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• Eurovision 2018: Who is Jessica Mauboy's toughest competition?

  11-05-2018 23:58 via theguardian.com
  With the Eurovision song contest final nearly upon us, here’s your guide to the top contenders • Jessica Mauboy sings up a storm to put Australia into Eurovision grand finalArtist: Madame Monsieur / Song: Mercy Continue reading...
  
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• Arctic Monkeys Find New Life by Rewriting Their Formula

  11-05-2018 23:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  Adults in their mid-30s right now have the curious distinction — perhaps it is a curse — of having lived half their lives in the analog world and half in the digital one. We grew up having to call or visit friends to hear their voices and turn up in...More »
  
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• Leighton Meester To Star In Single Parents, A New Liz Meriwether Comedy For ABC

  11-05-2018 23:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  As networks across the television landscape euthanize your favorite shows, ABC is hoping to provide some new faves. The network has ordered Single Parents to series, a new project from creators J.J. Philbin and Liz Meriwether that stars Taran Killam and Leighton Meester. Killam plays Will, a single dad who...More »
  
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• NBC Has Cancelled Great News, in News That Is Not

  11-05-2018 23:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  In some Great News bad news, NBC has thrown the show to the trash heap of network sitcoms canceled this week. This afternoon, the network canceled the Tina Fey–produced sitcom about a woman (Briga Heelan) and her mother (Andrea Martin) working at a TV news station after two seasons. Though...More »
  
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• RuPaul Will Sashay to Netflix for AJ And The Queen

  11-05-2018 23:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  RuPaul is sashaying into that Netflix money! The streaming site has ordered ten episodes of a one-hour comedy starring RuPaul as Ruby Red, a “bigger-than-life but down-on-her-luck drag queen who travels across America from club to club in a rundown 1990’s R/V.” Executive-produced by RuPaul and Sex and the City...More »
  
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• The Bridge: season four review – ultra violent, bracing but still brilliant

  11-05-2018 23:00 via theguardian.com
  The final series of the Nordic noir kicked off with identity seemingly a major theme – and the background of the refugee crisis
  The Bridge recap: season four, episode one – a brutal beginning of the endWant to comment on the final season of The Bridge? Comments are open on our series recap blog.In the beam of a car’s headlights, a woman – buried shoulder-deep and gagged with gaffer tape – is stoned to death. She is the head of Denmark’s immigration board. Some
  
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• The Bridge recap: season four, episode one – a brutal beginning of the end

  11-05-2018 23:00 via theguardian.com
  Saga is in prison, while Henrik has to deal with the grisly ritualistic killing of the head of the Danish immigration board, as the fourth and final series gets underway
  SPOILER ALERT: This is for people watching The Bridge at BBC2 pace. Don’t read on if you haven’t seen episode one of the fourth series. If you’ve seen further ahead, please do not post spoilers.Hello, and welcome back to The Bridge series blog. After a slightly extended Saga holiday, imagine it reemerging omino
  
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• Ava DuVernay and Greg Berlanti Are Bringing a New Drama to CBS

  11-05-2018 22:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  As pilot season marches on, CBS has placed series orders for its upcoming programming slate. The network’s previous pickups skewed toward comedy with the Murphy Brown revival, Welcome to the Neighborhood, and an untitled Damon Wayans Jr. project, in addition to one drama called FBI. But this new slate of...More »
  
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• Emilia Clarke "Freaked Out" Over Sarah Jessica Parker at the 2018 Met Gala

  11-05-2018 22:22 via feeds.eonline.com
  Even Emilia Clarke has her fan-girl moments!We caught up with the actress at the Solo: A Star Wars Story premiere at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood Thursday night and she spilled on...
  
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• The New Beach House Album Is Their Best Yet

  11-05-2018 22:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  For a band 14 years and seven albums into their career, the Beach House experience can only be described as phenomenally untroubled. The personal turbulence and aesthetic sputters that come to plague virtually all bands seem to have passed Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally by completely. Everything has fallen into...More »
  
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• Kanye West and the Question of Freedom

  11-05-2018 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  When elites speak of tribalism, we tend to think we’re somehow above it. After all, we have educated minds that have developed the intellectual muscles to resist coarser loyalties, have we not? We value unique individuals over the amorphous group. We like to think we can see complexity and nuance...More »
  
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• Fox Will Bring Tim Allen’s Last Man Standing Back to TV

  11-05-2018 21:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  This is what Roseanne hath wrought. Fox has announced that it will revive Tim Allen’s Last Man Standing for the 2018–2019 TV season. The show, which takes the perspective of a conservative man surrounded by women, previously aired on ABC for six seasons before being canceled in the summer of...More »
  
