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• At First Performance of ‘My Fair Lady,’ the Drama Was Offstage

  13-04-2018 23:11 via nytimes.com
  It’s now a classic, with a splashy revival about to open on Broadway. But in 1956, a nervous leading man and technical troubles meant the show almost didn’t go on.
  
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• What Else Is Left to Say About Elvis?

  13-04-2018 22:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  The two-part HBO documentary Elvis Presley: The Searcher doesn’t have many new thing to say about its subject, but 40-plus years and countless books, magazine articles, documentaries, and feature films after his death, I’m not sure what, factually, could have been added. The best that cultural critics and storytellers can do...More »
  
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• Huey Lewis Cancels All 2018 Performances Due to Hearing Loss

  13-04-2018 21:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  Huey Lewis & the News have canceled “all future shows” after Lewis revealed that he has hearing loss. In a statement on Twitter on Friday, Lewis said that he “lost most of my hearing” before a show in Dallas two-and-a-half months ago. “Although I can still hear a little, one-on-one,...More »
  
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• Novels by Kazuo Ishiguro and Zadie Smith Are Adapted for Stage

  13-04-2018 21:24 via nytimes.com
  “The Remains of the Day” will have its debut in Northampton, England, in February, and “White Teeth” will take its first bow in London in October.
  
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• Meek Will Won’t Be Released From Prison Next Week, Attorney Says

  13-04-2018 21:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  Judging by social media this week, it looked like rapper Meek Mill might actually be handed a get-out-of-jail-free card. Mill, who has been incarcerated after breaking his parole on a drugs and weapons charge from almost a decade ago, has been fighting to have his incarceration reversed. He’s currently serving...More »
  
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• At the Place Where Staten Island Hustle’s Get-Rich-Quick Schemes Happen

  13-04-2018 21:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  “See that guy?” says Dom Detore, chucking a thumb over at an unassuming-looking gentleman in thick dad sneakers and an oversize hoodie. “That guy’s got the most money on Staten Island.” He lets out a phrase in quasi-Italian: “Mataraz!”“That means ‘mattress,’ right?” deadpans Adolfo LaCola, his castmate on CNBC’s new...More »
  
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• Rose McGowan’s 10 Favorite Books

  13-04-2018 20:55 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 the list of artist and activist Rose McGowan....More »
  
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• Which Horror Movie Should You See This Friday the 13th Weekend?

  13-04-2018 20:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  Many modern horror movies are constructed like games in which the players always lose. Here’s the board, here are the rules, here’s what happens when you take your turn: Cue the arterial spray. There’s a sameness to the act of playing a game, though, which is why these films feel...More »
  
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• Elle Fanning Is Your Angsty, Pre-Frankenstein Mary Shelley

  13-04-2018 20:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  Before Frankenstein, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin was a regular degular teenage girl. In the upcoming biopic from Saudi filmmaker Haifaa al-Mansour, Elle Fanning stars as the author in the course of plotting her famous novel. It’s half romance, half coming-of-age story: Mary’s relationship with the then-married poet Percy Shelley began as...More »
  
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• How to Watch Beyoncé’s Coachella Performance From Home for Free

  13-04-2018 20:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  Depending on your threshold for pain, festivals can either be an oasis of live music, nonstop partying, and excessive flower crowns … or, they’re a veritable hell. For those who can’t tolerate the ruckus, Coachella 2018 presents quite the conundrum: You want to see Beyoncé, but you absolutely do not...More »
  
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• Accuser Andrea Constand Takes the Stand in Cosby Retrial for the First Time

  13-04-2018 20:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  Friday morning at Pennsylvania’s Montgomery County Courthouse, Andrea Constand, the former Temple University sports director at the center of the commonwealth’s felony sexual-assault case against Bill Cosby, took the stand. It’s the second time within the year that Constand, one of almost 60 women accusing Cosby of sexual misconduct, has...More »
  
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• The Women of Killing Eve Are Ready to Break Boundaries

  13-04-2018 20:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Sandra Oh, and Jodie Corner of Killing Eve discuss the #MeToo movement, equal pay, working on a show about powerful women, and their past experiences in the entertainment industry....More »
  
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• Nicki Minaj Clears the Air on ‘Barbie Tingz’ and ‘Chun Li’

