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• Spiral recap: season six, episodes seven and eight – Joséphine's revenge

  20-01-2018 23:49 via theguardian.com
  Gilou and the CDI are reeling from the calamitous camp raid, Joséphine exacts her spectacular revenge and the Camaras could have a rat problemSpoiler alert: this recap contains spoilers for episodes seven and eight of Spiral, season six. Don’t read unless you are up to dateThere’s no letup in the drama this week with Roban’s cancer diagnosis, Bakary’s death and Joséphine’s spectacular revenge. Exactly who killed Mercier and why it was so brutal remains
  
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• Eighth Grade Is a Poignant Portrait of Middle School in the Time of Snapchat

  20-01-2018 23:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  When we meet 13-year-old Kayla Day, she’s particularly hung up on a single descriptor: talkative. In a YouTube video she posts for her single-digit subscriber base, she insists that even though people at school see her as shy and quiet, she is in fact, totally talkative. She uses the word...More »
  
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• Kanye West Is All Smiles at Film Screening After Baby Chicago's Birth

  20-01-2018 21:47 via feeds.eonline.com
  Kanye West hosted a private screening and party in honor of Damon Dash's new movie Honor Up on Friday and could not have looked happier.And the rapper, who has in recent years rarely...
  
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• Jason Mantzoukas Does an Excellent Impression of Fans Who Yell at Him on the Street

  20-01-2018 21:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  While at the Sundance Film Festival to promote his new movie The Long Dumb Road, actor and comedian Jason Mantzoukas told us which role people most often recognize him from. Turns out, viewers of The League are very vocal about their love of the show. “RAFI! I swear to GOD,...More »
  
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• Jane Fonda Relishes Yet Another Chance to Insult Megyn Kelly’s Interviewing Skills

  20-01-2018 21:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  Where were you the first time Jane Fonda shaded Megyn Kelly on national television? It was September 27, 2017 on Megyn Kelly Today, and the actress took it upon herself to express immense dissatisfaction that Kelly would’ve rather asked her about plastic surgery than her new film: “We really want...More »
  
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• Catherine Zeta-Jones Praises Her ‘Articulate’ Husband, Michael Douglas, Over His Misconduct Denials

  20-01-2018 19:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  Earlier this month, Michael Douglas did an unusual thing for an actor in the midst of the #MeToo movement: He gave an interview to preemptively deny any sexual-misconduct allegations potentially lodged against him in the future. “I had the choice of waiting for a story to come out, one that...More »
  
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• Paul Rudd Wants To Have Dinner with ‘Buff Jesus’

  20-01-2018 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Paul Rudd plays a spy who helps take down the Nazis in his latest film, The Catcher Was A Spy, which premieres this weekend at Sundance. When we asked him who he’d spy on, living or dead, if he had the chance, he demurred, so we tweaked our question to...More »
  
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• Fire and Fury Author Michael Wolff Is ‘Absolutely Sure’ Donald Trump Is Having a White House Affair

  20-01-2018 17:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  Few would argue Michael Wolff’s explosive new book about Donald Trump and his administration, Fire and Fury, is a no-holds-barred, knife-filled fire tornado wreaking havoc on the entire political institution as we know it. (Read an excerpt for yourself here.) But, interestingly, there’s one topic Wolff ended up leaving out...More »
  
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• God Save Paul Bettany, Who’s Reportedly in Talks to Play The Crown’s Prince Philip

  20-01-2018 16:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Meet your new maybe-Mountbatten. Per Daily Mail entertainment reporter Baz Bamigboye, Paul Bettany is currently “in negotiations” to portray Prince Philip in The Crown’s impending third and fourth seasons. “No deal yet but the talks are ongoing,” he writes. If true, this would make Bettany the third star of the...More »
  
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• What’s Going to Happen to Woody Allen’s A Rainy Day in New York?

  20-01-2018 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  January has been a miserable month for Woody Allen. On Thursday, CBS aired the first televised interview with the Oscar-winning writer-director’s daughter, Dylan Farrow, in which she tearfully repeated allegations she had made earlier that he sexually assaulted her when she was seven years old. “He instructed me to lay...More »
  
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• Liam Neeson’s Particular Set of Skills Could Only Muster ‘F-ck’ When He First Met Ex-Girlfriend Helen Mirren

  20-01-2018 15:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ah, you know how young Hollywood love can be — you meet on an epic-fantasy film set, complain about the director whenever you can, and sneak away to the trailers for some incognito post-scene smooching at a moment’s notice. But Liam Neeson defies this trend. Because when he first met...More »
  
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• Private Life Is a Dazzling Tale About Makeshift Families

