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• Okay, Amy Schumer’s Pregnancy Announcement Was Very Good

  22-10-2018 23:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  Amy Schumer wants you to get politically active. She wants you to protest. She wants you to vote. She wants you to know she’s pregnant — wait, what? Schumer first posted a photo of Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, with the faces of her and her husband hastily Photoshopped...More »
  
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• Atlanta liveblog: the Guardian visits the unofficial capital of the 'new south' – as it happened

  22-10-2018 23:35
  The Guardian Cities team is live across the streets of Georgia’s capital as part of a week exploring the city 10.22pm BST Thank you for dipping into our live coverage today of Atlanta, at the beginning of our week exploring the city.There’s plenty more, dare we say so ourselves, interesting coverage coming through this week from the unofficial capital of the ‘new south’.10.07pm BST You might recognise this popular London museum from Marvel’s mega hit movie Black Pan
  
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• Sarah Silverman Says She Allowed Louis C.K. to Masturbate in Front of Her

  22-10-2018 23:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  In an interview with Howard Stern this morning, comedian Sarah Silverman said that earlier in their careers Louis C.K. used to masturbate in front of her. But unlike the women cited by the New York Times who came forward with sexual-misconduct allegations against C.K. last year that he later admitted...More »
  
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• My Dinner with Hervé review – a glorious and tragic romp in 90s Lalaland

  22-10-2018 23:30 via theguardian.com
  Peter Dinklage is brilliant in this tale of Hervé Villechaize’s ‘suicide note’ interview – it’s just a shame the journalist ends up centre-stage‘My mother always used to say I was Hitler’s fault.” Thereby hangs a tale, and writer-director Sacha Gervasi sets out to tell it in My Dinner with Hervé (Sky Atlantic), an HBO biopic about the James Bond actor Hervé Villechaize.Villechaize’s mother went into labour with him as she
  
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• LeBron James Is Reportedly Trying to Make a Friday the 13th Reboot

  22-10-2018 23:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  Did anyone else hear that? It’s the sound of early-aughts trends creeping into the minds of Hollywood producers. In news initially reported by Bloody Disgusting, LeBron James’s SpringHill Entertainment is in talks with Vertigo Entertainment to develop a reboot of Friday the 13th. James has actually expressed his affinity for...More »
  
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• Black Earth Rising recap: episode seven – who is about to meet their doom?

  22-10-2018 23:00 via theguardian.com
  This week featured a break-in, a falling-in and a tornado of a twist – all ready for next week’s finale
  After weeks of oblique exchanges of dialogue between Alice, Eunice and Michael, we at last learn why they have been cagey and what they been keeping from Kate. It’s a tornado of a twist, one that shakes Kate to her marrow when she learns of it. It’s part of a long-term plan on Alice and co’s part, a delayed act of idealism – but it seems as if they might not
  
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• The Haunting of Hill House: All the Hidden Ghosts You Missed

  22-10-2018 22:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Bent-Neck Lady may be the most terrifying creation in Netflix’s The Haunting of Hill House, but that particular piece of nightmare fuel is only part of the show’s bigger horror aims. The narrative of Hill House weaves in and out of past and present, bringing viewers into a world...More »
  
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• Jill Soloway Is Dating Hannah Gadsby

  22-10-2018 22:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  Hannah Gadsby, the boundary-breaking stand-up comic behind Nanette, and Jill Soloway, the creator of Transparent and writer and director of I Love Dick, are now dating, according to “Page Six.”Per the report, the couple has been together since this summer and have been getting increasingly serious. The source told “Page Six” that Soloway recently...More »
  
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• 8 Movies to Watch If You Liked First Man

  22-10-2018 22:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  So audiences may not have flocked to theaters in droves to check out First Man, but if you haven’t you should (in IMAX if you can swing it). The story of Neil Armstrong and the first Moon landing reunites La La Land’s director Damien Chazelle and star Ryan Gosling for...More »
  
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• Swedish House Mafia, Selma Blair and More: Your Monday Pop Culture Cheat Sheet

  22-10-2018 22:07 via nytimes.com
  What you need to know from today’s TV, music and movie news.
  
