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• Let’s Rank All the Weddings on Grey’s Anatomy

  17-05-2018 23:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  As that dog selling newspapers in The Muppets Take Manhattan once said, “Somebody’s getting married!” Or, if you’re on long-running prime-time soap Grey’s Anatomy, everybody’s getting married! The wedding extravaganza between Alex Karev and Jo Wilson during the season-14 finale marks the 13th wedding to take place on the medical...More »
  
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• 13 Reasons Why Starts With a New Disclaimer Warning Some Viewers Not to Watch the Show

  17-05-2018 23:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  When Netflix’s suicide drama 13 Reasons Why first debuted last year, it was embroiled in a controversy over a graphic scene depicting a student taking her own life. The scene drew backlash from mental-health groups, schools, parents, and even entire countries, who criticized it, and the show as a whole,...More »
  
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• Humans: season three review – injustice, racism and prejudice. Sound familiar?

  17-05-2018 23:00
  We are now a way on from Day Zero, with the old green-eyed synths feared and loathed by the hardline humans. Brexit analogies aboundIt has been a while since the second series of Humans. Where were we? Mattie Hawkins cracked the consciousness code and uploaded it online in order to save Mia, remember? But in doing so, she woke every synth in the world, with catastrophic consequences: road accidents, plane crashes and carnage. They reckon 120,000 human deaths, and it is now known as Day Zero.The
  
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• 11 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend

  17-05-2018 23:00 via nytimes.com
  Previews, openings and some last-chance picks.
  
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• How Arctic Monkeys Tapped Into the Nostalgia of Space

  17-05-2018 22:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  When Stanley Kubrick set about making 2001: A Space Odyssey in the 1960s, his goal wasn’t just to make a movie set in space, a genre that, even then, already had a number of examples, ranging from gloriously terrible to pretty great. Instead, he sought to re-create the future: to...More »
  
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• Catfish’s Nev Schulman Being Investigated for Sexual Misconduct

  17-05-2018 21:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  MTV has temporarily suspended production on Catfish: The TV Show while it investigates sexual-misconduct claims against the show’s host, Nev Schulman, the Daily Beast reports.In a statement, an MTV spokesperson said, “We take these allegations very seriously. We’re working with Critical Content, our third party production company, to conduct a thorough investigation.”This is...More »
  
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• Ariana Grande Wasn’t Sure She’d Ever Perform Again After Manchester Bombing

  17-05-2018 21:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ariana Grande has done little press since the May 2017 terrorist attack at her Manchester concert that killed 22 people. Now she has opened up in a Time cover story about her mental health in the aftermath of the tragedy, and described how her tribute concert came together. Her manager...More »
  
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• The Best and Worst of Cannes, Maybe Coming to a Theater Near You

  17-05-2018 21:22 via nytimes.com
  “Happy as Lazzaro” and “Burning” are strong entries, so it’s too bad they won’t mean much to the American box office.
  
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• Lando Is Pansexual, Says Solo Writer

  17-05-2018 21:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you wondered whether or not Donald Glover’s Lando Calrissian was flirting with Alden Ehrenreich’s Han or with his droid L3-73 (voiced by Phoebe Waller-Bridge) in Solo, the answer is, maybe both! In an interview with HuffPost, the film’s screenwriter Jonathan Kasdan was asked if the broadly flirtatious Lando was...More »
  
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• Anatomy of a Scene | ‘Deadpool 2’

  17-05-2018 21:14 via nytimes.com
  David Leitch narrates a sequence featuring Ryan Reynolds and Julian Dennison.
  
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• What to Expect From Dissect’s Deep Dive on Frank Ocean

  17-05-2018 20:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you like hip-hop, podcasts, and ludicrously close reads of song lyrics, you’re in luck. Dissect, one of the more interesting music podcasts around, returns for its third season this week, and this time, it’s going deep on Frank Ocean’s critically acclaimed 2016 album, Blonde.Self-described as a serialized music podcast,...More »
  
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• Steven Yeun Makes His Leading-Man Korean Film Debut in Burning

  17-05-2018 20:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  Easy-listening jazz wafts through Lee Chang-dong’s Burning, but it’s not the smoky American variety one associates with Haruki Murakami, whose short story “Barn Burning” the film is based on. It’s a kind of anemic, amniotic variety, primarily there to soften the edges of tastefully modern cafés and condos inhabited by...More »
  
