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• Spring Chickens George Miller and Jack Nicholson Called Cher ‘Too Old’

  20-08-2018 23:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  Cher, Hollywood dancing queen, told a haunting tale to an Atlantic City audience over the weekend. According to The Hollywood Reporter, during her concert, the 72-year-old singer reminisced about how nervous she was about turning 40 in 1986, because despite what you may believe Cher is, in fact, just like...More »
  
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• Dwarfs in Art: A New Perspective review – a compelling reappraisal of the overlooked and undervalued

  20-08-2018 23:00 via theguardian.com
  This BBC Four documentary raised questions about othering, exploitation and the importance of representation – not just in art, but in society as a wholeI love BBC Four documentaries about paintings, although I realise they are my equivalent of Slow Television, the genre that emerged briefly when Norwegian state TV broadcast a train journey in real time for hours and hours, and “watching paint dry” was useless as a metaphor. You would be forgiven, then, for glazing over at the
  
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• To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before Author Jenny Han on Love Letters, Lara Jean, and John Corbett

  20-08-2018 22:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  When Lara Jean Covey (Lana Condor) marches down a lacrosse field to confront hot jock Peter Kavinsky (Noah Centineo) in Netflix’s new To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, it’s impossible to stifle a grin: It’s that gloriously staged romantic-comedy shot, the stuff that teen dreams are made of. Lara...More »
  
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• We Were This Close to Watching Nicki Minaj Side-Eye Travis Scott All Night at the VMAs

  20-08-2018 22:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  Oh what could have been! Over the weekend, Nicki Minaj took umbrage with Travis Scott — but, really, Kylie Jenner and baby Stormi — over what she perceived as his conniving plot to sabotage her quest for another No. 1 album by juicing his own album sales with tour-album bundles,...More »
  
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• Music Review: Bernstein Is Paid Half-Hearted Tribute at Tanglewood

  20-08-2018 22:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  Three sailors on shore leave hit the city, and within moments, accompanied by the swaggering score of Leonard Bernstein’s Fancy Free, they surround a passing young woman, grab her handbag, shove her around, and chase her down the street. To Bernstein, and to Jerome Robbins, this sequence represented a blithe...More »
  
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• Every VMAs Video of the Year Award, Ranked From Worst to Best

  20-08-2018 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  The MTV Video Music Awards are not, and have never been, a barometer for creative achievement within the artistic realm of music videos. This is not opinion, but plain-as-day fact — proven wholly by the undeniable truth that the late Michael Jackson, undoubtedly a master of the form, never took...More »
  
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• What Ronny Chieng Can’t Live Without

  20-08-2018 21:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you’re like us, you’ve probably wondered what famous people add to their carts. Not the JAR brooch and Louis XV chair, but the hand sanitizer and the electric toothbrush. We asked Daily Show senior correspondent Ronny Chieng, whose Comedy Central series International Student is currently streaming and who stars as Edison Cheng in...More »
  
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• The Eagles Fly Off With Michael Jackson’s Record for Top-Selling Album

  20-08-2018 21:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  While you were busy arguing whether Michael Jackson or Beyoncé was the world’s greatest-ever performer, the Eagles’ Greatest Hits 1971-1975 has surpassed MJ’s Thriller as the No. 1–selling album of all time. Per the Associated Press, the RIAA confirmed that the Eagles’ album has gone 38x platinum, five times more...More »
  
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• Lana Del Rey’s Israel Fight Is Only the Beginning

  20-08-2018 21:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  To paraphrase Orwell: If you want a picture of the future, imagine pop stars writing tortured tweets about Israel — forever. Or at least until there’s peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians, which these days feels like it might only arrive in whatever comes after forever. Yesterday, Lana Del...More »
  
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• Ozark Season 1: A (Very) Condensed Recap

  20-08-2018 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Is Ozark on the verge of a breakout season? A year after the Netflix drama’s premiere, it picked up four Emmy nominations, including two nods to star Jason Bateman for acting and directing. Now, with season two set to premiere right at the end of the summer — August 31, to...More »
  
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• Netflix Renews GLOW for a 3rd Season

  20-08-2018 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling aren’t going anywhere. Netflix announced today that it’s handed out a ten-episode, season-three renewal to Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch’s GLOW. The show’s second season debuted on the streaming network in late June, and at the end of the finale, the group was boarding a...More »
  
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• Champions’ Josie Totah Comes Out As Transgender

  20-08-2018 20:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  Josie Totah has come out as transgender in an essay for Time. Totah, who starred in NBC’s sitcom Champions and also appeared in Other People, Glee, and Spider-Man: Homecoming, explained she felt “like I let myself be shoved into a box: ‘J.J. Totah, gay boy’” in her acting roles, and...More »
  
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• Aasif Mandvi’s One-Man Show Will Return to New York

  20-08-2018 20:32 via nytimes.com
  “Sakina’s Restaurant,” which originally ran in 1998, will play at the Minetta Lane Theater in October. A Patti Smith show is also in the new lineup.
  
