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• Rule, Britannia! Tobias Menzies Will Play Prince Philip in The Crown

  28-03-2018 23:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  Hey, maybe Netflix took our casting advice to heart! Deadline has confirmed that Tobias Menzies, best known for his sadistic period drama role(s) in Outlander, will be playing Prince Philip for The Crown’s third and fourth seasons. Menzies’s casting comes after Paul Bettany was in final negotiations to play Queen...More »
  
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• A Eulogy for Armie Hammer’s Tracksuits, Which He Has Retired

  28-03-2018 23:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  Gather ’round Hammer Heads, Armie Wives, and moms who had to be reminded that the Winklevii weren’t actually played by real twins in The Social Network: After many months of winning the athlesiure game, Armie Hammer has formally retired his tracksuits. In other words: Call Armie Hammer by his trackie,...More »
  
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• SoundCloud Rap Has Its First No. 1 Album — Now What?

  28-03-2018 23:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  It was bound to happen at some point: SoundCloud rap, the catchall phrase for a loose band of young hip-hop artists with heavy punk influence that’s emerged on the platform within the past year, has finally peaked on the Billboard 200. 6ix9ine, the abrasive Bushwick screamer, had come close: His...More »
  
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• Beach from Leonardo DiCaprio film to temporarily close due to tourist damage

  28-03-2018 22:26
  Maya Bay, on Koh Phi Phi Leh, will be shut down by Thai authorities for four months to help recover damaged coral reefs and sea lifeAuthorities in Thailand have ordered the temporary closing of the beach made famous by the Leonardo DiCaprio movie The Beach to halt environmental damage caused by too many tourists. Maya Bay, on the island of Koh Phi Phi Leh in the Andaman Sea, will be closed to all visitors for four months annually starting this June to allow for the recovery of the island’s
  
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• Review: In ‘Ready Player One,’ Spielberg Plays the Nostalgia Game

  28-03-2018 21:22 via nytimes.com
  The movie, based on Ernest Cline’s best-selling novel, is set in a dystopian future where a virtual video-game reality reigns, and pop-culture callbacks are legion.
  
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• The Best TripAdvisor Reviews of the Sex Cult From Wild Wild Country

  28-03-2018 21:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  The new Netflix documentary series Wild Wild Country explores the history of the Rajneeshee cult, a group of New Agey maroon-wearing followers of an Indian guru named Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. The documentary begins with the original Rajneeshee ashram in Pune, India, and then spends most of its six episodes following...More »
  
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• The Americans and Their Many Disguises

  28-03-2018 21:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  After six seasons of The Americans, the team that create the disguises for superspies Elizabeth and Philip Jennings has gotten pretty good at what it does. Here’s how good: During a recent set visit, this writer and two FX employees walked right by Matthew Rhys, who plays Philip, without recognizing...More »
  
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• Jasmin Savoy Brown on Her Jump From The Leftovers to Shondaland: ‘It Was Exactly What I Wanted’

  28-03-2018 21:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you’re familiar with Jasmine Savoy Brown’s work on The Leftovers, you may not immediately recognize the 24-year-old actress on ABC’s new Shondaland drama For the People. For starters, her character talks this time — a lot. Freed from the silent and creepy Guilty Remnant, Brown now plays Allison Adams,...More »
  
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• Review: A Blistering Billie Piper Unravels Brilliantly in ‘Yerma’

  28-03-2018 20:00 via nytimes.com
  Simon Stone’s latter-day riff on Federico García Lorca’s poetic tragedy goes to extremes, in this portrait of a journalist trying to conceive a child.
  
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• Schitt’s Creek Is a Master Class in Aspirational Fashion

  28-03-2018 19:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the very first scene of Schitt’s Creek — perhaps the finest Canadian comedy import of the past decade — Catherine O’Hara’s character is aghast at the prospect of being removed from her precious wigs. Not the wigs, she pleads, anything but the wigs! She and her family are being...More »
  
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• Jessica Chastain on Her Salomé Revival, Negotiating Nudity, and Being Empowered to Speak Up

  28-03-2018 19:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  There’s a new Jessica Chastain double feature hitting theaters this weekend, but this one isn’t a revival of The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby or some ambitious two-parter she squeezed in after filming Molly’s Game. Instead, it’s a unique theatrical experience beamed in from 2006, before Chastain was an Oscar-nominated A-lister:...More »
  
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• A moment of weakness for Tech’s oligopolists

  28-03-2018 19:39 via ft.com
  The ‘Faang’ stocks were hammered — what, if anything, does it mean?
  
