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• Wanderlust finale review – overly theatrical, but unashamedly tender

  09-10-2018 23:00
  Nick Payne’s six-part examination of middle-aged marriage and sex came to a satisfying conclusion, if not exactly a mindblowing climax‘We were out of scourers,” says Alan to his lover turned partner Claire – the woman for whom he has left his wife, Joy, the inevitable consequence of the open relationship Joy encouraged in the first place. And, just like that, the shine on their sexy new relationship has gone. A Brillo pad will do that. “Alan, what the fuck?” s
  
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• The Zola Movie (Yes, That One) Is Finally, Officially, Definitely Happening

  09-10-2018 22:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  Back in 2015, an exotic dancer named Aziah Wellsrose documented what she claimed was the true, insane story of one weekend she spent with another dancer and her boyfriend, who was actually a pimp. Known now by her Twitter handle, Zola, she became an internet legend and her story was...More »
  
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• Which Scenes Do All the Star Is Borns Have in Common?

  09-10-2018 22:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  All four versions of A Star Is Born follow the same beats: megastar meets up-and-comer, he marries her and trains her in the ways of fame, and her talent and appeal eventually eclipses his. Though the latest version, directed by Bradley Cooper, eschews specific quotes that pop up in all...More »
  
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• The Great British Bake Off 2018: episode seven – live!

  09-10-2018 22:15
  It’s the first ever vegan week, which means the bakers have to pull off a pastry without any butter. Find out who makes the grade 9.15pm BST So that’s it for another week on Bake Off! Thank you all for joining in, I learned some interesting stuff about vegan baking and it was a lot of fun.We’re down to the last five bakers, and only three weeks to go - things are definitely hotting up in the Bake Off tent. Next week is DANISH WEEK, because apparently there is no genre of baking
  
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• Will Vinton, Revolutionary Animator With Claymation, Dies at 70

  09-10-2018 22:06 via nytimes.com
  He and a partner won an Oscar with a stop-motion technique using clay figures, the likes of which found a wide audience in the California Raisins commercials.
  
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• Eric Idle on the Enduring, Powerful Legacy of the Song He Wrote As a Joke

  09-10-2018 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Monty Python’s Eric Idle has written a memoir, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography. The book, in which Idle recounts his adventures as a legendary comedian and actor in projects like the influential Monty Python’s Flying Circus, the savage Beatles parody band the Rutles, and the...More »
  
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• Basketball: A Love Story Is Good, But It’s No Slam Dunk

  09-10-2018 20:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  Basketball: A Love Story is a longform narrative executed in short-form bursts of storytelling.The 20-hour ESPN documentary series, which debuts tonight and continues over four additional Tuesdays, takes a fascinating but not entirely satisfying look at the most notable moments in basketball, considering the sport in its multiple forms: pro,...More »
  
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• Cardi B Defends Fighting Nicki Minaj at NYFW

  09-10-2018 20:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  Cardi B has spoken out only once about her public smackdown with Nicki Minaj at New York Fashion Week, writing on Instagram hours after she allegedly threw her shoe at Minaj saying she did it because Minaj insulted her parenting. In Cardi’s new W cover story, she’s doubling down on...More »
  
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• Barry Jenkins Stresses that Dave Franco’s Beale Street Role Is ‘Important’

  09-10-2018 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  The new film from Barry Jenkins, If Beale Street Could Talk, is filled with light, color, and fresh faces like star KiKi Layne’s. Some faces, however, were more familiar to audience members at the Toronto International Film Festival, who walked away from the film wondering “What’s Dave Franco doing here?”...More »
  
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• Adult Girl Scouts Comedy Coming to NBC, With Seth Meyers Tagging Along

  09-10-2018 19:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  Late Night With Seth Meyers writer Ally Hord is behind a new comedy series in the works at NBC. According to Deadline, the network is developing a comedy written and co-executive-produced by Hord titled Woman Scouts, which follows “a feminist who, after dropping out of grad school, pledges to kickstart...More »
  
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• Wait, Do The Good Place and Parks and Recrecation Exist in a Shared Universe?

