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• American Horror Story Season 8 Will Stage a Big, Spooky Murder House–Coven Crossover

  14-06-2018 23:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  American Horror Story, always competing with itself to become the most extra show on TV, is going to be a big, spooky crossover next season. That’s according to the voice of God Ryan Murphy himself, who tweeted, “The Coven/Murder House AHS crossover season won’t be happening next year…because it’s happening...More »
  
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• The Trouble With Women With Anne Robinson review – borderline farcical

  14-06-2018 23:02
  The Legendary Fleet Street Journalist offered no insight in this unedifying BBC documentary other than her ill-informed opinionThe problem with women, if not the world, is that we are not all Anne Robinson. This is the firm opinion of Legendary Fleet Street Journalist Anne Robinson (to give her her full title). We have not all grown up in a domestic matriarchy, inherited our mother’s business savvy and ambition and fought our way in the man’s world of newspaper production from the 60
  
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• Bill Cosby Replaces His Legal Team Ahead of Sentencing

  14-06-2018 22:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  In between being found guilty on three counts of drugging and raping Andrea Constand in April and his sentencing, scheduled for this September, Bill Cosby has fired his legal team. According to Deadline, Cosby has let go of Tom Mesereau and his team, and retained Pennsylvania attorney Joseph P. Green...More »
  
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• Hollywood Zaddy Jeff Goldblum Finally Got a Star on the Walk of Fame

  14-06-2018 22:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  Congratulations! Jeff Goldblum’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame was unveiled Thursday afternoon, which is a win for Jeff Goldblum and everyone who desperately desired a place to worship Jeff Goldblum. Always the gracious host, Goldblum used his acceptance speech to recognize other stars getting their recognition on the...More »
  
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• Jamie Foxx Denies Sexually Assaulting Woman; Lawyer Says Hitting Someone With Your Penis Isn’t Sexual Assault in Nevada

  14-06-2018 22:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  Last week, a woman in Las Vegas filed a police report accusing Jamie Foxx of sexual assault. According to TMZ, the woman claims that, at a party in 2002, Foxx allegedly “struck her in the face with his penis” when she refused to perform oral sex on him. Foxx has...More »
  
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• Lydia Millet Is Not Nearly As Famous As She Should Be. But It’s Only a Matter of Time.

  14-06-2018 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  Lydia Millet’s new book Fight No More is a curious thing: a collection of linked stories with the genuine thrust of a novel that doesn’t declare itself as such with the stamp NOVEL on the cover. The impression the book leaves is that Millet began with the notion of a...More »
  
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• Game of Thrones Won’t Be at San Diego Comic-Con This Year

  14-06-2018 21:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  Game of Thrones has reliably become one of the biggest events every year at San Diego Comic-Con, but HBO announced today that they will not be presenting that show or Westworld at this year’s upcoming event. “Due to production schedules and air dates for Game of Thrones and Westworld, these...More »
  
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• Barbra Streisand Debuts Lost Footage From ‘A Star Is Born’ on Netflix

  14-06-2018 21:28 via nytimes.com
  A newly cut version of the 1976 movie starring Ms. Streisand and Kris Kristofferson will be available on Friday, along with six of her TV specials.
  
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• Shawn Mendes vs. Charlie Puth: Which Pop Prince Reigns Supreme?

  14-06-2018 21:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Every album release cycle gets the pop heartthrob it deserves, but right now we’ve found ourselves with an embarrassment of riches: This season has given us new albums from Charlie Puth and Shawn Mendes, the men vying for Justin Bieber’s throne. Mendes is the Canadian megastar who began by covering...More »
  
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• The Real Killer in The Staircase Might Be … an Owl?

  14-06-2018 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Who killed Kathleen Peterson? As documented by the true-crime series The Staircase — a 13-part investigation that follows the murder trial of her husband, Michael Peterson — neither the prosecution nor the defense told a story that seemed to make perfect sense. Durham County district attorney James Hardin Jr. contended...More »
  
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• Freddie Highmore Plays a Good Doctor on TV, But Don’t Ask Him for Medical Advice

  14-06-2018 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.The lead actor Emmy contender for ABC’s hit new drama reveals his newly acquired aptitude for producing, but not so much for retaining practical medical knowledge....More »
  
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• Ellen DeGeneres Announces Her First Standup Tour in 15 Years

  14-06-2018 20:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ellen DeGeneres is hitting the road later this summer. On Twitter today, DeGeneres announced that her first stand-up tour in 15 years, An Evening With Ellen DeGeneres, will make stops in San Diego, San Francisco, and Seattle throughout August in preparation for her Netflix special, which was ordered by the...More »
  
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• Ewan McGregor Will Be Grown Up Danny in Shining Sequel Doctor Sleep