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• The Terrible Anal-Sex Joke That Got Cut From Crazy Rich Asians

  20-08-2018 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  When American cinemagoers turned out to see Crazy Rich Asians this weekend, they were treated to all the sumptuous food porn, breathtaking locations, and beautiful gowns that readers of Kevin Kwan’s novel expected. But in all the movie’s changes to the book plot, one stands out as both the most...More »
  
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• The TCGS Exit Interview: A Chat Between Chris Gethard and Brett Davis

  20-08-2018 19:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  Earlier this month, Chris Gethard announced that his long-running show, The Chris Gethard Show, had come to an end after nearly a decade. TCGS has gone through several iterations over the years, starting as a live show at the Upright Citizens Brigade before moving to New York public access on...More »
  
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• This Atypical Season-Two Trailer Will Have You Accepting Whatever Hugs You Can Get Today

  20-08-2018 19:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  Netflix has released the trailer for the second season of their groundbreaking original series Atypical, and autistic teen Sam is facing an entirely new and more complex set of challenges (and a surprising amount of blood). His hope of someday getting to see boobs in season one now seems relatively...More »
  
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• Niecy Nash Is Getting a Late-Night Pilot at TNT

  20-08-2018 19:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  While Michelle Wolf and Joel McHale have lost their late-night shows, Niecy Nash might be gaining one. TNT announced today that it’s handed out a pilot order to a late-night show hosted by the Claws star titled Naked With Niecy Nash. Sue Murphy (Chelsea Lately, Chelsea) is attached as executive...More »
  
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• Review: ‘R.R.R.E.D’ is a Bad Hair Day

  20-08-2018 19:36 via nytimes.com
  A future-shock musical comedy about redhead rights could use a makeover.
  
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• HBO Wants More Random Acts of Flyness

  20-08-2018 19:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  More Random Acts of Flyness is in the works at HBO. The network announced today that it’s handed out a season-two renewal to the late-night series, which debuted its first season earlier this month. Created by artist and filmmaker Terence Nance, the half-hour show was given a six-episode series order...More »
  
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• ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ Tops Box Office, Proving Power of Diversity (Again)

  20-08-2018 19:13 via nytimes.com
  With $25 million in weekend ticket sales, “Crazy Rich Asians” gave Hollywood its best-selling comedy since “Girls Trip,” another unusually inclusive film.
  
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• Death, Grief, and Comedy With Adam Cayton-Holland

  20-08-2018 18:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  Adam Cayton-Holland has done stand-up on all the talk shows and appeared on numerous “Comics to Watch” lists, and he’s also got his own television comedy series about incompetent teachers: Those Who Can’t, which was truTV’s first scripted series. He created and stars in it with the rest of his...More »
  
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• Netflix’s Made in Mexico Is Coming to Give You More Rich People Problems

  20-08-2018 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Netflix today confirmed its first Mexican reality-TV series, Made in Mexico, which follows the lives of nine “well-to-do socialites, revealing the flawed lives of the seemingly perfect elite.” The series will debut globally on September 28. Despite the name, the nine cast members include both Mexico City natives and expats...More »
  
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• The Quirky Beauty of Ariana Grande’s Sweetener

  20-08-2018 18:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  We’ve all had a wild year, but Ariana Grande might’ve had the wildest. Since last spring, the Floridian singer with the outsize voice had her world rocked by a terror attack at her arena show in Manchester. Just two weeks later, she made a brave return to the stage for...More »
  
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• Exclusive: How This Michael Shannon Music Video Became a Jeff Nichols Short Film

  20-08-2018 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It really felt like at some point, I was gonna have to direct a Lucero video,” laughed Jeff Nichols. The 39-year-old Nichols isn’t a music-video maker by trade — he’s better known as the director of feature films like Mud, Loving, and Midnight Special — but since his brother Ben...More »
  
