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• Roe v. Wade Film Blocked From Filming at Plaza Hotel, Statue of Liberty

  18-07-2018 23:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  Somehow, production on Nick Loeb’s anti-choice Roe v. Wade movie — the one starring Jon Voight and Stacey Dash, and featuring cameos from Tomi Lahren and Milo Yiannopoulos — has become even more dramatic. Following the exit of several cast and crew members during the movie’s shoot in New Orleans...More »
  
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• Killed By My Debt – a sad true story turned into a compelling family tragedy

  18-07-2018 23:00
  If you haven’t yet seen this dramatisation lifting the lid on the reality of zero-hours contracts and payday loans, you should – but it’s not an easy watchI got a traffic fine the other day. I went in the bus lane because I thought you could at weekends (you can’t); £130, or £65 if I paid immediately, which I did, because I could. OK, there were two; I got another just a few days later. This time for driving into a road where a signpost clearly said I wasn&rsq
  
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• Brantley in Britain: Review: Song Trumps Senility in the Angry ‘Allelujah!’

  18-07-2018 23:00 via nytimes.com
  This comedy of dismay by Alan Bennett, author of “The History Boys,” portrays a geriatric ward (of singing, dancing patients!) in an uncaring Britain.
  
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• Superheroes Onscreen: The Evolution of an American Ideal

  18-07-2018 22:53 via nytimes.com
  The movies and shows that have resulted from Hollywood’s superhero obsession provide a moving picture of America’s changing mores, one spandex costume at a time.
  
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• Foo Fighters Are Classic Rock Now

  18-07-2018 22:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  Nirvana hit ’90s teen culture like a bomb. The myth rock fans of a certain age always tell about the little Seattle trio that could and its David-and-Goliath battle to unseat poppy Cali hair metal to usher in the grunge era is only a half-truth. In its inaugural January 1992...More »
  
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• Why Does Becca’s Bachelorette Season Have Such Terrible Trips?

  18-07-2018 22:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  With The Bachelorette reaching the final stretch of a pretty ho-hum season, did you breathe a sigh of relief when Becca Kufrin announced that she’s taking her remaining trio of men to Chiang Mai, Thailand, to continue their “journey”? Not for the men’s sake, but for poor Becca. Virginia may...More »
  
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• Jay-Z Is Beefing With the Mayor of Philadelphia Over His Made in America Festival

  18-07-2018 22:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  While there’s a potential beef brewing between Beyoncé and the city of Rome, there’s one already roaring between her husband and the city of Philadelphia. Jay-Z has published an op-ed in the Philadelphia Inquirer accusing the city’s mayor, Jim Kenney, of attempting to shut down Jay’s annual Made in America...More »
  
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• An Evening With Luann de Lesseps, the Countess of Reality TV

  18-07-2018 22:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  At Luann de Lesseps’s cabaret show #CountessAndFriends, everyone feels like part of the extended Real Housewives universe. Some of us act like it, too: In the ladies’ room at Feinstein’s/54 Below, an audience member pulls out a curling iron from her expensive-looking gym bag, then commandeers one of the mirrors...More »
  
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• Why Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again Cast Cher As Meryl Streep’s Mother

  18-07-2018 22:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  As Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again director Ol Parker put it, if you’re making a sequel, “it’s an American sports thing: If you’re not playing offense, you’re playing defense.” In order to top the original Mamma Mia, Parker wanted to make sure that the sequel was bringing in something...More »
  
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• Why Aren’t You Watching The Graham Norton Show?

  18-07-2018 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  We get it, dear reader. Just when you thought your daily queue couldn’t balloon any further with topical, witty late-night clips, in comes Your Friend Vulture to tell you that you’re actually missing out on the funniest host of them all. For all the anglophiles out there, withhold your sighs....More »
  
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• 15 Burning Questions for This Week’s San Diego Comic-Con

  18-07-2018 21:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  Superheroes! Spectacle! Outrageous lines! It’s time again for Comic-Con in San Diego, the biggest gathering of geeks this world can muster. While some heavy hitters like Marvel Studios and HBO will be sitting out this year’s edition, there are still plenty of big titles and major studios that will be...More »
  
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• Orange Is the New Black Season 6 Is Aimless, But Still Compelling

  18-07-2018 21:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  Late in the sixth season of Orange Is the New Black, the eternally beleaguered Piper Chapman (Taylor Schilling) turns to fellow inmate Taystee (Danielle Brooks) and asks for her honest opinion. “What is it about me,” Piper asks, “that makes people want to fuck with me?” “Because when they look...More »
  
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• Abrons Arts Center to Celebrate a Milestone With Political Work

  18-07-2018 20:33 via nytimes.com
  Craig Peterson, the artistic director of the center, says the new season will focus how local issues on the Lower East Side mirror national concerns.
  
