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• Miles Teller Edges Out Other Swaggering Young Actors For Top Gun 2 Role

  03-07-2018 23:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  Last week it was reported that Nicholas Hoult, Miles Teller, and Glen Powell were all in the final running for the coveted role of Goose’s son in Top Gun 2, a character that will feature heavily opposite Tom Cruise, who is reprising his role as Maverick. Today, Variety reports that...More »
  
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• Where Are All the Celebrities in The Handmaid’s Tale?

  03-07-2018 22:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  Last week’s episode of The Handmaid’s Tale was brutal: June gives birth by herself in an abandoned mansion, torn between whether to escape or whether to seek medical help as she nearly bleeds to death. It was harrowingly tough to watch, which meant it was basically par for the course...More »
  
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• Soon You’ll Be Able to Buy Sorry to Bother You Weed

  03-07-2018 21:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sorry to Bother You, Boots Riley’s anti-capitalist pop art picture, stars Lakeith Stanfield as a novice telemarketer caught between a populist uprising and a private prison system. But even an anti-capitalist movie needs merch, and the official Sorry to Bother You merch store has plenty of goodies you can buy...More »
  
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• Review: Mary-Louise Parker, Resounding in ‘The Sound Inside’

  03-07-2018 21:29 via nytimes.com
  Adam Rapp’s new play, about a Yale professor and a freshman writing student, gets a stunning premiere at the Williamstown Theater Festival.
  
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• So, Jon Voight and Stacey Dash Are Starring in Nick Loeb’s Secret Roe v. Wade Movie

  03-07-2018 21:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  Meanwhile in New Orleans: Nick Loeb (Sofia Vergara’s ex) is directing an anti-abortion movie starring Stacey Dash and Jon Voight. The film has been kept secret as the crew secures filming locations, according to The Hollywood Reporter, but the magazine did manage to get a few details: Voight and Robert...More »
  
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• Kevin Spacey Under Investigation for 3 More Sexual-Assault Claims in London

  03-07-2018 20:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  London’s Metropolitan Police are investigating reports from three more men claiming that Kevin Spacey sexually assaulted them, according to TMZ. The London police had previously opened investigations into two claims against Spacey last November, while Scotland Yard opened another this January, bringing the total number of cases to six. According...More »
  
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• Meanwhile, Justin Timberlake Wants the Song of the Summer

  03-07-2018 20:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  Though we’ve already collectively decided Cardi B will reign supreme for a second consecutive summer, some people just can’t let others have their joy in peace. Justin Timberlake, apparently consumed by FOMO, has dropped a surprise single many months after Man of the Woods (remember that?) that has nothing to...More »
  
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• 12 Movies to See This Fourth of July

  03-07-2018 19:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  With the Fourth of July, a heat wave across the East Coast, and a roiling political nightmare happening all at once, there’s no better place to spend a day off than inside a pitch-black, air-conditioned movie theater. Here are our critics’ favorite films now in theaters that you can catch...More »
  
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• Nothing Is More American Than Simpsons Writer Bill Oakley’s Fast Food Reviews

  03-07-2018 19:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  Bill Oakley is best known for writing on shows like The Simpsons, Mission Hill, and Portlandia, but on top of his work in the comedy world, Oakley has also carved out a role for himself as the preeminent fast-food critic of 2018. Since early May, Oakley has transformed his Instagram...More »
  
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• Katharine McPhee and David Foster Are Engaged Now

  03-07-2018 19:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  Fade in on a girl … with a ring on her finger. Smash and Waitress star Katharine McPhee is engaged to David Foster. McPhee’s rep confirmed the engagement to TMZ. The pair have been dating since last year. The marriage will be McPhee’s second, and Foster’s fifth (he was previously...More »
  
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• Guy Pearce Says Kevin Spacey Was a ‘Handsy Guy’ on Set

  03-07-2018 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  During a talk on the Australian TV show Interview this week, actor Guy Pearce described his former L.A. Confidential co-star Kevin Spacey as “a handsy guy,” “Page Six” reports. This comes after multiple men have stepped forward to accuse Spacey of sexual misconduct — including actor Anthony Rapp, who claimed Spacey tried to initiate sex with him in...More »
  
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• DJ Jazzy Jeff Knows What Makes a Perfect Summer Song

  03-07-2018 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Mariah Carey owns Christmas. Earth, Wind and Fire owns September (the 21st of the month, in particular). Prince, and not the Y2K bug, owns the year 1999.DJ Jazzy Jeff may not own summer to the extent that those previously mentioned own their particular holidays or dates, but he certainly has...More »
  
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• Review: On Staten Island, ‘The First Purge’ Rages

  03-07-2018 18:47 via nytimes.com
  This prequel to the popular franchise outlines the events preceding the annual slash-a-thon and wonders: What if you held a massacre and hardly anyone came?
  
