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• Keith Lemon: Coming in America review – unrelentingly awful but very, very funny

  05-07-2018 23:50
  Leigh Francis has stretched his comic creation paper thin over the past 18 years, but there is a weird purity that tickles my fancyIt may be wrong to describe Keith Lemon as one of television’s most enduring personalities, but he is certainly one of the most persistent. Over 18 years, Leigh Francis’s characterisation has been stretched paper thin across more than a dozen formats and vehicles, including 19 series of Celebrity Juice, five of Through the Keyhole and a poorly received fe
  
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• 10 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend

  05-07-2018 23:00 via nytimes.com
  Previews, openings and some last-chance picks.
  
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• How GLOW Made Its Most Delightful Episode Yet

  05-07-2018 22:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  What does GLOW’s show within a show actually look like? In season two of the stellar Netflix comedy about an all-female ’80s wrestling show, viewers finally get to see what the Gorgeous Ladies spend so much time, sweat, and energy putting on the airwaves of Los Angeles — and surprise!...More »
  
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• Doug Stanhope Remembers Sean Rouse, the ‘Best Comedian You’ve Never Heard Of’

  05-07-2018 21:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sean Rouse died on June 29, 2018, at the elderly age of 43 years old, leaving a large hole in the fabric of brilliant, brave, and sinister comedy, still wearing the thorny crown of “best comedian you’ve never heard of.”Sean lived most of his life with his candle burning at...More »
  
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• Every Drake Music Video, Ranked From Worst to Best

  05-07-2018 21:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  As one of the most vital and impactful pop stars of the last decade, Drake has established himself as a trendsetter and a canny trend-chaser across pop, rap, and R&B: Even at his most vampiric, he’s succeeded at elevating the sounds of the underground to the mainstream, and even at...More »
  
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• Test Syndication

  05-07-2018 21:47 via feedproxy.google.com
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• How Realistic Are Hollywood Hacking Scenes?

  05-07-2018 21:46 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.We all remember that moment in virtually every crime thriller where a hacker types furiously on their keyboard, then dramatically looks up at the protagonist and says something like “I’m in,”...More »
  
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• What Was the Eyeliner on the Queer Eye Guys?

  05-07-2018 21:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  Perhaps, while watching episode five of the second season of Queer Eye, in which the Fab Five worked with their first trans makeover subject Skyler, you noticed the black eye makeup sported not just by design expert Bobby but also food expert Antoni. And perhaps, like us, you thought, That...More »
  
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• Bulletin Board: When a Spoiled Batman Comic Has Unintended Consequences

  05-07-2018 20:58 via nytimes.com
  After readers expressed disappointment with The Times for how it handled issue No. 50 of Batman, several of our journalists responded to questions and feedback on our use of spoilers.
  
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• Learn How to Be a ‘Great Guy With a Gun’ With This Handy Guide From Michelle Wolf

  05-07-2018 20:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  As the saying that Donald Trump and the NRA are fond of using goes, “the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.” But when you’re at work, how exactly do you go about being the good guy with a gun...More »
  
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• Fan Yourself: Idris Elba Will Play the Villain Opposite the Rock and Jason Statham in Fast and Furious Spinoff

  05-07-2018 20:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  The BDE meme may have already run its course, but now there’s going to be a Fast and the Furious movie that is the living embodiment of it. Variety reports that Idris Elba is in final negotiations to play the villain in Universal’s much-hyped Fast and Furious spinoff that’s centered...More »
  
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• Review: ‘Whitney,’ a Pop Music Tragedy, Is Sad, Strange and Dismaying

  05-07-2018 20:25 via nytimes.com
  A new documentary argues for the unhappy life of Whitney Houston, who died in 2012.
  
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• Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee May Not Be Made for These Times

  05-07-2018 20:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  The tenth season of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, which starts streaming Friday, marks the first fresh batch of episodes since host Jerry Seinfeld moved the chat show from Crackle to Netflix. Neither the switch nor the specter of a lawsuit regarding the creation of the series has led to...More »
  
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• In the Dark’s Madeleine Baran on the Curtis Flowers Investigation

  05-07-2018 20:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the Dark, the investigative podcast by APM Reports, published the final episode of its excellent second season on Tuesday. In its sophomore effort, Peabody-winning reporter Madeleine Baran and her team examined the troubling case of Curtis Flowers, a black man accused of murdering four people in Mississippi two decades...More »
  
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• Revisiting the Beatles’ Cartoon LSD Utopia Yellow Submarine

  05-07-2018 19:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  Excepting five minutes near the tail end of the film, the Beatles are nowhere to be found in The Beatles’ Yellow Submarine. The Fab Four make a cameo appearance as their live-action selves to do some light prop comedy and cue up the final sing-along of multilingual toe-tapper “All Together...More »
  
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• James Woods Says His Agent, a True Patriot, Dropped Him on July Fourth

  05-07-2018 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  James Woods has somehow managed to get a Hollywood agent to act according to his conscience. On Twitter today, Woods shared a screenshot of an email he said he received from his agent Ken Kaplan on the Fourth of July, in which Kaplan said he was “feeling patriotic” and had...More »
  
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• Review: ‘The Royal Family of Broadway,’ This Time in Song

  05-07-2018 18:39 via nytimes.com
  A long aborning musical adaptation of the classic backstage comedy demotes a clan of highbrow actors to tacky vaudevillians.
  
