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• Watch the Trailers for the Revived Murphy Brown and CBS’s Other New TV Shows

  16-05-2018 23:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  As it unveils its new series, CBS welcomes you to the TV of 2018, which is really just the TV of 30 years ago. At its Upfront presentation today, the network premiered trailers for its new pick-ups, including the buzzy revival of Murphy Brown, its Magnum P.I. reboot, and a...More »
  
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• Vulture Asks: How Will The Americans End?

  16-05-2018 23:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  Have you ever been less sure of anything than how The Americans will end? We’re three episodes away from the series finale and still completely in the dark about what will become of Philip, Elizabeth, and Paige Jennings (everyone knows Henry will be fine). Desperate for answers, the Vulture staff got together to...More »
  
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• Leah Napolin, Whose ‘Yentl’ Adaptation Made Broadway, Dies at 83

  16-05-2018 22:38 via nytimes.com
  The play, based on an Isaac Bashevis Singer story, was a tale of empowerment in the midst of feminism’s second wave.
  
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• Kanye Apologized to J. Cole for Tweeting About Their Phone Call

  16-05-2018 22:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  J. Cole is an intensely private person, often conflicted by fame. So if you’re one of the few celebrities with his phone number, he probably wouldn’t want you to broadcast that fact to your millions of followers. Naturally, Kanye West ignored that memo and tweeted out a (since-deleted) screenshot of...More »
  
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• Carillion’s conflicted auditors require less conflicted numbers

  16-05-2018 22:33 via ft.com
  Numbers can be highly misleading, no matter how well or badly they are audited
  
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• Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Season 4 Takes On the Patriarchy in New Trailer

  16-05-2018 22:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is about to take its final bow with season four, but before the show ends for good, its plucky hero is going to learn a lot about life at a start-up, sexual harassment in the workplace, and her white privilege. Bobby Moynihan appears in the trailer as...More »
  
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• Netflix Is Splitting the Next Season of Arrested Development in Half

  16-05-2018 21:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  Like Bluth company housing, the fifth season of Arrested Development will be coming to you half-finished. Per EW, Netflix has decided to release its forthcoming season of the series in two parts, with eight episodes premiering May 29, as previously announced, and another eight coming later this year. Though Netflix...More »
  
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• Vulture Investigates: What Do Charlie Puth’s Fans Call Themselves?

  16-05-2018 21:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  I love Charlie Puth’s new album, Voicenotes. At first I was a casual Charlie Puth fan, sneaking “We Don’t Talk Anymore” into my party playlists, or listening to “Attention” on my walk from the J train. But now I am a Charlie Puth evangelist, sharing all of his good works:...More »
  
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• HBO to Air the Docuseries The Case Against Adnan Syed

  16-05-2018 21:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  As Adnan Syed awaits a retrial for the murder of his ex-girlfriend, Hae Min Lee, HBO has announced that it will air a docuseries about the case made famous by the Serial podcast. The Case Against Adnan Syed has been in production since 2015, and will once again examine the...More »
  
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• Gaspar Noé Can’t Believe Everyone Loves His New Film Climax

  16-05-2018 20:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I’m so used to bad reviews,” Gaspar Noé told me yesterday, on a rooftop in Cannes. He wasn’t lamenting their existence, though: “I really enjoy them when they’re very mean! I’ve always wanted to make a poster out of my bad reviews and frame it.”To tout his new film Climax,...More »
  
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• Harold Guskin, Acting Coach Who Nurtured Stars, Is Dead at 76

  16-05-2018 20:37 via nytimes.com
  Find the character in the words on the page, he instructed Kevin Kline, Glenn Close, James Gandolfini, Rachel Weisz and others.
  
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• Harold Guskin, Acting Coach Who Nurtured Stars, Dies at 76

  16-05-2018 20:37 via nytimes.com
  Find the character in the words on the page, he instructed Kevin Kline, Glenn Close, James Gandolfini, Rachel Weisz and others.
  
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• ‘Citizen of the World’ John Travolta Doesn’t Really Think About the #MeToo Movement

  16-05-2018 20:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  During a talk at Cannes on Wednesday, John Travolta was asked questions about the breadth of his career, and was even game enough to field questions about Battlefield Earth (“Picasso had sketches he didn’t sell and weren’t as popular as other things,” was his response, according to Amy Kaufman of...More »
  
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• Is Lars von Trier Trolling Us?

  16-05-2018 20:21 via nytimes.com
  “My problem is really that I’m a crowd-pleaser,” or so says the director, who has a new movie — and a new scandal — at the Cannes Film Festival.
  
