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• Swamp Dogg’s New Album Is Deeply Odd

  10-09-2018 23:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  Modern pop’s creative obfuscation of the human voice is a musical tech development on par with the Yardbirds’ fuzzbox explorations, composer La Monte Young’s early drone experiments, and rap producer Marley Marl’s innovation in the field of sampling, in terms of one musician using a piece of gear in a...More »
  
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• See Tiffany Haddish Do a Happy Dance After Finding Out About Her PCAs Nominations!

  10-09-2018 23:53 via feeds.eonline.com
  It's truly Tiffany Haddish's year! In addition to yesterday's Emmy win, the Girls Trip actress may take home the Comedy Movie Star award for her laugh-out-loud movie, Uncle Drew, as...
  
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• Insecure Shouldn’t Bring Back Lawrence

  10-09-2018 23:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sunday night’s Insecure episode “High-Like” puts into harsh relief the pleasures and pitfalls of the sprightly HBO series: the overheated, blissful tone that makes the show perfect to watch and discuss among friends; the candy-colored, luscious rendering of Los Angeles and the gorgeous cast; and the infuriating decision to sacrifice...More »
  
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• The 9-1-1 Season Two Trailer Promises Heroism and Hunky Firemen

  10-09-2018 23:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  Season two of Fox’s 9-1-1 is on the way, and somehow, some way, this group of heroic first responders in Los Angeles has found a way to press on without Connie Britton manning the switchboards. If you thought a baby being flushed down the toilet and that Final Destination–style roller-coaster...More »
  
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• Interim CBS Chief Omits Les Moonves Sexual Misconduct Allegations in Company Email

  10-09-2018 23:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Joseph Ianniello took over as interim chief executive of CBS on Monday, after Les Moonves’s Sunday night resignation. In Ianniello’s first message to CBS employees as interim chief, obtained by HuffPost, he made no mention of the circumstances of Moonves’s departure, which came hours after a New Yorker report detailing...More »
  
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• Black Earth Rising review – Michaela Coel shines in this rich, demanding drama

  10-09-2018 23:00
  Hugo Blick combines adoption, mental health, the Rwandan genocide and the international criminal court, as Coel shows she can handle serious dramaWant to comment on Black Earth Rising? Our recap has an open comment threadBlack Earth Rising is not the kind of drama that allows its audience to be caught napping. In the first couple of minutes alone, a Q&A session with an esteemed human rights lawyer dissolves into a ferocious argument over the “neo-colonialist bullshit” and “
  
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• Black Earth Rising recap: episode one – the past will not remain hidden

  10-09-2018 23:00
  Hugo Blick’s exploration of the Rwandan genocide, the ICC and a mother and daughter at odds has more questions than answers in its opening salvoWritten, produced and directed by Hugo Blick (The Shadow Line), who even co-stars in future episodes, Black Earth Rising is set in the present day aftermath of the genocide in Rwanda in 1994. Still basking in the complacency of the End Of History mood following the collapse of the Berlin Wall, the massacre of up to a million Tutsis by members of th
  
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• Just How Patriotic Is First Man?

  10-09-2018 22:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  First Man opened the Venice Film Festival to rapturous reviews, with critics transported by Damien Chazelle’s history of the first moon landing filtered through the perspective of first lunar walker Neil Armstrong. But not everyone was over the moon. Soon after the premiere, a (fake) news controversy started when the...More »
  
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• Nicki Minaj Calls Cardi B a ‘Disgusting Pig’ After NYFW Fight

  10-09-2018 22:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  Days after Cardi B allegedly physically assaulted Nicki Minaj and her entourage at a New York Fashion Week party then defended her actions in a scathing Instagram note, Minaj has launched a full-scale defensive attack on her Queen radio show. Opening her latest episode on Monday, she got straight down...More »
  
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• Tatiana Maslany Will Play the Faye Dunaway Role in Network on Broadway, Across From Bryan Cranston

  10-09-2018 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Emmy Award winner Tatiana Maslany will make her Broadway debut as the raving embodiment of TV itself in the stage adaptation of Paddy Chayefsky’s Network that’s coming to Broadway this fall. Directed by Ivo Van Hove with a script from Lee Hall, the immersive, screen-filled production premiered at London’s National...More »
  
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• Why Isn’t Anyone Talking About Roman’s Quirky Sits on Succession?