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• Review: ‘The Great Silence,’ a 1968 Spaghetti Western Unchained

  28-03-2018 19:33 via nytimes.com
  Klaus Kinski and Jean-Louis Trintignant face off in the snows of Utah in a bloody genre exercise that is only now receiving a proper U.S. release.
  
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• The Handmaid’s Tale Season Two Trailer: The Resistance Ignites

  28-03-2018 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  After the chilling horrors of its first season, the The Handmaid’s Tale looks ready to ignite into all-out violence. In the trailer for the second season of Hulu’s crown jewel of dystopian programming, the show promises to expand on the world of Margaret Atwood’s original novel for the sake of...More »
  
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• Alex, Inc. Is a Show About Podcasting That’s Not Worth the Download

  28-03-2018 19:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  Alex, Inc. is a comedy about a man recording a podcast about the fact that he’s starting a podcast company. It is based, loosely, on an actual podcast. That’s a multilayered level of navel gazing that generally leads to someone losing an eye in a tragic belly-button-observing accident.Don’t worry, though,...More »
  
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• Roxanne Shante’s Best Revenge Is Living Well

  28-03-2018 18:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  Getting to Chinatown’s Candy Studios requires climbing five flights of stairs. And as various members of Roxanne Shante’s small team arrive, each one has the same reaction to the unexpected cardio: the mouth opens slightly with exhaustion, the eyes roll up toward the heavens, and, at the top, once they’ve...More »
  
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• The Ratings for Roseanne’s Revival Premiere Are Incredible

  28-03-2018 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  America still loves the Conner family! The Roseanne reboot opened to massive ratings on Tuesday night: Per Nielsen, 18.2 million same-day viewers tuned in for the sitcom’s return, a bigger audience than it attracted with its original series finale back in the pre-DVR, pre-Netflix TV stone age of 1997 (16.6...More »
  
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• Donald Glover Shares Mock Deadpool Script Spoofing Hollywood Racism

  28-03-2018 18:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  Donald Glover actually wasn’t too busy to helm the Deadpool show he and his brother Stephen Glover were working on for television. When the FXX-Marvel collab fell apart, it seemed like it was because Glover — star of Solo: A Star Wars Story, Atlanta, and the new Lion King —...More »
  
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• John Mulaney’s New Stand-up Special Is Coming to Netflix and Will Be So Good and Funny

  28-03-2018 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  John Mulaney, the Netflix Kid, is returning to the streaming service that helped make him who he is today. On May 1, Mulaney will release his third hour-long special, John Mulaney: Kid Gorgeous at Radio City. Directed by Alex Timber, whom Mulaney worked with on Oh, Hello on Broadway, with...More »
  
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• Donald Glover tweets mock Deadpool script slamming industry racism

  28-03-2018 17:59
  After it was announced that the Emmy winner and FX had parted ways on the project, he posted photos of a script he penned for the show Just days after it was announced that Donald Glover and his brother and collaborator Stephen Glover would no longer be working with FX and Marvel on the Deadpool animated series, the Emmy-winning Atlanta creator shared a mock 15-page script for the series on Twitter. In a thread that began, “For the record: I wasn’t too busy to work on Deadpool,&rdquo
  
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• Dogs Review Isle of Dogs

  28-03-2018 17:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  The critics have spoken and they generally really like Isle of Dogs, with our David Edelstein writing, “Nothing fits together and everything harmonizes, magically.” But those were human critics. Sure, they can determine if Wes Anderson’s mise-en-scène was more of a mise-fun-scène, but what do they know about the life...More »
  
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• Harvey Weinstein aide tells of 'morally lacking' non-disclosure deal

  28-03-2018 17:37
  Woman who worked for Miramax in UK tells MPs she left job after Weinstein tried to rape colleagueHarvey Weinstein’s former assistant has criticised the non-disclosure agreement she had to sign after leaving the film company Miramax as “morally lacking”.Zelda Perkins told MPs from the women and equalities committee that she left her job after Weinstein “sexually assaulted and attempted to rape a colleague of mine”, but then had to sign a wide-ranging agreement that r
  
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• 2 Chainz’s Mom Rapping in His New Music Video Will Bring Infinite Joy to Your Life

