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• Critic’s Notebook: Two Timely Takes on Hans Christian Andersen’s Tales

  10-12-2018 23:57 via nytimes.com
  These classics, performed at Theater Row, are not holiday stories per se, but they have much to say about greed and goodness.
  
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• Here’s Nicole Kidman As Gretchen Carlson With Not One But Two Handbags

  10-12-2018 23:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  Nicole Kidman is currently filming the upcoming Roger Ailes movie that also stars Charlize Theron as Megyn Kelly, Margot Robbie as a producer at the news network, and presumably much hairspray and many a wig. Based off a paparazzi photo of Kidman on the film’s set, you can see quite...More »
  
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• Sir Cliff: 60 Years in Public and Private review – an honest account of his troubling time

  10-12-2018 23:00
  The story of the star’s battle to clear his name adds weight to a wider look at his career and commitment to privacyThey dealt with what I suspect his devoted fans refer to only as “his trouble” upfront in last night’s documentary Sir Cliff: 60 Years in Public and Private (ITV). The 78-year-old singer suffered four years of turmoil after police raided his Berkshire home as a result of an allegation made as part of Operation Yewtree. The BBC broadcast live footage and name
  
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• Mrs. Maisel’s Costume Designer Explains Five Key Outfits From Season Two

  10-12-2018 22:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is set in late 1950s New York, but in a version of the city that’s cloaked in pastel unreality, where everyone is impeccably clothed and coiffed to match their witty, rat-a-tat dialogue. In the show’s second season, even as its reach expands from Manhattan with trips...More »
  
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• The Trouble With XXXTentacion’s Fragmented SKINS

  10-12-2018 22:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  This year has been a surreal moment in hip-hop because it is a time when people seem to care as much about image and artifice as they do about true grit. The biggest records of the year have come from characters like Drake, Post Malone, and Travis Scott — who are,...More »
  
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• Jonah Hill Breaks His Silence on Lady Gaga’s ‘100 People in a Room’ Quote

  10-12-2018 22:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  Did you know there can be 100 people in a room? And did you know that maybe 99 of those people won’t believe in you? And did you know — and I mean really, really know — that all you need is the one person who does believe in you?...More »
  
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• Here’s a List of Hundreds of Sales Prices From Art Basel Miami Beach, Including a $2 Mil Bourgeois

  10-12-2018 22:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  According to a list released by Art Basel Miami Beach of sales from galleries who chose to disclose the information, 16 works by 14 artists sold for $1 million or more. Of those, Louise Bourgeois was the only woman artist whose work sold for seven figures — Hauser & Wirth...More »
  
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• Mrs. Maisel’s Michael Zegen Knows You Don’t Like Joel

  10-12-2018 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  In season one of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Michael Zegen’s character Joel Maisel begins as the loutish, cheating husband who unintentionally puts Midge Maisel (Rachel Brosnahan) on her path to comedy fame. He’s briefly, partially redeemed at the end of the first season after he watches her perform a set...More »
  
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• The 10 Best New TV Shows of 2018

  10-12-2018 21:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  In strikingly different ways, the best new shows of the past year each offered fresh perspective. They provided windows into worlds that television rarely lets us peer into, like the ’80s drag-ball scene or a cult that put down Oregonian roots in that same decade, or told stories using striking...More »
  
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• Tom DeLonge Takes Alien Obsession to Next Level, Makes Sci-fi Show for Teens

  10-12-2018 21:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  Blink 182’s Tom DeLonge is developing a show that sounds a lot like Stranger Things — in name and in theory — but for grimy ’90s teens instead of quaint ’80s nerds. Strange Times is the name of DeLonge’s just-announced show for TBS, and it will feature a group of...More »
  
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• Millie Bobby Brown Proves Godzilla Is Scarier Than the Demogorgon in King of the Monsters Trailer

  10-12-2018 21:06 via feeds.eonline.com
  There's nothing stranger than Godzilla.While Millie Bobby Brown is used to seeing Stranger Things on her Netflix show, the Hollywood actress is in for a whole new awakening thanks to...
  
