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• Kelsey Grammer ‘Not Sure’ He Wants to Do Frasier Reboot

  01-08-2018 23:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  At the premiere of his new Netflix movie Like Father last night, Kelsey Grammer revealed that he has his doubts about reviving the beloved TV character he played in not one but two iconic sitcoms, but echoed Frasier Crane’s call-in catchphrase: “I’m listening.” “Honestly, I’m not sure it’s something I...More »
  
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• Review: ‘The Spy Who Dumped Me’ Is a Rom-Com With a Body Count

  01-08-2018 23:13 via nytimes.com
  Mila Kunis and Kate McKinnon are best friends who help each other through emotional and geopolitical chaos in this silly, bloody comedy.
  
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• Review: ‘The Spy Who Dumped Me’ Is a Buddy Comedy With a Body Count

  01-08-2018 23:13 via nytimes.com
  Mila Kunis and Kate McKinnon are best friends who help each other through emotional and geopolitical chaos in this silly, bloody movie.
  
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• New on Showtime: August 2018

  01-08-2018 23:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Because damn, it holds up: 10 Things I Hate About YouHave you revisited 10 Things I Hate About You lately? Well, guess what? It’s still great. Pulling from the tried-and-true playbook of placing Shakespeare in a modern context (in this case, The Taming of the Shrew through a ’90s lens)...More »
  
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• The Sinner Season Two Is Instantly Addictive

  01-08-2018 22:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  Carrie Coon is the star of The Sinner season two, which premieres tonight on USA. Honestly, that could be the end of my review, since she’s reason enough to watch the latest installment of this anthology crime series. Coon established herself as such a commanding presence in The Leftovers and Fargo...More »
  
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• There’s Reportedly an ALF Reboot in Development

  01-08-2018 22:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  Better go digging through that old bag of stuffed animals in storage. Warner Bros. is reportedly working on a reboot of ALF, the 1990s sitcom about an “Alien Life Form” that eats cats and sets up with a suburban family, allowing hilarity to ensue. Variety says it has confirmed the...More »
  
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• Aidy Bryant Comedy Shrill Ordered at Hulu

  01-08-2018 22:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  Saturday Night Live star Aidy Bryant is heading to Hulu to star in a new comedy series. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the streaming network has given a six-episode order to a show starring Bryant called Shrill, which was put into development earlier this year. Based on Lindy West’s 2016...More »
  
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• Netflix Won’t Offer Louis Farrakhan Documentary

  01-08-2018 22:01 via nytimes.com
  The movie about the leader of the Nation of Islam who has a history of anti-Semitic views seemed to be set for streaming; Netflix cited a miscommunication.
  
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• Let’s Talk About the Orange Is the New Black Season 6 Finale

  01-08-2018 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Spoilers ahead for Orange Is the New Black season six.Orange Is the New Black’s very existence is predicated on the fact that justice is uneven by design. It’s based on the story of a white upper-class woman who spent a year in prison for her involvement in laundering drug money,...More »
  
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• Anika Noni Rose Was Waiting for This Moment

  01-08-2018 21:35 via nytimes.com
  It has taken a while, but playing the sultry title role in “Carmen Jones” fulfills a lifelong dream.
  
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• Robyn, Pop’s Rightful Queen, Has Finally Returned to Reclaim Her Throne

  01-08-2018 21:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  It has been eight long years since Robyn, future-pop extraordinaire has released a song all her own. Sure, there was “Honey,” the song she made so exclusively for the final season of Girls — the show that amplified her stardom — that it exists nowhere else but over that episode’s...More »
  
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• Review: In ‘The Saintliness of Margery Kempe,’ a Comically Restless Mystic

  01-08-2018 20:53 via nytimes.com
  A play based on a confessional, self-obsessed woman’s memoir — from the 15th century — is back, at the Duke.
  
