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• Rich Hall’s Working for the American Dream review: he’s Sigmund Freud in a cowboy hat

  04-07-2018 23:30 via theguardian.com
  The comedian meanders over the Mason-Dixon Line in his attempt to pin down the abstract concept that binds the US togetherRich Hall is standing in front of a huge stars and stripes painted on a wall in a cold, grey, sad, post-industrial town in the midwest. He has fired TV missives/missiles from over there before – about his native south, native Americans on the big screen and country music. This time, he is taking on the big one: he is Sigmund Freud in a cowboy ha
  
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• Anatomy of a Scene | ‘Leave No Trace’

  04-07-2018 23:07 via nytimes.com
  Debra Granik narrates a sequence from her film featuring Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie and Ben Foster.
  
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• Jay-Z Told Will Smith The Video of Him Slapping a Russian Reporter Was the Best Work of His Life

  04-07-2018 22:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  In a new interview with TIDAL’s Rap Radar, Will Smith talks about working on a brand-new album (“I’m in the studio now and I have real things to say.”), Kanye West (“He’s making people think.”) and that all-white Batman costume son Jaden wore to prom and Kim and Kanye’s wedding...More »
  
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• Critic’s Notebook: Orlando Bloom and Aidan Turner Are Drenched in Blood in London

  04-07-2018 22:30 via nytimes.com
  Crowd-drawing revivals of “Killer Joe” and “The Lieutenant of Inishmore” find two movie matinee idols transformed into mindless sociopaths.
  
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• Martin Sorrell venture seeks approval to issue shares

  04-07-2018 20:21 via ft.com
  Former WPP boss lays ground for anticipated deal spree
  
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• Sony Accidentally Uploads Entire Film to YouTube Instead of Red-Band Trailer

  04-07-2018 20:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  Spending a lazy morning burning through red-band trailers in front of your A/C unit seems like the perfect way to spend your Fourth of July anyway, but viewers who clicked on Sony Pictures’ Khali the Killer: Official Red-Band Trailer got more than they bargained for. First noticed by CBR.com, it...More »
  
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• Terry Gilliam on diversity: 'I tell the world now I’m a black lesbian'

  04-07-2018 18:30
  The film-maker weighs in on the controversy surrounding BBC comedy chief Shane Allen’s comment about ‘six Oxbridge white blokes’Terry Gilliam has responded to the BBC diversity debate which referenced Monty Python by saying: “I tell the world now I’m a black lesbian.”Gilliam was commenting on the row over diversity triggered by the BBC’s unveiling of its new comedy programming, announced in June, at which the BBC’s controller of comedy commissionin
  
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• Jar Jar Binks Actor Says He Contemplated Suicide After Star Wars Prequel Backlash

  04-07-2018 18:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  Anyone alive and old enough to see a PG movie in 1999 undoubtedly remembers the avalanche of fan hatred that surrounded Jar Jar Binks, the goofy (literally, he was based on Disney’s Goofy) alien who served as comic relief in George Lucas’s Star Wars prequels The Phantom Menace, Attack of...More »
  
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• Review: ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp’ Save the World! With Jokes!

  04-07-2018 17:57 via nytimes.com
  Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly and a host of other familiar faces join this latest Marvel adventure.
  
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• Suzanne Somers Defends ‘Big Flirt’ Morgan Freeman Following Sexual Harassment Allegations

  04-07-2018 17:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  While appearing on Fox’s The Ingraham Angle Tuesday evening, actress Suzanne Somers went to bat for friend Morgan Freeman, defending him as a “big flirt” following accusations of sexual harassment made against him by eight women. “Well, this probably won’t be real popular, but I think that women…I totally understand...More »
  
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• The First Purge Is Predictable, But Shockingly Resonant

  04-07-2018 17:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  How about that horror genre! If nothing else, you can rely on it to bring worst-case scenarios to roaring life, often way before other, more reputable forms (i.e., prestige cable miniseries or Oscar-bait empowerment sagas). Consider: It has been years since Black Lives Matter made its first stand against overweening...More »
  
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• Yvette Nicole Brown Reportedly Takes Over Chris Hardwick’s Walking Dead Comic-Con Panels

  04-07-2018 16:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  As first revealed by Deadline and later confirmed by Variety, actress Yvette Nicole Brown will reportedly be taking over Chris Hardwick’s long-standing moderating duties at San Diego Comic-Con International later this month. Following allegations of sexual and emotional abuse lodged by his ex-girlfriend Chloe Dykstra, AMC had decided in June...More »
  
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• Robby Müller, celebrated cinematographer of Down by Law and Paris, Texas, dies age 78