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• Opera Review: A Tale of Two Tones in the Met’s La Traviata

  10-12-2018 20:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  La Traviata opens with an act of renunciation: Violetta gives up glamour for the possibility of love. Verdi makes that choice a real one by giving each side of music memorable specificity. Michael Mayer, who directs the Metropolitan Opera’s new production, makes the decision easier by making the sparkly life...More »
  
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• Will Ferrell and Molly Shannon to Return As Cord and Tish for the 2019 Rose Parade

  10-12-2018 20:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  Will Ferrell and Molly Shannon’s alter egos Cord Hosenbeck and Tish Cattigan are set to return next month with their second annual round of live Rose Parade coverage. Funny or Die announced today that The 2019 Rose Parade Hosted by Cord & Tish will stream live on Funny or Die’s...More »
  
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• How a Bunch of Romantic Goths Changed Music As We Know It

  10-12-2018 20:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  On December 7, venerated indie label 4AD released deluxe reissues of all three albums by This Mortal Coil, effectively rereleasing their ethereal dream-pop into our annual, wintry mix of sentimentality and seasonal affective disorder. The timing couldn’t be more appropriate. These records should rightfully be another December tradition, right up...More »
  
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• Ty Dolla Sign Reportedly Facing Up to 15 Years in Prison for Drug Charges

  10-12-2018 19:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ty Dolla Sign has been indicted by a grand jury on drug charges, TMZ reports. He’s been charged with felony cocaine possession, felony possession of THC, and misdemeanor possession of less than one ounce of weed. The singer-songwriter (née Tyrone William Griffin Jr.) was arrested in September in Atlanta and...More »
  
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• ‘Stranger Things’ News, Beyoncé and More: 5 Things in Pop Culture Today

  10-12-2018 19:36 via nytimes.com
  What you need to know from Monday’s TV, music and movie news.
  
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• A ‘Stranger Things’ Teaser, Beyoncé and More: 5 Things in Pop Culture Today

  10-12-2018 19:36 via nytimes.com
  What you need to know from Monday’s TV, music and movie news.
  
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• Clara’s Ghost Is One of the Strangest Films of the Year

  10-12-2018 18:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  One of the strangest films I’ve seen this year, Clara’s Ghost is a twisted, slippery little whisper of a thing that refuses to let itself be easily defined. Directed by Bridey Elliott, and starring her and her own family playing variations on themselves — including her dad, veteran comedian Chris...More »
  
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• Skin Deep: Felicity Jones on Becoming Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  10-12-2018 18:17 via nytimes.com
  Find out the actress’s beauty tips, and how she transformed into the Supreme Court justice for “On the Basis of Sex.”
  
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• Fyre Festival Rages on With a New Netflix Doc

  10-12-2018 18:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  Get your exclusive first look at FYRE a revealing new doc about the insanity and rapid unraveling of Fyre Festival: the greatest party that never happened. Premieres January 18. December 10, 2018...More »
  
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• The Favourite leads awards race with 14 Critics' Choice nominations

  10-12-2018 18:06
  Yorgos Lanthimos comedy edges Vice and A Star Is Born, while Escape at Dannemora and The Assassination of Gianni Versace did well in the TV sectionPeriod comedy The Favourite has solidified its position as an early leader in the awards race after securing 14 nominations in the Critics’ Choice awards. Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos and starring Olivia Colman as Queen Anne, The Favourite is up for best picture, best comedy, best director and best original screenplay, as well as receiving compr
  
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• Andy Serkis on His Most Groundbreaking Motion-Capture Performances

  10-12-2018 17:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  For a guy who has remained one of Hollywood’s consistently employed actors, appearing in the biggest of big-budget movies for the last two decades and playing key roles in such blockbusters as the Lord of the Rings trilogy, the Planet of the Apes films, and The Adventures of Tintin, Andy...More »
  
