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• Emmy Predictions: Who Will and Should Win in the Drama Categories?

  14-09-2018 23:19 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 to determine.Today’s focus:...More »
  
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• The Predator’s Biggest Flaw Is That It Thinks It’s a Comedy

  14-09-2018 22:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Predator is a homecoming for Shane Black, and perhaps that’s its original sin. The writer-director had a small role in the original Predator way back in 1987, playing Arnold Schwarzenegger’s squad-mate Hawkins. The character primarily served as comic relief, delivering intentionally inept jokes to his unimpressed compatriots (e.g. “The...More »
  
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• Critic’s Notebook: A Chorus Remembers Michael Brown in ‘Antigone in Ferguson’

  14-09-2018 22:26 via nytimes.com
  This combination of a classical tragedy and a contemporary discussion group finds a mirror for Ferguson, Mo., in ancient Thebes.
  
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• Ariana Grande Posts Candid Video Memorializing Mac Miller: ‘You Were My Dearest Friend’

  14-09-2018 22:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  One week after Mac Miller’s death, his ex-girlfriend Ariana Grande has written an elegy for the rapper on Instagram. “i adored you from the day i met you when i was nineteen and i always will,” Grande wrote in the caption, posted with a candid video of Miller on Friday....More »
  
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• Eminem’s Machine Gun Kelly Response Is the Best He’s Sounded in Half a Decade

  14-09-2018 22:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  If ignoring beige beef is your thing, you are on the right side of history. However, we are sorry to report that Eminem has dropped a response to Machine Gun Kelly’s diss to Eminem’s other diss, and it is mercilessly lethal. It’s also the best Eminem has sounded in half...More »
  
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• Kidding Recap: A Season About Things That Are Missing

  14-09-2018 21:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  Mr. Pickles doesn’t seem to be doing much better, does he? This week’s episode continues to move the story along slowly, and primarily lingers on some interesting character moments. The Mr. Rogers parallels continue, too. The opening of the episode, where a group of people steal Mr. Pickles’ car, then...More »
  
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• Finding Beauty in Low’s Unsettling Machine Blues

  14-09-2018 21:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Duluth, Minnesota, indie rockers Low have been crafting delicate, icy, minimalist guitar music for 25 years. They weren’t the first on the scene in the early ’90s “slowcore” boom, where bands like Codeine, Ida, and the Red House Painters whittled arrangements down and decelerated rock’s hard charging pace to...More »
  
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• Two Weeks of Unseasoned Rap Beef: Eminem vs. Machine Gun Kelly vs. G-Eazy

  14-09-2018 21:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  It may be PSL season, but the flat white is all year round, baby. Over the last two weeks, Eminem, G-Eazy, and Machine Gun Kelly have been beefing. Not all with each other, but all at the same time, making for a whole tangled web of confusion. Who’s mad at...More »
  
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• Critic’s Notebook: At Toronto, Women Who Are Shockingly, Thrillingly Human

  14-09-2018 21:12 via nytimes.com
  Nicole Kidman in “Destroyer,” Natalie Portman in “Vox Lux” and other star turns are at the heart of a film festival filled with female-centric stories.
  
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• Oscars: Can First Man Take a Giant Leap in the Awards Race?

  14-09-2018 21:00 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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• BoJack Horseman’s Eulogy Episode Tackles Death With Brutal Honesty

  14-09-2018 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “But there’s nothing more realistic than that. You never get a happy ending because there’s always more show. I guess, until there isn’t.”BoJack Horseman is a television show that’s fearless in not only the topics that it tells stories about, but the ways in which it tells them. The series...More »
  
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• BoJack Horseman Recap: Zero Expectations

  14-09-2018 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  In this tremendously funny and “traditional” episode of BoJack Horseman, it would be easy to look at its multiple zany plots and see them as disparate threads. But part of what makes the show so remarkable is its knack for tying its threads together with a common theme. This episode...More »
  
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• Aneesh Chaganty on Searching, Pitching John Cho, and Pushback on Casting an Asian-American Family

  14-09-2018 20:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  At first, John Cho didn’t want to do Searching. He thought it sounded like a YouTube movie, and to be fair, the writer and director Aneesh Chaganty fumbled the initial pitch. “It was the first time I had ever spoken to a celebrity. I told all of my friends and...More »
  
