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• Alicia Vikander May Also Play Gloria Steinem in Julianne Moore’s Gloria Steinem Movie

  04-10-2018 23:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  Two of the world’s foremost sweater-wearing Oscar-winning actresses are merging into one being. According to Deadline, Alicia Vikander is in talks to join Julianne Moore’s Gloria Steinem biopic … to also play Gloria Steinem. “Vikander will play Steinem from about age 20-40, during her formative years,” Deadline explains. “Julianne Moore...More »
  
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• Amy Schumer and More Celebrities Arrested At Kavanaugh Protest in Washington D.C.

  04-10-2018 23:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  Thousands have assembled today to protest Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh by marching on the Senate Office Building where his confirmation vote will take place. Among the masses a few celebrities have been spotted speaking out against the judge, with Amy Schumer and Emily Ratajkowski ending up detained by law...More »
  
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• Amber Heard’s Team Pushes Back on Johnny Depp Interview Disputing Alleged Abuse

  04-10-2018 23:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  In November’s British GQ, Johnny Depp discusses his breakup from Amber Heard and abuse allegations she brought against him during their split. Depp tells his side of the story unchecked: “To harm someone you love? As a kind of bully? No, it didn’t, it couldn’t even sound like me,” he laments...More »
  
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• Critic’s Notebook: In ’80s Comedies, Boys Had It Made. Girls Were the Joke.

  04-10-2018 23:14 via nytimes.com
  Teen movies like “Porky’s” reveled in the dynamic of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s worst memory: “The uproarious laughter between the two, and their having fun at my expense.”
  
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• How Do We Talk About Race and Pop Culture Without Going Insane?

  04-10-2018 22:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  Pop culture has been in a state of upheaval and growth in recent years, leading to fascinating art and even more complex conversations. When Wesley Morris’s essay “The Morality Wars” was published by the New York Times yesterday, it set off a renewed conversation about pop culture today — how...More »
  
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• HBO Is Finally Developing a Greta Lee Show, a Dark Comedy Called KTown

  04-10-2018 22:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  Heidi the scammer has found a way into her own TV show. HBO is developing a show starring Greta Lee, who’s probably recognizable for her roles as Heidi on High Maintenance, or Soojin on Girls, or perhaps just her very good Grub Street diet. Per Deadline, the series is a...More »
  
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• There’re 12 Previously-Unreleased Tom Petty Songs in His New Box Set

  04-10-2018 21:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  Tom Petty, the greatest living entity to ever emerge from the inhospitable swamps of Florida, died exactly 367 days ago today — a fact that this writer, and she’s assuming the rest of the country, is still in deep denial about. However, the pain of losing one of America’s finest...More »
  
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• This Week in True-Crime Podcasts: Serial, Last Seen, Happy Face, and More

  04-10-2018 21:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  The true-crime podcast universe is ever expanding. 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 for the month of October,...More »
  
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• Every Compliment Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga Have Given Each Other on the Star Is Born Press Tour

  04-10-2018 21:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  If 2018 has given us one blessing, it is the knowledge that Bradley Cooper is the world’s leading Little Monster. The Star Is Born press tour does not live up to the histrionics of the movie or even the trailer, but it has bestowed us one gift: a lot of...More »
  
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• Chris Evans Signs Off As Captain America — Or At Least That’s What He Wants Us To Think

  04-10-2018 21:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  Chris Evans has wrapped shooting for the fourth Avengers film, and based on a tweet he posted this afternoon, it sounds like he’s hanging up the shield. In a universe where a super-being can put on a fabulous glove and snap half of all living beings out of existence, stranger...More »
  
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• Chris Evans Wraps Up Avengers 4 With "Emotional" Goodbye

  04-10-2018 21:02 via feeds.eonline.com
  Chris Evans appears to be hanging up his shield.The 37-year-old actor, who has been playing Captain America for the last eight years, announced on Thursday that he had officially wrapped...
  
