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• Give Cicely Tyson An Emmy For Her Performance At Aretha Franklin’s Funeral

  31-08-2018 23:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  Cecily Tyson, defying time at 91 years of age, gave a show stopping reading — né, a full-on screen performance — at the homegoing service for Aretha Franklin this afternoon. After taking the podium in a glorious hat, Tyson delivered an adaptation of the poem “When Malindy Sings” by Paul Laurence Dunbar...More »
  
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• New Criterion Release Means You Can Now Spend Your Entire Life Watching The Tree of Life

  31-08-2018 22:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  Did Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life it ever really end? Or did you eventually just have to leave the room? Officially, the original cut of the film came in at 139 minutes, but if you’ve found yourself longing for even more of Malick’s sweeping drama about the beginning of...More »
  
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• New on Hulu: September 2018

  31-08-2018 22:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  At first blush, The Gifted looked like a cash-in. A show extremely loose in its connections to the X-Men movie franchise, and not in a seemingly fun way? FX’s Legion is also loosely related to those movies, but it’s immediately clear that the show wants to be a mind-bender that...More »
  
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• Chaka Khan Sang At Aretha Franklin’s Funeral With A Little Help From Her Fan

  31-08-2018 22:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  Chaka Khan performed “I’m Going Up Yonder” at Aretha Franklin’s funeral Friday afternoon, and the Queen of Funk showed up to show out. She also showed up with the gospel classic’s lyrics on the inside of a very glamorous church fan, because she is also the queen of planning ahead....More »
  
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• Fantasia Kicked Off Her Heels Before Her Aretha Tribute So You Already Know What Time It Is

  31-08-2018 22:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  Fantasia brought down the house with her powerful tribute to ! KHROMO (@khromo) August 31, 2018...More »
  
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• Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon Isn’t Too Thrilled About His Song With Eminem: ‘It’s Tired’

  31-08-2018 21:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon is featured on Eminem’s surprise new album Kamikaze, on the song “Fall,” but it now sounds like he really wishes he wasn’t. Responding to a fan on Twitter critical of the song (which itself sees Eminem criticize rappers for copying each other and disses the Grammys,...More »
  
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• Vanessa Marquez, Best Known for Role on ER, Shot to Death by Police

  31-08-2018 21:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  Actress Vanessa Marquez, who appeared in nearly 30 episodes of ER in the 1990s, was shot and killed yesterday by police in her Pasadena home after her landlord summoned the authorities to check on her well-being. She was 49. According to Variety, when officers arrived at noon, Marquez was apparently...More »
  
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• New on Amazon Prime: September 2018

  31-08-2018 21:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  The main attractions of Master of None co-creator Alan Yang’s newest project, Forever, are its stars, Maya Rudolph and Fred Armisen. That’s all that we really know — the show is being strangely coy about its premise. For now, all we have is this summary: “Married couple June (Maya Rudolph)...More »
  
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• Lana Del Rey Postpones Israel and Palestine Performances

  31-08-2018 21:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  After weeks of back and forth about whether Lana Del Rey should visit Israel, Palestine, or both, she’ll now be visiting neither. In a new statement, Del Rey says she’s decided to postpone her performances in both countries because both trips can’t be done on such short notice. Originally, Lana...More »
  
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• Bill Clinton Eulogizes Aretha Franklin, And Compliments Her Many Lewks

  31-08-2018 21:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  Bill Clinton was among the speakers giving remarks at Aretha Franklin’s funeral Friday afternoon in Detroit, and the former president’s (lengthy) remembrance did not disappoint. Clinton reminisced about how he and Hillary were early fans of Aretha’s, and how they maintained a friendship until her death earlier this month. “I...More »
  
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• This Week in Comedy Podcasts: A Blank Check–Las Culturistas Crossover

  31-08-2018 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The comedy podcast universe is ever expanding, not unlike the universe universe. We’re here to make it a bit smaller, a bit more manageable. There are a lot of great shows and each has a lot of great episodes, so we want to highlight the exceptional, the noteworthy. Each week...More »
  
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• Ozark Recap: Not Everything Is Negotiable

  31-08-2018 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The third episode of the new season of Ozark improves slightly over the last, but still frustrates with some tricky, thin screenwriting. Hopefully, the writers are putting pieces in place for a more consistent season to come. This one ends strongly enough to think that may be the case.Once again,...More »
  
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• Did Thom Yorke Just Tease His Suspiria Score?

