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• Musicians Refused to Induct Dire Straits Into the Rock Hall Because Mark Knopfler Didn’t Come

  18-04-2018 23:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  The drama behind Dire Straits’s induction into the 2018 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame continues to get even more, well, dire every day. Following the band’s awkward and weird induction segment at the ceremony on Saturday evening (which was uncharacteristically devoid of both a speaker and performance, owing to...More »
  
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• All of Riverdale’s Musical Numbers, Ranked by Horniness

  18-04-2018 22:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  In addition to fighting serial killers and wearing seasonally confusing clothing, the teens of Riverdale like to spend their time making music. They sing. They do cheer routines. They stage talent shows. They long for musical careers! And this week, they’re even putting on a musical. If we’ve learned anything...More »
  
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• Parkland Survivors Get a Broadway Master Class in Healing

  18-04-2018 22:44 via nytimes.com
  Florida students began rehearsing “Spring Awakening” before the Feb. 14 shooting at their high school. They wanted to keep going. The show’s original cast came to support them.
  
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• He’s the Producer. She’s the Talent. Who Owns the Hit Record?

  18-04-2018 22:41 via nytimes.com
  Joe Penhall’s new play, “Mood Music,” has real-world echoes in its story of a battle between a young singer-songwriter and her record producer.
  
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• Dale Winton, Supermarket Sweep presenter and radio DJ, dies aged 62

  18-04-2018 22:41 via theguardian.com
  Presenter of Supermarket Sweep and National Lottery’s In It to Win It died at his homeThe television presenter and radio DJ Dale Winton has died at the age of 62.
  Jan Kennedy – long-term agent to the Dale’s Supermarket Sweep star – confirmed “with great sadness” that Winton had died at his home earlier in the day. “While we know many will share this terrible loss, we ask that you respect the family’s privacy at this time of grief,” he said. C
  
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• Cary Elwes Will Be a ‘Slick and Sleazy’ Politician in Stranger Things Season 3

  18-04-2018 22:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Let the ’80s nostalgia burn on. Cary Elwes (of The Princess Bride and your adolescent dreams) is set to join Stranger Things season three as Hawkins, Indiana’s Mayor Kline, according to Deadline. Described as “handsome, slick and sleazy … your classic 80s politician,” Elwes will join a cast stacked with...More »
  
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• Tina Fey Can Have It All, Will Host the Saturday Night Live Finale

  18-04-2018 22:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  Some personal news. Saturday Night Live - SNL (@nbcsnl) April 18, 2018...More »
  
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• Why Riverdale Chose to Stage Carrie for Its Musical Episode

  18-04-2018 21:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  Most high schools tend to stick to the established hits when they’re staging a musical: The Music Man, Fiddler on the Roof, or maybe Spring Awakening if they’re really daring (or if Ted Mosby is in charge). Not Riverdale High. For Riverdale’s big musical episode that’s airing on Wednesday night,...More »
  
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• Publisher Backs Up Janice Dickinson’s Claim That Cosby Rape Story Was Cut From Her Memoir

  18-04-2018 21:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  After hearing graphic accounts of Bill Cosby’s drug use this week, today the jury in the comedian’s felony sexual-assault retrial heard from book publisher Judith Regan’s sworn affidavit. The statement detailed her decision to cut accusations about Janice Dickinson’s rape by Cosby from the model’s much-talked-about memoir.In 2002, Regan told...More »
  
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• Time Warner’s Bewkes defends AT&T deal in court

  18-04-2018 20:56 via ft.com
  Chief executive says $85bn sale is response to rise of Google and Facebook
  
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• Scandal Was a Show That Broke Ground With Ease

  18-04-2018 20:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  Shonda Rhimes’s Scandal, which ends its seven-season run Thursday night, is a rare revolutionary TV drama that never became full of itself. It dealt in controversy on the regular, tackling everything from racial politics and sexual power dynamics in a workplace to PTSD, executive privilege, and the efficacy of torture, even letting its...More »
  
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• Vanderpump Rules’ Lala Kent on What the Deal Is With Her Baby Bottle

  18-04-2018 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Lala Kent has not always had an easy time on the incredible restaurant reality show Vanderpump Rules. The 28-year-old SUR hostess was met with the typical new-cast-member scorn upon arrival in season four, immediately earning the ire of her fellow castmates after saying she had to take off work for...More »
  
