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• ‘Mission: Impossible — Fallout’ and the Bliss of the Hyper-Human Tom Cruise

  25-07-2018 23:38 via nytimes.com
  Mr. Cruise works hard in a movie that embraces the oldies (blonde with knife in garter) while pushing to greater spectacle-cinema extremes.
  
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• Castle Rock Is Creepy, But Can’t Escape Its Own Demons

  25-07-2018 23:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  It was only a matter of time before someone attempted a series like Castle Rock. It’s sort of a “Stephen King Expanded Universe” project, combining an original story with references to the horror novelist’s established works set in and around the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine. Andre Holland (The Knick, Moonlight)...More »
  
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• The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco review – period drama spin-off is admirably awful

  25-07-2018 23:05
  The plucky female codebreakers decamp to 60s California for a watchably terrible follow-up to a series no one remembers in the first placeA large prefab hut. A hundred primates mill around. A hundred typewriters stand on a hundred desks. A producer enters.PRODUCER: Monkeys! Assemble! Your assignment today is to deliver eight scripts for the first series of The Bletchley Circle spin-off, The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco. What’s that, Bonzo? Why is there a spin off of an ITV series no one
  
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• BET Cancels The Rundown With Robin Thede

  25-07-2018 22:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  Robin Thede’s weekly late-night series will not return for another season on BET. Variety reports that the network has decided to cancel The Rundown With Robin Thede, which debuted on the network in October 2017 and wrapped up its first season earlier this year. Thede previously served as head writer...More »
  
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• Even the Director of My Brilliant Friend Hasn’t Met Elena Ferrante

  25-07-2018 22:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  Who is Elena Ferrante? That’s the famously debated question behind the Italian author’s beloved Neapolitan Novels, a series whose allure is only intensified by the fact that “Elena Ferrante” is a pseudonym and the author’s true identity is unknown. Even Saverio Costanzo, the director behind HBO’s upcoming adaptation of My Brilliant...More »
  
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• Chris Hardwick Will Return to Host His AMC Shows Next Month

  25-07-2018 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Chris Hardwick will return to hosting his AMC after-shows about two months after his ex-girlfriend Chloe Dykstra came forward with sexual and emotional abuse allegations against him. Below is the statement AMC just released announcing its decision to bring Hardwick back next month as host of Talking Dead and Talking...More »
  
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• Trump’s Hollywood Walk of Fame Star Is Shattered by Vandal

  25-07-2018 21:22 via nytimes.com
  A man brandishing a pickax smashed the star early Wednesday morning. This is not the first time President Trump’s star has been vandalized.
  
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• Donald Trump’s Hollywood Walk of Fame Star Is Shattered by Vandal

  25-07-2018 21:22 via nytimes.com
  A man brandishing a pickax smashed the star early Wednesday morning. This is not the first time President Trump’s star has been vandalized.
  
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• Jenni Konner Addresses Lena Dunham Split: ‘There’s No Drama’

  25-07-2018 21:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  At HBO’s TV Critics Association panel today, Jenni Konner briefly addressed her split from her Girls producing partner Lena Dunham, with whom she produced the new show Camping. “We feel super lucky to have had eight amazing years together,” Konner said. “That’s really long for a collaboration and we just...More »
  
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• US regulator stands firm on Sinclair deal despite Trump pressure

  25-07-2018 20:59 via ft.com
  President’s criticism of referral of Tribune takeover for legal review leaves FCC unmoved
  
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• What If Post Malone Is Here Forever?

  25-07-2018 20:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  Some people think that Post Malone really stinks — literally. “Lol why does everyone want @PostMalone to be on the show,” Queer Eye co-host Karamo Brown tweeted last week in reply to a (seemingly since-deleted) tweet from user @tsusnami, shortly after it was announced that the Netflix makeover-reality show reboot...More »
  
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• Georgia politician who yelled racial slurs on Sacha Baron Cohen show to quit

  25-07-2018 20:43
  State representative Jason Spencer dropped his trousers and used abusive language on Who is America?, Cohen’s new seriesThe Georgia state lawmaker who exposed himself and yelled racial slurs on Sacha Baron Cohen’s new cable TV series will resign later this month, according to a spokesman for the state’s house speaker. Related: Georgia lawmaker refuses to resign after using racial slur on Sacha Baron Cohen showContinue reading...
  
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• Cohen moves from Trump’s side into the firing line

  25-07-2018 20:31 via ft.com
  A once-loyal fixer could be a problem for the president
  
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• Cohen moves from Trump’s side in to the firing line

  25-07-2018 20:31 via ft.com
  The president’s once-loyal fixer could be a problem for the president
  
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• Frasier Might Be the Next Show to Get a Reboot

  25-07-2018 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Kelsey Grammer has heard those reboots a-callin’ and might bring back those tossed salads and scrambled eggs. According to Deadline, Grammer has been “fielding interest” in bringing back the show, though as a true reboot, it would “likely [be] set in a new city.” Of course, Frasier moved to Seattle...More »
  
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• Critic’s Notebook: Which Show Is Good, Clean Fun: ‘Rocky Horror’ or ‘The Music Man’?

