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• 10 Essential Cat Power Songs

  05-10-2018 23:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  Improbably, Chan Marshall — who records as Cat Power, who was once the face of Chanel, who has never made a bad album — is still something of a cult figure. It’s tempting to say she shouldn’t be: How can someone with that many great songs not already be canonized...More »
  
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• Janelle Monáe Cast Alongside Tessa Thompson in Lady and the Tramp, But Not, You Know, Like That

  05-10-2018 23:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  Janelle Monáe joins Tessa Thompson in Lady in the Tramp, but not in the role she should obviously be playing, which is her love interest. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Monáe will play Peg, a “wise-cracking pound dog” who was originally voiced by Peggy Lee. Thompson is the titular Lady,...More »
  
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• Cartoonist Raina Telgemeier Will Publish Two New Books in 2019: Guts and Share Your Smile

  05-10-2018 23:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  What the crowd at midtown Manhattan’s Shop Studios this afternoon lacked in age, they more than made up for in enthusiasm. The teeming masses of grade schoolers had arrived with one mission: to worship at the feet of their hero, Raina Telgemeier. In less than a decade, the cartoonist has...More »
  
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• The Man in the High Castle Recap: Carpe Diem

  05-10-2018 23:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Man in the High Castle suffers from tonal jumps and that’s never been truer than in “Sabra,” an episode named after the word for a native-born Israeli, which includes a scene of self-immolation, the most disturbing dream in the show’s history … and some seriously horny characters. It would...More »
  
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• The Big Audition review – at last … reality TV without the sneering

  05-10-2018 23:00 via theguardian.com
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  Showbiz hopefuls battle it out for jobs as TV presenters and tour guides in a strangely charming Friday-night treatAh, the roar of the greasepaint, the smell of the crowd!The allure of the theatre tempts us all, does it not? Alas, in these benighted times we must live our dreams of dramaturgical glory vicariously. In an anonymous compound somewhere in London a set of soundproofed mini-studios, full of potential employees for potential performers, shall provide. Continue reading...
  
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• Enjoy Maya Rudolph Singing Big Mouth’s Very Explicit Song About Body Acceptance

  05-10-2018 23:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sure, the Star Is Born soundtrack is out today, but if you need a song to dance along to, consider the disco jams of the Hormone Monstress. In the delightful second season of Big Mouth, Maya Rudolph’s living embodiment of puberty gifts the world this ode to boobs, butts, and...More »
  
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• How Shangela and Willam Dragged Up A Star Is Born

  05-10-2018 22:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  In A Star Is Born, Jackson Maine (Bradley Cooper), the country rock star who’ll drink any liquor as long as it’s wet, meets the supremely talented but undiscovered Ally (Lady Gaga) at a gay bar called Bleu Bleu just outside of Los Angeles. The concept of starting the film in...More »
  
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• Boy Meets World’s Danielle Fishel and Will Friedle Are Working on a Secret Project

  05-10-2018 22:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  At New York Comic Con 2018 Friday, Boy Meets World fans were treated to a panel featuring Cory, Topanga, and Eric (a.k.a. Ben Savage, Danielle Fishel, and Will Friedle, respectively) in honor of the show’s 25th anniversary. Although the crew hasn’t worked together since the revival Girl Meets World was...More »
  
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• Jamie Dornan Gets Bashful After Hearing He's a PCAs Finalist and Proves He's Not Exactly Like Christian Grey After All

  05-10-2018 21:50 via feeds.eonline.com
  Christian Grey will see you now!Jamie Dornan, who has played Christian Grey in the Fifty Shades of Grey franchise for three years now, is officially a 2018 E! People's Choice Awards...
  
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• Jennifer Garner And Ben Affleck’s Divorce is Finally Final

  05-10-2018 21:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  Three years after their initial separation, People reports that Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck’s divorce is final. Affleck posted to his Instagram yesterday that he had completed a 40-day inpatient rehab program for alcohol abuse, and it was reported in August that Garner was instrumental in getting him to treatment...More »
  
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• Sheck Wes’s ‘Mo Bamba’ Is a Hit. Is There Anything As Good on Mudboy?

