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• My Moments With Stan

  12-11-2018 23:27 via nytimes.com
  Brian Michael Bendis reflects on the first time he met Stan Lee and how Mr. Lee inspired him in his two-decade career at Marvel Comics.
  
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• Want to Use Instagram Stories Like a Real Influencer? Try These 4 Apps.

  12-11-2018 23:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Out of a bizarre sense of loyalty to Snapchat, I was a late adopter of Instagram Stories. But once I caved, I caved hard. I love a good Story. The more creative the better. The more “aesthetic” the better. Mix your fonts. Create a narrative using entirely emoji. Screenshot a...More »
  
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• People Just Do Nothing review – Kurupt FM's original pirate material

  12-11-2018 23:00
  Idiotic hubris, crushing realisation and denial should be depressing, but in the fifth and final BBC series, these tragicomic characters transform it all into something joyousMC Grindah, DJ Beats, Steves and Chabuddy G are back for a fifth and final series of People Just Do Nothing (BBC Two). As the franchise expands – Chabuddy has become a comic staple (he does the British Airways in-flight safety announcement), the fictional pirate DJs are currently touring live music venues, and there a
  
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• Homecoming: The 8 Biggest Questions (and Answers) About the Season Finale

  12-11-2018 22:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  By the time you finish Homecoming’s first season, the true story underneath its sinister veteran rehabilitation project is clear. Turns out this wasn’t just a story about helping soldiers readjust to their civilian lives! But Homecoming reveals its real motivation — and the past life of Heidi Bergman (Julia Roberts)...More »
  
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• Lorde Accuses Kanye and Kid Cudi of Stealing Her Stage Design

  12-11-2018 22:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sunday night, Kanye West and Kid Cudi made their live debut as Kids See Ghosts, performing at Tyler the Creator’s festival Camp Flog Gnaw in California. Kanye botched some lyrics from their collaborative album and did some, uh, interpretive dancing, all of which happened inside a giant rectangular glass box...More »
  
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• Stan Lee Is Dead at 95; Superhero of Marvel Comics

  12-11-2018 21:48 via nytimes.com
  Mr. Lee helped create Spider-Man, the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, Iron Man and others while overseeing his company’s emergence as a media behemoth.
  
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• A ‘Detective Pikachu’ Trailer and More: 6 Things in Pop Culture Today

  12-11-2018 21:44 via nytimes.com
  What you need to know from Monday’s TV, music and movie news.
  
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• Marti Noxon Signs the Latest Big Deal With Netflix

  12-11-2018 21:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  Marti Noxon, of Sharp Objects, Buffy, the first season of Unreal, and the late Dietland, is taking her talents to Netflix. Noxon has signed a multiyear overall deal with the streaming service, which covers both new series and gives it a first-look deal on her features (Noxon also wrote and...More »
  
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• Anna Maria Maiolino Made These Drawings Before She Left Her Husband 50 Years Ago

  12-11-2018 21:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  In 1968, artist Anna Maria Maiolino moved to New York from Rio de Janeiro with her husband, Rubens Gerchman, and their two children. Gerchman, an artist, too, had won a grant, and she accompanied him north for the adventure. She’d had a career in Brazil making fabric sculptures and woodcut...More »
  
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• A Smartphone, a Stylus, and My Season As a Sketch Artist

  12-11-2018 21:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Last autumn, I spent a month or so using the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 as my phone, after having reviewed it. The phone itself is nice, with a good-to-great camera, a beautiful screen, and, praise be, a 3.5 mm headphone jack.But the thing that really distinguishes the Samsung Note 8,...More »
  
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• Homecoming: Every Major Pop-Culture Reference and Influence

  12-11-2018 20:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  Homecoming is a chilly jewel box of a thriller with sharp direction by Mr. Robot’s Sam Esmail and clever, engaging writing spearheaded by creators Eli Horowitz and Micah Bloomberg. In many ways, Homecoming is the ideal conspiracy thriller for an age in which our daily lives are subsumed by an...More »
  
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• Remember Stan Lee With All of His Marvel Movie Cameos

  12-11-2018 20:49 via feeds.eonline.com
  Stan Lee, the genius behind the Marvel stable of superheros such as the Hulk, Thor, Fantastic Four, and a certain teenage web head, has died.The famed comic book writer passed away on...
  
