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• Why Did Solo: A Star Wars Story Bomb at the Box Office?

  29-05-2018 23:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Force wasn’t strong with this one. The Millennium Falcon failed to achieve liftoff. That is to say, Solo: A Star Wars Story, the stand-alone prequel to the reliably blockbuster Galaxy Far Far Away franchise, arrived well short of financial expectations over its opening weekend in theaters. Estimated by prerelease...More »
  
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• Andrew Lincoln Will Reportedly Leave The Walking Dead After Season 9

  29-05-2018 23:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  Things are not looking good for Rick Grimes, at least according to a report from Collider. The site says that Andrew Lincoln will be leaving The Walking Dead after its ninth season, and will only be appearing in “half-a-dozen episodes” of it. Lincoln’s departure would deprive the show of its...More »
  
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• Arrested Development Recap: His Bath Has Grown Cold

  29-05-2018 23:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  When the going gets tough, the Bluths have always retreated to Mexico. So it’s not surprising that almost the entire main cast goes south of the border in this episode, as the show vigilantly attempts to kill off the last of the previous season’s plotlines. In fact, some of season...More »
  
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• Morgan Freeman’s Team Demands Retraction From CNN Over Sexual Harassment Report

  29-05-2018 23:25 via nytimes.com
  A lawyer wrote that the reporter, who said she was herself harassed by Mr. Freeman, lacked “impartiality and objectivity.” CNN stood by the report.
  
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• Valerie Jarrett Responds to Roseanne’s Tweet, Says It ‘Should Be a Teaching Moment’

  29-05-2018 23:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  . responds to Roseanne Barr's tweet, saying Disney’s chairman called her before announcing that ABC was canceling the show: "This should be a teaching moment.” MSNBC (@MSNBC) May 29, 2018...More »
  
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• Roseanne’s Cancellation Is a Sudden Cultural Shift

  29-05-2018 22:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  It usually takes time for big cultural waves to crest into the world of television. The morning after the 2016 election, ABC executives had an infamous meeting about how to better represent Trump voters with their programming, and it took about a year for the green-lit shows — most notably,...More »
  
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• ABC cancels ‘Roseanne’ after Twitter controversy

  29-05-2018 22:53 via ft.com
  Broadcaster wields axe within hours of racially charged insults aimed at Obama adviser
  
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• ABC cancels ‘Roseanne’ after Barr Twitter controversy

  29-05-2018 22:53 via ft.com
  Broadcaster wields axe within hours of racist insults aimed at Obama adviser
  
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• The Fascinatingly Weird World of A$AP Rocky’s Testing

  29-05-2018 22:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  What does A$AP Rocky really want? Sometimes I think it’s just for everyone to know he’s well-rounded. He raps, produces, models, designs, directs, acts, fronts a rap crew, and steers whatever AWGE is. People don’t expect boys from Harlem to have that range. You can see it in certain folks’...More »
  
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• Arrested Development Season-Premiere Recap: Shame-Wow

  29-05-2018 22:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  Given the current controversy surrounding Arrested Development, perhaps it’s fitting that the first episode of this new season tries desperately to smooth over past mistakes, only to dig itself into an even deeper hole. All too aware that viewers disliked the single-character episode structure of season four, the premiere tries...More »
  
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• Philip Roth’s Biographer Has a Hair-raising Claire Bloom Story to Share

  29-05-2018 21:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  When Blake Bailey met with Philip Roth to interview for the job of his official biographer, the great author asked him how on earth a Gentile from Oklahoma could understand him. Roth, a famously tough customer, had already backed out of a deal with biographer Ross Miller after the project...More »
  
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• Jamie Foxx Will Play Lethal Superhero Spawn

  29-05-2018 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you were a superhero-comics reader in the early 1990s, Spawn was as familiar to you as Spider-Man or Batman, and eight times as cool. The grim, lethal superhero was the brainchild of superstar writer-artist Todd McFarlane and he, er, spawned a wide range of properties, from comics to toys...More »
  
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• Roseanne Barr’s Talent Agency ICM Partners Drops Her As a Client

