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• Lady Gaga Was Happy to Become Bradley Cooper’s Drag Mother for A Star is Born

  08-09-2018 22:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  When Bradley Cooper’s Jackson Maine first encounters Lady Gaga’s Ally in A Star is Born, they’re at a drag bar called Bleu Bleu outside of Los Angeles staffed by RuPaul’s Drag Race alumni Shangela and Willem. Ally is the token cis girl, and they let her sing, because, well, have...More »
  
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• Alfonso Cuarón Wins Best Film in Venice for ‘ROMA’

  08-09-2018 22:22 via nytimes.com
  The films of the 75th edition of the festival drew heavily upon history, much of it grim, and featured a glut of celebrated auteurs.
  
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• Alfonso Cuarón Named Best Director in Venice for ‘ROMA’

  08-09-2018 22:22 via nytimes.com
  The films of the 75th edition of the festival drew heavily upon history, much of it grim, and featured a glut of celebrated auteurs.
  
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• Strictly Come Dancing 2018 launch show - live!

  08-09-2018 21:58
  It’s happening again, the BBC’s dancing competition is back and we’re following every second of it. Tonight’s live show is guest blogged by Stuart Heritage, Heidi Stephens will be back next weekStrictly Come Dancing 2018: all the contestants – ranked8.58pm BST And that’s it. It is my time to leave you now, to enjoy the rest of this series by yourselves. I haven’t read any comments tonight, but I’m sure you’ve all been wonderful and nice. I&rs
  
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• Strictly Come Dancing 2018 launch show - as it happened

  08-09-2018 21:58
  It’s happening again, the BBC’s dancing competition is back and we’re following every second of it. Tonight’s live show is guest blogged by Stuart Heritage, Heidi Stephens will be back next weekStrictly Come Dancing 2018: all the contestants – ranked8.58pm BST And that’s it. It is my time to leave you now, to enjoy the rest of this series by yourselves. I haven’t read any comments tonight, but I’m sure you’ve all been wonderful and nice. I&rs
  
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• Sandi Toksvig sparks new gender pay row over QI fee

  08-09-2018 21:58
  ‘Equal pay is not about me,’ television presenter tells Women’s Equality party meeting in Kettering
  Sandi Toksvig, the television presenter, has revealed she is paid less than half of Stephen Fry’s fee for chairing the BBC’s quiz show QI.The performer, who also presents Channel 4’s Great British Bake Off, was answering a question about her pay from one of the delegates at the Women’s Equality party conference on Saturday in Kettering during a session on
  
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• Meanwhile, Netflix Is Out Here at the Venice Film Festival, Taking the Top Onore

  08-09-2018 21:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  Well, consider this a major loss for small but vocal “Netflix films aren’t actual films!” community. Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma, a stunning Netflix family drama that chronicles two domestic workers and their employer in ‘70s-era Mexico City, has taken the Golden Lion — or the top honor — at this year’s...More »
  
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• Olivia Munn Says Her Concerns Working With Predator Sex Offender Were Met With Initial Silence

  08-09-2018 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  A few days after Twentieth Century Fox admitted it cut a scene from its upcoming Predator movie because it featured a registered sex offender, one of the film’s stars, Olivia Munn, is expressing dissatisfaction that it took too long for Fox to address her concerns. As previously reported, Predator director...More »
  
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• You Know Who Really Disliked That ‘Popular Film’ Oscar? Some Guy Named Steven Spielberg

  08-09-2018 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  In a stunning display of a 180 pivot, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ “Best Popular Film” category was cancelled earlier this week after its 29-day existence, owing to significant criticism from critics, viewers, and Hollywood folk alike. (And much to the chagrin Mark Wahlberg. Sorry buddy!) While...More »
  
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• After Chris Evans ... why women are leading the race for the breakfast slot

  08-09-2018 19:23
  As the longtime presenter vacates his breakfast slot, five of the six favourites to take over his popular show are women.So what has prompted this cultural shift in a schedule that has been dominated by men for years?On Monday morning, on his Radio 2 breakfast show, Chris Evans surprised many by announcing that he would be leaving at Christmas. “Some of us are mountain climbers,” he said. “But if you get to the top of your favourite mountain and stay there, you b
  
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• Paolo Sorrentino and Toni Servillo Don’t Really Care What Berlusconi Thinks of Loro

  08-09-2018 18:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  Silvio Berlusconi is a man of many hats: media tycoon, real estate mogul, the most blithely corrupt Prime Minister in Italian history, and, during the staggeringly lavish parties he’d throw for himself and his harem of leggy admirers, a self-styled mad god. Who better to take on the monumental, perilous...More »
  
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• Kanye West to the Journalist Who Pissed Him Off at NYFW: Get Outta Here, Fuggedaboutit!