  13-04-2018 19:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  Nicki Minaj’s months-long media blackout ended in a flash yesterday as the rapper gave an illuminating interview to Beats 1 Radio and released the new songs “Chun Li” and “Barbie Tingz.” On the surface, the new music offers a stimulus package for fans hungering for more after the string of...More »
  
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• Empire on Blood Is a Compelling But Frustrating Podcast

  13-04-2018 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Empire on Blood is a complicated creature. There is a heartbreaking story at the center of this Panoply true-crime podcast, one that revolves around a once-powerful drug dealer who spent two decades in jail for a crime he did not commit. It hits a range of urgent, difficult issues: the...More »
  
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• Hulu’s Catch-22 Will Give You More Kyle Chandler, But Only in Exchange for Less George Clooney

  13-04-2018 19:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  If only there were a term for a humorously paradoxical situation, it might describe Hulu’s decision to put less George Clooney on TV in order to get any George Clooney on TV. Per The Hollywood Reporter, Clooney has decided to step aside from his lead role in its adaptation of...More »
  
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• Bel Powley Wants to Make Men Uncomfortable

  13-04-2018 19:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  Bel Powley is great at coming of age. She broke out as an adolescent on the doorstep of her sexual awakening in Diary of a Teenage Girl, played a young royal embracing the freedom of anonymity in A Royal Night Out, and now, you can see her in Wildling as...More »
  
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• John Mulaney’s 10 Best Saturday Night Live Sketches

  13-04-2018 19:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  Stand-up comedian John Mulaney, whose five-year tenure as a Saturday Night Live writer ended in 2012, returns to host the show this weekend. Since he left SNL, Mulaney has had plenty of writing opportunities — first, with the short-lived Fox sitcom Mulaney; then Oh, Hello! on Broadway with Nick Kroll;...More »
  
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• The Next Social Network? We’ve Read the Hot Script Gawker v. Thiel

  13-04-2018 18:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  This week, while watching Mark Zuckerberg answer congressional questions about the Cambridge Analytica scandal, I noticed that most of the tweets about it on my timeline referenced The Social Network in some way. Even though Zuckerberg and Facebook are in the news on a near-daily basis and this scandal has raised all...More »
  
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• Scandal Recap: Truth and Consequences

  13-04-2018 18:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  In yet another testament to how quickly Scandal moves, the series finale is only an hour long. That’s right: There’s just one hour left of Scandal, a single 45-minute installment of television to wrap up what feels like at least a thousand dangling plot threads. As if to allay any...More »
  
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• HBO Wanted to Move My Brilliant Friend to Brooklyn, a Place We Definitely Need to Set More TV

  13-04-2018 18:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  Elena Ferrante’s series of Neapolitan novels combine the history of a complex female friendship with the history of postwar Italy … but what if they just didn’t? Speaking at a conference in Italy, Sarah Doole, the director of global drama at FremantleMedia, which is co-producing the upcoming adaptation of Ferrante’s...More »
  
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• Will Ferrell Reportedly Taken To Hospital After Car Crash

  13-04-2018 17:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  Will Ferrell was reportedly taken to the hospital in Orange County last night after another car side-swiped the SUV he was riding in, casuing it to flip over. TMZ reports that the comedian and two other passengers riding in the chauffeur-driven car were hospitalized, though Ferrell has now been released...More »
  
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• Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami Is a Missed Opportunity

  13-04-2018 17:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami opens with about as fine a welcome as you could ask for: striking 35mm footage of the disco icon during her 2009 world tour, some 60 years old and stalking the stage in a gold skeleton mask and a billowing midnight-blue cape. It would appear...More »
  
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• ‘Incredibles 2’ Trailer: When a Superhero Is Also a Working Mom

  13-04-2018 17:35 via nytimes.com
  The voices of Holly Hunter, Craig T. Nelson, Sarah Vowell and Samuel L. Jackson are back in the sequel to the 2004 original.
  
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• Lena Waithe Uses GLAAD Acceptance Speech to Call for LGBT Unity

  13-04-2018 17:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  Lena Waithe continues raking up awards for Master of None’s “Thanksgiving” episode. On Thursday night, Waithe was awarded GLAAD’s Outstanding Individual Episode award for the episode showing her character Denise’s coming out. Waithe used her speech to discuss unity within the queer community. “A lot of people ask me why...More »
  
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• Stream or silver screen: Netflix pulls plug on Cannes, is Hollywood next?

