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• Kanye Delayed Yandhi Because He Has to Go to ‘What Is Known As Africa’ to Record It

  01-10-2018 23:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you’re keeping up with Kanye (welcome to the pitiful club), you’ll recall that his new album Yandhi did not arrive on Saturday as he repeatedly said it would, to probably only Kanye’s surprise. On Monday, his wife Kim Kardashian tweeted that the new release date has been set for...More »
  
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• A Career High Note: How Singing Can Lead Bradley Cooper to Golden Globes Glory

  01-10-2018 23:44 via feeds.eonline.com
  When a star successfully belts it out on the silver screen, they might as well prepare their Golden Globes speech.
  After more than seven decades, the annual awards ceremony continues to...
  
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• The Late Show and The Daily Show Will Go Live on Election Night

  01-10-2018 23:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  The midterm elections are just around the corner, and late-night shows are gearing up to cover them live. Today, CBS announced that The Late Show With Stephen Colbert will broadcast live on Election Night (Tuesday, November 6). The last time Colbert’s show aired a live episode was following Donald Trump’s...More »
  
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• Which This Is Us–esque Show Has the Most Potential?

  01-10-2018 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  I’m thinking of a TV show that focuses on the ways in which family and friends are interconnected, that delves into how people cope with loss, that wrestles with the notion of fate, and that is designed to make viewers weep cathartic tears on a weekly basis. Can you guess...More »
  
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• Drowning in Plastic review – a rallying cry, but is it too late?

  01-10-2018 23:02 via theguardian.com
  Wildlife biologist Liz Bonnin investigates the scale of the plastic crisis in the ocean and what we are doing about itFour hundred miles off the coast of Australia lies remote, pristine Lord Howe island: home to the largest colony of flesh-footed shearwaters on earth and a plastic-pollution horror story of 2018 proportions. The well-being of seabirds is a key indicator of the state of our blue planet and flesh-footed shearwaters eat more plastic relative to their size than any other marine creat
  
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• Black Earth Rising recap: episode four – who is Bobby Fischer?

  01-10-2018 23:00 via theguardian.com
  Chess references and unlikely trysts are the recurring themes this week as the Ganimana trial implodes and Hugo Blick makes an appearanceBlack Earth Rising recap: episode threeLast week’s episode appeared conclusively to wrap up the mystery of the murdered French priest who, it turns out, wasn’t dead after all. It did leave you wondering where this series would go next? This week it opens up on a new front. There’s the arrest of Patrice Ganimana, accused of helping organise the
  
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• What to Expect in Crimetown Season 2

  01-10-2018 22:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the second season of Crimetown, the Gimlet Media true-crime podcast by The Jinx creators Marc Smerling and Zac Stuart-Pontier that debuts a pair of brand-new episodes Monday, the once-great city of Detroit takes center stage. Which is great news for any fans of true crime, archival tape, and/or byzantine...More »
  
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• Bradley Cooper Says He Once Lost a Role Because He Wasn't ''F--kable''

  01-10-2018 22:26 via feeds.eonline.com
  Apparently not everyone agrees that Bradley Cooper's face was made for the big screen.As one of the most popular A-list actors today, often recognized for his attractive...
  
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• Anne Hathaway's Note to Princess Diaries Co-Star Julie Andrews Will Give You All the Feels

  01-10-2018 22:19 via feeds.eonline.com
  Happy birthday, Julie Andrews! The Oscar winner is celebrating her 83rd birthday today.In honor of her special day, Anne Hathaway took to Instagram to share a photo with Andrews from...
  
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• Insecure Season-Finale Recap: Thirtysomething

  01-10-2018 21:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  This season of Insecure has felt waterlogged. There have been bursts of thrilling momentum (like Issa finally quitting her job) and long bouts of inertia that felt largely self-imposed. The show had a tendency of getting in its own way. I am finishing this season frustrated, and a little maddened...More »
  
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• Defacing ‘Art’: After 20 Years, the Hit Play Gets a Brash Coat of Paint

  01-10-2018 21:23 via nytimes.com
  Yasmina Reza’s tidy comedy has been produced in 45 countries and translated into 30 languages. How will it withstand a deconstruction by two experimental theater companies?
  
