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• Colin Trevorrow to Direct Jurassic World 3

  30-03-2018 23:23 via feeds.eonline.com
  Colin Trevorrow is back in the director's chair for Jurassic World 3.Executive Producer Steven Spielberg told EW that the filmmaker "is going to write and direct the third...
  
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• Have You Seen ‘Ready Player One’? Let’s Talk Spoilers

  30-03-2018 23:04 via nytimes.com
  A breakdown of Steven Spielberg’s epic adaptation of the popular and polarizing paean to nerddom.
  
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• Have you seen ‘Ready Player One’? Let’s talk.

  30-03-2018 23:04 via nytimes.com
  A breakdown of Steven Spielberg’s epic adaptation of the popular and polarizing paean to nerddom.
  
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• Cosby Trial Delayed Again, This Time Over Quaaludes

  30-03-2018 22:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  During pretrial hearings for the Bill Cosby trial today at the Montgomery County Courthouse outside of Philadelphia, prosecutors and the defense went head to head over whether testimony from last year’s felony sex-assault trial will be permitted into evidence during the comedian’s new trial next month.DA Kevin Steele would like...More »
  
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• Mel Gordon, Drama Scholar of the Fringe, Is Dead at 71

  30-03-2018 22:29 via nytimes.com
  An insatiable curiosity led him to contemplate Jewish superheroes, bad acting, the sexualized worlds of Weimer Berlin and Risqué Paris, and more.
  
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• Mel Gordon, 71, Drama Scholar of the Fringe, Is Dead at 71

  30-03-2018 22:29 via nytimes.com
  An insatiable curiosity led him to contemplate Jewish superheroes, bad acting, the sexualized worlds of Weimer Berlin and Risqué Paris, and more.
  
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• Watch The Good Fight’s Smart Take on the #MeToo Era

  30-03-2018 21:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  This Sunday’s episode of The Good Fight continues the series’ streak of being at the forefront of ongoing political conversations by reckoning with the #MeToo movement.The episode, “Day 429,” primarily revolves around Diane Lockhart (Christine Baranski) and fellow law partner Adrian Boseman (Delroy Lindo), who are acting as counsel for...More »
  
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• The Weeknd’s ‘Wasted Times’ Does Drake Better Than Drake Can

  30-03-2018 21:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Weeknd and Drake have something of a shared history. Both young black men raised in the Toronto area, their trajectories crossed when the latter had just become a major-label star and the former, born Abel Tesfaye, remained a shadowy alias pouring out his soul into free mixtapes. Drake’s star...More »
  
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• What’s New on Hulu: April 2018

  30-03-2018 21:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  Because season two is almost here: The Handmaid’s TaleNow firmly past the events of its source material, The Handmaid’s Tale has reached a fraught but exciting place. After a first season that both covered Margaret Atwood’s novel and expanded it, the dystopian series is now standing on its own, so...More »
  
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• Was Donald Glover’s Deadpool Show Doomed by a Taylor Swift Episode?

  30-03-2018 20:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  After both Donald and Stephen Glover, FX, and Marvel walked away from an animated Deadpool series that the brothers had scripted, Donald shared a mock script shading the executives, which referenced an episode about Taylor Swift. At the time, that seemed like another one of the mock script’s timely jokes,...More »
  
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• On Kacey Musgraves’s Golden Hour, a Star Is Born

  30-03-2018 20:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  Like porcelain, Kacey Musgraves’s voice seems both sturdy and delicate at the same time. She can bowl you over belting out big notes, but she’s every bit as commanding at a whisper. Listening to her best songs — “Follow Your Arrow,” “Merry Go ’Round,” “Miserable” — feels like eavesdropping on...More »
  
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• Arnold Schwarzenegger undergoes heart surgery

  30-03-2018 20:43
  The former California governor underwent a planned procedure on a pulmonic valve originally replaced in 1997, his spokesman saidArnold Schwarzenegger had heart surgery in Los Angeles on Thursday, his representative has confirmed.The former California governor and Terminator actor underwent surgery to replace a pulmonic valve, a spokesman, Daniel Ketchell, said in a statement. Continue reading...
  
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• ABC Renews Roseanne For 11th Season

  30-03-2018 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Roseanne is back and here to stay. On the heels of its massive premiere, ABC has announced that it will renew the sitcom for an 11th season. “We’re thrilled that America has welcomed the Conner family back into their homes. The show is as fresh and relevant today as it...More »
  
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• Bringing the World of Ta-Nehisi Coates, Briefly, to Stage

  30-03-2018 19:56 via nytimes.com
  Mr. Coates’s “Between the World and Me,” which began as a personal address to his son, is being adapted for a communal performance at the Apollo Theater.
  
