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• It’s Official: Beyoncé Is for Beto

  06-11-2018 23:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  Three cheers for everybody’s favorite sweaty southern man. Beyoncé, still a registered voter in her home state of Texas, broke out a very groovy Instagram video to put her support behind Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke — as opposed to the other option of, uh, this guy. “I’m feeling grateful for...More »
  
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• Daredevil Finale Recap: Who Is The Real Man Without Fear?

  06-11-2018 23:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  Perhaps the most frustrating thing about Daredevil is that it doesn’t ever stop being an origin story. This is a problem closely related to the one I brought up in the penultimate episode, wherein Daredevil constantly eschews exploring other themes in favor of the same old hat, where its characters...More »
  
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• The Girl in the Spider’s Web Saddles Lisbeth Salander With a Rote Doomsday-Device Plot

  06-11-2018 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  I’ll confess that I’ve never quite gotten the appeal of Lisbeth Salander. On paper, the titular character in Stieg Larsson’s The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo books — a queer club-going hacker who rides a motorcycle and kills rapists — sounds like a proper 21st-century James Bond. But in David...More »
  
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• School review – education that’s creaking under the strain of reform

  06-11-2018 23:00 via theguardian.com
  The first episode of this excellent documentary series dragged us into the depressing reality of an academy classroom – where the kids are not all right, and neither are the grownups‘My heart is racing. I feel sick.” Meet Chloe, a 16-year-old student about to sit her mock GCSEs. She has anxiety, which appears to be at epidemic levels across final-year classrooms and staff rooms at the Castle school in south Gloucestershire (although it is conspicuously absent from the trust&rsq
  
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• Demi Lovato Is ‘Grateful’ to Be Home From Rehab and Voting

  06-11-2018 22:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  We wonder if this will encourage 65,000 other people to take some action. Days after being released from rehab for a near-fatal drug overdose over the summer, Demi Lovato posted an Instagram photo — her first since the overdose — that showed that she voted in the 2018 midterm elections....More »
  
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• Frank Ocean Merch for the Midterms: 6 Things to Know in Pop Culture Today

  06-11-2018 22:33 via nytimes.com
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• Homecoming Recap: What Is Experience?

  06-11-2018 22:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the last episode, everything was out on the table: Heidi knows what happened. Colin knows that Heidi knows what happened. And Thomas knows enough of what happened to bring the complaint to the inspector general, who will then surely find out what happened. Except when Colin peeled away from...More »
  
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• A ‘Retrospective’ for Emerging Artists in Bushwick’s Former Pfizer Factory

  06-11-2018 22:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The idea was for this to be a retrospective of emerging artists,” says curator and artist manuel arturo abreu of re:trospective, a group show that recently opened inside the onetime Pfizer factory in Bushwick. Every artist has anxiety about where their career is going: if it has longevity, whether this...More »
  
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• A Brief Comedy History of the Beastie Boys

  06-11-2018 21:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Our main goal was really just to crack each other up,” Mike “Mike D” Diamond writes in the new Beastie Boys Book, the massive memoir-cum-mixtape that’s bursting with seemingly every anecdote, photograph, paean, and, well, mixtape he and bandmate Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovitz could fit into its nearly 600 pages, alongside...More »
  
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• Oh My, Matthew Rhys Has Muttonchops in This Death and Nightingales Trailer

  06-11-2018 21:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  The BBC has spun its British Period Drama bingo cage, and with its latest iteration, we’re being blessed with [spins] Matthew Rhys portraying [spins] a borderline-abusive landowner in 1885 who [spins] exclusively dons muttonchops and an Irish accent. Consider us chuffed! So begins the plot of the mini-series Death and...More »
  
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• Scene City: Hollywood Directors Step in Front of the Camera

  06-11-2018 21:27 via nytimes.com
  The Art & Film Gala at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art honored Guillermo del Toro and Catherine Opie.
  
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• John Krasinski Teases Emily Blunt's Involvement in A Quiet Place 2

  06-11-2018 20:47 via feeds.eonline.com
  John Krasinski is staying pretty tight-lipped about A Quiet Place 2.Following the massive success of A Quiet Place in April, a sequel to the thriller is already in the works....
  
