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• Alyssa Cole on Why Her Romance Novels Are Always Political

  27-02-2018 23:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  The first two books in Alyssa Cole’s Loyal League series were two of the biggest things in romance in 2017. The heroines of both books are free black women in the Civil War, working in the South against the Confederacy. In those books, Cole shined a new light on what...More »
  
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• Divorce season two review – ‘Best watched through fingers and a Valium haze’

  27-02-2018 23:45 via theguardian.com
  Sharon Horgan’s acutely observed tale of a disintegrating marriage has just enough light relief to keep it bearable. Plus, Marlon Brando’s Polynesian paradise revisitedIn all honesty, I didn’t know if I could go through another Divorce. The first series of the tale of a disintegrating marriage, written by the nonpareil of domestic deconstruction, Sharon Horgan, and starring Sarah Jessica Parker and Thomas Haden Church as warring couple Frances and Robert Defresne, was
  
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• ABC Is Giving Alec Baldwin a Talk Show, in Case You Weren’t Hearing Enough From Him

  27-02-2018 23:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  Alec Baldwin, a Hollywood character with no history of controversy, is getting his very own talk show. ABC has ordered eight additional episodes of Sundays With Alec Baldwin, an interview series modeled after the podcast he does for WNYC. In the show, viewers can spend time watching Baldwin, perhaps the...More »
  
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• For Weeks, the Top Artist on SoundCloud Was an Icon of the Arab Spring

  27-02-2018 23:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  If SoundCloud, as a platform, has become synonymous with any genre of music, it’s undoubtedly rap. In any given week, a peek at the site’s top 50 songs shows at least 90 percent to be hip-hop. From the howlingly cartoonish to the despondently evil, from rote invocations of promethazine to...More »
  
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• Netflix Developing Its First Arabic Series With the Teen Thriller Jinn

  27-02-2018 22:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  Netflix is expanding the reach of its original programming by ordering its first original series in Arabic. According to Deadline, the six-part drama will be called Jinn, and it will be a young-adult fantasy drama that centers on a group of teens who encounter a jinn, or evil spirit, in...More »
  
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• What Seven Seconds’ Clare-Hope Ashitey Learned About America While Filming Her Netflix Show

  27-02-2018 22:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  Over the course of Netflix’s wintry crime drama Seven Seconds, assistant prosecutor K.J. Harper stumbles onto a police cover-up of a hit-and-run that both obsesses her and nearly destroys her career. Played by the British actress Clare-Hope Ashitey, K.J. is an alcoholic with a pile of guilt over the way...More »
  
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• Jennifer Lawrence Gets Real About Learning Ballet for Red Sparrow: "It Was Really Brutal"

  27-02-2018 22:30 via feeds.eonline.com
  When it comes to ballet, Jennifer Lawrence admits she's no dancing queen.In an interview with E! News at the Red Sparrow premiere in NYC last night, the 27-year-old star revealed...
  
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• Oprah Winfrey Reveals What Makes Her Such a Good Friend

  27-02-2018 22:21 via feeds.eonline.com
  Everyone wants to be BFFs with Oprah (well except for Donald Trump)--but what is about Lady O that makes her so good about being such a good friend?E! News' Zuri Hall caught up with...
  
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• Lewis Gilbert, Director of ‘Alfie’ and 007 Movies, Is Dead at 97

  27-02-2018 22:16 via nytimes.com
  Best known for his work with Michael Caine and Sean Connery, Mr. Gilbert also made action films (“Sink the Bismarck!”) and quieter ones (“Educating Rita”).
  
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• Unsolved Is Still Worth Watching Even If You Know Everything About Biggie and Tupac

  27-02-2018 21:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and the Notorious B.I.G. doesn’t seem like it should be necessary. In the more than 20 years since two of the most influential hip-hop artists in history were gunned down, there have been documentaries, books, biopics, and extensive articles about Tupac Shakur, Biggie Smalls, and...More »
  
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• Steve Martin and Martin Short Are Doing a Netflix Special Together Like Two Cuties

  27-02-2018 21:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  Thirty years after they first met while shooting ¡Three Amigos!, Steve Martin and Martin Short’s dream has finally come true — to be paid half of what they normally would’ve gotten for a TV special because they’re doing it together. Today, the duo announced on Twitter that Steve Martin and...More »
  
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• The Secret Music of S-Town’s John B. McLemore

  27-02-2018 21:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  Every episode of S-Town led to a new twist about the life of John B. McLemore, the charismatic, mercurial focus of the hit podcast. He had his hobbies and obsessions — repairing antique clocks, building a hedge maze, mentoring local kids, getting tattoos and piercings, caring for his dogs, and...More »
  
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• Lewis Gilbert, Director of ‘Alfie’ and 007 Movies, Dies at 97

  27-02-2018 21:08 via nytimes.com
  Best known for his work with Michael Caine and Sean Connery, Mr. Gilbert also made action films (“Sink the Bismarck!”) and quieter ones (“Educating Rita”).
  
