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• Kim Kardashian on Kanye’s Slavery Comments: ‘Did I Cry About It? Did I Fight About It? Yeah.’

  05-06-2018 23:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  Kanye West recently revealed on his new album that his wife Kim Kardashian was blindsided by the TMZ clip where he called slavery a choice, rapping on his new song “Wouldn’t Leave” that she called him screaming and couldn’t breathe. At the CFDA Awards on Monday night — where host...More »
  
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• Zendaya Will Play the Drug-Addled Teen Lead in HBO’s Euphoria

  05-06-2018 23:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  Zendaya is getting her shot at prestige TV in a new, gritty drama. HBO announced today that the Disney alum and Greatest Showman star has been cast as Rue, the drug-addicted teenage lead of Euphoria, which one HBO exec described to THR as “Kids meets Trainspotting” — a truly harrowing...More »
  
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• Bride and Prejudice review: guaranteed to expose your inner bigot

  05-06-2018 23:00
  Watching families fall out over unorthodox marriages in this Channel 4 documentary series might leave you questioning your liberal valuesSteve and Linda are having a few problems coming to terms with their son Rob’s sexuality. “If he was a genuine gay, you would notice it from a very early age, I think,” says Steve. “You know, the mannerisms …”“Limp hands,” says Linda, helping out. “The way they walk.” Con
  
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• Charlize Theron Will Be the Morticia to Oscar Isaac’s Gomez in Animated Addams Family

  05-06-2018 22:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  The animated Addams Family movie has found the Morticia for its Gomez. Oscar Isaac was first reported to be attached to the animated film in December, and now Charlize Theron joins the cast as the sultry soul mate of Isaac’s Gomez in a movie that has a stacked voice cast....More »
  
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• Martin Sorrell at risk of losing WPP pay-off

  05-06-2018 22:14 via ft.com
  Lawyers for the advertising group say settlement in danger if he shares information
  
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• The Bachelorette Spoiled Itself

  05-06-2018 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Many a Bachelor or Bachelorette season has been spoiled before the final rose. If you read the blogs that really dig into reporting, every season get spoiled. But generally, those spoilers linger on a subsurface level. They’re accessible enough — if you really want to know, the winner’s name is...More »
  
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• Pose Is the Culmination of Ryan Murphy’s Entire Career

  05-06-2018 21:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ryan Murphy’s queer musical-dance series Pose is a TV event so unprecedented that any attempt to compare it to other series or films falls apart fast. Though the FX series sometimes has trouble balancing earnest kitchen-sink drama with the otherworldly flamboyance of its ’80s New York ballroom scenes and the innately didactic...More »
  
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• Wall Street Journal names a new editor-in-chief

  05-06-2018 20:53 via ft.com
  Gerard Baker will become the newspaper’s editor at large
  
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• How Harold Ramis and Bill Murray Ended Their Feud and Other Things We Learned in This Memoir

  05-06-2018 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Harold Ramis might be the one true godfather of contemporary comedy. Whether as a writer, director, actor, or some combination of all three, he had his hand in infallible classics like Animal House, Caddyshack, SCTV, National Lampoon’s Vacation, Ghostbusters, Groundhog Day, and Stripes. He passed away in 2014, having never...More »
  
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• Review: In ‘This Is Modern Art,’ Say It and Spray It

  05-06-2018 19:55 via nytimes.com
  This didactic play is based on actual events in Chicago, where graffiti artists tagged a major museum.
  
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• Father John Misty’s Weird Relationship With Twitter

  05-06-2018 19:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  Last Friday, a presumed narcissist with a media-dominating tendency and an inclination for grand, divisive statements released one of the shortest and most intimate albums of his career. No, not that guy: I’m talking about iconoclastic singer/songwriter Josh Tillman’s Father John Misty project, whose fourth album God’s Favorite Customer arrives...More »
  
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• Did Star Wars Breakout Kelly Marie Tran Wipe Her Instagram Because of Harassment?

