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• Ari Emanuel’s Endeavor seeks to end Saudi deal

  15-10-2018 23:02 via ft.com
  Journalist’s disappearance roils Hollywood months after warm welcome for crown prince
  
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• Black Earth Rising recap: episode six – the arrival of the guardian angel

  15-10-2018 23:00
  Kate steels herself for a visit to Rwanda for the first time since being whisked away from the country. But who is she really to trustTonight sees Kate – and us – learn more about the guardian angel appointed for her, and steel herself for a visit to Rwanda for the first time since being whisked away from the country. It remains uncertain, however, who she is really to trust, as the older players in this dark game of power and justice circle obliquely around her. Small wonder that he
  
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• Barneys, Books and Bust Ups: 50 Years of the Booker Prize review – a hilarious jaunt

  15-10-2018 23:00
  This documentary tracked the progression of the Booker prize from intimate award to gape-mawed monsterReviewing a recap of five decades of the Booker prize feels like the definition of fiddling while Rome burns. However, if you have a fiddle and the raging conflagration – the colour of a madman’s hair, spreading as furiously and unstoppably as a Brexiter’s lie – is beyond the control of mere humans … well, what is there left to do?So, let us shove the chinrest betw
  
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• Pete Davidson and Ariana Grande Split Up: Your Monday Pop Culture Cheat Sheet

  15-10-2018 22:43 via nytimes.com
  What you need to know from today’s TV, music and movie news.
  
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• The Haunting of Hill House Recap: Not Your Place

  15-10-2018 21:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  Now, in episode seven, we get a possible explanation for that sound — one that shows the complexity of what director Mike Flanagan is trying to pull off with this series. The good news is that he almost always succeeds. And when he really hits the mark, as he does...More »
  
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• The Best New Horror Movies and TV Shows to Stream This Halloween

  15-10-2018 21:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  This Halloween season, you’re probably looking to binge all the spooky TV shows and movies you can handle as you prep your costumes, arrange your decorative gourds, and hollow out some jack-o’-lanterns. Thankfully, networks and streaming sites have stacked their programming with tons of horror specials — AMC has Fear...More »
  
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• Eighth Grade and the Pop Culture Redemption of Enya’s ‘Orinoco Flow’

  15-10-2018 20:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  Eighth Grade is a film permeated by anxiety. It is a persistent, low-level hum that trails its 13-year-old protagonist, Kayla Day (Elsie Fisher), in the fluttering electronic heartbeats and 16-bit synth blares of composer Anna Meredith’s score. But director Bo Burnham gives Kayla — and everyone else — one much-needed...More »
  
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• Timothée Chalamet Is the Perfect Movie Star for 2018

  15-10-2018 20:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  On its surface, the prestige drama Beautiful Boy (which arrived in theaters to stronger-than-expected box-office returns this weekend) seems like a boilerplate “two hander.” That’s Hollywood parlance for a star vehicle spotlighting the dramatic machinations of a duo of actors — in this case, Timothée Chalamet and Steve Carell, respectively...More »
  
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• Every Member of Terrace House, Ranked

  15-10-2018 20:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  In this tumultuous and disgusting world, we need more nice and calming content. Terrace House, the Japanese reality show institution, is the perfect antidote to current events. In fact, it’s one of the least eventful shows on television. Three women and three men live together to find love and/or professional...More »
  
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• The Story Behind the Original Halloween

  15-10-2018 20:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  When John Carpenter’s Halloween quietly opened in Kansas City on October 25, 1978, it did not seem like the kind of movie anyone would speak kindly of — or think about at all, really — 40 years later. A low-budget horror thriller aimed primarily at secondary markets and drive-ins; even...More »
  
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• 10 Great Horror Books for Wimps

  15-10-2018 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Pumpkins are appearing on porches, sweaters are coming out of closets, and scary things are appearing in stores. No, not just stale bags of waxy candy corn: horror books!For the scary book aficionado, this is the best time of year to stock up on chilling novels and creepy short story...More »
  
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• That Time Julia Roberts Taught Phoebe Robinson How to Swim

  15-10-2018 19:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  You live a life, collecting stories as you go, refining them over time with each telling, so that when you get a book deal, you’re ready. But what happens when you are asked to write a second one? Well, luckily, if you’re Phoebe Robinson, you live the craziest two years...More »
  