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• Art Spiegelman on Lynd Ward, the Forgotten Comics Legend Who Inspired Him

  18-04-2018 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  This week, we assembled a list of 100 pages that shaped the course of American comic books. There are many candidates for the title of “first American comic book,” and we chose to begin our retrospective with a page from Lynd Ward’s 1929 proto–graphic novel Gods’ Man. It’s a wordless...More »
  
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• Troubles at Irish news group put spotlight on Denis O’Brien

  18-04-2018 19:51 via ft.com
  Independent News & Media faces prospect of high court inquiry over alleged data breach
  
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• The Final Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom Trailer Reveals an Entirely New Plot

  18-04-2018 19:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the first trailer for Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, it seemed like Chris Pratt’s Owen Grady laid out the whole plot for fans. “I know why we’re here. A rescue op to save the dinosaurs from an island that’s about to explode. What could go wrong?” But it turns out...More »
  
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• Vittorio Taviani, 88, Dies; Made Acclaimed Films With Brother

  18-04-2018 19:13 via nytimes.com
  His and Paolo Taviani’s movies drew notice in their native Italy and beyond; one, “Padre Padrone,” won the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 1977.
  
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• Mark and Jay Duplass Are Breaking Into True Crime With New Netflix Docuseries

  18-04-2018 19:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  Netflix is ramping up both its true crime and its Duplass brothers content. Today, the streaming giant announced additional episodes of its series The Staircase, as well as the arrival of Evil Genius: The True Story of America’s Most Diabolical Bank Heist, a new docuseries from producers Jay and Mark Duplass....More »
  
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• Netflix plots $1bn European investment drive

  18-04-2018 19:08 via ft.com
  US streaming service will double production budget in region in 2018
  
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• Emma Stone and Jonah Hill Do Some Intense Staring in this First Look at Maniac

  18-04-2018 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Cary Fukunaga, Emma Stone, and Jonah Hill have been working on a Netflix series that looks trippier than your freshman year of college. Per Netflix, “Maniac is the story of two strangers who find themselves caught up in a mind-bending pharmaceutical trial gone awry.” The ten-episode show is based on...More »
  
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• Mercury 13: the untold story of women testing for spaceflight in the 1960s

  18-04-2018 18:25 via theguardian.com
  In a new Netflix documentary, the tales of 13 female pilots who dreamed of becoming astronauts yet were denied the opportunity by Nasa are finally brought to lightWhen Neil Armstrong clambered down on to the surface of the moon, he famously declared that he had taken “one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind”. Related: Sign up to our Film Today emailContinue reading...
  
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• ‘Jurassic World’ Trailer: A Rescue Mission Gets Underway

  18-04-2018 18:20 via nytimes.com
  Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard are up against Rafe Spall and other adversaries in this sequel.
  
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• Get In Free if You’ll Wear a Swastika: A German Theater’s Provocation

  18-04-2018 18:14 via nytimes.com
  Producers said the symbols were crucial to a performance highlighting the dangers of fascism. But the opening-night offer has prompted complaints to the police.
  
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• Josh Groban and Sara Bareilles to Host Tony Awards

  18-04-2018 18:07 via nytimes.com
  The two, who recently made their own Broadway debuts, will host the ceremony on June 10; much of it will be broadcast on CBS.
  
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• Sara Bareilles Gets Promoted from Waitress, Will Be Hostess of the Tony Awards with Josh Groban

  18-04-2018 17:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  Fresh from singing her love psalms in Jesus Christ Superstar Live, Sara Bareilles will be hosting this year’s Tony Awards alongside your favorite baritone, Josh Groban. Bareilles herself was nominated for a Tony Award in 2016 for Best Original Score for Waitress and Groban was nominated last year for Best...More »
  
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• Chris Pratt Barely Escapes a Dinosaur's Jaws in New Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom Trailer

  18-04-2018 17:15 via feeds.eonline.com
  The park may be gone, but the new trailer for Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom is finally here.The two-minute and 30-second clip shows Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard trying to save...
  