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• Trevor Noah Breaks Down His 3 Favorite Daily Show Segments

  20-08-2018 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  For the first time since Trevor Noah took over The Daily Show in 2015, the Comedy Central program has been nominated for an Emmy in the Best Variety Talk Series category. If Noah wins, he’d be the first black talk-show host to take home the trophy in Emmy history. (The...More »
  
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• Rose McGowan Says She Is ‘Heartbroken’ Over Asia Argento Assault Allegations

  20-08-2018 16:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  Nearly one year ago, actresses Rose McGowan and Asia Argento became vocal proponents of the #MeToo movement after coming forward to accuse Harvey Weinstein of rape, which in turn led to a bond over their unfortunate commonality. Now, McGowan says that her “heart is broken” upon reading the New York Times story that Argento allegedly paid actor Jimmy Bennettnearly...More »
  
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• How Crazy Rich Asians’ Costume Designer Picked 8 Key Looks, From Versace to Dior

  20-08-2018 16:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  Adapted from Kevin Kwan’s 2013 best seller, Crazy Rich Asians tells the story of Rachel Chu (Constance Wu), a young NYU professor who follows her beau Nick Young (Henry Golding) to his home in Singapore, to both attend Nick’s best friend’s wedding and finally meet the Young family. The twist?...More »
  
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• Chris Pine Gets His Own Braveheart in Netflix’s Outlaw King Trailer

  20-08-2018 16:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  Chris Pine’s new Netflix movie Outlaw King is a medieval drama based on the true story of Robert the Bruce, who rallies outlaws into a local militia to free Scotland from England’s control. Just like Braveheart? Sure, but maybe The Revenant is a better comparison: Everything looks really cold, it’s...More »
  
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• Boots Riley attacks Spike Lee over ‘made up’ BlacKkKlansman

  20-08-2018 15:57
  Sorry to Bother You director condemns portrayal of black and white officers as allies in fight against racismBoots Riley, the director of the acclaimed satire Sorry to Bother You, has taken aim at Spike Lee’s new film, BlacKkKlansman, in which a black police officer infiltrates a white supremacist organisation.In an essay posted on Twitter, Riley calls the film “a made-up story in which the false parts of it try to make a cop the protagonist in the fight against racist oppression&rdq
  
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• Stormy Daniels: I get crazy hate mail and death threats

  20-08-2018 15:45 via theguardian.com
  Adult film star who claims to have had affair with Donald Trump gives interview to UK talkshow Loose WomenStormy Daniels has said she sometimes fears for her safety as she said speaking out about her alleged affair with Donald Trump made her feel safer because she was “hiding in plain sight”.Asked if she felt if her life was under threat, she said: “My answer to that question is going to change daily. Some days I can slip out and go about my day and I almost feel normal for a m
  
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• In Defense of Al Franken, Comedian Chelsea Handler Points Out That She’s Groped a Lot of People

  20-08-2018 15:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you’re ever about to defend a friend or loved one from groping accusations and are about to point out, “I mean, I’ve groped a ton of people too,” stop. Reconsider. In her Profile by BuzzFeed News interview posted Sunday, Chelsea Handler defended friend and former senator Al Franken, who resigned from...More »
  
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• To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before’s Noah Centineo on Playing a Vulnerable Jock

  20-08-2018 15:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  As our heroine in the Netflix rom-com To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, Lara Jean Covey (Lana Condor) is a winning collection of one-liners and neuroses. But the most surprising performance comes from Noah Centineo, who plays Peter Kavinsky, a lacrosse-playing, Jeep-driving bro. When a handful of Lara Jean’s...More »
  
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• Netflix and shill? Streaming service tests adverts between shows

  20-08-2018 15:29 via theguardian.com
  The trial, which sees original programming promoted between episodes of other series, has proved controversial among usersNetflix is testing adverts for the first time, while promoting its original programming between episodes of other series, including Shameless, Frasier and Parks and Recreation.Viewers trying to binge-watch shows on the streaming service will now find their viewing interrupted by the interstitial commercials, which air after the end of one episode, before the next automaticall
  
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• Greg James puts listeners centre stage on Radio 1 breakfast debut

  20-08-2018 15:17 via theguardian.com
  James’s first Radio 1 Breakfast Show is bright and funny and avoids a race to the bottomGreg James, Radio 1’s 16th Breakfast Show host, opened his first show with a love letter to radio. “I love radio more than anything else in the world,” he began. “It is the best thing. It’s there when you’re happy, it’s there when you’re sad. This is the most famous radio show in the world and it’s a privilege to share it with you every morning.&rdq
  
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• Who Has the Most Damning Appearance in Who Is America Episode 6?

