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• Ryan Coogler and LeBron James Bringing Back ‘Space Jam’

  19-09-2018 23:51 via nytimes.com
  An oft-rumored sequel to “Space Jam,” with LeBron James, is officially in the works. Ryan Coogler will be a producer and Terence Nance will direct.
  
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• Grand Designs review: Kevin McCloud standing in front of a tiny castle? I smell trouble …

  19-09-2018 23:01
  The foundations are laid for a classic episode, involving, of course, some minor peril, passive-aggressive building contractors, escalating costs, birth and deathThe vale of Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire: rolling hills sprinkled with grand country estates and, perhaps more enduringly, the potential for ever more series of Grand Designs. And here comes the theme tune, which you can never remember, but is as familiar as rain when it drops. And Kevin McCloud standing as was ever thus in front o
  
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• Great British Baking Show Winner Sophie Faldo on the Cost of All Those Bakes

  19-09-2018 22:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  Last month, Americans exploded like an overcooked soufflé when Netflix announced that the new season of The Great British Baking Show would appear on its streaming service, complete with a brand-new creative line-up. Alongside the new additions of judge Prue Leith and hosts Noel Fielding and Sandi Toksvig — no...More »
  
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• Here’s Your Chance Do Your Dance: LeBron James Brings On Ryan Coogler to Produce Space Jam 2

  19-09-2018 22:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  To those of us remember with fondness the good and charming 1990s pop-culture artifact that is Space Jam, there’s great news to relay. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Space Jam 2 star LeBron James has recruited Ryan Coogler to produce the sequel, which is being directed by Terence Nance. James...More »
  
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• BoJack Horseman’s Biggest Mystery: Is Todd Supposed to Be Latino?

  19-09-2018 21:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  Happy-go-lucky, scatterbrained, and a beanie-wearing sweetheart, Todd Chavez is BoJack Horseman’s most buoyant character. At once the ideal accomplice to get into the dopiest of shenanigans and a confidant whose loyalty is as improbable as the success of a Halloween store in January, Todd’s unfiltered optimism is a saving grace...More »
  
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• What Sanaa Lathan Can’t Live Without

  19-09-2018 21:38 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 Sanaa Lathan of The Affair, Love & Basketball, and the new Netflix film Nappily Ever After, about the oregano oil, mini-trampoline,...More »
  
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• The New Archetypes of Oscar Season

  19-09-2018 21:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  One of the most pleasant aspects of awards season is the sense of repetition. Just as the fall holidays all flow inexorably from one to the next, so too does festival season lead to critics’ awards, which lead to the Globes, which leads to the guild awards, which lead to...More »
  
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• Tencent/music: song contest

  19-09-2018 21:28 via ft.com
  Touted partnership with Spotify could yet turn into rivalry
  
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• Can Bhad Bhabie Rap?

  19-09-2018 21:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  Bhad Bhabie, the erstwhile Cash Me Ousside Girl, fka Danielle Bregoli fka Danielle Peskowitz, first entered our homes and our hearts via a viral episode of Dr. Phil from 2016. Accompanied by the chyron, “I Want To Give Up My Car-Stealing, Knife-Wielding, Twerking 13-Year-Old Daughter Who Who Tried To Frame...More »
  
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• Chevy Chase Just Wants to Talk Some Shit in Peace, Okay?

  19-09-2018 20:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  Chevy Chase isn’t happy about all the negative headlines he’s created over the years, but he just created a whole new batch of them. In a new profile in the Washington Post, the original Saturday Night Live cast member got candid about Donald Glover and Community, his thoughts on SNL...More »
  
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• 25 Years Ago The Virgin Suicides Kicked Off the American Obsession with Teenage Tragedy.

  19-09-2018 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  In an interview with the Paris Review in 2016, Jeffrey Eugenides admitted that the title of his career-launching debut, The Virgin Suicides, was meant to elicit a strong reaction. “With your first novel,” he explained, “no one knows who you are, you’ve got to at least have a title that...More »
  
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• A Dance World Mystery Spurs a Contest for Choreographers

  19-09-2018 19:40 via nytimes.com
  What’s inside Agnes de Mille’s unopened 1963 letter? Rather than peeking, an organization is commissioning new work in her honor.
  
