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• Here’s Your First Photo of Saoirse Ronan As Jo March in Little Women

  05-11-2018 23:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  Gather ‘round little women, regular-sized women, and all other persons: behold the greatest crossover event in cinematic history. Sharp Objects star Eliza Scanlen and three-time Academy Award nominee (and winner in our hearts) Saoirse Ronan have been spotted on the set of Greta Gerwig’s Little Women in Harvard, Massachusetts. Ronan...More »
  
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• How to Watch the 2018 Midterm Elections If You Don’t Have Cable TV

  05-11-2018 23:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  Just about every celebrity over the age of 18 is imploring you to vote in the 2018 midterm elections, but here comes your friend Vulture to implore you to devour the midterm election coverage, too. (You know, after you finish voting. They’re not mutually exclusive.) As with any big news...More »
  
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• The Romanoffs’ Misconduct Episode Is Depressing and Unnecessary

  05-11-2018 23:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  The fifth episode of The Romanoffs is about an artist who is accused of misconduct, without his knowledge and seemingly without basis. It’s the weakest thing Matthew Weiner has done since getting creative control over his own work. Telling the story of an openly gay piano teacher (Andrew Rannells) who’s...More »
  
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• Aretha Franklin Gospel Film Finally Has a Release Date, 46 Years After It Was Made

  05-11-2018 23:36 via nytimes.com
  An Oscar push is planned for “Amazing Grace,” which captures a transcendent performance by the Queen of Soul at a Baptist church in Los Angeles in 1972.
  
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• How to Listen to R.E.M.’s Final Years

  05-11-2018 23:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  There is an argument to make that the end of R.E.M. came on March 1, 1995, in Lausanne, Switzerland.It was early on, during the tour behind R.E.M.’s latest album, the glammy and heavy Monster. The follow-up to Automatic for the People went No. 1 in the U.S. and several other...More »
  
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• Doing Money review – bleak and unforgiving story of modern slavery

  05-11-2018 23:30
  Based on a true story, this followed a young Romanian woman snatched off the streets in London and forced into prostitution in IrelandThere was only one unbelievable element in Lynsey Miller’s bleak and unforgiving film about modern slavery – that was that it was based on a true story.Doing Money follows Ana, a twentysomething Romanian woman living in London and working as a cleaner while she studies to be a nurse, over the course of the year after she is snatched off the street by a
  
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• Veel belangstelling voor Cold Case Team in het theater - RTV Rijnmond

  05-11-2018 23:29
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  Een volle zaal in Theater aan de Schie in Schiedam bij een speciale avond van het Cold Case-Team Rotterdam. De politie gaf maandagavond op het toneel tekst en uitleg over hun werk bij onopgeloste moordzaken. "We vertellen over de Kralingse Bos zaak ...
  
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• House of Cards Star Michael Kelly on the Final Season, Robin Wright, and Doug Stamper’s Fate

  05-11-2018 23:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  Spoilers ahead for the final season of House of Cards.The weekend that the Kevin Spacey sexual-assault allegations broke last October remains a fog for actor Michael Kelly. As Frank Underwood’s right-hand man and most loyal supporter on House of Cards, Doug Stamper (Kelly) and Frank (Spacey) shared a lot of...More »
  
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• Everything Bohemian Rhapsody Got Wrong About Freddie Mercury's Life

  05-11-2018 23:12 via feeds.eonline.com
  By now, there's a good chance that you spent part of your weekend taking in a screening of Bohemian Rhapsody.After all, the Freddie Mercury biopic earned the second-biggest start of...
  
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• We Went to the Gregor Hildebrandt Party (With Kinder-Punk Art Band) Since You Weren’t on the List.

  05-11-2018 23:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sorry you weren’t invited to the Perrotin Gallery opening for Gregor Hildebrandt, that super-cool artist from Germany who paints and collages using pressed vinyl records and unspooled audio tape. Paar, the poppy, kinder-punky art-student band — fronted by an actual student of Hildebrandt’s — played the private after-party. The scene,...More »
  
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• 46 Years Later, Aretha Franklin Gospel Film Has a Release Date

  05-11-2018 22:33 via nytimes.com
  “Amazing Grace” captures a holy-grail performance by the Queen of Soul at a Baptist church in Los Angeles in 1972. Ms. Franklin had blocked its release.
  
