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• William H. Macy Says Frank Is a ‘Sh*thole’ in Emmy Rossum’s Final Shameless Episode

  04-12-2018 23:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’ll certainly be an emotional sendoff for Emmy Rossum’s Fiona in Shameless. Well, for everyone except her own TV dad Frank Gallagher, that is. According to star William H. Macy, Frank is more of a jerk than usual during Fiona’s good-bye, or as he puts it, he’s really “a complete shithole...More »
  
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• Tom Cruise Surprise Releases Late Contender for Film of the Year

  04-12-2018 23:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  Did you know that you needed 87 seconds of Tom Cruise, human actor, explaining motion smoothing? Well that is the gift this day has bestowed upon us. In a short video message, Cruise appears alongside Mission: Impossible — Fallout and Top Gun: Maverick director Christopher McQuarrie to implore — nay,...More »
  
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• Lockerbie: The Unheard Voices review – the profound suffering endures

  04-12-2018 23:30
  As the bereaved spoke about their grief, it was hard to escape the feeling that there was probably a reason some voices had gone unheard for the past 30 yearsWhat remains the worst terrorist atrocity to have taken place on British soil happened four nights before Christmas 30 years ago, and was marked last night by a documentary, Lockerbie: The Unheard Voices (Channel 5).It laid out the basic story well enough. On 21 December 1988 six miles above an unassuming, Scottish village, a bomb hidden in
  
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• Why Schitt’s Creek Decided to Film a Holiday Episode

  04-12-2018 23:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  Despite being one of the most sweater-filled shows on TV, Schitt’s Creek mostly takes place in the summer because, as creator and star Dan Levy explained at Vulture Festival Los Angeles, that’s when it’s easiest to film. (Also, a show set during the Canadian winter about a family who lost...More »
  
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• Charlotte Prodger's Bridgit: a memorable, rich and beguiling film

  04-12-2018 23:00
  Prodger interrogates the world as she attempts to locate herselfiPhone film-maker Charlotte Prodger wins 2018 Turner prizeWriting about last year’s Turner prize, I said Charlotte Prodger was on my fantasy list of artists I thought should be included. And now she has won this year’s prize, from a shortlist focused entirely on artists working in film, video and digital imagery.In the end, I felt that only Prodger or the Forensic Architecture group could possibly win. In very different
  
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• The One Impression Heidi Gardner Wants to Bring to SNL

  04-12-2018 22:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  I’m taking the kids to my sistah’s! That’s the moment this Vulture writer realized Heidi Gardner was a comedic force to be reckoned with on Saturday Night Live, where she’s been a featured player since last fall. The character was the perpetually suffering Angel, “every boxer’s girlfriend from every movie...More »
  
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• Anna Burns’s Booker Prize–Winning Milkman Offers Some Hope But No Change

  04-12-2018 22:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  Anna Burns’s Milkman — the winner of this year’s Man Booker Prize — doesn’t meet the criteria we’ve come to expect from award-winning books. It doesn’t span generations or continents; it’s not a staid reflection on the nuclear family. Like last year’s winner, George Saunders’s Lincoln in the Bardo, it’s...More »
  
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• The Good Place Renewed for Season 4, You Little Chili Babies

  04-12-2018 22:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  There are many reasons to renew The Good Place for a fourth season, but what was the single most compelling element of the show that made execs at NBC say, “Yes, we absolutely need more of this on television.” Was it the show’s ability to basically reinvent itself multiple times...More »
  
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• Philip Bosco, Tony-Winning Character Actor, Is Dead at 88

  04-12-2018 22:26 via nytimes.com
  A familiar face for years in movies, on television and especially on Broadway, he had a particular affinity for the work of George Bernard Shaw.
  
