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• Trump Calls Resistance King Robert De Niro a ‘Very Low IQ Individual’

  12-06-2018 23:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  In case you haven’t noticed, Robert De Niro has used every public appearance and press tour opportunity to call President Donald Trump an idiot. “I’m gonna say one thing: Fuck Trump!” he declared at the Tony Awards Sunday night. Now, two days later, Donald Trump has responded: “Robert De Niro,...More »
  
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• Judge clears way for $80bn AT&T bid for Time Warner

  12-06-2018 23:38 via ft.com
  Court sides with two corporate giants in landmark antitrust litigation
  
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• Unlockd blames Google as it falls into administration

  12-06-2018 23:10 via ft.com
  Start-up backed by Lachlan Murdoch says US group’s attempts to take down app hit fundraising
  
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• Kanye West Loves Deadpool a Lot and Wants His Music to Be Part of It

  12-06-2018 22:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  Kanye West loves everyone, including and especially his brother in “dragon energy,” Donald Trump. But you know who he might love more than the MAGA man? Deadpool. Ye loves the irreverent superhero movies so much that he’s ready to license his music if Ryan Reynolds and company decide they want...More »
  
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• 43 Last-minute Gifts That Will Arrive by Father’s Day

  12-06-2018 22:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  With Father’s Day just around the corner (as a reminder, it’s coming up this Sunday), there’s just enough time to get in those last-minute Father’s Day gifts! As we’ve noted before, buying your dad a gift is challenging because it’s such a personal matter. Maybe your dad needs a coffee-table...More »
  
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• Anthony Bourdain’s Parts Unknown Will Remain on Netflix

  12-06-2018 22:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  It will now be possible to tour through Anthony Bourdain’s travel series Parts Unknown on Netflix for longer than previously thought. Parts Unknown was originally scheduled to disappear from Netflix streaming on June 16, less than a week after the TV host’s death. But Netflix announced today that the streaming...More »
  
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• Why Aren’t You Watching The Bold Type Yet?

  12-06-2018 22:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the not-so-distant past, summer was known for its dearth of television. Praise be Peak TV, that is not the case anymore. Now there’s so much TV to get us through the summer months that it’s hard to know which shows to watch while nursing an unfortunate sunburn or refusing...More »
  
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• Scene City: Inside the Tony Awards After-Parties

  12-06-2018 22:21 via nytimes.com
  The official party took place at the Plaza Hotel. The unofficial one was at the Carlyle.
  
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• Hotel Artemis Is an Inventive, If Meandering Genre Hangout

  12-06-2018 22:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  The word “steampunk” gets thrown around a lot these days to describe things that (pushes up glasses) aren’t really steampunk. I haven’t looked yet, but I can imagine that Hotel Artemis, a colorful bit of low-stakes humans-first future-fi, is getting the label. In fact, like Blade Runner before it, it...More »
  
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• How Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’s Puppeteer Made a Talking Backpack So Emotional

  12-06-2018 21:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the fourth season of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, we learn that Kimmy had a secret friend in the bunker: the purple Jansport backpack that she lost at a dance club way back in the very first episode. That ’90s middle-school accessory was not only a reminder of the outside world,...More »
  
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• Noah Schnapp Breaks Down His Hardest, Scariest Stranger Things 2 Scenes

  12-06-2018 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  The 2018 Emmy race has begun, and Vulture will take a close look at the contenders until voting closes on June 25.One thing that’s important to know about Noah Schnapp, the 13-year-old actor who plays Will Byers on Stranger Things, is that he’s afraid of the dark. So when he...More »
  
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• How Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Gets Away With Its Dirtiest Jokes

  12-06-2018 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The 2018 Emmy race has begun, and Vulture will take a close look at the contenders until voting closes on June 25.Co-creator of the CW’s Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Aline Brosh McKenna breaks down how she and star/co-creator Rachel Bloom get around those pesky TV decency rules....More »
  
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• Dave Matthews Band’s Come Tomorrow Is a Quiet Moment in an Overstuffed Year

  12-06-2018 20:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  Like subways or mailmen or birds that chirp you awake the minute the morning sun slips over the horizon, the Dave Matthews Band is an institution we rely on to excel at a very specific service, and that service is proggy, stoned jams. Songs are like road maps for a...More »
  
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• How Drug Deals Meet Jiu-Jitsu in ‘Superfly’

  12-06-2018 20:45 via nytimes.com
  Director X narrates a sequence from the film featuring Trevor Jackson and Michael Kenneth Williams.
  
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• Anatomy of a Scene | ‘Superfly’

  12-06-2018 20:45 via nytimes.com
  Director X narrates a sequence from the film featuring Trevor Jackson and Michael K. Williams.
  
