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• Ursula K. Le Guin, Fantasy and Science-Fiction Pioneer, Dead at 88

  23-01-2018 23:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ursula K. Le Guin, the author of groundbreaking works of fantasy and science fiction, has died at 88. The New York Times reports that Le Guin died on Monday at her home in Portland, Oregon. Her son, Theo Downes-Le Guin, did not specify a cause of death, but said she...More »
  
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• Coco Songwriters on ‘Remember Me,’ This Year’s Best Song Front-runner

  23-01-2018 23:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  In Pixar’s animated Dia de Los Muertos fantasy Coco, the song “Remember Me” is played twice, on two opposing ends of the emotional spectrum. One version is big and uptempo, inspired by mariachi music and ranchero songs. The other is sad and plaintive, a lullaby intended to tug at your...More »
  
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• Savvy Investor 50 Cent Reportedly Got Rich Again Thanks to Bitcoin

  23-01-2018 23:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson became famous for rapping and surviving an insane number of gunshots. He has stayed famous for his reputation as a pretty damn savvy investor. According to sources who spoke with TMZ, 50 is now reaping the rewards of being an early believer in bitcoin. In 2014,...More »
  
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• Academy Awards Briefing: Oscar Nominations 2018: ‘The Shape of Water’ Leads the Race

  23-01-2018 23:41 via nytimes.com
  Guillermo del Toro’s fantasy led the nominations, including one for best picture. “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” and “Dunkirk” also emerged as strong contenders.
  
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• Academy Awards Briefing: 2018 Oscar Nominations: ‘The Shape of Water’ Leads the Race

  23-01-2018 23:41 via nytimes.com
  Guillermo del Toro’s fantasy led the nominations, including one for best picture. “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” and “Dunkirk” also emerged as strong contenders.
  
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• Waco Is a Necessary and Sometimes Powerful Series

  23-01-2018 23:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  Released almost exactly 25 years after the start of the siege of the Branch Davidian compound, Waco tries to illuminate the worst law-enforcement-driven massacre in American history from the perspectives of U.S. law enforcement and the Davidians simultaneously. I can’t speak to the totality this six-part series, since the Paramount Network only...More »
  
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• Daisy Ridley’s Ophelia Is a Juicy, Crowd-Pleasing Shakespeare Revamp

  23-01-2018 23:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  The neo-Shakespeare movie Ophelia is an audacious stunt. The novelist Lisa Klein began with the character who might have the least agency in any great drama (arguably the greatest of all dramas). In Hamlet, Ophelia is bullied and bounced around by three men: her prissy father, Polonius; the bloat King...More »
  
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• I’m Jazzed About This New Winter Olympics Podcast

  23-01-2018 22:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Winter Olympics looms over the horizon, and soon it will shower us with sleets of powdery, cool Winter Olympics #content. I, for one, am here for it. I’m also here for the official NBC Winter Olympics Podcast, which was just announced this morning, because hey, it’s 2018.The podcast is...More »
  
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• Review: Putting a ‘Party Face’ on a Suicide Recovery

  23-01-2018 22:29 via nytimes.com
  A celebration doesn’t end well in Isobel Mahon’s play, starring Hayley Mills, at City Center Stage II.
  
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• Ann Curry Isn’t Impressed With Megyn Kelly’s Jane Fonda Feud: ‘It is Not Journalism’

  23-01-2018 22:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Jane Fonda–Megyn Kelly feud — which all began, mind you, because of a little Netflix movie called Our Souls at Night — rages on. This time, a new player has entered the fray: Ann Curry. Months ago, Fonda ethered Kelly when the host awkwardly asked about Fonda’s history of...More »
  
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• Agnès Varda Is the Oldest Nominee in Oscar History — And She Doesn’t Care

  23-01-2018 22:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  Introducing Agnès Varda at the Governors Awards in November, where she received an honorary Oscar for her enormous body of work, Angelina Jolie referred to the 89-year-old director by the nickname that has singularly affixed itself to Varda for the overwhelming majority of her six-decade career: the grandmother of French...More »
  
