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• Verne Troyer, actor who was Mini-Me in Austin Powers films, dies at 49

  21-04-2018 23:15
  Family announces death on social media sitesStatement: ‘Verne was an extremely caring individual’The actor Verne Troyer has died, according to a statement posted to his social media pages on Saturday. He was 49. Related: Verne Troyer: my family valuesContinue reading...
  
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• Sharks, zealots and the apocalypse: welcome to Steve Bannon’s movie world

  21-04-2018 23:00
  A new exhibition in Rotterdam uses the films of Trump’s former right-hand man to examine the visual art of propagandaMost recognise him as the dishevelled former Breitbart News boss who ran the triumphal last leg of Donald Trump’s election campaign and then became – until his sudden ejection, seven months in – the new president’s chief strategist.Some may recall Steve Bannon was once at Goldman Sachs, and executive produced a few Hollywood movies. But not many know
  
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• Martin Freeman Pitches His New Film Cargo to Some Fancy ‘Executives’

  21-04-2018 22:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  While visiting the Tribeca Film Festival with his new zombie-filled family drama Cargo, Martin Freeman stepped into an imaginary elevator with two very legitimate “executives” and gave them a quick pitch for the film. Is he good? Is he bad? Only you can decide....More »
  
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• Austin Powers’s Verne Troyer Dead at 49

  21-04-2018 22:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  Verne Troyer, best known for his role as Dr. Evil’s beloved Mini-Me in the Austin Powers franchise, has died at the age of 49. TMZ reports that Troyer — who was born with achondroplasia dwarfism — had been hospitalized and on life support since earlier this month, where he was...More »
  
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• Watch Kate Micucci’s Elevator Pitch for 7 Stages at Tribeca Film Festival

  21-04-2018 21:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  Please sit back and enjoy watching Kate Micucci and director Vivieno Caldinelli, who happen to meet two “executives” in an elevator at the Tribeca Film Festival — just in time to pitch their new bizarre comedy Seven Stages to Achieve Eternal Bliss by Passing Through the Gateway Chosen by the...More »
  
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• Benedict Cumberbatch Isn’t Exactly a Fan of Martin Freeman’s ‘Pathetic’ Comments About Sherlock Fans

  21-04-2018 21:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  Last month, Martin Freeman caused a stir in the Sherlock fan community when he blamed, well, the fans and their high expectations for ruining the show for him. “Being in that show, it is a mini-Beatles thing,” he said at the time, effectively crushing any dreams for a season five....More »
  
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• The Cast of In A Relationship Plays ‘It’s A Yes Or No Question. It’s Truly Not That Complicated’

  21-04-2018 20:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  The stars of In A Relationship — the lovely Michael Angarano, Dree Hemingway, and Patrick Gibson — stopped by Vulture’s studio at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival to play a round of everyone’s favorite game, “It’s Yes or No Question. It’s Truly Not That Complicated!” Should you watch? Yes! It’s...More »
  
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• Could You Imagine David Tennant As Hannibal’s Titular Villain? Bryan Fuller Sure Did.

  21-04-2018 19:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  Somewhere in his timey-wimey timeline between making us swoon in Doctor Who and terrorizing us to death in Jessica Jones, David “DTenntz” Tennant was flirting with the idea of taking a villainous role on American primetime television. That character, as you can surmise from the headline, was Hannibal Lecter on...More »
  
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• Dan Harmon Addresses That Pesky Rick and Morty Szechuan Sauce Debacle

  21-04-2018 19:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  While attending this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, Dan Harmon, the creator of Rick and Morty, addressed the disastrous McDonald’s campaign to bring back that infamous Szechuan Sauce featured in his show. “I wouldn’t wish that show’s fans on any fast-food restaurant,” he joked, but he’s definitely not wrong....More »
  
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• Jeffrey Wright Says Anthony Hopkins Was the Prime Jokester on Westworld’s Set