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• De NS zet bussen in, theater over suïcide - CulemborgseCourant.nl

  15-10-2018 19:54
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  De NS zet bussen in, theater over suïcide
  CulemborgseCourant.nl
  Indigo en Illustere Figuren organiseren in Rivierenland de theatervoorstelling ?De NS zet bussen in? over su?cide. De voorstellingen zijn in Geldermalsen en Culemborg en zijn in samenwerking met Welzijn West Betuwe en Elk Welzijn. ?De NS zet bussen ...en meer »
  
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• Maniac Recap: Congratulations, You’re Healed

  15-10-2018 19:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Congratulations, you’re healed!” Dr. James K. Mantleray shouts, through tears and gasps, as his subjects leave the treatment room, red and sweaty and now surely traumatized all over again. But, are they? They’re bewildered, certainly. And grateful for the checks slipped into their hands at the door. But healed? Of...More »
  
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• Maniac Finale Recap: Congratulations, You’re Healed

  15-10-2018 19:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Congratulations, you’re healed!” Dr. James K. Mantleray shouts, through tears and gasps, as his subjects leave the treatment room, red and sweaty and now surely traumatized all over again. But, are they? They’re bewildered, certainly. And grateful for the checks slipped into their hands at the door. But healed? Of...More »
  
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• Everything that Happened in the 126 Days Ariana Grande and Pete Davidson Were Engaged

  15-10-2018 19:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  This summer, Ariana Grande and Pete Davidson treated the world to the most exciting season of 90 Day Fiancé to date. They even made it a little past the cut-off! But all good things must come to an end, especially when they start after only 24 days of knowing each...More »
  
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• The Conners Doesn’t Need Roseanne

  15-10-2018 19:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Conners — a.k.a. the ABC Sitcom Revival Formerly Known as Roseanne — is attempting to do what very few television comedies have done before: move on without the titular star whose personality defined the show.One could say that Two and a Half Men did something similar in the aftermath...More »
  
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• Review: A Put-Upon Nanny Erupts in Todd Solondz’s ‘Emma and Max’

  15-10-2018 19:06 via nytimes.com
  This strident satire from the filmmaker behind “Happiness” and “Wiener-Dog” is perfectly staged — and all too obvious.
  
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• Jonah Hill Hasn’t Given Up on Kanye, But Says Beanie ‘Isn’t Having It’

  15-10-2018 18:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  Jonah Hill’s little sister Beanie Feldstein (Lady Bird) gave him the silent treatment after he went to Wyoming to support Ye, Kanye West’s latest release, and the rapper’s antics are apparently still tearing the Feldstein family apart. In an interview with Pitchfork discussing the rap influences of his recent directorial...More »
  
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• Review: ‘First Man’ Takes a Giant Leap for Man, a Smaller Step for Movies

  15-10-2018 18:42 via nytimes.com
  Damien Chazelle’s sweeping and intimate yet underwhelming film revisits the first lunar landing, with Ryan Gosling as Neil Armstrong.
  
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• Willem Dafoe on Being ‘Too Old’ to Play Vincent van Gogh: ‘Today’s 70 Was Yesteryear’s 40’

  15-10-2018 17:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  Willem Dafoe is gunning for a fourth Oscar nomination for the upcoming Vincent van Gogh biopic At Eternity’s Gate, which covers the final two years of the troubled artist’s life. Van Gogh famously died at age 37, which means that, in the film, the 63-year-old Dafoe is playing someone nearly half...More »
  
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• The Long, Intertwined History of Paul Simon, Lorne Michaels, and Saturday Night Live

  15-10-2018 17:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  With a career spanning more than 60 years, there are many moments from the long life of Paul Simon that might be considered highlights. Like winning the first of his 16 Grammys alongside his musical partner, Art Garfunkel. Or like proving to himself that he could successfully navigate the business...More »
  
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• The Deuce recap: season two, episode six – Rudy can't fail

  15-10-2018 17:17
  The on-set histrionics are not Candy’s biggest problem with her porn movie – as with everything in life, the real headache is moneyWill the career of Lance Minks ever recover? Minks, by his own admission, was making porn “when you were jerking off to the memory of a lost prom date”. Few better then, to play the coveted lead in Red Hot, a boundary-breaking erotic movie. But now, thanks to some on-set histrionics, including a reluctance to work with animals (OK, rodents), M
  