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• The Man Behind Freddie Mercury’s Teeth in ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’

  06-11-2018 20:43 via nytimes.com
  Chris Lyons of Fangs FX talks about those giant choppers and others projects, including a larger-than-life replica of Björk’s mouth.
  
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• Chris Pine’s Penis Can ‘Match’ Michael Fassbender’s, According to Chris Pine

  06-11-2018 20:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  Reigning Best Chris™ Chris Pine has a brief but notable nude scene in his new movie Outlaw King, about legendary warrior Robert the Bruce. In a BBC Radio 1 video, Pine recounts working on the Star Trek movies and Wonder Woman, and discusses the filming of the new Netflix historical...More »
  
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• In Defense of the Mediocre Music Biopic

  06-11-2018 20:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  I went to see Bohemian Rhapsody on opening day, against the advice of my critic friends, whose admonitions of “Mediocre!” had by then all blurred together like a choir of falsetto “Galileos.” It’s nothing but serviceable fluff, they said. Hardly an unsalvageable mess but far from transcendent, a perfunctory exercise...More »
  
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• How House of Cards Pulled Off Claire Underwood’s Final Big Twist

  06-11-2018 19:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  Spoilers ahead for House of Cards season six.A high-five and hearty congrats to President Claire Underwood — oops, President Claire Hale — for that big surprise in the sixth episode of the final season of House of Cards. A pregnant POTUS? Even in a show known for its breakneck twists...More »
  
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• Oh Geez, They Want to Bring Back Shrek

  06-11-2018 19:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  Shrek, much like the tiny-sunglasses trend or the titular Ben of Ben Is Back, may soon return. Variety profiled Illumination Entertainment founder Chris Meledandri (the guy behind the Minions) and apparently Universal has “tasked Meledandri with finding some fresh story lines to reintroduce the lovable ogre,” as well as Puss...More »
  
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• Ariana Grande Drops ‘Thank U, Next’ Lyric Video for Syntax Reasons

  06-11-2018 19:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  Don’t be like Apple and have an A-name faux pas. Ariana Grande, sensing you may want to show her some respect by correctly belting the entirety of “Thank U, Next” without garbling mhmmmmblahblah at the parts you don’t understand, released a lyric video for the song — and damn, we...More »
  
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• Frank Ocean’s Free Merch: 6 Things to Know in Pop Culture Today

  06-11-2018 19:42 via nytimes.com
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• Why Lucia Berlin Matters More to Us Today Than She Did During Her Lifetime

  06-11-2018 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the late 1980s, when her writing was in peak bloom, Lucia Berlin made a list: “The Trouble With All the Houses I’ve Lived In.” Her 33 locations ranged from Alaska, where she was born, to Idaho, where her father worked as a mining engineer, to New Mexico, where she...More »
  
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• Suspiria’s Costume Designer Explains 10 of the Film’s Chic Looks

  06-11-2018 19:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you’re a film lover with a soft constitution, there are a few scenes of virtuoso violence in Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria that might warn you off the picture entirely. But we encourage you to at least try and gut out (pun definitely intended!) this 2018 remake of Dario Argento’s signature...More »
  
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• Movies Lost and Found: ‘Shirkers,’ ‘A Star Is Born’ and More

  06-11-2018 19:18 via nytimes.com
  Film history is rife with scenes or entire movies missing because of government censors, unhappy studios or even renegade directors.
  
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• Watch Seth Meyers Try Out His Impression of Barack Obama Doing Stand-up

  06-11-2018 18:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s going to be a long day for everyone, so pop a Xanax into your chamomile and let Seth Meyers’s take on Barack Obama’s definitely real, definitely legit stand-up special, You Mad?, usher you into the afternoon. (Exclusively available at Netflix, obviously.) Or rather, don’t click at all and just...More »
  
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• There Will Never Be a Man As Perfect As The Office’s Jim Halpert

  06-11-2018 18:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  A great new book that’s out today is How to Be Alone: If You Want to, and Even If You Don’t by Lane Moore. Charting her rise from a rough childhood (she basically raised herself) to a creatively fruitful and dazzling career as a musician, writer, comedian, and host of...More »
  
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• Give Keira Knightley an Oscar Nomination for Her Deranged Sugar Plum Fairy

  06-11-2018 18:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  Every once in a while, you get to watch a film performance so strange and fascinating that you wish the movie that contained it would never end, even if the movie in question is hot nonsense. In this case, we’re talking about Keira Knightley, who commits so wholly to her...More »
  