  05-10-2018 21:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  Harlem is gentrifying. There are open-air bistros and doggie day spas and tae kwon do centers on streets where, even a decade ago, such things would be unfathomable. To outsiders whose experience of the city is gleaned from blog news and weekend Airbnb stays, maybe the place has lost a...More »
  
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• Naomi Watts Will Play Gretchen Carlson in Showtime’s Roger Ailes Series

  05-10-2018 21:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  Little did we know that Fox News was full of Australians all along. Showtime has announced that Naomi Watts is going to play Gretchen Carlson in its upcoming limited series about Fox News founder Roger Ailes, which stars Russell Crowe. Showtime’s series is based on Gabriel Sherman’s book The Loudest...More »
  
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• American Gods Still Looks Extra As Hell in This Season Two Trailer

  05-10-2018 21:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  After heavy production delays, multiple dismissed or sidelined showrunners, and reported frustration by the cast that has resulted in them rewriting their own dialogue out of dissatisfaction with script pages, Starz finally has some season-two footage for fans of American Gods. Budget battles have plagued Gods since its early days,...More »
  
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• 25 Years After Her ‘#MeToo Moment,’ Vicki Lawrence Finally Reclaims TV Stardom

  05-10-2018 21:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  Vicki Lawrence, whose new Fox comedy The Cool Kids debuted last week to huge ratings, is a 50-year TV veteran who has somehow managed to star in just a handful of shows. Her relatively brief résumé as a series regular is perhaps the result of her early Hollywood success. At...More »
  
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• The T.I. Guide to Saving Lives

  05-10-2018 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  T.I. has yet to be cast as a Marvel superhero (though he is in the MCU), probably because he’s already been playing the part in real life for years. In 2006, T.I. famously saved Creed’s Scott Stapp after he attempted suicide, then talked another guy out of suicide at an...More »
  
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• Lady Gaga Can't Stop Telling the Same 2 Bradley Cooper Stories

  05-10-2018 20:25 via feeds.eonline.com
  Did you hear the one about how Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper bonded over a pasta dinner? How about the one about how wowed she was by his singing "from the gut"?The singer stars...
  
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• Just Wanted to Take Another Look at You, A Star Is Born: A Photo Essay

  05-10-2018 20:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  The most fun part of A Star Is Born — second only to watching A Star Is Born and crying over A Star Is Born — is talking about A Star Is Born, specifically one scene highlighted in the trailer. “Hey,” Bradley Cooper’s deep voice says in the trailer (and...More »
  
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• Jersey Shore’s Mike ‘The Situation’ Sorrentino Sentenced to 8 Months in Prison in Tax Evasion Case

  05-10-2018 20:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino, who rose to fame as a member of The Jersey Shore cast, has been sentenced to eight months in prison after pleading guilty to one count of tax evasion this January. According to People, Sorrentino will also undergo two years of supervised release, while his brother...More »
  
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• The Man in the High Castle Recap: Across the Multiverse

  05-10-2018 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The incredible cinematographer and director Ernest Dickerson helms the best episode of The Man in the High Castle in a long time, certainly the best of this season. This episode had the tight pacing that this show so often lacks, finally reuniting Juliana Crain and Joe Blake, deepening John Smith’s...More »
  
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• Liza, Cher, Warhol, and Capote: Studio 54 Documents the Greatest Party You Weren’t Invited To

  05-10-2018 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “There aren’t that many times in life when you’re absolutely free” is how Studio 54 co-founder Ian Schrager describes the notorious nightclub he ran for 33 hedonistic and controversial months in the late 1970s. The venue was legendary even in its own time — New York Magazine, for one, couldn’t...More »
  
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• 13 Great Horror Books Written by Women

