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• Ricky Gervais: Humanity Needs an Empathy Lesson

  13-03-2018 23:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  I’ve got to hand it to Ricky Gervais: Despite having undergone a rare experimental procedure that made his already thin skin almost transparent, he looks great. In Humanity, his first standup special in seven years, Gervais is in high spirits as he elucidates a list of grievances against people he’s never...More »
  
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• Jennifer Garner Has an Inspiring Message for Struggling Gay Teens

  13-03-2018 23:50 via feeds.eonline.com
  The LGBTQ community has a strong ally in Jennifer Garner.
  Josh Duhamel and Garner play the parents of a 17-year-old (Nick Robinson) who comes out as gay in the upcoming teen dramedy,...
  
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• Remembering Craig Mack, Bad Boy’s Forgotten First Success Story

  13-03-2018 23:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I hope the subject don’t turn you away / But the whole hip-hop generation need to pray” –Craig Mack, 1994Mack died of heart failure on Monday at a hospital near his home in Walterboro, South Carolina. He was 46 years old, like too many middle-aged hip-hop luminaries of his era...More »
  
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• The Most Tear-Worthy Moments in This Is Us Season Two, Ranked

  13-03-2018 23:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  At this point, we know what we’re getting into with This Is Us. The first season took us by surprise with how much it could make you cry. But as season two wraps up, you might as well admit it: If you’re still watching, you don’t mind the weekly appointment...More »
  
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• Santiago Ramón y Cajal, a Nobel Laureate in Medicine, Deserves a Place Next to Michelangelo and Leonardo As a Draftsman

  13-03-2018 23:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  Santiago Ramón y Cajal is one of a kind in more ways than one. He is the only Nobel Prize winner in history — in physiology and medicine, 1906 — to also be a truly great artist. Cajal (pronounced Cah-hal), whose work in his field can be compared to Charles...More »
  
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• Ken Dodd, Veteran British Comedian, Is Dead at 90

  13-03-2018 22:52 via nytimes.com
  A titan of a vanishing age of comedy, Mr. Dodd played a record 42 straight weeks at the London Palladium and enjoyed fame comparable to the Beatles’.
  
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• The ‘Weird Al Yankovic of Drag’ Gets an Extreme Home Makeover

  13-03-2018 22:41 via nytimes.com
  Jackie Beat’s five-bedroom suburban showplace was decorated with inspiration from “Planet of the Apes,” “Carrie” and other pop-culture touchstones.
  
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• What Is Kanye Doing in Wyoming? 5 Snowy Guesses

  13-03-2018 22:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  Kanye West is mostly a man of mystery, but there are two things we know he loves for sure: Bon Iver and picturesque mountaintops. At least one of those can be found in the state of Wyoming. Nearly a year ago, TMZ reported that West was holed up in the...More »
  
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• In the New ‘Tomb Raider,’ How Lara Croft Became Lara Croft

  13-03-2018 22:22 via nytimes.com
  Amid the #MeToo movement, the franchise is trying to clear up long-running debates about Lara Croft. Now she’s still tough, but also a bit of a screw-up.
  
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• How Spring Awakening Inspired a Generation of Theater Fans

  13-03-2018 22:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s hard to pinpoint the moment in the Broadway production of Spring Awakening that made me a devotee at the age of 16. It could have been when the plaintive melody of the opening number, “Mama Who Bore Me,” turned into a foot-stomping anthem filled with rage. It could have...More »
  
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• A Quiet Place, The Endless, and More Horror Movies We Can’t Wait to Watch This Spring

  13-03-2018 21:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  Horror isn’t just for Halloween junkies anymore — you can now count on premium-quality suspense cinema arriving throughout the year. Coming this spring, you’ll get a spree killer and a modern-day Travis Bickle out of Austria, zombies and sadistic teens from Taiwan, a collection of scary stories hailing from Britain,...More »
  
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• Spring 2018 Theater Preview: Mean Girls, Harry Potter, and More Must-See Shows

  13-03-2018 21:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  This spring, theater is going big — at least in terms of spectacle, length, and expense. The Broadway productions lining up like 747s to land before the April 26 cutoff for Tonys qualification include two massive two-part shows from London (Angels in America and Harry Potter), two revivals of classic...More »
  
