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• Milos Forman, 86, Dies; Won Oscars for ‘Cuckoo’s Nest’ and ‘Amadeus’

  15-04-2018 23:38 via nytimes.com
  A witness to turmoil in his Czech homeland, he was in the front rank of directors struggling to make commercial films with countercultural sensibilities.
  
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• My Year With the Tribe review – an ethical quagmire in the Indonesian jungle

  15-04-2018 23:00
  What begins as an attempt to film an ‘untouched’ society soon unravels – and the ensuing documentary about documentary-making made me feel uneasyMy Year With the Tribe (BBC Two) is an unsettling documentary. Its presenter, Will Millard, an upbeat writer and expedition leader who seems cut from the cloth of 90s Jamie Oliver, sets out to West Papua in Indonesia to document the holy grail sought by many anthropological documentary-makers – a society untouched by the modern w
  
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• Homeland recap: season 7, episode 9 – Useful Idiot

  15-04-2018 23:00
  The Russian network goes to ground, Yevgeny shoots the messenger and Carrie gets a mouthful from a doppelgänger haranguer Dante shrugs off the poisoning like a Skripal and wakes up to Carrie assuring him he was nobbled by the Russians. He gives her a response code for social media that will tell the Russian operation to disassemble and disperse. When they deploy the code, it flushes out the entire network – multiple social amplifiers get their tickets pulled. It is a huge win. Continu
  
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• Homeland recap: season 7, episode 8 – Useful Idiot

  15-04-2018 23:00
  The Russian network goes to ground, Yevgeny shoots the messenger and Carrie gets a mouthful from a doppelgänger haranguer Dante shrugs off the poisoning like a Skripal and wakes up to Carrie assuring him he was nobbled by the Russians. He gives her a response code for social media that will tell the Russian operation to disassemble and disperse. When they deploy the code, it flushes out the entire network – multiple social amplifiers get their tickets pulled. It is a huge win. Continu
  
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• Italian film director Vittorio Taviani dies aged 88

  15-04-2018 22:47
  President pays tribute to director who worked with brother on award-winning filmsThe Italian film director Vittorio Taviani, who with his brother Paolo Taviani created Italian cinema masterpieces, has died at the age of 88.The Italian president, Sergio Mattarella, said Taviani’s death on Sunday in Rome after a long illness was “a great loss for Italian cinema and culture, which are losing an undeniable and beloved protagonist”. Continue reading...
  
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• After 90 Years, a Broadway Headliner Is Getting a Headstone

  15-04-2018 22:22 via nytimes.com
  Nora Bayes, one of the brightest stars of early Broadway and vaudeville, has lain for decades in an unmarked grave in Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx.
  
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• Martin Sorrell free to compete with WPP after exit

  15-04-2018 20:58 via ft.com
  Ad agency boss quits unexpectedly after investigation into his conduct
  
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• Martin Sorrell’s empire building reshaped adland

  15-04-2018 19:21 via ft.com
  His impact on the industry was profound but not everyone was a fan of his approach
  
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• ‘Rampage’ Is No. 1, Proving Dwayne Johnson’s Box Office Might

  15-04-2018 19:19 via nytimes.com
  “Rampage” beat the still-strong “A Quiet Place” in the weekend box office derby, as the Blumhouse horror brand made “Truth or Dare” an unlikely hit.
  
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• Everything That Happened During Beyoncé’s Coachella Performance

  15-04-2018 19:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  Coachella is dead. Long live Beychella! Last night, Queen Beyoncé gave her throne a temporary new location on the Coachella main stage, headlining the festival for the first time in a make-up performance from last year, which she had to cancel due to her pregnancy. As promised, it was a...More »
  
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• John Mulaney, That Nice Boy, Did 7 Minutes of Stand-up for His SNL Monologue

  15-04-2018 18:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  Welcome home, Johnny baby. Former SNL writer John Mulaney returned to his Studio 8H roots to host the show after a few years away to do this and that, and if you’ve 1) Never heard of Mulaney or 2) Couldn’t pony up $100 to see him live during his recent...More »
  
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• Beyoncé and Solange Had an Epic Dance Off at Coachella

  15-04-2018 17:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  the iconic sisters did that! ᴺᴷanai(@badbxtchkordei) April 15, 2018Beyoncé and Solange ‍♀️ BEYONCÉ LEGION (@Bey___Legion) April 15, 2018...More »
  
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• Beyoncé Was Nice Enough to Reunite Destiny’s Child for Us

  15-04-2018 17:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  Some call it fate, some call it destiny, others will say it’s part of a grander music festival marketing scheme: Regardless, a Destiny’s Child reunion occurred this weekend thanks to the desert haven of Coachella, with Beyoncé bringing out her gals Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams to perform a few of...More »
  
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• Saturday Night Live Recap: Oh, Hello John Mulaney!