  31-08-2018 20:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  Thom Yorke (@thomyorke) August 31, 2018Suspiria is set in a dance academy, and the movie’s ads have shown Susie Bannion (Dakota Johnson) and her cast mates dancing. Is the new music’s visual a sign that Yorke is giving us a tease of his coming score? While Suspiria’s trailers have leaned...More »
  
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• Read the Letter Barack Obama Wrote for Aretha Franklin’s Funeral

  31-08-2018 20:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  While former president Barack Obama was unable to attend Aretha Franklin’s funeral — a star-studded affair held Friday morning at the Greater Grace Temple in Detroit — he paid his respects to the Queen of Soul in a letter that was read during the service by the Reverend Al Sharpton.Faith...More »
  
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• Gladys Knight Reveals Pancreatic Cancer Diagnosis

  31-08-2018 19:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  During Aretha Franklin’s funeral on Friday, legendary diva Gladys Knight revealed that she has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Knight, 74, told local station WDIV that she has the same disease that Franklin died from, according to the Detroit News. Knight didn’t say when she was diagnosed or what treatment...More »
  
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• Faith Hill Gave The Opening Performance At Aretha Franklin’s Funeral

  31-08-2018 19:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  Faith Hill gave the opening performance at Aretha Franklin’s star-studded funeral Friday afternoon in Detroit. The country singer gave a rendition of “What a Friend We Have in Jesus” at the Greater Grace Temple service. Hill wore a great gown, a beautiful gown to the six-hour-long ceremony, which also featured...More »
  
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• Watch Ariana Grande Sing ‘Natural Woman’ at Aretha Franklin’s Funeral

  31-08-2018 19:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ariana performing “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman“ at Aretha Franklin’s funeral Ariana Grande Today (@atnmedias) August 31, 2018BIG SEAN STOOD UP TO APPLAUD ARIANA FN GRANDE... my little heart i- ᴀʏʟᴀ ☁️ (@nameismoonlight) August 31, 2018...More »
  
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• Review: Death, Betrayal and Greed in a Gripping ‘Henry VI’

  31-08-2018 18:56 via nytimes.com
  The National Asian American Theater Company puts on a fast-paced and unusually lucid staging of the bloody history play.
  
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• See All the Celebrities Who Showed Up to Pay Their Respects to Aretha Franklin

  31-08-2018 18:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  The guest list at Aretha Franklin’s funeral in Detroit, Michigan is a mélange of family members, music legends, contemporary pop A-listers, political powerhouses, fans, and more. There were some very powerful moments, like a performance from Faith Hill and a letter from President Obama being read by Al Sharpton. There...More »
  
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• Aretha Frankin’s Funeral Was a Star-studded Diva’s Homegoing

  31-08-2018 18:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  On Friday, the Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin was laid to rest in her city of Detroit, but not before an elaborate send-off befitting of one of the greatest divas and cultural icons in American history. A livestreamed funeral service for Franklin was held at the Greater Grace Temple in...More »
  
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• Eminem Calls Out Everyone on ‘The Ringer’ and It’s Actually Pretty Fun

  31-08-2018 18:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  You’ve got to hand it to Eminem: for his entire career he’s made a point of pushing hyper-lyrical rap into the mainstream, regardless of if that’s what people actually want. Lucky for him, most of the time it is very much what people want. So here we are, less than...More »
  
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• Count Your Blessings, Because Another New Sade Song Will Appear on the Widows Soundtrack

  31-08-2018 18:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sade ended a seven-year hiatus with the track “Flower” earlier this year, which appeared on the soundtrack to A Wrinkle in Time, and now she’s got a second song on the way. The Los Angeles Times reports that her next gift to 2018, “The Big Unknown,” will be on the...More »
  
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• Lady Gaga Shares Her Side of the Bradley Cooper Makeup Wipe Tale

  31-08-2018 18:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  Auteur director Bradley Cooper wasn’t playing around during Lady Gaga’s screen test for A Star Is Born. When Cooper showed up to her house to record, he — famously — arrived makeup wipe in hand to remove her “artifice,” Gaga told the Los Angeles Times recently. Were you curious about...More »
  
