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• Clint Walker, Western Star Tall in the Saddle, Is Dead at 90

  22-05-2018 23:50 via nytimes.com
  The 6-foot-6 Mr. Walker played the title role in the long-running ABC series “Cheyenne” and was also seen in movies like “The Dirty Dozen.”
  
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• Clint Walker, Towering Western Star, Is Dead at 90

  22-05-2018 23:09 via nytimes.com
  The 6-foot-6 Mr. Walker played the title role in the long-running ABC series “Cheyenne” and was also seen in movies like “The Dirty Dozen.”
  
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• Manchester: The Night of the Bomb review – I watched with my heart in my throat

  22-05-2018 23:00 via theguardian.com
  In a devastating documentary, reminiscences from young Ariana Grande fans are followed by harrowing footage of the explosion, the ensuing confusion and a portrait of the bomber himselfIt is a simple opening, but devastatingly poignant in context: teenage girls talking about getting ready to go to a concert. “I wanted something off the shoulder,” says one. “Like girly, but not girly. Like Ariana Grande.” It is poignant because, even now, these teenagers are able to recaptu
  
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• In Unearthed Video, R. Kelly Boasts That It’s ‘Too Late’ to End His Career

  22-05-2018 22:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  In a newly surfaced Facebook Live video, R. Kelly dismisses the sexual-assault allegations against him, and brags to friends that “it’s too late” for his accusers to end his career. As the #MeToo movement and Time’s Up organization have joined the #MuteRKelly campaign to push corporations to cut ties with...More »
  
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• A Quiet Place Has Made a Very Loud $300 Million Around The World

  22-05-2018 22:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  The big story of last weekend’s box office was that Deadpool 2 raked in a massive $300 million worldwide in its theatrical debut, but it wasn’t the only movie to hit that same global benchmark. After seven weeks in theaters, The Hollywood Reporter notes, A Quiet Place has passed the...More »
  
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• The 5 Best Bits from Tig Notaro’s New Special Happy to Be Here

  22-05-2018 22:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  The title of Tig Notaro’s new hour-long special is a bit misleading, but not for the reasons you might suspect.Happy to Be Here, which Notaro performed at Houston’s Heights Theater, might suggest a through line of sarcasm, or even cynicism, directed at the act of performance, celebrity, or the existential...More »
  
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• Review: In ‘Woman and Scarecrow,’ Female Fury Doesn’t Get Its Due

  22-05-2018 22:02 via nytimes.com
  Marina Carr’s blistering play seems ideal for this cathartic cultural moment. Its Irish Repertory Theater production is a missed opportunity.
  
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• Michael Bay and Ryan Reynolds Are [Explosion!] Making a Giant Movie for Netflix

  22-05-2018 21:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  Netflix is giving Michael Bay a whole lot of money to make things go boom. Per Variety, the streaming service will co-finance and distribute Bay’s new movie Six Underground, which will star Ryan Reynolds and have a budget of “around $125 million.” (Paramount, which in the past has produced most...More »
  
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• Vanderpump Rules Reunion Finale Recap: Hasta la Pasta

  22-05-2018 21:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  I have to give credit to Andy Cohen, the vice-principal of the unruly high school drama club that is the Bravo Cinematic Universe, because he has gotten much better at asking the tough questions at these reunion specials. Just look at this Vanderpump Rules reunion when he asks Scheana if...More »
  
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• Last Year, Jessica Chastain Challenged Cannes on Female Representation. Did Things Get Better?

  22-05-2018 21:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  Emily Yoshida: A year ago, during the jury press conference at the end of the 70th Cannes Film Festival, juror Jessica Chastain called out the filmmaking world in general for the portrayal of women among that year’s competition films. It was a pretty straightforward critique, and paired with another dismal...More »
  
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• Clare Barron on ‘Dance Moms,’ Teen Girls and Black Sheep Ballerinas

  22-05-2018 21:12 via nytimes.com
  The author of “Dance Nation” talks about her play and female adolescence, as it plays out in dressing rooms and daydreams.
  
