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• Henry Cavill’s Mustache Has Taken Over His Instagram

  05-02-2018 23:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  Was there a mustache that had a bigger cinematic impact on 2017 than Henry Cavill’s? The actor’s lush whiskers were apparently so necessary for his role in the upcoming Mission: Impossible — Fallout, that Paramount refused to let him shave them off to complete his Justice League reshoots. Cavill was...More »
  
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• Hispanic Group Protests at Oscars Luncheon

  05-02-2018 23:53 via nytimes.com
  The activists, carrying signs with messages like “Hire Brown Tinseltown,” were decrying the lack of Hispanic characters in Hollywood films.
  
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• Jamie Dornan Is Done With Fifty Shades for Good: "I'm Gettin' Too Old for This"

  05-02-2018 23:41 via feeds.eonline.com
  Laters, baby.Jamie Dornan thinks he's getting "too old" for Fifty Shades. During an interview Monday on ITV's Lorraine, the actor was asked about the upcoming Fifty...
  
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• Hollywood Manager to Close Agency After Sexual-Harassment Accusations

  05-02-2018 23:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  Vincent Cirrincione, a Hollywood manager known for supporting the careers of actresses like Halle Berry and Taraji P. Henson, has closed his agency after the Washington Post reported accusations of sexual harassment against him from nine women of color. “It is with incredibly great sadness that at this time that...More »
  
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• This Is Us Notches Biggest Post–Super Bowl Audience Since 2012

  05-02-2018 23:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  The post–Super Bowl edition of This Is Us drew a surprisingly big audience on Sunday night, despite relatively tepid numbers for the big game itself. Per Nielsen, just under 27 million teary-eyed viewers caught the super-sad installment of the family tearjerker, easily the biggest same-day audience of the show’s first...More »
  
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• Uma Thurman Blames Harvey Weinstein, CAA for Kill Bill Crash

  05-02-2018 23:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  In a New York Times interview over the weekend, Uma Thurman shared stunning footage of a life-threatening car wreck that happened on set of Kill Bill. Director Quentin Tarantino wanted Thurman herself, not a stunt driver, to operate a car that she felt was unsafe. During the stunt, Thurman lost...More »
  
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• Newsweek fires top two editors on ongoing legal woes

  05-02-2018 23:04 via ft.com
  Reporters also dismissed over their investigations into group’s finances
  
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• The X-Files review – juddering Mulder and Scully reboot jumps the shark

  05-02-2018 23:00
  Once we were charmed by this gloriously imaginative fiction, but with this latest iteration Chris Carter has only managed to weave a tapestry of unparalleled nonsenseWe have all aged considerably – most of it in the past two years – since The X-Files (Channel 5) first landed on our screens in 1993. In the early 90s, no matter what the actual year of our births were, we were young. Our corner of the world, though of course it had its moments, was essentially sorted. Centred enough, st
  
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• Broadway’s New Evan Hansen Gets Back to His ‘Sad Boy’ Roots

  05-02-2018 22:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  One might assume it’s a stretch for Taylor Trensch to go from starring in a big theatrical confection like Hello, Dolly! to a tearjerker like Dear Evan Hansen, but Trensch thinks of it more like coming home to something familiar. “Hello Dolly! was terrifying because that’s not at all where...More »
  
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• Eagles triumph in Super Bowl upset over Patriots

  05-02-2018 22:54 via ft.com
  Contest long on athletic excitement and short on political controversy
  
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• Maybe Star Wars Should Go Easy on the British Brunettes

  05-02-2018 22:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  That new Solo trailer offers a whole lot to take in, from Donald Glover’s fur-clad Lando Calrissian to Alden Ehrenreich’s attempt to capture Harrison Ford’s cocksure swagger. As far as Star Wars films go, this may be the most double-underlined attempt thus far to make everything old feel new again — peep those clean-as-a-whistle interiors in...More »
  
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• How Electric Dreams Compares to Philip K. Dick’s Short Stories

  05-02-2018 22:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s not hard to see why Philip K. Dick’s stories are adapted so often. They’re imbued a frequent sense of paranoia, a fixation on memory, and a haunting discussion of identity, all of which remain every bit as timelessly fascinating now as they were during his decades-long career. At this...More »
  
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• 21 Horror TV Shows You Can Watch Right Now

  05-02-2018 22:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  Horror movies perform well at the box office because they’re such a unique large-screen experience. There is, however, a glut of good horror programming on the small screen, too, and a special kind of terror that comes with turning off your TV, closing your laptop screen and wondering if you’re...More »
  
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• Review: In This Play, Her Boyfriend Dumps Her. Should She Find Love, or Herself?

