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• The Best Titles From Anthony Bourdain’s Book Imprint

  08-06-2018 23:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  After writer, chef, and TV host Anthony Bourdain was found dead Friday morning, Vulture phoned Bourdain’s book editor Daniel Halpern to discuss Bourdain’s literary work. In the ’90s, Halpern paid $100,000 for the paperback rights to Bourdain’s megahit Kitchen Confidential, and helped Bourdain kick off his writing career. Later, the...More »
  
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• Kids See Ghosts Is the Win Kanye and Kid Cudi Badly Needed

  08-06-2018 23:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  Hip-hop’s greatest duos are wonders of chemistry and complementary strengths. Chuck D was Public Enemy’s politically charged brain, and Flavor Flav provided comic relief. Outkast’s Big Boi anchored Andre 3000’s offbeat creativity with solid hooks and bars. Pusha-T and Malice mixed a malevolent id and a haunted conscience as the...More »
  
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• Travel Channel to Air No Reservations Marathon in Honor of Anthony Bourdain

  08-06-2018 23:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  As a tribute to Anthony Bourdain, who died this morning at 61, the Travel Channel will air a 12-hour marathon of his show No Reservations this Sunday. The programming will start at 7 a.m., and include some of the show’s most famous episodes, like the time Bourdain visited Spain’s vaunted...More »
  
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• Backstage Beauty: Ocean's 8Makeup Artist Shares Products, Skin Tips and More!

  08-06-2018 23:19 via feeds.eonline.com
  It's easy to be mesmerized by the beauty in Ocean's 8.The new film with an all-female cast, which includes Rihanna, Mindy Kaling, Sandra Bullock and Anne Hathaway, centers on the...
  
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• How a No Reservations Marathon Led to Anthony Bourdain Writing for Treme

  08-06-2018 23:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  I don’t have many regrets, but if I could have one do-over, I’d cook for Tony Bourdain. It was Bourdain who wrote, I think, that chefs love it when others cook for them. But no one ever wants to because they’re, well, chefs.Bourdain passed through New Orleans in the fall...More »
  
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• Jameela Jamil Calls Out Quentin Tarantino for Casting Emile Hirsch in His New Film

  08-06-2018 23:07 via feeds.eonline.com
  Jameela Jamil called out Quentin Tarantino on Friday for casting Emile Hirsch in the new movie Once Upon a Time in Hollywood."Cool. Emile Hirsch strangled my tiny female best friend...
  
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• On 10 Years of the New New-Music Scene, and 30 Years of My Own

  08-06-2018 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  I don’t know her name, but a young composer has just shown up in New York. Maybe she’s a singer or a cellist, or both, and also a whiz with the editing software on her laptop. She’s got a playlist full of Latin hip-hop and early minimalism and Iranian kamancheh...More »
  
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• HBO Orders Game of Thrones Prequel Pilot Set Thousands of Years in the Past

  08-06-2018 22:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  When it comes to Game of Thrones spinoffs, HBO’s got multiple irons in the fire, but it looks like one of those irons is now a little hotter than the others. The network announced Friday that it ordered a pilot for a GOT prequel from George R.R. Martin and Jane...More »
  
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• Game of Thrones prequel series ordered from George RR Martin and Jane Goldman

  08-06-2018 22:25 via theguardian.com
  HBO has given a pilot order to a series set thousands of years before the hit show with Kick-Ass and Kingsman screenwriter Jane Goldman as showrunnerHBO has given an official pilot order to their first Game of Thrones prequel series. Related: George RR Martin: a new Game of Thrones book is coming …Continue reading...
  
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• 10 Great Father-Daughter Movies

  08-06-2018 22:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  The summer before Frank’s (Nick Offerman) daughter Sam (Kiersey Clemons) leaves for college just happens to be the summer this family of two records a hit song. Hearts Beat Loud kicks off as a father-daughter jam session which yields an indie sleeper hit that finds its way onto, as Frank...More »
  
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• Robert Mandan, Philandering Husband on ‘Soap,’ Dies at 86

  08-06-2018 22:04 via nytimes.com
  Mr. Mandan was best known as the patriarch Chester Tate on ABC’s soap-opera satire. But he also played many other roles, including King Lear.
  