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• Top Gun 2 Is ‘Beefing Up’ a Role for Glen Powell

  01-08-2018 20:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  July 3 was a hard day for the Glen Powell fan nation. The actor was reportedly in the final running to play the role of Goose’s son opposite Tom Cruise in Top Gun 2, but he lost out on the part to Miles Teller. (Miles Teller! Who was not in...More »
  
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• John Cleese should stop moaning. Comedy has moved on from the Pythons | Fiona Sturges

  01-08-2018 20:12
  Monty Python was once the high benchmark of surrealist humour – but that was 45 years agoIf we are to believe John Cleese, who has lately morphed into the classic old man yelling at a cloud, the reason that Monty Python hasn’t been shown on the BBC for nigh-on 20 years is that it’s “too funny”. The only explanation, he told a simpering Nick Robinson on the Today programme, is that “it might not contrast well with some of the comedy they’re doing now&rdqu
  
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• Why Is Reese Throwing an Ice-Cream Cone at Meryl in Big Little Lies?

  01-08-2018 19:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  Hot off the success of her production of Avenue Q, Madeline Martha Mackenzie has gotten involved in a new bit of outrageous theater. In a photo from the set of Big Little Lies, we can see Reese Witherspoon throwing an immaculately put together ice-cream cone at Meryl Streep. First of...More »
  
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• What Other Tea Will Quincy Jones Spill in His Netflix Doc?

  01-08-2018 19:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  Though we at Vulture like to consider ourselves Quincy Jones’s official biographer and keeper of his many secrets, he’s just got too many stories for one website to tell. Luckily, Rashida Jones has directed a documentary called Quincy, about her father’s life, legacy, and, hopefully, love of gossip. The doc...More »
  
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• The Real Sarah Connor Is Back in Terminator Reboot First Look

  01-08-2018 19:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sarah Connor — the real Sarah Connor — is back! In a new first-look image from Tim Miller’s Terminator reboot we get to see cinema’s most iconic doomsday prepper walking alongside her new franchise co-stars, Mackenzie Davis and Natalia Reyes. When the Davis casting news was first reported, her character...More »
  
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• Wait, What?! Henry Cavill Grows a Beard in Seconds in Mission: Impossible -- Fallout

  01-08-2018 19:34 via feeds.eonline.com
  What's happening here?Social media is in a frenzy over a scene from Mission: Impossible -- Fallout which appears to show star Henry Cavill growing a beard in a matter of seconds. In...
  
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• The Ethical Dilemma of Highbrow True Crime

  01-08-2018 18:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  All week long, Vulture is exploring the many ways true crime has become one of the most dominant genres in popular culture. Alice Bolin is the author of Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession.The “true-crime boom” of the mid- to late 2010s is a strange pop-culture phenomenon, given...More »
  
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• Watch Jaden Smith Shoot a Scary Skateboard Stunt in This Skate Kitchen Clip

  01-08-2018 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Before you watch this exclusive clip from Crystal Moselle’s Skate Kitchen, I just want to say that the film is a wheels-on-pavement blast where the stakes are never much higher than gaining and retaining the friendship of a group of girls who truly get you. I include that preamble because...More »
  
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• New on Amazon Prime: August 2018

  01-08-2018 18:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you feel a sudden need for a solid whodunit: Agatha Christie’s Ordeal by InnocenceThe latest in a new wave of series adapting the works of one of the most famous mystery novelists in history, Ordeal by Innocence begins, of course, with a murder: A wealthy heiress has died, and...More »
  
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• Nicole Kidman in Talks for Gretchen Carlson Role in Roger Ailes Movie

  01-08-2018 18:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  Nicole Kidman is in talks to star opposite Charlize Theron in Annapurna’s Roger Ailes movie dramatizing the former Fox News chairman’s downfall. Per Variety, Kidman would play Fox & Friends host Gretchen Carlson, who filed a sexual-harassment lawsuit against Ailes, which began his career’s unraveling. Theron will produce and star...More »
  
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• Cool Ass Dank Ass Shit and Our Growing Appetite for Watching People Watch

