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• Theater maken - Gouds Dagblad (persbericht)

  14-07-2018 21:17
  Theater maken
  Gouds Dagblad (persbericht)
  14 juli 2018. Theater maken. Column Arjan van Essen |. Theater maken. 'Waarom zou je het willen?', vraagt een goede vriendin vanmorgen. Ik had haar posters laten zien. Proefposters waar ik met mijn grote hoofd opsta en die het theaterstuk aankondigen.
  
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• Utah Gun Rights Activist Becomes Newest Member of ‘I Was Duped By Sacha Baron Cohen’ Club

  14-07-2018 20:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  She may not be as prominent of a name as your Sarah Palins or Dick Cheneys, but allow us to reel you in with two words and two words only: Puppy pistols. Janalee Tobias, a gun rights activist from Utah, has admitted in an interview with Deseret News that she...More »
  
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• Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’s Final Season Will Be Supersized

  14-07-2018 18:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  Let this be the salve to sooth your rage over Crazy Ex-Girlfriend getting snubbed for Emmy nominations once again. (Like, really, any would be appreciated. Listen to “I Go to the Zoo,” people!) For its fourth and final season on the CW, TV Line reports that the rom-com-dram has gotten...More »
  
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• Mamma Mia 2 makers hope to repeat box office success

  14-07-2018 18:44
  My my, how can fans resist Cher singing Fernando and playing Meryl Streep’s mum?Can they do it again? The makers of Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again certainly hope they can persuade audiences to pack their fantasy swimsuits and mosquito repellent next weekend for another fictional cinematic holiday on their ideal Greek island.Cher, along with most of the stars of the first film, which made £466m at the box office a decade ago, gathered together in London on Saturday, ahead of the 20 July
  
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• Sir David Attenborough launches ship public wanted to call Boaty McBoatface – video

  14-07-2018 18:02
  The ship that has now going to be called the RRS David Attenborough slid into the River Mersey on Saturday, ahead of its official naming ceremony in November. The 92-year-old broadcaster described the decision to name the ship after him as the 'greatest of honours' and called it 'a key to the future salvage of our planet' Continue reading...
  
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• Sacha Baron Cohen’s New Character Has His Own Website, Perfect for Sending You Down a Wormhole of Conspiracies

  14-07-2018 17:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  So, you might be aware that Sacha Baron Cohen and his new interview-style series, Who Is America?, will be premiering on Showtime this weekend. He already duped everyone from Sarah Palin to Joe Walsh into interviews thanks to some disguises and very specifically worded contracts, and while the teaser for...More »
  
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• Meghan Markle Is Out Here, Fascinator and All, Admitting That She Misses Suits

  14-07-2018 16:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  As is a reasonable mindset to have if you starred on a popular network drama for seven seasons, you can take the gal out of the suit, but you can never fully take the Suits out of the gal. (Har har har.) Such feelings bubbled up for former-actress-turned-legit-duchess Meghan Markle...More »
  
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• Celebrities Pen Open Letter Defending Asia Argento Against Misogynist Trolls

  14-07-2018 15:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  A number of prominent #MeToo advocates, including Rose McGowan, Terry Crews, and Mira Sorvino, have published an open letter in the L.A. Times defending Asia Argento after trolls attacked her in the wake of boyfriend Anthony Bourdain’s death.“One of the most vocal and unwavering figures in the #MeToo movement has...More »
  
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• Put Brett Kavanaugh in the Suburban Dad Scandal Hall of Fame, Implores Stephen Colbert

  14-07-2018 15:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  There’s a fair chance we’re going to witness Brett “Man Who Sliced His Thumb Off at the Barbecue But Insists He’s Fine” Kavanaugh join the Supreme Court as its resident young person by the year’s end. For Stephen Colbert — and uh, women — that’s unacceptable. You see, Kavanaugh is...More »
  
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• Kiefer Sutherland: ‘My greatest fear is of being humiliated’

  14-07-2018 14:59
  The actor and singer-songwriter, 51, on being a twin, playing his first gig and growing up in a political familyBreaking your little toe really hurts. I’ve broken my ankle, my wrist, my elbow, ribs, collarbone, my kneecaps, most of those filming 24 – but the most painful was my pinkie toe. There was a bomb sequence where things were exploding all around me and I was a bit slow getting to my mark and I got hit. It doesn’t sound very butch but it made my eyes water.Do what you wa
  
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• 'Sir David Boaty McBoatface' is launched

  14-07-2018 14:38
  The vessel officially known as RRS David Attenborough will investigate Antarctic
  As the massive hull of RRS Sir David Attenborough – the ship the public wanted to be called Boaty McBoatface – slid into the River Mersey on Saturday, British Antarctic Survey director Jane Francis was still defending its name.“This is a serious science ship that required the name of a serious scientist,” she said. “Its name recognises all the love and esteem the British public holds fo
  
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• Why Putting Family First Turned Dwayne Johnson Into Hollywood's Biggest Star

  14-07-2018 12:00 via feeds.eonline.com
  Once upon a time, the notion that Dwayne Johnson--or, as he was better known to the world, The Rock--was destined to become one of Hollywood's most bankable and lovable leading men...
  
