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• Cosby’s Legal Team Will Be Able to Call Witness Who Says His Accuser Is Lying

  03-04-2018 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  The judge presiding over Bill Cosby’s felony sexual-assault trial handed the defense a big win today. Not only will the comedian’s legal team be able to call a controversial witness, Marguerite Jackson, who claims that Cosby’s accuser, Andrea Constand, told her that she wanted to get money for lying about...More »
  
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• 4 Ways 2001: A Space Odyssey Was a Visual-Effects Pioneer

  03-04-2018 22:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  Four key engineering and cinematographic techniques helped Stanley Kubrick create a depiction of space in 2001: A Space Odyssey that still feels real half a century after the film’s release. These techniques also inspired countless films that came after Kubrick’s masterpiece....More »
  
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• Chloë Sevigny Wants A Job

  03-04-2018 22:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  Chloë Sevigny is all over the place, and yet she feels like she’s nowhere. We meet on a cold March morning at boutique studio A24’s offices in midtown Manhattan to discuss her role in the upcoming drama Lean on Pete (she plays a horse rider named Bonnie, who provides wayward...More »
  
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• ‘Night School’ Trailer: Kevin Hart Teams Up With Tiffany Haddish

  03-04-2018 22:22 via nytimes.com
  The two comedians are joined by Taran Killam and Rob Riggle in the fall comedy, directed by Malcolm D. Lee.
  
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• Celeste’s Therapist Will Be Back in Big Little Lies Season 2; So Will Madeline’s Daughter and That Detective

  03-04-2018 21:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  Lest you were at all worried that Nicole Kidman wouldn’t have a clip worthy of an Emmy reel in Big Little Lies season two, it seems that Celeste will have plenty to work through in therapy when the show returns. HBO announced today that Robin Weigert, who played Dr. Amanda...More »
  
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• The Weeknd’s My Dear Melancholy Is a Jarring Breakup Album

  03-04-2018 21:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  For an artist whose entire year-one shtick was darkness and mystery, the Weeknd has taken his music to slicker and more accessible places at every turn since. His 2011 debut mixtape, House of Balloons, was a coup, a jarring reminder that R&B could be dark, sexy, and proggy at the...More »
  
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• Review: Leafing Through the Pages of Childhood in Feeding the Dragon

  03-04-2018 21:00
  An actor tells her story of living in a library.
  
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• Review: Bobbie Clearly Through a Glass Darkly

  03-04-2018 21:00
  Roundabout Underground hosts Alex Lubischer's drama about an inexplicable act of violence in small-town Nebraska.
  
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• Murdoch’s gladhanding of Disney in the Sky arm-wrestle

  03-04-2018 20:57 via ft.com
  Party small-talk could have cleared way for main course of media deal
  
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• Eric Bana Will Devilishly Pursue Connie Britton in That Dirty John Anthology Series

  03-04-2018 20:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  Don’t you dare touch Connie’s gorgeous mane of ginger hair, Bana. Following Bravo’s announcement that Connie Britton was cast as interior designer Debra Newell in its upcoming Dirty John anthology series, THR has confirmed that Eric Bana will play the other lead role as titular con artist “Dirty” John Meehan....More »
  
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• Adam Sandler Joins the Safdie Brothers’ New A24 Film, Uncut Gems

  03-04-2018 20:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  In their follow-up to the critically acclaimed Good Time, the writing and directing duo Josh and Benny Safdie have recruited Adam Sandler to star in Uncut Gems. Deadline broke the news, but had no plot details to share. We do know it will bring the Safdies back to A24, which...More »
  
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• Sexy TV Doctors Unite As Hugh Laurie Joins George Clooney in Hulu’s Catch-22

  03-04-2018 20:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  Hulu’s forthcoming take on Catch-22 will be about both how war is meaningless hell and how older men who used to play TV doctors can definitely still get it. The streaming service announced today that Hugh Laurie (remember House?) is joining the cast of its six-part adaptation of Joseph Heller’s...More »
  
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• Ian Hislop and Paul Merton under fire for female host remarks

  03-04-2018 19:46
  Have I Got News For You captains said women were too modest or reticent to present the BBC showThe quiz show captains Ian Hislop and Paul Merton have faced a backlash over their claims female politicians are too reticent and modest to host Have I Got News For You.Their comments prompted a surge of calls for gender parity on comedy panel shows, with female comedians challenging the BBC One programme’s producers to “hire us and the MPs will follow”.Continue reading...
  