  14-06-2018 20:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ewan McGregor will be putting his trauma survivor hat on for the upcoming Shining sequel, Doctor Sleep. Variety broke the news that McGregor has been cast as adult Danny Torrance in the Mike Flanagan-directed adaptation for Warner Bros. The studio had apparently been working on developing the project for a...More »
  
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• Justin Hartley’s Long Road to This Is Us

  14-06-2018 20:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  Justin Hartley remembers standing on the roof of his first Hollywood apartment, visualizing how easy life as an actor would be. All he needed was to be discovered by the right person, then surely he’d land a TV show and a slew of A-list roles would follow.Hartley, then 23, had...More »
  
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• An Exhaustive List of Reasons to Root for Each World Cup Team

  14-06-2018 20:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  Thanks to a combination of mismanagement, organizational malaise, and bad chemistry, the U.S. men’s national team will miss the World Cup for the first time since 1986. But there’s at least one silver lining: Freed of all patriotic obligations, American fans are able to go into this summer’s tournament rooting...More »
  
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• Brie Larson Teases Captain Marvel: "The Anticipation Will Be Worth It"

  14-06-2018 20:20 via feeds.eonline.com
  Brie Larson began production on the movie Captain Marvel in March, two months before a post-credits scene attached to Avengers: Infinity War teased her character would more than likely return (and...
  
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• Emily Wilson’s 10 Favorite Books

  14-06-2018 19:56 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 British classicist Emily Wilson’s list. She is the first woman to translate Homer’s The Odyssey into English. Wilson will be leading a marathon reading of...More »
  
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• The Queer Eye Guys on Season Two’s Biggest Twist

  14-06-2018 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.Jonathan Van Ness, Bobby Berk, Tan France, Antoni Porowski, and Karamo Brown also imagine how Vice-President Mike Pence and his wife Karen might possibly watch their breakout Netflix reality series....More »
  
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• Aquaman First Look: Nicole Kidman Transforms Into Queen Atlanna

  14-06-2018 18:55 via feeds.eonline.com
  Bow down to Queen Atlanna!To quench fans' thirst before Warner Bros.' Aquaman hits theaters on Dec. 21, 2018, Entertainment Weekly devoted two covers to the blockbuster for its...
  
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• How the Brains Behind Netflix Went From Rivals to Partners

  14-06-2018 18:53 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.Before they were partners, Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos and original content VP Cindy Holland were (friendly) rivals. In the late 1990s, “Cindy and I were the only two people...More »
  
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• Netflix shares have doubled since start of year

  14-06-2018 18:42 via ft.com
  New record high makes video service second-best performer in S&P 500
  
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• Review: Hip-Hopping With the Stars in ‘Half Time’

  14-06-2018 18:41 via nytimes.com
  This formulaic musical of uplift, about elderly dancers, provides the pleasure of reacquaintance with Donna McKechnie and Georgia Engel.
  
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• A Word With: Hannibal Buress, Racing Beyond Cosby to a Starring Role in ‘Tag’

  14-06-2018 18:31 via nytimes.com
  The stand-up comedian and actor talks about riffing in his new movie and why he stopped drinking, all while avoiding the subject of Bill Cosby.
  
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• Her Body and Other Parties Is in Development As a Black Mirror-esque Anthology Series

  14-06-2018 18:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  Feminist fans of Black Mirror may soon have a show focused specifically on the horrors of being a woman.Before Carmen Maria Machado’s debut story collection, Her Body and Other Parties, even hit shelves last fall, her publisher, Graywolf, pressed the button on a fourth reprint. She’d already been nominated for a National Book...More »
  
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• Samuel L. Jackson on Incredibles 2, Glass, and Captain Marvel

  14-06-2018 17:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  Samuel L. Jackson is sprawled out on a couch at the London Hotel in West Hollywood, looking content as can be. And why not? He’s there to promote Incredibles 2, which most box-office watchers predict will be the biggest animated film of all time, and is soon to wrap work...More »
  
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• Mitch Hedberg’s Widow Teases Never-Before-Seen Material: ‘All of You Will Be Hearing and Seeing Mitch Again’

  14-06-2018 17:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  Lynn Shawcroft, the widow of beloved stand-up comedian Mitch Hedberg, wrote a guest column for The Hollywood Reporter today titled “The Late Comic Isn’t Done Being Funny.” The piece serves as a look back on Hedberg’s comedy 13 years after his death from his wife’s perspective (“He’s often referred to...More »
  
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• Arrested Development Recap: Hit Parade

  14-06-2018 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  After the past few episodes, I was starting to believe that even if Arrested Development was never going to hit the heights of its early years, it was at least trying to create episodes that were satisfying in and of themselves, not just placeholders for baroque plots and running jokes....More »
  
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• Ricky Martin Freaked Out About Penelope Cruz in Versace, Too

  14-06-2018 16:54 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.Pop star and actor Ricky Martin stopped by the Vulture Emmy Studio to discuss his critically acclaimed supporting actor turn in FX’s American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace,...More »
  