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• Trans Actors Slam Scarlett Johannson Rub & Tug Casting

  05-07-2018 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Scarlett Johansson is facing backlash from trans actors in Hollywood after the Ghost in the Shell star signed on to play a trans crime boss in a new film. Titled Rub & Tug, the movie will reunite Johansson with her Ghost director Rupert Sanders, and Johansson will play trans crime...More »
  
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• Susan Seidelman on Madonna, Roseanne, and Her Punk Classic Smithereens

  05-07-2018 18:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  When the Quad Cinema announced their retrospective series “The New York Woman” (running through July 19), Susan Seidelman’s inclusion was a given; the Philadelphia-born, NYU-educated filmmaker directed two of the great New York movies of the ’80s (Smithereens and Desperately Seeking Susan), and the pilot for one of the great...More »
  
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• Scott Thompson on CODCO, the Hidden Gem of Newfoundland

  05-07-2018 17:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  One of the first monologues Scott Thompson performed for Kids in the Hall centered on his Canadian identity. “Americans know as much about Canada as straight people do about gays,” he purred to camera as his foppish alter ego Buddy Cole. So it’s no surprise that one of Thompson’s favorite sketch...More »
  
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• Sharp Objects Is Much More Than a Small-Town Murder Mystery

  05-07-2018 17:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Dead girls everywhere,” laments a character in HBO’s Sharp Objects. She’s talking about more than the preteen bodies found piling up in Wind Gap, Missouri, where hometown gal Camille Preaker (Amy Adams) has returned to write a story for her St. Louis newspaper and come to terms with her haunted past. Based...More »
  
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• Scarlett Johansson’s Casting as Transgender Man Draws a Backlash

  05-07-2018 17:13 via nytimes.com
  Transgender actors led the criticism of her role in the film “Rub & Tug,” saying such casting takes opportunities away from members of marginalized communities.
  
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• Encounters: Nick Offerman Becomes a Roadie for His Wife, Megan Mullally

  05-07-2018 16:38 via nytimes.com
  The gruff but lovable actor, famous for “Parks and Recreation,” has his first starring role in a feature film, “Hearts Beat Loud.”
  
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• European copyright overhaul rejected by MEPs

  05-07-2018 15:54 via ft.com
  Partial win for internet companies after halt to update intended for digital age
  
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• Rita Moreno Delivers a Moving Rendition of The New Colossus on the Fourth of July

  05-07-2018 15:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  "It seemed as if she was a vision from heaven and it's been with me ever since," Rita Moreno describes the Statue of Liberty at the Fireworks Spectacular for TicToc by Bloomberg (@tictoc) July 5, 2018Rita Moreno and Natalie Cortez sing "West Side Story" song "America" at the Boston Pops...More »
  
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• Streaming: 3 Sobering Documentaries on Netflix, Fandor and Field of Vision

  05-07-2018 15:31 via nytimes.com
  “Recovery Boys,” “The Pain of Others” and “Dancing With Le Pen”: Opioid addiction, mysterious disease and incipient European fascism in streaming films.
  
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• Claude Lanzmann, Epic Chronicler of the Holocaust, Dies at 92

  05-07-2018 15:08 via nytimes.com
  His obsession with the Nazi genocide brought forth “Shoah,” a film recognized as both an important historical record and an original work of art.
  
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• The Raucous Sorry to Bother You Is the Punk Film 2018 Deserves

  05-07-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  This review originally ran during the Sundance Film Festival.The film industry loves to indulge actors who get the directing bug, for better or worse — you can look at this year’s (or any other) Sundance lineup for proof of that. Sorry to Bother You makes me wish that more musicians...More »
  
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• I Have Some Questions About the Ants in Ant-Man and the Wasp

  05-07-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Marvel superhero Ant-Man isn’t just called that because he can shrink down to the size of a breadcrumb and become impossibly strong for his size, as ants are. He’s also called Ant-Man because, well, he gets along with them. He might be the greatest friend to ants since the...More »
  
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• YouTube and Facebook escape billions in copyright payouts after EU vote

  05-07-2018 14:44
  Controversial new law that critics claimed threatened internet freedom is rejectedGoogle, YouTube and Facebook could escape having to make billions in payouts to press publishers, record labels and artists after EU lawmakers voted to reject proposed changes to copyright rules that aimed to make the tech companies share more of their revenues.The proposed new rules, which have been going through the European parliament for almost two years, have sparked an increasingly bitter battle between the i
  
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• Review: In ‘The Citizen,’ an Immigrant Picks a Bad Time to Fall in Love

  05-07-2018 14:00 via nytimes.com
  This Hungarian film is a careful, compassionate and beautifully acted character drama with a social conscience.
  