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• Hear the First Track From John Carpenter’s New Halloween Score

  19-09-2018 19:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Halloween sequel hits theaters on October 19, which is the same day the soundtrack will be available for purchase, but don’t you want a little taste of what’s to come from the John Carpenter–blessed retooling of his classic franchise? Listen now to “The Shape Returns,” which will dredge up...More »
  
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• Garrison Keillor Is Also Preparing His Comeback

  19-09-2018 19:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  Garrison Keillor, the radio host fired from A Prairie Home Companion, is preparing his comeback. A Minneapolis Star Tribune article about changes within the Prairie Home cast reported that Keillor has scheduled two Twin Cities shows for November, and both are sold out. The shows will be his first since...More »
  
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• The Handmaid’s Tale’s Reed Morano Signs Overall Deal With Amazon

  19-09-2018 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Amazon may have won its first Emmy for Outstanding Comedy this Sunday, but Hulu remains the only streaming network to win one for Outstanding Drama (The Handmaid’s Tale, last year), and Amazon seems to want some of its shine. Amazon announced today that it’s signed an exclusive TV deal with...More »
  
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• The Guardian view on Bodyguard: to keep making brilliant shows, the BBC needs resources | Editorial

  19-09-2018 18:40
  It may be a golden age for TV, with masterpieces from Netflix and Amazon. But the BBC is still a vital part of the UK’s cultureIt is a remarkable time for television. Between the TV channels, their on-demand services, the leviathans that are Netflix and Amazon, there has probably never been a more bewilderingly vast selection of quality drama to choose from. There’s almost too much to see: some viewers feel they can hardly keep up with the masterpieces that have seemed to come thick
  
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• Maya Rudolph Is a Revelation on Forever

  19-09-2018 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Maya Rudolph is a revelation on Amazon’s new series, Forever, which premiered last Friday. I hate to break out this hoary cliché, but it fits. While Rudolph has always been an incandescent presence onscreen — bringing humor and sincerity through her seven-year tenure on Saturday Night Live, animated series like...More »
  
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• Guess We’re Getting Maroon 5 As Super Bowl Halftime Performers

  19-09-2018 18:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  As the pickings keep on getting slimmer, Variety and Us Weekly are reporting that the NFL has landed on Maroon 5 as the 2019 Super Bowl halftime performers. They’ve apparently been extended an offer and “pretty much accepted” the slot for Super Bowl LIII in Atlanta, ignoring all of Bruno...More »
  
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• How Bert and Ernie could be role models for all the gay puppets

  19-09-2018 18:26
  Outed by their creator, re-closeted by their Sesame Street bosses, the odd couple are blazing a trail for long-denied puppet rightsLike Piers Morgan – and I don’t enjoy agreeing with him – I assumed Bert and Ernie had come out many years ago. But following Mark Salzman’s claim that he wrote Bert and Ernie as gay, Sesame Street workshop issued a swift joykill of a statement, denying this was the case and thrusting the loving muppets firmly to the back of the closet. Morgan
  
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• Suki Waterhouse Accidentally Shot Someone While Filming Assassination Nation

  19-09-2018 18:18 via feeds.eonline.com
  Suki Waterhouse accidentally shot someone while filming her new film Assassination Nation.The actress made the confession on Monday while attending the movie's New York premiere at...
  
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• The Best Sex I Ever Read: Mrs. Caliban

  19-09-2018 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  For our inaugural “The Best Sex I Ever Read” column, Laura van den Berg, author of The Third Hotel, selects Rachel Ingalls’s 1982 book Mrs. Caliban, about a woman who meets a hot amphibian.He stepped forward, took off her bathrobe, letting it fall on top of the bed, and started...More »
  
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• Review: It’s Called ‘Life Itself,’ and Yet Everyone’s Dead

  19-09-2018 17:53 via nytimes.com
  Oscar Isaac and Olivia Wilde lead a talented cast on a journey into maudlin ridiculousness.
  