  05-06-2018 19:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  Kelly Marie Tran, a human ultralight beam and star of The Last Jedi, has wiped all the photos off of her Instagram account. The Twitter account Star Wars Facts is attributing the decision to a stream of harassment she’s received. Her page is still active — and still has “Afraid, but...More »
  
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• Amy Adams Takes a Stab at Solving a Murder in HBO’s Sharp Objects Trailer

  05-06-2018 19:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  Family, small towns, anything remotely girly: yup, Gillian Flynn’s specialty is taking the innocuous and making it unnerving. In the first official trailer for Marti Noxon’s limited-series adaptation of the Gone Girl author’s 2014 thriller, even Amy Adams has been scrubbed of her, well, Amy Adams–ness. What’s left is the...More »
  
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• Watch the NSFW Trailer for the Controversial Amber Heard–Johnny Depp Movie London Fields

  05-06-2018 19:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  Martin Amis wrote London Fields in 1989, and the book’s path to the big screen has been a complicated journey, to say the least. Directors like David Cronenberg and Michael Winterbottom took cracks at the script to no avail, and even when music-video helmer Mathew Cullen finally got London Fields...More »
  
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• Watch Cate Blanchett and Sarah Paulson Completely Derail Their Today Show Interview

  05-06-2018 18:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  Get the waterproof mascara because could not stop crying from laughing during her interview with & Cate Blanchett (and even had to call in for help)! TODAY (@TODAYshow) June 5, 2018...More »
  
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• The Stars of Broadway’s SpongeBob Make Their Own SpongeBob Memes

  05-06-2018 18:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  Just as SpongeBob memes have taken over the internet, SpongeBob the musical has won over critics — and Tony voters — on Broadway. It was time, we decided, to bring the two together. Vulture recruited SpongeBob’s Tony-nominated stars Ethan Slater (the titular sponge) and Gavin Lee (the grumpy, tap-dancing Squidward)...More »
  
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• Won’t You Be My Neighbor?’s Director on Finding Drama in the Man With No Dark Side

  05-06-2018 18:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s not a matter of if you’ll cry during Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, Morgan Neville’s affectionate documentary about Fred Rogers, the host of the long-running PBS children’s staple Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. It’s a matter of when. For those middle-aged adults who watched the show from their playpens in the...More »
  
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• Glenn Close, Jake Gyllenhaal and Songs of Bob Dylan Are Coming to Public Theater

  05-06-2018 18:04 via nytimes.com
  The nonprofit organization’s 2018-19 season will also include a new play by Suzan-Lori Parks.
  
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• Harvey Weinstein pleads not guilty on rape and criminal sex act charges

  05-06-2018 18:01
  Former film mogul appears in court in New York CityWeinstein was indicted by grand jury last week
  Harvey Weinstein appeared in court in New York on Tuesday, to plead not guilty on rape and criminal sex act charges.Related: Rose McGowan: ‘Hollywood is built on sickness. It operates like a cult’Related: How famous men toppled by #MeToo plot their comebackContinue reading...
  
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• Rachel Cusk’s Kudos: The Outline Trilogy Gets Its Third Masterpiece

  05-06-2018 17:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  Rachel Cusk’s new novel, Kudos, completes the trilogy she began in 2014 with Outline and extended in 2016 with Transit. The cycle constitutes an artistic breakthrough and a triumph within this decade’s international turn to autofiction. The books are entrancing and compulsively readable even though they lack the conventional propulsive...More »
  
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• Why the Love Island v Oxbridge statistic doesn't prove much

  05-06-2018 17:43
  Comparing elite university applications with those for the ITV show is just misleadingHow does the number of people applying to be on Love Island compare with that of people applying for Britain’s elite universities, and what does the comparison tell us about the state of the nation? Well, quite a lot, if you listen to some Twitter pundits aghast at the widely shared statistic that far more of the country’s young people wanted to be on a reality TV show than get into Oxford or Cambri
  
