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• Remembering V.S. Naipaul, a Pioneer of Postcolonial Literature

  13-08-2018 23:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  When V.S. Naipaul was interviewed after the release of Between Father and Son, a collection of the letters he exchanged with his father after moving from Trinidad to Oxford for a scholarship in 1950, he avowed that he hadn’t read the book. It was too painful. Naipaul’s father, Seepersad, a...More »
  
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• Mark Gatiss on John Minton: The Lost Man of Art review – a poignant portrait

  13-08-2018 23:00
  Minton was once more famous than Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud. Now his superfan is on a mission to resurrect his reputation in this fascinating BBC Four documentaryMark was a teenager when he first saw Johnny across a room. He was immediately struck by him, mesmerised even, by Johnny’s long face, his wide eyes, their look of melancholy. It was the start of an obsession that has continued throughout Mark’s life.Mark is Mark Gatiss – actor, writer, Whovian, Holmesian, Renaissan
  
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• Nicki Minaj Is Going to Smoke You Back to Life in ‘Ganja Burn’ Video

  13-08-2018 22:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  Nicki Minaj has just released the music video for “Ganja Burn,” and it centers around a tale of biblical-level beef, so gather round children, zip it, listen. It opens with the story of a Generous Queen who, betrayed by someone close to her, allowed her queendom to be decimated. She...More »
  
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• In Wonderfully Niche News, Documentary Now! Will Parody the Making of the Company Cast Album

  13-08-2018 22:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  Documentary Now!, a show seemingly intent on making small groups of people extremely excited about its existence, has come up with yet another hyperspecific parody. IFC announced today that the show’s next season will include an episode riffing on D.A. Pennebaker’s famous (among a specific set of people) 1970 film...More »
  
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• 6 New Paperbacks You Should Read This August

  13-08-2018 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Each month, Maris Kreizman offers nonfiction and fiction paperback recommendations. You should read as many of them as possible.Every editorial product is independently selected. If you buy an item through our links, Vulture may earn an affiliate commission....More »
  
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• Colbert Says There Was No Pushback From CBS for Discussing Les Moonves on Late Show

  13-08-2018 21:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  During his appearance on Andy Cohen’s Watch What Happens Live last night, Stephen Colbert was asked if there was any resistance from CBS over his choice to address the Les Moonves allegations during his Late Show monologue last month. According to Colbert, nope. “As soon as I heard the article...More »
  
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• The Banquet of Trash Talk That Is Nicki Minaj’s Queen

  13-08-2018 21:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  The internet’s a little nuts. It’s an attention economy, which means truth often takes a back seat to sensationalism. Falsehoods and conspiracies are mere clicks away. The pathways from fact to plausible fiction are well-lit. Part of what makes this year a special kind of hell is everyone’s matching conviction...More »
  
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• Voltron: Legendary Defender Had a Gay Character All Along

  13-08-2018 20:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  For those who grew up on the classic ’80s cartoon Voltron, Netflix’s remake, Voltron: Legendary Defender, will seem quite different. Yes, five mechanical lions still combine to form a giant robot that kicks ass in space, but the show has been modernized in ways large and small. Not only is...More »
  
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• Tracing Winona Ryder’s Career Via Her Most Memorable Quotes

  13-08-2018 20:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s August, which can only mean one thing: Winona Ryder season is upon us. This month sees the 30th anniversary of Heathers’ initial theatrical run, and a confluence of Ryder-related happenings to commemorate it. She and Keanu Reeves have two tickets to paradise in the upcoming rom-com Destination Wedding; and...More »
  
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• Ann Dowd Wants You to Stop Mispronouncing Aunt Lydia’s Name

  13-08-2018 20:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  After plugging away in Hollywood for three-plus decades, Ann Dowd has found her place at the table among today’s most celebrated actors. When the 62-year-old arrived at last year’s Emmy ceremony, she was a first-time nominee with a pair of nominations to her credit: Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama...More »
  
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• They All Love a ‘Yellow Submarine’: Very Young Beatles Fans Sing Along

  13-08-2018 20:14 via nytimes.com
  Families, most with small children, gathered at Film Forum for a special screening of the 1968 movie that let them share their love of the group.
  
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• Why Slow Burn Season Two Is All About Bill Clinton’s Impeachment

  13-08-2018 19:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  Leon Neyfakh speaks slowly and deliberately, as if concerned about the slipperiness of the words he uses. His voice is deep, a little gravelly, and well-suited for a Dashiell Hammett joint. In other words, he sounds exactly like he does when he narrates Slow Burn, the spectacular audio documentary from...More »
  
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• Revisiting the Nick Hornby Cinematic Universe

  13-08-2018 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Juliet Naked — the film adaptation of Nick Hornby’s 2009 novel — follows Annie (Rose Byrne), repressed museum curator and long-suffering girlfriend, who embarks on a transatlantic romance with reclusive rock star Tucker Crowe (Ethan Hawke), much to the chagrin of her pretentious dolt of an ex-boyfriend Duncan (Chris O’Dowd), an...More »
  
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• He Used to Move Pianos. Now He Moves Audiences.

