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• The Affair series 4 review – a return to form for those who are still watching

  26-06-2018 23:10
  The US drama exploring relationships lost its way in the third season – but this first episode of its fourth run offers plenty of humour and potentialI was screaming into the canyon, At the moment of my death, The echo I created, Outlasted my last breath… wails Fiona Apple again, burrowing back into your head, and signifying another season – the fourth – of The Affair. We left it – you may remember if you had stuck with it (and it was easy to become unstuck in the
  
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• David Lynch and Donald Trump: A Brief, Surreal History

  26-06-2018 22:12 via nytimes.com
  “You are causing suffering and division,” the filmmaker wrote to Mr. Trump in an open letter on Facebook, the day after the president mentioned him at a rally.
  
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• Review: ‘Sicario: Day of the Soldado’ Blends War Movie and Western

  26-06-2018 21:57 via nytimes.com
  This sequel to “Sicario,” starring Benicio Del Toro and Josh Brolin, is also a geopolitical action thriller and a samurai picture.
  
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• Diana Trout’s 6 Greatest Necklaces, As Chosen by Younger’s Costume Designer

  26-06-2018 21:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  Younger’s Diana Trout, goddess divine of the fictional publishing world, is known for three things: hollering “Liza!” throughout the Empirical offices, strategically stroking Charles’s torso with the back of her hand, and wearing the hell out of her fabulous necklaces. Oh, those necklaces! Diana’s neckwear is pretty much the most...More »
  
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• The Secret Life of Sven

  26-06-2018 21:37 via nytimes.com
  How a onetime acrobat and a “Lion King” puppet designer brought a speechless reindeer to life in Disney’s stage adaptation of “Frozen” on Broadway.
  
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• How Do I Deal With Harassment at My New TV Writing Job?

  26-06-2018 21:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  As a former comedy agent at UTA and WME, Priyanka Mattoo represented numerous big-name writers and performers before leaving to start a TV production company with Jack Black. Now she writes and directs, but she still encounters a tidal wave of comedy hopefuls looking for the advice, information, and pep...More »
  
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• 5 Reasons Why We’ll Miss Jordan, The Bachelorette’s Silliest Villain

  26-06-2018 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Let’s be clear: Jordan from The Bachelorette would be a nightmare of a hang. He only talks about himself, tries to send hidden messages with his outfit choices, and you’d risk serious face-bloat thanks to the sheer amount of salt spray in his hair. But as far as reality-TV entertainment...More »
  
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• David Lynch responds to Trump: ‘You are causing suffering and division’

  26-06-2018 20:59
  After the president referred to a Guardian interview at a rally, the film-maker released a statement imploring him to change his waysDavid Lynch has released a statement addressed to Donald Trump, urging him to rethink the way he is leading America.In an interview with the Guardian, published on 23 June, the film-maker said that Trump “could go down as one of the greatest presidents in history because he has disrupted the thing so much”. Lynch also said that no one is able to counter
  
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• Category Is … Filmmaker Realness

  26-06-2018 20:52 via nytimes.com
  Before Elegance Bratton turned his lens on ballroom culture in Harlem, he starred in a real-life drama that took him from homeless shelters to the Marines.
  
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• David Lynch Is Now Asking Trump To Stop Causing ‘Suffering and Division’

  26-06-2018 20:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  In a recent interview with the Guardian, David Lynch said Donald Trump had the potential “go down as one of the greatest presidents in history,” because he’s proven so adept at “disrupting” the system and exposing other elected officials as ineffectual children. “No one is able to counter this guy...More »
  
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• Teyana Taylor Finally Gets Her Moment to Shine on K.T.S.E.

  26-06-2018 20:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  The first time I heard Teyana Taylor’s voice, she was telling people to Google her. I thought it was outrageous behavior, using a debut single to snap on people for not remembering her name after an appearance on MTV’s My Super Sweet 16, but it’s also textbook Harlem arrogance to...More »
  
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• History of a Meme: The T-Rex Costume

  26-06-2018 20:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  Whether at parties or protests, mowing the lawn or trick-or-treating on the White House lawn, we’ve seen the T-Rex costume everywhere. But how did the movie-specific Jurassic World inflatable T-Rex costume become so ubiquitous, adding instant prehistoric comedy to any viral video that features it? The designers and several of...More »
  
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• Hannah Gadsby's Nanette dares to dream of a different future – for ourselves and comedy | Jane Howard

