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• How ‘GP Yass’ Broke New Ground on SNL

  21-11-2018 23:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  Society has come a long way when even Saturday Night Live can admit that being straight is boring. For decades, the show rested on the unshaking belief that nothing could be funnier or more compelling than a straight, slovenly man. But ever since RuPaul’s Drag Race, drag culture has been...More »
  
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• The Contraceptive Pill: How Safe Is It? review – a welcome antidote to the scare stories

  21-11-2018 23:00 via theguardian.com
  There was a lot of science to get through, but Dr Zoe Williams explained it all in a manner that looked effortlessNow, at last, I understand my mother. Or at least one tiny part of her. Well, two words of her. Those words were: “Relative risk! Relative risk!” She was a gynaecologist and adviser and distributor of pre- and post-coital contraception to three generations of sexually active women in south-east London over a 40-year career, she could be heard bellowing the phrase at the r
  
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• The Little Drummer Girl Recap: The Spy Who Loved Me

  21-11-2018 22:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  With the Semtex-filled Mercedes successfully delivered — and the Palestinian terrorist Khalil on the hook — it’s time for Charlie to embark on the next and most difficult part of her mission: falling in love with Salim, Khalil’s late brother, whom she barely knew in real life.And while Charlie is...More »
  
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• Dirty John Is a Real-Life Horror Story

  21-11-2018 22:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  Dirty John is billed as true crime, but it would be more accurate to describe it as relationship horror. A dramatization of a Los Angeles Times investigation, which in turn became a buzzed-about podcast, the Bravo series recounts the cautionary tale of Debra Newell (Connie Britton), a fabulously successful Los...More »
  
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• Critic’s Pick: ‘The Favourite’ Review: Scheming for Power in a Kinky Palace Triangle

  21-11-2018 22:17 via nytimes.com
  Yorgos Lanthimos’s new film, starring Olivia Colman, Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz, turns 18th-century royal intrigue into sublime and ridiculous comedy.
  
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• The Little Drummer Girl Recap: Bang the Drum Slowly

  21-11-2018 22:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  There was always going to be bloodshed, right? This is a series that began with the bombing death of an 8-year-old boy, and the Israeli spymaster Kurtz vowing to punish the people who were responsible. We’ve spent the past two episodes watching Kurtz maneuver all his chess pieces into place;...More »
  
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• 9 Short-Season Shows to Watch Over the Long Weekend

  21-11-2018 22:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s a long holiday weekend, which for many means time with the family, which for many also means time avoiding the family. And that’s where your old friend TV steps in.But what happens when you run out of Friends Thanksgiving episodes and decide you want to start a new show,...More »
  
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• Meet the Guy Who Draws Every Great British Baking Show Recipe Illustration

  21-11-2018 21:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the midst of The Great British Baking Show’s controversial migration between British networks two years ago — a creative decision that lost 75 percent of the show’s personalities — tabloid speculation ran wild at the time about what this new Baking Show iteration would entail, given that the only...More »
  
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• Pablo Ferro, Who Energized Films’ Opening Credits, Dies at 83

  21-11-2018 21:54 via nytimes.com
  Beginning with “Dr. Strangelove,” he found attention-getting ways to make title sequences more than just a list of names.
  
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• So Fetch! Ariana Grande Teases a Mean Girls and Legally Blonde-Inspired Music Video

  21-11-2018 21:22 via feeds.eonline.com
  Ariana Grande's new music video is going to be so fetch!The 25-year-old singer got her fans in a frenzy this week after she posted a series of references to popular early '00s...
  
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• Anatomy of a Scene: How Mahershala Ali Schools Viggo Mortensen in ‘Green Book’

  21-11-2018 21:19 via nytimes.com
  Peter Farrelly narrates a sequence from his film.
  
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• ‘Green Book’ | Anatomy of a Scene

  21-11-2018 21:18 via nytimes.com
  Peter Farrelly narrates a sequence from his film featuring Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali.
  
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• The Carpetbagger: In a Steve McQueen Film, the First Frame Is Everything

  21-11-2018 21:03 via nytimes.com
  From “Widows” to “12 Years a Slave,” the director walks us through his provocative first shots.
  
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• James Whiteside’s 10 Favorite Books

  21-11-2018 21:00 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 American Ballet Theater’s principal dancer James Whiteside’s list....More »
  
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• Hear Ye, Hear Ye! See Charles Goes From Lad to Prince in This The Crown Photo

  21-11-2018 20:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  If we knew that “investiture ceremonies” were an excuse to serve up some hybrid Pope–Cruella de Vil lewks, maybe they would be covered as much as the royal weddings. Just a thought! In the newest photo to emerge from the set of The Crown’s third season, Olivia Colman (Queen Elizabeth)...More »
  
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• Alabama Shakespeare Festival Aims to Update Southern Canon

  21-11-2018 20:40 via nytimes.com
  The company will commission 22 plays, with more than half set to go to female playwrights and playwrights of color, its artistic director said.
  