  13-08-2018 18:39 via nytimes.com
  Stephen Payne, a longtime understudy, gets his first Broadway starring role in “Straight White Men.”
  
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• There Is No Talking Cat in These Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Images

  13-08-2018 18:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  Netflix has just released the first two images from its Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, the show that will focus way more on the whole witch aspect of Sabrina the teenage witch. Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Riverdale’s showrunner, wrote the script for the series, and will executive produce alongside others who also worked...More »
  
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• Netflix finance chief to step down after seven years

  13-08-2018 18:31 via ft.com
  David Wells presided over video streaming group’s huge investment in original content
  
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• Mulan First Look: See Yifei Liu in the Live-Action Disney Movie

  13-08-2018 18:20 via feeds.eonline.com
  Meet Mulan.Moments ago, Walt Disney Studios gave fans their first look at Yifei Liu as Hua Mulan. The actress was chosen to bring the beloved heroine to life after a year-long global...
  
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• Celebs Tweet Prayers For Aretha Franklin Amidst News of Serious Illness

  13-08-2018 18:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  Aretha Franklin is seriously ill, according to the Associated Press. An anonymous source close to the Queen of Soul told the AP about Franklin’s health as news reports circulated that she is “gravely ill” in Detroit. TMZ reports that Franklin has been battling cancer. Franklin announced her retirement in February...More »
  
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• Oscars: 8 Movies That Could Be Nominated for Best Blockbuster

  13-08-2018 18:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Academy’s recent announcement that the Oscars would add a new category to recognize popular films has raised many questions in Hollywood. Did ABC pressure the Academy to add the category, hoping that the presence of bigger blockbusters might juice up the network’s falling Oscar ratings? Could such a prize...More »
  
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• Front Burner: Shakespeare With an Eight-Course Feast

  13-08-2018 18:04 via nytimes.com
  The Shake & Bake theater company brings “Love’s Labour’s Lost” to the meatpacking district, and dinner is included with the ticket.
  
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• ‘BlacKkKlansman’ Is the Movie Everyone’s Talking About. Here’s What to Read About It.

  13-08-2018 17:39 via nytimes.com
  We rounded up some of the best reviews, reports, essays and interviews about Spike Lee’s “BlacKkKlansman.”
  
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• ‘BlacKkKlansman’ Could Be the Year’s Most Discussed Movie. Here’s What to Read About It.

  13-08-2018 17:39 via nytimes.com
  We roundup some of the best reviews, reports, essays and interviews about Spike Lee’s “BlacKkKlansman.”
  
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• Laura Harrier on Her ‘Nerve-racking’ Performance in BlacKkKlansman

  13-08-2018 17:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman declares right off the bat that it’s all about the “fo real, fo real shit,” following Colorado Springs detective Ron Stallworth’s (John David Washington) bold infiltration of the local Ku Klux Klan chapter in the late 1970s. But there’s at least one character who’s pure invention: Laura...More »
  
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• Back to the Future Cast Reunites at Fan Convention

  13-08-2018 17:28 via feeds.eonline.com
  Michael J. Fox reunited with his Back to the Future co-stars on Friday at Fan Expo Boston. The Marty McFly star gave fans quite the blast from the past when he met up with Christopher Lloyd (Dr....
  
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• The RBG Documentary Is Coming to CNN, Hand Weights and All

  13-08-2018 17:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Buzzworthy Ruth Bader Ginsburg documentary RBG is coming to CNN next month, just four months after its wide theatrical release. The film, from directors Betsy West and Julie Cohen, will have its small-screen premiere on Labor Day (September 3), the news network announced Monday. CNN — which co-produced RBG via...More »
  
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• Who Has the Most Damning Appearance in Who Is America Episode 5?