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• The Key Moments That Made Cloud Nothings One of the Best Indie Bands Around

  22-10-2018 21:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  Cloud Nothings began as a slapdash lo-fi pop project for Dylan Baldi in his parents’ Westlake, Ohio, basement, and the band churns out some of the most frenetic, head-smashing music in indie rock right now. Released last week, Cloud Nothings’ latest album, Last Burning Building, sounds like they’re throttling away...More »
  
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• Tippi Hedren, Hitchcock’s ‘Marnie,’ Loves the Met’s Opera

  22-10-2018 21:11 via nytimes.com
  The star of the film version of "Marnie" flew in from California for the premiere, and stayed at the cast party past midnight.
  
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• The Butt Song From A Star Is Born Won’t Be Submitted for Oscar Consideration

  22-10-2018 21:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  Butt song, snubbed! Warner Bros. has announced who and what will be competing for Oscars on behalf of a A Star Is Born. Everything shakes out as expected — Bradley Cooper for best director, actor, co-screenwriter; Gaga for best actress — except for the song choices. None of Ally’s sellout...More »
  
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• Nicole Kidman Almost Pulled Out of Destroyer: ‘I Didn’t Want to Go to That Place’

  22-10-2018 20:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  Nicole Kidman only had a three-week break between filming the family drama Boy Erased, where she plays the mother of a son in gay conversion therapy, and the crime thriller Destroyer, where she’s an LAPD detective battling a gang. During an industry reception for Boy Erased last Friday, Kidman told...More »
  
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• Atlanta liveblog: is Hollywood set to lose its favourite post-apocalyptic backdrop? – live

  22-10-2018 20:18
  The Guardian Cities team is live across the streets of Georgia’s capital, reporting on the real-life stories of a city that has made its mark on the movies 7.18pm BST Atlanta magazine held out for almost a year after the first episode of Real Housewives before putting the cast on its cover, beneath the tagline (in hot pink against yellow): “COUTURE, CATFIGHTS, AND COLLAGEN”. Search the magazine’s online archive for the show today, a decade to the month since its debut, an
  
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• [Whispers] Cardi B Is the ASMRtist We Deserve

  22-10-2018 19:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  [Deep breath] [leans into mic] [smacks lips] [whispers] ASMR superfan Cardi B has created her very own ASMR video, hereby putting all other ASMRtists out of business. [Whispers] If you have yet to experience the tingles — more scientifically known as autonomous sensory meridian response — sit back, relax, and...More »
  
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• BBC drafts in new Top Gear hosts to keep money-spinning show on the road

  22-10-2018 19:49 via theguardian.com
  Despite falling UK ratings, the motoring programme remains valuable to the broadcasterAndrew “Freddie” Flintoff and Paddy McGuinness are not currently household names in Iran. But if the pair ever go there they should prepare to be mobbed after being announced as the new hosts of Top Gear. The Middle Eastern country is one of more than 200 territories around the world where the show is broadcast, attracting a loyal fanbase attracted by a mix of banter and fast cars.The former England
  
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• Exit Interview: Lauren Ambrose Says Goodbye to Eliza but Hopes to Keep the Boots

  22-10-2018 19:44 via nytimes.com
  Sharing stories of a professionally thrilling Broadway role in “My Fair Lady” that coincided with personal loss.
  
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• Judy Greer Loves Her Big Moment in Halloween As Much As You Do

  22-10-2018 19:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  This interview contains spoilers about the new Halloween.Judy Greer’s Karen Strode spends much of the new Halloween deflecting her mom’s insistence that she be more vigilant about the dangers of the world, that she fortify her home against intruders, and probably carry at least one gun at all times. Karen knows...More »
  
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• Why Jamie Lee Curtis Should Absolutely Brag About Halloween’s Opening Weekend

  22-10-2018 19:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  The new Halloween cleaned house at the box office this weekend. With a domestic haul of $77.5 million, it notched both the second-highest opening for an R-rated horror movie of all time (one suspects that pesky It from 2017 will never be beat), as well as the second-highest opening for...More »
  
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• Selma Blair, Swedish House Mafia and More: Your Monday Pop Culture Cheat Sheet

  22-10-2018 19:19 via nytimes.com
  What you need to know from today’s TV, music and movie news.
  
