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• Week in Review, February 3

  02-02-2018 23:30 via ft.com
  Blackstone shakes up trading, Dimon to stay, HBO soars, Capita warning and Facebook
  
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• Requiem review – heavy on the Hammer horror cliches

  02-02-2018 23:00
  A cellist heads to an insular and suspicious Welsh community to poke around a spooky mansion and investigate a double suicide in a BBC mystery that could do with more sotto voceAn isolated manor, surrounded by clipped yews and enveloped in an eerie soundscape. A man enters the house – a country-gent type chap – and there are more creepy sounds inside. “Hello, who’s here?” he calls out, and peers into the cellar. Then he seems to become possessed and starts smashing
  
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• 2 Dope Queens Is a Terrific Newcomer to Late-Night TV

  02-02-2018 22:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you like 2 Dope Queens the podcast, you’ll like 2 Dope Queens the HBO series. Like most things on television, it’s possible to watch the four-part comedy special anytime you like. But there’s something that feels especially right about watching it, as HBO intended, at 11:30 p.m. on a...More »
  
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• Black Panther's Chadwick Boseman Recalls His Experiences With Racism

  02-02-2018 22:30 via feeds.eonline.com
  UPDATE: Chadwick Boseman is clarifying his comments and experiences as told in Mr. Porter."I was misquoted in a recent article regarding seeing Klan rallies in SC in 2017. The...
  
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• Review: ‘Winchester’ Has a Grim Helen Mirren. And a Silly Script.

  02-02-2018 22:16 via nytimes.com
  This story centers on an eccentric heiress played by Ms. Mirren. The movie has a vast mansion, a psychologist and, well, you can probably guess the rest.
  
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• The People Who Make the Modern Love Podcast Pick Their Favorite Episodes

  02-02-2018 21:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  This week, the wonderful Modern Love podcast celebrated its 100th episode. A co-production between the New York Times and the Boston public radio station WBUR, the podcast sports a simple, elegant design: Every week, the show selects an essay from the New York Times’ considerable archive of Modern Love columns,...More »
  
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• The Modern Love Team Picks Their 9 Favorite Podcast Episodes

  02-02-2018 21:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  This week, the wonderful Modern Love podcast celebrated its 100th episode. A co-production between the New York Times and the Boston public radio station WBUR, the podcast sports a simple, elegant design: Every week, the show selects an essay from the New York Times’ considerable archive of Modern Love columns,...More »
  
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• Review: Draw the Circle

  02-02-2018 21:00
  Mashuq Mushtaq Deen depicts his gender transition through the perspectives of family, friends, and acquaintances in his solo show at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater.
  
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• Review: A Colony of Sex Offenders Takes the Stage in America Is Hard to See

  02-02-2018 21:00
  Life Jacket Theater's latest documentary play addresses an uncomfortable subject.
  
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• 2 Dope Queens’ Phoebe Robinson on Turning a Hit Comedy Podcast Into an HBO Special

  02-02-2018 20:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  First, it was a stand-up act. Then it became a super-popular podcast. Now, 2 Dope Queens has expanded to include four HBO comedy specials, the first of which airs tonight. Hosts Jessica Williams and Phoebe Robinson filmed the specials at Brooklyn’s Kings Theatre and will feature guests like Sarah Jessica...More »
  
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• Will Zadie Smith Ever Feel Free?

  02-02-2018 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Zadie Smith attends dinner parties. A few of them are glimpsed in her new collection of essays and criticism, Feel Free. At a dinner of “old friends, north London intellectuals” just after the Brexit referendum, the table considers the fact that all of them were wrong to think that the...More »
  
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• LaChanze, Ariana DeBose, and Storm Lever Will All Play Donna Summer in a Broadway Musical

  02-02-2018 19:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  Meet Donna, Donna, and Donna. The upcoming Broadway musical based on the life of Donna Summer has cast LaChanze, Ariana DeBose, and Storm Lever as three different incarnations of Summer: the washed-up “Diva Donna,” the successful “Disco Donna,” and the young “Duckling Donna,” respectively. The musical features a book by...More »
  
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• People of the World, the Spice Girls Had a Reunion Today