  13-08-2018 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  No one comes out of a Sacha Baron Cohen show looking good. Your mere presence on Showtime’s Who Is America? means you’ve already been duped by a guy in a costume. It’s an impossible game to win, but some guests make it out relatively unscathed by refusing to play along.The...More »
  
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• The Real Housewives of Potomac Recap: A Frosty Reunion

  13-08-2018 16:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  For a group of women who believe that they are hotter than underboob in the summer, they suuuuuure do spend a lot of time being defensive and caring about what other people think of them. Not a single person up there on those couches was unbothered. Everyone was the definition...More »
  
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• Queer Eye’s Karamo Will Have Your Whole Office in Bomber Jackets With New Fashion Line

  13-08-2018 16:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  Queer Eye’s Karamo Brown, the man who teaches all of us to feel our feelings, is now going to teach us all how to look cool when all you need is a light jacket. Brown, who is known for wearing a variety of bomber jackets while he helps lost souls...More »
  
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• Saying Good-bye to Casual With Michaela Watkins and Tommy Dewey

  13-08-2018 15:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  Spoilers below for the Casual series finale.When I get on the phone with Michaela Watkins and Tommy Dewey, the stars of the recently concluded Hulu series Casual, they are already in mid-conversation. “We haven’t seen each other in way too long,” Dewey explains. He’s shooting a movie in L.A. at...More »
  
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• Which Jokes Comedians Would Steal If They Could Get Away With It

  13-08-2018 15:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ooo doggy, joke stealing makes everyone so mad all the time. But, like all types of stealing, it sure seems like fun if you knew you’d get away with it. Which is why on Good One, Vulture’s podcast about jokes and those who tell them, we often ask comedians this...More »
  
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• John Oliver: 'This week America's dog-whistle racism became uncomfortably loud'

  13-08-2018 14:52
  On Last Week Tonight, Oliver discussed ‘Unite the Right 2’ and a controversial anti-immigration monologue by Laura IngrahamOn Last Week Tonight, John Oliver discussed this past weekend’s “Unite the Right 2” rally, which occurred on the one-year anniversary of the riots in Charlottesville last summer. Related: John Oliver on Donald Trump's defence strategy: 'There's so much wrong there'Continue reading...
  
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• Jack Whitehall's role as first major gay Disney character sparks row

  13-08-2018 14:37
  The actor and comedian is reportedly playing the gay brother of Emily Blunt’s character in Disney film Jungle CruiseA row has broken out on social media after reports that Jack Whitehall will play the first major openly gay character in a Disney film.Whitehall announced on Instagram that he was working on Jungle Cruise, a film based on the Disney theme park ride of the same name, starring Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt. Whitehall is to play the brother of Blunt’s character, and accor
  
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• When good TV goes bad: why Murder One should have closed its case

  13-08-2018 14:34
  Hill Street Blues creator Steven Bochco’s cult crime procedural was taut and tense – before wholesale changes sanded down its rougher edges Steven Bochco. Even the name somehow evokes a crotchety, bleary-eyed detective slurping bad coffee in a dingy squad room. When the veteran TV writer died earlier this year, the obituaries naturally zeroed in on his greatest hits and misses, from such mighty, monolithic dramas as Hill Street Blues, St Elsewhere and NYPD Blue to Bochco’s most
  
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• Greg James on being Radio 1's new morning DJ, fatbergs and David Attenborough

  13-08-2018 14:01
  James on how Mel B ruined the 90s for him, why his listeners are the funniest people he knows and spending his teens downloading Chris Moyles jingles 1.01pm BST Thanks for trolling me, it's been an honour! 1.00pm BST CarlBr0wn asks:You’re a renowned radio nerd. What’s your favourite bit of radio trivia or some old jingle you have stashed away in your brain?Chris Smith is the newsreader in a famous song - in George Michael's Outside. You know the bit where they do the news report abou
  
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• Sharp Objects recap: season 1, episode 6: Cherry

  13-08-2018 13:01
  A sense of foreboding is engulfing Wind Gap as Camille descends into an even darker place, Adora and Alan act suspiciously and everyone tells porkiesI know there are mixed feelings about the pace of Sharp Objects, but I’m enjoying its slow creep immensely. This episode had the hallmarks of an unfolding horror show and at times it was genuinely chilling. There is a growing sense of doom, with characters chucking ominous warnings around, as when Frank Curry’s wife, Eileen, told Camille
  
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• Insatiable is just the latest example of Netflix not understanding teenagers

  13-08-2018 11:11
  The new show has been heavily criticised for its depiction of obesity, and it follows the similarly poorly received 13 Reasons Why. So is Netflix selling younger viewers short?If there’s one thing more painful than watching Netflix’s newly-released teen sitcom Insatiable, it’s seeing just how dismally it’s gone down. Glossing over its current 6% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, don’t expect Buzzfeed’s “hollow, harmful, and hateful” or Hollywood Reporter&
  
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• Ruby Rose Reportedly Leaves Twitter After Batwoman Backlash

  13-08-2018 07:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  After being named The CW’s brand-new lesbian Batwoman, a character reportedly set to appear in both the network’s Arrowverse crossover and her very own forthcoming series, Orange Is the New Black star Ruby Rose enthused about the role on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon last week, sharing her personal...More »
  
