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• Stephenie Meyer Recalls Her Very First Memory From Twilight Set

  24-10-2018 23:53 via feeds.eonline.com
  Ten years and counting!It's hard to believe that it's been a decade since Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart hit the big screen and fell in love in the blockbuster hit that...
  
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• Hey, Have You Seen This Thief Who Looks Like Ross From Friends?

  24-10-2018 23:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  On September 20, a man stole what appears to be a case of beer cans from a restaurant in Blackpool, England. Yesterday, the local police department shared a surveillance photo of the incident, prompting the world to come together in the face of petty crime and say: “Damn, that guy looks like...More »
  
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• Tiffany Haddish and Billy Eichner Have a Hocus Pocus Witch Hunt

  24-10-2018 23:00 via feeds.eonline.com
  Tiffany Haddish and Billy Eichner are on the hunt for a more diverse Hocus Pocus cast.With Halloween just days away, the Girls Trip star has teamed up with the comedian for a...
  
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• Ross From ‘Friends’ Didn’t Do It: Your Wednesday Pop Culture Cheat Sheet

  24-10-2018 22:36 via nytimes.com
  What you need to know from today’s TV, music and movie news.
  
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• Dianne Wiest Is a Boulder, but Not for Halloween

  24-10-2018 21:06 via nytimes.com
  The star is revisiting her role in Samuel Beckett’s “Happy Days” at Madison Square Park, in a costume by Arlene Shechet, whose art is on display there.
  
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• Pete Holmes’s Second HBO Stand-up Special Dirty Clean Premieres in December

  24-10-2018 20:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  Pete Holmes will return to HBO later this year with his second stand-up special for the network. Titled Dirty Clean, the special will tape at the Aladdin Theater in Portland, Oregon, next month and feature Holmes “confronting personal truths about the mechanisms of consciousness, Michael Jackson, the afterlife and Elon...More »
  
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• Luca Guadagnino Reveals Dakota Johnson’s Secret Second Role in Suspiria

  24-10-2018 20:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  When you talk to Luca Guadagnino about his new version of Suspiria, there’s only one question he doesn’t want to answer. “Do not ask me why I wanted to make this movie,” he jokes as we sit down in a publicist’s office overlooking the Financial District. You can understand journalists’...More »
  
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• Encounters: Alexandra Pelosi Plunges Into Trump Country

  24-10-2018 20:13 via nytimes.com
  The documentarian daughter of the House Democratic leader goes “Outside the Bubble.”
  
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• Articles of Interest Is a Fashion Podcast About Capitalism and Power

  24-10-2018 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Whether we like or not, we are all speaking with our clothes,” argues host Avery Trufelman in the closing moments of Articles of Interest, the well-named spinoff mini-series of 99% Invisible. “And we might as well give a good hard think about what we want to say.”Sure, it’s a point...More »
  
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• Danny Leiner, Director Known for Stoner Films, Is Dead at 57

  24-10-2018 19:56 via nytimes.com
  His breakout movie was “Dude, Where’s My Car?” It was followed, four years later, by the first “Harold & Kumar” film.
  
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• Review: ‘Suspiria’ Is a Gaudy Freakout of Female Violence

  24-10-2018 19:37 via nytimes.com
  Luca Guadagnino’s remake of the 1970s Dario Argento freakout is a bloated fantasy of consuming power.
  
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• Weinstein Accusers Share Their Stories in Trailer for The Reckoning

  24-10-2018 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  The trailer for the new documentary The Reckoning: Hollywood’s Worst Kept Secret opens with actresses thanking fallen producer Harvey Weinstein at the Oscars before transitioning to women who have accused him of sexual assault recounting his alleged crimes against them. Weinstein has been accused by dozens of women of various...More »
  
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• David Schwimmer Didn’t Do It: Your Wednesday Pop Culture Cheat Sheet

  24-10-2018 19:28 via nytimes.com
  What you need to know from today’s TV, music and movie news.
  
