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• Scene City: Andrew Garfield, Nathan Lane and RuPaul at the ‘Angels in America’ Opening

  26-03-2018 23:17 via nytimes.com
  The Broadway revival of the seven-and-a-half hour masterwork opens with a starry crowd.
  
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• The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling Is an Intimate Portrait of a Comedy Pioneer

  26-03-2018 22:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It’s a show about people trying to get love, and shit gets in the way.”That’s how the late Garry Shandling described his groundbreaking sitcom The Larry Sanders Show, an inside-showbiz series about the office culture surrounding a talk show. But the line also sums up the life of Garry Shandling...More »
  
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• Review: Chris Evans and Michael Cera Star in Lobby Hero on Broadway

  26-03-2018 22:00
  Kenneth Lonergan's 2001 comedy-drama opens Second Stage Theater's new Broadway home.
  
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• Did You Fall Asleep in Isle of Dogs?

  26-03-2018 21:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  Post-screening Q&As rarely make the news, but the Isle of Dogs team’s recent appearance at SXSW contained a rare moment of unplanned virality. As Wes Anderson explained the intricacies of stop-motion animation, Bill Murray found the experience so enthralling he slowly fell asleep:Bill Murray stayed awake long enough to sass...More »
  
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• Review: From Gorbachev to Putin, A Walk in the Woods Looks Just the Same

  26-03-2018 21:00
  The Barrow Group revives Lee Blessing's Cold War-era two-hander.
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn admits presence of anti-Semitism in Labour party

  26-03-2018 20:42 via ft.com
  UK opposition leader vows to be ‘militant opponent’ of anti-Jewish abuse
  
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• Who Had the Audacity to Bite Beyoncé? An Investigation

  26-03-2018 20:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  One night in December, someone who shall remain nameless (mostly because we don’t know they are — more on that later) had the audacity to bite Beyoncé’s face. Tiffany Haddish first dropped hints about Bey-bite-gate to Vulture in an interview, and then spilled the rest of the tea to GQ....More »
  
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• Nathan Fillion on Playing a Disembodied Zombie Head in Santa Clarita Diet Season 2

  26-03-2018 20:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  If Santa Clarita Diet were any other show, a disembodied zombie head doling out life advice would be a shock. But Netflix’s sitcom about an undead SoCal real-estate agent named Sheila (Drew Barrymore) and her husband Joel (Timothy Olyphant) is a deep dive into horror-comedy weirdness. To wit: After Sheila...More »
  
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• Lee Pace, Clark Gregg, and Djimon Hounsou Will Join the ’90s Spectacular of Captain Marvel

  26-03-2018 20:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  Anything can happen in the ‘90s! Today, Marvel confirmed that the ragtag trio of Ronan the Accuser (Lee Pace), Korath (Djimon Hounsou), and Agent Coulson (Clark Gregg) will be popping up in some capacity in Captain Marvel. The superhero film, for all of the newbies out there, will follow the...More »
  
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• Whew! One Day at a Time Is Getting a Third Season

  26-03-2018 20:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  We do not deserve Rita Moreno and yet we are getting more of her. Netflix announced today that it has renewed its acclaimed reboot of One Day at a Time for a third season, doing just as we previously demanded it should. The next set of 13 30-minute episodes will...More »
  
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• Captain Marvel Begins Production--and Adds Three Marvel Fan Favorites

  26-03-2018 20:10 via feeds.eonline.com
  Marvel Studios announced Monday that principal photography has begun on Captain Marvel, starring Brie Larson as the titular hero. The production is shooting in and around the greater Los Angeles...
  
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• The Stormy Daniels Interview Gave 60 Minutes its Biggest Audience in a Decade

  26-03-2018 19:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  Stormy Daniels’ much-anticipated 60 Minutes interview delivered stellar ratings for 60 Minutes Sunday. Anderson Cooper’s report, in which the adult entertainer spoke at length about her mid-2000s relationship with President Trump, boosted the CBS newsmagazine to what appears to be its biggest audience in a decade. According to CBS News...More »
  
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• Review: ‘Babette’s Feast’ Is Served, This Time Onstage

  26-03-2018 19:58 via nytimes.com
  A French cook demonstrates the art of living in the moment in this adaptation of an Isak Dinesen short story.
  