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• Paul Dano and Zoe Kazan Say They Probably Won’t Act Together Again

  01-10-2018 21:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  After Paul Dano wrote a treatment for Wildlife, his directorial debut based on the Richard Ford novel of the same name, his longtime partner Zoe Kazan decided it’d be easier to just rewrite it, rather than give him all her notes on the script. “Paul read the book first, and...More »
  
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• The Teen Mania Was Off the Charts at Be More Chill’s Last Off Broadway Performance

  01-10-2018 20:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  The line that nabbed some of the biggest applause at the last Off Broadway performance of Be More Chill on Sunday night was pretty much a throwaway, when a dorky theater teacher mentions his dream of going to Broadway. The show’s chances of making it that far might have seemed...More »
  
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• Matt Damon’s Kavanaugh SNL Appearance Came Together at the Last Minute

  01-10-2018 20:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  Saturday Night Live opened its 44th season over the weekend with a cold open about Brett Kavanaugh that starred, in an unexpected move, Matt Damon as the Supreme Court nominee/alleged sexual assaulter. The 13-minute sketch also featured Rachel Dratch as Amy Klobuchar, Alex Moffat as Chuck Grassley, and Cecily Strong...More »
  
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• Nicholas Hoult Named His Fluffy Wigs From The Favourite

  01-10-2018 20:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  Nicholas Hoult wore three memorable wigs in Yorgos Lanthimos’s punk, puckish 18th century period drama, The Favourite. As British statesman Robert Harley, the leader of the opposition party, Hoult plots and prances around the movie’s central love-power triangle between Queen Anne (Olivia Colman), her adviser Sarah Churchill (Rachel Weisz), and...More »
  
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• What’s Working (and What Isn’t) on Network TV This Fall

  01-10-2018 20:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  Network TV isn’t dead, but it’s sure not getting any healthier. That’s the headline from the just-concluded first week of the fall 2018 TV season, which offered little reason for broadcast execs to expect a sudden reversal in the downward ratings trend of the past decade. It’s not that America...More »
  
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• Black Mirror Will Reportedly Do an Interactive Episode, Which Feels Right

  01-10-2018 19:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  We already have extremely strong bonds with our TV shows these days, so why not take these relationships to the next level with some participation? Bloomberg reports that Netflix will incorporate an interactive episode into the upcoming fifth season of Black Mirror, which will be their first program targeted at...More »
  
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• Christmas Came Early! John Legend Is Releasing a Holiday Album

  01-10-2018 19:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  As if John Legend’s voice wasn’t already like listening to several thousand black angels sing in harmony, the musician is releasing a Christmas album filled to the brim with classics. A Legendary Christmas, executive-produced by Raphael Saadiq, is due just before Halloween (October 26) at which point not having the...More »
  
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• How Getting a Song on Rick and Morty Changes Your Life

  01-10-2018 19:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  Late one night in early 2000, the members of Blonde Redhead were in a barn outside of Seattle that had been converted into a recording studio. The New York–based indie rock trio were almost done making their fifth album, Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons. They had already finished a melancholy...More »
  
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• Review: She’s Still Debating ‘What the Constitution Means to Me’

  01-10-2018 19:23 via nytimes.com
  In the baggy, emotionally fraught play, Heidi Schreck considers her ever-changing relationship with a seminal document.
  
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• New on Showtime: October 2018

  01-10-2018 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  One of the coolest and rarest things a movie can do is make you forget that it is three hours and fifteen minutes long. Titanic is excellent at this, a case study in oh, I’ll just watch the beginning and then you watch the whole damn thing. Titanic is so...More »
  
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• Phyllis Kind, Powerhouse Gallerist, 1933–2018

  01-10-2018 18:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  Phyllis Kind was an art-dealer extraordinaire, lover and supporter of all things visionary, discoverer of whole new phosphorescent continents of taste, channeler of gigantic bursts of energy, identifier of numerous great artists — many from my hometown, Chicago — and possessor of one of the sharpest bullshit detectors I’ve ever...More »
  
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• Revenge of Jamie Lee Curtis

  01-10-2018 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  There’s an inspirational vibe surrounding the scary new Halloween sequel (called, unhelpfully, Halloween), which is especially weird when you consider that John Carpenter’s 1978 original had the nasty working title The Babysitter Murders. But for Jamie Lee Curtis, the star of both films, talking about her character, Laurie Strode, means...More »
  