  20-08-2018 14:58 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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• Asia Argento accused of paying off young actor who says she sexually assaulted him

  20-08-2018 14:27
  The actor and #MeToo campaigner – who accused Harvey Weinstein of rape – reportedly paid $380,000 last year to former co-star Jimmy Bennett One of the most prominent activists of the #MeToo movement against sexual harassment recently settled a complaint filed against her by a young actor and musician who said she sexually assaulted him when he was 17, the New York Times reported.Asia Argento, 42, settled the notice of intent to sue filed by Jimmy Bennett, who is now 22, for $380,000
  
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• Asia Argento accused of paying off actor who says she sexually assaulted him aged 17

  20-08-2018 14:27
  The actor and #MeToo campaigner – who accused Harvey Weinstein of rape – reportedly paid $380,000 last year to former co-star Jimmy Bennett One of the most prominent activists of the #MeToo movement against sexual harassment recently settled a complaint filed against her by a young actor and musician who said she sexually assaulted him when he was 17, the New York Times reported.Asia Argento, 42, settled the notice of intent to sue filed by Jimmy Bennett, who is now 22, for $380,000
  
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• When good TV goes bad: how Community’s fourth series failed to make the grade

  20-08-2018 14:00 via theguardian.com
  The Donald Glover-starring college comedy was knowing and surreal, before puppets and gas leaks made viewers want to play hookyGreendale Community College, setting for Dan Harmon’s almost-too-smart-for-its-own-good sitcom Community, was the sort of school that offered courses in the history of ice-cream, theoretical PE, and an intriguing module called “Will it fry?” For three glorious seasons, fans watched a quirky band of life’s losers form a surrogate family in a c
  
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• The Real Housewives Of Potomac Recap: What Does A Masseuse Do?

  20-08-2018 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s time for the second and final installment of the Real Housewives of Potomac finale and I’m not ready for it to end! What a wild ride. From the highest highs in Cannes to the lowest of lows dropping off a pizza in front of Karen’s house, it feels like...More »
  
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• Francis Ford Coppola agrees Winona Ryder and Keanu Reeves might be married

  20-08-2018 13:32
  Director of Bram Stoker’s Dracula says 1992 film starring the pair included a real wedding ceremonyFrancis Ford Coppola has backed a theory by Winona Ryder that she and Keanu Reeves might be married. The director of the 1992 film Bram Stoker’s Dracula, which starred Ryder and Reeves, corroborated Ryder’s story that a wedding scene involving the pair could be legally binding.Continue reading...
  
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• Sharp Objects recap – season 1, episode 7 – Falling

  20-08-2018 13:00 via theguardian.com
  It all came back to the Woman in White as Camille was led toward the truth, while the question of who will make it out alive remainsWell, here we are, and of course, the signs were in place. It all came back to the Woman in White: the ghost skulking around the edges of the playground, the mother unloved by her own mother, whose control over her daughters sought impossible limits. As in The Bridge, this turned out to be a Munchausen’s by proxy situation. “It’s always the fuckin&
  
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• Why Damon Lindelof's HBO Watchmen should be a triumph

  20-08-2018 12:10 via theguardian.com
  The Lost showrunner is bringing Alan Moore’s classic to the cable channel next year – and the superfans are already moaning about it. But could they be jumping the gun?HBO’s new Watchmen series is going to make a lot of people very angry. The whole thing is loaded with red flags: it’s an adaptation of a beloved comic book, the comic book’s creator is notorious for being opposed to any adaptations of his work and the series will take several unforgivable liberties wi
  
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• Porridge and politics: how the breakfast broadcasting war got brutal

  20-08-2018 07:00 via theguardian.com
  Early morning programming on TV and radio is in the grip of a brutal ratings war. So what’s the perfect recipe for a hit show in these fractured times – and can we learn anything from the last 35 years?Ian Jones, the author of Morning Glory, a history of breakfast television, remembers the excitement of January 1983. He was only seven and something crazy was about to happen. After decades in which Open University and the old test card were as exciting as morning schedules got, the BB
  
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