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• Everything to Remember About Legion Before Watching Season Two

  03-04-2018 19:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  Deconstructing Noah Hawley’s Legion is a headache-inducing challenge. It may have the Marvel logo on it, but this is not a traditional superhero show by any stretch of the imagination. Between alterable memories, psychically superpowered mutants, constructed realities, and visually provocative direction, it’s better to just sit back and enjoy...More »
  
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• Cardi B Is Co-hosting The Tonight Show Next Week [Excited Chirping Noise]

  03-04-2018 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  For the first time in the entire history of NBC’s The Tonight Show, someone will be cracking some inoffensive topical jokes and asking softball questions as a co-host. And we think you know who it is, okurrrr! Cardi B is joining Jimmy Fallon to host the Monday, April 9 show,...More »
  
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• The Year’s Best Joke Is Also Its Saddest

  03-04-2018 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Comedy is too subjective to assume one’s sense of humor is inherently better than others’. The “best” joke doesn’t necessarily mean the funniest joke. In this context, the best joke essentially means the greatest use of the form of stand-up comedy. And so far this year, that distinction goes to...More »
  
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• ‘Yellow Submarine’ to Arrive in Theaters for Its 50th Anniversary

  03-04-2018 19:26 via nytimes.com
  A restored version of the animated Beatles film will be shown in the United States, Britain and Ireland.
  
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• Critic’s Notebook: Women (and Men, Too) Pushed to the Edge at New Play Festival

  03-04-2018 19:25 via nytimes.com
  This year’s Humana roster includes merciless looks at power imbalances in the workplace, and a doom-metal finale that left audiences shellshocked.
  
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• Spotify opens at $165.90 for $29.5bn valuation

  03-04-2018 19:17 via ft.com
  Price set at 26 per cent more than $132 a share reference point in unconventional NYSE listing
  
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• Martin Freeman Is on the Run From Zombies in Cargo

  03-04-2018 19:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  Martin Freeman spent years navigating the many perils of Middle Earth, and for all that hard work he’s landed himself in the Australian Outback, navigating the perils of a zombie outbreak. In Cargo, Freeman stars as a dad who has just been bitten by one of the infected, and must...More »
  
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• Exclusive: Get a Sneak Peek at Michelle Pfeiffer’s Tremendous Performance in Where Is Kyra?

  03-04-2018 19:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Is the Michelle Pfeiffer renaissance finally upon us? After an extended break, the dynamic actress has reignited her career in the past year with work in Darren Aronofsky’s horror flick Mother! and the HBO film Wizard of Lies. But the drama Where Is Kyra? looks to be exactly the sort...More »
  
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• Review: ‘All the Cities of the North’ Explores Architecture and Men

  03-04-2018 19:14 via nytimes.com
  The shards of a story in this experimental film initially focus on two men living on a decaying compound.
  
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• The Last O.G. Is a Hopeful Comedy That Brings Tracy Morgan Back to TV

  03-04-2018 19:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Last O.G. is essentially a fish-out-of-water comedy in which the fish is an ex-convict played by Tracy Morgan and his non-water environment is gentrified Brooklyn.When Tray, Morgan’s character in the TBS comedy that debuts tonight, returns home after spending 15 years in prison, he steps off a bus into...More »
  
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• I’m Tired of Being Dermot Mulroney’s Onscreen Love Interest

  03-04-2018 18:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  With apologies to the original. And Dermot Mulroney too, I guess.At my very first job in Hollywood, a co-star jokingly informed me, “You came here expecting to act opposite Oscar winners, but you’re going to end up sharing scenes with Dermot Mulroney.” At the time, I had no idea she...More »
  
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• Night School Trailer: Tiffany Haddish Whips Kevin Hart Into Academic Shape

  03-04-2018 18:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  Welcome to the trailer for Night School (not to be mistaken for the NBC sitcom Night Court) which finds the perpetually unlucky Kevin Hart returning to his old stomping grounds in the hopes of getting his GED. Hart’s astute grill salesman blows up his barbecue store, and if he wants...More »
  
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• Let’s Cast the All-Star Kennedy Family

  03-04-2018 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  The only White House more fun to fan-cast than Washington’s current tribe of grifters — the Trump administration — is the Kennedy family. At their height, they were young and idyllic, their story dramatic, every player photo-ready. The Camelot myth has long fascinated Hollywood, most recently handing us Jackie, LBJ,...More »
  
