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• The Haunting of Hill House Recap: He Ain’t Crazy, He’s My Brother

  16-10-2018 23:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  There’s a moment in this episode when Hill House looks almost cheerful, its hallways filled with workmen busily repairing things. Surprise! One of those workers — memorialized by Steve in his book about the house — is actually a ghost, as Hugh explains to Steve during their nighttime drive. Just...More »
  
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• French Artist Commissions All-Star Album to Mourn Her Dead Cat, the Most Loved Cat That Ever Was

  16-10-2018 23:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  Forget about all those good boy dogs, have you heard about Sophie Calle’s dead cat? No? Let us prime you: The French conceptual artist’s cat, Souris (whose name translates to “mouse,” squeaaaal), passed in 2014. But this was not just any ordinary cat. Souris was Calle’s person, so to speak....More »
  
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• Anna Burns’s Milkman Wins the Man Booker Prize for Fiction

  16-10-2018 23:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  Anna Burns’s novel Milkman has won the Man Booker prize in fiction. The book, Burns’s third, is set during the Troubles in Northern Ireland and told from the perspective of an 18-year-old girl who’s pursued by an older man, the milkman. “None of us has ever read anything like this...More »
  
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• Informer review – counter terror drama is gripping and artful … but you’ll need to pay attention

  16-10-2018 23:00 via theguardian.com
  The unsettling, disjointed quality of this new series suits the murky world of police informers. The main challenge is keeping track, but it looks to be worth the effortA woman leaves her phone on the Docklands Light Railway in east London. A stranger picks it up and follows her off the train in a bid to return it, but the woman has disappeared. He searches the streets and eventually spots her in a coffee shop. He will accept no reward for his gallantry. This is perhaps the least likely thing th
  
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• Salt Fat Acid Heat Actually Wants You to Cook

  16-10-2018 22:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  Every highfalutin foodie docuseries has a few sequences that feel almost obligatory. The trip to the best Parmesan factory in all of Italy, followed by the shot of a knife breaking off a shard of unimaginably beautiful cheese. The stroll through a Japanese fish market, musing about and ogling various...More »
  
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• Netflix shares soar as it announces 6.96m new members

  16-10-2018 22:48 via theguardian.com
  New member total is record for the quarter and ahead of analyst expectations, erasing fears that growth has slowedNetflix shares soared on Tuesday as the streaming service announced higher growth than expected numbers of new subscribers.The company added 6.96 million new members in the last three months, a record for the quarter and well ahead of analysts expectations, erasing fears that its growth had slowed. It now has some 137 million subscribers worldwide. Continue reading...
  
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• Review: In ‘All Square,’ Taking Big Bets on Youth Baseball

  16-10-2018 22:40 via nytimes.com
  Michael Kelly, Pamela Adlon and Josh Lucas enhance the small-town bookmaking shenanigans of this comedy-drama.
  
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• The Great British Bake Off 2018: episode eight – as it happened

  16-10-2018 22:21 via theguardian.com
  Things were hotting up in the bake off tent as a place in the semi final was up for grabs. The contestants had their work cut out though as this week was the first ever Danish Week 9.13pm BST So that’s it for Danish Week - mange tak for joining in and being amazing as ever. I’ll be back next week for the SEMI-FINAL! It’s all about patisserie, and we probably should have kept Manon for that. You can also swing by Strictly on Saturday if that’s your thing - have a brilliant
  
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• Netflix subscriber growth shoots past estimates in Q3

  16-10-2018 22:20 via ft.com
  Shares leap higher after earnings ease investor worries
  
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• Chance the Rapper Isn’t Running: Your Tuesday Pop Culture Cheat Sheet

  16-10-2018 22:08 via nytimes.com
  What you need to know from today’s TV, music and movie news.
  