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• Jason Katims on Rise and the Tricky Art of Adaption

  13-03-2018 21:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  The latest series from Jason Katims, Rise, debuts tonight on NBC, and it’s already being compared to the first series Katims oversaw for NBC, Friday Night Lights. Katims is fine with that.The writer-producer, who also was responsible for NBC’s Parenthood, admits that while he was creating Rise — a loose...More »
  
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• The Crown's Claire Foy paid less than male co-star, producers admit

  13-03-2018 20:47
  Foy, who starred as the Queen in hit series, earned less than Matt Smith who played Prince PhilipClaire Foy, who plays the Queen in The Crown, was paid less than her co-star Matt Smith during the first two seasons of the hit show, producers of the Netflix series have revealed. Executive producers for the series made the disclosure when asked during a panel event in Jerusalem on Tuesday if Smith, who played a young Prince Philip in the first and second seasons, was paid more than Foy. Continue re
  
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• A Tribute to Chris Pine and Gugu Mbatha-Raw’s A Wrinkle in Time Sexy Science Marriage

  13-03-2018 20:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you hadn’t already been won over by the correct opinion that Chris Pine is the best of the Hollywood Chrises, A Wrinkle in Time has a PowerPoint presentation for you. It is delivered by his character, a moodily bearded physicist named Alex Murry, who loves science, classic rock, and...More »
  
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• Margot Robbie Might Actually Be Quentin Tarantino’s Sharon Tate

  13-03-2018 20:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  After months of speculation, Quentin Tarantino might have secured I, Tonya star Margot Robbie to star in his next feature. Deadline reports that Robbie is in negotiations to play Sharon Tate in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Tarantino’s movie about two men — an actor and his stunt double...More »
  
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• Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and Paul Feig adopt 'inclusion riders': 'It's just common sense'

  13-03-2018 20:00
  Affleck and Damon pledge to use diversity clauses at their production company as Bridesmaid’s director calls it ‘right thing to do’ Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and Paul Feig have committed to adopting an “inclusion rider” for their companies’ films as the diversity agreement that Frances McDormand promoted in her Oscars speech continues to spread within Hollywood and other industries.
  The public pledges from the high-profile actors and directors to embrace inclusi
  
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• God Save Claire Foy, Who Was Paid Less Than Matt Smith in The Crown

  13-03-2018 19:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  She may literally be playing the queen in The Crown, but Claire Foy is still suffering from the societal problems of us plebeians. As revealed in a panel discussion about the series, one of The Crown’s producers, Suzanne Mackie, admitted Matt Smith was paid a higher salary as Prince Philip...More »
  
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• Smith cedes CEO role at Vice to television veteran

  13-03-2018 19:36 via ft.com
  Co-founder who said ‘day-to-day management is hard’ will focus on content and deals
  
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• Jessica Jones Recap: Deal or No Deal

  13-03-2018 19:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  Alisa’s shackles jingle like bells. She is flanked on all sides by police officers. She doesn’t really get attorney-client privilege because she doesn’t get to be alone in the room. For powered people, there’s a “special protocol.” This squirm-inducing euphemism is a sign of what surely awaits Alisa in what...More »
  
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• Streaming: Exploring Afrofuturism in Film, Where Sci-Fi and Mythology Blur

  13-03-2018 18:04 via nytimes.com
  A look at Afrofuturist films now available to stream, including the one that inspired Jay-Z and Beyoncé’s tour announcement image.
  
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• Review: ‘Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day,’ Another Fassbinder Masterpiece

  13-03-2018 17:31 via nytimes.com
  Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s opus, first shown as a series in 1972 and 1973, is funnier, more humane and more optimistic than anything else in his canon.
  
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• How Many Royal Family Specials Can America Pack Into 2018? Add One More!