  13-04-2018 17:14
  Rejection of this year’s festival part of sector struggle, but while UK cinema expands, streaming service threatens global industry
  Netflix’s decision to pull out of the Cannes film festival highlights the tension between streaming companies and the cinema industry over how movies will be watched in the future.The world’s premiere film festival provided a cool reception for the US streaming company last year, with audiences booing the Netflix logo when it appeared before the sc
  
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• Netflix Renews On My Block Teen Dramedy for Season Two

  13-04-2018 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Fans of On My Block have no reason to fear this Friday the 13th: Netflix has ordered a second season of the critically praised comedy-drama. The streaming giant didn’t take long to make a decision, renewing the series just shy of one month after its first batch of episodes dropped....More »
  
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• Halle Berry Wants You to Put Some Respect on Catwoman!

  13-04-2018 16:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  Elektra walked so Catwoman could run, Catwoman ran so Black Panther could soar … or something? At the GLAAD Media Awards on Thursday night, Halle Berry spoke about onscreen representation, and joked about returning to her most derided role. “Each story builds on the next. It’s like that old saying...More »
  
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• Cardi B Doubled Taylor Swift’s Apple Music Streaming Record, Okurrr!

  13-04-2018 16:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  Cardi B’s Invasion of Privacy just broke Taylor Swift’s record to become Apple Music’s most-streamed album by a female artist in its first week. Per Variety, Invasion of Privacy more than doubled Reputation’s streams by midweek. Cardi’s debut album currently holds the fifth spot on Apple Music’s chart of most-streamed...More »
  
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• A Word With: For Neil Patrick Harris, It Takes an Adult to Make a Kids’ Show

  13-04-2018 16:00 via nytimes.com
  Mr. Harris talks about turning himself into the villainous Count Olaf in “A Series of Unfortunate Events” and about how he’s raising his own twins.
  
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• Protest-Hit Director Quits Berlin Theater

  13-04-2018 15:54 via nytimes.com
  Chris Dercon, a former director of Tate Modern in London, led the Volksbühne theater for less than a year, facing bitter arguments over his vision.
  
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• Atlanta Robbin’ Season Recap: It’s a Simulation, Van

  13-04-2018 15:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  The episode is called “Champagne Papi,” but that really isn’t who we’re talking about at all. Van, in her second solo-ish episode this season, is spending the night out with her girls, one of whom has the plug to get into a party with Drake. In the midst of getting...More »
  
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• Tonya Harding, Adam Rippon, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to Compete on Dancing With the Stars’ Athlete Edition

  13-04-2018 15:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  Hi, Tonya! As rumored, ex-figure skater (and I, Tonya subject) Tonya Harding will vie for Dancing With the Stars’ trophy in a new athletes-only edition. The competitors were announced Friday morning on Good Morning America. Harding will compete against other athlete stars, including Adam Rippon, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Johnny Damon....More »
  
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• The Rider Is a Lyrical Portrait of Life After the Rodeo

  13-04-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  This review first ran at the Cannes Film Festival....More »
  
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• Pixar's Incredibles 2 Trailer Introduces a New Villain and Makes Elastigirl a Star

  13-04-2018 14:50 via feeds.eonline.com
  Is Elastigirl stretching herself too thin?Pixar released the second trailer for Incredibles 2 Friday, showing former housewife Helen Parr (Holly Hunter) leading a campaign to bring...
  
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• Streaming: Turning Points: Three Movies Centering on Young Women

  13-04-2018 14:36 via nytimes.com
  Three movies about young women: “First Match,” “Layla M.” and “Ladies First,” all on Netflix.
  
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• When Superheroes Battle Evil, Why Does Washington Always Lose?

  13-04-2018 14:35 via nytimes.com
  The nation’s capital is rarely the site of climactic confrontations. The reasons range from comic-book history to Hollywood antagonism.
  
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• Lucrecia Martel: A Director Who Confounds and Thrills

  13-04-2018 14:34 via nytimes.com
  Argentina’s leading filmmaker specializes in elusive, off-kilter work. In person, she’s much blunter.
  