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• Daredevil Recap: Nelson and Murdock Ride Again

  06-11-2018 18:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  We should probably take some time to talk about just how much Daredevil loves repeating itself. The moral quandary at the heart of this season is whether Matt will cross the line and kill Wilson Fisk. Which would be fine, if a little dull—but this isn’t the first time that...More »
  
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• Pod Save America Is So Much Better Than Axios

  06-11-2018 17:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the last month, HBO has waded into the fraught waters of midterm elections coverage with a pair of new political docuseries: Pod Save America, a series of four live specials based on the podcast of the same name, and Axios, an inside-the-reporting news show from the insider-y digital-news outlet...More »
  
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• Homecoming Recap: Breakdown

  06-11-2018 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Protocol” is the most exciting episode of Homecoming so far, full of suspense and emotion and big-time payoffs to a carefully orchestrated story. But let’s start off with a complaint here.As noted many times in these recaps—and any other review of the show you’ll come across—Homecoming pays homage to many...More »
  
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• Doctors Reveal Their Greatest Mistakes: The Sweet Spot for New Creators

  06-11-2018 17:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  Written and directed by Cameron Wyllie and Carson Pinch for their fledgling Turbo Gulp channel, Doctors Reveal Their Greatest Mistakes is precisely why this column exists. Not to shed light on fake doctors’ mistakes, but to give a platform to new creators still fighting for every view they get. Also,...More »
  
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• Does Jude Law Mispronounce Grindelwald's Name in Fantastic Beasts?

  06-11-2018 17:15 via feeds.eonline.com
  When the first trailer for Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald dropped, fans were divided over whether Albus Dumbledore (Jude Law) mispronounced Gellert Grindelwald's name to sound...
  
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• This Election Day Broad City Asks, How Do You Say ‘Piss Play’ in Russian?

  06-11-2018 17:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer’s fifth and final season of Broad City doesn’t return until late January, but you can get your fill with a new Hack Into Broad City episode that they released today just in time for the midterms. In the short clip, Abbi and Ilana get into...More »
  
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• Cultuursubsidie voor theater op school op Piter Jelles YnSicht - Omrop Fryslan

  06-11-2018 16:48
  Omrop Fryslan
  Cultuursubsidie voor theater op school op Piter Jelles YnSicht
  Omrop Fryslan
  De school YnSicht van scholengemeenschap Piter Jelles heeft subsidie gekregen voor beter kunstonderwijs op school. YnSicht werkt met theatergezelschap Tryater en met adviesorganisatie Keunstwurk aan een speciaal lesprogramma over het maken van ...
  
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• Finally some good news: TV dramas are getting shorter

  06-11-2018 16:16 via theguardian.com
  Amazon’s Homecoming consists of 30-minute episodes, following on from other shorter dramas, and it’s a refreshing change from Netflix overkillAmazon’s Homecoming has an awful lot going for it – it is a tight, well-directed thriller that gives Julia Roberts plenty to do – but nothing stands out more than its length. Everything about the series, from its star to its tone to its subject matter to its home, screams hourlong prestige. But then, just as you’ve settl
  
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• The Legacy and the Lunacy of House of Cards

  06-11-2018 15:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  House of Cards has called it quits with a sixth and final season that zigzags all over the place and ends on a note so abrupt and preposterous that it make shoving Zoe Barnes into a Metro train at a nonexistent-in-real-life Metro station look like the apex of believability. If...More »
  
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• Alert: Frank Ocean’s ‘Blonded Radio’ Is Back on Beats 1 Today

  06-11-2018 15:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  Oh, you lucky voters, you. A special edition of Frank Ocean’s Beats 1 show “Blonded Radio” is airing right now! After a lengthy hiatus (the last show aired in August 2017, when Frank premiered “Provider”) the elusive musician is up to something new: getting you to the polls to exercise...More »
  
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• Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Face Off

  06-11-2018 15:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  There are two very small things I want to discuss before we get to the main meat of this episode, which is Shannon and Vicki rearranging their faces like they’re the deck furniture on the Titanic. (Sorry, that was a little mean, even for me.) The first was when Gina...More »
  
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• Triumph the Insult Comic Dog Reports Live From the Beto-Cruz Midterms Race