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• Kerry Washington, Steven Pasquale on What They’d Do If Trump Showed Up to Their New Play

  05-11-2018 21:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  The new play American Son is sure to spark conversation. “It asks almost every hard political question that we’re dealing with right now,” Steven Pasquale, who stars as Kerry Washington’s onstage husband, told Vulture at last night’s premiere party (among them, our varied social epidemics: police brutality, racism, misogyny, classism,...More »
  
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• 24 Movies to Watch on FilmStruck While You Still Can

  05-11-2018 21:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  The world of film lovers is still reeling over the announcement that their beloved FilmStruck will shut down permanently on November 29. Naturally, with their grief comes a desire to get as much out of the streaming service as possible before it becomes a footnote in digital history. The home...More »
  
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• Homecoming Recap: Blank Slate

  05-11-2018 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  To a certain extent, Homecoming is starting to feel like Amazon’s answer to Stranger Things on Netflix, in that both feel less like original series spun from whole cloth than an extended homage to past masters. Stranger Things has two seasons’ worth of references to all things ’80s, leaning particularly...More »
  
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• You’re The Worst Final Season Trailer Does Not Promises a Happily Ever After

  05-11-2018 20:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  After so many ups and so many very down downs, Gretchen (Aya Cash) and Jimmy (Chris Greene) are finally going through with this marriage thing. Well, they’re most likely going through with it, or at least that is the plan. But regardless of when or how the wedding goes down,...More »
  
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• They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead Is Intoxicating

  05-11-2018 20:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  Once upon a time, when discussing the fate of one of his other unfinished projects, a years-in-production adaptation of Don Quixote, Orson Welles noted that he was thinking of calling it When Are You Going to Finish Don Quixote? He was (mostly) joking, I think, but many took him at...More »
  
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• Give tax breaks to more diverse production firms, say actors

  05-11-2018 20:17
  Show business figures call for more women and BAME and disabled people behind cameraProduction companies should be given tax relief to encourage them to employ more women, disabled people and people from minority ethnic backgrounds, according to a host of prominent figures in show business and other areas of pubic life.The actors Lenny Henry, Thandie Newton and Chiwetel Ejiofor were among the signatories to a letter to the Guardian that said similar moves had been successful before and should be
  
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• Ken Jeong and Shaquille O’Neal to Take on Odd Jobs in TBS Comedy Pilot

  05-11-2018 20:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  Having competed against each other in TBS’s Drop the Mic series earlier this year, Ken Jeong and Shaquille O’Neal are now teaming up for a new show at the network. TBS announced today that it’s ordered an unscripted comedy pilot, tentatively titled Unqualified, in which Jeong and O’Neal will tackle...More »
  
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• Review: A Sex Scandal Upends a Campaign in ‘The Front Runner’

  05-11-2018 20:09 via nytimes.com
  Hugh Jackman plays Gary Hart in Jason Reitman’s real-life morality play.
  
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• Nobody’s Fool Is a Charming Mess

  05-11-2018 19:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  Go figure — Tyler Perry’s most focused film to date still feels like assembly footage from someone else’s TV series. But that’s not always a bad thing, it turns out. Especially when you’ve got Tiffany Haddish running through your scenes, wild and profane and free. In Nobody’s Fool, she plays...More »
  
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• Bodied is Dazzling, Aggravating, and Fascinating

  05-11-2018 19:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  Joseph Kahn is some sort of demented genius, that’s for sure. His creativity is beyond undeniable — he’s one of the world’s most acclaimed music video directors, having done everything from Britney Spears’s “Toxic” to Eminem’s “Without Me” to Taylor Swift’s “Bad Blood.” But he can also sometimes be his...More »
  
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• The Spice Girls Reunite and More: 6 Things to Know in Pop Culture Today

  05-11-2018 19:37 via nytimes.com
  What you need to know from today’s TV, music and movie news this Monday.
  
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• Spice Girls Are Back (Minus Victoria Beckham): 6 Things in Pop Culture Today

  05-11-2018 19:37 via nytimes.com
  What you need to know in TV, music and movie news this Monday.
  
