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• Ryan Gosling Sings to a Baby in the Trailer for First Man

  25-04-2018 23:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  Oscar-winning La La Land director Damien Chazelle turned up at CinemaCon Wednesday with his La La Land leading man Ryan Gosling and The Crown’s Claire Foy to tout their new collaboration together: the Neil Armstrong biopic First Man. The film follows the American astronaut’s early-1960s journey from suburban idyll to...More »
  
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• Cosby Jury Asks Judge: What Is the Legal Definition of Consent?

  25-04-2018 23:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  After deliberating for only a few short hours today, the jury in the felony sexual-assault retrial of Bill Cosby had a key question for the court. Just after lunch at approximately 1 p.m., the jury asked the judge: What is the legal definition of consent?“The jury will decide what consent...More »
  
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• Britain’s Fat Fight With Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall review: mischief with a message

  25-04-2018 23:00
  The celebrity chef and food campaigner is taking on obesity by doorstepping cereal giants and flogging cabbages in Newcastle – and it seems to be having an effectIf you are in the food industry, the last thing you want popping into your inbox is an email from Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. Congratulating you on the delicious crunchiness of your chocolate-flavoured rice-based breakfast cereal, is he? Er, no, he wants an on-camera interview.Ignoring it is not going to make it, or him, go away.
  
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• Review: The Flesh Is Willing in ‘Disobedience’

  25-04-2018 22:58 via nytimes.com
  Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams play former lovers who reunite under the disproving gaze of a male-dominated religious community.
  
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• AT&T shares sink on revenues and earnings miss

  25-04-2018 22:44 via ft.com
  Market valuation drops to lowest in five months on disappointing performance
  
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• Review: ‘Let the Sunshine In’ Shows the Complex Radiance of Juliette Binoche

  25-04-2018 22:37 via nytimes.com
  Ms. Binoche is an artist looking for love in Claire Denis’s new film.
  
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• The Seagull Is a Platform for a Definitive Annette Bening Performance

  25-04-2018 22:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  As he demonstrated in The Seagull and would refine in the three, arguably greater, dramatic masterpieces that followed, Anton Chekhov had the ability to transform seemingly idle conversation into music, with every instrument noodling away in its private sphere and yet somehow coalescing into a melancholy human symphony.The new adaptation,...More »
  
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• Allison Mack’s Sex Cult, NXIVM, Is Getting a Documentary

  25-04-2018 21:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  Just days after Smallville actress Allison Mack was arrested for her alleged involvement in recruiting women for the sex cult NXIVM, a documentary series about the cult has been ordered for television. Per Deadline, former Psych actress and “branded” woman Sarah Edmondson will star in the series alongside her husband,...More »
  
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• Harrison Ford Joins The Secret Life of Pets 2, Will Hopefully Play Something Dainty and Adorable

  25-04-2018 21:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  Your handsome but gruff movie grandpa, Harrison Ford, will make his first foray into voice acting for animated films. Deadline reports that the superstar has signed on for The Secret Life of Pets 2, and though his role is not named, anyone with a sense of humor should know that...More »
  
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• Why Thanos Doesn’t Woo a Sexy Skeleton in Avengers: Infinity War

  25-04-2018 21:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  When it comes down to it, there are only a finite amount of villainous schemes. Maybe the bad guy wants to take over the world, or get his hands on a stolen fortune. Perhaps there’s a revenge plot afoot, or an evil empire to defend. We’ve seen most of these...More »
  
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• There’s No Smoking in Disney Films. What About When It Owns Fox?

  25-04-2018 21:43 via nytimes.com
  Walt Disney Studios hasn’t released a movie that depicts smoking since 2015. Now antismoking activists want that rule extended to all films aimed at young audiences by Fox, which Disney is buying.
  