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• Night of a Thousand Paul Giamattis

  26-03-2018 19:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  On Sunday night, as a cluster of eager New Yorkers exited an elevator and entered Madame Tussauds in Times Square, they were greeted by more than a dozen Paul Giamattis.There was Paul Giamatti in a tux, Paul Giamatti in leather, Paul Giamatti in a shimmering blue dress. Three Paul Giamattis...More »
  
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• Roseanne Is Back Wearing a Trump Hat, But Showing Progressive Tendencies

  26-03-2018 19:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  When Roseanne debuted in October 1987, it offered a brash depiction of family life that kept things more real than practically every other sitcom on TV. Roseanne Conner, played by stand-up comic Roseanne Barr, was all the things that good TV moms – or for that matter, “good moms” in...More »
  
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• Get Gina Rodriguez a Giant Coat, Because She’s Doing a Live-Action Carmen Sandiego Movie

  26-03-2018 19:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  Lest you be worried that Gina Rodriguez would only voice Carmen Sandiego in the animated series she’s making for Netflix, Deadline reports that she’ll also appear in a live-action feature based on the famously fedora’d thief who taught kids geography in video games by stealing things and somehow landmarks from...More »
  
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• How To Make Your Own Wes Anderson Soundtrack

  26-03-2018 18:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  Like the other aspects of his films, Wes Anderson’s soundtracks are always quirky, eclectic, and lots of fun. In honor of his new film Isle of Dogs, we aim to teach you how to make your own Wes Anderson movie soundtrack, while using only songs from a stock music library....More »
  
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• Netflix Orders More Queer Eye and Nailed It As Its Unscripted Push Continues

  26-03-2018 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Things keep getting better for Netflix’s Queer Eye: Season two of the critically praised makeover series is officially a go, Vulture has learned. The streaming giant will officially announce the renewal Monday, along with second seasons for the Nicole Byer/Jacques Torres-hosted baking competition Nailed It! and three other docu-series (Dope, Drug...More »
  
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• Tom Arnold, Laurie Metcalf Superfan, Says Roseanne Banned Them From Dating

  26-03-2018 18:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  Tom Arnold sounds like a man with good taste. In his review of the Roseanne reboot for THR, he writes that Roseanne Barr prevented him from pursuing a relationship with Laurie Metcalf in the show’s early years. This all took place back when Arnold was the audience warm-up guy for...More »
  
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• This Artist Is a Gender Unicorn

  26-03-2018 17:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  I don’t make it to Bushwick as often as I wish I did. Especially this winter, which seems to be determined to go on forever and make me less and less likely to do anything or go anywhere. But sometimes Bushwick comes to you, as it did at the Spring...More »
  
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• Stormy Daniels Says Her Alone Time With Trump Included Watching a ‘Shark Week’ Documentary

  26-03-2018 16:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  Nothing says “sexy affair” quite like watching a giant hammerhead rip through the leg ligaments of a human being. Swoon! This is what Stormy Daniels claims happened when she met up with Donald Trump at his private hotel bungalow in Los Angeles in 2007 — their second meeting. Trump encouraged...More »
  
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• The Terror review – menacing Arctic horror series gives a lasting chill

  26-03-2018 16:16
  Executive-produced by Ridley Scott, this eerie retelling of what might have happened to the crew of a doomed expedition boasts a scary startDespite its unstoppable increase, there remains something undeniably exasperating about small-screen horror, the extended format bloating any potential scares. The campy American Horror Story franchise has grown tired, The Walking Dead should have died a long time ago and news of a Blair Witch series is terrifying for all of the wrong reasons. But horror fan
  
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• What’s Leaving Hulu: April 2018

  26-03-2018 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you love romantic comedies: Mystic PizzaThe most disappointing thing about Mystic Pizza is that it is not, in fact, a movie about an enchanted pizza pie and the havoc it wreaks on a small town. That’s fine, though, because Mystic Pizza is instead a very charming movie about two...More »
  
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• Stockard Channing Is Coming to Off Broadway Next Season

  26-03-2018 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Finally, your chance to see American treasure Stockard Channing as a left-wing radical turned art historian has arrived. The Roundabout Theatre Company announced today that it’s bringing Apologia, in which Channing appeared in London in 2017, to Off Broadway this fall. Written by Alexi Kaye Campbell and directed by Daniel...More »
  
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• Spotify forecasts shrinking losses as it prepares for IPO

  26-03-2018 15:57 via ft.com
  Music-streaming company releases financials for 2018 in run-up to unconventional listing
  
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• Lana Del Rey Announces Her Radiohead Dispute Is Over: ‘Well, F*ck!’

  26-03-2018 15:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  As the old saying goes, the legal battle isn’t over until Lana Del Rey announces, “well, fuck.” While performing at the Lollapalooza festival in Sao Paolo, Brazil, over the weekend, Lana Del Rey performed her song “Get Free,” which, according to a copyright dispute from Radiohead (they have denied filing...More »
  
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• Your Guide to The Crown’s Gender Pay Gap Controversy

  26-03-2018 15:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  Up until now, the most scandalous talking point to emerge from The Crown’s reign on Netflix might’ve been the steamy, literal smoke-filled courtship between Princess Margaret and Anthony Armstrong in the middle of the second season. That was until earlier this month, when a narrative emerged around equal pay on...More »
  
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• What’s Leaving Showtime: April 2018

  26-03-2018 15:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  Because fear is the mind killer: DuneThe most well-known and examined outlier in David Lynch’s career, Dune is famous for being a disaster, the one film Lynch has actively distanced himself from and looked back on as him selling out as an artist. It’s no less flawed now than it...More »
  
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• Tiffany Haddish Says an Actress Bit Beyoncé the Night They Took a Selfie!

