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• The Hollow Joys of Insecure Season Three

  02-10-2018 23:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  The third-season finale of HBO’s Insecure ends on a note of much needed growth for its two leads, Issa (Issa Rae) and Molly (Yvonne Orji). Unfortunately, it’s unearned. Insecure is often spoken about — as in its after-show The Wine Down with creator Rae, showrunner Prentice Penny, and Orji —...More »
  
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• Michelle Williams to Play Christa McAuliffe in The Challenger and You’re Already Sobbing

  02-10-2018 23:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  There are few actresses more effective at burrowing into your heart and making you break down in tears than Michelle Williams. And so, prepare yourselves for some news: Deadline reports that Williams will play the role of Christa McAuliffe, NASA’s first Teacher in Space, for the movie The Challenger. McAuliffe...More »
  
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• The Internet Is Freaking Out Over Noah Centineo's Charlie's Angels Reboot Casting

  02-10-2018 23:03 via feeds.eonline.com
  The internet's new boyfriend Noah Centineo has landed a major new role.The 22-year-old is having a breakout year as he enjoys the success of his two Netflix movies, Two All the Boys...
  
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• The Bank That Almost Broke Britain review – 10 years since the brink of disaster

  02-10-2018 23:00 via theguardian.com
  Time has done nothing to dilute the potent story of how greed, arrogance, hubris and a government in thrall to the tax revenues combined to bring an entire economy to within hours of collapseHappy anniversary, averted Armageddon! Let’s have a look back, with some of the people who were there, at the people who can most-legally-unchallengeably be said to have caused it! A kind of Greatest Shits parade. The Bank That Almost Broke Britain (BBC Two) was a history of the Royal Bank of Scotland
  
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• Michelle Williams Says She's "So Excited" for BFF Busy Philipps' New Show Busy Tonight!

  02-10-2018 22:47 via feeds.eonline.com
  When your BFF gets a show, the first question on everyone's mind is, will you be on it?E!'s Erin Lim caught up with Michelle Williams at the premiere of her new film Venom, where...
  
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• An ‘Intoxicating’ Singer, Whether It’s Green Day or ‘Oklahoma!’

  02-10-2018 22:30 via nytimes.com
  Still waiting for her signature role, the versatile Rebecca Naomi Jones is changing things up in a stripped-down new staging of the musical classic.
  
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• The Carpetbagger: ‘Boy Erased’ Is Her Story, Too, and the Mom Wore Marchesa

  02-10-2018 22:21 via nytimes.com
  The movie about gay conversion therapy is based on a memoir, and the author’s mother, Martha Conley, played by Nicole Kidman, had an emotional night at the premiere.
  
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• The Great British Bake Off 2018: episode six – as it happened

  02-10-2018 22:13 via theguardian.com
  Forget about Paul’s handshakes for a minute, and get stuck in to the perennially tricky pastry showdown. Who pressed the flesh, and who was left bereft? 9.13pm BST So that’s it for another week on Bake Off – next week it’s VEGAN WEEK! I am keeping an open mind, even though it sounds like a joyless night out at an all-you-can-eat dust buffet. Join me back here then, or swing by on Saturday for a spin round the Strictly dancefloor. Thanks for joining in, I’m off to fi
  
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• The Great British Bake Off 2018: episode six – live!

  02-10-2018 22:05 via theguardian.com
  Forget about Paul’s handshakes for a minute, it’s time for the perennially tricky pastry showdown. Who’s going to press the flesh and who will be left bereft? 9.05pm BST So Briony for Star Baker then? She’s full of surprises. And Dan to go home, I think. I’m sad about this, feel like he just had a bad weekend. But that’s the way Pastry Week rolls. 9.04pm BST Briony’s Alice In Wonderland has playable croquet with tiny hedgehogs. The game filling looks lik
  
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• Maniac Recap: I Have a Diagnosed Disorder

  02-10-2018 21:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  If it wasn’t your mom that screwed you up, it was probably your dad. That’s just the way therapy goes. After several 50-minute long sessions and a cool grand that your insurance company is absolutely not going to reimburse you for, that light-bulb moment is the alleged payoff. You trace...More »
  
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• Every Maniac Cast Member Who Plays Multiple Roles

  02-10-2018 21:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  Don’t be too surprised if you watch Maniac and find yourself thinking, “Hmm, that actor looks familiar …” The mindblowing Netflix mini-series takes viewers into bizarre dream worlds inhabited by its protagonists, Owen Milgram (Jonah Hill) and Annie Landsberg (Emma Stone), and like Dorothy going to the Land of Oz,...More »
  
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• Janelle Monáe Joins Cynthia Erivo in Harriet Tubman Biopic

