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• Week in Review, April 21

  20-04-2018 23:59 via ft.com
  Strong results from US banks; Netflix and Unilever also in the news
  
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• J. Cole’s KOD Is a Thoughtful Meditation on Addiction

  20-04-2018 23:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  Most popular art about addiction tends to fall into two categories: wistful remembrances that elucidate the shocking ease of slipping into an unwanted habit, and the ghoulish rides into the terrifying logistics of feeding a hunger whose bottomlessness upends the addict’s life. Works in the latter category often feel like...More »
  
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• The 10 Essential William Holden Performances

  20-04-2018 23:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  If he were still alive, April 17 would mark classic Hollywood icon William Holden’s 100th birthday. Holden is one of the best American actors to ever grace the screen, with a long-running career that exists at the axis of several contradictions: golden good looks yet eyes that suggest a cleverly...More »
  
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• A Perfect Circle’s Eat the Elephant Isn’t Going to Revive the Flagging Fortunes of Alternative Rock

  20-04-2018 22:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  Some bands just have a taste for Big Topics. In the case of A Perfect Circle, the taste had always been accompanied with great expectations. Centered on guitarist Billy Howerdel’s songwriting, the band, whose new album Eat the Elephant is out today, was conceived as a supergroup of sorts. Maynard...More »
  
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• Proof That the Avengers Cast Is Having Way More Fun Than You Right Now

  20-04-2018 22:39 via feeds.eonline.com
  The cast of Avengers: Infinity War is having a blast right now touring all over the world to promote the newest Marvel movie and we are officially jealous.As you are sitting at your desk...
  
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• Harvey Weinstein Has Been Spotted, This Time in Bankruptcy Court

  20-04-2018 22:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  Harvey Weinstein had to leave the Olive Garden sometime. Presumably between storyboarding sessions for his comeback documentary, the disgraced film producer appeared in bankruptcy court to demand the return of his personal files from the Weinstein Company board and its debtors. The former Hollywood power broker’s lawyers said in court...More »
  
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• Smallville actor Allison Mack arrested in connection with sex cult

  20-04-2018 22:14
  The 35-year-old was arrested for her role as a co-conspirator in a sex cult called Nxivm, which is being prosecuted for sex trafficking and forced laborSmallville actor Allison Mack, who played Chloe Sullivan on the hit CW series for 10 seasons, has been arrested for her involvement in a sex cult called Nxivm. She is due to appear in court in Brooklyn on Friday.The group’s leader, Keith Raniere, was arrested for sex trafficking and forced labor last month. He was extradited to the United S
  
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• Allison Mack, a Different Smallville Actress, Has Been Arrested for Role in Sex Cult

  20-04-2018 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Earlier this month, Smallville actress Kristin Kreuk had to fend off rumors that she worked as a recruiter for a sex cult called NXIVM. It was started in 1998 by a man named Keith Raniere, who billed it as a self-help organization. After the New York Times published an exposé...More »
  
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• Of Course Someone Used a Westworld Panel to Pitch Their Screenplay

  20-04-2018 21:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  Forget everything you’ve heard about the one single audience question that brought the Tribeca Film Festival’s Westworld panel to a screeching halt. “Excruciating?” Try high-brow performance art! After offering some run-of-the-mill compliments about the show, the anonymous questioner admitted that he and his brothers were “huge fans of Interstellar,” the Christopher...More »
  
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• How Close Are We To Real-Life Westworld Robots?

  20-04-2018 21:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  Westworld envisions a future where robots are incredibly lifelike and sentient, but are treated like objects and forced to endure horrific things. As we get closer and closer to developing artificial intelligences that are indistinguishable from humans, we have to start thinking about what our relationship with these new life...More »
  
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• Shaggy and Sting Made the Perfect 420 Album

  20-04-2018 21:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  What’s Good is a weekly column collecting TV, music, movies, and miscellaneous cultural ephemera worthy of your time. Why? Because we like it. Check back Fridays at lunchtime for your guide to what is good.In the first song on 44/876, Sting calls reggae the “Shakespeare to his soul.” This is clearly...More »
  
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• Pour One Out for Joshua Malina, Who Had to Film His Scandal Death Scene 17 Times

  20-04-2018 21:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  Joshua Malina, Scandal’s amiable, bespectacled Attorney General David Rosen, has been having a bit of a dour post-series finale press tour since the episode aired on Thursday night. For one, his castmates savagely pranked him by making him believe he gave a Shondaland-loving old woman a fatal heart attack. And,...More »
  
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• Term of Affection? Ethnic Slur? Theater Union Decides That ‘Gypsy’ Must Go.