  29-05-2018 21:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  Roseanne Barr’s racist tweet about former Obama advisor Valerie Jarrett has cost the actress her show and now her representation. Per The Hollywood Reporter, Barr’s talent agency ICM Partners has dropped her as a client. “We are all greatly distressed by the disgraceful and unacceptable tweet from Roseanne Barr this...More »
  
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• Shonda Rhimes, Kenya Barris and More Celebrities React to Roseanne Cancellation

  29-05-2018 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  After Roseanne Barr posted a racist tweet comparing former Obama administration adviser Valerie Jarrett to an ape, ABC cancelled the Roseanne reboot. “Roseanne’s Twitter statement is abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values,” Channing Dungey, the president of ABC Entertainment said in a statement, “and we have decided to cancel...More »
  
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• Opening Night of Stratford Festival Canceled Following Bomb Threat

  29-05-2018 20:35 via nytimes.com
  A performance of “The Tempest” was canceled after the Stratford police received a bomb threat, but a search did not turn up any suspicious package.
  
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• Where to Eat and Pee Between the Harry Potter Plays

  29-05-2018 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you’re planning on seeing both parts of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child in one day, you’ve likely thought: What on earth am I going to do with myself between 4:40 p.m.-ish, when part one ends, and 7:30 p.m., when part two starts? Well, don’t worry because we’ve thought...More »
  
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• Tom Hollander Talks Playing a ‘Grumpy’ and ‘Immortal’ Brit on American Stages in Travesties

  29-05-2018 20:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  The appallingly talented British actor Tom Hollander has been John Ruskin, T. S. Eliot, and Dylan Thomas; the prime minister and a motion-capture hyena; two King Georges, a periwigged pirate hunter, a flamboyant spy, a blisteringly cynical arms dealer, and a couple of very memorable clergymen — from Jane Austen’s...More »
  
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• Roseanne cancelled: ABC scraps sitcom after star's 'abhorrent' tweets

  29-05-2018 19:56
  Network pulls Barr’s revived show and condemns racist tweets towards ex-Obama adviser Valerie JarrettRoseanne Barr’s revived sitcom has been cancelled after she posted a racist and Islamophobic tweet that attacked former Obama White House adviser Valerie Jarrett.The sitcom star falsely alleged that Jarrett, who was born in Iran to American parents, has connections to the Muslim Brotherhood, and compared her to an ape. Barr wrote “Muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had
  
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• ABC Cancels Roseanne After Roseanne Barr’s Racist Tweet

  29-05-2018 19:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  ABC has canceled its revival of Roseanne after its star and series creator Roseanne Barr posted a racist tweet about former Barack Obama aide Valerie Jarrett. “Roseanne’s Twitter statement is abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values,” Channing Dungey, the president of ABC Entertainment said in a statement, “and we...More »
  
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• BTS Are the First K-Pop Group in History to Have a Top 10 Hit

  29-05-2018 19:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  Give BTS their own entry in the history books: After becoming the first K-pop group to have a No 1. album in the U.S. with their latest, Love Yourself: Tear, they’ve now achieved yet another remarkable crossover feat. On this week’s Billboard Hot 100, their newest pandemonium-inciting hit “Fake Love”...More »
  
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• Weezer Has Finally Covered ‘Africa,’ Proving That Tweeting a Lot Is Not Entirely Useless

  29-05-2018 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s finally happened. Weezer has, at last, covered Toto’s smash hit “Africa.” The campaign to make this happen began last December, when a 14-year-old named Mary set up @weezerafrica, a Twitter account dedicated to asking Weezer, the band, to cover “Africa,” the song. cover africa by toto please weezer cover africa...More »
  
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• Wanda Sykes Exists Roseanne After Star Posts Racist Tweets

  29-05-2018 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Rosanne Barr posted a tweet early Tuesday comparing former Barack Obama aid Valerie Jarrett to an ape, and now Rosanne consulting producer Wanda Sykes has announced that she’s leaving the show. In a since-deleted post, Barr said, “Muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby=vj.” A short time...More »
  
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• The Story Behind Haruki Murakami’s Killing Commendatore Cover

