ‘Paradiso’

  16-01-2018 18:33 via nytimes.com
  In the bleak and buoyant “Paradiso,” a world beyond human existence is summoned with stark sentimentality and endless eloquence.
  
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• Black Lightning Is the Perfect Superhero Show for the Moment

  16-01-2018 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Black Lightning arrives on television at a timely moment. Even better: It arrives with a ton of swagger.Based on the DC comic and premiering tonight on the CW, Black Lightning is slick, smart, and infused with a social conscience that feels especially spot-on in light of the heightened debate in...More »
  
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• The Bachelor Recap: GLOB

  16-01-2018 18:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  We’ve had back-to-back dates where the likelihood of getting a concussion is high. Is that the only way producers can imagine that any of these women would be interested in Arie? If they all had minor head trauma? Next week, half the ladytestants are going to play football with old-timey...More »
  
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• Mary and the Witch’s Flower Is a Rickety But Likable Debut for Studio Ponoc

  16-01-2018 18:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  There are many eyes trained right now on Studio Ponoc, the animation studio that rose from the ashes of Studio Ghibli following the latter’s shuttering in 2015. Founded by When Marnie Was There director Hiromasa Yonebayashi and producer Yoshiaki Nishimura, it’s a venture that couldn’t help but be viewed as...More »
  
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• Jameela Jamil Encourages Enthusiastic Consent in the Wake of Aziz Ansari ‘Cluserf*ck’

  16-01-2018 18:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the wake of an allegation of sexual misconduct against Aziz Ansari, The Good Place’s Jameela Jamil would like to have a conversation. Not about about Ansari’s actions, as she claims to have “no right, nor inclination, to comment,” but on the importance of enthusiastic consent during sex. In a...More »
  
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• Review: A Kind Shot

  16-01-2018 18:00
  Former pro-basketball player Terri Mateer brings her life story to The Barrow Group.
  
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• The Insult, Lebanon’s Oscar Candidate, Is an Evenhanded Exploration of Racial Animus

  16-01-2018 17:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the Lebanese drama The Insult (a probable Oscar nominee), a relatively minor interaction between two men mushrooms into a national tumult in which Christians are pitted against Muslims, each side proclaiming its victimhood with increasing violence. In its sensitivity to both men’s subjective experience of the incident, Ziad Doueiri’s...More »
  
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• Alec Baldwin criticizes stars renouncing Woody Allen: 'Unfair and sad'

  16-01-2018 17:47
  The actor has launched a defense of the film-maker on Twitter, calling it one of the ‘privileges of his career’ to work with himAlec Baldwin has defended Woody Allen on Twitter while calling other actors “unfair and sad” for voicing their regrets over working with him.The star, who worked with Allen on Blue Jasmine and To Rome With Love, is the latest actor to speak publicly about the film-maker following on from Greta Gerwig, Mira Sorvino, Rebecca Hall and Timothé
  
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• Alec Baldwin criticizes stars denouncing Woody Allen: 'Unfair and sad'

  16-01-2018 17:47
  The actor has launched a defense of the film-maker on Twitter, calling it one of the ‘privileges of his career’ to work with himAlec Baldwin has defended Woody Allen on Twitter and called other actors “unfair and sad” for voicing their regrets over working with him.Baldwin, who worked with Allen on Blue Jasmine and To Rome With Love, is the latest actor to speak publicly about the film-maker, following on from Greta Gerwig, Mira Sorvino, Rebecca Hall and Timothée C
  
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• How Phantom Thread Made Toast Irritating

  16-01-2018 17:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  In Phantom Thread, Daniel Day-Lewis’s quiet, meticulous dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock falls hard for a young, mysterious woman named Alma (Vicky Krieps). As with any fall, what results is bruising and chaotic — and a significant amount of noise. Reynolds is graceful and exacting. Alma is clumsy and clamorous. He works...More »
  
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• Keira Knightley Thinks Female Characters "Nearly Always Get Raped" in Modern-Day Movies

  16-01-2018 17:45 via feeds.eonline.com
  Keira Knightley is more likely to star in a period piece than a movie set in modern times--and for good reason. As the actress explains in the new issue of Variety, she feels female characters are...
  
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• New Trailer: ‘Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot’

  16-01-2018 17:37 via nytimes.com
  Gus Van Sant directs a biopic starring Joaquin Phoenix as the disabled cartoonist John Callahan. Rooney Mara, Jack Black and Jonah Hill also appear.
  
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• Why I Wanted to Adapt Roseanne for the Trump Era

  16-01-2018 17:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  All week long, Vulture is exploring how the family has been represented on our screens. Today, executive producer and co-showrunner of the Roseanne reboot, Whitney Cummings, writes about bringing the show back in 2018. Cummings’ directorial debut, The Female Brain, is out Feb. 9.I’m not great at tweeting about politics...More »
  
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• Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot Trailer: Joaquin Phoenix and Jonah Hill Establish New Bromance

  16-01-2018 17:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  After a life-threatening car wreck, John Callahan (Joaquin Phoenix) has to give up drinking. Cue his offbeat support system: his girlfriend (Rooney Mara, also Phoenix’s IRL girlfriend) and his zany sponsor in Call Me by Your Name–level booty shorts (Jonah Hill). Gus Van Sant directs this true story of Callahan’s...More »
  
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• Theater aan de Parade opent de 'hele kiet' tijdens carnaval - BD.nl

  16-01-2018 17:30
  Theater aan de Parade opent de 'hele kiet' tijdens carnaval
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  DEN BOSCH - Alle zalen in het Theater aan de Parade, ook de Pleinzaal waar vorig jaar asbest is gevonden, zullen het komende carnaval weer open zijn. Megan Hanegraaf 16-01-18, 17:30. 0 · 0 · M 0 M 0. Delen per e-mail. Sluit. Je naam. Je e-mail. Naam ...
  
