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• Hugo Boss Prize-winning Artist Simone Leigh On Why She Helps Younger Artists

  25-10-2018 23:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  Last week, Brooklyn-based artist Simone Leigh was awarded the Guggenheim Museum’s Hugo Boss Prize. “A lot of people would characterize a moment like this in my career like I’d reached the finish line, but actually it’s the beginning. ‘What will I do with the Hugo Boss award?’ is a more...More »
  
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• ‘Suspiria’: Stream the Original and 8 Other Italian Horror Classics

  25-10-2018 23:53 via nytimes.com
  Luca Guadagnino’s remake of “Suspiria” draws from the Golden Age of Italian Horror, a stylish and bloody bunch of films that continue to shape the genre.
  
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• Shirkers Is a Joyful, Haunted Tale of Creativity, Youth, and Loss

  25-10-2018 23:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  More than once in Shirkers, Sandi Tan, or those once close to her, describe her as an “asshole.” As a young, wannabe creative genius, I spent an inordinate amount of time in my young adulthood parsing the word “asshole” as an insult. To me it connoted bossiness, self-absorption, an allergy...More »
  
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• Sally4Ever review – Julia Davis unleashes another comic monster

  25-10-2018 23:30
  A singular mix of humiliation, emotional agony and bodily fluids skewers the viewer in exquisite agonyEver since I first heard them, I have been trying to unhear them. But still, two years on, when I am awake at the witching hour, two lines from Camping creep out of the rank oubliette of my memory castle and into my tender conscious mind. Once in there, they try to force me to decide which is worse: “Mummy’s stinky was bald,” or “Her urethra was very fat and raw.” S
  
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• An Artwork Made by Artificial Intelligence Just Sold for $400,000. I Am Shocked, Confused, Appalled.

  25-10-2018 23:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  Last night Christie’s did it again! The auction house sold an iffy object for an astronomical price.Last year the company sold a portrait for $450 million that was said to have been painted by Leonardo da Vinci — a work many now suspect might have been painted by a studio...More »
  
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• Megyn Kelly Never Belonged at Today. The Blackface Debacle Just Proves It.

  25-10-2018 23:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Is Megyn Kelly’s lease on the third hour of NBC’s Today show finally about to expire? After stating during a panel discussion on Megyn Kelly Today that she didn’t understand why wearing blackface on Halloween is racist, Kelly’s morning show has reportedly been canceled. It’s unclear whether she will remain...More »
  
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• 6 Film Series to Catch in N.Y.C. This Weekend

  25-10-2018 23:00 via nytimes.com
  Our guide to film series and special screenings.
  
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• It’s Getting Hot in Here, So Take Off Matt Damon’s Burning Clothes

  25-10-2018 22:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  His name is Matt Speed Demon now. “Page Six” reports that Matt Damon was set ablaze Tuesday on set of the James Mangold movie Ford v. Ferrari. Damon plays Carroll Shelby, a former race-car driver and automotive designer tasked with designing a Ford car to beat Ferrari at the 1966...More »
  
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• Megyn Kelly’s Lawyers Could Meet With NBC As Early As Tomorrow

  25-10-2018 22:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  NBC and Megyn Kelly’s legal representatives were in contact Thursday to set up a meeting regarding her future at NBC News, as reports circulated that Megyn Kelly Today will end in the wake of comments she made on air defending the use of blackface in Halloween costumes.Kelly’s attorney Bryan J....More »
  
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• A Very Iggy Holiday: 5 Things to Know in Pop Culture Today

  25-10-2018 22:08 via nytimes.com
  What you need to know from today’s TV, music and movie news.
  
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• This Week in True-Crime Podcasts: Gladiator, Felonious Florida, and More

  25-10-2018 21:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  The true-crime podcast universe is ever expanding. We’re here to make it a bit smaller, a bit more manageable. There are a lot of great shows and each has a lot of great episodes, so we want to highlight the exceptional, the noteworthy. Each week for the month of October,...More »
  
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• Natalie Portman Channels Her Fiercest and Frankest Pop Star in Vox Lux Trailer

  25-10-2018 21:35 via feeds.eonline.com
  "That's what this show is about--it's about rebirth."And just like her character, Natalie Portman has also been reborn into Celeste, a no-holds-barred music star with a...
  