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• Why Do Mark Wahlberg and Peter Berg Keep Making Movies Together?

  16-05-2018 19:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the debut trailer for STX’s espionage-thriller Mile 22 (which arrived online Tuesday) viewers are plunged into the world of Mark Wahlberg’s surprisingly smiley, plaid-shirt-wearing, top-secret undercover-special-ops agent. He’s a badass tactical commando with a bad attitude, on a mission to “deliver a package” — that is, a young cop...More »
  
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• Whitney Houston Slams Paula Abdul in New Documentary Trailer: "That Girl Is Singing Off-Key on the Record"

  16-05-2018 19:32 via feeds.eonline.com
  It's been decades since Whiney Houston and Paula Abdul were at the top of the charts in the same year, but thanks to a new documentary slated for debut next month, we're gaining some new...
  
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• Glenn Branca, America, and Liberation Through Noise

  16-05-2018 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  One of the first things I thought about when I heard that Glenn Branca had died from throat cancer at the age of 69 earlier this week, is the sound that the electric guitar makes when feeding back uncontrollably — and about what the person cradling that screaming guitar may...More »
  
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• Viacom: reality bites

  16-05-2018 19:23 via ft.com
  Even with a modest turnround for the former media powerhouse, scale remains a problem
  
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• Destination Wedding Trailer: Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder Reunite

  16-05-2018 19:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  The rudest stunt a wedding guest can pull is getting engaged during the reception. The best stunt a wedding guest can pull — especially when those guests are Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder — is fall in regular old romantic-comedy love. Destination Wedding finds these two darlings doing just that:...More »
  
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• Works in Progress: A View From the Barge

  16-05-2018 18:59 via nytimes.com
  A Brooklyn theater company is staging the Arthur Miller play on the waterfront of working-class Red Hook.
  
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• Works in Progres: A View From the Barge

  16-05-2018 18:59 via nytimes.com
  A Brooklyn theater company is staging the Arthur Miller play on the waterfront of working-class Red Hook.
  
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• Vivendi board to consider future of Universal Music

  16-05-2018 18:49 via ft.com
  Possible options for world’s largest music group include an IPO or stake sale
  
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• What’s Happening to ‘Queer’ Cinema in the LGBT Film Boom?

  16-05-2018 18:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  When Todd Haynes was working on Safe, the 1995 film starring Julianne Moore as a housewife who becomes increasingly allergic to the world around her, he expressed frustration over the classification of “gay cinema.” It wasn’t that he felt the category was pigeonholing, like some might today, but rather that...More »
  
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• A Beginner’s Guide to New Queer Cinema

  16-05-2018 18:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you’re wondering where the “queer” is in cinema these days, you’re better off looking to the past. Writing in The Village Voice in 1992, the film critic B. Ruby Rich named the wild, provocative, sexy slate of films by queer filmmakers New Queer Cinema. The label stuck, and would...More »
  
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• What Rachel Kushner Can’t Live Without

  16-05-2018 18:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you’re like us, you’ve probably wondered what famous people add to their carts. Not the JAR brooch and Louis XV chair, but the hand sanitizer and the electric toothbrush. We asked novelist Rachel Kushner, whose new book The Mars Room is out now, about the Chanel lipstick, hip-hop album, and book of poetry...More »
  
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• T.I. Arrested for Drunkenly Trying to Enter His Home, As One Does

  16-05-2018 18:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  T.I. has been arrested for drunkenly attempting to enter his Atlanta home and getting into an altercation with a security guard, TMZ reports. According to local news affiliates, the incident occurred around 4 a.m. on Wednesday, when T.I. arrived at his Henry County gated community appearing to be intoxicated and...More »
  
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• Mindy Kaling and Riz Ahmed Want to Do a Ms. Marvel Movie, and That’s Not Beyond the Realm of Possibility

  16-05-2018 18:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the past decade, two Marvel Comics characters have been breakout sensations: Deadpool and Ms. Marvel. The former has already seen his renown translated to the wider world via the silver screen, with a monster-hit film under his mercenary’s belt and a sequel on the way this weekend. The latter...More »
  
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• City Center’s 75th Anniversary: ‘A Chorus Line,’ Balanchine and Broadway

  16-05-2018 17:42 via nytimes.com
  The performing arts center plans to assemble some of the world’s top ballet companies and performers for its ambitious 2018-19 season.
  
