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• Britain By Boat: 2 Grumpy Sailors review – newsmen run aground

  23-11-2018 22:00
  A Friday night spent listening to the inane chatter of bantersaurus types on a yacht? Forgive me for jumping ship“He’s every inch the athlete,” says former BBC newsreader Michael Buerk watching former BBC political correspondent John Sergeant trying to unwind a sailing rope from a pommel. “Quite a few inches, in various directions.”There you go. I just saved you an hour of your life. That line was, I assure you, the highlight of last night’s episode of Britain
  
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• Atlantis Is Alive With the Sound of Julie Andrews Joining Aquaman

  23-11-2018 21:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  A great dame being cast in a superhero franchise, which will directly compete in the box office with a sequel of the film she originally starred in? These are a few of this Vulture writer’s (petty) favorite things! EW is reporting that Julie Andrews has been low-key cast in Aquaman...More »
  
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• Ranking All 33 of SNL’s ‘Kings of Catchphrase Comedy’ with Bobby Moynihan

  23-11-2018 19:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  The lifespan of recurring SNL sketches goes like this: It airs once. It goes viral. Then SNL does the sketch twenty more times until people forget why they liked it in the first place.“The Original Kings of Catchphrase Comedy,” a send-up of the worst stand-up comedy has to offer, was...More »
  
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• PG? NC-17? She Made Such Calls for 30 Years

  23-11-2018 19:16 via nytimes.com
  Joan Graves, retiring as chairwoman of the Motion Picture Association’s ratings system, candidly assesses her reign, including the films she can’t unsee.
  
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• Taylor Swift Gives Boyfriend Joe Alwyn a Sweet Shout-Out on Instagram

  23-11-2018 19:10 via feeds.eonline.com
  Instagram official!Taylor Swift celebrated Thanksgiving this year by giving her longtime love Joe Alwyn a sweet shout-out on social media. The "End Game" singer took to Instagram...
  
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• Let’s Talk About That Last Shot in The Favourite

  23-11-2018 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  When compared to his previous work, Yorgos Lanthimos’s outstanding new film The Favourite seems almost straightforward. That might sound like a strange thing to say about a movie depicting the sexual rivalry between two women in the early 18th century as they battle for the affection of an increasingly ill...More »
  
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• Give Thanks, As Keanu Reeves’s Handsome Voice Joins Toy Story 4

  23-11-2018 18:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  To infinity and take the red pill. In his first-ever blockbuster voice role, Keanu Reeves has joined the cast of Toy Story 4 as an unknown supporting character — which for the purposes of this post, we’re imaging as a brooding, sardonic Tamagotchi with a whole bunch of complaints to...More »
  
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• Fareeha Khan Is the Basketball Legend of Twitter

  23-11-2018 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Fareeha Khan (@fareeeezy) is a comedian based in New York who performs all around the city. She was part of the Riot Comedy Writers Lab last year and has written for MTV and Reductress. You may have caught her two lines as “gardener lady” on a Jimmy Kimmel Live! sponsored-content...More »
  
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• Bob Dylan Doesn’t Say One Damn Word During This Jimmy Fallon Sketch

  23-11-2018 17:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  Hey, at least he actually showed up on time and didn’t put the international laureate community into a tizzy. In celebration of his new whiskey named after one of his famous ditties, Bob Dylan decided to indulge Jimmy Fallon with a few minutes of his time to entice people to...More »
  
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• Why Dirty John Turns a True-Crime Podcast Into a ‘Twisted Fairytale’

  23-11-2018 17:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  Alexandra Cunningham had never written for TV when the late Steven Bochco tapped her to write an NYPD Blue script back in 2001. Things went well for the Juilliard School playwriting fellow, even though the first draft she turned in was 85 pages long. “He called me and said he...More »
  
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• Sapphic sensation: the rise of the lesbian story on and off screen

  23-11-2018 17:31
  Creation and authentic depiction of same-sex relationships on film and TV goes mainstream
  The latest TV show to make waves online and ripples around office water coolers, Julia Davis’s Sally4Ever, features an explicit lesbian sex scene in its opening episode. In Killing Eve, Jodie Comer, playing a contract killer, tells Sandra Oh, a UK intelligence officer: “I masturbate about you a lot.”And there is more more same-sex screen time around the corner. Disobedience, in cinemas at
  
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• What Joe Schmo 2 Taught John Levenstein About Crafting Surprising Comedy

  23-11-2018 17:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  Remember the 2000s, when reality TV was new and nobody knew what was going on? A lot of those early shows took on the guise of being a “social experiment,” or at the very least a commentary on the pervasiveness of media. Big Brother, The Real World, and Survivor all...More »
  
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• Megyn Kelly Could Reportedly Get at Least $30 Million to Just Go Away

