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• 7 Shows We’d Like to See From the Obamas on Netflix

  09-03-2018 23:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  The next show to auto-play after your Queer Eye binge might star the Obamas. The former president and first lady are in talks to produce a series of shows for Netflix. These won’t just be fireside chats responding to the news of the day, or an Obama-style Keeping Up With...More »
  
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• Fred Durst, Director: A Complete History

  09-03-2018 23:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  This week’s news that John Travolta would star in Moose — a movie written and directed by Limp Bizkit front man Fred Durst, and loosely based on an incident with a stalker that the rap-rocker experienced years prior — was, to say the least, surprising. Not “Fred Durst is possibly...More »
  
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• Atlanta’s Second Season Expertly Skewers Everything That’s Wrong With the Music Industry

  09-03-2018 22:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  At its core, Atlanta is a show about a rapper and his manager/cousin hustling their way up the Atlanta hip-hop food chain, or at least that’s the idea. That narrative often gets sidetracked, as it does for plenty of rappers, by family duty, legal hiccups (justified or not), and the...More »
  
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• Here Are 20 Teen Vengeance Movies for Your Petty Heart

  09-03-2018 21:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  This weekend, Thoroughbreds opens in theaters, and if you walk out of that movie about two teen girls plotting the murder of a despotic stepdad and find your hunger for teen vengeance unabated, we have oh so many movies for you. And we’re not talking about measured, John Tucker Must...More »
  
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• On Lil Boat 2, Lil Yachty Trades Some of His Infectious Joy for New Rap Skills

  09-03-2018 21:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  Atlanta’s Quality Control Music is a peculiar mainstream hip-hop outfit. It’s nothing like Young Money, G.O.O.D. Music, or OVO Sound, labels founded by superstar rappers who use their platforms to try and grow the profiles of a new class of mid-tier and lesser known artists. It’s not like Top Dawg...More »
  
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• Newsbook: As ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ Hits Screens, Read These Books

  09-03-2018 21:03 via nytimes.com
  A portrait of the author, the original story and another magical world to explore after you watch the movie.
  
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• ‘What the Hell?’ The Inside Story of How Timeless Was Canceled and Uncanceled in Just Three Days

  09-03-2018 20:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  When Timeless co-creator Shawn Ryan heard the news on a Saturday morning last May, he couldn’t believe it. “What the hell is going on? Are we being Punk’d?” he remembers thinking. Three days earlier, NBC had canceled his time-travel drama, but in an unprecedented move, the network switched course: Timeless...More »
  
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• The Stuntman-Turned-Filmmaker Renaissance

  09-03-2018 20:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s fair to say that Nash Edgerton, director of the rollicking R-rated corporate satire/action-comedy Gringo (which arrives in theaters today), took perhaps the least traveled of all roads to becoming a filmmaker: He never intended to become a filmmaker at all. Determined to break into moviedom as a stuntman, the...More »
  
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• 11 Bachelor Rules That Just Don’t Make Sense Anymore

  09-03-2018 19:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  By now, extraterrestrial civilizations in the farthest reaches of the Milky Way have surely heard about how Arie Luyendyk Jr. cast aside Bachelor winner Becca Kufrin to pursue runner-up (and new fiancée) Lauren Burnham. But here’s a surprising detail: When Arie first tried reaching out to Lauren after filming, he...More »
  
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• Susan Sarandon Says Paul Newman Was ‘a Gem’ for Splitting His Salary With Her

  09-03-2018 19:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  On a recent radio appearance with the BBC’s 5 Live program, Susan Sarandon shared a sweet story about the late actor Paul Newman. The two worked together on the 1998 movie Twilight, and while both of them had a “favored nations” clause in their contracts with fellow co-star Gene Hackman...More »
  
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• Theater Review: In The Low Road, Adam Smith Envisions Pizza Hut

  09-03-2018 19:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  Bruce Norris is like a skilled painter who can’t stand paint. Or a sculptor who’s morally repulsed by clay. He’s a playwright, so his medium is people, and for Norris, people rank somewhere below weasels on the Great Chain of Being. His characters are at best well-meaning fools and at...More »
  
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• Vince Staples Will Never Negotiate His Artistic Freedom