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• Jongeren KCW winnen opnieuw Waalwijks Theater Festival - Waalwijk.nieuws.nl (persbericht)

  08-06-2018 22:03
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  Jongeren KCW winnen opnieuw Waalwijks Theater Festival
  Waalwijk.nieuws.nl (persbericht)
  Voor het tweede jaar op rij heeft Theatergroep Jongeren Gevorderden (o.l.v. Lies de Kort) van Kunstencentrum Waalwijk de juryprijs van het Waalwijks Theater Festival gewonnen. Het winnende stuk is nogmaals te zien tijdens het Acting Out festival op ...en meer »
  
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• Charlie Bardey on Stocks and Syntax Jokes

  08-06-2018 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Charlie Bardey (@chunkbardey) is a comedian who was born and raised in New York City. He can be heard hosting ExtraBLURT!, a children’s game show podcast from Pinna. This week, Bardey talked to me about how his tweets have changed over time and his favorite Twitter interaction ever.let me know...More »
  
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• James Marsden Joins Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood in Mystery Role

  08-06-2018 21:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you’re a Hollywood actor, keep your ringer on, because Quentin Tarantino might be calling to cast you in his Manson Murders drama, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. The latest additions are, as Variety reports, James Marsden and Julia Butters, and both will be playing undisclosed roles. Tarantino has...More »
  
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• How Ocean’s 8 Got Anna Wintour and Kim Kardashian to Help Re-create the Met Gala

  08-06-2018 21:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  The dramatic jewelry heist at the center of the female-fronted crime caper Ocean’s 8 takes place amid the blinged-out high-fashion frippery of America’s most glamorous, exclusive, and star-studded party: the Costume Institute Gala at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. Also known as the Met Gala, the glittering event has...More »
  
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• Get a First Listen to the My Fair Lady Revival’s Broadway Cast Recording

  08-06-2018 20:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  After a few decades, Eliza Doolittle is back on Broadway, journeying from dropped consonants to the British upper crust in the Lincoln Center Theater’s new revival of Lerner and Loewe’s My Fair Lady. In the new production, Lauren Ambrose, a relative unknown on Broadway despite her time on Six Feet...More »
  
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• Anthony Bourdain’s Editor Says He Was Working on a ‘More Personal’ New Book

  08-06-2018 20:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  When publisher and poet Daniel Halpern paid $100,000 for the paperback rights to Kitchen Confidential, he helped launch Anthony Bourdain’s career as well as a bright new phase of his own. The best-selling memoir helped put Halpern’s fledgling HarperCollins imprint, Ecco, on the map. The publisher and the writer became...More »
  
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• Daily Mail change of guard puts journalists and politicians on edge

  08-06-2018 20:07 via ft.com
  Geordie Greig has clashed regularly with Paul Dacre
  
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• Neal Brennan on the Genius of Katt Williams’s Great America Opener

  08-06-2018 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Looking for some quality comedy entertainment to check out? Who better to turn to for under-the-radar comedy recommendations than comedians? In our recurring series Underrated, we chat with writers and performers from the comedy world about an unsung comedy moment of their choosing that they think deserves more praise.After last...More »
  
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• Every Bruce Lee Movie, Ranked From Worst to Best

  08-06-2018 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Bruce Lee came from an entertainment family. His father, a famous Cantonese opera singer, and his mother, a seamstress and wardrobe woman, were touring America when Bruce was born in 1940; he faced his first movie camera before he was old enough to crawl. His acting career began in earnest...More »
  
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• These 5 Moments From the New Halloween Trailer Will Give You Nightmares

  08-06-2018 19:41 via feeds.eonline.com
  It may be June, but horror film fans have Halloween on the brain.Universal Pictures released the trailer for the new movie Halloween on Friday. The movie is a follow up to the 1978 film....
  
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• CNN Will Air a Series of Anthony Bourdain Tributes

  08-06-2018 19:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  Tonight, CNN will air a special tribute to the chef, writer, and TV host Anthony Bourdain, who was found dead early this morning. The network, which has aired Bourdain’s series Parts Unknown since 2013, said in a statement that it will air Remembering Anthony Bourdain tonight at 10 p.m. ET....More »
  
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• A Stranger Things Prequel Novel Is on the Way, and the Teens Might Just Save Publishing

  08-06-2018 19:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  First, books were adapted into shows, and now shows are adapted into books. According to Deadline, the latest pop-culture phenomenon to get a print canon is Stranger Things, as Netflix has signed a deal with Penguin Random House to deliver a new line of print options for fans. The first...More »
  
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• Review: Pulled Apart by ‘Love and Intrigue’

  08-06-2018 19:33 via nytimes.com
  Maly Drama Theater’s spare, subdued — and slow — adaptation finds dreamy lovers split apart by political schemers.
  