  05-10-2018 19:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s Halloween season and you might be searching for a scary book to get you in a properly festive (i.e., terrified) mood. When you think of horror literature, most of the books that spring to mind are written by men. But some of today’s best writers of the macabre are...More »
  
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• Watch This 5-Minute Aquaman Clip Solely for the Few Seconds Nicole Kidman Wields a Trident

  05-10-2018 19:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you’re going to do silly, you absolutely must go all-in on it — no half silliness allowed! In DC’s Aquaman, directed by horror king James Wan, we’ve got Amber Heard’s extremely loud, red Mera wig, Patrick Wilson going full sinister-Assange blonde as the villain Orm, Jason Momoa as the...More »
  
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• Migos’s Quavo Seems to Have Caught Fantasy Fever

  05-10-2018 19:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you were looking at Twitter 15 hours ago, you might have happened upon a tweet from Migos’s Quavo announcing the new release date for his upcoming Quavo Huncho album. It’s now coming out October 12 — but that is currently beside the point because Quavo also released the cover...More »
  
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• Lady Gaga Powerfully Defends Dr. Ford’s Senate Testimony on The Late Show

  05-10-2018 19:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  On The Late Show Thursday night, Lady Gaga defended the testimony Christine Blasey Ford gave in front of the Senate Judicial Committee accusing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault. “What I have seen on the news with this debate of Kavanaugh versus Dr. Ford — it’s one of...More »
  
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• The Roy Orbison Hologram Concert Is, Disappointingly, Not As Creepy As You’d Think

  05-10-2018 19:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  From a puff of smoke at center stage, the legendary crooner appeared, in dark glasses and a gray suit with a black shirt underneath, and his silver crusader cross necklace. He held a red Gibson guitar with a cord plugged into nothing at all, and turned to acknowledge the orchestra...More »
  
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• Ashlee Simpson and Evan Ross Are Making Music Together and, Wow, It’s Kind of Great

  05-10-2018 19:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sonny and Cher. John and Yoko. Beyoncé and Beyoncé’s husband. History has gifted us many a marriage that doubles as a musical partnership, which brings us to why we’re here today. We need to talk about Ashlee Simpson and Evan Ross, or should I say, simply, Ashlee + Evan. Together...More »
  
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• Riz Ahmed Doesn’t Want to Be ‘Post-Racial’

  05-10-2018 18:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the super-antihero/anti-superhero movie Venom (which arrives in theaters today and is expected to gross around $65 million over its debut weekend), the British-Pakistani rapper-actor Riz Ahmed plays a character named Carlton Drake. He’s a billionaire industrialist and head of a shadowy scientific organization who plumbs the depths of space...More »
  
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• Celebrities Really Committed to Their Brands on Late Night This Week

  05-10-2018 18:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  Do you hear that? It kind of sounds like someone singing, in a body of water, where their feet aren’t touching the ground. Almost as if they’re … far from the shallow? That’s right, A Star Is Born promotion has reached the talk shows.The release of A Star is Born...More »
  
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• There’s Only One Reason to See Venom

  05-10-2018 17:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  The only reason to see Venom — the latest excrescence from the vast Marvel universe — is Tom Hardy, whose amiable mugging makes a nice change from his recent manly, mush-mouthed stoicism. Hardy plays Eddie Brock, a TV investigative reporter who acquires an extraterrestrial parasite, albeit one who violently dislikes...More »
  
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• Rebooting Forgotten TV Shows Is a Great Idea

  05-10-2018 17:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  On Wednesday, Deadline reported that the CW is developing a reboot of The L.A. Complex, a long-canceled show almost no one has ever heard of. Don’t be surprised if you haven’t, either: It ran for two seasons that were squashed together in the summer of 2012, it got little promotional...More »
  
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• Danny Boyle salutes armistice's 'real heroes' after quitting Bond