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• Alex Chesterman cashes in with £2.2bn ZPG sale

  11-05-2018 21:13 via ft.com
  Consummate dealmaker stands to make £61m as he offloads property listing website
  
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• Ally Sheedy on Her Experiences With Hollywood Sexism and Why It Will Never Change

  11-05-2018 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The following essay is entitled “Stasis” and was written by actress Ally Sheedy. It is an excerpt from the new collection Not That Bad: Dispatches From Rape Culture edited by Roxane Gay. The book is out now. I was eighteen years old when I went to Hollywood to begin my...More »
  
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• Is Your Script Gender-Balanced? Try This Test

  11-05-2018 20:50 via nytimes.com
  Taking their cue from a screenwriter, rival software developers are adding tools to analyze material before it reaches casting directors or producers.
  
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• Watch Alden Ehrenreich Perfectly Mimic Chewbacca's Voice

  11-05-2018 19:45 via feeds.eonline.com
  In the upcoming movie Solo: A Star Wars Story, Alden Ehrenreich is taking on the iconic role made famous by Harrison Ford--but as it turns out, he'd also make a pretty good...
  
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• The Making of Terry Gilliam’s Don Quixote Is Getting Another Documentary

  11-05-2018 19:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  Terry Gilliam’s near-Sisyphean task of completing The Man Who Killed Don Quixote is about to get its second nonfiction chronicle. Variety reports that the team behind 2002’s Lost in La Mancha is now prepping He Dreamed of Giants, their follow-up documentary about the farcical burden of Gilliam’s pursuit to complete...More »
  
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• There Are Two Ways to Read Earn’s Choice in the Atlanta Finale

  11-05-2018 19:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Are you gonna eat or are you gonna be eaten? I think that’s something people don’t realize. Black people have to make a choice. That choice defines who you are.”Back in January, during a session at the Television Critics’ Association press tour, Donald Glover made that statement while discussing the...More »
  
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• Eurovision 2018: why America needs to join the Super Bowl of camp immediately

  11-05-2018 19:29 via theguardian.com
  A new study shows that countries that compete in Eurovision are happier than those that don’t. Might the super-camp song contest be the perfect antidote to Trump-induced anxiety? Attention America: it’s the grand final of the Eurovision song contest on Saturday. Shockingly, many Americans have no idea this momentous event is happening.I am here to rectify this and make your world a little more sparkly by introducing you to what may well be the greatest show on earth.Continue reading.
  
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• Eurovision 2018: why America needs to join the contest immediately

  11-05-2018 19:29 via theguardian.com
  A new study shows that countries that compete in Eurovision are happier than those that don’t. Might the super-camp song contest be the perfect antidote to Trump-induced anxiety? Attention America: it’s the grand final of the Eurovision song contest on Saturday. Shockingly, many Americans have no idea this momentous event is happening.I am here to rectify this and make your world a little more sparkly by introducing you to what may well be the greatest show on earth.Continue reading.
  
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• What Spotify Removing R. Kelly and XXXTentacion From Its Playlists Means for the Music Industry

  11-05-2018 19:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  On Thursday, Spotify officially entered the #MeToo arena with the announcement that it would be removing R. Kelly and XXXTentacion’s music from its playlists, in accordance with a new policy on hate content and hateful conduct, effective immediately. The move comes after both artists have been accused of physical and...More »
  
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• Anatomy of a Scene | ‘Life of the Party’

  11-05-2018 18:38 via nytimes.com
  The director Ben Falcone narrates a sequence from his film featuring Melissa McCarthy, his wife.
  
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• Christopher Nolan’s Version of Vinyl: Unrestoring ‘2001’

  11-05-2018 18:34 via nytimes.com
  The director turned back the clock with a version of the epic that removes previous efforts to clean it up. The idea is to watch the film as it was in 1968.
  