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• Review: A Salon With Strangers in a Freewheeling ‘War and Peace’

  30-03-2018 19:55 via nytimes.com
  Familiarity with Tolstoy’s novel is no prerequisite for enjoying this antic show by the Berlin-based troupe Gob Squad.
  
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• The Wild Wild Country Directors Still Wonder Who Is Right and Wrong, Too

  30-03-2018 19:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  After watching Wild Wild Country, the buzzy Netflix docuseries that tells the totally insane story of the Rajneeshee community’s conflict with Oregon residents and government officials in the 1980s, you probably have a lot of questions. The brothers who directed the series, Chapman and Maclain Way, are here to answer...More »
  
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• Encounters: The Actor and Comedian Jay Pharoah Channels ‘Sparta’ at the Gym

  30-03-2018 18:53 via nytimes.com
  The former “Saturday Night Live” actor, who stars in the movie “Unsane,” shows off his lean physique.
  
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• ABC Held a Meeting After Trump’s Election That Led to Reviving Roseanne and American Idol

  30-03-2018 18:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  The morning after Trump’s election, ABC held a meeting that redirected the course of its programming strategy. According to the New York Times, the network’s executives decided that their diverse lineup, which included shows like Fresh Off the Boat, Grey’s Anatomy, Designated Survivor, and The Middle that depict characters on...More »
  
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• Review: In ‘Acrimony,’ Taraji P. Henson Endures Marriage and Script Woes

  30-03-2018 18:44 via nytimes.com
  The Tyler Perry melodrama follows a woman who undergoes trials brought on by a cheating husband (Lyriq Bent).
  
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• Love After Love Is a Revelatory Moment for Andie MacDowell

  30-03-2018 18:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  The extended-family drama Love After Love is swimming with hate, mostly self-hate, but that’s the kind that tends to get projected most viciously onto others. It opens on a soon-to-be-widowed mother, Suzanne — played by a flabbergastingly young-looking Andie MacDowell, in a performance that will put to rest any doubts...More »
  
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• Iggy Azalea’s Management Staged an Intervention Because of Her Twitter Beefs

  30-03-2018 18:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  Iggy Azalea is preparing her next comeback attempt, which includes working with a new label and management team. The mangers, Azalea told Billboard, asked that she complete a visit to a facility in Arizona for a “mental retreat” to address her general mental health ahead of working on and releasing...More »
  
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• Coffee With Edie Falco, Buddhist Mom of the West Village

  30-03-2018 18:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I play sort of scary a lot, a little bit outside what’s accepted,” Edie Falco says. “I don’t know how it happened. I’m a nerdy little girl from Long Island. I sort of love the fact that people think I’m tough, because I’m really a bit of a pushover.”We’re getting...More »
  
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• We Have to Talk About Chris Evans’s Mustache

  30-03-2018 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  What’s Good is a weekly column collecting TV, music, movies, and miscellaneous cultural ephemera worthy of your time. Why? Because we like it. Check back Fridays at lunchtime for your guide to what is good.A week ago, Chris Evans debuted a mustache. I think he’s also in a play and has...More »
  
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• Video Flash: The Kid Band of School of Rock Pays Tribute to Jesus Christ Superstar

  30-03-2018 18:00
  The youngsters of the Andrew Lloyd Webber show rock out to "Heaven on Their Minds" before this Sunday's live broadcast.
  
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• The Story of a Voice: HAL in ‘2001’ Wasn’t Always So Eerily Calm

  30-03-2018 17:51 via nytimes.com
  The veteran Shakespearean actor Douglas Rain replaced the Oscar winner Martin Balsam, setting the standard for how artificial intelligence sounds.
  
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• Oxfam scandal linked to Sport Relief raising a third less on the night

  30-03-2018 17:50
  This year’s on-the-night appeal on BBC raised £32.8m, compared with £55.4m last yearFears have been raised about the potential impact of the Oxfam sexual abuse scandal on the wider charity sector after Sport Relief’s on-the-night appeal raised about a third less than last year. In 2016, the last time the BBC fundraiser was held, £55.4m was raised on the night and a record £72.5m in total but this year’s amount currently stands at £32.8m, just over
  
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• You Know You Want to Watch Lesley Manville Smear Daniel-Day Lewis With Jam

