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• Rick McKay, Who Documented Memories of Broadway, Dies at 62

  23-02-2018 23:51 via nytimes.com
  Mr. McKay filmed the reminiscences of dozens of theater luminaries for the 2004 documentary “Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There.”
  
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• McMafia Is Just OK

  23-02-2018 23:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  The opening credits of the crime drama McMafia tell you what you’re in for. They also tell you what’s most compelling about the series: its ability to communicate complex systems in a straightforward manner. Animated spreadsheets, graphs, pie charts, and maps are laid atop images of on-the-ground criminal activities, including the bribery...More »
  
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• Black Panther Just Had the Biggest Opening Week of Any Marvel Movie

  23-02-2018 23:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  Black Panther is set to continue its box-office domination going into the movie’s second weekend. After having the best first week of any Marvel movie to date with $292 million in domestic ticket sales (which contributes to a global total of $520 million), Variety reports that the Ryan Coogler film...More »
  
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• Black Panther’s Costume Designer on 8 of the Film’s Iconic Looks

  23-02-2018 23:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  When you think of Wakanda, the futuristic African country that is the setting of Ryan Coogler’s smash-hit superhero movie Black Panther, you can’t help but picture its fabulously dressed citizens. Two-time Oscar nominee Ruth E. Carter is the costume designer responsible for Wakanda’s sartorial splendor, and she’s loving the audience...More »
  
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• Nanette Fabray, Star of TV and Stage Comedies, Dies at 97

  23-02-2018 23:03 via nytimes.com
  Ms. Fabray won a Tony for a performance on Broadway in the 1940s and three Emmys for her work with Sid Caesar in the 1950s.
  
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• How Fast Can 6ix9ine Paint Himself Into a Corner?

  23-02-2018 22:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  Whatever else one thinks of him, there’s no arguing that Daniel Hernandez has mastered the art of getting attention. Hernandez, who raps under the title of 6ix9ine, has rocketed from anonymity to fame over the fall and winter because his focus on triggering strong reactions is unhindered by any distinction...More »
  
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• How Annihilation Designed Its Unnatural Horrors

  23-02-2018 22:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  Spoilers for Annihilation below.The specter of Tim Burton loomed over the production of Annihilation. Writer/director Alex Garland and production designer Mark Digby were in the midst of adapting Jeff VanderMeer’s sci-fi novel about Area X, a plot of land where nature has been perverted, and they were grappling with a...More »
  
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• Let’s Talk About the Ending of Annihilation

  23-02-2018 22:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  Spoilers for Annihilation below.In the feverish crescendo of Annihilation’s wordless climax, the name Bobbi Jene crept into my otherwise paralyzed brain. I’m no modern dance buff, and the dancer and choreographer is not someone who would have been on the tip of my tongue if it wasn’t for last year’s...More »
  
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• SOB x RBE’s Music Is Brilliantly Crass and Noisy

  23-02-2018 22:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  Vallejo, California, has got a rich musical history and some nagging demons. The funk and soul legends Sly Stone and Johnny Otis grew up in the North Bay port city, which is just an hour’s car or ferry ride north of San Francisco. Bay Area hip-hop veterans from E-40 and...More »
  
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• Idrissa Ouedraogo, Lauded African Filmmaker, Dies at 64

  23-02-2018 22:11 via nytimes.com
  His movies, featuring simple, compelling stories set in Burkina Faso, his home country, and elsewhere in Africa, won accolades at Cannes.
  
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• 10 Book-to-Film Adaptations Happening in 2018

  23-02-2018 22:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  Even if you’re not that much of a blockbuster aficionado, there’s a certain niche of films that may pique your interest: The always in demand book-to-film adaptations. This spring and summer, expect ten straight-from-the-best-sellers-list marvels to light up the screen. The options vary from the very kinky, to the just...More »
  
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• Newsbook: What to Read After Watching ‘Black Panther’

  23-02-2018 21:50 via nytimes.com
  There is a long tradition of black comic book creators. Here are two to start with, plus one book that gives you a historical rundown.
  
