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• Lena Waithe to Guest on This Is Us As an Animal Enthusiast

  17-01-2018 23:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  Now that Lena Waithe is an Emmy-winning writer for Master of None and an executive producer with The Chi, she’s just peppering herself around TV with small roles for her fans. Entertainment Weekly reports that Waithe will appear on next week’s episode of This Is Us as a hip Los...More »
  
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• Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury Is Coming to a TV Near You

  17-01-2018 23:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  A lot of people have read — or at least purchased with the intent to read — Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, an almost too-crazy-to-be-true chronicle of the early days of the current presidential administration. More than a million copies of the book have been ordered,...More »
  
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• 6 Delightful Moments From Paul Thomas Anderson’s Twitter Q&A

  17-01-2018 23:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  Paul Thomas Anderson is online. The Phantom Thread director did a Twitter Q&A Wednesday afternoon to promote his new, dark romance. Anderson has admitted that he doesn’t love press obligations, but it’s the burden he has to bear. In December, he told GQ that he has a crazy habit of...More »
  
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• Here's a First Look at Zac Efron as Serial Killer Ted Bundy in Upcoming Film

  17-01-2018 23:17 via feeds.eonline.com
  Zac Efron, you're not at East High School anymore.
  The former Disney star shared a photo from the set of Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, an upcoming psychological...
  
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• See How American Crime Story: Versace Actors Compare to Their Real-life Counterparts

  17-01-2018 23:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  As has become a tradition for Ryan Murphy programming, the day has finally come — FX promotional materials aside — that we can gaze upon the actors he’s hired to portray historical figures for The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story. Since the world can only handle so much...More »
  
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• The One Truly Great Song (So Far) From the Trump Era

  17-01-2018 22:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Being an optimist there is this part of me — especially having studied Weimar Germany extensively — I’m like, ‘This is our moment.’ Donald Trump is going to make punk rock great again. We’re all going to crawl down staircases into basements and speakeasies and make amazing satirically political art.”...More »
  
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• Trump’s Border Wall Prototypes Are Minimalist Art — and Should Be a National Monument

  17-01-2018 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Artist Christoph Büchel saw the prototypes for President Trump’s border wall, and proposed that they be made a national monument — a concept several critics dismissed as trolling. But New York’s Senior Art Critic Jerry Saltz begs to differ; the monuments, he says, are “perfect minimalist sculpture.”...More »
  
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• Modern Love: Modern Love Podcast: Richard Jenkins Reads ‘In My Fantasy, I Caught Up to Reality’

  17-01-2018 22:12 via nytimes.com
  On this week’s podcast, the “Shape of Water” actor reads an essay about how running away from your problems can sometimes lead to an answer.
  
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• Can You Match Connie Britton’s Reaction With the Right 9-1-1 Call?

  17-01-2018 22:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  “9-1-1, what’s your emergency?” So says Connie Britton’s emergency dispatcher in each episode of Fox’s 9-1-1, a new prime-time drama where her character spends most of her time in a call center, helping fireman Peter Krause and policewoman Angela Bassett save lives in the Greater Los Angeles area. It’s all...More »
  
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• Katie Couric Returning to NBC to Co-Host Olympic Opening Ceremony in Pyeongchang

  17-01-2018 21:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  When all those athletes from all those nations go marching into South Korea’s Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium for the opening ceremony on February 9, Katie Couric will be there to guide you through it. Not alone, of course. Mike Tirico was previously named a host of the event for NBC, but...More »
  
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• We Haven’t Seen a Video Game Hit Quite Like PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds

  17-01-2018 21:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  Take a moment to consider the biggest video game of the last five years: 2013’s Grand Theft Auto V. With an estimated 85 million copies sold, it’s also arguably the biggest game ever, and it looks the part. Even without much expertise in video games, you’d imagine that a blockbuster...More »
  
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• One Tree Hill, Everwood and Cougar Town Coming to Hulu in February 2018

  17-01-2018 21:22 via feeds.eonline.com
  Hulu has revealed which TV shows and movies will be available to stream in February 2018!After leaving Netflix in 2017, the complete series of One Tree Hill will now be available for...
  