  10-09-2018 21:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s been about a month since Succession wrapped up its debut season on HBO, which seems like more than enough time to cover every angle about the new drama that also happens to be very funny. Admittedly, I was a little late to the show, having only finished last week,...More »
  
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• What I’ve Learned Performing Comedy at Over 50 College Campuses

  10-09-2018 21:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  A few years ago, some of our comedy heroes began grumbling that a college campus is a terrible place to perform. Chris Rock told an interviewer that performing stand-up at a college is “not as much fun as it used to be,” and Jerry Seinfeld said he avoids playing at...More »
  
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• What The Nun’s Huge Opening Weekend Means for Horror This Year

  10-09-2018 21:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  The weekend box-office numbers are in, and the fifth film in the expanded Conjuring universe, The Nun, cleaned up both at home and abroad. Here in the States, early tracking suggested The Nun would bring in a very respectable figure in the mid-$30 million range, but it blew past estimates...More »
  
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• Every Breaking Bad Crossover Character in Better Call Saul

  10-09-2018 20:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  Spoilers below for Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul.Whether or not you think Better Call Saul rivals Breaking Bad in the prestige TV canon, it’s undeniable that the shows are more closely entwined than ever. As the differences between Jimmy McGill and Saul Goodman fade away, executive producers Peter Gould...More »
  
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• Gabrielle Union Can't Believe Breaking In Got a 2018 PCAs Nomination: "It's Crazy!"

  10-09-2018 20:37 via feeds.eonline.com
  Gabrielle Union couldn't be happier that her movie, Breaking In, is nominated at People's Choice Awards this year.On Sunday, E! News chatted with the We're Going to Need More...
  
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• Julie Chen to Take Time off From The Talk in Wake of Les Moonves’s CBS Exit

  10-09-2018 20:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  Julie Chen is taking time away from her CBS talk show The Talk after her husband, former network head Les Moonves, was forced out of CBS in the wake of allegations of sexual harassment and assault from a dozen women. “I am taking a few days off from The Talk...More »
  
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• All the Festivals We Lost This Year

  10-09-2018 20:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  Labor Day weekend officially put another summer music festival season in the books. (Global Citizen, we see you over there at the end of September, but, sorry, according to our charts, you count as autumnal.) It was another overcrowded year that kicked off with Beychella, powered through heatwaves, various types...More »
  
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• Why Are So Many TV Comedies Pondering the Meaning of Life?

  10-09-2018 19:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Where am I? Who are you? And what’s going on?”Eleanor Shellstrop (Kristen Bell) asks these questions in the first scene of the first episode of The Good Place because she wants genuine answers to them. She’s just arrived in an unfamiliar, albeit pleasantly pristine, office waiting room where she’s never...More »
  
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• CBS/Redstones: the eclipse of Moonves

  10-09-2018 19:45 via ft.com
  It feels like too little, too late
  
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• Matthew McConaughey and Timothée Chalamet Reunite at 2018 Toronto International Film Festival

  10-09-2018 19:37 via feeds.eonline.com
  Toronto continues to be the place to be!While excitement may be brewing for the 2018 Emmys, many talented actors and actresses are busy celebrating various projects at the 2018 Toronto...
  
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• Les Moonves Might Still Get a $120 Million Payout From CBS

  10-09-2018 19:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  Could fallen CBS Corp. chief Leslie Moonves still walk away with a $120 million payout, despite the dozen allegations of sexual violence and abuse which have been leveled against him? It’s possible. Yesterday, CBS said it would be donating $20 million to #MeToo charities, taking that money out of the...More »
  
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• The Outlander Season 4 Trailer Envisions a Much Sexier American Dream

  10-09-2018 19:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  Greetings to the Frasers, who have arrived in America and settled in North Carolina — now renamed North Caroleena, thank you, Sam Heughan — as their new home. In the first full trailer for Outlander season four (based on the Drums of Autumn, the fourth book in the Diana Gabaldon...More »
  
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• Berkeley Rep Chooses New York Stage and Film Leader as Artistic Director

  10-09-2018 19:00 via nytimes.com
  Johanna Pfaelzer will become artistic director of the Berkeley Repertory Theater in fall 2019, succeeding Tony Taccone.
  
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• Viper Club Trailer: Susan Sarandon Won’t Take No for an Answer!

  10-09-2018 18:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  Susan Sarandon and Matt Bomer star in Viper Club, a new thriller from YouTube Originals. Sarandon plays Helen Sterling, an ER nurse trying to free her son, a journalist held captive by terrorists in Syria. Just as Helen runs out of options, she stumbles upon a “clandestine community of journalists,...More »
  
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• The Most Essential Books for Wrapping Your Head Around the Opioid Crisis

  10-09-2018 18:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  Welcome to Reading Lists, comprehensive book guides from the Strategist designed to make you an expert (or at least a fascinating dinner-party companion) in hyperspecific or newsworthy topics. This week: a selection of books about the opioid crisis....More »
  
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• Review: A Beatboxer Climbs Up and Out in ‘The Unwritten Law’

  10-09-2018 18:43 via nytimes.com
  In this stage memoir, Chesney Show struggles to balance a powerful personal story with historical heft.
  
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• Rami Malek, Catching Mercury

  10-09-2018 18:38 via nytimes.com
  Before throwing himself into playing Freddie Mercury in the Queen biopic “Bohemian Rhapsody,” Mr. Malek had to work through conflicts of his own.
  