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• Queer Eye’s Antoni Porowski Goes Deep on A Little Life

  23-02-2018 21:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  Antoni Porowski seems like a character imagined by Hanya Yanagihara: He’s a beautiful man, with soft, dark eyes that betray a glimmer of turmoil underneath an Instagram-perfect life (see his carefully laid thirst traps, food photos, and equally beautiful boyfriend). Until recently, he was a working actor appearing in smaller...More »
  
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• AJ From Queer Eye Just Got Engaged and We’re Not Even Done Crying About His Coming Out

  23-02-2018 21:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  WE'VE GOT SOME NEWS THAT WILL MAKEYOURWEEK! AJ AND DREY GOT ENGAGEDOUR GAY HEARTS ARE EXPLODINGQueer Eye (@QueerEye) February 22, 2018...More »
  
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• How to Make the Entire ‘Hungry Boy’ Breakfast From Phantom Thread

  23-02-2018 21:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  Near the beginning of Paul Thomas Anderson’s Phantom Thread, fashion designer Reynolds Woodcock, a man so dickish his name has two phallic puns, is dining at a hotel in the north of England. He spies an attractive waitress, Alma, and decides to challenge her with a breakfast order that seems...More »
  
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• Watch a New Song From ‘Frozen’ on Broadway

  23-02-2018 21:03 via nytimes.com
  The Brooklyn songwriters Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez talked about the new song “Monster” in an interview this week.
  
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• Broadway’s ‘Frozen’ Gives Elsa a New Song to Sing. Watch It Here.

  23-02-2018 21:03 via nytimes.com
  The Brooklyn songwriters Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez talked about the new song “Monster” in an interview this week.
  
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• Watch the Book Trailer for Tomi Adeyemi’s Children of Blood and Bone, One of the Biggest Deals in YA History

  23-02-2018 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  This week, a mysterious figure appeared on a 42-foot high billboard on the side of the Madame Tussauds wax museum, down the street from the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Only the top part of her face was visible — fierce gray eyes, dark-brown skin, bone-white hair rising into the air...More »
  
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• Broadway Hits the Middle School Circuit

  23-02-2018 21:00 via nytimes.com
  Adaptations of Broadway musicals to be performed by middle and high school students are becoming an increasingly important revenue stream for theater producers.
  
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• The 2018 Oscars Musical Performers Include Mary J. Blige and Common

  23-02-2018 20:59 via nytimes.com
  The broadcast, on March 4, will feature five musical numbers, including “Remember Me” from “Coco” and “This Is Me” from “The Greatest Showman.”
  
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• The Afrofuturistic Designs of ‘Black Panther’

  23-02-2018 20:53 via nytimes.com
  For her extraordinarily detailed costumes, Ruth E. Carter studied the garments of the Maasai, the Lesotho and other African tribes. A 3-D printer was also key.
  
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• Well, David Mamet Has Written a Play About Harvey Weinstein

  23-02-2018 20:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  David Mamet has, for some reason, decided to add in his own perspective on the Harvey Weinstein story. In an interview with the Chicago Tribute, the playwright, who recently published a crime novel, revealed that he recently wrote a play about the former studio exec after being encouraged by a...More »
  
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• Jennifer Lawrence Says She Dropped Out of School at 14 Because She ‘Never Felt Very Smart’

  23-02-2018 19:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  Like your standard Jennifer Lawrence character, Jennifer Lawrence has gotten as far as she has in life as an outsider without a traditional education. In an interview on CNN’s 60 Minutes, Lawrence discussed her decision to drop out of school at age 14 in order to pursue acting full time....More »
  
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• Josh Duhamel Says His Ex Fergie Knows That National Anthem Wasn’t ‘Her Best Work’

