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• Here’s What You Missed at the Pulitzer Prize Luncheon

  30-05-2018 23:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  The recipients of this year’s Pulitzer Prizes were honored today in New York City, and the belle of the ball was rapper Kendrick Lamar, whose album DAMN. was recognized for the 2018 prize in music. Other stars at the luncheon included Annabella Sciorra and Rosanna Arquette, who have both made...More »
  
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• Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Season-Premiere Recap: Little Girl, Big City

  30-05-2018 23:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  Eschewing the complicated openings of seasons past, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt kicks off the first half of its final season in its comfort zone: parodying vintage sitcoms with a very catchy Jeff Richmond–composed theme song and some grade-A mugging from Ellie Kemper.“Little Girl, Big City” might take place entirely in Kimmy’s...More »
  
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• Ali Wong–Randall Park Rom-Com Gets Even Dreamier, Adds Keanu Reeves

  30-05-2018 23:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  Is Keanu Reeves on a mission to revive romantic comedies? More likely than you think! In addition to Destination Wedding, his rom-com with Winona Ryder due this summer, Reeves has signed on to Netflix’s Always Be My Maybe (which we demanded they make), according to The Hollywood Reporter. Ali Wong...More »
  
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• The 15 Most Absurd Job Titles in Bachelor and Bachelorette History

  30-05-2018 22:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s hard to pinpoint the exact season when Bachelor and Bachelorette contestants shifted away from mostly lawyers, sales reps, and otherwise conventional careers in favor of embracing a medley of weird jobs. It’s been a trend since day one, and it was further amplified with the debut of the newest...More »
  
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• Let’s Dreamcast the Anna Delvey Story

  30-05-2018 22:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  With little more than a pair of oversize sunglasses and a few crisp $100 bills slipped to the right people, the now-infamous Anna Delvey scammed her way into being a New York City socialite. As New York’s Jessica Pressler documented, through a web of lies, wire transfers, and the right...More »
  
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• Hailee Steinfeld to Play Emily Dickinson for New Apple Series

  30-05-2018 22:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  Hailee Steinfeld earned her Oscar nomination playing a scrappy frontier girl in True Grit, and she’ll be pulling that petticoat out of mothballs for her first lead television role. Steinfeld has been cast as Emily Dickinson in the newly ordered Apple series Dickinson, about the American author’s coming-of-age years. It’s...More »
  
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• The Big Crash Diet Experiment review – does dramatic calorie reduction work?

  30-05-2018 22:00
  Living on 800 calories a day may sound insane, but you will have to surrender your prejudices about quick weight-loss regimes because it seems they might work after allCrash diets, as we all know, don’t work. They are potentially dangerous, hard to maintain and the people who manage to lose weight on them invariably gain it back, and then some. It is not clear how we all came to know this, because a growing body of clinical evidence seems to suggest the opposite: crash diets do work. They
  
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• A Timeline of Drake and Pusha-T’s Slow-Burning Feud

  30-05-2018 21:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  In 2006, Lil Wayne was a jaw-dropping, prolific superstar in his prime. Clipse — Virginian brothers Pusha-T and No Malice — were a pissed-off crime rap duo who had just escaped label limbo and were armed with their now-classic, Neptunes-produced, Hell Hath No Fury. It was a tumultuous time for...More »
  
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• Leading investors voice support for WPP chairman

  30-05-2018 21:28 via ft.com
  ISS backs re-election of Roberto Quarta to offer stability in wake of Sorrell’s departure
  
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• The Middle’s Sue Heck Might Get Her Own Spinoff

  30-05-2018 21:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  ABC just canceled Roseanne, but it’s already considering one new sitcom about a working-class white woman, though she has a very different outlook on the world. Deadline reports that the network is in the early stages of developing a spinoff of The Middle focused on Eden Sher’s character, Sue Heck,...More »
  
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• Audible Moves Into the Minetta Lane Theater

  30-05-2018 21:17 via nytimes.com
  The audiobook company will produce plays, comedic shows, panel discussions and more in the downtown theater.
  
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• Why do Martin Sorrell’s new backers not share WPP concerns?

  30-05-2018 21:05 via ft.com
  Uber-networker’s quick return to advertising industry begs many questions
  
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• Martin Sorrell’s post-WPP comeback catches adland by surprise

  30-05-2018 20:46 via ft.com
  Marketing leader returns but questions linger about the model he pioneered
  
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• Solo Needed Way More of Donald Glover’s Lando

  30-05-2018 20:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  Spoilers for Solo: A Star Wars Story follow.I’m always interested in the star billing for summer movies, and when I saw the poster for Solo: A Star Wars Story, I knew something was amiss. The most triumphant casting coup of this film was landing white-hot Donald Glover to play Lando...More »
  
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• Alex Garland on Annihilation’s Crazy Ending

  30-05-2018 20:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  When Annihilation was released theatrically in February, it immediately seemed like the kind of film you might want to watch twice. From its trippy landscapes to its surreal story line to a controversial ending that led to a split with Skydance Productions after disappointing test screenings, the film invited the kind of on-the-fly decoding that can thrill internet theorists but drive blockbuster-minded producers...More »
  
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• Review: ‘Jagged Little Pill’ Breaks the Jukebox Musical Mold

  30-05-2018 20:07 via nytimes.com
  An intermittently thrilling new musical built around 22 Alanis Morissette songs seems to have 22 different themes, all worthy.
  