  23-11-2018 17:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  Megyn Kelly notoriously found herself in big trouble with NBC — and had her low ratings–plagued Today hour subsequently canceled — after she decided to defend blackface during a segment on the morning program. On Tuesday afternoon, “Page Six” reported the former Fox News anchor is close to finalizing an...More »
  
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• Dolce & Gabbana’s not so sweet reckoning in China

  23-11-2018 17:11 via ft.com
  A cautionary tale on how the Italian fashion house mishandled a social media backlash
  
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• Murphy Brown Recap: Thanksgiving on ICE

  23-11-2018 16:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  Hello, turkeys! I hope you’re enjoying eating leftovers straight out of the refrigerator. We’ve known that Murphy Brown’s Very Special Episode About Immigration was coming since the moment Phyllis hired Miguel, a college dude whose DACA status has come up in all but one of his scenes this season. Like...More »
  
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• Macy’s Apologizes for All of That Crummy Thanksgiving Day Parade Lip-synching

  23-11-2018 16:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you, like most of the American populace on Thursday morning, woke up and groggily turned on the annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in the hopes of seeing a balloon inspired by Paddington 2 (missed opportunity!), there’s a solid chance you noticed a bunch of performers having difficulties with their...More »
  
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• The Romanoffs Recap: Strangers on a Train

  23-11-2018 16:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Romanoffs currently has a 43% rating among “top critics” on Rotten Tomatoes. The Walking Dead, the zombie juggernaut no one seems to like anymore, more than doubles that score with 88%. Arrow, one of several interconnected shows about DC superheroes, is sitting even prettier at 91%. Even the largely...More »
  
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• Late Night’s 2018 Thanksgiving Food, Ranked

  23-11-2018 16:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  Thanksgiving was this week, the one holiday a year when even celebrities are allowed to eat food. Cooking segments are a late-night staple, and this holiday treats us to the vision of various men in business casual trying to use a whisk. Food wound its way into almost every late-night...More »
  
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• Theater’s Latest Prompt: Don’t Act Your Age!

  23-11-2018 16:00 via nytimes.com
  In “Usual Girls,” “Dance Nation” and other plays, actors are playing characters that are sometimes decades younger than they are. Here’s how it works.
  
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• Streaming: ‘The Owl’s Legacy’ Explores the Glory That Was Greece

  23-11-2018 16:00 via nytimes.com
  Chris Marker’s 13-episode documentary series (streaming from Amazon Video) is a heady but playful examination of the impact of ancient Greece on modern life.
  
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• A Word With: Rose Byrne Searches for Joy in a Troubled System

  23-11-2018 16:00 via nytimes.com
  Byrne talks about “Instant Family,” her new movie with Mark Wahlberg, the perils of humor and the eventual comeback of Louis C.K.
  
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• FT editor on the future of financial journalism

  23-11-2018 15:15 via ft.com
  Transcript of a speech given for the James Cameron Memorial Lecture
  
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• FT editor Lionel Barber on the future of financial journalism

  23-11-2018 15:15 via ft.com
  Transcript of a speech given for the James Cameron Memorial Lecture
  
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• Rachel Weisz: ‘When Women Are Together, There’s a Lot of Freedom’

  23-11-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Some spoilers below for The Favourite.When I meet Rachel Weisz at an upscale hotel in midtown to talk about her latest movie, Yorgos Lanthimos’s The Favourite, she looks regal. Intimidatingly so. She’s wearing black, her hair gently curled, her makeup immaculate, sitting ramrod straight at a glossy table in an...More »
  
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• Best books of 2018: Film

  23-11-2018 14:30 via ft.com
  Danny Leigh selects his must-read titles
  
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• The Week in Arts: Alvin Ailey, the Internet and Florence Price

  23-11-2018 14:00 via nytimes.com
  The dance company celebrates 60 years with new works and classics, and a neglected Price concerto is performed in New Jersey.
  
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• This week’s best home entertainment: from Vic & Bob to Kidding

  23-11-2018 12:59
  Reeves and Mortimer spread the surreal Christmas cheer, while Jim Carrey teams up with Michel Gondry for a deeply strange dramedyThe comic surrealists’ Christmas comeback got mixed notices. But when they nail it, Reeves and Mortimer are still effortlessly amusing and it would have taken a heart of stone to deny them a series. As we begin here, Vic and Bob disrupt a couple’s dinner date with a song-and-dance routine, and there’s a guest appearance from “Tom Cruise”.
  
