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• Man invades stage and grabs mic during UK Eurovision song

  12-05-2018 22:46 via theguardian.com
  Singer SuRie carries on after invader shouts ‘Nazis of the UK media, we demand freedom’Eurovision 2018 live
  A stage invader has stormed the stage in the middle of UK singer SuRie’s Eurovision performance in Lisbon. Related: Eurovision song contest 2018 – live!Continue reading...
  
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• Women Rally on Cannes Red Carpet to Highlight Gender Inequality

  12-05-2018 21:09 via nytimes.com
  Female stars including Cate Blanchett, Salma Hayek and Marion Cotillard staged a demonstration to highlight how few movies by female directors compete at the festival.
  
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• Why NBC’s Decision to Rescue Brooklyn Nine-Nine Makes Business Sense

  12-05-2018 21:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  NBC’s decision to rescue Brooklyn Nine-Nine, just hours after Fox canceled the five-year old comedy, wasn’t exactly a no-brainer— but it’s also one of the least risky calls Peacock execs will make this week. That’s not to suggest NBC isn’t taking a chance here: Brooklyn is a decidedly modest ratings...More »
  
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• Cardi B Deletes Instagram Account Following Rift With Azealia Banks

  12-05-2018 20:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  On Friday, Azealia Banks appeared on the popular radio program The Breakfast Club, where the conversation quickly shifted from her music to her lingering problems about fellow rapper Cardi B. Banks was blunt and unkind with her musings, likening Cardi to an “illiterate, untalented rat” and a “caricature of a...More »
  
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• Eurovision song contest 2018 – live!

  12-05-2018 19:57 via theguardian.com
  Follow all the action from Lisbon with us as the 63rd edition of the world’s biggest musical entertainment show takes place 6.55pm BSTThis year’s Eurovision theme (yes, this is a thing) is All Aboard!, which the Portuguese have embraced with gusto. You can’t move in Lisbon for logos featuring seaweed, plankton and molluscs, along with references to Portugal’s 900 years of nautical history. So sailor suits are optional this evening - I’ve gone for a Vasco Da Gama one
  
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• Cate Blanchett, Agnes Varda, and 82 Women Made a Stand for Representation on the Cannes Red Carpet

  12-05-2018 19:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  Cannes Jury President Cate Blanchett and Palme d’Or-winning director Agnes Varda stood atop the steps at the Lumiere Theater this evening, joining arms with 82 other women to demand an increase in female representation at the Cannes Film Festival and in the film industry at large. Representing each of the...More »
  
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• Lindsey Buckingham Thinks Fleetwood Mac Has ‘Harmed’ Their Legacy By Firing Him

  12-05-2018 19:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  They’re feuding like it’s 1976 again! Fresh from his unexpected Fleetwood Mac firing “after a disagreement” regarding their upcoming tour schedule, Lindsey Buckingham is venting his frustration about the way everything went down. Mostly that the termination surprised him, and he didn’t really have a say in the matter. “It’s...More »
  
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• Silent star’s 1913 film celebrating suffragettes goes on show in London

  12-05-2018 19:01
  Danish actor Asta Nielsen battled powerful men to become an early superstar famous across EuropeShe was the embodiment of the freedom that suffragettes fought for. Asta Nielsen battled against convention, scandal and powerful men to become the original international film star – a siren of the silent movie.Her extraordinary life is being rediscovered through one of her movies, The Suffragette – the only surviving example of a film that supported the women who campaigned for the right
  
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• Cate Blanchett and Kristen Stewart join silent women's protest on Cannes red carpet

  12-05-2018 18:31
  Ava DuVernay, Jane Fonda and Salma Hayek also present at event, which saw 82 women stand in silence to highlight the lack of female directors at the festivalEighty two women working in the film industry, including Cate Blanchett, Ava DuVernay and Jane Fonda have taken to the Cannes red carpet in silent protest at the lack of female directors at the festival.The group, which also featured Kristen Stewart, Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins and Salma Hayek, walked in silence along the red carpet
  
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• Jeremy Clarkson Endured the Biggest Mistake a Who Wants to Be a Millionaire Host Can Make