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• Poldark Will End After Its Fifth Season, Good-bye to All Those Abs

  10-09-2018 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  TV’s horniest, broodiest costume drama Poldark will end after its fifth season. PBS announced the news today, confirming that both Aidan Turner (Ross Poldark) and Eleanor Tomlinson (Demelza Poldark) will return for the final season, which recently started filming. Don’t worry, there’s still plenty of Cornish drama to come, since...More »
  
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• They Know Russian. I Know Plays. Would That Translate?

  10-09-2018 17:43 via nytimes.com
  A 10-year project to capture the essence of Russian drama for English-speaking audiences began with a fan letter.
  
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• Why The Deuce Got a New Theme Song

  10-09-2018 17:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the second season of HBO’s The Deuce, the series about New York City’s burgeoning porn industry has jumped ahead to 1977, and many of the women are making moves toward a modicum of autonomy. Candy (Maggie Gyllenhaal) has gone from tricking to adult-film auteur; Abby (Margarita Levieva) is managing...More »
  
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• Dave Franco’s Cameo Turns Out to Be Most Polarizing Part of If Beale Street Could Talk

  10-09-2018 17:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  Barry Jenkins’s If Beale Street Could Talk received a rousing ovation when it premiered at Toronto Sunday night, but I’m curious to see how aspects of it will play outside of a festival atmosphere. What will theatergoers make of the film’s reverent, almost dreamlike air? Which loving close-up of KiKi...More »
  
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• Netflix Execs Won’t Answer Question About a Possible Louis C.K. Return

  10-09-2018 17:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  Several of Louis C.K.’s projects fell apart last year following the New York Times report detailing multiple sexual-misconduct allegations against the comedian that he later admitted were true. One of those projects was the second special from his two-special deal at Netflix, which was canceled by the streaming network. But...More »
  
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• Burt Reynolds’s Director on His Final Role in The Last Movie Star

  10-09-2018 17:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  “When I was a kid, Burt Reynolds was my hero,” Adam Rifkin begins. Rifkin wrote and directed what would be Burt Reynolds’s last leading role, in The Last Movie Star, a 2017 film in which Reynolds played Vic Edwards, an actor whose career mirrored his own — albeit with a...More »
  
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• Barry Jenkins Remembers a Racist Moment During His Moonlight Campaign

  10-09-2018 16:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sunday night at the world premiere of If Beale Street Could Talk at the Toronto International Film Festival, the writer and director Barry Jenkins ended the onstage Q&A portion — often a quick and slightly cursory proceeding — with a deeply felt personal story about why the film is so important....More »
  
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• Les Moonves’ $120m severance hinges on CBS probe

  10-09-2018 16:20 via ft.com
  Company will keep money if sexual harassment investigation finds cause to dismiss him
  
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• Insecure Recap: Beyoncé Awaits

  10-09-2018 16:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  After the propulsion of last week’s episode, in which Issa freed herself from Daniel and the tedium of We Got Y’all, “High-Like” finds our heroine seeking a respite in the grown-up wonderland of Coachella. Issa, Molly, Kellie, and a very pregnant Tiffany are headed on a girls’ trip, a weekend bender...More »
  
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• Here Are the Co-Head Writers of Saturday Night Live Season 44

  10-09-2018 16:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  Saturday Night Live returns to NBC for its 44th season in less than three weeks now, and in addition to the departure of featured player Luke Null, there will be another change at the show this season. A source has confirmed to Vulture that last year’s co-head writers Michael Che,...More »
  
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• 13 Essential Mac Miller Songs

  10-09-2018 16:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  There was always a new Mac Miller song. The Pittsburgh rapper, who died Friday at the age of 26, amassed a voluminous catalogue in his tragically brief career, releasing five studio albums, eleven mixtapes, and contributing scores of verses — and beats — to the songs of his peers.The credits...More »
  
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• American Vandal Season Two Is Full of It

  10-09-2018 15:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  Every successful Netflix show doesn’t a merit a follow-up. Take the second season of American Vandal, which attempts to replicate the mix of true-crime satire, low-brow humor, and insight into contemporary teendom that made season one such a critically acclaimed winner. Unfortunately, it can’t quite manage it.Season two follows pretty...More »
  
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• Mary, Queen of Scots Fury Ranking

  10-09-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  In December, Saoirse Ronan will star as Mary, Queen of Scots in the historical epic aptly titled Mary, Queen of Scots. Although we only have a trailer at this stage, scenes of Mary tearfully screaming at her cousin and rival monarch, Queen Elizabeth I (played by a bald Margot Robbie)...More »
  
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• In The Real Lolita, Sarah Weinman Reclaims Sally Horner’s Story

  10-09-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I can’t believe it’s still here. I didn’t expect this.” The author Sarah Weinman and I had just walked the Atlantic City boardwalk under the hot August sun, past casinos and bars and vape shops and massage parlors, and a small amusement park for children. After about a mile and...More »
  
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