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• Why Sarah Silverman Wants to Connect With Trump Supporters

  21-06-2018 23:45 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 comedian and host/creator of Hulu’s I Love You, America talks about bridging seemingly impossible political divides, and how it’s changed her view of (maybe) running for office someday....More »
  
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• A Beginner’s Guide to Conner O’Malley

  21-06-2018 23:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  Five years ago, a series of Vines introduced the world outside of the New York and Chicago comedy scenes to Conner O’Malley. These anarchic six-second clips followed a simple formula: O’Malley — playing a deranged car-and-wealth-obsessed man — would pull up to befuddled Manhattan businessmen in sports cars, scream guttural praise...More »
  
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• The Murder of Rhys Jones: Police Tapes review – a forensic examination of the efforts to catch a boy’s killer

  21-06-2018 23:00 via theguardian.com
  It took eight months of painstaking work by Merseyside police to break the omerta surrounding the shooting of 11-year-old Rhys and get justice for his grieving parents, as this documentary recalls‘There’s a young lad been shot … He’s on my football team.” The man on the phone to the emergency services is a local sports coach. The young lad on his team is Rhys Jones. A bullet fired by a local Croxteth gang member missed its intended target and caught the 11-year-old
  
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• Forget ‘Wonder Woman’ and ‘Get Out’: Most Directors Were White Men in 2017, Study Says

  21-06-2018 22:59 via nytimes.com
  A new Directors Guild report shows that diversity among filmmakers remained low last year, and that was true for indies as well as blockbusters.
  
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• Sorry to Bother You’s Cast on How They Got Their Union Cards

  21-06-2018 22:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sorry to Bother You is Boots Riley’s dreamy leftist opus, a satire of America, capitalism, and race. It’s also a movie unabashedly in support of labor unions: Cassius “Cash” Greene (Lakeith Stanfield) takes a job at a telemarketing company right as there’s some organizing afoot. Squeeze (Steven Yeun) and Cash’s...More »
  
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• Can Connie Britton Match Her Reaction With the Right 911 Call?

  21-06-2018 22:30 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 star of Fox’s newest Emmy-contending drama tries to match her own face with the corresponding 911 call. How’d she do?...More »
  
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• 11 Great Books About Gorillas

  21-06-2018 22:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  Koko, the western lowland gorilla who died this week at age 46, learned to sign 2,000 words, fell in love with kittens, and became a household name and avatar of the human-animal bond. But apes have always been an obsession of their closest living relatives — the subjects of scientific...More »
  
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• The Good Fight Is the Most Incendiary Portrait of Female Anger on TV

  21-06-2018 22:06 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.In the 12th episode of The Good Fight’s second season, one of the show’s many distinctive judges has an exchange that is both deliciously pointed and a clever evocation...More »
  
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• Diversity among film directors remains low in Hollywood, report finds

  21-06-2018 21:31
  Annual Directors Guild of America study shows white men still dominate the industry with ethnic diversity at a five-year lowMinority film directors remain overwhelmingly under-represented in Hollywood according to a new report from the Directors Guild of America.The results of the annual study show that in 2017, just 16% of films were directed by women and only 10% came from film-makers of color, the latter statistic at the lowest it’s been since the DGA started reporting in 2013. The figu
  
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• Watch Divine Throw a Tantrum in This Never-Before-Seen Female Trouble Clip

  21-06-2018 21:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the early John Waters film Female Trouble, the auteur’s friend and star Divine plays teenage delinquent Dawn Davenport. Dawn flees her parents’ home after they refuse to buy her a pair of cha-cha heels for Christmas, leading her to embark on a life of crime and ill-repute. In this...More »
  
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• Rachel Kushner’s 10 Favorite Books

  21-06-2018 21:16 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 The Mars Room author Rachel Kushner’s list....More »
  
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• How Realistic Are Dinosaur Movies?