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• 7 New Paperbacks You Should Read This October

  16-10-2018 22:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  Each month, Maris Kreizman offers nonfiction and fiction paperback recommendations. You should read as many of them as possible.Every editorial product is independently selected. If you buy an item through our links, Vulture may earn an affiliate commission....More »
  
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• T.I. Made Another Song About Good Times

  16-10-2018 21:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  Every time T.I. releases an album, there’s always at least one song that gestures at the type of Instagram-ready, carefree life we all wish we could live (never forget the Paper Trail one-two punch of “Live Your Life” immediately followed by “Whatever You Like”). These songs tend to be massive...More »
  
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• Chance the Rapper ‘Probably Won’t Be Ever’ Running for Mayor of Chicago

  16-10-2018 21:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  In 1976, a professor of political science at the University of Illinois named Milton Rakove penned “Don’t Make No Waves, Don’t Back No Losers,”,an ice-cold analysis of the Chicago political machine under “Boss” Richard M. Daley. Rakove lays it all out: How the machine works, who gets what resources and...More »
  
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• Adam Sandler Performs in the Subway and on the Stage in the 100% Fresh Trailer

  16-10-2018 21:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  Adam Sandler heads to Netflix next week with his first comedy special in over 20 years, and today the streaming network released the first full trailer. Titled 100% Fresh, the special was filmed in a dozen venues, including Sandler’s performance in a New York City subway station that made headlines...More »
  
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• Melanie Laurent’s Galveston Is Pitch Black and Paper Thin

  16-10-2018 20:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  The terminally ill criminal is such a cliché in movies and books that the sight of Ben Foster’s boozing bagman learning he’s got lung cancer in the opening minutes of Galveston is, strangely enough, kind of promising. Surely, one thinks, this will be a clever twist on an old concept....More »
  
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• The Great British Bake Off 2018: episode eight – live!

  16-10-2018 20:45 via theguardian.com
  Things are hotting up in the bake off tent as a place in the semi final is up for grabs. The contestants have their work cut out though as this week is the dreaded Danish Week 7.45pm BST This week’s bake off bingo – a swig of Carlsberg for any occurrence of the following: 2.29pm BST God aften everyone, and velkommen to this week’s Great British Bake Off liveblog! It’s DANISH WEEK, which I’m assuming was a mandatory clause in Sandi’s contract, or some kind of r
  
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• The Profound Grief of The Haunting of Hill House

  16-10-2018 20:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  Spoilers below for Netflix’s The Haunting of Hill House and its ending.Trauma builds walls. Left untended, they keep going up. Soon, you’re trapped in a house of its making: long hallways leading nowhere, empty rooms, doors that swing open and slam shut by the weather of your moods. You climb...More »
  
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• Review: Melissa McCarthy Is Criminally Good in ‘Can You Ever Forgive Me?’

  16-10-2018 20:17 via nytimes.com
  Marielle Heller directs a true story of literary fraud, set amid the bookstores and gay bars of early ’90s Manhattan.
  
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• Danny McBride Says the Bad Plan B for Making Halloween Starred Him As Lawrence Strode

  16-10-2018 20:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  Imagine being a horror fan and telling yourself, You know what? I want to make a Halloween movie. And I want my movie to obliterate the decades’ worth of sequels that came after the revered original, and I want to make it with Jamie Lee Curtis in the starring role,...More »
  
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• Carol Hall, ‘Best Little Whorehouse’ Composer, Is Dead at 82

  16-10-2018 20:11 via nytimes.com
  Ms. Hall was a moderately successful songwriter until she and two collaborators came up with one of the biggest Broadway hits of the 1970s.
  
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• Chance Is Not Running for Mayor: Your Tuesday Pop Culture Cheat Sheet

  16-10-2018 19:29 via nytimes.com
  What you need to know from today’s TV, music and movie news.
  
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• An Interview With Gail, A Star Is Born’s Best Supporting Character

  16-10-2018 18:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  It takes two hours and 14 minutes for Ally Campana (Lady Gaga) to be born in A Star Is Born, but only one scene for another star to crown: “Hi Ally, I’m Gail!” Rebecca Field says, popping up in the movie’s first act. As Gail, she’s an assistant–cum–talent wrangler, leading...More »
  
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• Review: ‘The Price of Everything’ Asks $56 Billion Questions About Art

  16-10-2018 18:04 via nytimes.com
  This documentary examines the global art market, and pauses to look at some pictures along the way.
  
