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• Man Accused of Stealing Frances McDormand’s Oscar Statue

  05-03-2018 22:45 via nytimes.com
  Not long after Ms. McDormand had her Academy Award engraved at the Governors Ball, it went missing for a short time.
  
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• Robert Lopez Makes History at 2018 Oscars as the First Double EGOT Winner

  05-03-2018 22:38 via feeds.eonline.com
  It's safe to say that we're going to remember Robert Lopez for a long time after last night.
  Not only did the Coco songwriter win an Oscar for his song "Remember Me",...
  
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• Review: Immigrants and American Animus Coexist in queens

  05-03-2018 22:00
  Martyna Majok's new plays debuts at LCT3.
  
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• 5 Things We Learned From Andrew Lloyd Webber’s New Memoir

  05-03-2018 21:48 via nytimes.com
  “Unmasked,” a 500-page doorstop out this week, tells rich stories about the projects he never made — and the childhood feline that inspired “Cats.”
  
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• My Unpopular Opinion: The Oscars Should Always Be Long

  05-03-2018 21:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  I love the Oscars, but I’ll allow nearly any critique of them. Did they overlook your favorite performance? They do that sometimes! Is there still so much ground to be made up when it comes to representation? Absolutely! Why do the most beautiful actors on earth always submit to such...More »
  
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• Arie and Lauren B.’s 11 Most Sensual Moments on The Bachelor

  05-03-2018 21:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  Has there ever been a Bachelor couple with as much pure, unadulterated passion as Arie Luyendyk Jr. and Lauren B.? The smoldering looks! The carnal touching! The innuendo-filled conversations! We just couldn’t look away as their romance blossomed from city to city. But on Monday night, will Arie choose Lauren...More »
  
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• Why Get Out’s Win Makes This the Biggest Oscars Ever for Horror

  05-03-2018 21:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  Although Get Out won only one award out of its four nominations, writer-director Jordan Peele’s Best Original Screenplay Oscar was one of the most significant victories of the night — and a historic accomplishment on multiple fronts. Not only did Peele become the first black person in the Oscars’ 90-year...More »
  
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• From Time’s Up to Inclusion Riders: Women Take Charge at the Oscars

  05-03-2018 21:22 via nytimes.com
  Men won a vast majority of Oscars, but the night will go down as one in which women made it clear they would be doing and saying what they wanted.
  
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• Man suspected of stealing Frances McDormand's Oscar arrested

  05-03-2018 20:51
  Terry Bryant arrested after Oscar allegedly stolen during after-party
  Bryant bragged about trophy on Facebook, claiming he had won itA man who apparently swiped Frances McDormand’s Oscar trophy boasted about it on Facebook, claiming he won it for music, before being arrested on suspicion of felony grand theft.Terry Bryant, 47, was being held on $20,000 bail for allegedly stealing the statue at the Governors Ball party soon after Sunday night’s 90th Academy Awards ceremony in Hollywoo
  
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• Trinity Mirror finds best way to profit is to Reach for The Star

  05-03-2018 20:36 via ft.com
  Newspaper group forgets golden rule of rebranding — its new name is not daft enough
  
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• Roger Deakins Should Have Won an Oscar Years Ago

  05-03-2018 20:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  Fourteenth time’s a charm! On Sunday night, your sexy British photography teacher Roger Deakins took home the Best Cinematography trophy for his work on Blade Runner 2049, ending a streak of empty-handed nights dating back to The Shawshank Redemption. Deakins’s string of snubs was the third-longest among living nominees after...More »
  
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• #MeToo, Harvey Weinstein and Awkward TV: Our Critics Talk Oscars

  05-03-2018 20:14 via nytimes.com
  In a wide-ranging discussion, our critics examine how the Academy Awards were actually in tune with these polarizing times.
  
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• You Owe It to Yourself to Watch Divorce Season Two

  05-03-2018 20:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  The much improved second season of Divorce came to a close last night, on a Sunday when it was most certainly overshadowed by the Academy Awards. Somehow, that seemed appropriate.Being overshadowed has been a theme for Divorce, the HBO series that brought the star of one of its most popular...More »
  
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• Single Dad Brad Pitt Wants Tiffany Haddish to Give Him a Call

  05-03-2018 20:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  Backstage at the Oscars, Tiffany Haddish sat for a quick game of Marry, Date, Ditch with Kelly Ripa. Before Ripa could even finish announcing the contenders (Brad Pitt, Javier Bardem, and George Clooney), Haddish interjected: “I just met [Pitt] in the elevator!” she said. “He said in one year if...More »
  
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• This Lonely Island Song Would’ve Been the Funniest Part of the Oscars If It Weren’t for Boring Things Like Time and Money

  05-03-2018 19:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Lonely Island have been Oscars darlings ever since Popstar swept all the major categories a couple years back. What? That didn’t happen? It didn’t get nominated for any? Not even song? Well, Popstar was funny as hell and everyone knew it, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that...More »
  
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• Does It Matter If This Year’s Oscars Were the Least-Watched Ever?