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• Watch Riley Keough Meet Riverdale’s Archie and Jughead

  04-12-2018 22:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  Last spring, Riley Keough tweeted that she wanted to be on Riverdale. In September, Vulture broke the news that she had been cast in a guest role on the teen drama, and now we can present you with an exclusive first look at Keough as Laurie Lake. In a clip...More »
  
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• A Between Two Ferns Movie Is Taking Root at Netflix

  04-12-2018 22:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  Beloved Funny or Die series Between Two Ferns is getting the movie treatment. According to The Hollywood Reporter, production is currently underway on a feature-film version of the popular web series starring Zach Galifianakis, and Scott Aukerman — who co-created the series with Galifianakis — is attached to direct. It’s...More »
  
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• Costume Designer Sandy Powell Talks Through 6 of The Favourite’s Best Looks

  04-12-2018 22:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  Yorgos Lanthimos’s new film, The Favourite, is its own little Game of Thrones, albeit one that’s placed in a much more intimate setting — basically in and around the bedchambers of one ailing royal. The film focuses on the interpersonal intrigue of three women: Queen Anne (Olivia Colman); her best...More »
  
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• Let’s Predict the 2019 Grammy Nominations

  04-12-2018 21:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Grammy nominations are upon us, and it’s time to get all worked up about gold hardware again! Music’s biggest night will announce its contenders for the 2019 show later this week, but before we get into our best guesses for what to expect, some housekeeping: The noms will now...More »
  
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• Review: Look! It’s ‘The Making of King Kong’! (No, Not That One.)

  04-12-2018 21:48 via nytimes.com
  A new play mocks the gender and racial ickiness of the 1933 movie — on a one-paw budget.
  
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• Eighth Grade, Beale Street Among AFI’s Top 10 Movies

  04-12-2018 21:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  The American Film Institute has released its top-ten movies of the year. Notably on the list: Eighth Grade, If Beale Street Could Talk, and A Quiet Place. The Marvel behemoth Black Panther also scored a spot on the list, and Green Book continues to hang on (even as its awards-season...More »
  
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• Aardbevingen als inspiratiebron voor theater: 'Alles wat je ziet, had je zelf ... - RTV Noord

  04-12-2018 21:47
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  Aardbevingen als inspiratiebron voor theater: 'Alles wat je ziet, had je zelf ...
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  We vragen het Tjeerd Bischoff, scenarioschrijver van de voorstelling 'GAS', en Geke Hoogstins, het creatieve brein achter 'Noord op de schaal van Richter'. Eerstgenoemde productie is nog te zien in een mobiel theater in Zuidlaren. De voorstelling van ...
  
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• Which TV Shows and Movies Will Be Nominated for the 2019 Golden Globes?

  04-12-2018 21:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s time for the Golden Globes, the only televised awards show that hands out trophies for movies and TV and airs on NBC in January! The Hollywood Foreign Press Association announces its nominations on Thursday morning — as we wait with bated breath to find out who will be lucky...More »
  
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• The Second Sotheby’s Prize Goes to Help Fund an Exhibition About Early Black Filmmaking

  04-12-2018 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Today Sotheby’s announced the 2018 winner of their prize for curatorial excellence, awarding $250,000 to the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures to support “Regeneration: Black Cinema 1900–1970.”The Sotheby’s Prize, in its second year, helps to facilitate exhibitions focused on underrepresented areas of art history. Five other institutions each received $10,000,...More »
  
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• Film Academy Museum, Yet to Open, Reveals Inaugural Exhibitions

  04-12-2018 21:30 via nytimes.com
  The long-delayed Academy Museum of Motion Pictures won’t open until late 2019. But on Tuesday it announced what visitors can expect to see.
  
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• Dumplin’ Is a Breath of Fresh Air

  04-12-2018 21:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  On its surface, Dumplin’ is a slight, charming comedy about beauty pageants and learning to be yourself, but watch closely enough and you might see some of the new moves it brings to an otherwise predictable routine. Based on Julie Murphy’s 2015 young adult book, the film follows plus-size teen...More »
  
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• Sorrell’s merger shows why he prefers peanuts to WPP

  04-12-2018 21:13 via ft.com
  S4 Capital’s deal for MightyHive part of attempt to build media group for a new era
  
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• Sonja Morgan’s Improv Comedy Debut Was a Boozy, Glorious Mess

  04-12-2018 20:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  What isn’t Sonja Morgan? She is a longtime cast member of The Real Housewives of New York City. She is the former wife of J. Pierpont Morgan’s great-grandson. She is an international fashion lifestyle brand. She is a gourmet toaster-oven chef. She is a caburlesque performer, as well as an...More »
  
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• The Story Behind Scream’s 12-Minute, Still-Terrifying Opening Scare