  23-02-2018 19:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  With Josh Duhamel making an appearance on The Ellen Show, how could his ex-wife Fergie’s national anthem performance not come up? While some argue that her rendition was actually “Fergalicious,” the internet mostly hated it, and even Fergie herself acknowledged that it “didn’t strike the intended tone.” But Duhamel is...More »
  
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• RuPaul’s Drag Race Star Aja on Death Drops, Pokémon, and Her Rap Career

  23-02-2018 19:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  Spoilers ahead for RuPaul’s Drag Race: All Stars 3.Has anyone ever leveled her pussy up quite like Aja has since season nine of RuPaul’s Drag Race? Sadly, in Thursday night’s Andy Warhol–themed episode, Aja’s off-brand soup-can look and gorgeous but anachronistic disco runway landed her in the bottom two with...More »
  
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• Raoul Peck: ‘I’m Not in the Movie Business to Make Films’

  23-02-2018 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  America might finally be ready for filmmaker Raoul Peck. His James Baldwin documentary I Am Not Your Negro was a surprise hit, earning an Academy Award nomination and turning the Haitian anti-capitalist into a marketable name after over 30 years in the business. Now he’s looking to make the most...More »
  
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• Here’s a Story About George Clooney Being As Charming As You’d Hope on the Set of ER

  23-02-2018 19:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  Before there was George Clooney, dreamboat movie star, there was George Clooney, dreamboat TV doctor. As people have been revisiting ER after it went up on Hulu, they’ve rediscovered just how charming young Clooney could be. According to actress Julia Whelan, who appeared in a season-five episode as a 13-year-old...More »
  
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• Ugly Delicious Is Satisfying TV That Will Make You So Damn Hungry

  23-02-2018 19:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  David Chang, the Korean-American rebel chef and ruler of the Momofuku empire, is a foodie with little patience for the pretentiousness that often come with that title.“I’m one of the biggest snobs you’ve ever met,” he explains to the camera in the new Netflix series Ugly Delicious, streaming starting today....More »
  
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• Underprivileged Kids Can See A Wrinkle in Time for Free at AMC

  23-02-2018 19:15 via feeds.eonline.com
  Underprivileged children will be able to see A Wrinkle in Time at AMC Theatres--for free. The "Give a Child the Universe" initiative, spearheaded by the racial justice organization Color...
  
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• The Bachelor Winter Games Finale Recap: The Strengthening

  23-02-2018 19:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Bachelor Winter Games is a success? Everyone found love? Not exactly. There is one big failure of The Bachelor universe and quite frankly, our society. And that’s that Tonya Harding is on the hottest red carpets and Nancy Kerrigan is moonlighting as an ice-skating coach on The Bachelor. This...More »
  
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• Why Duncan Jones’s Mute Represents a Crossroads for Netflix

  23-02-2018 18:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  Last October, Netflix announced that it planned to release some 80 movies in 2018. The announcement was met with reactions ranging from skepticism to shock to, most commonly, confusion: the big six studios put out 94 films in 2017 collectively, and Netflix was going to do 80 by itself?But the...More »
  
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• Encounters: The Show Goes On for Arrested ‘Housewife’ Luann de Lesseps

  23-02-2018 18:38 via nytimes.com
  After an incident in Palm Beach, Fla., the countess is working on her sobriety, revising her cabaret show and preparing for a likely Season 10 on Bravo.
  
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• Poor Barry Jenkins Is Still Very Much Haunted by That Oscars Fiasco

  23-02-2018 18:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  As we approach the one-year anniversary of that time the Oscars tried to bamboozle us into thinking La La Land was a better film than Moonlight, Barry Jenkins says the nightmare still haunts him. During a THR roundtable with the only black filmmakers nominated for Best Director in Oscars history...More »
  
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• Janelle Monáe Steps Into Her Bisexual Lighting

