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• This Is Us Star Logan Shroyer on Jack’s Death and Why Kevin Is the ‘Black Sheep’ of the Pearson Family

  08-02-2018 23:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  Much like Kevin Pearson on This Is Us, actor Logan Shroyer has two siblings, but that’s where the similarities between the 18-year-old and his broody character end. Shroyer, who was born in Torrance, California, spent some of his childhood in Oklahoma before his family relocated back to the South Bay,...More »
  
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• I Feel Pretty Trailer: Amy Schumer Finds Her Inner Beauty

  08-02-2018 23:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  In I Feel Pretty, Amy Schumer plays Renee Barrett, an everyday gal who suffers from a lack of confidence. She wants to be thinner, prettier, and just generally hotter until one day when she takes a nasty dive in spin class, and the resulting head trauma distorts her perception of...More »
  
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• Britannia recap – series one, episode four

  08-02-2018 23:00 via theguardian.com
  Is Kerra about to lose her head or is an ascension on the cards? Elsewhere, the druids could be about to lose their power and Aulus is dishing out the disciplineKerra seemed doomed after making that illegal visit to the Roman camp. Cait rescued her dad from Aulus, but he’s blind. Phelan has lain with either the goddess of war or some random woman in the dungeon, he can’t be sure. And the druids are preparing to enact their particular kind of bug-eyed justice on the Cantii princess. C
  
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• ACS: Versace’s Cody Fern Is Getting a Role on House of Cards

  08-02-2018 23:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Cody Fern might have made the wrong choice to hang out with Andrew Cunanan on American Crime Story, but things are looking a little better for him in Washington. Per TVLine, Fern, who plays David Madson on the FX show, has booked a series regular role on the final season...More »
  
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• A Broadway Bigwig Lampoons Trump, Despite Family Ties

  08-02-2018 22:45 via nytimes.com
  The Roth family dynamic: The father does business with Donald Trump, and the son makes fun of him in an explicit video series.
  
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• Why I Couldn’t Stop Watching the New Queer Eye

  08-02-2018 22:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  Earlier this month, a strange thing kept happening whenever I tried to watch a serious, Zeitgeisty, dramatic TV show: I’d put on screeners for the new Queer Eye reboot instead. I watched with the dedication of someone who was unquestionably soothed, even as I actively doubted whether the show was...More »
  
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• Jennifer Garner Returning to TV in New HBO Comedy From Lena Dunham

  08-02-2018 20:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  After more than a decade away, Jennifer Garner is returning to TV for her first live-action role since Alias. HBO has announced Garner will star in a new eight-episode comedy from Girls’ Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner called Camping, based on the British series of the same name. She’ll play...More »
  
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• Black Panther Is Changing the Marvel Cinematic Universe as You Know It

  08-02-2018 20:30 via feeds.eonline.com
  Ten years after Iron Man launched the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Black Panther is ready to usher in a new era. "You have superhero films that are gritty dramas or action comedies,"...
  
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• Joaquin Phoenix in talks to play the Joker in 80s-set Scorsese-produced tale

  08-02-2018 20:27
  The Oscar-nominated actor is reportedly the top choice for a ‘gritty’ take on the Batman villain from The Hangover director Todd PhillipsJoaquin Phoenix is reportedly eyeing the role of the Joker in a new 80s-set origins tale from The Hangover director Todd Phillips.According to sources at Variety, the Oscar-nominated actor was the top choice for the role with some stating that he has already signed on but Warner Bros has not yet provided confirmation. Phillips will co-write and dire
  
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• You Better Believe Omarosa Will Be Serving Trump Tea at the Big Brother House

  08-02-2018 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Reality star turned White House aide turned reality star Omarosa Manigault is here to warn you about the downfall of the republic under Donald Trump. In a whispered exchange with Ross Mathews on Celebrity Big Brother, the dismissed Trump staffer said she lived in fear every day of what the...More »
  
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• Review: American Drones Stalk a Pakistani Family in Against the Hillside

  08-02-2018 20:00
  Sylvia Khoury assesses the cost of war in the remote control age.
  
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• New York Times sees boom in online subscribers

  08-02-2018 19:50 via ft.com
  Newspaper benefits from ‘Trump bump’ as shares highest level in more than a decade
  
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• Review: An Anthology of B-List Broadway in ‘Hey, Look Me Over!’