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• Netflix – treat your black customers with the respect they deserve | Lanre Bakare

  24-10-2018 19:18
  By promoting their shows with bit-part black actors, Netflix is distorting the truth about Hollywood diversityCynical but essentially harmless? Or another instance of unacknowledged racism? Claims that Netflix’s algorithm has presented some users with “racially targeted” promotional images for films and TV shows has caused consternation among some – and shrugs from others. Does it matter if a tech company uses data to tailor a user’s experience? Isn’t it a han
  
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• Embarrassingly, We Are Just Learning About Detective Calzone

  24-10-2018 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Great filmmakers come from everywhere. Austin Tolin is proof.With a Vimeo page that’s a delightful mixture of under-viewed alt gems, docu-shorts, and a surprisingly well-shot wedding video from what I’d assume was the front end of Tolin’s career, his work dispels any notion that the craft evaporates in the space...More »
  
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• Barbara Kingsolver Takes Aim at the Trump Era, and Critics Shoot Back

  24-10-2018 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  In a long, mildly unhinged 1999 essay on Barbara Kingsolver’s career-cementing novel, The Poisonwood Bible, critic Lee Siegel canonized the author as “the most successful practitioner of a style in contemporary fiction that might be called Nice Writing.” It wasn’t a compliment. He found her work so reverential of liberal...More »
  
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• AT&T shares fall more than 8% as TV business slumps

  24-10-2018 18:56 via ft.com
  Loss of nearly 300,000 subscribers drags down profits for largest US telecoms group
  
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• AT&T misses profit forecast as TV business slumps

  24-10-2018 18:56 via ft.com
  Shares down more than 7% as company reveals loss of nearly 300,000 subscribers
  
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• Sandra Bullock's Bird Box Trailer Is a Non-Stop Scare

  24-10-2018 18:50 via feeds.eonline.com
  Prepare to hold your breath for this entire trailer.
  The first preview for Sandra Bullock's upcoming film Bird Box has just debuted and let's just say you'll be on the edge...
  
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• 6 Attention-Getting Off Broadway Shows Are Back for Encores

  24-10-2018 18:36 via nytimes.com
  Return engagements mean second chances to see acclaimed productions, like “School Girls” and “Happy Birthday, Wanda June,” that got away.
  
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• Bodyguard Recap: In the Line of Fire

  24-10-2018 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  An action-packed episode of BBC and Netflix’s Bodyguard really complicates the relationship between David Budd and Julia Montague, both of whom have such a strong need for human contact that they turn to each physically, while also holding back crucial information. We are supposed to be as dismayed as David...More »
  
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• Theater Reviews: The Joys and Troubles of the Teaching Play

  24-10-2018 18:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  Plot Points in Our Sexual Development and India Pale Ale are teaching plays. They’d like us to leave the theater broader-minded than when we entered it, our ears and hearts more open to stories and storytellers that we perhaps haven’t fully or frequently listened to. In Plot Points, Miranda Rose...More »
  
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• Lauren Jauregui Is Your Latest Fifth Harmony Member to Fly Solo

  24-10-2018 18:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  Fifth Harmony have had no harmony for some months now, and in the time since their “hiatus” (read: breakup), Normani has emerged as the new front-runner to have a solo breakout like Camila Cabello first did a year earlier when she left the group. But not so fast: Lauren Jauregui...More »
  
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• Tiffany Haddish Goes on Billy on the Street to Hunt for Woke Witches

  24-10-2018 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Following last month’s Billy on the Street with Emma Stone, Billy Eichner is back today with a brand-new installment of the series featuring comedian, actor, and expert late-night guest Tiffany Haddish. With Halloween right around the corner, Eichner and Haddish have teamed up to star as two of the three...More »
  
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• The Best Documentaries About Movies Gone Completely Awry

  24-10-2018 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Shirkers is, in many respects, a singular movie. Directed by novelist and filmmaker Sandi Tan, it debuted at Sundance earlier this year and it’s technically her feature debut. But it’s also about the feature debut that wasn’t: the film Tan made with her friends in her native Singapore one summer...More »
  