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• Gillian Anderson Will Be Your Sex Therapist in Netflix’s Sex Education

  17-05-2018 20:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  Gillian Anderson may be retiring Dana Scully once and for all, but she’s already got her next series role lined up. Deadline reports that Anderson will star as a sex therapist in the new Netflix show Sex Education. Asa Butterfield will star as her son, an awkward high-school boy who...More »
  
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• Art Review: Arthur Jafa’s Profound Meditations on Black America

  17-05-2018 19:54 via nytimes.com
  Arthur Jafa’s triumphal debut consisted of a seven-minute video. Two years later, he’s back with artworks in three media on as many floors.
  
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• The Deadpool Moment

  17-05-2018 19:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  This article was originally published in February 2016, in advance of the release of Deadpool.In an entertainment landscape that’s become astoundingly dense with spandex-wearing crusaders and vigilantes, Deadpool stands alone for a number of reasons. The character is queer, mentally ill, a rape victim, a cancer patient, and a remorseless...More »
  
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• Charles Soule Reveals the Secrets Behind The Oracle Year

  17-05-2018 19:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  Where does Charles Soule find the time? In addition to writing comic-book series such as Daredevil, Darth Vader, Astonishing X-Men, Letter 44, and Curse Words, he’s also a practicing immigration lawyer. Somehow he also managed to write a hefty novel called The Oracle Year. It follows the travails of Will...More »
  
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• Review: In ‘Saving Brinton,’ an Inveterate Accumulator Finds Treasure

  17-05-2018 19:14 via nytimes.com
  This documentary explores the world of Michael Zahs, a collector who locates a home — other than his — for his enormous trove of memorabilia.
  
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• ‘Merrily We Roll Along’ to Be Revived Off Broadway

  17-05-2018 19:00 via nytimes.com
  The new Fiasco Theater production will be staged by the Roundabout Theater Company next winter.
  
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• Unite the Power of Three and Watch the Trailer for the CW’s Charmed Reboot

  17-05-2018 18:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  Jane the Virgin and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend are ending next year, but luckily the CW is filling up on all sorts of new shows full of, as you might expect, quirky premises and attractive people. Most notable among them: a new version of Charmed, which takes place at a university with...More »
  
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• The Weeknd Made an ‘Upbeat’ Album When He Was With Selena, But Love Is Dead and So Is That Album

  17-05-2018 18:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  The breakup of the Weeknd and Selena Gomez left many causalities in its wake (namely his ego and ability for his heart to go on) but also, apparently, some music. While their split eventually led to the dirge that was the Weeknd’s My Dear Melancholy, the singer now tells Time...More »
  
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• What It Takes to Be Hermione Granger

  17-05-2018 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s the day before the Tony nominations, but if Noma Dumezweni is feeling the pressure, you wouldn’t know it. “I want a glass of white wine please. That would be gorgeous,” she tells the waiter, in a velvety English rasp. Sitting across from me at a high-top table at Maman...More »
  
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• Judge rules against CBS in clash with Redstone

  17-05-2018 17:50 via ft.com
  Shares fall more than 7% after judge blocks effort to restrain controlling family
  
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• Watch Rosa Fall Stupid Hard for Gina Rodriguez on Brooklyn Nine-Nine

  17-05-2018 17:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  Everyone’s dreams, but specifically Rosa Diaz’s, are coming true on Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Ahead of Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s season finale (which could have been a series finale, if it hadn’t been saved by NBC after it was canceled by Fox), the show has released a sneak peek of Gina Rodriguez’s upcoming guest...More »
  
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• It’s Brex Benedict – but can Cumberbatch make Vote Leave sexy?