  02-02-2018 19:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Every boy and every girl … colors of the world … you get it … our ladies are back together! For the first time in years, the Spice Girls have reunited for a photo op to simultaneously inject us with a stable dose of nostalgia and get us hyped for...More »
  
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• Dirty Money Is a Portrait of Capitalism Without Remorse

  02-02-2018 19:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  Dirty Money is the most fun you can have while being pissed off. Overseen by veteran filmmaker Alex Gibney, who also directed the first episode, it’s billed at a six-part Netflix documentary series. But it plays more like a miniature film festival, consisting of self-contained documentaries with different subjects, directed...More »
  
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• Lena Waithe Addresses Aziz Ansari Sexual-Misconduct Allegation: ‘It’s Not Always Black-and-White’

  02-02-2018 19:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  Less than a month after Aziz Ansari was accused by a photographer of sexual misconduct, his friend and Master of None collaborator Lena Waithe is addressing the allegation. “Here’s the truth — in every situation, it’s not always black-and-white. And I know that’s simple for people, and it’s easy for...More »
  
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• Vodafone in talks to buy Liberty Global assets in Europe

  02-02-2018 19:02 via ft.com
  Two companies resume talks over telecom and cable empires after 2015 failure
  
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• Rich Brian Wants to Do Everything

  02-02-2018 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  One might think that after our extensive article on him last fall, we wouldn’t have much left to say about Rich Brian, the up-and-coming Indonesian-Chinese rapper. But with a new album out today and a fresh name change (he’s now the artist formerly known as Rich Chigga), there ends up...More »
  
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• How Mike Schur and Damon Lindelof’s Unlikely Bromance Helped Shape The Good Place

  02-02-2018 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Last November, The Good Place creator Michael Schur and The Leftovers creator Damon Lindelof spoke with our West Coast editor Josef Adalian at Vulture Festival L.A. During the hour-long conversation, they discussed everything from their shows, TV twists, and fan theories to the #MeToo movement, Twitter, and President Trump. The...More »
  
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• How to Get Away With Murder Recap: Mommy Issues

  02-02-2018 18:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  The whole concept of “daddy issues” or “mommy issues” is usually sexist and problematic. The idea that someone will be messed up when it comes to dating because their mom or dad didn’t hug them enough is also pretty suspect, but when you watch How to Get Away With Murder,...More »
  
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• Review: ‘Field Guide’ Brings Standup to a Dostoyevsky Downer

  02-02-2018 18:42 via nytimes.com
  Rude Mechs boil down the 800 pages of “The Brothers Karamazov” to a searching but silly 80-minute show. Hot tub included.
  
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• Altered Carbon Is an Over-Stacked Cyberpunk Mess

  02-02-2018 18:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  Altered Carbon is set in a future where a person’s consciousness can live forever. Which is why it’s ironic that watching this show frequently makes me feel dead inside.The cyberpunk sci-fi series, which debuted Friday on Netflix, is ambitious, convoluted, violent, derivative, and somehow simultaneously grimy and glossy. It raises...More »
  
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• Vodafone in talks to buy Liberty assets in Europe

  02-02-2018 17:36 via ft.com
  Two companies resume talks over telecom and cable empires after 2015 failure
  
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• Here’s How You Can Stream the 2018 Super Bowl Live

  02-02-2018 17:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  On Sunday night, the Philadelphia Eagles are set to take on last year’swinners, the New England Patriots, in the Super Bowl LII. Though the Patriots are clear favorites in this 2005 Super Bowl rematch, many still have hope for the Eagles, who are in the running to win their first...More »
  
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• Justin Timberlake Sounds Bored on Man of the Woods

  02-02-2018 17:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  Neil Young was only 25 years old when he sang the world-weary “…and I’m getting old” line in the chorus of his 1972 country-rock classic “Heart of Gold.” “Gold” and the rest of the downcast tunes that populate Young’s Harvest album are full of pangs of old-timey masculinity, musings on...More »
  
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• Theater News: Atlantic Theater Company to Honor Orin Wolf, John Styles, John Hart at Annual Gala

  02-02-2018 17:00
  Stephen Sondheim, Katrina Lenk, and more will perform at the event, dubbed Composers' Choice.
  