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• Shonda Rhimes Has Big Plans for a Recursion Adaptation at Netflix

  04-10-2018 20:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  Shonda Rhimes has that Netflix money now and she is ready to spend it. The streaming giant announced today that Rhimes and Betsy Beers’s Shondaland production company will work with Matt Reeves (who signed a first-look movie deal with Netflix earlier this year) to adapt the novel Recursion by Blake...More »
  
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• On Desperate Man, Eric Church’s Devastating Pen is Pushed to Center Stage

  04-10-2018 20:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  Eric Church is a classic rock idol trapped in a country superstar’s body. His biggest hit is an ode to Bruce Springsteen, and his studio albums are peppered with allusions to ’70s rock in both style and lyricism. His live shows are grueling three-hour spectacles; last year’s 61 Days in...More »
  
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• The Mule Trailer: Clint Eastwood Sure Has a Lot of Coke

  04-10-2018 20:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  Clint Eastwood has a new horcrux: In The Mule, out December 14, he plays Earl Stone, a lonely man who signs up for what seems like a simple enough driving gig. It turns out that Stone is a drug mule for a Mexican drug cartel, and he’s very good at...More »
  
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• Tom Hardy Reveals What His Son Really Thinks of His Venom Role

  04-10-2018 20:23 via feeds.eonline.com
  Talk about a harsh critic!Riz Ahmed, Michelle Williams and Tom Hardy sat down with E! News to talk about their new movie Venom and shared some of the feedback they've received from...
  
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• Spellbound by Harry Potter and the Museum of Magic

  04-10-2018 20:18 via nytimes.com
  At the New-York Historical Society, a glimpse of the folkloric, cultural and scientific influences on the magic of the popular series.
  
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• 4 Stars, 4 Distinct Eras: Which Version of ‘A Star Is Born’ Does It Best?

  04-10-2018 20:12 via nytimes.com
  The newest version, starring Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga, hits theaters this weekend. But how does it stack up against the others? Here’s a scorecard.
  
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• Big Mouth Season 2 Is a Hilarious and Vital Portrait of Puberty

  04-10-2018 19:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  Understanding how to navigate human sexuality is complicated, but it’s really complicated for preteens first experiencing hormonal surges and unfamiliar, uncontrollable urges involving their nether regions.Big Mouth, the animated Netflix series about the birds, the bees, and the boys who can’t stop masturbating, captures this truth better than any work...More »
  
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• Review: In This Entertaining ‘Bacchae,’ Dionysus Is a Nasty Woman

  04-10-2018 19:47 via nytimes.com
  Anne Bogart directs a flashy production that puts ancient anxieties about women and power front and center.
  
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• Halsey’s New Song Quotes ‘Cry Me a River’ So You Know the Heartbreak Is Real

  04-10-2018 19:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  Halsey has returned with her first new song not as Halsey. Technically, the track is still released under that name, but as she tells Zane Lowe, “Without Me” is the first time she’s ever written as just herself, Ashley Frangipane, and not for some elaborate Shakespearean concept album á la...More »
  
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• Tyra Banks Slips Back Into Her Capri Pants in These Life Size 2 First-Look Photos

  04-10-2018 18:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  Tyra Banks is slipping back into her capri pants and pink jacket to play the dream doll Eve in Life Size 2. Eighteen years after the original movie, co-starring Lindsay Lohan (who is now off bothering homeless children), Banks has put together a sequel where Eve returns to Earth. Entertainment...More »
  
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• Watchmen Co-creator Dave Gibbons: HBO Pilot Script ‘Blew Me Away’

  04-10-2018 18:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  The first full day of New York Comic Con 2018 is barely underway, but there’s already some good news for nerds. Syfy Wire conducted an onstage interview with artist Dave Gibbons, co-creator — along with writer Alan Moore — of the inestimable ’80s DC Comics graphic novel Watchmen, and grilled him...More »
  