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• The Haunting of Hill House Recap: Indivisible

  15-10-2018 16:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  On the Haunting of Hill House Twitter feed (@haunting), GIFs are posted showing the “hidden ghost tally” for each episode — those faces flickering in a mirror or a corner of the screen that you’re not quite sure you saw. Episode one has four; episode three, nine.Episode six has zero....More »
  
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• Tana French on The Witch Elm, #MeToo, and the Divisive Ending of In the Woods

  15-10-2018 16:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  Since bursting onto the mystery scene with her genre-bending 2007 debut In the Woods, Tana French has cemented her reputation as a literary novelist who happens to write about murder. A Dubliner who originally trained as a stage actor, her first six books were each narrated by a different detective...More »
  
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• Wesley Klein geeft concert in Circus Theater - Unity Nu

  15-10-2018 16:36
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  Wesley Klein geeft concert in Circus Theater
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  LEIDEN - Wesley Klein gaat in april volgend jaar april in het Circus Theater Scheveningen een concert geven. De Leidse volkszanger gaat optreden met de live band MM, meldt hij op zijn Facebookpagina. Het concert is op 23 april 2019. 'Ik heb al in mooie ...
  
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• Amy Winehouse Biopic in the Works to Go Along With That Hologram

  15-10-2018 16:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you’re not satisfied with the Amy Winehouse hologram, don’t you worry, there’ll be another fake Amy on the big screen soon. Winehouse’s family has signed a deal to authorize an Amy biopic, The Guardian reports, days after signing off on a hologram of the late singer to tour in...More »
  
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• Happy 60th birthday Blue Peter – from a proud former guest

  15-10-2018 16:19
  As a young girl, Zoe Williams was invited on to the show to sing carols as a man threw fake snow in her face. She recalls her favourite moments, from the out-of-control Brownie bonfire – to Anthea Turner’s cardboard Thunderbirds islandBlue Peter was created exactly 60 years ago by a man with a name like a limerick, John Hunter Blair. Despite its high formality – presenters buttoned up like teachers, voices like newscasters but more cheerful – the show had a radical format
  
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• Bryan Singer rebuts as-yet-unpublished Esquire article

  15-10-2018 16:16
  Director of The Usual Suspects and Bohemian Rhapsody accuses magazine of ‘rehashing false accusations’Director Bryan Singer has rebutted an as-yet-unpublished article in Esquire magazine, accusing it of being a “rehash [of] false accusations”.In a post on Instagram, Singer – director of The Usual Suspects, X-Men, and Superman Returns – wrote: “I have known for some time that Esquire magazine may publish a negative article about me … what Esquire i
  
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• Chris Evans Plays Coy on Captain America's Fate in Avengers 4

  15-10-2018 16:15 via feeds.eonline.com
  There's a chance Captain America might die in the fourth and final Avengers film.The same could be said for just about any of the surviving characters from Avengers: Infinity War, of...
  
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• Doctor Who Recap: Brains Beat Bullets

  15-10-2018 16:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  It is customary for showrunners to kick off their inaugural seasons or eras with a present/future or sci-fi/past or historical trilogy, and Chris Chibnall has crafted his first episodes as Davies and Moffat did before him. Though this is a practical exercise for a writer to get a feel for...More »
  
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• Sherlock’s Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss Are Making a Dracula Show for Netflix and the BBC

  15-10-2018 16:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  The men behind the BBC’s modern version of Sherlock are adapting another Victorian classic: Dracula. Per Variety, Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss are working on a new TV adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, which will air with three 90-minute installments on the BBC and on Netflix outside of the U.K....More »
  
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• Bryan Singer Slams Forthcoming Esquire Article About His History of Sexual Misconduct Allegations

  15-10-2018 16:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  Bryan Singer is preemptively denying sexual assault allegations. In a statement posted to Instagram Monday morning, the director said that an exposé about him will soon be published in Esquire, but that it will only repeat old accusations of sexual assault, which resurfaced last year when he was was sued...More »
  
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• Ellie Kemper Is a Rooster and a Warrior