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• The Split: Abi Morgan on how she blew the wig off the British legal drama

  18-04-2018 16:54 via theguardian.com
  They wear sharp suits and power-walk to meetings with scandalous celebrity clients. But the solicitor sisters in this glamorous new divorce drama are not what they seem ‘The idea for the show came from three things,” says Abi Morgan. “I was coming up to 50 and, having spent two decades with the same man, was starting to think about 21st-century marriage and relationships. Then I met a mother who was a divorce lawyer and got talking to her about family law.” The third angl
  
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• Here Is Exactly How Much Money MoviePass Is Losing

  18-04-2018 16:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  When you first hear about MoviePass’s business model — charging subscribers $10 a month to see a movie every day, with tickets the company buys full-price from theater chains — your initial impression is likely to be something along the line of, How in the world is that sustainable? And...More »
  
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• Lola Kirke Wrote a Letter to the Editor Over the New Yorker’s ‘Glib’ Gemini Review

  18-04-2018 16:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  Lola Kirke is not here for your sexist movie criticism. When her latest film Gemini — a thriller co-starring Zoë Kravitz — was reviewed by The New Yorker, critic Anthony Lane had some commentary about Kirke’s character’s appearance: “She wears big jeans and a baggy gray top, while sporting the...More »
  
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• 17 Films You Should See at This Year’s Tribeca Film Festival

  18-04-2018 16:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  The good news about the 17th annual Tribeca Film Festival is that it continues last year’s trend of being less inclusive. Three cheers for elitism! Give thanks for fewer turkeys! This year’s slate of features — reduced by 20 percent from two years ago — could be the most consistently...More »
  
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• I Ate and Drank Like Olivia Pope for a Week, and I Didn’t Die

  18-04-2018 16:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  I mean it with deep affection when I say that Scandal is a lunatic television series that spits in the face of narrative logic and good taste. The fact that Shonda Rhimes’s TGIT middle-child is ending feels impossible, in that Scandal has never appeared to approach any kind of limit;...More »
  
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• Ofcom opens new investigations into Kremlin-funded RT channel

  18-04-2018 15:47 via ft.com
  Broadcaster could lose licences if UK regulator deems it has breached rules on impartiality
  
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• Meet Trina Robbins, the Controversial Feminist Who Revolutionized Comic Books

  18-04-2018 15:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  Don’t mistake Trina Robbins’s gentleness for shyness. There have been many comic books with all-female creative teams since the 79-year-old writer-artist-editor came up in the “underground comix” scene of the late 1960s and early ’70s. She’s overjoyed for their success. But she wants you to know exactly where she, and...More »
  
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• Idris Elba Will Finally Come Into Your Bedroom, Via His New Netflix Comedy Series

  18-04-2018 15:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  At long last, Idris Elba has accepted your invitation to maybe, like, come up for a drink or something? He’ll be visiting you in your home (and probably in your bed, with a discount Malbec) via Turn Up Charlie, an upcoming Netflix comedy series Elba created, will star in, and...More »
  
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• Ellen Burstyn Thinks the #MeToo Movement Is the ‘True Beginning of the Crumble of the Patriarchy’

  18-04-2018 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  In Ellen Burstyn’s living room on the Upper West Side, an enormous picture window looks out over Central Park. Next to the windowsill, where dozens of sparkling energy crystals adorn a view that, especially on a clear, optimistically sunny February afternoon like this one, by no means needs adorning, Burstyn,...More »
  
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• The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Season-Finale Recap: Wedgie Issue

  18-04-2018 14:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  This week, on the season finale of our favorite show, Rich Women Doing Things, the rich women did things for the final time. They talked about their daughters while their husbands got haircuts on the veranda from a former Bravo-lebrity who is doing his best Tom Ford impersonation and failing....More »
  
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• Ava DuVernay and Kristen Stewart added to female-majority Cannes jury

  18-04-2018 12:42
  Léa Seydoux and Denis Villeneuve also join 2018 film festival panel in wake of criticism over the lack of female directors in competition Related: Sign up to our Film Today email The full competition jury for this year’s Cannes film festival has been announced, with A Wrinkle in Time director Ava DuVernay and the actor Kristen Stewart among those joining the previously announced jury president, Cate Blanchett. Related: Lars von Trier set for Cannes return after seven-year banContinu
  
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• Skin Deep: Danai Gurira Doesn’t Do Contouring

  18-04-2018 11:00 via nytimes.com
  The actress, who plays the ferocious General Okoye in “Black Panther,” says that she “would never even attempt” to Kardashianize her face.
  
