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• Rose McGowan Says Leaked Asia Argento Texts Came From Her Friend

  27-08-2018 23:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  Last week, the New York Times reported that actress and #MeToo activist Asia Argento had made a deal to pay off a former co-star, Jimmy Bennett, who accused her of sexually assaulting him when he was a minor. Shortly thereafter, Argento denied the allegations — but text messages were soon leaked to TMZ that purported to contradict Argento’s...More »
  
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• One Man Calls A Star Is Born the Greatest Achievement in the History of Cinema

  27-08-2018 23:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  Will Bradley Cooper’s A Star Is Born be a camp classic, or just a regular classic? We won’t know until the film premieres at Venice later this week, but in the meantime, we’ll have to content ourselves with a review that Talkhouse.net accidentally published before the embargo lifted, which favorably...More »
  
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• FBI, NYPD Open Investigations Into Scammer Posing As Kathleen Kennedy and Amy Pascal

  27-08-2018 23:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  There’s a grifter on the loose in Hollywood, busy impersonating producers Amy Pascal and Kathleen Kennedy, and the authorities are on the case. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the FBI and NYPD have opened investigations into the person scamming hairstylists, stuntmen, military advisers, photographers, and cinematographers into traveling to Indonesia...More »
  
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• Drinkers Like Me – Adrian Chiles review: the complicated, conflicted world of boozing

  27-08-2018 23:00
  The broadcaster’s film about ‘nice, regular drinking’ soon becomes an analysis of much more, from his physical and mental health to society’s difficult relationship with alcoholAdrian Chiles has a drinking problem. Or maybe he has an Adrian Chiles problem, alleviated by drinking. Anyway, he’s definitely not an alcoholic, he says in his exploration of “nice, regular drinking” in Drinkers Like Me – Adrian Chiles (BBC Two). He can’t be, because
  
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• Bodyguard recap: series one, episode two – genuinely edge-of-the-sofa TV

  27-08-2018 23:00
  There was no let-up in the second installation of Jed Mercurio’s new thriller, which featured some major set pieces – as well as an illicit encounterRead the Bodyguard episode one recapPhew. Jed Mercurio clearly doesn’t intend to hang around with this series. It is only episode two and we have already had an assassination attempt, a second unsuccessful terrorist attack, the beginning of what could be a very damaging love affair, political machinations between the home office an
  
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• The Innocents Recap: The Second Shift

  27-08-2018 22:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  Shape-shifting is the perfect supernatural power to tell a high-school story. There’s so much change going on in those formative teen years, you don’t always understand who you are or how you fit into the world around you; you can feel like a different person, sometimes overnight. Each time that...More »
  
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• New BTS Video Breaks YouTube’s 24-Hour Record, Beating Taylor Swift

  27-08-2018 22:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  BTS’s new song “Idol” is the kind of song you write when you know you’re untouchable, and now they’ve got the numbers to back up the hype. The music video for the solo version (there’s also a remix with Nicki Minaj) has just set the YouTube record for most views...More »
  
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• What Was the Point of Who Is America?

  27-08-2018 20:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  The title of Who Is America? implied that Sacha Baron Cohen’s brand of sneak-attack comedy would expose something revelatory about the nature of the American identity circa 2018. But mostly, this Showtime series, whose season finale aired Sunday night, told us things about this country that we already knew. It did...More »
  
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• Rachel Whetstone swaps Facebook for Netflix to run global comms

  27-08-2018 20:44 via ft.com
  British executive is a seasoned Silicon Valley operator who previously worked at Uber and Google
  
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• Rachel Whetstone swaps Facebook for Netflix

  27-08-2018 20:44 via ft.com
  British executive is a seasoned Silicon Valley operator who previously worked at Uber and Google
  
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• Chrissy Teigen Has a Powerful Mother-Daughter Moment Seeing Crazy Rich Asians

  27-08-2018 20:29 via feeds.eonline.com
  Chrissy Teigen had an unforgettable experience and it involved her daughter, Luna, and the blockbuster hit, Crazy Rich Asians.
  It's been less than two weeks since John Chu's...
  
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• What Lucy Liu Can’t Live Without

  27-08-2018 20:23 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 Set It Up and Elementary star Lucy Liu, who directed her fifth episode of the show (it airs tonight), about the skin...More »
  
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• Netflix Hopes You Liked Safe Because It’s Making a Lot More Stuff With Harlan Coben

  27-08-2018 20:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  Safe, a suspense thriller with Michael C. Hall, slipped onto Netflix in May this year, and you might not have heard much about it unless you watch every British crime drama on the site. Netflix seems mighty pleased with it, because it’s signed an overall deal with its creator Harlan...More »
  
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• The Best Things We Saw at Afropunk 2018

  27-08-2018 19:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  When we talk about Afropunk, Brooklyn’s annual festival for black people and by black people, it’s usually in awe of the resplendent, DIY fashion. (And for good reason.) But beyond being a celebration of black beauty and ingenuity, it’s a communal gathering around music and the arts. This year’s festival...More »
  
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• What Shady Things Are Diane Lane and Greg Kinnear Up to in This House of Cards First Look?