  05-03-2018 19:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  The 90th annual Academy Awards will almost certainly go down as the least-watched Oscars telecast in modern TV history. Reliable national Nielsen numbers for the Sunday night broadcast won’t be available until later this afternoon, but preliminary data suggests the show’s overall audience will fall below 30 million viewers for...More »
  
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• Adam Rippon Didn’t Even Need Ellen’s Help to Achieve His Goal of Meeting Shawn Mendes

  05-03-2018 19:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  Turns out Adam Rippon didn’t need Ellen to make his dreams come true, he simply harnessed an opportunity himself. After announcing on Ellen last week that he had been sleeping on Shawn Mendes (crush-wise, not literally), Rippon found a way to meet Mendes without any help from DeGeneres at an...More »
  
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• Scene City: Inside the 2018 Vanity Fair Oscar Party

  05-03-2018 19:13 via nytimes.com
  Frances McDormand takes a victory lap at the annual must-attend Oscar party hosted by the new Vanity Fair editor, Radhika Jones.
  
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• The presenters of Civilisations are getting in the way | Letters

  05-03-2018 19:06
  Flying further with more presenters is the exact opposite of progress, says Roger Wilson. And the BBC series focuses too much on art, says Mick BurmeisterIt is wonderfully ironic that the makers of the series Civilisations (Lessons from ancient history – and 1969, 3 March) have so slavishly imitated the Kenneth Clark approach: flying the presenters hither and yon so that they can stand in front of the thing they have come to describe, often obstructing the viewers’ view. I recall tha
  
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• Review: In ‘Time No Line,’ John Kelly Revisits Decades of Diary Entries

  05-03-2018 18:52 via nytimes.com
  Time runs in circles in Mr. Kelly’s autobiographical memory play at La MaMa.
  
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• Meet the dramedy queens: the women who built TV’s new golden age

  05-03-2018 18:37
  Derry Girls, Catastrophe, Insecure … shut out of serious drama, women have turned comedy on its head – playing raw female experience for laughs, sobs and gaspsIn the early years of the 21st century, swaggering male antiheroes dominated the small screen. Depressive mob boss Tony Soprano, noble outlaw Omar Little in The Wire, and Breaking Bad’s schoolteacher-turned-meth-monster Walter White ushered in a modern “golden age” of television. Equating substance with brood
  
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• Did Jimmy Kimmel’s Jet Ski Bit Work?

  05-03-2018 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  It is difficult to host the Oscars. You have to be funny in front of an audience (both the one at home, but especially the one in the seats) that takes the night very seriously. Plus, the show is four years long, with unavoidable, undeniable lulls when the less high-profile...More »
  
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• Google sells Zagat restaurant review guide to The Infatuation

  05-03-2018 18:21 via ft.com
  Tech group paid $151m for company known for its burgundy-coloured guides in 2011
  
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• The Oscars’ Most Meaningful Gift: Its Lady Presenter Pairings

  05-03-2018 18:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  The art of presenter pairings at awards shows has long been a delicate, suggestive, and pretty deeply heteronormative art. Sometimes the producers opt to send out two well-known co-stars of a recent or upcoming tentpole: Let’s have Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst present the visual effects award, because Spider-Man was...More »
  
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• What Did Frances McDormand Mean by an ‘Inclusion Rider’ at the Oscars?

  05-03-2018 18:08 via nytimes.com
  Ms. McDormand, who mentioned the contract provision as she accepted the best actress Oscar, said she just learned about it two weeks ago.
  
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• 'Billboards still work': Frances McDormand backs Grenfell activists

  05-03-2018 18:07
  Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Oscar winner praises group’s protest inspired by filmThe winner of the Oscar for best actress, Frances McDormand, has spoken in support of activists seeking justice over the Grenfell Tower fire, who used her film Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri as inspiration for a publicity campaign.Billboards were driven through central London last month saying “71 dead”, “And still no arrests?”, “How Come?” Continue
  
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• UK Oscar winner's sign-language speech raises profile of 'silent disability'

  05-03-2018 17:49
  Rachel Shenton, who wrote and starred in short film The Silent Child, used speech to highlight often overlooked area of diversityMuch of the talk before Sunday’s Oscars ceremony was about Hollywood’s moral compass. Related: Radicalism lite: eight things we learned from the Oscars 2018 Let's celebrate diversity. Disability is Diversity.
  Retweet this or even better, take a picture like Maisie #TheSilentChildOscars90 pic.twitter.com/ySrK9yVruM Continue reading...
  
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• John Oliver on NRA TV: 'Just a vessel to sell America guns'

  05-03-2018 17:47
  The host of Last Week Tonight examined the content on NRA’s small-screen network and how it paints ‘a bleak vision’ of the USJohn Oliver has taken aim at the content shared on NRA’s small-screen network, calling it the “dumbest and most transparent” element of the association’s output. Related: John Oliver on Trump's plan to arm teachers: 'a terrible idea in a tone deaf way'Continue reading...
  
