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• The French Biopic Gauguin Is Surprisingly Dull, Considering Its Subject

  11-07-2018 23:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  The conceptual dullness of the new French biopic Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti hit me especially hard, since I was fired up to see those Tahitian pictures after a June trip to Paris and the Musee D’Orsay, where many of them reside. Have you been to a highly-touristed art museum lately?...More »
  
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• Safe! Judge Dismisses Art of Fielding Copyright Lawsuit

  11-07-2018 23:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  The literary lawsuit involving Chad Harbach’s baseball drama The Art of Fielding has been dismissed. Judge Alvin Hellerstein, of the Southern District of New York, found that plagiarism claim brought by restaurateur and writer Charles Green — who said that Harbach’s book was “substantially similar” to his unpublished college baseball novel, Bucky’s...More »
  
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• Picnic at Hanging Rock review – as mysterious as the film, but bigger in every way

  11-07-2018 23:00 via theguardian.com
  This ‘small-screen’ adaptation of Joan Lindsay’s novel shares the dreamy, eerie quality of the 1975 movie, but it has been fleshed out with intriguing backstoriesOn Valentine’s Day 1900, four young women vanished from a picnic at Hanging Rock in Victoria, Australia. That much I remember, from Peter Weir’s 1975 film. They didn’t really disappear, but it is framed as a true story – in Joan Lindsay’s novel, in the film and in this new TV adaption (BBC
  
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• Review: All the Feels, Hurts and Laughs of ‘Eighth Grade’

  11-07-2018 22:55 via nytimes.com
  In his feature directing debut, the comic Bo Burnham delivers a moving portrait of the YouTube artist as a comically, painfully true young girl.
  
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• Queen Sugar Recap: A Battle Is Coming

  11-07-2018 21:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  Last week’s episode served as a turning point for the Bordelon clan. Davis’ secret child became national news, Nova and Remy put their relationship on ice, and Ralph Angel and Darla had a major blow up. In this week’s episode, “Study War No More,” a family secret is brought to...More »
  
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• We’re Getting a Robocop Re-reboot From Neill Blomkamp

  11-07-2018 21:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  There’s going to be a new new Robocop in town. Deadline reports that sci-fi specialist Neill Blomkamp has signed on with MGM to direct a reboot of the franchise that is not connected to the 2014 RoboCop that starred Joel Kinnaman. The script comes from Ed Neumeier and Michael Miner,...More »
  
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• What Does Russia Look Like, Now? Expat Keith Gessen on His New Novel, Putin, and the Guy Worse Than Him in the White House

  11-07-2018 21:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  A character in Keith Gessen’s first novel, All the Sad Young Literary Men — a fractured portrait of three authorial alter egos, a study in ambition and romantic foolery and a forerunner of the autofiction movement of the past decade — remarks that New York City belongs to the young....More »
  
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• Watch If You Dare: 3 Very Dark Shorts

  11-07-2018 21:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  I hope I’m making the right decision here. I hope I’m doing my part to further the art form by refusing to censor. I hope I’m seen as a champion of free speech.But, what if I shouldn’t have given such a mouthpiece to creators whose minds wallow in the most...More »
  
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• Will Killing Eve Earn an Emmy Nomination for Outstanding Drama?

  11-07-2018 21:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  Last year, Emmy voters shook things up in the outstanding TV drama department by replacing a few longtime nominees with five brand-new series. When the 2018 Emmy nominations are announced on Thursday morning, will there be another shake-up? Or will voters, as they have tended to do in previous years,...More »
  
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• Evan Rachel Wood and Julie Taymor on Why Across the Universe ‘Scared the Shit Out of People’

  11-07-2018 20:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Beatles have always had a cinematic presence, from the 1964 faux-documentary A Hard Day’s Night to the experimental shorts of John and Yoko. But no director has ever used the Beatles’ music as inventively and audaciously as Julie Taymor, whose 2007 film Across the Universe is being rereleased in...More »
  
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• Colette Trailer: Keira Knightley Returns to Her True Passion, Old-Timey Scandals

  11-07-2018 19:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  The very British cast of Colette is here to introduce you to a very French scandal. Keira Knightley and an assemblage of tiny hats play Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, whose husband Willy (a pouty Dominic West) convinces her to write a novel based on her own experiences, which he brands as his...More »
  
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• ICO says ‘Emma’s Diary’ company sold data to Labour Party

  11-07-2018 19:34 via ft.com
  Marketing business faces £140,000 fine for sale of 1m households’ information
  
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• Shannon Purser Is Running a Scam in the Trailer for Sierra Burgess Is a Loser

  11-07-2018 19:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you’ve watched The Truth About Cats and Dogs so many times that you need a fresh take on the conceit of a boy falling in love with a girl for her mind and voice while thinking that she looks like a totally different person than she actually does, Netflix...More »
  
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• Review: In ‘Skyscraper,’ Dwayne Johnson Scales a Tower of Clichés

  11-07-2018 19:01 via nytimes.com
  The performer formerly known as the Rock proves again that he can surmount even a pile of recycled genre standards.
  
