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• John Mahoney, Actor Best Known for ‘Frasier,’ Dies at 77

  06-02-2018 23:43 via nytimes.com
  Mr. Mahoney was born in England, but he came to embody all-American grass-roots fatherhood on TV. He also appeared on Broadway and won a Tony Award.
  
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• The Onion’s New Podcast Is a Loony True-Crime Parody

  06-02-2018 23:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Onion, the beloved news-satire site with a knack for distilling any given moment in American life into a witty headline, is trying its hand at audio with the release of a true-crime podcast spoof. And it’s pretty good.A Very Fatal Murder binge-dropped all of its episodes earlier this week,...More »
  
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• ‘Game of Thrones’ Executives to Take on Disney ‘Star Wars’ Films

  06-02-2018 23:03 via nytimes.com
  David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, executive producers of “Game of Thrones,” will write and produce a series of “Star Wars” films for Disney.
  
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• Flatpack Empire review – Ikea's furniture revolution witnessed from the shop floor

  06-02-2018 23:00
  When the staff of the Sheffield store visit the Ikea headquarters ‘to understand the cultures and the values we live by’, it starts to sound less like a furniture shop and more like a flatpack cultA sofa bed makes sense, even if it might not make the best sofa or the best bed. Principally a sofa, it can be turned into a bed when the need arises – if someone comes to stay or you have had a row. A bed sofa, though? Mainly a bed, but can be turned into a sofa … I’m fi
  
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• Opera Review: A Parsifal Even the Wagner-Phobic Can Enjoy

  06-02-2018 22:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  I have not always loved Wagner’s Parsifal. Its stew of repressed libido and cultish mysticism, wrapped in a package of extreme duration, makes me approach it with caution. And yet François Girard’s production, which returns to the Met for the first time since it opened in 2013, blows away that...More »
  
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• Game of Thrones creators to write and produce new set of Star Wars films

  06-02-2018 22:11
  David Benioff and DB Weiss take charge of films separate from the pre-existing franchise and Rian Johnson’s previously announced trilogyGame of Thrones creators David Benioff and DB Weiss will pilot a new Star Wars trilogy.The announcement was made on the official site on Tuesday. The films will exist separately from the existing series and the recently announced trilogy to be made by Star Wars: The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson. Related: Solo: A Star Wars Story - five things we learned
  
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• Game of Thrones’ David Benioff and D.B. Weiss Are Getting Their Own Star Wars Movies

  06-02-2018 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Can you do sexposition in Star Wars? Disney announced Tuesday that Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss are getting put in charge of their own series of Star Wars films, separate from both the original Skywalker saga and Rian Johnson’s recently announced spinoff series. “David and Dan...More »
  
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• Review: Eve Ensler Relives Personal and Global Crisis In the Body of the World

  06-02-2018 22:00
  The Vagina Monologues scribe puts her memoirs onstage at MTC.
  
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• The Carpetbagger: Christopher Plummer Talks Frankly About Replacing Kevin Spacey

  06-02-2018 21:55 via nytimes.com
  Up for an Oscar for playing J. Paul Getty, a part that initially went to Mr. Spacey, Mr. Plummer recalls thinking: “To hell with it, I’m doing it.”
  
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• Game of Thrones' David Benioff and D.B. Weiss to Create New Star Wars Film Series

  06-02-2018 21:45 via feeds.eonline.com
  David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, creators of the Emmy-winning HBO series Game of Thrones, are writing and producing a new series of Star Wars films, Lucasfilm confirmed to E! News...
  
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• Theater in kasteel Gemert 'misschien een gouden kans' - Eindhovens Dagblad

  06-02-2018 21:04
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  GEMERT - Verplaatsing van De Eendracht naar het kasteel in Gemert zou een optie kunnen zijn, bouwen in de omgeving van het kasteel ligt nog steeds gevoelig. 'Wat doe je met de anderen?' Ad de Koning 06-02-18, 21:04. 0 · 0 · M 0 M 0. Delen per e-mail ...
  
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• Review: An Enticing Voice Emerges from the Darkness in [PORTO]

  06-02-2018 21:00
  Kate Benson's Brooklyn hit moves uptown.
  