  21-04-2018 19:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  Jeffrey Wright of Westworld stopped by Vulture’s studio at Tribeca Film Festival to discuss his new film O.G. and revealed the truth about beloved British actor Anthony Hopkins: “He’s just fantastic … and a bit mischievous.” We’d expect nothing less from that Ford fellow!...More »
  
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• Review: ‘Sancho: An Act of Remembrance,’ Recalls a British Pioneer

  21-04-2018 18:44 via nytimes.com
  In his solo show, Paterson Joseph plays an 18th-century gentleman said to have been the first black Briton to vote.
  
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• Languid Stalker Breaks Into Taylor Swift’s Home to Nap

  21-04-2018 17:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  Taylor Swift’s Manhattan townhouse got an unannounced, scary visitor on Friday morning when a stalker, identified as 22 year-old Roger Alvarado, successfully gained access to her home with the help of a ladder and proceeded to … smash a window to gain entry, take a nap in her bed, and...More »
  
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• Thandie Newton Will Also Get Equal Pay for Westworld Season 3

  21-04-2018 16:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  Come get your well deserved money, Maeve. Following her co-star, Evan Rachel Wood, confirming she would be receiving equal pay to her male co-stars Anthony Hopkins and Ed Harris for the third season of Westworld, Thandie Newton has confirmed she, too, will be receiving the same pay raise. “They’re all...More »
  
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• Smallville actor Allison Mack pleads not guilty on sex cult charges

  21-04-2018 16:42 via theguardian.com
  35-year-old arrested as alleged co-conspirator in Nxivm, organization being prosecuted for sex trafficking and forced laborAllison Mack, who played Chloe Sullivan on the hit CW series Smallville for 10 seasons, has been arrested for her involvement in a sex cult called Nxivm. Related: Co-founder of 'self-help' group arrested and charged with sex traffickingContinue reading...
  
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• The One When Matt LeBlanc Ate David Schwimmer’s Regurgitated Friends Trifle

  21-04-2018 16:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  Rachel’s meat trifle catastrophe on Friends will continue to go down as one of the most enjoyable episodes in the sitcom’s canon, and now we have the privilege of looking back at it with an even bigger ew-factor. That’s because Matt LeBlanc, of how you doin’ and Joey doesn’t share...More »
  
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• Dear HBO, You Somehow Lead James Marsden to Believe Nobody Wants to See Him Have a Westworld Sex Scene

  21-04-2018 15:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  Westworld, a wild west odyssey that contains a whole bunch of violent delights having violent ends, is peppered with lots of sex scenes. A whole lot. But if you recall looking back at season one, none of them involved James Marsden’s amiable gunfighter character, Teddy, and honestly? It makes Marsden...More »
  
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• Fatberg Autopsy - getting to the bottom of London’s dirty secrets

  21-04-2018 12:00 via theguardian.com
  This new Channel 4 documentary invites us to inspect the effluent of 8 million Londoners in horrifying close up - and the results are oddly heartwarmingMidnight at London’s South Bank and, four metres below street level, 21-year-old Adam – affectionately known to his colleagues as “Manhole” – is thigh-deep in human excrement. Adam is one of Thames Water’s army of trained “flushers”, dispatched in the dead of night to dismantle the capital’s e
  
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• ‘That show was as white as it gets!’ Sex and the City’s problematic legacy

  21-04-2018 10:59 via theguardian.com
  Inspiring political memes and sartorial Instagrams, the show is having a second wind thanks to social media. But how does its stand up in 2018?The Halloween before last, Dan Clay went out in an outfit that changed his life. He paired a baby-pink tank top with a white tutu and accessorised with heels, a tumble of blond curls and a splash of NYC puddle water: Carrie Dragshaw was born. “It started as a really innocent Halloween costume with no aspirations of internet celebrity,” says th
  
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• Why is modern TV so confusing?