  02-10-2018 21:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  You were already closely tracking the production schedule of the Harriet Tubman biopic Harriet, with Cynthia Erivo in the titular role and stars like Leslie Odom Jr. and Jennifer Nettles alongside her. But now Janelle Monáe will join the cast in a so-far unspecified role, and have you ever seen...More »
  
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• A Primer on UB40, the Band Brett Kavanaugh for Some Reason Wanted to Fight

  02-10-2018 21:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  Nearly every detail surrounding the many allegations from the past few weeks regarding Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has provoked a wide range of emotions not at all limited to the political spectrum. A peculiar feeling of befuddlement prevailed, then, with last night’s New York Times-reported revelation that Kavanaugh was...More »
  
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• Comcast ups debt sale to $27bn to fund Sky deal

  02-10-2018 21:34 via ft.com
  One of the largest bond issues on record attracts orders of $88bn within hours opening
  
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• 5 Shows to See in New York: With Glenn Close, Michael Cera and More

  02-10-2018 21:32 via nytimes.com
  Revivals, transfers and new plays that look to the past make for an unusually reflective October theater scene.
  
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• Noah Centineo, a Charming, Wholesome Boy, Joins Charlie’s Angels

  02-10-2018 21:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  Noah Centineo, the wholesome, lovestruck internet boyfriend famous for To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, has a date with some angels. Variety reports that Centineo will play a love interest in the new Charlie’s Angels movie. Directed by Elizabeth Banks and starring Kristen Stewart, Naomi Scott, and Ella Balinska,...More »
  
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• Can Spotify and AncestryDNA Really Tell You About Yourself Through a Playlist?

  02-10-2018 21:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  Two weeks ago, AncestryDNA and the popular music-streaming service Spotify unveiled a service that promised to use your very own genetic material to build a personalized playlist. Such a playlist, their website stated, would be totally unique. The sonic essence of your very own cultural inheritance. “If you could listen...More »
  
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• HBO Orders The Righteous Gemstones to Series and Blesses Us With a First-Look Image

  02-10-2018 20:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  A few months after ordering a pilot for The Righteous Gemstones, Deadline reports that HBO’s latest collaboration with Danny McBride will go to series. We’ve also got a first-look image of the most holy Gemstone clan, played by McBride, Adam Devine, Edi Patterson, and John Goodman. McBride — who created...More »
  
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• What Vulture Has Cooking for New York Comic Con 2018

  02-10-2018 20:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  Greetings, fellow geeks! It’s that time again: New York Comic Con is just around the corner, and Vulture will be there in full force, moderating a bevy of panels for your attending pleasure. In fact, we’re so stoked about the four days of pop-culture insanity that we’re even doing some...More »
  
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• Claire Denis Explains Why Zadie Smith Left High Life: ‘We Were So Opposed on Every Idea’

  02-10-2018 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Novelist and essayist Zadie Smith was once onboard to collaborate with her husband, Nick Laird, and Claire Denis on the script for Denis’s new movie, High Life. Eventually, Smith and Laird dropped out of the project due to creative differences, though Laird remained as a script consultant. High Life was...More »
  
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• CBS Fires NCIS: New Orleans Producer Brad Kern After Third Harassment Investigation

  02-10-2018 20:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  CBS Television Studios has fired NCIS: New Orleans producer and former showrunner Brad Kern amidst allegations of sexual harassment and insensitive behavior. “We have ended Brad Kern’s role as consulting producer on NCIS: New Orleans,” CBS Television Studios said in a statement, “and his overall deal with the Studio.” The...More »
  
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• Amazon signs major deals with Neil Gaiman and Bear Grylls

  02-10-2018 20:10
  Deals with author and adventurer are part of strategy to take battle to NetflixAmazon has signed deals with the author Neil Gaiman and the adventurer Bear Grylls as part of a set of moves that will strengthen its armoury for battle with Netflix in the fast-growing online streaming video industry.The company is increasingly signing up star writers such as Gaiman on first-look deals, which give it first refusal on potential TV ideas, as it ramps up spending on original content in an effort to lock
  
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• Condoms and IUDs Compete Bachelorette-Style in This Big Mouth Season 2 Clip

  02-10-2018 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ahead of the season two Big Mouth premiere on Netflix this Friday, we’ve got an extra-special treat for you. In this clip from the new season, Leah (Kat Dennings) familiarizes herself with the many contraceptive options there are out there in a very Bachelorette-style show called “Miss Conception,” in which...More »
  
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• Comcast readies for $20bn debt sale to fund Sky deal

  02-10-2018 19:57 via ft.com
  One of the largest bond issues on record attracts orders of $84bn within hours opening
  
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• Michael B. Jordan Got Advice From Will Smith About Handling Dating Rumors

  02-10-2018 19:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  As Michael B. Jordan is busy being the next Leo DiCaprio–Matt Damon–Denzel Washington–Will Smith–Tom Cruise (he has two blockbusters this year, plus about a dozen projects in development) he’s still figuring out how to answer questions about his personal life. Speaking with (and smoldering on the cover of) Vanity Fair,...More »
  