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• In ‘Yellow Submarine,’ the Graphic Novel, the Blue Meanies Are at It Again

  03-07-2018 18:47 via nytimes.com
  A long-delayed adaptation will be published in August.
  
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• From a Basement to Carnegie Hall: A Eulogy for UCB’s Del Close Marathon in New York

  03-07-2018 18:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  I am onstage with an array of faux Bruce Springsteens for a show called Springsteen Prov, which is something that happens in the wee hours of the morning during the Del Close Marathon every year. It’s John Murray’s show, but he wrangles as many people as he possibly can to...More »
  
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• Review: In ‘Fireworks,’ Second Chances, but No Magic

  03-07-2018 18:32 via nytimes.com
  From a producer of “Your Name,” “Fireworks” doesn’t realize its potential, our critic writes.
  
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• Ben Whishaw on A Very English Scandal, Singing in Mary Poppins, and Why Q Should Be the New 007

  03-07-2018 18:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  Few actors do anguish as well as Ben Whishaw. Though he’s best known as James Bond’s gadget-loving sidekick Q, the BAFTA-winning Brit has wowed audiences for well over a decade by playing a string of tormented characters on stage and screen: Hamlet, John Keats, Herman Melville, Keith Richards, Bob Dylan,...More »
  
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• Last Man Standing Is Recasting Two Characters Who Are Not Played by Tim Allen

  03-07-2018 18:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  Fox wanted to revive Last Man Standing, and seems less interested in whoever else is sitting near him. Per TVLine, the series will recast the roles played by Molly Ephraim (one of Allen’s daughters on the show) and Flynn Morrison (his grandson) before it returns this fall. Nancy Travis (who...More »
  
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• Richard Swift, the Shins and Black Keys Performer, Dead at 41

  03-07-2018 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Richard Swift, best known for playing with the Shins, Black Keys, and the Arcs, has died at 41. His representative confirmed the news to Pitchfork. Swift had been suffering from an undisclosed “life-threatening condition,” and a GoFundMe was launched last month to pay for his medical expenses. Swift, who was...More »
  
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• Jackie Is the Perfect Fourth of July Movie for Your American Despair

  03-07-2018 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Do you, like Ariana Grande, feel like licking a donut and proclaiming that you hate America right now? Do you, like 48.2 percent of voters, believe that Hillary Clinton ought to have been elected president? Do you, like me, think that maybe Natalie Portman should’ve won an Oscar for a...More »
  
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• 7 Days With the Most Talented Theater Teens in the Country

  03-07-2018 17:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  For a certain group of musical theater fans, Christmas comes in June.This Christmas has everything yours does. It has beloved songs. It has lights. It has pageantry. It bestows gifts. It involves pilgrimages across great distances. It is the Jimmy Awards, and it is the most wonderful time of the...More »
  
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• Marti Noxon on Sharp Objects, Joss Whedon, and Going ‘Toe-to-Toe’ With Jean-Marc Vallée

  03-07-2018 16:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  Marti Noxon was writing television about angry, self-destructive, messed-up women long before it was in the Zeitgeist. Back in 2001, she was promoted to showrunner of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She’d been writing on Buffy since season two, but the season she helmed — the sixth — would prove to...More »
  
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• Kay Cannon Wants More Shows Like Fleabag on TV

  03-07-2018 16:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  Over the last ten years, Kay Cannon has specialized in mainstream comedy curation. As an Emmy-nominated writer and producer on the groundbreaking 30 Rock, scribe for all three blockbuster Pitch Perfect films, and director of this year’s subversively sweet take on the raunchy R-rated comedy, Blockers, Cannon hasn’t just pushed...More »
  
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• Does Leave No Trace Give Us Our First Look at the Real Ben Foster?