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• Disney to Donate $1 Million of ‘Black Panther’ Proceeds to Youth STEM Programs

  27-02-2018 21:04 via nytimes.com
  The move is a nod to one of the film’s key themes: the way technology can inspire and empower young people from marginalized communities.
  
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• M. Night Shyamalan Psychological Thriller Series Ordered by Apple

  27-02-2018 20:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  M. Night Shyamalan is the latest Hollywood creative to join forces with Apple. The Silicon Valley giant is on a green-lighting spree to amass original content, and Shyamalan has been given a straight-to-series order for ten episodes of a psychological thriller series. Bucking the trend of very long everything, each...More »
  
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• Listen: Comcast disrupts Fox Disney deal with bid for UK broadcaster Sky

  27-02-2018 20:06 via ft.com
  Naomi Rovnick unravels details of the rival bids for the UK broadcaster
  
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• Ryan Seacrest Will Still Host E!’s Oscars Red Carpet Amid Sexual-Assault Allegations

  27-02-2018 19:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  As the Oscars face the #MeToo moment for the first time this Sunday, E!’s red-carpet will remain unfazed. Amid new details of the sexual-assault allegations made against Ryan Seacrest by a former stylist, as well as calls from Scandal’s Bellamy Young that he be removed as red-carpet host, E! is...More »
  
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• The cabby’s tip that sent Comcast on Sky-ward journey

  27-02-2018 19:54 via ft.com
  CEO Brian Roberts’ challenge to Murdoch and Disney is latest twist in reshaping global media
  
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• The cabbie’s tip that sent Comcast on Sky-ward journey

  27-02-2018 19:54 via ft.com
  CEO Brian Roberts’ challenge to Murdoch and Disney is latest twist in reshaping global media
  
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• Don't panic! The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is back

  27-02-2018 19:16 via theguardian.com
  It’s the biggest thing to happen to the universe since the Vogons blew up Earth. Our writer grabs a babelfish and goes behind the scenes as the space satire returnsIn 1985, Douglas Adams said the BBC’s view of the first series of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy was like Macbeth’s attitude to murder: “Initial doubts, followed by cautious enthusiasm, then greater and greater alarm at the sheer scale of the undertaking.” Those days are, however, long gone an
  
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• Sky takeover: bidding war predicted as Comcast makes £22bn offer - as it happened

  27-02-2018 19:09 via theguardian.com
  US cable giant Comcast has made a dramatic move to take control of UK broadcaster Sky; new Fed chair Powell hints at US rate risesBidding war forecastSky shares hit 18-year highComcast is offering to buy Sky for $31bn
  Labour: Comcast must protect Sky NewsWhat does it mean for Disney’s deal to buy Fox??What the experts sayElsewhere:New Fed chair Powell backs gradual rate rises 6.48pm GMT A late update: Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox have - finally - responded to Comcast’s off
  
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• How Mad Should I Be About the Whitewashing in Annihilation?

  27-02-2018 19:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  There’s so much to get mad about these days that it can be hard to know where to throw your outrage. On Twitter? To your senator? We’ve devised a handy rage calculator to help you determine the appropriate amount of outrage to express on social media. Get out your TI-89...More »
  
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• Review: The Amateurs Is Anything but Amateurish

  27-02-2018 19:00
  This world-premiere play by Jordan Harrison looks at art in a time of crisis.
  
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• Peter Sarsgaard Says He Won’t Work With Woody Allen Again

  27-02-2018 18:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  On Meet the Press Daily, actors Jeff Daniels and Peter Sarsgaard stated that they believe Dylan Farrow’s abuse allegations against Woody Allen. But when asked whether they’d work with the director again, their answers got a little more complicated: “I’ve already done a Woody Allen movie,” Sarsgaard said (he acted...More »
  
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• Spy Who Loved Me director Lewis Gilbert dies aged 97

  27-02-2018 18:48
  British filmmaker whose career spanned eight decades was best known for drecting three Bond films and making a major star of Michael Caine in AlfieLewis Gilbert, the British director of a string of celebrated films including the 1965 Michael Caine hit Alfie and The Spy Who Loved Me, arguably the high point of the Roger Moore James Bond era, has died aged 97. Bond producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli confirmed Gilbert’s death in a statement. “It is with great sadness that
  
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• In the Top 8 Oscar Races, What Are the Newest Voters Choosing?

