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• When a Feminist Artist Is Censored by a Feminist Gallery

  17-04-2018 23:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  People are sometimes surprised that painter Natalie Frank is not more, say, goth, given the often depraved sexual theatricality of her artwork. In person, the rather sensible 38-year-old Yale graduate, who lives not far from Union Square, could easily pass as the vice-principal of your child’s grammar school. Last summer, when I...More »
  
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• Stephen: The Murder That Changed a Nation review – grimly relevant after 25 years

  17-04-2018 23:00 via theguardian.com
  This three-part documentary on the racist killing of Stephen Lawrence places it in the context of early 90s Britain – and shows that the same problems remain todayIt is important to continue to talk about Stephen Lawrence. “Because of how Stephen was killed, and also the way in which we were treated as a family,” says Doreen Lawrence, his mother. “Also just to talk about Stephen a bit more. So people can see he had a life, not just in death, but before.”Asif Kapadia
  
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• Nicole Kidman Has Persuaded The Female Persuasion to Be a Movie

  17-04-2018 22:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  A little less conversation, a little more book-to-film adaptions made by female acting powerhouses: Nicole Kidman will be starring in a film adaptation of Meg Wolitzer’s new novel, The Female Persuasion. Per Entertainment Weekly, Kidman will star in the lead role as Faith Frank, an older feminist on a college...More »
  
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• What It Was Like to Be in the Audience for Beyoncé’s Historic Coachella Show

  17-04-2018 22:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  Beyoncé’s stunning performance at Coachella lit up the internet this past weekend, but how does watching it on a YouTube livestream compare to having seen it in person? Vulture editors Dee Lockett and Kyle Buchanan were both in the audience of that historic show, and below, they discuss what the...More »
  
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• Review: In ‘ms. estrada,’ Campus Feminists Say No to Sex, Yes to Hip-Hop

  17-04-2018 21:39 via nytimes.com
  This “Lysistrata” update at the Flea Theater is consistently lively, but its comic aims are scattershot.
  
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• Robert De Niro’s Top Picks for the Tribeca Film Festival

  17-04-2018 20:58 via nytimes.com
  The actor who played Robert Mueller on “S.N.L.” leans toward the political in his choices for what you should go see.
  
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• Critic’s Notebook: 17 Movies to Enjoy for the Tribeca Film Festival’s 17th Edition

  17-04-2018 20:27 via nytimes.com
  Interested in going but not sure where to start? Our film critic watched dozens of movies and came up with this list of titles worth your time.
  
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• Pedro Almodóvar’s Next Film Is About a Director in ‘His Twilight Years,’ Will Star Penelope Cruz

  17-04-2018 20:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  Let the what will be real? What will be fictionalized? questions begin. The Spanish auteur Pedro Almodóvar has confirmed the narrative for his next drama, Dolor y Gloria, which will star his longtime muses Antonio Banderas and Penélope Cruz. Per Variety, Almodóvar described the film as revolving around “a series...More »
  
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• Does Beyoncé Have a Different Set Planned for Coachella Weekend 2?

  17-04-2018 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  She is risen! Amid all the fanfare surrounding Beyoncé’s Coachella set — a once-in-a-lifetime performance of black history in real time — one key element has been forgotten: She’s about to do it all again, just a few days from now. Beychella will return for Coachella’s second weekend, meaning that...More »
  
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• Steven Spielberg Is the First Director to Cross $10 Billion at the Box Office

  17-04-2018 19:40 via feeds.eonline.com
  After three weeks in theaters, Ready Player One has earned $114.9 million in the U.S., bringing its global total to $475.1 million. But even more impressively, Steven Spielberg has made history,...
  
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• The Walking Dead Will Be a ‘Very, Very Different Show’ in Season 9

  17-04-2018 19:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  The war with the Saviors is dunzo, but will Rick Grimes face a civil war after his decision to spare Negan’s life in Sunday’s Walking Dead season finale? Will season nine begin with a significant time jump, as the comic book did after the end of the war with the...More »
  
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• Evan Rachel Wood Will Receive Equal Pay for Westworld Season 3

  17-04-2018 18:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  Best not screw over Dolores, because she knows these violent delights have violent ends. HBO’s promise that it went back and fixed glaring pay disparities in all of its shows has now yielded a confirmed result, with Evan Rachel Wood speaking on record about how she’ll be receiving pay equal...More »
  
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• Comey taps in to huge demand for Trump books