  20-04-2018 20:49 via nytimes.com
  While performers who go from show to show embrace the identity, Actors’ Equity has decided that a ceremony celebrating them needs to be renamed.
  
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• John Krasinski As Captain America, and Other Actors Who Almost Played Avengers

  20-04-2018 20:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  John Krasinski and Chris Evans are both affable guys in their late 30s who look great with beards, so it makes sense that from time to time, they might vie for the same part. But do you know how close Krasinski once came to nabbing the lead in Captain America:...More »
  
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• The Exorcist’s William Friedkin on Filming an Actual Exorcism

  20-04-2018 20:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  Spoilers below for The Devil and Father Amorth.In February of 2016, director William Friedkin — famous for The French Connection, The Boys in the Band, and The Exorcist, to name just a few films — was in Lucca, Italy, to receive the Puccini Award for achievement in opera. But Friedkin didn’t...More »
  
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• Barry Jenkins Got Help From Moonlight Playwright on James Baldwin Adaptation

  20-04-2018 20:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  Filmmaker Barry Jenkins had a lot to say about his forthcoming adaption of James Baldwin’s If Beale Street Could Talk on Thursday night, during a One Book, One New York panel at the PEN America World Voices literary festival. Joined by authors Jennifer Egan, Hari Kunzru, Imbolo Mbue, and Esmeralda Santiago...More »
  
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• Reed Hastings, the Netflix chief with a global vision

  20-04-2018 20:17 via ft.com
  His international outlook has disrupted the television industry and our viewing habits
  
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• Reed Hastings, the Netflix CEO who is filling the world’s screens

  20-04-2018 20:17 via ft.com
  His international outlook disrupted the television industry, and our viewing habits
  
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• Save the Children fallout hangs over Sir Alan Parker

  20-04-2018 20:07 via ft.com
  Doubts surface after ‘go-to’ man for advice on corporate responsibility stands down from charity
  
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• Brunswick’s master spinner in the spotlight

  20-04-2018 20:07 via ft.com
  Alan Parker resigned as chair of Save the Children after staff accused of harassment
  
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• Evan Rachel Wood Turned Down Mean Girls and Is Now Filled With Regret

  20-04-2018 19:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the many multiverses of our lives, we are a million different people as a result of making a million alternate choices. You went to the Starbucks on the left side of the street instead of the Starbucks on the right side of the street on your 16th birthday, and...More »
  
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• Swedish DJ Avicii Dead at 28

  20-04-2018 19:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  Avicii, a megapopular Swedish DJ and musician who produced a medley of Top 40 hits over the past few years, has died at the age of 28. Per a statement obtained by Variety, Avicii — born Tim Bergling — was found dead in Muscat, Oman, on Friday afternoon. “It is...More »
  
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• Mary Shelley Makes a Polite Period Drama Out of One of History’s Wildest Teens

  20-04-2018 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  At what point did the artist biopic settle into its current, cemented form? Watching Mary Shelley, the latest unsuccessful attempt to immortalize the teenage girl who created Frankenstein, it boggles the mind that anyone would try to make something mannered from her wild, sad, huge life, and yet that’s what...More »
  
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• Review: A Spanish Stage Provocateur Makes a Blood-Dripping Debut

  20-04-2018 19:25 via nytimes.com
  New York-area audiences finally have a chance to see Angélica Liddell, a darling of European theaters, in “Esta Breve Tragedia” at Peak Performances.
  
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• Rachel Weisz expecting 'a little human' with husband Daniel Craig

  20-04-2018 18:43
  Hollywood couple who married in 2011 announce they are having their first child togetherRachel Weisz has revealed she is expecting her first child with husband Daniel Craig.Weisz, 48, told the New York Times: “I’ll be showing soon. Daniel and I are so happy. We’re going to have a little human. We can’t wait to meet him or her. It’s all such a mystery.” Continue reading...
  
