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• In Citizen Rose, Rose McGowan Speaks Out, Whether You Like It or Not

  29-01-2018 23:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Do I make you uncomfortable?” Rose McGowan asks in the opening minutes of Citizen Rose, a new E! docuseries that kicks off Tuesday night with a two-hour pilot. “Good.”That rhetorical question and response partially sums up the attitude of this portrait of the Scream and Charmed star, more widely known...More »
  
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• Alessia Cara Pens Strong Case for Why She Deserved to Win Best New Artist Grammy

  29-01-2018 22:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  On Sunday night, Alessia Cara became the only woman to take home a top Grammy when she was named Best New Artist. But according to some critics who would have preferred SZA, Khalid, Lil Uzi Vert, or Julia Michaels take the win, she was the wrong choice. In a lengthy...More »
  
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• Diane Keaton Says She Continues to Believe Woody Allen

  29-01-2018 22:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  As more stars voice their support for Dylan Farrow (or at least hint that they regret working with Woody Allen), Diane Keaton has come to the director’s defense. “Woody Allen is my friend and I continue to believe him,” Keaton tweeted Monday afternoon. The actress shared a link to Allen’s...More »
  
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• New Trailer: ‘Unsane,’ the Steven Soderbergh iPhone Movie

  29-01-2018 22:49 via nytimes.com
  Claire Foy stars as the victim of a stalker in this thriller, which also features Amy Irving and Joshua Leonard.
  
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• The 2018 Grammys Had the Lowest Ratings in Nearly a Decade. What Happened?

  29-01-2018 22:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  Roughly 20 million viewers watched the 60th Grammy Awards on CBS Sunday, a 23 percent decline from a year ago and the smallest audience since 2009 for the recording industry’s annual kudos. While ratings for linear TV broadcasts are falling across the board these days, Grammy’s Nielsen numbers had been...More »
  
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• Harvey Weinstein Might Return to New York This Spring for a Deposition

  29-01-2018 22:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  Guess who’s back, by unpopular demand: Deadline reports that Harvey Weinstein will return to New York City in April for a deposition. As the Weinstein Company nears acquisition, Weinstein will have to face TWC’s lawyers on April 17 unless Delaware’s Court of Chancery decides otherwise. “The deposition will be taken...More »
  
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• Theater News: Head Over Heels, Featuring Songs of the Go-Go's, Is Headed to Broadway

  29-01-2018 21:00
  Michael Mayer will direct a cast that includes Andrew Durand, Alexandra Socha, and RuPaul's Drag Race's Peppermint.
  
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• Theater News: Hayley Mills, Party Face, and More Win Origin's 1st Irish Best of Festival Awards

  29-01-2018 21:00
  Disco Pigs's Colin Campbell also picked up a special jury prize.
  
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• Here Are All of the Movies That Sold at Sundance This Year

  29-01-2018 20:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  Any cursory glance at the post-Sundance recaps coming out of the trades reveals a common theme: This year’s cinema summit in Park City was an emphatically quiet one. After two straight years in which Netflix and Amazon served as the festival equivalent of mustachioed Moneybags upping the prices at an auction — helping to...More »
  
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• Tom Hanks to Play Mr. Rogers in Upcoming Biopic You Are My Friend

  29-01-2018 20:37 via feeds.eonline.com
  Tom Hanks is taking on another big role for a real-life character.According to Variety, the 61-year-old actor is slated to play the iconic television personality Mr. Rogers in the...
  
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• Nicole Kidman, Trailblazing Weirdo, Loves Eating Bugs

  29-01-2018 20:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  Maybe Nicole Kidman does not possess a secret talent and needed to come up with something to do on camera. Maybe Nicole Kidman just really likes eating bugs. Either way, Vanity Fair put together a video where the Big Bug Little Lies star eats “microlivestock.” Congrats to Kidman for showcasing...More »
  
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• Drake’s ‘God’s Plan’ Debuts at No. 1 As God Planned

  29-01-2018 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Streaming often shakes up the Billboard charts and that’s never more true than with Drake. He recently dropped a two-song EP without warning and he’s now achieved his fourth No. 1 song (though its only his second as lead artist). His new track “God’s Plan” has debuted on this week’s...More »
  
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• Tom Hanks to Play Mr. Rogers in New Biopic, You Are My Friend, As If Anyone Else Could

  29-01-2018 20:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  The news only just broke, but you probably already knew this in your bones: Tom Hanks will play Mr. Rogers in the upcoming biopic, You Are My Friend. The movie won’t just be re-creations of Hanks as Rogers singing “Won’t you be my neighbor?” over and over again, though. According...More »
  
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• Medieval Times Goes Modern, Replacing Its Kings With Queens

  29-01-2018 20:01 via nytimes.com
  Zounds! In a coup for gender equality, only women will now preside over a realm of chicken legs, beer and jousting. But do the commoners care?
  
