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• 13 Reasons Why Recap: Kids These Days

  04-06-2018 23:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  Despite the fact that “The Little Girl” centers on Olivia and Andy’s testimonies, what they have to say feels oddly secondary to almost everything else that happens in the episode. I’m reluctant to say that the trial structure is getting stale since we’re only a little over halfway through the...More »
  
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• Suffragettes with Lucy Worsley review – thrilling tale of women’s fight for rights

  04-06-2018 23:00
  This gripping and historically detailed drama-documentary brilliantly recalled the violence and the valour of the suffrage movement
  What would you do to stand up for the rights you enjoy today? March? Hand out leaflets? As we approach the centenary of (some) women being given the right to vote in Britain for the first time, the BBC has ploughed considerable resources into a feature-length, dramatised documentary about the lead-up to the passing of The Representation of the People Act in 1918. An
  
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• Arrested Development Recap: Don’t Tell Michael

  04-06-2018 22:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  Like a lot of great comedies, Arrested Development is only distinguished from being a massive tragedy by its jokes. The Bluth kids and grandkids are all, to some extent, struggling with abuse and neglect — with the notable exception of George Michael, who always has his dad at least attempting...More »
  
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• The Real Housewives of Potomac Recap: Ghost Protocol

  04-06-2018 22:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  Even though this episode had some delicious drama and some emotional highs and lows, it still didn’t compare to all the chaos of the rest of the season. In another franchise and maybe even another season, an episode with a mysterious breakup and a symbolic prenup renewal would be top-notch...More »
  
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• Who Said It: Philip and Elizabeth From The Americans or Philip and Elizabeth From The Crown?

  04-06-2018 22:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  Marriage is complicated. Especially if you’re a married couple on a serious television drama. Especially if it’s a period drama where you have a difficult and conflicted relationship with your national identities. And especially if all of those things are going on, and also your names are Philip and Elizabeth.The...More »
  
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• Every Episode of Arrested Development, Ranked

  04-06-2018 21:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Now the story of a wealthy family who lost everything, and the one son who had no choice but to keep them all together.” Now that Netflix has welcomed back the Bluth family with fifth season of Arrested Development on Netflix, it’s worth looking back at the entire history of...More »
  
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• 8 New Books You Should Read This June

  04-06-2018 21:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  Each month, Boris Kachka offers nonfiction and fiction book recommendations. You should read as many of them as possible....More »
  
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• Vacation, vacation, vacation: why Kirstie Allsopp upgrades her flights – but not her children's

  04-06-2018 20:56
  The TV presenter thinks the posh seats are ‘an absurd waste of money’ – but only where her kids are concernedName: Kirstie Allsopp.Age: 46. Continue reading...
  
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• Sara Gilbert Discusses Roseanne Cancellation: ‘I Do Stand Behind the Decision’

  04-06-2018 20:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  Nearly a week after ABC canceled Roseanne following the star’s racist tweet, co-star Sara Gilbert spoke on her other show, The Talk, about the sitcom’s end. Gilbert was an executive producer on the revival and one of the driving forces to get it to happen. She was one of the...More »
  
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• What James Wood the Critic Would Make of James Wood the Novelist

  04-06-2018 20:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s a deserved if perhaps loathsome burden for James Wood the novelist to be judged in the light of James Wood the critic. Wood’s new novel Upstate, his second, arrives 15 years after his first, The Book Against God, a debut that enjoyed extra scrutiny because of its author’s status...More »
  
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• Dietland Is a Darkly Comic Satire With a Feminist Message

  04-06-2018 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Dietland is an off-kilter drama about society’s tendency to limit women, and a show that itself defies categorization.If you’ve read Sarai Walker’s novel of the same name, then you’ll have some sense of the tonal shifts in this AMC series, adapted by Marti Noxon of UnREAL and Girlfriends’ Guide to...More »
  
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• Sophia Bush: I "Screamed" When I Was Cast in Incredibles 2

  04-06-2018 20:25 via feeds.eonline.com
  It's about time someone cast Sophia Bush in an animated film!The raspy voiced actress plays Voyd in Disney- Pixar's Incredibles 2, debuting in theaters nationwide June 15. Bush...
  
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• How Do We Interpret the Terrible Future World After James Franco’s Misconduct Allegations?

  04-06-2018 20:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  Nothing is ever as it seems when it comes to James Franco. The man makes a lot of baffling “artistic” choices, any of which could conceivably be explained away as one of the performance-art pranks he so enjoys pulling on the public, and in a greater sense, on himself. Is...More »
  
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• How Do We Interpret the Terrible Future World After James Franco’s Assault Allegations?