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• Our Shirley Valentine Summer – ITV's self-loathing, mid-budget Love Island

  14-07-2018 12:00
  The latest reality TV show takes the likes of Nancy Dell’Olio and Melinda Messenger to the Greek island of Naxos to help them rediscover their sexuality“Oh God, here we go, up the fanny,” mutters comic Ninia Benjamin, obediently clenching her nether regions. One of eight celebrities in the throes of middle age in Our Shirley Valentine Summer (Thursday, 9.30pm, ITV), Benjamin is attending a meditation session on the Greek island of Naxos aimed at helping women rediscover their s
  
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• Now That’s What I Call a cash cow

  14-07-2018 12:00 via ft.com
  A compilation of chart hits that started in 1983 has been remarkably resilient in the face of change
  
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• A million miles from Love Island: what my time on Shipwrecked taught me about reality TV

  14-07-2018 12:00
  I was a contestant on Shipwrecked, another reality TV show about beautiful people flirting in the sun, but there the similarities end…I was an accidental reality TV star. These days, there aren’t many of us: the world of structured reality is a precision-engineered machine, fed by a rotating cast of perma-tanned twentysomethings who ricochet between Towie, the CBB house and whichever island is hosting this year’s Ex On The Beach. In 2007, when I was a contestant on Shipwrecked
  
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• Who else might be a victim of Sacha Baron Cohen's new show?

  14-07-2018 07:00
  Sarah Palin and other US rightwingers have railed at being duped, but Cohen’s Who is America? is shrouded in mystery. Did he get as far as the White House?It is already one of the most talked-about TV series of 2018, before a single episode has even aired. Yet little has been publicly revealed about Who Is America?, the new comedy from Ali G and Borat creator Sacha Baron Cohen, which has been filmed undercover for a year and kept under wraps by its stateside broadcaster Showtime. However,
  
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• Saturday's best TV: Reginald D Hunter's Songs of the Border; Japandemonium

  14-07-2018 07:00
  The comic takes a trip along the dividing line between Mexico and the US, while a new game show shares ‘the best of bonkers Japanese TV’9pm, BBC2 Continue reading...
  
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• Little Italy Trailer: Mamma Mia! That’s a Pizza Rom-Com!

  14-07-2018 06:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  Oh, so Netflix’s Set It Up has you yearning for a rom-com renaissance. Well, it’s here, bambino, as evidenced by the arrival of Little Italy. Starring the exceedingly Italian Emma Roberts and Hayden Christensen, the movie follows the story of a man and woman who fall in love despite that...More »
  
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• The Incomparable Sterling K. Brown and Evan Rachel Wood Might Be Joining Frozen 2

  14-07-2018 04:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  The latest casting news for Disney’s Frozen sequel will melt your heart, and then freeze it again in a raw show of supernatural power only true sisterhood can control. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Evan Rachel Wood and Sterling K. Brown are in talks for two unspecified roles in the...More »
  
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• The Great British Baking Show Recap: American Pie

  14-07-2018 04:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Can you believe it? We’re already at the halfway point of the season! I’d like to issue this special, apologetic shoutout to Great Britain before we dive into the Pie Week cooling on the windowsill: While our Special Relationship takes a hit in London thanks to a certain human-sized small...More »
  
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• Yvette Nicole Brown Steps In as Interim Host of AMC’s Talking Dead

  14-07-2018 02:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  Following allegations of abusive behavior made against Chris Hardwick by his ex-girlfriend Chloe Dykstra, AMC launched an internal appraisal of their relationship with the long-standing host. As part of the network’s evaluation, actress Yvette Nicole Brown stepped in to cover Hardwick’s traditional duties at San Diego Comic-Con, hosting both this...More »
  
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• The Billy Eichner ‘Let’s Go, Lesbians!’ Meme Is Here to Save the Day

  14-07-2018 02:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  Would you believe that, during the tarmac battle between the Avengers in Captain America: Civil War, Chris Evans’s monologue was “Let’s go, lesbians!”? You don’t have to, but you can, because Evans recently joked that was the case after seeing a meme dubbing the scene with those very words from...More »
  
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• Did Harvey Weinstein Admit to Trading Movie Roles for Sex?

  14-07-2018 01:43 via nytimes.com
  A columnist wrote that Mr. Weinstein said he had offered, “acting jobs in exchange for sex.” He denied having made the remark; the writer seemed to take it back.
  
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• Stan Lee Remembers Marvel’s Steve Ditko: ‘His Talent Was Indescribable’

  14-07-2018 01:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  Together, writer Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko created some of Marvel Comics’ most enduring characters, including Spider-Man and Dr. Strange. A week after Ditko’s death at the age of 90 became publicly known, Lee took to social media to remember the talents of his former colleague. “One thing occurs...More »
  
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• Dacre sells his stake at Daily Mail

  14-07-2018 00:32 via ft.com
  Editor offloads stake as he departs role after 26 years
  
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• 6 Stories From Mel Brooks’s Q&A in London Last Night

  14-07-2018 00:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  After serving his apprenticeship as a writer on the legendary television comedy Your Show of Shows, Mel Brooks staked his claim to comedy greatness with the album The 2000 Year Old Man, in which, as the eponymous sage/grump (think a slightly more Borscht Belt Bernie Sanders), he answers questions posed...More »
  
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• Week in review, July 14

  14-07-2018 00:16 via ft.com
  Sky bidding war, oil fund divestment, Facebook fine, Deutsche Bank and TP ICAP
  
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