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• Golden Globes Briefing: ‘A Star Is Born’ and ‘Vice’ Lead the 2019 Golden Globes Nominations

  06-12-2018 23:47 via nytimes.com
  “Vice” nabbed six nominations, while “A Star Is Born,” “Green Book” and “The Favourite” all received five. “Black Panther” was nominated for best drama.
  
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• The Gatekeepers of SoundCloud Rap

  06-12-2018 23:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  Once a year, on career day, Nick Catchdubs, the DJ, producer, and founder of the independent record label Fool’s Gold, drives across the Hudson River to the New Jersey school where his mom teaches. He visits fourth, fifth, and sixth-grade classrooms and every year he asks his students the same...More »
  
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• Succession, Atlanta Score WGA TV Nominations

  06-12-2018 23:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Golden Globes aren’t the only awards body giving TV shows their shine today. On Thursday afternoon, the Writers Guild of America released the nominees for all its TV honors. Drama heavyweights like The Americans and last year’s WGA winner The Handmaid’s Tale (largely left out of this morning’s Globes...More »
  
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• Richard E. Grant on His Golden Globe Nomination, and Iconic Gay Bar Julius’

  06-12-2018 23:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  Richard E. Grant scored his first Golden Globe nomination Thursday morning for Can You Ever Forgive Me? As Jack Hock, he becomes the convivial companion to Melissa McCarthy’s lonesome forger. The two zip around New York’s bookstores and rare bookshops out to spread some of Lee Israel’s forgeries of author...More »
  
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• Game of Thrones Season 8 Teaser Gets Literal With the Fire and Ice Thing

  06-12-2018 23:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  Fire and ice. Game Of Thrones (@GameOfThrones) December 6, 2018...More »
  
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• Kagame critic acquitted on insurrection charges

  06-12-2018 23:05 via ft.com
  Rwandan opposition leader vows to maintain push for political reform
  
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• Escape From Dubai: The Mystery of the Missing Princess review – a shocking tale of complicity and betrayal

  06-12-2018 23:00
  Sheikha Latifa bint Mohammed al-Maktoum vanished in February, apparently attempting to escape the UAE. This is the story of the tape she left behindEscape from Dubai: The Mystery of the Missing Princess (BBC Two) has already made headlines, and no wonder – it is an extraordinary documentary, and tells a story so astonishing that at times even its participants are forced to admit that events sound far-fetched. But its director and producer, Jane McMullen, has resisted the urge to focus only
  
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• Buzzcocks Frontman Pete Shelley Dead at 63

  06-12-2018 22:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  Pete Shelley, the lead singer of influential British punk band Buzzcocks, has died at age 63. The band’s management confirmed the news to the BBC, saying he died on Thursday of a suspected heart attack in Estonia where he’s been living. Buzzcocks tweeted the announcement as well, calling Shelley “one...More »
  
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• Grimes’s Complicated Relationship With the Internet

  06-12-2018 21:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  When Tumblr announced this week that its anything-goes blogging platform was becoming a little less anything-goes by way of banning pornographic content, many internet denizens — especially those who came of age using it in the earlier part of this decade — proclaimed the service more or less dead to...More »
  
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• Watch Christian Slater Gush Over Rami Malek's Golden Globe Nomination

  06-12-2018 21:37 via feeds.eonline.com
  Rami Malek secured a Golden Globe nomination on Thursday for his portrayal of Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody. While many fans were happy for the 37-year-old actor, nobody seemed prouder than...
  
