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• Driver Who Killed Two Children in Brooklyn Is Found Dead

  07-11-2018 23:57 via nytimes.com
  The driver, Dorothy Bruns, 44, was discovered dead in her Staten Island home with a bottle of pills and a suicide note nearby, the police said.
  
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• Selena Gomez Reportedly Released From Psychiatric Facility

  07-11-2018 23:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  Selena Gomez is out of the psychiatric facility she was admitted to last month after suffering an emotional breakdown related to her health, TMZ reports. She is said to have completed a month of treatment, including dialectical behavior therapy, at an undisclosed East Coast facility and has been released. According...More »
  
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• At Long Last Mariah Carey and Missy Elliott Could Get the Songwriting Recognition They Deserve

  07-11-2018 23:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  This year’s nominees for the next class of the Songwriters Hall of Fame (basically, the Rock Hall for artists whose pen game is strong) have been announced and once again history could be made. Missy Elliott is the first-ever female rapper to be nominated, after Jay-Z just last year became...More »
  
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• Hip-Hop Beefs and a ‘Breaking Bad’ Movie: 6 Things in Pop Culture Today

  07-11-2018 22:30 via nytimes.com
  What you need to know from Wednesday’s TV, music and movie news.
  
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• 10 Facts About Elf That Will Make You Love Buddy Even More

  07-11-2018 22:27 via feeds.eonline.com
  The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear.For those who have been able to experience the joy of Elf, you'll instantly remember Will Ferrell's words...
  
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• Steve Carell Returns to Host SNL Next Week

  07-11-2018 22:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  Season 44 of Saturday Night Live continues to chug along, and the show just revealed the next host and musical guest.On Twitter today, SNL announced that Steve Carell will return to the show to host on November 17, and he’ll be joined by musical guest Ella Mai. Carell most recently...More »
  
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• Liev Schreiber’s Saturday Night Live Promo Is Extremely Unsettling

  07-11-2018 21:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  Liev Schreiber heads to SNL this weekend to make his hosting debut alongside returning musical guest Lil Wayne, but exactly how funny is Liev Schreiber, anyway? As this new promo featuring cast members Mikey Day and Leslie Jones suggests, Schreiber is just a little bit funny but very, very, very...More »
  
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• Hip-Hop Beefs and a ‘Breaking Bad’ Movie: 5 Things in Pop Culture Today

  07-11-2018 21:29 via nytimes.com
  What you need to know from Wednesday’s TV, music and movie news.
  
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• Show Us Your Wall: Terrence McNally Cherishes the Light in Art. Until It Goes Out.

  07-11-2018 21:20 via nytimes.com
  “A great work is one you never get tired of — you find new value in it every day.” So says this playwright, who has a taste for lyrical realism.
  
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• 7 Juicy Tidbits From Jill Soloway’s New Memoir, She Wants It

  07-11-2018 21:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  Though it’s been out for a month, there’s a chance you only found out about Jill Soloway’s new memoir, She Wants It, this week, when a critical review — how best to say this? — eviscerated the project, calling Soloway “astonishingly clueless” and “a Gen Xer in millennial drag,” among...More »
  
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• Alec Baldwin Gets a Gig Reading Celebrity Books on Broadway

  07-11-2018 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  The popular live comedy show Celebrity Autobiography, in which performers read excerpts from popular celebrity tell-all books, is heading to Broadway with a bunch of big names attached. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the show — which was created by writer/performer Eugene Pack and co-developed with Dayle Reyfel — will...More »
  
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• Reese Witherspoon Is Producing a Movie About Vietnam Wives, Which Is So Her

  07-11-2018 20:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  Reese Witherspoon is snatching up another book your mom will love for feature film development. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the actress and producer has optioned The League of Wives through her shop Hello Sunshine, and has it on track for a movie adaptation. Written by Heath Lee, Wives is...More »
  
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• Did You Know Ellsworth Kelly and Alexander Calder Were Pals? They Even Exchanged Art Gifts.

