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• The Carpetbagger: KiKi Layne, ‘Beale Street’s’ Breakout Star, Has a 4 a.m. Moment

  11-09-2018 23:52 via nytimes.com
  The night before her film debut, the actress sat on her bed in a Valentino gown and asked herself, “Girl, what is your life right now?”
  
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• Have Paul McCartney and Paul Simon Run Out of Steam?

  11-09-2018 23:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  For people who create, a body of work is a building project. When you make something great or timeless, new additions can stand on their own, but in the court of public opinion, they are perceived in relation to and understood in the context of what already exists. There’s a...More »
  
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• ABC Has Offered The Bachelor to Property Brothers’ Jonathan Scott Several Times

  11-09-2018 23:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  No matter who is chosen as the Bachelor in the future, know that it could have been a Property Brother instead. In an interview with Us Weekly, Drew Scott (the one that got married in May) said that ABC has approached Jonathan (the single one) “like, I think four times...More »
  
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• What Kind of Werewolf Does Chance the Rapper Play in Slice?

  11-09-2018 23:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  “What kind of werewolf are you?” several characters ask Dax Lycander in Slice, an A24-produced horror movie making an unexpected debut on VOD today. Dax is played by Chance Bennett, better known as Chance the Rapper, who’s making his acting debut (not counting videos and providing the voice of Bob...More »
  
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• TIFF Review: First Man Is Laborious—and Stupendous

  11-09-2018 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Damien Chazelle’s intimate, overpowering Neil Armstrong film First Man opens with deafening rattles, a shaking that blurs what we half-see, swerving close-ups of the eyes of Armstrong (Ryan Gosling), and glimpses of primitive-looking dials with numbers that go up when they should be going down. It’s 1961 over the Mojave...More »
  
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• What Gary Shteyngart Can’t Live Without

  11-09-2018 22:39 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 Super Sad True Love Story and Lake Success author Gary Shteyngart about the blue shirt, Finnish sneakers, and calendar he can’t live without....More »
  
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• Fenella Fielding, Carry On actor, dies aged 90

  11-09-2018 22:36
  Fielding, whose career spanned seven decades, appeared in Carry On Regardless and Carry On Screaming! The former Carry On actor Fenella Fielding has died aged 90, a spokeswoman for the star has said.Fielding, who enjoyed a show business career spanning seven decades, suffered a stroke two weeks ago and died on Tuesday. Continue reading...
  
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• The Great British Bake Off 2018: episode three – live!

  11-09-2018 22:14
  Bread. Good old, yeasty bread. That’s the challenge facing the bakers this week. Follow the action here and find out who will rise to the challenge 9.14pm BST Byeeeeeee. 9.14pm BST Next week Heidi returns to host pudding week and I am going to have another crack at Chelsea Buns. Mainly because I want to eat them.Thanks for your company this evening and don’t forget to come back same time, same place for teetering roulades of doom next Tuesday! Continue reading...
  
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• The Great British Bake Off 2018: episode three – as it happened

  11-09-2018 22:14
  Bread. Good old, yeasty bread. That’s the challenge facing the bakers this week. Follow the action here and find out who will rise to the challenge 9.14pm BST Byeeeeeee. 9.14pm BST Next week Heidi returns to host pudding week and I am going to have another crack at Chelsea Buns. Mainly because I want to eat them.Thanks for your company this evening and don’t forget to come back same time, same place for teetering roulades of doom next Tuesday! Continue reading...
  
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• What’s the Deal With All the New Trump Documentaries?

  11-09-2018 22:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  In a fiery campaign speech over the weekend, Barack Obama took aim at Donald Trump, accusing the 45th president (and, more broadly, the Republican Party) of fueling the “politics of fear and division.” Heading into prestige movie season, however, the commander-in-chief has managed to rally and unify at least one...More »
  
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• Viola Davis on What ‘The Help’ Got Wrong and How She Proves Herself

  11-09-2018 21:53 via nytimes.com
  “It wasn’t the voices of the maids that were heard,” she said. She was at the Toronto International Film Festival with “Widows” and answering our reader questions.
  
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• Viola Davis on Proving Herself and Having Regrets About ‘The Help’

  11-09-2018 21:53 via nytimes.com
  “It wasn’t the voices of the maids that were heard,” she said. She was at the Toronto International Film Festival with “Widows” and answering our reader questions.
  
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• Will Terrence Malick Ever Really Finish The Tree of Life?

