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• The Bisexual review – a comedy-drama that is neither funny nor dramatic

  10-10-2018 23:40 via theguardian.com
  Our gender-interrogating, sexually fluid society is thirsty for a taboo-breaking drama about sexuality – but this isn’t itSuperficially, at least, a comedy-drama entitled The Bisexual (Channel 4) – about the trials and tribulations of a woman who comes out of a 10-year lesbian relationship and finds herself being drawn peniswards – is a comedy-drama whose time has come. As a society, we are interrogating gender, biology, queerness and the fluidity of all these things and
  
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• Tilda Swinton Finally Confirms She’s Playing an 82-Year-Old Man in Suspiria

  10-10-2018 23:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  It turns out that Luca Guadagnino’s latest Hollywood “It” boy is actually just his regular muse, Tilda Swinton. Speaking to the New York Times, Swinton and Guadagnino confirmed that Suspiria’s character actor “Lutz Ebersdorf” is actually just Swinton in heavy makeup. “The answer to the question to me, ‘Are you...More »
  
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• Fleetwood Mac Savagely Fired Lindsey Buckingham Over the Phone

  10-10-2018 23:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the Greatest Feud of Our Time, earlier this year Fleetwood Mac fired Lindsey Buckingham ahead of their tour for typical band bickering. Stevie Nicks and Mick Fleetwood claimed at the time that it was mostly a scheduling conflict that bought him a one-way ticket home, but Buckingham now says...More »
  
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• Fiona Bruce given police escort to film BBC News at Six

  10-10-2018 23:02 via theguardian.com
  Newsreader escorted through rush-hour traffic to alternative set after technical failure at main BBC studiosThe newsreader Fiona Bruce was given a police escort through London rush-hour traffic to film the BBC News at Six at an alternative set, after technical issues downed live broadcasts at the main BBC studios.The presenter flagged down a passing police car after she got stuck in traffic with BBC home editor and presenter Mark Easton just 40 minutes before the news bulletin on Wednesday. Minu
  
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• Project Runway Announces New Blonde Supermodel As Host

  10-10-2018 22:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  Bravo is indeed making its rebooted Project Runway work. The network announced today a new set of fashion industry pros who will guide hopeful designers through the competition. Model, entrepreneur, baker, and koder Karlie Kloss will board as an executive producer and assume the hosting role originated by Heidi Klum...More »
  
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• What Is Slow Burn Without Monica Lewinsky?

  10-10-2018 22:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  Slow Burn, the Slate podcast written and narrated by Leon Neyfakh, continues to be an excellent piece of political documentary. The first season, which focused on President Richard Nixon’s Watergate scandal, was well-written, deliberately produced, and reasonably complex. Its sophomore effort is even more so, which is all the more...More »
  
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• Will Smith Grants Our Wish by Unveiling Live-Action Aladdin Poster

  10-10-2018 22:31 via feeds.eonline.com
  Will Smith is showing us a whole new world.The actor took to Instagram on Wednesday to share the first look at the posters for the live-action Aladdin movie. On the poster is the iconic...
  
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• Diego Luna Based His Charming Beale Street Character on Barry Jenkins’s ‘Warmth’

  10-10-2018 22:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  Diego Luna appears briefly in If Beale Street Could Talk, playing a charming waiter at a downtown restaurant. At the movie’s New York Film Festival premiere, Luna told Vulture about his surprising motivation: Barry Jenkins himself. “It’s a tiny role, but it’s so important, and it brings so much warmth...More »
  
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• Why Do People Love to Hate Twenty One Pilots?

  10-10-2018 21:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  You’re on a date, in an Uber, heading to a romantic location. Would you rather be listening to a podcast in which your ex-wife is laying bare the dissolution of your relationship, or the new Twenty One Pilots single? For BoJack Horseman’s Mr. Peanutbutter, the choice is all too easy. “Ew,...More »
  
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• Business Is Boo-ing! The World of Extreme Haunts

  10-10-2018 21:23 via nytimes.com
  Americans are paying to scare themselves witless, and not just on Halloween.
  
