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• Tyra Banks Gets Her Life-Size 2 Human Co-Star and It’s Not Lindsay Lohan

  09-07-2018 23:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  There’s good news and there’s bad news: First, that long-awaited Life-Size sequel once again starring Tyra Banks as the doll magically turned human Eve, is officially in production. But, alas, Lindsay Lohan won’t also be back as her actually human companion. Banks has announced that her co-star this time around...More »
  
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• Sharp Objects review – the new Big Little Lies? It’s much better than that

  09-07-2018 23:15
  Amy Adams is in career-best form in this mean, moody and magnificent Missouri-set murder mysterySharp Objects recap: season one, episode one
  Are you in the mood for voluntarily admitting more darkness into your life? That is the question. I do understand if you’re not. But, if you are, or even if you are vacillating, Sharp Objects should be your very first choice.Adapted from Gillian “Gone Girl” Flynn’s twisty, twisted debut novel by Marti Noxon (most recently showrunner
  
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• YouTube to invest $25m to boost ‘authoritative’ news

  09-07-2018 23:00 via ft.com
  Video site seeks to curb fake news ahead of US midterm elections
  
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• Harvey Weinstein Pleads Not Guilty to New Charges

  09-07-2018 22:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  On Monday morning, Harvey Weinstein appeared in court and pleaded not guilty to three new counts filed by the Manhattan district attorney. Last week, Cyrus Vance Jr. filed three new charges against the ex-Weinstein Company producer, stemming from a new victim who says Weinstein attacked her in 2006: an additional...More »
  
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• TV Dramas Are Too Quiet

  09-07-2018 22:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  The first episode of Sharp Objects is beautifully confident. It moves between different timelines in a way that’s moody and meaningful, its performances are persuasive and mysterious, and the atmosphere is somehow both otherworldly and absolutely real.But also, I couldn’t hear all of the dialogue.I’ll admit that this is a...More »
  
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• Drake Just Broke a Historic Record Set by the Beatles

  09-07-2018 21:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  Drake just can’t stop making history. After setting a new global benchmark with a record billion streams for an album in one week, Scorpion has now all but monopolized the Billboard Hot 100. Drake has debuted four new songs from the album in the Top 10 this week — a...More »
  
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• Brantley in Britain: Women Set London’s Stages Ablaze

  09-07-2018 21:32 via nytimes.com
  Fiery performances by Lia Williams in “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” and Adrienne Warren in “Tina” newly illuminate familiar female characters.
  
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• Ron Howard Directing 68 Whiskey Dark-Comedy Pilot at Paramount Network

  09-07-2018 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  An Israeli television series that premiered in 2016 is getting an adaptation in the U.S. with backing from Ron Howard. Deadline reports that Paramount Network has given a pilot order to a dark comedy titled 68 Whiskey, which Howard is attached to direct and produce. Based on Israel’s series Charlie...More »
  
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• Campaign to Taunt Trump With ‘American Idiot’ Ahead of U.K. Visit Is Actually Working

  09-07-2018 21:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  Later this week, Donald Trump will pay a presidential visit to British prime minister Theresa May in the U.K. Prior to the scheduled visit, he reportedly requested that May block all protests of his arrival, which May is said to have told him would be impossible. Now a social-media campaign...More »
  
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• Martin Sorrell beats WPP to MediaMonks acquisition

  09-07-2018 21:24 via ft.com
  First acquisition for new venture will cost up to £300m
  
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• Fox prepares new Sky offer to outbid Comcast

  09-07-2018 19:35 via ft.com
  Countermove to US cable group for pan-Europe TV channel could come this week
  
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• All of the Hidden Words You Missed in Sharp Objects

  09-07-2018 19:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  The first episode of Sharp Objects is full of shadows and echoes and things you can’t quite fully glimpse — mysteries you know are there but can’t yet see, stories with contours you can’t totally make out. There are histories lurking underneath everything, and so far, all we can see...More »
  
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• Review: ‘Antigone’ Asserts Whose Lives Matter, With Modern Relevance

  09-07-2018 19:09 via nytimes.com
  Defiance and justice drive this brisk staging from the Classical Theater of Harlem, directed by Carl Cofield.
  