  09-10-2018 19:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the third episode of The Good Place season three, Eleanor and the gang all go out for a bite to eat at the Cowboy Skyscraper Buffet, a terrible restaurant covered in fry grease and pictures of David Hasselhoff. The whole restaurant is full of visual gags — a real...More »
  
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• The Faces of New York Comic Con 2018

  09-10-2018 19:32 via feedproxy.google.com
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• Neo Yokio Is Returning With a Christmas Special, Toblerone, Holiday Malaise

  09-10-2018 19:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  . what about a christmas special? Neo Yokio (@NeoYokio) October 9, 2018...More »
  
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• Saudi Arabia owes the world an explanation

  09-10-2018 19:20 via ft.com
  Jamal Khashoggi’s disappearance points in a sinister direction
  
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• The Lasting Gift of the A Star Is Born Soundtrack

  09-10-2018 18:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  Real stars, the astrophysical ones, are born through a lengthy process of collapse. They begin as tiny reactions in the midst of clouds of dust and gas in space, condensing and bonding over hundreds of thousands of years until the collected heat and mass result in nuclear fusion. It’s poetic...More »
  
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• The Walking Dead Loses Half of Its Audience Compared to Last Year’s Premiere

  09-10-2018 18:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  Even zombies aren’t immune from the ratings erosion virus spreading throughout TV land: The Walking Dead began its ninth season with just 6.1 million same-day viewers Sunday, losing roughly half the audience which showed up for the season-eight premiere a year ago. In the key advertiser-coveted demographic of adults under...More »
  
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• How the Strictly snog scandal went from sequins to being a serious story | Frances Ryan

  09-10-2018 18:29
  The fallout from contestant Seann Walsh’s indiscretion shows we should be wary of reducing other people’s lives to entertainment fodderIf historians of the future wish to analyse British culture in 2018, they could do worse than inspect the Strictly Come Dancing kiss scandal. First, front pages were emblazoned with reports that Seann Walsh and professional dance partner Katya Jones had been caught “snogging” outside a club (which makes it sound like Strictly is Britain&rs
  
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• Ruby Rose’s Wig Game Is Strong in This First Look at Batwoman

  09-10-2018 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  First things first: No, that’s not supposed to be her real hair, so don’t hate. We’ve known for a while that Ruby Rose will be playing Batwoman — civilian name Kate Kane — in her own series on the CW, and that she’ll be making her debut during a CW superhero...More »
  
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• Luca Guadagnino Has Big Plans for Dakota Johnson in the Call Me by Your Name Sequel

  09-10-2018 17:58 via feeds.eonline.com
  Call Me by Your Name was a fan favorite last Oscar season, so it's no surprise Luca Guadagnino is already contemplating a sequel.The director opened up about the possibility during a...
  
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• In Praise of Demolition Man’s Wackadoo Libertarianism

  09-10-2018 17:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  I’m a lover of dystopias, but I’ve always found Brave New World irksome. Since its 1932 publication, Aldous Huxley’s titanic philosophical novel has been part of the fallen-world canon, inspiring countless English-class essays from adolescents and hair-pulling jeremiads from social commentators. It envisions a world where science and society have...More »
  
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• Making a Murderer: watch the trailer for season two of Netflix's true-crime series

  09-10-2018 17:05
  Released nearly three years after the show’s debut, the new episodes will focus on the appeals of Steven Avery and Brendan DasseyThe first trailer for the much-anticipated second season of Netflix’s Making a Murderer has been unveiled.Created by film-makers Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos, the documentary series examines the cases of Wisconsin salvage worker Steven Avery and his nephew Brendan Dassey, who in 2007 were found guilty of first-degree murder in relation to the 2005 death
  