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• Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Season 4 Is a TV Miracle

  10-10-2018 21:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, which starts its fourth season Friday night on the CW, is one of those shows that looked on paper like it couldn’t go the distance until it did: a combination romantic-comedy, workplace satire, and musical fantasy about a lawyer named Rebecca Bunch (co-creator and star Rachel Bloom) who...More »
  
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• Verne Troyer's death ruled as suicide

  10-10-2018 21:10
  A coroner in Los Angeles said the 49-year-old Austin Powers star died in April from the effects of alcoholAustin Powers star Verne Troyer’s death was a suicide, a coroner in Los Angeles has said.The actor, best known for playing Mini-Me in the spy comedy franchise, had openly battled alcoholism and died aged 49 in April. Related: Verne Troyer: a cult star who sustained a career with dignity and good humour | Peter BradshawContinue reading...
  
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• A Brief History of Pulp Fiction Knockoffs

  10-10-2018 21:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  Drew Goddard’s Bad Times at the El Royale (in theaters this Friday) is set in 1969, and chock-full of signifiers of its time: a Manson-esque leader of a murder cult, a square-jawed agent of J. Edgar’s FBI, sedans the size of houses, needle drops from the likes of Deep Purple...More »
  
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• Kathy Bates’s 10 Favorite Books

  10-10-2018 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Bookseller One Grand Books has asked celebrities to name the ten titles they’d take to a desert island, and they’ve shared the results with Vulture. Below is American Horror Story star Kathy Bates’s list....More »
  
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• Taran Killam Says SNL Became ‘Less of a Happy Place’ After Seth Meyers Left

  10-10-2018 20:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you’re a fan of behind-the-scenes Saturday Night Live gossip, Matt Gourley’s new interview with former cast member Taran Killam on his podcast I Was There Too is full of great stuff. During the lengthy interview, Killam got candid about his decision to leave the show in 2016, noting that...More »
  
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• A Star Is Born Is Confident Enough to Compete As a Drama at the Golden Globes

  10-10-2018 20:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  A Star Is Born is in the Shallow, watch as it dives in … to drama! Per Indiewire, both A Star Is Born and the Freddie Mercury biopic Bohemian Rhapsody will compete in the 2019 Golden Globes’ drama category. Despite A Star Is Born’s original (and very good and easy...More »
  
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• Jonah Hill and Michael Cera Get Real About Love, Superbad, and Feeling Like ‘Pieces of Sh*t’

  10-10-2018 20:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  Oscar nominee. Street-style icon. Newly minted writer-director. Zine writer. In an effort to promote his directorial debut, the period skateboarding drama Mid90s, Jonah Hill is putting out an indie magazine (in conjunction with his film’s distributor A24) called Inner Children, for which he interviewed a bunch of famous people he...More »
  
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• Ozark Will Continue Making Literally Dark Television for a Third Season

  10-10-2018 20:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Byrde family isn’t leaving their life of crime behind just yet! Netflix announced today that Ozark, the show you can barely see, has been renewed for a third season. Jason Bateman and Laura Linney will return as the white-bread married couple (their names are Marty and Wendy!) who have...More »
  
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• The New Pet Sematary Trailer Hopes to Stir Up Your Lingering Trauma From the Original

  10-10-2018 20:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  Almost 30 years after the first film adaptation of Stephen King’s Pet Sematary, dead is still better than the alternative of planting something passed on in a mysterious graveyard forest only to have it return as a dark and festering version of its former self. But some lessons are worth...More »
  
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• Jim Carrey’s Kidding Renewed by Showtime for a Second Season

  10-10-2018 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Jim Carrey’s new show is coming back, and we’re not kidding. (Sorry.) Showtime just announced that it’s renewed the comedy Kidding, which debuted last month and currently airs on Sunday nights. The first season is set to wrap up on November 11. Season two of the show — which also...More »
  
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• 13 Horny Teen Dramas for Fans of Riverdale

  10-10-2018 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Tonight, Riverdale returns to the CW, in all its gory, maple-syrupy glory. There are hot teachers, hotter parents, lots of abs, rival gangs, evil cheerleaders, and regular, run-of-the-mill teen horniness and dysfunctional relationships. Everyone’s name is somehow absurd, and there’s plenty of intrigue afoot in a town built by a...More »
  
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• Josh Radnor Is Going on a Date With Meredith on Grey’s Anatomy

  10-10-2018 19:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  After years of suffering through the worst sorts of heartbreak and medical conditions and other trauma, Meredith Grey is going on date with Ted Mosby. According to People, Josh Radnor is joining Grey’s Anatomy to play a guy Meredith will meet on her blind date. Will the date go well?...More »
  
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• Saturday Night Live Should Start at 11 p.m.

