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• Secret Agent Selection: WW2 review – are you hard enough to kill for your country?

  09-04-2018 23:59
  Wannabe spies tackle gunmen and barbed wire to sort the Bonds from the softies, while in ancient Rome, the Plebs are opening a gastropubHave we grown soft, sedentary and snowflakey? Could any of us be turned into “spies, silent killers and resistance organisers”? Those are questions the makers of Secret Agent Selection: WW2 (BBC2, 9pm) have set out to answer with period-era uniform, Meccano challenges and dubious psychological testing. It’s a bit like The Apprentice, only inste
  
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• David Simon’s New Show Is All About the Spanish Civil War, Está Bien?

  09-04-2018 23:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  Vamanos back to cable TV! Per Variety, David Simon’s next foray in the television-industrial complex will be a drama set during the Spanish Civil War, revolving around members of two International Brigade battalions “who came to Spain from the U.S. to fight fascism.” Specifically, A Dry Run will explore the...More »
  
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• Los Angeles DA Declines to Prosecute James Toback

  09-04-2018 23:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office won’t press charges against James Toback. After more than 300 women — including Rachel McAdams and Selma Blair — accused the screenwriter and film director, known for his work on Bugsy and The Pick-up Artist, of sexual assault or harassment, the DA’s Hollywood...More »
  
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• Westworld Creators Offer to Spoil All of Season 2 to Somehow Protect It From Being Spoiled

  09-04-2018 23:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  Depending on whom you ask, trying to figure out what will happen next on Westworld is either the most or least fun aspect of the show. So the show’s creators, Jonah Nolan and Lisa Joy, have (maybe jokingly) announced that they’re planning to offer to spoil the show for a...More »
  
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• The Simpsons’ Apu Response Is What Happens When You’re on the Air for Too Long

  09-04-2018 22:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  In “No Good Read Goes Unpunished,” the 633rd episode of The Simpsons, the longest-running scripted series in TV history finally acknowledged that there is something problematic about the way it has portrayed Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, owner of the Kwik-E-Mart, for the past three decades. Yet at the same time, the show managed...More »
  
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• Cardi B’s Invasion of Privacy Cements Her Star Status

  09-04-2018 22:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  You could tell Cardi B was going to be a huge star long before the history-making Billboard chart run that’s turning her into a household name. Her early Instagram videos roasting scammers, haters, lazy lovers, and gossip blogs exhibited a no-nonsense personality and flawless comedic timing. She was a joy...More »
  
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• Batgirl Replaces Joss Whedon With Bumblebee Screenwriter

  09-04-2018 22:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  At long last, Batgirl might take flight. After Joss Whedon stepped away from the project — “It took me months to realize I really didn’t have a story,” he said in February — The Hollywood Reporter reports that screenwriter Christina Hodson will write a new script for the DC heroine....More »
  
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• Why Aren’t You Watching Schitt’s Creek Yet?

  09-04-2018 22:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  We get it, there’s a lot of television out there. It is impossible to watch every great show and still have time to go outside, breathe some fresh air, and live like a regular human. Do you really need another show recommendation? When it’s Schitt’s Creek, yeah, you really do.You...More »
  
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• HBO Says It Went Back and Fixed All the Pay Disparities in Its Shows Because of #TimesUp

  09-04-2018 22:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  HBO won’t succumb to what befell their royal competitors over at Netflix. As a “direct result” of the Time’s Up movement and encouragement from Big Little Lies’ Reese Witherspoon, HBO executive Casey Bloys admitted that the network took a cold, hard look at its gender pay gaps and promptly fixed...More »
  
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• Lindsey Buckingham Is Going His Own Way, Specifically, Leaving Fleetwood Mac

  09-04-2018 21:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  We wish we could say this is secondhand news, but … alas. Variety confirmed Lindsey Buckingham departed Fleetwood Mac ahead of the band’s upcoming international tour, leaving the lineup of Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Christine McVie, and Stevie Nicks to perform without his virtuoso guitar and vocal skills. An hour...More »
  
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• The Tale Teaser: HBO Brings Laura Dern’s Sundance Standout to TV

  09-04-2018 21:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  Laura Dern’s ascendancy continues with The Tale, one of the most-talked-about films at Sundance this year. Dern stars as producer and documentarian Jennifer Fox in a drama based on Fox’s own life, in which she confronts repressed memories of sexual abuse she suffered as a young teenager. In somewhat of...More »
  