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• I’m Sorry, But the Posters for Mary Queen of Scots Have the Wrong Taglines

  11-07-2018 18:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  Listen. No one is more excited for the upcoming Mary Queen of Scots than me. Saoirse Ronan going even further back in time, facing off against Margot Robbie in 2007 Cate Blanchett drag, in a battle to once again determine the future of Catholicism? Sign me up.However. Take a look...More »
  
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• How Do You Say ‘Tradition’ in Yiddish?

  11-07-2018 18:54 via nytimes.com
  The first American production of “Fiddler on the Roof” in the language of the shtetl means training actors to hit the inflections, not just the notes.
  
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• Jenny Saville’s New Paintings Are About Motherhood and #MeToo

  11-07-2018 18:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  Jenny Saville’s 11-year-old son sees a great deal of art, and gives each exhibition a score, one to ten. Her show of large, literate, classically inspired paintings at Gagosian Gallery, “Ancestors,” scored eight out of ten stars, which seems reasonable, even if his methodology might seem a bit obscure, and...More »
  
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• Comcast weighs next step in Sky bidding war

  11-07-2018 18:44 via ft.com
  Rupert Murdoch’s Fox sweetens takeover offer for European media group to £24.5bn
  
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• Disney’s ESPN puts videogaming on primetime TV

  11-07-2018 18:32 via ft.com
  Deal to broadcast Activision Blizzard’s Overwatch League is a breakthrough for esports
  
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• A Hollywood Scammer Is Busy Impersonating Kathleen Kennedy, Amy Pascal

  11-07-2018 18:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  Let the Summer of Scam continue: A mysterious woman has been impersonating top-level female executives in Hollywood, including producer Amy Pascal and Luscafilm president Kathleen Kennedy. An investigation from The Hollywood Reporter exposes the long-running grift in which a woman has been impersonating powerful entertainment execs — Kennedy and Pascal,...More »
  
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• Paul Reiser Says the Mad About You Revival ‘Likely Won’t Happen’

  11-07-2018 18:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  Paul Reiser has been trying to make a Mad About You revival happen since late last year, but according to his new interview with the Tampa Bay Times today, things aren’t looking very hopeful. “It’s kind of stuck in the business end of it now,” Reiser said of the new...More »
  
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• Skyscraper Is Stupid But Enjoyable

  11-07-2018 17:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  Movie posters tend to exaggerate or downright lie, but I promise that the image on the Skyscraper poster of Dwayne Johnson hanging by one hand from a fiery tower with the city spread out 220 floors beneath him is actually in the film. It is in the film approximately 87...More »
  
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• Whitney Houston's Mother Reacts to Claims Her Daughter Was Molested by Dee Dee Warwick

  11-07-2018 17:27 via feeds.eonline.com
  Whitney Houston's family members are still grappling with claims that the late singer was molested by her cousin, Dee Dee Warwick--an accusation brought to light in the new documentary...
  
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• Joe Walsh Joins Sarah Palin in the ‘I’ve Been Duped by Sacha Baron Cohen’ Club

  11-07-2018 16:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sacha Baron Cohen is getting plenty of free press for his new comedy series premiering this weekend in the form of angry conservatives complaining online that they were duped by him and Showtime. Yesterday, Sarah Palin wrote a blog post claiming that Cohen disguised himself as a disabled veteran for...More »
  
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• Cardi B’s Baby Is Here and Her Name Is for the Kulture

  11-07-2018 16:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  Baby Bardi has arrived! Cardi B has announced the birth of her first child with (secret) husband Offset, revealing her daughter’s gloriously on-brand name. Please welcome to the world Kulture Kiari Cephus, born on Tuesday. KULTURE! As in, for the culture. As in, the name of her daddy’s last two...More »
  
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• Sharp Objects and the Stories Scars Tell

  11-07-2018 16:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  There are few images TV loves more than that of a brutalized female body. Our crime-centric TV landscape — from Law & Order: SVU to Mindhunter and The Fall, not to mention the new wave of true-crime dramas — rests on raped, murdered, and otherwise abused women.I thought a lot...More »
  
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• Trans Men Audition for Old Scarlett Johansson Roles After Casting Controversy

  11-07-2018 16:15 via feeds.eonline.com
  On the heels of controversy involving Scarlett Johansson's upcoming role, a cast of trans men have issued a creative--and clear--response.
  The Golden Globe-nominated actress recently...
  