  04-06-2018 20:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  Nothing is ever as it seems when it comes to James Franco. The man makes a lot of baffling “artistic” choices, any of which could conceivably be explained away as one of the performance-art pranks he so enjoys pulling on the public, and in a greater sense, on himself. Is...More »
  
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• How David Cross’s Jokes — and Approach — Changed After 9/11

  04-06-2018 20:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  Since Trump starting running for office, and especially since he was elected, there has been an ongoing conversation about the nature of comedy in these times: what comedians discuss, and how they discuss it. The debate got me thinking about comedy during the last Republican presidency, under George W. Bush....More »
  
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• When the ‘Mean Girls’ Were Teen Girls

  04-06-2018 20:02 via nytimes.com
  Three stars of the hit Tina Fey musical talk about their real-life high school years: the highs, the lows, the bullies and the bell bottoms.
  
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• How The Truman Show Predicted the Future

  04-06-2018 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  It may have been Descartes who first asked how we can trust that the world actually exists and that we’re not just being deceived by some evil genius. But it was writer Andrew Niccol who answered that question, in 1998’s The Truman Show: We don’t. And worse yet, that evil...More »
  
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• 10 Dispatches From Gov Ball 2018

  04-06-2018 19:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  Festival season kicked off with Beychella and is now officially under way. Over the weekend, Governors Ball returned to Randall’s Island in New York City for its eighth year, continuing as one of the longest-running festivals still holding down the tri-state area. (Though it’s been contested in recent years by...More »
  
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• Russell Nype, Two-Time Tony-Winning Actor, Dies at 98

  04-06-2018 19:44 via nytimes.com
  Mr. Nype sang with an ebullient baritone and won Tony Awards for performing alongside Elaine Stritch in “Goldilocks” and Ethel Merman in “Call Me Madam.”
  
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• You Have to Look Really Hard to Find Danny Masterson in This New Trailer for The Ranch

  04-06-2018 19:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  Based on the new trailer for Part Five (aka season three) of Netflix’s The Ranch, the Bennett family will be dealing with wildfires, a surprise pregnancy, and a lot more of Sam Elliott’s sarcasm. But what it won’t have is much more Danny Masterson. He appears very briefly in the...More »
  
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• Reese Witherspoon in Talks to Return for Legally Blonde 3

  04-06-2018 19:40 via feeds.eonline.com
  Reese Witherspoon is in talks to reprise her role as Elle Woods in Legally Blonde 3, E! News has confirmed. Deadline, which broke the news, said MGM is also in negotiations with the actress to...
  
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• Westworld recap: season 2, episode 7 – at last, things are starting to make sense

  04-06-2018 19:19
  There are revelations – and deaths – aplenty in an action-packed instalment that might just be the most satisfying of the season so farSpoiler alert: this blog is published after Westworld airs on HBO in the US and Sky Atlantic in the UK on Sunday night/Monday morning. Do not read unless you have watched season two, episode seven.Watching this week’s episode was like turning into Bernard for a minute. You’re sitting there, watching the screen, with a dazed look on your fa
  
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• Woody Allen Says He Should Be the #MeToo ‘Poster Boy’

  04-06-2018 19:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  Since Harvey Weinstein’s sexual harassment and assault allegationsemerged, old and new accusations against powerful men in Hollywood have been in the spotlight — including the long-standing allegation that Woody Allen abused his adoptive daughter Dylan Farrow more than two decades ago. But now, in a new interview on an Argentinian news program, Allen says...More »
  
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• Woody Allen: 'I should be the poster boy for the #MeToo movement'

  04-06-2018 19:02
  The writer-director says he supports the campaign and that his ‘wonderful record’ with women makes him an important ally Woody Allen has spoken about his support for the #MeToo movement, saying that he should be “the poster boy”.In an interview on Argentinian news program Periodismo Para Todos, the writer-director was asked if there was any truth behind the allegation that he sexually abused his daughter, Dylan Farrow. Related: Woody Allen's son Moses Farrow defends fathe
  
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• Unreliable evidence in Jeremy Thorpe drama – and a parting shot | Letters

  04-06-2018 19:02
  Liberal Democrat peer Paul Tyler says he has never met anyone so skilful in self-deception or deceiving others as Peter Bessell, his predecessor as Bodmin MP, while Chris Leyland spots a minor flaw in Hugh Grant’s portrayal of ThorpeHugh Grant’s brilliant portrayal of Jeremy Thorpe, and the quality of the whole production, could persuade us that this drama is a factual documentary (‘We’re all watching’: What Liberals make of Thorpe TV drama, 2 June). However, the we
  
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• Disney Princesses Meet Vanellope von Schweetz in Wreck It Ralph 2 Trailer

  04-06-2018 19:00 via feeds.eonline.com
  There's a new Disney Princess in town.
  In the new trailer for Disney's Ralph Breaks the Internet: Wreck It Ralph 2, Vanellope von Schweetz (Sarah Silverman) ventures into the...
  