  01-08-2018 17:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  Five years ago, Bobby McCoy’s Cool Ass Dank Ass Shit would’ve been unwatchable. Not because the alt-comedy climate has changed since then, but because the idea of a three-paned display anchored by a cell-phone screen wouldn’t have been created in the first place.Back in 2013, we still consumed most traditional...More »
  
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• Comedy’s Holy Grail, Lost Monty Python Scenes, Found in Michael Palin’s Archive

  01-08-2018 17:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  Monty Python is the gift that keeps on giving. Troupe member Michael Palin has given his private archive to the British Library in London, and it contains several cut and never-before-seen scenes from 1975’s Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Palin spoke with the Times of London about the scripts,...More »
  
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• The Miseducation of Cameron Post Is Promising, But Undone By a Lifeless Protagonist

  01-08-2018 17:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  About halfway through The Miseducation of Cameron Post, the title character’s peers at a gay-conversion camp start to lose their patience with her. “Your silence feels aggressive and judgmental, and it makes this place not safe,” says choirgirl Beth (Melanie Ehrlich). It’s obviously not her silence Beth objects to so...More »
  
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• Starter for 10: why do women on University Challenge face sexist comments – whatever they wear?

  01-08-2018 17:44
  Katharine Perry’s appearance on the quiz this week prompted a Twitter commentary that was all too familiar to former contestant Hannah Rose WoodsI regret to inform you that we’re just three episodes into the latest series of University Challenge, and we’re already facing another sexism row. The captain of the Pembroke, Oxford team, Katharine Perry, may have spent the better part of a decade honing her expertise in New Testament Greek and cognitive linguistics, but she has now b
  
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• Constance Wu Reflects on Crazy Rich Asians' "Historic" Impact

  01-08-2018 17:30 via feeds.eonline.com
  To say a lot is riding on Crazy Rich Asians would be an understatement.The romantic comedy, premiering in theaters Aug. 15, is adapted from Kevin Kwan's best-selling novel, published...
  
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• Hillary Clinton and Steven Spielberg to make TV series on women's suffrage

  01-08-2018 16:51
  Ex-secretary of state and Oscar winner to adapt Elaine Weiss’s book The Woman’s Hour, tracking the fight for women’s voting rightsHillary Clinton and Steven Spielberg are teaming up to adapt Elaine Weiss’s critically acclaimed book The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote for television.According to The Hollywood Reporter, the former secretary of state and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee will executive-produce the series with Spielberg’s Amblin T
  
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• 22 Unsettlingly Nice Tom Cruise Stories

  01-08-2018 16:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  This post originally ran after the release of The Mummy. Because Tom Cruise has continued to be a nice guy, we have updated this post to include three more unsettlingly nice stories.First things first: We get it. There’s an awful lot of unsettling Scientology stuff (a whole lot of stuff...More »
  
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• Seth Meyers Attempts to Dance on Late Night, Gets ‘White-Privilege Applause’

  01-08-2018 16:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you’re looking to start your day with a laugh, look no further than this clip from last night’s Late Night With Seth Meyers, where Meyers welcomes back writers Amber Ruffin and Jenny Hagel for a new round of “Jokes Seth Can’t Tell.” Ruffin and Hagel cover everything from a...More »
  
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• Hey Tracy Chapman, Nicki Minaj Is Desperately Looking for You

  01-08-2018 16:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  Nicki Minaj’s new album, Queen, is either coming out next week, the week after that, or never. After already delaying the album once, Minaj took to Twitter on Tuesday night to put out an open call to Tracy Chapman in a series of since-deleted tweets asking her to please get...More »
  
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• On This Land: Dance Presenters Honor Manhattan’s First Inhabitants

  01-08-2018 16:00 via nytimes.com
  Some performance spaces in New York are reminding viewers that the work they see is being performed on Indigenous land.
  