  21-06-2018 21:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  In Vulture’s new series, Expert Witness, we ask scientists, historians, and other professionals to give Hollywood movies a good old-fashioned fact-check.With the release of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, we wanted to see how the dinos that we love to watch in movies and TV shows hold up under the scrutiny...More »
  
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• Chris Hardwick’s Wife Lydia Hearst Says He Has Her ‘Complete Support’

  21-06-2018 21:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  Last week, actress and model Chloe Dykstra said in an essay posted to Medium that an ex-boyfriend of hers, whom she described as “a powerhouse CEO of his own company,” had persistently abused her over the course of their three-year relationship. It was assumed that the ex was Chris Hardwick,...More »
  
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• Critic’s Notebook: Oprah Earned This Museum Show. And It’s a Potent Spectacle.

  21-06-2018 20:41 via nytimes.com
  An exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture captures what Oprah Winfrey and her TV show have meant.
  
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• Perry Mason, Captain Beefheart, and 11 Other Pieces of Pop Culture That David Lynch Loves

  21-06-2018 20:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  David Lynch is a bit cagey when it comes to, well, anything related to his personal life and influences. Ask him what inspires his work, and he’ll cheerfully shut you down. Inquire what he’s been enjoying in pop culture as of late, and he’ll point to shows about “cars being...More »
  
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• Review: ‘The King’ Chases the American Dream and Elvis

  21-06-2018 20:16 via nytimes.com
  This seductive documentary tracks the rise and fall of Elvis Presley, a tragic arc that the director Eugene Jarecki likens to that of the United States.
  
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• Zoey Deutch on James Franco's Kissing Skills: "Meh"

  21-06-2018 20:08 via feeds.eonline.com
  Zoey Deutch was definitely not impressed with James Franco's kissing style.The 23-year-old actress appeared on Wednesday's episode of Watch What Happens Live, where she was asked...
  
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• CXG’s Rachel Bloom on Getting a Hilarious Mel Brooks Rejection

  21-06-2018 19:55 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 co-creator and star of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend explains what happened when she asked her comedy hero, Mel Brooks, to guest star on her CW comedy, and what she hopes...More »
  
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• FCA interviewed Finsbury chief’s driver in insider trading probe

  21-06-2018 19:49 via ft.com
  City PR firm says it is ‘co-operating fully’ with the wachdog’s investigation
  
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• The 38 Best Queer YA Novels

  21-06-2018 19:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  While queer-lit history stretches back to the days of Sappho mooning over girls, queer YA is significantly younger. It was less than 50 years ago that the first queer YA novel was published: I’ll Get There. It Better Be Worth the Trip, by John Donovan. This tragi-queer novel set the...More »
  
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• Kamasi Washington Brought Jazz to a Pop Audience, Where Does He Go Next?

  21-06-2018 19:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  Kamasi Washington both looks and sounds larger than life. And that’s before you factor in that the Angeleno tenor saxophonist and composer towers at six-foot-three with an Afro like a nimbus crowning his head, his dashiki garments flowing around him so that he appears to float across a stage. A...More »
  
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• Kenan Thompson Better Get Nominated for an Emmy or, Sorry, the Award Is Canceled Forever

  21-06-2018 19:23 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.At 11:25 p.m., before viewers at home see Kate McKinnon in Jeff Sessions makeup or Kate McKinnon in Robert Mueller makeup or Kate McKinnon in Rudy Giuliani makeup in...More »
  
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• Review: In ‘American Weather,’ the Heart is a Lonely Voter

  21-06-2018 19:16 via nytimes.com
  If Chris Green’s puppet theater piece is a work of political theater, it is abstract and unemotional in a time that seems anything but.
  
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• Joel Embiid Also Enjoyed Those Collar Tweets

  21-06-2018 19:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  St. Nicholas Park in Harlem is famous for being the current location of Alexander Hamilton’s house, but on Wednesday afternoon, the park was also home to another garrulous Philadelphian — NBA superstar Joel Embiid. As part of his partnership with Mountain Dew, the Cameroonian center was celebrating the park’s recently...More »
  
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• Out to Sea With Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer, King and Queen of the Mermaid Parade

  21-06-2018 18:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  Amanda Fucking Palmer is sitting before a gilt-framed mirror in a dressing room at the Ford Amphitheater on Coney Island, naked except for some grey undies. Spandex-clad handmaidens rub lotion on her arms, while a stylist affixes a silver crown adorned with black jewels to her curls. “It feels like...More »
  