  28-03-2018 17:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  Imagine 2 Chainz standing outside a downtown Manhattan church, tearfully calling his mom, Lady Bird–style: Hi Mom, It’s me Tauheed. It’s the name you gave me. It’s a good one. For his song “Proud,” 2 Chainz — real name, of course, Tauheed Epps — enlists his mom and his grandma...More »
  
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• The Darkest Minds Trailer: Amandla Stenberg’s Next Teen Uprising

  28-03-2018 16:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  “This ain’t a scene, it’s an arms race!” Amandla Stenberg is leading a new uprising, with a fresh team of teen outlaws (this time Beach Rats’ breakout Harris Dickinson, The Get Down’s Skylan Brooks, and newcomer Miya Cech). In The Darkest Minds, the few children the world has left develop...More »
  
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• The Beetlejuice Musical Is Creeping Toward Broadway

  28-03-2018 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Someone in some theater development office must have sung “Beetlejuice” three times, and lo, a Beetlejuice musical appeared. Warner Bros.’s theater department announced today that the Beetlejuice musical, which has actually been in development for some time, will play a pre-Broadway engagement at Washington, D.C.’s National Theatre this October on...More »
  
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• ‘Beetlejuice’ Musical Is Heading to Washington, Then Broadway

  28-03-2018 16:00 via nytimes.com
  The comedy, about a ghost trying to scare away a family, is based on Tim Burton’s movie. Alex Timbers is directing, and it is to open in October in Washington.
  
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• Academy President Cleared Following Sexual-Harassment Investigation

  28-03-2018 15:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences president John Bailey has been cleared of any wrongdoing after an inquiry into a sexual-harassment allegation. The New York Times reports that the Academy’s investigation into a claim that Bailey touched a female co-worker inappropriately ten years ago is without merit. “In a...More »
  
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• Samantha Bee Was a Dangerous Teenage Canadian Car Thief

  28-03-2018 15:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  Back before Samantha Bee was a television voice of reason, she led a dangerous life as a young Canadian car thief. On The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, while discussing her plans for a Full Frontal trip to Puerto Rico, Bee inadvertently revealed that she stole a car — well,...More »
  
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• The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Recap: Nanny Nanny Boo-hoo

  28-03-2018 14:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  This week on our favorite program, Rich Women Doing Things, the rich women did things. They packed. They packed with their artistic director, who suggested lube and baby powder for a latex pussy-bow blouse. They packed with their devoted maids, who oohed and aahed and held onto one of the...More »
  
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• Theater News: Fun Home, School Girls, and More Set for New SpeakEasy Season

  28-03-2018 14:00
  The Tony-winning musical Once will also head to Boston next year.
  
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• The Americans Season 6 Is a Beautifully Understated Farewell

  28-03-2018 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  If watching a TV show is like being in a relationship, The Americans is the closest thing to a domestic partnership that modern TV drama has ever given us. If you live with a lover long enough, you know them so well that verbal explanations become unnecessary, in bed or...More »
  
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• Review: Reproduction Becomes an Obsession in Yerma

  28-03-2018 14:00
  Billie Piper stars in this transfer from London's Young Vic.
  
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• Photo Flash: Meet the Characters of Gettin' the Band Back Together in New Promo Shots

  28-03-2018 14:00
  The Broadway production stars Kelli Barrett, Marilu Henner, and Mitchell Jarvis.
  
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• Carmel McSharry obituary

  28-03-2018 14:00
  Television and stage actor best known for Beryl’s Lot and In Sickness and in HealthThe actor Carmel McSharry, who has died aged 91, was happy with her career of well-drawn character parts on TV alongside stars such as Warren Mitchell, Ian Holm, Derek Jacobi, Wendy Hiller and Jane Asher. But her name shot to the top of the cast list when she landed the title role in Beryl’s Lot (1973-77) as a Battersea cleaner, milkman’s wife and mother of three broadening her horizons by signin
  
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• Facebook moves to make privacy policies more transparent

  28-03-2018 13:26 via ft.com
  Tweaks in development before Cambridge Analytica data scandal engulfed social network
  
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• Academy president John Bailey cleared of sexual harassment allegations

  28-03-2018 13:07
  Internal investigation by the Oscars governing body determined that ‘no further action was merited’John Bailey will remain in his post as president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences following an internal investigation that cleared him of sexual harassment allegations. The Academy released a statement on Tuesday, saying: “The committee unanimously determined that no further action was merited on this matter. The findings and recommendations of the committee were
  
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• Video Flash: Pretty Woman Debuts New Bryan Adams Song

  28-03-2018 13:00
  The new musical opens at Chicago's Oriental Theatre tonight.
  