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• Clowns, Guns, and Talking Outhouses: A Look Back at Robert Smigel’s Original TV Funhouse Pilot

  05-11-2018 19:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  Thank God for first drafts. They’re a great way to work out the kinks, get an idea down, take the first step. Usually nobody but the writer(s) gets to see them, but sometimes they find their way into the light, and when that happens they can provide rare insight into...More »
  
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• Rosanne Cash Wants to Dismantle the Country Music Patriarchy

  05-11-2018 19:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  Four decades after releasing her first record, Rosanne Cash still defies stereotypes. In a year when many country stars choose to remain silent on issues ranging from the NRA to gender equality, the 63-year-old singer writes op-eds about preventing gun violence, leads advocacy and social-justice efforts (she helped promote the...More »
  
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• Tax breaks would focus minds on real diversity in film and TV | Letters

  05-11-2018 19:20
  A group including leading British film and television actors, writers and directors is calling for tax relief to encourage diversity throughout their industryWe call for the immediate introduction of a film and television “representation tax relief” to increase the employment of women, disabled people and people from black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds behind the camera in the British film and television industries.True representation of the diversity of the UK isn&rs
  
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• 7 New Books You Should Read This November

  05-11-2018 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Each month, Boris Kachka offers nonfiction and fiction book recommendations. You should read as many of them as possible. See his picks from last month and next month.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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• How Leah Beckmann’s Hilarious Mushrooms Story Became Part of Her Boyfriend Max Silvestri’s Act

  05-11-2018 18:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  Comedians have been talking about their partners ever since Henny Youngman asked the audience to take his wife, if they please, and probably before. But we never hear what these boyfriends, girlfriends, wives, husbands, etc., think about being joked about. That’s not to say all jokes about partners are inherently...More »
  
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• John Oliver denounces Trump's 'racist' family separations ahead of midterms

  05-11-2018 18:02
  The Last Week Tonight host explored the effects of Trump’s policy as a final plea for change before the midtermsJohn Oliver has criticised the racist tactics of Donald Trump’s White House in a new attack on the policy of family separation. Related: Saturday Night Live: midterms angst and ‘disgraced actor Alec Baldwin’Continue reading...
  
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• This Moody Track From the Beale Street Score Will Put You Right in Your Feelings

  05-11-2018 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Let the countdown to Barry Jenkins’s big-screen adaptation of If Beale Street Could Talk begin. Vulture has an exclusive first listen to “Philia,” a composition for the film’s score. “It’s actually an idea that I came to relatively late in the process with Barry,” composer Nicholas Britell told us about...More »
  
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• Tyra Banks Is Back to Typing Gibberish in New Life-Size 2 Scene

  05-11-2018 17:46 via feeds.eonline.com
  Eve is back to her old ways.While it's been nearly two decades since we last caught up with Tyra Bank's famous doll come to life, it seems Eve hasn't changed much--including...
  
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• Are Network TV’s Reboots and Revivals Succeeding This Season?

  05-11-2018 17:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  As they struggle to reinvent themselves in the age of Netflix, old-school broadcasters are leaning heavily on nostalgia to keep audiences invested. Last season brought successful revivals of classic comedies Will & Grace and (briefly) Roseanne, along with remixed versions of S.W.A.T. and Dynasty. All four shows were successful, which...More »
  
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• The House of Cards Team Wrote Their Final Season. Then They Wrote It Again.

  05-11-2018 17:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  The House of Cards writers were in the middle of crafting the final chapters of the show’s operatic showdown between President Claire Underwood and her estranged husband, former President Frank Underwood, when their real world collapsed. Co-showrunners Melissa James Gibson, Frank Pugliese, and the show’s five writers had been convening...More »
  
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• How Frank Underwood Dies in House of Cards

  05-11-2018 17:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  Maybe you came into the final season of House of Cards wanting justice for Zoe Barnes. Maybe you wanted to know if Doug Stamper would ever get caught for murdering Rachel Posner, or if Claire Underwood would tell all the world that her husband actually Heathers’d Peter Russo (that’s when...More »
  
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• Narcissister’s Documentary Explains Her Pornographic Performance Art (And What Her Mother Thinks)

  05-11-2018 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Narcissister, the lithe, biracial, gender provocateur and performance artist has been exposing to the world everything but her real identity for the past decade or so. Her face is always covered by a creepy Barbie-esque mask, and she’s often not wearing too much else, sometimes pushing and pulling all manner...More »
  
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• This Is Not a Drill: 80 Percent of the Spice Girls Are Reuniting for a Tour

  05-11-2018 16:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  While Mel B. recently announced she will be entering rehab, that apparently hasn’t derailed plans announced this weekend in The Sun for a most-of-the-Spice-Girls reunion tour next year. Victoria Beckham will not be coming along this time, which is something she’s seemed pretty resolute on for a while. But Mel...More »
  
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• Why Is Rebel Wilson Blocking Black Critics?

