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• Janelle Monáe and Tessa Thompson Enjoy Some Quality Sci-Fi Girl Time in Dirty Computer’s Album Trailer

  16-02-2018 23:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ground control to Major J. Teasing her first album since 2013, Janelle Monáe released a trailer for her next musical outing — or “emotion picture” (defined as “a narrative film and accompanying musical album,” a.k.a. a Beyoncé) — Dirty Computer. It strategically doesn’t reveal too much besides a signature sci-fi...More »
  
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• Here’s an Awkward 70-Second Community Reunion You Didn’t Know You Needed

  16-02-2018 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  You can’t say Netflix made Joel McHale any less snarky. Teasing the impending arrival of his new weekly series, The Joel McHale Show With Joel McHale, the man formerly known as Jeff Winger reunited with his fellow Community turned Netflix chums, Alison Brie and Jim Rash, for a silly little...More »
  
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• A Three Billboards–Inspired Protest in Florida Demands Gun Control Action From Marco Rubio

  16-02-2018 23:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  3 billboards near Miami are trolling Sen. Marco Rubio after the Florida school shooting CNN (@CNN) February 16, 2018“Slaughtered in school”“And still no gun control?”“How come, Marco Rubio?”Seventeen people — teachers and students — were shot to death at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, earlier this week,...More »
  
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• Black Panther Hits Movie Theatres: 60 Actors You May Have Never Spotted in Marvel Films

  16-02-2018 23:02 via feeds.eonline.com
  You know what time it is? Time to see Black Panther on the big screen!After months of anticipation and more than a few thrilling trailers, movie fans are running to the theatre this...
  
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• The 5 Things That Make an Olympics Broadcaster Great

  16-02-2018 22:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  The broadcasters providing play-by-play, analysis, and information during NBC’s coverage of the 2018 Winter Olympics have to accomplish a lot during a given broadcast. First and foremost, they need to provide their audience with useful information and insight, especially since a huge chunk of that audience is probably not familiar...More »
  
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• Daniel Kaluuya Was Surprised to Learn That Americans Movie-Kiss Without Tongue

  16-02-2018 22:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  Daniel Kaluuya got a rude awakening the other day: It seems he’s been movie-kissing all wrong. When Kaluuya visited the Graham Norton Show with Margot Robbie, Alicia Vikander, and Allison Janney (who demonstrated her own movie-kissing tricks, complete with a sexual height difference), Kaluuya explained his revelation: “Apparently it’s bad...More »
  
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• The Entire Big Little Lies Girl Gang Will Officially Be Back for Season 2

  16-02-2018 21:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  For the love of Amabella! To confirm what you likely knew was 100 percent going to happen, HBO has announced Laura Dern, Shailene Woodley, and Zoë Kravitz will officially be returning for season two of Big Little Lies to reprise their characters. That means the trio will be joining the...More »
  
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• RuPaul’s Drag Race’s Chi Chi Wishes She Did a Cardi B Impression for Snatch Game

  16-02-2018 21:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  Spoilers ahead for RuPaul’s Drag Race: All Stars 3.The moment Chi Chi DeVayne walked into the season-eight workroom wearing a trash-bag dress was the moment she walked into all of our hearts. Unfortunately, le bon temps of All Stars 3 have all rolled out for one of the most irresistibly...More »
  
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• Here’s a Guide to Your New Favorite Actress, Black Panther’s Letitia Wright

  16-02-2018 21:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  One of the many pleasures of Black Panther is seeing the some of our finest actors come together to have the time of their lives: Michael B. Jordan, snarling through his performance as a villain who might be right; Chadwick Boseman, doing the best possible version of his stoic-badass thing;...More »
  
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• SURFACING: EXPLORING COMMUNITIES : ‘Black Panther’ Cosplayers: ‘We’re Helping People See Us as Heroes’

  16-02-2018 21:01 via nytimes.com
  Meet the people whose goal is to disrupt the stereotypes of cosplay.
  