  07-11-2018 20:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ellsworth Kelly was studying at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris just after World War II when he met the already established American artist Alexander Calder, born 1898, who was already in his early 50s. Kelly, born in 1923, was about half his age and just starting out. Despite their...More »
  
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• This Week in Rap: Vince Staples Continues to Impress, Swizz Beatz Surprises, and More

  07-11-2018 20:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  Every Wednesday, Vulture runs through the best, most interesting, and sometimes most confusing rap releases of the week. In this installment: ’70s noir from Freddie Gibbs, Curren$y and Alchemist, a lean and brutal new album from Vince Staples, Action Bronson gets extra vivid, Metro Boomin brings out the best from his collaborators,...More »
  
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• Idra Novey on Fascists, Pot, #MeToo and Her Chillingly Timely New Novel

  07-11-2018 20:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  At the beginning of Idra Novey’s propulsive second novel, Those Who Knew (out this week), Lena, an activist and professor in an island nation recovering from dictatorship, shows up at her friend Olga’s bookshop with a sweater she found in her apartment. It looks exactly like the one a young...More »
  
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• Jazz Icon Benny Golson on the Legendary ‘A Great Day in Harlem’ Photo

  07-11-2018 20:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sixty years ago, 57 jazz musicians gathered in front of a Harlem brownstone at 17 East 126th Street, between Fifth and Madison Avenues, for a photo shoot. Though it didn’t seem like a big deal at the time, the resulting photograph, taken by Art Kane and published in the January...More »
  
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• Critic’s Notebook: Wes Anderson, Curator? The Filmmaker Gives It a Try

  07-11-2018 20:01 via nytimes.com
  Mr. Anderson and his partner, Juman Malouf, were given free rein in Austria’s largest museum. But you can’t make an exhibition as you would a movie, our critic writes.
  
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• Ariana Grande Releases ‘Breathin’ Video So You Can Finally Exhale

  07-11-2018 19:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ari season continues! In addition to putting on a First Wives Club–themed performance on Ellen today, the tiny titan of pop just released the video for “Breathin” (the official video, not the version starring Piggy Smalls), one of the singles from her album Sweetener. It’s got the same walking-among-literal-clouds aesthetic...More »
  
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• Vanessa Hudgens' Christmas Movie on Netflix Is The Parent Trap With a Royal Twist

  07-11-2018 19:16 via feeds.eonline.com
  You'll get a double dose of Vanessa Hudgens this holiday season.In the upcoming Christmas romantic comedy film The Princess Switch, set for release on Netflix, the 29-year-old High...
  
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• Meet the 1970s Guerillas Who Helped Kick-start DIY Video Comedy

  07-11-2018 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  There’s a scene in cinematographer and director Paul Goldsmith’s new documentary TVTV: Video Revolutionaries where a young Bill Murray does public-access-channel correspondent work at an NFL alumni game before the 1976 Super Bowl. He asks sportscaster Phyllis George, “If you had to marry a football player, which one would you...More »
  
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• Two Vanessas Hudgens Trade Places in Netflix’s Princess Switch Trailer

  07-11-2018 18:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  Netflix is going all-out this Christmas season, and by that we mean “committing fully to becoming its own Disney Channel.” For The Princess Switch, the streaming network has enlisted both Vanessa Hudgens and Vanessa Hudgens With an Accent for a movie about two women who switch places for a few...More »
  
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• Critic’s Pick: Review: A ‘Waiting for Godot’ as Comically Futile as a Looney Tune

  07-11-2018 18:20 via nytimes.com
  Garry Hynes’s very funny interpretation of Samuel Beckett’s best-known work finds the kinetic cartoon humor in existential futility.
  
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• ‘Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch’ Review: Pointy-Headed and Pointless

  07-11-2018 18:00 via nytimes.com
  Aside from colorful computer animation and enhanced cuteness for the lovable sidekick dog, Max, this new “Grinch” brings little of note to the table.
  
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• ‘The Girl in the Spider’s Web’ Review: Lisbeth Salander, Blunted in Tooth and Claw

  07-11-2018 17:49 via nytimes.com
  In the latest and emptiest Salander vehicle, the character’s unclassifiable quality has been dulled and contained.
  
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• Seth Meyers on the Democrats' blue wave: 'It was at least a blue ripple'

  07-11-2018 17:41 via theguardian.com
  Late-night hosts discussed midterm results with measured enthusiasm as Democrats take control of the HouseLate-night hosts all went live on the night of the midterms to provide running commentary as results came in. Related: Midterms: McConnell hails 'Kavanaugh effect' and warns Democrats over investigations – liveContinue reading...
  
