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• Orange Is the New Black’s Prison Sentence Will End With Season 7

  17-10-2018 23:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  Good news: The ladies of Litchfield (and the other prisons they got shipped to) just got their release date. Bad news: It’s the end for both them and the show. Orange Is the New Black will conclude with season seven, Netflix has announced. The show was given a three-season renewal...More »
  
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• The Haunting of Hill House Recap: The Sleep of Reason

  17-10-2018 23:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  A ”screaming meemie” isn’t actually a nightmare, as Poppy, the flapper who visits in the night, tells Olivia. According to the OED, the phrase originated in 1927 as a term for drunkenness or hysterics. (During World War II, it was also a nickname for a type of rocket fired by...More »
  
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• Judy Blume’s Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret to be Adapted by Edge of Seventeen Director

  17-10-2018 23:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  Kelly Fremon Craig, who filled The Edge of Seventeen will all those specific teen feelings, has won the chance to adapt one of — if not the biggest — classic YA novels. According to Deadline, Fremon Craig will write and direct an adaptation of Judy Blume’s coming-of-age novel Are You...More »
  
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• Anatomy of a Scene: How Michael Myers and Laurie Strode Meet Again in ‘Halloween’

  17-10-2018 23:29 via nytimes.com
  David Gordon Green discusses a sequence featuring Jamie Lee Curtis.
  
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• ‘Halloween’ | Anatomy of a Scene

  17-10-2018 23:27 via nytimes.com
  David Gordon Green discusses a sequence from his new film featuring Jamie Lee Curtis.
  
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• No More ‘Nathan for You’: Your Wednesday Pop Culture Cheat Sheet

  17-10-2018 22:18 via nytimes.com
  What you need to know from today’s TV, music and movie news.
  
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• HBO Cancels Animals After Three Seasons

  17-10-2018 22:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s the end of the road for Animals. According to Deadline, the animated series co-created by Phil Matarese and Mike Luciano and executive-produced by the Duplass brothers will not return for a fourth season. The most recent season — which featured the voices of guest stars including John Mulaney, Tracy...More »
  
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• Robert Forster on David Lynch and How His Life Changed Post–Jackie Brown

  17-10-2018 21:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  Robert Forster’s comeback story never seems to end. After early roles that saw him appearing alongside Marlon Brando, Elizabeth Taylor, Gregory Peck, and others, Forster had a breakout starring role in Medium Cool, Haskell Wexler’s groundbreaking 1969 film set, and sometimes filmed, against the backdrop of the tumultuous 1968 Democratic...More »
  
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• Pearson: slow learner

  17-10-2018 21:41 via ft.com
  Education specialist will have to find answers to penny-pinching students
  
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• Eighth Grade Star Elsie Fisher Will Sing As a Wiggin Sister in Biopic The Shaggs

  17-10-2018 21:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  Eighth Grade’s Elsie Fisher — the teen who perfectly captured all of your middle school ennui — has booked her next job. Per The Hollywood Reporter, Fisher will star in The Shaggs, a musical movie based on the real-life story of the Wiggin sisters, “three musically inept teenagers from New Hampshire...More »
  
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• What’s It Like to Be Serial’s New Co-host?

  17-10-2018 21:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  Serial is deep into its third season, and in many ways, it’s never been better. Building on material from a year spent embedded in Cleveland’s Justice Center Complex, the team is painting a striking portrait of life as processed by the bureaucracy of the city’s criminal-justice system. That portrait is...More »
  
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• Who Is Greta Van Fleet’s Music For?

  17-10-2018 20:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  Last August, the Killers front man Brandon Flowers had something to say about the state of capital-R rock music in 2018. “There hasn’t been anybody good enough,” Flowers commented to me. “If there were some kids out there right now playing [Interpol’s] ‘Obstacle 1’ tonight, I would hear about it...More »
  
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• Critic’s Pick: ‘Halloween’ 1978: The Times Finally Reviews a Horror Classic

  17-10-2018 20:45 via nytimes.com
  We didn’t review “Halloween” in 1978 because of a newspaper strike. Forty years later, our critic takes a new look at John Carpenter’s masterpiece.
  
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• Feature: This Melissa McCarthy Story Just Might (Maybe? Possibly?) Cheer You Up

  17-10-2018 20:32 via nytimes.com
  The dynamic star is trying to keep comedy alive at a moment when Hollywood — and its audience — can’t seem to crack a smile.
  