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• Terry Crews Shares the Apology Letter He Received From Adam Venit

  14-09-2018 20:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  Last week, Terry Crews told Vanity Fair that he would not accept an apology letter sent to him by WME’s Adam Venit — nor would he cease legal action against Venit and the talent agency — unless the former head of the company’s motion picture department left entirely, instead of just being...More »
  
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• A Simple Favor Is a Breezy, Soapy Noir

  14-09-2018 20:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  The type of contemporary movie that gets called “noir” nowadays doesn’t bear much resemblance to the films of the genre’s golden era. For one thing, they tend to be a lot less funny. Classics like The Big Sleep and Double Indemnity are shadowy and sordid, but they never brood —...More »
  
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• Those Crazy Kids Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin Are Reportedly Already Married

  14-09-2018 20:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  Your other favorite two crazy kids, not to be confused with Ariana Grande and Pete Davidson, have apparently gone and gotten hitched. People reports that Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin are officially married a day after visiting New York City’s marriage bureau and two months after getting engaged. Bieber, 24,...More »
  
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• Grace Park Talks About Leaving Hawaii Five-O: ‘I Chose What Was Best for My Integrity’

  14-09-2018 20:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  In 2017, Grace Park and Daniel Dae Kim left CBS’s Hawaii Five-O reportedly over salary offers that did not match their white co-stars’ pay. While Kim discussed the reasons behind his departure at the time, saying that the “path to equality is never easy,” Park remained silent until now. In...More »
  
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• Brian Park Wants to Distract You From Instagram Models

  14-09-2018 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Brian Park is a comedian and actor based in New York City, where he hosts the monthly CollegeHumor Live show at UCB. He is also the co-creator of EATING IT, a new web series about a Korean-American student who contemplates dropping out of medical school as his passion for the culinary...More »
  
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• American Vandal Recap: A Case Study in Astonishing Smoothness

  14-09-2018 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  For anyone hoping (e.g. me) that the second episode of the season might bring with it a slight reduction in the number of Snapchat videos featuring fairly explicit poop imagery: I’m really sorry. You have likely had a difficult week, and were hoping for a break, and I really wish...More »
  
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• A Bloody Rivalry for the Throne, This Time With Margot Robbie

  14-09-2018 19:33 via nytimes.com
  “Mary Queen of Scots,” featuring Ms. Robbie as Queen Elizabeth I, is one of many movies to explore a notorious battle for power. Here’s a guide.
  
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• Alle finalisten The Voice Senior gaan het theater in - De Gelderlander

  14-09-2018 19:31
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  Alle finalisten van The Voice Senior staan op 1 oktober samen op het podium. Georges, Bob, Annet, Wil, Jimi, Mick & Henk, Noble en Lain geven dan eenmalig een concert in het AFAS Circustheater in Scheveningen. Showredactie 14-09-18, 19:31 Laatste ...
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• The Hunt for the Trump Tapes Doesn’t Seem Likely to Uncover Much

  14-09-2018 19:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  The idea that Tom Arnold could be the person to bring down President Donald Trump sounds completely ridiculous. Then again, pretty much every story involving presidential politics in 2018 sounds completely ridiculous so, hey, sure, why not? If the ex-husband of Roseanne Barr and the star of 1996’s The Stupids...More »
  
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• Who Will Host the 2018 SNL Season Premiere?

  14-09-2018 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  When the premiere of Saturday Night Live takes place on September 29, fans will focus on the cold open and the newly minted players, but the first guest host sets the tone for the coming season. Certainly, Lorne Michaels and his casting directors yearn for the magical sort of performer...More »
  
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• Vows: A Playwright and a Songwriter, Finding the Right Words

  14-09-2018 18:06 via nytimes.com
  Emily Kaczmarek and Zoe Sarnak began a collaboration that created the musical, “Afterwords,” and a place for each other in their hearts.
  
