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• The Sugarbakers Might Live On: ABC Is Developing a Designing Women ‘Sequel’

  13-09-2018 23:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  The day after Linda Bloodworth-Thomason wrote her scorched-earth op-ed about Les Moonves’s CBS, ABC has brought her on to revive her most famous series. It’s poetic justice, of a kind the Sugarbakers would probably appreciate. Per The Hollywood Reporter, ABC and Bloodworth-Thomason are developing a “sequel” to Designing Women, which...More »
  
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• Why Do People Keep Photoshopping Weapons Into Pop Stars’ Hands?

  13-09-2018 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Early in 2016, a potential Republican candidate for the presidency of the United States tweeted a photo of a gun inscribed with his name. “Gov. Jeb Bush,” said the gun, and above the photo of the gun read the caption: “America.” He must have felt as though he needed to...More »
  
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• The Mighty Redcar review – proper heartwarming film-making

  13-09-2018 22:45 via theguardian.com
  Film-maker Dan Dewsbury embedded himself in the former steel town for a year – and his closeness to the community comes through in every scene‘Welcome to Redcar,” begins the sparky voiceover of local teen Madison Cooper. “Our steel built the world. Our fish fed families across the country. Our seaside was the place you came to on holiday. But that’s all gone now …”Here come the magisterial drone shots of shifting northern skies, wind turbines that never
  
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• Andre Blay, Who Put Movies on Videotape, Is Dead at 81

  13-09-2018 22:16 via nytimes.com
  Overcoming the studios’ initial reluctance, Mr. Blay in effect redefined the term “home movie” with a product that made him a multimillionaire.
  
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• Broadway Star Marin Mazzie Dead at 57

  13-09-2018 22:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  Marin Mazzie, the thrice Tony-nominated star of musicals like Passion, Ragtime, and Kiss Me Kate, died today at 57, according to Playbill. Mazzie was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2015, but continued to perform — notably replacing Kelli O’Hara in The King and I in 2016 and appearing in Classic...More »
  
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• Aaron Paul Will Get The Chance to Say ‘It’s Robots, Bitch’ in Westworld

  13-09-2018 22:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  In season two, Westworld brought you to Shogun World. In season three, the show will bring you an even bigger twist: Aaron Paul. HBO has confirmed that the Breaking Bad and The Path alum will join the cast for the next installment, but they’re not giving any character details. So...More »
  
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• You'll Be Shocked at How Many Times Keira Knightley Has Watched Love Actually

  13-09-2018 21:35 via feeds.eonline.com
  There are a handful of movies fans return to every holiday season. Of course, one of those is Love Actually.
  The romantic comedy has held a special place in the hearts of fans all over...
  
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• CBS Is Streaming Murphy Brown, or at Least a Few Episodes of It

  13-09-2018 21:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  This fall, a new version of Murphy Brown is coming to TV on CBS, despite the fact that it’s very hard to watch any episodes of the original series anymore. Now, CBS is (somewhat) addressing that problem by putting up a selection of 18 episodes from the original series on...More »
  
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• Marin Mazzie, Broadway Musical Star, Is Dead at 57

  13-09-2018 21:10 via nytimes.com
  In a long career cut short by cancer, she earned three Tony nominations in just six years, for performances in “Passion,” “Ragtime” and “Kiss Me, Kate.”
  
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• Emmy Predictions: Who Will and Should Win in the Comedy Categories?

  13-09-2018 21:05 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 with Emmy predictions for variety series, limited series, comedy, and drama. What will win? What actually should win? That’s what we’re here...More »
  
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• Jane Doe Victim of The Predator Sex Offender Speaks Out and Gives Her Name

  13-09-2018 20:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Jane Doe victim of The Predator actor Steven Wilder Striegel, the sex offender whose scene with Olivia Munn was cut from the film, has issued a statement and shared her name. Fox cut Striegel’s scene from the film after Munn learned that Striegel was a registered sex offender, convicted...More »
  
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• In Conversation: Norm Macdonald

  13-09-2018 20:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the days and weeks surrounding the premiere of his Netflix talk show Norm Macdonald Has a Show, Norm Macdonald fans were treated to the full, frequently exasperating Norm Macdonald experience. There were glowing testaments to the stand-up and former Saturday Night Live cast member’s formalist comedic skills — as...More »
  
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• Watch Blake Lively Meet Her "Mom" for the First Time at the A Simple Favor Premiere

  13-09-2018 20:19 via feeds.eonline.com
  Blake Lively just met her mom for the first time...her movie mom, that is!Earlier this week, the 31-year-old star hit the red carpet for the premiere of her new film, A Simple Favor, at...
  