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• Chance the Film Critic Loves Holes, Anchorman

  16-05-2018 17:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ever so often, Chance the Rapper becomes Chance the Film Critic, tweeting lists of movies he likes and doesn’t like. Chance is very in favor of Get Out and The House, but is anti White Chicks, Bringing Down the House, and absolutely hates the Warren Beatty–Halle Berry 1998 drama Bulworth....More »
  
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• 'It is strange': Brazilian church blockbuster plays to empty cinemas

  16-05-2018 16:50
  Critics call film a ‘programmed success’ as viewers in half-empty shows report being given tickets by controversial churchBrazil’s biggest cinema hit in more than a decade is a biopic of a powerful evangelical bishop that has broken box office records.There’s just one problem: the sold-out film fails to fill cinemas.Related: Brazil’s biblical soap opera The Ten Commandments is a TV hitRelated: Brazil’s evangelicals become a political force to be reckoned withC
  
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• Has Alanis Morissette Made the Most Woke Musical Since ‘Hair’?

  16-05-2018 16:00 via nytimes.com
  The stage version of “Jagged Little Pill” sets a story steeped in hot-button issues like opiate addiction and gender identity to the singer’s raw 1995 album.
  
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• Alanis Morissette Made the Most Woke Musical. Isn’t It Ironic?

  16-05-2018 16:00 via nytimes.com
  The stage version of “Jagged Little Pill” sets a story steeped in hot-button issues like opiate addition and gender identity to the singer’s raw 1995 album.
  
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• Christina Aguilera and Demi Lovato Compete in a Battle of the Belters on Empowering New Duet

  16-05-2018 15:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  Do you prefer your vocal runs long, luxurious, and loud? And would you also like to double that order? Done and done! Today, in a living corrective to that “She Doesn’t Have the Range” meme, Christina Aguilera and Demi Lovato have risked life and limb — that is, bursting vocal...More »
  
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• Thank Gotti for These Videos of John Travolta Dancing With 50 Cent at Cannes

  16-05-2018 15:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  In a surprising twist, Kevin Connolly’s Gotti has become the cinematic gift that keeps on giving: After the release-date drama, last-minute reprieve, and news that the movie’s score was composed by Pitbull, Gotti’s Cannes premiere did not disappoint. 50 Cent walked the red carpet, apparently pitched his own $80 million...More »
  
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• CBS 2018 Fall Schedule: CBS Hopes You Still Like Murphy Brown and Magnum P.I.

  16-05-2018 15:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  Two of CBS’s big new bets this year are shows you already know. On Monday nights this fall, the network will premiere its reboot of Magnum P.I. starring Jay Hernandez, who is disconcertingly not sporting a mustache in the show’s press photo. On Thursdays, the network will air its revival...More »
  
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• Tom Cruise Falls From So Many Places in New ‘Mission: Impossible’ Trailer

  16-05-2018 15:30 via nytimes.com
  The latest entry in the Tom Cruise franchise features familiar faces like Simon Pegg and Ving Rhames but also newcomers to the series like Angela Bassett.
  
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• ‘Mission: Impossible — Fallout’ Trailer Emphasizes Action

  16-05-2018 15:30 via nytimes.com
  The latest entry in the Tom Cruise franchise features familiar faces like Simon Pegg and Ving Rhames but also newcomers to the series like Angela Bassett.
  
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• Every Paul Schrader Movie, Ranked

  16-05-2018 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Paul Schrader didn’t see a movie until he was 17 years old, and when he finally snuck away from his strict Calvinist home to catch the Disney film The Absent-Minded Professor at a local Grand Rapids, Michigan, theater, he was none too impressed. It was only when he immersed himself...More »
  
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• Robin Williams Broke Robert De Niro’s Nose, and 9 Other Things We Learned in This New Biography

  16-05-2018 15:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  After a long career as a kinetic, childlike stand-up, TV personality, and film star, Robin Williams hung himself in 2014 after struggles with depression, addiction, a Parkinson’s diagnosis and an undiagnosed case of Lewy body dementia. This month, Williams gets a well-deserved biography with the help of New York Times culture reporter...More »
  
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• Deadpool Takes Over Colbert’s Monologue, and Yes, He Knows He’s on TV

  16-05-2018 15:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  What better way to promote Deadpool 2 than to have its main character barge, with total self-satisfaction, into the middle of something else? Midway through Colbert’s monologue last night, Deadpool, a.k.a. Ryan Reynolds, interrupted the TV host to provide his own takes on the news, superheroes, and the relative attractiveness...More »
  
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• Which Emo Zombie Movie Is Right for You?

  16-05-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The undead have undergone many stages of cinematic evolution since they slowly marched onto screens in the early 1930s. There were the unfortunate early depictions of black people as savages and monsters in films like 1932’s White Zombie and 1948’s I Walked With a Zombie. Then there was George A....More »
  
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