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• De Graafschap gaat theater in met voetballers in plaats van acteurs - Telegraaf.nl

  17-10-2018 20:31
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  De Graafschap gaat theater in met voetballers in plaats van acteurs
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  Doetinchem - Voetbalclub De Graafschap gaat van het veld het theater in. Begin volgend jaar worden rond de Achterhoekse eredivisionist in schouwburg Amphion minstens twee avondvullende voorstellingen gepresenteerd. Het loopt storm. De Graafschap ...
  
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• Your Guide to the Nobodies Who Will Be Somebodies This Awards Season

  17-10-2018 20:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  When it comes to the fall movie season, Ally Campana isn’t the only star being born. This year, a few of our favorite auteurs have eschewed working with established Hollywood stars in favor of bringing new faces to the screen. Some of them have never acted professionally before, while others...More »
  
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• Review: ‘Mid90s’ Skates Back to a Less Innocent Time

  17-10-2018 20:20 via nytimes.com
  This period-specific coming-of-age story was written and directed by Jonah Hill.
  
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• Lena Dunham has ovary removed after increasing pain

  17-10-2018 20:17
  Dunham had hysterectomy 11 months ago to alleviate symptoms of endometriosisLena Dunham, the star and creator of the HBO comedy series Girls, has had an operation to remove her left ovary after struggling with increasing pain.The 32-year-old writer and actor, who had a hysterectomy 11 months ago to alleviate the symptoms of endometriosis, had the operation this week. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘The Real World’ on Facebook and More: Your Wednesday Pop Culture Cheat Sheet

  17-10-2018 20:13 via nytimes.com
  What you need to know from today’s TV, music and movie news.
  
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• Review: Sex, Lies and Vindication in a Most Timely ‘Measure for Measure’

  17-10-2018 20:00 via nytimes.com
  The heroine’s impossible position could hardly be more sympathetic or central than in this Pushkin Theater Moscow/Cheek by Jowl staging.
  
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• Critic’s Pick: Review: Sex, Lies and Vindication in a Most Timely ‘Measure for Measure’

  17-10-2018 20:00 via nytimes.com
  The heroine’s impossible position could hardly be more sympathetic or central than in this Pushkin Theater Moscow/Cheek by Jowl staging.
  
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• Extra shows THRILLER LIVE in het Rai Theater Amsterdam - Musicalsites.nl (persbericht) (Blog)

  17-10-2018 19:42
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  Extra shows THRILLER LIVE in het Rai Theater Amsterdam
  Musicalsites.nl (persbericht) (Blog)
  Omdat de THRILLER LIVE shows in het RAI Theater helemaal zijn uitverkocht, komen drie extra shows naar Amsterdam op 2 en 3 maart 2019. Deze shows zijn onderdeel van de Europese jubileumtour: de 60egeboortedag van Michael Jackson, the King of ...en meer »
  
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• Nicole Kidman Has a Gun and a Leather Blazer in This New Destroyer Trailer

  17-10-2018 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Everything in Karyn Kusama’s new movie Destroyer seems intense. At first, it looks like Nicole Kidman is leading a little girl to freedom, but every subsequent image seems like their freedom comes at a steep price. Sebastian Stan and Bradley Whitford also show up while Kidman’s character, LAPD detective Erin...More »
  
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• Jason Blum Claims There Aren’t Enough Women Interested in Directing Horror to Hire One

  17-10-2018 19:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Horror is experiencing a renaissance, thanks in a large part to the work of producer Jason Blum. He’s the man behind Paranormal Activity, Get Out, and the upcoming Halloween, but his production company Blumhouse has yet to hire a female director to helm a theatrically released horror movie. Polygon’s Matt...More »
  
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• Murdoch children may get up to $2bn each in 21st Century Fox sale

  17-10-2018 19:06
  The family trust owns 17% stake in entertainment empire worth a little over $12bnRupert Murdoch’s six children could each receive as much as $2bn (£1.5bn) from the sale of his 21st Century Fox global entertainment empire to Disney.Murdoch is in the final stages of completing the $71.3bn sale of 21st Century Fox, which includes the Hollywood studio behind hits from Deadpool to X-Men and a 39% stake in Sky. The family trust, which the 87-year old Murdoch controls, owns a 17% stake in F
  
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• Caroll Spinney, Sesame Street's Big Bird, to retire after 50 years

  17-10-2018 19:04
  The veteran puppeteer and actor, who also portrayed Oscar the Grouch, will film an anniversary episode of the children’s TV show before flying the nestCaroll Spinney, the veteran actor and puppeteer who provided the voices for Sesame Street’s Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch, is retiring after almost 50 years as a key part of America’s most well-known children’s television show.Spinney will work on a final show this week, which will be used for Sesame Street’s 50th-ann
  