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• One Day at a Time Stars Justina Machado and Isabella Gomez on Shooting That Emotional Finale

  02-02-2018 16:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  In its second season, Netflix’s One Day at a Time reboot gets miraculously deeper and more confident. The show confronts issues like depression and immigration without losing its sense of humor or becoming didactic, and in the season finale, it swerves into a darker story. When the family’s matriarch Lydia...More »
  
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• Bill & Ted Star Alex Winter Says He Was Sexually Abused as a Child Actor

  02-02-2018 16:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  In an interview with BBC Radio 5, Alex Winter said he was sexually abused while a child actor in the 1970s by a man who is now dead. Winter, a star of Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure and now a director, described the experience as “hellish,” saying that “I didn’t...More »
  
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• A ‘Homeland’ Spy Opens Up Onstage in ‘Returning to Reims’

  02-02-2018 16:34 via nytimes.com
  The 2016 election changed the course of Nina Hoss’s career. You may know this film and stage actress from TV, where she played Astrid on “Homeland.”
  
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• Rose McGowan Alleges Statutory Rape by Another ‘Very Famous’ Hollywood Abuser

  02-02-2018 16:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  During Rose McGowan and Ronan Farrow’s 90-minute talk at the 92nd Street Y Thursday night, McGowan alluded to a powerful man in Hollywood that sexually abused her. This time, she wasn’t talking about Harvey Weinstein, who she has accused of raping her in 1997, but another man. “You told me...More »
  
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• Scandal Recap: A Very Special Intervention

  02-02-2018 16:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  There are three of Scandal’s standard funky music cues in “The People v. Olivia Pope,” and they’re all Janet Jackson songs. First, there’s the ebullient “When I Think Of You” from Control, used to drive home the idea that Olivia and Fitz’s post-memorial hook up was more than a drunken,...More »
  
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• Watch a Wasted Seth Meyers Scream ‘Since U Been Gone’ at Kelly Clarkson

  02-02-2018 16:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  In what has to be the easiest sell of any late-night segment, Seth Meyers occasionally gets day-drunk with celebrities. This time around, Meyers and Kelly Clarkson got wasted on terrible sounding American Idol– and The Voice–themed drinks, took Donald Trump’s cognitive test together, and then proceeded to talk about Seth’s...More »
  
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• Streaming: Let the Pre-Oscar Bingeing Begin

  02-02-2018 16:00 via nytimes.com
  This year’s Oscar nominees feature a terrific array of talent whose work is nearly infinitely available to sample on streaming video.
  
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• Review: Stories of Survival and Hope Take the Stage at A.R.T.

  02-02-2018 16:00
  A remarkable cast of Nigerian actresses pierce the heart in Hear Word! Naija Woman Talk True
  
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• Photo Flash: First Look at Robert Sean Leonard and Paul Sparks in At Home at the Zoo

  02-02-2018 16:00
  Lila Neugebauer's production opens February 21 at Signature Theatre.
  
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• Photo Flash: Fire and Air Opens at Classic Stage Company

  02-02-2018 16:00
  Tony Award winner Terrence McNally's play explores the history of the Ballets Russes.
  
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• Hear Kendrick Lamar and the Weeknd’s Black Panther Soundtrack Cut, ‘Pray for Me’

  02-02-2018 15:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  Black Panther has been getting rave reviews from its first screening this week, and now here comes Kendrick Lamar to remind us that the soundtrack he curated for the film is pretty great, too. Just in time for the actual weekend, Kendrick released “Pray for Me,” a synth-driven track that...More »
  
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• Justin Timberlake’s ‘Montana’ Is Very Funky, But Slightly Awkward

  02-02-2018 15:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  Long renowned for his agility, Justin Timberlake has had himself an uncommonly awkward album rollout in the past month. As with Taylor Swift during the fall of last year, the pop ecosystem in which Timberlake had thrived and built a name had evaporated in his absence, and the artist’s attempt...More »
  
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• Rose McGowan Says Her Infamous VMAs Dress Was A Weinstein Protest