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• Brian Tyree Henry Loves Curling So Much, He Invented This Olympics Drinking Game

  16-02-2018 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  There are fans of curling, the Winter Olympics most calming and misunderstood sport, everywhere, and one of them happens to be Brian Tyree Henry. At a press event for Lobby Hero, the Broadway play written by Kenneth Lonergan that stars the Atlanta actor alongside Chris Evans, Michael Cera, and Bel...More »
  
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• Black Panther’s Six Thirstiest Moments

  16-02-2018 20:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  Black Panther is the boost of melanin your Black History Month deserves. From the costumes to the daddy issues to Angela Bassett’s cheekbones, it’s Marvel’s richest offering. And Black Panther doesn’t skimp on showing off its impossibly, preternaturally beautiful cast: Michael B. Jordan! Lupita Nyong’o! Winston Duke! Danai Gurira! Daniel...More »
  
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• ‘Unmasked,’ a Musical Celebrating Andrew Lloyd Webber, to Open at Playhouse in N.J.

  16-02-2018 20:08 via nytimes.com
  The production, created by Richard Curtis and John Doyle, will feature new songs by the composer and some of his most well-known.
  
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• Smooth, Solid, and Cool: 25 Perfect Pop Songs for Figure Skating

  16-02-2018 19:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  Among all the sports at the Winter Olympics, figure skating is the strangest and the most distinct: unlike the others, there’s a unique element of fine art inscribed into its history. Invented by a New York City ballet dancer in the 19th century and popularized and formalized in continental Europe,...More »
  
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• Saoirse Ronan Has Thought a Lot About How Awkward It Would Be to Bring a Date to the Oscars

  16-02-2018 19:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  Who will human ray of Gaelic sunshine Saoirse Ronan strut down the Oscars red carpet with this year? Maybe a cute boy, but eh, probably not. Because she’s crunched the numbers when it comes to how soon she should bring a romantic prospect to the big ceremony — date ten?...More »
  
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• Rawr! Black Panther Made $25.2 Million Thursday Night

  16-02-2018 19:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  Black Panther’s Thursday night numbers are in, and they’re even better than Michael B. Jordan’s bare chest: The Marvel movie grossed $25.2 million in ticket sales from Thursday preview shows in the U.S. and Canada, and set a February record, according to the Los Angeles Times. Black Panther’s Thursday night...More »
  
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• Review: ‘A Small Oak Tree Runs Red’ Unties a Century-Old Noose

  16-02-2018 19:34 via nytimes.com
  This flawed and devastating play argues that in remaining ignorant of our history, we risk remaining mired in its violence.
  
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• Alex Ross Perry’s Nostalgia Is a Deep Look at Impermanence and Pain

  16-02-2018 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Talk about sad. That’s Mark Pellington’s Nostalgia, from a script by Alex Ross Perry, from a story they wrote together, the title invoking both memory and the Greek root nostos, meaning pain. It’s an ensemble drama — more precisely, a series of linked monologues with point of view passed from...More »
  
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• Kevin Feige on the Future of Marvel’s Women (Including Danai, Tessa, Brie, and Michelle)

  16-02-2018 19:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  Marvel has remained cagey on which films the studio is readying beyond the fourth Avengers film out next summer, but based on rumors and buzz, the future could be female. Next year will see the release of the first Marvel Studios film to topline a woman — Captain Marvel, starring...More »
  
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• Every Time Hollywood Made the ‘Black Version’ of a Successful Movie

  16-02-2018 19:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  Marvel’s Black Panther, set for wide release this week, is poised to become the biggest film of all time to feature a predominantly black cast — and the biggest February movie premiere in cinematic history. The film bucks a rather odious stereotype in Hollywood: the idea that movies starring black...More »
  
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• Neneh Cherry’s 10 Favorite Books