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• A Star Is Born Is One Hell of a Magic Trick

  01-10-2018 17:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  No matter what you think of Lady Gaga (née Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta), it should be a relief to hear that Bradley Cooper’s rousing A Star Is Born is not Gaga Land. The Lady is very much down to earth and compos mentis. Discovered by country-and-western star Jackson Maine (Cooper)...More »
  
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• Been So Long: Michaela Coel Stars in Netflix’s Swoon-Worthy London Musical

  01-10-2018 17:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  Netflix knows you want romance, and boy is it here to provide. In the streaming network’s new film Been So Long, adapted from the stage musical, Chewing Gum’s Michaela Coel stars as Simone, a single mother who falls for a stranger named Raymond (Arinzé Kene) on a night out in...More »
  
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• John Oliver Calls Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court Nomination ‘a F*ck You to Women’

  01-10-2018 17:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  During last night’s Last Week Tonight, John Oliver dedicated the entire show to the hearings for Supreme Court nominee and “walking crushed beer can” Brett Kavanaugh. “Why? Why this particular asshole? Why is he the hill the conservatives are willing to die on?” Oliver asked, pointing out that while the...More »
  
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• Sigur Rós Drummer Quits Band Following Sexual-Assault Allegation

  01-10-2018 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sigur Rós’s drummer Orri Páll Dýrason has left the Icelandic band after being accused of sexual assault. “In the wake of the extremely serious and personal allegations made against him in recent days, we have today accepted the resignation of our bandmate Orri Páll Dýrason to allow him to deal...More »
  
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• Rainbow's Geoffrey Hayes: the strong and silent type of children's TV presenter

  01-10-2018 17:03 via theguardian.com
  Often outshouted by the mouthy puppets he oversaw, Hayes represented a nation of parents trying to cope with the unruly excesses of British youthRainbow host Geoffrey Hayes dies aged 76It was part of the genius of Geoffrey Hayes, who has died aged 76, that he realised his historic role as presenter of Rainbow was to be the still centre around which the madness romped. In this respect, he was a little like Mike Reid, the TV host of contemporaneous kids show Runaround, who was tasked with shouting
  
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• Rainbow's Geoffrey Hayes: the strong and silent type of children's TV

  01-10-2018 17:03 via theguardian.com
  Often outshouted by the mouthy puppets he oversaw, Hayes represented a nation of parents trying to cope with the unruly excesses of British youthIt was part of the genius of Geoffrey Hayes that he realised his historic role as presenter of Rainbow was to be the still centre around which the madness romped. In this respect, he was a little like Mike Reid, the TV host of contemporaneous kids show Runaround, who was tasked with shouting the show’s catchphrase “Runaround, now!” and
  
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• New on Amazon Prime: October 2018

  01-10-2018 16:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  Slice, the surprise horror movie from A24, is pretty damn weird. It’s straight-up midnight-movie fare, about a town inhabited entirely by ghosts and a pizza shop above a portal to hell, and you should probably know that ahead of time. It’s also the feature debut of Chance the Rapper, who...More »
  
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• John Oliver on Brett Kavanaugh: 'We should never forget what he represents'

  01-10-2018 16:57 via theguardian.com
  The Last Week Tonight host discussed the frantic hearing that saw ‘brave and compelling’ testimony followed by something ‘absolutely horrifying’John Oliver took aim at supreme court nominee Brett Kavanaugh after an emotional Senate hearing last week. Related: Saturday Night Live: Kanye West controversy trumps lame sketchesContinue reading...
  
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• The 8 Best Comics to Read This October

  01-10-2018 16:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  Each month, Abraham Riesman offers recommendations of comics media, including book-length graphic novels, comics-format nonfiction, ongoing series, and comics-related items in other forms. With any luck, at least one of them will be a match for you.Drawn to Berlin: Comic Workshops in Refugee Shelters and Other Stories by Ali Fitzgerald...More »
  
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• Looking Back at I, Martin Short, Goes Hollywood

  01-10-2018 16:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the ’80s, Martin Short was on a streak unlike any other. He had jumped onto the last few seasons of the influential and hilarious SCTV starting in 1981. From there he joined the all-star 1984–85 cast of Saturday Night Live alongside Billy Crystal, Christopher Guest, and Harry Shearer. Then...More »
  