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• Review: ‘Bernie and Mikey’s Trip to the Moon’ Is Old-School Drama

  21-11-2018 20:27 via nytimes.com
  Scott Aiello’s play about an Italian-American family dealing with a disabled daughter offers no-nonsense American realism.
  
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• Ryley Walker Explains Why He Covered an Entire Dave Matthews Band Album

  21-11-2018 20:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  Lady Bird taught us a lot, you know, as a society, but mostly it taught us that the Dave Matthews Band was better than we remembered, and evoked a lot of feelings and complicated emotions about what it was like to be a teenager and to first be interrogating yourself...More »
  
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• LFO Singer Devin Lima Dead at 41

  21-11-2018 19:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  Devin Lima, one-third of the pop trio known as LFO, died this morning at 41. The singer was diagnosed with stage 4 adrenal cancer in October of last year after a tumor was discovered in his abdomen, and had to cancel a planned tour with his bandmate Brad Fischetti in...More »
  
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• Great British Baking Show’s Creator Says the Show Switched Networks Because of BBC ‘Bullies’

  21-11-2018 19:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  As the drama surrounding The Great British Baking Show’s switch from the BBC to Channel 4 still leaves a li’l soggy-bottom taste in viewers’ mouths — especially since the change caused three of the show’s original four personalities to quit — creator Richard McKerrow wants to finally set the meringue...More »
  
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• Two Thanksgiving Treats: Selfsgiving and a Porn Star’s Speech

  21-11-2018 18:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  In many ways, this week’s column is a typed-up microcosm of the Thanksgiving meals so many of us will enjoy this week — a good-hearted mix of excitement, reflection, and graphic retellings of award-winning pornographic films. Oh, now you’re going to act like that’s not how your family “does” the...More »
  
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• What to Watch, Read and Listen To This Thanksgiving Weekend

  21-11-2018 18:55 via nytimes.com
  Here’s a highly subjective pop-culture menu for you to choose from over the holiday.
  
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• 15 Movies to Watch This Thanksgiving Weekend

  21-11-2018 18:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  Movie theaters: the perfect place to digest a heavy Thanksgiving meal, dodge your family, and a much better alternative to football. Whether you’re doing the holiday on your own, or bringing along a few relatives, there are movies in theaters right now (and newly streaming, if you’d rather not leave...More »
  
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• Robin Hood Is a Cinematically and Politically Incoherent Movie Salad

  21-11-2018 18:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  Two years ago, after the 2016 presidential election, there was a lot of optimistic hand-wringing about how the movies might respond, how the movies perhaps were obligated to respond, to the shades of autocracy and outright bigotry that had just had a gigantic coming-out party in the United States and...More »
  
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• Kimmel on Ivanka's emails: 'Sometimes the jokes write themselves'

  21-11-2018 17:01 via theguardian.com
  Late-night hosts discussed Donald Trump’s hypocrisy over his daughter’s security breach and his refusal to criticise Mohammed bin Salman over the death of Jamal KhashoggiLate-night hosts discussed the hypocrisy over Ivanka Trump’s email breach and the president’s bizarre statement over his relationship with Saudi Arabia. Continue reading...
  
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• Bradley Cooper Directed A Star Is Born’s Grammy Scene Fake-Drunk

  21-11-2018 16:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  Well, we can finally add some important context to the scene that spurred some very real, very legit headlines such as “Jackson Maine Was Blitzed Out of His Mind at the Grammys Last Night.” While we might’ve been waxing poetic about Bradley Cooper’s smooth-as-whiskey voice in A Star Is Born...More »
  
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• The Vampire Baseball Game in Twilight Is the Funniest Film Scene Ever

  21-11-2018 16:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s bewildering how the last ten years have flown by, but also that the most legendary bit of comedy ever put to film is only a decade old. It’s such a cultural touchstone of universally agreed-upon comic genius that it feels like it’s been around forever. But the numbers don’t...More »
  
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• Rachel Dratch Reveals Her SNL Character Abe Scheinwald Has Died

  21-11-2018 16:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  During last night’s Late Night With Seth Meyers, some big SNL news was revealed when Rachel Dratch stopped by for a chat. Near the end of the above clip, Meyers brings up a grandfather-grandson Hollywood-producer duo the two used to write and play together on the show, with Dratch as...More »
  
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• How a $15,000 Movie Rallied a New Generation of Black Auteurs

  21-11-2018 16:00 via nytimes.com
  An oral history of Barry Jenkins’s “Medicine for Melancholy,” as told by admirers — Lena Waithe, Justin Simien and Terence Nance — and Jenkins himself.
  
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• Calling All Twilight Fans: 10 Years Later Are You Team Edward or Team Jacob?