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• At Venice, Roma’s Male Nudity Doesn’t Play for Laughs

  31-08-2018 18:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  If the year in film festivals is a seesaw, then right now the weight is decidedly on the right half of the calendar. Cannes and Sundance gave us a handful of standouts — Eighth Grade, Sorry to Bother You, and Hereditary all premiered at the latter and went on to...More »
  
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• Zach Dunn Doesn’t Want You to Think He’s Weird

  31-08-2018 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Zach Dunn (@ZachBDunn) is a comedy writer in Los Angeles. He was a writer and co-producer for seasons two, three, and four of Mr. Student Body President on go90. He currently writes for the UCB Maude team Somebody’s Baby and is on the editorial team at Botnik Studios.This week, Dunn...More »
  
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• Ozark Recap: Waitin’ Around to Die

  31-08-2018 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It’s so hard doing business when you can’t trust anyone.” You can say that again, Marty Byrde.Let’s get this out of the way: The second episode of the new season of Ozark is a frustrating one, an hour that falls back on a few of the character crutches of the...More »
  
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• 10 Things to Know About Eminem’s Surprise Album, Kamikaze

  31-08-2018 17:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  Just when you thought the summer of surprise albums had run its course, in swoops Eminem at the eleventh hour for one (hopefully) last shock to the system. On Thursday night, with no warning, he released his tenth album, Kamikaze, mere months after his last album, Revival (remember that?), seemingly...More »
  
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• Patti Labelle, The Four Tops Performed At Aretha Franklin’s Memorial Service

  31-08-2018 17:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  Over 40 musicians and celebrities gathered to celebrate Aretha Franklin on Thursday at “A People’s Tribute to the Queen” at Chene Park Amphitheater, according to the Detroit Free Press. On the lineup for the free memorial service: Patti LaBelle, Tyler Perry, the Four Tops, and more. LaBelle performed her song “You...More »
  
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• The 7 Most Damning Appearances on Who Is America?

  31-08-2018 16:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sacha Baron Cohen sure makes it look easy to convince participants to dress up in fake genitalia, eat human flesh, and even kill a man. These are seven of the most shocking stunts from the first season of his Showtime series Who Is America? Get ready to cringe so hard...More »
  
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• Let’s Talk About the End of Searching Starring John Cho

  31-08-2018 16:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  The following post is a discussion of the ending of Searching, so there are many spoilers!Searching combines many of the things we love: John Cho as a Hot Anguished Dad, Debra Messing expanding The Mysteries of Laura extended universe, and a classic thriller told in a fresh way — in...More »
  
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• Troye Sivan’s Bloom Is a Joy to Listen To

  31-08-2018 15:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  You used to have to be a master of coy doublespeak to sneak queer overtures into a song that captured the attention of the English-speaking public, but even in the sex-positive ’70s, success for songs that offered insights into LGBTQ life was a dice roll. Lou Reed’s racy hustler’s anthem...More »
  
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• See Photos From Louis C.K.’s Sunday Night Long Island Set

  31-08-2018 15:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ahead of Louis C.K.’s surprise Comedy Cellar set on Sunday night, the comedian did a short set in the suburbs. TMZ has acquired photos from his 15-minute stand-up routine at Governor’s of Levittown on Long Island. In the photos, C.K. is spotted pulling out a small notepad to refresh himself...More »
  
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• Bodyguard takes on Vanity Fair in battle for Sunday night viewers

  31-08-2018 15:35
  Major BBC and ITV dramas to compete at 9pm but catch-up means both could triumphKeeley Hawes will go head-to-head with the legacy of William Makepeace Thackeray this weekend, when the BBC puts its flagship drama Bodyguard up against ITV’s new adaptation of Vanity Fair in the peak 9pm Sunday night viewing slot.But unlike previous scheduling battles they could both end up as winners, with millions of viewers expected to watch both programmes thanks to catch-up services. Continue reading...
  
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• Ozark Recap: Building Normal

  31-08-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “We’re gonna build normal from here.” Marty Byrde always thinks he can build normal, even if he’s been trying to do so on quicksand since the beginning of Netflix’s Ozark, now back for a highly anticipated second season. The season premiere makes it clear how difficult it’s going to be...More »
  
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