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• Jessi Klein on the Offbeat, Anarchic Humor of The Young Ones

  09-10-2018 17:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  In 1982, when the United Kingdom was being strangled by the culturally conservative neck brace of Thatcherism, a jolt of comedic mayhem began broadcasting on BBC2, much to the delight of viewers desperate for entertainment defined by bawdiness and bad manners.The Young Ones, which aired 12 episodes over a two-year...More »
  
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• Making a Murderer Season 2 Trailer: Un-Making a Conviction

  09-10-2018 16:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  Nearly three years after it first premiered, Making a Murderer returns to Netflix as filmmakers Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos track Steven Avery and his new lawyer’s attempts to overturn his conviction. In a meta moment, the stakes are all the higher given the success of the show’s first season,...More »
  
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• Eighth Grade to Screen at Middle Schools Way Cooler Than Yours

  09-10-2018 16:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  A24 is going back to school. After it hosted all-ages screenings for Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade, the indie studio is taking the movie on the road: School teachers and administrators can submit a lesson plan and request a free screening of the movie about growing up, awkward birthday parties, and...More »
  
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• An Unprecedented Amount of People Just Registered to Vote Because of Taylor Swift

  09-10-2018 16:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  After Taylor Swift posted a rare politically charged Instagram post on Sunday, in which she urged her fans to vote in this year’s upcoming midterm elections, Vote.org has reportedly seen an unprecedented spike in new voter registrations.“We are up to 65,000 registrations in a single 24-hour period since T. Swift’s...More »
  
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• Post Malone Cuts Hair in Hopes of Evading Whatever Death Curse He’s Under

  09-10-2018 16:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  Well, if there’s one way to cheat death, it’s to completely change your identity. Post Malone has nearly died three times this year — there was a plane malfunction, a car crash, then an armed robbery — all because he’s probably been cursed by a box. (Just go with it.)...More »
  
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• At last, X Factor is hitting the right note – with its LGBT contestants | Michael Segalov

  09-10-2018 16:34
  The reality TV show has made many errors over the years. But this season it has showed refreshing respect, as Felix Shepherd can testifyIt has been 14 years since The X Factor first hit British television screens, and in that time the show has made its fair share of errors. In earlier seasons, the way some contestants clearly devoid of talent were put in front of the judges was uncomfortable for those of us who take little pleasure in seeing innocent (and sometimes vulnerable) people mocked and
  
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• Every American Horror Story Crossover in Apocalypse

  09-10-2018 16:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  Where the witches at!? For weeks, we’ve been wondering when the Coven would appear in American Horror Story: Apocalypse. They swept in for an all-too-brief moment in episode three, and then in episode four, we finally got to spend some quality time with Supreme Ms. Cordelia and her witches. But...More »
  
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• Shangela Reveals What It Was Really Like to Work With Lady Gaga on A Star Is Born

  09-10-2018 16:20 via feeds.eonline.com
  Shangela, also known as D.J. Pierce, is a Lady Gaga "super fan." So it's no surprise, she had "a blast" working with the singer on the set of A Star Is Born. However, the role...
  
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• 22 July Is a Gripping Depiction of Tragedy With a False Sense of an Ending

  09-10-2018 16:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  One of the biggest questions that dogs the players of Paul Greengrass’s retelling of the titular 2011 attacks in Norway is how much airtime to give the perpetrator. The white nationalist terrorist Anders Behring Breivik murdered 77 people on that day, 8 in a bombing at an Oslo government building...More »
  
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• Zoe Lister-Jones, Liz Meriwether, Jason Winer Developing Woman Up ABC Comedy

  09-10-2018 15:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  Liz Meriwether is keeping busy these days with another TV project in the works at ABC. According to Deadline, the network has given a put-pilot commitment to a single-cam comedy from Meriwether, Life in Pieces star Zoe Lister-Jones, and Jason Winer titled Woman Up. Written by Lister-Jones, the show centers...More »
  
