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• Like a Dashing Hero, Netflix Is Embracing Romance Novel Adaptations

  27-09-2018 23:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  Netflix knows people want romance, so they’re making even more romance — it’s logic so simple, an algorithm could probably figure it out. Today, the streaming service announced plans to adapt two romance novel book series into television series: Virgin River, based on the novels by Robyn Carr, and Sweet...More »
  
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• Maniac Recap: Make It Crisp

  27-09-2018 23:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  Like The Leftovers’ revered “International Assassin” episode, the plot of “Furs by Sebastian” is only tangentially related to the larger story at hand — instead, it runs along a parallel thread, an alternate time and place where the same people are thrust into bizarre circumstances manufactured in their own minds....More »
  
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• Here Are the Full Lyrics to A Star Is Born’s ‘Shallow’

  27-09-2018 23:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  On the afternoon of Thursday, September 27, 2018, you may have felt a great disturbance, when millions of voices suddenly cried out in jubilation that Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper’s “Shallow” had finally been released. We’ve spent months imitating Gaga’s powerful bellow from the trailer, but now there are verses...More »
  
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• Feel the Healing Power of Tom Hanks As Mr. Rogers in This You Are My Friend First Look

  27-09-2018 23:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  Tom Hanks is Mister Rogers, coming to a neighborhood near you October 2019. Sony Pictures (@SonyPictures) September 27, 2018...More »
  
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• Will Ferrell Really Pulls of a Socrates Beard in This I Love You, America Clip

  27-09-2018 23:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  A new episode of Sarah Silverman’s I Love You, America debuts on Hulu today, and we have a sneak peek revealing a very special guest appearance. The one and only Greek philosopher and “Athenian coastal elite” Socrates — who happens to look a lot like Will Ferrell — sits down...More »
  
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• Page to Screen: What to Read Before Heading to Movie Theaters This Fall

  27-09-2018 23:00 via nytimes.com
  Of the various book-to-film adaptations, these eight titles — including “If Beale Street Could Talk,” “The Sisters Brothers” and “The Hate U Give” — are worth reading before you watch.
  
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• Rose McGowan Says She Regrets Sexual-Assault Statement About Asia Argento

  27-09-2018 22:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ten days after Asia Argento threatened to sue Rose McGowan over “false statements” she made regarding the sexual-assault allegations against Argento, McGowan has released an apologetic statement claiming that she regrets spreading “a number of facts that were not correct.” An hour later, Argento tweeted that she “appreciated” McGowan’s apology,...More »
  
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• Tom Hanks Is Mister Rogers in First Look at You Are My Friend

  27-09-2018 22:27 via feeds.eonline.com
  Tom Hanks, won't you be our neighbor?The 62-year-old Oscar-winning actor plays Fred Rogers, the late host of the long-running beloved children's series Mister Rogers'...
  
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• What’s Leaving HBO: October 2018

  27-09-2018 22:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  E.T. is a Halloween movie in the way that people say Die Hard is a Christmas movie: It’s just a damn good movie that happens to take place on a holiday that also has a genre of movies attached to it. That said, E.T. rules, and it’s interesting to revisit...More »
  
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• Awkwafina and Seth Meyers to Host Saturday Night Live Next Month

  27-09-2018 22:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  Season 44 of Saturday Night Live kicks off this weekend with host Adam Driver and musical guest Kanye West, and now the show has revealed the lineup for the next two episodes.First up is the October 6 episode, which will feature Ocean’s 8 and Crazy Rich Asians star Awkwafina as...More »
  
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• Bruce Dern Takes Over for Burt Reynolds in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

  27-09-2018 21:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  Before his death, Burt Reynolds had not yet filmed the role he was set to play in Quentin Tarantino’s upcoming movie Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Today, Variety reports that Bruce Dern will now take over the character of George Spahn, a ranch owner who rented his land out...More »
  
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• Terry Crews Will Host America’s Got Talent in Piece of Excellent Good News

  27-09-2018 21:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  Are you ready for just a little bit of good news? Would you even recognize good news if you heard it? Well, hello! Let’s celebrate this: Terry Crews will host America’s Got Talent. Per a release from NBC, Crews will host a new winter edition of America’s Got Talent: The...More »
  
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• Lil Wayne Is Hip-Hop’s Best Skateboarder

