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• From Sex Tips to Full-Frontal Nudity, the Wildest Stories Jamie Dornan Told on Fifty Shades Press Tour

  09-02-2018 23:51 via feeds.eonline.com
  Jamie Dornan has been sharing some pretty intimate stories this past week.The actor has been giving a number of interviews leading up to the release of his new movie, Fifty Shades Freed,...
  
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• The 11 Most Essential Episodes of Living Single to Watch on Hulu

  09-02-2018 23:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  One of the most sincere pleasures I’ve had this year was rewatching Living Single shortly after Hulu made the entire series available in January. Running for five seasons beginning in 1993, Living Single centered on the professional and romantic lives of a group of friends living in Brooklyn: a hilarious,...More »
  
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• Kendrick Lamar and Vince Staples Get Upstaged on ‘Opps’

  09-02-2018 23:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  If it’s not quite redundant to say that the soundtrack for Black Panther is, well, a soundtrack, blame Kendrick Lamar. His audience has grown accustomed to the Compton superstar traversing five dimensions in each individual album; it’s easy to imagine that the Panther soundtrack, curated and produced by Lamar and...More »
  
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• The Bachelor Winter Games Has an Anthem and It Is Not Going to Make Friends

  09-02-2018 22:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  To ignite the torch flames of love carried by the Bachelor Winter Games competitors, the spinoff (which premieres February 13 to coincide with the actual Winter Olympic Games) has released an anthem. Yes, we mean actual words set to actual music sung by an actual singer that will actually be...More »
  
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• Three Billboards Director Defends His ‘Deliberately Messy’ Racist-Cop Movie

  09-02-2018 22:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri director Martin McDonagh has begun addressing the backlash against the Oscar-nominated movie. Instead of responding to critiques that the movie doesn’t offer any meaningful development for black characters or takes place in a make-believe world where white, blonde teen murder victims are ignored by the...More »
  
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• LaToya Ruby Frazier’s Harrowing Photography Is Like Goya Turning His Eye Toward the Struggles and Triumphs of Black America

  09-02-2018 22:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the searingly honest, empathetic documentary images of self-described “artist, curator, educator, and photographer” LaToya Ruby Frazier, I see the rotten social malignancy that perpetuates entrenched racial discrimination that is deeply inscribed into law, lending, and health-care policies.I also see obdurate white tribalism, the 55 percent of all white people...More »
  
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• Why Amazon Just Hired the NBC Exec Behind This Is Us to Replace Roy Price

  09-02-2018 22:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  Four months after its top creative exec was forced out in the wake of sexual-harassment allegations, Amazon Studios has found its new leader. Jen Salke, a broadcast TV veteran who’s served as NBC Entertainment president since July 2011, has been named head of Amazon Studios, the tech giant announced Friday....More »
  
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• Trinity Mirror/N&S: the odd couple

  09-02-2018 21:54 via ft.com
  Opposing political stances will not stand in the way of cost savings
  
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• Kendrick Lamar’s Black Panther Soundtrack Rightly Spotlights These South African Artists

  09-02-2018 21:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  No one knows exactly which African region Wakanda is meant to be set in because the fictional home to the characters of Black Panther was built specifically for the Marvel comics and left intentionally vague. Ryan Coogler’s film adaptation, however, places it in East Africa, bordering Uganda and Kenya. This...More »
  
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• Holly Hunter Is Keeping It Real

  09-02-2018 21:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  Holly Hunter talks about her film and TV career with such a casual, I-can’t-believe-I’m-still-working attitude, that you almost forget just how damn good she is. Almost. From her breakout role as a baby-crazy cop in the Coen Brothers’ sweetly absurd Raising Arizona to, more than 30 years later, her Independent...More »
  
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• Catt Sadler Hints at Suing E! News: ‘It Is Unlawful to Discriminate’

  09-02-2018 21:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  When Maria Menounos asked Catt Sadler if she’s planning to sue E! News over a pay disparity, Sadler simply replied, “Not today.” Sadler, who quit the network after learning of a pay gap between herself and her male co-host Jason Kennedy, discussed the possibility of legal action against the company...More »
  
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• RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 3’s Milk on Getting the Villain Edit

  09-02-2018 20:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  Spoilers ahead for RuPaul’s Drag Race: All Stars 3.It turns out Milk does have an expiration date. Thursday night’s episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 3 proved to be the last for the high-fashion muse to Marc Jacobs and Vivienne Westwood, who made a distinctly diva-ish impression on fans...More »
  