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• The Favourite, Black Panther Lead Critics’ Choice Awards Nominations

  10-12-2018 17:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  How goes the kingdom? Very well, according to nominations for the 24th annual Critics’ Choice Awards! Yorgos Lanthimos’s punchy period piece The Favourite led the film slate with 14 nominations: Best Picture, Actress, Actress in a Comedy, Acting Ensemble, Director, Editing, Original Screenplay, Cinematography, Production Design, Costume Design, Best Hair...More »
  
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• Theater Review: Slave Play Blends the Terrifying and the Tantalizing

  10-12-2018 17:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  To really talk about Jeremy O. Harris’s supercharged, fearsome, and often terribly funny Slave Play, I have to begin with a spoiler alert: If you’re seeing the play — and there are plenty of reasons to see it — stop reading this now. Come back afterward. Harris, a second-year playwriting...More »
  
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• 90 Day Fiancé Recap: All Hail the Queen

  10-12-2018 16:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  We finally did it, folks. After weeks of anticipation, we finally got the moment in which Larissa screams, “All those against the queen will die!” It was everything I had hoped and dreamed for — sharp, loud, and terrifying.But the journey is more important than the destination, as the road...More »
  
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• The Most Nicolas Cage Moments From Nicolas Cage’s Master Class

  10-12-2018 16:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  “This is called a Master Class,” Nicolas Cage announced, “which I find kind of ironic because I always see myself as a student. I’m a student of film performance, I always know I can learn something. And that compels me to take the risks — risks that perhaps people would advise...More »
  
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• Doctor Who Recap: Be the Better Man

  10-12-2018 15:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos,” an episode title that takes even longer to memorize than it does to say, has been touted as the Doctor Who season 11 finale, but one more episode drops in just over three weeks, so is it really? Compound that with the fact that...More »
  
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• Critics' Choice Awards 2019: The Complete List of Nominations

  10-12-2018 15:50 via feeds.eonline.com
  The critics have spoken!Nominations for the 2019 Critics' Choice Awards were announced live on KTLA this morning, honoring the best achievements in film and television. The winners...
  
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• What Lord John Grey’s Surprise Outlander Return Means for Claire and Jamie

  10-12-2018 15:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  After Claire Fraser and Lord John Grey last came face-to-face in Outlander’s third season, actor David Berry felt there was much left unsaid. “There was a sense of being a little short-changed with the exchange between Lord John and Claire, on my end,” Berry says. “You can see that there’s...More »
  
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• Can Special Effects Be Special Again?

  10-12-2018 15:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  “You’ll believe a man can fly.” So proclaimed billboards and posters across the nation in 1978, in anticipation of the December release of Richard Donner’s Superman — The Movie. It wasn’t an idle promise. Although the Man of Steel had been depicted in numerous TV shows and cartoons over the...More »
  
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• The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Boobs and Bourbon and Wine

  10-12-2018 15:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  Have you ever had that thing happen where one of your friends gets a new friend and they keep talking about them? Okay, that’s not that annoying, but the really annoying thing is when they expect you to follow this strange third friend’s drama. Like, I don’t care if your...More »
  
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• Outlander’s Caitriona Balfe on That Swoon-Worthy Bathtub Scene

  10-12-2018 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Back in September, when Caitriona Balfe did a Twitter Q&A to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the day Starz announced that she’d been cast as Outlander’s Claire Fraser, a fan asked her to pick her favorite scene she’d filmed for the show’s fourth season. She answered with one emoji: the...More »
  
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• Triple Frontier Trailer: Affleck, Isaac, Hunnam, Hedlund, Pascal, Cargo Pants!

  10-12-2018 15:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  In Triple Frontier, five weary ex-military men — Ben Affleck, Garrett Hedlund, Pedro Pascal, Charlie Hunnam, and Oscar Isaac — wanna rob. They’re not linking up to settle a score, but to break even: “You’ve been shot five times for your country, and you can’t even afford to send your...More »
  
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• Can You Make It As an Artist in 2018 Without Constantly Plugging Yourself on Instagram?