  12-05-2018 17:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  OH DEER OH DEER!! That moment when you definitely know the answer, except you don't. ITV (@ITV) May 11, 2018...More »
  
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• Here Are All of the Shows Going to the TV Graveyard This Season

  12-05-2018 17:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Seasons don’t fear the reaper, nor do the wind, the sun or the rain — but network television does, and badly. Just this week, an astounding 20 shows were met with a scythe and cancelled across five of the biggest networks, many of which were met with shock, awe, and...More »
  
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• Oprah Smokes Pot! (According to Gayle)

  12-05-2018 16:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  When Oprah relaxes, Oprah relaxes hard. She meditates 20 minutes every morning and 20 minutes every night, soaks in a hand-carved marble and onyx tub, and, according to her BFF Gayle King, she occasionally enjoys a nice, chill toke. During her interview on The Ellen DeGeneres Show earlier this week,...More »
  
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• Did Jean-Luc Godard Use Michael Bay’s Footage, Then Pull An ‘I Don’t Know Her’?

  12-05-2018 16:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  The legendary director Jean-Luc Godard isn’t interested in making traditional narrative films these days, but even in his most experimental art projects, mainstream cinema is still a major influence. Godard’s latest movie, The Image Book, screened at the Cannes Film Festival today, and it’s a feature-length montage comprised of clips...More »
  
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• Please, Enjoy These Brooklyn Nine-Nine Cast Reactions to NBC Saving Their Show

  12-05-2018 16:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sometimes, genuinely good things happen that make you want to give humanity a big ole’ bear hug. It happened early this morning: Seeing the overwhelming amount of social media users going through the five stages of grief following Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s cancellation by Fox (this writer was at the “bargaining” stage)...More »
  
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• Here’s 20 Beautiful Seconds of Stephen Colbert Impersonating a Toothy Eric Trump

  12-05-2018 15:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Midterm elections! They’re only [counts on fingers] six months away, which will likely see the emergence of the Donald “Hairgel Storage Locker” Trump Jr. and Eric Trump helping out with one particular election — Mike Pence’s brother, Greg, running for congress in Indiana. And frankly, Stephen Colbert can’t wait to...More »
  
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• Eurovision: Who is Jessica Mauboy's toughest competition?

  12-05-2018 15:21 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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• HBO’s Fahrenheit 451 Is One of the Key Pop Culture Works of the Trump Era

  12-05-2018 15:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Bill of Rights tells us that it’s better to be happy than free. One of the authors of The Bill of Rights was Benjamin Franklin, who created the very first fire department in order to burn books more efficiently.If you lived in the world of the new HBO version...More »
  
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• Jean-Luc Godard: legendary director conducts Cannes press conference via FaceTime

  12-05-2018 14:54
  Notoriously media-shy film-maker surprises press at film festival by answering questions on Russia and the future of cinema by iPhoneJean-Luc Godard, the famed figurehead of 1960s New Wave cinema, conducted one of the more unusual press conferences seen at the Cannes film festival by answering questions via FaceTime.The 87-year old French-Swiss director, best known for films such as Pierrot le Fou and Week End, was widely expected to skip the scheduled press conference, held for his latest video
  
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• The royal wedding: is there too much TV coverage of Meghan and Harry’s big day?

  12-05-2018 12:30 via theguardian.com
  Batten down the hatches and get ready for some of the most shameless brown-nosing ever seenSeven days until the royal wedding and, as surely as summer follows spring, television is already losing its marbles. Hastening the country’s giddy descent into feudal, flag-waving battiness, the broadcast media is indulging in displays of royal arse-licking not seen since the court of Queenie in Blackadder II. All this and not even a bank holiday to show for it. I ask you.Conjecture is the order of
  
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• Never-ending nightmare: why feminist dystopias must stop torturing women

  12-05-2018 08:59 via theguardian.com
  The Handmaid’s Tale has inspired a new generation of writers whose dystopian worlds are ever more bleak, dark and sadistic. But where is the hope?A woman, pregnant by rape, is denied an abortion, legally detained and subjected to a forced caesarean. A woman on low income wants to leave her controlling partner but can’t, because a government policy designed to “prevent family breakdown” means all their benefits are paid into his account. A woman reports a sexual assault, b
  