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• Peter Rabbit Reframes the Childhood Classic As Country Home Alone

  09-02-2018 20:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you squint hard enough at the classic cornflower-blue jacket that has been worn by beloved British troublemaker Peter Rabbit since 1902, it could almost be a jean jacket. This is more or less the premise of Peter Rabbit, an animated/live-action hybrid directed and co-written by Will Gluck that seeks...More »
  
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• Gucci Mane biopic in the works based on rapper's book

  09-02-2018 20:28
  The Autobiography of Gucci Mane is making its way to the big screen with Hollywood heavyweight Brian Grazer producingGucci Mane’s life is set to be the subject of a big screen biopic.According to the Hollywood Reporter, Paramount is teaming up with Imagine Entertainment to adapt The Autobiography of Gucci Mane, a book which detailed the rapper’s struggles with addiction and time behind bars. Related: Know the ledge: the best hip-hop autobiographiesContinue reading...
  
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• Can Gucci Mane Star in His Own Biopic, Please?

  09-02-2018 20:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Autobiography of Gucci Mane is being made into a movie. Paramount Pictures and Imagine Entertainment (Empire, 8 Mile) are teaming up to bring a Gucci Mane’s trap autobiography to the big screen, according to The Hollywood Reporter. There is only one logical way for this to happen: Gucci Mane...More »
  
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• Oprah Says Reese Witherspoon Struggled with PTSD After Weinstein Story

  09-02-2018 20:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  During an interview with actress Salma Hayek this week, Oprah Winfrey said she believes Reese Witherspoon suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder after the New York Times published its bombshell report on Harvey Weinstein back in October.Oprah and Witherspoon were on the set of A Wrinkle in Time together when the story broke. Per Entertainment Tonight, Oprah...More »
  
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• Kendrick Lamar’s Black Panther: The Album Is More Than Just a Tasteful Tie-in

  09-02-2018 19:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  Black Panther is a peculiar pop-culture moment. It’s not the first black superhero film; Robert Townsend made The Meteor Man, Damon Wayans was Blankman, and Wesley Snipes did a whole Blade trilogy. What’s rare is the mutual trust between Hollywood, black viewers, and Panther’s black director, writers, and actors to...More »
  
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• OnTheMarket fails to shine on Aim debut

  09-02-2018 19:55 via ft.com
  Shares in property portal challenging Zoopla and Rightmove slide almost 10%
  
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• Here and Now Is Here and Not Worth Watching

  09-02-2018 19:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  As a fan of Alan Ball’s work, especially Six Feet Under, it disappoints me enormously that Here and Now is such a mess of a series. This family drama from the man who gave birth to the Fishers of the HBO funeral-home saga as well as the vampires of True...More »
  
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• Why Do Star Wars Fans Want the New Han Solo Movie to Flop?

  09-02-2018 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Since the early ’80s, Star Wars fans have ranked among pop culture’s most ardent, voluble, and, in all the most classical modes of the term, geeky movie devotees. They recite chapter and verse of the stilted dialogue; they inveigh against the very existence of Ewoks with an irrational rage; they...More »
  
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• Odds Against Tomorrow Is a Hidden Noir Gem That Considers Anti-Black Racism

  09-02-2018 19:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  This essay is a part of a series meant to draw attention to hidden gems, underrated classics, and great work in black cinematic history in honor of Black History Month. The definitive legacy most associated with film noir’s classical period — which stretches from the 1940s into the late 1950s...More »
  
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• Anastasia Steele Is the Enemy of the Written Word

  09-02-2018 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  To Anastasia Steele and Christian Grey, the kink-happy romantic leads of the epochal Fifty Shades of Grey franchise, sex is everything. It’s a life force, the flame that keeps a relationship going and whose eventual extinguishment represents the death of romance. They treat their elaborate bondage sessions as therapeutic mediation,...More »
  
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• Comedian Kevin Bridges: ‘I thought maybe this is the end, it's been a great 11 years'

  09-02-2018 18:30 via theguardian.com
  After his third sold-out arena tour, the Glaswegian comedian was burned out and ready to quit. Drinking, jogging and reading self-help books didn’t work. So what’s brought him back?At the grand old age of 29, Kevin Bridges thought he had reached the end of his career. The Scottish comedian had completed his third arena tour, selling out 180 nights. “And I probably could have chucked it and moved into something else,” he says. “I just felt a bit unhappy. I had stoppe
  
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• Scandal Recap: B613 Deficiency