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• Laurie Metcalf and John Lithgow Will Play Hillary and Bill Clinton on Broadway

  04-10-2018 18:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  Whether you are prepared for it or not, the Clintons are coming to Broadway. Scott Rudin has enlisted known workaholic Laurie Metcalf and John Lithgow to star as the political power couple in the Broadway premiere of Lucas Hnath’s play Hillary and Clinton. The play is a fictionalized look at...More »
  
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• Lady Gaga Surprises Fans at A Star Is Born Screening and Tearfully Thanks Them for Their Support

  04-10-2018 18:24 via feeds.eonline.com
  Lady Gaga surprised hundreds of her little monsters on Wednesday by attending a screening of A Star Is Born in New York.The six-time Grammy winner walked onto the stage in a sparkly red...
  
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• Review: In ‘Venom,’ Tom Hardy as a Weirder-Than-Usual, Not-Quite Superhero

  04-10-2018 18:17 via nytimes.com
  The film, which focuses on a popular Marvel character, feels like a body-horror movie played for slapstick.
  
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• Nicolas Cage Once Hired Someone to Be His "Drinking Coach" for a Role

  04-10-2018 18:12 via feeds.eonline.com
  Nicolas Cage goes the extra mile for his characters.
  The Oscar winner has had plenty of unforgettable roles in the course of his multi-decade career and, thanks to a video for GQ, Cage...
  
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• Hillary Clinton Is Coming to Broadway. As a Character in a Play.

  04-10-2018 18:11 via nytimes.com
  Lucas Hnath’s “Hillary and Clinton” will be the first play with Mrs. Clinton as a protagonist to reach Broadway.
  
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• Opera Review: Anna Netrebko, One of the Last Old-Style Divas, in Aida

  04-10-2018 18:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you’re curious about what the 2018 edition of the Opera Diva™ looks and sounds like, go on safari to the Metropolitan Opera where she can be observed romping, left wrist to forehead and right palm to chest, in Verdi’s Aida. Anna Netrebko, one of the only sopranos who can...More »
  
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• Drew Barrymore 'did not participate' in bizarre Egyptair interview, representatives claim

  04-10-2018 18:07
  Standoff between actor and interviewer over veracity of quotes after much-ridiculed article published in inflight magazineRepresentatives of actor-director Drew Barrymore have claimed that she “did not participate” in a bizarre celebrity profile published in an Egyptair inflight magazine.The interview in Horus magazine, bylined to Aida Tekla, rapidly drew attention after being posted on Twitter by political analyst Adam Baron. Its opening paragraph has drawn particular scorn, for its
  
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• Fyre Festival Founder Should Get 20 Years in Prison, Prosecutors Say Due to ‘Lack of Remorse’

  04-10-2018 18:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  Prosecutors are pushing back against Fyre Festival founder Billy McFarland’s request for leniency because of “untreated mental illness” — arguing he deserves up to two decades in prison for duping investors out of some $26 million. The Manhattan U.S. Attorney’s Office argued Wednesday that McFarland, who will be sentenced on...More »
  
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• ‘Festival of Stanley’: touring Kubrick exhibition heads to UK

  04-10-2018 18:00
  London to host 2019 tribute to film-maker behind The Shining and A Clockwork OrangeA Stanley Kubrick exhibition that has toured the world from Germany to Mexico to South Korea but never been to the country he called home is finally arriving in the UK.The Design Museum in London has announced details of a exhibition next year that will be devoted to the film-maker. There will also be a Kubrick season at the BFI and programmes and films on BBC TV and radio. Continue reading...
  