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• Vox Lux Director Compares Natalie Portman’s Pop-Star Character to Kanye West

  12-11-2018 20:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  In Vox Lux, Natalie Portman plays a massive pop star who’s eccentric, erratic, and downright fascinating. Sound familiar? Although director Brady Corbet and Portman both insist her character Celeste is really a combination of famous artists, perhaps there’s one person fans will recognize in Celeste.“If anything, I feel like the character’s...More »
  
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• Comics Legend Stan Lee Dead at 95

  12-11-2018 20:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  Marvel comics icon Stan Lee died this morning, his daughter confirmed to TMZ. The 95-year-old was reportedly taken from his Los Angeles home to a hospital via ambulance early Monday, where he was eventually declared dead. Earlier this year, Lee suffered a bout of pneumonia, and reports surfaced in the...More »
  
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• Die Hard’s Director Breaks Down Bruce Willis’s Iconic Roof Jump

  12-11-2018 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Director John McTiernan has helmed some of the best American action films of the 1980s and 1990s, including Predator, Die Hard, and The Hunt for Red October. Die Hard’s stunts and special-effects-driven set pieces are especially iconic, thanks to McTiernan and his collaborators’ dedication to realism: They shot most of...More »
  
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• Homecoming’s Finale Sticks It to the Man

  12-11-2018 19:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  The final episode of Homecoming’s first season sticks its landing for a lot of reasons. The acting is superb across the board, director Sam Esmail’s visual style remains purposeful and precise, and the storytelling reaches a satisfying resolution, while still leaving enough questions dangling to make us eager for what comes...More »
  
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• A Guide to Orson Welles’s Other Unfinished Movies

  12-11-2018 19:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  The recent, belated, posthumous completion of The Other Side of the Wind has been billed as Orson Welles’s last film. That’s certainly true for now, but there is actually one more unfinished Welles feature that remains in a state of agonizing near completion. And the legendary director’s career was filled...More »
  
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• How ‘A Chorus Line’ Veterans Pass It on to a New Generation

  12-11-2018 19:14 via nytimes.com
  New York City Center’s gala production of the musical is being staged by Bob Avian and Baayork Lee, who have been with the show since its inception.
  
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• Portrait of a Marriage, Onstage and at the Barricades

  12-11-2018 19:08 via nytimes.com
  The archive of Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis, now at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, traces more than 60 years in the theater, in the movies and at the front lines of social activism.
  
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• Ariana Grande Continues to Win the Breakup by Getting First No. 1 Song With ‘Thank U, Next’

  12-11-2018 19:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the breakup Olympics, Ariana Grande’s going for gold. Or platinum. Or hell, even diamond if her fans have their way. Ari’s splendid kiss-off to all the boys she’s loved before, “Thank U, Next,” has debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming her first-ever No. 1 song...More »
  
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• Samantha Bee Will Host a Full Frontal Holiday Special … on Ice

  12-11-2018 18:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  Samantha Bee’s TBS show Full Frontal is getting into the holiday spirit with a very special holiday episode. Titled Christmas on I.C.E., the holiday special will air Wednesday, December 19, at 10:30 p.m. and is described as “a less-godless-than-the-usual-liberal Christmas variety spectacular” that will be taped at New York’s PlayStation...More »
  
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• Watch the Self-Aware Felt Acid Trip That Is the Detective Pikachu Trailer

  12-11-2018 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Imagine this: Pikachu, that cute Pokémon you love, except now he’s voiced by Deadpool, made of some haunting felt-like CGI, and employed as some sort of sleuth. Detective Pikachu, that movie we can no longer pretend is fake, is here, and apparently it’s about a kid (Justice Smith) whose dad...More »
  
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• 90 Day Fiancé Recap: An Elaborate Ruse

  12-11-2018 17:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  I can not go further in my 90 Day Fiancé recaps without first acknowledging the elephant in the room: Colt’s temperament.There are many viewers online who believe that this man is a garden variety Patrick Bateman waiting for his opportunity to wear Larissa’s skin. I never really subscribed to this...More »
  
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• ‘Toy Story 4’ Trailer: Introducing Forky

  12-11-2018 17:42 via nytimes.com
  Tony Hale joins the returning members of the voice cast, including Tom Hanks, Tim Allen and Joan Cusack. The movie is due next June.
  