  17-04-2018 18:33 via ft.com
  Bestseller lists dominated by inside stories of dysfunction in White House
  
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• DC Finally Decided on Its Harley Quinn Movie, and Cathy Yan Is in Talks to Direct

  17-04-2018 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Cathy Yan (director of Dead Pigs, winner of the World Cinema Dramatic Award for Ensemble Acting at Sundance) is in talks to direct Margot Robbie in DC’s stand-alone Harley Quinn movie. After juggling a few different different Quinn projects in development — including a Suicide Squad sequel to be directed...More »
  
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• Review: In ‘This Is Our Land,’ Nationalism in a Small French Town

  17-04-2018 18:23 via nytimes.com
  A Marine Le Pen-like politician makes inroads in France in this drama.
  
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• Read Nico Tortorella’s Poems on the Penis, the Vagina, and Idenity

  17-04-2018 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Nico Tortorella, who stars in TVLand’s Younger and hosts the podcast The Love Bomb, is expanding his exploration of love and sex in his new collection of poetry all of it is you, out today. In the poems, the actor, who has been outspoken about his interest in human sexuality...More »
  
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• Green Lantern No. 76 Was the Moment Superhero Comics Got Woke

  17-04-2018 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Not too many people draw black people as well as I do,” the (white) comic book artist Neal Adams says with a smile. Ensconced behind a drawing board in his Manhattan studio, clad in his trademark incompletely buttoned dress shirt and loose tie, Adams is in the midst of recalling...More »
  
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• Amy Schumer on the I Feel Pretty Backlash: ‘There’s Been a Lot of Projection’

  17-04-2018 17:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  Some spoilers below for I Feel Pretty.Do yourself a favor and never Twitter search “Shallow Hal + I Feel Pretty.” It’s no surprise that there are people online who don’t much like Amy Schumer, but rarely does the vitriol come with this level of misplaced specificity. A vocal faction of...More »
  
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• How Frank Miller Was Inspired to Build This Amazing Dark Knight Returns Page

  17-04-2018 16:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  Outside of the Bible, it’s hard to think of an origin story retold more often than that of Batman. Created by Bill Finger and Bob Kane for 1939’s Detective Comics No. 27, the character didn’t get a formal backstory until the 33rd issue of that series the following year, written...More »
  
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• Stephen Colbert Indulges in a Glass of Red Wine Over Sean Hannity-Michael Cohen News

  17-04-2018 15:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  This week on the dysfunctional reality show known as the White House: It turns out that Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, was forced to name his secret third client on Monday. The client? None other than Sean Hannity! Cut to: Stephen Colbert luxuriating in a glass of red...More »
  
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• Should AMC Be Worried About The Walking Dead Ratings?

  17-04-2018 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Walking Dead closed out its eighth season on Sunday with its second-least-watched finale ever. Per Nielsen, around 7.9 million viewers watched the AMC zombie drama the night it aired, roughly a million fewer than watched the conclusion of season two in March 2012 and about 3.3 million less than...More »
  
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• American Idol Recap: Dragifying Gravity

  17-04-2018 14:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  I have some startling news for everyone: I’m going to miss the Top 24 rounds. You think the Top 14 will be the classic American Idol slugfest you love most, with Ryan Seacrest pacing around and announcing phone numbers like the televangelist he always could’ve been, but I think this highly competitive,...More »
  
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• Newspaper group Johnston Press warns of cost cuts as revenues slip

  17-04-2018 14:21 via ft.com
  Publisher reports ‘difficult backdrop’ despite seeing signs of improvement in print ads
  
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• In Conversation: Isabella Rossellini

  17-04-2018 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “When you’re an old lady like me,” says Isabella Rossellini, self-deprecating at 65, “you just do what you want.” So on a spring afternoon in a conference room at Vulture’s Manhattan offices, she takes a carton of eggs out of her handbag. “Look at the beauty,” she marvels. “Different shapes,...More »
  
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• On the Rampage: Dwayne Johnson hunts down Peter Rabbit at UK box office

  17-04-2018 14:00
  The rabbit’s time at the top is over, while A Quiet Place holds steady along with a new Polish action movieRelated: Sign up to our Film Today emailContinue reading...
  
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• David Morrissey webchat – post your questions now

  17-04-2018 14:00 via theguardian.com
  The Walking Dead and State of Play star will answer your questions in a Guardian webchat at 1.15pm GMT on Friday 20 April 11.46am BST Stage, small screen and big screen: over the course of his career, David Morrissey has done them all and made himself one of the UK’s most respected character actors in the process.Continue reading...
  
