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• Deborah Carrington, 58, Dies; Actress and Stuntwoman

  29-03-2018 23:47 via nytimes.com
  Her dwarfism allowed her to play Ewoks and Geex, and she was admired as a stunt double, but she was happiest to get work as a character actress.
  
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• Who Would Survive the Apocalypse: NYC or L.A.? Celebrities Debate

  29-03-2018 23:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  Whether it’s the threat of nuclear war or Sophie the robot saying she wants to “destroy humans,” one thing is certain: the end is nigh. With New York City and Los Angeles being the most densely populated metropolitan areas, the battle for survival will be fierce, so we asked celebrities,...More »
  
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• Indian Summer School review – five terrible teens are sent to India’s equivalent of Eton

  29-03-2018 23:04
  It’s really about tossing some lazy kids way out of their comfort zone and hoping for tantrums, tears and entertaining bad behaviourIt is not a new idea – send a bunch of badly behaved, underperforming kids somewhere different to try to get them to pull up their socks. Brat Camp, Jamie’s Dream School, The World’s Strictest Parents, That’ll Teach ’Em, they have all tried it. In this one, five delinquent Brits are sent to the Doon School in Dehradun, often calle
  
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• 15 Plays and Musicals to Go to in NYC This Weekend

  29-03-2018 23:00 via nytimes.com
  Previews, openings and some last-chance picks.
  
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• Cosby Judge Will Not Step Down Despite Pressure From Defense

  29-03-2018 22:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  Judge Steven O’Neill, the judge in the case against Bill Cosby, says he will not step down despite the defense’s best efforts to paint him as biased against the 80-year-old comedian.During the latest pretrial hearing at the Montgomery County Courthouse just outside of Philadelphia today, O’Neill – the judge who...More »
  
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• Review: Three Towering Performances in Three Tall Women

  29-03-2018 22:00
  Glenda Jackson, Laurie Metcalf, and Alison Pill star in the Broadway debut of Edward Albee's mortality drama.
  
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• Champions’ J.J. Totah on Why Meeting Mindy Kaling Was Like Meeting the Queen

  29-03-2018 21:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  When Miguel Blanchett Almódovar — sorry, Michael — first appears in NBC’s newest sitcom Champions, everything he supposedly knew about his family implodes. See, Michael and his single mother (Mindy Kaling!) travel to New York City to settle him into a prestigious performing-arts school, only to discover that the prearranged...More »
  
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• Oh, Hello to John Mulaney, Who’s Hosting SNL Next Month

  29-03-2018 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  He really is the comeback kid. John Mulaney will be making his hosting debut on SNL on April 14, with Jack White as the musical guest. (We’re assuming Steely Dan was unavailable to sing “Sweet Rosalie.”) Mulaney, of course, was a writer on the late-night sketch series for many years...More »
  
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• Ryan Seacrest Accuser Files Police Report, Seacrest ‘Confident’ He Will Be Cleared

  29-03-2018 21:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  Suzie Hardy, the E! and American Idol stylist that accused Ryan Seacrest of sexually assaulting and harassing her, has filed a report with the LAPD. In an essay for The Hollywood Reporter, Hardy details what happened after she reported her allegations to Seacrest and E! She says NBC Universal conducted...More »
  
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• The 7 Best Food Shows to Match Your Mood

  29-03-2018 21:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  These days, there are as many flavors of food TV as there are flavors of ice cream. On Netflix alone you’re buried in choice — Chef’s Table! Cooked! The Wild Chef! Something called The Big Family Cooking Showdown! — and when you add in other streaming options, you quickly turn...More »
  
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• 5 Shows to See in New York: ‘Children of a Lesser God,’ ‘Mlima’s Tale’ and More

  29-03-2018 21:08 via nytimes.com
  Beyond the blockbuster musicals (and Harry Potter) this month, there are a handful of potential gems like “Saint Joan,” “Miss You Like Hell” and “Iceman Cometh.”
  