  16-02-2018 19:00 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 Swedish singer and songwriter Neneh Cherry’s list.Women Who Run With the Wolves, by Clarissa Pinkola EstésI discovered this book when I was working on my third...More »
  
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• Black Panther Works Because Its Stakes Are Human

  16-02-2018 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Spoilers for Black Panther below.The first showdown between a superhero and a bad guy was startlingly small. In 1938’s Action Comics No. 1, the newly introduced Superman hears that a man is beating his wife and rushes into their home to stop him. The man tries to stab Superman, but...More »
  
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• In a World Full of Nines, RuPaul’s Drag Race Returns for Season 10 on March 22

  16-02-2018 18:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  RuPaul’s Drag Race may still be working its way through its all-star (and not-so all-star) season right now, but it’ll be back soon for another. VH1 announced today that Drag Race will start its tenth season on March 22. “To celebrate a decade of Drag Race we’ve pulled out all...More »
  
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• An Oral History of Bob Costas Having Pink Eye at the Olympics

  16-02-2018 18:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  What makes a standout Olympics memory? An elite talent at the top of their game, refusing to back down. A historic first. A triumph over adversity. It’s an uncommon blend of elements, which makes those occasions when they converge all the more gripping. Such was the case in early 2014,...More »
  
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• Alicia Vikander Jokes Her Breasts "Not as Pointy" as Original Lara Croft's

  16-02-2018 18:33 via feeds.eonline.com
  Alicia Vikander's Lara Croft won't do as much poking around onscreen as her popular video game counterpart.The 29-year-old Oscar-winning actress plays the adventurer in the new...
  
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• Black Panther Actor Florence Kasumba Addresses the Movie’s Lack of Queer Representation

  16-02-2018 18:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  Black Panther is justifiably being hailed as a victory for onscreen representation. Its nearly all-black cast is unprecedented for a tentpole blockbuster, and its deep bench of richly detailed female figures is another victory for groups who are often given short shrift at the box office. But one thing it...More »
  
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• Drake, Wholesome Man of the People, Does the Lord’s Work in ‘God’s Plan’ Video

  16-02-2018 18:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  Oh, you didn’t think Black Panther was the only black superhero hitting your screens this week, did you? Drake’s music video for “God’s Plan” has arrived, and it is wholesome and mother-loving, showing the rapper/Rihanna enthusiast handing cash and checks and cars and toys and Saks shopping sprees out to...More »
  
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• Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’s ‘Nothing Is Anyone’s Fault’ Video Will Help You Justify That Toxic Relationship

  16-02-2018 17:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is closing out its third season with some very muddled introspection. “There was a lot of debate and discussion over that last song among us,” Rachel Bloom says about “Nothing Is Ever Anyone’s Fault,” the final song of the season. Co-creator Aline Brosh McKenna adds, “It was such...More »
  
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• The Post-Credits Scene in Black Panther, Explained

  16-02-2018 17:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  Spoilers for Black Panther below.Every gaffer and best boy should write a thank-you note to Marvel Studios chief Kevin Feige. His Marvel Cinematic Universe enterprise has probably increased attendance during filmic credits sequences by 5,000 percent since the advent of Iron Man ten years ago. You always gotta wait to...More »
  
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• How Belle and Sebastian Loosened Up and Created Some of Their Best Work in Years

  16-02-2018 17:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  Like the films of director Wes Anderson or cartoons made by Adventure Time animator Pendleton Ward, the songs of Belle and Sebastian illuminate the magic and wonder of the natural world. From the striking monochromatic artwork down to lyric sheets that read like tightly wound short stories, the indie rock...More »
  
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• Theater News: A Thousand Splendid Suns to Return to American Conservatory Theater

  16-02-2018 17:00
  Khaled Hosseini's best-selling novel continues its West Coast tour in San Francisco.
  
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• Review: ‘Riot’ and the Art of Kitsch as Protest

  16-02-2018 16:56 via nytimes.com
  A rowdy Irish revue from the Dubin-based troupe Thisispopbaby asks the world to make love, not war, and dance, dance, dance.
  