  08-09-2018 18:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Vulture here, you’re one and only source into the scandalous party shenanigans at New York Fashion Week. First we had Cardi B and Nicki Minaj getting into some potential fisticuffs action at Party A on Friday evening, and now over at Party B, Kanye West and his dragon energy are...More »
  
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• Heartbeat actor Peter Benson dies aged 75

  08-09-2018 17:06
  Known for his role as Bernie Scripps in the long-running ITV series, Benson also appeared in BlackadderThe actor Peter Benson, who played Bernie Scripps in the ITV series Heartbeat, has died aged 75, his agent has confirmed.Benson died on Thursday after a short illness. Continue reading...
  
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• Charlie Rose Thinks His Sexual Harassment Accusers Are ‘Exploiting’ #MeToo

  08-09-2018 16:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  With over 30 women now accusing Charlie Rose of various forms of sexual harassment, three of those women, ex-CBS employees, are in the midst of suing Rose for “abuse” they were subjected to while working at the network. In the lawsuit, the women — Katherine Brooks Harris, Sydney McNeal, and...More »
  
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• Ariana Grande Shuts Instagram Comments After Mac Miller Death To Stop Trolls

  08-09-2018 15:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  Hours after 26 year-old rapper Mac Miller was found dead on Friday afternoon, internet trolls started harassing his ex-girlfriend Ariana Grande. Vitriolic comments flooded her Instagram account, and her comment section was turn off within a few hours of the news. Miller fans appeared to go after the singer, blaming...More »
  
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• Priyanka Chopra’s Favorite Couple Name for Her and Nick Jonas Is…Vulgar Slang?

  08-09-2018 15:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  The slow-burn of Nick Jonas and Priyanka Chopra’s romance reached its lovey-dovey apex this summer, when the couple officially confirmed their engagement on social media with a roka ceremony in India — a location, as Jonas puts it, “a little different than Jersey.” And now that the lovebirds are actually...More »
  
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• Mac Miller Found a Home in Rap

  08-09-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s not wrong to say that Mac Miller was misunderstood, but it’s not quite correct, either. The rapper — who was born in Pittsburgh, but spent much of his career in the San Fernando Valley — was often defined by these facts: he was a white guy who achieved quite...More »
  
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• Sandi Toksvig reveals 60% QI pay gap from Stephen Fry

  08-09-2018 14:05
  BBC quiz host tells Women’s Equality party her pay is equal to panellist Alan Davies
  The QI presenter Sandi Toksvig has revealed she is paid less than half of what former host Stephen Fry received for fronting the popular BBC quiz show.The comedian, who also presents Channel 4’s The Great British Bake Off, was speaking to delegates at the Women’s Equality party conference on Saturday when she answered a question about her pay in an economics session. Continue reading...
  
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• Phoebe Waller-Bridge: 'I have an appetite for transgressive women'

  08-09-2018 09:00
  The Fleabag and Killing Eve creator on sex, fearlessness and what makes her ragePhoebe Waller-Bridge is sitting in an upmarket restaurant, asking me to teach her how to burp at will. “I can’t armpit fart and I can’t fake burp, and I think that’s a tragedy,” she says. We met about five minutes ago; I’m not quite sure how we reached this point. Waller-Bridge is tall, gangly, preppy. Head-girl material. But a rebel head girl who likes to get everyone into trouble
  
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• Press star Paapa Essiedu: ‘The word diversity doesn’t mean anything’

  08-09-2018 07:59
  The rising British actor on representation, the elitism of theatre and the role of newspapers in 2018It has been a few weeks since he returned from a trip to the Edinburgh fringe and actor Paapa Essiedu is talking about how “amazing” it was to “see certain stories celebrated in what has been a huge arts festival, but not necessarily a representative one”. He sighs. “As is always the case when we have this conversation, it does feel like there’s steps being mad
  
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• The Luke McQueen Pilots review – a presenter on the verge of a breakdown