  27-08-2018 18:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  Kevin Spacey’s out, and Diane Lane and Greg Kinnear are in. As previously announced, they’ve joined the sixth and final season of House of Cards, and today we have a first look at their characters. Meet Annette and Bill Shepard, brother and sister inheritors of Shepard Unlimited, which is described...More »
  
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• Review: ‘Sehnsucht’ Navigates the Inexact Science of Nostalgia

  27-08-2018 18:45 via nytimes.com
  This dementedly daffy piece of fun, from the theater company TV, will give you a warm glow in the fleeting moment it’s here for a brief run.
  
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• Actors and Writers on Neil Simon: ‘When He Laughed, You Knew You’d Hit His Truth’

  27-08-2018 18:42 via nytimes.com
  TV showrunners and comedy stars on what the prolific playwright left behind.
  
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• Goodbye for now, Big Brother. It was a pleasure watching you

  27-08-2018 18:30
  After 20 years, the show is a shadow of its former self – and it’s easy to forget just how formative it once was as TV’s original reality programmeAlmost 20 years since the show first aired, it appears Big Brother is switching off the cameras. After the latest celebrity series limped in with just 2 million viewers, Channel 5’s controller, Ben Frow, said he is planning “for a year without Big Brother” – the TV equivalent of your parents taking the family
  
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• Sharp Objects recap: season one finale – Milk

  27-08-2018 18:28
  Much like the series itself, the episode that wrapped up the Wind Gap case was deeply satisfying, fantastically gothic and joyfully over the topSpoiler alert: this blog is published after Sharp Objects airs on HBO in the US and Sky Atlantic and Now TV in the UK on Sunday night/Monday morning. Do not read unless you have watched episode eight. Continue reading...
  
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• What Aziz Ansari Covered in One of His First Shows Post-#MeToo Allegations

  27-08-2018 18:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  Aziz Ansari has quietly been returning to the stage for the first time since he was accused of sexual misconduct in January, beginning with performances at the Comedy Cellar in New York back in May as well as shows in Philadelphia earlier this month. He did his second series of...More »
  
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• Tang Media’s US movie unit Global Road in hands of bankers

  27-08-2018 18:02 via ft.com
  Blow for investment group aimed at linking Chinese capital with Hollywood expertise
  
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• Tang Media’s struggling US movie unit in hands of bankers

  27-08-2018 18:02 via ft.com
  Blow for investment group aimed at linking Chinese capital with Hollywood expertise
  
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• Sharp Objects Writer Gillian Flynn on That ‘Gut-wrenching’ Finale Twist

  27-08-2018 16:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  Gillian Flynn likes her female protagonists psychotic and her endings twisted. In Sharp Objects, her debut novel turned HBO mini-series, she doubled down with two violent, unhinged women, and a pair of twisted endings. Just when you think everything is resolved, the story splits wide open again: If you don’t...More »
  
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• Dylan Gelula Chased People Down to Get Her Role in Support the Girls

  27-08-2018 16:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  Dylan Gelula is in on the joke. That’s also true of Support the Girls, an indie feature that outwardly appears to be a comedy about the hijinks at a Hooters-esque wing shack in rural Texas, but is actually the most ruthlessly honest film about capitalism to come out of the...More »
  
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• Vivendi/music streaming: The Blob bites back

  27-08-2018 16:20 via ft.com
  Options include consolidation or a stake sale
  
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• KSI v Logan Paul: was the YouTubers' fight more than just hype?

  27-08-2018 16:16
  The pair’s boxing bout on Saturday drew a global audience of two million. For a fanbase used to fake online beef, it was a welcome next stepTo understand why millions of people watched two YouTubers duke it out in the Manchester Arena this weekend, you have to remember one thing: it had very little to do with boxing.KSI, real name Olajide William “JJ” Olatunji, and Logan Paul are better known for their antics online than they are for their boxing prowess. Yet, after months of o
  
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• Eleven Sports live-streams disruption into traditional broadcasting

  27-08-2018 15:59 via ft.com
  Young company has joined sports rights battle with €300bn spree for its online channel
  
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• True Detective: watch Mahershala Ali in the trailer for the long-awaited third season