  09-03-2018 19:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ease has never suited Vince Staples. The Long Beach artist has a flair for difficulty and distinction. He’ll never be caught doing the same thing twice because he’s sharp enough to learn it all the first time. Staples never speaks lightly: The burden of a self-imposed command toward constant evolution...More »
  
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• See the Trailer for Facebook Watch’s Wild New Show The Tattoo Shop

  09-03-2018 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The future of television is deciding which tattoos people you don’t know are going to get from the comfort of your Facebook page. In Facebook Watch’s new series The Tattoo Shop, tattoo artists Ami James (Miami Ink, NY Ink), Chris Nunez (Ink Master, Miami Ink), Chris Garver (Miami Ink), Darren...More »
  
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• Joel McHale on Reality TV, The Joel McHale Show, and Why He Isn’t Telling a Ton of Trump Jokes

  09-03-2018 18:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s not called The Soup, but there’s no doubt Netflix’s The Joel McHale Show With Joel McHale is engineered to be a reincarnation of the comic’s long-running E! clipfest. McHale admitted as much in interviews leading up to the show’s launch, and February’s premiere episode kicked off with the host...More »
  
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• Alan Hollinghurst’s New, Deviously Anti-Sensationalist Gay-Generation-Gap Novel

  09-03-2018 18:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  The fictional scandal named in the title of Alan Hollinghurst’s new novel, The Sparsholt Affair, involves a minister of Parliament, political corruption, and a tryst between two businessmen friends, David Sparsholt and Clifford Haxby. The reader never learns any of the details of what transpired, except that the events occurred...More »
  
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• What would The Wire be like in Trump's America?

  09-03-2018 18:13
  Paul Owen was obsessed with the TV show which debuted in an era not just pre-Trump, but pre-Obama … 2018 would offer fertile ground for a revivalIt’s easy now to forget that The Wire began in the shadow of 9/11; the first episode includes complaints that the war on drugs has lost resources to the war on terror “since those towers fell”. It seems a long time ago, although the war on terror continues and Donald Trump seems intent on restarting the war on drugs with his &ld
  
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• CBS’s Crime Drama, Instinct, Is Notable for Its Openly Gay Lead But Not Much Else

  09-03-2018 18:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  Is Alan Cumming’s Dylan Reinhart on Instinct the first openly gay lead character in a CBS crime show? CBS claims he is, and I can’t think of any other counterexamples on that broadcast network, or on ABC or NBC or Fox, venues that reach more U.S. viewers than any cable network or...More »
  
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• Norm Macdonald to Become Netflix’s Newest Talk-Show Host, Will You Be Next?

  09-03-2018 17:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  As Netflix continues to announce new talk shows at a brisk clip, some have speculated what the streaming giant’s endgame is. It now seems clear: Slowly but surely give out more and more late-night-style shows, so that eventually every person on Earth (and some dogs) spend all their time preparing for...More »
  
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• Kevin Feige Teases Black Panther Sequel and Spinoff Possibilities

  09-03-2018 17:50 via feeds.eonline.com
  Director Ryan Coogler's Black Panther is expected to cross the $1 billion mark at the box office this weekend, making it the fifth Marvel Studios movie to reach that benchmark. Led by Chadwick...
  
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• Kristen Wiig’s Wonder Woman 2 Character, the Cheetah, Explained

  09-03-2018 17:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  Well, folks, it’s superhero casting time again — and we got ourselves a big one. Today, Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins confirmed that the rumors were true: Kristen Wiig will be playing the WW sequel’s Big Bad, the Cheetah. You know, the Cheetah. No, not Catwoman, the Cheetah. What, not...More »
  
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• ABC, Like E!, Is Sticking With Ryan Seacrest Amid Sexual-Misconduct Allegations

  09-03-2018 17:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  ABC is defending Ryan Seacrest ahead of the American Idol reboot’s premiere. Seacreast has been mired in recent sexual-misconduct allegations from a former stylist, but the claims did not cost him his Oscars red-carpet hosting job at E! (Though his ratings took a hit.) Now, the allegations won’t jeopardize his...More »
  
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• Love Ends, With a Few Surprises

  09-03-2018 17:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  In its third and final season, Love seems to have run out of things to say … at first. In case the ellipses didn’t make it obvious, the key words in that sentence are at first.When we initially reconnect with L.A.-based protagonists Gus (Love co-creator Paul Rust) and Mickey (Gillian...More »
  