  20-01-2018 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Of the many reasons to treasure the work of Tamara Jenkins (The Slums of Beverly Hills, The Savages), the best might be her cunning way with a non sequitur. In Private Life, her new film screening at the Sundance Film Festival, many of her scenes begin on a disorienting note,...More »
  
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• 12 Strong Is an Underwhelming Tribute to the ‘Horse Soldiers’ of the Afghan War

  20-01-2018 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The newest ode to the American warrior is 12 Strong (subtitle: The Unclassified True Story of the Horse Soldiers), which follows a dozen Special Forces soldiers who surreptitiously choppered into northern Afghanistan less than two months after 9/11. Their mission was incredibly perilous, but they weren’t on the ground to...More »
  
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• Kiri: Sarah Lancashire has cornered the market in weary exasperation

  20-01-2018 12:00 via theguardian.com
  While her attempt at a Bristol accent can go a bit Vicky Pollard, she inhabits Miriam’s grief and fury with mesmerising brilliance“I think I made the right decision,” says Sarah Lancashire’s social worker, Miriam, to Alice (Lia Williams), foster mother of nine-year-old Kiri, now lying in a morgue. It’s not the first time Miriam has said this, but nobody is listening: not her line manager who was quick to throw her under the bus to deflect attention from their depart
  
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• How Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade Reflects Our #metoo Moment

  20-01-2018 10:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  They say that Hollywood is high school but with money, and while watching Bo Burnham’s new film Eighth Grade, which just premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, I started to wonder if that old saying is a few grades too generous. At first, this very specific junior-high story seems to...More »
  
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• Door voelen en verslag kunnen ook blinden naar theater - NOS op 3

  20-01-2018 10:09
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  Door voelen en verslag kunnen ook blinden naar theater
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  "Normaal gesproken ben ik terughoudend als ik meegevraagd word naar theater, want ik kan het toch niet zien." De 22-jarige Floris Ephraim is slechtziend. Stichting Komt het Zien! heeft een oplossing bedacht voor mensen als Floris, zodat zij ook naar ...
  
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• 'She is the Queen, whereas you are Joe Shmuck': Clive James on The Crown

  20-01-2018 09:00 via theguardian.com
  How to recover from my latest hospital stay? Watch The Crown – twice, and remember a royal meeting of my own
  As my latest stay in hospital came to an end, the second series of The Crown was just starting on Netflix. Since my prescribed formula for rehabilitation consisted mainly of the instruction just to lie there and shut up, I had nothing to do except maintain the horizontal position and watch the delightful Claire Foy plough onward in her role of Queen. I thought she coped nobly.So nob
  
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• 'We had death threats': the defiant return of Will & Grace

  20-01-2018 08:00 via theguardian.com
  The groundbreaking TV show returns to tackle Trump, butt doubles and Madonna-bashing millennialsWhen it debuted on TV, Will & Grace was revolutionary. Not only was it the first mainstream LGBTQ sitcom on TV, but it was one in which gay life was portrayed in a naturalistic way; where the characters weren’t walking cliches but just … existed. Related: Will & Grace review – welcome return for smart, irrepressible foursomeContinue reading...
  
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• Saturday’s best TV: Performance Live; Obama: The President Who Inspired the World

  20-01-2018 07:00 via theguardian.com
  Julia Samuels’s warm but pointed stage play explores abortion and Matt Frei gets dewy-eyed about the 44th President of the United States Continue reading...
  
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• Monty Don’s Paradise Gardens review – a heady tour of earthly delights

  20-01-2018 07:00 via theguardian.com
  Monty discovers how his great-great-great-grandmother made pots of money from marmalade on his fragrant trip to gardens inspired by the Qur’anLooking out at a miserable rectangle of urban waste, AKA my garden, I’m hoping for inspiration from Monty Don’s Paradise Gardens (BBC2), which is about gardens that were themselves inspired by the Qur’an. Maybe I too can bring a bit of eternal heaven to earth. Specifically, an insalubrious corner of north-west London.Monty’s j
  
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• Breaking Bad: 10 years on, TV is still in Walter White's shadow

  20-01-2018 07:00 via theguardian.com
  Vince Gilligan struggled to get the show off the ground and sustain it – until Netflix stepped in. Now the streaming giant is on top, and Breaking Bad’s legacy is assuredTen years ago, Breaking Bad made its TV debut. A comic drama starring the dad from Malcolm in the Middle, it answered the question middle-aged men had asked of themselves for generations: what would happen if I quit my boring job and became an outlaw? The answer, it appeared, involved drugs, mobile homes and being st
  
