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• Patricia Morison, star of Broadway and Hollywood, dies aged 103

  20-05-2018 23:55
  Morison found fame in Kiss Me, Kate, The King and I and moreMovie roles included many femmes fatale and villainsPatricia Morison, who originated the role of an overemotional diva in the Broadway musical Kiss Me, Kate, starred on stage opposite Yul Brynner in The King and I and appeared in films with Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn, died on Sunday at the age of 103. Morison died of natural causes at her home in Los Angeles, publicist Harlan Boll said. Morison’s death was first reported
  
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• As Disney Moves Forward With Fox, Comcast Continues Plotting

  20-05-2018 23:43 via nytimes.com
  The Walt Disney Company struck a deal in December to buy most of 21st Century Fox, but Comcast, which has pursued Fox in the past, thinks it has another opening.
  
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• Retta Never Had to Pay for Lunch Because of a ‘Treat Yo’ Self’ Bet

  20-05-2018 23:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  Over the first few seasons of Parks and Recreation, Donna Meagle (Retta) and Tom Haverford (Aziz Ansari) quietly gre into one of show’s funniest pairings, but their full comedic force hit new heights with “Pawnee Rangers” the 2011 season four episode that introduced the concept of “Treat Yo’ Self.” The...More »
  
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• The Handmaid’s Tale series 2 review – as intense as TV gets

  20-05-2018 23:15
  The dystopian drama has strayed beyond Margaret Atwood’s novel, but it still manages to find beauty in the darkest traumaThe Handmaid’s Tale recap: season 2, episode 1 – Offred discovers her fate
  Want to comment on the new series of The Handmaid’s Tale? Comments are open on our series recap blog.We begin where we left off: with Offred – or June, as she is becoming once more – being bundled, pregnant, into a van and driven away. Into the darkness within, or els
  
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• The Handmaid's Tale recap: season 2, episode 1 – Offred discovers her fate

  20-05-2018 23:15
  Opening with one of the most unremittingly dark opening scenes in recent history, the second season of the dystopian drama did not pull any punchesSpoiler alert: this recap is for people watching series two of The Handmaid’s Tale on Channel 4 in the UK. Please do not add spoilers from later episodes.
  It has been 10 months since Offred was bundled into the back of a government van, but, for her, no time has passed at all as she drives off to meet her fate. Before we discuss the horrors of t
  
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• A Very English Scandal review: funny and confident – like Jeremy Thorpe

  20-05-2018 23:00
  Hugh Grant has the time of his life as the former Liberal leader who faced trial for conspiracy to murder“Tell him not to talk. And not to write to my mother describing acts of anal sex under any circumstances whatsoever.”Ah, the perils of taking a younger lover. So malleable in some ways (“Hop on to all fours, there’s a good chap. That always works best, don’t you think?”) and so thoroughly wayward in others. Continue reading...
  
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• Claire Danes Says She And Carrie Mathison Needed To Go On a Break

  20-05-2018 22:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  As stressful as it can be watching Carrie Mathison’s exploits on Homeland, it’s clearly no less relaxing actually being Carrie Mathison on Homeland — a feeling Claire Danes confirmed while discussing her latest film A Kid Like Jake at Vulture Festival 2018. The actress was joined by co-star Jim Parsons,...More »
  
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• Claire Danes Says Her And Carrie Mathison Needed To Go On a Break

  20-05-2018 22:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  As stressful as it can be watching Carrie Mathison’s exploits on Homeland, it’s clearly no less relaxing actually being Carrie Mathison on Homeland — a feeling Claire Danes confirmed while discussing her latest film A Kid Like Jake at Vulture Festival 2018. The actress was joined by co-star Jim Parsons,...More »
  
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• Retta on Aziz Ansari Sexual Misconduct Allegations: ‘I Didn’t Appreciate It’

  20-05-2018 21:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  Last January, Babe.net posted an anonymous story from a young woman who accused Aziz Ansari of pressuring her sexually during a date. The story sparked controversy, with questions about whether the article should have been published and how the allegations fit into the greater #MeToo narrative. Retta, a friend of...More »
  
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• Patricia Morison, 103, Dies; Broadway’s First Kate to Be Kissed

  20-05-2018 21:42 via nytimes.com
  After failing to hit it big as a Hollywood actress, Ms. Morison became a star of the musical stage in “Kiss Me, Kate” and “The King and I.”
  