  21-04-2018 08:00 via theguardian.com
  Transmission failure: your guide to TV’s most complicated showsMarcella is an ITV crime drama with a titular cop whose dark personal life gives her a unique insight into her investigations, just like every other titular cop in every other ITV crime drama since the beginning of the universe. Yet viewers expecting a cosy cop show were left unnerved by the final episode of the second series, which aired earlier this month, in which Marcella visits a hypnotherapist to reveal she killed her own
  
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• Watch the Jane the Virgin Cast React to Season Four’s Finale Twist

  21-04-2018 07:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you’re still reeling from the twist in tonight’s Season Four finale of Jane the Virgin, you aren’t the only one. Via a video posted to the CBS Instagram, you can enjoy the stunned reaction of the show’s cast as they find out the very same twist you just enjoyed…when...More »
  
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• The Button review – the latest thing in home entertainment

  21-04-2018 07:30 via theguardian.com
  In BBC1’s lighthearted new gameshow, the contestants participate from the comfort of their own living rooms The Button is a box that talks and has a big button on top, like a primitive version of Amazon Echo or Google Home. It might arrive in your family home; a sure sign is if your family home suddenly becomes framed in pulsating neon.When the button turns from green to red you have to hit it, and it will set your family a challenge – make a tower out of books, tins and pillows that
  
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• Saturday's best TV: Imagine: Habaneros – You Say You Want a Revolution?; The Queen’s Birthday Party

  21-04-2018 07:00 via theguardian.com
  Julien Temple’s brilliant survey of Cuba past and present and a variety show to celebrate HRH’s 92nd birthday. Continue reading...
  
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• ABC Renews Grey’s Anatomy for a Fifteenth Season

  21-04-2018 06:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  Don’t pack up all your sterile medical instruments just yet: you’ve got at least one more season to go in your residency at Grey Shondaland Memorial. In a statement released Friday, ABC announced that Grey’s Anatomy will return for a fifteenth season. The move isn’t exactly surprising; the Shonda Rhimes...More »
  
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• Ava DuVernay Announces Casting Has Begun for Netflix’s Central Park Five

  21-04-2018 05:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  Plenty of productions claim to have scoured the earth for the perfect actress or actor for their project. But what does that search mean when young, unrepped performers may not know how or where to find those casting calls? If director Ava DuVernay’s Friday night retweet is any indication, she’s...More »
  
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• Let’s Talk About Your Jane the Virgin Finale Feelings

  21-04-2018 04:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Major spoilers ahead for the season-four finale of Jane the Virgin.Welcome back, friends! After almost four seasons, it seemed like there wasn’t another twist that Jane the Virgin could possibly throw at us, but boy were we wrong! The season-four finale had everything we come to expect from spending time...More »
  
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• Jane the Virgin’s Finale Twist Is Breathtaking

  21-04-2018 04:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Major spoilers ahead for the season-four finale of Jane the Virgin.Friday’s season-four finale of Jane the Virgin pulls off one of the most astounding twists TV has seen in a long while. After Jane’s beloved husband Michael dies from sudden heart failure in the middle of season three, the final...More »
  
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• Jane the Virgin Season-Finale Recap: OMFG

  21-04-2018 04:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  OH MY GOD. Oh my god! Oh my god.I thought I was prepared for this episode. I was expecting a big twist. “Chapter Eighty-One” telegraphs that something massive is coming, and you can feel it building throughout the hour. There’s Rafael’s visit to Sin Rostro and his sudden, infuriating, inexplicable...More »
  
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• How Jane the Virgin Pulled Off Its Fantastic Surprise

  21-04-2018 04:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Major spoilers ahead for the season-four finale of Jane the Virgin.In the final few moments of Jane the Virgin’s fourth season finale, Jane walks down a hallway to her boyfriend Rafael’s apartment and assumes she’s about to discover the identity of Rafael’s mysterious unknown parents. Instead, Rafael opens the door...More »
  