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• John Cena Has Been in a Lot of Movies You Totally Forgot About: See Them All Now

  16-10-2018 18:00 via feeds.eonline.com
  From the wrestling ring to the big screen, John Cena is a megastar. In case you need proof of the 41-year-old wrestler's star power, he is officially a finalist at this year's People's...
  
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• Lady Gaga Is Engaged!

  16-10-2018 17:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  Someone just wants to take another look at Lady Gaga, and it’s not Bradley Cooper. It’s Christian Carino, a Hollywood agent and her boyfriend of two years — and now, Gaga’s fiancé. At Elle’s 25th Annual Women in Hollywood Celebration in Los Angeles on Monday, she thanked “my fiancé Christian” during...More »
  
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• Riverdale Unveils Photos From Its ’90s-ified Flashback Episode

  16-10-2018 17:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  The dream of the ’90s is alive, in a town that defies human understanding of climate and spatial dimensions, and yet somehow exists within our own timeline. This season, Riverdale is giving the (horny) teens’ (horny) parents a 1990s-set flashback episode, in which the main cast plays the younger version...More »
  
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• Quavo Could Stand to Learn a Few Things From Usher

  16-10-2018 17:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  Atlanta has been an indispensable force in hip-hop culture since the ’80s and early ’90s, when acts like Kilo Ali and MC Shy D crossed New York attitude and Miami bass production values and came out with their own brand of body music. Tag Team’s “Whoomp! (There It Is)” took...More »
  
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• Who said it: Strictly's Craig Revel Horwood … or Mark Twain?

  16-10-2018 16:56 via theguardian.com
  The writer and the dance judge have both spread their wit and wisdom across three bulging volumes of autobiography. But can you tell who said what?The American author and wit Mark Twain stipulated that his autobiography should not be published complete until a century after his death, which is why the first of three unexpurgated volumes documenting his life did not appear until 2010. Happily, Strictly Come Dancing judge Craig Revel Horwood has no such inhibitions and this week publishes the thir
  
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• Insufferable Men and the Surprising Joy of The Grillmasters

  16-10-2018 16:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  After watching Devin Field, Zac Oyama, and Jacob Wysocki’s short The Grillmasters, I know two things to be true. First, I’m not the only one who mercilessly mocks “grillmasters.” Next, these three are a hell of a lot better at it than I am.One in a trilogy of recently released...More »
  
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• Tom Stoppard, Always Tackling ‘The Hard Problem’

  16-10-2018 16:43 via nytimes.com
  Can a drama about the nature of consciousness be emotional, too? For its latest production, he’s tinkered with the script to firmly answer yes.
  
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• Amandla Stenberg Knew The Hate U Give Was a Success Based on the Number of White People Crying

  16-10-2018 16:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Stopping by The Daily Show With Trevor Noah Monday night, The Hate U Give star Amandla Stenberg discussed the one clear-cut sign that, to her, meant the recently released film version of Angie Thomas’s YA novel about police brutality had triumphed. “It’s meant to be a tool of empathy,” she...More »
  
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• Every Movie in the Halloween Franchise, Ranked

  16-10-2018 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  David Gordon Green’s Halloween lands in theaters this Friday, with a big ask for fans of the franchise: forget the entire franchise. It rescinds the events of literally every sequel, reboot, and reboot-sequel that followed the original 1978 trendsetter, presuming that the story of slasher Michael Myers — who murdered...More »
  
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• Jon Hamm Eats Bull Penis Rather Than Talk About the Size of His Own

  16-10-2018 15:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  Despite Jon Hamm’s many protestations, the internet continues to talk about his penis, and so too does James Corden. Brought onto the torture chamber that is one of Corden’s many games last night, Hamm decided he’d rather eat bull penis than discuss the size of the so-called “Hammaconda,” though he...More »
  
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• Why ABC Decided to Do Roseanne Without Roseanne

  16-10-2018 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  On May 29, ABC canceled its spectacularly successful revival of Roseanne, mere hours after its titular creator and star sent out her now-infamous racist tweet. But in TV-land what is dead may never die: Roseanne is back Tuesday night, reincarnated as The Conners, a “new” sitcom featuring all of the...More »
  
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• To Binky Urban, ‘Power’ Is a Male Word