  02-02-2018 15:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  In 1998, Rose McGowan caused a frenzy when she showed up to the VMAs wearing a completely sheer, beaded dress. The dress is now an iconic red-carpet moment, but it’s been widely misunderstood, McGowan told Dr. Oz this week. The actress didn’t wear the dress to be sexy, she wore...More »
  
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• NFL Players Read Mean Tweets, As If Playing Football Weren’t Brutal Enough

  02-02-2018 15:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  After subjecting dozens of Hollywood celebrities to the ire of the internet, Jimmy Kimmel has decided to make our athletes suffer, too. In advance of the Super Bowl (and more importantly, Jack’s death on This Is Us), Kimmel brought in a bunch of NFL players and made them face whatever...More »
  
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• All the Ways The Good Place Season Finale Is Like Lost

  02-02-2018 15:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  We don’t wanna end up in the Bad Place, so consider this your spoiler warning for The Good Place season finale.The season-two finale of The Good Place once again blew up its own premise, though it might be more accurate to say that it detonated a hydrogen bomb.In a last-ditch effort...More »
  
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• Theater News: Theatre Women Awards to Honor Phylicia Rashad With Lifetime Achievement Award

  02-02-2018 15:00
  The annual ceremony will be held at the TimesCenter on March 16.
  
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• Photo Flash: Lea Salonga, John Leguizamo, and More Participate in 2018 Theatre Foward Roundtable

  02-02-2018 15:00
  Bruce E. Whitacre moderated the event.
  
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• Here’s What You Need to Know About the Spooky, Real-Life Winchester House

  02-02-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Winchester, opening this weekend, stars Helen Mirren as a mysterious widow living in a giant, ever-expanding mansion, commissioning nearly four decades of construction on her house in hopes of filling each new room with a restless ghost. The film kicks off with the arrival of a crooked, drug-addicted psychiatrist (Jason...More »
  
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• The Good Place Finale Gave Ted Danson a Great Cheers Moment

  02-02-2018 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Spoilers ahead for The Good Place season finale.“Want to talk about it?”So begins the conversation between Michael, a reformed demon, and his newly human pal, Eleanor Shellstrop, as they encounter each other at some random Arizona bar in The Good Place’s season-two finale. Of course, Eleanor doesn’t know who he...More »
  
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• English Premier League: netting it

  02-02-2018 14:11 via ft.com
  Transfer fees look to have found a comfortable level
  
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• Theater News: Signature Theatre Announces At Home at the Zoo Talkbacks, '90s Dance Party

  02-02-2018 14:00
  Lila Neugebauer, director of the new Edward Albee production, will participate in a free discussion after the February 13 performance.
  
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• Theater News: Casting Announced for Mentor Project Production of A Patron of the Arts

  02-02-2018 14:00
  Kate Cortesi develops her new play under the mentorship of award-winning playwright Anne Washburn.
  
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• 5 Black Panther Comics to Read Before You See the Movie

  02-02-2018 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  After what has felt like 800 years of waiting and anticipating, the release of Marvel Studios’ Black Panther is just around the corner. Thanks to the buildup, the title character — the superhero king of the fictional, technologically advanced African nation of Wakanda — has never been more popular, and...More »
  
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• Altered Carbon Series Premiere Recap: Finish the Mission

  02-02-2018 13:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  Altered Carbon plunges us into a pseudo-philosophical, cyberpunk vision of the future, one clearly inspired by the work of Philip K. Dick, Ridley Scott, and the Wachowskis, but pulling primarily from the novel of the same name by Richard K. Morgan. This is Netflix throwing its weight into action-heavy, high-budget...More »
  
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• This week’s best TV: from Blade Runner 2049 to Derry Girls

  02-02-2018 13:00
  Broodingly sumptuous or overly heavy on the visuals, Denis Villeneuve’s sequel is a worthy successor, while Lisa McGee’s coming-of-age tale draws to a closeDenis Villeneuve’s future-shock sequel was one of the most talked-about films of last year, with initial critical rapture giving way to something more ambivalent. But however you felt about the story, the pacing or the tone, it was a visual feast and Ryan Gosling’s customary studied blankness made him perfect for the l
  
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