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• Everyone Involved With Kanye and Kid Cudi’s New Album, From Andre 3000 to Kurt Cobain

  08-06-2018 19:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  The concept behind Kanye West and Kid Cudi’s new album, Kids See Ghosts, is collaboration. It’s a partnership between the two artists who have worked closely for over a decade, but never officially solidified that relationship as a fully formed musical duo until now. (They operate as Kids See Ghosts.)...More »
  
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• Curtis Sittenfeld’s 10 Favorite Books

  08-06-2018 19:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  Bookseller One Grand Books has asked celebrities to name the ten titles they’d take to a desert island, and they’ve shared the results with Vulture. Below is best-selling author of Prep and Eligible — who recently released her first short-story collection, You Think It, I’ll Say It — Curtis Sittenfeld’s list....More »
  
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• Anthony Bourdain Was a Great Crime Novelist, Too

  08-06-2018 18:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  Most people will pay tribute to Anthony Bourdain as a chef, as the author of Kitchen Confidential, and as the host of several food and travel shows, most recently Parts Unknown on CNN. They will say, and already have said, that they looked up to him as a rebel, a...More »
  
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• How Realistic Is the Ocean’s 8 Heist Tech?

  08-06-2018 18:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  Some spoilers below for Ocean’s 8.All you really need to pull off a robbery is a bit of practical know-how, a well-balanced lineup of collaborators, a shipping container’s worth of elegant couture, a dash of sublimated sapphic tension with Cate Blanchett — and the right tech. For Debbie Ocean, the...More »
  
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• How Sex and the City Landed at HBO

  08-06-2018 18:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  The following is an excerpt from Sex and the City and Us by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, out this week.Just before the birth of the “Sex and the City” column, Bushnell had gone on an assignment that would change her life—and, even more, the life of her column. In fact, without...More »
  
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• In Nancy, Andrea Riseborough Is Riveting

  08-06-2018 18:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  Done right, the first few shots of a film can pack in a load of information, and the two that open Christina Choe’s Nancy lay much of the groundwork for what follows. In the first, Andrea Riseborough’s childlike 35-year-old title character peers into her phone and texts determinedly, the light...More »
  
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• Asia Argento Speaks Out About Anthony Bourdain’s Death

  08-06-2018 18:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  Shortly after news broke that Anthony Bourdain had died at age 61, his partner Asia Argento posted a statement on Twitter on Friday morning about the tragic loss. Asia Argento (@AsiaArgento) June 8, 2018After Argento’s recent Cannes speech, in which she spoke out about the film industry’s enabling of Weinstein’s...More »
  
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• Love Island becomes ITV2's most-watched show ever

  08-06-2018 18:13 via theguardian.com
  Show that counts George Osborne among fans is huge success for the broadcasterNo one expected an ITV2 reboot of a failed celebrity reality TV show to become a national phenomenon, but Love Island’s massive popularity has turned into an enormous ratings and financial success for the commercial broadcaster.Following its surprise popularity last summer, the launch of the programme’s fourth series on Monday attracted almost 3 million viewers, making it the channel’s most-watched sh
  
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• This Week in Comedy Podcasts: The Good Place Gets Its Own Podcast

  08-06-2018 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The comedy podcast universe is ever expanding, not unlike the universe universe. We’re here to make it a bit smaller, a bit more manageable. There are a lot of great shows and each has a lot of great episodes, so we want to highlight the exceptional, the noteworthy. Each week...More »
  
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• You Can Finally Listen to Podcasts With Your Apple Watch

  08-06-2018 17:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you’re a podcast fan who’s among the growing number of Apple Watch owners (Apple was estimated to have sold about 8 million watches last holiday season), you might have been frustrated with the smartwatch’s lack of meaningful support for podcast listening. Sure, the Apple Watch may keep you connected...More »
  
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• The Best, Worst and Scariest of This Week’s Movie Trailers

  08-06-2018 17:51 via nytimes.com
  A chilling promo for “Halloween,” a thrilling one for “A Star Is Born” and a confusing one for “Suspiria” lead a big week in teaser releases.
  
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• Every Episode of Sex and the City, Ranked

  08-06-2018 17:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  When a show captures the zeitgeist of its time as well as Sex and the City did, viewing it from the distance of a decade or two brings its best and worst moments into much clearer focus. Now that we’re no longer wowed by the main four female characters’ then-revolutionary...More »
  
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• Bollywood film draws flak for female masturbation scene

  08-06-2018 17:26
  Veere Di Wedding also shows women having casual sex, swearing and smokingA hit Bollywood film described as India’s answer to Sex and the City is causing controversy for its depiction of women masturbating, having casual sex and smoking.Veere Di Wedding, Hindi for Friend’s Wedding, is a buddy comedy about four childhood friends who live in Delhi’s upmarket southern neighbourhoods and reunite for one of their weddings. Continue reading...
  