  11-09-2018 21:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  Will Terrence Malick ever really finish The Tree of Life? The fascinating history behind the new Criterion edition of his masterpiece suggests he might not. The new Blu-ray/DVD release features two versions of the picture — the 139-minute, Oscar-nominated 2011 theatrical cut and a new, 188-minute extended edition. This longer...More »
  
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• The BBC Orders More His Dark Materials Before Airing Its Adaptation

  11-09-2018 21:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  The BBC is going all-in on its adaptation of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials books, and has ordered a second season of the series while the first is still in production. The network’s director general Tony Hall revealed the news in an appearance before a government committee, Variety reports, adding...More »
  
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• André Holland Will Lead Steven Soderbergh’s Netflix Sports Drama

  11-09-2018 21:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  A group of vultures is called a committee, but is there a name for a group of Vulture faves gathering for one Netflix movie? André Holland, Zazie Beetz, and The Wire’s Sonja Sohn will star in a new movie directed by Steven Soderbergh and written by Moonlight playwright Tarell Alvin...More »
  
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• 10 Years Later, Is Burn After Reading Still Funny?

  11-09-2018 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  It usually takes a generation for a joke to stop making sense. Do the 20-somethings of today, for instance, understand why the 20-somethings of Reality Bites keep singing “Conjunction Junction,” the Schoolhouse Rock song that used to be an inescapable fixture of Saturday morning cartoons. (Do the 20-somethings of today...More »
  
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• Backstreet Boys’ Nick Carter Won’t Be Charged in Rape Case

  11-09-2018 21:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  Backstreet Boys singer Nick Carter will not be charged for the alleged rape of Dream singer Melissa Schuman, the Los Angeles District Attorney’s office has announced. Schuman made the accusation in a blog post in November 2018, saying that the incident allegedly occurred at his Santa Monica apartment in 2003...More »
  
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• How Sierra Burgess Is a Loser Captured the ‘Giddy Immediacy’ of Texting

  11-09-2018 21:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  In Sierra Burgess Is a Loser, a twist on Cyrano de Bergerac, a brainy, unpopular girl (Shannon Purser) poses as the popular cheerleader she tutors to catfish a jock. Jamey (To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before’s Noah Centineo) thinks he’s texting Veronica (Kristine Froseth), but it’s actually Sierra typing...More »
  
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• Review: Drugs, Guns and Poses in ‘White Boy Rick’

  11-09-2018 20:59 via nytimes.com
  Squint and you see the complex stories that attracted the filmmakers to the life of Richard Wershe Jr., a Detroit dealer arrested at 17 in 1987.
  
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• Review: In ‘Lizzie,’ an Oppressed Daughter Driven to Murder

  11-09-2018 20:57 via nytimes.com
  Chloë Sevigny plays the famous mom-and-pop slayer as a woman desperate for liberation in 19th-century Massachusetts.
  
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• Scene Stealers: Beyond ‘Crazy Rich Asians’: Angie Wang Makes a Movie

  11-09-2018 20:51 via nytimes.com
  Defying the model-minority stereotype, she was inspired by her history dealing Ecstasy.
  
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• Halle Berry to Play the Literally Strong Female Lead in Her Directorial Debut

  11-09-2018 20:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  Halle Berry has won an Oscar. She’s been Storm, and she’s been Catwoman, but she’s never directed a movie. No more! Deadline reports that Berry will helm and star in the movie Bruised, written by Michelle Rosenfarb, about an MMA fighter named Jackie “Justice” who resurrects her reputation in the...More »
  
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• The Great Bits: Roy Wood Jr.’s ‘Black Patriotism?’

  11-09-2018 20:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I gotta follow Roy Wood Jr.?” I said as I checked the lineup.It was a sobering moment. Some comedians are hard to follow because they use cheap tricks, like miming sex with the stool to a song from Lion King. Roy is hard to follow because he’s just good. He...More »
  
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• Rami Malek's Portrayal of Queen's Freddie Mercury Left Co-Stars With "Goose Bumps"

  11-09-2018 20:26 via feeds.eonline.com
  This crazy little transformation into Freddie Mercury is easier said than done.It's no secret that excitement and anticipation is building for the release of Bohemian Rhapsody. The...
  
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• Emmys 2018: Who Will and Should Win in the Variety Categories?

  11-09-2018 20:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  The 70th Emmy Awards air Monday, September 17, and all this week, Vulture TV critic Jen Chaney and New York Magazine TV critic Matt Zoller Seitz are breaking down the major categories. What will win? What actually should win? That’s what we’re here to determine.Today’s focus: Variety Series.• The Daily...More »
  
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• 7 Roles. 14 Actors. 2 Languages. 1 Stage.