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• The Importance of Peter Gabriel to The Americans

  29-03-2018 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Americans has a habit of returning to certain musical artists. Songs by Yaz have shown up on the show’s soundtrack more than once, as have tracks by Roxy Music. Fleetwood Mac, whose “Tusk” was featured notably in the pilot, made its third appearance in Wednesday’s season-six premiere, during a surveillance...More »
  
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• Everything You’ll Want to Know After Finishing Wild Wild Country

  29-03-2018 20:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  Chapman and Maclain Way’s six-plus-hour Netflix docuseries Wild Wild Country — chronicling the Rajneesh commune’s controversial and criminal efforts to overtake a rural Oregon town — is nothing if not exhaustive. But as anyone with an internet connection knows, there’s always more to the story. Before you start scouring the...More »
  
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• Serial’s Adnan Syed Has Been Granted a New Trial

  29-03-2018 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  More than three years after Adnan Syed became a nationwide person of interest due to his alleged involvement in the murder of his former girlfriend, Hae Min Lee, he’s been officially granted a new trial. CBS News reports that a Maryland appeals court declared Syed’s attorney to be “ineffective” counsel...More »
  
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• The Weeknd Is Dropping a Surprise Album, My Dear Melancholy, Tonight

  29-03-2018 20:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  Breakups are rough. An ex’s quick rebound back to their other ex after a breakup is rougher. Which is how we presumably arrived at this moment, in which the Weeknd has (vaguely) announced that he’s dropping a surprise album tonight. It’s titled after his many feelings: My Dear Melancholy, with...More »
  
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• Kathy Griffin Taking Another Swing at Political Satire With Kellyanne Conway Impression

  29-03-2018 20:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  Move over, Kate McKinnon and your witchy, fried hair. There’s a new Kellyanne Conway impersonator in town. Kathy Griffin will be impersonating Trump’s right-hand adviser for Comedy Central’s Make America Great-a-Thon: A President Show Special, a satirical series that stars Anthony Atamanuik as our country’s president. The big, huge special...More »
  
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• What It’s Like to Watch Isle of Dogs As a Japanese Speaker

  29-03-2018 20:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  When the first trailer arrived for Isle of Dogs last fall, I had three immediate, consecutive reactions: One: Oh, no. Two: Wait, I take that back. I’m going to be a good critic and reserve judgement until the week of March 23. Three: This is exhausting.In the week since Isle...More »
  
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• Review: A Bad Romance with Operatic Overtones in ‘Dido of Idaho’

  29-03-2018 19:26 via nytimes.com
  This retelling of the ancient Greek queen’s plight, set in the modern Midwest, is hilarious until it takes a grisly turn.
  
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• Review: ‘Gemini’ Finds Murder in a Movie-Soaked Los Angeles

  29-03-2018 19:23 via nytimes.com
  The director Aaron Katz plays with film noir conventions in this pleasurably drifty, low-wattage mystery.
  
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• Ready Player One Is a Lively and Agreeable Work of Fanboy Art

  29-03-2018 18:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  Steven Spielberg’s movie of Ernest Cline’s seminal gamer novel, Ready Player One, is a lively and agreeable work of fanboy art — a first-rate film fashioned from secondhand materials. It unfolds in 2045, much of it in a Columbus, Ohio, laid out like a filthy, decaying vertical trailer park. This...More »
  
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• Incredibles 2 Trailer Shows Bob and Ellen Trading Parental and Superhero Jobs

  29-03-2018 18:45 via feeds.eonline.com
  "Where's mom?"The Incredibles 2 trailer looks--for lack of a better word--incredible.Written and directed by Brad Bird, the animated film features the talents of...
  
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• Ben Affleck Is ‘Doing Just Fine’ With His Terrible Back Tattoo

  29-03-2018 18:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  Remember the time when Ben Affleck tried to deflect interest in his cartoonishly large, phoenix-rising-from-the-ashes back tattoo because people kept ridiculing him for it? Ah, fun memories. We were more than happy to investigate the psychology behind Affleck’s ink fib when the tattoo once again made an appearance earlier this...More »
  
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• Every High Maintenance Episode, Ranked

  29-03-2018 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the early days of this decade, it was unclear if the DIY webseries that populated YouTube and Vimeo could ever make the jump to TV. Now, the sustained success of shows like Insecure, Broad City, and Drunk History has proven to TV execs that the internet is its own...More »
  