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• John Cleese blasts the BBC in lecture on the rise of stupidity

  09-07-2018 17:49
  The Fawlty Towers star rails against the government, the BBC and British newspapers in stage appearance for Hacked OffIt was hard to know what to expect of a solo show by John Cleese, organised by campaign group Hacked Off. On 29 June, the comedian tweeted that it would be a “speech” but, by 5 July, he was calling it a “new one-hour comedy show”. Cleese has experimented with standup as crowd-funding before. The audience for The Alimony Tour helped to pay for his third div
  
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• Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Jacob the Bar Mitzvah Boy (But Were Afraid to Ask)

  09-07-2018 17:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  Of course, in hindsight, breakout SNL characters make sense. But usually they’re a struggle or a shot in the dark. Jacob the Bar Mitzvah Boy, Vanessa Bayer’s lovable little Jewish boy she performed on the show nine times (ten, if you include the sketch he was a bit player in...More »
  
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• Jerry O’Connell, Man Who Likes Bravo, Is Getting a Talk Show for Men Who Like Bravo

  09-07-2018 17:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  Andy Cohen has granted the wish of one kid in need. That kid is Jerry O’Connell, and his need is to have his own talk show. Yes, Jerry O’Connell, the celebrity who is possibly the thirstiest to get his own TV platform (remember when he guest-hosted Wendy Williams?), is hosting...More »
  
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• Harvey Weinstein Is Reportedly Working As a Paralegal Now

  09-07-2018 17:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  Meanwhile, Harvey Weinstein has picked up a new gig. The ex-Weinstein Company boss appeared in court Monday morning to be be indicted on charges filed last week. (Weinstein was accused of a forceful sexual act in 2006; these new charges carry a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.) After the hearing,...More »
  
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• Tab Hunter, 86, 1950s Hollywood Heartthrob, Is Dead

  09-07-2018 16:40 via nytimes.com
  One of the last products of the studio system, Mr. Hunter made an unlikely comeback in 1981 in the quirky and very un-Hollywood “Polyester.”
  
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• Orange Is the New Black Season 6 Trailer: Litchfield Goes to the Max

  09-07-2018 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  In season six, Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black is shipping off its characters to maximum security. While the women reconfigure into new alliances — turns out your place in prison depends on the color of your uniform — the Litchfield authorities are still working to place charges on the...More »
  
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• Harvey Weinstein out on bail after pleading not guilty to sex assault charges

  09-07-2018 16:23
  Charges involding third woman added to previous indictment
  Lawyer Brafman says: ‘Today we won this round’
  Harvey Weinstein appeared in court in New York on Monday, to plead not guilty to charges including two counts of predatory sexual assault, which carries a maximum sentence of life in prison.The film producer was released on bail. His lawyer said more charges were expected. Related: Weinstein lawyers fear 'bad PR' could taint jury in sexual assault trialContinue reading...
  
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• Tab Hunter, 1950s Hollywood heart-throb, dies aged 86

  09-07-2018 16:20
  Hunter embodied the clean-cut ‘beefcake’ image but was forced to deny his gay sexuality for yearsTab Hunter, the actor who found fame in the 1950s as a Hollywood heartthrob but who was forced to cover up his gay sexuality, has died aged 86. A Facebook account for Tab Hunter Confidential, a recently released documentary about him, posted the news, but did not give a cause of death.Born Arthur Andrew Kelm in 1931, Hunter broke into movies in the 1950 film noir The Lawless after a spell
  
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• Insecure Trailer: What Exactly Is Going on Between Issa and Daniel?!

  09-07-2018 16:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  There comes a time in every single woman’s life when she has to … move back in with the guy she cheated on her boyfriend with?! Insecure is almost back for season three, and HBO has dropped a new trailer to make sure you’re making all the necessary arrangements. From...More »
  
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• Drake’s Scorpion Set a New Global Record in Just One Week

  09-07-2018 16:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  We may never know if Kiki does still, truly, love Drake or ride for him, but here’s some news to placate his insecurities: Drake’s latest album Scorpion has set a new global record. The album is now the first to reach 1 billion streams in a week across all services,...More »
  
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• Abortion Gets a Patriotic Salute Thanks to Michelle Wolf

  09-07-2018 15:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  With the news that Justice Kennedy is retiring from the Supreme Court and Trump is set to announce a replacement, a big concern right now is the future of reproductive rights, which Michelle Wolf outlined during the latest episode of The Break. “Now men, I’m sorry — I’m sure this...More »
  
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• Tab Hunter, a Hollywood Heartthrob Who Later Came Out, Dead at 86

  09-07-2018 15:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  Tab Hunter, a Hollywood heartthrob of the 1950s who came out late in his life, has died at 86, according to a Facebook page linked to the actor. Hunter, who was born Arthur Gelien in 1931, rose to fame in the 1950s with roles as an approachable, all-American boy in...More »
  
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• The Real Housewives of Potomac Recap: Bonjour!