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• Cosby Trial Continues With Juror Who Reportedly Said Comedian Was ‘Guilty’

  09-04-2018 21:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  Opening statements in the anticipated felony sexual-assault retrial of Bill Cosby were delayed significantly Monday morning at the Montgomery County Courthouse outside Philadelphia after Judge Steven O’Neill announced that he would be reviewing a motion by the defense to replace a juror.Late on Friday, Cosby’s lawyers filed a motion to...More »
  
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• So, What’s Going on With All This Dire Straits Rock-Hall Induction Drama?

  09-04-2018 21:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  This Saturday, six acts will be officially inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame — Bon Jovi, the Cars, Nina Simone, the Moody Blues, Sister Rosetta Tharpe and, yes, Dire Straits. But as the ceremony quickly approaches, an unusual source of drama has cropped up thanks to those...More »
  
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• Is it possible to separate Roseanne from its controversial star?

  09-04-2018 21:25
  The reboot of the family sitcom has become a monster ratings hit but the off-screen views of its lead star continue to unsettle The original series of Roseanne featured gay characters, cohabiting teenagers, women rebelling against sexist bosses and it was, for its time, shocking and progressive. It was also award-winning. Now, it’s back on ABC for an initial eight-episode run (a second series has already been commissioned). Why wouldn’t old fans like me herald the return of Roseanne?
  
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• Why Lucy Hale and Tyler Posey's Truth or Dare Sex Scene Is Extra "Awkward"

  09-04-2018 21:00 via feeds.eonline.com
  "Sex scenes are never sexy--ever," according to Lucy Hale.In an exclusive interview with E! News to promote Blumhouse Productions' Truth or Dare, in theaters Apr. 13, Hale...
  
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• Review: Con Men in Tap Shoes Lay Down ‘The Sting’

  09-04-2018 20:55 via nytimes.com
  Harry Connick Jr. is the star attraction in a jaunty if unremarkable musical adaptation of the Oscar-winning film.
  
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• Review: Outsiders and Gun Violence in This Flat Earth

  09-04-2018 20:00
  Lindsey Ferrentino's latest drama takes place in the wake of a school shooting.
  
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• Review: ‘Aloha, Aloha, or When I Was Queen’ Takes On the Cringeworthy

  09-04-2018 19:47 via nytimes.com
  A solo show by Eliza Bent and directed by Knud Adams explores cultural appropriation — and how we can call it out when we see it.
  
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• AHS Season 8 Will Take Place 18 Months in the Future, Which Is Probably As Scary As the Present

  09-04-2018 18:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  After tackling our very scary near past by depicting the 2016 election in season seven, American Horror Story is moving ahead to our probably still pretty scary near future. Speaking at an Emmy panel, creator Ryan Murphy revealed that the next season will take place “18 months from today,” which...More »
  
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• Roseanne’s Lecy Goranson on How She Feels About Trump and Returning to the Show for the Second Time

  09-04-2018 17:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  While all of the original cast of Roseanne is back for the blockbuster revival, only Lecy Goranson, who originated the role of Roseanne Conner’s oldest daughter, Becky, has the distinction of returning to the show for the second time. Goranson played Becky for the first five seasons of the show...More »
  
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• What’s With All the Dead Horses?

  09-04-2018 17:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  The article below spoils a bunch of movies. We aren’t going to tell you which movies, because that in and of itself would be a spoiler.Writer-director Cory Finley isn’t exactly sure why he decided to kill a horse in his debut feature Thoroughbreds, but equine murder was there from draft...More »
  
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• ‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’ Gets a New Trailer

  09-04-2018 17:16 via nytimes.com
  As evidenced by its latest preview, the film will be far from a solo mission.
  
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• Why Roseanne Can’t Be Reduced to a Single Episode

  09-04-2018 17:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  There have been many sweeping pronouncements about the new revival of Roseanne in the last two weeks. It is either the first real pro-Trumpian show ever made, or it normalizes him, or it’s finally a series that will bring conservative women out of the closet, or it is a morally...More »
  
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• Theater News: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Makes Broadway Box Office History

  09-04-2018 17:00
  The new play conjures the highest grosses ever for a play.
  