  11-09-2018 20:01 via nytimes.com
  Ensuring that “I Was Most Alive With You” was accessible to both hearing and deaf audiences made rehearsal dauntingly complex — and a little confusing.
  
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• 6 New Paperbacks You Should Read This September

  11-09-2018 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Each month, Maris Kreizman offers nonfiction and fiction paperback recommendations. You should read as many of them as possible.Every editorial product is independently selected. If you buy an item through our links, Vulture may earn an affiliate commission....More »
  
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• Olivia Munn Felt "Iced Out" by Predator Co-Stars Amid Scandal

  11-09-2018 19:53 via feeds.eonline.com
  Olivia Munn is opening up to Ellen DeGeneres about the controversy surrounding her new movie, The Predator.Earlier this month, the actress shared in an interview with The Los Angeles...
  
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• Olivia Munn Was ‘Chastised’ by Fox for Alerting Predator Cast About Sex-Offender Scene

  11-09-2018 19:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  On Ellen this morning, Olivia Munn discussed how she has felt isolated after it became public that Fox cut a scene from The Predator that included a sex offender. The film’s director Shane Black originally shot a scene with his friend Steven Wilder Striegel and Munn, without telling her that...More »
  
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• Congratulations to Alex Trebek’s Beard on Its Successful TV Debut

  11-09-2018 19:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  For decades, Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek was a famously mustachioed man, but he traded in the facial hair for a consistently clean-shaven look in the early 2000s. A new millennium, a new man! But after 35 seasons of hosting the quiz show, he’s gone and thrown us for a loop...More »
  
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• Is Peppermint Actually Just an Elaborate Suburban-Mom Revenge Fantasy?

  11-09-2018 19:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  Within the first few minutes of Jennifer Garner’s latest movie, Peppermint, we meet a very blonde, very shrill, very perfect stay-at-home mom named Peg, who insults Garner’s character for working too much. The two mothers — both white and very suburban — are standing in a grocery store parking lot,...More »
  
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• Gayle King Calls for Transparency in CBS’s Charlie Rose and Les Moonves Investigations

  11-09-2018 19:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  Gayle King was out of office on Monday, when CBS This Morning anchor Norah O’Donnell reported the exit of Les Moonves following allegations of sexual assault and harassment. On Tuesday morning, King returned to the show and shared her opinion on Moonves’s exit, and CBS’s internal investigation into sexual-misconduct allegations...More »
  
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• Bodyguard whodunnit: our guide to the suspects

  11-09-2018 19:17
  Was it the neatly coiffed assistant? Did the prime minister have a hand? Or was it poor, gormless David? As fans reel from the twist of the year, we name the likely playersWARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERS10. Vicky’s new boyfriend
  Hmm. The protagonist David’s ex has a new boyfriend, you say? He is as yet unseen, but mentioned in every episode so far? Just let me check my Little Book of Foreshadowing …Yes, I see possibilities here. Writer Jed Mercurio’s good, but even he may not
  
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• Watch Kate Beckinsale Try (and Fail) to Recreate Serendipity's Elevator Scene

  11-09-2018 18:45 via feeds.eonline.com
  It's the elevator scene pop culture fans will never forget.No, we're not talking about the infamous footage featuring Solange Knowles, Beyoncé and Jay-Z. Instead, we're...
  
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• OMG, Anna Kendrick Has Never Seen Gossip Girl

  11-09-2018 18:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  Greetings Upper East Siders: Vulture here, your one and only source into the mostly mundane lives of pop culture’s elite. It seems like all the Gossip Girl alums have been spotted with new projects these days: Penn Badgley is up to his lonely boy ways in Lifetime’s You, Leighton Meester...More »
  
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• Blake Lively on Her Nude Vagina Portrait in A Simple Favor: ‘It Was a Lotta Crotch’

  11-09-2018 18:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  In A Simple Favor, a glitzy satire-noir thriller from Paul Feig, Blake Lively plays a woman of mystery. As Emily Nelson, she saunters around in tailored suits and lives in an icy modern mansion. Displayed proudly on her living room wall: a nude portrait that becomes the movie’s greatest gag....More »
  
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• No joke: TV editors cut me out of a panel show – and didn’t even notice | Natalie Haynes