  27-02-2018 18:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  What kind of difference are the newest Academy members having on what gets nominated for and wins an Oscar? Yesterday, we spoke to 14 of the voters who had been asked to join the Academy over an unprecedented two-year push to increase the organization’s gender and racial diversity and invite...More »
  
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• The Walking Dead Had Its Lowest-Rated Midseason Premiere Ever

  27-02-2018 18:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  A longer-than-usual hiatus and competition from the Olympics Closing Ceremony combined to push down AMC’s The Walking Dead to its lowest-rated midseason premiere ever, at least among same-day audiences. Per Nielsen, Sunday’s episode drew 8.3 million linear viewers, a huge drop from season seven’s midseason return (12 million) and just...More »
  
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• Review: An Afrofuturist Mr. Rogers Rules ‘The Brobot Johnson Experience’

  27-02-2018 18:23 via nytimes.com
  Darian Dauchan’s one-android performance piece uses rap, dance and colored lights to find “the connection between species.”
  
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• How a Dance Dream Team Turned Jennifer Lawrence Into a Ballerina

  27-02-2018 18:09 via nytimes.com
  To pass as a dancer and spy in “Red Sparrow,” Ms. Lawrence turned to a choreographer, a partner, a dance double and a “ballet-boot-camp guy.”
  
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• Nick Kroll and John Mulaney Are Cool, Chill, and Other Synonyms for Relaxed L.A. Bros Now

  27-02-2018 18:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  John Mulaney and Nick Kroll are returning to host the Independent Spirit Awards this weekend, and don’t worry, their success last year has made them extremely complacent. Kroll and Mulaney dropped by Conan in their new laid-back duds, just to you know, chill out and such. Think of it as...More »
  
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• What Pete Wentz Can’t Live Without

  27-02-2018 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you’re like us, you’ve probably wondered what famous people add to their carts. Not the JAR brooch and Louis XV chair, but the hand sanitizer and the electric toothbrush. We asked Pete Wentz of Fall Out Boy, who are currently on their worldwide tour for their album Mania, about the exfoliant, face...More »
  
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• Oscars Cheat Sheet: What to Watch For at This Year’s Ceremony

  27-02-2018 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  There’s got to be some specific component of the brain that makes Homo sapiens so persistently obsessed with statistics. How else to explain the perennial need to reorganize a given year’s crop of Oscar nominees into a collection of factoids and trivia? (Hell, how else to explain the entirety of...More »
  
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• The Bachelor Recap: I Love That and I Love You

  27-02-2018 17:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  Time devoted to Becca’s fantasy-suite date and the morning after: 0ne hour.Time devoted to Lauren’s fantasy-suite date and the morning after: 45 minutes.Time devoted to Kendall’s fantasy-suite date and the morning after: 26 minutes.It was no surprise at all that Kendall was going home. Even if we all didn’t see...More »
  
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• Review: ‘Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?’ Reckons With White Supremacy

  27-02-2018 17:34 via nytimes.com
  A filmmaker investigates a racial murder committed by his great-grandfather in Jim Crow-era Alabama. It’s an intensely, painfully personal project.
  
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• See an Exclusive New Red-Band Trailer for The Death of Stalin

  27-02-2018 17:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  Some movies, it can be hard to tell what they’re all about just from reading the title. (What the heck is a blade runner?) Not so with Armando Iannucci’s upcoming satire The Death of Stalin, which covers the chaos in the Politburo after, well, you know. The film has already...More »
  
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• Late-night hosts on Trump's Parkland comments: 'We already know how you react to combat'

  27-02-2018 17:09 via theguardian.com
  Comics discussed Trump’s suggestions on how to stop gun violence and his remark that he would have entered Stoneman Douglas high school unarmed.Late-night hosts on Monday discussed president Trump’s suggestion to arm teachers in the wake of the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, and his comments regarding how he would have acted had he been at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High. Related: Stephen Colbert mocks Trump for 'cheat sheet' on how to react to shooting survivorsContinue reading
  
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• Theater News: American Conservatory Theater to Honor Carey Perloff at Annual Gala

  27-02-2018 17:00
  The artistic director ends her 25-year tenure at the San Francisco theater this season.
  
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• Review: A Tragic Love Story Takes Center Stage in Anna Karenina

  27-02-2018 17:00
  Tolstoy's novel takes that stage at Lifeline Theatre.
  
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