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• Papier-Mâché Eyeballs, Go-Go Dancers, Secret Passwords: A Look at The Eyeslicer

  25-10-2018 21:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  You might discover the next wave of great independent filmmakers at a marquee film festival. Or you might discover them at a Kansas City porn theater, where papier-mâché–eyeball-wearing go-go dancers abound, roller-derby teammates skate, and a punk band performs.The latter destination, the Strand Theater, was one of Dan Schoenbrun’s recent...More »
  
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• A Bumbling Spy Returns in the Resoundingly Mild Johnny English Strikes Again

  25-10-2018 21:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Mr. Bean is Great Britain trying to come to terms with the modern world,” declared a very smart friend of mine back in 1994, discussing one of Rowan Atkinson’s more popular characters. It was a brilliant observation, but such specificity had never occurred to me. The English comedian’s shtick seemed so...More »
  
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• Twee uitverkochte voorstellingen in Theater De Tuin - LeusderKrant.nl

  25-10-2018 21:10
  Twee uitverkochte voorstellingen in Theater De Tuin
  LeusderKrant.nl
  Om teleurstellingen te voorkomen, laten we u weten dat de voorstelling 'Vaarwel 2018' van Sjaak Bral op vrijdag 2 november in Theater De Tuin volledig uitverkocht is. Er zijn dus geen kaarten meer beschikbaar. Hetzelfde geldt voor de kindervoorstelling ...
  
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• Gecancelde voorstelling Kurt Defranq in Theater De Tuin - LeusderKrant.nl

  25-10-2018 21:10
  Gecancelde voorstelling Kurt Defranq in Theater De Tuin
  LeusderKrant.nl
  Tot onze spijt moeten wij berichten dat de voorstelling 'MDMDL' van Kurt Defranq op zaterdag 3 november in Theater De Tuin door onvoorziene omstandigheden niet doorgaat. Gerelateerde artikelen. Bijzondere theatermonoloog over mantelzorg 'Met de ...
  
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• New on Streaming: What to Watch This Week

  25-10-2018 21:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  Is it time to rehabilitate Quantum of Solace yet? Though it’s arguably the least-liked and most-forgotten entry in recent Bond canon, the water-crisis-based Quantum of Solace isn’t actually so shabby (in my opinion, anyway) — or at least, it seems timely, now. Most of that has to do with Mathieu...More »
  
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• More Beautiful People Join Reese Witherspoon’s Morning News TV Show

  25-10-2018 20:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon’s morning news show TV show has found some more beautiful people to cast. Vulture has confirmed that the as-yet-untitled series about the inner workings of a morning news TV show, which will debut on Apple’s streaming service, has cast Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Hannah Shoenfeld, “the...More »
  
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• Jamie Lee Curtis Rides Her Box Office Heatwave Into Rian Johnson’s Knives Out

  25-10-2018 20:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  Jamie Lee Curtis can continue celebrating. Her Halloween sequel is set to top the box office for a second weekend, and Variety reports that she is now on board for Rian Johnson’s Knives Out. Written and directed by Johnson, the story is described as “a modern-day murder mystery in the classic...More »
  
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• The Sub Thriller Hunter Killer Is a Satisfyingly Clichéd Throwback to Simpler Times

  25-10-2018 20:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  The new submarine thriller Hunter Killer is like a transmission from an alternate reality, one in which American and Russian presidents still act with some semblance of dignity, where high-level officials still regularly demonstrate professionalism, and where spittle-flecked, treasonous lunacy is still regarded as an aberration and not just, well, shrug, the...More »
  
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• New XXXTentacion Song Released Days After Confession Tape Surfaces

  25-10-2018 20:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  Earlier this week, a tape of XXXTentacion confessing to domestic abuse and other violent crimes that was secretly recorded years prior to his murder in June was obtained by Pitchfork. The revelation hasn’t, however, slowed down his career. Today Lil Pump, a friend of X’s, has gone ahead with releasing...More »
  
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• After Rudolph, Rankin/Bass Got Spooky With Weirdly Delightful Results

  25-10-2018 20:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  In 1967, Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass surveyed the breadth of their kingdom and sighed. With their stop-motion treatment of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer three years earlier, the co-producers had effectively conquered the Christmas season and laid claim to its televised-special throne. In search of new challenges, they branched...More »
  
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• How BTS Succeeded Where Other Boy Bands Couldn’t

  25-10-2018 20:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  After BTS’s Love Yourself World Tour sold out across the globe, it wasn’t uncommon to see American media comparing their tour to the Beatles’ arrival in the U.S. and the British Invasion of the 1960s as a whole, as BTS has left in their wake a long trail of sold-out...More »
  