  29-05-2018 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Fans of the author Haruki Murakami crave his books for reasons that can be hard for them to articulate or even understand, much in the way that the characters in his novels inexplicably crave old jazz records and meals of plain spaghetti. His plots can be stilted, his dialogue robotic;...More »
  
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• Pusha-T Is Having Another Moment

  29-05-2018 18:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  The plan was simple: five projects in five weeks. New Pusha-T, Kanye West, Kanye and Kid Cudi, Nas, and Teyana Taylor albums, all produced in full by Kanye West, would be released in the space between the end of May and the end of June. The idea seemed daunting; Kanye...More »
  
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• Kesha’s Legal Fight for Freedom From Dr. Luke Rejected Yet Again

  29-05-2018 18:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  It appears Kesha may have been dealt the final blow in her fight for contractual freedom from producer Dr. Luke. Per THR, a New York appeals court has sided with a previous judge who ruled that Kesha cannot request to be released from her record deal with Dr. Luke’s former...More »
  
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• Costa Ronin Is Just As Surprised As Everyone Else That Oleg Is Still Alive on The Americans

  29-05-2018 18:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s a tale of two Russians: After playing a cold-blooded killer on the seventh season of Homeland this spring, actor Costa Ronin is about to wrap up his run as the do-gooder KGB man Oleg Burov on The Americans. Oleg, who was alive and in FBI custody at the end...More »
  
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• Why Comedies Make the Best Binges

  29-05-2018 18:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  There’s an assumption that the most binge-worthy television is drama, especially when it’s got some central mystery that pulls you through from one episode to the next. This is the definition of “binge-worthy” that points to shows like Lost, Broadchurch, and the immensely gripping Babylon Berlin — shows full of...More »
  
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• Roseanne Barr prompts outrage with racist tweet towards ex-Obama adviser

  29-05-2018 18:01
  Sitcom actor says ‘I am truly sorry for making a bad joke’ in offensive tweet that compared Valerie Jarrett to an ape Roseanne Barr has prompted online outrage after a racist and Islamophobic tweet that attacked former Obama White House adviser Valerie Jarrett.The sitcom star falsely alleged that Jarrett, who was born in Iran to American parents, has connections to the Muslim Brotherhood, and compared her to an ape. Barr wrote “Muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a
  
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• Review: A Bus Crash, a Breakup and More Reverberations in ‘Tremor’

  29-05-2018 17:53 via nytimes.com
  Brad Birch’s psychological thriller finds former lovers warily circling each other in Wales.
  
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• Richard Madeley cuts off Gavin Williamson after he repeatedly dodges question on Russia – video

  29-05-2018 17:48
  Madeley was interviewing the defence secretary on ITV’s Good Morning Britain and asked him if he regretted saying a few weeks ago that Russia should 'go away and shut up'. Williamson tried the old trick of ignoring the question and ploughing ahead with another pointGavin Williamson suffers TV humiliation after repeated question dodging leads to interview termination Continue reading...
  
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• Cosby Accuser Andrea Constand Will Give Her First Interview in 13 Years

  29-05-2018 17:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  After 13 years, Bill Cosby accuser Andrea Constand will break her media silence. According to The Hollywood Reporter, NBC’s Kate Snow will interview the former Temple University women’s basketball administrator, who accused Cosby of drugging and sexually assaulting her in 2004. In April, Cosby was convicted on three counts of...More »
  
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• Prepare to Love Cardi B’s ‘I Like It’ Video

  29-05-2018 17:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  Forget Memorial Day weekend; it’s not the summer until Cardi B declares it so. In her quest to dominate the season for a second consecutive year, Cardi has released the video for her Latin-infused single, “I Like It,” featuring J Balvin and Bad Bunny. In it, the three take their...More »
  
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• American Animals Salvages a Story From the Dumbest Real-Life Heist Ever

  29-05-2018 16:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  The title of American Animals has a genetic link to the annual Darwin Awards, which chart the ways in which “humankind is a devolving species.” The time is 2004, and the protagonists are four college students who decide to steal what’s thought to be the world’s most valuable book from...More »
  