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• Black Mirror Will Be Back for a Fifth Season, Because Phones Haven’t Gotten Any Less Scary

  05-03-2018 17:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  At this point, the future Black Mirror imagined way back in its first season is pretty much the present, which makes it all the more terrifying to wonder what Black Mirror might get up to in the future. Netflix announced today that the sci-fi anthology series will return for a...More »
  
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• Keegan-Michael Key Was Jordan Peele’s Biggest Stan on Oscar Night

  05-03-2018 17:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  Cue the Golden Girls gospel remix: “Thank you for being a friend.” When Jordan Peele scooped up Get Out’s Best Original Screenplay Oscar, no one was happier for Jordan Peele than his Key and Peele partner Keegan-Michael Key. Watching from the Vanity Fair Oscar viewing party, the Friends From College...More »
  
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• Photo Flash: Farinelli and the King Celebrates 100 Performances on Broadway

  05-03-2018 17:00
  Led by Tony winner Mark Rylance, the play continues through March 25 at the Belasco Theatre.
  
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• The Hollywood PR Machine Has Finally Caught Up to #MeToo

  05-03-2018 16:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  Casey Affleck sat out the Oscars this year. Choosing to avoid the potential awkwardness of allowing his history of sexual-harassment allegations to “distract” from the broadcast, Affleck and his publicists made the decision that the 2017 Best Actor winner was safer staying home. (Brother Ben, and much of the usual...More »
  
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• The new season of The Good Fight declares war on Trump

  05-03-2018 16:44
  The legal thriller returns with the president in its sights and a palpable anger about the state of AmericaWhen The Good Fight first began, it did so with an already iconic opening scene: a closeup of Diane Lockhart watching the inauguration of President Trump. When I first saw it last February, I thought she looked to be in a state of despair – exasperated, even petulant, at what was unfolding in front of her eyes. But watching it again, just over a year later, I think that wasn’t q
  
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• Scarred and Wiser, Andrew W.K. Finds a New Way to Party on You’re Not Alone

  05-03-2018 16:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  Between the 2001 release of his debut LP, I Get Wet, and his latest album You’re Not Alone, Andrew W.K. has had a rough time. The man who had made himself an icon of partying with “Party Hard” wasn’t likely to take a full-on vow of silence, but his voice...More »
  
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• Mediaset: look away now

  05-03-2018 16:31 via ft.com
  Silvio Berlusconi has found himself in a weakened position, much like his Italian broadcaster
  
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• Critic’s Notebook: The Invisible Man and the Defiant Woman go to the Oscars

  05-03-2018 16:24 via nytimes.com
  Fashion played an anonymous role at the 2018 Academy Awards so that the people, namely the women, could shine.
  
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• You Must Love Lana Del Rey’s Cover of Madonna’s ‘You Must Love Me’ From Evita

  05-03-2018 16:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  Back to remind these peasants that she should already be an Oscar winner, Lana Del Rey has arrived on this fine post-Oscars morning with a cover of an Oscar-winning Madonna ballad. She recorded “You Must Love Me” from Evita, written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice specifically for the...More »
  
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• Oscars 2018: The Winners

  05-03-2018 16:03 via nytimes.com
  A full list of the winners of the 90th Academy Awards.
  
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• Theater News: Jennifer Lim and More Set for The Opportunities of Extinction

  05-03-2018 16:00
  The play runs at Cherry Lane Theatre.
  
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• Review: Folk Wandering Steps Into America's Past Through a Dusty Attic

  05-03-2018 16:00
  Pipeline Theatre Company presents the world premiere of a new ensemble musical.
  
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• Review: All Men Are Not Created Equal in Hold These Truths

  05-03-2018 16:00
  Arena Stage examines an often-ignored part of US history.
  
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• Photo Flash: Pipeline Theatre Company's Folk Wandering Opens Off-Broadway

  05-03-2018 16:00
  The new musical, conceived by Jaclyn Backhaus and Andrew Neisler, will run through March 25.
  
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• The Best and Worst of Oscars 2018

  05-03-2018 15:49 via nytimes.com
  From the red carpet scene to the stage, we share the highs and lows of the 90th Academy Awards.
  
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• Just Like That, Coco Songwriter Robert Lopez Is the First Ever to Double EGOT

  05-03-2018 15:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  Though it seems like only yesterday that songwriter Robert Lopez joined the EGOT club — because it was, in 2014, when he won the Oscar for Frozen’s “Let It Go” — he’s now in a league of his own. On Sunday night, he and his wife, Kristen Anderson-Lopez, won Best...More »
  
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• We’re Going to Need Three Billboards to Get to the Bottom of How Frances McDormand’s Oscar Temporarily Went Missing

  05-03-2018 15:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  The highlight of this year’s Oscars was undoubtedly Frances McDormand’s win for Best Actress and all the things she had to say, namely “inclusion rider.” During that speech, you may have noticed her put her Oscar down on the stage and take her eyes off it for the remainder of...More »
  
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• What Fran Drescher Can’t Live Without

  05-03-2018 15:00 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 actress and founder of nonprofit organization Cancer Schmancer Fran Drescher about the beauty oil, vegetarian protein, and essential oils she can’t...More »
  
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• Theater News: Clubbed Thumb Announces 2018 Summerworks Lineup

  05-03-2018 15:00
  Three new plays will be presented at the Wild Project.
  
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