  17-05-2018 17:37
  The star of Sherlock and Patrick Melrose is set to play arch-Brexiter Dominic Cummings. That’s an even dumber idea than leaving the EUShould you ever decide to compile a list of everything the world needs, in the order it needs it, you would do best to start from the bottom and work your way up. Because everyone already knows what the world needs least – the thing that’s even less essential than a magma bidet or a rotating statue of Piers Morgan. That’s right: what the wo
  
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• Book Club Is Far Warmer and Wiser Than It Needed to Be

  17-05-2018 17:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  When Book Club was announced last year, the premise felt like it had to be a joke. The film, which follows four women of a certain age who experience sexual reawakenings after reading Fifty Shades of Grey for their book club, felt like the kind of thing whose reason to...More »
  
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• Battle of the Canadians Quiz: Samantha Bee vs. Ted Cruz

  17-05-2018 17:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  Canadians are undoubtedly having a moment. From Drake to Bieber, some of today’s brightest stars were born north of the border. Comedienne Samantha Bee, the forthcoming queen of late night, is no exception: Full Frontal, the former Daily Show correspondent’s rabble-rousing new talk show, is set to premiere on TBS on February 8th....More »
  
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• Trevor Preston obituary

  17-05-2018 17:18
  Screenwriter who enjoyed success with two hard-hitting television drama series, Out and FoxA tough, working-class upbringing and research in the haunts of London’s gangland bosses informed the gritty, hard-hitting drama that the writer Trevor Preston brought to television in two standout series, Out (1978) and Fox (1980). Preston, who has died aged 79, was given his own programmes after writing episodes of The Sweeney (1975-80), which starred John Thaw and Dennis Waterman as officers with
  
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• This Trailer for Sense8’s Final Season Packs in a Lot of Feelings

  17-05-2018 16:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  If we know anything about Sense8, its series finale will definitely have two things: scintillating action sequences, and tons of emotions. After Netflix canceled the show following season two’s cliffhanger ending, the streamer answered fan protests by green-lighting a single two-hour-long episode to wrap up the story. The “cluster” of...More »
  
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• Review: ‘First Reformed’ Is an Epiphany. Ethan Hawke Is, Too.

  17-05-2018 16:39 via nytimes.com
  Paul Schrader’s film about a tormented pastor is a study of spiritual and political despair that is a quiet cinematic revelation.
  
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• Chrissy Teigen and John Legend Welcome Baby Boy

  17-05-2018 16:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  Chrissy Teigen announced late on Wednesday that she had given birth to a baby boy. Well, she didn’t use those words, exactly, but she tweeted “Somebody’s herrrrrrrre” with a baby-bottle emoji, so it’s a pretty safe bet for someone in their third trimester.Somebody’s herrrrrrre!christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) May 17,...More »
  
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• The Internet Has Already Devoured ‘This Is America’

  17-05-2018 16:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It is a terrible thing, simply, to be trapped in one’s history, and attempt, in the same motion (and in this, our life!) to accept, deny, reject, and redeem it — and, also, on whatever level, to profit from it. And: with one’s head in the fetid jaws of this...More »
  
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• Backstreet Boys Are Back With New Song, Serving Choreography Like It’s 1999

  17-05-2018 16:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  Before you get too excited, no, this isn’t the Backstreet Boys covering Elton John. (Oh, how we wish.) What you are about to witness is the BSB’s first single in five years, “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart,” that will teleport you straight back to 1999. Only instead of an airport,...More »
  
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• 15 Summer Theater Festivals, From Stratford to Williamstown

  17-05-2018 16:09 via nytimes.com
  Selections from the warm-weather season, including Shakespeare favorites and new plays and musicals in development.
  
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• Batman's butler: origins and the most pointless prequels imaginable

  17-05-2018 15:56
  An upcoming 10-part series will trace the story of Bruce Wayne’s right hand man Alfred leaving the door open for a string of even sillier propositionsThe world is a fickle place. One day Infinity War is smashing box office records to shreds, and you’re telling yourself that comic book adaptations have never been in better shape. The next you’re reading that DC is going to make an entire series based on Batman’s butler, and it makes you want to travel back in time and murd
  
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• Deadpool 2 Review Roundup: Is the "Over-the-Top" Sequel "Just as Funny" as the First Film?

  17-05-2018 15:55 via feeds.eonline.com
  The Merc With a Mouth has more to say.According to critics, Deadpool 2 is badder and bolder than its 2016 predecessor. The R-rated blockbuster, in theaters Friday, opens with Wade...
  