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• Oscar Futures: How the Golden Globe Nominations Reshuffled the Race

  06-12-2018 21:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  Between now and February 24, 2019, when the winners of the Academy Awards are announced, Vulture will consult its crystal ball on a regular basis to determine the changing fortunes in this year’s Oscars race. In our Oscar Futures column, we’ll let you in on insider gossip, parse brand-new developments,...More »
  
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• Sacha Baron Cohen Invites Sarah Palin to Be His Date to the Golden Globes

  06-12-2018 21:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sacha Baron Cohen scored a Golden Globe nomination this morning for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series, Musical, or Comedy, for his work on his Showtime series Who Is America? To celebrate, he’s inviting the woman officially credited on the series as his “Special Publicity Consultant (Inadvertent)”...More »
  
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• This Week in True-Crime Podcasts: Broken Harts, Cold, and More

  06-12-2018 21:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  The true-crime podcast universe is ever expanding. We’re here to make it a bit smaller, a bit more manageable. There are a lot of great shows and each has a lot of great episodes, so we want to highlight the exceptional, the noteworthy. Each week, our crack team of podcast...More »
  
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• Did Michelle Obama Really Sell 2 Million Books in 15 Days? An Investigation.

  06-12-2018 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Michelle Obama’s debut memoir, Becoming, has only been on sale for three weeks, and news outlets are already calling it a “record-breaker” that sold 2 million copies in its first 15 days. But did it really? If it did, how would we even know? And could we figure out how...More »
  
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• The 10 Best Art Shows of 2018

  06-12-2018 20:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  This list of the year’s best art achievements is a story of artists rising to the occasion, from the emerging talents coming out of Chinatown art spaces to the artists behind the Obamas’ official portraits to a significant (and once unsung) Swedish visionary.Selected to execute the impossible commissions of the...More »
  
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• Constance Wu on the Significance of Her Golden Globe Nomination for Crazy Rich Asians

  06-12-2018 20:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  Bok, bok, we’re here! Crazy Rich Asians is capping off a very good year with two Golden Globe nominations this morning for the film itself and its lead Constance Wu, who received her first nomination in the Best Actress in a Motion Picture Comedy or Musical category for her role...More »
  
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• Danai Gurira Says Ryan Coogler Is "Working Away" at Black Panther 2

  06-12-2018 20:30 via feeds.eonline.com
  Black Panther received a lot of love from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association this year.On Thursday, the HFPA announced the nominees for the 2019 Golden Globes and the movie scored...
  
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• Faye Dunaway Is Slated to Play Katharine Hepburn on Broadway

  06-12-2018 20:29 via nytimes.com
  A producer announced that one Oscar-winning actress will play another in Matthew Lombardo’s “Tea at Five.”
  
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• Constance Wu Reflects on Her First Golden Globe Nomination and Explains Why Crazy Rich Asians Is So Much More Than Just a Movie

  06-12-2018 20:25 via feeds.eonline.com
  Constance Wu had the best wake-up call of her life Thursday.Per usual, the 36-year-old actress had her iPhone set on "Do Not Disturb" mode when it was revealed that Crazy Rich...
  
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• Collectors Shop at Art Basel Miami Beach, Never Mind the Terrible Climate-Change News

  06-12-2018 20:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  The 2018 edition of Art Basel Miami Beach opened at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, December 5, with a preview for VIPs in the renovated convention center, which had been redone in part to better withstand the next terrible, climate-change-fueled hurricane. It was busy, according to several gallerists, at least “in...More »
  
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• What to Do Every Day in Las Vegas

  06-12-2018 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Before Lady Gaga hits the Hollywood award show circuit, where she’s up for a few wins in her feature film debut, the artist will take up her “dream” residency later this month at the new Park MGM Las Vegas hotel. “It’s been my lifelong dream to be a Las Vegas girl,”...More »
  
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• Fortnite Gets Sued and More: 5 Things to Know in Pop Culture Today

  06-12-2018 20:00 via nytimes.com
  What we’re talking about in Thursday’s TV, music and movie news.
  