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• Ariana Grande and Pete Davidson Make It Instagram Official With Harry Potter Date

  30-05-2018 19:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  Nothing like a little amortentia to bewitch your new favorite couple, Ariana Grande and SNL’s Pete Davidson. After several rumors and some sneaky Instagram comment flirting, the two have made it official with their first photo as a couple. Or is this just someone’s middle-school field-trip photo? Who can tell!...More »
  
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• Vivendi shares hit as Canal Plus loses Ligue 1 football

  30-05-2018 19:49 via ft.com
  Media group, which has had broadcasting rights since 1984, outbid by Mediapro and beIN
  
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• Frankenstein, Dracula, The Mummy, and More: A Hammer Horror Primer

  30-05-2018 19:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  Hammer Film Productions, the iconic British film studio, has always been synonymous with sex and violence. It’s a fact that many modern horror film fans either downplay or overlook, since many of their better titles are more than just showcases for blood and skin. But the promise of gore and...More »
  
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• Disney/Fox/Comcast: taking stock

  30-05-2018 19:19 via ft.com
  Rupert Murdoch knew what he was doing
  
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• Walter Mosley on FX’s Snowfall, Legalizing Drugs, and His Advice for Young Writers

  30-05-2018 19:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  Walter Mosley is one of the greatest American crime-fiction writers. He’s the author of nearly 50 books, including 14 volumes chronicling the life of Easy Rawlins, an African-American private detective living in South Central Los Angeles. His newest job is as a writer and consultant on Snowfall, the FX drama about...More »
  
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• Steven Yeun’s Revelation: ‘There Are No Rules.’

  30-05-2018 18:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  Days before arriving in Cannes for the red-carpet premiere of what was being heralded as his first Korean movie star role, Steven Yeun was getting a tough lesson in being a Korean movie star. On May 11, just a few days before Lee Chang-dong’s Burning would become the most critically...More »
  
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• President Trump Tweets About Roseanne Cancellation, Lashes Out at Disney CEO Bob Iger

  30-05-2018 18:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  Our television-obsessed president has finally reacted to ABC’s cancellation of Roseanne. Channing Dungey, the president of ABC Entertainment, pulled the plug on the series Tuesday after Roseanne Barr’s racist tweet about Obama administration adviser Valerie Jarrett. “Bob Iger of ABC called Valerie Jarrett to let her know that ‘ABC does...More »
  
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• Channel 4 shortlists seven locations for new HQ

  30-05-2018 18:00 via ft.com
  Lobbying to be ‘hotly contested’ as broadcaster shifts hundreds of jobs out of London
  
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• Drake Probably Should Have Seen This Coming

  30-05-2018 17:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  A lot can change in a small stretch. I woke up this morning laughing about something I wrote only a year and a half ago. The time was late October of 2016, the last month of what I half-jokingly, half-despairingly refer to with friends as “simpler times.” The occasion was...More »
  
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• Marvel’s Cloak and Dagger Is the Superhero Show of the Summer

  30-05-2018 17:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  Funny to think about what Marvel’s TV footprint looked like just five years ago, isn’t it? Superheroes were scarce on the boob tube in the summer of 2013. The CW’s Arrow was a lone, dimly lit beacon in prime time, but that was a property from Marvel’s blood rival, DC...More »
  
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• Review: In ‘American Animals,’ These Guys Didn’t Visit the Library to Study

  30-05-2018 17:35 via nytimes.com
  A movie about a real-life rare-book heist.
  
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• Rewind: ‘One Sings, the Other Doesn’t’: Agnès Varda’s Polarizing Paean to Sisterhood

  30-05-2018 17:18 via nytimes.com
  Is Ms. Varda’s long unavailable feminist musical as divisive as it was 1977? Watch it now in a new 2K digital restoration and decide.
  
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• Cutting short Gavin Williamson was the most popular thing I’ve ever done | Richard Madeley

  30-05-2018 16:59
  I’m tired of obfuscation and evasion. Now I’ve got a new rule for interviewing politicians: three strikes and you’re outI freely admit that I was one of those who thought Gavin Williamson’s “Shut up and go away” instruction to the Kremlin after the Salisbury nerve-agent attack was risible. Defence secretary as petulant pre-adolescent. Not a good image.That was two months ago and to my knowledge Williamson has yet to properly respond to the scorn his remark dre
  
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• Calling It: Dreamer Will Be a Festival Darling

  30-05-2018 16:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  Film festival programmers everywhere: Here’s a freebie.Written by and co-starring Eddie Mujica, and directed and edited by Chris Sturgeon, Dreamer is everything a short film should be: insightful, surgical in its commentary, and … well, short.When Juan (Darius De La Cruz) comes home from work to realize he’s been replaced...More »
  