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• Cardi B to Be Charged for Attacking Strip Club Bartenders

  01-10-2018 15:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  Cardi B will turn herself into police in New York on Monday in connection with an assault at a strip club in August, TMZ reports. According to TMZ, Cardi is accused of ordering her associates to attack two female bartenders, who go by Jade and Baddie Gi, at Angels Strip...More »
  
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• Tanushree Dutta's Bollywood sexual harassment case back in spotlight

  01-10-2018 15:20
  A decade after former Miss India walked off a set alleging sexual harassment, Bollywood is now paying attention Tanushree Dutta was sheltering inside her trailer on the set of a Bollywood music video. Outside, she recalled, a crowd of men were banging at the door. They demanded the actor emerge and finish her shoot. She refused.When Dutta’s parents finally arrived and picked her up, footage from the 2008 incident shows the men surrounding the car, shattering the windshield and trapping the
  
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• Rocketman Teaser: Taron Edgerton is Elton John, Glasses And All

  01-10-2018 14:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Rocketman teaser opens with iconic duh-duh-duh of “Bennie and the Jets.” Described as an “epic musical fantasy” about Sir Elton John’s breakthrough years, we can see Taron Egerton as the iconic musician: in the studio, onstage, partying, boozing, recording, and wearing lots of super-big, super-thick glasses. “There are moments...More »
  
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• The Deuce recap: season two, episode four – Freudian slips galore

  01-10-2018 14:03 via theguardian.com
  Candy’s new film is starting to develop, while CC and Larry both make inroads into life in the industry and Vincent gets pulled deeper into mob lifeSpoiler alert: this recap launches after The Deuce airs on Sunday nights in the US on HBO. Do not read unless you have watched season two, episode four, which airs in the UK on Sky Atlantic on Tuesday at 10pm.Given the entire industry is based on the exploitation of the female sex, it comes as no surprise when the first victim of mid-town Manha
  
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• Look Back at 2018 PCA Finalist John Krasinski's Greatest Roles

  01-10-2018 14:00 via feeds.eonline.com
  The Office fans know John Krasinski as the always lovable Jim Halpert, but in 2018, he proved that he knows his way around the horror genre too with A Quiet Place.Not only did Krasinski...
  
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• It’s a Scandal! How Kerry Washington’s political drama turned into a bloody mess

  01-10-2018 14:00 via theguardian.com
  After two seasons, the thriller started to fall apart with an increase of stabbings, shootings, wild tonal swings and ridiculous plot twists Scandal started off as a political thriller about Olivia Pope, a sharply dressed professional with a penchant for yelling “It’s HANDLED!” when asked to perform any task, from collecting a takeaway to covering up a crime. From 2012 to 2018, Kerry Washington played this powerhouse head of crisis-management firm Olivia Pope & Associates,
  
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• Saudi Arabia faces legal action over pirated TV sport

  01-10-2018 13:46 via ft.com
  Qatar launches WTO challenge while beIN Corporation starts arbitration case
  
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• Taron Egerton Rocks as Elton John in First Rocketman Trailer

  01-10-2018 13:45 via feeds.eonline.com
  Are you ready to rock?Earlier this morning, Paramount Pictures released the first trailer for the Elton John biopic Rocketman, in theaters May 31, 2019. Starring Taron Egerton as the...
  
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• ‘Rocketman’ Trailer: Elton John Gets a Fittingly Surreal Teaser

  01-10-2018 13:41 via nytimes.com
  The biopic, due next year, stars Taron Egerton as the rock star and is directed by the “Bohemian Rhapsody” filmmaker Dexter Fletcher.
  
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• Rainbow host Geoffrey Hayes dies aged 76

  01-10-2018 13:32 via theguardian.com
  Presenter of long-running children’s show and actor in Z Cars dies in hospital
  Geoffrey Hayes, who hosted the long-running children’s programme Rainbow, has died at the age of 76.The actor and TV presenter’s manager, Phil Dale, said in a statement to the Press Association: “It is with great sadness that the family announce that Geoffrey passed away in hospital with his wife, Sarah, and son, Tom, by his side.” Continue reading...
  
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