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• Saoirse Ronan and Annette Bening Star in The Seagull Reaction GIFs You Need

  11-05-2018 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Dysfunctional family dramas — the kind that unfurl over a wedding weekend (Rachel Getting Married), a holiday (The Family Stone), or a vacation abroad (A Bigger Splash, kinda) — are extremely my shit. Michael Mayer’s adaptation of the Chekov classic The Seagull fuses the melodrama of a Bravo reality show...More »
  
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• The Secrets of Sauvage, the Most Sexually Frank Film at Cannes

  11-05-2018 18:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  In addition to making a strong directorial debut with the new film Sauvage, Camille Vidal-Naquet has something else worth recommending: He can talk about the camp classic Showgirls as though it were a sacred academic text.“I have always admired the way Paul Verhoeven directs the actors and leads them to...More »
  
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• Broadway’s Boys in the Band Is Hosting a Midnight Performance of Three Tall Women

  11-05-2018 18:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you would like the rare chance to see Glenda Jackson and Matt Bomer in the same room together, you’re in luck. At midnight on Thursday, May 17, the cast of Broadway’s The Boys in the Band is hosting a special performance of Three Tall Women with the Actors Fund....More »
  
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• Ex-AOL chief in running to succeed Sorrell at WPP

  11-05-2018 18:18 via ft.com
  Tim Armstrong is being considered to become chief executive of marketing group
  
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• Ex-AOL chief being considered to succeed Sorrell at WPP

  11-05-2018 18:18 via ft.com
  Tim Armstrong among range of external options for the job
  
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• Critic’s Notebook: ‘Atlanta’ Skips a Grade

  11-05-2018 18:01 via nytimes.com
  In its aggressively ambitious second season, the FX series was like a rapper obsessed with his own brilliance. The show became cinema.
  
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• Terminal Isn’t Stylish, It’s Style-Clotted

  11-05-2018 17:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Margot Robbie vehicle Terminal is a genre unto itself: Crayola noir. Each new scene brings more neon reds and greens and blues and yellows, their reflections shimmering on the meticulously watered-down streets, while Robbie strikes femme fatale poses in a variety of costumes (wholesome pony-tailed diner waitress, Louise Brooks’s...More »
  
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• Atlanta Robbin’ Season Finale Recap: Aight Then

  11-05-2018 16:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  Robbin’ Season’s finale progresses in much the same way that last season’s closer did: We are, finally, given Earn’s perspective, in a sort of meandering, rolling-along narrative. And the question this time around is exactly the same: Is Earn alright? Is he really okay? And stepping into the closer, we’re...More »
  
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• Frightened Rabbit Front Man Scott Hutchinson Found Dead at 36

  11-05-2018 16:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  Scott Hutchinson, front man of the Scottish indie-rock band Frightened Rabbit, has been found dead at 36, NPR reports. Hutchinson disappeared from Edinburgh’s Dakota Hotel Tuesday night after posting two cryptic tweets, spurring a search campaign on social media from fans and bandmates. His body was found Thursday night in...More »
  
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• The Last Man on Earth Ended Perfectly, Even With a Cliffhanger

  11-05-2018 16:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Oh, farts,” says a half-scared/half-dumbfounded Tandy (Will Forte), after looking in all directions and seeing the most unlikely thing — people. People, in gas masks, looking back at him and his friends. The end. The end end. There is no more Last Man on Earth. No streaming platform is floating...More »
  
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• Cold War Is a Stunning Love Story

  11-05-2018 16:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  Like nearly any Broadway musical you can think of, Cold War is a love story told through love songs. They start off early in the film, sung by peasants in rural postwar Poland, plaintive, heart-piercing melodies about impossible loves. Whether the voices spring from the careworn faces of graying men...More »
  
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• Sheila Heti, Ben Lerner, Tao Lin: How ‘Auto’ Is ‘Autofiction’?

  11-05-2018 16:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  The term autofiction has been in vogue for the past decade to describe a wave of very good American novels by the likes of Sheila Heti, Ben Lerner, Teju Cole, Jenny Offill, and Tao Lin, among others, as well as the multivolume epic My Struggle by the Norwegian Karl Ove...More »
  
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• 'Victims know they can call us' – Cannes sexual harassment hotline up and running

  11-05-2018 16:26
  The phone line set up at this year’s film festival in partnership with the French ministry of gender equality has been in regular useA hotline set up to report claims of sexual harassment at this year’s Cannes film festival has been receiving “several calls a day” since its launch, a representative for the festival has said.Created in partnership with the French ministry of gender equality, the hotline is one of several measures introduced by the festival as it looks to r
  
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• Revenge Inverts Its Titular Genre Without Transcending It

  11-05-2018 16:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  The garish rape-and-revenge thriller with the generic title Revenge could have been devised by a feminist genre studies class tasked with making a horror film on the theme of Inverting the Male Gaze. The movie is one signpost after another, from its tricky first shot — a man’s mirrored sunglasses,...More »
  
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• Why Is ‘Meghan’ Markle Using a Fake Name?

  11-05-2018 16:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  They say that in a crisis, you learn what you’re truly made of. If that’s true, then over the course of our recent crisis of democracy, I’ve learned that I am made of Korean skin-care products and Meghan Markle’s Wikipedia page. The endless paroxysms of the Trump presidency have turned...More »
  
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• How Did Spongebob Squarepants Become the Most Meme-able TV Show?