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• Transparent Continues, Sort of, As a Live Musical

  03-04-2018 17:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It’s been a rough year,” said Faith Soloway, whose sister is Jill Soloway, the creator of the Amazon series Transparent — Faith also writes for the show — last night at Joe’s Pub, when she came onstage in jeans, a tux jacket, and an I [heart] NY T-shirt. “It’s been...More »
  
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• Immuno-oncology: on target

  03-04-2018 17:53 via ft.com
  Clinical setbacks in cancer research are likely to be punished
  
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• Spotify priced at $165.90 for $29.5bn valuation

  03-04-2018 17:15 via ft.com
  share indicated in unconventional NYSE listing
  
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• Meet Justina Ireland, YA Twitter’s Leading Warrior

  03-04-2018 17:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  This winter, the comment section of an article in the School Library Journal took a surreal turn. The piece was about how children’s publishing was reckoning with its own #MeToo moment, and readers had been using the forum to air complaints of sexual harassment. Amid the charges of lewd remarks...More »
  
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• Theater News: Ben Platt, Rachel Bay Jones Join Lineup for Stephen Schwartz's Birthday Concert

  03-04-2018 17:00
  The event will benefit the Dramatists Guild Foundation.
  
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• Photo Flash: Sara Bareilles Receives a Sardi's Portrait

  03-04-2018 17:00
  The Waitress composer and Jesus Christ Superstar leading lady joins the restaurant's wall of fame.
  
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• Kim Deal Is Still a Punk

  03-04-2018 16:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I’ve never managed to make New York successful for me,” says Kim Deal, shaking her head. “Whenever I went to New York City I just ended up in the cellar doing drugs.” This was earlier this winter, at the singer and songwriter’s hotel on the Lower East Side, where she...More »
  
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• Theater na de Dam: Meer dan alleen twee minuten stil staan ... - Veenendaalse Krant

  03-04-2018 16:31
  Veenendaalse Krant
  Theater na de Dam: Meer dan alleen twee minuten stil staan ...
  Veenendaalse Krant
  Op vrijdag 4 mei om 20.00 uur 's avonds houden we twee minuten stilte om de slachtoffers van de Tweede Wereldoorlog en die van conflicten nadien te herdenken. Theater De Lampegiet vult dit op een bijzondere manier aan. In het kader van Theater Na de ...en meer »
  
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• Ermelo's Weekblad - De Gitaarsalon Roadshow met 'Day and Night ... - Ermelo's Weekblad (persbericht) (Blog)

  03-04-2018 16:28
  Ermelo's Weekblad (persbericht) (Blog)
  Ermelo's Weekblad - De Gitaarsalon Roadshow met 'Day and Night ...
  Ermelo's Weekblad (persbericht) (Blog)
  De Gitaarsalon Roadshow brengt het publiek in aanraking met de vele gezichten van dit geliefde instrument, de gitaar! Zes topgitaristen laten samen zien en horen hoe de gitaar als geen ander instrument klassieke muziek met vele muziekstijlen en ...en meer »
  
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• Sky: the Italian job

  03-04-2018 16:17 via ft.com
  Bids for the broadcaster have come at just the right time
  
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• Please Enjoy the Wildest Lines From This Will Ferrell and Joaquin Phoenix Interview

  03-04-2018 16:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  Last week, Interview magazine dropped one of the most surprisingly delightful celebrity chats in recent memory. If you didn’t see it until now, please take five minutes and divert your attention to Will Ferrell interviewing Joaquin Phoenix. It’s worth it. We promise. We have no idea why this was orchestrated,...More »
  
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• The Last OG review – Jordan Peele's gentrification sitcom coasts on charm

  03-04-2018 15:54
  Co-created by the Oscar-winning writer-director of Get Out, the often inspired show has Tracy Morgan returning to a gentrified Brooklyn intent on winning back his exAt its best moments, The Last OG, co-created and executive-produced by Jordan Peele, reminded me of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, one of television’s most reliably delightful half-hour comedies. Tonally, the shows overlap, running on slapstick, absurdist situational humor, and the singularly eccentric charisma of their leads. Ther
  
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• Academic publisher Springer Nature considers Frankfurt listing

  03-04-2018 15:52 via ft.com
  Margin-rich business model of scientific journals is under scrutiny from European academics
  
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