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• Grey’s Anatomy Recap: It’s So Hard to Say Good-bye

  13-04-2018 14:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  After 14 seasons, a true Grey’s Anatomy fan should know to never say never. People get electrocuted, McDreamies die, there are full-on musical episodes — anything can, and often does, happen. Even, for instance, suddenly caring a great deal for a couple that you were previously ambivalent toward.I’m talking about...More »
  
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• Westworld’s Second Season Is Even More Meta

  13-04-2018 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  HBO’s science-fiction puzzler Westworld is the most humorless drama on TV right now, the most narratively complicated (sometimes overcomplicated), the most self-aware, and one of the most lavishly produced. In a medium that rarely suffers a dearth of programs satisfying one or more of those criteria, that’s an accomplishment —...More »
  
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• This week’s best home entertainment: from Legion to BGT

  13-04-2018 13:00
  Marvel’s kaleidoscopic superhero drama returns for season two, and a solo Dec fronts ITV’s flagship talent search Related: A trippy, decadent fever dream: why Legion is the best superhero show on TVContinue reading...
  
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• Is Stan Lee Being Held Prisoner by Real-Life Villains?

  13-04-2018 12:08 via nytimes.com
  The Hollywood Reporter published an investigation saying that Mr. Lee, 95, was the victim of elder abuse. We visited the Marvel Comics creator at his home. “Nobody has more freedom,” he said.
  
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• How an Anxious-Adolescent Musical (No, Not That One) Found Its Fans

  13-04-2018 11:00 via nytimes.com
  “Be More Chill” played a month at a New Jersey theater, and nothing much happened. Then the internet got very busy.
  
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• Ancient Tales for Modern Times

  13-04-2018 10:40 via nytimes.com
  Three theatrical productions in Paris show that legends can still speak to audiences today.
  
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• About Race with Reni Eddo-Lodge: race matters dissected – podcasts of the week

  13-04-2018 07:00
  The author of Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People About Race reneges on her promise and – with guests – questions everything from ‘colourblind’ thinking to the BBC’s White SeasonLost Notes Podcast Continue reading...
  
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• Friday’s best TV: The City and the City; Lee and Dean; Front Row Late

  13-04-2018 06:59
  David Morrissey continues to investigate Mahalia’s death, Lee’s love life gets complicated in this likable mockumentary, and Mary Beard considers The Assassination of Katie Hopkins and free speech9pm, BBC Two Continue reading...
  
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• Jimmy Kimmel’s Doorman Confronts Him Over His Dark Secrets

  13-04-2018 06:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  Yesterday, news broke that Trump’s doorman was allegedly paid by the National Enquirer to kill a story about an alleged love child. Jimmy Kimmel Live dealt with this joke-bag of a story by forcing Jimmy to confront his own doorman, “Curtis”, who is seeking his own payoffs for keeping Jimmy’s...More »
  
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• The Opposition Has An Epic Yell-Off With Alex Jones

  13-04-2018 06:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  Last night The Opposition with Jordan Klepper confronted one of their show’s own inspirations, notorious conspiracy theorist and Info Wars host Alex Jones. Or did they? “Citizen journalist” Kobi Libii traveled to Washington D.C., trying to determine if Alex Jones was in fact himself, or had been replaced by a...More »
  
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• The Big Bang Theory Recap: You Say Tomato, I Say Poop Tomato

  13-04-2018 05:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  What a difference one really great line and some really bad Riverdancing can make. This season of The Big Bang Theory has been pretty by the numbers – the most common number being three, as in lots of three-star rated episodes. But one of the best lines of dialogue in TBBT history and some...More »
  
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• Now Susan Sarandon Wants You to Delete Facebook

  13-04-2018 04:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  Susan Sarandon, everyone on Earth’s cool aunt who kind of intimidates you, wants you to quit Facebook. And not just because she probably thinks you’ll get more done. The celebrity is joining numerous other big names, including Will Ferrell, in a growing movement called #DeleteFacebook. The campaign is made up...More »
  
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• Theater Review: Can Carousel Be Brought Around?

  13-04-2018 04:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  In 1999 Time magazine proclaimed Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel the best musical of the 20th century. Critics, notably the heavy-hitters at the Times, have raved about the sweeping adaptation of Hungarian playwright Ferenc Molnár’s turn-of-the-century tragi-romance ever since the musical first hit Broadway in 1945. Superlatives follow it around—revelation, masterpiece—and,...More »
  
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