  04-07-2018 16:07
  Müller rose to venerated status in the film industry with sublime work for Wim Wenders, Jim Jarmusch and Lars von TrierCelebrated cinematographer Robby Müller, best known for his work on films by Wim Wenders, Jim Jarmusch and Lars von Trier, has died at 78. Dutch publication Het Parool reports that he died at his home in Amsterdam, after several years of vascular dementia which left him unable to talk or move independently.Born in Curaçao (then part of the Netherlands Antilles)
  
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• Facebook’s fight against fake news

  04-07-2018 15:56 via ft.com
  The company is taking on the internet’s ‘bad guys’ – but who will come out on top?
  
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• Three suspects charged with kidnapping Halloween actor

  04-07-2018 15:49
  Daisy McCrackin and fellow actor Joseph Capone were allegedly held for 30 hours and ordered to pay a $10,000 ransomThree suspects were charged on Tuesday with kidnapping Daisy McCrackin, an actor and musician who appeared in Halloween: Resurrection, and fellow actor Joseph Capone from a Los Angeles home and holding one of them naked in a bathtub for 30 hours, while demanding the other pay a $10,000 ransom, prosecutors said.Keith Andre Stewart, Johntae Jones and Amber Neal were charged with kidna
  
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• Scarlett Johansson responds to criticism over her casting in Rub & Tug

  04-07-2018 15:11
  Johansson is expected to star in film based on real-life massage parlour owner Dante ‘Tex’ Gill, who identified as a manScarlett Johansson has responded to online criticism after it was announced she would take the role of Dante “Tex” Gill in the forthcoming feature Rub & Tug.Gill – born Lois Jean Gill – was a notorious massage-parlour operator in late-70s and early-80s Pittsburgh who lived as a man, adopting male clothing and hairstyles. An obituary print
  
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• Scarlett Johannson responds to criticism over her casting in Rub & Tug

  04-07-2018 15:11
  Johannson is expected to star in film based on real-life massage parlour owner Dante ‘Tex’ Gill, who identified as a manScarlett Johansson has responded to online criticism after it was announced she would take the role of Dante “Tex” Gill in the forthcoming feature Rub & Tug.Gill – born Lois Jean Gill – was a notorious massage-parlour operator in late-70s and early-80s Pittsburgh who lived as a man, adopting male clothing and hairstyles. An obituary print
  
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• Sacred Games: can Netflix's Mumbai mob drama turn India on to TV?

  04-07-2018 14:57 via theguardian.com
  Indian audiences traditionally see the small screen as a poor cousin to Bollywood movies. But Netflix is hoping this gritty crime series will pull in a new, internet-savvy viewerNetflix’s plans for global domination take another step forward on Friday with the release of its first original Indian TV series Sacred Games. One of several Indian shows greenlit by the streaming service, it is hoped that the crime drama will follow in the footsteps of Narcos, another international series that re
  
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• How the NHS inspired 60 years of heart-stopping TV drama

  04-07-2018 12:49 via theguardian.com
  From Emergency – Ward 10 to mainstays such as Casualty, the health service has been a rich source of inspiration. But why do NHS dramas endure?People in TV medical shows tend to have a compromised life expectancy. From the moment a character actor is wheeled into Casualty with an odd cough or strange rash, it’s rarely long before the regular cast members are shouting “Stand clear!” and trying to shock them back to consciousness. Real patients, meanwhile, need to have some
  
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• Jar Jar Binks actor 'considered suicide' after Star Wars prequel backlash

  04-07-2018 12:18
  Ahmed Best has opened up about how difficult he found the abuse that met his first major screen role, as the CGI comic relief in The Phantom MenaceAhmed Best, the actor who supplied the motion-capture performance and voice of Jar Jar Binks in the little-loved Star Wars prequels, has said the reception to his role led him to consider taking his own life. Best, who was 25 at the time of the release of the first in the trilogy of prequels, The Phantom Menace, in 1999, tweeted that he “faced a
  
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• Power of the image holds sway in Brazil’s election

  04-07-2018 11:00 via ft.com
  Traditional media favours established parties in a country with a wide digital divide
  
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• Kevin Spacey faces new sex assault allegations

  04-07-2018 10:46
  Scotland Yard investigating claims Spacey assaulted men in the UK, in addition to already open inquiries on a string of previous allegationsPolice are investigating three more allegations of sexual assault against Kevin Spacey. Scotland Yard now has six open investigations into claims that the Oscar-winning actor attacked men in the UK. It did not identify the American as the suspect but said on Wednesday that Metropolitan Police detectives are investigating a man over three more claims, two in
  
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• Lakeith Stanfield Is Playing Us All

  04-07-2018 10:00 via nytimes.com
  The new symbol of Hollywood weird, who is starring in “Sorry to Bother You,” refuses to be categorized as part of a movement. “I’m just doing me.”
  