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• CBS weighs legal risks of increased Viacom bid

  18-04-2018 11:00 via ft.com
  Shareholders could challenge Shari Redstone’s effort to reunite family media empire
  
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• Rebel Wilson damages 'a denial of natural justice', court told

  18-04-2018 10:12
  Bauer barrister says there is insufficient evidence actor lost millions in potential earnings from defamatory articlesThere is insufficient evidence Rebel Wilson lost millions in potential earnings as a result of several defamatory articles in Australian magazines, Melbourne’s court of appeal has heard.The Australian actor was awarded more than $4.5m in damages, plus interest and court costs, in her libel case against magazine publisher Bauer Media last year. Related: Sign up to our Film T
  
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• From Jessica Jones to Chandler Bing: which TV characters need a makeover?

  18-04-2018 09:00 via theguardian.com
  Which superheroes aren’t doing themselves justice with their ‘damaged genius’ uniform? Who needs to stop aping Easy Rider? Here’s our rundown of telly’s sartorial underachievers Continue reading...
  
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• Wednesday’s best TV: The Secret Life of the Zoo; Station 19

  18-04-2018 07:20 via theguardian.com
  Love is in the air at Chester Zoo’s chameleon enclosure, while firefighters get hot under the collar in a Grey’s Anatomy spin-off8pm, Channel 4
  It is billed as a candid look at nature red in tooth and “aww!” at Chester Zoo, but this behind-the-bars documentary series often resembles a furrier version of First Dates. Love – or at least some sort of pungent musk – always seems to be in the air and tonight’s season-five opener is no exception, with a breedi
  
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• From Alice Isn’t Dead to Untold: the best podcasts this spring

  18-04-2018 07:00 via theguardian.com
  Whether you’ve been bitten by the true crime bug or you fancy some late-night chat, there are more than enough new podcasts to whet your appetiteUntold’s investigation into the murder of Daniel Morgan was an iTunes chart topper and now the team have been busy looking into the still unfolding Cambridge Analytica scandal. This crowd-funded ten-parter will feature whistleblower Chris Wylie and take his story from his early career working on Obama’s campaign to his part in the cont
  
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• Hear Two Tracks Off Father John Misty’s Upcoming Album God’s Favorite Customer

  18-04-2018 06:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you’ve been praying for a new album of sardonic folk rock, Father John Misty (a.k.a. Joshua Tillman) is ready to answer your prayers. The singer-songwriter is following up last year’s Pure Comedy with the June 1 release of God’s Favorite Customer, reports Pitchfork. The 10-track album is set to...More »
  
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• South-east Asia sprouts fake followers for prominent Twitter users

  18-04-2018 06:03 via ft.com
  State-run agencies under suspicion as thousands of new accounts emerge
  
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• Advertising’s acquisition carousel is slowing

  18-04-2018 06:00 via ft.com
  Sorrell’s departure from WPP makes it harder for creative entrepreneurs to get rich
  
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• Legion Recap: The Maze Runner

  18-04-2018 05:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  David Haller has only been back for a few days, but that’s all it takes to plunge Division 3 into crisis mode. After Lenny and Oliver’s invasion last week, the agency falls victim to an even bigger threat: That mysterious monk is the one who’s spreading the psychic virus, and...More »
  
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• James Comey Tells Colbert Why He Was Surprised When Trump ‘Whacked’ Him

  18-04-2018 04:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  TONIGHT: makes an offer he can refuse. The Late Show (@colbertlateshow) April 18, 2018Comey explained that he was shocked because he thought that as the leader of the Russian investigation he was safe from dismissal. “Even though our relationship was becoming strained, there’s no way that I’m going to get...More »
  
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• Review: In the Hotel in ‘Zürich,’ Room Service Comes With a Bang

  18-04-2018 03:45 via nytimes.com
  Amelia Roper’s portrait of disparate — and desperate — lives in a Swiss hotel becomes an indictment of moral blight in the 21st century.
  
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