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• Everybody’s Better Half

  13-09-2018 20:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  John C. Reilly arrives at the posh hotel restaurant in a light suit and straw fedora that make him seem almost jaunty, like a country gent. He often claims he’d like to move through the world unnoticed — the eternal paradox of actors who’ve discovered a safe space exhibiting themselves...More »
  
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• Review: ‘There Will Be Blood,’ With a Haunting Live Soundtrack

  13-09-2018 19:59 via nytimes.com
  The New York Philharmonic, in its first Art of the Score concert this season, reveled in every belching, mysterious moment of Jonny Greenwood’s score.
  
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• Review: In ‘Museo,’ Two Slackers Pull Off a Daring Heist

  13-09-2018 19:46 via nytimes.com
  Alonso Ruizpalacios’s new film reconstructs a notorious Mexican art theft, with Gael García Bernal as its disaffected mastermind.
  
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• Conan O’Brien’s Late-Night Archive to Launch Online in January 2019

  13-09-2018 19:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  Earlier this year, TBS revealed that the complete Late Night With Conan O’Brien NBC archives will be available on Team Coco, and to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the show’s debut today, O’Brien made a special announcement. The complete catalogue of old Conan episodes — over 4,000 in full —...More »
  
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• A fond farewell to a peerless TV reviewer: Sam Wollaston | Brief letters

  13-09-2018 19:16 via theguardian.com
  World-famous motoring correspondent | At home with the Mangans | Working-class accents | A banquet of FeastsWe are sad to see Sam Wollaston leaving his job as the Guardian’s TV reviewer (G2, 13 September). He was the only reviewer (apart from the inestimable Clive James from long ago) whose work was a wonderful read even if we hadn’t watched the programme being discussed, or had any interest in doing so. Don’t let him out to grass too soon though – put him to work elsewhe
  
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• Homecoming Trailer: Julia Roberts Gets a Wig and a Spooky TV Mystery

  13-09-2018 19:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  The trailer for Amazon’s Homecoming introduces us to several mysteries, not least of which involves what’s going on with Julia Roberts’s bangs. In the new series, adapted from the podcast led by Catherine Keener, Roberts plays a caseworker at the “Homecoming Transitional Support Center,” helping soldiers transition back to civilian...More »
  
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• An Interview With Mac Miller

  13-09-2018 18:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  Over the course of two days, music critic Craig Jenkins spoke with Mac Miller in New York for a profile. This interview — edited here for length and clarity — was the basis for that profile. It offers a window into Miller’s creative process, his life, and what he’d hoped...More »
  
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• Jon Hamm Is Interested in Playing Batman: "I'd Probably Fit the Suit"

  13-09-2018 18:46 via feeds.eonline.com
  Will Jon Hamm play Batman in a future film? Unclear, but he is interested. And what about current Dark Knight Ben Affleck?In a recent interview with Graham Bensinger on his series In...
  
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• From Barb to ‘Sierra Burgess,’ a Young Actress Finds Her Place

  13-09-2018 18:34 via nytimes.com
  Shannon Purser became a fan favorite after her ‘Stranger Things’ character died. But that untimely exit was the start of a surprising career trajectory.
  
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• Here’s the First Connection Between American Horror Story: Apocalypse and Murder House

  13-09-2018 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ahead of the American Horror Story: Apocalypse premiere, FX teased clear connections between the eighth season of the anthology series, which returned Wednesday night, and seasons one (Murder House) and three (Coven). But how exactly is this trio of horror stories tied together? We don’t know quite yet, but the...More »
  
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• Review: In ‘The Naturalists,’ a Farm and a Family Evolve

  13-09-2018 18:30 via nytimes.com
  Fine performances elevate Jaki McCarrick’s slow-paced Irish drama, which owes a big debt to Chekhov and O’Casey.
  