  26-06-2018 20:00
  The simplicity of the Australian standup’s Netflix special gives us space to laugh and cry, and inspires us to tell our own storiesNanette was billed as Hannah Gadsby’s departure from comedy. Instead, it has become the work that cemented the Australian’s career. A deconstruction of the form, the show won the major comedy awards in Adelaide, Melbourne and Edinburgh, before she took it to the US where the New York Times dubbed Gadsby “a major new voice in comedy”. Now
  
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• Terry Crews Details His Sexual Assault in Powerful Testimony to Senate

  26-06-2018 19:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  On Tuesday, Brooklyn Nine-Nine star Terry Crews appeared in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee to testify about his own story of sexual assault and to advocate for the Sexual Assault Survivors’ Bill of Rights. “I guess that’s why we have this full room today,” the committee’s ranking member Dianne...More »
  
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• Jacinda Barrett Defends her Ex-Boyfriend Chris Hardwick on Instagram

  26-06-2018 19:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  After Chloe Dykstra wrote an essay describing the sexual and emotional abuse of an ex-boyfriend, who many deduced was Chris Hardwick, some close to the podcaster and TV host have come to his defense. Hardwick denied the allegations, claiming that he was “blindsided by her post” and that “our three...More »
  
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• Critic’s Notebook: Sleights of Hand With Cards, Coins and a Colander

  26-06-2018 19:24 via nytimes.com
  The magicians Joshua Jay and Vitaly Beckman, both in one-man shows in Manhattan, are exploring uses of enchantment. And kitchen supplies.
  
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• GLOW Is Back in the Ring and Even Better in Season Two

  26-06-2018 19:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  In a way, the first season of GLOW was an origin story that explained how a group of superheroes — the ’80s ladies who joined the cast of an all-female wrestling show — developed their costumed alter egos and discovered their hidden powers. Which makes GLOW’s follow-up season the equivalent of...More »
  
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• ‘Antigone in Ferguson’ Will Come to Harlem Stage This Fall

  26-06-2018 19:00 via nytimes.com
  The work is an adaptation of Sophocles’s Greek tragedy that was conceived in the wake of Michael Brown’s 2014 death in Missouri.
  
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• What Westworld’s Ratings Slump Means for HBO

  26-06-2018 18:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  HBO’s Westworld ended its second season Sunday with plenty of unsolved plot mysteries, lots of social-media debate over its creative choices … and an unmistakably smaller audience than it had in season one. As measured by Nielsen, Westworld’s linear audience (including those who watched via DVR within three days of...More »
  
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• The Explosive Story Behind Three Identical Strangers

  26-06-2018 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Talking about the gobsmacking new documentary Three Identical Strangers is tricky. The ideal experience would be to see the film absolutely cold, with no knowledge whatsoever about the identical triplets of the title, who didn’t know about each other until they met by happenstance in their late teens. But for...More »
  
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• Too Many Cooks Creator Casper Kelly Is Back With a Video Game Walk-through From Hell

  26-06-2018 17:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  Casper Kelly, the mastermind behind Adult Swim’s super-viral 2014 video/4 a.m. short Too Many Cooks, has returned to the network this week with a new and equally evil creation. Titled Final Deployment 4: Queen Battle Walkthrough, the 20-minute short aired at 4 a.m. today, and like Too Many Cooks, it’s...More »
  
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• ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic Explains Why Top Secret! Is the Funniest Film Ever Made

  26-06-2018 17:15 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.“Weird Al”...More »
  
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• Meek Mill Denied New Trial by Controversial Judge

  26-06-2018 17:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  On Monday, the controversial judge in the Meek Mill’s ongoing criminal case announced that the 31-year-old rap star would not be granted a new trial. “After an in-depth review of the record, court history, notes of testimony and evidence submitted at the evidentiary hearing,” Judge Genece Brinkley said, according to...More »
  
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• 'I do really care. Do U?': Kathy Griffin returns to US stage to take on Trump

  26-06-2018 16:36
  In her stateside comeback, the 57-year-old standup combines sharp jabs and political catharsis after being threatened over her now-infamous Trump photoIf there were such a thing as the perfect marriage of standup comic to sitting president, it might look like Kathy Griffin and Donald Trump. For all their differences – political, if not rhetorical – the two are uniquely suited to both the zeitgeist and one another, like Dick Cavett and Richard Nixon refurbished for the era of reality
  
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• Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Mister Rogers: Hollywood’s Newest Breakout Stars

  26-06-2018 16:29 via nytimes.com
  Documentaries about them are the surprise hits of the season. But exactly why these films are drawing moviegoers is up for debate.
  