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• Sabrina Almost Showed Up on Riverdale Before She Got Her Own Show

  04-10-2018 17:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  For now, Sexy Archie and Dark Sabrina occupy two different shows on two different platforms, but long ago, there was a chance they could have been in the same world together. Speaking with EW, Riverdale showrunner Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa said they originally considered bringing Sabrina onto the show at the very...More »
  
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• Kanye West’s Relationship to the Internet and Also Twitter Is Not Great

  04-10-2018 17:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s been said many times that we are living in a “post-truth” world. The commentariat which proposes this view tends to think there’s no going back. That this is simply the way things are now. History tells us not to trust those who can’t imagine change, yet today’s most influential...More »
  
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• Maniac Recap: Low Battery

  04-10-2018 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  The very first thing I thought when this episode opened was, “Wow, Jonah Hill makes a spectacularly unattractive woman.” Sitting in the dark, with long Anne of Green Gables braids and a glinting gold necklace, it was difficult to see his entire look. That’s the nature of Maniac, that I...More »
  
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• South Park Recap: Of Pedophilia and Bad Optics

  04-10-2018 17:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  Hypocrisy is a central pillar of the Catholic Church. Anyone who claims to be devoutly religious can’t avoid a little, forgivable hypocrisy — we’re all but human, and that’s what confession and penance are for — but the diocese higher-ups have made it into a key feature of the modern...More »
  
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• Recording Academy Invites 900 Women and People of Color to Vote for Grammys

  04-10-2018 17:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  In one of its first major initiatives since being created in May, the Recording Academy’s Task Force on Diversity & Inclusion has announced that it has invited 900 women and people of color to become voting members for next year’s Grammys. The move comes after Recording Academy president Neil Portnow...More »
  
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• After Sparking a Sitcom Revival Frenzy, What’s Next for Will & Grace?

  04-10-2018 17:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  NBC was so certain its revival of Will & Grace would work, it ordered a second season of the resurrected sitcom nearly two months before the first new episode even aired. The bet paid off: Critics raved, and nearly 16 million viewers checked out the September 2017 return of the...More »
  
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• This Week in Comedy Podcasts: How Was Julie Klausner’s Week?

  04-10-2018 17:00 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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• A Star Is Born Review Roundup: Do Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga Shine?

  04-10-2018 17:00 via feeds.eonline.com
  Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga are joining forces for the fourth rebootof A Star Is Born, and the dynamic duo are already generating plenty of Oscar buzz.
  In the movie, Cooper plays a...
  
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• As #MeToo Turns One, the Kavanaugh Case Tells Us How Far the Movement Has Come

  04-10-2018 16:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  On October 5, 2017, the New York Times — to be followed a short time later by the New Yorker — published the first article that outed Harvey Weinstein as a serial assaulter of women. That story helped kickstart #MeToo, the initiative first spearheaded by Tarana Burke to raise awareness...More »
  
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• James Baldwin Kept a List of His Dream Cast for a Beale Street Movie

  04-10-2018 16:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  James Baldwin died 31 years before Barry Jenkins’s new film If Beale Street Could Talk premieres this year, but Jenkins has an idea of what the writer would’ve wanted in an adaptation. After the Baldwin estate agreed to let Jenkins direct the first English-language adaptation of Baldwin’s work, they gave...More »
  
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• Jon Favreau reveals details of Star Wars TV series

  04-10-2018 16:31
  The Mandalorian features ‘a lone gunfighter in the outer reaches of the galaxy’Iron Man director Jon Favreau has revealed details of the Star Wars TV series he has been commissioned to write and produce.In a post on Instagram, Favreau announced the show’s title was The Mandalorian and would “follow the travails of a lone gunfighter in the outer reaches of the galaxy far from the authority of the New Republic”. He also said it would be set “after the fall of th
  
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• The 40 Greatest Movie Soundtracks of All Time

  04-10-2018 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Blame Kenneth Anger. Back in 1963, the underground artist and puckish provocateur debuted his movie Scorpio Rising, a 30-minute barrage of erotic imagery and American iconography, scored to unlicensed rock and R&B songs by the likes of Elvis Presley and Ray Charles. A staple of art-house cinemas and university film...More »
  
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