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• Praise Grapefruit, Tiffany Haddish Is Presenting at the Oscars

  16-02-2018 16:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scientists announced the first round of Oscar presenters Friday morning, and while there are plenty of Margot Robbie and Tom Holland types on the list, the Academy also made the correct decision to bring back Tiffany Haddish. You’ll remember that during January’s Oscar...More »
  
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• Jeffrey Tambor Removed From Death of Stalin Poster, Which Is Something Stalin Definitely Would’ve Done

  16-02-2018 16:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Following his firing from Amazon’s Transparent, Jeffrey Tambor has been erased from the movie poster for The Death of Stalin. In a move not unlike what Stalin would’ve actually done, Tambor (who plays Deputy General Secretary Georgy Malenkov) has been disappeared from a new poster for the Armando Iannucci–directed comedy,...More »
  
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• Theater News: Ensemble Studio Theatre Announces Casting for Dido of Idaho

  16-02-2018 16:00
  Abby Rosebrock will star in the world premiere of her own play.
  
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• Theater News: Broadway Community to Honor Jan Maxwell

  16-02-2018 16:00
  The Marquis Theatre will dim its lights in her memory on February 21.
  
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• Critic’s Notebook: These Actors Are Off Book. Way Off.

  16-02-2018 16:00 via nytimes.com
  Words on the page are only a start when improvisers and actors collaborate at a monthly show at Upright Citizens Brigade called “Gravid Water.” And that’s just fine with a theater critic.
  
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• A Word With: Gillian Jacobs Is Ready to Let Go of Her Fears

  16-02-2018 16:00 via nytimes.com
  Ms. Jacobs, of “Community” fame, talks about the adrenaline rush of “Kings” at the Public, the gift of empathy and her own #MeToo moments.
  
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• Encounters: Laura Benanti Sings with Her Daughter, When She’s Not Impersonating Melania Trump

  16-02-2018 15:56 via nytimes.com
  Laura Benanti, the cabaret performer and Broadway star, keeps a low profile in her Harlem neighborhood.
  
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• Encounters: A Melania Trump Impersonator’s Downtime With Her Daughter

  16-02-2018 15:56 via nytimes.com
  Laura Benanti, the cabaret performer and Broadway star, keeps a low profile in her Harlem neighborhood.
  
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• The Bachelor Winter Games Recap: The Jacuzzi Appointment

  16-02-2018 15:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  In switching up the rose ceremonies every week, The Bachelor Winter Games has done something that cannot be undone: It has rendered the dates useless. At the start of the episode, I was sitting on my couch and realized that if the rose ceremonies were based on who is there...More »
  
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• Why Judd Apatow and Pete Holmes Wrote a Crashing Episode About Artie Lange’s Drug Addiction

  16-02-2018 15:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  Halfway through its second season, HBO’s Crashing continues to present an intimate window into the insular, communal tribalism of New York’s stand-up comedy scene. In the hands of creator/star Pete Holmes and executive producer Judd Apatow, those struggles manifest through equally generous helpings of joy and pathos: Holmes plays a...More »
  
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• Chadwick Boseman and Lupita Nyong'o Explain Their "Magnetic" Chemistry in Black Panther

  16-02-2018 15:05 via feeds.eonline.com
  Marvel fans have a new power couple to ship.In Marvel's Black Panther (in theaters now), the newly crowned King T'Challa (Chadwick Boseman) looks to his off-and-on girlfriend...
  
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• World Trade Center Arts Space Gets a Lease, and a Leader

  16-02-2018 15:00 via nytimes.com
  The new artistic director of the Perelman Center will be Bill Rauch, the theater director who currently leads the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
  
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• Theater News: Hundred Days to Round Out La Jolla Playhouse's 2018-19 Season

  16-02-2018 15:00
  The Bengsons' theatrical concert will play in San Diego.
  
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