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• Truly Marvelous News! The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Renewed for Season 3

  20-05-2018 20:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  Knock ‘em dead some more, Midge, and kick your husband to the curb while you’re at it. Variety confirmed that Amazon renewed The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel for a third season on the streaming service. The renewal dropped in a (suitably) funny fashion on Saturday evening, when Mrs. Maisel’s co-creator, Amy...More »
  
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• Ibiza Writer on Why Netflix Was the Right Place for Her Star-Studded Female Comedy

  20-05-2018 20:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  During Vulture Festival’s Ibiza Boozy Brunch event, the film’s writer Lauryn Kahn, joined her star-studded cast on stage to share her experience of making her female-led film with Netflix. The streaming service’s built-in audience of subscribers played a big role in allowing her creative license with the script, “I think...More »
  
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• Sonequa Martin-Green and Michelle Yeoh Are Not Here For Casting Backlash

  20-05-2018 20:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  When Michelle Yeoh and Sonequa Martin-Green were offered leading roles in Star Trek Discovery, they didn’t quite believe it. Two women of color running the show on Starfleet? “Really? Are you sure?”“I remember when I first came to Hollywood, and a director, who is a good friend, said if they...More »
  
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• Justin Theroux Would Like to Show You His Back Tattoo

  20-05-2018 20:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  Unlike some people, Justin Theroux is very proud of his back tattoo. At the live recording of Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness at Vulture Festival an audience member asked if Justin could explain the origins of his rather large back tattoo. Jonathan of course encouraged Justin to show us....More »
  
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• Rachel Bloom Gloriously Roasts Adam Pally For His Shorty Awards Performance

  20-05-2018 20:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  Recently, while announcing the winner for “Best Overall Instagram” at the Shorty Awards, Adam Pally scorched the social-media earth, tearing apart the whole show, in front of, well — everyone who was there for it. It wasn’t exactly well received.While Pally has addressed the controversy and Twitter backlash, the true...More »
  
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• Michael Keaton Imparts Special Alumni Wisdom to College Graduates: ‘I’m Batman’

  20-05-2018 19:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s college commencement season, dear readers, when celebrities break out their finest mortarboards and pal around with the youths for the sake of a 15-minute speech. Sometimes, there is serenading. Other times, there is free money. (So many ways to fill up time!) But Michael Keaton decided to hark back...More »
  
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• ‘Deadpool 2’ Gins Up $301 Million in Global Ticket Sales

  20-05-2018 19:15 via nytimes.com
  The No. 1 arrival gave 20th Century Fox a much-needed blockbuster and provided further evidence that superheroes remain box office gold.
  
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• The Palme D’Or-Winning Shoplifters Is a Sublimely Subtle Tale of a Family on the Margins

  20-05-2018 18:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  Hirokazu Kore-Eda tends to stay at eye level with his characters. It’s what makes his patient dramas, which often concern families and the subtle dynamics that hold them together and divide them, so involving. So when his camera flies high up above the Sumidas’ tiny hovel midway through Shoplifters, on...More »
  
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• Saturday Night Live Season-Finale Recap: Tina Fey Returns to 30 Rock (and Sarah Palin)

  20-05-2018 18:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  Let them eat sheet cake—and yes, yes, also fight fascism in the streets—as former head writer, Weekend Update host, and all-around badass Tina Fey returns for the season finale of SNL. While the show does find use for Fey’s most memorable recurring character, Sarah Palin, she also proffered some sketch suggestions during...More »
  
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• Lin-Manuel Miranda Has a Burn Book, and Tina Fey Is Entry #1

  20-05-2018 17:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  Not everyone can be a Broadway double threat, much to the chagrin of Tina Fey. See, she tried. She really tried! She wants to act in her Mean Girls musical, but when she’s demoted from Regina George to Gretchen Wieners to North Shore High School mascot, she soon realizes that...More »
  
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• Inside Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s Royal Wedding Receptions