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• Monty Python Almost Never Aired and Other Stories From Eric Idle’s Memoir

  02-10-2018 19:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  Eric Idle would still be a comedy legend if all he’d ever done was Monty Python’s Flying Circus (1969–1974), still one of the greatest and definitely among the most influential sketch-comedy shows ever. But he did more than that, writing and acting for all those Python comedy records and movies...More »
  
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• Alice Isn’t Dead Is a Creepy Ode to the Great American Road Trip

  02-10-2018 18:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  When Alice Isn’t Dead fires on all cylinders, it moves like music. “It is said they live in roadside places / in the bathrooms at gas stations / in commuter parking lots and out back-of-highway fast-food places,” narrates the main character, an anxiety-ridden truck driver searching for her missing wife....More »
  
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• UB40 Want Nothing to Do With Brett Kavanaugh

  02-10-2018 18:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  As if the details of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s past behavior weren’t already painful enough, on Monday night, the New York Times reported that he was once involved in a bar fight with a man he thought was the lead singer of that mostly white reggae band UB40 (of...More »
  
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• How Hiring a Superstar Wrecked New York City Opera

  02-10-2018 17:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  When New York City Opera declared bankruptcy and went dark in 2013, its closure was blamed mostly on the global financial crisis. (Though NYCO is not dead: It was revived in 2016 and is trying to nurse itself back to health.) In Mad Scenes and Exit Arias: The Death of the...More »
  
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• ‘There Were Phenomenal Levels of Denial and Arrogance’: Heidi Waleson on the City Opera Collapse

  02-10-2018 17:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  Heidi Waleson’s Mad Scenes and Exit Arias traces the history of New York City Opera, from its founding in 1943 as the “People’s Opera” to the night, 70 years later, when executive director George Steel presided over an ignominious closure. Waleson talked with her fellow critic Justin Davidson about how...More »
  
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• When Pop Stars Attempt Movie Stardom: Gaga, Cher, and Other Film Debuts, Ranked

  02-10-2018 17:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  This weekend, A Star Is Born will AHHHH-HAAA-AHHHH its way into American cineplexes and a lot of people will praise Lady Gaga, who gives a stellar performance as the female lead, Ally. A lot of those people will express astonishment that she knocked it out of the park on her...More »
  
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• Sharing a Site-Specific Secret

  02-10-2018 17:20 via nytimes.com
  A romantic garden. A Chinese opera. And a select audience, wandering under Californian stars.
  
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• Night School is first comedy to top UK box office in 2018

  02-10-2018 17:13
  Kevin Hart and Tiffany Haddish land the top spot with their straight-ahead comedy, while Close’s Oscar-tipped The Wife enters in second placeThis year has delivered number-one hits with family comedies (such as Peter Rabbit) and action comedies (Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, Deadpool 2), but has until now failed to produce a straight-ahead comedy that topped the UK box office chart. I Feel Pretty, which landed in second place in early May, came closest. Continue reading...
  
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• Time’s Up Announces Lisa Borders As First President and CEO

  02-10-2018 17:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  Time’s Up has hired its first president and CEO. Lisa Borders, formerly president of the W.N.B.A., has been appointed to the position, effective November 1. Borders discussed her new gig in an interview with Vanity Fair, where she recalled reading the New York Times’ bombshell report detailing decades of sexual...More »
  
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• War, Drugs, and Other Extremes in the Post-Post-9/11 Novel

  02-10-2018 16:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  Without quite knowing it, we are now deep into the era of the post-post-9/11 novel. For fiction writers under 40, the attacks, the foreign wars that followed them, the financial crisis, and the opioid epidemic are less disruptions in the national fabric than permanent, almost natural, conditions of life in...More »
  
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• Saturday Night Live: the most memorable cameos of the Trump era

  02-10-2018 16:44 via theguardian.com
  With Matt Damon taking on the role Brett Kavanaugh, who else has proved most successful in the show’s A-list White House?As Saturday Night Live prepared to air its 44th season premiere last weekend, the question on viewers minds wasn’t if they would parody Brett Kavanaugh’s contentious Senate testimony from earlier in the week, but who would play the embattled frat boy turned would-be supreme court justice. Related: Saturday Night Live: Kanye West controversy trumps lame sketch
  
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• Time’s Up Hires W.N.B.A. President as Chief Executive

  02-10-2018 16:30 via nytimes.com
  The move is aimed at transforming the volunteer initiative into a formal advocacy group fighting workplace bias. But questions remain about Time’s Up’s efficacy.
  
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• Who Is The Circus For?