  11-05-2018 16:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  All week long, Select All is examining the wide world of SpongeBob memes. Hop on over here for their full coverage.Unless you live in an obscure corner of the internet, you’ve likely noticed that SpongeBob SquarePants occupies a special place in the heart of digital culture. Memes cut from memorable...More »
  
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• Zoopla/Silver Lake: vocation, vocation, vocation

  11-05-2018 16:01 via ft.com
  Purchase of UK property website looks like the right move for both sides
  
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• Streaming: Spike Lee’s ‘Pass Over,’ an Offbeat Melding of Cinema and Theater

  11-05-2018 16:00 via nytimes.com
  The director delivers more than just a “filmed play” in this movie, now on Amazon Video, that was adapted from Antoinette Nwandu’s street-corner drama.
  
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• Gabrielle Union Fights Back Onscreen, and in Life

  11-05-2018 16:00 via nytimes.com
  Ms. Union, the star of “Breaking In,” talks about getting her second wind, the end of “Being Mary Jane,” and those who would criticize Bill Cosby’s accusers.
  
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• Charlie Puth Was Just Looking for Attention

  11-05-2018 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Charlie Puth promises that he’s approachable. Maybe you read the interviews — in retrospect, he admits, he’s cringing at them too — and he found his debut album, Nine Track Mind, personally disappointing. But the album’s spectacular single “Attention” contained a vision executed on Voicenotes, Puth’s sophomore album that he...More »
  
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• ‘This Is America’ Was Filmed Even More Recently Than You Think

  11-05-2018 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  At least one fan theory about Childish Gambino’s “This Is America” is correct. Since the release of Donald Glover’s latest video, the internet has speculated that it likely hadn’t been in the works for very long, given lyrical references to the death of Stephon Clark, who was murdered by police...More »
  
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• Rita Moreno Says Elvis Was Nowhere Near As Good As Marlon Brando in Bed

  11-05-2018 15:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  It is no exaggeration to say Rita Moreno is a Hollywood icon. Yes, she has an EGOT, but more importantly, she has stories. Dropping by The Wendy Williams Show yesterday, Moreno talked about her famous relationships with Marlon Brando and Elvis, and happily dished about their sex lives. Brando “was...More »
  
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• Netflix criticised over return of suicide drama 13 Reasons Why

  11-05-2018 15:39 via theguardian.com
  Experts condemn ‘callous’ timing of second series, which coincides with exam seasonMental health experts have criticised the return of the Netflix drama 13 Reasons Why, expressing concern that the second series of the drama about a teenager’s suicide is due for release as summer exam stress peaks. The story of 17-year-old Hannah Baker’s life and death continues on Friday 18 May when the second series is made available online just as UK students are doing their GCSEs and A
  
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• Patrick Melrose: This Is Benedict Cumberbatch’s Brain on Drugs

  11-05-2018 15:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  Benedict Cumberbatch does not do anything halfway in Patrick Melrose.During the first moments of the first episode in this five-part Showtime limited series, based on the series of autobiographical novels by Edward St. Aubyn, Cumberbatch’s approach to the titular role appears to be set firmly in attack mode. In the...More »
  
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• ‘Trump Must Have a Small Peanut,’ and More Texts From Celebrity Moms

  11-05-2018 15:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  Book me this hotel. Hello, I’d like this new car. What’s happening on Arrested Development? How many of these mom texts have you woken up to recently? On Jimmy Kimmel Live, celebrities read texts from their moms — a cleaner, family-friendly version of “texts from last night.” Anna Faris got...More »
  
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• The Frozen Musical’s ‘Let It Go’ Is Gloriously More Extra Than the Original

  11-05-2018 15:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  You might have thought that Idina Menzel, high priestess of belting, achieved the high watermark of chilly, modulating empowerment ballads with the original recording of “Let It Go,” but somehow Broadway’s version of the song is yet more extreme. Onstage in Frozen the musical, Caissie Levy plays Elsa the ice...More »
  
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• Charli XCX, Cardi B, Rita Ora, and Bebe Rexha Are Busy Thinking About Girls on New Song

  11-05-2018 15:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  If it’s a battle of the sexes, Charli XCX is equal opportunity. Pop’s savior has released the spiritual sequel to last year’s “Boys,” now aptly all about the ladies. The former was a solo affair, but “Girls” is a “Lady Marmalade” for 2018 that unites Charli with her labelmates Cardi...More »
  
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