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• The Story Behind Kevin Hart’s Self-Aware Appearance in J. Cole’s ‘Kevin’s Heart’ Video

  25-04-2018 21:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  Scott Lazer was just an aspiring filmmaker and J. Cole fan when he went to see him perform in Charlotte in 2013. Eager to impress, the Rutgers University grad brought storyboards, and through a chance encounter on the loading dock, presented them to the Dreamville team. That meeting produced little,...More »
  
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• Turns Out Kanye Can Be Managed, by His Wife

  25-04-2018 21:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  After Kanye West unleashed plenty of tweets praising Donald Trump — “You don’t have to agree with trump but the mob can’t make me not love him. We are both dragon energy. He is my brother,” Ye proclaimed — he got a call from his wife Kim. Even though Kanye...More »
  
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• If You Like BoJack Horseman, Don’t Miss Brockmire

  25-04-2018 21:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  Hank Azaria had been developing the Jim Brockmire character — a baseball announcer who never turns off his schitck, even if there is no game to call — since he was a teenager, but he officially debuted the character in a 2010 Funny or Die sketch. In that sketch, real-life...More »
  
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• Sky, Whitbread and Shire deals test government’s taste for M&A

  25-04-2018 21:05 via ft.com
  Moves highlight new potential hypocrisies for dealing with cross-border transactions
  
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• Comcast, Elliott and Takeda test government’s taste for M&A

  25-04-2018 21:05 via ft.com
  Moves highlight new potential hypocrisies for dealing with cross-border transactions
  
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• One of the Rape Lawsuits Against Russell Simmons Has Been Dropped

  25-04-2018 20:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  Russell Simmons will be facing one less sexual-assault lawsuit. In January, a documentary filmmaker named Jennifer Jarosik filed a $5 million lawsuit against Simmons, alleging that he lured her to his home with the promise of discussing a film project, and then raped her. (In an official response to the...More »
  
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• Rachel Dratch on ‘Her Little Gang’ With Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, and Maya Rudolph

  25-04-2018 20:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  Debbie Downer may have put Rachel Dratch on the map, but the former Saturday Night Live utility player doesn’t have much cause for sad-trombone sound effects these days. She’s keeping busy with work, continuing her campaign to appear on all of your favorite sitcoms (in the past year alone, she’s...More »
  
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• Clayne Crawford and Damon Wayans Reportedly Not Speaking Due to Fight On Set

  25-04-2018 20:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  Following Lethal Weapon star Clayne Crawford’s admission in a social-media message that widespread reports of his toxic on-set behavior were not exaggerated, Deadline is expanding on the circumstances surrounding these blowups. Specifically, the outlet is now reporting that one of the two reprimands Crawford experienced this season actually involved the...More »
  
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• Comcast piles pressure on Fox with Sky bid

  25-04-2018 20:13 via ft.com
  Offer valuing the pay-TV group at £22bn brings prospect of bidding war
  
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• Comcast challenges Murdoch’s Fox with £22bn Sky bid

  25-04-2018 20:01 via ft.com
  US cable group enters pursuit of European broadcaster in global media power struggle
  
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• George RR Martin: a new Game of Thrones book is coming …

  25-04-2018 19:53
  But it won’t be The Winds of Winter, the planned sixth volume of the series. Instead author has revealed a history of the Targaryen dynasty, due in NovemberGeorge RR Martin told fans today that the long-awaited sixth volume in his Game of Thrones fantasy series, The Winds of Winter, would not be published this year – but softened the blow by revealing that his “imaginary history” of the Targaryen family in Westeros would be released on 20 November.
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• Avengers Stars Discuss Infinity War and Their Futures With Marvel

  25-04-2018 19:45 via feeds.eonline.com
  No one knows what to expect from Avengers: Infinity War--not even the stars who made it.E! News' Zuri Hall interviewed the cast at the world premiere in L.A. Monday, where many of...
  
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• John Early Finally Gave Toni Collette the Collage He Made Her and Now the World Can Rest

  25-04-2018 19:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  We may know that John Early was a Toni Collette stan as a tween, but it’s time that Toni Collette knew it too. On the latest episode of the A24 podcast, the indie film studio united the Hereditary star Collette with her biggest fan, and Early didn’t pass up an...More »
  
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• Tonys Honor a New York Times Theater Photographer

  25-04-2018 19:00 via nytimes.com
  Sara Krulwich photographs about 100 plays, musicals and operas each year, and is generally the only photographer not on a show’s payroll allowed to shoot.
  
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• The Ladies of Ocean's 8 Look Met Gala-Ready at CinemaCon

  25-04-2018 18:38 via feeds.eonline.com
  Ocean's 8 might not be out in theaters just yet, but the fierce ladies who are starring in the heist film are already making a big statement...a fashion statement that is.Most of the...
  
