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• Lashana Lynch Replaces DeWanda Wise in Captain Marvel

  16-03-2018 23:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  It was announced yesterday that She’s Gotta Have It star DeWanda Wise had to bow out of her Captain Marvel commitment due to scheduling conflicts with her Netflix show. Less than 24 hours later, her yet-to-be-named role has been filled by Lashana Lynch, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The actress...More »
  
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• Pilgrimage: The Road to Santiago review – stars put their best feet forward

  16-03-2018 23:10
  A trek to the Spanish holy city is a classier celebrity challenge than being made to eat bushtucker, though it’s a stretch to suggest they’ll find the answers to life’s big questions en routeCelebrities have been shut up in houses, dumped in the jungle and made to eat animal genitals, marooned on desert islands … You’d think they’d be running out of ways to humiliate them for the entertainment and amusement of the rest of us. But no, here’s another: sen
  
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• Melissa McCarthy Commits Crimes of Forgery and Fashion in Can You Ever Forgive Me? Trailer

  16-03-2018 22:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  In her first film since 2015’s lauded Diary of a Teenage Girl, director Marielle Heller delivers Can You Ever Forgive Me? The Melissa McCarthy–starring film tells the true story of writer Lee Israel, who, despite being an accomplished author, earned the legacy of “forger” after embarking on a side career...More »
  
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• Jerry O’Connell Guest-Hosting The Wendy Williams Show Is a Bizarro Treat

  16-03-2018 22:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  Jerry O’Connell is hosting The Wendy Williams Show during Wendy’s health hiatus, and the results are … something to behold. The Sliders star hasn’t exactly perfected Wendy’s trademark “How you doin,’” but God bless him for trying. In preparation for St. Patrick’s Day, the O’Rourke Irish Dancers were invited to...More »
  
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• 13 Scenes From the Leprechaun Movies That Feel Too Absurd to Exist

  16-03-2018 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Featuring everyone’s favorite evil leprechaun....More »
  
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• John Paul Getty III’s Sister Threatens Legal Action Over FX’s Trust

  16-03-2018 21:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  The second of two recent Getty kidnapping projects has run afoul of the Getty family. Per The Hollywood Reporter, Ariadne Getty has threatened legal action against FX’s upcoming Danny Boyle-directed series Trust, which depicts the infamous kidnapping of her brother John Paul Getty III in 1973. In a letter to...More »
  
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• Jennifer Garner Moved Nick Robinson to Tears on Love, Simon Set

  16-03-2018 21:48 via feeds.eonline.com
  Jennifer Garner spurred Love, Simon co-star Nick Robinson to burst into tears while filming a scene inspired by a heartwarming true story.In the film, the 22-year-old actor plays a gay...
  
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• Corporate, Detroiters, and the Battle Between Comedy’s Light and Dark Sides

  16-03-2018 21:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  There’s a war going for comedy’s soul. In fact, it’s been going on for years, decades, centuries – ever since Nyx gave birth to Momos, the Greek god of mockery. It’s been going on since before that, actually. A long, long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, the...More »
  
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• Photo Flash: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Conjures Its First Broadway Production Photo

  16-03-2018 21:00
  Take a look at the newly renovated Lyric Theatre.
  
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• Run the Jewels Enlists Rick and Morty to Vaporize Aliens in New ‘Mama’ Video

  16-03-2018 20:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  Given that Adult Swim exec Jason DeMarco is responsible for getting Killer Mike and El-P together as Run the Jewels, it seems right that one of the network’s most famous cartoons found its way into the band’s music. In the new video for “Mama,” Rick and Morty of Rick and...More »
  
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• 'A wave of change': Sienna Miller hails #MeToo movement at New York summit

  16-03-2018 20:41
  Actor gives impassioned speech at UN event exploring sexual exploitation and harassment in media and entertainment worldsThe actor Sienna Miller has hailed the “wave of change” enveloping the media and entertainment industries in an impassioned speech at the United Nations headquarters in New York on Friday.Speaking at an event on sexual exploitation and harassment hosted by the Guardian, UN Women and the Norwegian government, Miller praised the courage of the women who have spoken o
  
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• Opera Review: Così Fan Tutte, Kelli O’Hara, and the Long Shadow of James Levine

  16-03-2018 20:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  Shortly before the Metropolitan Opera opened its new production of Così fan tutte, the battle between the company and its disgraced former demigod reached a second-act climax. The Met fired James Levine, alleging a history of sexual misdeeds; Levine sued the Met; and — just before showtime — the Met’s...More »
  
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• RuPaul’s Drag Race’s Kennedy Davenport on the All Stars 3 Finale

  16-03-2018 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Spoilers ahead for RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars.On Thursday night’s All Stars 3 season finale, the remaining queens were gagged to learn that the final two would be selected by a jury of their eliminated peers. As it is written, so it shall be done: Kennedy Davenport and Trixie Mattel...More »
  