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• Trailer for ‘Ralph Breaks the Internet’ Tweaks Disney Princesses

  04-06-2018 18:58 via nytimes.com
  The clip for the sequel starring John C. Reilly and Sarah Silverman pokes fun at the stereotyped women of the Disney universe are
  
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• Well Hello, Dolly Parton Is Indeed Getting a Netflix Series Based on Her Hits

  04-06-2018 18:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  Lily Tomlin has never steered us wrong. She let slip over the weekend at a Netflix Emmys event that her good pal Dolly Parton would be getting her own Netflix deal. True to Lily’s word, Netflix has now confirmed the rumor, announcing an eight-part anthology TV film series with each...More »
  
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• Discovery strikes $2bn PGA deal for golf streaming service

  04-06-2018 18:48 via ft.com
  Agreement gives media group rights to all tour competitions globally outside the US
  
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• Reese Witherspoon Might Make the Third Legally Blonde Movie You Maybe Sort of Wanted

  04-06-2018 18:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  Perhaps it’s inevitable that, after producing and starring in half the movies and TV shows in Hollywood, Reese Witherspoon might just come back to Legally Blonde. According to Deadline, MGM is near a deal with Witherspoon to make a third Legally Blonde movie, reuniting with Karen McCullah and Kirsten Smith,...More »
  
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• The Pretty Emptiness of Kanye West’s Ye

  04-06-2018 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Kanye West is hip-hop’s Erik Killmonger. The villain from the Black Panther film and comics is magnetic, articulate, and frequently successful. He seeks and finds power because he’s driven and talented, but also because he craves the approval of a country that doesn’t seem to want him, even though he...More »
  
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• Front Burner: Documentary Follows Alain Ducasse on a Quest for Perfection

  04-06-2018 18:10 via nytimes.com
  “The Quest of Alain Ducasse” pulls back the curtain on the famed French chef’s global restaurant empire.
  
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• ‘Widows’ and ‘Suspiria’ Trailers: Women Front and Center

  04-06-2018 17:42 via nytimes.com
  The heist film “Widows,” from Steve McQueen, stars Viola Davis and Michelle Rodriguez, while “Suspiria” from Luca Guadagnino, stars Tilda Swinton and Dakota Johnson.
  
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• The Biggest Clues About Renee’s True Purpose on The Americans

  04-06-2018 16:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  The series finale of The Americans closes the door on the story of Philip and Elizabeth Jennings, undercover KGB officers who infiltrated the United States from 1965 to 1987, and though it tied up the necessary loose ends and left the fates of many characters unresolved, it purposely left one...More »
  
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• John Mayer Had a Therapy Session With Andy Cohen About His Dating Woes

  04-06-2018 16:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  Andy Cohen turned 50 over the weekend, but it’s John Mayer who is going through the existential midlife crisis. Mayer hosted a special birthday edition of Watch What Happens Live, putting Cohen in the celebrity seat, except, naturally, Cohen did much of the interviewing. Over the course of the show,...More »
  
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• Everything to Know About Julianna Margulies’s Dietland Wig

  04-06-2018 16:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you are a reasonable human person, your first reaction upon seeing Julianna Margulies in Dietland was to shout “wig!” and so, after doing just that, we decided to investigate just what was going on with her hair. On the AMC series, based on Sarai Walker’s book, the naturally curly-...More »
  
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• Chinese film stars face government tax investigation

  04-06-2018 16:29 via ft.com
  Shares in film houses and talent agencies drop after news of probe by state authorities
  
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• Vacation, vacation, vacation: why Kirstie Allsopp flies business – but her children don’t

  04-06-2018 16:09
  The TV presenter thinks the posh seats are ‘an absurd waste of money’ – but only where her kids are concernedName: Kirstie Allsopp.Age: 46. Continue reading...
  
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• John Oliver: 'As infuriating a president as Trump is, he'd be an even worse Moses'

  04-06-2018 15:35
  On Last Week Tonight, John Oliver discussed the letter sent by Kim Jong-un to Donald Trump, who is still considering holding talks with the North Korean dictator in Singapore.On Last Week Tonight, John Oliver discussed the prospects for the highly anticipated summit between president Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un. Related: John Oliver: Kim is only person excited to get a picture taken with Mike PompeoContinue reading...
  
