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• Modern Love: Modern Love Podcast: Bobby Cannavale Reads ‘A Father, a Son and a Fighting Chance’

  07-03-2018 23:25 via nytimes.com
  This week, the actor tells the story of a father who resolves to let his son face his own battles.
  
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• One Born Every Minute review – childbirth needs no added drama

  07-03-2018 23:00
  It captures the emotions of childbirth well – but maybe manufactures a little too much tension when things start to go wrongIt was one of my children’s sixth birthday the other day. I asked his mother about my son’s arrival. It didn’t go well. I mean the conversation, not the birth. Because it soon became clear that I couldn’t remember a thing about it. “How can you not remember that?” she asked, not uncrossly. I think the reason is that I found the whol
  
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• Riverdale’s Marisol Nichols on Hermione Lodge’s Big Twist

  07-03-2018 22:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  Before Riverdale went off the air for the Winter Olympics, the show delivered a big surprise: Hermione Lodge, not her husband Hiram, is “the boss” behind the tiny town’s big crime syndicate. Does this entirely make sense? Like everything else on Riverdale, we’re not sure. Hermione spent most of the...More »
  
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• New York City Police Are Close to Arresting Weinstein, Official Says

  07-03-2018 22:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  The NYPD is prepared to arrest Harvey Weinstein for felony sexual assault, an official has told the Daily Beast. Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce told the site that the investigation into Weinstein is “going very, very well.” Weinstein is currently being investigated for five separate sexual assault allegations. “We’re ready...More »
  
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• J.J. Totah Is the Breakout Star of Mindy Kaling’s Mostly Solid Champions

  07-03-2018 22:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  Some shows would be better off skipping all the setup that a pilot requires and beginning in medias res, three or four episodes into the season. Champions, the new NBC comedy from Mindy Kaling and Charlie Grandy, a writer who worked with Kaling on The Office and The Mindy Project,...More »
  
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• The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Is Shooting on Location in Paris – Amazon Money, Baby!

  07-03-2018 22:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you’re making a show for a giant streaming service slash internet conglomerate, you can really afford to spend. Per TVLine, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is heading to Paris to shoot its season two premiere on location, bringing along Golden Globe winner Rachel Brosnahan and “several cast members.” (Tony Shalhoub,...More »
  
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• Why Does Jessica Jones Wear Those Terrible Jeans?

  07-03-2018 22:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s been almost two-and-a-half years since Marvel’s Jessica Jones first premiered on Netflix, and while plenty has happened in the real world, it’s like no time has passed at all in the fictional Hell’s Kitchen of the show. The superpowered private eye is still drunk and surly, unsure of how...More »
  
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• It’s Time for Chris Harrison to Retire From The Bachelor

  07-03-2018 22:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  After this mess of a Bachelor season, there are lots of ways to imagine trying to fix the franchise, and there are multiple options for whom to blame for where the franchise is now. The producers who hovered just out of camera shot and coaxed dramatics from the contestants? Absolutely....More »
  
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• Watch the Exclusive First Clip for the Rachel Dolezal Documentary

  07-03-2018 22:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the summer of 2015, Rachel Dolezal exploded out of anonymity, transforming from a public figure of limited local impact — a civil-rights activist and branch president of the NAACP in Spokane, Washington — into one of the millennium’s most racially controversial people. At issue: the revelation that she lied...More »
  
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• Review: A Lowdown Tale of American Capitalism in The Low Road

  07-03-2018 22:00
  Bruce Norris brings his historical fable to the Public Theater.
  
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• How Big Is Riverdale, Exactly?

  07-03-2018 21:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Our story is about a town, a small town, and the people who live in the town,” narrates Jughead in Riverdale’s opening lines. “I’m Breakfast at Tiffany’s,” Veronica tells Archie and Betty, “but this place is strictly In Cold Blood.” Yet as Betty and Jughead muckrake town secrets and Archie...More »
  
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• The Seagull Trailer Unites Annette Bening and Saoirse Ronan, Finally

  07-03-2018 21:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  Our favorite actresses are hanging out without us! Two wildly under appreciated actresses — Annette Bening and Saoirse Ronan — converge in The Seagull, Michael Mayer’s Chekov adaptation from Sony Pictures Classics. Irina Arkadina (Bening) and her son Konstantin (Dunkirk’s Billy Howle) visit her brother during the throes of summer,...More »
  
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• The Death of Stalin Walks the Line Between Satire and Horror