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• Review: In ‘The Damned,’ Ivo van Hove Finds the Mortal Chill in a Nazi Fire

  18-07-2018 20:01 via nytimes.com
  The Comédie-Française’s mesmerizing adaptation of Luchino Visconti’s film charts the fall of a family steel dynasty during Hitler’s rise to power.
  
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• Lily James on Playing a Young Meryl Streep in Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again

  18-07-2018 19:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  Many have attempted to share the screen with Meryl Streep, but only a few have tried to live up to playing a younger version of her. In Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, a beachy, sugary cocktail disguised as a summer movie, Lily James had to do just that, playing...More »
  
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• Why Game of Thrones, the MCU and More are Skipping San Diego Comic-Con 2018

  18-07-2018 19:31 via feeds.eonline.com
  The Con is going to look a little bit different this year.While some of the San Diego Comic Con stalwarts will be present and accounted for--we're looking at you, The Walking Dead...
  
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• Bruce Springsteen’s Broadway Show Is Coming to Netflix

  18-07-2018 19:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  You won’t have to shell out as much to see Bruce Springsteen’s Broadway show in the future and the experience will be just the same, minus the thrilling energy of being in the room with Bruce, plus the fact that you don’t have to go anywhere near Times Square. Netflix...More »
  
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• Overlord Trailer: Nazis! Zombies! War!

  18-07-2018 19:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  Overlord has all the visual markers of an intense war drama — a morally ambiguous soldier, a doomed battle, a small platoon of troops lost in an unfamiliar jungle — until things start to get pretty creepy. In the action-horror film directed by Julius Avery and produced by J.J. Abrams, U.S. paratroopers...More »
  
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• Bruce Springsteen’s Broadway Show Is Becoming a Netflix Special

  18-07-2018 19:07 via nytimes.com
  The recording of “Springsteen on Broadway” will be released on Dec. 15, the day of its final live performance.
  
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• Review: At Stratford, ‘Coriolanus’ Is Riveting and Troubling

  18-07-2018 19:00 via nytimes.com
  The director Robert Lepage, recently criticized for cultural appropriation, finds in Shakespeare’s tragedy a defense of Great Man prerogatives.
  
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• Middle School Talent Show: Why Is It Funny to See Adults Play Kids?

  18-07-2018 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Vice wrote an article last year called “Inside the Phenomenon of Grown Adults Playing Teenagers on TV.” The piece reveals the actual ages of actors like Blake Lively (who played a high-school junior on Gossip Girl when she was 20) and Cory Monteith (who played a high-school sophomore on Glee...More »
  
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• The Hard Road of the Japanese Documentary Maker

  18-07-2018 18:43 via nytimes.com
  Kazuo Hara, a leading figure in a little-known branch of the film world, brings his latest boundary-pushing documentary to the Japan Cuts festival.
  
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• Jeff Goldblum Gets Shirtless Statue Erected in London and Tourists Are Mesmerized

  18-07-2018 18:34 via feeds.eonline.com
  Well, there it is. When you least expect it, life finds a way to reward us with more Jeff Goldblum.More than two decades before Chris Pratt both trained and battled dinosaurs on the big...
  
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• Snowfall Season Two Is Like a Solid ’80s B Movie

  18-07-2018 18:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  In its second season, FX’s 1980s Southern California drug epic Snowfall figures out how to combine its parallel but once barely intersecting story lines into a coherent and compelling tale of crack distributors, CIA agents, and contractors getting pulled into what would ultimately become the Iran–Contra scandal. The result is...More »
  
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• Alfonso Cuarón’s ‘Roma’ Will Play the New York Film Festival

  18-07-2018 18:03 via nytimes.com
  The director’s first movie since winning two Oscars for the 2013 film “Gravity,” offers an autobiographical look at his early years in Mexico.
  
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• Excuse Me, Is Beyoncé Trying to Film a Video at the Colosseum Now, Too?!