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• Wyatt Cenac Wants You to Have a ‘Real Conversation’ About Policing in America

  20-04-2018 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  When Wyatt Cenac left The Daily Show at the end of 2012, nothing seemed awry. Plenty of comic talents passed through the show for greener pastures, so it would take three years and a Marc Maron sit-down to bring out the truth: Cenac’s departure was more acrimonious than it seemed,...More »
  
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• Michelle Pfeiffer, Sole Woman on Scarface Panel, Asked About Her Weight for the Movie

  20-04-2018 17:59 via feeds.eonline.com
  In the words of Michelle Pfeiffer,"Well, okay."The three-time Oscar nominee joined some of her Scarface co-stars for a panel conversation Thursday night in honor of the...
  
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• Ghost Stories Is Your New Must-See Horror Movie

  20-04-2018 17:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  This weekend, the silence-shattering monsters of A Quiet Place will try to run up on the box office once again and reclaim the top spot, after falling to second place behind the Rock and his gargantuan gorilla in Rampage last week. But if you don’t want something so big and...More »
  
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• Why Rampage Is the Most Faithful Video-Game Adaptation Ever Made

  20-04-2018 17:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s extremely easy to see Rampage, the latest blockbuster starring Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson, and have no idea that it’s based on a video game. Rampage, which is about genetically enhanced animals turned Godzilla-sized monsters on a path of destruction, seems like boilerplate Hollywood action bolstered by Johnson — a...More »
  
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• Watch Noah Galvin Sing a Dear Evan Hansen Showstopper With Parkland Students

  20-04-2018 17:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  Evan, meet Parkland. As part of the fundraising effort From Broadway With Love: A Benefit Concert for Parkland, USA, Noah Galvin — who recently ended his tenure as the titular lead in Broadway’s megasmash Dear Evan Hansen — joined students at the high school for a lovely rendition of “You...More »
  
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• Revisiting the Controversy Surrounding Scarface

  20-04-2018 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  “This wasn’t the way it started,” Al Pacino chuckled, during the sold-out post-screening Q&A for the 35th anniversary screening of Scarface at the Tribeca Film Festival last night. “When Scarface first came out, it was extremely controversial, as you can imagine. But it stays in our lexicon, in a way....More »
  
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• Busy Philipps Will Flip Her Nose Ring Down and Fight You for Michelle Williams

  20-04-2018 16:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  Busy Philipps isn’t afraid to throw hands over her best friend Michelle Williams’s honor. On The Late Late Show With James Corden, Busy reminisced about her Dawson’s Creek days, especially one night at a bar with Michelle. “This girl kinda was a little drunk, and accused Michelle of being really...More »
  
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• The Diablo Cody–Jason Reitman Cinematic Universe Is a Thing

  20-04-2018 16:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  Last night, director Jason Reitman was on hand at the New York premiere of his new film Tully to discuss his frequent collaboration with screenwriter Diablo Cody. The film tells the story of a mother of three named Marlo, played by Charlize Theron, suffering from postpartum depression. Tully is Reitman’s...More »
  
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• Kanye Will Never Really Log Off

  20-04-2018 16:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  Kanye West isn’t the first musician to return from a Twitter hiatus to promote a new album — witness Jay-Z, whose typically dormant account released, last summer, a burst of 13 tweets over 90 minutes listing rappers he liked as part of the rollout for 4:44. But no one posts...More »
  
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• Ellen Burstyn Honors a Friendship With a Futurist

  20-04-2018 16:00 via nytimes.com
  Ms. Burstyn talks about “The House of Tomorrow” and her relationship with Buckminster Fuller, her coming directorial debut and her own #MeToo story.
  
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• Comic Performers Play It Dark in Netflix Movies

  20-04-2018 16:00 via nytimes.com
  In “Cargo,” “6 Balloons,” and “Kodachrome,” actors known for their funny roles hone their dramatic skills in Netflix Original movies.
  