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• The Lion King trailer: Disney releases first look at reboot of much loved animated film

  23-11-2018 12:57
  Jon Favreau’s follow-up to Oscar-winning CGI The Jungle Book features voiceovers from Donald Glover, Chiwetel Ejiofor and BeyoncéThe first trailer for The Lion King, Disney’s much-anticipated remake of its beloved animation has been released. The teaser debuted on US TV during an ad break on the Thanksgiving NFL game.The film, which will be released in July 2019, is the latest CGI transfer from director Jon Favreau, whose remake of The Jungle Book in 2016 won an Oscar for its
  
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• Pre-Holiday New Art Book Shopping List

  23-11-2018 12:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Here’s our curated roundup of some of the most gift-able art books from the fall.If you buy something through our links, New York may earn an affiliate commission....More »
  
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• My Workout: Jovan Adepo Gets Workout Tips From John Krasinski

  23-11-2018 11:00 via nytimes.com
  The actor, who stars in “Overlord” and “Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan,” played football in college. But he takes advice from peers.
  
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• Johnston Press administrator warns of cash shortfall for creditors

  23-11-2018 10:37 via ft.com
  Report says pre-pack administration deal was ‘best available outcome’
  
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• God, gore and gossip: the surprising winning formula of the Viking dramas

  23-11-2018 10:00
  Both Vikings and The Last Kingdom feature the usual violence, but a focus on faith, family and soap opera elements elevate them from the historical fiction packBy now you know the cliché. A timid goat farmer tends to his herd. Something seems amiss – why do they bleat so? He looks up and sees a fleet of Viking longships on the horizon. This doesn’t end well for him. Rough men in horned helmets from the frozen North ravaging the people, the land and the goats is a staple of his
  
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• Don’t knock my love for trash TV, it helps me cope with hard times | Natalie Reilly

  23-11-2018 09:35
  TV has long been accused of dulling brains, but simple stories with easy endings can be a soothing balm for the harried soulOn Saturday Night Live last week, Steve Carell, along with his former co-stars, teased fans with hints of an Office reboot to enthusiastic whoops and cheers from the audience.Those who believe we are inhabiting a cultural moment of Peak TV or “ambitious television” might view the US version of The Office as nothing more than a half-baked, dimmed-down, dull versi
  
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• Friday’s best TV: Shades of Guilt; Britain by Boat; David Cassidy: The Last Session

  23-11-2018 07:20
  There’s a thought-provoking legal thriller from Germany, the start of a new series following two well-known men in a boat and a look at the troubled life of a 70s heart-throbThis thought-provoking German legal thriller takes a while to establish itself but is worth the wait. It begins with the erotic adventure of a married couple who decide to expand the realms of their sexual experience by inviting “callboys” to have sex with the wife while the husband films the encounters. Th
  
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• The Kominsky Method review – Michael Douglas in patchy, poignant portrait of male friendship

  23-11-2018 07:00
  Douglas and Alan Arkin are a delight as two old friends– pity the younger or female characters don’t get a look-inI very much enjoy the tweet formulation that runs “I am [insert physiological/mental/cultural diagnostic term here] years old”, but have never managed to find my own. Now I have. I am “Michael Douglas is forever fixed in my mind as the lizard-eyed creep in the green polyester V-neck watching Sharon Stone in the nightclub in Basic Instinct” years ol
  
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• A frank, fearless and funny guide to parenting – podcasts of the week

  23-11-2018 07:00
  Sarah Solemani injects some refreshing humour into parenting podcast the Trap Door, while Dan Taberski goes in search of millennium bug preppers After 20 years behind bars, Earlonne Woods, an inmate at the San Quentin State Prison who hosts and co-produces the popular Ear Hustle podcast, has had his sentence commuted by the governor of California and will be released on parole. Despite Woods’s release, the podcast’s creators have said the series will continue, with more tales of life
  
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• We’re all content providers now

  23-11-2018 06:00 via ft.com
  Everyone wants it. Our lives are full of it. But what is content anyway?
  
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• German mistrust of wealth hampers Merz’s CDU hopes

  23-11-2018 05:00 via ft.com
  Frontrunner to head party draws suspicion from voters who like their leaders low-key
  
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• BuzzFeed cannot bulk up enough to take on Facebook

  23-11-2018 05:00 via ft.com
  Founder’s idea for digital publishers to merge to gain scale is likely not enough
  
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• German Plays Tackle the World’s Woes, Current and Future

  23-11-2018 01:54 via nytimes.com
  Productions in Berlin and Munich grapple with issues that shape our world.
  
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• Here’s the First Teaser for Disney’s Lion King Remake, Watch It in Your Childhood Bedroom

  23-11-2018 01:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  Nants ingonyama bagithi Baba! Like a baboon mystic holding up a lion cub in front of all the animals of the African savanna, Disney marked the Thanksgiving holiday by premiering the first teaser for Jon Favreau’s upcoming Lion King remake, appropriate timing for a week in which Millennials across the...More »
  
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