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• Comedy Central Confirms Nathan for You Will Not Return for Another Season

  17-10-2018 18:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  Prepare for some truly tragic news, Nathan Fielder fans, because here it comes: Fielder’s hit Comedy Central series Nathan for You will not be returning for another season. The news comes a year after season four premiered, wrapping up in December 2017 with the two-hour finale “Finding Frances,” after which...More »
  
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• Constance Wu, Busy Philipps, and Scrubs Reunion Coming to Vulture Festival LA Presented by AT&T

  17-10-2018 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Last fall, a star was born, under the bright lights of Hollywoodtown, USA. And the star was named Vulture Festival LA. Well, a year has passed, and that star is back, baby! Vulture Festival LA Presented by AT&T will return to the historic Hollywood Roosevelt on November 17 and 18!...More »
  
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• What other unsexy dances might Seann Walsh and Katya Jones perform?

  17-10-2018 17:54
  The Strictly snog duo defused all sexual tension with a gender-neutral jiggle – and they could have more not-so-dirty dances up their sequinned sleeves‘It’s a problem,” says Arthur Murray’s lead UK franchisee, Rio El-Asir. “We have a strict policy that fraternisation of teacher and student is prohibited. People send their daughters here, their wives – so we have to be just like doctors. Students fall for the teachers usually.”Nature finds a way. Te
  
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• Roseanne Who? The Conners Premiere Draws Solid Ratings for ABC

  17-10-2018 17:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  Audiences still care about The Conners, even without Roseanne Barr at the helm. ABC’s reboot of last spring’s Roseanne revival opened strongly Tuesday night, with 10.4 million same-day viewers and a 2.3 rating among adults under 50, per Nielsen. That’s nearly identical to the 10.5 million same-day viewers that showed...More »
  
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• What Sorry for Your Loss Understands About Mourning a Loved One

  17-10-2018 17:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  It takes a while to emotionally reckon with each episode of Sorry for Your Loss, playwright Kit Steinkellner’s Facebook Watch series about a family dealing with an unexpected death — the last two installments especially. It’s emotional work to watch this show. You have to commit to listening to each...More »
  
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• Netflix: sub bubble

  17-10-2018 17:32 via ft.com
  Streaming group’s ‘happy ending’ could yet prove just another plot twist
  
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• Quiz: Can You Guess the Beautiful Boy Music Cue?

  17-10-2018 17:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  Reviews for Beautiful Boy have so far been fairly mixed, but there are two things critics can agree on about Felix Van Groeningen’s addiction drama: (1) As Steve Carell’s meth-addled son, Timothée Chalamet turns in another heart-wrenching performance, and (2) the film features some of the most on-the-nose needle drops...More »
  
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• Microaggressions at School? The ‘Hate U Give’ Team Has Been There

  17-10-2018 17:19 via nytimes.com
  The author Angie Thomas, the star Amandla Stenberg and the director George Tillman Jr. know what it’s like to be outsiders, and put that in their work.
  
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• Stephen Colbert on Trump's 'stupid and delusional' defence of Saudi Arabia

  17-10-2018 17:10
  Late-night hosts criticised the president’s latest attempt to defend Mohammed bin Salman while he also found time to criticise Stormy Daniels againLate-night hosts discussed Donald Trump’s attack on Stormy Daniels and his continued defence of Saudi prince Mohammed bin Salman. Continue reading...
  
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• Why Does ‘First Man’ Say Gemini as ‘Geminee’? NASA Explains. Sorta.

  17-10-2018 17:05 via nytimes.com
  The pronunciation of the 1965-66 program is a space agency thing. Sometimes it was pronounced normally. NASA’s chief historian gives the back story.
  
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• The PCAs Drama Movie Finalists Are So Intense They'll Keep You on the Edge of Your Seat

  17-10-2018 17:00 via feeds.eonline.com
  The 2018 E! People's Choice Awards are quickly approaching, and the excitement is getting our hearts racing and blood pumping!As it turns out, that feeling we have about the upcoming...
  