  30-03-2018 17:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  Phantom Thread, the movie that keeps on meme-giving, has gifted the world another creation as perfect as a House of Woodcock dress. In a deleted scene, via Entertainment Tonight, Lesley Manville’s Cyril and Daniel-Day Lewis’s Reynolds get into a food fight over breakfast, leading them to pour tea on each...More »
  
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• Bill Maynard obituary

  30-03-2018 17:35
  Comedy actor who starred in Heartbeat and as Selwyn FroggittBill Maynard, who has died aged 89, was well known as an actor and comedian, especially as a member of the cast in five Carry On films and in the popular television series Heartbeat. Behind the scenes he had a reputation as a hell-raiser. His Carry On parts began in Carry On Loving (1970) and he appeared in four of the cruder Confessions series in the 70s. He had his own show on BBC Radio Leicester until 2008 and was still working well
  
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• Gemini Is a Glossy, Atmospheric L.A. Neo-Noir

  30-03-2018 17:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  I can think of several kinds of music that encapsulate present-day Los Angeles aesthetically, but Keegan DeWitt’s score for Aaron Katz’s Gemini makes a compelling case for itself. Over a languorously slow tilt down from a row of palm trees silhouetted in a purply dusk sky, a nervous nu-rave synth...More »
  
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• Everything We Learned About the Weeknd and Selena Gomez’s Relationship From His New Album

  30-03-2018 17:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Weeknd is dark and moody again! On Thursday night, he released a surprise six-song EP, My Dear Melancholy, overflowing with all the Very Serious melodrama we haven’t heard since his mixtape days. Abel has had his heart shattered and he now requests your shoulder to cry on. Sad boy!...More »
  
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• You Wish Your Friends Left Instagram Comments As Nice As the Queer Eye Cast’s

  30-03-2018 16:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  I don’t have much experience in earnest, unironically encouraging social-media comments from my closest friends. Hayley will let me choose restaurants that adhere to my specific diet of pasta and burgers, and Eliza will approve or veto a dozen outfit options before a party, but my friends drag me on...More »
  
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• The Weirdest Lines From Sean Penn’s Wannabe-Gonzo Novel

  30-03-2018 16:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  Meet Bob Honey, the star of Sean Penn’s debut novel Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff: “America, it seems to Bob, is no longer that beautiful girl who’d birthed him. But instead, the ghost of a girl he’d never known.” (p. 119) If Timothée Chalamet’s Lady Bird character and Gossip...More »
  
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• This Movie Romance Scandalized a Nation. Now It’s a Drama Onstage.

  30-03-2018 16:00 via nytimes.com
  For the prizewinning journalist Lawrence Wright, the affair between Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton on the “Cleopatra” set was made for the stage.
  
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• Streaming: From ‘Ben-Hur’ to ‘Hop,’ Slim Pickings From the Easter Bunny’s Basket

  30-03-2018 16:00 via nytimes.com
  Our Easter movie hunt led to some oldies, including “King of Kings” and “The Greatest Story Ever Told.”
  
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• A Word With: Kate Mara Takes On Another Political Death

  30-03-2018 16:00 via nytimes.com
  Ms. Mara talks about playing Mary Jo Kopechne in the political drama “Chappaquiddick,” Kevin Spacey and her new series by Ryan Murphy.
  
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• From 60 Minutes to Roseanne, It’s Been a Great Month for Network TV

  30-03-2018 15:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  March has been a decidedly good month for broadcast television. Following an extended (and expertly executed) marketing campaign, the first two episodes of ABC’s Roseanne revival drew 18.4 million viewers Tuesday, on the way to what will likely be a total audience north of 25 million. On Sunday, CBS’s half-century-old...More »
  
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• Tennessee Williams lacked confidence, letters to friends reveal

  30-03-2018 15:38
  Book of previously-unpublished correspondence shows writer’s constant need for reassuranceHe found fame with The Glass Menagerie and won Pulitzer prizes for his stage masterpieces, A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, but Tennessee Williams was plagued by self-doubt, previously unpublished letters reveal.The American dramatist’s lack of confidence emerges repeatedly through his correspondence with trusted friends -his publisher James Laughlin, and editor Robert MacGreg
  
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• Watch Taylor Swift’s Stripped-down Music Video for ‘Delicate’

  30-03-2018 15:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  Vertical video for out now. Only on ✨ Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) March 30, 2018...More »
  
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• Atlanta Robbin’ Season Recap: A Good Day

  30-03-2018 15:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  It would’ve been foolhardy to try and top last week’s episode, so the Atlanta folks seemed to have bypassed that expectation entirely. If “Helen” excelled in character development, tension, and emotional resonance, “Barbershop” proves to be a whole other thing. The episode is an extended bit, which would be a...More »
  