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• Every Al Pacino Performance, Ranked

  29-03-2018 18:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  If Al Pacino had announced in, say, 1980 that he was retiring — deciding that the strenuous demands of Method acting had become too much for him — he’d have already done enough incredible work to be considered an all-timer. (If anything, leaving the limelight at 40 would have only...More »
  
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• Margot Robbie Goes Noir in ‘Terminal’ Trailer

  29-03-2018 17:28 via nytimes.com
  The Oscar-nominated actress stars alongside Mike Myers and Simon Pegg in a film directed by Vaughn Stein, making his feature debut.
  
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• Peter Kay reveals charity screening of new Car Share episodes

  29-03-2018 17:26
  Comedian invites fans to roll up for Blackpool show following cancellation of his tour last yearThe comedian Peter Kay has announced a charity screening of new episodes of his hit TV show Car Share.In his first post on Twitter since the comic cancelled a national tour late last year, Kay said that a charity screening of the new episodes would take place early next month in Blackpool.Continue reading...
  
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• Westworld Season 2 Trailer: Rise of the Very Human Machines

  29-03-2018 17:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  You’re not dreaming: Westworld is coming back (or maybe you are dreaming, but still, Westworld is coming back). As the robots, led by Evan Rachel Wood, Thandie Newton, and Jeffrey Wright, reckon with their consciousness, they also start to wage war on the humans — venturing into “Shogun World” along...More »
  
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• Ready Player One Reviews Are In--and It's Giving Critics Pop Culture Whiplash

  29-03-2018 17:20 via feeds.eonline.com
  Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One, based on Ernest Cline's bestseller of the same name, premieres in theaters nationwide today--but did the beloved filmmaker do the novel...
  
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• Tiffany Haddish Has One Last Thing to Say About Who Bit Beyoncé

  29-03-2018 17:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  Tiffany Haddish’s lips are sealed. During an Instagram live posted Wednesday, Haddish said she won’t say any more about the mystery actress responsible for biting Beyoncé’s symmetrical, immaculate face. “NDAs are real, so I’m not saying shit about nothing,” Haddish said. Instead, she lectured us about what really matters —...More »
  
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• Review: Spielberg’s ‘Ready Player One’ Plays the Nostalgia Game

  29-03-2018 17:17 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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• Whiny Jeopardy! Fans Are Upset Because They Didn’t Know a Beatles Clue

  29-03-2018 16:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  Beware: The following paragraph contains high amounts of Beatlemania. Some ardent Jeopardy! watchers found themselves in a tizzy Wednesday night, after “Final Jeopardy!” begged this question about the Fab Four: “Complaints about heavy workloads inspired the titles of two songs by this group, No. 1 hits seven months apart.” The...More »
  
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• Sarah Jessica Parker Endorses Cynthia Nixon’s Run for Governor

  29-03-2018 16:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sarah Jessica Parker has officially endorsed her former Sex and the City co-star Cynthia Nixon’s run for governor of New York.Parker posted a picture of Nixon to Instagram on Thursday morning, calling her “a mother, an activist, an advocate, a fighter, a NY’er, a dear friend” and adding, “my sister on and off screen,...More »
  
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• NYC Stories: A Central Park Pooper Butts In on Kiele Sanchez’s NYC Fantasy

  29-03-2018 16:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  New York City has long been a destination for lovers — but as Lost’s Kiele Sanchez discovers, romance can be easily shattered by fellow New Yorkers with unusually loose bowels....More »
  
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• Lola Kirke, John Cho, and Aaron Katz on Punching Zoë Kravitz and the Pitfalls of Fame

  29-03-2018 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  In Gemini, written and directed by Aaron Katz, Lola Kirke and Zoë Kravitz play what a fellow character describes as “freaky, fucked-up best friends.” Kirke is Jill, the unfailingly patient and reliable personal assistant to Kravitz’s flaky Heather, a famous actress who’s recently pissed off a number of her Hollywood...More »
  
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• Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda on Life After Chester Bennington, in His Own Words

  29-03-2018 16:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  On July 20, 2017, the music world lost one of its most innovative artists in Chester Bennington. The singer and front man was best known for his work in the genre-bending rap-rock group Linkin Park, which rose to fame with its 2000 debut album Hybrid Theory. For almost 20 years,...More »
  
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• Critic’s Notebook: Women on Stage Get Their Turn on the Playing Field

  29-03-2018 16:26 via nytimes.com
  A spate of works like “The Wolves” and “The Wholehearted” use sports to explore ideas about femininity, self-image and power.
  
