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• Is this a pigeon? The story behind the internet's new favorite meme

  14-05-2018 23:04
  A still from The Brave Fighter of Sun Fighbird is being used to mock everyone from men that mansplain to high school TV showsThe Brave Fighter of Sun Fighbird was created to be the Japanese version of Transformers: all androids, intergalactic police forces and merchandise opportunities. First broadcast 25 years ago, it has never been especially popular outside of Japan, but in the past month it has become responsible for one of the most popular images on the internet, posted to Twitter and Insta
  
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• Jennifer Love Hewitt Is Replacing Connie Britton As a Phone Answerer on 9-1-1

  14-05-2018 22:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  9-1-1, formerly a show about Connie Britton answering phones, will now be a show about Jennifer Love Hewitt answering phones. The Ryan Murphy–produced Fox show is replacing Britton, who had only signed a one-season contract, with Hewitt as it heads into its second season. Hewitt will play Maddie, a new...More »
  
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• Childish Gambino Passed Drake on the Charts, But for How Long?

  14-05-2018 22:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  So far 2018 has been a banner year for Drake. Since February, Toronto’s leading performer has reigned over the singles charts: the uplift of “God’s Plan” carried it to first on the Hot 100 for nearly three months before Drake replaced it with the even peppier “Nice for What.” With...More »
  
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• How to Watch Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s Royal Wedding

  14-05-2018 22:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ask any American what they’ll be doing at the crack of dawn on Saturday, May 19, and the answers will likely vary from Huh, sleeping? to Watching some British people get married! That’s because, of course, the long-anticipated wedding of “Meghan” Markle (of Suits fame) and Prince Harry (of ginger...More »
  
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• Two Cops Scam the Klan in the First Trailer for Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman

  14-05-2018 22:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  Shortly after the film’s debut screening at the Cannes Film Festival, the first trailer for Spike Lee’s next joint has arrived. BlacKkKlansman stars John David Washington as Ron Stallworth, a cop who’s new to the force in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and who infiltrates the Klu Klux Klan by pretending to...More »
  
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• BlacKkKlansman trailer: first look at Spike Lee's fact-based race drama

  14-05-2018 22:16
  The writer-director’s latest film, premiering in competition at the Cannes film festival, boasts Oscar-winning Get Out creator Jordan Peele as producerThe first trailer has landed for Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman, a fact-based drama about an undercover cop infiltrating the Klu Klux Klan in the 1970s.The film stars former American football player and Ballers star John David Washington as black detective Ron Stallworth, who worked together with a white cop, played by Adam Driver, to take
  
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• Margot Kidder, Superman's Lois Lane, dies aged 69

  14-05-2018 21:34
  Canadian-born actor, who secured screen stardom via blockbusting comic book adaptation, experienced long-term mental health issuesMargot Kidder, whose best known role was as reporter Lois Lane in the 1978 Superman movie has died aged 69. The Franzen Davies funeral home in Montana confirmed her death on Sunday.Kidder was born in Canada in 1948, and broke into film acting in the late 60s. Her first significant role was in the Gene Wilder comedy Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx in 1970. B
  
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• Broadway’s ‘The Play That Goes Wrong’ to Close in August

  14-05-2018 21:23 via nytimes.com
  The British farce, which will have its final performance at the Lyceum Theater on Aug. 26, will then go on to tour.
  
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• The Best Westworld Fan Theories, Mid-Season Edition

  14-05-2018 21:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  This week’s Westworld has already been hailed as one of the best in the history of the HBO program, enhancing our obsession with the mysteries of this fascinating world. Since we first dove into the rabbit hole of fan theories after the season premiere, we’ve visited the real world with...More »
  
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• Actress Margot Kidder Dead at 69

  14-05-2018 20:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  Margot Kidder, the actress most famous for a decade spent playing the iconic Lois Lane in Christopher Reeves’s Superman films, died on Sunday at the age of 69. Her representative, Camilla Fluxman Pines, confirmed the news and said that Kidder was at home in Montana at the time of her...More »
  
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• Margot Kidder, Actress Who Found Movie Stardom in ‘Superman,’ Dies at 69

  14-05-2018 20:49 via nytimes.com
  Best known for playing the role of Lois Lane in four films, Ms. Kidder was a sought-after actress in the 1970s and ’80s.
  