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• Holland Taylor on How Playing Ann Richards Changed Her Life

  12-06-2018 20:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It was just wonderful to have that expansive spirit to try to inhabit,” Holland Taylor says, reflecting on her time spent playing former Texas governor Ann Richards in her one-woman show Ann. “That expansive, generous human spirit. It was the most marvelous experience of my life.” Taylor began to work...More »
  
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• A Deeper Look at Why BTS Has Thrived in America

  12-06-2018 20:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  From the very start, K-pop’s always had America in mind. Before the happy accident of 2012 — the one involving an LMFAO-type beat, a “horse dance,” and lots of laughs at the expense of rich people in a neighborhood of a city of a country few Westerners could have previously...More »
  
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• WPP reviews codes of conduct in wake of Sorrell investigation

  12-06-2018 20:09 via ft.com
  On eve of annual meeting executives vow to study ‘how we can make improvements’
  
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• A Play Caught in the Crossfire

  12-06-2018 20:09 via nytimes.com
  Antoinette Nwandu’s “Pass Over” considers the fate of young black men in a gun-torn city. Its first production caused a stir — and won a fan in Spike Lee.
  
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• Thirty Pain: We Feel It

  12-06-2018 19:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  Written and performed by Katy Berry and directed by Berry and Jon Mayer, Thirty Pain is a fraught missive to every snowflake-bearing baby-boomer, a big fat “What the fuck did you bring me into, Mom and Dad?” set to a Casio keyboard beat.There are dozens of these though, right? Music...More »
  
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• Review: ‘Five Seasons’ Explores the Garden Designer Behind the High Line

  12-06-2018 19:47 via nytimes.com
  This film, subtitled “The Gardens of Piet Oudolf,” is a conventional documentary. It follows Mr. Oudolf as he holds forth on his philosophy.
  
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• Cambridge Analytica’s ex-data chief seeks privacy advocate work

  12-06-2018 19:34 via ft.com
  Alexander Tayler launches solo career following exit from scandal-tainted data firm
  
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• Analysts dissect Trump's bizarre summit trailer: 'Perhaps it's a way to bond'

  12-06-2018 19:31
  Washington analysts described the film Trump showed Kim Jong-un as more similar to a property developer making a hard sellDonald Trump’s salesman pitch to Kim Jong-un included a bizarre video, in the style of a Hollywood trailer, to persuade the North Korean dictator that he can be “a hero” by choosing peace and prosperity over nuclear weapons.The four-minute film, contrasting images of warplanes and artillery with skyscrapers and speedboats, portrays Trump and Kim as the stars
  
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• Michelle Wolf Knows Why the Times’ Op-ed Page Is So Kooky

  12-06-2018 19:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  Please allow Op Ed to introduce himself, he’s a man of wealth and bad takes. The Break With Michelle Wolf has gotten the scoop on how those zany thoughts end up on the New York Times’ opinion page. Editorial page editor Edmund Oppenheimer III — “Op Ed” — is the...More »
  
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• Behind Netflix’s Major Push Into Unscripted Television

  12-06-2018 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  All this week, we’re publishing a series of pieces to accompany our New York cover story going behind the scenes of Netflix.Having already broken through with comedies and dramas, Netflix is now making a massive effort to conquer the wide world of unscripted TV. You’ve probably already seen (or at least heard...More »
  
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• Paula Malcomson’s Message For Heartbroken Ray Donovan Fans

  12-06-2018 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The 2018 Emmy race has begun, and Vulture will take a close look at the contenders until voting closes on June 25.The Showtime drama’s dearly departed actress reveals how hard it was to say good-bye to Abby, and the latest on HBO’s much-anticipated Deadwood movie....More »
  
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• Review: ‘Superfly’ Adds Bling to an Old Tale

  12-06-2018 18:00 via nytimes.com
  This remake of a 1972 film focuses on the drug trade and the pursuit of wealth in Atlanta.
  
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• 13 Reasons Why Recap: Consolation Prize

  12-06-2018 17:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Bryce Walker rehabilitation tour continues apace. There’s a little more reason behind it this time — casting Bryce in a sympathetic light is meant to make it more understandable as to how it’s taken so long for Justin to turn against him. “The Box of Polaroids” opens with a...More »
  
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• Can Father John Misty Act?

  12-06-2018 17:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you were one of the relatively few people who saw Hotel Artemis in theaters over the weekend, you probably spent most of the film marveling over just how many noteworthy actors writer-director Drew Pearce managed to cast: Jodie Foster, Jeff Goldblum, Sterling K. Brown, Brian Tyree Henry, Charlie Day,...More »
  
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• Harris Wittels’s @humblebrag Twitter Account Has Been Hacked

  12-06-2018 17:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  In addition to being a beloved comedian, podcast guest, and television writer-producer, the late Harris Wittels was also the mastermind behind a term that’s become all too familiar today thanks to the constant push for social-media self-promotion. “Humblebrag” began as a popular Twitter account Wittels started anonymously in 2010. He...More »
  
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• Johnny Jewel’s Shadowy Musical World

  12-06-2018 17:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  Even if you don’t know Johnny Jewel by name, chances are you’ve heard his music before. As the driving force behind the experimental electronic group Chromatics and the disco provocateurs Glass Candy, Jewel has long attracted a cult acclaim for the way that he harnesses emotive sounds (it’s no wonder...More »
  
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• Can You Recognize These Very Dark TV Dramas?