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• Constance Wu on Diversity in Crazy Rich Asians: ‘Our Culture Is More Than Skin Deep’

  25-04-2018 18:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  Amid a nonstop cavalcade of A-list stars at the Warner Bros. CinemaCon presentation in Las Vegas Tuesday — Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Bradley Cooper, Melissa McCarthy, and Eddie Redmayne among them — the actors and director of Crazy Rich Asians hit the ballroom stage to a roar. It was the...More »
  
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• Mike Birbiglia Announces Off-Broadway Return

  25-04-2018 18:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  In 2008, Nathan Lane introduced a young comedian with a funny name (well, a funny last name; his first name is Mike) and his one-person show to the New York theater world. Today, ten years and two more Off Broadway shows later, the now-veteran comic has a brand-new one-person show...More »
  
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• A Simple Quiz: Has This Actor Ever Appeared in the Marvel Cinematic Universe?

  25-04-2018 18:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Marvel Cinematic Universe is often described as a “juggernaut” or even a “steamroller,” but I prefer to think of it as a vacuum, one that is likely to suck up every actor in Hollywood sooner or later. Much as the Harry Potter movies kept a generation of English actors...More »
  
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• Cool Kids Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Are Going to Release Their Wedding Ceremony on Vinyl

  25-04-2018 17:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  Britain’s coolest royal couple (sorry, Wills and Kate) just got even cooler. When Prince Harry and Meghan Markle get hitched next month, you’ll get to play it back somewhere alongside Drake and Ariana Grande. British label Decca Records has announced that it will release the official audio of their wedding...More »
  
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• Comcast/Sky: outfoxed

  25-04-2018 17:17 via ft.com
  US cable group has called the bluff of Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox
  
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• Fleetwood Mac Is Feuding Again and We Haven’t Felt This Alive in Years

  25-04-2018 16:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  Earlier this month, Fleetwood Mac fired Lindsey Buckingham ahead of their world tour, with rumors swirling that it was the result of a “disagreement.” But if the band is to be believed, it wasn’t the big blowout you were hoping for, and just the old scheduling conflict that did it....More »
  
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• J. Cole Just Wants to Be Himself

  25-04-2018 16:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the parking lot of the Sportsmen’s Lodge, an unpretentious Studio City haunt once favored by Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, and John Wayne, J. Cole sits behind the wheel of a rented Bentley Bentayga. The Bentley costs $700 a day, and Cole’s in Los Angeles for eight weeks. He’s been...More »
  
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• Curtis Sittenfeld on Writing Her New Short-Story Collection and Adapting It Into a Kristen Wiig TV Series

  25-04-2018 16:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  In 2005, Curtis Sittenfeld published her first novel, Prep, a snarky Midwesterner’s foray into boarding school, a world quite apart from her own. The book was praised for its incisiveness; its protagonist, Lee Fiora, is something of a modern-day Lizzy Bennett, riffing on rituals that her peers never bothered to...More »
  
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• MoviePass Backs Gotti Movie, Makes Them an Offer They Can’t Refuse

  25-04-2018 16:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  After the filmmakers exercised a buy-back clause to pull the movie from Lionsgate last fall, the Gotti movie has found another backer. MoviePass Ventures, MoviePass’s film finance end, is taking an equity stake in Gotti, directed by actor-director–Pussy Posse member Kevin Connolly. The movie will keep its summer release date,...More »
  
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• Tom Holland on the Most "Bizarre" Part of Filming Avengers: Infinity War

  25-04-2018 16:05 via feeds.eonline.com
  Tom Holland's spidey senses were tingling at the Avengers: Infinity War premiere.E! News' Zuri Hall caught up with the actor on the red carpet outside the El Capitan Theatre,...
  
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• Spike Lee: ‘I Look at the World Now Differently: Before Black Panther and After Black Panther.’

  25-04-2018 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Everyone at Spring Studios in downtown Manhattan last night had been braced for controversy. The Tribeca Film Festival scheduled a back-and-forth between Alec Baldwin and Spike Lee, two consummate New Yorkers well known for their outspoken opinions on politics and America, practically ensuring a did-he-really-say-that soundbite or two. But both...More »
  
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• Bradley Cooper Debuts the First Trailer for A Star Is Born to Applause and Tears at CinemaCon

  25-04-2018 15:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  Before debuting the first trailer for A Star Is Born — Bradley Cooper’s first outing as a director, screenwriter and singer — during the Warner Bros. panel at Las Vegas’s CinemaCon on Tuesday, the three-time Oscar nominee, who also co-stars in the film, expressed undisguised admiration for his female lead,...More »
  