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• Guillermo del Toro Is Creating a Horror Anthology for Netflix

  14-05-2018 20:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  Time to fall in love with some monsters. Guillermo del Toro is creating and executive-producing a horror anthology for Netflix. Del Toro, who won the Best Director Oscar for this year’s Best Picture The Shape of Water, will curate 10 After Midnight, a “collection of personally curated stories, that are...More »
  
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• Lords vote for new Leveson press inquiry

  14-05-2018 20:38 via ft.com
  Upper house risks newspaper fury by breathing fresh life into second hearing
  
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• Gillian Anderson Knows the Truth Is Out There About The X-Files Ending

  14-05-2018 20:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  Gillian Anderson is definitely not returning for any further seasons of The X-Files, but the show’s creator, Chris Carter, has hedged about whether or not he would keep the story going without Dana Scully onboard. (He has previously said he definitely wouldn’t and that it’s very likely he would, so,...More »
  
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• CBS sues Redstones in attempt to block merger with Viacom

  14-05-2018 20:01 via ft.com
  Media group moves to halt controlling shareholder’s latest effort in long-running battle
  
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• Review: With Help From a Gun, a ‘Twelfth Night’ Goes Dark

  14-05-2018 19:38 via nytimes.com
  The Acting Company’s production, which runs through May 27 at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center, nods to violence and hits the play’s grimmer notes.
  
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• Margot Kidder, actor who played Superman's Lois Lane, dies aged 69

  14-05-2018 19:23
  Canadian-born actor, who secured screen stardom via blockbusting comic book adaptation, experienced long-term mental health issuesMargot Kidder, whose best known role was as reporter Lois Lane in the 1978 Superman movie has died aged 69. The Franzen Davies funeral home in Montana confirmed her death on Sunday.Kidder was born in Canada in 1948, and broke into film acting in the late 60s. Her first significant role was in the Gene Wilder comedy Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx in 1970. B
  
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• Harry & Meghan: A Royal Romance review – a brain-numbing charmer from Lifetime

  14-05-2018 19:00
  The story of how a prince fell in love with an actor is brought to life in a guilty pleasure – a cliche-packed TV movie that is as sweet as it is sillyOn her first blind date with Prince Harry (Murray Fraser), Meghan Markle (Parisa Fitz-Henley) downs a dirty martini, forces the fifth – now sixth – heir to the British throne to grovel for being late, and admits her feel-good flick is Love Actually. His is The Lion King, and if you mix their favorites together with a stiff pour o
  
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• Meryl Streep Only Starring in Films About Classified Documents Directed by Men Named Steven S. Now

  14-05-2018 18:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  An update on Meryl Streep and the cinema of leaked documents: After her Oscar-nominated turn in Steven Spielberg’s The Post, Streep has a role in another drama about top-secret files. Streep will star in Panama Papers drama The Laundromat, directed by Steven Soderbergh, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Based on...More »
  
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• How Justin Simien Created the Visual Language of Dear White People

  14-05-2018 18:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  Spoilers ahead for season two of Dear White People.Season two of Justin Simien’s Dear White People is exponentially more ambitious than season one. I was quite taken with it — for more, read my review here — because it’s constantly thinking about how to present a moment in a visually...More »
  
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• Donald Glover Just Ended Drake’s Months-Long Streak at No. 1

  14-05-2018 18:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  For the first time since January, someone not named Drake leads the Billboard Hot 100. Childish Gambino’s political head trip “This Is America” has debuted at No. 1 on this week’s chart, ending Drake’s seemingly unstoppable 15-week-long reign. Drake previously led the chart with “God’s Plan” for 11 weeks, then...More »
  
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• New Musical Version of ‘Some Like it Hot’ Is Headed for Broadway

  14-05-2018 18:37 via nytimes.com
  The new adaptation of the classic 1959 film comedy will be directed and choreographed by Casey Nicholaw with a score by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman.
  