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• Donald Glover Just Dropped Two New Song of the Summer Contenders

  11-07-2018 16:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Never one to appear idle if only just for a couple weeks, Donald Glover has dropped two new surprise songs under his moniker Childish Gambino. And they’re both seasonally appropriate, each titled after summer. “Summertime Magic” and “Feels Like Summer” are a two-for-one deal packaged as an EP called Summer...More »
  
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• NYC Stories: Bill Hader and Henry Winkler Have Ridiculous Memories of NYC

  11-07-2018 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Bill Hader and Henry Winkler, stars of HBO hit Barry, have each experienced love and hate in New York City—but not in the ways you’d imagine. Watch as the comedians crack each other up with their tales of youth and folly in the city....More »
  
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• How Broadway Got the Beat: The Go-Go’s in 5 Songs

  11-07-2018 16:00 via nytimes.com
  With “Head Over Heels” in previews, we looked at how five Go-Go’s songs evolved into musical-theater numbers.
  
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• These Amy Poehler and Nick Offerman Puns Are Sew Impressive

  11-07-2018 15:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  Last year, Amy Poehler and Nick Offerman teamed up to host a craft competition show for NBC. Ahead of its premiere later this month, the network released a promo this week featuring Poehler and Offerman competing against each other in a craft-themed pun-off: “I macraméd you and I can macrabreak...More »
  
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• Review: Joaquin Phoenix Treks the Long Road to Sobriety in ‘Don’t Worry’

  11-07-2018 15:58 via nytimes.com
  Mr. Phoenix plays the disabled alcoholic cartoonist John Callahan in Gus Van Sant’s cleverly volatile biopic.
  
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• 21st Century Fox/Sky: vertical hold

  11-07-2018 15:43 via ft.com
  Some anticipate a continued bidding war but for Comcast the picture is becoming too fuzzy
  
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• Cissy Houston Calls Whitney Molestation Claim ‘Unfathomable’ in New Statement

  11-07-2018 15:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  In Kevin Macdonald’s new documentary Whitney, the director unearths a secret in Whitney Houston’s past: A friend of Houston’s says that the singer was molested at a young age by Dee Dee Warwick, Houston’s cousin and the sister of Dionne Warwick. Not everyone in Whitney Houston’s family was pleased with...More »
  
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• A Thai Cave Rescue Movie is in the Works from the God’s Not Dead Producers

  11-07-2018 15:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  As was inevitable, the story of the rescue of 12 boys on a youth soccer team in Thailand from a cave is becoming a movie. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Michael Scott, the CEO and co-founder of the faith-based production company Pure Flix, has plans to turn the story of...More »
  
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• The Handmaid’s Tale Star Amanda Brugel on the ‘Underground Railroad’ of Gilead

  11-07-2018 14:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  Not many actors would dream of playing the role of the suppressed servant. But 20 years ago, an 18-year-old student wrote her university entrance exam about Rita, one of the seen-but-rarely-heard Marthas from Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. Amanda Brugel received a scholarship from that essay, and two decades later...More »
  
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• How Wattpad Is Rewriting the Rules of Hollywood

  11-07-2018 14:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  For its 65 million unique monthly visitors, the digital literature website/social networking app Wattpad is a kind of internet safe space. It’s a nurturing, highly interactive community where its core 13- to 35-year-old readership spends around 20 billion combined minutes per month consuming and critiquing user-generated stories, in genres such...More »
  
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• The Handmaid’s Tale Wraps Up a Good But Frustrating Season

  11-07-2018 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Handmaid’s Tale had to do something fundamental in its second season: justify its existence as an ongoing television series.After a first season that hewed fairly closely to the Margaret Atwood novel that inspired it, season two laid out a new chapter in the story of June (Elisabeth Moss) and...More »
  