  08-09-2018 07:30
  The outrageous standup moves into TV with a mock-doc full of public stunts, faux-naive interviews and blood-lettingVery often on the Great British Bake Off, there is a contestant who recognises, too late, that they’ve got a soggy bottom and a dry crumb, and so they enter a state of panic-layering, slapping on more and more icing and spun sugar until the cake begins to collapse under the effort of making it half-decent. The Luke McQueen Pilots is a not dissimilar experience. This mockumenta
  
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• Facebook Apologizes For Taking Down Your Horny Burt Reynolds Posts

  08-09-2018 07:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  The death of Burt Reynolds this week sparked remembrances of the man as a talented actor, a charismatic celebrity and, of course, an enduring Hollywood sex symbol, a status perhaps best exemplified by his iconic 1972 Cosmopolitan photoshoot. However, if you personally offered an homage to the actor with images...More »
  
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• Saturday’s best TV: Last Night of the Proms; Massacre at Ballymurphy

  08-09-2018 07:00
  The classical music staple comes to an end with some flag-waving and a harrowing doc about the 1971 killing of Catholics by British soldiers in Belfast Continue reading...
  
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• Cardi B and Nicki Minaj Almost Fought at Harper’s Bazaar Fashion Week Party

  08-09-2018 06:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  Nicki Minaj and Cardi B nearly got into a full-on fight at the Harper’s Bazaar Icons party at New York Fashion Week. Both rappers wore incredible gowns and looked downright amazing, but an exchange of words at the event led to a physical altercation, according to videos posted to social...More »
  
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• Sarah Jessica Parker Says Sex And The City’s Lack of Diversity Now Seems ‘Tone-Deaf’

  08-09-2018 05:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  While the leads of Sex And The City have aged like four fine white wines, series lead Sarah Jessica Parker acknowledges that the show’s lack of diversity really has not. “You couldn’t make it today because of the lack of diversity on screen,” the actress reportedly said at the premiere...More »
  
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• Brazil searches for clues among museum’s remains

  08-09-2018 05:00 via ft.com
  Critics say blaze is testament to low priority given to culture
  
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• God Made Dirt and Sony Is Reportedly Making the Ol’ Dirty Bastard Biopic

  08-09-2018 03:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  God made Dirt, but Sony hopes they can at least give you a reasonable facsimile. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Sony’s Columbia Pictures is currently in early development on a biopic about Ol’ Dirty Bastard a.k.a. Russell Tyrone Jones a.k.a Dirt McGirt a.k.a. Big Baby Jesus. There is currently no...More »
  
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• This Family Comedy Pilot Starring Kristen Schaal Sounds Like It’ll Soothe Your Little Frazzled Soul

  08-09-2018 01:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  After a long, nightmarish week, sometimes you just want to put on a sitcom that makes you feel, even for a moment, like your heart isn’t about to anxiety-burst through your sternum. That’s why it would be really great if Simon Rich’s upcoming pilot starring Kristen Schaal turns out to...More »
  
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• Mac Miller Will Forever Be Immortalized in Rap By This Single Jay-Z Tweet

  08-09-2018 01:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Mac Miller died at 26 of a reported drug overdose on Friday, and if the immediate reactions from his hip-hop peers prove anything, it’s that Miller was a rapper’s rapper beloved by anyone in the community who knew him, listened to him, or was just getting familiar with his work...More »
  
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• Gossip Girl Creators Developing an Inevitably Sexy and Dramatic Nancy Drew Show for the CW

  08-09-2018 00:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  After creating what was perhaps the greatest teen mystery of all with Gossip Girl (well, until we found out that Dan was Gossip Girl), Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage are developing a whole new slate of mysteries for the CW. Deadline reports that Schwartz and Savage are overseeing a new...More »
  
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• Taylor Kinney Isn't Too Interested in Seeing Lady Gaga in A Star Is Born

  08-09-2018 00:13 via feeds.eonline.com
  Don't count on Taylor Kinney to attend a midnight screening of A Star Is Born.
  The highly-anticipated film stars the actor's former fiancée, Lady Gaga, who he split from in...
  
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• Mal Faces Uma in Under the Sea: A Descendants Short Story Trailer

  08-09-2018 00:00 via feeds.eonline.com
  It's (still) goin' down.E! News has a sneak peek at the latest trailer for Under the Sea: A Descendants Short Story, airing tonight on Disney Channel at 9 p.m. When the 10-minute...
  
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