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• Janice Dickinson Will Testify Against Bill Cosby

  29-03-2018 16:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Former model Janice Dickinson will be among the five women testifying against Bill Cosby during his trial next week. The 80-year-old stands accused of three felony counts of sexual assault. Dickinson, who is suing Cosby over defamation in a civil trial in California, will share her accusations that the now-80-year-old...More »
  
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• Opening Night: Edward Albee's Three Tall Women Opens on Broadway

  29-03-2018 16:00
  The Pulitzer Prize-winning play stars Glenda Jackson, Laurie Metcalf, and Alison Pill.
  
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• Ethan Hawke Is Your Hot, Conflicted Priest in A24’s First Reformed

  29-03-2018 15:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  Paul Schrader is pairing up with cool-kid studio A24 to deliver First Reformed, about a small-town priest struggling with his faith. (Call it Silence meets Doubt?) When Amanda Seyfried, playing a pregnant member of the congregation of Father Ernst Toller (Ethan Hawke), seeks his counsel about her radical-environmentalist husband, the...More »
  
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• Dana Carvey Did Some Excellent Mustache Work As John Bolton on the Late Show

  29-03-2018 15:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  John Bolton is the latest lawmaker in Confederate-soldier cosplay to make the rounds on the late-night circuit. The Late Show invited Bolton (Dana Carvey), the national security adviser designate, onto the show amid claims that he’s a complete madman who once threw a tape dispenser at a contractor and called...More »
  
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• Donald Trump Called Roseanne Barr to Congratulate Her on the Roseanne Revival

  29-03-2018 15:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  ABC’s Roseanne revival drew a grand total of 18.2 million same-day viewers with its premiere, which was apparently enough to catch the eye of the ratings-obsessed president. Per the New York Times, Donald Trump called up Roseanne Barr, a Trump supporter like her character Roseanne Conner (though her family members...More »
  
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• Nigella Lawson’s 10 Favorite Books

  29-03-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Bookseller One Grand Books has asked celebrities to name the ten titles they’d take to a desert island, and they’ve shared the results with Vulture. Below is TV host and food writer Nigella Lawson’s list. Her new cookbook At My Table: A Celebration of Home Cooking, is out April 10....More »
  
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• Jack White and Julian Casablancas Show Their Age on New Albums

  29-03-2018 14:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  Rock and roll is a very Western art form; it’s branded by our homegrown strain of doublethink. Rock stars question the power structure while moving like tiny model corporations. They challenge the dream of wealth and prosperity because they believe in it. This is how the Grateful Dead managed to...More »
  
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• Drew Barrymore Plots Her Next Movie With Adam Sandler--and It's Not What You'd Expect

  29-03-2018 14:04 via feeds.eonline.com
  Drew Barrymore hasn't ruled out doing another movie with Adam Sandler.
  The 43-year-old actress weighed in on what she would like their next project to be on Wednesday's episode...
  
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• Theater News: Marina Carr's Woman and Scarecrow to Have New York Premiere

  29-03-2018 14:00
  Stephanie Roth Haberle, Pamela Gray, and more will star in the production, directed by Ciarán O'Reilly, at Irish Rep.
  
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• Review: ‘Personal Problems,’ a Look at African-American Life in 1980 New York

  29-03-2018 14:00 via nytimes.com
  The brainchild of the writer Ishmael Reed and the director Bill Gunn, this film is an uncategorizable work of art — and an engrossing one.
  
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• Review: Al Pacino’s Journey With Wilde’s ‘Salomé’

  29-03-2018 14:00 via nytimes.com
  A story of obsession plays out in “Wilde Salomé” and “Salomé,” as Mr. Pacino veers into Camp.
  
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