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• 10 Podcasts We Can’t Wait to Listen to This Spring

  16-03-2018 19:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  Podcast-land is heating up, and it isn’t just because winter is almost — ALMOST — over. From the wizarding world to New America, this selection of anticipated releases boasts a strong and iridescent sense of place, offering a new spin on the hooks that make you want to hit the...More »
  
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• Academy President John Bailey Subject of Sexual Harassment Probe

  16-03-2018 19:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences president John Bailey is the subject of a sexual harassment probe. Per Variety, the Academy received three allegations on Wednesday and immediately opened an inquiry. (Variety did not detail the allegations.) Bailey, a longtime cinematographer (The Big Chill, The Sisterhood of the Traveling...More »
  
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• DeWanda Wise: "I Will No Longer Be in Captain Marvel"

  16-03-2018 19:32 via feeds.eonline.com
  DeWanda Wise will not star in the upcoming Captain Marvel movie after all.In January, it was announced that the actress had landed a role in the Marvel superhero movie. It would have...
  
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• David Tennant to Go Camping with Jennifer Ganrer in Lena Dunham’s New HBO Comedy

  16-03-2018 19:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  David Tennant, former star of Doctor Who and your dreams about being married to Doctor Who, has signed on to the new HBO series Camping from Girls duo Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner. The actor is set to play Walt, the husband of co-star Jennifer Garner’s Kathryn. The story revolves...More »
  
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• Lady Bird’s Jake McDorman to Play Murphy Brown’s Son

  16-03-2018 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Murphy Brown’s very famous baby is all grown up, and he looks a lot like  Lady Bird and Limitless star Jake McDorman. Vulture has learned that the 31-year-old actor has snagged the role of Avery Brown, the 26-year-old son of Candice Bergen’s titular character on the classic CBS sitcom. The...More »
  
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• Wild Wild Country May Be the Craziest Series You Watch All Year

  16-03-2018 18:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  The incredible tale of the volatile relationship between the members of the Rajneeshpuram commune and the residents of an Oregon town that the community decided to call home received a great deal of media attention in the 1980s. Local and national news covered it, especially as it escalated into a...More »
  
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• All 32 Video-Game Movies, Ranked From Least Bad to Absolute Worst

  16-03-2018 18:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  Here’s the thing: If you see a movie based on a video game and expect it to be objectively good, then you’re the only one to blame for your disappointment. It’s like playing a carnival game called “Face Punches” and demanding your money back because you got punched in the...More »
  
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• Merkel’s coalition divided over role of Islam in Germany

  16-03-2018 18:22 via ft.com
  Chancellor and interior minister argue publicly as parties flex their muscles
  
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• The Paris Review Is Looking for the Right Woman

  16-03-2018 18:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  Two days after the widow of George Plimpton, the late founder of the Paris Review, threw a party billed “Last Call at 72nd Street,” the couple’s famous apartment — soon to be sold — served one last official function in the history of the literary magazine. On March 2, the...More »
  
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• Theater News: Long Wharf Theatre Announces 2018-19 Season

  16-03-2018 18:00
  A Doll's House, Part 2, Tiny Beautiful Things, Paradise Blue, and other works will be produced.
  
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• We’d Like to Know: Where Would You Go in Wakanda?

  16-03-2018 17:35 via nytimes.com
  The Travel Desk would like to solicit your ideas of what an actual Wakanda trip would look like. We will feature 10 of the most innovative submissions in a future Travel issue.
  
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• Ismael’s Ghosts Reunites Two Legends of French Film

  16-03-2018 17:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sometimes, the imperceptible hand of fate has a way of pushing great collaborators together. Legend has it that the Japanese virtuoso Toshiro Mifune was just trying to report for handyman duty when he accidentally got in the wrong line and delivered the audition that wowed Akira Kurosawa, earning him his...More »
  
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• NYC Stories: Archer’s Lucky Yates Watches New York City Break a New Yorker

  16-03-2018 17:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  For every triumphant rags-to-riches story that takes place in New York City, there’s one that heads the opposite direction. Lucky Yates (you’ll recognize him as the voice of Dr. Krieger on Archer) recounts the day he saw the city finally break a man down....More »
  
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• Evil Acupuncture and Other Things We Saw in the New Avengers: Infinity War Trailer

  16-03-2018 17:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  Can you imagine making nearly $3 billion in a single year? If your answer is yes, you are either a soulless corporate suit, an astoundingly gifted thief, or Kevin Feige. With Black Panther continuing to annihilate at the box office, 2018 is off to a good start for the Marvel...More »
  
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• Seth Meyers Finally Just Says That Trump Is Stupid

  16-03-2018 17:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  Yesterday, the president admitted that he lied to Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau during a meeting, which left many news outlets trying to figure out just what the hell was going on. But Seth Meyers decided to stop beating around the bush and put forward a simple conclusion: Trump might...More »
  
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• Review: Putting Whiteness on Display in The White Card

  16-03-2018 17:00
  Diane Paulus directs this world premiere of Claudia Rankine's new play.
  