  09-02-2018 18:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  B613 is absolute bullshit. At the risk of exhuming a dead horse, only to beat it and return it to the earth, it’s difficult to think of another television show that has been subsumed to this degree by an unworkable plot element. Consider that Shonda Rhimes once floated the idea...More »
  
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• 10 Horror Movies No Pregnant Woman Should Watch

  09-02-2018 18:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  Still/Born, debuting this week in theaters and on digital platforms, follows two young parents coping with the loss of one child while fearing their remaining son is being targeted by an evil spirit. It’s a paranoia-based thriller as much as it is a supernatural scary movie — and it’s the...More »
  
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• The Inside Story of How and Why Basmati Blues Got Made

  09-02-2018 17:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  There are a lot of movies like Basmati Blues — low-budget indie films featuring up-and-coming actors that get put on the shelf for years, only to see a small release once their star becomes super-famous.There are also no movies like Basmati Blues — an original musical rom-com about global corporate...More »
  
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• What’s So Great About ‘The Greatest Showman’?

  09-02-2018 17:43 via nytimes.com
  Critics weren’t impressed by the Hugh Jackman musical, but fans have turned it into an unexpected hit. Now it’s your turn: why do you like the movie?
  
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• Timothée Chalamet Will Be Netflix’s Hot Henry V

  09-02-2018 17:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  Stone fruit of England, beware: Call Me by Your Name star Timothée Chalamet is playing Henry V for Netflix. Deadline reports that the Oscar-nominated statistics prodigy will will star in a new film from David Michôd (Animal Kingdom, War Machine) about the young king who takes the throne in the...More »
  
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• Streaming: Streaming Your Valentine’s Day

  09-02-2018 17:18 via nytimes.com
  A jealous husband, an ocean liner meeting an iceberg, ventriloquism as a flirtation device and the art of running a restaurant all figure in a film romance.
  
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• 10 Moments You Missed at the 2018 Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony

  09-02-2018 17:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  The 2018 Winter Olympics officially kicked off at 6 a.m. ET this morning with the Opening Ceremony celebration in Pyeongchang, South Korea. The event was streamed live, but will air on tape-delay with commentary tonight at 8 p.m. ET on NBC. The festivities kicked off with South Korean figure-skating gold...More »
  
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• We Quizzed Nicolas Cage on His Old Movie Lines and Honestly He Was Great

  09-02-2018 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Nicolas Cage is one of Hollywood’s most prolific actors — he’s appeared in over 90 films! — so you’d imagine that along the way he’d forget a few lines. Well, your imagination is terrible, because that’s wrong. Witness as the inimitable Cage gets quizzed by his Mandy co-star Andrea Riseborough...More »
  
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• ‘The Ferryman,’ a Look at Anguish in Northern Ireland, Is Set for Broadway

  09-02-2018 17:00 via nytimes.com
  Written by Jez Butterworth and directed by Sam Mendes, the work centers on a family unraveling and evokes state-of-a-nation themes.
  
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• Fifty Shades Freed Is Memento With Butt Plugs

  09-02-2018 16:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Fifty Shades franchise is so many things to so many people. For some, it’s an exciting, sex-filled trilogy about a dominant and his submissive, and for others, it’s a soothing set of films where none of the leads ever speak above an ASMR-level whisper. Many go to these films...More »
  
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• Somehow, Dashboard Confessional Found a Way to Make Writer’s Block Beautiful

  09-02-2018 16:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  It doesn’t take much sleuthing to suspect that Chris Carrabba has had some trouble writing over the past several years. Not since 2009 had Dashboard Confessional, the pivotal emo band driven by Carrabba’s lyricism, released a new album; Further Seems Forever, Carrabba’s other outfit, had last put out an LP...More »
  
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• Dakota Johnson Taught Jamie Dornan How to Sexily Take Off Her Underwear

  09-02-2018 16:13 via feeds.eonline.com
  Turns out Christian Grey wasn't initially so smooth at taking off underwear.
  While reminiscing with Conan O'Brien, the trilogy's titular star, Jamie Dornan thought back to...
  
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• The 15:17 to Paris Is a Rickety Celebration of Old-fashioned American Heroism

  09-02-2018 16:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  Clint Eastwood’s The 15:17 to Paris celebrates old-fashioned American heroism, and I like it — in spite of its dumbbell infelicities. The heroes are well-known. On August 21, 2015, three friends — Spencer Stone, Alek Skarlatos, and Anthony Sadler — were traveling by high-speed train from Amsterdam to Paris when...More »
  
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• Stephen Colbert Can’t Choose the Juiciest Quincy Jones Bombshell Either

  09-02-2018 16:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  There are some interviews so juicy, the pulp runneth over. Stephen Colbert doesn’t even know where to begin with our Quincy Jones tell-all, in which he told it all about all the things, from who killed JFK to which songs Michael Jackson stole to whom Marlon Brando was secretly boning...More »
  
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• Theater News: Suzanne Vega and Duncan Sheik's Lover, Beloved Premieres at Alley Theatre

  09-02-2018 16:00
  Suzanne Vega stars in the production, paying homage to renowned Southern writer Carson McCullers.
  