  08-02-2018 19:47 via nytimes.com
  The Encores! series pulls some oddities out of the American musical trunk and comes up with … an oddity.
  
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• Queer Eye Recap: The Beard Dilemma

  08-02-2018 19:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  This episode’s subject is Neal, the affirmative answer to the question, “Has anyone decided to live full-time dressed as Mike Myers in The Love Guru?” Neal works in tech, if you could not guess from his shoulder-length hair, beard, slouchy uniform, and characteristic posture of someone whose body looks like it’s...More »
  
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• Our Cartoon President Should Probably Be Impeached

  08-02-2018 19:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the second episode of Our Cartoon President, a Showtime animated sitcom based on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert shorts that regularly poke fun at Donald Trump, the commander-in-chief flips channels past more than one comic impersonating him on television.Melania Trump — who, in one of the more fantastical...More »
  
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• Joel McHale’s Netflix Show Will Start With the Community Reunion You’ve Been Waiting For

  08-02-2018 19:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  Joel McHale’s love of green screens has returned. The Joel McHale Show With Joel McHale will surely fill the Soup-sized void in your heart. Netflix’s weekly half-hour series will have comedy sketches, pop-culture chatter, celeb guests, and more. But most importantly: McHale’s show starts with a mini Community reunion. Alison Brie...More »
  
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• Quentin Tarantino apologizes for Polanski defense: 'I was ignorant'

  08-02-2018 18:53
  The film-maker has said sorry for a 2003 interview in which he justified Roman Polanski’s rape of Samantha GeimerQuentin Tarantino has apologized for remarks he made about Roman Polanski’s sexual assault of Samantha Geimer.In a resurfaced interview with Howard Stern, he defined the incident as “not rape” because he believed that the 13-year-old wanted to have sex with the film-maker. Related: 'I think people are really disgusted' – Quentin Tarantino faces Hollywood
  
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• Breaking Down the Ever-So-Gritty Venom Trailer

  08-02-2018 18:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  Superhero movies are known for their bluntness, but Venom exists in a fog of ambiguity. The title character is a superpowered antihero who was born in the pages of Spider-Man comics, and Spidey now exists in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. But does Venom swing alongside him in that corner of...More »
  
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• Review: Finally, the Audience Is ‘Fifty Shades Freed’

  08-02-2018 18:49 via nytimes.com
  Ana and Christian tie the knot and settle old scores in this flaccid film.
  
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• Casting Controversy Derailed a High School Play. Then Came the Threats.

  08-02-2018 18:47 via nytimes.com
  After Ithaca High School canceled its production of “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” because of students’ pushback, an online mob targeted the town.
  
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• Review: In ‘Golden Exits,’ Ties That Bind (and Cut Too)

  08-02-2018 18:38 via nytimes.com
  Alex Ross Perry charts the happiness, misery and profound self-absorption of assorted Brooklynites. It’s funny! (Also sad and squirm-inducing.)
  
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• 79 Marvel Cinematic Universe Stars Unite for One Epic Class Photo

  08-02-2018 18:20 via feeds.eonline.com
  In October 2017, 79 actors and filmmakers from across the Marvel Cinematic Universe came together in Atlanta to celebrate 10 years of movie-making history, beginning with 2008's Iron Man....
  
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• Quentin Tarantino Apologizes to Roman Polanski Victim: ‘I Was Ignorant, Insensitive, and Incorrect’

  08-02-2018 18:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  Quentin Tarantino has responded to the controversy over his resurfaced comments from a 2003 Howard Stern interview. In the interview he said Samantha Geimer, the 13-year-old girl Roman Polanski raped in 1977, was asking for it. In a statement to Indiewire, he says, “Fifteen years later, I realize how wrong...More »
  
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• You might not care about House Husbands but axing it doesn't bode well for Australian TV | Luke Buckmaster

  08-02-2018 18:00 via theguardian.com
  Why would Nine dump a successful show? And what does it say about Australian drama’s future?This week the Nine Network announced the scrapping of its popular Logie-winning comedy-drama House Husbands, which ran for five seasons. You might not give two hoots about the end of a show following the daily tribulations of stay-at-home dads, pushing prams and fumbling with nappies. But in the broader context of locally produced narrative content, the news is significant. If a high-rating program
  
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• ‘Venom’ Teaser: Tom Hardy Crosses Over to Marvel

  08-02-2018 17:49 via nytimes.com
  The film, directed Ruben Fleischer, stars the actor as a Spider-Man adversary who attains superpowers.
  