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• Charlamagne Tha God Says He Canceled Kanye Interview Because Kanye’s Off His Meds

  24-10-2018 17:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  Last week, radio host Charlamagne Tha God and Kanye West were meant to have a live interview for a TimesTalk on mental illness. That interview, however, was abruptly canceled just two days prior with Charlamagne saying it was his decision to scrap the interview because “to have that conversation with...More »
  
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• Scarlett Johansson reportedly turned down film funding from Saudi prince

  24-10-2018 17:21
  Actor vetoed money from Mohammed bin Salman for a biopic in which she will play photojournalist Lynsey AddarioScarlett Johansson reportedly vetoed funding from the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, for her next film.The actor is set to play the Pulitzer prize-winning photojournalist Lynsey Addario in a biopic directed by Ridley Scott, but when she found out the initial set of funders included Bin Salman, she rejected his involvement. Continue reading...
  
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• It’s time to stop talking about millennials

  24-10-2018 17:00 via ft.com
  The latest generational cohort to emerge is defined by experience not just biology
  
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• Bret Easton Ellis On Why He Named His First Book in a Decade White

  24-10-2018 16:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  On Tuesday evening, news broke on Twitter that Bret Easton Ellis, the author of American Psycho and Less Than Zero, was publishing a new book, his first in nearly a decade. A collection of essays that look at how free speech is “threatened in today’s society,” the book, provocatively titled...More »
  
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• Netflix Adds A Christmas Prince 2, Doctor Strange in November 2018

  24-10-2018 16:50 via feeds.eonline.com
  Thanks to Netflix, subscribers have even more reasons to be thankful this Thanksgiving.The company just announced which titles will be added to its library next month, including original...
  
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• Cruel Intentions, Jurassic Park Leaving Netflix in November 2018

  24-10-2018 16:50 via feeds.eonline.com
  The good news is Netflix is adding more titles than it's losing in November.The bad news is the company also just announced which titles will no longer be available to stream next...
  
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• Stephen King sells film rights for story to Welsh teenagers for $1

  24-10-2018 16:45
  Horror writer lets Blaenau Gwent Film Academy make version of Stationary BikeThe horror writer Stephen King has given a group of teenage fans from south Wales permission to turn one of his tales into a film at a cost of $1 for the rights.Youngsters from Tredegar in Blaenau Gwent will spend the next couple of months working on the script before filming the story, Stationary Bike, in and around the town. Continue reading...
  
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• Bird Box Trailer: Sandra Bullock and Trevante Rhodes Get Blindfolded

  24-10-2018 16:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  In A Quiet Place, John Krasinski and Emily Blunt weren’t allowed to talk, but in Netflix’s new movie Bird Box, directed by Susanne Bier (The Night Manager, Serena), Sandra Bullock and Trevante Rhodes aren’t allowed to see. (Pretty high stakes for a movie with hot people!) A mysterious creature has...More »
  
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• Bodyguard Is Now on Netflix, So Prepare for a Nail-Biting Binge

  24-10-2018 16:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  Bodyguard became an indisputable TV phenomenon in the U.K. last month, emerging as the nation’s most-watched new drama in a decade and one that, as the Guardian put it, placed viewers “back in the world of the watercooler” again. It was the kind of show that everyone was talking about, and...More »
  
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• 5 Head-Crushing Highlights From the New Kids in the Hall Biography

  24-10-2018 16:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  Paul Myers usually writes biographies about rock stars, and he used that approach to create The Kids in the Hall: One Dumb Guy, the story of possibly the greatest comedy troupe of all time, and Canada’s greatest world citizens, the Kids in the Hall. Myers conducted interviews with pretty much...More »
  
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• Bodyguard Premiere Recap: A Substantial Threat

  24-10-2018 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  The premiere of Bodyguard sets up an interesting dynamic — can a man who feels betrayed by his government protect one of its most vocal members? It’s an extreme situation but also relatable in a time of more and more passionate positions regarding terrorism and wartime. What if your job...More »
  
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• This Week in Rap: Lil B Still Loves the Internet, Juice WRLD Finds His Voice, and More