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• Kate McKinnon and Mila Kunis: Just a Couple of ‘Bachelor’ Fans on the Run

  01-08-2018 16:00 via nytimes.com
  The chance to work together intrigued the stars enough to sign on to “The Spy Who Dumped Me,” the rare female-led buddy action comedy. Bonus: They bonded over reality TV.
  
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• Love Island Taught Me Everything I Know About the U.K.

  01-08-2018 15:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  When I moved to London in May, I used to joke that it was just like New York but with weird money, but I quickly found out how naïve I was about my new home. I’d try to watch a “celebrity” edition of a game show on the “telly” and...More »
  
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• Crazy Rich Asians Turned Down a Massive Netflix Offer to Make Sure It’d Be Seen in Theaters

  01-08-2018 15:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  When Crazy Rich Asians comes out on August 15, it’ll be the first studio film with an all-Westernized Asian cast and creator to hit movie theaters since 1993’s Joy Luck Club, but it almost didn’t get a major theatrical release. According to The Hollywood Reporter, after Warner Bros. beat out...More »
  
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• Fox Wants to Make a Sandlot Prequel About, Who Knows, a Rock Lot?

  01-08-2018 15:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Sandlot, the favorite movie for sleepovers and summer camps, might get a prequel, sure to thrill all the grown-ups who loved the movie and can now foist it on their young children. According to Variety, Fox is developing a prequel to the 1993 movie about baseball, giant dogs, and...More »
  
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• How The Hate U Give Book Cover Was Altered for the Movie

  01-08-2018 15:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  The cover for Angie Thomas’s acclaimed Black Lives Matter–inspired novel, The Hate U Give, began, fittingly, as a piece of protest art. Back in 2015, Debra Cartwright, the artist who made the illustration, was sitting at her desk at People magazine in Times Square while a protest over the death...More »
  
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• The 8 Best Comics to Read This August

  01-08-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Each month, Abraham Riesman offers recommendations of comics media, including book-length graphic novels, comics-format nonfiction, ongoing series, and comics-related items in other forms. With any luck, at least one of them will be a match for you.The Arab of the Future 3 by Riad Sattouf (Metropolitan)God bless whatever Proustian madeleine...More »
  
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• 33 Great True-Crime Books, According to Crime Writers

  01-08-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  All week long, Vulture is exploring the many ways true crime has become one of the most dominant genres in popular culture. While crime-driven storytelling is experiencing a boom in television and podcasts, it’s long been one of literature’s most enduring obsessions. To honor the genre’s roots, Vulture asked a group...More »
  
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• The Home Stereo System From Sharp Objects Can Be Yours for More Than $112,000

  01-08-2018 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Aside from great actresses, overwhelming humidity, and pervasive dread, one of the most noteworthy aspects of Sharp Objects is its music. The show’s needle drops tend to come from diegetic sources, often an iPhone, or, as in the many creepy scenes in the Crellin family’s Victorian house, a sound system....More »
  
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• Netflix won't stream Louis Farrakhan film after 'internal miscommunication'

  01-08-2018 11:30
  The Nation of Islam leader, banned from the UK in 1986, had tweeted My Life’s Journey Through Music would be available on the service from 1 AugustNetflix has denied it had plans to stream a documentary about the controversial Muslim leader Louis Farrakhan, blaming an “internal miscommunication” for the mix up.The Nation of Islam leader had tweeted about the film, My Life’s Journey Through Music, which he helped make and is coming to the streaming service. “On 1 Aug
  
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• Vincent Cassel Has Just 20 Minutes to Spare

  01-08-2018 11:00 via nytimes.com
  The French movie star speed-talks his way through a conversation about sex, Gallic masculinity and the artist Gauguin. And sex.
  
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• 5 Shows to See in New York: ‘Pretty Woman,’ ‘Be More Chill’ and More

  01-08-2018 11:00 via nytimes.com
  August turns out to be a month for musicals, with science fiction, a Hollywood rom-com and dueling garage bands on the agenda.
  
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