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• HowStuffWorks Announces Two Very Spooky Podcasts

  26-06-2018 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  We are many, many moons away from Halloween, but that’s not stopping the Atlanta podcast giant HowStuffWorks from leaning into creepy fare for its next big releases. This morning, HowStuffWorks, which is responsible for podcasts like the stalwart Stuff You Should Know and the true-crime hit Atlanta Monster from earlier...More »
  
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• The Grammys Are Expanding All of Its Major Categories to 8 Nominees

  26-06-2018 15:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Grammys know it has a representation problem and have come up with an attempted fix modeled after the Oscars. Billboard reports that, starting next year, the Grammys are expanding all four of its major categories to now include up to eight nominees. Since the awards’ inception in 1959, only...More »
  
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• A Famous French Satirical Puppet Show Might Be Coming to the U.S.

  26-06-2018 15:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  Fox might adapt a long-running satirical puppet show from France for American audiences. According to Variety, the network has teamed up with David Javerbaum (The Daily Show, The Late Late Show With James Corden, Disjointed, @TheTweetOfGod) to write and produce a half-hour adaptation of Les Guignols, which aired in France...More »
  
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• Ant-Man and the Wasp: Inside the Star-Studded Premiere

  26-06-2018 15:30 via feeds.eonline.com
  The world premiere of Ant-Man and the Wasp was smaller in scale than the recently released Avengers: Infinity War, but it was no less star-studded. Actors David Dastmalchian, Michael Douglas,...
  
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• 55 Essential Queer Horror Films

  26-06-2018 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  From 1934 until 1967, Hollywood movies were shaped by the Production Code, otherwise known as the Hays Code. Written in 1930, but not implemented until four years later, this set of rules was generally intended to keep movies from “corrupting” the people who watched them. Given that homosexuality was considered...More »
  
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• Lindsay Lohan Is Planning an MTV Reality Show

  26-06-2018 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Lindsay Lohan has been busy. In her absence from Hollywood, the actress has become an international businesswoman. She’s opened a Greek beach club, called the Lohan Beach House, “along a healthy stretch of the Kalo Livadi beach,” according to the New York Times. Lohan has plans to open another beach...More »
  
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• Tech Tip: Find Free (Old) Feature Films Online

  26-06-2018 15:00 via nytimes.com
  Like books that have lost copyright protection, thousands of movies are in the public domain — to watch on your computer or mobile device, or through a set-top TV box.
  
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• Mitski’s New Video for ‘Nobody’ Makes Heartbreak Look Fun

  26-06-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Surprisingly, the best songs about heartbreak aren’t slow, morose ballads; they’re the ones that inspire you to dance it out, wildly and erratically. In fact, they’re disco. Think about how good it feels to dance to “I Will Survive” (when it’s not a karaoke song). Or how satisfying it is,...More »
  
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• The surprise team of the World Cup? Jon Champion and Ally McCoist

  26-06-2018 14:49
  The ITV commentators are not seen as a frontline pairing, but their amiable patter is a joy to listen to. Give them the final already – or at least a travel showThe best World Cups are defined by unexpected heroes, exuberant eccentrics or unfancied outsiders who rise to the occasion. So, who’s Russia 2018’s Roger Milla or Totò Schillaci? The clear breakout stars of the tournament so far are in the ITV commentary box: Jon Champion and Ally McCoist.The pair aren’t se
  
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• The Bachelorette Recap: Ooh Las Vegas

  26-06-2018 14:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Where did you find her?”“She was 200 miles from the U.S.–Mexico border. She snapped a Champagne glass in half and was holding the shard to the throat of a double-decker bus driver. She forced him to drive through the night. We found the bus in the parking lot of a...More »
  
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• Weinstein Company owes me nearly $1m, says Robert De Niro

  26-06-2018 12:48
  Actor claims the money is due to him for his Oscar-nominated role in the romantic comedy Silver Linings PlaybookRobert De Niro has joined the list of major film industry figures who are owed large sums of money by the Weinstein Company, it has been claimed.According to documents obtained by The Blast, De Niro says he has not been paid $940,000 due to him for his work on Silver Linings Playbook, the 2012 romantic comedy backed by the Weinstein Company, for which De Niro was nominated for a best s
  
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• Single black female: Love Island and the problem with race and dating

  26-06-2018 12:42
  Samira’s casting has shone a light on the Islander’s very slim definition of their ‘type’. For black women, the issue will be all-too familiarAs television continues slowly to diversify, the dating show Love Island has finally followed suit, with the casting of the show’s first black female contestant, Samira Mighty.Viewers have long complained that they are fed up with the conveyor belt of white women on the show. Yet her casting has only thrown into focus the stru
  
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• Wait, Leonard Bernstein Wrote a ‘Peter Pan’ Musical?