  15-04-2018 17:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  John Mulaney is easy to love. Onstage and off, the stand-up comedian exhibits a combination of smarts, affability, mischievousness, attention to detail, and a sort of cantankerousness usually reserved for octogenarians. (The bit on Mulaney’s special New in Town, in which he describes his younger self as an “old queen,”...More »
  
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• SNL Finally Found the Reboot to Kill Hollywood’s Reboot Trend

  15-04-2018 16:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  From a distance, Switcheroo seems like a harmless enough family sitcom that revolves around a father and son switching bodies. Why not reboot it in 2018! But, oh god, when you actually press play and stick around after the opening credits, it’s so, so much more than that. “I think...More »
  
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• SNL Dreamed a Dream That Diner Lobsters Would Never Be Eaten, Even If That Means Ambushing Customers With Les Mis Songs

  15-04-2018 15:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  Diners are great. Chocolate chip pancakes and buttermilk fried chicken at 9 p.m.! Veal parmesan at the crack of dawn! Burnt buttered toast, burnt buttered toast whenever! But please, for the love of Jean Valjean’s crustacean counterpart, have enough respect for yourself to never, ever order diner lobster. Because more...More »
  
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• Saturday Night Live recap: Robert De Niro as Robert Mueller ... crowd goes wild

  15-04-2018 15:41
  ‘Have you ever used a lie detector before?’ Mueller asks Michael Cohen, played by Ben Stiller. ‘I’ll start with some easy ones. How’d you like that pee-pee tape?’ “I’m Donald Trump’s lawyer! I have a whole hard drive in my office that’s just labelled ‘Yikes!’” Michael Cohen – played by Ben Stiller – is in a state of panic. Jeff Sessions (Kate McKinnon) tells him that she has someone important for him to mee
  
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• Dire Straits’ Rock Hall Induction Was a Weirdly Beautiful Mess

  15-04-2018 15:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  The most unexpected source of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame drama this year came from various Dire Straits members, with half of the chaps ultimately choosing to avoid the ceremony for inexplicable reasons. This was most glaring with the absence of bonafide front man Mark Knopfler, who hasn’t uttered...More »
  
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• UK activist investor buys stake in Gloo and says stop spending

  15-04-2018 15:25 via ft.com
  Crystal Amber manager targets acquisition vehicle that has gone 3 years without deal
  
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• Jon Bon Jovi Finally Got to Trade in His ‘F-ck You’ Speech for His Thank You Speech at the Rock Hall Induction

  15-04-2018 15:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  For Jon Bon Jovi, getting inducted alongside his Bon Jovi bandmates at this year’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame was something that came many, many years too late: His feud with the institution has been both well-documented and longstanding, with his previous sentiments suggesting that the voting board made...More »
  
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• There’s a Lot of Penis Talk in Howard Stern’s Rock Hall Induction Speech for Bon Jovi

  15-04-2018 15:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  Last year we had Dave. And now, Howard.Bon Jovi were the first of six artists to be inducted into 2018’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on Saturday night in Cleveland, and Jon Bon Jovi himself managed to wrangle the famously travel-averse Stern into getting to the Midwest to induct...More »
  
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• Just Imagine Ben Stiller’s Michael Cohen Vs. Robert De Niro’s Robert Muller As a Bizarre Meet the Parents Fever Dream

  15-04-2018 15:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  And now, live from Studio 8H, it’s … a sketch parodying a movie, which itself was based on another movie! Unfortunately for Trump’s kiss-ass lawyer Michael Cohen (Ben Stiller), it looks like the “witch-hunt” for him and his BFF boss is actually starting to incriminate the both of them, especially...More »
  
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• Love Island and other shows 'encourage teenagers to smoke'

  15-04-2018 14:30
  Reality TV series and films expose young people to tobacco imagery, MPs told Contestants’ cigarette habits in the reality TV show Love Island and Winston Churchill’s cigars in the Oscar-winning film Darkest Hour inspire children to take up smoking, anti-tobacco campaigners have warned MPs.Action on Smoking and Health (Ash) and the UK Centre for Tobacco and Alcohol Studies said children in the UK are still exposed to significant amounts of on-screen smoking. They cited a rise in smoki
  
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• Martin Sorrell’s legacy will be judged by WPP’s durability

  15-04-2018 14:24 via ft.com
  The exit of advertising’s most successful conglomerateur will prompt uncertainty
  
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• Theater Review: Anthony Sher as a Slow-Burning, Intense King Lear

  15-04-2018 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  In a notable instance of one behemoth assessing another, the director Peter Brook once called King Lear “a mountain whose summit has never been reached, the way up strewn with the shattered bodies of earlier visitors.” Shakespeare’s tragedy—with its vertiginous star turn for an older actor, its twisting politics, its...More »
  