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• Chelsea Peretti to Star in New Comedy Film Spinster

  05-06-2018 17:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  Chelsea Peretti is heading to the big screen. Deadline reports that the comedian and Brooklyn Nine-Nine star has signed on to star in an upcoming comedy called Spinster, in which she’ll play Gaby, “a woman who after being unceremoniously dumped on her 39th birthday, faces her fear of becoming a...More »
  
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• Harvey Weinstein arrives at court to enter not guilty plea – video

  05-06-2018 17:41
  Harvey Weinstein arrived at a court in New York on Tuesday, walking with a limp, to plead not guilty to rape and criminal sex act charges.  Last week a grand jury indicted the former film mogul on charges involving two women. Weinstein later posted bail for $1m.Harvey Weinstein pleads not guilty on rape and criminal sex act charges Continue reading...
  
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• Harvey Weinstein Pleads Not Guilty, Intends to ‘Vigorously Fight’ Charges

  05-06-2018 17:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  Harvey Weinstein was arraigned Tuesday morning, and pleaded not guilty to three felony counts in New York Supreme Court, according to CNN. Weinstein’s arraignment comes exactly one year, to the day, after Bill Cosby’s sexual-assault trial began. (In April, Cosby was found guilty of drugging and raping Andrea Constand in 2004.) Since...More »
  
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• The Story of Harold Ramis and Amy Heckerling’s Secret Daughter

  05-06-2018 17:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  The following is an excerpt from Ghostbuster’s Daughter: Life With My Dad, Harold Ramis by Violet Ramis Stiel, out today. One afternoon in September of 1985, in the midst of my parents’ separation and the official beginning of his relationship with Erica, my dad picked me up from school and...More »
  
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• The 7 Best Younger Easter Eggs in Marriage Vacation

  05-06-2018 17:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  After four seasons of teasing us with books we’ll never be able to read (but what did the labradoodle have to say in Pearls of Wisdom?!), Younger has actually published one of its fake novels. Trippy, right?...More »
  
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• AJ McLean Made the Country Cookout Banger You Never Wanted

  05-06-2018 17:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  Some of us are just moderately bougie enough to request our Hennessy and beer be served in Champagne flutes. For those sophisti-ratchet occasions, there’s a new anthem: Reintroducing AJ McLean, Backstreet Boy turned Back Porch Bro. Fresh off the group’s excellent new single, the BSB member is gearing up for...More »
  
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• Orange Is the New Black Will Be Back, and Headed Away From Litchfield, July 27

  05-06-2018 17:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  After the fifth season of Orange Is the New Black ended on a mighty big cliffhanger, its sixth season is apparently leaving Litchfield behind. Netflix announced today that the series will return on July 27, and will be going away from Litchfield, which has been razed by that riot, and...More »
  
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• Derrick Beckles and Eric Andre’s New Show Looks Insane and Disgusting

  05-06-2018 17:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  Derrick Beckles’s brand-new show, Mostly 4 Millennials, debuts on Adult Swim next month, and if the trailer released today is any indication, it’s exactly the kind of bizarre, gross, seizure-inducing content we’ve come to expect from a show co-created by Eric Andre. As a bonus, it features Fred Durst as...More »
  
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• The Bachelorette Recap: Minnesota Nice

  05-06-2018 17:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  I’ve been searching my brain for the answer and reading all the context clues. I cannot crack this mystery. And maybe to even deign to ask the question will make me worthy of scorn and ridicule but I need help. I need guidance.What is Becca’s … um … personality?Don’t say...More »
  
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• How ‘The Americans’ had the US rooting for Russia

  05-06-2018 16:51 via ft.com
  The series charted the end of the cold war while, off-screen, tensions are escalating
  
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• Did You Know That Shawn Mendes Is a Harry Potter Stan?