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• Hasan Minhaj Reveals How Bill Clinton Inspired Him to Create Patriot Act

  07-11-2018 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Hasan Minhaj returns to Netflix this weekend with a brand-new episode of his series Patriot Act. While you wait, here’s a bonus “Deep Cuts” clip from the episode where Minhaj answers questions from the studio audience. Near the end of the clip, Minhaj is asked if there was “a moment...More »
  
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• The Stars of Baroness von Sketch Show Reveal the Sketches That Inspired Their Comedy the Most

  07-11-2018 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  For the Canadian all-women comedy troupe of Baroness von Sketch Show, all things tend toward chaos. “I think humans, on one level, will take something simple and make it extremely complicated,” says troupe member Meredith MacNeill. “That is a very common theme in the show. Something that looks really complicated...More »
  
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• Jason Blum Pulled Offstage Amid Boos After Anti-Trump Comments at Israeli Film Festival

  07-11-2018 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  When horror super-producer Jason Blum accepted his honor at the Israel Film Festival on Tuesday night, he was booed offstage after making comments about President Donald Trump. According to Variety, Blum was booed when he made a reference to the night’s midterm election results, which were still coming in. “A...More »
  
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• Ezra Miller Says He Was Harassed by a Director When He Was Underage

  07-11-2018 16:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  In The Hollywood Reporter’s 2018 Next Generation issue, Ezra Miller revealed a story of harassment from earlier in his career. He doesn’t name the movie or director, but says it was a movie about “gay revolution” that was in production when he was underage (he’s now 26). “They gave me...More »
  
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• Ariana Grande Reboots The First Wives Club With Her ‘Thank U, Next’ Performance on Ellen

  07-11-2018 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Segueing firmly into the “watch rom-coms and pretend you are Diane Keaton” stage of a breakup, Ariana Grande staged a full-blown First Wives Club homage on Ellen while performing her new song “Thank U, Next.” Dressed in white alongside Victoria Monét and Tayla Parx, Grande performed her ode to self-love,...More »
  
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• American Horror Story’s Cody Fern Is in Love With His Antichrist Wig

  07-11-2018 16:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  Cody Fern is certainly having a moment in Hollywood. The Australian actor gained critical attention this summer for his role as David Madson in The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story, and this fall he’s on another Ryan Murphy hit as Michael Langdon, the son of Connie Britton and...More »
  
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• Jamie Dornan, Danai Gurira & Melissa McCarthy Couldn't Be More Surprised by Being PCAs Movie Star Finalists

  07-11-2018 16:00 via feeds.eonline.com
  The 2018 E! People's Choice Awards are happening this week and we are so ready to see who takes home all the trophies!Although we only have to wait a few more days to watch the live...
  
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• Homecoming Finale Recap: Please, Remember Me

  07-11-2018 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The lovely Iron & Wine song “The Trapeze Swinger” runs over nine minutes long, originally commissioned for the 2004 movie In Good Company and later tucked into the end of Around the Well, a 2009 compilation of B-sides and rarities. A song that epic in length and scope was unusual...More »
  
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• In Praise of MSNBC’s Steve Kornacki

  07-11-2018 15:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s the day after the most important midterm election of our lifetimes and I don’t know what to make of our democracy, but I know this much: MSNBC’s Steve Kornacki is the GOAT of election night coverage.Kornacki is the network’s wonky, bright-eyed, wildly eager analyst who uses the world’s biggest...More »
  
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• Hoe 'Henkie-net-niet' uitgroeide tot een musicalster - Steenwijker Courant

  07-11-2018 15:40
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  Hoe 'Henkie-net-niet' uitgroeide tot een musicalster
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  Steenwijk - Tientallen rollen heeft Henk Poort gespeeld in zijn carrière in opera's en musicals. Nog nooit stond hij als Henk Poort op het podium. In zijn theatervoorstelling 'Ik ben mijn lied' is hij vooral zichzelf. Een kleine anderhalf vult de opera ...en meer »
  
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• Borat Appeared on Kimmel Last Night to Save Democracy … Not!

  07-11-2018 15:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  Earlier this week, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog spoke to Texas voters and Senate candidates for The Late Show, and now, another comedy character has hit the streets for a late-night show in the name of the midterms. During last night’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!, guest Sacha Baron Cohen revived Borat...More »
  
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• Riverdale to Welcome a New Hot Adult: Kelly Ripa

  07-11-2018 15:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  Everyone, it’s time to welcome the newest hot adult to Riverdale. On Instagram Tuesday night, Kelly Ripa revealed that she will play Mark Consuelos’s character Hiram Lodge’s mistress on the show, posing with a cane in a creepy old library, as mistresses are wont to do. Ripa and Consuelos met...More »
  
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• The Creator of Finding Richard Simmons Has a New Podcast About the Y2K Crisis

  07-11-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The world was supposed to end 18 years ago. The lead-up to the turn of the millennium was clouded by the specter of the Y2K bug, an existential computing flaw that was supposedly poised to threaten society when the clock hit midnight on December 31, 1999. It was said that...More »
  
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• How Much Do the Riverdale Teens Look Like Their TV Parents?

