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• RuPaul Somehow Finds the Time To Watch Every Single Drag Race Audition Video

  19-05-2018 23:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you’ve ever submitted an audition tape to RuPaul’s Drag Race, rest assured: Mother Ru herself has indeed watched it. At the Drag Race Vulture Fest panel on Saturday, Bebe Zahara Benet brought up the importance of RuPaul selecting the season-one cast of the revolutionary show. Michelle Visage broke in...More »
  
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• Luc Besson Has Been Accused of Rape, According to Reports

  19-05-2018 23:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  Luc Besson, the director and screenwriter behind Nikita, The Big Blue, and Subway, has been accused of rape, and is currently being investigated by the French authorities, Europe 1, reports. According to the article, an unnamed 27-year old actress made a complaint against Besson on Friday morning. She alleges that...More »
  
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• Marti Noxon Talks ‘Terrifying’ Experience Backing Up Sexual Harassment Claim Against Matthew Weiner

  19-05-2018 23:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  Last November, writer Kater Gordon accused Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner of sexual harassing her during her stint as the series’ writing assistant in 2008, allegedly informing her she “owed” it to Weiner to let him see her naked. Weiner subsequently denied the allegation. Former Mad Men producer Marti Noxon,...More »
  
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• Reggie Lucas, Producer for Madonna and Guitarist for Miles Davis, Dead at 65

  19-05-2018 22:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  Reggie Lucas, the jazz and R&B guitarist who played alongside Miles Davis and produced the majority of Madonna’s debut album, has died at 65, according to his daughter. “After a long and arduous struggle with his physical heart (his emotional one was perfect) he was called home. I wish he’d had...More »
  
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• Sweetbitter Will Explore the Experience of Undocumented Restaurant Workers

  19-05-2018 22:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  Starz’s Sweetbitter keeps the novel’s scandalous scenes of after-hours hookups and shifting power dynamics, but at the show’s panel at Vulture Festival on Saturday, author Stephanie Danler revealed that future episodes will expand to explore subjects the book left out: the trials of undocumented workers in the New York restaurant...More »
  
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• Michelle Visage Hears ‘Miss Vanjie’ Everywhere She Goes

  19-05-2018 22:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  Miss Vanjie’s meme-launching elimination in the first episode of season 10 of RuPaul’s Drag Race changed how fans exit a room. Not only did the Puerto Rican drag queen from the house of Mateo leave the runway, backwards, while chanting her own name, but RuPaul could not stop giggling when...More »
  
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• Watch Lea DeLaria Give a Fisting Tutorial at Vulture Festival

  19-05-2018 22:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  Comedian Cameron Esposito spoke to actress Lea DeLaria, a.k.a. Orange Is the New Black’s Big Boo, in a live edition of her LGBTQ+ interview podcast Queery on Saturday at Vulture Festival. In a conversation that explored topics of identity, personality, gender, sexuality, and civil rights, the two queer comedians considered how...More »
  
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• Cannes 2018: unfancied Japanese film Shoplifters takes Palme d'Or

  19-05-2018 22:16
  Spike Lee and Jean-Luc Godard were also among the prizewinners at the 71st annual film festival
  In a surprise verdict, the Japanese film Shoplifters, directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda, has been awarded the Palme d’Or for main feature at the close of the Cannes film festival. “The ending blew us out of the cinema,” said jury president Cate Blanchett.Beating a field of 21, including two or three titles that had been hotly tipped for the top by the critics, the film took the prestigio
  
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• Jennifer Egan Is Working On a ‘Companion’ to Visit From the Goon Squad

  19-05-2018 22:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  Author Jennifer Egan — whose novel Manhattan Beach was chosen as the winner of One Book, One New York — sat down with New York editor-in-chief, Adam Moss, at Vulture Festival on Saturday to kick off the citywide book club, and revealed that she’s started to work on a sequel...More »
  
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• #MeToo Hits Cannes Closing Ceremony With a Fury

  19-05-2018 22:11 via nytimes.com
  Midway through the awards for 71st Cannes Film Festival, Asia Argento told the audience that the event was Harvey Weinstein’s “hunting ground.”
  