  18-07-2018 18:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Because shooting on location at one epicenter of cultural history would just be boring, Beyoncé is apparently attempting to do it twice. After filming her “Apeshit” video with Jay-Z at the Louvre, Italian newspaper Il Messaggero now reports that Beyoncé has submitted a request to film at the Colosseum (though...More »
  
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• Alice Wetterlund Says Male Silicon Valley Stars Enabled T.J. Miller to Be a ‘Bully’

  18-07-2018 17:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  Alice Wetterlund, who played engineer Carla Walton in seasons two and three of HBO’s Silicon Valley, is speaking up about her experience on the show — particularly working alongside T.J. Miller. Responding to online criticism that Miller is regularly booked on comedy shows like Kurt Braunohler and Kristen Schaal’s Hot...More »
  
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• Life Finds a Way for a 25-Foot Statue of Shirtless Jeff Goldblum to Appear in London

  18-07-2018 17:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  So, uh, you see, in London — that’s London, England, not London, Ontario, which is also a lovely, lovely city — they have put up a statue of, well, a statue of Jeff Goldblum. Isn’t that something? It’s a re-creation of the famous moment from Jurassic Park in which Goldblum,...More »
  
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• NYC Stories: Molly Ringwald Gets a Taste of NYC’s S&M Underbelly

  18-07-2018 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  When 14-year-old Molly Ringwald came to New York City to shoot The Tempest, she didn’t expect an initiation into the city’s … darker side. Watch the Riverdale star recount her raunchy tale at the Tribeca Film Festival 2018....More »
  
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• Jude Law Discusses Dumbledore's Sexuality in Fantastic Beasts

  18-07-2018 16:55 via feeds.eonline.com
  Fantastic Beasts fans can breathe a sigh of relief.After the 2007 publication of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the final novel in the popular book series, author J.K. Rowling...
  
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• Herstel fontein bij theater kost 85.000 euro - Veenendaalse Krant

  18-07-2018 16:29
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  Herstel fontein bij theater kost 85.000 euro
  Veenendaalse Krant
  VEENENDAAL Dertig jaar geleden kocht de gemeente een kunstwerk aan van Hedda Willem Buijs. Het betrof een fontein naast theater De Lampegiet. In strijd met de leveringsvoorwaarden is het kunstwerk echter in de loop van de jaren door gebrek aan ...
  
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• Makers of S-Town podcast sued by subject's estate

  18-07-2018 16:26
  The estate of John B McLemore is seeking ‘punitive damages and profits’ after claiming that consent wasn’t given for certain personal details to be used in the hit showThe makers of S-Town are being sued by the estate of John B McLemore, the hit podcast’s central subject.In a lawsuit filed by the estate’s administrator, it has claimed that McLemore’s privacy was invaded and that profits made from the podcast haven’t reached the family. Continue reading..
  
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• Katy Perry Says She Had ‘Situational Depression’ After Negative Album Reaction

  18-07-2018 16:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  The reviews for Katy Perry’s “purposeful pop” album Witness last year weren’t exactly favorable (though not all bad!). She now tells Vogue Australia that she absolutely witnessed the reaction and took it hard. “I have had bouts of situational depression and my heart was broken last year because, unknowingly, I...More »
  
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• Michelle Williams Is ‘Proudly’ Seeking Mental-Health Treatment

  18-07-2018 16:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  Michelle Williams has not been shy about her struggles with her mental health. The former Destiny’s Child singer has said that she’s suffered from depression and felt “suicidal” during her time in the girl group, between 2000 and 2005. Now, she’s taken to social media to discuss the fact that...More »
  
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• Steph Curry Is Making the Next Wedding Crashers, But for Churches

  18-07-2018 16:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  There comes a time in every insanely talented and charismatic pro athlete’s life where he must bring his expertise to Hollywood. (LeBron James is doing it!) Golden State Warrior Steph Curry is doing just that: He announced in April that his company Unanimous Media entered into a multiyear production deal...More »
  
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• The Gritty Club at the Heart of ‘This Ain’t No Disco’

  18-07-2018 16:00 via nytimes.com
  A new rock opera explores the New York club scene in 1979, with special attention to the Mudd Club, a punk-rock dive in TriBeCa.
  
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• NYC Stories: David Harbour has a Run-In with Scary Christopher Walken

  18-07-2018 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  A young David Harbour, already harboring visions of dramaturgy, used to spend summer days at Shakespeare in the Park. Watch the Stranger Things actor recount a memorable incident involving Othello, Christopher Walken, and a sprightly squirrel....More »
  
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• How Sorry to Bother You Found (and Used) Its White Voice

  18-07-2018 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “You don’t talk white enough,” veteran telemarketer Langston (Danny Glover) advises his young deskmate in an early Sorry to Bother You scene. Cassius Green (Lakeith Stanfield) is new to telemarketing company Regal View, and having a hard time getting the hang of the company’s sales pitch. He’s selling encyclopedias no...More »
  
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• Do Anti-Meat Movies Actually Change Minds?