  10-10-2018 19:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  It has come to my attention that Saturday Night Live begins at 11:30 p.m. While I imagine I learn this fact anew at the start of every new season of Saturday Night Live, that does not make it any less startling now. 11:30? A half-hour into the 11 o’clock hour?...More »
  
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• James Murdoch in line to replace Musk as Tesla chair

  10-10-2018 19:33 via ft.com
  Outgoing Fox CEO has signalled willingness to accept post following SEC settlement
  
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• Black Panther Stars Explore the Film's Empowering Feminist Agenda

  10-10-2018 19:30 via feeds.eonline.com
  It's fitting that actresses Angela Bassett, Danai Gurira and Lupita Nyong'o are being honored in ELLE's annual Women in Hollywood issue (on stands Oct. 23). After all, no other movie...
  
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• Is Ethel Muggs the True Criminal Mastermind of Riverdale?

  10-10-2018 19:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  In a town rife with criminal masterminds, the teen heroes of Riverdale have overlooked one of the most dangerous villains to ever walk the halls of Riverdale High School: Ethel Muggs.Allow me to explain. Over the course of the CW teen drama, Ethel has exhibited warning sign after warning sign...More »
  
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• 40,000 BTS Fans Can’t Be Wrong

  10-10-2018 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  I saw them first on the 7 train going into Queens, wearing hoodies emblazoned with “Mic Drop” and earbuds plugged in like they were fighters getting ready for a match. Soon, they were everywhere, 40,000 strong, of every demographic, but mostly young women — Asian, black, Latina, Arab, Native American, white,...More »
  
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• Vegan baking tips for Bake Off contestants – and the rest of us

  10-10-2018 18:42 via theguardian.com
  Our vegan chef explains how to replace eggs and butter, why you should start with pastry, not cakes, and how to make a simple fruit galetteI’m not surprised that there were failures in vegan week of The Great British Bake Off. Good baking relies on practice, knowing your ingredients and understanding how they behave. Vegan baking is a brave new world because it relies on experimenting with ingredients to replace those that have traditionally formed the backbone of baking: eggs and butter.E
  
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• This Broadway Season, the Play’s Really the Thing

  10-10-2018 18:36 via nytimes.com
  In a turnabout no one expected, New York’s most prominent stages are rich with drama, most of it new and most of it American.
  
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• Meet SNL’s New Video Directors: Hannah Levy and Adriana Robles

  10-10-2018 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Wait, aren’t SNL announcements done for the year? Naaaaaaw, they still comin’!A source close to the show has confirmed to Vulture that Hannah Levy and Adriana Robles have been hired as video directors on Saturday Night Live’s 44th season. The directing team joins SNL at a time when the show...More »
  
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• Here Are Your 2018 National Book Awards Finalists

  10-10-2018 18:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  Make some room on your bookshelf. The 25 finalists for this year’s National Book Awards have officially been announced. Some writers have been here before — Terrance Hayes, who won the poetry award in 2010 for Lighthead, and Lauren Groff, who made the fiction short list in 2015 for Fates and...More »
  
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• Leading film industry figures join forces to launch London Screen Academy

  10-10-2018 18:16
  Harry Potter, Bond and Bridget Jones producers co-found sixth form academy aimed at making industry more diverse and accessibleApplications have opened today for a new sixth-form academy for 16- to 19-year-olds that has been founded by some of the British film industry’s most successful figures, including the producers of the Bond and Harry Potter films.The London Screen Academy (LSA), a free school based in the London borough of Islington but open to applicants from across the English cap
  
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• Alec Baldwin Says ‘Black People Love Me’ Since Playing Trump

  10-10-2018 17:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  To promote his upcoming ABC talk show, Alec Baldwin did an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, and there’s a quote from it that’s getting a lot of attention. At one point during the interview, Baldwin is approached by a black man who compliments him on his SNL Trump impression, which...More »
  
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• Women avoid transgender debate in fear of reaction, says Jo Brand

  10-10-2018 17:19 via theguardian.com
  Writer laments vilification of Germaine Greer and infighting within feminismMany women are wary of entering feminist debates over transgender issues because they are frightened of the reaction, the comedian and writer Jo Brand has said.Brand was addressing a debate that has led to feminists such as Germaine Greer and Julie Bindel being “no-platformed” at some universities. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘The Ferryman’ Shows a Dark Irish Chapter Through a Personal Lens

  10-10-2018 16:58 via nytimes.com
  It took persuading, but Jez Butterworth wrote his new play for his partner, Laura Donnelly, both to honor her history and give her a great part.
  
