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• I’ll Be Gone in the Dark Docuseries Officially Going Ahead at HBO

  01-05-2018 23:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  Almost immediately after its publication, HBO acquired the rights to I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer, Michelle McNamara’s book chronicling her quest for the infamous California murderer active during the 1970s and ’80s. Today, Variety is reporting that the network has...More »
  
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• Facebook threatens to upend online dating market

  01-05-2018 23:21 via ft.com
  Zuckerberg product launch wipes hundreds of millions of dollars from Match Group value
  
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• My F-ing Tourette’s Family review: a lovely family – but the boys’ tics are quite something

  01-05-2018 23:00 via theguardian.com
  This portrait of 13-year-old Spencer and nine-year-old Lewis would melt a heart of stone – and offers some much-needed lessons in how we should treat each otherHell, as we know, is other people. And never more so than if you are doing something they don’t understand. “I’ve been told I’m a horrendous mother … that my sons are sinners,” says Hayley Davies-Monk of the strangers who have taken it upon themselves to comment on her family when they
  
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• Don’t Cry, Resist! Movies From a Female Revolution

  01-05-2018 22:49 via nytimes.com
  A sweeping and timely series at the Brooklyn Academy of Music looks at women filmmakers who too often have been ignored, marginalized and forgotten.
  
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• Tina Fey, Renée Fleming and Andrew Garfield on Their Tony Nominations

  01-05-2018 22:37 via nytimes.com
  We checked in with some nominees to see how they’re feeling about being recognized.
  
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• 2018 Tony Nominations: ‘Mean Girls’ and ‘SpongeBob’ Lead the Way

  01-05-2018 22:26 via nytimes.com
  A pair of two-part productions, “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” and the revival of “Angels in America,” were also showered with affection.
  
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• What’s New on Amazon Prime: May 2018

  01-05-2018 22:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  Because costume dramas can be great thrillers, too: Picnic at Hanging RockAmazon’s latest high-profile project is an adaptation of the Australian novel by Joan Lindsay, which was in turn made into an influential Peter Weir film in 1975. This new version, adapted by Beatrix Christian and Alice Addison and starring...More »
  
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• ‘Animal House’ Oral History: From Richard Pryor to a Real Melee

  01-05-2018 22:09 via nytimes.com
  Pryor may have saved the film when a studio executive demanded changes, so say the director and cast members nearly 40 years after the movie’s release.
  
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• Frieze Salutes Feature Inc., the Visionary Gallery That Changed the Art World

  01-05-2018 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Frieze, the art fair from the U.K. which pitches its posh tent on Randall’s Island this week, is conscientious about being more than just another high-polish symptom of global .001 percentism and its investment-grade taste economy. Before it became a brand — backed by William Morris Endeavor, with a new...More »
  
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• Kanye Just Crashed the TMZ Newsroom to Say Slavery Was a Choice

  01-05-2018 21:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  On Tuesday afternoon Kanye will appear on TMZ Live with his new BFF, conservative pundit Candace Owens, but before that, he crashed their newsroom to hold his own impromtu town hall. Naturally, Kanye had many Kanye-isms to share, like just how much he loves Donald Trump (“that’s my boy!”), how...More »
  
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• John Mulaney’s Kid Gorgeous Special Is a Comedic Milestone

  01-05-2018 21:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you’ve ever seen a John Mulaney stand-up performance, you know going into his latest Netflix special, Kid Gorgeous, that the title is self-deprecating. But if you didn’t already know that, you’ll figure it out by the fourth or fifth time that Mulaney mentions his age, 35, and then rolls...More »
  
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• Westworld Will Ride Again in a Third Season

  01-05-2018 21:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  The robot revolution will live on. Today, HBO announced that it has renewed Westworld for a third season, just two episodes after the second season premiered. It’s not much of a surprise, Westworld is one of HBO’s most attention-grabbing shows, but it does make us wonder just how much more...More »
  
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• Good News, That Character You Were Worried About Survived Infinity War

  01-05-2018 21:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  As you might expect, this post contains spoilers for Infinity War.Avengers: Infinity War leaves viewers with plenty of questions, one of which comes up in the movie’s very first scene: When Thanos attacked the Asgardian refugee ship from Thor: Ragnarok, did anyone survive? Fortunately, the teens of America have come...More »
  