  20-05-2018 17:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  Meghan Markle and Prince Harry were (finally) married in a very royal wedding ceremony on Saturday, which was attended by 600 invited guests, a ton of members of the public, and, oh, just an estimated 1.9 billion people watching worldwide.Afterwards, the newly married Duke and Duchess of Sussex celebrated their...More »
  
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• Oprah Had to Change Her Royal Wedding Dress at the Last Minute

  20-05-2018 17:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  Yesterday, royals and celebrities alike headed to Windsor Castle, where Prince Harry and Meghan Markle tied the knot in a royal wedding 2.0. Among the select guests was Oprah Winfrey, who showed up in an elegant light-pink dress by Stella McCartney … that she received the morning of the ceremony....More »
  
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• SNL Sends Donald Trump Off, Sopranos Finale Style

  20-05-2018 16:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  In fear of spoiling a decade-old show and upsetting the ghost of James Gandolfini — hey, we’re still not sure of the Peak TV era rules — let’s just say SNL took a cue from the Sopranos finale playbook and we may never see Alec Baldwin’s Donald Trump impression again....More »
  
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• Review: In the Relationships in ‘Singlet,’ One and One Make One

  20-05-2018 16:26 via nytimes.com
  Erin Markey’s disciplined performance piece, a collaboration with Emily Davis, examines the dissolving boundaries of intense intimacy.
  
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• Sarah of White House Past Meets Sarah of White House Present on SNL, and They’re Both Miserable!

  20-05-2018 16:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sarah Palin isn’t waxing poetic about those sweet, sweet Russia views from her Alaska house anymore, because she’s here to serenade some people in Donald Trump’s inner circle — Chorus Line style! — about their complicity in the current state of our country. (But first, let’s check in with what...More »
  
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• SNL’s Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough Just Want to Bang On-Air

  20-05-2018 15:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  Poor Willie Geist. All that “Norman Rockwell painting come to life” wants to do is read the news for Morning Joe — maybe even get in some witty banter if so inclined — and go the hell home, but Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough make it impossible with their pseudo-sexual...More »
  
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• Here Are Givenchy’s Sketches For Meghan Markle’s Royal Wedding Dress

  20-05-2018 15:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  On Saturday, the moment we’d all been waiting for arrived: Meghan Markle stepped out of her car at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, for her royal wedding with Prince Harry, and we finally got to see her highly-anticipated ceremony dress. Only, it wasn’t by Ralph & Russo, Erdem, Burberry or...More »
  
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• Google takes on Apple and Spotify with new music service

  20-05-2018 15:24 via ft.com
  YouTube Music will seek to break the ‘duopoly’ with paid-for subscription
  
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• Saturday Night Live: Tina Fey hosts all-star season finale

  20-05-2018 13:33
  Seinfeld, Cumberbatch, Rock and De Niro were present and correct but the royal wedding costumes stole the showA modest diner in New Jersey. Donald Trump (Alec Baldwin) enters, asks the waitress (Heidi Gardner) if HPV is different from HIV, and puts Don’t Stop Believing by journey on the jukebox.Related: Saturday Night Live: Amy Schumer lesbian sketch is mother of all misfiresContinue reading...
  
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• Luc Besson under investigation over rape allegation

  20-05-2018 11:37
  French director denies ‘fantasist accusations’ that he drugged and raped womanFrench police are investigating the film director Luc Besson after a 27-year-old woman filed a complaint against him for rape.The unnamed film actor went to police on Friday morning alleging she had been raped by Besson, 59, in an exclusive Paris hotel on Thursday night. Related: Cannes 2018: unfancied Japanese film Shoplifters takes Palme d'OrContinue reading...
  