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• Longtime Jimmy Fallon Producer Mike DiCenzo Announces He’s Leaving The Tonight Show

  22-10-2018 19:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  Changes are happening over on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Executive producer Mike DiCenzo, who has worked with Fallon since his Late Night days, announced on Twitter today — which also marks his ten-year anniversary since his first day working at Late Night — that he’s decided to leave...More »
  
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• Love Yourself and Listen to RM’s New Solo Mixtape Right This Second

  22-10-2018 19:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  Still recovering from the Sunday Scaries? There’s a hack for that: BTS leader RM has just released his second solo mixtape (except he’s calling it a playlist because this one’s all Namjoon, baby). Hot off re-signing with BigHit for another seven years, these tracks are the free therapy your body,...More »
  
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• The Evolution of Anthony Atamanuik’s Donald Trump Impression

  22-10-2018 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Since the debut of his Comedy Central series The President Show and several specials that followed, Anthony Atamanuik has distinguished himself in a sea of Trump impersonators by being the most accurate. He credits that, in part, to his empathy for the man. At the same time, Atamanuik was one...More »
  
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• The 10 Best Netflix Original Horror Movies

  22-10-2018 18:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  As so much of the world quakes in the shadows of The Haunting of Hill House, Netflix’s masterful horror series, viewers are turning to the streaming service for scares more than ever. It helps that this month’s crop of Netflix original movies have turned notably gloomier and creepier with the...More »
  
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• Julia Louis-Dreyfus Honored With a Night of Cancer Jokes and the Mark Twain Prize

  22-10-2018 18:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  The C-word came up again and again during Sunday’s Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., where Julia Louis-Dreyfus became the sixth woman to receive the award.Because this is real life and not an episode of Veep, the C-word in this case...More »
  
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• Chris Gethard’s Slow Transition From UCB Improviser to Comedy Cellar Stand-up

  22-10-2018 17:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  For about a decade, Chris Gethard, whose new self-help book/memoir, Lose Well, is in stores now, was not only one of the best improvisers at the UCB Theatre in New York, but he was one of the performers most closely associated with it. Then he stopped performing there as much,...More »
  
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• The Genderqueer Tale of “Take a Walk on the Wild Side”’s Jackie Curtis

  22-10-2018 17:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  Jackie Curtis was one of Andy Warhol’s Superstars — a somewhat ironic term, to be sure: being an East Village drag performer in the 1960s and 1970s wasn’t a career track that led all that often to opulent Hollywood fame and fortune (though track marks were not uncommon.) But a...More »
  
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• Guillermo del Toro Is Making a Stop-Motion Pinocchio for Netflix

  22-10-2018 17:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  Shape of Water director Guillermo del Toro (who probably hasn’t had time to read Leslie Jones’s hilarious and scathing critique of his fish-fucking movie) has lined up his next project with Netflix. Del Toro will write, produce, and direct a stop-motion musical version of Pinocchio, to be set in Italy...More »
  
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• Atlanta liveblog: follow as we explore the Hollywood of the south – live

  22-10-2018 17:08
  The Guardian Cities team is live across the streets of Georgia’s capital, reporting on the real-life stories of a city that is ubiquitous in film and TV 4.08pm BST Next stop: the Tributes’ living quarters in Panem, or, if you’re not a Hunger Games fan, the John Portman-designed Marriott hotel.Related: 'Disneyland for adults': John Portman's dizzying interior legacy His buildings became known for their “Jesus moments”, those times when, emerging from a deliberately u
  
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• Julia Davis: 'I'm worried there's going to be a backlash'