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• Lin-Manuel Miranda and Tom Hooper Might Go Ballooning in a His Dark Materials TV Series

  09-03-2018 17:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  The success of The Book of Dust seems to have been the push needed to move forward a new adaptation of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials series. Tom Hooper is in talks to direct a new eight-part BBC One and Bad Wolf TV adaptation of the series, with Lin-Manuel Miranda...More »
  
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• Kristen Wiig Cast in Wonder Woman 2, Patty Jenkins Confirms

  09-03-2018 17:01 via feeds.eonline.com
  Kristen Wiig is officially joining the DC Comics universe.
  After reports took over the Internet claiming that the comedian was in talks to join the Wonder Woman franchise for the...
  
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• What’s Fact and What’s Fiction in The Death of Stalin?

  09-03-2018 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Comedy, it’s been said, is nothing more than tragedy plus time. Looks like the magic number in that equation is 55, as in the precise number of years since the event setting off Armando Iannucci’s lacerating new satire The Death of Stalin took place. The riotous and remorselessly dark film...More »
  
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• Final Bow: Final Bow: Uma Thurman's Broadway Debut Involved Hard Work and "Locker Room Talk"

  09-03-2018 17:00
  Beau Willimon's The Parisian Woman takes a hard look at the dark side of politics.
  
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• David Byrne on American Utopia, and All the Reasons You Can Still be Cheerful

  09-03-2018 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  With the band Talking Heads, David Byrne spent the early years of his career using his art to embrace the nonsensical. Now he seems more interested in what constitutes good sense in society. That’s not to say there aren’t some delectably oddball moments on American Utopia, his first solo studio...More »
  
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• Facebook strikes music deal with Warner

  09-03-2018 16:55 via ft.com
  Agreement is the latest in social media site’s push to compete with YouTube
  
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• Every Pop-Culture Reference You Probably Missed in Atlanta Robbin’ Season

  09-03-2018 16:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  Before Donald Glover hopped on the fast track to EGOT, he made an album under his rap alter ego Childish Gambino called Because the Internet. It was a multimedia project that magnified our fraught relationship with life online — its cover was a GIF — but in the years since, Glover has...More »
  
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• Colbert Interrupted His Show When the North Korea News Broke Because He Had a Dennis Rodman Joke He Needed to Get Out

  09-03-2018 16:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  Again? Again! Just after Stephen Colbert filmed his Late Show monologue Friday night, some news broke: Kim Jong-un proposed a meeting with President Donald Trump, and Trump agreed. “We have some very late-breaking news that I think I should probably do from here,” Colbert said. Instead of sitting behind his...More »
  
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• Facebook forges music deal with Warner

  09-03-2018 16:06 via ft.com
  Agreement to use music from artists such as Ed Sheeran is the latest as social media site seeks to compete with YouTube
  
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• With ‘Rise,’ a ‘Friday Night Lights’ for Theater Kids

  09-03-2018 16:00 via nytimes.com
  NBC’s “Rise,” isn’t “Glee” and it isn’t “Fame.” “The mantra is to always keep it as realistic and honest as possible,” said its showrunner, Jason Katims.
  
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• Theater News: Theresa Rebeck to Host 2018 Theatre Women Awards

  09-03-2018 16:00
  Jocelyn Bioh, Celia Keenan-Bolger, and more will present awards to Phylicia Rashad, Adrienne Campbell-Holt, and others at the ceremony.
  
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• Theater News: Darko Tresnjak to Direct World Premiere of This Ain't No Disco

  09-03-2018 16:00
  The Atlantic Theater Company produces the new musical by Stephen Trask, Peter Yanowitz, and Rick Elice.
  
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• Streaming: A (Shaggy) Star Is Reborn: Netflix Brings Us a New ‘Benji’

  09-03-2018 16:00 via nytimes.com
  The unlikely 1970s box-office sensation about a lovable pooch is back. And some classics like “Casablanca” find a streaming home.
  
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• Ibsen Wrote ‘An Enemy of the People’ in 1882. Trump Has Made It Popular Again.

  09-03-2018 16:00 via nytimes.com
  The play, about a divisive antihero and whistle-blower, has no good guys, and a town tragically divided by politics.
  