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• Royal Opera House Gets a $66 Million Revamp

  19-09-2018 17:52 via nytimes.com
  The almost-three-year renovation includes the 406-seat Linbury Theater, and more public spaces in the foyer.
  
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• Why was TV’s creepiest character Teddy Perkins at the Emmys?

  19-09-2018 17:16
  Donald Glover’s musician is one of the most sinister creations in the TV show Atlanta. So what was he doing at the Emmys – and how could he be standing next to Glover?Name: Teddy Perkins.Age: Hard to tell. Continue reading...
  
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• The Carpetbagger: In ‘Colette,’ Keira Knightley Trades Her Corsets for a Daring Suit

  19-09-2018 17:04 via nytimes.com
  In this new period drama, the clothes have their own character arc. “The costumes really reflect what’s happening inside Colette,” says the director.
  
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• The First Time: Paul Scheer: The First Time I Got In a Bar Fight

  19-09-2018 16:45 via nytimes.com
  We wanted to be the cool parents who bring their kids to bars and on vacations. So we did!
  
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• The Beauty and Brilliance of Forever’s Stand-alone Episode

  19-09-2018 16:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  Spoilers below for Forever. You’ve been warned!There’s a lovely stand-alone story embedded in the new Amazon series Forever. The bulk of the show is anchored by Maya Rudolph and Fred Armisen’s characters June and Oscar, a married couple who die and then find themselves in the afterlife, still facing the...More »
  
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• Tea With the Dames Clip: Maggie Smith Says Everyone Is Stuck With Judi Dench’s Hollywood Leftovers

  19-09-2018 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Don’t you love it when a dear friend turns on you, spilling some real (and embarrassing) tea? It’s hard out there for an impressively talented and awarded British actress in her 80s, but even harder when you’re competing with Dame Judi Dench for every little Hollywood role. According to Dames...More »
  
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• Late Night’s New ‘Jokes Seth Can’t Tell’ Includes a Delightful Dig at Late-Night Writers Rooms

  19-09-2018 15:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  The best segment in late night, “Jokes Seth Can’t Tell,” returned to Late Night With Seth Meyers last night, and in addition to covering things like National Be Late for Something Day, Martina Navratilova’s recent “What Serena Got Wrong” op-ed, and what question lesbians get asked the most (“Can you...More »
  
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• Kunstwerken Veenstra en Hogenhuis in Theater - Sneeker Nieuwsblad

  19-09-2018 15:53
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  Kunstwerken Veenstra en Hogenhuis in Theater
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  Bij opening van het theaterseizoen kan er bij bezoek aan het Theater Sneek een nieuwe expositie worden bewonderd. De expositie toont werk van Hinke Veenstra uit Sneek en Andries Hogenhuis uit Sint Jacobiparochie. Hinke Veenstra is geboren in ...
  
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• Denis Norden: the king of the blooper who always delivered

  19-09-2018 15:33
  The host of It’ll Be Alright on the Night also had a celebrated career with his writing partner Frank Muir, and understood the art of television like few of his peersAlthough his most popular venture – ITV’s It’ll Be Alright on the Night – featured examples of television going embarrassingly wrong, Denis Norden, who has died aged 96, was himself such a skilled writer and performer that he sustained a 60-year career in the medium: from co-writing Gerry’s Inn, a
  
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• Maniac Is a Hell of a Drug

  19-09-2018 15:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Maniac is an experimental show about an experiment in curing mental illness. It is wild, audacious, addictive, and teeters so precariously between reality and fantasy that the audience will immediately question what’s real and what isn’t. The bold ten-episode series, one of the fall season’s best, repeatedly bounces in and...More »
  
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• Robyn Announces First Album in 8 Years and, Finally, It’ll Include That Girls Song

  19-09-2018 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  The pop goddesses have heard our pleas: Robyn will release her first album in eight years next month. Honey, the follow-up to 2010’s acclaimed Body Talk, arrives on October 26 and this news just keeps on getting better: It’s named after the song she debuted on the final season of...More »
  
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• James Corden Can't Impress Henry Golding's Movie Mom Michelle Yeoh

  19-09-2018 15:12 via feeds.eonline.com
  Sometimes, there are stars even James Corden can't impress.
  Such was the case Tuesday night when Crazy Rich Asians stars Henry Golding and his movie mom Michelle Yeoh paid a visit to...
  