  15-10-2018 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ellie Kemper is a big comedy star, what with her wonderful work on The Office, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Bridesmaids, and contributions to The Onion and McSweeney’s. Her first book. My Squirrel Days, a collection of essays about her childhood, college years, and rise to success while maintaining a singular sunny...More »
  
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• Spong in het theater: 40 jaar rechtsbijstand aan moordenaars, verkrachters en ... - Advocatie

  15-10-2018 15:35
  Spong in het theater: 40 jaar rechtsbijstand aan moordenaars, verkrachters en ...
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  Vermaard strafpleiter Gerard Spong zit 40 jaar in het vak. Dit viert hij door met een theatervoorstelling door het land te trekken en bezoekers een kijkje in de keuken van zijn praktijk te bieden. Had hij dat niet beter in een collegezaal kunnen doen ...
  
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• Solange’s New Album Will Drop Any Day Now

  15-10-2018 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  The year is saved! Solange’s next album is set for an imminent release, as in any day this fall without warning save for this small teaser she’s just given to the New York Times’ T Magazine. The follow-up to the balm that was 2016’s A Seat at the Table will...More »
  
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• In Conversation: Peter Dinklage

  15-10-2018 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  In a hotel room high above midtown Manhattan, Peter Dinklage is discussing, among other things, his present — that’d be HBO’s My Dinner With Hervé, in which he plays the late Fantasy Island star Hervé Villechaize. (Based on a real-life encounter between Villechaize and writer-director Sacha Gervasi, the TV-movie premieres...More »
  
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• How the return of a deceased character spelt the end for Hollyoaks

  15-10-2018 14:00
  It’s had fireball car crashes, kidnapping and serial killers, but Mr Cunningham’s reappearance as a ghost took the show from quirky to ridiculousHollyoaks started in 1995 – a time when soaps were starting to switch from gentle stories about Betty’s hotpot or comedy skits about Wellard running riot in The Vic to full-on attempts to shock Britain’s soap fans. Brookside had a lesbian kiss (gasp!) and a body buried under the patio? Well, newcomer Hollyoaks kicked off wi
  
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• Amy Winehouse family signs deal to make biopic

  15-10-2018 13:47
  Alison Owen’s Monumental Pictures is due to produce the film about the life of the late British soul singerThe family of Amy Winehouse has signed a deal to make a biopic about the late singer. Monumental Pictures’ Alison Owen – mother to Lily and Alfie Allen – and Debra Hayward will produce the film. Winehouse’s life story will be adapted by Kinky Boots writer Geoff Deane, and shooting is due to start in 2019.The Winehouse family will act as executive producers. Pro
  
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• There She Goes: the brutal new comedy busting motherhood myths

  15-10-2018 12:48
  This outrageously funny BBC Four show about raising a child with learning difficulties shines a light on the desolation often felt in early motherhoodThere is a devastating moment in BBC4’s forthcoming comedy, There She Goes, when new mother Emily can no longer hide her despair. “It’s not that I don’t want to love her,” she says, standing beside her six-month-old’s cot, her face hollowed out by exhaustion and fear. “I just don’t think I can.”
  
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• De Graafschap gaat het theater in - De Gelderlander

  15-10-2018 11:37
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  De Graafschap gaat het theater in
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  15 oktober 2018 De Doetinchemse voetbalclub De Graafschap gaat het theater in. De voorstelling 'Veur altied' speelt 5 en 6 januari in schouwburg Amphion. De ondertitel van het stuk is: 'een prijzenkast vol verhalen'. Beelden: Henny Haggeman.
  Tof: De Graafschap gaat het theater in en jij kunt erbij zijn!indebuurtalle 9 nieuwsartikelen »
  
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• Theater: Paardenkracht Mannenmoed in de kerk - Waldnet

  15-10-2018 11:16
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  Theater: Paardenkracht Mannenmoed in de kerk
  Waldnet
  HOLLUM - Paardenkracht Mannenmoed is terug. Het theaterspektakel werd in 2011 voor het eerst gespeeld en is op 24, 25 en 27 oktober opnieuw te zien in Hollum op Ameland. Met nieuwe energie en gebruikmakend van de nieuwste technieken trekt het ...
  