  06-11-2018 15:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  During last night’s Late Show, Stephen Colbert welcomed back an extremely special guest to the show when Robert Smigel stepped out as his beloved Conan character Triumph the Insult Comic Dog. With O’Brien’s blessing, Triumph was allowed to hit the ground in Texas to do some reporting on the midterms...More »
  
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• Carlito’s Way, Scarface, and Brian De Palma’s Fantasies of Power

  06-11-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  As the ’80s turned into the ’90s, Brian De Palma thought he was done with gangsters. He’d had tremendous success with The Untouchables in 1987, pitting Kevin Costner’s squeaky-clean Eliot Ness and Sean Connery’s pragmatic Irish cop against a Chicago underworld led by Robert De Niro’s Al Capone. And that...More »
  
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• It’s Election Day: Is Anyone Going to Listen to the Art World?

  06-11-2018 14:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Art is everywhere. It’s our way of speaking, dressing, it’s a performance and a means of communication, it’s food, music, dancing,” said artist Hank Willis Thomas. It was one week before the midterms and he was speaking on a panel at the new Electropositive workspace and gallery in Crown Heights,...More »
  
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• It's a kind of magic as Bohemian Rhapsody stays top of UK box office

  06-11-2018 14:12
  Muscular Freddie Mercury biopic reaches a stunning £20m as Mike Leigh’s passionate Peterloo rallies support in the northDropping just 11% from its opening session, Bohemian Rhapsody delivered chart-topping, second-weekend earnings of £5.75m, taking its total after 12 days to a stunning £20.4m. Cinema operators who had bullishly projected £30m for the Freddie Mercury biopic prior to release are now looking as if they were being cautious. Continue reading...
  
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• Doek valt voor het Witte Theater in IJmuiden - Parool.nl

  06-11-2018 14:10
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  Doek valt voor het Witte Theater in IJmuiden
  Parool.nl
  Bijna vijftig jaar was het Witte Theater in IJmuiden de plek voor professionele gezelschappen en plaatselijke amateurs. Nu is het gebouw verkocht aan twee vastgoedeigenaren. "Treurig. Ik kan niet anders zeggen." Door: Raounak Khaddari 6 november 2018, ...
  
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• Aretha Franklin documentary Amazing Grace to be released almost 50 years after filming

  06-11-2018 13:46
  Sydney Pollack’s documentary about Franklin’s legendary gospel album had suffered technical issues and legal holdupsAmazing Grace, a documentary film about Aretha Franklin directed by Sydney Pollack, will premiere in New York City almost 50 years after technical issues scuppered its original release and three years after Franklin’s lawyers blocked its premiere.Shot over two nights in January 1972 at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles, the film shows a 30-ye
  
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• Review: ‘Narcissister Organ Player’ (Partly) Unveils an Artist

  06-11-2018 13:00 via nytimes.com
  How does a performance artist whose work relies to some degree on anonymity direct an autobiographical documentary?
  
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• A Star Is Born classification changed after New Zealand teens 'severely triggered'

  06-11-2018 12:41
  Warning added to Bradley Cooper/Lady Gaga musical after complaints from victim-support and mental-health organisations• This article contains spoilersThe head of the New Zealand film classification board, David Shanks, has demanded a new warning be added to prints of the Oscar-tipped remake of A Star Is Born.The film now comes with a suicide warning note, after complaints of viewer distress from Police Victim Support, who said two vulnerable young people had been “severely triggered&r
  
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• Idris Elba named sexiest man alive

  06-11-2018 11:38
  American celebrity magazine People honours London-born Elba, only the third time in 32 years the award has been won by someone of colourIdris Elba has been named the sexiest man alive by American celebrity magazine People.The British actor and star of The Wire, Luther and Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom was revealed as this year’s winner on Monday’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Continue reading...
  
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• Being a Big Brother contestant was life-changing. But so was watching it | Jon Tickle

  06-11-2018 11:00 via theguardian.com
  In exposing audiences to people who didn’t look, sound or behave like them, the show had a positive effect on societyIn the film adaptation of The Lord of the Rings, Bilbo asks Frodo: “Any chance of seeing that old ring of mine again? I should like to have held it one last time.” Like the ring, Big Brother– which had its final episode last night – was a drug. Who wouldn’t want more? But the adoration you get from being in the show isn’t real; the safety
  
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