  27-09-2018 21:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s hard to remember a time when skateboarding wasn’t at the forefront of popular culture. This year alone, Jonah Hill’s Mid90s is already receiving early critical acclaim, and this summer’s revelatory Skate Kitchen becoming a sleeper hit. In hip-hop, too, skateboarding seems to have become inescapable. 300 Entertainment, home to...More »
  
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• Kanye At It Again

  27-09-2018 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  This Saturday Kanye West will release yet another album, which inevitably means he has opened his mouth to the media to promote it and nothing but word vomit has spewed out. Kanye stopped by the offices of The Fader on Thursday for … well, who can really be sure? They...More »
  
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• Robert Redford’s The Old Man & The Gun Director Weighs In on the Legend’s Final Film

  27-09-2018 20:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  Lots of filmmakers launch their careers at the Sundance Film Festival, but few are able to parlay that into a working relationship with the Sundance Kid himself. When David Lowery brought his second feature, the Texas-set crime romance Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, to the festival in 2013, he found himself...More »
  
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• Freeform Plans Hocus Pocus 25th Anniversary Special With Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathy Najimy, Dove Cameron and More

  27-09-2018 20:20 via feeds.eonline.com
  Sisters! Get ready to sing. Freeform announced it will air a star-studded Hocus Pocus 25th anniversary special on Saturday, Oct. 20. The new special, Hocus Pocus 25th Anniversary Halloween Bash,...
  
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• New BBC Question Time host to be chosen through TV pilot trial

  27-09-2018 19:52
  Presenters Emily Maitlis and Mishal Husain are among possible candidates for the roleThe new host of Question Time is to be decided through a series of pilot shows, with a mostly female shortlist of presenters lined up to replace David Dimbleby.Newsnight presenter Emily Maitlis and Today programme anchor Mishal Husain are understood to be among those being asked to try out in front of an audience in London for one of the most high-profile roles in political broadcasting. Continue reading...
  
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• Merle Debuskey, Renowned Theatrical Press Agent, Dies at 95

  27-09-2018 19:38 via nytimes.com
  He represented hundreds of shows on Broadway and off and had a long association with Joseph Papp, whom he helped battle to keep Shakespeare free.
  
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• Jeffrey Wright on Hold the Dark: ‘I Was Worn Out, Physically and Mentally’

  27-09-2018 19:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  With his expressive eyes and velvety, stentorian voice, Jeffrey Wright seems like a man destined for life as a thespian. He began his career as a performer treading the boards, but recent years have seen Wright branch out from the proscenium and the art house to explore all avenues of...More »
  
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• What’s Leaving Netflix: October 2018

  27-09-2018 19:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s not quite a Halloween pick since it’ll be gone long before the holiday, but if you want something a little bit spooky, a little bit fun, and a whole lot ’80s, take the time to revisit The Lost Boys if you can this weekend. The story of two boys...More »
  
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• Critic’s Notebook: Strangeness and Daring at the New York Film Festival

  27-09-2018 19:20 via nytimes.com
  The lineup includes Cannes prizewinners, Oscar contenders and movies that challenge conventions and assumptions, all reasons to get up off that couch.
  
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• Nelly Settles Sexual-Assault Lawsuit

  27-09-2018 19:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  Nelly has a settled a lawsuit with a woman who accused him of rape, TMZ reports. Monique Greene, a college student, accused Nelly of forcing her to perform oral sex on him and raping her on his tour bus last October, which Nelly denied. Nelly was arrested, but Greene dropped...More »
  
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• The Full Version of ‘Shallow’ From A Star Is Born Is Finally Here

  27-09-2018 18:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  It was the wail heard ’round the world — “HAAA AH AH AH AH, AAAH AAAH, AH AH AH AH HAAA” — and now you get to hear the whole thing. After teasing us with a snippet of Lady Gaga’s majestic scream in the Star Is Born trailer, the movie’s...More »
  
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• The Week in Arts: Blood Orange, Glenn Close, Black Power Art in Brooklyn

  27-09-2018 18:43 via nytimes.com
  The British R&B artist Dev Hynes comes to New York, and Glenn Close plays Joan of Arc’s mother.
  
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• New Trailer: ‘Dark Phoenix,’ With Sophie Turner

  27-09-2018 18:05 via nytimes.com
  The 12th installment in the superhero franchise finds Jean Grey unleashing her telekinetic powers against her fellow mutants.
  