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• 11 New Video Games to Play This Fall

  14-09-2018 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  The end of 2018 is shaping up to be an aggressively safe period for video games, one full of comfort food and iterative takes on recently reinvented franchises. You won’t be introduced to much that’s extremely new, but you’re bound to find something crunchy and filling — dense, intricate entertainment...More »
  
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• This Week in Comedy Podcasts: Henry Winkler on You Made It Weird

  14-09-2018 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The comedy podcast universe is ever expanding, not unlike the universe universe. We’re here to make it a bit smaller, a bit more manageable. There are a lot of great shows and each has a lot of great episodes, so we want to highlight the exceptional, the noteworthy. Each week...More »
  
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• Forever Recap: There’s No Plan

  14-09-2018 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  We start the second episode of Forever with June in an electronics shop, and we learn very quickly that Oscar’s accident in the last episode was fatal. Now, June’s reeling from the loss. After trying to convey what, specifically, she needs to get her internet running again to an employee...More »
  
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• American Vandal’s Travis Tope Is ‘Extremely Chill’ About Fake Poop

  14-09-2018 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Spoilers below for American Vandal season two.Who is Kevin McClain? An outcast? An idiosyncratic savant? A noted mansplainer of tea? A lover of newsboy caps and hor-cha-ta? (Pronounce it correctly!) Chances are good that you went to high school with a kid like American Vandal’s newest accused criminal, even if...More »
  
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• Do Reality Competitions Need Big-Name Hosts?

  14-09-2018 17:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  The heart has been ripped from the chest of Project Runway: Tim Gunn is departing, and so has the fashion competition’s soul. I’m done! No more Project Runway for me! cried the internet when the news broke that Tim and Heidi Klum would not return.What’s left of the show has...More »
  
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• Jake Gyllenhaal, a Big Baldwin Fan, Helped Barry Jenkins’s Beale Street Happen

  14-09-2018 17:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  Barry Jenkins’s adaptation of If Beale Street Could Talk got an early helping hand from a surprising source: Jake Gyllenhaal?! Jenkins told the Los Angeles Times about the process of getting approval from James Baldwin’s (notoriously selective) estate to adapt the novel, and said the actor was “kind of one...More »
  
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• Forever Creators Alan Yang and Matt Hubbard on the Genesis of Their Unusual Series

  14-09-2018 17:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  The first thing that Alan Yang and Matt Hubbard knew about Forever, their new Amazon series, was that it would be a show starring Maya Rudolph and Fred Armisen. From there, the co-creators, who previously worked together on Parks and Recreation, built an eight-episode first season steeped in mystery, metaphysical...More »
  
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• The Murphy Brown Revival Has an Episode About Whether to Interview a ‘Steve Bannon-Like’ Figure

  14-09-2018 17:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  Murphy Brown comes back to TV this fall, hoping to grab the attention of viewers in D.C. and around the country — and probably specifically a few in the White House. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Candice Bergen and returning creator Diane English discuss a few of the...More »
  
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• The Carpetbagger: Sure, It’s Only September, but the Oscar Race Is in Full Swing

  14-09-2018 17:06 via nytimes.com
  “Black Panther” and “A Star Is Born” are likely to make the final cut for best picture, while the best actress race is extra-crowded this year.
  
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• BoJack Horseman Recap: Alone and Adrift

  14-09-2018 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  When we talk about what makes BoJack Horseman great, we often talk about its ability to bounce between the silliness of tongue-twisting puns and horrid moments of darkness. We also talk about its emotional clarity: the way it understands not only its characters, but the psychology of human beings in...More »
  
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• How Kidding Invented Its Very Own Children’s Puppet Show

  14-09-2018 16:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you had walked on the set of Jim Carrey’s new Showtime series Kidding last spring, you might have thought you were in the wrong place. Instead of the usual premium-cable backdrops, you’d be standing inside a brightly colored children’s television show — in the world of Kidding, it’s the...More »
  
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• Penn Badgley Tortures a Man By Denying Him Bareburgers in a You Clip

  14-09-2018 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  See, you can’t imprison a man because you have a crush on his ex and also feed him gluten, that’s just unfair. You, the Lifetime series that sends up gentrified New York and also has Penn Badgley stalk women and imprison their terrible boyfriends, is getting even more bonkers in...More »
  
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• A Word With: Why William Jackson Harper of ‘The Good Place’ Can’t Quit the Theater

  14-09-2018 16:00 via nytimes.com
  Mr. Harper, best known for his sitcom role, is making his debut as a playwright.
  