  03-07-2018 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Is Ben Foster the best actor who’s never been nominated for an Oscar? I mean, probably not: that’s a ridiculously numerous and talented group of folks, including men and women whose nominations haven’t come for a variety of unfair reasons, from race to gender to the size of the films...More »
  
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• You Must Remember This Is Back With an Investigation of Hollywood’s ‘Urban Legends’

  03-07-2018 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Fans of You Must Remember This, rejoice! Karina Longworth’s sublime history podcast focused on the hidden side of 20th-century Hollywood returns today with a whole new fount of stories. This season, Longworth trains her attention on Hollywood Babylon, an infamous 1959 book by the avant-garde filmmaker Kenneth Anger that drew...More »
  
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• 7 New Books You Should Read This July

  03-07-2018 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Each month, Boris Kachka offers nonfiction and fiction book recommendations. You should read as many of them as possible....More »
  
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• Heatwave and World Cup results in awful weekend at box office

  03-07-2018 15:27
  Sicario sequel fails to dislodge Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom as UK cinemas record second-worst week this year A combination of sizzling temperatures and World Cup football saw box office receipts plummet in the UK, as audiences shunned the cinema in favour of TV screens and outdoor pursuits. The market delivered its second worst weekend for cinemagoing so far this year. The only session that performed worse in 2018 was the weekend prior to the release of Avengers: Infinity War, which was nota
  
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• The Story Behind Sorry to Bother You’s Technicolor Costumes

  03-07-2018 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Lakeith Stanfield is a telemarketing everyman dressed haphazardly, wearing fuzzy patterned sweaters that add a sort of visual slouch to his character. Armie Hammer is a hypermasculine business czar, dressed like any other multi-millionaire roaming around Williamsburg looking for a culture to appropriate. Tessa Thompson is Stanfield’s girlfriend, with hyperchromatic...More »
  
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• ‘We Have to Do the Show’: What Spring Awakening Means to Parkland Shooting Survivors

  03-07-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Three months after the Valentine’s Day massacre at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, Sawyer Garrity and five of her peers performed in a local production of Spring Awakening — a show they started rehearsing before the mass shooting that claimed 17 of their schoolmates. Their rehearsals and performances...More »
  
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• The Bachelorette Recap: Virginia is for Lovers?

  03-07-2018 14:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  There was one clue that Chris was doomed. There was one sign that everything was falling apart. Before he walked alone (with a camera crew) through the dark historic streets to Becca’s hotel room. Before he threw a fit at the cocktail party. Before he pulled what we in the...More »
  
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• Guy Pearce suggests he was groped by Kevin Spacey on set of LA Confidential

  03-07-2018 14:12
  Actor claims on Australian TV that Spacey was ‘handsy’ during making of 1997 filmGuy Pearce has suggested he was groped by Kevin Spacey when the pair appeared together in the 1997 film LA Confidential.In an interview with Andrew Denton on the Australian talk show Interview, Pearce was asked for his thoughts on working with Spacey. The actor replied: “Yeah … yeah. Tough one to talk about at the moment. Amazing actor; incredible actor. Mmm. Slightly difficult time with Kev
  
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• Dani Dyer, Love Island and the curse of reality stars turned actors

  03-07-2018 12:53 via theguardian.com
  Dyer is set to follow in her father’s footsteps towards low-budget British film stardom. But she should heed the warnings of Leona Lewis and Jedward …O31 won’t be the first film Dani Dyer has appeared in – she has previously been seen in fare like Age of Kill, We Still Kill the Old Way and Bonded by Blood 2 – but it will be the first film she’ll make as a newly minted Love Island star. By the time O31 comes out, she will be legitimately famous. Or at least, a
  
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• What's on Netflix and Amazon this month – July 2018

  03-07-2018 12:26 via theguardian.com
  Our regularly updated monthly rundown of the best of what’s new to Netflix, Amazon, iPlayer, All4 and Sky in the UK Continue reading...
  
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• How The Lone Ranger's Failure Set Armie Hammer Up for Success

  03-07-2018 12:00 via feeds.eonline.com
  The Lone Ranger was supposed to make Armie Hammer a star.But, even before the movie was released five years ago, on July 3, 2013, the blockbuster was plagued with production problems....
  
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• Summer’s Most Style-Savvy Movie Is a Cartoon

  03-07-2018 11:00 via nytimes.com
  In “Incredibles 2,” the house emerges as the breakout star.
  
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• From Rita Ora to Roseanne: celebrity apologies, rated!

  03-07-2018 10:00 via theguardian.com
  More and more famous people are issuing public apologies for things they’ve done, said or tweeted. But what is the best way to say sorry? Modern Toss on celebrity apologiesIt was Elton John, pop’s wisest banger merchant, who once said: “Sorry seems to be the hardest word,” and Elt and Blue were right about that. It’s especially tricky for celebrities. In a culture that has realised unchecked behaviour that damages others is not cool, more and more famous people have
  
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• Tuesday’s best TV: Shades of Blue; Colombia v England

  03-07-2018 07:20 via theguardian.com
  Jennifer Lopez and Ray Liotta return for a third season of crime-busting, while Gareth Southgate’s boys face Falcao et al9pm, Sky Living Continue reading...
  