  26-03-2018 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ever since Tiffany Haddish told Vulture the story behind her iconic selfie with Beyoncé, the actress has been semi-quiet about what went down at the afterparty of Jay-Z’s concert in Inglewood last December. After the interview published, Bey released a new song that simply said everyone who parties with her...More »
  
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• What’s Leaving HBO: April 2018

  26-03-2018 15:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  Before you see the new Wes Anderson movie: The Royal TenenbaumsYou can make an interesting case for just about any ranking of Wes Anderson movies. But one spot that’s agreed upon with more frequency than others is this: The Royal Tenenbaums is Anderson’s magnum opus. The story of a family...More »
  
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• Review: Ease on Down the Road With The Wiz

  26-03-2018 15:00
  Ford's Theatre brings a joyful production to the stage.
  
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• What’s Leaving Netflix: April 2018

  26-03-2018 14:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  Because it’s a classic Dad Movie: Apollo 13Dad Movies — historical dramas about dudes, usually in either war or space, usually played by Tom Hanks — get a bad rap, but when they’re done well they can be so satisfying. Case in point: This 1995 nail-biter about the infamous NASA lunar...More »
  
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• Solo: A Star Wars Story Actor Shares New Details About the Troubled Production

  26-03-2018 14:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  Weeks away from its May 25 release and still sight unseen, it’s fair to say that Solo: A Star Wars Story already arrives as one of the more problem-plagued big-budget movies in recent memory. In June, after completing at least three-quarters of principal photography on the stand-alone prequel — which...More »
  
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• Black Panther becomes highest-grossing superhero movie in US

  26-03-2018 14:29
  Box office results show that the film has earned a record-breaking total of $630.9m so far, taking it to No 5 on the all-time US list Black Panther has overtaken The Avengers to become the highest-grossing superhero film at the US box office, taking a total of $630.9m (£443.5m) on its sixth weekend of release. The Avengers – also a Marvel production – finished on $623.4m in its home market in 2012. The record-breaking result, in which Black Panther added an estimated $16.6m to
  
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• Purplebricks drops on UK warning despite Axel Springer stake

  26-03-2018 14:24 via ft.com
  ‘Underlying softness’ and bad weather hurt UK revenues, estate agent says
  
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• When good TV goes bad: how The Apprentice went from boom to bust

  26-03-2018 14:00
  Despite giving the likes of Katie Hopkins and Donald Trump a platform, the once-comical competition now feels redundant in a post-recession societyIt was 2005 – in the days of late Blairism and Live 8 – when the first cohort of men in Magic Eye ties and women with obnoxiously large shirt collars steered their suitcases into London town, and on to our screens. Based on a US format helmed by one Donald Trump, The Apprentice had a business-like, documentary-style air back then; contesta
  
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• The Stars of The Americans Leak Some Totally Real Spoilers That Will Definitely Happen

  26-03-2018 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Whatever happens in the final season of The Americans, we can all agree that it’ll end with a zombie attack. Wait, sorry — clearly, it’s going to involve Paige learning how to tweet. Scratch that, a musical tribute to Wicked. The point is, the cast of the show is here...More »
  
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• In Conversation: Mike D

  26-03-2018 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  When the Beastie Boys’ career came to a tragic halt in 2012 after the death of Adam “MCA” Yauch, the remaining band members, Adam Horovitz and Mike Diamond (known as Ad-Rock and Mike D respectively), were faced with the difficult task of creating futures for themselves that weren’t mired in...More »
  
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• American Idol Recap: Let’s Slay Together

  26-03-2018 13:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  I come back to this YouTube clip all the time: Cloris Leachman talking about her friend and fellow Northwestern alum Paul Lynde with a phrase I can’t get out of my head: “He was born finished.” Born finished. Paul Lynde did not need Paul Lynde lessons. He was snickering, sneering, and sneaking gay...More »
  
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• Birth of a Nation director Nate Parker to make comeback after rape controversy

  26-03-2018 13:49
  The director, whose debut suffered after his acquittal from a 1999 rape charge was publicised, returns with a film about an LAPD homicide detectiveNate Parker, the film-maker whose award-winning directorial debut The Birth of a Nation was engulfed in controversy after it emerged Parker had been acquitted of rape charges, is to return with a new film about an LAPD detective.According to the Hollywood Reporter, Parker has been hired to direct Black and Blue, based on the memoirs of Ralph Waddy, an
  
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• Orlando Bloom to return to West End to play hit man in Killer Joe

  26-03-2018 13:48
  The Lord of the Rings actor will star in Tracy Letts’ ‘adrenaline-fuelled’ 1993 play this summerOrlando Bloom will return to the West End to portray a policeman who moonlights as a contract killer in Tracy Letts’ play Killer Joe. The Lord of the Rings star, 41, makes his return to the London stage 11 years after his debut in David Storey’s In Celebration.In Killer Joe, Bloom will play Joe Cooper, who is hired by the Smith family to murder their estranged matriarch f
  
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