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• Trump’s Border-Wall Prototypes: A Kind of National Monument to American Nativism

  17-01-2018 21:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  Artist Christoph Büchel has created an online petition to declare Donald Trump’s eight border-wall prototypes — now standing in California — a permanent national monument. This is brilliant. When I read the proposal I was struck with the thunder of what Emerson called “alienated majesty” — that feeling of seeing...More »
  
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• Bestselling Donald Trump exposé Fire and Fury to become TV series

  17-01-2018 21:14
  Michael Wolff’s peek inside the White House will head to the small screen in a seven-figure deal, with the author onboard as executive producerMichael Wolff’s bestselling Donald Trump exposé, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, is heading to the small screen in a reported seven-figure deal. Related: After the Fire and Fury: what's next for books about Trump?Continue reading...
  
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• London Police Investigating Kevin Spacey for Third Sexual Assault

  17-01-2018 21:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  Kevin Spacey is the subject of another sexual assault investigation.Per TMZ, Spacey is being investigated by Scotland Yard following a new allegation of assault. According to the report, Scotland Yard says the accuser spoke to police last month claiming that Spacey sexually assaulted him in 2005. The report also states...More »
  
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• Review: ‘Tall’ Is a Little Movie About How Buildings Got So Big

  17-01-2018 21:00 via nytimes.com
  The competing legacies of two pioneering Chicago architects frame a documentary’s exploration of the modern American cityscape.
  
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• Troye Sivan’s ‘My My My’ Is Groundbreaking in a New Way

  17-01-2018 20:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  There have been gay pop stars before, obviously. But obviousness is often in the eye of the beholder. It was entirely possible for a mainstream audience to hear and see the Village People and think that they were nothing more than a bunch of fun-loving men extolling the benefits of...More »
  
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• The Carpetbagger: Why James Franco Could Easily Get a Best Actor Nomination

  17-01-2018 20:39 via nytimes.com
  The star of “The Disaster Artist” faces accusations of sexually exploitative behavior, but the news broke after many academy members had already voted.
  
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• America’s Next Top Model Recap: Call Me Mother

  17-01-2018 20:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  Filial cannibalism. Observed in many animal species, it is the act of a mother eating her own offspring. Many theories abound as to why this phenomenon exists in nature, but the most prominent among zoologists seems to be that the weakest of the offspring must often be sacrificed to secure...More »
  
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• Review: In ‘Small Town Crime,’ Trouble Is His Business (Natch)

  17-01-2018 20:00 via nytimes.com
  John Hawkes stars as a hard-boozing former cop who stumbles into a mystery involving some very young women and some very bad men.
  
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• Late-Night Hosts Weigh In on Trump’s ‘Excellent’ Health

  17-01-2018 19:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Despite all evidence, Donald Trump does have a heart.”...More »
  
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• Justin Timberlake Says He and Janet Jackson Made Peace About Nipplegate

  17-01-2018 19:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  Though it’s been more than a decade since Justin Timberlake exposed Janet Jackson’s breast on live national television during the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show, the world hasn’t forgotten just how little he’s ever said about it. Following the incident, Janet was forced to give a video statement and accepted...More »
  
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• How TV Changed Our Definition of ‘Housewife’

  17-01-2018 19:51 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.We tend to mark the evolution of families on TV by certain milestones: the first TV divorces, the first interracial families, and the...More »
  
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• After The Road Movie, Imagining Four Possible Futures of the Viral Film

  17-01-2018 19:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  This Friday, a one-of-a-kind film careens into theaters, leaving a path of twisted wreckage in its wake. Dmitrii Kalashnikov spent innumerable hours poring over dashboard-mounted camera footage from Russia, cherry-picked the most shocking snippets, and compiled it all for a 67-minute banger now running under the title The Road Movie....More »
  
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• Sundance Film Festival: 5 Movies to Watch

  17-01-2018 19:31 via nytimes.com
  The festival starts Thursday. Here’s a look at five films we’re excited about.
  
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• Excelsior pakt uit met musicalconcert in Theater de Storm - Winterswijkse Weekkrant (persbericht) (Blog)

  17-01-2018 19:30
  Winterswijkse Weekkrant (persbericht) (Blog)
  Excelsior pakt uit met musicalconcert in Theater de Storm
  Winterswijkse Weekkrant (persbericht) (Blog)
  Met maar liefst 130 personen op het podium, brengt Excelsior de theaterproductie Musical Highlights ten tonele. Voor dit musicalconcert op 10 en 11 februari in Theater de Storm heeft het harmonieorkest de samenwerking gezocht met een combo en ...
  