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• Project Runway Is Coming Back to Bravo in the Wake of Weinstein Company Bankruptcy

  14-05-2018 18:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  Project Runway is coming back to the network it first premiered on, before meddling from the Weinstein Company moved it to Lifetime. At NBC’s upfront presentation in New York today, Andy Cohen announced that the fashion reality competition will return to Bravo for its 17th season. The show aired its...More »
  
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• Meryl Streep to star in Steven Soderbergh's Panama Papers thriller

  14-05-2018 18:26
  The Oscar winner is set to take on the lead in The Laundromat, a fact-based film alongside Gary Oldman and Antonio BanderasMeryl Streep will take the lead in The Laundromat, a Steven Soderbergh-directed thriller about the Panama Papers.According to the Hollywood Reporter, the Oscar winner will potentially star alongside Gary Oldman and Antonio Banderas, who are both in early talks to join, in the fact-based tale. The Panama Papers was a set of leaked documents that shared financial information o
  
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• WPP: a Sorrell state

  14-05-2018 18:23 via ft.com
  Ad group’s board must be more forthcoming about chief’s departure
  
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• John Oliver on Michael Cohen: a lawyer so bad 'he made Trump get Giuliani'

  14-05-2018 16:58
  The Last Week Tonight host talked a White House aide’s John McCain remarks and reports that Michael Cohen tried to sell access to TrumpOn Last Week Tonight, John Oliver discussed a chaotic week at the White House, from chief of staff John Kelly’s comments about immigrants to Michael Cohen’s mounting legal troubles. Related: Trevor Noah on Michael Cohen: 'He's literally selling swamp tours'Continue reading...
  
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• WPP shareholder adviser raises transparency concerns

  14-05-2018 16:40 via ft.com
  Advertising group faces fraught AGM over lack of detail on Martin Sorrell’s departure
  
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• American Idol Recap: The Twang Dynasty

  14-05-2018 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  I don’t know how to tell you this, but American Idol staged a Carrie Underwood night and no one performed “Before He Cheats,” my favorite song about a woman who spells her name during a violent crime scene and pretends it was a dope move. Do you think her friends at the...More »
  
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• Cannes film festival unveils equality charter in push for gender parity

  14-05-2018 16:27
  Pledge is likely to be adopted by other leading international film festivals in drive to improve women’s representationA new charter aimed at improving gender parity at the Cannes film festival, and which is expected to be adopted by other leading film festivals, has been unveiled.Under the charter, the Cannes film festival will record the gender of the cast and crew of all films submitted, make public the names of selection committee members and work towards gender parity on the Cannes bo
  
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• The Real Housewives of Potomac Recap: Free Uncle Ben

  14-05-2018 16:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  Is it just me or is Real Housewives of Potomac absolutely bringing it? I mean, in this episode alone, we had the fallout from a potential DUI, a divorce bombshell, and a ropes course! Maybe this is just me but you cannot go wrong with putting people on a ropes...More »
  
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• Mel Gibson’s Ongoing Comeback Is Getting Help From Mark Wahlberg, Ari Emanuel

  14-05-2018 16:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  Mel Gibson has found an improbable ally as he continues his comeback: His former agent (and current Endeavor CEO) Ari Emanuel is now an advocate for the actor-director, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Emanuel pushed for Gibson’s blacklisting in 2006 after the actor went on a sexist, anti-Semitic rant during...More »
  
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• How the Year’s Most Harrowing Nude Scene Came Together

  14-05-2018 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Spoilers below for Revenge.The movie Revenge is a bare-knuckle punch to the face with a very big fist. The thriller stars Matilda Lutz as Jen, a woman on a desert getaway with her rich, married boyfriend, Richard (Kevin Janssens). What begins as a sexy, sweaty weekend in the middle of...More »
  
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• Climax Trailer: Gaspar Noé Made a Wild Dance-Horror Movie

  14-05-2018 15:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  Director Gaspar Noé is used to taking us to cinematic extremes in movies like Irreversible, Enter the Void, and Love, but for his latest salvo, Noé has given us … a dance movie! His exciting film Climax was the toast of the Cannes Film Festival when it premiered on the...More »
  
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• I Was Recruited by Allison Mack’s Sex Cult

  14-05-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  I consider myself a slightly skeptical person, but I’ll also try most anything once, and I’m always willing to listen to someone who’s benefited from something. Which is how I ended up being recruited by NXIVM — the organization that’s recently been accused of sex trafficking and forced branding, and...More »
  