  09-07-2018 15:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  Bonjour, tout le monde! Cette semaine, les femmes au foyer voyagent au Cannes! La ville du cinéma, de la Riviera, des touristes américaines! Cet épisode léger n’a pas beaucoup d’intrigue mais la variation du paysage me manque l’année j’ai passé en France. C’est vrai, mes lecteurs! Je me suis specialisée...More »
  
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• The Favourite Trailer: Olivia Colman, Emma Stone, and Rachel Weisz Get Royally Mad

  09-07-2018 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  After the grim and unsettling The Killing of a Sacred Deer, Yorgos Lanthimos has returned with The Favourite, in which Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz, and Olivia Colman jockey for power (and rabbits?) in early 18th-century England. Lady Sarah (Weisz) runs things for the ill and odd Queen Anne (Colman). New...More »
  
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• We need a publicly funded rival to Facebook and Google

  09-07-2018 14:23 via ft.com
  The BBC stands as a model for how we can fight abuses and improve online services
  
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• In Conversation: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  09-07-2018 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is the rare contemporary novelist to have earned celebrity status as a result of both her art and her politics, to the diminishment of neither. Her award-winning, best-selling novels, Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun, combine graceful storytelling with real moral heft; that latter quality also...More »
  
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• An undercooked Alan Partridge: exploring Rob Brydon’s talkshow fail

  09-07-2018 14:00
  While Marion & Geoff had pathos and poetry, The Keith Barret Show jumped the shark with its very existenceIf TV programmes can jump the shark then so too can characters. And if producers aren’t careful then beloved creations will be leapfrogging a great white quicker than you can say “David Brent’s got an album out”.Keith Barret’s first TV appearance was in the 2000 BBC mockumentary Marion & Geoff. Series one consisted of 10 nine-minute episodes in which Bar
  
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• Sharp Objects Premiere Recap: Homecoming

  09-07-2018 13:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sharp Objects is, in a word, bruising. The Gillian Flynn–based and Jean Marc-Vallée–helmed series doesn’t have the hard-bitten noir manner I expected. It’s something more beguiling instead, like the dark turn from some lost fairy tale. But the damsels and villains aren’t so easy to parse out.“Vanish” begins with what...More »
  
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• Too much TV! The big-budget shows you probably haven't heard of

  09-07-2018 12:54
  Mr Mercedes, Future Man, Sweetbitter and StartUp – all real TV shows, all largely unwatched and unloved. But should you bother with them?Terrific news. The second series of Mr Mercedes starts in just over a month. You know, Mr Mercedes. The series based on Stephen King’s 2014 novel. Mr Mercedes, remember? It’s about a cat-and-mouse game between a psychopath and a retired detective. David E Kelly is the showrunner. Brendan Gleeson is in it. Anyone? Mr Mercedes? Anyone? No?Oh, fi
  
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• Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl Turns 15: Revisit the Red Carpet Premiere at Disneyland

  09-07-2018 12:30 via feeds.eonline.com
  It's no secret that Pirates of the Caribbean is a global phenomenon.But, when the Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures movie had its world premiere at Disneyland on June 28, 2003, few...
  
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• Is YouTube Premium worth paying for?

  09-07-2018 09:00
  Early signs for the video site’s new premium service are promising – if no threat to Netflix just yetA couple of months ago, I wrote about the steady if unglamorous rise of YouTube as a viable home-viewing outlet beyond the realm of viral videos and self-help tutorials, mainly on pleasingly casual, unmonitored terms – a treasure trove of vintage cinema, for example, for those willing to do the digging. But I mentioned that the video behemoth’s first subscription streaming
  
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• Drake Raps ‘Behind Barz’ Freestyle, Because 25 Songs Just Wasn’t Enough

  09-07-2018 08:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I got way too big off Views/ Back to the basics, I won’t lose,” Drake declares in his new freestyle, which dropped just over a week after the release of his 25-track double album Scorpion. He performed it for UK rap channel Link Up TV’s video series “Behind Barz,” but really, he...More »
  
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• Monday’s best TV: Sharp Objects; Who Do You Think You Are?