  05-10-2018 17:39
  Pages of the Sea remembrance project to create portraits of war dead on Britain’s beachesThe film director Danny Boyle’s decision to walk away from directing the latest James Bond movie has freed him to devote his attention to “real heroes … rather than fictional ones”, he said, by planning a nationwide commemoration to mark the centenary of Armistice Day in November.Speaking at the launch of the project, Boyle said that backing out of the 25th Bond film in August,
  
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• Olivia Colman Is a Dead Ringer for Queen Elizabeth in These New Crown Photos

  05-10-2018 17:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  Acting monarch Olivia Colman is taking on two very different British queens in quick succession with The Favourite and The Crown and, predictably, seems to be acing both roles. Colman was recently seen in Wales shooting an episode of The Crown in her full Queen Elizabeth II look, with coiffed...More »
  
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• The Shadows Is an Uncanny Portrait of a Relationship

  05-10-2018 17:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  Perhaps in the same way that the past is a foreign land, so too is the inner universe of every intimate relationship. Each one develops its own history, norms, and language, the details of which can seem at first glance to be utterly baffling to the world outside of it....More »
  
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• The Man in the High Castle Recap: The Lotus Eater

  05-10-2018 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  After a slightly hyperactive, way-too-long season premiere, The Man in the High Castle settles in a bit in episode two, but to what end? Is anyone else already a little bored? The show feels like it’s already spinning its wheels a bit. Most of all, the writers need to break...More »
  
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• Roger Robinson, Who Tackled August Wilson Roles, Dies at 78

  05-10-2018 17:00 via nytimes.com
  He won a Tony Award for his work in the 2009 revival of Mr. Wilson’s “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone,” his seventh and final Broadway appearance.
  
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• Fumi Abe Is Indie by Default

  05-10-2018 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Fumi Abe (@TheFumiAbe) is a New York–based stand-up comedian and the co-host of Asian, Not Asian, a podcast where two Asian guys not from Asia talk about American issues no American seems to care about. He also produces a monthly comedy show at Black Cat LES every third Wednesday called...More »
  
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• How to Get Away With Murder Recap: A Case of Vehicular Homicide

  05-10-2018 16:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  I know How to Get Away With Murder won’t give it to me but sometimes I wish this show was just about the client of the week. This week featured Annalise and the Keating Gang (along with Annalise’s clinic students) defending a Rohingya Muslim woman who married her English teacher...More »
  
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• 'In France, poets never die': Macron pays tribute to Aznavour

  05-10-2018 16:53
  ‘Son of immigrants’ likened to Apollinaire and praised for his cultural contribution to France
  France has given a full state farewell to Charles Aznavour, the singer-songwriter hailed as one of the greatest variety performers of the 20th century, as president Emmanuel Macron lauded the son of Armenian refugees as one of the most important “faces of France”.Aznavour, who died this week, aged 94, was a lyricist who shaped and defined French popular culture for decades and b
  
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• Anatomy of a Scene: Watch Lady Gaga’s Star Being Born

  05-10-2018 16:38 via nytimes.com
  Bradley Cooper narrates a look at an early scene from his film, in which his rock star character, witnesses the musical talents of a new crush (Lady Gaga).
  
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• Oscar Futures: New York Takes Another Look at This Fall’s Favorites

  05-10-2018 16:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  On a regular basis between now and February 24, 2019, when the winners of the Academy Awards are announced, Vulture will consult its crystal ball to determine the changing fortunes in this year’s Oscars race. In our Oscar Futures column, we’ll let you in on insider gossip, parse brand-new developments,...More »
  
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• ‘A Star Is Born’ | Anatomy of a Scene

  05-10-2018 16:32 via nytimes.com
  Bradley Cooper narrates a sequence from his film, in which he stars with Lady Gaga.
  
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• Grey’s Anatomy Recap: Chief Karev’s First Day

  05-10-2018 16:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Alex Karev rolling into the chief of surgery parking spot and smiling at Bailey while wearing some sharp sunglasses sums up so much of what I love about this show. If you just met these two characters you’d find this scene amusing, but for those of us who have been...More »
  
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