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• The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Mayflower Power

  21-06-2018 18:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  The craziest thing about the ladies’ trip to the Mayflower Inn in Connecticut — the home state of Luann, Dorit Kemsley, Kim Zolciak Biermann, and myself — isn’t Luann’s story about getting arrested, Ramona inviting herself to Tom’s party, or even Bethenny Frankel scraping her tongue while wearing a Korean facial mask....More »
  
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• Florence and the Machine’s ‘Big God’ Video Is a Big Mood for Being Ghosted

  21-06-2018 18:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  There are music videos and then there are music videos made by Florence “Video Queen” Welch. The difference being that those other peasants make visuals and Florence makes #art. She’s like Beyoncé and Jay-Z occupying the Louvre, except she’s the equivalent of a classical masterpiece on exhibit. Case in point:...More »
  
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• 5 Ways to Celebrate Pride Away From the Mainstream

  21-06-2018 18:09 via nytimes.com
  NYC Pride can easily overwhelm even the most extroverted people. Here are five ways to take part away from the crowds.
  
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• Why We’ll Miss The Opposition’s Josh Sharp and Aaron Jackson

  21-06-2018 18:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  Now that Comedy Central has decided not to renew The Opposition in favor of developing a new show with Jordan Klepper, one question is what opportunities will come next for the show’s team of so-called “Citizen Journalists”: Laura Grey, Niccole Thurman, Kobi Libii, Aaron Jackson, Josh Sharp, and Tim Baltz....More »
  
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• New Victory Theater Season Will Bring Circus Acts and Songs

  21-06-2018 18:00 via nytimes.com
  The family-oriented theater will put on shows with Jim Henson puppets and Ethiopian jugglers.
  
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• Netflix paid no UK corporate tax last year – and got a €200k rebate

  21-06-2018 17:37 via theguardian.com
  Netflix UK earned £500m but most revenues are booked through Netherlands HQNetflix received a €199,000 (£174,000) tax rebate from the UK government last year and paid no corporation tax, despite making £500m in revenue from British subscribers to the streaming service.The US company which has a market capitalisation of $174bn (£131bn) is bigger than Disney and almost six times the value of Sky. It booked a pretax profit of just €1.2m in the UK last year. Continu
  
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• Big stars, little interest: when movie heavyweights fizzle on TV

  21-06-2018 17:36 via theguardian.com
  Kevin Costner’s big budget soap Yellowstone has been savaged by critics and he’s not the only A-lister who has struggled on the small screenIt’s too early to tell whether Paramount Network’s new Yellowstone series will be a hit, but reviews haven’t exactly been kind so far. The New Yorker called it “ponderous” and “preposterous”. The Hollywood Reporter called it “a big sprawling mess”. The Guardian gave it two stars. Related: Yell
  
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• How to Pronounce XXXTentacion’s Name

  21-06-2018 17:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  Even before his murder, rap fans everywhere were talking about XXXTentacion. For those of you who were introduced to the rapper after he was shot in Florida (while still awaiting trial for 2016 domestic-battery charges), but were unsure how to pronounce his name, here’s how:There’s a lot of places you...More »
  
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• Former Love Island contestant Sophie Gradon dies aged 32

  21-06-2018 17:02 via theguardian.com
  Reality star who appeared in 2016 series of show has been found dead in Northumberland Love Island star Sophie Gradon has died at the age of 32, it has been confirmed.The reality star, who appeared in the 2016 series of the ITV2 dating show, was found dead at an address in Ponteland, Northumberland on Wednesday. Continue reading...
  