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• Here’s an Alternative It Scene That Is Technically Happier But Still Kinda Weird

  17-01-2018 19:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  Here’s a Sliding Doors scenario for you: What if, when Georgie dropped his boat in the rain in It, Pennywise wasn’t as quick on his feet? Instead of carpe diem-ing his way into a grisly murder — and all the jump scares that Georgie’s death caused — what if the...More »
  
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• Joy to the World, Jessica Chastain and Octavia Spencer Are Making a Holiday Comedy

  17-01-2018 19:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  Jessica Chastain and Octavia Spencer are so sorry it’s late, but the Christmas present they got for you, personally, is on its way. Per Variety, Chastain and Spencer are starring in a new holiday comedy about “two women fighting the elements to make it home for Christmas” — sorta like...More »
  
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• Maze Runner: The Death Cure Is a Thrilling Series Ender With Too Many Climaxes

  17-01-2018 19:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  Maze Runner: The Death Cure was my first Maze Runner, and I think I did a pretty good job watching it, all things considered. Before the Mazehead community gets on me for this, I’ll submit, by way of excuse, that I have been haunted by a persistent eye-strain headache for...More »
  
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• Review: The Undertaking

  17-01-2018 19:00
  The Civilians explore one of life's biggest questions: death.
  
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• The 20 Most-Anticipated Movies at Sundance This Year

  17-01-2018 18:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  Starting Thursday, Vulture will be reporting from Sundance, bringing you all the latest buzz on the most exciting films coming out of Robert Redford’s annual festival. Here are just 20 of the movies among Sundance’s most anticipated, including a Rooney Mara–Joaquin Phoenix rom-dram, Bo Burnham’s directing debut, a Paul Dano...More »
  
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• 'Als erfgenaam van de emancipatiebeweging verdedig ik het ... - Volkskrant

  17-01-2018 18:28
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  'Als erfgenaam van de emancipatiebeweging verdedig ik het ...
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  Femke Halsema is in Amstelveen begonnen aan haar tournee en pikt en passant wat theatertips mee. Met 'Een vrij land' wil de ex-politicus tegenwicht bi.en meer »
  
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• Informa to buy exhibitions rival UBM for £4bn

  17-01-2018 17:47 via ft.com
  Combined group will create world’s largest operator of business events
  
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• ‘And here’s Big Narstie with the weather’ – TV’s greatest fish out of water moments

  17-01-2018 17:44
  The grime star joins the likes of Jeremy Paxman and the Fall’s Mark E Smith in taking on an unexpected television roleOn Tuesday, grime artist Big Narstie became a megastar. Tasked with presenting the weather on Good Morning Britain, Narstie grabbed the role with both hands and delivered a masterclass in how to cope with the pressures of live television. “Double up, double up, double up, double up”, he told viewers shortly before describing the Scottish Highlands as “a ba
  
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• Report: Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman to Make $1 Million Per Episode for Big Little Lies Season Two, Making Renata Proud

  17-01-2018 17:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  There will be further justice for the best schemers in Monterey. According to The Hollywood Reporter, most of the principal actresses on Big Little Lies will see a considerable pay raise for season two. Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman will reportedly rake in around $1 million per episode (plus executive...More »
  
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• Fighting for Native Americans, in Court and Onstage

  17-01-2018 17:13 via nytimes.com
  In her new play “Sovereignty,” Mary Kathryn Nagle brings together her legal activism and her family history.
  
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• Clip: ‘Leave No Trace’

  17-01-2018 17:13 via nytimes.com
  A scene from Debra Granik's film premiering at the Sundance Film Festival, featuring Ben Foster and Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie.
  
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• New York Has Its ‘Jerry Springer’ Moment, With Arias and Dancing

  17-01-2018 17:10 via nytimes.com
  With a reality TV star in the White House and ’90s nostalgia in full flower, the controversial 2003 musical about the famed talk show host arrives.
  
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• New York Finally Gets Its ‘Jerry Springer’ Moment

  17-01-2018 17:10 via nytimes.com
  With a reality TV star in the White House and ’90s nostalgia in full flower, the controversial 2003 musical about the famed talk show host arrives.
  