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• Richard Madden on Bodyguard’s Globes Nominations, Saying ‘Ma’am,’ and Singing in Rocketman

  06-12-2018 19:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  After being killed off as Robb Stark on Game of Thrones, Richard Madden reconquered British and worldwide TV in Bodyguard, the BBC and Netflix series about a troubled veteran (Madden) who protects and falls for a British politician (Keeley Hawes). The 32-year-old Scottish actor and the show both earned Golden...More »
  
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• Actress Alert: Faye Dunaway Will Play Katharine Hepburn on Broadway

  06-12-2018 19:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  In what’s generally referred to as “intense actressing news,” Faye Dunaway will soon be playing Katharine Hepburn. Dunaway will star in a new production of Matthew Lombardo’s play about Hepburn Tea at Five on Broadway next summer, produced by Ben Feldman. Lombardo is revising the script, which was originally performed...More »
  
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• This Week in Rap: Meek Mill’s Triumphant Return, Ski Mask’s Vocal Gymnastics, and More

  06-12-2018 19:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  Every week, Vulture runs through the best, most interesting, and sometimes most confusing rap releases. In this installment: Meek Mill’s triumphant return, and his new place in rap’s hierarchy, Lil Baby continues to impress, Ski Mask the Slump God’s vocal gymnastics, and DaBoii breaks out from SOB x RBE.Meek Mill, ChampionshipsMeek Mill’s...More »
  
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• Critic’s Pick: ‘Vox Lux’ Review: An Apocalyptic Star Is Born

  06-12-2018 19:18 via nytimes.com
  In Brady Corbet’s new movie, Natalie Portman plays a pop star, a teenage victim of a mass shooting who has grown up to become a 21st-century brand.
  
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• Critic’s Pick: The African Toll of the Great War, in Song and Shadows

  06-12-2018 19:03 via nytimes.com
  A fiercely beautiful historical pageant by the South African artist William Kentridge commemorates a million Africans who died in World War I.
  
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• The Holidays in New York City: An Event Guide

  06-12-2018 18:14 via nytimes.com
  The Rockettes at Radio City Music Hall, a site-specific “Christmas Carol” and more concerts, plays and events this holiday season.
  
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• Notes on the Grungy Years: Two Novelists Talk About 1970s New York

  06-12-2018 18:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Tom Barbash’s novel The Dakota Winters (out this week from Ecco) and John Freeman Gill’s The Gargoyle Hunters (published last year, now out in paperback from Vintage) almost seem to run on parallel tracks. Both writers grew up on the Upper West Side in the 1970s, and both their books...More »
  
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• The Biggest Snubs and Surprises of the 2019 Golden Globe Nominations

  06-12-2018 17:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  The 2019 Golden Globes nominees are here, so it’s time to get prognosticating. Who suffered the biggest snub? What landed the biggest surprise nomination? Who got a nod because the Hollywood Foreign Press Association loves movie stars? And how’d our predictions turn out? The Globes wouldn’t be the Globes without...More »
  
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• Golden Globes Briefing: ‘A Star Is Born’ and ‘Vice’ Lead the Golden Globes Nominations

  06-12-2018 17:53 via nytimes.com
  “Vice” nabbed six nominations while “A Star Is Born,” “Green Book” and “The Favourite” all received five. The global smash “Black Panther” was nominated for best drama.
  
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• ‘Mary Queen of Scots’ Review: Sexy, Spirited and Almost Convincing

  06-12-2018 17:49 via nytimes.com
  Saoirse Ronan is the doomed Scottish queen, and Margot Robbie is her cousin Elizabeth I in this vigorously revisionist historical drama.
  
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• A Brief History of the X Rating

  06-12-2018 17:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Though outwardly the movie industry is serene, even cheerful, about the future this Christmas season,” wrote the New York Times’ Murray Schumach in December of 1960, “there is considerable concern about a dread word that is gaining popularity outside of Hollywood. This word is ‘classification’ … a method that would...More »
  
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• Golden Globe Nominations: Here Is the Full List

  06-12-2018 17:11 via nytimes.com
  A complete list of the nominees for the 2019 Golden Globe awards.
  