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• Pharmaceutical Company Behind Ambien Politely Responds to Roseanne’s Apology

  30-05-2018 16:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  Because the hits just keep on coming, pharmaceutical company Sanofi has broken its silence on Roseanne Barr’s claim that a racist tweet was a, um, side effect of taking Ambien during Memorial Day weekend. On Tuesday, Barr posted a tweet saying Obama administration advisor Valerie Jarrett was the product of...More »
  
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• The Walking Dead without Rick? It's surely time to kill off the whole show

  30-05-2018 16:40
  Andrew Lincoln’s departure is the clearest sign yet that the zombie drama has lost its bite. Its creators should begin planning for the endWhen Walking Dead showrunner Scott M Gimple stated that season nine of AMC’s zombie hit would be “very much a new show”, he wasn’t joking. First came the announcement of his departure as series head, replaced by one of the show’s writers, Angela Kang. Then news broke of series stalwart Lauren Cohan’s exit, after lengt
  
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• 18 Books We Can’t Wait to Read This Summer

  30-05-2018 16:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  These summer reads run the gamut from historical adventures to hilarious memoirs to dark and dazzling debut novels. Whether you read them poolside or inside in air-conditioning, these books are sure to make your summer just a little bit hotter. Here are the best new books to read this summer....More »
  
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• Roseanne Writers Might Not Get Severance Pay

  30-05-2018 16:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  Less than 24 hours after ABC cancelled the Roseanne revival, the writers are still scrambling to figure out what comes next. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Roseanne writer and executive producer Dave Caplan recounted how yesterday’s news went down in the writers room, and said that no one...More »
  
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• Leigh Whannell Helped Define a Decade of Horror — and He’s Still Going

  30-05-2018 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  In 2003, director James Wan and writer Leigh Whannell changed American horror cinema. While countries like France and Japan had already been dabbling in extreme violence for several years, general audiences in the States weren’t accustomed to the torture tourism of films like Audition, High Tension, and Irréversible. But that...More »
  
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• He’s Tried to Leave ‘Star Wars’ Before. Will This Be It?

  30-05-2018 16:00 via nytimes.com
  Lawrence Kasdan, whose credits include “The Empire Strikes Back,” “Return of the Jedi,” “The Force Awakens” and now “Solo,” looks back on a storied writing career.
  
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• Drake Plans to Use His Alleged Secret Son to Sell Sneakers, According to Pusha-T

  30-05-2018 15:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  By now, you may have heard that Drake may very well have a secret son that he hasn’t acknowledged and, apparently, has not been paying to support. This news was brought to us by rap’s investigative journalist, Pusha-T, dropped in his venomous new diss track, “The Story of Adidon.” But...More »
  
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• Why Isn’t The Boys in the Band Up for Tonys This Year?

  30-05-2018 15:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  Skimming over the list of Tony nominations, one set of turtlenecked faces currently seen on Broadway (and in plenty of banner ads) might seem curiously absent. Though Ryan Murphy’s 50th-anniversary revival of The Boys in the Band, with Jim Parsons, Zachary Quinto, Matt Bomer, and Andrew Rannells, went into previews...More »
  
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• Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Is As Ambitious and Zany As Ever

  30-05-2018 15:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the first half of its fourth and reportedly final season, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt addresses a swath of issues, including the #MeToo movement, poor working conditions at New York City nail salons, toxic masculinity, and even the insidious nature of the streaming service that brought Kimmy Schmidt to life: Netflix.But...More »
  
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• Jimmy Kimmel Reacts to ABC’s Roseanne Cancellation and Proposes a Perfect Replacement

  30-05-2018 15:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  During last night’s Jimmy Kimmel Live, Kimmel took a few minutes to react to yesterday’s news that ABC, his own network, decided to cancel Roseanne after Roseanne Barr posted a racist comment about former Obama aide Valerie Jarrett to Twitter. “Roseanne — you’re not going to believe this, but she...More »
  
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• Vulture’s Showing a Bunch of Great Films in Bryant Park This Summer

  30-05-2018 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Did you wake up in a cold sweat during the wee hours of the morning, wondering how you’ll see movies on the cheap this summer once MoviePass has folded? Well, good news (for New Yorkers, at least): Vulture is excited to announce that the team behind Bryant Park Movie Nights...More »
  
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• Roseanne Barr blames racist tweet on sleeping pills

  30-05-2018 12:25
  Disgraced comedian says ‘egregious’ statements were result of ‘Ambien tweeting’, and is scheduled to appear on podcast The Joe Rogan Experience on FridayRoseanne Barr has blamed a tweet in which she compared an African American woman to an ape on the influence of sleeping pills.The TV star, who falsely said that Valerie Jarrett, former advisor to Barack Obama, has connections to the Muslim Brotherhood, says her tweet was written after she had taken the prescription sleepi
  
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