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• Daniel Day-Lewis Grumbles Over Tea in Phantom Thread Exclusive Clip

  17-01-2018 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Persnickety courtier Reynolds Woodcock, Daniel Day-Lewis’s character in Phantom Thread, has some very specific tastes. “I cannot start my day with a confrontation,” he explains in an early scene. “I simply have no time for confrontations.” In this exclusive clip from the film, a loving gesture — his muse-girlfriend Alma...More »
  
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• The Good Place’s Jameela Jamil Nearly Killed Mary Berry With Her Meringue

  17-01-2018 16:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “A big, beautiful, utterly perfect cartoon giraffe.” “A hot, rich fraud with legs for days.” “Tall and glamorous and has cappuccino skin and curves everywhere.” If you watch The Good Place, you already know that these quotes describe Tahani Al-Jamil, the NBC sitcom’s resident faux-lanthropist, who leaned into the high-society...More »
  
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• Twee plekken vrij voor Jandino in theater - Barendrechts Dagblad (persbericht)

  17-01-2018 16:37
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  Twee plekken vrij voor Jandino in theater
  Barendrechts Dagblad (persbericht)
  Er zijn twee plekken vrijgekomen voor de uitverkochte voorstelling van Jandino in Theater het Kruispunt. Fans die het niet gelukt is om een kaartje te bemachtigen, krijgen nu alsnog een kans om de voorstelling alsnog bij te wonen. Jandino Asporaat ...
  
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• Stephen Colbert Has Definitely Been Saving This Dig at NBC

  17-01-2018 16:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  On Tuesday, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders offered what she must have thought was a mic drop in response to accusations of Donald Trump’s bigotry after he reportedly called Haiti and African countries “shitholes”: If Trump is racist, she said, “why did NBC give him a show for...More »
  
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• Here’s a Disgusting Play-by-Play of Leslie Jones Almost Throwing Up on James Franco

  17-01-2018 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  When James Franco hosted Saturday Night Live in December, Leslie Jones gave an EGOT-worthy performance as she tried her very best not to puke on live television. Somewhere, Meryl Streep is watching Jones’s performance and taking notes, Saoirse Ronan is watching it and shaking, Viola Davis screens it for her...More »
  
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• Chris Hemsworth "Contractually" Done With Thor After Avengers 4

  17-01-2018 16:15 via feeds.eonline.com
  Chris Hemsworth's reign as Thor could be coming to an end in 2019."Two days I ago, I was in Atlanta finishing Avengers in my Thor garb," the Australian star told USA Today...
  
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• Queer Eye Trailer: Netflix’s Reboot Is Here to Remake You

  17-01-2018 16:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  No longer will the style-challenged people of America have to languish without direction, for Queer Eye (formerly for the Straight Guy) has been revived on Netflix. In the series’s reboot, a new fab five, consisting of Antoni Porowski (food and wine), Bobby Berk (interior design), Karamo Brown (culture), Jonathan Van...More »
  
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• Dichten en theater - Haarlem105 (persbericht) (Blog)

  17-01-2018 16:02
  Haarlem105 (persbericht) (Blog)
  Dichten en theater
  Haarlem105 (persbericht) (Blog)
  De PoëzieWeek is een initiatief van het CPNB en vindt plaats van 25 januari tot en met 31 januari 2018. Het thema is dit jaar theater. Peter Verhelst schrijft het Poëziegeschenk 'Wat ons had kunnen zijn', het cadeau van de boekhandel bij besteding van ...
  
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• Ellen Pompeo Renews Grey’s Anatomy Contract for Two More Years, Becomes TV’s Highest Paid Dramatic Actress

  17-01-2018 15:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  Meredith Grey may be stuck in a continual hell of romantic tragedy and inventive medical trauma, but Ellen Pompeo is doing really, really great. Per The Hollywood Reporter, Pompeo has renewed her contract on Grey’s Anatomy through seasons 15 and 16, becoming, in the process, the highest paid dramatic actress...More »
  
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• 10 Hidden-Gem Episodes of Psych to Watch on Amazon Prime

  17-01-2018 15:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  Thanks to the television overlords overseeing the Peak TV era, Psych returned to the small screen in December for a very funny reunion movie, which caught up with Shawn, Gus, and their merry gang of lovers and friends after a three-year hiatus. But in the joyful aftermath of Psych: The...More »
  
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• Norman Lear on Redefining the American Sitcom, and the Best Family TV Show He Didn’t Create

  17-01-2018 15:18 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.Who better to speak to the importance of family TV shows than Norman Lear, the creator of All in the Family, and one of...More »
  
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