  22-10-2018 17:01 via theguardian.com
  Sally4Ever, a lurid lesbian sitcom, is her filthiest show yet – but even that’s nothing compared to her extreme agony aunt podcast. The comedy writer and actor reveals how it all helped her deal with the death of her parentsSurrounded by an inordinate number of plates of biscuits, Julia Davis is discussing how it feels to be a controversial comic in the age of moral outrage. “I am slightly worried there’s going to be some backlash,” she admits. She considers her imp
  
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• Curb Your Enthusiasm Season 10 Has Started Production

  22-10-2018 16:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  Don’t worry, Curb Your Enthusiasm fans — the wait might be a very long one, but the tenth season of the Larry David series is definitely still happening. According to the Wrap, HBO confirmed that the show began filming its tenth season on Friday, though no plot details or premiere...More »
  
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• 90 Day Fiancé Recap: Reality Gold

  22-10-2018 16:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  90 Day Fiancé is the greatest reality show to ever exist and anyone who disagrees is uncultured swine. The basic premise is that six Americans fall in love abroad and bring their partners to the U.S. to experience life Stateside. The couples must marry in 90 days before their special...More »
  
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• Sarah Perry Hopes the Monster From Her New Novel Is Watching Harvey Weinstein

  22-10-2018 16:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  When I meet the gothic British novelist Sarah Perry on a gloomy fall afternoon, she isn’t surprised that I dreamed, the previous night, of a woman robed in black, with eyes like black holes, watching me from the corner of my apartment. I’d been visited by the mysterious figure that...More »
  
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• Doctor Who Recap: Big Trouble in the Deep South

  22-10-2018 16:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  It was important that Doctor Who not only get this episode right, but that it dazzle us with a sort of brilliance unique to Chris Chibnall’s vision for the series. It was important for Doctor Who to get this episode right because the show hasn’t done a story of this...More »
  
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• How Daredevil Filmed Its 10-Minute Prison Fight in a Single Take

  22-10-2018 16:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  Mild spoilers for Daredevil below.At this year’s New York Comic Con, Daredevil’s new showrunner, Erik Oleson, made a daring boast. “Remember the hallway fight?” he told the huddled crowd at his show’s official panel. “Yeah, we top that.”It was natural to doubt him. After all, the scene he’s referencing — a...More »
  
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• Trevor Noah Announces New Netflix Stand-up Special Son of Patricia

  22-10-2018 15:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Daily Show’s Trevor Noah is heading to Netflix next month with a brand-new stand-up special. The Comedy Central late-night host announced today that the special, titled Son of Patricia, will make its Netflix debut just a few days before Thanksgiving on Tuesday, November 20. Son of Patricia, which will...More »
  
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• Netflix returns to market with $2bn bond offering

  22-10-2018 15:41 via ft.com
  Debt to help finance heavy spending on original movies and TV shows
  
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• Vue puts Saudi cinema deal on hold after Khashoggi death

  22-10-2018 15:33
  CEO Tim Richards says joint venture to build up to 30 cinemas is being delayedVue, one of the world’s largest cinema operators, has put plans to open dozens of film theatres in Saudi Arabia on hold as a result of the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.In February, British-headquartered Vue International signed an exclusive memorandum of understanding with the Abdulmohsin al-Hokair property group to jointly build up to 30 cinema sites. Continue reading...
  
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• The Crazy, Convoluted Story of Orson Welles’s ‘Final’ Film

  22-10-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Fictively documenting the filming of a film within a film, Orson Welles’s The Other Side of the Wind casts a grandly meta-narrative eye on Hollywood movie industry insider baseball. Plotted around the behind-the-scenes sexual predations of an aging filmmaking maverick who’s directing his comeback movie (played by real-life director John...More »
  
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• From karma to coma: why My Name Is Earl should have been left for dead

  22-10-2018 14:15 via theguardian.com
  The lovable sitcom started off with morals. Then came the rubbish third series involving Earl renouncing karma and an exhaustingly meta plot“Love your neighbour as yourself.” [Leviticus 19:18]. “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” [Matthew 7:12]. “Wish for your brother, what you wish for yourself.” [Quran, Surah 24, “The Light”, v22]. “What goes around, comes all the way back around.” [Justin Timberlake]. Say what you li
  
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• Bracken Bower Prize 2018: the shortlist

  22-10-2018 14:08 via ft.com
  Twelve writers compete for the £15,000 award for the best business book proposal by an author aged under 35
  
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• Will Cartoonist Julie Doucet Finally Get Her Due?