  27-08-2018 15:58
  The Academy Award-winning actor stars as a Arkansas detective investigating a grisly crime in Nic Pizzolatto’s returning detective dramaThe first trailer for the long-awaited third season of HBO’s True Detective has been unveiled.Set to premiere in January 2019, the third season of Nic Pizzolatto’s crime anthology series stars Academy Award-winner Mahershala Ali as an Arkansas state police detective investigating a grisly crime in the Ozarks over a period of decades. Related: T
  
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• The True Detective Season 3 Trailer Stars Mahershala Ali, Multiple Timelines

  27-08-2018 15:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  Hoping that we are all a safe distance from the grim-dumb blast zone that was True Detective season two, HBO has dropped the trailer for True Detective season three. This time around, the mystery is set in the Ozarks, with Mahershala Ali as detective Wayne Hays, who’s investigating a murder...More »
  
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• Sharp Objects Is Not Just Another Dead-Girl Show

  27-08-2018 14:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  In her recent book of essays Dead Girls: Surviving an American Obsession, Alice Bolin describes the characteristics that define the Dead Girl Show, a TV series kickstarted into motion by the untimely demise of at least one young woman. “The Dead Girl Show’s notable themes are its two odd, contradictory...More »
  
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• The bolshie, brilliant history of the women of Doctor Who

  27-08-2018 14:42
  From the feminist journalist Sarah Jane Smith to the fiery flight attendant Tegan Jovanka, Doctor Who’s female characters have been anything but props. So what can we expect from Jodie Whittaker?Now here is a lovely thing: Next, possibly the world’s least cutting-edge science fiction fashion store, is stocking an extremely credible version of the new Doctor’s striped T-shirt. You didn’t get that with Colin Baker.But the joy (or, just as significantly, the relative ambival
  
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• Who Has the Most Damning Appearance in Who Is America’s Finale?

  27-08-2018 14:06 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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• It’s not you, it’s me: how The Affair broke up with itself

  27-08-2018 14:00
  A show about infidelity, murder and Pacey from Dawson’s Creek? Yes please. Eventually, though, it simply became too detestableWhen The Affair first slinked on to the screen it was a weekly delight full of intrigue, cinematic seaside beauty and relationship troubles. Dominic West was ruggedly hateful as Noah, the self-obsessed novelist rather unbelievably juggling two pouting women: his wife Helen (Maura Tierney, her face plastered with a look that said she was barely tolerating him) and tr
  
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• Sharp Objects Finale Recap: Don’t Tell Mama

  27-08-2018 13:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  As we grow older as women, are we only destined to repeat the sins of our mothers and replay the stories of their lives for which they never were able to find resolution? Or can we step out of their shadows to craft a narrative of our own making?It’s these...More »
  
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• Ethan Hawke: superhero movies are overrated

  27-08-2018 13:14
  The actor has drawn anger for comments suggesting that commercial concerns are behind presentation of films such as Logan as highbrow entertainment The actor Ethan Hawke has questioned the quality of superhero films, saying that even the most praised are “not Bresson ... not Bergman. But they talk about it like it is”. In an interview with the Film Stage, Hawke discussed what he saw as the increasing marginalisation of indie movies at the multiplex.this ethan hawke discourse is STILL
  
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• Who Is America?: Sacha Baron Cohen tries to draw OJ Simpson confession

  27-08-2018 11:50
  Controversial series concludes with Baron Cohen’s Gio Monaldo character asking sports star if he had killed Nicole Brown Simpson and her partnerSacha Baron Cohen’s controversial comedy series Who Is America? concluded on Sunday with an episode that saw the satirist attempt to elicit a murder confession from OJ Simpson. However, a much-discussed segment in which a disguised Baron Cohen quizzed former vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin failed to make it to air. Continue reading...
  
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• Monday’s best TV – Riz Ahmed: Road to Englistan; Sharp Objects

  27-08-2018 07:20
  The Star Wars actor speaks about the British-Asian experience, while the adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s novel concludes10pm, BBC Two
  Riz Ahmed (The Night Of, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story) is working on a BBC Two series called Englistan, which he describes as “the story of three generations of a British-Pakistani family from the late 70s to the present day”. This interview with journalist Nikki Bedi stands out amid the BBC’s Big British Asian Summer season on account of Ahm
  
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• Sex, spies and video dates: the must-see TV shows of autumn 2018

  27-08-2018 07:00
  John Le Carré is back, there’s a killer on the loose, Jonah Hill and Emma Stone get trippy, and Sean Penn is going to MarsMore autumn picks: Film | Theatre | Pop | Classical | Art | GamesBBC1 Continue reading...
  