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• The 11 Best Quotes From GQ’s Quincy Jones Interview

  29-01-2018 19:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  Quincy Jones’s GQ interview is nearly as quotable as Phantom Thread: From the zany to the hilarious to the awfully bizarre, Jones’s memories are a history lesson, a pop-culture family history, and a Who’s Who all at once. Jones talks about it all, from his 22 (!) girlfriends, to that...More »
  
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• Superhero Publisher Valiant Sold to DMG Entertainment

  29-01-2018 19:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  The entertainment world continues to be convinced that it can replicate the success of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and a new player has emerged in the race for spandex-clad success: Dan Mintz. He’s the CEO of DMG Entertainment, a production and distribution company that has worked on films such as...More »
  
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• My Goodness, What Is Happening in These Jane the Virgin Photos?

  29-01-2018 19:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you’re caught up on Jane the Virgin (and if you aren’t, stop reading right now), you’d know that last Friday’s episode ended with Jane and Rafael sharing a big, romantic kiss. In this week’s upcoming episode, apparently they get up to a lot more. The CW has posted a...More »
  
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• Which January at the Movies Was the Most January?

  29-01-2018 19:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  January at the movies is a tale of two seasons. It’s the month where Oscar contenders traditionally open nationwide, allowing moviegoers across the country to experience the best that Hollywood has to offer. But for that reason, it’s also the month where the rest of the industry tries to stay...More »
  
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• Why Has Mudbound Been Left Out of the Awards Conversation?

  29-01-2018 18:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  Some films have an epic-ness and artistry that demand they be seen on the big screen. Such is the case for Mudbound, an intricate and grand rendering of life in 1940s Mississippi Delta through the lives of a white family and black family, the McAllens and the Jacksons. Directed and...More »
  
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• The Peaks and Pitfalls of the Grammys Were Politically Connected

  29-01-2018 18:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  Disappointment is essential to awards shows. It’s simple math: With roughly five nominees per category and only one winner, there’s bound to be plenty of sighing from partisans of the four who lost out. The only way to abolish disappointment from awards shows would be to abolish awards shows altogether,...More »
  
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• Relx pays £580m for digital identity company

  29-01-2018 18:28 via ft.com
  Information group makes biggest deal in a decade for business to help manage online risk
  
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• The Good Place: how a sitcom made philosophy seem cool

  29-01-2018 18:00
  Never studied philosophy? No worries! Here’s a beginner’s guide to the concepts that make the gags in The Good Place so, well, good Oh, to have been a fly on the wall during the pitch meeting for The Good Place. Who’d have thought that ratings gold would be found in a sitcom about the afterlife, with regular references to Immanuel Kant, David Hume and Aristotle? It presumably helped to have comedy heavyweights Kristen Bell and Ted Danson attached and that it was created by Mich
  
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• Lorde Had a Feminist Statement Sewn Into Her Grammys Dress

  29-01-2018 17:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  Lorde was the lone woman nominated for Album of the Year at the Grammys this year and she went home empty-handed, like most women did last night. Adding insult to injury, hours before the show it was reported that Lorde was the only artist in the AOTY category denied the...More »
  
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• Just Patti LuPone and Some Great Products at the Grammys

  29-01-2018 17:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  Eyes, hair, mouth, figure, dress, voice, style, movement, hands, magic, rings, glamour, face, diamonds, excitement, spon-con. Before appearing at the Grammys last night to casually slay “Don’t Cry for Me Argentina,” Patti LuPone stopped by the Grammy gift lounge, a magical place where celebrities smile next to products they will...More »
  
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• Imagining President Donald Trump Sitting on Maurizio Cattelan’s Solid-Gold Toilet

  29-01-2018 17:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  We often ask if art can change the world. A fascinating case of the world changing art just cropped up in an incident initiated by the Trump White House. Last year the Guggenheim Museum received a request from First Lady Melania Trump and the Office of the Curator of the...More »
  
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• Rivals on Xbox, Partners Onstage

  29-01-2018 17:07 via nytimes.com
  Sam Crane and Iestyn Davies both play a famed opera singer in “Farinelli and the King.” But off hours, their passion for soccer takes hold.
  
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• Theater News: The Great Society Comes to Houston's Alley Theatre

  29-01-2018 17:00
  Robert Schenkkan's play is the follow-up to the Tony-winning All the Way.
  