  13-03-2018 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Good news from the preferred side of the pond: You’ll no longer have to Google “British Royal Family Gossip 2018” to satisfy your Anglophile desires! ABC will be airing a new, two-night television special in August called The Story of the Royals, which will “examine Americans’ ongoing fascination with all...More »
  
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• Yes, Indeed, Impersonating Donald Trump Is Agony to Alec Baldwin

  13-03-2018 17:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  Alec Baldwin couldn’t give a damn about President Trump slamming his “terrible” SNL impression, because, frankly, he’s feeling the pain at this point, too. “It’s not like agony, it is agony,” he told Jimmy Fallon about his performance, doubling down on comments he made in a Hollywood Reporter interview. “I...More »
  
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• Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald Trailer: Meet Young Dumbledore

  13-03-2018 17:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  What was once a movie about tracking down cool magical critters has become a whole franchise about wizarding war. That’s just what happens in Hollywood, we guess! In the trailer for next Fantastic Beasts movie, subtitled The Crimes of Grindelwald, we trip back to the past to meet Jude Law’s...More »
  
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• Review: ‘Three Wise Guys,’ Spreading Good Cheer and Stumbling Into Trouble

  13-03-2018 17:06 via nytimes.com
  The Damon Runyon adaptation from The Actors Company Theater could use more of his snap, crackle and pop.
  
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• EastEnders’ wildest family return: a quick guide to the Slaters

  13-03-2018 17:03
  Big Mo, Jean and Kat are on their way back for to Walford, despite reports of the latter’s demise in an accident with a boat propeller. Here’s a reminder of what to expectOne of 21st-century soap’s greatest families, the Slaters, make a comeback in EastEnders next week. Who are they again? Continue reading...
  
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• Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald - first full trailer released

  13-03-2018 17:02
  The first footage for the follow up to Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them has been launched onlineThe first full-length trailer for the sequel to Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them has been released. Subtitled The Crimes of Grindelwald, it sees Eddie Redmayne return in the role of “magizoologist” Newt Scamander in the second of the projected five films in the JK Rowling-scripted Harry Potter spinoff series.Get your #WandsReady. #FantasticBeasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald ar
  
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• Theater News: Noises Off Is On at Walnut Street Theatre

  13-03-2018 17:00
  Michael Frayn's door slamming classic runs through April 29.
  
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• Special Reports: 5 Ways We Can Make It Women's Day on Broadway Every Day

  13-03-2018 17:00
  Tina Fey, Jeanine Tesori, Renée Elise Goldsberry, and more #WomenOfBroadway brainstorm solutions for Broadway's gender imbalance.
  
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• Review: Every Woman Has a Story in Sarah Jones's Sell/Buy/Date

  13-03-2018 17:00
  The famed monologist scrutinizes the sex industry in her new show.
  
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• Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald Trailer Features Dumbledore, Hogwarts and Trouble in Paris

  13-03-2018 17:00 via feeds.eonline.com
  Wands at the ready!On Tuesday morning, fans got their first look at Warner Bros. Pictures' Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, the second of five daring adventures in J.K....
  
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• As Turkey Turns Inward, Cultural Exchange Falls by the Wayside

  13-03-2018 16:48 via nytimes.com
  A Turkish-German film festival lost the backing of the Turkish Culture Ministry, in a move that reflects growing suspicion of foreign influence in the arts.
  
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• Paul Feig’s Production Company Will Use Inclusion Riders, Too

  13-03-2018 16:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  Following Frances McDormand’s decree, more production companies are adopting inclusion riders. Paul Feig announced on Twitter Tuesday morning that his company Feigco Entertainment will use inclusion riders for all its film and TV projects from now on. Inclusion riders are contractual amendments that ensure gender and racial parity among a...More »
  
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• Lauryn Hill Will Perform Miseducation at Pitchfork Festival for the Album’s 20th Anniversary

  13-03-2018 16:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  By some miracle, if the stars align, and if enough wake-up alarms are set, Lauryn Hill is slated to perform her seminal debut solo album at this year’s Pitchfork Festival. She’ll close out the weekend as Sunday’s headliner, doing The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill cover to cover in honor of...More »
  
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• 3 Minutes and 10 Seconds of Oprah Being Very Serious About Bathing

  13-03-2018 16:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  Oprah doesn’t have hobbies like we have hobbies. Oprah’s hobby is taking long luxurious baths in her custom built bathtub. A conversation with James Corden about what Oprah gifts Stedman (she says he didn’t appreciate a thoughtful gift once, so now she just makes him cornbread) turned into a foray...More »
  
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• Theater News: Wheelhouse Theater Company to Present Kurt Vonnegut's Happy Birthday, Wanda June

  13-03-2018 16:00
  Vonnegut's rarely produced play is a darkly comedic look at American culture.
  