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• Monday’s best TV: Bollywood: The World’s Biggest Film Industry; Jamie Cooks Italy

  13-08-2018 07:00
  The ‘romantic, exciting, exotic’ film genre is all-singing, all-dancing, while Jamie Oliver is all olive oil as he explores the culinary delights of an Aeolian island9pm, BBC Two
  Not only does Bollywood make three times as many films as Hollywood, it also shifts 2bn movie tickets per year. This all-singing, all-dancing profile sees Anita Rani travel to India to explore the history behind the “romantic, exciting, exotic” genre she grew up loving in her native Bradford. Exp
  
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• The Affair Reveals the Shocking Truth Behind a Major Death

  13-08-2018 06:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  We should’ve known. It was there at the beginning, right in front of us all along: Alison’s death foreshadowed in The Affair’s tumultuous opening credits, set to Fiona Apple’s “Container,” a song written just for the show. “I have only one thing to do and that’s / Be the wave...More »
  
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• Chris Hardwick Wept Upon Returning to AMC’s Talking Dead Following Sexual Abuse Investigation

  13-08-2018 06:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  An emotional Chris Hardwick welcomed viewers back to Sunday’s midseason premiere of AMC’s Talkig Dead by thanking them for their support during the network’s investigation of emotional and sexual abuse claims made against him by ex-girlfriend Chloe Dykstra. “You know, normally I recap the show we’re about to talk about...More »
  
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• Stand Out of Our Light, by James Williams

  13-08-2018 06:01 via ft.com
  A philosophical study of the ‘faulty GPS’ that guides us in the age of Big Tech
  
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• 5 Biggest Jaw-Droppers From the 2018 Teen Choice Awards

  13-08-2018 05:40 via feeds.eonline.com
  The 2018 Teen Choice Awards honored the best in comedy, fashion, film, the internet, music, sports and television. Nick Cannon and Lele Pons co-hosted the show live from The Forum in L.A., where...
  
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• Omarosa Says Trump Suggested He Could Be Sworn In on His Own Book The Art of the Deal

  13-08-2018 05:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  Omarosa Manigault Newman, former White House staffer and, according to President Trump, newly-minted “low-life,” is in the midst of the press tour for her upcoming White House tell-all Unhinged. The Apprentice star has already described POTUS as experiencing mental decline and played a recording of her firing by White House...More »
  
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• Insecure Recap: New Arrangements

  13-08-2018 05:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  The season 3 premiere of HBO’s Insecure opens with Issa writhing and screaming beneath a sweating, thrusting Daniel, the ex-boyfriend/plaything introduced last season. It turns out that Issa is imagining the hookup; Daniel is actually nailing another (very vocal) young woman, and Issa is forced to listen from her spot...More »
  
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• Geoffrey Rush accused of simulating 'groping and fondling' actor at centre of lawsuit

  13-08-2018 05:09
  Sydney Daily Telegraph alleges Rush acted like a ‘pervert’ and engaged in ‘sexually predatory behaviour’ during production of King Lear Geoffrey Rush simulated “groping and fondling” the actor at the centre of his defamation suit against the Sydney Daily Telegraph, the newspaper has alleged in court documents.Last week the federal court heard the Telegraph and its reporter, Jonathon Moran, will attempt to prove a defence of truth when the case goes to trial in
  
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• Preacher Recap: A Deal With the Devil

  13-08-2018 05:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  One of the best things that can be said for Preacher is that, even when it’s a mess, you can kind of tell what it’s trying to do.Which is to say, though “The Tom/Brady” is packed with good moments, it doesn’t entirely cohere. I assume it’s because it’s setting up...More »
  
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• Teen Choice Awards 2018 Winners: The Complete List

  13-08-2018 04:00 via feeds.eonline.com
  The teens have spoken!Tonight, the 2018 Teen Choice Awards were broadcast live from The Forum at 8 p.m. ET on FOX. Nick Cannon hosted the annual award ceremony, where Lele Pons served as...
  
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• Sharp Objects Recap: Dead Girls Everywhere

  13-08-2018 04:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I never loved you,” the whispered cruelty Adora says in the closing moments of the previous episode haunt “Cherry”.Let’s discuss the gravity of this statement for a moment. A part of Camille has perhaps always known this about her mother. Adora’s emotional remove and icy demeanor is hard to miss....More »
  
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• Chris Messina on Sharp Objects, Getting Sweaty, and Joking With Amy Adams

  13-08-2018 04:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  In Sharp Objects, the only character less comfortable in the town of Wind Gap than Amy Adams’s hometown daughter in exile Camille Preaker is Richard Willis, the out-of-town detective investigating the murders of two young girls. Camille and Richard start off trading quips over drinks, and then move on to...More »
  
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