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• Claire Denis on High Life, Robert Pattinson, and Putting Juliette Binoche in a “Fuckbox”

  13-09-2018 18:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  2001: A Space Odyssey. Stalker. The Man Who Fell to Earth. Under the Skin. All of the best sci-fi movies have excelled by shrouding the familiar elements of a genre — space travel, alien visitors, alternate dimensions — in ambiguity that challenges the audience’s understanding of these concepts. Add to...More »
  
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• Richard Phillips on Mary Boone’s Complicated Legacy and His New York Cover

  13-09-2018 18:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  As part of New York Magazine’s 50th anniversary cover project, contemporary artist Richard Phillips decided to recreate our 1982 “New Queen of the Art Scene” cover with prolific dealer and gallerist Mary Boone — who, in stunning art-world news, recently pled guilty to tax fraud. Here, Phillips reminisces about the...More »
  
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• The Children Act Is a Compelling Moral Drama

  13-09-2018 18:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  Judges, outside of recent current events, are rarely the heroes of our stories. They more often act as the literal or figurative hands of fate, something for louder and far more cinematic lawyers to rail at or against. But there’s plenty of moral agony to be tapped from the plight...More »
  
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• Who Said It: Blake Lively in A Simple Favor or Blake Lively in Gossip Girl?

  13-09-2018 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  In A Simple Favor, Blake Lively wears bespoke suits and seems to appear and disappear as soon as she clinks her martini glass?. As Emily Nelson, Lively is a scheming, self-destructive blonde … not unlike the character that made her famous on Gossip Girl! (Upper East Side socialite-student Serena van...More »
  
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• The Best Maya Rudolph–Fred Armisen SNL Sketches

  13-09-2018 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Fred Armisen and Maya Rudolph are doing the strangest thing they’ve done thus far in their careers: play normals together. In the limited Amazon series Forever, Rudolph and Armisen portray a longtime married couple who reconsider the value of matrimony in the face of a sudden change in lifestyle. (We’d...More »
  
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• 17 Years After 9/11, I’m Still a Terrorist in Hollywood’s Eyes

  13-09-2018 17:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  This week, we observe the 17th anniversary of the tragedy of 9/11, as well as the beginning of a new fall TV season. As unconnected as those are for most Americans, they are totally intertwined for me, and many other MENA (Middle Eastern and North African) actors. I moved to...More »
  
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• Emma Stone Goes on Billy on the Street Only to Be Mistaken for Emma Watson

  13-09-2018 17:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  Emma Stone is an Oscar-winning actress, but she is not on Instagram. Is that okay? Not according to Billy Eichner! Stone went on Billy on the Street, where many strangers weighed in on the fact that, yes, we should be able to watch Emma Stone make boomerangs (give us the...More »
  
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• Andrew Lloyd Webber Is Working on His Own ‘Modern, Feisty’ Cinderella Musical

  13-09-2018 17:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Fresh off of his EGOT, and while simultaneously working on that Cats movie, Andrew Lloyd Webber has somehow found the time to make a new Cinderella stage musical. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Lloyd Webber is working with Tom MacRae (who wrote the book and lyrics to Everybody’s Talking About...More »
  
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• Review: Smother Mother Meets Femme Fatale in ‘A Simple Favor’

  13-09-2018 16:58 via nytimes.com
  In his latest, Paul Feig directs Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively in a light-and-dark comedy about two mothers, murderous secrets and complicating lies.
  
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• Eurovision 2019 to be held in Tel Aviv instead of Jerusalem

  13-09-2018 16:54 via theguardian.com
  Organisers confirm host city after controversy over Israel’s demand it take place in JerusalemThe Eurovision Song Contest has chosen Tel Aviv to host next year’s competition, despite the Israeli government previously declaring that the contest would be held in Jerusalem.Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, had wanted the popular international music competition to be held in the holy city as part of its campaign for global recognition of Jerusalem as its capital. Continu
  
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• Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Teaser: Teen Angst With a Side of Spell Casting

  13-09-2018 16:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sabrina Spellman’s Super Satanic 16 gets spooky and skeletal in the first teaser for Netflix’s Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. Kiernan Shipka stars as the half-witch, half-mortal teen, who’s blowing out the candles on her birthday cake, as someone gives a breathy rendition of “Happy Birthday” in this teaser. There’s plenty...More »
  
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• Gloria Steinem, Watching Herself Onstage, Knows She’s in Good Hands

  13-09-2018 16:00 via nytimes.com
  In “Gloria: A Life,” Ms. Steinem will be portrayed by Christine Lahti, who isn’t shy about making suggestions about moments that belong in the script.
  