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• EasyJet proves some airlines are more equal than others 

  23-01-2018 21:32 via ft.com
  Monarch, Air Berlin and Alitalia bankruptcies reduce competitive pressure on prices
  
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• Easyjet profits from others’ woes

  23-01-2018 21:32 via ft.com
  Monarch, Air Berlin and Alitalia bankruptcies reduce competitive pressure on prices
  
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• The End of the F***ing World’s Charles Forsman on His Indie Comic Turning Into a Netflix Hit

  23-01-2018 20:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the past few weeks, Charles Forsman has become an unlikely teen idol. The 30-something cartoonist had previously won acclaim from the microscopic subset of the population that pays attention to indie comics, but mainstream culture hadn’t caught on to him yet. Then, the apocalypse came: Netflix released a filmed...More »
  
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• Chloë Grace Moretz Says Her True Self Is a 4 Non Blondes–Belting ‘Total Dork’

  23-01-2018 20:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  Chloë Grace Moretz and Sasha Lane spent a lot of time together in the middle of nowhere in upstate New York during the production of Desiree Akhavan’s The Miseducation of Cameron Post. So it’s pretty lucky that they happen to share, in their words, “the exact same mind.” They’re not...More »
  
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• Oscar nods pour in for The Shape of Water in year coloured by #MeToo

  23-01-2018 20:27
  Female-driven contenders including The Post and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri pitched as riding cultural waveThe Shape of Water, a romantic fable about a janitor who falls in love with a sea creature, has won 13 Oscar nominations, leading a field of films with an unexpectedly strong British showing.
  Guillermo del Toro’s cold war-era fantasy was nominated for best picture, best director and best actress for Sally Hawkins, who plays the mute cleaner, as well as in 10 other catego
  
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• The hurdles Rupert Murdoch faces in final jump for Sky

  23-01-2018 20:25 via ft.com
  Regulator’s blocking move raises questions for Disney deal
  
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• Darren Aronofsky Seen With a New Friend (Suki Waterhouse) and an Old One (a Scarf)

  23-01-2018 20:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  Darren Aronosky’s Mother! may have been shut out of the Oscar nominations, but at least he could take comfort in the companionship of a new friend, actress and model Suki Waterhouse, and old one, his scarf. Per the Daily Mail, Aronofsky was spotted at the Sundance Film Festival clad in...More »
  
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• A Cinematographer on Her Oscar History-Making Moment

  23-01-2018 20:16 via nytimes.com
  The first woman to be nominated in the category talks about career dreams, her job (she says it’s gender-neutral) and her next movie, “Black Panther.”
  
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• Why Didn’t Wonder Woman Get Any Oscar Nominations?

  23-01-2018 19:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  It was a good day for blockbusters at the Academy Awards, as populist hits like Get Out, Dunkirk, and Logan all managed significant Oscar nominations. So why was Wonder Woman, a true summer phenomenon that made more money than any of those movies, unable to score a single Oscar nod?...More »
  
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• Dylan Farrow Slams Justin Timberlake for #TimesUp Hypocrisy

  23-01-2018 19:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  On Tuesday, “Supplies” singer Justin Timberlake had a question for Twitter: “Can someone please explain the saying, ‘You just want your cake and to eat it too.’ What else am I about to do with a cake??” Lucky for JT, Dylan Farrow popped in with a perfect answer. “The saying...More »
  
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• Review: Michael Urie Puts the Madcap in Hamlet’s Madness

  23-01-2018 19:24 via nytimes.com
  Michael Kahn’s production for the Shakespeare Theater Company provides Elsinore with a new arsenal that includes smartphones and surveillance cameras.
  