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• Ennio Morricone denies calling Quentin Tarantino a 'cretin'

  12-11-2018 17:24
  The composer, whose score for Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight won an Oscar, says ‘I certainly do not consider his films garbage’Celebrated film score composer Ennio Morricone has denied calling Quentin Tarantino a “cretin” and threatened to sue Playboy for publishing an interview that contained the alleged comments.In a statement released on Sunday, Morricone said: “This is totally false … I have not given an interview to Playboy Germany and even more, I
  
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• Michael B. Jordan Still Trying to Convince Us Its Hard for Him to Date

  12-11-2018 17:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  It is hard for Michael B. Jordan — a movie star and extremely good sweater wearer — to date, according to Michael B. Jordan. In January, he told The Wall Street Journal Magazine that he was “dating, but technically single.” His reasoning? “L.A. isn’t the best place to date. No...More »
  
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• 16-Year-Old High-School Junior and Jimmy Awards Winner to Star in Dear Evan Hansen

  12-11-2018 17:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Those who read No. 1 theater teen competition fan site Vulture dot com might be familiar with Andrew Barth Feldman (winner of the Best Actor award at the Jimmy Awards this year) and will be able to react to this news correctly by shouting, “Called it!” Feldman will make good...More »
  
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• You Finale Recap: Crazy Ex-Boyfriend

  12-11-2018 16:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the end, he killed her.Isn’t that always how it goes? Remember, we are watching Lifetime. And on our way to what felt like an inevitable conclusion, we got what turned out to be a totally muddled and sloppy treatise on violent men, the ways social media renders us basically...More »
  
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• A Word With: Tim Daly, Sibling Bonds and the Stage

  12-11-2018 16:49 via nytimes.com
  Daly speaks about “Downstairs,” the play Theresa Rebeck wrote for him and his sister Tyne. He also discusses his life and his arts activism.
  
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• Broadway’s Next Evan Hansen? A 16-Year-Old High School Junior

  12-11-2018 16:41 via nytimes.com
  Andrew Barth Feldman is to take over the role in “Dear Evan Hansen” on Jan. 30.
  
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• Luke Null Looks Back on His Very Short Time at Saturday Night Live

  12-11-2018 16:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  During a recent Saturday night at Ottobar, located in the Baltimore neighborhood of Remington, former Saturday Night Live cast member Luke Null is nursing a beer. The venue is closing early tonight — something about the neighborhood power grid. It’s 10:30 p.m.On the wall, Ottobar management warns against moshing, and...More »
  
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• Doctor Who Recap: Treading on Your Own History

  12-11-2018 16:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  “What’s the point in having a mate with a time machine if you can’t nick back and see your gran when she were younger?” — Yasmin Khan.“The Demons of Punjab” marks the halfway point of season 11 and the first script of the year without Chris Chibnall’s name on it,...More »
  
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• Holy Fork, Did You Spot Li’l Sebastian on The Good Place?

  12-11-2018 16:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  He might be missed in the saddest fashion, but seek solace in the fact Park and Recreation’s very own Li’l Sebastian is, indeed, up in horsey heaven. Or rather, the Good Place. But wait, isn’t it technically the Bad Place? Oh dear.On Friday, the official social-media channels of The Good...More »
  
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• A Star Is Born Songwriter Paul Blair on Writing Ally’s Sellout Bops

  12-11-2018 16:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Much hay has been made of Ally’s sellout bops, the Star Is Born–loving internet’s affectionate pet name for the pop songs that Ally (Lady Gaga) releases as a rising mainstream star (much to her husband Jackson’s (Bradley Cooper) chagrin. Even when the couple isn’t literally arguing over her songs, Jackson...More »
  
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• John Mayer Quit Drinking After a 6-Day Hangover From Drake’s 30th Birthday Party

  12-11-2018 16:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  John Mayer is a changed man. In addition to being marginally less of a dick, according to him, Mayer has also been sober for two years, indirectly because of Drake. As Mayer tells it to Complex, he has the “most amazing last-night-of-my-life-drinking story” and he’s not wrong. The last time...More »
  
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• How Memoirist Marina Benjamin Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Insomnia

  12-11-2018 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Marina Benjamin couldn’t sleep. She tried therapy, pills, herbal tea, and every other home remedy well-meaning friends like to foist on insomniacs. Nothing worked. Eventually, she stopped fighting it, and decided instead to follow the path insomnia had opened up into her subconscious mind — to use her condition as...More »
  
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• Everything You Know About Vincent van Gogh Is Wrong

  12-11-2018 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  At Eternity’s Gate, Julian Schnabel’s don’t-call-it-a-biopic on Vincent van Gogh, is a course correction, a different look at the artist that overturns some long-held, but inaccurate, assumptions perpetuated through history (and by lots of other more on-the-nose van Gogh movies, including the 1956 Kirk Douglas stinker, Lust for Life). On...More »
  
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• Go to Your Man Cave and Watch SNL’s Delightfully Weird ‘House Hunters’ Sketch

  12-11-2018 15:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  During Liev Schreiber’s Saturday Night Live episode over the weekend, we were treated to something extremely absurd and hilarious with the show’s “House Hunters” sketch. Schreiber and Leslie Jones play a couple featured on the HGTV show who review the houses they checked out during their episode. But for the...More »
  