  05-02-2018 22:17 via nytimes.com
  Steph Del Rosso’s new play, “Fill Fill Fill Fill Fill Fill Fill,” has breakneck banter and frisky wordplay. But is there anything new to say about a bad romance?
  
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• The Cloverfield Paradox Has Some Colossal Issues

  05-02-2018 22:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  This review contains minor spoilers for The Cloverfield Paradox.Congratulations to Netflix and Bad Robot for taking a so-so genre sequel and turning it into a surprise television EVENT that had nerds and those of us tasked to cover their buying habits (the main job of criticism these days, it seems)...More »
  
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• Melissa McCarthy Becomes a Sexually Liberated Mom in Life of the Party Trailer

  05-02-2018 22:04 via feeds.eonline.com
  In the past year, Melissa McCarthy has graced us with her Sean Spicer impersonations on Saturday Night Live, but it's been a while since we've seen her on the big screen.However,...
  
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• Critic’s Notebook: Women’s Voices Festival a Potent Reminder of Who Goes Unheard Onstage

  05-02-2018 22:01 via nytimes.com
  From a historical drama to an updated Restoration comedy classic, Washington, D.C., theaters make a case for evening the playing field.
  
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• Review: Martin McDonagh Confronts Justice, Revenge, and the Swingin' '60s in Hangmen

  05-02-2018 22:00
  An American debut from the prolific Irish playwright is reminiscent of his currently Oscar-nominated Three Billboards.
  
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• In Praise of Rita Moreno on One Day at a Time

  05-02-2018 21:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  Even now, in an era when few TV watchers can agree on much of anything, there are a small number of universally praised marvels. There’s The Good Place. There’s Laura Dern. There’s the moment when the dragons showed to save Jon Snow on Game of Thrones. There are the hot...More »
  
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• Theater News: Mary-Louise Parker, Matthew Broderick, Carmen Cusack Set for Williamstown

  05-02-2018 21:00
  Plays and playwrights for the 2018 season have been announced.
  
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• The Inevitable Harry & Meghan Lifetime Movie Has Found Its Harry and Meghan

  05-02-2018 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Former TV star Meghan Markle will sadly not be starring in the TV movie about her own life. Lifetime’s upcoming Harry & Meghan: A Royal Romance, the inevitable movie about the courtship of Prince Harry and former Suits star Meghan Markle, has cast Murray Fraser and Parisa Fitz-Henley as the...More »
  
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• Obituaries: Tony Winner, Steppenwolf Vet, and Frasier Star John Mahoney Dies at 77

  05-02-2018 20:00
  Mahoney received his Tony for his performance in The House of Blue Leaves.
  
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• Female Executives at the Big Three Record Labels Slam Grammy President’s ‘Step Up’ Comments As ‘Woefully Out of Touch’

  05-02-2018 19:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  One week after a group of female managers, lawyers, and publicists signed a joint letter demanding that Recording Academy president Neil Portnow resign after he said female artists need to “step up” at the Grammys, women at all of the major record labels have broken their silence. Six top-level female...More »
  
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• Helen Mirren Is Ready to Record Her Shakespearean Rap Album

  05-02-2018 18:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  There are a lot of reasons to love Helen Mirren. She’s an Oscar-, Emmy-, and Tony-winning actress who also makes surprise appearances as the British gangster mother of Jason Statham in the Fast and Furious movies. She’s a proud feminist and a dame, but with a great sense of humor...More »
  
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• Ben Platt, Barbra Streisand, and Gwyneth Paltrow Might Star in the Ryan Murphy Netflix Show of Your Dreams

  05-02-2018 18:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  Really, it was only a matter of time before Ryan Murphy got to Ben Platt. Deadline reports that Platt has signed on to star in a new Netflix show from Murphy called The Politician with a cast that could include — are you sitting down? — the Barbra Streisand and...More »
  
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• Netflix’s New Fab Five on Why It’s Important to Bring Back Queer Eye

  05-02-2018 18:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  This Wednesday, Netflix will bring back Queer Eye, a newly rebooted version of the reality-TV classic Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, with a new set of experts hell-bent on making straight men (and, in this case, everyone else) as fabulous as possible. In advance of the series premiere, Vulture...More »
  
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• Breaking Down the Fast, Furious Solo: A Star Wars Story Trailer

  05-02-2018 17:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  Folks, believe it or not, there’s another Star Wars movie coming out in a little over three months. After three years of Yuletide adventures in a galaxy far, far away, Lucasfilm and Disney have decided to revisit the franchise’s summer-flick origins by releasing Solo: A Star Wars Story on May...More »
  
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• Content kings bet that scale is key to survival

  05-02-2018 17:46 via ft.com
  A Viacom-CBS reunion would be just the latest flight to scale
  