  22-10-2018 14:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  This article contains explicit illustrations.Julie Doucet was surprised by the number of penises she received. On the final page of issue six of her revolutionary comics series Dirty Plotte, published in November 1992, she made the following request of her growing band of readers: “Send me a photo of your...More »
  
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• Atlanta liveblog: follow as we explore the 'media city' of the US – live

  22-10-2018 14:02
  The Guardian Cities team is live across the streets of Georgia’s capital, reporting on the real-life stories of a city that is ubiquitous in film and TV 12.38pm BST Morning y’all! Jamiles Lartey here. As a Guardian staff reporter based out of the US south, it is my pleasure to welcome you to Atlanta, Georgia for a special, live, in-depth report from the unofficial capital of the “new south”. Continue reading...
  
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• Paddy McGuinness and Andrew Flintoff to host BBC's Top Gear

  22-10-2018 10:13 via theguardian.com
  Take Me Out host and former cricketer will replace Matt LeBlanc on the motoring showPaddy McGuinness and Andrew “Freddie” Flintoff will host Top Gear from next year, the BBC has confirmed.The Take Me Out host and the former cricketer will take over from Matt LeBlanc, who earlier this year announced he was leaving the motoring show after four series. Continue reading...
  
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• From Rosa Parks to Van Gogh: when TV takes on real-life figures

  22-10-2018 09:00 via theguardian.com
  Sunday’s Doctor Who episode featured the civil rights hero, and she’s far from the first historical character to get the TV treatmentIn many ways, Jodie Whittaker’s Doctor is exactly the same as every other – eccentric, optimistic, weirdly out of breath a lot of the time – but in other ways she’s completely different. Every previous Doctor would have been able to sail in and out of 1950s Alabama with minimal fuss, because every single previous Doctor has been
  
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• Paula Abdul Falls Right Off The Edge Of The Stage Mid-Concert

  22-10-2018 08:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  Paula Abdul took her stage show to another level while performing in Biloxi, Mississippi on Saturday. The floor level, are we right? But in all seriousness, we hope she’s okay, because based on the sound of her body landing and the collective audience gasp, that was a not-insignificant drop. According...More »
  
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• Daredevil’s Charlie Cox Says He Gets Why Ethan Hawke Resents All These Superhero Movies

  22-10-2018 08:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  Back in August, Ethan Hawke criticized Logan and superhero films at large as universally substandard when compared to non-comic book-based movies. “Now we have the problem that they tell us Logan is a great movie,” he explained, pointing to the effusive praise received by Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine flick. “Well, it’s a great...More »
  
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• Agoraphobia and an unhappy marriage: the real horror behind The Haunting of Hill House

  22-10-2018 08:00 via theguardian.com
  Stephen King says The Haunting of Hill House is ‘nearly perfect’. But can a Netflix TV adaptation capture Shirley Jackson’s dark visions of duty and domesticity?Anyone who has read Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House will find a couple of details of its 1959 reception almost too neat to be true. Jackson had been writing novels and stories for nearly two decades before embarking on her tale of Hill House, a mansion set under a hill where visitors can turn up any t
  
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• Monday’s best TV: My Dinner With Hervé; Black Earth Rising

  22-10-2018 07:30 via theguardian.com
  HBO takes an intriguing look at the life of the dwarf actor who found fame as a Bond baddie, while Hugo Blick’s gripping drama produces a devastating twistHervé Villechaize was the dwarf actor who found cult status as Bond henchman Nick Nack, but years later killed himself after growing despondent over his worsening health conditions. This intriguing HBO film from journalist-turned-director Sacha Gervasi is loosely based on his own encounter with Villechaize shortly before the star&
  
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