  05-06-2018 16:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  Shawn Mendes — the pop star who is not light of our lives Charlie Puth — rode with James Corden last night for a round of Carpool Karaoke. When Corden asked if Mendes was a Harry Potter stan, something curious happened. “On a scale of 10 being crazed superfan, and...More »
  
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• Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Recap: Making a Bunkerer

  05-06-2018 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Despite being the best pound-for-pound joke machine on television, Kimmy Schmidt tends to stick to a relatively traditional sitcom format, which makes this standalone mockumentary episode such a surprising treat. Like 30 Rock’s “Queen of Jordan,” “Party Monster” is a whip-smart parody of a burgeoning TV format — episodic prestige...More »
  
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• The First Time: Andrew Rannells: The First Time I Watched the Tony Awards

  05-06-2018 16:00 via nytimes.com
  The journey from a couch in Omaha to the stage of Radio City Music Hall (with an embarrassing detour along the way).
  
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• Look Back at Sandra Bullock's Most Iconic Roles Ahead of Ocean's 8 and Vote for Your Favorite!

  05-06-2018 16:00 via feeds.eonline.com
  Sandra Bullock's newest film Ocean's 8 is almost here!The film, which follows Danny Ocean's (George Clooney) sister Debbie Ocean (Bullock) as she tries to pull off the...
  
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• Let’s Talk About the Ending of First Reformed

  05-06-2018 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  This is a story about the ending of First Reformed: spoilers to follow, obviously.The ending of First Reformed, Paul Schrader’s remarkable new film, is a puzzle worthy of the great struggle that comes before it. For an hour and 45 minutes, Schrader charts the downward trajectory of Reverend Toller, teasing...More »
  
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• Fred Rogers’s Life in 5 Artifacts

  05-06-2018 16:00 via nytimes.com
  A new documentary about the beloved TV host mined a treasure trove of fan letters, scripts and more at the Fred Rogers Center.
  
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• The Opposition Explains Self-Pardoning in a Way That Is Arguably NSFW

  05-06-2018 15:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  During last night’s The Opposition, Jordan Klepper took some time to celebrate Donald Trump’s first 500 days in office — or as Kellyanne Conway calls it, “500 Days of American Greatness,” aside from that whole obstruction of justice thing. “It’s true what they say about time when you’re having fun:...More »
  
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• Suits Stars Boldly Exclaim That Royal Wedding Was ‘Special’ and ‘Amazing’

  05-06-2018 15:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  The fact that Meghan Markle’s wedding is over has not stopped people who tangentially know Meghan Markle — okay, fine, Meghan, Duchess of Sussex — from talking about it constantly. Case in point: Meghan’s former Suits co-stars Gabriel Macht and Sarah Rafferty “raved” to Entertainment Tonight about all their favorite...More »
  
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• UK government clears rival Sky bids

  05-06-2018 15:31 via ft.com
  Culture secretary Matt Hancock says 21st Century Fox would need to divest Sky News
  
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• Bumblebee Trailer: Hailee Steinfeld Joins The Transformers Universe

  05-06-2018 15:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  For better or worse, we’re getting a Transformers cinematic universe. First up to get his own solo movie is leading bot Bumblebee: 18-year-old mechanic Charlie (Hailee Steinfeld) brings home a seemingly broken-down VW bug from a junkyard in 1987, and everything seems normal until she fixes it, and notices a...More »
  
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• Dreading a summer of football? Try Love Island, the World Cup of abs

  05-06-2018 15:08
  With Caroline Flack in the Lineker role, ITV2’s permatanned young things are sure to deliver a competition as hotly contested as Fifa’sIf you are dreading the summer of sport that TV is about to serve up, there is at least one tournament that you might want to tune in to: Love Island.Pretend all you like that you watched Suffragettes with Lucy Worsley last night, but if you accidentally sat on the remote you may have switched over to witness permatanned twentysomethings bouncing on b
  
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