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• socializing WITH: ‘Harry Potter’ Star Anthony Boyle, in 7 Instagram Posts

  08-06-2018 17:13 via nytimes.com
  The Tony-nominated “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” actor traces his path from drama school to Broadway. (Silly photos included.)
  
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• Toni Collette Just Made the Wildest Movie of Her Career

  08-06-2018 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Some spoilers below for Hereditary.In the upcoming horror film Hereditary, written and directed by first-timer Ari Aster, Toni Collette conveys the entire spectrum of human emotion over the course of two terrifying hours. As Annie Graham — a woman who’s just lost her mother and begins to suspect she doesn’t...More »
  
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• Boo! The Halloween Trailer is Here

  08-06-2018 16:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  Because not enough scary things are happening right now, let’s add some Halloween jump scares into the mix! What could be more horrifying than Michael Myers putting on his mask, and then casually dropping a handful of human teeth on bathroom tile? Halloween resets the horror franchise and returns to...More »
  
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• Richard Scudamore: Premier League’s star striker of deals

  08-06-2018 16:44 via ft.com
  Chairman of English football’s top tier to stand down having created world’s most watched league
  
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• Review: ‘Ocean’s 8’ Women Walk Away With a Male Franchise. Sort Of.

  08-06-2018 16:31 via nytimes.com
  Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Rihanna and friends are fun to watch. Too bad the movie doesn’t play with gender as lightly (and seriously) as with genre.
  
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• Charlie Puth Covered Shawn Mendes ‘In My Blood’ in Case You Need a Good Cry

  08-06-2018 16:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  When it comes to Charlie Puth, let us quote Kim Kardashian West: “I will always ride for my man!” Mr. Puth (Puth Pass) has given us a cover of pop’s other sweet prince: Shawn Mendes. During a session at the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge, Puth covered the Mendes track...More »
  
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• Halloween trailer: Jamie Lee Curtis returns to the classic slasher franchise

  08-06-2018 16:13
  The latest remake of the horror classic sees Curtis back as Laurie Strode in a film set four decades after the 1978 originalThe trailer for Halloween, the latest in the longrunning series of slasher films that originated in 1978 with the John Carpenter-directed classic, has been released online. It features Jamie Lee Curtis in the key role of Laurie Strode; a part she last played in 2002’s Halloween: Resurrection.This Halloween is the eleventh of the franchise, the start of a new reboot fo
  
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• Streaming: ‘Caravaggio’ and Other Pleasures and Provocations for Pride Month

  08-06-2018 16:00 via nytimes.com
  Films by Derek Jarman and Cheryl Dunye highlight various Pride Month film packages on various streaming services.
  
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• In Defense of Late-Night Stunts

  08-06-2018 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  There is a reason Waterworld was more successful as a stunt show than as a film: Emotions, when poorly conveyed, are boring. People jumping off of Jet Skis, on the other hand, are always entertaining. Late-night TV has been much maligned as of late for relying too much on gimmicks....More »
  
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• A Word With: Kevin Costner Revisits the American West, Now by Helicopter

  08-06-2018 16:00 via nytimes.com
  Mr. Costner talks about his new series, “Yellowstone”; Manifest Destiny and the allure of the western; and what he’s planning for his second act.
  
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• New James Bond attraction to open in Austrian Alps

  08-06-2018 15:51
  Built into a mountaintop like a Bond villain’s lair, the striking 007 Elements museum shows how the films were madeYour mission: to reach the summit of Gaislachkogl mountain. Once there, find the home of a striking new exhibition dedicated to 007, built into the peak overlooking the Austrian Alps in a structure resembling a Bond villain’s lair.Due to open on July 12, 007 Elements is an immersive attraction that places visitors inside the world of one of cinema’s favourite actio
  
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• Chef and TV travel host Anthony Bourdain dies

  08-06-2018 15:45 via ft.com
  Author built a global media franchise with his food and travel show ‘Parts Unknown’
  
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• Jim McKay’s En el Séptimo Día Is Quietly Thought-Provoking

  08-06-2018 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  The main character in Jim McKay’s En el Séptimo Día is an undocumented Mexican immigrant and food deliveryman named José, and while the film isn’t nonfiction (José is played by an actor, Fernando Cardona), he has similarities to the guy who brought me dinner last week and the guy who...More »
  
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