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• The Conners Recap: Gone, But Not Forgotten

  17-10-2018 16:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  I really didn’t want to like this reboot of the reboot.Roseanne Barr’s wackadoodle tweeting that did in this year’s mega-successful Roseanne comeback left the show and her legacy mired in nothing but bad feelings, and it seemed to me that it would be best — oh, let me rephrase that to...More »
  
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• The Story Behind Chris Redd and Pete Davidson’s ‘Trees’ SNL Sketch

  17-10-2018 16:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  Chris Redd and Pete Davidson’s hip-hop ode to trees did not play in its entirety during SNL’s live airing. But many people digest the show over the week, sketch-by-sketch. Redd wrote “Trees” to have staying power, because the message of enthusiastic but ill-informed environmentalism is important.In the video, Redd and...More »
  
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• Jane Curtin Reveals the Worst Guest SNL Host During Her Tenure: ‘God, There Were So Many!’

  17-10-2018 16:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  Original Saturday Night Live cast member Jane Curtin was a guest on the latest Watch What Happens Live, and when she was asked by a caller who was the worst host during her time on the NBC show, she got candid: “God, there were so many!” Curtin went on to...More »
  
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• Pusha-T Says He Found Out About Drake’s Son Because of Drake’s Producer Noah ‘40’ Shebib

  17-10-2018 16:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  At long last, Pusha-T is revealing his sources. Days after Drake opened up to LeBron James about feeling betrayed by Kanye West, whom he believes was the snitch who told Push about his secret son — which Push then used as ammunition in his lethal diss track — despite Kanye’s...More »
  
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• Netflix jumps as investors binge on third quarter

  17-10-2018 16:17 via ft.com
  Shares open up 8% after subscriber growth outstripped expectations
  
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• Review: A Restless Spirit Haunts a Family in ‘A Season in France’

  17-10-2018 16:00 via nytimes.com
  Dangerous uncertainty, and a bit of hope, hangs over a family seeking political asylum in Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s latest feature.
  
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• How Chris Gethard Learned to Stop Trying to Fit In and Just Do His Own Thing Instead

  17-10-2018 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Chris Gethard is one of the most innovative and delightfully weird voices in comedy today, thanks in part to his stage–turned–cable access–turned–television series, The Chris Gethard Show. In his new memoir/self-help book Lose Well, he discusses the many necessary failures, false starts, and bad decisions that ultimately led him to...More »
  
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• Netflix Renews Élite for Second Season Because Horny Teen Dramas Are All We Have Now

  17-10-2018 15:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  Give Netflix your tired, your extremely rich private-school students, your drama queens yearning to gossip, the wretched rumors of your school days — and Netflix will give you a second season! The extremely horny, extremely murder-y, extremely good Spanish high-school drama Élite has been picked up for season two, according...More »
  
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• Javier Bardem Still Supports Woody Allen: ‘I Would Work With Him Tomorrow’

  17-10-2018 15:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  Javier Bardem has reiterated his support for his Vicky Cristina Barcelona director Woody Allen. During a master class at the Lumière Film Festival on Monday, Bardem spoke about the director and allegations that he molested his daughter Dylan Farrow. “He’s a genius,” Bardem said, according to Variety. Even during the...More »
  
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• Law & Order: SVU Did a Whole Episode About Incels

  17-10-2018 15:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  Because the only inevitabilities in life are death, taxes, and Ice-T finding out about some new, alarming sex-related trend, Law & Order: SVU’s new season features an entire episode about incels. In last week’s “Revenge” — shockingly the first episode of SVU to have that title, if you ignore season 13’s...More »
  
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• Here’s the Woman Responsible for Making Bradley Cooper Look So Hot in A Star Is Born

  17-10-2018 15:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  As Jackson Maine in A Star Is Born, Bradley Cooper doesn’t look like himself. He’s weathered, and borderline bronze, with a graying beard and a sexy weariness. He looks like he’s seen some things, like he’s had a few too many, like he’s been up all night and out of...More »
  
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• Laura Benanti’s Melania Trump, the ‘Ghost of Colonialism,’ Checks In From Africa on Colbert

  17-10-2018 15:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you want clear answers to big questions, do not look to either Melania Trump or the version of her that appears on Late Night With Stephen Colbert. Midway through her trip to Africa, still dressed as “the ghost of colonialism,” “Melania” (a.k.a. Laura Benanti) checked in with Colbert to...More »
  
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• Janet McTeer on Bernhardt/Hamlet and Whether She’d Ever Play Hamlet Herself

  17-10-2018 15:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  Janet McTeer is currently everywhere: on Broadway, on Netflix, and even on Facebook. “You can’t miss me,” she laughs. “Turn around and you’ll see me somewhere.” An English actor known for her work on the stage in A Doll’s House and Mary Stuart, and for her film roles in Tumbleweeds...More »
  
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