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• Drake Drops Two New Songs ‘God’s Plan’ and ‘Diplomatic Immunity’

  20-01-2018 06:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  The government may be about to shut down, but Drake is dedicated to keeping you up all night. If you hated that segue, hopefully you’ll like the rapper’s two brand-new two singles, released at midnight on Friday, a whole lot better. Entitled “God’s Plan” and “Diplomatic Immunity,” Drake’s latest are...More »
  
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• High Maintenance Season-Premiere Recap: Phantasmagoria of Despair

  20-01-2018 05:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s understandable why television would want to engage with Our Current Political Moment, but that doesn’t mean it’s advisable. We live in a time rife with uncertainty, when outrage and despair feel like the two dominant modes of expression. Barring a full cultural disconnect, there’s no sure way to decrease...More »
  
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• Oscar winner Dorothy Malone, mom on Peyton Place, has died

  20-01-2018 04:54 via theguardian.com
  Malone died in an assisted living center from natural causes days before her 94th birthday, daughter saysActress Dorothy Malone, who won hearts of 1960s television viewers as the long-suffering mother in the nighttime soap Peyton Place, died on Friday in her hometown of Dallas at age 93.Malone died in an assisted living center from natural causes days before her 94th birthday, said her daughter, Mimi Vanderstraaten. Continue reading...
  
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• Get Out’s Lil Rel Howery Set to Star in His Own Titular Fox Pilot

  20-01-2018 04:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  The best part of last year’s horror hit Get Out (among the couple dozen other best parts, ‘cause that movie was good) is all set to be the best part of Fox’s new sitcom line-up. Fox announced Friday evening that Lil Rel Howery will star in a new multi-cam comedy pilot...More »
  
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• MoviePass Announces New Plan to Partner With Distributors to Acquire Movies

  20-01-2018 03:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  Well, if some movie theaters didn’t like MoviePass’s stupidly reasonable ticket rates, they might like their latest plan even less. The subscription service announced at Sundance on Thursday that it intends to partner with film distributors to co-acquire movies via their new subsidiary, MoviePass Ventures. “Given the success we have...More »
  
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• Tom Petty’s Family Confirms He Died Of An Accidental Overdose

  20-01-2018 02:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  TMZ reported this afternoon and the Petty family has confirmed that Tom Petty’s death last October was due to an accidental overdose. According to the Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office, the musician had a panel of drugs in his system that included Fentanyl patches, oxycodone (Oxycontin), temazepam (Restoril), alprazolam (Xanax),...More »
  
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• Dorothy Malone Dies at 93; Star of TV’s ‘Peyton Place

  20-01-2018 01:35 via nytimes.com
  She won an Oscar for “Written on the Wind” but found her greatest fame on the small screen.
  
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• Paddington 2 Bear-Crawls to a Perfect Score on Rotten Tomatoes

  20-01-2018 01:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  Time to break out the marmalade, which is, of course, booze for bears. According to Deadline, director Paul King’s Paddington 2 has taken the distinction once held by Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird of being the film with the highest Rotten Tomatoes score ever: a perfect 100%. As of today, the...More »
  
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• Paul Rudd Shares His Most Embarrassing Onstage Moment

  20-01-2018 00:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Listen, we’ve all been there. You’re wearing some short-shorts, you’re moving around a lot, and something just … slips. Paul Rudd is all too familiar with this awkward and breezy feeling. While at the Sundance Film Festival to promote his new film The Catcher Was a Spy with director Ben...More »
  
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• It's in the jeans: US fashion goes back to denim's glory days

  20-01-2018 00:09
  Catwalk revival of old styles immortalised by Hollywood stars sees surge in jeans market The jeans market is booming again as the US turns back the clock to denim’s glory days. 2017 saw the largest year-on-year growth in the sector since 2013, pulling in over $95bn (£67bn) worldwide compared with $91bn the previous year while sales of premium designer jeans doubled its growth.Observers believe shoppers are deciding to try other styles beyond the skinny silhouette that has been so pop
  
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• Atlanta Monster Is a Different Kind of True-Crime Podcast

  20-01-2018 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  A crisis catalyzes, illuminates, and reveals. That’s as true for individual lives as it is for entire societies, and the fact of it deepens the sense that our communities, institutions, and cities are fragile. It can seem like a miracle all of it doesn’t just come crashing down. Until it...More »
  
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• Interviews: Three Actors Chart the Life of One Character in Quiara Alegría Hudes's Elliot Trilogy

  20-01-2018 00:00
  Peter Mendoza, Sean Carvajal, and Peter Pasco explore the fallout of war in three plays running concurrently in Los Angeles.
  
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