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• Between Two Ferns Makes Its Glorious Return with Guests Jerry Seinfeld and Cardi B

  14-06-2018 16:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s been some time since we were treated to a new episode of Between Two Ferns — the last installment was in 2016 with guest Hillary Clinton — so the episode Funny or Die just dropped is quite the surprise. In the episode, Zach Galifianakis welcomes Jerry Seinfeld for some...More »
  
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• Nicki Minaj and Ariana Grande Hit the Sheets for Their Latest Duet

  14-06-2018 16:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  After all that cycling on dicks, Nicki Minaj and Ariana Grande deserve some rest. For their fourth collaboration — with a fifth soon to come — they’re hitting the sheets … but not to sleep. “Bed,” off Minaj’s next album Queen, sees the pair graciously extend an invitation to climb...More »
  
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• Samantha Bee: Kim 'left the summit glowing brighter than enriched uranium'

  14-06-2018 16:43
  Late-night comics discussed the Singapore summit and the possibility that Michael Cohen may flip on the president
  Late-night hosts on Wednesday discussed the rumors that Michael Cohen may cooperate with federal prosecutors, the summit between Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump, and Bill Clinton’s rocky book tour. Continue reading...
  
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• My Son Loves Elsa From ‘Frozen.’ I Had to Learn to Love Her, Too.

  14-06-2018 16:38 via nytimes.com
  A father’s uneasy acceptance is made easier by a visit to the Broadway musical.
  
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• S-Town the movie: is bringing the podcast to the big screen a good idea?

  14-06-2018 16:23
  The story is fragmented, the cast of characters complex – and it exposes the inner life of a very private person to full public scrutiny. What would a big-screen version look like?Warning: this article contains spoilers for the podcast S-Town.When S-Town’s seven episodes landed in one go on iTunes last year, it immediately became a podcast blockbuster, with 16m downloads in the first week. Unsurprisingly, then, it is being turned into a film, with Participant Media securing the right
  
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• Tag Is an Amusing, Perhaps Unintentionally Depressing Midlife Crisis Comedy

  14-06-2018 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  It seems a little auspicious that a week after an all-star, all-female cast set up shop doing glamorous grand larceny in the Oceans franchise, the boys are running around in circles, ruining each other’s lives with a schoolyard game. I don’t think I can say anything more evocative than just...More »
  
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• Review: ‘Tag,’ You’re It. Playing the Long Game Into Middle Age.

  14-06-2018 16:00 via nytimes.com
  Hannibal Buress, Jon Hamm, Jake Johnson and Ed Helms star as friends who refuse to put away childish things.
  
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• Misogyny Is Boring As Hell

  14-06-2018 15:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  Carmen Maria Machado’s critically acclaimed debut collection of short stories, Her Body and Other Parties, was published just two days before news broke that Harvey Weinstein had been preying on Hollywood starlets for decades and getting away with it. As the world began to pay attention to women’s stories of...More »
  
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• Brie Larson Calls for More Inclusive Film Criticism

  14-06-2018 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  At the Women in Film Crystal + Lucy Awards in Beverly Hills on Wednesday night, Brie Larson advocated for more inclusive film criticism. Referencing data from USC’s Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, Larson reported that 80 percent of film critics who reviewed 2017’s top box-office hits were male. The Room star used...More »
  
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• Please Enjoy This Extra Giggly Rendition of ‘Jokes Seth Can’t Tell’

  14-06-2018 15:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  On last night’s Late Night, Seth Meyers welcomed back writers Amber Ruffin and Jenny Hagel to deliver a brand new round of “Jokes Seth Can’t Tell” covering everything from Starbucks discontinuing its gluten-free breakfast sandwich to the NYC Dyke March to the royal wedding to lesbian sex positions (“Coming in...More »
  
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• Why American Vandal Season Two Will Be ‘Completely Different’

  14-06-2018 15:00 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.When Netflix’s true-crime mockumentary series American Vandal debuted in September, it told a wildly funny story about a devastatingly dumb crime: Who vandalized a high school’s faculty parking lot...More »
  
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• Every Brad Bird Movie, Ranked

  14-06-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Brad Bird origin story begins outside a Montana movie theater where, after a screening of The Jungle Book, the 10-year-old Bird asked his parents, “How do I do that?” “Something in me snapped,” Bird recalls in the 2016 documentary The Giant’s Dream: The Making of the Iron Giant —...More »
  
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• Rick and Morty’s Creators on the Show’s Best and Weirdest Merch

  14-06-2018 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Rickaverse is expanding at an accelerating rate. Adult Swim’s megahit, adults-only cartoon sci-fi series Rick and Morty, which last fall completed its third season, has recently been renewed for 70 episodes. It’s also spawned an array of products to sate viewers’ thirst for the show’s blend of wit and...More »
  
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