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• Cannes 2018: Hirokazu Kore-eda's Shoplifters wins the Palme d'Or – as it happened

  19-05-2018 21:40
  Spike Lee’s Trump-baiting comedy BlacKkKlansman takes runner-up grand jury prize, while Capernaum, by Lebanese director Nadine Labaki, comes in third 8.40pm BST Things are quieting down here, so I’ll be heading off. Pop over to Guardian film in the next hour or so for our full report on this year’s winners, as well as Peter Bradshaw’s reaction to the awards. Burning was snubbed, I say! Thanks and good night. 8.31pm BST So, after 71 editions of the film festival Jane Campi
  
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• Cate Blanchett’s Cannes Jury Awards Shoplifters, Spike Lee

  19-05-2018 21:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  This year’s Cannes Film Festival jury, led by Cate Blanchett and also including Kristen Stewart and directors Ava DuVernay and Denis Villeneuve, gave their top prize to Hirozaku Kore-eda’s moving family drama Shoplifters. The second-place prize, known as the Grand Prix, went to Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman. “I take this on...More »
  
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• Cannes 2018: Hirokazu Kore-eda's Shoplifters wins the Palme d'Or – live!

  19-05-2018 21:07
  Spike Lee’s Trump-baiting comedy BlacKkKlansman takes runner-up grand jury prize, while Capernaum, by Lebanese director Nadine Labaki, comes in third 8.07pm BST Jury member Ava DuVernay has spoken about the choice of BlackKklansman for the Grand Prix: “As an African-american filmmaker I was completely taken by the film. I’ve seen every single thing he’s ever made. It had an exuberance to it that was startling and stunning.” 8.01pm BST Netflix, who are playing the ro
  
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• Watch Taylor Swift Cover “There’s Nothin’ Holding Me Back” With Shawn Mendes

  19-05-2018 20:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  After leaving a series of clues (and eventually an announcement) on her Instagram stories this week, Taylor Swift brought out Adam Rippon’s Canadian crush, Shawn Mendes, as a surprise guest during her performance at Pasadena’s Rose Bowl Stadium last night. Swift introduced Mendes by covering the first verse of his...More »
  
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• At Cannes, Asia Argento Makes a Scalding Speech About Harvey Weinstein

  19-05-2018 20:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Cannes Film Festival has not always had the best track record when it comes to women, and though the actress Asia Argento was one of the key figures to come out early with claims of sexual assault against disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein, she has faced a rocky reception in...More »
  
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• The Bold Type’s Finale Could Have Gone Way Differently

  19-05-2018 19:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  What if Kat had not gone with Adena to Iran? What if Jane didn’t leave her job at Scarlet? Or how about if Sutton and Alex continued a different office dalliance? The stars of The Bold Type shared some of the different endings that were shot leading up to the...More »
  
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• Why is it Hugh Grant gets to improve with age? | Rebecca Nicholson

  19-05-2018 19:00
  The actor says his parts have grown more varied in recent years. If only his female colleagues could say the same“I’ve always tried to take whatever was the most entertaining thing… and getting older and uglier has made the parts, you know, more varied,” a still famous female film star told the Radio Times last week to explain why she is doing a classy TV drama and will no longer be starring in the big-screen romcoms that made her famous.Only kidding! It’s Hugh Gra
  
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• Five More Men Accuse James Levine of Sexual Misconduct

  19-05-2018 18:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  Five additional men have accused former Metropolitan Opera conductor James Levine of sexual misconduct in a counterclaim filed by the Met on Friday, NPR reports. The filing, which cites seven accusers, two of whom went public with their stories earlier this year, described acts of misconduct spanning over 20 years...More »
  
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• Watch Sterling K. Brown Twerk During a Dance Battle With Brian Tyree Henry

  19-05-2018 17:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  It looks like Sterling K. Brown can now add twerking to his growing resume. In his “Dance Battle” segment on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon last night, Brown displayed some impressive gluteal coordination as he attempted to master the move “I lost control of my butt.” And though his...More »
  
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• The Latest Whitney Houston Documentary is Fixated Far More on her Death Than Her Life

  19-05-2018 17:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  Movies often come in pairs, and now the world has two Whitney Houston documentaries, released within a year of each other, and plenty to pore over regarding the late singer’s turbulent life. But the recent release of last year’s Showtime documentary Whitney: Can I Be Me is not the reason...More »
  