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• HBO’s New Late-Night Show Random Acts of Flyness Is Touching Down in August

  03-07-2018 07:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  Between Netflix, HBO and the streaming platforms, soon there will be so much new late-night TV, you’ll never sleep again. Which seems like it would put you in the perfect receptive state to really take in HBO’s upcoming late-night comedy show Random Acts of Flyness.Terence Nance, a filmmaker and artist...More »
  
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• This Is Us: the heartstring tugger is cathartic TV at its best

  03-07-2018 07:00 via theguardian.com
  As the hit US drama returns for a second season, it’s not a moment too soon for this reviewer, who finds comfort in its deeply affecting emotional messagesSpoiler alert: plot details are revealed for the first season of This Is Us, do not read unless you are up to date.
  When More4 finally announced an air date for season two of This Is Us, my worn-out brain gave a sigh of relief. This Is Us is the TV equivalent of spending an hour reading in a hammock with a long-cold drink. The other bypr
  
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• First a Fox Pilot, Romantic Musical Drama Mixtape Now Heads to Netflix

  03-07-2018 05:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s been a very good day for you, musical nerds who are not satisfied with merely dominating the stage. First Sterling K. Brown was set to star in Waves, “a musical almost entirely synchronized to music,” for A24. Now, Josh Safran’s romantic musical series Mixtape gets a ten-episode order from...More »
  
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• Dietland Recap: What if Your Dreams Are Killing People?

  03-07-2018 04:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  Plum awakens the morning after her assault in “Plum Tuckered” to find herself in a locked bedroom. Sana, delivering a change of clothes, claims, “These quiet rooms are for reflection. You’re free to leave if you want to” – but though her door is eventually left open for her to...More »
  
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• Watch the Trailer for the Jay-Z Produced Docuseries Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story

  03-07-2018 03:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  The new official trailer for Paramount Network’s docuseries Rest In Power: The Trayvon Martin Story, executive produced by Shawn Carter, traces the birth of the Black Lives Matter movement back to the 17-year-old’s shooting death at the hands of George Zimmerman on February 26, 2012. Claiming self-defense, Zimmerman was later...More »
  
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• Scarlett Johansson Joins Ghost in the Shell Director’s Massage Parlor Mob Drama Rub & Tug

  03-07-2018 02:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  Scarlett Johansson and Ghost in the Shell director Rupert Sanders are teaming up once again, and while there doesn’t seem to be any white-washing going on this time around, according to Deadline, Johansson will be starring in a biopic about Dante “Tex” Gill, born Jean Gill, a transmasculine crime boss...More »
  
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• Sterling K. Brown and Lucas Hedges To Star In The Coming of Age Musical Waves

  03-07-2018 02:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you didn’t watch last year’s extremely slow burning horror film It Comes At Night and think, “This director really needs to make a musical,” then shame on you. Variety is reporting that Trey Edward Shults has written and will direct “a dramatic musical with a fresh spin” that is...More »
  
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• Gillian Lynne, Choreographer of ‘Cats,’ Is Dead at 92

  03-07-2018 01:52 via nytimes.com
  After a long and successful career as a ballerina, Ms. Lynne found greater fame creating dances for Andrew Lloyd Webber and others.
  
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• Jessica Chastain and Five Guys Who May All Be James McAvoy Are Having a Great Time in This It: Chapter Two Cast Photo

  03-07-2018 01:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  this is a photo of three james mcavoys, a bill hader, and a bill hader after he got genetically spliced with chris pratt Angie J. Han (@ajhan) July 2, 2018...More »
  
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• Review: ‘Sorry to Bother You,’ but Can I Interest You in a Wild Dystopian Satire?

  03-07-2018 00:27 via nytimes.com
  In his debut feature, starring Lakeith Stanfield, Boots Riley takes on race, class, technology and telemarketing.
  
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• New on Showtime: July 2018

  03-07-2018 00:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you like heist movies and musicals: Baby DriverBaby Driver is a musical for people who like car chases and firefights, a heist movie with a choreographer’s heart and a drummer’s rhythm. Playing fast and loose with caper tropes, Edgar Wright’s film about a skilled driver named Baby trying to...More »
  
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