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• Thomas Middleditch Addresses T.J. Miller and Aziz Ansari Allegations

  08-02-2018 17:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  Thoms Middleditch has returned to shooting Silicon Valley after T.J. Miller left the series and sexual-assault allegations later appeared against him. Middleditch discussed his reaction to Miller’s departure and those claims in a new interview with the AV Club. “I think by the end everybody knew that that was the...More »
  
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• Amy Schumer Is Overflowing With Confidence in I Feel Pretty Trailer

  08-02-2018 17:21 via feeds.eonline.com
  Ever feel undeniably pretty? Amy Schumer's new character has!Meet Renée, a regular gal who's going about life feeling down on her looks until one day when she hits her head...
  
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• Licence renewed: Anthony Horowitz to write official James Bond prequel

  08-02-2018 17:19
  Forever and a Day, the author’s second 007 novel, will make use of material left behind by Ian Fleming to imagine Bond’s first missionDrawing from original material left behind by Ian Fleming, Anthony Horowitz is writing a prequel to the first ever James Bond novel, Casino Royale.Forever and a Day, which is authorised by the Fleming Estate, will find Horowitz “exploring what might have been Bond’s first mission and imagining some of the forces that might have turned him i
  
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• Don’t blame George Soros for the UK’s second thoughts on Brexit

  08-02-2018 17:04 via ft.com
  Remain-backing financier is an easy but inexact target for unhappy leavers
  
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• Theater News: Goodspeed Musicals Announces Three Musicals for the Terris Theatre

  08-02-2018 17:00
  Sarna Lapine will direct a new musical adaptation of Cyrano.
  
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• Theater News: Amas Musical Theatre Announces Plans for Its Annual Gala Benefit

  08-02-2018 17:00
  The event will honor Jay Binder, Micki Grant, and Leonid Poretsky.
  
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• Photo Flash: Pan Asian Repertory Theatre's No-No Boy Plays Theatre Row's Studio Theatre

  08-02-2018 17:00
  Performances of Ken Narasaki's adaption of John Okada's book continue through February 11.
  
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• Venom: first trailer released for Tom Hardy's Spider-Man spin-off

  08-02-2018 16:48
  The long gestating film of the ‘symbiote’ character from Spider-Man has revealed its first footage – though keeping viewers in the dark about Venom himselfThe teaser trailer for Venom has crawled its way online. The first spin-off movie in Sony’s proposed Marvel universe, Venom stars Tom Hardy as antihero Eddie Brock, whose body is possessed by the titular alien symbiote, giving him Spider-Man-like powers. Zombieland’s Ruben Fleischer has directed the film, which is
  
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• John Oliver Strongly Advises That Meghan Markle Watch Cautionary Tale The Crown

  08-02-2018 16:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  If for no other reason than she’ll need to study up on the show before she auditions to play herself, John Oliver has a word of advice for Meghan Markle ahead of her royal wedding: Watch! The! Crown! But don’t just idly view it, take it as a cautionary tale....More »
  
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• Who Will Win Celebrity Big Brother?

  08-02-2018 16:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  After 21 U.K. seasons without a version to call our very own, it’s true, America finally has Celebrity Big Brother. The reality show premiered Wednesday night, with good ol’ Julie Chen at the helm four times a week (take that, The Voice!), giving CBS All Access subscribers something to look...More »
  
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• Jamie Dornan Explains Why There's No Full-Frontal Nudity in Fifty Shades Freed

  08-02-2018 16:25 via feeds.eonline.com
  Jamie Dornan has to draw the line somewhere.The 35-year-old actor flashed part of his penis during a sexy montage with Dakota Johnson in Focus Features' 2015 hit Fifty Shades of...
  
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• Books News: Plagiarism Software Unveils a New Source for 11 of Shakespeare’s Plays

  08-02-2018 16:19 via nytimes.com
  What do the noble mastiff, the lowly cur and the trundle-tail have in common besides being terms for dogs?
  