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• Meghan Markle’s Suits Castmates Attend the Royal Wedding

  19-05-2018 16:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  After months of anticipation, some unfortunate paparazzi drama, and a Lifetime biopic, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have officially tied the knot. And in addition to Oprah, Idris, Victoria and David Beckham, Elton John, and a team of other celebrity guests, almost all of Markle’s Suits co-stars made the trip...More »
  
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• The Best Moments From Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s Royal Wedding

  19-05-2018 14:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  On Saturday, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were married in a truly lovely royal wedding at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle. The ceremony was sweet and relaxed – well, as relaxed as an affair attended by Queen Elizabeth and Oprah Winfrey can be. Departing from royal traditions, Meghan walked down...More »
  
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• Carry on Brussels – why televised Brexit is boring as hell

  19-05-2018 12:00
  The new Channel 4 show proves it’s a struggle to make the European Parliament interesting - but the Ukip MEPs are oddly mesmerising as they barrel around like drunks at a wake“Welcome to one of the most misunderstood institutions in the world,” says the voiceover in Carry on Brussels (Wednesday, 10pm, Channel 4). It’s a show that aims to reveal the workings of the European Parliament as it attempts to get a handle on Brexit, without rendering viewers comatose. Brexit
  
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• All The Celebrity Guests At the Royal Wedding

  19-05-2018 11:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  On Saturday, celebrity guests showed up early for the royal wedding of British man Prince Harry and America’s own Meghan Markle. Well, the guests showed up on time, but many of these fancy attendees started arriving at least a couple of hours before the soon-to-be Duke and Duchess of Sussex...More »
  
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• Adeel Akhtar: ‘My wife says I'm a tired, older version of Riz Ahmed’

  19-05-2018 10:30
  The actor on a lucky necklace, a brush with the law and putting on his own playBorn in London, Adeel Akhtar, 37, was educated at Cheltenham College. He studied to become a lawyer before attending drama school in New York. His television work includes Utopia, Capital and The Night Manager. In 2016, he starred in the BBC drama Murdered By My Father and became the first non-white actor to win a best actor Bafta. His films include Four Lions, Victoria & Abdul and Swimming With Men, which is rele
  
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• Thandie Newton: ‘Being the first dark-skinned woman in Star Wars is great... and awful'

  19-05-2018 08:00
  With roles in Westworld and Solo: A Star Wars Story, the actor is at the top of her game. From navigating the industry as a black British woman, to ‘brainwashing’ - the journey there wasn’t always easyThandie Newton is, by her own admission, “having quite a good run at the moment”. Over the past 18 months, she has earned a Golden Globe nomination for her role as Maeve Millay, a robot madam in the HBO series Westworld, and a TV Bafta nomination for playing DCI Roz Hu
  
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• Saturday’s best TV: The Royal Wedding; Inspector Montalbano

  19-05-2018 07:00
  The big match from Windsor and another run of leisurely cop dramas from the Italian Morse Continue reading...
  
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• Phoebe Waller-Bridge Did Not Know What a Droid Was When She Auditioned to be One in Solo

  19-05-2018 03:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  Okay, so Phoebe-Waller Bridge claims on The Graham Norton Show that she did, in fact, search the word “droid” prior to her Solo: A Star Wars Story audition. However, she also asserts the results didn’t specifically say “a robot.” Which makes us wonder if there is some special Google available...More »
  
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• Melissa McCarthy Stars in the Extremely Not-Safe-for-Puppets Happytime Murders Trailer

  19-05-2018 01:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  On one hand, you might be thinking to yourself, “No, I would not like to see a puppet messily ejaculate for a comedically long amount of time.” On the other hand, well, you already clicked this post, didn’t you? You sure did. As the new exceedingly filthy red-band trailer for...More »
  
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• Netflix Announces A Christmas Prince Sequel With a Nod to the Royal Wedding

  19-05-2018 00:21 via feeds.eonline.com
  Christmas came early! On the heels of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's nuptials, Netflix announced that another royal wedding is on the way.
  A Christmas Prince, the streaming...
  
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