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• Lars von Trier set for Cannes return after seven-year ban

  17-04-2018 13:54
  Festival boss hints that Danish director’s new serial killer film will join lineup – overturning expulsion imposed after ‘unacceptable’ comments in 2011Cannes is set to add the newest film from Lars von Trier to its 2018 lineup, ending a seven-year ban of the controversial director at the film festival.Von Trier was made persona non grata by Cannes after jokingly declaring himself a Nazi and expressing sympathy for Adolf Hitler during a 2011 press conference for his Palme
  
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• Netflix’s ‘new world order’: a streaming giant on the brink of global domination

  17-04-2018 13:38 via theguardian.com
  The online entertainment company, which boasts 125 million subscribers, has become so powerful it can even afford to snub Cannes. Are cinephiles – and conventional broadcasters – right to fear for the future?At the Berlin film festival last February, Clare Binns took her seat for the premiere of a Spanish film that was generating a quiet buzz. She hoped it might play at Picturehouse Cinemas, the British chain of cinemas she runs. In the film, La Enfermedad del Domingo (Sunday’s
  
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• Choi Eun-hee, actor once abducted by North Korea, dies

  17-04-2018 13:11
  Celebrated South Korean actor spent several years being forced to make movies for Kim Jong-ilChoi Eun-hee, one of South Korea’s most famous actors, who was abducted and made to make films in North Korea during the 1970s and 80s, has died aged 91. During a visit to Hong Kong in 1978, Choi was allegedly lured on to a boat and transferred to a cargo ship destined for North Korea, under the orders of Kim Jong-il, an avid film fan. Her husband, the film director Shin Sang-ok, was taken there so
  
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• Blumhouse Is Adapting John Ridley’s Black Superhero Comic The American Way

  17-04-2018 10:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Blumhouse is bringing another Academy Award winner onto its roster. According to Deadline, writer and director John Ridley will be adapting his 2017 Vertigo comic The American Way: Those Above and Those Below for the genre picture house. Ridley has a long Hollywood resume, having written and produced movies like...More »
  
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• Tuesday’s best TV – Stephen: The Murder That Changed a Nation

  17-04-2018 07:00 via theguardian.com
  This damning three-part documentary about the murder of Stephen Lawrence tells an immigrant story that feels buried in the past but also grimly relevant9pm, BBC One
  Duwayne Brooks, who was with Stephen Lawrence on the night of 22 April 1993, is now middle-aged. Stephen is frozen at 18, his life stolen by racist thugs. Asif Kapadia and James Gay-Rees’s damning three-part documentary, stripped across this week, tracks the (at best) hopeless police investigation, the undermining of Brooks and
  
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• 'It's exhausting not being human' – the weird world of Legion's Aubrey Plaza

  17-04-2018 07:00 via theguardian.com
  How do you play a gender-fluid psychotic figment of a mutant’s imagination? The star of the superhero psychodrama reveals all – and explains why her friends can’t watch itAubrey Plaza finds it hard to describe her character in the TV superhero drama Legion. Is she alive or dead? Good or evil? Human or mutant? Real or a figment of the lead character, mutant David Haller’s imagination? “That’s a really, really good question,” says Plaza, before saying that
  
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• Daydreams: can the 'ambient' CBeebies experience really work?

  17-04-2018 07:00 via theguardian.com
  Meant to help wind children down at the end of the day, the new iPlayer show – with its trees and slightly new age feel – could actually do the trickIf you’re of the opinion – the correct opinion – that CBeebies represents the very pinnacle of what John Reith set out to accomplish, then Daydreams might just represent a brave new peak.Daydreams is an hour-long, iPlayer-only procession of gentle sounds and colours designed to stop your children from causing widespread
  
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• J. Cole Announces His New Album Will Drop on Friday

  17-04-2018 06:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  You do this every year. You try to get too much done on 4/20 and end up running yourself ragged. This year, forget getting your passport renewed and your teeth cleaned. There’s time for that some other day, like 4/21. This Friday, sit back, relax and enjoy J. Cole’s fifth...More »
  
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• Mockingbird Broadway Producer Offers to Stage Play in Courtroom Following New Countersuit

  17-04-2018 05:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  When it comes to the ongoing legal battle between late author Harper Lee’s estate and Aaron Sorkin’s upcoming Broadway adaptation of To Kill A Mockingbird, no one is leaving any drama on the stage. Unless, of course, that stage is in a federal courtroom. The New York Times reports that...More »
  
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• UnREAL Recap: Who Can You Trust?