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• Gilda Radner Documentary to Open Tribeca Film Festival

  06-02-2018 21:00 via nytimes.com
  “Love, Gilda” uses interviews with “Saturday Night Live” cast members as well as audiotapes and diary entries from the comedian, who died at 42 in 1989.
  
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• We May Never Know the Truth About Justin Timberlake’s Prince Hologram

  06-02-2018 20:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  Add Justin Timberlake’s latest Super Bowl performance to the list of life’s great unsolved mysteries. In the lead-up to his halftime show, TMZ reported that Timberlake would perform with a Prince hologram, since the Super Bowl was being held in the late singer’s hometown of Minneapolis. The rumor was quickly...More »
  
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• We’re Getting a New Liz Meriwether Show, Starring Lake Bell

  06-02-2018 20:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  New Girl creator Liz Meriwether has a new series coming to Fox. Lake Bell will star in Bless This Mess, which has been given a pilot order by the network, about a pair of newlyweds who uproot their New York City lives and move to Nebraska. These big-city fish will...More »
  
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• Black Panther Ought to Win Marvel Studios Its First Oscar

  06-02-2018 20:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s hardly news for a Marvel Studios movie to win great reviews and even better box office, but the studio’s latest comic-book entry, Black Panther, is poised to deliver all that and more. Early reactions to the Ryan Coogler–directed film are glowing, opening-weekend projections are through the roof, and one...More »
  
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• A Brief Guide to Mozzy, the Sacramento Rapper Kendrick Lamar Loves

  06-02-2018 20:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  Last month, in Madison Square Garden, Kendrick Lamar opened the Grammys rapping stoically in front of a digitized American flag, surrounded by a masked-and-fatigued militia; he brought out Bono for about 20 seconds; he passed emceeing duties to Dave Chappelle while the pyrotechnics were getting set up. He ended the...More »
  
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• Reese Witherspoon Says Leaving an Abusive Relationship Made Her ‘A Completely Different Person’

  06-02-2018 19:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  During last weekend’s SuperSoul Sunday programming block, Oprah interviewed Reese Witherspoon, and the two Wrinkle in Time co-stars talked about the challenges of overcoming abusive relationships. During the conversation, Witherspoon talked about her own experience of trying to extricate herself from an emotionally abusive partner While the actress said leaving...More »
  
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• John Mahoney, Actor Best Known for ‘Frasier,’ Is Dead at 77

  06-02-2018 19:22 via nytimes.com
  Mr. Mahoney was born in England, but he came to embody all-American grass-roots fatherhood on TV. He also appeared on Broadway and won a Tony Award.
  
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• This Is Us Directors on Jack’s Death, the Super Bowl Episode, and What’s Next for the Pearsons

  06-02-2018 19:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you thought Sunday night’s special episode of This Is Us was sad, get ready for the intense grief coming tonight as the Pearsons deal with the loss of their beloved patriarch Jack (Milo Ventimiglia).Executive producers John Requa and Glenn Ficarra, who co-directed “Super Bowl Sunday,” told Vulture to get ready “because it’s just very sad to see a...More »
  
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• Quentin Tarantino Responds to Uma Thurman Interview as Past Remarks on Polanski Surface

  06-02-2018 19:07 via nytimes.com
  The director said he regretted the decision to make the actress perform a dangerous stunt. The interview led to increased scrutiny of his past remarks, including his defense of the director Roman Polanski’s unlawful sex with a 13 year old.
  
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• Quentin Tarantino Responds to Uma Thurman as Polanski Comments Resurface

  06-02-2018 19:07 via nytimes.com
  The director said he regretted making the actress perform a dangerous stunt. The interview led to increased scrutiny of his past defense of the director Roman Polanski’s unlawful sex with a 13 year old.
  