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• WPP division loses HSBC account

  22-05-2018 20:49 via ft.com
  Fresh blow in wake of Sorrell departure as bank moves media business
  
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• Theater Review: In Spandex and Sweat, Singlet Goes Its Own Way

  22-05-2018 20:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  The wolf-eyed Erin Markey wants you to be a little scared in the theater, kind of in the way you’re a little scared when you’re talking to someone attractive and you suddenly experience the weird full-body certainty that you could definitely get laid tonight. Markey is interested in chemistry and...More »
  
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• 90 Books Every Comedy Fan Should Read

  22-05-2018 20:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  Hey, it’s books! Books have a lot going for them. They make you look smart when you read them, people leave you alone if you’re reading one in public, they’re cheaper than movies, and they’re really just a whole bunch of tweets strung together.Books are very important to comedy, and...More »
  
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• Betty Davis Was a Raw Funk Pioneer. Her Decades of Silence Are Over.

  22-05-2018 20:09 via nytimes.com
  For a few years in the 1970s, she was a trailblazing singer, bandleader and producer. A new documentary, “Betty: They Say I’m Different,” tells her story.
  
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• Ross Butler on His Big 13 Reasons Why Twist, Why He Left Riverdale, and Auditioning for Crazy Rich Asians

  22-05-2018 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Major spoilers for 13 Reasons Why season two ahead.It’s always the quiet ones. As the goofy, sensitive jock on 13 Reasons Why, Zach Dempsey (Ross Butler) spent much of season one in the background, an outlier in Hannah Baker’s (Katherine Langford) life whose minor role in the events that led...More »
  
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• Cate Blanchett Hopes Ocean’s 8 Is ‘Encouraging Children to Crime’

  22-05-2018 19:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  Midway through Ocean’s 8, there’s a scene where Sandra Bullock’s exquisitely coated Debbie Ocean faces a mirror and reminds herself why she’s decided to rob the Met Gala: not for man, not for herself, she says, but for the 8-year-old girl out there who could be inspired to lead a...More »
  
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• HBO Renews Wyatt Cenac’s Problem Areas for a Second Season

  22-05-2018 19:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  HBO wants more Problem Areas from comedian and Vulture Festival friend Wyatt Cenac. The network just announced that it’s handed out a season-two renewal to Wyatt Cenac’s Problem Areas just a little over a month after the show debuted. Season one, meanwhile, currently airs on HBO Friday nights at 11:30...More »
  
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• Sony/EMI: staying in tune

  22-05-2018 19:03 via ft.com
  The deal is no bargain, but it is sensible all the same
  
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• How Do I Get My Web Series Noticed by the Right People?

  22-05-2018 18:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  As a former comedy agent at UTA and WME, Priyanka Mattoo represented numerous big-name writers and performers before leaving to start a TV production company with Jack Black. Now she writes and directs, but she still encounters a tidal wave of comedy hopefuls looking for the advice, information, and pep...More »
  
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• Solo: A Star Wars Story: Why Phil Lord and Christopher Miller Were Really Fired

  22-05-2018 18:30 via feeds.eonline.com
  Solo: A Star Wars Story's biggest drama actually occurred offscreen.In the summer of 2017, four months into filming, Lucasfilm announced directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller...
  
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• Thor: Ragnarok Coming to Netflix in June 2018

  22-05-2018 18:00 via feeds.eonline.com
  "Darling, you have no idea what's possible."So said Hela (Cate Blanchett) in Marvel Studios' Thor: Ragnarok, premiering this June on Netflix. In that particular scene,...
  
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• UnREAL Will Reportedly End With Season 4 on Hulu

  22-05-2018 17:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  Fresh off its season-three finale, UnREAL is reportedly gearing up for its end, but on a completely different network. According to The Hollywood Reporter, UnREAL’s previously ordered (and already filmed) fourth season will be its last, and will air first on Hulu before its original home on Lifetime. Hulu already...More »
  
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• Dale Winton's funeral takes place in central London

  22-05-2018 17:37 via theguardian.com
  David Walliams, Gloria Hunniford and Martine McCutcheon among guestsDavid Walliams, Gloria Hunniford and Martine McCutcheon were among the celebrity guests leading mourners at the funeral of Dale Winton. The Supermarket Sweep star died in April and his memorial service took place at a church in central London on Tuesday, on what would have been his 63rd birthday. Related: Dale Winton obituaryContinue reading...
  