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• Review: ‘All About Nina,’ a Funny Lady (With Issues)

  27-09-2018 17:31 via nytimes.com
  Mary Elizabeth Winstead, who plays a stand-up comic in Eva Vives’s ragged feature debut, is so good that she shows you what the movie could have been.
  
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• Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton Reunite on New Terminator Set

  27-09-2018 17:13 via feeds.eonline.com
  Arnold Schwarzenegger took to Instagram on Wednesday to wish his Terminator co-star, Linda Hamilton, a happy birthday and post a picture of the duo onset of their new movie."Happy...
  
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• Review: Shakespeare + Chekhov = ‘Uncle Romeo Vanya Juliet’

  27-09-2018 17:02 via nytimes.com
  The Bedlam show, stitched together from parts borrowed from Chekhov and Shakespeare, should perhaps be credited to Chekspeare.
  
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• Review: In ‘Summer ’03,’ Coming of Age Is More Bitter Than Sweet

  27-09-2018 17:01 via nytimes.com
  The movie’s meanspirited humor is out of place with the perky conventionality of its film style.
  
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• Macaulay Culkin Tweets J.K. Rowling His Résumé

  27-09-2018 17:01 via feeds.eonline.com
  Macaulay Culkin as a wizard? Why not? He's good at magic--he did make his "family disappear..."The 38-year-old former child actor, who rose to fame with Home Alone, tweeted...
  
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• Comedy Central’s President Show Documentary to Feature Kathy Griffin, Mario Cantone, and More

  27-09-2018 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you’ve been missing Anthony Atamanuik’s The President Show, don’t worry, because it’s returning to Comedy Central next month in the form of a mockumentary-style special. Titled A President Show Documentary: The Fall of Donald Trump, the half-hour special is set in the year 2030 and stars Atamanuik as Trump...More »
  
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• The Good Place Showrunner Michael Schur Knows the Meaning of Life

  27-09-2018 16:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  After two seasons of The Good Place’s intricate world-building, viewers have a general idea of how the afterlife works for those who’ve been good, bad, or even medium humans. But when the NBC sitcom returns Thursday night for its third season, you might have some nuts-and-bolts questions, such as, does...More »
  
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• Tony Goldwyn Joins Bryan Cranston in Network, Because All of Scandal Is Going Broadway

  27-09-2018 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Kerry Washington is doing American Son, Katie Lowes is in Waitress, and now Tony Goldwyn is joining Network — let the Scandal takeover of Broadway begin! Goldwyn will play Max Schumacher, the role William Holden played, in the upcoming stage adaptation of the Sidney Lumet–Paddy Chayefsky film. Bryan Cranston stars...More »
  
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• Joan Jett: ‘My Lot in Life Is to Battle’

  27-09-2018 16:00 via nytimes.com
  After 40-plus years in rock, the singer and guitarist is as fierce and defiant as ever. A new documentary charts her pathbreaking rise.
  
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• House of Cards Teaser: ‘The Reign of the Middle-Aged White Man Is Over’

  27-09-2018 15:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Francis is dead.” We’ve seen Claire Underwood (Robin Wright) visit her husband’s grave, but the latest teaser for the final season of House of Cards is even more blunt about sounding the death knell on Frank Underwood, Kevin Spacey, and bad men alike. “The reign of the middle-aged white man...More »
  
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• Dark Phoenix Trailer: Sophie Turner Is Going Off the Deep End

  27-09-2018 15:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  She’s off the deep end, watch as she dives in, she’ll never meet the ground! Before she returns to the Seven Kingdoms, Sophie Turner is causing a ruckus with the X-Men. In the trailer for Dark Phoenix, she reprises her role as Jean Grey, who’s flirting with going to the...More »
  
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• How To Watch The Brett Kavanaugh Hearing

  27-09-2018 15:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh is now facing several allegations of sexual assault and misconduct, but Thursday morning the Senate will hear from the first accuser to come forward, Palo Alto University professor Christine Blasey Ford. Ford will testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee at 10 a.m. How to watch...More »
  
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• Postman Pat creator John Cunliffe dies

  27-09-2018 15:29
  Author who created children’s TV shows including Rosie and Jim dies aged 85
  John Cunliffe, the author and creator of the much-loved children’s TV shows Postman Pat, and Rosie and Jim, has died, aged 85.Cunliffe’s family placed a death notice in their local newspaper, the Ilkley Gazette, announcing that he died on 20 September and was buried after a private funeral on Wednesday. Continue reading...
  