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• Grammys President Says Women Need to ‘Step Up’ to Win Awards

  29-01-2018 16:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  Very few woman went home with a Grammy last night. And, according to Recording Academy president Neil Portnow, the way to solve that problem is through women stepping up.Alessia Cara was the only woman presented with a televised Grammy, taking home the award for Best New Artist; Lorde, the only...More »
  
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• Cardi B Got a Letter From a Fan at the Grammys: Bono

  29-01-2018 15:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  Suddenly, all of those U2 performances at this year’s Grammys make sense — they just needed multiple opportunities to see Cardi B. She wasn’t to be found on that barge in the middle of the Hudson because Cardi, a native New Yorker, knows that would be risking life and limb....More »
  
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• Kate Winslet Reveals ‘Some Bitter Regrets’ About Working With a Certain Man in Hollywood

  29-01-2018 15:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  Kate Winslet seems to have addressed sexual-abuse allegations against her Wonder Wheel director Woody Allen. While accepting a prize at the London Critics’ Circle film awards, Winslet alluded to Allen, who has been accused of molesting his daughter Dylan Farrow: “I wouldn’t be able to stand here this evening, and...More »
  
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• The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Tea Time

  29-01-2018 15:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  She has arrived. The one and only EVA. THE. DIVA. And she has brought the drama with her. For all the stragglers and hangers-on on this iteration of the franchise, you can’t be mad at someone who brings a juicy piece of gossip and the receipts. You can’t be mad...More »
  
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• Video Flash: Mamma Mia!: Here We Go Again Drops New Trailer During the Grammys

  29-01-2018 15:00
  Get ready to hear Cher sing some of your favorite ABBA tunes.
  
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• Theater News: Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Finalists Announced

  29-01-2018 15:00
  The winner will be revealed in early March.
  
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• Star Trek Discovery Recap: Why Do the Agony Booths Even Open?

  29-01-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Friends, it’s finally happened: TILLY TOOK THE WIG OFF. It took four episodes. Four episodes! That wig has been through a lot. That wig has lasted longer than a lot of characters on the show! But now it’s gone — Tilly drops it somewhere between the first and the second act...More »
  
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• Film News: Vivo, With Songs by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Moves Up Release Date

  29-01-2018 15:00
  The animated film will also feature a script by his In the Heights collaborator Quiara Alegría Hudes.
  
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• The Chi Recap: The Standoff

  29-01-2018 14:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Quaking Grass” commences with the bark of a shotgun fired by unseen hands, as last week’s confrontation between Ronnie and Brandon (and precipitated by Kevin) reaches a fulcrum. Ronnie confesses to Coogie’s murder and an enraged Brandon charges, their tussle relayed via flashbacks. (The flashbacks are a little hokey, with...More »
  
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• Jennifer Hudson Confirmed to Star in Aretha Franklin Biopic

  29-01-2018 14:50 via feeds.eonline.com
  Jennifer Hudson has been cast in the forthcoming Aretha Franklin biopic.Clive Davis revealed the news Saturday night at his annual pre-Grammys party, where the singer performed a medley...
  
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• Sundance 2018: 'gay conversion' drama wins grand jury prize

  29-01-2018 14:22
  The Miseducation of Cameron Post has won the independent film festival’s highest honour for its study of teenagers struggling to ‘pray away the gay’“Gay re-education” comedy-drama The Miseducation of Cameron Post has won the grand jury prize at the Sundance film festival, the most influential award on the US independent circuit. Directed by Desiree Akhavan and starring Chloë Grace Moretz, the adaptation of Emily M Danforth’s 2012 novel secured admiring re
  
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• When good TV goes bad: is it game over for A Question of Sport?

  29-01-2018 14:00
  With Phil Tufnell’s bad bants and industrial-strength wazzock Matt Dawson, the once popular quiz show is losing its pace Strange as it is to contemplate in 2018, once upon a time A Question of Sport was appointment-to-view television. Admittedly, at that time, there were only two or three other channels to choose from. Even so, the show was weighty and challenging and tapped into the nation’s ever-burgeoning fascination with sport-as-spectacle. The team captains were giants in their
  
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• Theater News: This Girl Laughs, This Girl Cries, This Girl Does Nothing to Open at the Atlantic

  29-01-2018 14:00
  The play is written by Finegan Kruckemeyer, with original music by Nate Weida.
  
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• Photo Flash: First Look at York Theatre Company's Concert Production of Hallelujah, Baby!

  29-01-2018 14:00
  The concert performance is part of the winter 2018 Musicals in Mufti series celebrating the work of Jule Styne.
  
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• Theater News: Sweeney Todd to Serve Special Valentine's Day Cake

  29-01-2018 13:00
  Hugh Panaro and Carolee Carmello currently star in the immersive production of the Stephen Sondheim-Hugh Wheeler musical.
  
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• Photo Flash: See the New York Premiere of Eve Ensler's In the Body of the World

  29-01-2018 13:00
  The Tony winner's new solo show opens February 6 under the direction of Diane Paulus.
  
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• Three Billboards on track for Oscar glory after three London Critics' Circle awards

  29-01-2018 12:50
  Frances McDormand and Martin McDonagh take top honours as the UK’s leading critics’ film of the year, beating Oscar rivals Dunkirk and The Shape of WaterThree Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri continued its strong awards-season showing by picking up a trio of prizes at the 38th London Critics’ Circle awards.Martin McDonagh’s divisive drama, which won four Golden Globes earlier this month and has been nominated for seven awards at this year’s Oscars, took home the
  
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