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• Fifty Shades Freed Sure Is the Last Fifty Shades Movie

  08-02-2018 16:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  As the Fifty Shades film trilogy hangs up its paddle and rides off into the sunset on its inexplicable pommelhorse, one is tempted to draw some conclusions about what it gave us, as a culture. What struck me from the first film — an adaptation of a wildly popular alternate-universe...More »
  
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• Kumail Nanjiani on The Big Sick Streaming on Pornhub: ‘That’s the American Dream!’

  08-02-2018 16:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  Kumail Nanjiani has finally made it. Yes, he’s nominated for an Academy Award, but his movie, The Big Sick, was also featured on one of the country’s premier websites: Pornhub. The rom-com was listed under the “interracial” category of the site, Nanjiani, The Big Sick’s co-writer and star, recounted on...More »
  
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• Police Investigating Backstreet Boy Nick Carter After Rape Accuser Files Report

  08-02-2018 16:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  In November, singer Melissa Schuman accused Backstreet Boy Nick Carter of rape in a detailed blog post. Carter, in response, issued a statement saying that he believed the two had been in a consensual relationship. But now, the Santa Monica Police Department has confirmed that it is investigating a complaint filed by Schuman...More »
  
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• Venom's First Teaser Trailer Explores Eddie Brock's "Demons"

  08-02-2018 16:00 via feeds.eonline.com
  Fans got their first look at Marvel Studios' Venom Thursday morning.In a voiceover, Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy) teases his life-changing encounter with an alien symbiote as flashes from...
  
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• Theater News: Rock of Ages to Launch 10th Anniversary National Tour in October

  08-02-2018 16:00
  The '80s jukebox musical originally played on Broadway from 2009 to 2015.
  
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• T-Pain Begrudgingly Confirms Quincy Jones’s Story About Him

  08-02-2018 15:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  While Richard Pryor’s widow was glad to confirm Quincy Jones’s story in Vulture’s interview that her husband once slept with Marlon Brando, others accused in the piece are not so happy to have to admit Jones was right. In response to Jones’s comment that T-Pain bombed his contribution to the...More »
  
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• Venom Trailer: Tom Hardy Is Your Troubled New Super Anti-Hero

  08-02-2018 15:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  As usual, Tom Hardy is playing a movie character with a troubled past. In Sony’s Venom, Hardy chooses an exciting new accent, climbs onto a motorcycle, and breaks down under the strain of some intense trauma. Venom’s a classic Spider-Man villain slash anti-hero, who gets his powers thanks to some...More »
  
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• Boasts, rants and bantz: star interviews that got the world talking

  08-02-2018 15:40 via theguardian.com
  From Quincy Jones on Marlon Brando’s sex life to Michael Douglas on the possible cause of his cancer, here are some of the most jaw-dropping celebrity interviews everThe biggest revelations in New York magazine’s infinitely quotable interview with Quincy Jones were not about Quincy Jones. They were about Marlon Brando (“he’d fuck a mailbox”), JFK (Jones knows who killed him – as much as he wishes he didn’t) and Ringo Starr (can’t drum – &ldqu
  
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• Dashboard Confessional Still Belongs

  08-02-2018 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “If we’re a legacy act and if there’s a legacy, I hope it’s that the people that made us popular are proud of it,” Chris Carrabba says, staring at the midtown high-rises through a window inside Warner Music’s New York City offices, home to his current label, Fueled by Ramen....More »
  
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• 7 New Books You Need to Read This February

  08-02-2018 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Each month, Boris Kachka offers nonfiction and fiction book recommendations. You should read as many of them as possible....More »
  
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• Tim Gunn’s 10 Favorite Books

  08-02-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Bookseller One Grand Books has asked celebrities to name the ten titles they’d take to a desert island, and they’ve shared the results with Vulture. Below is Project Runway co-host Tim Gunn’s list. Adam’s Navel, by Michael SimsThis is a book that I picked up while browsing because the cover intrigued me. I’m...More »
  
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• Every Time the 50 Shades Franchise Has Disrespected Rita Ora

  08-02-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Rita Ora is not just the subject of 1.9 million stories on the Daily Mail’s website and the voice behind the most unintelligible chorus in modern pop — as we are occasionally reminded some Februarys, thanks to her supporting role in the Fifty Shades franchise, the “Your Song” singer is...More »
  
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• Theater News: Sahr Ngaujah and Ito Aghayere to Star in Lynn Nottage's Mlima's Tale

  08-02-2018 14:00
  Public Theater will present the world premiere of the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner's new play.
  
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