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• Kendrick Lamar and SZA Serve Wakandan Royal Opulence in ‘All the Stars’ Video

  06-02-2018 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  While T’Challa may rule over Wakanda in Black Panther, he’ll have to scoot over on that throne and make some room for his royal brethren Kendrick Lamar and Queen SZA. They’ve released the video for their soundtrack cut “All the Stars,” a visual marvel that is both Biblical and rich...More »
  
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• Wolverine Podcast Writer Benjamin Percy on What Fans Can Expect From The Long Night

  06-02-2018 18:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  Long before Hugh Jackman strapped on the claws as Wolverine in the X-Men film franchise, the character had a recognizable voice. If you read the Marvel comics from which he emerged, you could practically hear it just based on the way writers and artists depicted him: Surely, it was a...More »
  
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• The Good Fight Season 2 Trailer: Diane Lockhart Proudly Says, ‘F*ck It’

  06-02-2018 18:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  Proudly uncensored and as divinely pantsuited as ever, Diane Lockhart returns to CBS All Access this spring to say “fuck it” to the world. In the season-two trailer for The Good Fight, Christine Baranski confronts the horrors of the world, including a man who wants to kill all lawyers, with...More »
  
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• Hard right dominates use of fake US news, Oxford study finds

  06-02-2018 18:04 via ft.com
  Research increases pressure on Facebook and Twitter to rein in false information 
  
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• Review: ‘Black Panther’ Shakes Up Marvel With Flair and Feeling

  06-02-2018 18:03 via nytimes.com
  The African superhero gets a movie of his own. Ryan Coogler directs a cast that includes Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan and Lupita Nyong’o.
  
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• Review: ‘Black Panther’ Shakes Up Marvel With Feeling and Flair

  06-02-2018 18:03 via nytimes.com
  The African superhero gets a movie of his own. Ryan Coogler directs a cast that includes Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan and Lupita Nyong’o.
  
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• Review: ‘Black Panther’ Shakes Up Marvel Universe With Feeling

  06-02-2018 18:03 via nytimes.com
  The African superhero gets a movie of his own. Ryan Coogler directs a cast that includes Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan and Lupita Nyong’o.
  
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• Our 7 Biggest Questions About Dark Season Two

  06-02-2018 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you’ve seen all ten episodes of Dark, the German mystery–time-travel show on Netflix, you almost certainly have a few questions after that mindbender of a season finale. And unless you happen to find a copy of H.G. Tannhaus’s Eine Reise durch die Zeit on Amazon, you’ll have to wait...More »
  
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• Watch the Exclusive First Clip for Wes Anderson’s Stop-Motion Isle of Dogs

  06-02-2018 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s a dog-eat-dog world out there, and Wes Anderson has made those canines the subject of his new film Isle of Dogs, the director’s first stop-motion feature since the warmly received Fantastic Mr. Fox. In this exclusive first clip from the film, you’ll get a sense of the unique Isle...More »
  
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• Black Panther Is Unusually Gripping and Grounded for a Superhero Film

  06-02-2018 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Black Panther, starring Chadwick Boseman as T’Challa, the African king who fights evildoers in the guise of a wildcat, is unusually grounded for a Marvel superhero epic, and unusually gripping. It’s primarily set in Wakanda, described in onscreen news accounts as Africa’s poorest country. (Trump would have choice words about...More »
  
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• Remembering John Mahoney, Beyond ‘Frasier’

  06-02-2018 17:46 via nytimes.com
  Beyond ‘Frasier’
  
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• John Mahoney obituary

  06-02-2018 17:19
  Actor who starred as Martin Crane, the cantankerous father in the hit US sitcom FrasierKelsey Grammer had star billing in the TV series Frasier, which took a character from another hit American sitcom, Cheers, the pretentious psychiatrist Frasier Crane, home to Seattle. There the actor John Mahoney, as Frasier’s cantankerous but charming father, Martin Crane, injected a crucial contrasting dimension into a programme lauded for its witty dialogue.Mahoney, who has died of complications from
  
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• Sleep No More Performers Allege Sexual Misconduct From Audience Members

  06-02-2018 17:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  Current and former performers in Sleep No More, the popular immersive staging of Macbeth, described being subjected to and feeling at risk of sexual assault from audience members in a report from BuzzFeed News. Some of the 30 people interviewed claimed that the nonunion Off Broadway production, run by the...More »
  
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• Late-night hosts say the memo's 'true reason for being is to discredit the FBI'

  06-02-2018 17:09
  Comics, including Stephen Colbert, Trevor Noah and Jimmy Kimmel, discussed the stock market fall, the Nunes memo and the Super Bowl Late-night hosts on Monday discussed the stock market plunge, the release of the controversial Nunes memo, and the Philadelphia Eagles’ Super Bowl triumph. Related: Late-night hosts on Nunes: 'To call him Trump's lapdog is an insult to dogs and laps'Continue reading...
  