  21-11-2018 16:00 via feeds.eonline.com
  Prepare to feel ancient, because Twilight is officially 10 years old!Yes, the original film in The Twilight Saga starring Kristen Stewart as Bella Swan, Robert Pattinson as Edward Cullen...
  
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• The Alluring Melancholy of Ambrose Spellman on Chilling Adventures of Sabrina

  21-11-2018 15:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  Netflix’s Chilling Adventures of Sabrina leans into darkness, witchiness, and humor primarily by way of its curious, winsome characters. Not all are universally beloved, of course: Prudence Night has been both praised and scrutinized for her periphery presence in Sabrina’s life (and therefore the show itself), while Sabrina’s besties Roz...More »
  
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• A Neighbor’s Shh! Could Silence a Village Theater for Good

  21-11-2018 15:37 via nytimes.com
  Quad Cinema is going to court to fend off eviction proceedings after an upstairs tenant complained that noise from its screens keeps seeping into his home.
  
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• Jamie Dornan Sang at Sarah McLachlan’s House in Fifty Shades

  21-11-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Just as Daniel Radcliffe outlived Harry Potter and Robert Pattinson survived Edward Cullen, so, too, will Jamie Dornan soon be free of Christian Grey. The final installment of the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy flogged its way through theaters this past February, and already Dornan has begun the work of...More »
  
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• How to Write a Female Serial Killer

  21-11-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  In Oyinkan Braithwaite’s noirish, critically acclaimed debut, My Sister, the Serial Killer, one sister kills men, and the other cleans up the blood and hauls away the bodies. The novel has been hailed as “an ideal book for the present moment” because of its portrayal of unlikable women joining forces...More »
  
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• How a Preschool Teacher Got Cast in Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma

  21-11-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Before being cast in the starring role of writer-director Alfonso Cuarón’s Mexico City–set period drama Roma, Yalitza Aparicio had not only never acted before, she had never contemplated acting before. Perhaps more crucially, she had to reassure her family that meeting with the film’s production executives wouldn’t result in her...More »
  
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• 12 Monkeys Is the Apocalypse Movie We Need Right Now

  21-11-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  When it comes to the flexibility of history, time-travel stories exist on a spectrum. On one end are stories where fate can be easily changed. Back to the Future, in which Marty McFly reverses all manner of poor outcomes, dwells here. Move a bit down the line and you get...More »
  
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• Watch Brian Tyree Henry Sing in Room 104’s Musical Episode

  21-11-2018 14:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  HBO’s Duplass brothers anthology series Room 104 does something a little different every week, and in an upcoming second-season episode, it does something very different. In what Vulture’s Jen Chaney calls the best episode of the season, “Arnold” (airing November 30) becomes a full-on musical, starring Atlanta’s Brian Tyree Henry...More »
  
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• Theater Sonnevanck in Enschede zoekt jong talent - RTV Oost

  21-11-2018 14:38
  RTV Oost
  Theater Sonnevanck in Enschede zoekt jong talent
  RTV Oost
  Altijd al willen meespelen in een professionele theatervoorstelling? Dan is dit je kans. Voor de nieuwe productie 'Coming of Age' van Theater Sonnevanck in Enschede worden nog acteurs, dansers, zangers, muzikanten tussen de twaalf en vijftien jaar ...
  
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• Sara Kroos ziek; voorstelling Theater aan de Parade afgelast - BD.nl

  21-11-2018 14:20
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  Sara Kroos ziek; voorstelling Theater aan de Parade afgelast
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  DEN BOSCH - De voorstelling van Sara Kroos die woensdagavond in het Theater aan de Parade in Den Bosch plaats zou vinden, gaat niet door. De cabaretière heeft een keelontsteking en kan nauwelijks praten. Dat heeft het Theater aan de Parade gemeld.
  
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• Jimmy Kimmel Confronts Michael B. Jordan Over Cut Creed II Cameo

  21-11-2018 14:00 via feeds.eonline.com
  Things got a little awkward on Jimmy Kimmel Live! last night.Jimmy Kimmel was nice enough when he began his interview with Michael B. Jordan, telling him, "You look fantastic. The...
  
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• How to Spend the Day Seeing Amazing Art All Over Queens

  21-11-2018 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Queens International is an art biennial distributed throughout the borough. Queens Museum assistant curator Sophia Marisa Lucas and her co-curator, artist Baseera Khan, joined forces to assemble 43 artists and collectives, from across 15 distinct neighborhoods, for the eighth edition. “Volumes” is co-hosted by select branches of the Queens Library,...More »
  
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• Widows Makes Me Want to Invite Daniel Kaluuya to Rob Me

  21-11-2018 13:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  More than once, since Daniel Kaluuya broke out into the mainstream with Get Out, I have sat at my desk — or on the train, or in a movie theater, or stared aimlessly into my refrigerator — thinking “Daniel Joseph Kaluuya, in Jesus’s name!” I have it on good authority...More »
  
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