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• Timothée Chalamet Would ‘Do Anything’ for Greta Gerwig

  09-10-2018 15:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  Timothée Chalamet would do anything for Greta Gerwig, and, like, same. At the premiere of Beautiful Boy, Variety asked Chalamet about reuniting with his Lady Bird director on her adaptation of Little Women. “They’ve started shooting, they’ve been very nice to me. They’ve basically let me try and get [Beautiful...More »
  
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• A Greatest Showman Covers Album Is Nigh

  09-10-2018 15:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  Thanks to a strange quirk in the space-time continuum, The Greatest Showman somehow continues to exist and to be wildly successful, so much so that it has spawned an album of A-list covers of its soundtrack. Variety reports that Pink, Kelly Clarkson, Sara Bareilles, and more artists have all lined...More »
  
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• How Nick Kroll Wrote His and John Mulaney’s Big Mouth Dirty Talk

  09-10-2018 15:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  When you’ve been doing comedy together for as long as Nick Kroll and John Mulaney have — nearly 20 years now — there comes a time when you write scenes where you talk dirty to each other and sloppily make out. For Kroll and Mulaney, that scene came in episode...More »
  
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• 24 Hours Inside the Christian Marclay Installation ‘The Clock’

  09-10-2018 15:32 via nytimes.com
  At Tate Modern in London, Holly Williams watched a full day and night of the video installation so you don’t have to.
  
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• Review: The Ages of A.R. Gurney in the Wistful ‘Final Follies’

  09-10-2018 15:22 via nytimes.com
  This bill of short comedies, early and late, allows fans of Gurney to chart the evolution of theater’s foremost chronicler of a waning caste.
  
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• If There’s Any Justice Left, Janet Jackson Could Be Inducted Into the 2019 Rock Hall

  09-10-2018 15:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  Your 2019 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominees are in. Righting one of its many, many, many wrongs, the Hall has nominated Janet Jackson once again (after snubbing her for this year’s class, for some egregious reason, following previous nominations) because the latest Year of Janet must rightfully extend...More »
  
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• The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Mop Goes the Weasel

  09-10-2018 14:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  This season of Real QVC Spokeswomen of Blowhard Canyon has really confounded me. How can it be so consistently boring and bad when it has some of the most consistent utility players ever in the Real Housewives Universe? There is Victoria Denise Gunvalson Jr. who not only screamed about a...More »
  
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• Victoria Derbyshire and Fiona Bruce filmed for Question Time job

  09-10-2018 14:03
  BBC presenters latest to take part in secret auditions to find Sir David Dimbleby’s successorThe BBC news presenters Fiona Bruce and Victoria Derbyshire have participated in pilot episodes of Question Time, as the corporation continues its closed-door auditions to help decide who replaces Sir David Dimbleby as host.They were put through their paces in front of a cross-party panel of MPs and an audience, a member of which said Derbyshire did a better job of interacting with the audience, wh
  
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• Robert Downey Jr. Is a PCAs Finalist for Male Movie Star of 2018, But We've Been Obsessed With His Film Roles for Years

  09-10-2018 14:00 via feeds.eonline.com
  Is there any role that Robert Downey Jr. can't play? The simple answer: no!The New York native has been in the entertainment business for a long time and in that time he has...
  
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• Go gaga: Venom beats A Star Is Born (and Johnny English) at UK box office

  09-10-2018 13:19
  Despite a critical pasting – and a campaign from some Lady Gaga fans – Marvel’s superhero goes straight in at No 1, ahead of Rowan Atkinson comeback and Oscar-tipped musical Views for Venom could have been discouraging, with a 35/100 score at Metacritic, but the enduring power of Marvel yielded a strong opening for the film, which does not sit inside the Marvel Cinematic Universe narrative. Venom began in the UK with £5.65m from 556 cinemas, and £8.03m including tak
  
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