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• This Week in Comedy Podcasts: Danny Pudi Is Gettin’ Better

  25-10-2018 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The comedy podcast universe is ever expanding, not unlike the universe universe. We’re here to make it a bit smaller, a bit more manageable. There are a lot of great shows and each has a lot of great episodes, so we want to highlight the exceptional, the noteworthy. Each week...More »
  
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• The Best Teen Witches of Pop Culture, From Buffy to Chilling Adventures of Sabrina

  25-10-2018 19:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  Welcome to the season of the witch. There are sorceresses aplenty popping up onscreen this Halloween, from Freeform’s Hocus Pocus marathon to the new Chilling Adventures of Sabrina set to premiere on Friday. But Netflix’s iteration of Sabrina is hardly the first teen witch to catch the attention of the...More »
  
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• Why Deutschland 86 Isn’t a ‘Black-and-White’ Cold War Spy Thriller

  25-10-2018 19:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  Guten tag, Herr Genosse! Three years ago, SundanceTV struck a cult hit when it aired Deutschland 83, a German show set in 1983 that told the story of a young East German man, Martin Rauch (Jonas Nay), who is forced to work as a spy. His aunt Lenora (Maria Schrader),...More »
  
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• Review: In ‘Burning,’ Love Ignites a Divided World

  25-10-2018 19:39 via nytimes.com
  The great South Korean director Lee Chang-dong’s latest involves three characters subsumed by desire and rage.
  
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• A Very Iggy Christmas: 5 Things to Know in Pop Culture Today

  25-10-2018 19:31 via nytimes.com
  What you need to know from today’s TV, music and movie news.
  
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• A Star Trek Animated Comedy Is in the Works From a Rick and Morty Writer

  25-10-2018 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Get ready for yet another brand-new Star Trek series — only this time it’s in cartoon form. CBS All Access announced today that it’s handed out a two-season order to a half-hour animated series titled Star Trek: Lower Decks, which is created by Rick and Morty writer Mike McMahan. The...More »
  
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• Review: In ‘A Bread Factory,’ Local Artists Face Off Against the World

  25-10-2018 19:08 via nytimes.com
  An ambitious, sprawling film about the efforts of a community arts center to survive, “A Bread Factory” is a major new work by a singular American artist.
  
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• WPP: fevered pitch

  25-10-2018 18:56 via ft.com
  Fixing the bloated advertising group will take some time and investment
  
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• Review: In ‘The Dark,’ a Traumatized Teenager Becomes a Zombie

  25-10-2018 18:35 via nytimes.com
  The main characters are survivors of childhood abuse, weighty material for a slim film.
  
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• Hear Natalie Portman’s Long Island Accent in Vox Lux Trailer

  25-10-2018 18:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  You really thought pop icon Ally Maine was the only star to be born in 2018? Meet Natalie Portman’s Celeste, the glittering, drunken pop icon at the center of Brady Corbet’s Vox Lux. After she survives a violent trauma as a teenager in the 1990s, Celeste and her sister Eleanor...More »
  
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• Comcast looks to Sky deal as US cord cutting hits home

  25-10-2018 18:05 via ft.com
  Cable group upbeat about acquisition but results point to grim outlook for set-box TV
  
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• LGBT characters at record high on TV, report finds

  25-10-2018 18:02
  Glaad’s annual findings broad improvement, with shows like Will & Grace and Empire singled out for their inclusivityLGBT characters are at an all-time high on television, according to new findings.The annual Where We Are on TV report has found that 8.8% of regular characters expected to appear in the next year on US network television are LGBT, up from 6.4% the previous year, with 50% of them people of colour. There was also an equal percentage of male and female characters, an improve
  
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• Broad City Returns in January Alongside New Show from Chris Kelly and Sarah Schneider

  25-10-2018 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Late January is looking very exciting over at Comedy Central. The network just announced that the fifth and final season of Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer’s series Broad City will premiere on Thursday, January 24 at 10 p.m. It’ll be followed by the series premiere of former SNL head writers...More »
  
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• 7 Essential Fall Books by and About Women Who Rock

  25-10-2018 17:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  Writing women into music history has taken some time. NPR’s ongoing “Turning the Tables” series has been working to shift the canon with lists and essays aimed at rebalancing coverage, and other outlets have joined the effort. The industry has a ways to go — music festivals still book lopsided...More »
  