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• Keira Knightley Brings Spirit to the Politely Sexy Colette

  19-09-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  This review originally ran during the Sundance Film Festival.One of my favorite music videos is Michel Gondry’s piece for Björk’s 1997 single “Bachelorette,” which depicts the Icelandic pop star as the author of a book so big it eclipses her. She takes it to a publisher, it’s a hit, it’s...More »
  
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• Inside the All Souls Convention With 400 Witches, Daemons, and Vampires

  19-09-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  On a recent sweltering weekend, nearly 400 self-identified witches, daemons, and vampires traveled from around the country to the Science History Institute in Philadelphia for two days of bookish revelry. The ladies — they were nearly all ladies — favored flowy cardigans and long crystal necklaces strung with alchemical symbols;...More »
  
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• 5 x supertoffe dingen die je kunt doen bij ZIMIHC theater Stefanus - indebuurt

  19-09-2018 14:31
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  5 x supertoffe dingen die je kunt doen bij ZIMIHC theater Stefanus
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  Bij ZIMIHC theater Stefanus hebben ze er zin in! Eh…zin in wat precies? Nou, in een gloednieuw, knallend theaterseizoen dat bol staat van de leuke activiteiten. Van breakdancelessen tot appeltaartconcerten en van pop-up's en exposities tot optredens ...
  
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• The New Magnum P.I. Shows a Lot of Promise

  19-09-2018 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  As private investigator Thomas Sullivan Magnum, Tom Selleck never really got the credit he deserved for making audiences believe in the world of CBS’s Magnum, P.I. That grin, that wink, that beefy physique, that mustache, and that sensitive tenor speaking voice made him the epitome of a TV leading man,...More »
  
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• The Deals Behind Spielberg’s Biggest Year

  19-09-2018 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  For months in 1989 I pushed Marty Scorsese to commit to Cape Fear, a remake of a noirish film from 1962 about a psychopathic ex-con named Max Cady (played by Robert Mitchum) out for revenge. It was commercial, it would fulfill Marty’s deal with Universal, and I knew he’d nail...More »
  
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• Nicolas Cage expresses 'frustration' with Cage rage internet meme

  19-09-2018 13:04
  Actor says his over-the-top acting style is ‘all very thought out and carefully planned’Nicolas Cage has expressed his frustration with “Cage rage” internet memes, saying they are “frustrating” and unfair to him and the directors of his films.In an interview with Indiewire to promote his latest film Mandy, a gory action-horror in which Cage plays a revenger looking to take down a satanic biker gang, Cage said: “I’m sure it’s frustrating for [
  
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• Dutchbatter in het theater: 'Ik zag hoe volle bussen gingen en lege bussen ... - Trouw

  19-09-2018 12:58
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  Hoe ga je om met je eigen heftige ervaringen en de oordelen van anderen die er niet bij waren? Dutchbatters doen hun eigen verhaal over Srebrenica in het stuk 'Dark Numbers'. Een Dutchbat-veteraan staat in de schijnwerpers op het toneel van het verder ...en meer »
  
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• Civil wants to use blockchain to fund journalism. Can it work?

  19-09-2018 12:32 via ft.com
  The start-up is trying to combat fake news and win over a new generation of readers
  
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• Can blockchain be used to fund journalism?

  19-09-2018 12:32 via ft.com
  The start-up is trying to combat fake news and win over a new generation of readers
  
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• Theater De Storm opent seizoen - Aalten Vooruit (persbericht) (Blog)

  19-09-2018 12:19
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  Aalten Vooruit (persbericht) (Blog)
  De vloer staat in de was, de lampen zijn gepoetst en een gloednieuwe trekkenwandinstallatie is klaar voor gebruik… het theaterseizoen 2018-2019 staat op het punt te beginnen in De Storm. Op vrijdag 28 september is de 'Blind Date'-Seizoensopening.en meer »
  
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