  07-11-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Hit the Aaliyah, because Riverdale is taking a very ‘90s journey to the past for its big flashback episode. In Wednesday night’s “The Midnight Club,” everyone’s favorite dark and sexy teen drama is revealing the backstories of its (hot, terrible) parents with a very Riverdale twist: The actors who normally...More »
  
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• Finding the Ferrante Four

  07-11-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sitting with the Italian stars of HBO’s My Brilliant Friend adaptation is like observing two sets of sisters. The Lilas — Ludovica Nasti, 12, and Gaia Girace, 15 — are raven-haired and intense. Ludovica frantically waves her arm every time she wants to speak, while teenage Gaia offers a haughty...More »
  
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• 8 Times Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone Were Comedy Couple Goals

  07-11-2018 15:00 via feeds.eonline.com
  Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone know how to bring the laughs. The married couple have appeared on screen together several times over the years and there is no denying that they know how to make...
  
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• Vanaf dit weekend kun je weer smullen van een 'Broodje Theater' - indebuurt

  07-11-2018 14:46
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  Vanaf dit weekend kun je weer smullen van een 'Broodje Theater'
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  Heb je weleens gehoord van een broodje theater? Dat heeft helemaal niets te maken met een speciaal soort beleg of iets dergelijks. Maar wel alles met een speciaal soort ontbijt. Namelijk eentje mét voorstelling. In het theater dus. Zondag (11 november) ...
  
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• Business book podcast: radical ideas

  07-11-2018 14:38 via ft.com
  FT journalists explore the titles shortlisted for the FT/McKinsey award
  
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• Before The Girl in the Spider’s Web, Refresh Your Millennium Memory

  07-11-2018 14:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  On November 9, 2004, Stieg Larsson climbed seven flights of stairs to the offices of Expo, an anti-racist magazine focused on investigative journalism that he co-founded, and suffered a fatal heart attack. He had spent years as an activist and journalist combatting nationalist, right-wing movements in his home country of...More »
  
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• The Beatles versus The Stones in Theater Berkelland - Achterhoek Nieuws Eibergen - Neede (persbericht)

  07-11-2018 14:04
  The Beatles versus The Stones in Theater Berkelland
  Achterhoek Nieuws Eibergen - Neede (persbericht)
  EIBERGEN - The Beatles of The Stones, je kunt eigenlijk niet voor beide zijn. Maar de theatergroep De Règâhs bracht beide grootheden toch samen in een programma, dat zaterdag 17 november te zien is in Theater Berkelland in Eibergen. De Règâhs ...
  
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• Hans-Ulrich Obrist’s 10 Favorite Books

  07-11-2018 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Bookseller One Grand Books has asked celebrities to name the ten titles they’d take to a desert island, and they’ve shared the results with Vulture. Below is art curator and artistic director of London’s Serpentine Galleries Hans-Ulrich Obrist’s list....More »
  
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• Extreme Close-ups Are Defining the Current Movie Moment

  07-11-2018 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Less than ten minutes into At Eternity’s Gate, director Julian Schnabel’s biographical reimagining of the final days of Vincent van Gogh (which premiered at the Venice International Film Festival last month and hits theaters November 16), the camera does a curious thing. In the sequence, we see Willem Dafoe as...More »
  
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• Theater bij Rechtbank Noord-Nederland - Oog TV

  07-11-2018 12:04
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  Sinds 2013 hebben Groningen, Friesland en Drenthe één rechtbank, de Rechtbank Noord-Nederland. Het lustrum wordt gevierd met toepasselijk theater. Het lustrum wordt in Groningen opgeluisterd met theatervoorstelling 'Justice'. Het stuk is geïnspireerd ...
  
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• The 2018 E! People's Choice Awards: When and How to Watch

  07-11-2018 12:00 via feeds.eonline.com
  The 2018 E! People's Choice Awards are just days away and we couldn't be more excited for the only award show voted on by the people and made for the people, to make its inaugural debut on...
  
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• Dynamic Duos at the Hirshhorn Gala

  07-11-2018 12:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  On November 5, the Hirshhorn — D.C.’s doughnut-shaped national museum of modern and contemporary art — held its annual Manhattan fundraising dunk among the collectors, dealers, and art makers of New York, at David Geffen Hall in Lincoln Center. The theme for the event this year — and there is...More »
  
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