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• Netflix sets its sights on the silver screen

  13-09-2018 15:52 via ft.com
  Group that made its name in TV streaming is about to unveil the fruits of its foray into film
  
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• Mariah Carey Is Back and Pettier Than Ever

  13-09-2018 15:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  Well get the eff out, Mariah Carey is back in business. The legend has released the first bit of music off her upcoming album out this year — her first under her own record label, now that she’s also managed by Jay-Z’s Roc Nation — and it’s a sweet kiss...More »
  
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• Review: In ‘The Land of Steady Habits,’ Suburban Malaise, With a Twist

  13-09-2018 15:48 via nytimes.com
  In Nicole Holofcener’s movie, Ben Mendelsohn plays a sad Connecticut dad who blows up his life in the pursuit of something he can’t quite name.
  
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• Chinees theater schrapt Ibsen-voorstelling na kritiek van publiek op regime - NRC

  13-09-2018 15:46
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  Chinees theater schrapt Ibsen-voorstelling na kritiek van publiek op regime
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  Het beroemde Berlijnse theatergezelschap Schaubühne mag niet langer hun voorstelling Vijand van het Volk in China spelen, omdat bezoekers tijdens eerdere uitvoeringen kritiek uitten op het autoritaire regime van het Aziatische land. Dat stelt de ...
  
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• American Horror Story: Apocalypse Recap: No Whimpers, All Bangs

  13-09-2018 15:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  Everyone knows that this season of American Horror Story is supposed to be a crossover between Murder House and Coven, right? Then why didn’t I see even one witch? Where was Connie Britton having sex with a sex gimp and Dylan McDermott’s impossibly-toned-for-56 bare ass? Where was Emma Roberts being...More »
  
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• Tim Allen Says He’s Not Really a Trump Supporter, Just ‘Kind of an Anarchist’

  13-09-2018 15:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  Last Man Standing returns to TV this fall on Fox, which chose to revive Tim Allen’s series in the wake of the success of Roseanne, before Roseanne’s tweets got her kicked off her own show. With Allen, Fox is hoping to appeal to conservative viewers, though the comedian wants everyone...More »
  
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• Conan’s 25th Anniversary: O’Brien’s Former Writers Reveal Their Favorite Moments

  13-09-2018 15:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s hard to imagine the amount of pressure Conan O’Brien must have felt 25 years ago, in 1993, when Late Night With Conan O’Brien premiered. He was 30. Excluding a couple of cameos and one-off segments, he wasn’t often in front of the camera, working instead as a writer on...More »
  
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• Weekendtips Haarlem: van angstaanjagend theater tot hitjes karaoke - NU.nl

  13-09-2018 15:05
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  Weekendtips Haarlem: van angstaanjagend theater tot hitjes karaoke
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  Er is komend weekend van alles te doen in Haarlem. Bezoek bijvoorbeeld het Seinfestijn of kom kijken naar Johan Keeman live op zondag. Deze en meer tips hieronder. AM:Klub x De Vlieg: Karel - Patronaat. Tijdens deze alternatieve clubavond zorgen dj's ...
  
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• The Problem With ‘Reimagining’ Lizzie Borden

  13-09-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s been 126 years since someone took an ax and gave Andrew and Abby Borden 29 whacks with it — and we’re still talking about whether or not that someone was Lizzie Borden. “Why a 19th Century Axe Murder Still Fascinates Us,” wrote Rolling Stone in 2016. “Hacking Away at Our...More »
  
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• BoJack Horseman Season 5 Goes Deep on Grief, Addiction, and Sight Gags

  13-09-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Netflix’s BoJack Horseman, which premieres its fifth season on Friday, has gotten so confident that it tosses off jokes other shows would milk to death. Among many other gags throughout the season, I’m thinking of a silent, background scene in a restaurant, in which an anthropomorphized sow on the left...More »
  
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• Oscars: Roma Is Netflix’s Best Chance at Cracking the Best Picture Race

  13-09-2018 14:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  All autumn long, Vulture will be offering you primers on the biggest and buzziest titles of the 2019 awards season. My colleague Emily Yoshida got us started with A Star Is Born out of Venice, and this week, I’ll guide you through the films that wowed crowds at Toronto. For...More »
  
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• Love in the Time of Mozzarella: See Emma Roberts in a Clip From Little Italy

  13-09-2018 14:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  Are you as curious about the pizza-themed romantic comedy Little Italy as we are? Call it Emma Roberts’a Voyage to (Little) Italy: In this clip from the film, Nikki Angioli (Roberts) is welcomed home to her parents’ pizzeria. Nikki’s homecoming is complicated by a long-dormant romance between her and Leo...More »
  
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