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• Golden Globe Nominations 2019: Here Is the Full List

  06-12-2018 17:11 via nytimes.com
  A complete list of the nominees for the 2019 Golden Globe awards.
  
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• The Carpetbagger: ‘Widows’ and ‘First Man’: Movie Snubs of the Golden Globes

  06-12-2018 17:01 via nytimes.com
  The heist drama was shut out, potentially dooming its awards season chances, while the Dick Cheney biopic was nominated in every category it was eligible for.
  
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• The Carpetbagger: Golden Globes’ Biggest Snubs: ‘Widows’ and ‘First Man’ Take Hits

  06-12-2018 17:01 via nytimes.com
  The heist drama was shut out, potentially dooming its awards season chances, while the astronaut biopic picked up just one nomination, for Claire Foy.
  
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• Mary Queen of Scots Turns Its Queen Into a Generic Underdog Figure

  06-12-2018 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  There was a small amount of outcry among history buffs this summer when the posters for Mary Queen of Scots were revealed. The two character one-sheets featured striking, color-pumped head-on portraits of two 2017 awards season darlings: Margot Robbie’s Queen Elizabeth emblazoned with the tagline “Born to Power,” Saoirse Ronan’s...More »
  
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• Julia Roberts, Lucas Hedges, and Their Subaru: The Cinematic Partnership of the Year

  06-12-2018 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Julia Roberts in her Subaru could solve all of my problems!” I jotted down in my notebook halfway through Ben is Back. In the Peter Hedges drama, Roberts plays Holly, a woman who’s son (Ben, played by Lucas Hedges) returns home from his drug-rehab program for just one night —...More »
  
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• This Week in Comedy Podcasts: Rhea Butcher on The Soft Spot

  06-12-2018 16:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  The comedy podcast universe is ever-expanding, not unlike the universe universe. We’re here to make it a bit smaller, a bit more manageable. There are a lot of great shows and each one has a lot of great episodes, so we want to highlight the exceptional, the noteworthy. Each week,...More »
  
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• 2019 Golden Globes Movie Snubs and Surprises Include Ryan Gosling, John Krasinski and Charlize Theron

  06-12-2018 16:48 via feeds.eonline.com
  What are they, chopped liver?The nominees for the 2019 Golden Globes were announced on Thursday morning. First Man's Ryan Gosling, Black Panther's Michael B. Jordan and Chadwick...
  
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• The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Recap: You Can’t Have Everything

  06-12-2018 16:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  Strap yourselves in, everyone, because “Look, She Made a Hat” covers a lot of ground. If you can’t keep up, then maybe you’re not cut out for Amy Sherman-Palladino — who wrote the episode — at the top of her game.Just make sure you’ve eaten before watching, or else you’re...More »
  
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• Glenn Close Thought Her Golden Globes Nomination Was a Butt Dial

  06-12-2018 16:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  "I was surprised, I thought it was a butt-call this morning,"- Glen Close reacts on the phone to being nominated for the Golden Globes's Best Actress for a Motion Picture in a drama. TODAY (@TODAYshow) December 6, 2018Before she hung up, the Today hosts asked Close how many Globes she...More »
  
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• Amber Ruffin and Jenny Hagel Would Prefer PETA Not Compare Minority Groups to Animals

  06-12-2018 16:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  During last night’s Late Night, Seth Meyers welcomed writers Amber Ruffin and Jenny Hagel for a new segment called “Don’t Drag Us Into This.” In the bit, the two responded to the viral tweets from PETA comparing “anti-animal language” like “kill two birds with one stone” and “beat a dead...More »
  
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• South Park Recap: Amazon Comes to Town

  06-12-2018 16:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  Where satirical television is concerned, I find the most bracing episodes to be the ones that make a viewer wonder how nobody got sued. The best moment in last year’s standout Nathan For You episode “Andy vs. Uber” came when host Nathan Fielder’s crusade against the ride-sharing app crossed the...More »
  
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