  09-07-2018 07:30
  Amy Adams stars in an adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s debut novel as a fragile journo returning home, while Olivia Colman kicks of a new series of the genealogy show and discovers she isn’t Norfolk through and throughAll the prestige drama pieces are in place for this take on the old idea of a cop/journalist investigating a murder in the small home town they traumatically left years ago. Amy Adams is the fragile, grief-clouded journo who’s returned from the big smoke; Patricia Cl
  
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• Sun, sea and subtitles - how Eldorado became TV's biggest flop

  09-07-2018 07:00
  It was made in a rush in the stifling Spanish heat, the cast included a passing teenage beach bum – and it costa packet. Eldorado was meant to be the new EastEnders – but 25 years since it was axed, it’s still a byword for disasterKai Maurer didn’t know that bleaching his hair would change his life. It was 1992 and the 18-year-old German was bumming around in southern Spain, searching for sun and all the other Ss. He dyed his long brown hair blond for a bet.Next thing he
  
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• Simon Pegg: ‘I was lost, unhappy and an alcoholic’

  09-07-2018 07:00
  The actor’s tortuous depression led him to drink, then to rehab. He opens up about self-destruction, fatherhood – and his friend Tom Cruise. Photographs: Suki Dhanda for the GuardianSimon Pegg has brought a bit of Hollywood with him. Not just the shades and a shiny smile, but the scorching weather, too. This setting seems apt. Pegg is here to promote his latest outing in the Mission: Impossible franchise, and – because this is the start of his promotional campaign and because h
  
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• Apple slices into Spotify’s lead in US music market

  09-07-2018 06:13 via ft.com
  Iphone maker expected to have more US subscribers by end of the year
  
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• Apple slices into Spotify’s lead in US music market 

  09-07-2018 06:13 via ft.com
  About 1m paid subscribers behind, tech giant won more listeners for Drake album
  
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• Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup, by John Carreyrou

  09-07-2018 06:00 via ft.com
  A riveting chronicle of the Theranos saga
  
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• Are telecoms companies losing the brand battle? 

  09-07-2018 06:00 via ft.com
  ‘What’s next?’ moment as sector seeks connection with younger customers
  
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• The SpongeBob Musical Will End Its Broadway Run in September

  09-07-2018 05:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical is set to end its Broadway run on Sunday, September 16, and not just because all its characters could really, really use a long soak. No, according to the show’s official release, SpongBob’s undersea adventure has to dip from the Palace Theatre due to “previously...More »
  
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• Matthew MacFadyen on Playing Succession’s Biggest Oddball

  09-07-2018 05:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  Everyone in HBO’s Succession is bound together by a greedy killer instinct. Everyone, that is, except for Tom Wamsgans (Matthew Macfadyen), a character who’s part audience proxy and part comic relief: He’s the dopey Minnesota man marrying into the obscenely wealthy Roy family. Where his fiancé, Shiv (Sarah Snook), is...More »
  
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• Robin Wright Breaks Her Silence About Kevin Spacey: ‘I Didn’t Know The Man’

  09-07-2018 05:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  As part of the long lead up to House of Card’s sixth and final season, the show’s new commander-in-chief Robin Wright sits down with Today host Savannah Guthrie to discuss her former co-star Kevin Spacey, who was fired from the HBO series after facing accusations of sexual misconduct. If you’re...More »
  
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• Preacher Recap: Tulip Fever

  09-07-2018 05:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the lead-up to season three, Preacher has run an aggressive campaign, with ads advising the “easily offended” against watching the show. It’s obviously a bit tongue-in-cheek, if not completely unwarranted given the show’s penchant for chaos and blasphemy. For the most part, this season has been pretty good about...More »
  
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• Jean-Marc Vallée’s Evolution to Sharp Objects From Big Little Lies

  09-07-2018 04:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  Big Little Lies was an HBO drama, directed by Jean-Marc Vallée, with a murder mystery embedded in its intoxicating center. The same can be said about Sharp Objects, the HBO limited series based on Gillian Flynn’s novel that’s directed and edited by Vallée.The two overlap in a number of ways,...More »
  
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• Sharp Objects recap: season one, episode one – Vanish

  09-07-2018 04:15
  A troubled hack, a missing girl and a family with dark secrets: this adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s debut novel has all the makings of a classicThis adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s debut novel looked extremely promising from the off, with its tantalising trailer and top-notch cast. The prospect of Amy Adams, Patricia Clarkson and Elizabeth Perkins navigating a sultry murder-mystery was almost too good to be true, but, on the basis of the first episode, it lives up to all expectations. I
  
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• ‘SpongeBob’ Musical Will Close on Broadway and Plan for a Tour

  09-07-2018 04:00 via nytimes.com
  The show was developed with high hopes by Nickelodeon, its lead producer, but when it closes in September it will have run for less than a year.
  
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• Pose Recap: Chicken Patty

  09-07-2018 04:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The episode starts off right where it should, with Angel and Patty’s confrontation. However, they’ve moved from the street outside the ball, where they were at the end of last episode, to a booth at the diner. Angel starts by saying, “I don’t know what to say.” Girl, you should...More »
  
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