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• Gevarieerd programma bij 'Theater met toefje zorg' - Twents Volksblad (persbericht) (Blog)

  15-10-2018 09:41
  Gevarieerd programma bij 'Theater met toefje zorg'
  Twents Volksblad (persbericht) (Blog)
  NIJVERDAL - Zorgaccent brengt een theaterseizoen met film en theatervoorstellingen in theater ZINiN. Muzikale Cabaret Purper luidt dit nieuwe seizoen Theater met een toefje Zorg in. Deze serie bestaat uit theatervoorstellingen met daarin een thema uit ...
  
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• Veel licht, zang en theater: hoe de Tilburgse binnenstad kerst zonder kermis viert - BD.nl

  15-10-2018 09:38
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  Veel licht, zang en theater: hoe de Tilburgse binnenstad kerst zonder kermis viert
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  Ma 15 okt: Een van top tot teen uitgelichte Heuvelse kerk, metershoge kerstballen, kerstbomen die helemaal uit licht bestaan en weekenden vol muziek en theater. Op die manier wordt kerst dit jaar in de Tilburgse binnenstad gevierd nu de ...
  
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• Muzikaal theater van Van der Vlugt & Co - IJssel en Lekstreek Capelle aan den IJssel (persbericht) (Blog)

  15-10-2018 09:03
  IJssel en Lekstreek Capelle aan den IJssel (persbericht) (Blog)
  Muzikaal theater van Van der Vlugt & Co
  IJssel en Lekstreek Capelle aan den IJssel (persbericht) (Blog)
  Capelle - M. Vasalis is een van de meest gelezen dichters uit de Nederlandse literatuur. Maar wie gaat er schuil achter het pseudoniem van de publiciteitsschuwe dichteres Margaretha Droogleever Fortuyn-Leenmans? Dat vertellen Bram van der Vlugt, zijn ...en meer »
  
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• Natalie Portman Lays Out How Women Can ‘Gossip Well’ In the Age of Time’s Up

  15-10-2018 08:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  During her acceptance speech at Variety’s Power of Women event last week, Natalie Portman spoke in support of Time’s Up and offered a practical, proactive step women can take in their day-to-day lives to undermine all these garbage sexist norms: “gossip well.”“Stop the rhetoric that a woman is crazy or...More »
  
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• Theater Babel laat zien wat de participatiemaatschappij werkelijk is - Trouw

  15-10-2018 07:15
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  Theater Babel laat zien wat de participatiemaatschappij werkelijk is
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  Als er mensen bestaan in de categorie 'met beperking', dan moeten er ook mensen bestaan in de categorie 'zonder beperking'. De onbeperkten. En de kunst is natuurlijk om die twee soorten uit elkaar te houden.
  
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• Monday's best TV: 50 Years of the Booker; Black Earth Rising

  15-10-2018 07:00
  All the bitterness, backbiting and predictably erudite put-downs from the literary world’s premier prize, plus Hugo Blick’s compelling thriller continues9pm, BBC Four
  An enjoyably acid-tinged history of Britain’s pre-eminent literary award, full of controversy, backbiting and enjoyably florid put-downs: witness Anthony Burgess dismissing it as “a rather small, parochial prize suitable for rather small, parochial writers” (in fairness, he had just lost). But there ar
  
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• Don’t let tech giants bury public service TV | Letters

  15-10-2018 07:00
  Public service television shows must remain easy for audiences to find, say the heads of ITV, the BBC, Channel 4, Channel 5, STV and S4C•Keep us at top of TV listings, say public service broadcasters There is a global commercial battle going on to shape and influence what we watch, listen to or buy from the comfort of our homes. Whether it’s Amazon’s search results determining what we buy when we shop online, Facebook deciding which stories and posts we see on social media, or G
  
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• Polish film The Clergy sparks hundreds of allegations of abuse

  15-10-2018 06:00
  Based on real events, Kler has broken box office records and divided Catholic countryA film depicting Polish clerics as corrupt, drunken fornicators and paedophiles is smashing box office records in Poland, sparking controversy and encouraging hundreds of people to come forward with allegations of recent and historical abuse.Based on real events, Kler (The Clergy), by the director Wojciech Smarzowski, which includes testimonies of survivors, features an alcoholic priest who encourages his lover
  
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