  11-09-2018 17:48
  Sandi Toksvig is right: TV comedy can be brutal for women. Luckily, there’s a simple solutionWhen Sandi Toksvig says women are cut out of panel shows, she really isn’t exaggerating. I once walked into the office of a production company to work on the second episode of a comedy panel show. They’d booked me (and several people who are now household names but will here remain nameless, to protect the guilty) to record a series, the first of which had been broadcast the night befor
  
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• Moonves’ pay should have alerted investors

  11-09-2018 17:46 via ft.com
  The next CBS boss would be wise not to pocket anywhere near as much
  
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• Nathan Lane and Andrea Martin Are Starring in a Sequel to Titus Andronicus on Broadway

  11-09-2018 17:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the wake of Angels in America and Great News, respectively, Nathan Lane and Andrea Martin will be getting very bloody together on Broadway. Producer Scott Rudin announced today that the two actors are starring together in the world premiere of Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus. The comedy follows...More »
  
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• Nathan Lane and Andrea Martin Will Star in New Taylor Mac Play

  11-09-2018 17:31 via nytimes.com
  “Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus” is a comedy set during the fall of the Roman Empire.
  
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• Digging Through the Comedy and Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling

  11-09-2018 17:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Last month, a new Garry Shandling website launched, serving as a loving tribute to the comedian’s life, work, and continuing legacy. Included on the site are videos, photos, and four fully scanned journals that span his entire life. Presented here is a selection of jokes, affirmations, concerns, reflections, and wisdom...More »
  
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• Review: Jean-Pierre Melville’s ‘When You Read This Letter’ Is a Vexing Noir

  11-09-2018 17:11 via nytimes.com
  Juliette Gréco, who went on to become a beloved French singer, appears in this 1953 film, which has been restored and rereleased.
  
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• Norm Macdonald Defends Louis C.K., Chris Hardwick, and Roseanne Barr in New Interview

  11-09-2018 17:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ahead of the premiere of his Netflix series Norm Macdonald Has a Show, Macdonald recently sat down for an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, and it’s jam-packed with the comedian’s thoughts on hot-button issues like Louis C.K., Roseanne Barr, Chris Hardwick, Hannah Gadsby and Nanette, Michael Che and Nanette, Jimmy...More »
  
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• Review: Puttin’ on the Pathos in a Tribute to Irving Berlin

  11-09-2018 17:04 via nytimes.com
  Hershey Felder plays the composer of “White Christmas” (and dozens of other American song classics) in a relentlessly minor key.
  
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• Paul McCartney and Kanye Met by Adorably Bonding Over Breakups

  11-09-2018 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Paul McCartney and Kanye West have been professionally linked for around four years, working together and with Rihanna, but it turns out their relationship actually stretches back a decade and has a touching origin story. McCartney tells GQ that the two were both attending the 2008 European MTV Awards in...More »
  
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• Why Melissa McCarthy Just Had to Star in Can You Ever Forgive Me?

  11-09-2018 16:35 via feeds.eonline.com
  Melissa McCarthy isn't going for laughs in her latest movie.In the biographical drama Can You Ever Forgive Me?, the actress portrays Lee Israel, the best-selling celebrity biographer...
  
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• Casey Affleck Says His Brother Ben Is ‘Doing Great’ in Rehab

  11-09-2018 16:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  At the Toronto Film Festival yesterday, The Old Man and the Gun’s Casey Affleck said that his brother Ben is “doing great” after entering rehab late last month. “He’s in rehab and he’s recovering and seems to be doing well,” Casey told Entertainment Tonight. Ben entered rehab on August 22...More »
  
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• Sally Field Details Being Sexually Abused By Her Stepfather in New Memoir

  11-09-2018 16:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  In her new memoir In Pieces, actress Sally Field opens up about her decades in Hollywood, and says she was sexually abused by her stepfather, the actor and stuntman Jock Mahoney. In a New York Times interview about the book, Field details a conversation where she told her mother about...More »
  
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• Paul McCartney Responds to Quincy Jones Diss: ‘He’s Totally Out of His Tree’

  11-09-2018 16:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  Paul McCartney is on the cover of GQ and inside he addresses the story that will outlive us all: not Beatles lore, but Vulture’s instant-classic Quincy Jones interview. In it, Jones bad-mouthed the Beatles with no hesitation, calling them “no-playing motherfuckers” who were “the worst musicians in the world,” and...More »
  
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• Plunder My Songbook, Bob Dylan Said. So He Did.

  11-09-2018 16:02 via nytimes.com
  Conor McPherson discusses digging deep into the Dylan catalog for his Depression-era play with music, “Girl From the North Country.”
  
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