  24-10-2018 16:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  Every Wednesday, Vulture runs through the best, most interesting, and sometimes confusing rap releases of the week. In this installment: Lil B, Roc Marciano and DJ Muggs, Open Mike Eagle, and a collaboration between Future and everyone’s favorite emo rapper Juice WRLD.Lil B, Options This is a video from 2011,...More »
  
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• Revisiting the Surreal Kids Safety Video Made by Re-Animator’s Director

  24-10-2018 16:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  There are certain moments in cinematic history when a visionary director is paired with a project perfectly suited to accentuate their talents and push the boundaries of what film can achieve. Then there is Kid Safe, a children’s educational video created by psychosexual horror icon Stuart Gordon.The year was 1988....More »
  
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• Kerry Washington Has Something to Fear

  24-10-2018 16:00 via nytimes.com
  Returning to Broadway after “Scandal,” the actress takes a role in “American Son” that’s a far cry from Olivia Pope, but that may be closer to who she is.
  
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• Haunting of Hill House Creator Says the Crain Family Story Is ‘Done’

  24-10-2018 15:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  Netflix’s The Haunting of Hill House riffs on and changes up parts of Shirley Jackson’s novel to adapt it to television, but the show’s creator doesn’t have any plans to expand the story about the central family past the end of the show’s first season. In an interview with EW,...More »
  
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• Amber Ruffin Reminds Megyn Kelly ‘There Is No Magical Day’ Where Blackface Isn’t Racist

  24-10-2018 15:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  Yesterday, Megyn Kelly took some time during her NBC show to pose a bizarre question regarding a white person wearing blackface as part of a Halloween costume: “But what is racist?” During last night’s Late Night, Seth Meyers brought out writer Amber Ruffin to entertain Kelly’s defense of what’s been...More »
  
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• Bill Cosby’s Appeal For a New Trial Dismissed by Judge

  24-10-2018 15:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  Bill Cosby’s bid for a new trial was rejected by a Pennsylvania judge on Tuesday. According to the New York Times, Judge Steven T. O’Neill dismissed the bid and told Cosby’s team they could redirect it to the Superior Court of Pennsylvania. “The court has determined that no hearing or...More »
  
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• So, How Did Eddie Griffin End Up in A Star Is Born?

  24-10-2018 14:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  Spoilers for A Star Is Born’s romantic climax follow.After a bender in Memphis, Jackson Maine (Bradley Cooper) and Ally Campana (Lady Gaga) spend time at his friend Noodles’s (Dave Chappelle) house, when the country rocker decides to make a big personal commitment. With a ring fashioned from a guitar string,...More »
  
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• AT&T misses profit forecast as pay-TV business stutters

  24-10-2018 14:08 via ft.com
  Newly-acquired media unit boosted by hits such as Crazy Rich Asians
  
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• Rewind: In ‘The Fog,’ Made After ‘Halloween,’ Seafaring Zombies Arrive

  24-10-2018 13:00 via nytimes.com
  John Carpenter’s 1980 movie, which hinges more on suspense than on gore, has been newly restored and is showing at the Metrograph.
  
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• Inside No 9: the 10 best episodes so far

  24-10-2018 12:28
  Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton’s horrifying anthology series returns on Sunday with a live Halloween special. Here are the finest moments from the first four seasonsFrom cryptic crosswords to children’s party games, Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton’s compulsively horrifying anthology series Inside No 9 has converted all sorts of seemingly innocuous subjects into spine-tingling TV, unearthing incest, murder, modern slavery and more from beneath a host of apparently mun
  
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• Real Housewives of Anywhere: what does the series say about the cities?

  24-10-2018 11:00
  Once derided as TV at its trashiest, the Real Housewives franchise has found a new, feminist following – and developed a unique identity in each new cityIf you do not watch reality television, it is possible – you might say, preferable – that the infamously larger-than-life Real Housewives franchise may have passed you by even as it has taken over the world. Since the first show established the formula of following the day-to-day dramas of wealthy white women in California&rsqu
  
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