  18-07-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  In Natalie Portman and Jonathan Safran Foer’s recent interview with the Los Angeles Times, the most high-profile press the pair of producers did for the recent documentary adaptation of Foer’s anti-meat book Eating Animals, they did a sort of good-cop/bad-cop routine. Or, rather, hard-line cop/easygoing cop; while Portman espoused the...More »
  
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• Helena Bonham Carter and Her Cigarette Have Arrived to Play The Crown’s New Princess Margaret

  18-07-2018 14:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Queen might be the main character on The Crown, but everyone knows the sidelines are much more fun. After unveiling the first photo of Oliva Colman as its new Queen Elizabeth for its third season, The Crown is back to introduce Helena Bonham Carter’s new Princess Margaret. Carter, in...More »
  
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• 68% rotten: female critics outnumbered two to one by male counterparts

  18-07-2018 12:26
  A San Diego State University study of Rotten Tomatoes reveals that male critics are less likely to mention female directors than their female writers areA new study has found that male film critics outnumber female by two to one, and are less likely to mention female directors in their work.Men comprise 68% of US-based film reviewers, according to a report by Martha M Lauzen that was published by the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film at San Diego State University. The research
  
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• The Dark Knight Turns 10: Remembering Heath Ledger's Iconic Role

  18-07-2018 12:00 via feeds.eonline.com
  One of the most memorable lines from The Dark Knight comes from Harvey Dent: "You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain."But the Two-Face...
  
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• Cliff Richard wins landmark BBC court battle with £210,000 damages

  18-07-2018 11:23 via ft.com
  Singer sued public broadcaster over 2014 raid in case that challenges press freedoms
  
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• Cliff Richard wins £210,000 in damages over privacy breach by BBC

  18-07-2018 11:23 via ft.com
  Singer sued broadcaster after 2014 police raid in case that could challenge press freedoms
  
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• Theater-weekworkshop voor theaterdieren, toneelbeesten en camerakanjers - NieuwsbladGeldermalsen.nl

  18-07-2018 11:13
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  Theater-weekworkshop voor theaterdieren, toneelbeesten en camerakanjers
  NieuwsbladGeldermalsen.nl
  Van 20 tot en met 24 augustus kunnen kinderen en jongeren vijf dagen lang de hele dag alles op het gebied van theater doen, lezen en leren. Gewoon Taal organiseert dan, in samenwerking met De Pluk, deze waanzinnige workshop. In deze week kun je ...
  
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• Feature: Young Jean Lee’s Unsafe Spaces

  18-07-2018 11:00 via nytimes.com
  The first female Asian-American playwright on Broadway takes aim at identity and watches the audience squirm.
  
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• Zonnigheid en strandsfeer bij Theater Dakota: veel kinderen doen mee aan ... - Den Haag FM

  18-07-2018 09:15
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  Zonnigheid en strandsfeer bij Theater Dakota: veel kinderen doen mee aan ...
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  Midden in de stad met je tenen in het zand, dat kan deze hele maand bij Theater Dakota. Daar is namelijk een heus stadsstrand opgebouwd. En er wordt niet alleen geluierd, want in het kader van de Dakota Zomerweek zijn zo'n 80 kinderen uit heel Escamp ...
  
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• Ciara Levels Up The Moves In New Video

  18-07-2018 08:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ciara has just dropped her first new single since her 2015 album Jackie and she’s not kidding around. ‘Level Up’ is the kind of dance track that’s sure to end up on your late summer “oh my god I still have to wear a swimsuit but I ate all the...More »
  
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• Watch Charlie Puth Sing Your Favorite 90’s Punk Songs

  18-07-2018 07:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  Tonight Charlie Puth made a special appearance on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon to plug an album that actually is too good to be true: Charlie Puth Sings 90’s Punk. This masterwork we’ll never get to actually own includes such epic 90’s bangers as Lit’s “My Own Worst Enemy”,...More »
  
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• Wednesday’s best TV: Live Well for Longer; Picnic at Hanging Rock

  18-07-2018 07:20
  A new health show looks at advances in modern medicine and booze abstention, while Vic and Bob go sea-trout fishing8pm, Channel 4
  Kate Quilton, Tamal Ray and Morland Sanders debut a helpful health show about new advances in medicine. Among the topics under discussion are: lifting the ban on medicinal cannabis; how safe it is to use so-called “smart drugs” such as modafinil; and the development of a new male contraceptive. The primary focus, though, is an experiment that seeks to dete
  
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