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• The danger of nostalgia: a tough, timely final season of The Americans

  28-03-2018 13:00
  The sixth season of the hard-edged drama about Russian agents living in the US is a critical and incisive look at the problem with romanticizing the pastIn one of the most interesting scenes in the sixth, and final, season of The Americans, Elizabeth (Keri Russell) and Claudia (Margo Martindale) teach Paige (Holly Taylor) to cook as part of her immersion into Russian culture. “It’s peasant food,” Claudia tells Paige, as she slices carrots. “They know how to survive. We&rs
  
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• Photo Flash: Daphne Rubin-Vega Stars in the New York Premiere of Miss You Like Hell

  28-03-2018 13:00
  Lear deBessonet directs Quiara Alegría Hudes and Erin McKeown's musical at the Public Theater.
  
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• Facebook makes changes to make privacy policies more transparent

  28-03-2018 13:00 via ft.com
  Tweaks in development before Cambridge Analytica data scandal engulfed social network
  
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• Harvey Weinstein assistant Zelda Perkins: 'I was trapped in a vortex of fear'

  28-03-2018 12:57
  Miramax producer’s former aide says she was made to feel in the wrong when she tried to support a colleague alleging attempted rape by her bossHarvey Weinstein’s former assistant has said she became “trapped in a vortex of fear” after attempting to take action against her then boss in connection with an alleged attempted rape against a colleague.Zelda Perkins, who is due to give evidence to a House of Commons committee investigating workplace harassment and the use of non
  
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• How Nell Scovell survived male-dominated TV writers' rooms

  28-03-2018 11:45
  After working on everything from The Simpsons to Charmed, she discusses casting couches, bigotry and bullying in her new bookNell Scovell has a lot to teach the next generation of TV writers: how to break the ice on a new set by cracking your dirtiest joke, how writing the episode of The Simpsons where Homer eats a deadly blowfish allowed her comedy to get serious, how she screwed up hiring on the first season of Sabrina the Teenage Witch, and how to select used film studio furniture that’
  
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• Theater News: Summer: The Donna Summer Musical Announces Rush Ticket Policy

  28-03-2018 11:00
  LaChanze, Ariana DeBose, and Storm Lever all play Donna Summer in the new bio-musical.
  
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• Theater News: Unexpected Joy Cast and Creative Team Announced

  28-03-2018 10:00
  The new musical at York Theatre Company features book and lyrics by Side Show's Bill Russell and music by Janet Hood.
  
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• Theater News: Beetlejuice Musical to Premiere at Washington's National Theatre

  28-03-2018 10:00
  Alex Timbers will direct.
  
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• Photo Flash: Rocktopia Rocks Out on Broadway Opening Night

  28-03-2018 10:00
  The new Broadway concert experience stars Rob Evan, Tony Vincent, and Pat Monahan of the band Train.
  
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• Film company sues Morgan Spurlock over sexual harassment admission

  28-03-2018 08:52
  Turner Entertainment Networks files a lawsuit against Super Size Me director Film-maker Morgan Spurlock has been sued over his admission of sexual harassment and misconduct. Related: Super Size Me's Morgan Spurlock admits sexual misconduct in open letterContinue reading...
  
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• Motion Picture Academy Finds No Merit to Accusations Against Its President

  28-03-2018 08:47 via nytimes.com
  The ruling is the first test of rules the powerful Hollywood group enacted in the wake of sexual misconduct allegations against Harvey Weinstein.
  
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• Wednesday’s best TV: Are you Autistic?; Social Housing, Social Cleansing

  28-03-2018 07:20
  The need for better diagnosis and understanding of the neurological condition explored; social cleansing of working-class areas exposed. Plus, The Real Full Monty: LiveBecause of a “diagnosis crisis”, members of a “lost generation” are going through life without knowing they’re autistic. This documentary seeks to increase understanding of a neurological condition that research suggests may be far more commonplace than previously supposed. As well as exploring how au
  
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• ‘Donald Trump’ Weighs in on Daily Show’s ‘Brackets of Bullsh**t’ Final Eight

  28-03-2018 07:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  Unlike his predecessors, the real President Donald Trump did not share his March Madness NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament brackets with the public. However, fake Donald Trump (Anthony Atamanuik of The President Show), went ahead and offered his analysis of The Daily Show’s spoof “Third Month Mania: The Brackets of Bulls**t.”...More »
  
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