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• Pete Davidson and Ariana Grande Can’t Stop Kissing in Public

  27-08-2018 07:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Pete Davidson and Ariana Grande are soooo in love. And they aren’t going to let anyone forget it. Ariana smooched her fiancé during her Sweetener Sessions show in Los Angeles.Pete was there to introduce her before she performed a few songs from her new album. “Tonight’s going to be a good night, let me introduce you...More »
  
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• This Is Not a Drill: 80% Of the Spice Girls Are Reuniting for a Tour

  27-08-2018 06:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  Though Mel B recently announced she will enter rehab, that hasn’t apparently derailed plans announced this weekend in The Sun for a most-of-the-Spice-Girls reunion tour next year. Victoria Beckham will not be coming along this time, however, which is something she’s seemed pretty resolute on for awhile. But Mel B,...More »
  
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• Sarah Palin Didn’t Make It Into Who Is America? But Did Get a Credit

  27-08-2018 06:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  After initially going on the offensive and stirring up controversy by accusing Sacha Baron Cohen of posing as a wounded veteran to trick her into an interview, the former Governor of Alaska didn’t even end up appearing on Sunday’s episode of Who Is America?. Showtime declined to comment, but a few...More »
  
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• Insecure Recap: Daydreaming

  27-08-2018 05:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  Like most early thirty-somethings, the myriad characters of Insecure are largely dogged by gnawing disillusionment — with careers they thought they’d love; with lovers they thought they knew; with white people who frequently forget to think at all. In her relationship with Lawrence, Issa had grown restless and eventually wandered,...More »
  
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• His Dad Wrote a Porno and Now It’ll Be a TV Show

  27-08-2018 05:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  James Cooper’s dad is a retired builder from Northern Ireland, and that’s where the normality ends. Cooper discovered his dad’s garden shed hobby was writing erotic fiction under the pen name Rocky Flinstone, and in 2015 he began a podcast called My Dad Wrote a Porno where he and his...More »
  
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• Preacher Recap: Rest in Pieces

  27-08-2018 05:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  … So, that’s it?At best, “The Light Above” — or, more to the point, the relative cliffhanger it ends on — feels like a penultimate episode rather than a finale. At worst, it’s a bit of a disappointment (and an attempt to get fans to rally for a fourth-season renewal)....More »
  
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• The Seductive Horror of Sharp Objects

  27-08-2018 04:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sharp Objects finishes on a dissonant, horror-movie note: one last scare that slithers into the frame when you thought it was over. The trial of pork mogul Adora Crellin (Patricia Clarkson) has concluded, and she’s been sent to prison for committing a string of murders in Wind Gap, Missouri. Teenage...More »
  
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• Sharp Objects: The 4 Biggest Clues About the Killer’s Identity

  27-08-2018 04:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Spoilers below for Sharp Objects.We should have known Amma Crellin was trouble when she casually dropped that infamous line from Machiavelli’s The Prince: “It’s safer to be feared than loved.” It’s not exactly a text that most high-school freshmen read, and Machiavelli wasn’t exactly subtle in his beliefs that murder...More »
  
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• Sharp Objects Broke the Mystery Box

  27-08-2018 04:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Messages are hidden all over Sharp Objects. There are hidden words, hallucinations from Camille’s point of view that appear for mere fractions of a second. Camille’s skin remains covered for most of the miniseries, but when she occasionally bares it, we see the hidden words she’s cut all over herself....More »
  
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• Let’s Talk About the Sharp Objects Finale

  27-08-2018 04:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Spoilers ahead for Sharp Objects, obviously. You’ve been warned!The final minutes of Sunday’s Sharp Objects finale tell us exactly who is responsible for the deaths of Ann Nash and Natalie Keene, the gone girls whose murders act as the catalyst for everything that transpires in the series. With loaded dialogue,...More »
  
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• Jean-Marc Vallée on Why Sharp Objects Ended With a Shock

  27-08-2018 04:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Spoilers ahead for Sharp Objects.Before Emmy-winning and Oscar-nominated director Jean-Marc Vallée entertained the idea of turning Big Little Lies into a TV sensation, he had already committed to directing HBO’s Sharp Objects. The Canadian filmmaker thought it would be his first TV series, and he signed on out of a...More »
  
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• How Sharp Objects Made Amma’s Creepy Dollhouse

  27-08-2018 04:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Spoilers ahead for Sharp Objects.As if Amma’s eerie fascination with her dollhouse wasn’t enough to make Sharp Objects viewers cringe, now we know evil was buried in the floors all along, hiding Wind Gap’s darkest secrets inside the magnificent replica of her family’s Victorian mansion. Throughout the series, Camille’s (Amy...More »
  
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