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• Adam Scott on Playing the ‘Befuddled Beta Male’ and Big Little Lies Season Two

  16-03-2018 16:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Holy shit, did you hear Hope Hicks just resigned?”Adam Scott is standing inside a modest trailer on the north Hollywood set of the Fox comedy Ghosted, looking particularly Adam Scott-ish in a muted ensemble of T-shirt, jeans, and New Balance sneakers, his spiky hair jutting out in at least three...More »
  
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• How Do We Talk About Cultural Appropriation Between People of Color?

  16-03-2018 16:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  Every so often, the cultural discourse resets itself, and accusations of appropriation are launched (or relaunched) at a different target. Four years ago, the offender was Miley Cyrus; two years ago, it was Macklemore and Iggy Azalea. He wrote a mea culpa about his white privilege, Iggy retreated from rap,...More »
  
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• I Am So Jealous of Tavi Gevinson’s Custom Secret History Jacket

  16-03-2018 16:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  There are many reasons to be envious of Tavi Gevinson. She was the editor of a successful magazine by the time she was 15. She’s friends with Willow Smith and Lorde. She gets paid to post #sponcon of her own apartment. Yet I’ve never been more jealous of Gevinson than...More »
  
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• Melissa Joan Hart Might Explain It All Again in Clarissa Reboot

  16-03-2018 16:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  In these dark times, what we need is someone who can make sense of the madness: Clarissa Darling. Nickelodeon is planning to reboot its ’90s sitcom Clarissa Explains It All. Per The Hollywood Reporter, Melissa Joan Hart might return to Clarissa, playing an older version of the character who’s now...More »
  
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• Review: Henry V Is Shakespeare's Royal Rebel With a Cause

  16-03-2018 16:00
  A Noise Within presents the final play in the Bard's Henry trilogy.
  
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• Photo Flash: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child's Broadway Home Is Revealed in Stunning New Photos

  16-03-2018 16:00
  The Lyric Theatre has undergone a complete renovation after temporarily closing in the spring of 2017.
  
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• NYC Stories: ‘Archer’s’ Lucky Yates Watches New York City Break a New Yorker

  16-03-2018 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  For every triumphant rags-to-riches story that takes place in New York City, there’s one that heads the opposite direction. Lucky Yates (you’ll recognize him as the voice of Dr. Krieger on Archer) recounts the day he saw the city finally break a man down....More »
  
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• ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ Trailer Unites Marvel’s All-Stars

  16-03-2018 15:44 via nytimes.com
  The latest installment in the series brings together the heroes from “Guardians of the Galaxy” and the previous “Avengers” castmates.
  
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• Jeff Goldblum Thinks Your Impression of Him Is Umm … Well … GOOD

  16-03-2018 15:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  Last night, you see, Jeff Goldblum was, mmm, on Conan to promote, well, yes, Isle of Dogs. Of course, well, Conan brought up Goldblum’s just fantastic, fantastic (!), hmmm, VOICE, seeing that there is, ah, well, many people who try to IMPERSONATE it. Aaahhhh, why, yes, Goldblum responded. In fact,...More »
  
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• Nancy Dubuc poised to get a grip on Vice

  16-03-2018 15:21 via ft.com
  A+E chief to succeed Shane Smith shows willingness to take risks and shake things up
  
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• Where Did RuPaul’s Drag Race Go Wrong This Season?

  16-03-2018 15:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  First off, condragulations, sweetie! Pop off your heels and treat yourself to a vodka tonic, because you did it! You did your homosexual duty and got through RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 3, truly one of the roughest seasons of the show ever. After a stellar, jaw-unhingingly good All Stars...More »
  
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• Video Flash: Patti Murin Sings the New Frozen Song "True Love"

  16-03-2018 15:00
  Kristen Anderson-Lopez introduces a special performance.
  
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• They Talk About Porn in This Show. Audience Participation Is Encouraged.

  16-03-2018 15:00 via nytimes.com
  “Prurience,” a new immersive theater piece by Christopher Green, is set at a self-help group for pornography addicts.
  
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• Theater News: Lesli Margherita, Emily Padgett, and More Set for Readings of Dangerous

  16-03-2018 15:00
  The new musical is being directed by Denis Jones.
  
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• Theater News: David Greenspan to Star in Arthur Laurents's The Enclave

  16-03-2018 15:00
  The drama will be presented by Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre.
  
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