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• Kacey Musgraves Is a Gay Icon and the World Needs to Know

  30-03-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s recently come to our attention that many country-averse queens have gone about their lives woefully unaware of the great musical stylings of one Kacey Musgraves, the world’s preeminent country-pop starlet who can fuck up a banjo lick real good and simultaneously know who Trixie Mattel is. She also has...More »
  
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• Andie MacDowell and Chris O’Dowd on Why Grief Makes You ‘Horny and Angry’

  30-03-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s hard to articulate exactly why writer-director Russell Harbaugh’s quirky, anti-sentimental feature debut Love After Love works so well in its dissection of a family’s grief. It helps that he cast the film perfectly — and rather surprisingly. Andie MacDowell is brilliant as Suzanne, the family matriarch who’s just lost...More »
  
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• Scandal Recap: Cyrus for President

  30-03-2018 14:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  Of all the shady, sleazy, even murderous acts someone can commit in the world of Scandal, the only unpardonable sin is choosing to live without love. Think about it: Olivia has killed multiple people, helped rig American elections, and broken more homes than the Property Brothers, but she’s in love...More »
  
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• Actor Bill Maynard, Greengrass in Heartbeat, dies aged 89

  30-03-2018 14:45
  Best known as the lovable rogue in the ITV series, he was also in Carry On films and The RoyalThe Heartbeat actor Bill Maynard has died at the age of 89, his family has confirmed. Maynard died in hospital in Leicestershire shortly after breaking his hip in a fall from his mobility scooter, his daughter-in-law said.Continue reading...
  
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• What’s New on HBO: April 2018

  30-03-2018 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Because violent delights have violent ends (and Radiohead covers): WestworldWe’ll soon find out if Westworld is the Game of Thrones–esque juggernaut that HBO wants it to be, or if it’s more within the purview of sci-fi obsessives. This being Westworld, we don’t know much about the plot except that we’ll...More »
  
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• Ready Player One's Blink-and-You'll-Miss-It Pop Culture References

  30-03-2018 13:00 via feeds.eonline.com
  Steven Spielberg's new sci-fi film Ready Player One is here!The dystopian movie is set in the year 2044, where people escape their miserable reality by entering the VR world of the...
  
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• This week’s best home entertainment: from Save Me to Cunk on Britain

  30-03-2018 12:59
  Lennie James’s gripping abduction drama comes to a cliffhanger conclusion, while Philomena Cunk embarks on her most ambitious project yetIn a year of TV dramas characterised by boilerplate earnestness, Save Me has been a breath of fresh air. Lennie James’s creation has carried real emotional weight thanks to its flaky but likable hero, Nelly. In this finale, Nelly looks for answers in the pub – surely yet another reason to like the man. A second season is in the works so don&rs
  
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• Theater News: Harriet Harris, David Rasche, and More Join New Berkshire Theatre Group Season

  30-03-2018 12:00
  The company has announced casting for its lineup of summer productions.
  
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• Modern family: how Roseanne deals with the political divide at home

  30-03-2018 12:00
  The rebooted sitcom lands the Conner family in the middle of a fractured climate and shows the day-to-day difficulties faced by those who struggle to align their beliefsIn the opening titles of Roseanne, we see the Conner family sitting around a table together, laughing, squabbling, eating, and generally loving one another. Since it began in the late 1980s, Roseanne has presented a tough yet tenderhearted image of the white midwestern working class. The Conners may not have had money or power, b
  
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• Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway: is it time for Dec to fly solo?

  30-03-2018 12:00
  Although most will be wishing him well, some ghoulish viewers will be hoping Dec slowly unravels into a performance of phantom limb syndromeDec. Dec. Roll it around your mouth a little, try to say it without the tart-sour taste on your tongue: Dec. Just: Dec. “Dec.” Ladies and gentlemen … Dec! Something is wrong. You can feel it, deep in your soul. You can feel the spiritual rift. Something is misaligned in the universe and everything now feels cosmically altered. Tonight, whi
  
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• Hear all about it: how daily news podcasts became publishing's new hope

  30-03-2018 11:29
  In the US, daily podcasts recapping events have become big business by providing income streams to newspapers while making stars out of their hosts. Could they cross the Atlantic?Morning news podcasts are having a moment. While storytelling such as Serial and Dirty John and good-quality interviews such as The Adam Buxton Podcast and WTF with Marc Maron have become a reliable route to an audio hit, listeners are now warming to a weekday news briefing too. The New York Times’s The Daily has
  
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