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• The Best Albums of 2018 (So Far)

  01-05-2018 21:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s only a few months into 2018, but there’ve already been a handful of albums worthy of strong praise. Here are the best of the many, many albums that have been released so far this year, according to our music critic Craig Jenkins.Cardi B, Invasion of PrivacyIt’s hard to believe...More »
  
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• Jessica Chastain Recruits Lupita Nyong’o, Marion Cotillard, Penélope Cruz, and Fan Bingbing for Spy Thriller 355

  01-05-2018 21:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  When co-workers sit down together and make plans, the result is typically something like karaoke night. But when you’re Jessica Chastain working on X-Men: Dark Phoenix and your “co-worker” is Simon Kinberg, the result is a spy thriller stacked with you, three Oscar winners, and one of the biggest box-office...More »
  
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• A Modest Proposal: Break the Art Fair

  01-05-2018 21:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  As a system, art fairs are like America: They’re broken and no one knows how to fix them. Like America, they also benefit those at very top more than anyone else, and this gap is only growing. Like America, the art world is preoccupied by spectacle — which means nonstop...More »
  
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• Michelle Wolf Defends WHCD Jokes: ‘I Didn’t Want to Cater to the Room’

  01-05-2018 21:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  By now you know that comedian Michelle Wolf roasted the hell out of many in attendance at this past weekend’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner, the annual gala for the White House Correspondents’ Association that is put on to raise funds for WHCA scholarships and hand out awards for professional journalists....More »
  
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• Tina Fey Explains How She Turned Mean Girls Into a Musical

  01-05-2018 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  You may know her from TV, but as of this morning, Tina Fey is a Tony nominee for writing the book of the Mean Girls musical, and therefore a theater person. This Friday, Fey will appear on David Letterman’s Netflix series My Next Guest Needs No Introduction, in which she...More »
  
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• Kanye Opens Up About Mental Breakdown, Jay-Z Feud, and Trump in Nearly Two-Hour-Long Interview

  01-05-2018 20:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  For more than a year, the most we’ve heard from Kanye West has come in the form of his sporadic, stream-of-consciousness tweets. Now, in a new, nearly two-hour-long interview with the Breakfast Club’s Charlamagne tha God, he’s providing some clarity. Kanye opened up for the first time about his 2016...More »
  
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• Ryan Murphy, Wendy Williams, Mindhunter, The Bold Type, and More Join Vulture Festival Lineup

  01-05-2018 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Over the weekend of May 19 and 20, Vulture is bringing the fifth annual Vulture Festival to New York, presented by AT&T! When you’re married for five years, you’re supposed to get your partner wood. We considered this for Vulture Festival’s fifth year in New York. You know, just inviting...More »
  
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• The Tonys Make Me Cranky

  01-05-2018 19:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  The cutest thing about this morning’s Tony nominations was Katharine McPhee’s steadily increasing inability to pronounce the words “SpongeBob SquarePants.” She had to say them a lot — the SpongeBob musical tied with Mean Girls to bring in the most nominations of any play or musical, each at 12 total....More »
  
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• Netflix Will Release a Chronological Cut of Arrested Development Season 4 for Cinco de Cuarto

  01-05-2018 19:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  Depending on whom you ask, the Netflix season of Arrested Development, which split up all its characters into fractured story lines, was either a feat of savvy internet genius or a green-screened mess (or both). Now, as a new season of the show approaches, Netflix is giving the world the...More »
  
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• Is Thanos Hot?

  01-05-2018 19:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  Avengers: Infinity War villain Thanos seeks to kill off half the universe, but would you also let him cleave you in two? It’s the question that is roiling Twitter and ruining relationships, and even the Vulture office is not immune: When I asked my co-workers whether they had the hots...More »
  
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• Tina Fey and Renée Fleming on Their First Tony Nominations

  01-05-2018 19:18 via nytimes.com
  We checked in with some nominees to see how they’re feeling about being recognized.
  
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• Most Likely to Murder Is No Garden State

  01-05-2018 19:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  Billy (Adam Pally) returns to his Long Island hometown, washed-up and/or going to seed, but still possessing all the emotional wisdom of a 16-year-old bully that never really grew up. Within minutes, horror: His mother has sold his beloved Isuzu to the dork across the street. We still have the...More »
  
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• Are women responsible for all the extreme sexual violence on screen?