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• David Wojnarowicz’s Whitney Retrospective Is Long Overdue, But Couldn’t Be Timelier

  11-07-2018 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  On July 13, the Whitney Museum will unveil “David Wojnarowicz: History Keeps Me Awake at Night.” It is an astonishingly relevant, urgently important retrospective. Miss it, and you miss transcendental levels of incredulity, indignation, vulnerability, lamentation, fighting back — ultimately, what it means to be human in a time of...More »
  
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• BBC reduces gender pay gap among presenters

  11-07-2018 13:43 via ft.com
  Women now make up 40% of those paid more than £150,000 a year but large disparity remains
  
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• Our 9 Biggest Questions About The Handmaid’s Tale Season Finale

  11-07-2018 13:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  Spoilers below for The Handmaid’s Tale season two finale.It wouldn’t be a season finale without cliffhangers, right? Throughout this bumpy second season of The Handmaid’s Tale, we’ve followed characters to the prairie wastelands of the Colonies, the borderlands between the U.S. and Canada, into an Econo-community, to the abandoned offices...More »
  
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• Trans actors post video mocking Scarlett Johansson in Rub & Tug casting row

  11-07-2018 12:59
  Protests continue against Johansson’s role as massage parlour owner Dante ‘Tex’ Gill, who identified as a manA group of trans male actors have appeared in a video mocking Scarlett Johansson and her casting in Rub & Tug, a biopic of mob-connected massage parlour owner Dante “Tex” Gill.Gill – born Lois Jean Gill – died in 2003 and was widely reported at the time to have identified as male. An obituary in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette suggested that the u
  
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• 'Evil, exploitative and sick': Sarah Palin says Sacha Baron Cohen duped her

  11-07-2018 11:52
  Former governor of Alaska claims satirist disguised himself as a wounded military veteran for ‘perverse’ TV interviewSarah Palin has called Sacha Baron Cohen “evil, exploitative and sick” after revealing that the satirist had “duped” her into an interview for an upcoming series by posing as a wounded military veteran.On Monday it was revealed that Baron Cohen had spent a year undercover filming a new project for the Showtime channel. The series, Who Is America
  
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• Het hele leven van Maarten van der Cammen (1973-2018) ademde theater - Parool.nl

  11-07-2018 11:49
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  Het hele leven van Maarten van der Cammen (1973-2018) ademde theater
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  Ten SlotteGoed theater verdient een podium, vond Maarten van der Cammen (1973-2018). 'Hij was een voorbeeld van wat je allemaal uit het leven kunt halen,' stelt zijn vader. Door: Marieke de Ruiter 11 juli 2018, 11:49. Maarten van der Cammen speelde ...
  
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• WhatsApp tweaks features to fight ‘fake news’ in India

  11-07-2018 11:22 via ft.com
  Chat app to label forwarded messages after spate of attacks allegedly sparked by rumours
  
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• 'So disappointed': John Cleese to quit UK for Caribbean

  11-07-2018 11:11 via theguardian.com
  Monty Python comic says he’s moving to island of Nevis because he is fed up with ‘lying and triviality’ of British press Monty Python comic John Cleese says he is moving to the Caribbean in November because he is so disappointed with Britain.The 78-year-old told BBC Two’s Newsnight his “particular beef” was with the “lying and triviality” of British newspapers.Continue reading...
  
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• Oakland in Their Bones, and in Their Films

  11-07-2018 10:00 via nytimes.com
  For the first time in the city’s long history as a cultural wellspring, it is fertile ground for filmmakers like the writer-stars of “Blindspotting.” What took so long?
  
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• Opening Quote: All you need to know about Fox’s offer for Sky 

  11-07-2018 09:38 via ft.com
  £14 is more than £12.50, which is more than £10.75
  
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• Sky agrees to sweetened £24.5bn takeover offer from Fox

  11-07-2018 09:18 via ft.com
  Move by Rupert Murdoch comes after Comcast disrupted deal with its own bid
  
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• Thai cave rescue to be made into film

  11-07-2018 08:26
  Producers of faith franchise God’s Not Dead to adapt movie version, though CEO says ‘it’s not necessary to make this a Christian film, just an inspirational one’Only a handful of people witnessed first-hand the horror of the incarceration for more than a fortnight of 12 schoolboys and their football coach in waterlogged caves beneath a mountain in northern Thailand.But the saga, whose developments were tracked religiously by millions around the world, is soon to be seen o
  
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