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• Fox 2018-2019 Schedule: Last Man Standing Arrives This Fall

  14-05-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  After axing off a chunk of their single-camera comedies last week, Fox is heading into the Upfronts this week playing it safe. The network announced their fall schedule this morning, and the slate generally relies on known quantities with only a few new acquisitions. Notably, the network announced that Tim...More »
  
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• The House That Jack Built Trailer: Lars von Trier Is Back, and Bloody

  14-05-2018 14:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  After a soft ban from the Cannes Film Festival following his infamous Melancholia press conference, director Lars von Trier is back at the fest this week with his new serial-killer tale The House That Jack Built, which stars Matt Dillon as the titular slayer. Ahead of its world premiere, von...More »
  
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• 'Peaky Blinders deserved its crown' – the verdict on the 2018 Bafta TV awards

  14-05-2018 14:01
  Steven Knight’s gaudy gangster drama won on a night of pleasing shocks. But with BAME actors losing out and the BBC dominating, Bafta needs to widen its shortlistsThe one rule of awards events is that you can never please everyone. For every gong that has people nodding in ecstatic approval, there will be one that has everyone spluttering about how so and so was robbed or another show should have won.
  This year’s Baftas seem more likely than most to provoke debate.Continue reading...
  
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• When good TV goes bad: how The Inbetweeners grew up and lost its charm

  14-05-2018 14:00
  Teenage innocence and anxieties kept the viewers laughing but with the characters reaching adulthood, the humour lagged behindLike that mate you have from back home who never left town or quite got over their teenage years being the best of their life, The Inbetweeners has not aged well. Ten years on from its original broadcast on E4, the multiple award-winning show about idiotic sixth formers Will, Simon, Neil and Jay feels almost relic-like. It’s not just the boot-cut jeans, wet-look hai
  
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• In Conversation: Dave Matthews

  14-05-2018 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Dave Matthews has long been one of rock’s most successful artists and, in a low-key way, also one of its most polarizing. And while the success part of that equation is inarguable — the Dave Matthews Band is reliably among the country’s most popular concert draws and has earned six...More »
  
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• Behind the scenes at the Bafta TV awards 2018 – in pictures

  14-05-2018 12:44
  Photographer Sarah Lee joins the stars backstage at the Royal Festival Hall, London, for the Virgin TV British Academy Television AwardsBBC sees off Netflix with surprise victory for Peaky Blinders
  Full list of winners#MeToo and the gender pay gap: Sue Perkins’ best Bafta jokes – video Continue reading...
  
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• Biopic of grime pioneer Wiley in development

  14-05-2018 12:16
  Trespass Against Us director Adam Smith will direct story of the Bow MC who rose to the top of the chartsWiley, the east London MC and one of the key pioneers of grime, is to be the subject of a biopic, according to Variety.Adam Smith will direct the feature. His previous directorial credits include the Michael Fassbender film Trespass Against Us, the Chemical Brothers documentary Don’t Think and episodes of Doctor Who, Little Dorrit and Skins.Related: Wiley: the enigmatic Godfather of Gri
  
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• #MeToo and the gender pay gap: Sue Perkins' best Bafta jokes – video

  14-05-2018 10:47
  The comedian and former Bake Off presenter used her platform as Baftas host to poke fun at the gender pay gap and the sexual assault allegations against Harvey Weinstein.At the awards, the BBC’s Peaky Blinders had a surprise win in the best drama category while Netflix managed only one major award despite leading the nominations.Bafta TV awards: BBC sees off Netflix with surprise victory for Peaky BlindersContinue reading...
  
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• Bafta TV awards: BBC sees off Netflix with surprise victory for Peaky Blinders

  14-05-2018 08:32
  Three Girls, This Country and Murdered For Being Different among BBC’s winners while streaming service took just oneThe Crown and Netflix struggled at the Bafta Television awards as the BBC’s Peaky Blinders took a surprise win in the best drama category and the big-spending streaming service managed only one major award despite leading the nominations.Peaky Blinders saw off competition from Channel 4’s profane comic book adaptation End of the F***ing World and BBC’s Line
  
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