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• Kenya media crackdown raises fears of authoritarian creep

  05-02-2018 17:30 via ft.com
  TV stations taken off air and court orders ignored in stern reaction to Odinga gesture
  
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• It Was His Halftime Show, But Justin Timberlake Was the Least Memorable Musician at the Super Bowl

  05-02-2018 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Like music’s other biggest night, over the past 25 years the Super Bowl halftime show has been a singular spectacle where scale, energy, and inoffensiveness are the central priorities. As with the big game that brackets it, the halftime show is incredibly costly and complexly orchestrated, but every effort is...More »
  
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• Review: ‘The Cloverfield Paradox,’ Netflix’s Surprise Release, Unleashes Chaos

  05-02-2018 17:20 via nytimes.com
  This latest release in the science fiction franchise is strangely plain and uselessly frantic as a particle collider wreaks havoc on Earth.
  
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• Review: Netflix’s Surprise Release, ‘The Cloverfield Paradox,’ Unleashes Chaos

  05-02-2018 17:20 via nytimes.com
  This latest release in the science fiction franchise is strangely plain and uselessly frantic as a particle collider wreaks havoc on Earth.
  
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• Jessica Chastain Cut From Xavier Dolan's The Death and Life of John F. Donovan

  05-02-2018 17:20 via feeds.eonline.com
  Jessica Chastain will not appear in The Death and Life of John F. Donovan after all.French Canadian filmmaker Xavier Dolan made the announcement via Instagram Sunday. The drama--his...
  
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• Theater News: Tony LePage, Nancy Opel Join Cast of Tonya & Nancy

  05-02-2018 17:00
  Ashley Spencer and Lauren Worsham will also take part in a concert performance at Feinstein's/54 Below.
  
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• Theater News: Familiar Begins Performances at Woolly Mammoth Theatre

  05-02-2018 17:00
  The production is the fourth of Tony-nominated playwright Danai Gurira's for Woolly Mammoth.
  
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• Theater News: Casting Set for Barrow Group's A Walk in the Woods

  05-02-2018 17:00
  Lee Blessing's play will be directed by Donna Jean Fogel.
  
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• Jessica Chastain’s Role Cut From New Film The Death and Life of John F. Donovan

  05-02-2018 16:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  Jessica Chastain will no longer appear in Xavier Dolan’s Death and Life of John F. Donovan. In a statement posted to Instagram, Dolan updated fans on the delayed drama about the discovery of a movie star’s correspondence with a young fan. John F. Donovan stars a constellation of crushes: Kit...More »
  
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• Hugh Grant attacks Mirror Group over decade of ‘criminality’

  05-02-2018 16:48 via ft.com
  Actor donates payout for ‘industrial scale’ phone hacking to press campaign group
  
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• Dalian Wanda sells stake in films unit to Alibaba

  05-02-2018 16:27 via ft.com
  Ecommerce group to acquire 13% of business with Cultural Investment Holdings
  
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• ‘Solo’ Trailer Stars Alden Ehrenreich and Chewbacca

  05-02-2018 16:17 via nytimes.com
  The spot for the “Star Wars” spinoff, directed by Ron Howard, also features Donald Glover, Thandie Newton and Emilia Clarke.
  
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• Broadway’s Smallest Theater Is Reopening, This Time as a Nonprofit

  05-02-2018 16:15 via nytimes.com
  Once named the Little Theater, the playhouse now known as the Helen Hayes is about to be reincarnated again.
  
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• Theater News: The Parisian Woman Announces Final Performance to Benefit the Actors Fund

  05-02-2018 16:00
  Uma Thurman makes her Broadway debut in the play by House of Cards creator Beau Willimon.
  
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• Theater News: The Jonathan Larson Project to Present Unheard Songs From Never-Produced Shows

  05-02-2018 16:00
  Jonathan Larson is the famed creator of Rent and Tick, Tick...BOOM!
  
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• Theater News: Soho Rep. Extends Aleshea Harris's Is God Is

  05-02-2018 16:00
  The world premiere production is the company's first in its reopened lower Manhattan theater.
  
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• Photo Flash: America Is Hard to See Opens Off-Broadway

  05-02-2018 16:00
  Life Jacket Theater's docu-play runs through February 24.
  
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• Alec Baldwin Doesn’t Know How to Eat or, at Minimum, Doesn’t Know What Eating Looks Like

  05-02-2018 15:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  On Saturday Night Live this past weekend, Alec Baldwin phoned it in. Sorry, Alec Baldwin phoned in, to Fox & Friends, as Donald Trump, that is. But this wasn’t just another appearance of Baldwin’s award-winning impersonation of a full-time SNL character. Something truly shocking happened! A staggering revelation revealed itself:...More »
  
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