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• Half of all Hollywood films should feature LGBTQ characters, says Glaad report

  22-05-2018 17:34
  Advocacy group reports significant drop in major studio films with LGBTQ characters in 2017 and says 50% of films by 2024 should be inclusiveMonitoring and advocacy group Glaad (Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) have called on Hollywood studios to ensure that lesbian, gay, transgender and bisexual characters comprise 20% of the total.Glaad has published its annual Studio Responsibility Index for 2018, which analyses the output of the seven major Hollywood studios for the previous year
  
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• George Lucas Gave Ron Howard One Little Directing Tip for Solo

  22-05-2018 17:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  Star Wars godfather George Lucas didn’t want to be too involved with the making of Solo: A Star Wars Story, but that doesn’t mean he couldn’t add a light touch. In a new interview with Variety, Ron Howard shared an anecdote about Lucas nudging him in the right direction with...More »
  
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• Katy Perry Had to Be Dragged Away From New Bachelorette Becca, She Was Fangirling So Hard

  22-05-2018 17:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  The thing about Katy Perry is she never does anything subtly. So when ABC had their new Bachelorette Becca Kufrin on the American Idol finale last night to promote the new season, Perry went in for the kill. You can see her scheming in those first few seconds of Becca’s...More »
  
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• Emilia Clarke Ditched Her Own Star Wars Screening to Watch the Royal Wedding

  22-05-2018 16:58 via feeds.eonline.com
  Emilia Clarke really wanted to watch the royal wedding.
  So much so that the Star Wars actress, who was in England, opted out of a screening of her own upcoming film to snuggle up by the...
  
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• George Clooney Made Himself Useful at the Royal Wedding by Bartending

  22-05-2018 16:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  It seems like George Clooney made a great showing at the royal wedding of Prince Henry and Meghan Markle. Not only did he attend with number-one stunner Amal Clooney on his arm, he also apparently served up beverages made with his own signature brand of tequila. “George hopped behind the...More »
  
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• The Staircase Trailer: We Found Your Summer True-Crime Obsession

  22-05-2018 16:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  In 2001, Michael Peterson called the police to report that his wife was dead after having fallen down the stairs in their home. He was eventually indicted for her murder, which is when filmmaker Jean-Xavier de Lestrade started filming the events for a docuseries that would become The Staircase, a...More »
  
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• Carol Burnett Tells Conan About Her Early Days in Comedy: ‘It’s Not for You Gals’

  22-05-2018 16:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  On last night’s Conan, Carol Burnett told O’Brien all about what it was like as a comedian who also happened to be a woman “back in the covered wagon days” and her dream of starring in her very own variety show. Notably, she ran into some pushback from CBS before...More »
  
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• Issa Rae on Unaired Black-ish Episode: ‘That Would Infuriate Me’

  22-05-2018 16:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the spring, ABC and Black-ish showrunner Kenya Barris pulled an episode of the series that was said to deal with many of today’s political topics, including football players’ decision to kneel during the national anthem. Barris told Vulture that he and the network “got past it,” but there were...More »
  
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• Miley Cyrus Pranks Jimmy Kimmel With Human Wrecking Ball

  22-05-2018 15:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  A few years ago, Jimmy Kimmel’s wife Molly McNearney teamed up with Rihanna to give Jimmy a custom Bad Gal RiRi wake up. With strobe lights, fake cash, and a live rendition of “Bitch Better Have My Money,” Rihanna rushed the sleeping late-night host, still wearing his mouth guard. Not...More »
  
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• 13 Reasons Why Creator Defends Controversial Rape Scene: ‘Talking About It Is So Much Better Than Silence’

  22-05-2018 14:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  Major spoilers for 13 Reasons Why season two ahead.13 Reasons Why is no stranger to inciting moral outrage over its sensitive content. In its first season, the graphic depiction of Hannah Baker’s suicide sparked a wave of backlash. The second season now begins with a full PSA that the show...More »
  
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• Deadpool 2 outsmarts Avengers: Infinity War at UK box office

  22-05-2018 14:25
  The wisecracking antihero tramples over his Marvel stablemates – and the royal wedding – with an impressive £13m debutCinema operators faced a perfect storm of challenges, thanks to sunny skies, the royal wedding and the FA Cup final, with the result that almost every film fell by at least 50% from the previous session. In these circumstances, the opening number for Deadpool 2 is pretty impressive, even if the box office has softened from the debut weekend for the original Dead
  
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