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• Watch Kate McKinnon Sabotage Adam Driver’s SNL Premiere Promo

  27-09-2018 15:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  At long last, Saturday Night Live is back this weekend for its season 44 premiere hosted by Adam Driver with musical guest Kanye West. For the first promo of the new season, the show decided to throwback to Driver’s last visit in 2016 — particularly that “Whole New World” sketch...More »
  
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• Barbra Streisand Is Trapped in a Well, Releasing New Music

  27-09-2018 15:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  After making everyone set their alarms very early on Thursday morning, Barbra Streisand has announced plans for a new album. That album’s called Walls, and Babs dropped a new song called “Don’t Lie to Me” along with it. She co-wrote the song, and it’s pretty easy to hear the political...More »
  
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• What’s Leaving Hulu: October 2018

  27-09-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Peter Weir’s 1985 thriller stars Harrison Ford as Detective John Book, a Philadelphia detective attempting to solve a murder. Trouble is, the crime’s titular witness is Samuel, an 8-year-old Amish boy. In order to get the boy to cooperate, he has to earn the trust of a community he doesn’t...More »
  
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• ‘Let It Burn’: Assassination Nation and the Cinema of the End

  27-09-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The marketing for Assassination Nation suggests an orgy of empowering ultraviolence: “You asked for it, America,” blare the posters, above an image of four young women in shiny red coats brandishing an assortment of deadly weapons. But is it a movie about empowerment, or annihilation? Sam Levinson’s film takes place in...More »
  
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• BBC Two v Channel 4: who wins the battle of the new logos?

  27-09-2018 14:42
  Both TV channels have rebooted their idents in a bid to boost their brands. But they’ll struggle to match the nostalgic rush provided by classic TV logosTwo of our television institutions look a little different today. After 25 years of blocky No 2s bouncing, leaping and flying around, BBC Two has unveiled an elegant curve of a rebrand. Channel 4, meanwhile, has rebranded to ensure that each of its digital channels has a “distinct yet cohesive” look. This, presumably, is to hel
  
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• At This Theater, All of the Directors Will Be Women

  27-09-2018 14:38 via nytimes.com
  Anna Bergmann begins her role as the playhouse director of the Badisches State Theater in Germany with an all-female-directed season.
  
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• South Park’s School Shooting Episode Is Exactly As Tasteless As You’d Expect

  27-09-2018 14:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  Up at the Toronto International Film Festival earlier this month, I saw a motion picture that begins with a realistically rendered school shooting. The rest of the film interrogates the lasting emotional and sociological ramifications of this tragedy in particular and the phenomenon in general, placing the epidemic of gun...More »
  
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• American Horror Story: Apocalypse Recap: Surprise B!

  27-09-2018 14:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  Stop whatever you’re doing because the Coven is back and they are taking names!!!!!!!!But before we get there, let’s start at the beginning with Michael Langdon, who is still reviewing people for his supposed Sanctuary. During Mallory’s cooperative interrogation cooperations, Langdon reveals that he’s not looking for candidates who are...More »
  
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• Trump makes American comedy great again   

  27-09-2018 14:07 via ft.com
  US president’s performance at the UN suggests he has a potential third act  
  
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• The Good Place Is Still the Best

  27-09-2018 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  My friends, The Good Place is a beacon of light in this week of darkest timeline news feeds. In its third season, which premieres Thursday night, the NBC sitcom is still surprising, still meticulously plotted, and still hilarious at an extremely high velocity. It is, without question, television’s best philosophi-com,...More »
  
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• Take a Look Back at Sandra Bullock's Best Roles in Honor of Her Being a 2018 PCAs Finalist

  27-09-2018 14:00 via feeds.eonline.com
  Sandra Bullock is a 2018 E! People's Choice Awards finalist, and we are freaking out about it!The 54-year-old actress is one of five ladies battling it out for the title of Female...
  
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• Review: ‘Smallfoot’ Struggles to Leave an Impression

  27-09-2018 13:00 via nytimes.com
  Channing Tatum plays a yeti who prefers the examined life in this animated film.
  
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