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• When the (Late-Night) Show Must Go On

  14-09-2018 15:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  Late night’s biggest strength and greatest weakness is the fact that something has to go on air every night. Okay, not literally every night, but many nights. So when the head of your network is ousted, or tonight’s guest says some problematic shit, the show must indeed go on. There...More »
  
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• Een zomerse avond in het theater - Zakengids Tiel (persbericht) (Blog)

  14-09-2018 15:38
  Zakengids Tiel (persbericht) (Blog)
  Een zomerse avond in het theater
  Zakengids Tiel (persbericht) (Blog)
  Niets anders dan lovende woorden kwamen er uit het publiek na afloop van de Avond vol Zomerverhalen op 6 september in de Pluk in Geldermalsen. De ruim 70 toeschouwers hadden genoten, gespeeld en vooral ook veel gelachen. Tien jaar taalles en ...
  
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• Blake Lively Was Paranoid About Her Unexpectedly See-Through Top

  14-09-2018 15:14 via feeds.eonline.com
  Even Blake Lively is capable of having a surprise style snafu.
  Before stepping out on the red carpet for the New York City premiere of her newly released thriller, A Simple Favor, the...
  
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• Frank Ocean Reportedly Wants to Be Removed From Travis Scott’s Astroworld

  14-09-2018 15:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  Another week, another beef is stewing: Frank Ocean and Travis Scott are reportedly on the outs. Last month, Ocean appeared on Scott’s Astroworld on the song “Carousel,” but according to TMZ, Ocean now wants his parts legally removed from the album and has filed a cease and desist order to...More »
  
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• The First Is a Very Different Kind of Space Drama

  14-09-2018 15:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  Kudos to The First for not doing anything that you might expect a series like this to do. Created and overseen by Beau Willimon (House of Cards), this account of an attempt to colonize Mars is jointly produced by Hulu and Britain’s Channel Four, and while it doesn’t lack for...More »
  
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• The Shows I’m Afraid to Look Forward To

  14-09-2018 15:08 via nytimes.com
  Sometimes what you think you won’t like is what you love most.
  
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• Anatomy of a Scene: Trespassing for Laughs in ‘The Land of Steady Habits’

  14-09-2018 15:05 via nytimes.com
  The director Nicole Holofcener discusses a scene in which the lead character (Ben Mendelsohn) breaks into his former home.
  
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• Forever Premiere Recap: It Would Be Good for Us

  14-09-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Forever, a new Amazon series created by Alan Yang (Master of None) and Matt Hubbard (30 Rock), has its work cut out for it. The show hangs on two time-worn themes: the monotony that lies in monogamy, and the question of life after death. But with Maya Rudolph and Fred...More »
  
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• Emmys 2018: When and How to Watch

  14-09-2018 15:00 via feeds.eonline.com
  Television's biggest night is right around the corner!
  Awards season kicks off with a major bang thanks to the 2018 Emmys, which takes place live in Los Angeles on Monday evening....
  
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• 2018 PCAs: Check Out Kevin Hart, Amy Schumer, Tiffany Haddish & the Rest of the Comedy Act Nominees' Best & Most Notable Roles

  14-09-2018 15:00 via feeds.eonline.com
  The People's Choice Awards are just around the corner. In fact, round one of voting--or cutting the nominee list from 12 to a top five in each category--ends today. So, be sure to get voting...
  
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• British TV drama for autumn 2018: water-cooler moments are back

  14-09-2018 14:51 via theguardian.com
  Bodyguard leads pack in strong showing of TV with shows like Succession and Killing Eve that appeal to international and domestic audienceIt has been a record-setting autumn for British television. The 10.4 million viewers that the first episode of BBC’s critically acclaimed drama Bodyguard attracted made it the biggest new drama on UK television for a decade. But it is hardly the only show that is able to draw a crowd.There are the big autumn reality shows – The Great British Bake O
  
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• ‘The Land of Steady Habits’ | Anatomy of a Scene

  14-09-2018 14:45 via nytimes.com
  Nicole Holofcener narrates a sequence from her film featuring Ben Mendelsohn.
  
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• Big Brother, where art thou? Channel 5 drops reality TV show

  14-09-2018 14:29 via theguardian.com
  Final series starts on Friday, although another UK channel may consider buying rightsBig Brother has been dropped by Channel 5 almost two decades after the show first appeared on British television.The final series will begin on Friday night, although there remains the possibility that the production company Endemol Shine could convince another British channel to buy the rights. Continue reading...
  
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