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• Theater News: Phil McGlaston Steps Into Some Old Black Man This Weekend

  09-02-2018 16:00
  The understudy will replace Roger Robinson in James Anthony Tyler's new play.
  
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• Theater News: Honorees Leslie Uggams and Tommy Tune to Perform at TADA!'s Annual Gala

  09-02-2018 16:00
  Broadway Inspirational Voices, Jason Robert Brown, and Michael James Leslie will also participate in the evening.
  
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• Photo Flash: Meet the Company of A.R. Gurney's Later Life

  09-02-2018 16:00
  Jonathan Silverstein directs the production for Keen Company,
  
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• Mozzy’s ‘Seasons’ Is a Major Highlight From the Black Panther Soundtrack

  09-02-2018 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  When it was announced that Kendrick Lamar and TDE CEO Anthony “Top Dawg” Tiffith were putting together a soundtrack for Marvel’s Black Panther movie, it seemed like the perfect opportunity for the pair to remind everyone of the deep roster of talent on their label. Not that we needed too...More »
  
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• You Will Not Be Seeing This Canadian Ice Dancing Team’s Too Sexy Lift at the Olympics

  09-02-2018 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  Some things are apparently too sexy for the Winter Olympics, and one of them is ice dancing. Canadian team Scott Moir and Tessa Virtue like to make things “edgy” and full of “sexuality or darkness” in their routines, but they’re reportedly changing one aspect of their program to make it...More »
  
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• Now 38 Male Music Execs Are Calling for Transparency and Diversity at the Grammys

  09-02-2018 15:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  Following the lead of the women in music who were among the first to criticize Recording Academy president Neil Portnow for his comments telling female musicians to “step up,” a collective of male music execs are now chiming in. Thirty-eight men — including Scooter Braun, Randy Jackson, and songwriter Justin...More »
  
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• Seth Meyers Presents ‘Newspaper Movie,’ Which is Exactly What It Sounds Like

  09-02-2018 15:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  If watching men with bad bangs and Metamucil-colored shirts stressfully dial phone numbers and get into bitter arguments about “sources” and “files” is your thing, Newspaper Movie is the movie for you. Late Night’s latest fake trailer is The Post meets Spotlight meets All the President’s Men plus the fifth...More »
  
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• Julio Torres Suggests Some Valentine’s Day Gifts, Like Silent Scream Perfume

  09-02-2018 15:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  Valentine’s Day, a festival of mutual obligation, is just around the corner, which means it’s time to think of some gifts for your loved ones. SNL’s Julio Torres stopped by The Tonight Show last night to offer some suggestions, in the form of some highly specific perfumes. Consider “Should I...More »
  
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• Critic’s Notebook: Return Editions, with Magnetic Additions, Off Broadway

  09-02-2018 15:22 via nytimes.com
  Roslyn Ruff and Jeff Hiller bring new dimensions to plays about Betty Shabazz and a chatty wedding guest.
  
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• New Albums From Dashboard and Confessional and the Gaslight Anthem’s Brian Fallon Find New Life in Old Sounds

  09-02-2018 15:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  Somewhere around 30, your priorities have to shift from simply maintaining the status quo to mapping out a sustainable future. The experience is a lot like getting to the top of a mountain you’ve been struggling to climb only to learn that it’s the smallest peak in a whole range,...More »
  
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• Listen to Jamie Dornan Sing "Maybe I'm Amazed" in Fifty Shades Freed

  09-02-2018 15:10 via feeds.eonline.com
  Jamie Dornan is a man of many talents.The Fifty Shades Freed soundtrack was released Friday--the same day as the final chapter in the film trilogy arrived in theaters. The compilation...
  
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• How to Get Away With Murder Recap: How to Survive a Scandal

  09-02-2018 14:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  We’ve got it. We’ve got contact. Olivia Pope has entered the picture! It may have only been for a few seconds, but it’s all coming together. We’re setting up the big crossover event for the TGIT Cinematic Universe. Even though we’re about to witness the alliance between two divas of...More »
  
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