  05-11-2018 16:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  Rebel Wilson, who has openly discussed and joked about her weight, will soon star in Isn’t It Romantic, a romantic comedy about romantic comedies. The actress took to Twitter this weekend to say that she is the first plus-size woman to star in a romantic comedy — a false claim that was quickly refuted by...More »
  
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• A Brief History of Musicians Saying ‘Hell No’ to Donald Trump’s Using Their Songs

  05-11-2018 16:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  Before and after assuming presidential office, Donald Trump’s general relationship with musicians has been, to put it lightly, fraught with a side of Charlie Day conspiracy-board panic. Barely anybody wanted to perform at his inauguration, and the ones who did were more along the lines of whos than theys, making...More »
  
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• Ezra Miller Thinks We Should Drop Bad Men ‘Like Flies’

  05-11-2018 15:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  Go ahead and let #MeToo’d men drop like flies, Ezra Miller says. “Let’s rehabilitate men,” Miller told GQ Style of the movement against sexual misconduct and assault in Hollywood. In a profile about his work in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald and his farm life (he lives on a...More »
  
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• Let’s Talk About That Wild Intersex Troll Love Scene in Border

  05-11-2018 15:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sweden has submitted the movie Border for consideration in the Best Foreign Language Film category at next year’s Academy Awards. Based on just the most surface-level description — a disaffected border guard finds new meaning in her life after meeting a mysterious stranger — it could easily be filed under...More »
  
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• Beijing now able to flag Weibo posts as ‘rumour’

  05-11-2018 15:33 via ft.com
  China’s top microblogging site introduces policy to give government more control
  
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• Like Everyone Watching, Andrew Lincoln Didn’t Like That The Walking Dead Killed Off Steven Yeun

  05-11-2018 15:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  After leaving The Walking Dead last night, though staying within the Dead universe in some way, Andrew Lincoln has decided to sound off on parts of the show he didn’t like. Asked to name decisions on the show he didn’t agree with in an interview with the New York Times,...More »
  
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• Leslie Jones Can’t Keep It Together in Jonah Hill’s Adam Grossman SNL Sketch

  05-11-2018 15:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  During Jonah Hill’s fifth SNL hosting gig over the weekend, we were treated to the return of his beloved recurring character Adam Grossman, the very adult and Benihana-loving six-year-old child Hill created with Bill Hader for his first hosting gig back in 2008. This time, Adam was joined by his...More »
  
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• 8 of the Craziest Old-Hollywood Publicity Stunts

  05-11-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Old Hollywood owes a lot to the circus. The Big Top was where talent like Tod Browning, the director of Freaks and Dracula, and Burt Lancaster, the leading man in From Here to Eternity, got their starts. But it was also home to publicity masters like Harry Reichenbach, the legendary...More »
  
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• Doctor Who Recap: Light in Dark Times

  05-11-2018 14:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  It becomes increasingly obvious from one episode to the next that this current version of Doctor Who is very much its own thing. Sure, from time to time it echoes or harkens back to Doctor Who of old (or even much newer), but texturally and narratively, Chris Chibnall is shepherding...More »
  
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• 90 Day Fiancé Recap: Homecoming

  05-11-2018 14:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  Another week, another groundbreaking episode of 90 Day Fiancé that has yet to be recognized by the MacArthur Foundation for its strides in genius television programming.We start this episode with Jay’s hot dad, Skinz, who has been bestowed that name by his community because he apparently has a lot of...More »
  
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• Churches become pop-up cinemas to mark armistice centenary

  05-11-2018 14:35
  First world war film Journey’s End will be shown for free in 150 sites across EnglandMore than 150 churches will transform themselves into pop-up cinemas this week to host screenings of a first world war drama, marking the centenary of the armistice on Sunday.The movie, Journey’s End, is being shown for free in churches and places of worship across England, with a collection at each screening being held for Combat Stress, a charity that focus on the psychological impact of war. Relat
  
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