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• Rosamund Pike: from Bond girl to naive terrorist

  12-05-2018 08:00
  Entebbe sees actor play Brigitte Kuhlmann, who held 248 passengers hostage on Air France flight in 1976Every time Rosamund Pike has boarded a plane recently, she has “tried to imagine what it would take to stand up and tell the passengers: ‘This is a hijack situation.’ It makes me go hot, just the thought.”The thought was part of the preparation for her latest role in the film Entebbe, out on 11 May, which recounts the dramatic seizure of an Air France jet travelling from
  
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• Saturday’s best TV: Eurovision Song Contest; The Private Life of the Royal Academy

  12-05-2018 07:00 via theguardian.com
  The annual festival of Euro-cheese finds itself in Lisbon and there’s a documentary look at the artistic institution. Continue reading...
  
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• Brooklyn Nine-Nine Reportedly Headed to NBC for a Sixth Season

  12-05-2018 06:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  A day after Fox asked Brooklyn Nine-Nine to turn in its badge and gun, the Andy Samberg series is headed back out on the sitcom beat. Is that in any way an apt metaphor to what police officers actually do? No idea, but maybe we’ll figure it out after watching...More »
  
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• There’s a Paul Anka/Drake Collabo Headed Your Way This Summer, So Get Ready

  12-05-2018 04:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  In news you would have known if you follow Paul Anka on Instagram (if you don’t, this is on you), it turns out the “Put Your Head on My Shoulder” singer has a collaboration with fellow Canadian performer Drake set to drop next month. “I’m working with a brilliant young artist...More »
  
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• Hayley Kiyoko Says Rita Ora’s New Song ‘Girls’ ‘Does More Harm Than Good For the LGBTQ+ Community’

  12-05-2018 03:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  The topic of girl-on-girl has long been a staple of pop music, but as more openly queer artists make their mark on the industry, the more their perspective complicates the notion of singing about kissing a girl, and liking it, just for the titillation factor. Singer Hayley Kiyoko, whose fans...More »
  
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• Fresh Off The Boat, Black-ish, and Shondaland Shows Among ABC’s Returning TV Slate

  12-05-2018 01:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  Final decisions are being made quickly as networks decide what their TV lineups will look like over the 2018-2019 season. At ABC, returning shows will include Black-ish (as creator Kenya Barris might be trying to get out of his contract with the network for a new one at Netflix), Fresh...More »
  
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• ABC Shuts Down Quantico, Declines to Save Designated Survivor

  12-05-2018 01:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  After years of pulse-pounding action, ABC is going to go ahead and help slow down that pulse for you a bit. Amidst this week’s flurry of renewals, pick-ups, and cancellations, the network announced its plans to cancel thriller series Quantico and political drama Designated Survivor. Both Quantico, which premiered its...More »
  
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• The CW Adds The Charmed Reboot And Renews Its Superhero Lineup

  12-05-2018 01:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  The CW is betting on nostalgia with its upcoming slate of programming. In addition to renewing its whole slate of superhero programming (Arrow, Black Lightning, The Flash, Legends of Tomorrow, and Supergirl), the network is also welcoming back iZombie, Dynasty, The 100, Riverdale, and the long-long-running hit Supernatural, which will...More »
  
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• Ash Is Purest White Is an Unrequited Love Story Set in China’s 2000s

  12-05-2018 00:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  True love may last forever, but can it weather Chinese infrastructure? In Jia Zhangke’s Ash Is Purest White, one woman’s loyalty to her love hangs on for 16 years, but it’s 16 years that feel — visually, technologically, and emotionally (and in the run time of the film, for better...More »
  
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• RuPaul’s Drag Race’s The Vixen Isn’t About to Be Likable for White People

  12-05-2018 00:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  Love her or hate her, the Vixen cracked open the gay discourse during her run on the tenth season of RuPaul’s Drag Race, forcing a conversation about race, media narratives, and drag in a way that up until this season, has existed mostly as subtext. Does the show have a...More »
  
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