  07-03-2018 21:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  In The Death of Stalin, Armando Iannucci’s acid dramatization of the days in October 1953 when the Soviet Union lost its paranoid-psychotic totalitarian leader of three decades, the characters’ accents are Cockney, Brit-twit, and Yank — no Russian is spoken — while tortures and mass murders are ordered in tones...More »
  
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• A Frightened Tribute to Charlotte Rampling’s Blow-Job Classes in Red Sparrow

  07-03-2018 21:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  I’m a little confused by the Jennifer Lawrence truthers who insist that everything the actress does is calculated to win fans, from her relatable persona to her infamously clumsy Oscars fall. If J.Law put such a premium on plotting, would she really follow up the baby-eating, Cinemascore-busting Mother! with Red...More »
  
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• Thoroughbreds Is Too Cold-Blooded for Its Own Good

  07-03-2018 21:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  Thoroughbreds is a sparse, economic movie, the kind of film whose alternate life as a stage play is easy to imagine, down to the ominous allusion to teen-on-horse violence. From the start, over the sound of arrhythmic drum beats that might accompany a ritual sacrifice, we are presented with a...More »
  
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• A24 Bought a Horror-Movie Script From the Author of ‘Cat Person’

  07-03-2018 21:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  The internet met writer Kristen Roupenian last year when her New Yorker short story “Cat Person” — a tale about bad dates that sparked conversations about sexual consent and gender dynamics — went viral. The story landed her a sizable publishing deal, and now, according to The Hollywood Reporter, film studio...More »
  
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• Every Excuse The Bachelor’s Arie Luyendyk Jr. Made on the Post-Finale Talk-Show Circuit

  07-03-2018 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ah, nothing like the morning after! After a tumultuous, hot mess of a Bachelor “After the Final Rose” ceremony last night that simultaneously affirmed Arie Luyendyk Jr.’s passionate love for Lauren B. and crowned Becca K. as the newest Bachelorette heroine, the newly engaged lovebirds quickly embarked on a bicoastal...More »
  
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• See the Tribeca Film Festival 2018 Lineup

  07-03-2018 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Once a year, New York filmmakers and writers take the train downtown for the Tribeca Film Festival. This year’s lineup features a mix of movie stars and trusted auteurs: Drake Doremus delivers the centerpiece Zoe, starring Léa Seydoux, Ewan McGregor, Christina Aguilera (!!!), and Rashida Jones, in a story about...More »
  
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• Review: Sperm and Space Collide in Hello, From the Children of Planet Earth

  07-03-2018 21:00
  In Don Nguyen's new play, an aerospace engineer decides to help his lesbian friends conceive a child.
  
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• West Cork Is a Meticulous and Thoughtful True-Crime Podcast

  07-03-2018 20:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  West Cork, the Irish setting of the recent Audible Original podcast of the same name, is said to be an idyllic place. It’s the kind of locale that draws the kind of people who want to get away from the rest of the world, either by choice or circumstance: naturalists,...More »
  
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• Frankly, My Dear, Mariah Carey Doesn’t Give a Damn About the Grammys

  07-03-2018 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Mariah Carey is working on her next album and it will arrive on no one else’s schedule but her own. She tells V Magazine that while most artists are inclined to play by the rules and release a single by summertime and premiere their album ahead of the Grammys deadline...More »
  
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• How One Rap Clique in the ’90s Remade the Whole Culture in Its Image

  07-03-2018 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Last week, the veteran rapper and activist Talib Kweli published a long, carefully reasoned essay about the uses and abuses of free speech by white supremacists. Weighing in at over 3,500 words, “Free Speech or Die?” goes into meticulous, almost attorney-like detail about the difference between speech illegally censored by...More »
  
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• Ad agency shares fall as marketers plan further spending cuts

  07-03-2018 18:48 via ft.com
  WPP, Publicis, Omnicom and Interpublic all hit a day after P&G signals more savings
  
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• NME fades out after 66 years chronicling UK music

  07-03-2018 18:47 via ft.com
  Magazine that charted rise and fall of bands from The Beatles to Blur will move to online only
  
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• The 7 Hallmarks of a Mindy Kaling Show

  07-03-2018 18:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  We all know Mindy Kaling as our funniest fantasy best friend. But in her new sitcom creation (with collaborator Charlie Grandy), Champions, debuting on NBC this Thursday as the follow-up to her breakthrough, The Mindy Project, we can discern something a little more practical: her distinct comedy vision and voice....More »
  
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• Review: ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ Gives a Child of the Universe Powerful Friends

  07-03-2018 18:01 via nytimes.com
  Ava DuVernay’s faithful adaptation of the children’s science-fiction classic is generous and encouraging.
  