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• To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before Trailer: Oh My God, He Knows You Like Him

  21-06-2018 16:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you start writing secret letters to all the boys you have crushes on, maybe it’s best not to let them actually slip into the mail. In To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, based on Jenny Han’s YA novel, Lara Jean (Lana Condor) is a high-school student whose love...More »
  
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• Demi Lovato Drops Surprise Single Saying She’s ‘Not Sober Anymore’

  21-06-2018 16:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  Demi Lovato has returned with new music coupled with what appears to be a heartbreaking announcement. In her surprise new single, “Sober,” Lovato seems to say she has relapsed after six years of sobriety. She sings in the ballad’s confessional hook, “Momma I’m so sorry I’m not sober anymore /...More »
  
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• A Daria Revival Is Coming to MTV

  21-06-2018 16:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  Daria is returning to MTV. According to Variety, the network has launched a new production unit called MTV Studios, and in addition to revivals of Aeon Flux, The Real World, and Made, the animated series Daria is getting a revival of its own with some help from Broad City, Inside...More »
  
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• Zoey Deutch Bravely Confirms Your Suspicion That James Franco Is Not a Good Kisser

  21-06-2018 16:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  Zoey Deutch has confirmed something that you almost definitely have been suspecting for a long time: James Franco is not a good kisser! When a Watch What Happens Live! With Andy Cohen viewer asked how Deutch, who starred opposite Franco in Why Him, would describe the actor’s kissing style, Deutch...More »
  
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• At Long Last, Johnny Depp Confirms That He Does Act With an Earpiece

  21-06-2018 16:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  At long last, one of the great mysteries of Hollywood is finally settled: Johnny Depp actually does use an earpiece on set! In a very long, very bleak Rolling Stone profile about Depp’s lawsuits, money problems, and many, many homes, the Pirates of the Caribbean star confirms that he actually...More »
  
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• This Angel in America Takes Wing With Help From 5 Shadows

  21-06-2018 16:00 via nytimes.com
  Using intricate choreography and cues, the Angel Shadows — dancers and puppeteers — propel the Angel into the air and operate her heavy wings.
  
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• Let’s Reconsider Sleepless in Seattle From Walter’s Perspective

  21-06-2018 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sleepless in Seattle is a wonderful, fundamentally hopeful movie that contains many lovely elements, including Tom Hanks at his Tom Hanks-iest; Meg Ryan at the height of her rom-com powers; a soundtrack filled with sweet standards; the direction of Nora Ephron, who also co-wrote the screenplay and spikes its sentimentality...More »
  
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• Samantha Bee: Trump ‘Fixed’ His Child-Separation Policy ‘With the Next Worst Thing’

  21-06-2018 15:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you’re uncomfortable with what Samantha Bee calls “our new pre-K prisons,” good news, the president fixed it with the next worst thing. On Full Frontal last night, Bee addressed Trump’s executive order ending his own family-separation policy, which still allows the government to detain families together. “Baby jails are...More »
  
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• Martin Sorrell hits out at WPP ‘leaks’

  21-06-2018 14:31 via ft.com
  Ad boss complains about ‘salacious stuff’ thrown around in the media after his exit
  
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• Vertical media mergers are just so 19th century

  21-06-2018 14:29 via ft.com
  AT&T and Comcast are trying to go big when they should aim for nimble
  
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• Culture secretary urges BBC to appoint female Question Time host

  21-06-2018 14:12 via theguardian.com
  Matt Hancock backs calls for a woman to replace David Dimbleby on politics showThe culture secretary has called on the BBC to appoint a woman to replace David Dimbleby as the host of Question Time.Dimbleby, 79, who has chaired the most high-profile British political TV show for 25 years, announced this week he would step down in December, sparking widespread debate over who should take over the role. Continue reading...
  
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• Review: In ‘Araby,’ the Story of a Wandering Laborer

  21-06-2018 14:06 via nytimes.com
  This Brazilian drama from João Dumans and Affonso Uchôa is about the nagging sadness of life.
  
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• What Is James Corden’s Favorite Late Late Show Moment?

  21-06-2018 14:00 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 host of CBS’s Late Late Show humbly reveals why his fan-driven episode featuring the cast of The Avengers: Infinity War is his favorite of the season, and why his Into the Woods...More »
  
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• Remembering TV’s Day of Compassion, 25 Years Later

  21-06-2018 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the spring of 1992, One Life to Live sent two of its newest characters on a collision course. The small fictional town of Llanview could be a tough place to be queer, and as rumors began to circulate about young Billy Douglas (Ryan Phillippe, in his first-ever screen role),...More »
  
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