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• Laurie Metcalf on Her Lady Bird Oscar Nomination, and Seeing the Movie With Her Oldest Daughter

  23-01-2018 19:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  Laurie Metcalf loves Marion McPherson’s flaws. To many viewers, she’s the real main character of Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird, an every-mom who’s prickly, passive-aggressive, warm, and worn-out. “She’s not crazy, she’s just — she has a big heart,” Lady Bird (Saoirse Ronan) tells her ex-boyfriend Danny (Lucas Hedges), defending her...More »
  
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• Century-old motorbike once owned by Steve McQueen up for sale

  23-01-2018 19:01
  Pope 61ci Model L bike will be auctioned in Las Vegas and could fetch around £100,000A motorcycle once owned by the Great Escape star Steve McQueen is to go on sale in Las Vegas where it is expected to sell for around £100,000.McQueen bought the Pope 61ci Model L bike, dating back to 1914, after a long search across America with his close friend and stunt driver Bud Ekins. Continue reading...
  
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• Ann Curry Reveals Her Secret to Surviving All-Male Newsrooms: Profanity

  23-01-2018 18:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s a man’s man’s man’s world, and there’s Ann Curry dropping F-bombs to get through it. After making Stephen Colbert blush by revealing her “baby crush” on him last night, the former Today host then told him something that might really make him clutch his pearls. Going over old war...More »
  
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• Black Music Is Still an Essential Part of Justin Timberlake’s Man of the Woods

  23-01-2018 18:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  Last Thursday, Justin Timberlake released “Supplies,” the second single and music video from his forthcoming album. The song itself is unremarkable — club-love lyrics and lazy, loping vocals over a generic trap beat. The video is more interesting, if only slightly — a trek through dystopia, with footholds in artifacts...More »
  
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• Michael Shannon and Hilary Swank’s What They Had: An Alzheimer’s Story That’s Both Heartbreaking and … Funny

  23-01-2018 18:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  Introducing her exquisite debut feature, What They Had, at Sundance, the writer-director Elizabeth Chomko addressed the movie’s initiating event — a woman with Alzheimer’s reaching the last-but-one stage, number six — only obliquely. Chomko painted a larger picture.“Memory,” she said, “is a gift we’re given. I don’t want to take...More »
  
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• Netflix and thrill: streaming site best performer on S&P 500 this year

  23-01-2018 17:44 via ft.com
  Bumper results push market cap above $100bn
  
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• Appreciation: Peter Wyngarde obituary

  23-01-2018 17:44 via theguardian.com
  The obituary of Peter Wyngarde overlooked a number of the talents and successes of this suave and charismatic performer who never lost his ability to inspire fascination.Before Jason King he had an early television success as Will Shakespeare (1953) – a taxing part that earned him the admiration of the production’s pioneering producer/director Rudolph Cartier. By 1965, when lured to play the arrogant and dangerous Baron Grüner in an episode of Sherlock Holmes, he had enough clou
  
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• How The Detour Destroyed Six Snowmobiles While Shooting One Episode

  23-01-2018 17:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  At Vulture Festival Los Angeles in November, co-creator and star of TBS’s The Detour Jason Jones chatted with our Hollywood editor Stacey Wilson Hunt about the show’s season-three premiere — which airs tonight, January 23 — and how its ambitious opening sequence resulted in six snowmobiles dying in the line of duty....More »
  
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• Logan’s Oscar Nomination Is a Significant Breakthrough

  23-01-2018 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Great screenplays are often defined by how much they can do with short, unflashy beats of dialogue. But that fact is typically lost on most superhero screenwriters, who tend to steer their scripts toward meandering monologues about heroism, implausible one-liners, and bombastic arguments about how to avert impending apocalypses. Not...More »
  
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• Naomi Watts Does Her Best David Lynch Impression

  23-01-2018 17:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  Naomi Watts stopped by the Vulture Spot at Sundance to talk about Ophelia, her new movie directed by Claire McCarthy and starring Daisy Ridley, Tom Felton, and George MacKay. When we asked her about the phenomenon of Twin Peaks: The Return and working with longtime collaborator David Lynch, she lit...More »
  
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• The Snubs and Surprises of the 2018 Oscar Nominations

  23-01-2018 17:23 via nytimes.com
  No James Franco or “Wonder Woman” but in a first, a woman gets a nod for cinematography.
  