  17-04-2018 05:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Is Rachel Goldberg the least predictable character in TV history? She always manages to surprise me with her behavior – just when you see yourself on her side, she throws you for that dreaded loop again. I swore I was going to it coming this time! But once again, I...More »
  
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• Good Girls Recap: Scared Straight

  17-04-2018 05:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Consider me floored to hear Ruby and Annie accuse Beth of “crawling out of [her] skin like a frog in a slow boil,” because the boiling-frog fable is one I’ve considered using in just about every Good Girls recap I’ve written so far. Now they’ve beat me to the punch,...More »
  
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• Cosby Accuser Andrea Constand Took the Stand Again Today

  17-04-2018 05:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  As Andrea Constand again takes the witness stand one week from the day the retrial of Bill Cosby began at the Montgomery County Courthouse, a big question for both the prosecution and defense is what kind of impact Cosby’s main accuser will ultimately have on the jury. The panel of...More »
  
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• Vanderpump Rules Recap: Jax Off

  17-04-2018 04:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  Of all the awful things that Jax Taylor has done during his 38 years on this planet, breaking up with Brittany is perhaps the most awful. But maybe it’s the most humane? I don’t know. After a week away from his de facto therapist Kelsey the Reiki Lady while she’s...More »
  
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• Courtroom Drama: Producer Offers to Stage Disputed ‘Mockingbird’ for Judge

  17-04-2018 04:09 via nytimes.com
  The disagreement over the characterization of Atticus Finch expands to a second lawsuit between the producers and the Lee estate.
  
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• The Terror Recap: Tuunbaq Tango

  17-04-2018 04:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  If I had to choose just one other show worthy of the close reading and inspection received by Westworld and The Sopranos over the years, I’d choose The Terror. I know I’m biased, but hear me out here: It’s not a puzzle box like the former, nor as grand in...More »
  
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• John Oliver buys Russell Crowe's jockstrap for Alaskan Blockbuster store

  17-04-2018 03:46
  Comedian reveals he paid A$80,000 at auction for memorabilia which he plans to donate to struggling video shopJohn Oliver has revealed he is the dubiously proud owner of Russell Crowe’s leather jockstrap after a successful A$7,000 phone bid during the actor’s “divorce auction” this month.After paying $8,540 including the buyer’s premium, Oliver acknowledged it was “a big price to pay just to find out what Russell Crowe’s balls smelled like in 2005”
  
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• The Best Lines Adam Pally Got Through Before He Was Escorted Off the Shorty Awards Stage

  17-04-2018 03:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  At 1:34:00 in the video above, Most Likely to Murder star Adam Pally takes a very different tack than that used by other presenters at last night’s 10th Annual Shorty Awards. Presumably Pally learned what the Shorty Awards even are mere seconds before going onstage, as that is the only...More »
  
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• Amy Schumer Gushes Over Marriage to Chris Fischer: ''He's Really Proud of Me''

  17-04-2018 03:11 via feeds.eonline.com
  She's got that newlywed glow!While promoting her new film, I Feel Pretty, funny lady Amy Schumer sat down with E! News and chatted about her new comedy and her new husband, James...
  
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• Netflix overseas sales to surpass US home market

  17-04-2018 02:29 via ft.com
  Net income surges 63% to $290m as subscriber growth outstrips expectations
  
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• Hotel Artemis Trailer: Jeff Goldblum, Sterling K. Brown and Jenny Slate Check In

  17-04-2018 02:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you’re looking for a hotel where you can kick back, relax, and have a bullet fished out of your soft tissue, look no further than director Drew Pearce’s Hotel Artemis. It’s an all-inclusive experience: skull masks, Sterling K. Brown, that liminal time between when Jeff Goldblum takes off his...More »
  
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• Netflix: expensive love

  17-04-2018 01:53 via ft.com
  Equity cushion just became fatter after streaming service’s quarterly results
  
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• Netflix: dearly loved

  17-04-2018 01:53 via ft.com
  Equity cushion just became fatter after streaming service’s quarterly results
  
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• Night Court Actor Harry Anderson Dead at 65

  17-04-2018 01:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  Know best to American audiences as Judge Harry T. Stone in Night Court, the eponymous Dave Barry in Dave’s World, and the original adult Richie Tozier in the ABC mini-series IT, actor Harry Anderson was found dead today at the age of 65. He was discovered in his home in...More »
  
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