  04-12-2018 20:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  Kevin Williamson was a struggling actor in his 20s when he decided to try his hand writing the sort of slasher films he grew up loving. By then, he’d watched Halloween and Friday the 13th so many times that he knew every twist of the camera and jump scare by...More »
  
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• Counterpart Is Still Stuck Between Worlds in Season Two

  04-12-2018 20:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  By the end of the first season of Counterpart, one of the buzziest things about the Starz series, J.K. Simmons’s performance as two different identical men from separate worlds, ended up being one of its least interesting elements. Counterpart is a spy thriller about a universe where the world was...More »
  
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• Apollo Theater to Build New Performance Spaces

  04-12-2018 20:00 via nytimes.com
  The storied Harlem institution will create spaces intended to incubate works by up-and-coming artists.
  
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• Cats Fan Lucas Hedges Performs the Song of Rum Tum Tugger, the Cat Who F*cks

  04-12-2018 19:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  Everyone in Hollywood is getting cast in the Cats movie, but not Lucas Hedges — not yet. In an interview with Stephen Colbert last night, Lady Bird’s resident theater devotee started talking about his preshow prep for The Waverly Gallery, which apparently involves singing along to songs from the Andrew...More »
  
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• The 10 Best Songs of 2018

  04-12-2018 19:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  There is no denying that we currently have more music immediately available to us than at any other point in the history of recorded music. This is a gift and a curse: There’s so much good stuff out there, but there’s also just so much stuff. As such, top-ten lists...More »
  
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• Harry Slinger maand lang in theater - Noordhollands Dagblad - Noordhollands Dagblad (persbericht)

  04-12-2018 19:36
  Harry Slinger maand lang in theater - Noordhollands Dagblad
  Noordhollands Dagblad (persbericht)
  Zanger en theaterman Harry Slinger (68) staat de hele maand december bijna avond aan avond op de bühne met de theatershow 'Kerstfeest in de Jordaan'.en meer »
  
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• 6 New Books You Should Read This December

  04-12-2018 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Each month, Boris Kachka offers nonfiction and fiction book recommendations. You should read as many of them as possible. See his picks from last month and next month....More »
  
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• Thomson Reuters to axe 12% of workforce

  04-12-2018 19:25 via ft.com
  Job cuts come after sale of trading and data business unit to Blackstone
  
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• New ‘Captain Marvel’ Trailer and More: 5 Things in Pop Culture Today

  04-12-2018 19:20 via nytimes.com
  What we’re talking about in Tuesday’s TV, music and movie news.
  
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• A ‘Captain Marvel’ Trailer and More: 5 Things to Know in Pop Culture Today

  04-12-2018 19:20 via nytimes.com
  What we’re talking about in Tuesday’s TV, music and movie news.
  
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• Paul Gregory, Risk-Taking Showman in a Golden Age, Is Dead at 95

  04-12-2018 19:10 via nytimes.com
  His star rose in the 1950s and ’60s, when Broadway was ripe for experimentation. But he died in 2015 far from the limelight, and little notice was taken.
  
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• My Brilliant Friend Renewed For A More Brilliant Season Two

  04-12-2018 19:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  My Brilliant Friend is getting brilliant-er. HBO has renewed the drama — based Elena Ferrante’s best-selling book series — for a second season. “We’re thrilled that Elena Ferrante’s epic story has resonated so powerfully with viewers and critics, and we look forward to the continuing journey of Elena and Lila,”...More »
  
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• The Bunnies Are on the Run in this First Watership Down Trailer

  04-12-2018 18:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  After one bunny in a warren has a vision of death and destruction, he warns his community that they have two choices: Leave their home and try to survive, or stay and die. Thus begins the harrowing adventure of Watership Down, a forthcoming mini-series adapted from the Richard Adams novel...More »
  
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• A Hallmark Christmas Fan Watches Netflix’s Holiday Movies

  04-12-2018 18:28 via nytimes.com
  Can the streaming service’s offerings live up to the joy — and the tears — of the cable channel’s? Our reporter investigated.
  