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• Critic’s Notebook: How the New ‘A Star Is Born’ Complicates an Old View of Womanhood

  10-10-2018 16:56 via nytimes.com
  The relationship between Ally and Jackson echoes the original and other remakes, while modernizing their dynamic for current sensibilities.
  
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• The Story Behind Kate McKinnon’s Debette Goldry SNL Character

  10-10-2018 16:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  I don’t know if you’ve heard, but it’s tough out there for women. Alleged sexual predators are on the Supreme Court, every beloved actor turns out to be a super creep, and producers keep using our fingerprints when they commit a party murder.Debette Goldry has been gracing Saturday Night Live...More »
  
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• Maniac Recap: The Lake of the Clouds

  10-10-2018 16:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  I know you can’t see straight right now because all you can think about is the fact that Owen turns into a goddamn hawk at the end of this episode and essentially flies into Mordor to find Annie where he gets zapped by a little bolt from Greta Mantleray/Queen Gertruth’s...More »
  
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• Rewind: ‘Sisters’ Isn’t ‘Psycho,’ but It’s a Lacerating Spin on Hitchcock

  10-10-2018 16:00 via nytimes.com
  Newly restored, “Sisters,” by Brian De Palma, remade Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho” as a thriller for the disillusioned 1970s.
  
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• What to Know About Snapchat’s Big Move Into Scripted TV

  10-10-2018 15:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  Snapchat is jumping into the scripted space today, debuting a pair of serialized programs and announcing its first-ever slate of projects under its long-gestating Snap Originals initiative. Launching immediately are Class of Lies (a college-set mystery from Riverdale writer Tessa Leigh Williams) and Co-ed (a comedy from Love writer Mason...More »
  
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• No One Roasts Nickelback Better Than Nickelback Reading Your Mean Tweets

  10-10-2018 15:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  Just as Pink will not stand for your inaccurate mean tweets about her specific brand of white-girl-wasted music, Nickelback, too, have a comeback to your insults. In Jimmy Kimmel’s latest edition of mean tweets about musicians, the dick jokes are aplenty, as is the savagery about bands you love to...More »
  
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• Michael Lewis’s The Fifth Risk Breaks Through the Trump Book Noise

  10-10-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  There are no dramatic television shows plumbing daily crises at the Departments of Commerce, Energy, and Agriculture — no Sorkin walk-and-talk procedurals where sharply dressed scientists toss around solutions to some of America’s most important, least understood potential catastrophes. But the writer Michael Lewis has a pretty good track record...More »
  
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• I’m Obsessed With That Song About Butts From A Star Is Born

  10-10-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  I once took a class on light and color, where I learned about the receptors in the retina that let us see. There are two kinds, rods and cones. Cones are in charge of seeing color, but they’re less sensitive to light, which is why a darkened room often appears...More »
  
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• Relive All of PCAs Finalist Emily Blunt's Most Incredible Performances Now

  10-10-2018 14:00 via feeds.eonline.com
  There is no denying that Emily Blunt deserves to be a People's Choice Awards finalist for Drama Movie Star of 2018 based on her memorable performance in A Quiet Place.The film itself...
  
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• In Conversation: Maggie Gyllenhaal

  10-10-2018 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I’m not interested in showing the wish of what it looks like to be human,” says Maggie Gyllenhaal. “I’m interested in showing what it actually looks like.” That’s exactly what the actress has done with her work as prostitute turned porn auteur Candy in the current season of HBO’s The...More »
  
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• Griefcast's Cariad Lloyd: 'Laughter? It's about survival. It’s about living'

  10-10-2018 13:35 via theguardian.com
  After her standup success and podcast about death, the comic’s next step was obvious: starring in a cancer-ward romcom It wasn’t, I assume, the toughest decision in the history of casting. Who you gonna call, Finborough theatre, to star in your new play about a comedian and improviser grieving her dead sister and tending to her dying mum? A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gynecologic Oncology Unit at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center of New York City (yup, that’s th
  
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• London film festival to celebrate women in the industry with starry group photo

  10-10-2018 12:24
  Female-run festival to stage 70-strong photo call that is expected to feature Keira Knightley, Andrea Riseborough and othersThe London film festival (LFF) is aiming to create a “special festival moment” to “to celebrate the enormous contribution women make to the film industry”: a group photograph of female film industry professionals that will coincide with the one-year anniversary of the #MeToo campaign and its impact on the film industry. It is inspired by the silent p
  
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