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• Saudi Arabia seizes football TV rights from top broadcaster

  06-02-2018 17:06 via ft.com
  MBC’s contract terminated as state-controlled Saudi Telecom Co announces $1.76bn deal
  
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• Wendell Pierce: The First Time My Dad Gave Me ‘The Talk’

  06-02-2018 17:00 via nytimes.com
  Scared to be bused to a predominantly white school in New Orleans, the actor was given some empowering advice from his father.
  
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• Quentin Tarantino Defended Roman Polanski in 2003 Interview: 13-Year-Old Girl ‘Wanted to Have It’

  06-02-2018 16:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the wake of Uma Thurman’s shocking claims against Quentin Tarantino in the New York Times, Tarantino’s history of horrible opinions is also coming to light.Uma Thurman told the New York Times that she was, “dehumanized to the point of death” while filming Tarantino’s Kill Bill. She said that she was in an avoidable car crash while filming the...More »
  
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• Trevor Noah Theorizes Why Eagles Fans Were Allowed to Riot in Peace

  06-02-2018 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  Philadelphia was a fiery hellscape after the Eagles’ Super Bowl victory, according to The Daily Show’s Trevor Noah. When a local-news anchor said the “police were left powerless” as drunken Eagles fans rioted in the streets, Noah did a quick fact check: “It got so crazy that the ‘police were...More »
  
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• A Cardboard Agnès Varda Charmed the Hell Out of the Oscars Luncheon

  06-02-2018 16:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Agnès Varda, this year’s oldest Oscar nominee, has previously established that she does not care very much about the whole thing, and yet still managed to charm everyone involved anyway. While the French New Wave pioneer couldn’t make it to the annual Oscars luncheon, her Faces Places co-director JR brought...More »
  
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• Theater News: Irish Rep Announces Casting for Three Small Irish Masterpieces

  06-02-2018 16:00
  The production, directed by Charlotte Moore, will include one-acts by W.B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, and J.M. Synge.
  
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• Time’s Up Has Already Raised $20 Million, Helped Over 1,000 People

  06-02-2018 15:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  In just a little over a month, the Time’s Up initiative has raised $20 million from 20,000 donors for its legal defense fund to provide aid for victims of workplace misconduct. Tina Tchen, Michelle Obama’s former chief of staff who now administers the fund, which was launched in response to...More »
  
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• Altered Carbon Recap: The Ghost Walker

  06-02-2018 15:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  Netflix shows have a habit of sagging right in the middle of their seasons, and Altered Carbon can’t avoid the same fate, spinning its wheels a bit this episode, at least until a bloody climax jolts the story on to the next chapter. Before that, “The Wrong Man” ticks a...More »
  
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• Backstreet Boys on Why Their Las Vegas Residency Isn’t the End

  06-02-2018 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Britney Spears might’ve closed the door on her Las Vegas chapter, but she’s left it wide open for another cornerstone of the late ’90s bubblegum-pop mania to have its turn. Following the success of a brief trial run last year, the Backstreet Boys have announced an extended stay, adding more...More »
  
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• Big top: The Greatest Showman springs a surprise at UK box office

  06-02-2018 15:24
  Hugh Jackman’s cheesy fantasy musical charts new territory taking the No 1 spot in its sixth week, as Phantom Thread sweeps in Rising 8% from the previous session, Hugh Jackman musical The Greatest Showman makes a surprise grab for the UK top spot in its sixth week of release, pushing aside Darkest Hour. Weekend takings of £2.2m take the PT Barnum tale’s total to £23.2m after 41 days. Continue reading...
  
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