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• Vanity Fair review – this adaptation fizzes with all the energy of its social-climbing heroine

  02-09-2018 23:05 via theguardian.com
  Yes, it’s yet another version of Thackeray’s novel, and it has its sights set on a modern audience, but Olivia Cooke is an ideal Becky Sharp – and the sumptuous sets are worth tuning in for all on their own‘So that was school and this is the world,” says Becky Sharp, on her way to London with the “too good to be true” Amelia Sedley, who has taken pity on Sharp and invited her to stay for the week. After that, Miss Sharp will take up her new job as a gove
  
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• Bodyguard recap: series one, episode three – there's no way this can end well

  02-09-2018 23:00 via theguardian.com
  Jed Mercurio’s drama continues to race along at nerve-shredding speed, with David entangled deeper than ever in a web of deceptionRead the Bodyguard episode two recapI’m beginning to suspect that Jed Mercurio has made a bet with himself to see how far he can up the tension with every episode of this show. “I see last week’s assassination attempt and raise you a successful bombing – now give me your best guesses as to who is behind it all …” Whether or n
  
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• Celebrities Defend Geoffrey Owens Having a Job

  02-09-2018 22:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s almost Labor Day, which, you may not realize, is a holiday meant to honor the labor movement and working people’s contributions to our country. Unfortunately, it seems the internet has decided to take an interest in only one working man, former Cosby Show star Geoffrey Owens. Last Saturday night,...More »
  
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• 48 Years Later, Orson Welles’s Last Film Makes Its Debut

  02-09-2018 21:42 via nytimes.com
  “The Other Side of the Wind,” shot in 1970, had been held up by warring rights holders and financial troubles. Now it had its North American premiere at Telluride.
  
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• Ozark Recap: Everything is Broken

  02-09-2018 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Now that the season is over, it’s time to look back at the entire second season of Ozark and ask two key questions: What was it really about and was it any good?As for the first question, the theme of deadly family ties has been a part of both seasons,...More »
  
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• Is the Way Australia Funds the Arts a Recipe for Mediocrity?

  02-09-2018 21:00 via nytimes.com
  The country’s performing arts funding model favors a group of established organizations at the expense of newcomers. Critics say this stifles innovation.
  
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• ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ Tops Box Office for Third Week

  02-09-2018 20:14 via nytimes.com
  The star-studded comedy led the North American box office, with “The Meg” again placing second.
  
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• HBO’s My Brilliant Friend Adaptation Should’ve Been an Anime

  02-09-2018 19:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  The first two episodes of My Brilliant Friend, the highly anticipated HBO adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s globally adored Neapolitan Novels, just premiered at the Venice Film Festival. To say the advance press screening was a muted affair would be generous: I witnessed more walkouts throughout the two hours than I...More »
  
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• U2 Ends Concert Early After Bono Loses His Voice On Stage

  02-09-2018 18:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  It was a rough night in Berlin for U2, who had to end their 30th performance on their ‘Experience + Innocence Tour’ after only a few songs when lead singer Bono’s voice gave out. The band were performing ‘Red Flag Day’ when the singer began to struggle, and while he...More »
  
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• CNN Pulls Parts Unknown Episodes Featuring Asia Argento

  02-09-2018 18:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  Buzzfeed News has confirmed that episodes of Anthony Bourdain’s Parts Unknown featuring Asia Argento have been pulled from CNN Go, the company’s streaming service. Argento was accused of sexually assaulting a young former co-star, and CNN confirmed the decision to remove the episodes was a result of the allegations. “In...More »
  
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• Ozark Recap: Nothing Personal

  02-09-2018 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  That’s more like it. After a clunky episode, we get a tightly edited chapter of Ozark that deftly contrasts the difficult marriages of the Snells and the Byrdes, and how family ties can choke us to death. Both Marty Byrde and Jacob Snell use the same word when admonishing their...More »
  
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• William H. Macy Gives the Perfect Dad Response to Emmy Rossum’s Departure

  02-09-2018 17:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  This week, Emmy Rossum announced she will depart Showtime’s top-rated series Shameless following the end of season nine. And according to William H. Macy, her on-screen dad, everything is going to be fine and this kid is doing great. Though Macy’s on screen dad in Shameless is, shall we say,...More »
  
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• UK media groups call for oversight of social networks

  02-09-2018 16:54 via ft.com
  Government urged to introduce regulation of internet-based content
  
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• As TV Seeks Diverse Writing Ranks, Rising Demand Meets Short Supply

  02-09-2018 16:17 via nytimes.com
  Shows are scrambling to hire more minorities, but the pipeline of experienced writers is thin, a problem of the industry’s own making.
  
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• Ozark Recap: Be Best

  02-09-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  A frustrating episode of Ozark kills some of the momentum of the last three chapters, working best when it contrasts the rifts in the marriages of the Byrdes and the Snells. Both of these power couples disagree both on how they’ve handled recent behavior and how to move forward from...More »
  
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• A Star is Born is a Huge Debut for Lady Gaga — But Is This Bradley Cooper’s Oscar to Lose?

  02-09-2018 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  It is far easier to forgive a film for a weak first half than a weak second half. The films I’ve been seeing at Venice this week almost all pass the two hour mark — a lot of big, long movies that beg a joke about the nearly all-male competition...More »
  
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• The week in radio and podcasts: My Dad Wrote a Porno; Radio 3 Breakfast

  02-09-2018 07:59 via theguardian.com
  More comedy gold in the fourth series of My Dad Wrote a Porno, but is Radio 3’s Breakfast show too upbeat and busy?My Dad Wrote A Porno | iTunes
  Breakfast | BBC Radio 3There are those who are welcoming autumn by settling in for a never-ending evening of Netflix and chill. Or chick-flicks and nits. Something sexy, anyway. To those people I say, “pots and pans”. Or perhaps – excuse me – “nipples like rivets on the Titanic”. For this week saw the return of
  
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• Childish Gambino Strolls Through A Very Hip-Hop Summer in New Video

  02-09-2018 07:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  Put that pumpkin spice latte down this instant. Childish Gambino just released the video for his single ‘Feels Like Summer’ in the midst of Labor Day weekend, so that means they legally aren’t allowed to close the pools for another week. The animated video features Gambino taking a stroll down...More »
  
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• The week in TV: The Great British Bake Off; Bodyguard; Jack Ryan; The Joy of Winning; BBC Proms

  02-09-2018 06:59 via theguardian.com
  Sandi and Noel were back in the Bake Off tent, Keeley Hawes snogged for Britain and an exploration of game theory proved highly entertainingThe Great British Bake Off (C4) | All4
  Bodyguard (BBC One) | iPlayer
  Jack Ryan (Amazon Prime)
  The Joy of Winning (BBC Four) | iPlayer
  Proms Extra (BBC Two/Four) | iPlayer
  Not quite the end of the world then. Bake Off, we were told, had gone soft on soggy bottoms, as Strictly will soon dispense with cheap plastic gaud: the hosts of the first have gone innuend
  
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• Focus turns to HNA’s high-interest China P2P debt

  02-09-2018 06:45 via ft.com
  Liquidity strains bedevil Chinese group despite $18bn in asset sales this year
  
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• A Star Is Born Got Struck By Lightning and Still Got A Standing Ovation

  02-09-2018 05:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  After much speculation over whether Bradley Cooper’s directorial debut would be so-bad-it’s-good or actually-for-real-could-win-an-Oscar-good we have our answer. Debuting at the Venice Film Festival this weekend, the film and it’s co-star Lady Gaga received an eight-minute standing ovation. Variety deemed it “stunning” and that to say Cooper did a good...More »
  
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