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• TV’s new Victorian melodrama carries a #MeToo message

  15-04-2018 09:00
  The BBC’s Sunday serial, The Woman in White, could not be more timely, say its creatorsIt is one of the great potboilers of the Victorian era, a glorious melodrama of mistaken identity, manipulation and murder. Now a new BBC adaptation of Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White, hopes to resonate in today’s world by speaking directly to the #MeToo generation.“The themes of The Woman in White very much resonate in our society,” says scriptwriter Fiona Seres of the new ad
  
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• Mulaney as a Drag Queen Will Destroy Your Life

  15-04-2018 08:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  John Mulaney is a man of many talents and it turns out drag might be one of them. Last night’s SNL had the stand up comic offering up sassy quips at a drag brunch. For those unfamiliar with the concept, a drag brunch is one of those things where you...More »
  
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• The week in TV: Secret Agent Selection: WW2; Living With the Brainy Bunch; Lost in Space and more

  15-04-2018 08:00
  Classroom experiments and spy training provided eye-opening new reality shows, but Netflix’s space odyssey has lost the plotSecret Agent Selection: WW2 (BBC2) | iPlayer
  Living with the Brainy Bunch (BBC2) | iPlayer
  Class of Mum and Dad (C4) | channel4.com
  Deep State (Fox) | foxtv.co.uk
  Lost in Space (Netflix) | netflix.comAmong the savageries of war, one of the first casualties, along with truth, is surely always going to be the simple idea of “niceties”, of thinking one can pr
  
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• The week in radio and podcasts: The Long View; Your Call; How I Got Here; The Conversation

  15-04-2018 08:00
  Radio 4’s The Long View compares Facebook to the medieval Catholic church, but elsewhere there’s more perspectiveThe Long View: Facebook Revelations and the Reformation (Radio 4) | iPlayer
  5Live Breakfast: Your Call (5 Live) | iPlayer
  How I Got Here (Radio 1) | iPlayer
  The Conversation: Professional Gamers (World Service) | iPlayerIn these turbulent days of data-harvesting, election-manipulation and unscrupulous companies secretly selling our friends’ personal details, Radio 4&
  
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• Tuesday’s best TV: Ordeal by Innocence; The Crystal Maze; Famalam

  15-04-2018 07:00
  The fine Christie adaptation concludes, there’s a new run of the revived adventure challenge and BBC Three’s black British sketch show gets a well-deserved channel transfer Continue reading...
  
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• Donald Glover to Host SNL in May with Musical Guest Childish Gambino

  15-04-2018 06:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  On May 5th, Donald Glover, star of FX’s hit comedy Atlanta, will be hosting SNL with his hip hop alter-ego Childish Gambino as musical guest. It’s an exciting turn for Glover, who got his early start performing sketch comedy in New York City, before being hired to write for the...More »
  
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• The Simpsons Showrunner Responds to the Response to the Show’s Response to the Problem with Apu

  15-04-2018 04:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  After coming under fire for the episode where they attempted to address all the fire they were coming under, Simpsons showrunner and executive producer Al Jean has taken to Twitter to address the show’s critics. The show released an episode last week entitled “No Good Read Goes Unpunished” that seemed...More »
  
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• John Mulaney Shares the Time the SNL Staff Got Day Drunk in Front of Jon Hamm

  15-04-2018 03:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  Stand up comic John Mulaney is hosting Saturday Night Live tonight, the show where he made a name for himself as a writer before moving on to star in his own sitcom and numerous Netflix stand up specials. And to mark the occasion he’s taken to social media to take...More »
  
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• Homecoming Queens: friends turn chronic illness into comedy script

  15-04-2018 00:53
  TV series touches upon pair’s experience with alopecia and breast cancer respectivelyWhen you’re young, says writer Michelle Law, you think life will be pretty straightforward: school, uni, partner, maybe kids. Nobody ever factors in developing a chronic illness.For Law and her friend Chloë Reeson, this was their reality. Law developed alopecia – an autoimmune disease that results in hair loss – as a teenager. Reeson, meanwhile, was diagnosed with breast cancer at th
  
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• 50 Years On: Rivers of Blood review – tame dissection of Enoch Powell's racist speech fails to enlighten

  15-04-2018 00:39
  The presentation of the politician’s notorious racist rant was criticised by many before broadcast and, despite the hype, it couldn’t live up to its own billingSaturday-night line-ups are no strangers to controversy, but Radio 4 is generally the exception. Until last week, that is: yesterday’s programme to mark the fiftieth anniversary of Enoch Powell’s Rivers of Blood speech generated huge heat on social media in advance of broadcast.Some was no doubt as a result of the
  
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