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• Bill Burr’s Animated Series F Is for Family Returns to Netflix Next Month

  25-10-2018 17:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  Bill Burr and Michael Price’s animated comedy series that’s definitely not for children, F Is for Family, just got a premiere date on Netflix. Renewed for a third season last year just a month after season two premiered, the ’70s-set show features the voices of Burr alongside Laura Dern, Justin...More »
  
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• BBC faces existential crisis as young people turn to rivals – Ofcom

  25-10-2018 17:36
  Media regulator says BBC is losing viewers and listeners to commercial rivals and online servicesThe BBC is facing an existential crisis as a result of its failure to reach younger audiences in the face of competition from commercial rivals and online services such as YouTube and Netflix, according to Ofcom.The media regulator found that young people were increasingly turning away from the corporation’s TV and radio output and the BBC was “not currently doing enough, quickly enough&r
  
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• BTS Release Their First-Ever English Song, With Help From Steve Aoki

  25-10-2018 17:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  Good news! That one friend who always swears they can’t get into BTS because of the language barrier can no longer use that excuse. (But, even so, get a new friend.) The K-pop group has dropped their first-ever completely English-language song, “Waste It on Me,” with Steve Aoki. It’s their...More »
  
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• How Suspiria Gutted the Original Mystery and Put Its Witches ‘in Charge’

  25-10-2018 17:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Screenwriter David Kajganich hasn’t quite figured out what to call the kind of scripts he writes. Luca Guadagnino’s summery, murderous A Bigger Splash; the bloody, murderous Suspiria; a script for It that the studio didn’t end up using; 2007’s The Invasion — these are movies are based on older movies,...More »
  
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• Don’t Play This New Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Song for Any Aspiring Lawyers

  25-10-2018 16:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  Hey, you. Yes, you! You know anyone going into the law profession? Like, human rights, environmental, immigration, a small-time firm in Albuquerque? Do ‘em a solid and make them watch the video for Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’s newest song, “Don’t Be a Lawyer.” It’s a wee bit self-explanatory, but if you still...More »
  
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• See Pierce Brosnan and the Mrs. Doubtfire Kids' Sweet Reunion 25 Years Later

  25-10-2018 16:56 via feeds.eonline.com
  The Hillards are back together!Nearly 25 years since Mrs. Doubtfire came into their lives--and ours!--the stars who famously portrayed the three children of the 1993 classic comedy have...
  
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• Richard Linklater Is Working on a New Bill Hicks Biopic

  25-10-2018 16:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  The late and controversial comedian Bill Hicks might get the biopic treatment thanks to director Richard Linklater. According to Collider, Linklater is attached to write and direct an untitled film for Focus Features based on the life of Bill Hicks, who died of pancreatic cancer in 1994 when he was...More »
  
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• Review: ‘Monrovia, Indiana’ Is a Sharp, Lyrical Look at Small-Town America

  25-10-2018 16:45 via nytimes.com
  Frederick Wiseman’s visit to Trump country finds that there is more to life than politics, and more to democracy than ideology.
  
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• Jonah Hill Explains the Origins of His Very Adult 6-Year-Old SNL Character

  25-10-2018 16:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ahead of returning to host Saturday Night Live next week (joining the Five-Timers Club) Jonah Hill stopped by Late Night last night. He briefly chatted with Seth Meyers about the origins of his very funny 6-year-old recurring SNL character Adam Grossman. The character was all thanks to a story Bill...More »
  
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• Star Is Born’s Cashier Luenell Also Thinks Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga Should Be Together

  25-10-2018 16:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  Part of the fun of A Star Is Born is picking out the constellation of bit parts and surprising cameos that made it into Bradley Cooper’s directorial debut. Jackson Maine’s ear doctor was the actor’s real ear doctor, and his dog was his real-life dog; Eddie Griffin married Jackson and...More »
  
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• Enorme kerkzaal VEZ ook te huur als theater - De Stentor

  25-10-2018 16:04
  De Stentor
  Enorme kerkzaal VEZ ook te huur als theater
  De Stentor
  De snel groeiende Vrije Evangelisatie Zwolle wil met de aankoop van de WRZV-sporthallen een grote kerkzaal bouwen die wellicht ook beschikbaar komt als theaterzaal. Let wel: met plek voor 2500 bezoekers. Marco van den Berg 25-10-18, 16:04 Laatste ...
  
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