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• Richard Eyre: ‘Take it easy? Why would I… I’m only 75’

  20-05-2018 09:59
  The acclaimed director talks about adapting King Lear for TV with Anthony Hopkins, accidentally making a French film and dealing with depressionDevon-born director Richard Eyre, 75, has worked across film, theatre, TV and opera, winning five Olivier awards and a Bafta. He was artistic director of the National Theatre from 1987 until 1997 and his films include Iris and Notes on a Scandal. He has adapted and directed the BBC’s new, feature-length version of King Lear.You’re working in
  
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• SNL Got Their Own Bishop Michael Curry Sermon

  20-05-2018 08:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  It must’ve been an even busier Saturday than usual over at studio 8H this week, and not just because SNL’s season finale was packed with surprise guests. The show also managed to turn around a few royal wedding bits that had only become relevant hours before. Among them was a...More »
  
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• The week in radio and podcasts: Mental Health Minute; Chris Hawkins; Jo Whiley and Simon Mayo; British podcast awards and more

  20-05-2018 08:00
  Mental health awareness week brought insights, Whiley and Mayo got off to a shaky start and gongs went to the best of UK podcastersMental Health Minute
  Chris Hawkins (BBC 6 Music) | iPlayer
  Jo Whiley and Simon Mayo (BBC Radio 2) | iPlayer
  A Reason to Wake Up (Daniel Kitson) Resonance FM
  British Podcast AwardsAt the 2018 Radio festival at the British Library in London last Tuesday, much hoo-ha was made of a 60-second message that was broadcast across almost as many networks as you can think of (3
  
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• The week in TV: Patrick Melrose; Million Pound Menu; Myanmar Killing Fields and more

  20-05-2018 07:59
  Benedict Cumberbatch fills the screen as a drug-dazed antihero, and a powerful Dispatches reports on the plight of the RohingyaPatrick Melrose (Sky Atlantic) | Sky Atlantic
  Million Pound Menu (BBC Two) | iPlayer
  Myanmar Killing Fields (Channel 4) | iPlayer
  The Windsors: Royal Wedding Special (Channel 4) | All 4
  Meet the Markles (Channel 4) | All 4Adaptations of cherished books sometimes feel a bit rude – akin to someone marching into the Louvre and daubing a moustache on the Mona Lisa. How
  
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• SNL Gets Us Into The Royal Wedding Reception

  20-05-2018 07:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  Just because we aren’t among the 200 of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s closest family and friends who were invited doesn’t mean we too can’t attend the royal wedding reception. Well actually, yes, that’s exactly what it means. But luckily, the season finale of SNL was kind enough to get...More »
  
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• Sunday’s best TV: The Handmaid’s Tale; A Very English Scandal

  20-05-2018 07:00
  The devastatingly bleak dystopian drama returns and Russell T Davies takes on the Jeremy Thorpe affair in typically smart, disturbing style Continue reading...
  
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• Watch the Royal Wedding Bishop’s Impassioned Sermon

  20-05-2018 06:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Most Reverend Michael Bruce Curry electrified St. George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle with a fiery sermon during Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s royal wedding.Speaking of “the power of love,” Curry, who is the first African-American to serve as presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, evoked the words of the Reverend Martin Luther...More »
  
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• Tracy Morgan Wants You To Know He Loves You

  20-05-2018 04:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  Oprah told him not to talk about it, but Tracy Morgan wants people to know how a near-fatal car crash in 2014 changed him for the better. He also wants y’all to know that he loves you and there’s “not a motherfucking thing you can do about it.” Even the...More »
  
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• Wendy Williams on Kanye West: ‘He’s Not Well’

  20-05-2018 01:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  During Vulture Festival’s “Ask Wendy Williams” event, Las Culturistas hosts Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang asked Wendy to play some rounds of “How She Doin,” inviting the daytime host to share her thoughts on (Rachel) Meghan Markle, Mariah Carey, Omarosa, and more. When Rogers and Yang brought up Kanye West,...More »
  
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• Crimetown Creators Reveal New Podcast on the RFK Tapes

  20-05-2018 00:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  It looks like the Kennedys are getting the Crimetown treatment, or at least something like it. Marc Smerling and Zac Stuart-Pontier’s hit true-crime podcast chronicles the history of crime in American cities, with their first season looking into organized crime and corruption in Providence, Rhode Island. Though the next season...More »
  
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• Maggie Gyllenhaal Is Getting Tired Of The Sex Scenes In The Deuce

  20-05-2018 00:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  During Vulture Festival 2018’s “Maggie Gyllenhaal In Five Acts,” the actress sat down in front of an audience to unpack five of her best roles, including her current turn as Eileen “Candy” Merrell in HBO’s The Deuce. Candy is a prostitute working Times Square in the 1970’s, and Gyllenhaal has...More »
  
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