  12-06-2018 17:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  This is a very simple, straightforward quiz. All you have to do is look at a screenshot and name the TV show. I’ll even help you out: Every one of these frames has a main character from the show in the screenshot. Think of it as a Peak TV challenge!...More »
  
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• What to watch during the World Cup if you can't stand football

  12-06-2018 16:55 via theguardian.com
  Couldn’t care less about the action in Russia? Here is a top TV alternative to tune in to on each day of the group stageFor those who are football-averse, the terrestrial TV schedules for the rest of June look misshapen and diseased, distended into unnatural shapes by aggressive clusters of World Cup fixtures. Thanks to Russia’s relatively sympathetic time difference, these seemingly endless group games squat over daytime and early evening while highlights dominate the post-News at T
  
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• Rose McGowan Indicted on Cocaine Charge

  12-06-2018 16:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  Actress Rose McGowan has been indicted on one count of cocaine possession by a grand jury in Virginia. Court documents say the cocaine was found in a wallet that McGowan left behind on a plane. McGowan has said repeatedly that the drugs may have been planted on her, and are not hers.McGowan told The New Yorker’s Ronan...More »
  
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• Cristin Milioti Dishes on Black Mirror’s ‘USS Callister’

  12-06-2018 16:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  The 2018 Emmy race has begun, and Vulture will take a close look at the contenders until voting closes on June 25.Actress Cristin Milioti reveals how exactly she and her co-stars acted opposite a giant spider creature in the fan-favorite episode of the Netflix series’ fourth season....More »
  
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• Jurassic World sequel stomps to the year's second biggest opening

  12-06-2018 16:18
  Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom savages the UK box office but falls short of its predecessor, while the inquest for underperforming Solo: A Star Wars Story beginsDelivering the second biggest opening weekend number this year – behind only Avengers: Infinity War – Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom has taken a dino-size bite out of the UK box office. The sequel to 2015 reboot Jurassic World has begun with a nifty £10.6m for the weekend period, and £14.3m including Wednesday and
  
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• New Luke Cage Trailer Declares ‘Black Women Have Always Had Superpowers’

  12-06-2018 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The first season of Marvel’s Luke Cage didn’t lack for stirring performances, but even in a crowded field, Alfre Woodard stood out. The actor portrayed Mariah Dillard, a Harlem politician who moonlit as a crime lord and came to bedevil Mike Colter’s titular hero. Although Mariah just barely managed to...More »
  
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• True Royalty: would you pay a fiver a month for a monarchist Netflix?

  12-06-2018 15:48 via theguardian.com
  A new TV subscription service is streaming only programmes about the monarchy – just the thing to ward off those royal wedding withdrawal symptomsName: True Royalty.Age: Brand new, also eternal. Continue reading...
  
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• The Bachelorette Recap: Are You Ready for Some Football?

  12-06-2018 15:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  The excitement. The nerves. The chemistry. Footage of the historic summit between Trump and Kim interrupted my episode of The Bachelorette tonight and I found it just as romantic as any one-on-one date. Think about it. Donald Trump stepping out of the limo … I mean, Air Force One in...More »
  
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• 'The bromance of the century': Trump's bizarre trailer for his summit with Kim | Peter Bradshaw

  12-06-2018 15:14
  The US president presented North Korea’s leader with an action-movie trailer as part of their Singapore meeting. The Guardian’s chief film critic isn’t impressed*Deep bass voice* “In a world … where can-do guys and deal-makers get betrayed at every turn by whiny Canadians, finger-wagging Germans and traitorous so-called reformist uncles who sadly needed to be executed for their own good, two men stood tall. Two friends. Two heroes.”“They knew that toget
  
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• Michelle Wolf Couldn’t Escape D.C. Fast Enough

  12-06-2018 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  When Michelle Wolf says she didn’t pay that much attention to all the hoopla that followed her White House Correspondents’ Dinner speech, in which she called Sarah Huckabee Sanders an Uncle Tom for white women, she is probably being at least a little bit disingenuous. That she has been very...More »
  
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• Poldark recap: series four, episode one – oh Ross, how we've missed you

  12-06-2018 12:33 via theguardian.com
  Our hero and Demelza are, unbelievably, still together, but they have a whole series in which to mess each other about“Judas! Clear the table! Sir Francis Basset is a-comin’ for tea! What do we have? Cakes? Jellies?” Break out the jellies, ‘Darkers, as Poldark is back. And with it a healthy dose of rioting, hanging, adulterous poetry and Aidan Turner’s bare chest, fairly dripping with seaweed and delicious Cornish salt water. (Nurse, fetch my pills.) Ah, Ross, how w
  
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• Neal E Boyd, opera singer who won America's Got Talent, dies aged 42

  12-06-2018 10:00 via theguardian.com
  Singer who was inspired by the Three Tenors and won the contest in 2008 suffered heart and kidney failureNeal E Boyd, the opera singer who won America’s Got Talent in 2008, has died aged 42.He died at his mother’s home in Sikeston, Missouri, on Sunday night. A coroner ruled the cause of death was heart and kidney failure, compounded with liver disease. Continue reading...
  
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