  26-06-2018 10:00 via nytimes.com
  It’s not the Mary Martin vehicle you loved as a child. But Bernstein’s version is getting a rare revival at the Bard SummerScape festival.
  
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• ‘It’s a lovely flat, there’s no willies’: Stath Lets Flats finds humour in the housing crisis

  26-06-2018 10:00
  The new Channel 4 series based around a dysfunctional letting agency feels like the perfect parable for our fractured Brexit age“Oh blimey hell, there’s a man in the bathroom. I can see his willy!” says an estate agent to two horrified-looking women, as he takes a peek into the bathroom and pulls the door closed. “Only joking,” he deadpans. “It’s a lovely flat, there’s no willies.” This isn’t the sort of patter salespeople usually give
  
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• Heather Locklear arrested for 'assaulting police and paramedic'

  26-06-2018 08:56
  Dynasty and Melrose Place actor charged after altercation at California homeThe US actor Heather Locklear has been arrested on suspicion of fighting with first responders for the second time this year, according to authorities in California. The star of Dynasty and Melrose Place appeared to be drunk when police officers arrived at her southern California home at about 11pm on Sunday to investigate a dispute between Locklear and either family members or friends, said the Ventura County sheriff ca
  
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• From Beavis and Butt-Head to Pimp My Ride: which MTV shows should be revived?

  26-06-2018 08:00
  The once-essential channel is bringing back some of its classic programmes, including Daria. Here’s our dream line-up from its vaultsHaving realised that it doesn’t really serve any purpose in 2018, MTV is getting into the nostalgia business. It recently revealed plans to revive some of its most-loved legacy properties. Daria is coming back, as is Aeon Flux, The Real World and Made. While this is good news – anything that breaks up the wall-to-wall monotony of endless Catfish e
  
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• Tuesday’s best TV: The Affair; NHS at 70 – Live; Legion

  26-06-2018 07:20
  Dominic West and Maura Tierney return for a fourth series, while the BBC hosts a debate about the future of the UK’s health service. Plus: the off-kilter sci-fi drama is back9pm, Sky Atlantic
  After a hiatus of 18 months, the multiple-perspective family-drama series starring Dominic West makes a welcome return for a fourth season. Tonight’s opener begins with a mystery – Noah Solloway (West) reporting a missing person. We then rewind to six weeks earlier, where Noah is attemptin
  
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• Jimmy Fallon Responds to Trump Tweet: ‘Shouldn’t He Have More Important Things to Do?’

  26-06-2018 06:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  Out of all of our current late-night hosts, Jimmy Fallon clearly just wants to show people a good time. Of course, that attitude drew criticism when it resulted in him petting Donald Trump’s hair during a Tonight Show interview back in September 2016. After he recently expressed regret about the...More »
  
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• Google criticised for push against EU copyright reform

  26-06-2018 06:00 via ft.com
  Search group asked news publishers to contact MEPs over control of access to articles
  
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• The Music in Drake’s Scorpion Album Trailer Gets You Ready for Emotional Annihilation

  26-06-2018 05:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  Isolation, longing, confusion, despair. Sounds like another excellent Drake album to us! Also, a very unnerving sci-fi film. If you listened to the moody new trailer for Drake’s upcoming album Scorpion, you undoubtedly noticed that it sounds a lot like the low, unnerving theme from Annihilation. According to Pitchfork, the...More »
  
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• Donald Trump Calls Jimmy Fallon a ‘Lost Soul’ During South Carolina Rally, Defends His Hair Again

  26-06-2018 04:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  You’re probably not surprised to learn that the feud between Donald Trump and Jimmy Fallon did not burn brightly and fade away after this weekend. Instead, the President packed it in his suitcase and brought it out for the cheering crowd at Monday’s rally for South Carolina Governor Henry McMasters. “Did...More »
  
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• Dietland Recap: We All Need To Worry

  26-06-2018 04:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  Dominic having convinced her in “F… This” to continue her New Baptist Plan in order to collect intel for him, Plum’s assignment this week is, as previously threatened, to go on some dates. It’s not great. Plum’s been around long enough to brace herself for “The Stare”: “a mixture of...More »
  
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• Review: Stephen Rea Is One Really Mad Man in ‘Cyprus Avenue’

  26-06-2018 03:45 via nytimes.com
  David Ireland’s bruising drama presents a Northern Irish variation on a very topical archetype — the angry white male under siege
  
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