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• Live Briefing: 2018 Oscar Nominations: ‘The Shape of Water’ Leads the Race

  23-01-2018 17:09 via nytimes.com
  Guillermo del Toro’s fantasy led the nominations, including one for best picture. “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” and “Dunkirk” also emerged as strong contenders.
  
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• Theater News: Waitress to Debut Valentine's Day Pie Flavor on February 1

  23-01-2018 17:00
  Sara Bareilles is currently starring in her musical opposite Jason Mraz.
  
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• Theater News: Kennedy Center Chess Creative Team Revealed

  23-01-2018 17:00
  Raúl Esparza and Ramin Karimloo star in the musical in Washington, D.C.
  
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• 20 Years Later, Spice World Is … Weirdly Relevant

  23-01-2018 16:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s tempting to blame my parents for the fact that I never saw Spice World. When the Spice Girls’ critically lambasted, box-office-smashing, music-video movie arrived in American theaters in January 1998, I was a second-grader, and at my house, the Spice Girls were strictly off-limits for me and for my...More »
  
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• Laurie Metcalf on Her Lady Bird Oscar Nomination and Finding the Humanity in All of Her Characters

  23-01-2018 16:32 via feeds.eonline.com
  Laurie Metcalf considers herself a new kid on the block. Yes, the three-time Emmy winner, seven-time Emmy nominee, Tony winner and three-time Golden Globe nominee who as been working steadily...
  
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• Family Guy and The Nightmare Before Christmas Leaving Netflix in February 2018

  23-01-2018 16:30 via feeds.eonline.com
  Out with the old and in with the new!On Tuesday, Netflix announced several original series--including Altered Carbon, Coach Snoop and Queer Eye--are scheduled to premiere in February...
  
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• American Pie, Ella Enchanted, Kill Bill and Meet the Parents Coming to Netflix in February 2018

  23-01-2018 16:30 via feeds.eonline.com
  Netflix is making several Oscar- and Razzi-nominated movies ready for streaming in February 2018. On Tuesday, the company announced which film and TV titles will soon become available. It will...
  
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• Russia pulls 'despicable' Death of Stalin from cinemas

  23-01-2018 16:20
  Acclaimed black comedy labelled ‘boring, repugnant and insulting’ after private viewing for culture ministry officialsRussia’s culture ministry has withdrawn permission for the release of Armando Iannucci’s black comedy The Death of Stalin, after officials and top arts figures labelled the movie offensive and extremist.An advisory committee to the ministry had earlier recommended postponing the release to avoid it clashing with the 75th anniversary of the end of the Battl
  
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• The full list of nominations for the Oscars 2018

  23-01-2018 15:05
  All the nominations for the 90th Academy Awards, which take place on 4 March at the Dolby theatre in Hollywood•Oscars 2018: Shape of Water leads the way with bumper 13 nominationsCall Me by Your Name
  Darkest Hour
  Dunkirk
  Get Out
  Lady Bird
  Phantom Thread
  The Post
  The Shape of Water
  Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Continue reading...
  
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• Why You Could Be Seeing a Lot of Immigrant Stories on TV This Fall

  23-01-2018 15:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  On One Day at a Time’s freshman season, Elena’s friend Carmen has a big secret: Her undocumented parents had been deported to Mexico. In this season of The Fosters, a young DACA recipient is facing the threat of deportation after she participates in a college hate-speech protest and her parents...More »
  
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• Theater News: Public Theater Announces Public Shakespeare Initiative Lineup

  23-01-2018 15:00
  The series of conversations will take place at the Public's Lafayette Street home.
  
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