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• Review: Lessons From the Frontlines of a Revolution in The Fall

  13-03-2018 16:00
  This piece of South African political theater makes its US premiere at St. Ann's Warehouse.
  
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• Laura Benanti and Jason Jones Will Host Off Broadway’s Lucille Lortel Awards

  13-03-2018 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  At this year’s Lucille Lortel Awards, co-host Laura Benanti says you can expect “one beautiful, hilarious theater star who has a deep respect for the theater and all it stands for and a middle aged white guy.” The Off-Broadway League announced today that Benanti and Jason Jones, who appear together...More »
  
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• Grab Your Mops, Joy Mangano’s Life Is Getting the Broadway Treatment

  13-03-2018 15:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  Think of all of the mop-tastic choreography in our future! Joy Mangano, successful inventor and Queen of QVC, will soon be getting her life turned into a Broadway musical. Mangano has signed away her life rights to tell her story on Broadway, a tale you may recall from the 2015...More »
  
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• Tori Spelling and Jennie Garth Are Working Together on Show Based on 90210

  13-03-2018 15:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  It was only a matter of time before someone tried to bring back 90210 (again). According to People, Tori Spelling and Jennie Garth, a.k.a. Donna and Kelly from Beverly Hills, 90210, are working on a new show together that’s loosely based on the classic teen drama but which will somehow...More »
  
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• Shia LaBeouf on His Arrest and Racist Rant: ‘I F*cked Up’

  13-03-2018 15:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  When Shia LaBeouf was arrested in Georgia last summer, he lashed out at the local cops. Footage released by TMZ at the time shows LaBeouf bragging about his “millionaire lawyers,” singling out a black officer, and saying a white officer’s wife watches porn about “licking a black dick.” He also...More »
  
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• Theater News: Kennedy Center Announces New Partnership With Chicago's Second City

  13-03-2018 15:00
  The Washington, D.C., theater will team up with the famous sketch comedy troupe.
  
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• Review: The Shoe Fits in Company XIV's Sexy Cinderella

  13-03-2018 15:00
  The troupe brings its sultry version of a fairy tale to its new Bushwick digs.
  
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• Review: The Confessions of A Brooklyn Boy

  13-03-2018 15:00
  Steven Prescod shares his inspiring personal story at the East Village Playhouse.
  
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• Being Engaged to Kit Harington Sounds Exhausting

  13-03-2018 14:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sure, it’s hard enough to live through all the secrecy that comes with being an actor on Game of Thrones, but imagine being engaged to one of those actors. On Late Night With Seth Meyers, Rose Leslie discussed how she makes her fiancé, Kit Harington, leave the house when he’s...More »
  
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• HBO Exec Says the Network’s Budget Is Being ‘Raped’ by Game of Thrones and Big Little Lies

  13-03-2018 14:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  One HBO executive is getting candid about the hits the network’s budget is set to take in the coming year. Speaking on a panel in Jerusalem, HBO drama chief Francesca Orsi said that “from a budget standpoint going into season two of Big Little Lies without any options in place...More »
  
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• NBC’s Rise Is High School Musical With a Friday Night Lights Vibe

  13-03-2018 14:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  It is physically impossible to watch NBC’s Rise without thinking of Friday Night Lights. Created by Jason Katims, the same showrunner behind that beloved drama about a Texas community fueled by football, Rise operates in a similar milieu — once again, the focus is on high-school life in a small,...More »
  
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• American Idol Recap: Teenage Dreams

  13-03-2018 14:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  American Idol’s greatest mysteries remain unanswered: Why was Kendra Chantelle eliminated after her devastating take on “Georgia On My Mind” during the season 10 Wild Card round? Why did seemingly every contestant cover Corinne Bailey Rae’s “Put Your Records On” for, like, six seasons in a row? Is Norman Gentle the funniest man alive? Does...More »
  
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