  10-12-2018 15:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  The parties, the selfies, the beaches and, oh, yeah, the art. With Art Basel Miami Beach going on, this past week may have felt like an endless stream of champagne-infused Instagram Stories. I mean, if you weren’t there posting away, getting your brand out there, are you even really a...More »
  
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• The 10 Best Horror Movies of 2018

  10-12-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  We said it in 2016. We said it in 2017. And now we get to say it again in 2018: It’s been a great year for horror! And year-over-year, we see the genre getting a little more queer, a little less white, and little less bound by patriarchal structures, as...More »
  
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• How Do the Wokest Parts of Mary Queen of Scots Line Up With History?

  10-12-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Modern period pieces are in a pickle: Many of history’s most famous stories involve some degree of religious conflict, but those divisions are basically incomprehensible to contemporary audiences. We’ll go along with it, sure, but the filmmakers usually have to do a lot of work to get us invested in...More »
  
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• 'Too touchy-feely'? Our panel on Jodie Whittaker's first series of Doctor Who

  10-12-2018 14:06
  The first female Doctor’s debut season is over. Our expert panel of Whovians give their opinions on whether it was a hit or a missDoctor Who recap: series 37, episode 10 – The Battle of Ranskoor Av KolosNew Doctor, new gender, new companions and new showrunner. There wasn’t much left of 2017-era Doctor Who after Jodie Whittaker made her full debut 10 weeks ago. Here’s what our Whovians made of her first series … Continue reading...
  
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• The 10 Best Stand-up Specials of 2018

  10-12-2018 14:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  What qualifies as a stand-up special?This question became the idée fixe that generated a surplus of hot takes and passionate debates within comedy circles in 2018. It’s a valid inquiry, as this past year saw not only the amount of comedy specials that can be released in a calendar year...More »
  
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• How First Dates ghosted its own audience

  10-12-2018 13:59
  The dating show kept shooting Cupid’s arrow, but missed the mark when it promised then abruptly phased out a staff romanceIn the dating show genre, First Dates strikes an old-fashioned, fully clothed note. While Love Island does it in bikinis and Naked Attraction in the nip, First Dates eschews swipe-left swiftness. Instead, Channel 4’s hit painstakingly matches according to interests, geographical proximity and preferences for a large or small bum.Even after 11 series, participants
  
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• ROMA Named Best Film of 2018 by L.A. Film Critics Association

  10-12-2018 13:30 via feeds.eonline.com
  Members of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association met Sunday afternoon to vote on the year's best accomplishments in movies. Alfonso Cuarón's black-and-white film ROMA earned the...
  
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• Family Guy Pays Tribute to Carrie Fisher In Her Character’s Eulogy

  10-12-2018 08:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  At the end of December, it’ll be two years since Carrier Fisher passed away at the age of 60. While the actress, writer and comedian might live on in the Star Wars universe, Seth MacFarlane and Family Guy finally laid her character Angela to rest on Sunday, leaving her employee...More »
  
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• Watership Down: 'true meaning' revealed ahead of remake

  10-12-2018 07:00
  Readers thought story was cryptic allegory, but its creator was firm: ‘It’s just a story about rabbits’It has been endlessly picked apart and analysed and described as an allegory for both communism and Christianity but the daughters of Richard Adams have revealed the true meaning of Watership Down. “It’s just a story about rabbits.”Rosamond and Juliet, to whom the story was first told to keep them quiet in the car, have spoken ahead of a two-part animation to
  
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• Monday’s best TV: My Brilliant Friend; People Just Do Nothing

  10-12-2018 07:00
  The perfectly pitched portrayal of two young women growing up, and the sublime urban mockumentary both reach their penultimate episodes9pm, Sky Atlantic Continue reading...
  
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