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• Meek Mill Rings Bell at Sixers Game in Most Philadelphia Moment Since the Cheesesteak Scene in Creed

  25-04-2018 15:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  The good-luck charm of Philly sports teams is home, and he got the hero’s welcome. Just hours after his long-awaited release from prison, Meek Mill headed straight to the 76ers’ playoff game, personally escorted by the team’s co-owner Michael Rubin, where he got to do the honors of ringing the...More »
  
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• Theater Review: The Travesties I’ve Been Waiting Decades to See

  25-04-2018 15:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  Tom Stoppard provokes strong opinions. Even among the theatery-est of theater folk, there are those who adore his plays and others who argue that they’re intellectually show-offy, cerebral at the expense of feeling, full of barriers to entry — that he’s (and I’ve actually heard this leveled as a kind...More »
  
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• What’s Leaving HBO: May 2018

  25-04-2018 15:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you’re looking for a wild action movie: John Wick: Chapter 2The best thing about John Wick: Chapter 2 is the way it goes all-in on its weird elaborate mythology, in which just about everyone you see is either somehow connected to a byzantine order of assassins, or one of...More »
  
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• The Most Traumatizing Moments From The Handmaid’s Tale Season Premiere

  25-04-2018 15:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s an impressive feat: The creators of The Handmaid’s Tale have somehow managed to take TV’s darkest thought experiment and make it even more harrowing to watch. The first two episodes of the second season, which premiered last night, are the first to go beyond the material in Margaret Atwood’s...More »
  
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• Sky withdraws Fox bid recommendation after Comcast makes offer

  25-04-2018 15:34 via ft.com
  US cable group offers £22bn in deal for European broadcaster founded by Rupert Murdoch
  
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• The Handmaid’s Tale Recap: Emily’s Story

  25-04-2018 15:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  If season one of The Handmaid’s Tale revolved around the profane rituals of life inside Gilead, this season looks into the dark places outside its walls: the landscape destroyed by war, the women not fit to serve as handmaids in the city, the buildings and lives abandoned by the fleeing...More »
  
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• Questlove’s 10 Favorite Books

  25-04-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Bookseller One Grand Books has asked celebrities to name the ten titles they’d take to a desert island, and they’ve shared the results with Vulture. Below is DJ and producer Questlove’s list. His new book Creative Quest is out now....More »
  
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• How Many Marvel Movies Do I Have to See Before Infinity War?

  25-04-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Marvel Cinematic Universe is ten years old, but in that span it’s already given us an astounding 18 films. (For comparison’s sake, the James Bond series needed 35 years to approach a similar number.) The 19th, Avengers: Infinity War, arrives this Friday as the grand culmination of years of...More »
  
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• Disobedience Is a Portrait of Lost Women Seeking Connection

  25-04-2018 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The lesbian Orthodox drama Disobedience starts with a kind of challenge. An elderly British Orthodox rabbi — the most respected kind, a rav — played by Anton Lesser with fun Olivier cadences, turns away from the Ark and tells his rapt congregation (bearded men down front, bewigged women in the...More »
  
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• The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Reunion Recap: Gotta Be Startin’ Something

  25-04-2018 13:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  On the reunion special for our favorite show, Rich Women Doing Things, the rich women, well, they did nothing. They sat on a couch and talked. That is all they did for an hour. Okay, they also showed up at a predetermined place, talked to Andy Cohen while he was...More »
  
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• 'My eyes have been opened': Hank Azaria on criticism of The Simpsons' Apu – video

  25-04-2018 13:26
  Hank Azaria, the actor who voices the character of Apu in The Simpsons, has told Stephen Colbert’s The Late Show that he is willing to step aside or help transition the character into 'something new'. The conversation around the Apu character started with the release of a documentary called The Problem with Apu,  which explores how the character was used as a tool to bully south Asian AmericansHank Azaria on The Simpsons' Apu controversy: 'I'm willing to step aside' Continue reading..
  
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• How The Handmaid’s Tale Brought the ‘Miserable’ Colonies to Life

  25-04-2018 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Bruce Miller, showrunner of The Handmaid’s Tale, doesn’t mince words about the time he spent on the Colonies set built for the second season of the Hulu series: “Oh God, it was a misery.”In Margaret Atwood’s novel, there aren’t a lot of details about the Colonies, a terrifying camp where failed handmaids,...More »
  
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