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• Janet Jackson Is Writing a New Album That Might Be About Literally Anything

  17-05-2018 15:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  Elusive as Janet Jackson may be, she’s never not working. And ahead of receiving the Icon Award at this Sunday’s Billboard Music Awards, she’s granted Billboard a cover story in which she confirms that she’s been making a new album. The follow-up to 2015’s Unbreakable is still in early stages,...More »
  
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• Bronx Queens J.Lo and Cardi B Collaborate on New Song ‘Dinero’

  17-05-2018 15:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  They just want the d … inero, okurrrr? Jennifer Lopez and Cardi B — “Two bad bitches that came from the Bronx,” according to Cardi’s rap — have exited the 6 train to deliver a bop. “Dinero,” featuring DJ Khaled, brings J.Lo and Cardi together on a new money-moves anthem....More »
  
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• Vulture Is on YouTube Now, Please Like and Subscribe

  17-05-2018 15:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  Like a dorky high-school kid looking to show off our kazoo skills, Vulture has started a YouTube page and now we are here to guilt you, all the people tangentially connected to our lives, into subscribing to it. On YouTube, you’ll be able to follow along with all our videos...More »
  
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• Duncan Sheik and Lynn Nottage’s Secret Life of Bees Musical Will Premiere Off Broadway Next Spring

  17-05-2018 15:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  Bees? The Atlantic Theater Company is onboard. The musical adaptation of Sue Monk Kidd’s novel The Secret Life of Bees is coming to the Atlantic Theater Company Off Broadway next spring. The project has music by Spring Awakening’s Duncan Sheik, lyrics by Susan Birkenhead, and a book by Pulitzer Prize...More »
  
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• Maria Cornejo’s 10 Favorite Books

  17-05-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Bookseller One Grand Books has asked celebrities to name the ten titles they’d take to a desert island, and they’ve shared the results with Vulture. Below is fashion designer Maria Cornejo’s list....More »
  
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• The CW’s 2018-2019 Schedule: Jane the Virgin, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, and iZombie Come to an End

  17-05-2018 14:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  The next TV season is the last you’ll see with Jane Villanueva and Rebecca Bunch. The CW announced its schedule for the 2018-2019 season today, and in doing so, confirmed speculation that both Jane the Virgin and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend will come to an end next year. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, envisioned by...More »
  
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• Breakfast With Anselm Kiefer, Who Made That Flying Lead Book at Rockefeller Center

  17-05-2018 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Anselm Kiefer is one the most serious and successful artists in the world, making work as thunderous with erudition and mythic allusion as Wagner (Simon Schama once said that he is “incapable of making trivia.”). He’s said that art is, and perhaps should be, “difficult” and “not entertainment” and has...More »
  
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• Atlantic Theater Company Season to Feature Isabelle Huppert

  17-05-2018 14:00 via nytimes.com
  The French actress will star in a play by Florian Zeller on a roster that also includes a musical based on “The Secret Life of Bees.”
  
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• Diego Maradona docuseries about 'Hand of God' era in works at Amazon

  17-05-2018 13:54
  The streaming service says the series will offer an ‘unprecedented look’ at the player and chronicle his mid-80s peak where he led Argentina to World Cup glory and Napoli to its first-ever scudettoStreaming giant Amazon Prime will throw its weight behind a docuseries that will examine the life of Diego Maradona in the mid-1980s, when he was at the peak of his powers and helped Argentina win the World Cup.The yet-to-be-named project will “explore the man behind the champion&rdqu
  
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• Review: ‘The Most Unknown’ Tackles Science’s Big Questions

  17-05-2018 13:00 via nytimes.com
  The documentary interviews nine scientists in fields including astronomy and neuroscience, and asks them to reflect on their work.
  
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• Review: ‘That Summer’ Sheds Light on the Beales Before ‘Grey Gardens’

  17-05-2018 13:00 via nytimes.com
  A new documentary, directed by Goran Hugo Olsson, sheds further light on Big Edie and Little Edie, with footage from 1972.
  
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• Review: In ‘Sollers Point,’ a Hard Road to the Straight and Narrow

  17-05-2018 13:00 via nytimes.com
  In this film from Matthew Porterfield, a just-out-of-prison young man contends with bad luck and his own unwise impulses.
  
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• Review: In ‘Pope Francis: A Man of His Word,’ a Religious Leader Speaks at Length

  17-05-2018 13:00 via nytimes.com
  The head of the Roman Catholic Church answers questions in this feature from Wim Wenders.
  
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