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• The Assassination of Gianni Versace Isn’t What You Expect

  16-01-2018 17:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  You’ve got to hand it to Ryan Murphy: Love him or hate him, he never gives you quite what you expect. The first season of his FX anthology series American Crime Story (not to be confused with Murphy’s other anthology, American Horror Story) was an acclaimed ten-part look at the...More »
  
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• Theater News: Goodman Theatre Announces Casting for Chicago Debut of The Wolves

  16-01-2018 17:00
  The award-winning play by Sarah DeLappe boasts an all-female cast.
  
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• Photo Flash: Rehearsals Underway for Steppenwolf's You Got Older

  16-01-2018 17:00
  The Chicago premiere of Clare Barron's play begins previews January 25.
  
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• The Portlandia Guide to Navigating Modern Society

  16-01-2018 16:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  There’s only a few more sleeps to go until we welcome back the irreverent goodness that is Portlandia for its eighth and final season. To celebrate, we took a look at some of the profound life lessons the past seven seasons have taught us, particularly when it comes to navigating...More »
  
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• David Simon adapting Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America for TV

  16-01-2018 16:53
  The Wire director confirms a six-part mini-series is in the works, based Roth’s 2004 novel in which Charles Lindbergh wins the 1940 electionDavid Simon is adapting Philip Roth’s novel The Plot Against America for television, both the novelist and the creator of The Wire said on Monday. Shortly after the six-part mini-series was mentioned in an interview with Roth published in the New York Times, Simon confirmed the news on Twitter. Continue reading...
  
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• Do we want Alexa to have an opinion over what we should watch?

  16-01-2018 16:44
  Amazon’s Fire Stick might be getting a new feature that could turn a helpful presence into a slightly judgmental one with opinions on what films and shows to play nextMore and more, I’m starting to miss video stores. I miss the stakes of having to physically travel to a different location in order to choose a film. I miss being aggressively upsold ice cream on every visit. But most of all, I miss running the gauntlet of the video store clerks. Related: Choose your own adventure &ndas
  
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• Performing at Center Stage Was Always Camila Cabello’s Destiny

  16-01-2018 16:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  Singing groups are social experiments, and there are salient reasons why none ever last. Classic lineups rarely even make it five years past the whirlwind of a debut studio album. They all reach a point where they’re beholden to too many different moving parts — too many ideas for new directions,...More »
  
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• Theater News: Train Singer Pat Monahan to Join Rocktopia on Broadway

  16-01-2018 16:00
  The concert will run at the Broadway Theatre.
  
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• Theater News: Actors' Equity Association Announces Third "National Swing Day"

  16-01-2018 16:00
  The event will take place on January 17.
  
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• Review: The Way of the World

  16-01-2018 16:00
  The Folger Theatre updates a historical classic.
  
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• Photo Flash: Broadway's Rocktopia Previews Show for the Press

  16-01-2018 16:00
  Power chords meet Puccini in this unique event beginning performances March 20.
  
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• Report: Seal Investigated for Sexual Battery

  16-01-2018 15:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  TMZ reports that singer Seal is being investigated by the LAPD for sexual battery. Tracey Birdsall, an actress and former neighbor of Seal’s, tells TMZ that Seal allegedly “lunged” at her in fall 2016 during a visit to his house. Claiming that the two were strictly friends, she says Seal...More »
  
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• Jane Fonda Delights in a New Opportunity to Shade Megyn Kelly on the Today Show

  16-01-2018 15:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  Jane Fonda had quite the response to Lily Tomlin's facelift comment TODAY (@TODAYshow) January 16, 2018...More »
  
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• The poorly reported Aziz Ansari exposé was a missed opportunity | Jill Filipovic

  16-01-2018 15:16
  We can – we must – wade into the messy, complicated nature of sex in a misogynist world. But this celebrity exposé doesn’t do the job well enough
  It was bound to happen. In the midst of women sharing stories of harassment and assault via the #MeToo movement, and a brewing backlash of handwringers wondering if women have perhaps gone too far, it was only a matter of time before a publication did us the disservice of publishing a sensational story of a badly behaved man wh
  
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• Ann Curry Will Give First TV interview Since 2015 to CBS This Morning

  16-01-2018 15:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  Good morning, good morning, everybody, in the news this morning, CBS This Morning. CBS’s morning show has announced that they have booked former Today anchor Ann Curry for her first TV interview since leaving NBC in 2015. Curry had a bitter history with Matt Lauer, who was recently fired from...More »
  
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• Gary Oldman's Darkest Hour gives V for victory at UK box office

  16-01-2018 15:01
  Oldman’s Oscar-tipped portrayal of Winston Churchill’s wartime tribulations storms to the top as Three Billboards nabs third placeWhen it comes to the annual awards-season movie glut, in which Oscar-bait dramas are launched every week from the start of the year until the middle of February, most would agree that the second weekend of January is the plum release date. That’s traditionally the Friday after the Golden Globes ceremony and the Bafta film awards nominations, so it&rs
  
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