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• Three women accuse Korean director Kim Ki-duk of rape and assault

  07-03-2018 17:50
  Actors come forward to accuse the renowned film-maker and his regular actor Cho Jae-hyeon – while the director says he only engaged in ‘consensual sexual relationships’
  Internationally renowned South Korean director Kim Ki-duk and one of his actors face multiple accusations of rape, assault and sexually predatory behaviour from three women, all actors.The accusations were made in an investigative documentary broadcast on South Korean TV on 6 March, in which all three remained a
  
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• A Musical About Slobodan Milosevic Stirs Memories in Kosovo

  07-03-2018 17:39 via nytimes.com
  An experimental musical about the Serbian autocrat Slobodan Milosevic generates controversy in Kosovo.
  
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• Krysten Ritter Almost Bit Through Her Own Tongue While Filming Jessica Jones Season Two

  07-03-2018 17:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  How does Krysten Ritter find the time? In addition to working on Netflix’s Marvel outings Jessica Jones and The Defenders for 12 months straight, she’s also managed to juggle careers as a novelist (her debut, Bonfire, came out last year); a producer (her company, Silent Machine, just landed a pilot...More »
  
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• Wolf of Wall Street producers to pay $60m to US government

  07-03-2018 17:29
  Red Granite Pictures has been implicated in a scandal involving the Malaysian prime ministerThe producers of hit Hollywood film The Wolf of Wall Street have agreed to pay back $60m to the US government after allegations the film was funded with money stolen from a Malaysian state investment fund. Last year, Red Granite Pictures was implicated in the scandal, in which $3.5bn (£2.5bn) from the government-run 1MDB fund is alleged to have found its way into the bank accounts of associates of M
  
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• Sade’s First New Song in Nearly a Decade Is a Quiet Marvel

  07-03-2018 17:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Flower of the Universe,” Sade’s first new song following a seven-year hiatus, doesn’t quite pick up where the legend left off. Her last album, Soldier of Love, often rang out with the tension between smooth vocals and hard percussion; “Flower” eases the contrast by deftly shifting toward a gentler register....More »
  
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• Photo Flash: A.R.T. Gala Featuring Jagged Little Pill Sneak Peak Raises Record Amount

  07-03-2018 17:00
  Paul Buttenwieser was awarded the Angel Award at the event.
  
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• The Silicon Valley Team Tells the Real Story Behind T.J. Miller’s Exit

  07-03-2018 16:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  The creative team behind Silicon Valley has finally decided to say what they really think about T.J. Miller’s exit from the show. In a Hollywood Reporter cover story, various sources admit that the decision to cut ties with Miller was “a long time coming” and that his use of drugs...More »
  
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• Telecom Italia/Elliott: grapes of wrath

  07-03-2018 16:57 via ft.com
  Given another restructuring plan, shareholders might well need a drink
  
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• Telecom Italia: grapes of wrath

  07-03-2018 16:57 via ft.com
  Given another restructuring plan, shareholders might well need a drink
  
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• Jeffrey Tambor Accuser Says Actor Spied on Her Naked

  07-03-2018 16:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  Van Barnes, the former assistant who has accused Jeffrey Tambor of sexual harassment, spoke to Megyn Kelly Wednesday morning on Megyn Kelly Today about the actor’s alleged abuse. “I worked for Jeffrey Tambor for just about two years, on Transparent, and a few other projects and movies,” Barnes told Kelly. “Continually,...More »
  
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• The Bachelor Finale Was Enough to Make You Nostalgic for Paradise Hotel

  07-03-2018 16:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  Considering that we now occupy an apocalyptic landscape that lies somewhere between a Philip K. Dick novel and The Krusty the Clown Show, you’d think our television programs might serve up escapist delights frothy enough to lighten the most dismal dystopian mood. Recall the myriad thrills dreamt up by reality-TV...More »
  
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• Johnny Weir Is Not Not Jealous of Adam Rippon, According to Adam Rippon

  07-03-2018 16:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Evgenia versus Alina was the chilliest on-ice feud at this year’s Winter Olympics, but off the ice, a silent war was waged between Adam Rippon and Johnny Weir. They were pitted against each from the start, with rumors spreading that Rippon’s popularity was ruffling Weir’s sequined feathers. So, what’s the...More »
  
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