  16-10-2018 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Amanda “Binky” Urban — the ICM agent who represents, among many others, Michael Pollan, Toni Morrison, Haruki Murakami, Walter Isaacson, Mary Karr, Richard Ford, Anthony Doerr, and the estates of E. B. White, Nora Ephron, and E. L. Doctorow — started on the road to becoming the most powerful woman...More »
  
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• Marsha Vlasic Told Lou Reed, ‘I Just Can’t Do This Anymore’

  16-10-2018 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Marsha Vlasic won’t tolerate bullshit, and she’s seen it all. For over 40 years, the veteran music executive has wielded her power and influence to steer the careers of Neil Young, Elvis Costello, the Strokes, and Iggy Pop. In 2014, Vlasic left ICM Partners after six years to become president...More »
  
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• Lin-Manuel Miranda Wrote a Poem Just for You

  16-10-2018 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The following is the introduction to Lin-Manuel Miranda’s new book, Gmorning, Gnight! The work is a collection of his popular inspirational tweets that wish his followers, well, good morning and good night. Miranda, who you may know from his musical Hamilton, is the star of the upcoming Marry Poppins Returns...More »
  
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• Kerry Washington Is Stretching

  16-10-2018 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  After seven seasons of Scandal, Kerry Washington has shed the trappings of the D.C. power fixer she played on television in favor of a political drama of a different sort. Onstage in Christopher Demos-Brown’s intimate play American Son, Washington is an anxious mother trying to track down her teenage kid...More »
  
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• Brooklynn Prince, Age 8, Already Knows How to Make People Listen

  16-10-2018 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Brooklynn Prince’s latest collaborators include actors Helen Mirren, Bryan Cranston, and Angelina Jolie (The One and Only Ivan); executive producers Steven Spielberg (The Turning), Phil Lord, and Christopher Miller (The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part); and Crazy Rich Asians director Jon M. Chu (a to-be-titled Apple series). These forthcoming...More »
  
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• Review: Paul Butterfield’s Story Is Told in ‘Horn From the Heart’

  16-10-2018 13:00 via nytimes.com
  A documentary explores the life of the blues musician who was prominent in the 1960s and ’70s.
  
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• Review: ‘Impulso’ Goes Backstage With a Flamenco Innovator

  16-10-2018 13:00 via nytimes.com
  This documentary follows Rocío Molina, a cutting-edge dancer, as she prepares for a Paris show.
  
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• Review: ‘Charm City’ Vividly Captures the Streets of Baltimore

  16-10-2018 13:00 via nytimes.com
  Marilyn Ness’s documentary is dedicated to the memory of the more than 1,000 people said to be killed in Baltimore during the film’s making.
  
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• A Star Is Born outshines Venom and Johnny English at UK box office

  16-10-2018 13:00
  The acclaimed romance starring Lady Gaga takes a late leap to the top spot as Neil Armstrong biopic First Man steps in at No 4For its opening weekend at the UK box office, Bradley Cooper’s A Star Is Born found itself in third place, beaten by Venom and Johnny English Strikes Again. But for the second session it’s a totally different story: A Star Is Born rises to the top, knocking Venom into second position. Continue reading...
  
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• Whisper it … The Good Place might need divine intervention

  16-10-2018 12:01 via theguardian.com
  Season one of The Good Place was fantastic, season two was awe-inspiring. How could season three top it? Short answer: it hasn’t Spoiler alert: don’t read unless you are up to date with season four of The Good PlaceWhen The Good Place fires on all cylinders, it’s like watching a magic trick. It manages to be bracingly intelligent, painfully funny and perpetually restless all at the same time. It functions as a sitcom with a good-to-great gag hit rate, a Lost-style mystery-box s
  
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• The Conners: how does Roseanne survive without Roseanne Barr?

  16-10-2018 10:00 via theguardian.com
  The retooled sitcom brings back the cast that surrounded the disgraced star for a competently realized, if formula-reliant look at suburban life without a matriarchIn the wake of Roseanne’s cancelation last May, following racist tweets sent out by star and producer Roseanne Barr, many observers took to the site of her downfall to joke about looking forward to the show’s eventual return under the new title Dan.Those jokes proved to be pretty on-the-money, although the latest iteration
  
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