  01-05-2018 19:01 via theguardian.com
  Germaine Greer has stirred up a hornet’s nest with her latest claims, suggesting women are more enthusiastic than men when it comes to depictions of sex and violence. We asked leading crime writers for their viewsYou can say what you like about Germaine Greer, but she’s not afraid of anything – not controversy, swimming against the tide or sounding like the feminist who doesn’t like women very much. In a Radio Times article this week, she lays the proliferation of sexual
  
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• We Quizzed Helen Mirren on Her Most Famous Lines — and She Only Missed One

  01-05-2018 18:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  “That terror of learning lines has never left me,” Helen Mirren said onstage at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall Monday night. “As Julie [Taymor] mentioned tonight, I did ask for a teleprompter on set of The Tempest!”Mirren was the honoree at the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s 45th Chaplin Award...More »
  
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• Exclusive: Busy Philipps to Host Late-Night Talk Show

  01-05-2018 18:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  Actress and author Busy Philipps, who in recent years has also become a social-media phenom, soon will be hosting her own late-night talk show on the cable-network E!, the network has confirmed to the Cut. This puts Philipps in a very exclusive club of women who have hosted late-night talk...More »
  
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• Rest in Power Examines How Trayvon Martin’s Death Sparked a Movement

  01-05-2018 18:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  Trayvon Martin’s parents Tracy Martin and Sybrina Fulton lost their son in 2012 when George Zimmerman shot and killed the unarmed teen in a small community in Florida. The incident sparked outrage across the U.S. and set into motion what would become the Black Lives Matter movement. Now, in a...More »
  
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• What Will Happen in the Next Avengers Movie?

  01-05-2018 18:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  Spoilers for Infinity War, obviously, as well as potential spoilers for Avengers 4, below.We’re not even done sitting shiva for our fallen Infinity War heroes, yet the ending of the third Avengers installment doesn’t exactly encourage mournful introspection. Instead, Thanos’s genocidal victory inspires an anxious anticipation for the untitled follow-up...More »
  
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• Trinity Mirror’s Express deal faces public interest probe

  01-05-2018 18:34 via ft.com
  Culture secretary’s intervention forces Ofcom to investigate newspaper merger
  
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• Bringing Jerome Robbins’s Broadway Home to City Ballet

  01-05-2018 18:24 via nytimes.com
  “Something to Dance About,” a new piece staged by Warren Carlyle, includes extracts from nine musicals choreographed by Robbins.
  
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• In a Slim Season, the Tonys Show Love to Brits, Classics and Sponges

  01-05-2018 18:22 via nytimes.com
  Our chief critics offer reaction to the nominations, which were hard on jukebox musicals and “Frozen” but good to “My Fair Lady” and “Carousel.”
  
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• How Laurie Simmons’s Photographs (Including Pictures of Her Daughters in Body Paint) Ended Up in Two Galleries at Once

  01-05-2018 18:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  This week, the artist Laurie Simmons finds herself in the unusual position of having two prominent galleries showing her work at the same time. At the Mary Boone Gallery in Chelsea is “Cafe of the Inner Mind,” a body of work she created in the 1990s that is centered around...More »
  
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• ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp’ Gets a New Trailer

  01-05-2018 18:05 via nytimes.com
  The titular superheroes played by Paul Rudd and Evangeline Lilly do seem to make a dynamic duo.
  
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• Avengers: Infinity War goes cosmic with huge £29m opening at UK box office

  01-05-2018 17:45
  Spectacular mashup of characters from across the Marvel universe boosts market by a sizeable 451% in best ever debut weekend for a superhero movie The last weekend in April has served Disney and Marvel splendidly in the past three years with Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), Captain America: Civil War (2016) and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 (2017). When Disney grabs that date for a Marvel movie, other distributors run for cover. Continue reading...
  
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• What We Did and Didn’t Learn From the Ant-Man and the Wasp Trailer

  01-05-2018 17:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  Hey, did you forget about the Marvel Cinematic Universe? I mean, it’s been a whole four days since Avengers: Infinity War came out, so we wouldn’t blame you if it slipped your mind. However, Marvel wants you to remember them in all of your waking hours, so they’ve seeded the...More »
  
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• Bowery Club Poets Take Issue With Documentary

  01-05-2018 17:26 via nytimes.com
  Artists in the film, “Don’t Be Nice,” now on the festival circuit, say it includes scenes that misrepresent them.
  