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• I Saw Myself in ‘A Wrinkle in Time.’ But I Had to Work Hard.

  09-03-2018 16:00 via nytimes.com
  At 7, I cherry-picked the heroine’s traits I could relate to in that all-white setting. At 42, I find the film’s biracial star makes me rethink the book.
  
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• Theater News: Signature Gala to Celebrate Life and Career of Edward Albee

  09-03-2018 15:00
  The evening will also honor former Signature board president Michael Rauch.
  
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• Theater News: Ford's Theater Set to Ease On Down the Road With The Wiz

  09-03-2018 15:00
  Ines Nassara stars as Dorothy in the production, directed by Kent Gash.
  
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• How to Get Away With Murder Recap: Wes Side Story

  09-03-2018 14:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  After the grand proclamations and a history-making crossover event, this episode felt like alittlebitofaletdown. (I said that quickly so Shonda wouldn’t hear me.) Do you want Annalise staring down the Supreme Court, collapsing on the floor in the bathroom, snapping her fingers, and sending Michaela to the archives … or do...More »
  
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• American Idol Is Back and Desperate to Inspire You

  09-03-2018 14:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I’ve waited a lifetime for this!” shouts host Ryan Seacrest as the first episode of the revamped American Idol gets underway.But that statement would only be true if Ryan Seacrest were a toddler.Less than two years have passed since American Idol ended its 15-season run on Fox, but already it’s...More »
  
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• South Korean actor Jo Min-ki found dead after sexual assault accusations

  09-03-2018 14:29
  Actor and lecturer had lost his job in the wake of accusations from students as the #MeToo movement gathers momentum in his countryA South Korean actor accused of sexual assault has been found dead. Jo Min-ki, who had been accused of assaulting at least eight people, was found hanged in a storage area of the building where he lived in Seoul, Yonhap news agency cited police as saying.Most of his victims were drama students at a provincial university where he taught. The 52-year-old had lost his p
  
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• Theater News: Ensemble Studio Theatre Announces Cast and Creative Team for Bump

  09-03-2018 14:00
  Claudia Weill directs the world premiere production of Chiara Atik's new play.
  
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• Music News: Rise Cast Album to Be Released, With Song by Lin-Manuel Miranda

  09-03-2018 14:00
  Songs from Spring Awakening and more will also be featured on the album.
  
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• Cabaret News: Celia Keenan-Bolger to Host Broadway Baby Mamas, Benefiting Ruthie Ann Miles

  09-03-2018 14:00
  Two concerts will be held at Feinstein's/54 Below on March 15.
  
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• This week’s best home entertainment… from Paddington 2 to Being Blacker

  09-03-2018 13:00
  Hugh Grant stars as a washed up luvvie in the furry hero sequel, while Brixton legend Blacker Dread is the subject of an intimate documentaryBrixton legend Blacker Dread has been a community mentor, a DJ and a shopkeeper. He has lost a child to gun violence and faces prison himself. Molly Dineen’s intimate yet expansive documentary (her first in a decade) follows Blacker and friends over three years. What emerges is a portrait of an area and an era, as well as of a unique individual. Conti
  
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• Beatrix Potter would not have liked Peter Rabbit film - biographer

  09-03-2018 11:40
  Sony adaptation in which James Corden is voice of bullying rabbit would have appalled author
  When Walt Disney offered to adapt the Tale of Peter Rabbit for film in 1936, Beatrix Potter did not hesitate: the answer was no.During her lifetime, the author exercised minute control over the reams of merchandise spun out of her work, which is why Sony Pictures’ new film adaptation would have been anathema to the Lake District author, according to her biographer. Continue reading...
  
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• Barack and Michelle Obama 'in talks with Netflix over TV series'

  09-03-2018 11:24
  Former president and first lady in advanced negotiations with streaming service, report says
  Barack Obama is in talks with Netflix about producing a series of high-profile shows, it has been reported.
  The former US president and his wife, Michelle, are in advanced negotiations with the streaming service, which has nearly 118 million subscribers, sources told the New York Times.Continue reading...
  
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• Theater News: MCC Theater to Present NYC Premiere of Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Betties

  09-03-2018 11:00
  This production of Jen Silverman's new play will replace the previously announced Neil LaBute play Reasons to Be Pretty Happy in the company's 2017-18 season.
  
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