  02-10-2018 16:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  On Sunday night, Showtime’s The Circus leapt into the fray of the Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court confirmation drama with characteristically dry, detached aplomb. The notable event of the episode was co-host John Heilemann’s interview with Julie Swetnick, a woman who has accused Brett Kavanaugh of being present while she was...More »
  
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• A Short History of Seth Meyers’s Crush on Rihanna

  02-10-2018 16:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  Here’s the list of people rightfully bewitched by Rihanna: you, us, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Seth Meyers. In a Variety cover story about his ascension as late-night’s leading anti-Trump voice, Seth didn’t bury the lede: He really wants Rihanna to come on his show. “I really want to have Rihanna on...More »
  
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• Review: ‘Moynihan’ Is a Conventional, Entertaining Political Documentary

  02-10-2018 15:54 via nytimes.com
  Joseph Dorman and Toby Perl Freilich’s film traces the career of Daniel Patrick Moynihan.
  
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• Amazon, Going in on Fantasy, Is Making a Wheel of Time Series and Signing a Deal With Neil Gaiman

  02-10-2018 15:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  As if it weren’t already enough to spend hundreds of millions on a Lord of the Rings series, Amazon has also decided to green-light a show based on the Wheel of Time books and strike up a big deal with Neil Gaiman. Essentially, they really want the nerds to watch...More »
  
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• Kenan Thompson Says Kanye Held SNL Cast Members ‘Hostage’

  02-10-2018 15:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  During his visit to last night’s Late Night, longtime Saturday Night Live cast member Kenan Thompson gave Seth Meyers some insider info on what went down at the end of the SNL season 44 premiere, when musical guest Kanye West decided to turn the Studio 8H stage into his own...More »
  
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• Believing Women, and the Gaslighting of M.I.A.

  02-10-2018 15:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  The big revelation of the documentary titled MAYA / MATANGI / MIA, which hit U.S. theaters last weekend, is how it vindicates the singer at its heart. At The Guardian, Laura Snapes draws a connection between Christine Blasey Ford and Maya Arulpragasam — nom de guerre, M.I.A. — two women...More »
  
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• One Year Later, Chris Gethard Speaks With a Las Vegas Shooting Survivor on Beautiful/Anonymous

  02-10-2018 15:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  Behind the premise of Beautiful/Anonymous, Chris Gethard’s critically acclaimed podcast where he speaks to an anonymous caller for one hour, is the idea that people feel free to open up beyond traditional boundaries when given complete anonymity. More than 100 excellent episodes have proven this concept over a wide range...More »
  
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• 20 Things Bradley Cooper’s Star Is Born Voice Sounds Like

  02-10-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Your voice is everything as an actor,” Bradley Cooper told the New York Times recently, while explaining why he painstakingly took his own down an octave to play an alcoholic musician in A Star Is Born. “It’s everything. It’s everything. And if you’re not connected to your voice, it’s over....More »
  
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• Star Wars: The Last Jedi abuse blamed on Russian trolls and 'political agendas'

  02-10-2018 14:33
  Report finds half of negative comments aimed at Rian Johnson’s movie came from Twitter bots or trolls, indicating fan backlash was overstatedMore than half of the hostile responses to The Last Jedi, episode eight of the Star Wars saga, were politically motivated trolling or the result of non-human bot activity, according to an academic paper published by a US digital media expert.Morten Bay, a research fellow at the University of Southern California (USC), analysed Twitter activity about t
  
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• The Romanoffs Follows Privilege All the Way Down

  02-10-2018 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  The light, sweet tone of The Romanoffs is perfume covering the stench of cultural rot. Matthew Weiner’s first TV project since Mad Men is another portrait of white people in decline, exuding a malaise that often mingles with guilt over wanting more when they already have plenty. The title refers...More »
  
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• The Next Michael Urie

  02-10-2018 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  In high school, Michael Urie used to do an exaggerated “gay voice” as a joke. It was sibilant and effeminate, but in suburban Plano, Texas, in the early ’90s, where nobody would admit to knowing anyone who was gay, it got laughs. Urie was good at the gay voice —...More »
  
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• Mila Kunis Is a PCAs Finalist Thanks to The Spy Who Dumped Me, But That's Not Her Only Funny Film to Date: See Them All Now!

  02-10-2018 14:00 via feeds.eonline.com
  Hanging out, down the street...Mila Kunis is not doing the same old thing she did last week.Instead, the actress is now a 2018 E! People's Choice Awards finalist, which technically...
  
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• 'I am barely alive': war reporter's Angola memoir made into animated film

  02-10-2018 13:11
  Another Day of Life also uses documentary to translate the horror and poetry of Ryszard Kapuściński’s book In November 1975, Ryszard Kapuściński telexed his editor in Warsaw to plead for permission to return home from Angola. The era of Portuguese colonialism was ending, the fight for independence that would become one of the many proxy battlefields of the cold war was intensifying and, after three months spent on dangerous roads and in a capital city growing more paran
  
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