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• ‘She Had Climbed Into My Story and Worn My Skin’

  04-12-2018 17:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  In late September, the young poet Ailey O’Toole told the Rumpus that her Pushcart Prize–nominated poem, “Gun Metal,” was “a great representation of how I started from a place of mental and physical destruction, but eventually collected the pieces of myself and reassembled them into someone new.”That interview reads now...More »
  
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• Jimmy Kimmel on Trump: 'He carries himself like a demented grandfather'

  04-12-2018 17:17
  Late-night hosts discussed Trump’s mishap-filled trip to the G20 summit in South America, ‘the America he hasn’t ruined yet’Late-night hosts ridiculed Donald Trump over his embarrassing trip to Argentina as the Russia investigation heats up. Continue reading...
  
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• Critic’s Pick: ‘Tyrel’ Review: Drowning in a Whirlpool of Drunken Dudes

  04-12-2018 16:55 via nytimes.com
  Sebastián Silva’s film is a racially charged cringe comedy-drama about being stuck with a group of guys you barely know.
  
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• Asielzoekers in Hoogeveen delen dromen in het theater - Dagblad van het Noorden

  04-12-2018 16:47
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  Dagblad van het Noorden
  Zo'n twintig bewoners van het asielzoekerscentrum (azc) in Hoogeveen geven op donderdag 20 december de voorstelling 'Dromen' in De Tamboer. De theatervoorstelling is een initiatief van management-assistente Karin Strijker van het Centraal Orgaan ...
  
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• A Maine Movie Is $1M Worth of Movie for $75K

  04-12-2018 16:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  I can’t decide if this week’s column will ruin Matt Nelsen’s career or help make it.The fact is, the boy — along with his writing partner, Marty Schousboe — may be a comic genius. Unfortunately, he and his cohort (including producer Karla Rodriguez) are also comic pragmatists. Or, is that...More »
  
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• Mahershala Ali’s True Detective Character Was Originally Written As White

  04-12-2018 15:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  Offers for Green Book and True Detective arrived within days of each other, Mahershala Ali told John David Washington for Variety’s Actors on Actors series. But Ali, fresh off an Oscar win, had to convince True Detective showrunner Nic Pizzolatto that the show’s lead cop could be black. “True Detective...More »
  
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• Emily Yoshida’s Best Movies of 2018

  04-12-2018 15:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  There will be someone, somewhere, every year who will tell you that that year was an amazing year for movies, but I hope you hear and believe me when I say that 2018 was an amazing year for movies. What I loved about this year was a continuing feeling of freshness —...More »
  
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• Why Crazy Rich Asians Flopped in China

  04-12-2018 15:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  Since arriving in theaters in August, Crazy Rich Asians has been on a seemingly unstoppable march toward both critical and commercial glory. The romantic comedy — the first Hollywood studio film to feature a predominantly Asian cast in a contemporary setting since 1993’s Joy Luck Club — eclipsed financial expectations,...More »
  
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• Ellen DeGeneres Attempts to Be Relatable in the Trailer for Her Netflix Special

  04-12-2018 15:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ellen DeGeneres returns to stand-up later this month for her first special in 15 years, and the streaming network released the first trailer today. Filmed at the Benaroya Hall in Seattle in August during the final stops of her three-city tour, Relatable makes its Netflix debut on December 18 and...More »
  
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• On the Set of Captain Marvel With Brie Larson: Inside the 9-Month Journey to Turn Her Into the Most Powerful Hero in the MCU

  04-12-2018 15:00 via feeds.eonline.com
  If anyone can carry the weight of playing a comic book character as iconic and important as Captain Marvel, it's Brie Larson. This March, the Academy Award-winning actress will suit up as...
  
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• Critic’s Pick: ‘The Charmer’ Review: Desperate Man Seeks Willing Lover. Watch Out.

  04-12-2018 14:45 via nytimes.com
  This Danish thriller is the first feature from the writer and director Milad Alami. Details are revealed in “nail-biting” style, our critic writes.
  
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• André Aciman announces sequel to Call Me By Your Name

  04-12-2018 14:30
  Author of the novel behind Oscar-winning romance says he will return to story of Elio and Oliver, after the director revealed his own plans for a follow-up filmAndré Aciman has revealed that he is writing a sequel to his bestselling novel Call Me By Your Name, which was adapted into an Oscar-winning film starring Timothée Chalamet and Armie Hammer.A coming-of-age story detailing the poignant summer romance between teenager Elio and the slightly older Oliver, a graduate student who
  
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