  25-07-2018 20:30 via nytimes.com
  Playing in repertory at the Stratford Festival in Canada, these mirror-image musicals turn out to be part of the same conversation.
  
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• Dankzij het theater in de wolken - Nederlands Dagblad

  25-07-2018 20:27
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  Dankzij het theater in de wolken
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  Ooit zwierf Adrijan Siniša Rakić illegaal door Nederland, ontheemd en dakloos. Nu speelt hij theater voor kinderen in asielzoekerscentra in heel Nederland. Zijn Wolkentheater bestaat 25 jaar. Drachten. Twee bestelbussen rijden het terrein op van het ...
  
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• Would You Dare Stay in the Scream House?

  25-07-2018 20:03 via feeds.eonline.com
  Get ready to Scream!Attention, all horror fans: If you've ever wanted to live (or at least spend the night) in an actual horror-film house then you're in luck.Scream...
  
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• Actor Brigitte Nielsen defends having baby at 54, saying: 'It's my life'

  25-07-2018 20:02
  Older fathers don’t receive the sort of criticism I’ve had to endure, she tells magazineThe model and actor Brigitte Nielsen has said she understands why people think she is too old to have a baby at 54, but highlighted that older fathers never receive the same criticism. Her daughter Frida – her fifth child, and her first with 39-year-old husband Mattia Dessi was born in June. Nielsen, now 55, has also revealed she started having IVF treatment 14 years ago in the hope of becom
  
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• Donald Trump’s Walk of Fame Star Has Been Destroyed With a Pickax

  25-07-2018 19:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  Donald Trump’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is now little hole in the ground with a pile of pink dust and rocks around it. Early this morning a man approached the star, pulled a pickax out of a guitar case, and absolutely laid into the thing until it...More »
  
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• Deadwood movie given go-ahead by HBO

  25-07-2018 19:13
  The award-winning western series, starring Ian McShane, is receiving a full-length TV movie 11 years after it finishedAfter years of speculation, the Deadwood movie has finally been confirmed at HBO.The cult western series, which starred Ian McShane as a saloon owner in 1870s South Dakota, will return 11 years after it ended its three-season run. Continue reading...
  
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• Casey Bloys on HBO’s New Direction: ‘There Are No Plans to Dilute Programming’

  25-07-2018 19:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  HBO’s president of programming Casey Bloys came to his session at the summer Television Critics Association press tour in Beverly Hills armed with optimism about the future of the premium network, now that AT&T has purchased it from Time Warner.The future of the network has been hotly debated since details...More »
  
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• Finding Dory, Adventures in Babysitting and Can't Buy Me Love Leaving Netflix in August 2018

  25-07-2018 18:51 via feeds.eonline.com
  It's time to say goodbye.
  With every new month, Netflix bids farewell to a slate of movies and shows and August is no different. This time around, the streaming service is losing the...
  
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• HBO Says Game of Thrones’ Final Season Is Coming in the First Half of 2019

  25-07-2018 18:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  Much like the invasion of the North by malevolent ice-demons and their army of undead, we’ve been waiting for the Game of Thrones’ final season for a while, but now it’s finally on the horizon. At the TCA Summer Press Tour on Wednesday, HBO president Casey Bloys confirmed that GOT...More »
  
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• Kendrick Lamar Will Make His Acting Debut on Power This Weekend So Just Hand Him the Emmy Now

  25-07-2018 18:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  Don’t look now but Kendrick Lamar is coming for the PEGOT (that’s Pulitzer, Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony — keep up!). Starz has announced he’ll guest star on this Sunday’s episode of Power opposite 50 Cent’s Kanan. No details are known about who, exactly, he’ll play — a “friend,” allegedly —...More »
  
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• Looking Back at Jerry Seinfeld: Comedian (Without the Cars and Coffee)

  25-07-2018 18:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  A new season of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee recently launched and the world has ingested a new set of errands, breakfast orders, and analysis of minutiae from Jerry Seinfeld and his compatriots. But this series is not the first time Seinfeld has broken out of his sitcom world and...More »
  
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• The Many Secret Siblings of the CW’s Teen Dramas, Ranked

  25-07-2018 18:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  Everyone knows that a good soap opera is built on tropes. The long-lost secret sibling is one of the very best, and if you haven’t noticed, the CW absolutely loves using it. At least 11 different CW shows have utilized this specific trope in all sorts of twisted ways —...More »
  
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• Comics Star Tom King Developing Dystopian TV Series