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• John Oliver takes aim at anti-abortion activists 'controlling women's behavior'

  09-04-2018 16:57
  The comic discussed crisis pregnancy centers, which aim to prevent women from terminating pregnancies using ‘predatory’ tacticsJohn Oliver examined centers designed to prevent abortions on his show on Sunday, criticizing their “disingenuous and predatory” tactics.During his HBO show Last Week Tonight, the comic spoke about crisis pregnancy centers and how their “primary purpose is to talk women out of terminating a pregnancy”. Continue reading...
  
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• Vulture’s 60-Second News Hour is Now the Second-Best Use for Alexa

  09-04-2018 16:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  Alexa owners, we’ve heard your requests (even if you didn’t actually intend for us to), and are happy to oblige: Vulture news is now available in audio form. Each day you can enjoy an overview of the biggest, strangest, and most amusing entertainment stories via our flash briefing, Vulture’s 60-Second...More »
  
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• The Perfect Nanny Author on the Dark Side of Motherhood

  09-04-2018 16:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Perfect Nanny is a book that haunts you long after you’ve put it down. Beginning with the stark sentence “The baby is dead,” French-Moroccan author Leïla Slimani’s domestic horror story concerns a Parisian couple named Paul and Myriam who hire a nanny named Louise to care for their two...More »
  
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• Junot Díaz Pens Essay About Childhood Sexual Abuse

  09-04-2018 16:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  In an essay for The New Yorker, award-winning author Junot Díaz describes how he was raped at 8 years old and how that abuse had haunted him throughout his life. “It fucked up my childhood. It fucked up my adolescence. It fucked up my whole life,” Díaz writes. “More than...More »
  
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• Cardi B Explains the Obvious Reason She’s Always Repping the Bloods

  09-04-2018 16:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  For as long as she’s been famous, Cardi B has built an aesthetic around the color red – “These is red bottoms, these is bloody shoes,” she raps on “Bodak Yellow” – wearing it on most occasions. She’s also known to flip most words that begin with “C” and replace...More »
  
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• Geoffrey Rush Is Suing for Defamation Over Newspaper’s #MeToo Story

  09-04-2018 16:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  Months after resigning as president from Australia’s screen-industry academy due to what he called “unjustifiable” reports of inappropriate behavior, Geoffrey Rush is now suing Australia’s Daily Telegraph for defamation. Per Deadline, Rush’s lawyers have filed a suit against the newspaper and journalist Jonathan Moran for reporting on the actor’s alleged...More »
  
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• It Took Sandra Oh 30 Years to Get to Killing Eve

  09-04-2018 16:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  Where has Sandra Oh been? For a decade, she was a fixture on primetime television as Dr. Cristina Yang, the comically humorless, fiercely ambitious surgeon on Shonda Rhimes’s first ABC hit Grey’s Anatomy. Cristina’s relationship with Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) would serve as the emotional anchor through all the plot twists,...More »
  
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• Topless Protester Arrested at First Day of Cosby Retrial

  09-04-2018 16:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  The first day of the retrial against Bill Cosby started off with several protests, including one leading to the arrest of a topless woman. The woman (whose name has yet to be released to the public) ran into a crowd of onlookers outside the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pennsylvania,...More »
  
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• Theater News: Mary McDonnell to Be Presented With 2018 Pell Award

  09-04-2018 16:00
  Trinity Repertory Company will award the honor on May 21.
  
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• Theater News: Corkscrew Theater Festival Announces Lineup for Second Season

  09-04-2018 16:00
  The monthlong event will take place at Paradise Factory.
  
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• Saturday Night Live: Black Panther almost saves the day

  09-04-2018 15:57
  Some tired jokes aside, a solid week which saw Alec Baldwin’s Trump mess up at a press conference and a standout Black Jeopardy skitDonald Trump (Alec Baldwin) is doing a press conference with leaders of the Baltic states – “these freakshows here” – but first he reads a “prepared statement to prove that I can read”.“Time to freestyle,” he says, congratulating Putin even though, “no one’s been tougher on Russia than me, including H
  
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• The Simpsons Finally Responded to the Problem With Apu Criticism

  09-04-2018 15:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the 2017 documentary The Problem With Apu, comedian Hari Kondabolu likened The Simpsons’ Apu Nahasapeemapetilon to a minstrel, and examined how the caricature of an Indian man voiced by Hank Azaria impacts South Asian representation on television. Now, The Simpsons has responded to the doc, showing Marge and Lisa...More »
  
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• Theater News: Cynthia Erivo, Judy Kuhn Set for Classic Stage Company's 50th Birthday

  09-04-2018 15:00
  Donna McKechnie will also be part of the lineup of performers.
  