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• Review: Six Strongmen Cultivate ‘A Skin So Soft’

  05-07-2018 13:00 via nytimes.com
  Denis Côté’s latest documentary is an artfully surreal study of dedicated musclemen.
  
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• Review: ‘Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda’ Shows a Composer Attuned to Nature

  05-07-2018 13:00 via nytimes.com
  Stephen Nomura Schible’s film is an uncommonly engaging artist portrait.
  
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• Review: ‘Moss’ Meanders Through a Southern Coming-of-Age

  05-07-2018 13:00 via nytimes.com
  The sense of place is as pervasive as a character in “Moss,” a film by Daniel Peddle.
  
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• Review: Jackie Chan Battles a Goofy Plot in ‘Bleeding Steel’

  05-07-2018 13:00 via nytimes.com
  It’s a ridiculous movie, but Jackie Chan is still the most talented and witty athlete in cinema.
  
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• Review: In ‘Constructing Albert,’ a Chef’s Ambition, Meticulously Plated

  05-07-2018 13:00 via nytimes.com
  Filmmakers follow the Spanish chef Albert Adrià as he works to open the restaurant Enigma in Barcelona.
  
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• Review: From Sundance, Shorts Tour the Country

  05-07-2018 13:00 via nytimes.com
  It’s hard to believe that this program represents the best shorts that the Sundance Film Festival had to offer.
  
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• Review: An Icelandic Suburb Hides Deep Dysfunction ‘Under the Tree’

  05-07-2018 13:00 via nytimes.com
  In this pitch-black Icelandic farce, a suburban feud over a lovely old tree threatens to destroy two families.
  
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• Shoah director Claude Lanzmann dies aged 92

  05-07-2018 12:37
  Giant of French intellectual life known for his heavyweight journalism and series of documentaries about the HolocaustClaude Lanzmann, the French film-maker and journalist who was best known for the exhaustive Holocaust documentary Shoah, has died aged 92. Lanzmann’s family confirmed his death to Le Monde, though its cause has not been revealed.The son of Russian Jewish immigrants to France, Lanzmann was born in Paris in 1925, and as a teenager fought in the resistance before studying phil
  
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• Sacha Baron Cohen hints at project satirising Trump University

  05-07-2018 12:09
  Borat star posts video showing logo of president’s controversial ‘university’ alongside message ‘Sacha Graduates Soon’A cryptic video posted on Twitter by Sacha Baron Cohen suggests that the actor and comedian behind Borat and Brüno may be about to release a film taking aim at Trump University.A tweet posted on Baron Cohen’s account on Wednesday read “A message from your President @realDonaldTrump on Independence Day” accompanied by a short vi
  
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• London Theater Reviews: London’s Stages Are Awash With American Plays

  05-07-2018 10:41 via nytimes.com
  From big-name musicals to challenging new work at small theaters, the Yanks are everywhere.
  
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• Four Musicals on Three Continents: An Australian Company’s Big Bet

  05-07-2018 10:00 via nytimes.com
  Global Creatures, a company founded by a wealthy Australian, is breaking into theater with high-profile, big budget productions, including “King Kong” on Broadway.
  
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• Jim Broadbent, Judi Dench to Star In Film Co-Written By Eddie Izzard

  05-07-2018 07:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  Because we all need something to look forward to, rest assured that your favorite pretend professor will once again be returning to a classroom environment in the upcoming film Six Minutes to Midnight. The Hollywood Reporter has announced that Broadbent will be joining a cast no one could hate, including...More »
  
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• Video of Andy Dick Groping Ivanka Trump Resurfaces After His Arrest for Sexual Battery

  05-07-2018 07:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  This week, Andy Dick was arrested and charged with sexual battery in Los Angeles for allegedly touching and making inappropriate comments to a woman passing him on the sidewalk. And now, a video of the comedian rubbing Ivanka Trump’s legs on television in 2007 has resurfaced. In the clip, both...More »
  
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• Thursday’s best TV: John Bishop: In Conversation With Professor Green; Humans

  05-07-2018 07:00
  The rapper is the first guest as the Liverpudlian comedian’s chatshow returns. Plus: the sci-fi drama’s finale10pm, W Continue reading...
  
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• Driving profits: how the car-cam became comedy's favourite vehicle

  05-07-2018 07:00
  From James Corden and Peter Kay to Jerry Seinfeld, comedians are using the cheap and simple device to make lucrative TVJerry Seinfeld’s formula for Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, which returns to Netflix this week, is beautifully simple. Load up a car with GoPro cameras, drive one of your pals around, go and get a drink, repeat. Not every episode is a success – in the case of Christoph Waltz’s episode, it may actively stink – but it’s only 15 minutes long. Comedi
  
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• Second Woman Accuses The Proposal Contestant of Misconduct

  05-07-2018 06:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  Last month, a contestant on ABC’s The Proposal was accused of having allegedly lured a Wisconsin woman into a date rape. Now, the “aspiring comedian” Michael Friday has been accused by a second woman of allegedly sexually assaulting her himself. Karina Solina spoke to The Daily Beast about her experience,...More »
  
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