  25-07-2018 18:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s been a wild few years for Tom King, and an even wilder few days. A former CIA officer, his first published comics work only came in 2013, but he swiftly penned some of the most acclaimed — and lucrative — mainstream comics of the past decade. There have been...More »
  
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• Castle Rock Recap: The Last Trumpet

  25-07-2018 18:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  An episode heavy on development for Castle Rock’s ace realtor Molly Strand provides a great showcase for Melanie Lynskey, a phenomenal actress. She’s been handed a juicy role here, one crafted from a classical Stephen King mold in that it’s unclear exactly how we’re supposed to feel about her. In...More »
  
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• Ozark Season 2, Steel Magnolias and Million Dollar Baby Coming to Netflix in August 2018

  25-07-2018 18:15 via feeds.eonline.com
  With the summer coming to an end, Netflix will be there for all of your post-beach binge-watching.
  The beloved streaming site just announced its new additions for August 2018 and...
  
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• Against All Odds, the Deadwood Movie Is Really Going to Start Shooting This Fall

  25-07-2018 18:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ever since Deadwood, the TV show, met its untimely demise on HBO in 2004, David Milch has promised to wrap up the boozy, dusty, philosophical Western with a movie. Fourteen years later, HBO announced today at a Television Critics Association panel, the movie is finally, actually going to start shooting....More »
  
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• Cher, Hamilton Among 2018 Kennedy Center Honorees, Which Won’t Be Awkward for Trump At All

  25-07-2018 18:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Kennedy Center has announced its 2018 class and among them are many a foe of the current president: Cher, Reba McEntire, composer Philip Glass, and jazz musician Wayne Shorter are this year’s honorees, while, in a first for the ceremony, Hamilton will receive a special honor. Typically, the awards...More »
  
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• Vandal Shatters Trump’s Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

  25-07-2018 18:01 via nytimes.com
  A vandal brandishing a pickax smashed the star early Wednesday morning. This is not the first time President Trump’s star has been vandalized.
  
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• Trump’s Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame Is Shattered by Vandal

  25-07-2018 18:01 via nytimes.com
  A vandal brandishing a pickax smashed the star early Wednesday morning. This is not the first time President Trump’s star has been vandalized.
  
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• ITV: fly me to the moon

  25-07-2018 18:01 via ft.com
  The UK commercial broadcaster must remain grounded under Carolyn McCall
  
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• Watch the Squeaky-Clean Trailer for Alfonso Cuarón’s Netflix Drama Roma

  25-07-2018 17:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  There are periods in history that scar societies and moments in life that transform us as individuals. Alfonso Cuaron (@alfonsocuaron) July 25, 2018For the first time, Cuarón did his film’s cinematography himself. The director told IndieWire he didn’t want to hire an English-speaking DP and have to translate his own...More »
  
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• Reese Witherspoon’s Latest TV Show Is About a 1970s Rock Band

  25-07-2018 17:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  Tired of producing shows based on popular books about women, Reese Witherspoon has taken to producing shows based on books about women that aren’t popular yet because they haven’t even been published. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Witherspoon’s production company Hello Sunshine is developing a TV series based on Taylor...More »
  
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• Venice Film Festival to Feature the Coen Brothers, Damien Chazelle and Lady Gaga

  25-07-2018 17:45 via nytimes.com
  The lineup of the festival’s 75th edition also includes premieres from Paul Greengrass, Orson Welles and Alfonso Cuarón.
  
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• Kennedy Center 2018 Honorees Include Cher and ‘Hamilton.’ Will President Trump Attend?

  25-07-2018 17:10 via nytimes.com
  Reba McEntire, Philip Glass and Wayne Shorter will also be honored at the Kennedy Center ceremony, which Mr. Trump skipped last year after some winners expressed discomfort with him.
  
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• Insatiable’s fat-shaming is dangerous. Don’t do it, Netflix | Sofie Hagen

  25-07-2018 17:01
  Teenagers struggling with body image will watch an actor in a fat suit become thin and popular after her jaw is wired shutWhen I am thin, I am going to laugh with friends. I am going to wear shorts. My friends will be proud of me. I will be a great actor. I am going to swim in the ocean. I am going to kiss a lesbian.I found this list I had written when I was 14 about what I was going to do, once I had lost all the weight. Yes, the kissing of the lesbian also threw me, reading it back. I am also
  
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• Stephen Colbert: 'Those who fail to learn from history … are Donald Trump'

  25-07-2018 16:25
  Comics, including Stephen Colbert, Trevor Noah and Seth Meyers, discussed Trump’s increased brazenness and the rollback of environmental protectionsLate-night hosts on Tuesday discussed reports that Donald Trump is considering revoking the security clearances of former government officials and the latest from the Departments of the Interior and Education. Related: Trevor Noah on the Michael Cohen tapes: 'The perfect audiobook for our road trip to hell'Continue reading...
  
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