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• The 5 Best Comics to Read About Thanos Before Avengers: Infinity War

  09-04-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Where does one even begin when recommending the various comics inspirations for the surefire mega-blockbuster Avengers: Infinity War? The thing contains damn near every Marvel hero that Disney has access to, all of them with their own extensive printed backgrounds. That said, they’ve all been covered when their previous movies...More »
  
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• American Idol Recap: Hello, Is It Relevance You’re Looking For?

  09-04-2018 14:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  You know that feeling when you walk into H&M and see a short-sleeved sweater? And you think, “Absolutely not. H&M is pretending short-sleeved sweaters are happening and I’m an adult who knows that’s not true.” On Sunday night, American Idol was the H&M and guest mentor Bobby Bones was the...More »
  
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• When good TV goes bad: when Broadchurch denied its fans fresh blood

  09-04-2018 14:00
  As viewers awaited engrossing storylines, even the compelling Olivia Colman and David Tennant double act couldn’t save series two from walking off a cliffTV comes at you fast these days, fast enough that it’s easy to forget that there was quite recently a period when you couldn’t launch a show without a missing child. There was Nanna Birk Larsen in The Killing, Tui Mitcham in Top of the Lake, Amber Bailey in Amber, Oliver Hughes in The Missing. An antique penny dreadful ethic p
  
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• Theater News: Robert O'Hara to Direct New York Premiere of Aziza Barnes's BLKS

  09-04-2018 14:00
  Barnes's play will be presented by MCC Theater.
  
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• Photo Flash: Phylicia Rashad-Led Our Lady of 121st Street Now in Rehearsals

  09-04-2018 14:00
  The production marks the New York directorial debut for Tony Award winner Phylicia Rashad.
  
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• Killing Eve Series-Premiere Recap: Cat Meets Mouse

  09-04-2018 13:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  The cat-and-mouse murder mystery has given us some of the most memorable female TV detectives of recent years: Gillian Anderson’s Stella Gibson in The Fall, Elisabeth Moss’s Robin Griffin in Top of the Lake, Sarah Lancashire’s Catherine Cawood in Happy Valley. The gender of each of these detectives was never...More »
  
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• The Real Housewives of Potomac Recap: Mind Your Business

  09-04-2018 13:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  As I watched this episode and Karen was distributing printed out copies of tweets and demanding answers, I wondered to myself, “How old is this bitch?” She’s walking around with printed out copies of tweets. She thought it was a good idea to print out tweets and is so shocked...More »
  
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• The Real Housewives of Atlanta Reunion Recap: Bone Collector

  09-04-2018 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Tonight is the night. These titans, these giants face off against each other. There is nothing to hold them back and they’re laying it all on the line. If they win, they keep their jobs and if they lose, they might be gone forever. The entrances. The outfits. The low...More »
  
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• Theater News: Tony Nominee Colman Domingo Joins Feeding the Dragon Talkback

  09-04-2018 13:00
  The new work is written and performed by Sharon Washington.
  
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• Theater News: Little Known Facts Host Ilana Levine Joins Play That Goes Wrong Talkback

  09-04-2018 13:00
  The Olivier Award-winning comedy opened on Broadway last April at the Lyceum Theatre.
  
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• Theater News: Full Cast, Creative Team Announced for New Group's Peace for Mary Frances

  09-04-2018 13:00
  Heather Burns, J. Smith-Cameron, and more will join Lois Smith in the world premiere of Lily Thorne's new play, directed by Lila Neugebauer.
  
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• ‘Hamilton’ Wins Big at Olivier Awards, Taking 7 Trophies

  09-04-2018 12:26 via nytimes.com
  Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hip-hop musical dominated London’s annual theater awards, winning best new musical.
  
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• Theater News: Frozen to Release Original Broadway Cast Recording This Spring

  09-04-2018 12:00
  The Broadway adaptation of the Disney film is now running at the St. James Theatre.
  
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