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• Widows Trailer: Viola Davis Gets a Criminal Team of Her Own

  04-06-2018 15:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  If Ocean’s 8 is too glitzy a crime movie for you, Steve McQueen, Gillian Flynn, and Viola Davis have something entirely different cooking. In Widows, Davis unites with Michelle Rodriguez, Elizabeth Debicki, and Cynthia Erivo to finish their late husbands’ job (Viola Davis’s late husband is Liam Neeson, whose particular...More »
  
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• Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria Trailer: There Will Be Blood!

  04-06-2018 15:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  Call me by your stark, sexy psycho-thriller, and I will call you by mine: The first teaser trailer for Call Me by Your Name director Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria has arrived. An homage to the 1977 Dario Argento movie of the same name, Guadagnino’s Suspiria follows a young dancer (Dakota Johnson)...More »
  
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• Ocean’s 8 Is About the ‘Delight of Seeing Women Steal Sh*t’

  04-06-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  In Ocean’s 8, Sandra Bullock stars as Debbie Ocean, the sister of Danny Ocean played by George Clooney in Ocean’s Eleven, Twelve, and — because Hollywood really can’t resist a sequel to a sequel — Ocean’s Thirteen. This new reimagining of the Ocean’s franchise is directed by Gary Ross and co-written...More »
  
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• 'Has anything changed?': your reaction to A Very English Scandal

  04-06-2018 15:00
  Readers saw parallels between the BBC drama and certain corners of UK politics and society in 2018Finale review – ‘leaves you reeling, seething and laughing’
  A five star adaptation with stellar cast and perfect direction. I worked in Holborn while this trial took place and have vivid memories of scouring the London Evening News to read what had taken place in the Old Bailey that day. I’d been rooting for Jeremy from the start – expecting Norman Scott’s so obvi
  
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• America’s Top Doc

  04-06-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Freddie Highmore, slight, pale, well-mannered, and low-key English, is, at 26, so earnest that he seems to be from another, more genteel, and certainly less desperately self-branded time. I meet him at the Essex House hotel on May 15, the morning of the ABC “upfronts” cavalcade at Lincoln Center, where...More »
  
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• From Father Ted to Only Fools and Horses: the rise of the sitcom musical

  04-06-2018 14:28
  A number of comedy classics are being reinterpreted for the stage as ‘joke-box’ musicals. Can they avoid the pitfalls of previous sitcom adaptations?Over the weekend, it has been revealed that two of Britain’s best-loved TV sitcoms will become stage musicals. The creators of Father Ted confirmed that they have almost completed a song-and-dance version, and it was reported that Only Fools and Horses: The Musical is expected to open in the West End of London next year. These show
  
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• When good TV goes bad: American Horror Story

  04-06-2018 14:00
  After the frightening results of the US election, the show axed its ghosts in gimp costumes and pop stars bleeding, and got tedious in the processGet Out may have grabbed an Oscar last year but the trend for horror being taken seriously again by critics began with American Horror Story. The horror anthology series has taken more trophies than a hoarding serial killer. Each season takes place in a new time and place and each reinvention gives the chance for the show to try something disturbingly
  
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• In Conversation: Conan O’Brien

  04-06-2018 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Within the relatively unchanging landscape of late-night TV, Conan O’Brien has had an unusually eventful career. There were his rocky early days on Late Night, the ill-fated eight-month stint as host of The Tonight Show, and now the news that his TBS show, Conan, will move from an hour to...More »
  
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• Lost Voice Guy wins Britain's Got Talent – video

  04-06-2018 13:04
  Lee Ridley, a comedian with cerebral palsy, has won Britain's Got Talent, scooping the first prize of £250,000 and the chance to perform at the Royal Variety Performance. Also known as Lost Voice Guy, the 37-year-old from Newcastle uses a voice synthesiser to perform because his condition affects his ability to speakBritain’s Got Talent: Lost Voice Guy’s victory is a win for all disabled peopleContinue reading...
  
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• Britain’s Got Talent: Lost Voice Guy’s victory is a win for all disabled people

  04-06-2018 12:04
  The talent show success of the standup comedian, who has cerebral palsy, will help normalise disability far more than any charity campaignOver the years, various formulas have proved successful on Britain’s Got Talent, from dogs (think Pudsey) to dance groups (Diversity) and patriotism (this year’s D-Day Darlings, an act that verged on jingoistic). But Sunday night’s final threw another into the mix: disability.This series has been notable for how many contestants have identifi
  
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