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• All the Clues That Led to Jane the Virgin’s Major Finale Twist

  21-04-2018 04:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Major spoilers ahead for the Jane the Virgin season finale.Jane the Virgin has never been afraid of crazy plot twists or dramatic cliffhangers, and its season four finale just delivered the craziest, most dramatic moment of the series yet: Michael Cordero, Jane’s husband who died of heart complications in the...More »
  
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• Universal Is Bringing You the Movie Adaptation of Stephen King’s The Tommyknockers

  21-04-2018 03:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  You thought your tiny Maine town had it rough, what with the evil kid-murdering clown running around. But is that really much worse than a buried alien spaceship brainwashing your fellow Maineiacs into becoming psychotically violent? New Hampshire probably doesn’t have to deal with any of this. Them’s the breaks,...More »
  
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• Natalie Portman Explains Why She Declined to Travel to Israel to Receive Genesis Prize

  21-04-2018 02:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  Yesterday, Israel’s Genesis Prize Foundation announced that their intended honoree, Natalie Portman, had informed them via her spokesperson that “she does not feel comfortable participating in any public events in Israel” due to recent “extremely distressing” events in the country. The Foundation announced that they had “no choice” but to...More »
  
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• Dan Harmon Didn’t Realize Being An Actor Was So Hard

  21-04-2018 02:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  Dan Harmon, creator of Rick and Morty and Community, is stepping in front of the camera in Vivieno Caldinelli’s bizarre comedy 7 Stages to Achieve Eternal Bliss by Passing Through the Gateway Chosen by the Holy Storsh. While at Tribeca Film Festival, Harmon commiserated with the actors he’s worked with...More »
  
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• It Star Sophia Lillis Is Your New Nancy Drew

  21-04-2018 01:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sophia Lillis is getting a reprieve from battling shapeshifting entities from hell. The star of last year’s It has just been cast as Nancy Drew in the Warner Bros. adaptation of Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase, according to Variety. In the story, two elderly sisters start experiencing strange occurrences...More »
  
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• Jeffrey Wright Describes Filming His New Movie O.G. in a Real Prison

  21-04-2018 01:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  While at the Tribeca Film Festival, actor Jeffrey Wright talks about the complications of filming his new project, O.G., inside a real prison, with real inmates playing the other prisoners. Explained the Westworld star, “I found it to be the most moving experience I’ve ever had working on a film.”...More »
  
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• R. Kelly’s Lawyer, Publicist, And Assistant Have Reportedly Quit

  21-04-2018 01:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  According to reports published on Friday, some of those closest to R. Kelly have reportedly started to jump ship, including his entertainment attorney Linda Mensch and his assistant Diana Copeland. Copeland told The BBC she had reportedly ended her employment with the singer on Sunday, April 1. “I no longer...More »
  
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• Avicii and EDM’s Promise of Post-Recessional Excess

  21-04-2018 00:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  In late 2011, I moved back to Los Angeles after a yearlong exile in Seattle. I had lived in L.A. for six years prior to that, but I might as well have been starting from scratch, and I spent several months couch surfing, looking for a job and an apartment,...More »
  
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• The Westworld Cast Doesn’t Know What Order the Episodes Will Be In While Filming

  21-04-2018 00:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  Turns out the cast of Westworld are just as confused as you are about the show’s timeline. During a panel that followed a screening of the season-two premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival, Jeffrey Wright admitted he usually doesn’t know the order of the episodes while while filming. “They were...More »
  
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• Mary Berry Learned the Hard Way That Cocaine and Flour Look the Same to TSA Officers

  21-04-2018 00:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  We here at Vulture would personally take a bullet for Mary Berry, goddess divine of the British culinary world, so she can continue to delight the world with soggy bottom commentary for the rest of our lifetimes. That feeling has only grown stronger after watching Berry recount the time she...More »
  
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