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• The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Miami Heat

  12-11-2018 15:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  I’m about to say something I never thought I would say: I deeply love Porsha this season. After all her drama with Kandi and Phaedra, she’s reemerged as a beautiful butterfly, keeping everything light and buoyant. There’s not a lot of drama brewing yet, and NeNe is taking care of...More »
  
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• In Conversation: Alex Trebek

  12-11-2018 15:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  Alex Trebek, dressed in a chambray shirt and blue jeans, walks into the plushly carpeted, book-lined study of his rambling Los Angeles home and plops down in an easy chair, draping a leg over an armrest. “People ask me,” he says, “Who would you like to replace you?” He shrugs....More »
  
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• Here’s Your First Teaser Trailer for Toy Story 4

  12-11-2018 15:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  Push me to the edge, all our Toy Story friends are back from their latest near-death experience! In the teaser for Disney’s Toy Story 4, the gang’s all here: Woody (Tom Hanks), Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen), Jessie (Joan Cusack), Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head (RIP Don Rickles, Estelle Harris), Rex...More »
  
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• Douglas Rain, voice of HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey, dies aged 90

  12-11-2018 15:21
  The actor best known for his role in Stanley Kubrick’s sci-fi classic was a leading Shakespearean in his native Canada and also played on Broadway Douglas Rain, the Canadian actor best known as the voice of ship’s HAL 9000 computer in the Stanley Kubrick sci-fi epic 2001: A Space Odyssey, has died aged 90. Rain died from natural causes in hospital in Ontario.Rain was not the first actor cast in the part. Kubrick had originally asked Martin Balsam to provide the computer’s voice
  
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• Camping Recap: The Omelet Jam Has Been Cancelled

  12-11-2018 15:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  It seems pretty normal that a few days into a camping trip, people might start to get a little uncomfortable, a little over it. I mean, you’re stuck with the same people for four days straight, with very few amenities, things probably smell, and Lord, I can only imagine the...More »
  
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• Toy Story 4 trailer: first teaser for new film released

  12-11-2018 15:08
  The fourth film in the series from Disney Pixar posts its first footage online, revealing a new character of a ‘spork-turned-craft-project’The first teaser trailer for the fourth Toy Story film has been released.No plot details are revealed in the teaser, but producers Disney/Pixar have released a synopsis:Everyone’s favourite pull-string cowboy sheriff Woody, along with his best friends Buzz Lightyear and Jessie, are happy taking care of their kid, Bonnie, until a new toy call
  
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• Trump and the global assault on press freedom

  12-11-2018 14:41 via ft.com
  When the US president calls journalists ‘enemies of the people’ it emboldens dictators
  
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• The Toy Story 4 Trailer Introduces "Forky"--Who Is Not a Toy, OK?!

  12-11-2018 14:40 via feeds.eonline.com
  At long last, the first trailer for Disney/Pixar's Toy Story 4 has arrived.For the fourth installment in the franchise, the studio says, "Woody has always been confident about...
  
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• I don’t want no (more) Scrubs: why the hospital comedy dragged on too long

  12-11-2018 14:00
  Flatlining after eight seasons of medical japes, the sitcom was rebooted for a med-school spin-off that should have been left for dead They say laughter is the best medicine, but a “doctor doctor” joke isn’t going to help much if you have been run over by a truck. Which is probably why most hospital TV shows are largely guffaw-free. There was nothing to chuckle about in ER or Grey’s Anatomy, little to tickle your ribs in Casualty and Holby City, while the aisles remained
  
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• Black Panther and Avengers: Infinity War take People's Choice honours

  12-11-2018 13:24
  Shadowhunters, Korean boyband BTS and Khloe Kardashian were the other major winners in the awards determined by an online voteThe People’s Choice awards – the first major awards ceremony of the season – have seen Avengers: Infinity War and Black Panther take the honours in the film section, giving them an early boost in the Oscars jostle.The awards are voted for in a complex online poll and cover TV, music and pop culture as well as movies, and lean towards commercial and mains
  
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• Peter Farrelly On Setting Aside Raunch-Comedy for Prestige Drama With Green Book

  12-11-2018 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Peter Farrelly, co-director and writer of such comedy blockbusters as Dumb and Dumber, Me, Myself & Irene, and There’s Something About Mary, has spent the last quarter century mining raunchy hilarity from things like volcanic diarrhea, conjoined twindom, multiple personalities, and a penis getting horrifically entangled in a zipper. Which...More »
  
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• YouTube says EU copyright plan could lead to blocked access

  12-11-2018 12:06 via ft.com
  Susan Wojcicki warns that article 13 proposal sets video site an ‘impossible’ task
  
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