  23-02-2018 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the second half of 2017, the phrase “bisexual lighting” slipped into the queer Twitter lexicon. The phenomenon it described — film characters illuminated with deep blue lights on one side and saturated magenta lights on the opposite — was not entirely novel, but with the release of the Cold War...More »
  
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• Superhero Comics’ Most Sympathetic Socialist Goes to War

  23-02-2018 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Very often, the best antagonists in superhero fiction are the ones who just might be right. Dr. Doom probably would be pretty good at running the world. Ra’s al Ghul and Poison Ivy are both pretty much on the money when they say human beings are destroying the ecosystem. As...More »
  
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• 9 Ways Annihilation the Movie Differs from Annihilation the Book

  23-02-2018 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Finish Alex Garland’s Annihilation and you’ll find yourself sitting in a dark theater quietly murmuring, “What the…?” Finish Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation, meanwhile — the science-fiction novel that serves as the source material for Garland’s film — and … well, you’ll also find yourself sitting someplace quietly murmuring, “What the…?”The book...More »
  
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• It’s Fine, Mirai Nagasu Was Just Using Her Olympics Free Skate to Get on Dancing With the Stars Anyway

  23-02-2018 17:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  Though U.S. Olympic figure skater Mirai Nagasu failed to replicate the history-making triple axel that she had completed during the team event when she performed in individual competition, she’s cool with finishing far off the podium. In fact, if you were wondering why she seemed so giddy throughout most of...More »
  
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• Seven Seconds review – provocative Netflix drama series takes too much time

  23-02-2018 17:21
  Excellent performances and a timely premise can’t save the show from The Killing remake director Veena Sud from feeling like a slogSeven seconds is how long it takes for Pete Jablonski (Beau Knapp), a young white police officer, to run over Brenton Butler, a black teenager on a bicycle, in a New Jersey park. And it’s also the name of the new Netflix series from Veena Sud, the showrunner best known for adapting The Killing from the original Danish series for the American market. The a
  
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• The Real Housewives of New York Give (Fake) Depositions About Their Recent Boat Ride From Hell

  23-02-2018 17:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  We here at the Real Housewives Institute were rocked by the recent news in “Page Six” that the cast of Real Housewives of New York City was trapped on a sinking ship while on a cast trip to Cartagena, Colombia. (Between that and Countess Luann de Lesseps being arrested for...More »
  
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• Theater News: Nanette Fabray, Star of The Band Wagon, Has Died

  23-02-2018 17:00
  Fabray was a Broadway regular of the '40s and '50s.
  
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• Theater News: Full Ensemble Cast Announced for Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert

  23-02-2018 17:00
  Joel Perez, Jonah Platt, Conor Ryan, and Heath Saunders will be among the performers.
  
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• Theater News: Austin Pendleton to Direct New Stage Version of Richard III

  23-02-2018 17:00
  Matt de Rogatis will take on the title role.
  
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• Theater News: Andrew Lloyd Webber to Discuss New Memoir Unmasked With Glenn Close

  23-02-2018 17:00
  The autobiography will be released on March 6.
  
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• Stephen Fry has prostate cancer surgery

  23-02-2018 16:36
  Actor had operation in January to tackle disease he describes as ‘aggressive little bugger’
  Stephen Fry has announced that he has prostate cancer. The actor and TV presenter underwent an operation in January to have his prostate and 11 lymph nodes removed.Fry shared a video talking about his diagnosis via Twitter: Continue reading...
  
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• The Saturday Profile: A Russian Master of the ‘Dark Side’ in Film

  23-02-2018 16:30 via nytimes.com
  Andrey Zvyagintsev, whose “Loveless” is an Oscar nominee for best foreign film, is the rare director in Russia who tackles social and political issues.
  
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• Why ‘Real Women Have Curves’ Never Got Its ‘Lady Bird’ Moment

  23-02-2018 16:00 via nytimes.com
  “Lady Bird” shares many similarities with “Real Women Have Curves.” But there are more systemic barriers to blame for the film’s dismissal by Oscar voters.
  
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