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• Wednesday’s best TV: Rich Hall’s Working for the American Dream; The NHS Big Singalong Live

  04-07-2018 07:20 via theguardian.com
  The American comedian weaves a compelling narrative around his country’s foundation story; a concert marks 70 years of Nye Bevan’s celebrated brainchild. Plus the return of This Is UsAnother of Hall’s witty and perceptive rambles through American mythos. This time, he is shooting at the biggest beast of all: the foundation story that has underpinned the greatest achievements – and the deepest hypocrisies – that the country has to offer. From the arrival of the
  
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• Donald Trump Walks Us Through America’s Independence On Late Night

  04-07-2018 07:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s not often the lowlife lost souls of late night give Donald Trump a chance to defend his view of the world. But tonight on Late Night With Seth Meyers, the comedian gave us a glimpse into a Trump-ified version of a American history. From it we learned many historical...More »
  
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• The Handmaid’s Tale Recap: Breastfeeding Blues

  04-07-2018 07:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you ever want some unsolicited advice, tell people you’re having trouble breastfeeding. Tips and tricks — massage techniques, special cookies, nipple stimulation, hot showers, fenugreek capsules, dark beer, yeasty beer, any beer you want, no alcohol whatsoever, something called “pumping power hour” — will come barreling out of their...More »
  
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• Nailed It! review – a comedy baking show that revels in disaster

  04-07-2018 07:00 via theguardian.com
  The only option for the contestants in this fun Netflix series is failure, as they attempt ever more complicated masterpiecesI am trying to think of a situation where you might have watched this last night. Yay, England won, let’s celebrate by watching elaborate cake baking. Boo, England lost, let’s seek comfort in cake. Yay, England lost, let’s celebrate with cake, because we are Colombian, Scottish, Welsh, etc. Boo, we hate football, instead we are going to binge-watch a baki
  
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• Ella Mai Releases ‘Boo’d Up’ Remix with Nicki Minaj and Quavo

  04-07-2018 06:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  This year’s summer love jam just got so much better, if that was even possible. R&B newcomer Ella Mai just released a remix of her viral hit ‘Boo’d Up’. And just who is on this remix, you ask? Oh, just Quavo and Nicki Minaj, NBD (screams internally until sometime next...More »
  
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• Meryl Streep To Play Aunt March In the New Little Women

  04-07-2018 05:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Greta Gerwig is directing a new adaptation of Little Women and pretty much everyone in Hollywood is here for it. Saoirse Ronan, Emma Stone, Florence Pugh, and Timothée Chalamet are currently in talks to star, along with none other than Meryl flippin’ Streep. And while many assumed the queen of...More »
  
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• The Sopranos Prequel Movie Has A Director

  04-07-2018 03:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  In case you missed the latest fan club newsletter, the acclaimed HBO drama The Sopranos is getting its own prequel. The show’s creator David Chase and writer Lawrence Konner have already penned the screenplay for a feature film about the DiMeo family during the time before Tony Soprano took the...More »
  
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• The Bold Type Recap: Hire Me

  04-07-2018 03:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Okay, Bold Type darlings, there is much to be discussed as Kat, Jane, and Sutton have some very tough conversations to get through this week, but first: karaoke. Listen, I love a good TV musical moment as much as the next recapper, and one of the best things about The...More »
  
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• Scarlett Johansson Issues Statement About Rub & Tug Casting Backlash

  04-07-2018 01:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  News broke yesterday that Scarlett Johansson would be re-teaming with her Ghost In The Shell director Rupert Sanders for the movie Rub & Tug, about a Pittsburgh-based crime boss who was known for mob feuds and running a string of massage parlors that doubled as prostitution hubs during the 1970s...More »
  
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• Print advertising woes weigh on Telegraph owner

  04-07-2018 01:01 via ft.com
  Annual operating profit at TMG has dropped more than 32 per cent to £21m
  
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• Brendan Dassey’s Former Making A Murderer Lawyer Arrested For Stalking

  04-07-2018 00:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  The former lawyer of Brendan Dassey, who became known to the public on the true crime series Making a Murderer, is in legal trouble of his own. The website Law&Crime reports that Len Kachinsky was arrested Monday in Winnebago County, Wisconsin for alleged stalking and violation of a temporary restraining...More »
  
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