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• Shostakovich, With Bright L.A. Glare, at Lincoln Center

  01-05-2018 17:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  Even a well-worn symphony can shock, in a concert hall. If you’ve never heard Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5 before, the fact that audience members around you are conducting it in their heads doesn’t mute the raucous passions, the clashing of iron plates, the tunes that swirl together boastfulness and regret....More »
  
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• Live Briefing: 2018 Tony Nominations: ‘Mean Girls’ and ‘SpongeBob’ Lead the Way

  01-05-2018 16:42 via nytimes.com
  A pair of two-part productions, “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” and the revival of “Angels in America,” were also showered with affection.
  
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• This Trailer Explains Why Ant-Man Isn't in Avengers: Infinity War

  01-05-2018 16:30 via feeds.eonline.com
  Ant-Man was noticeably M.I.A. in Avengers: Infinity War.As was explained in the movie, Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) was put on house arrest after the events of 2016's Captain America:...
  
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• ‘A man gotta have a code’: why politicians love Omar from The Wire

  01-05-2018 16:27 via theguardian.com
  David Lammy tweeted a picture of the shotgun-toting antihero after Amber Rudd’s resignation – he’s only going where Barack Obama, for one, has gone beforeOmar Little: the gay, shotgun-toting antihero – who stole from drug dealers on David Simon’s Baltimore crime series The Wire – may seem like an odd reference for a politician. When the Labour MP David Lammy triumphantly tweeted: “Walking into parliament this morning,” alongside a picture of Omar a
  
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• Ibiza Trailer: Gillian Jacobs, Vanessa Bayer, Phoebe Robinson Take a Trip

  01-05-2018 16:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  Gillian Jacobs, Vanessa Bayer, Phoebe Robinson literally took a pill in Ibiza. When Harper (Jacobs) is sent to Barcelona on business, she brings her girlfriends Nikki and Leah (Bayer and Robinson, respectively). When the trio stumbles upon a hot DJ — played by former King in the North Richard Madden!...More »
  
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• Tony Awards 2018: Full List of Nominations

  01-05-2018 15:59 via nytimes.com
  The nominated shows, actors, designers and more.
  
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• The Best Songs of 2018 (So Far)

  01-05-2018 15:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  By now you’ve probably heard about all the problems with the music industry: It’s not what it was. No one spends meaningful amounts of time with any one song. There’s just too much music. It’s true that there’s a staggering amount of music out there in the world, and it’s...More »
  
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• Johnston Press shares leap after chief executive quits

  01-05-2018 15:47 via ft.com
  Ashley Highfield faced increasing shareholder unrest as advertising revenues declined
  
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• Excuse Me, Which Spice Girl Did Justin Timberlake Hook Up With?

  01-05-2018 15:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  Today, in decades-old pop-star tea that’s just been waiting to be spilled, Ellen DeGeneres has gotten the dirt on a very juicy girl group–boy band union. Hot off of their Hollywood Walk of Fame induction, ‘N Sync stopped by Ellen for a little game of Never Have I Ever in...More »
  
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• Live Briefing: 2018 Tony Award Nominations: ‘Mean Girls’ and ‘SpongeBob’ Lead the Pack

  01-05-2018 15:20 via nytimes.com
  A pair of two-part productions, “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” and the revival of “Angels in America,” were also showered with affection.
  
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• Mean Girls and SpongeBob Lead the 2018 Tony Nominations

  01-05-2018 15:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s the best day ever for big musical adaptations, as SpongeBob and Mean Girls led the Tony nominations this morning, with 12 nominations apiece, with The Band’s Visit close behind with 11. On the play side, the revival of Angels in America smashed through the ceiling with 11 nominations, setting...More »
  
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• Kanye Explains What He Likes About Trump in New Video, and It’s Exactly What You Think

  01-05-2018 15:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  For all of Kanye’s fervent support of Donald Trump, he’s never quite spelled out what, exactly, about Trump appeals to him. In a new behind-the-scenes video of the making of his new song “Ye vs. the People,” he finally faces an interrogation from T.I. to get to the bottom of...More »
  
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