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• 17 Celebrities Who Are Also Law Firms

  20-04-2018 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Some celebrities, like the NFL’s Dak Prescott and Barkevious Mingo, are George Lucas characters. Other celebrities, like Ansel Elgort, are award-winning Danish design firms. But still more, like former Patriots running back BenJarvus Green-Ellis, are successful law firms. Here are 17 more celebrities who are also home to successful legal...More »
  
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• Scandal Cast Gets Revenge on Prank Master Joshua Malina by Making Him Think He Almost Killed a Woman

  20-04-2018 15:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  Joshua Malina, that diabolical rapscallion, has been torturing his Scandal pals for years with his silly shaving cream and dirty email pranks on set. And frankly, those gladiators have had enough. Appearing on Jimmy Kimmel Live! last night following the series finale, the cast was finally able to get some...More »
  
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• Tully’s Setup Is Subpar, But It Soon Becomes Magical

  20-04-2018 15:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  The title character in Tully, the third collaboration between director Jason Reitman and screenwriter Diablo Cody, doesn’t make her entrance until well into the film, after it’s established that the protagonist, Marlo (Charlize Theron), is moving from postpartum depression to postpartum desperation — and that’s when the movie enters uncharted...More »
  
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• David Morrissey webchat – your questions answered on working-class actors, Mo Salah and Basic Instinct 2

  20-04-2018 15:32
  The City and the City star discussed reviving his Walking Dead character, refusing to watch the State of Play remake and when he’ll get back to DJing 2.32pm BST We’re out of time. Thanks for all your questions! 2.29pm BST Arthur Sternom asks:Miracle of Istanbul still the greatest day ever?Yes. Sadly I was not there I was at home watching it on the telly with my son who was six at the time. At half time I turned to him and said it's over, this could be seven of eight nil, and he said
  
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• Time 100: Millie Bobby Brown becomes youngest to make influential people list

  20-04-2018 15:09
  Stranger Things actor, 14, joins Prince Harry, Donald Trump and Sadiq Khan on magazine’s listMillie Bobby Brown, the supernatural star of the Netflix hit Stranger Things, has become the youngest person to be included in Time magazine’s list of the most influential people in the world.The 14-year-old British actor, who plays the telekinetic Eleven in the sci-fi drama, joins Prince Harry, Donald Trump and the rapper Cardi B on Time’s annual top 100 list. Continue reading...
  
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• Millie Bobby Brown becomes youngest person to make Time 100 list

  20-04-2018 15:09
  Stranger Things actor, 14, joins Prince Harry and Donald Trump on list of most influential peopleMillie Bobby Brown, the supernatural star of the Netflix hit Stranger Things, has become the youngest person ever to be included in Time magazine’s list of the most influential people in the world.The 14-year-old British actor, who plays the telekinetic Eleven in the sci-fi drama, joins Prince Harry, Donald Trump and the rapper Cardi B on Time’s annual top 100 list. Continue reading...
  
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• Michelle Pfeiffer Politely Demurred A Question About Her Scarface Weight

  20-04-2018 15:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  After the Tribeca Film Festival’s 35th anniversary Scarface screening Thursday night, members of the cast reunited to talk about the gangster movie’s history and impact. Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer, Brian De Palma, and Steven Bauer sat onstage at the Beacon Theatre, in conversation with moderator Jesse Kornbluth. Kornbluth’s first question...More »
  
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• Why the New York Times Is Making a Podcast About ISIS

  20-04-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The New York Times’ first serialized audio documentary is now widely available, and it is a stunner. Gripping, gorgeously crafted, and smartly designed, the debut episode of Caliphate sets a vivid and intense scene for what will undoubtedly be an intense journey into the unknown.Caliphate follows Rukmini Callimachi, the Times’...More »
  
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• The Creator of Avengers: Infinity War Villain Thanos Hates Marvel Comics’ Guts

  20-04-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I’m not an angry person, which you can probably hear from just me talking to you,” Jim Starlin tells me over the phone. Then he sighs. “But Marvel tends to bring out the worst in me, at times.”That’s a bitterly ironic statement, given what the multi-billion-dollar Marvel brand owes to...More »
  
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• How Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’s Anthony Boyle Builds Sympathy for a Malfoy

  20-04-2018 14:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  To get into the mind of his character in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Anthony Boyle thought about dogs. In the two-part play, Boyle routinely steals scenes as Scorpius Malfoy, son of Harry Potter’s regular school rival Draco, scion to a vast, vaguely evil lineage — though Scorpius is...More »
  
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