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• The radical subversion of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt's survival narrative

  29-05-2018 16:47
  In the final season of the acclaimed Netflix comedy, there’s an increased topicality of the story of a woman dealing with her past of abuseIn the genre-bending third episode of the final season of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, we take a step out of Kimmy’s cheery, colorful world to watch a “House Flix” documentary devoted to exonerating the Reverend, the man who kidnapped her and three other women 15 years before. The documentary is written, filmed and produced by an empty-h
  
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• Zack Snyder’s Next Movie Will Be The Fountainhead

  29-05-2018 15:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  Zack Snyder has announced his Justice League follow-up. Snyder will adapt Ayn Rand’s 1943 novel The Fountainhead. The director confirmed the project after a fan, via the social-media site Vero, asked what his next movie would be. Snyder was previously developing a dramatic thriller called The Last Photograph, about a...More »
  
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• Alan Rickman Had Some Very Alan Rickman Frustrations With Playing Snape

  29-05-2018 15:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  Turns out that Alan Rickman, as you might expect, had a quibble or two about one of his most famous roles. Two years after his death, some of the actor’s personal letters have been put up for auction. According to The Independent, a few of them hint at his reservations...More »
  
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• Arrested Development: season five review – offscreen drama mars modest recovery

  29-05-2018 15:12
  There are moments in the new series that recall the glory days of the Bluth clan, but a recent interview incident may make it difficult for viewers to stomachThe Bluths are back – if not quite on form then at least a lot closer to it than last time we saw them.For the uninitiated: the Bluths are the dysfunctional, once-wealthy, morally-then-actually bankrupt family whose adventures were first charted via a chaotic, fragmented mixture of narration, dialogue, handheld camerawork, flashbacks
  
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• Solo: A Star Wars Story disappoints with $100m at the US box office

  29-05-2018 12:19
  Takings for the Han Solo prequel were up to a third below expectations – the franchise’s worst result for a live actioner since Attack of the ClonesSolo: A Star Wars Story has performed disappointingly on its box-office debut, recording much poorer results than the previous Star Wars standalone, Rogue One, and becoming the lowest-performing live-action Star Wars film at the US box office since Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones in 2002.After its US release on the Memo
  
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• How "Obsessed Producer" Sandra Bullock Ended Up With Harry Connick Jr. as Her Leading Man in Hope Floats

  29-05-2018 12:00 via feeds.eonline.com
  When it comes to memorable movie roles, Sandra Bullock's had quite a few.She's been a bus-driving action hero (Speed), an undercover beauty queen (Miss Congeniality), a...
  
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• From Friends to the Office: TV’s 10 best love triangles

  29-05-2018 11:00
  We celebrate the scenario that does more damage to telly characters than illness, accidents and murder combinedOnly a cold heart would fail to break for giant gooseberry Dawson Leery (James Van Der Beek) as he watched his best friends, Joey (Katie Holmes) and Pacey (Joshua Jackson), sail off into the sunset together after years of indecision on Joey’s part. Pacey and Joey were obviously destined to spawn beautiful, chestnut-haired offspring from episode one. The moment these two velvety fa
  
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• Eminem Tells All of Boston He Wants to Date Nicki Minaj

  29-05-2018 08:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  For the past several days, Eminem and Nicki Minaj have been toying with all of us. It all started when Minaj replied “Yes” to a fan who asked her on Instagram if she was dating Eminem. Then, the real Slim Shady himself responded to the comment with “Girl, you know...More »
  
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• New Ant-Man and the Wasp Teaser Reminds You Another Avengers Movie Is Coming

  29-05-2018 07:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  Phew, we did it. We achieved what was once thought impossible. We went almost a whole month without any updates from the Marvel Cinematic Universe. We should all be allowed to post on Instagram about this like our friends who run marathons, because frankly, this was a much greater feat....More »
  
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• Tuesday’s best TV: The Battle for Britain’s heroes, Master of Photography, The Split

  29-05-2018 07:19
  Afua Hirsch examines attitudes towards great figures from our history – was Churchill racist? – and snap judgments are made in Naples9pm, Channel 4 Continue reading...
  
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