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• CBS denies Moonves $120m payout after assault claims

  17-12-2018 23:45 via ft.com
  Board finds cause to fire former chief for violating company policies
  
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• CBS denies ex-CEO Moonves $120m payout after assault claims

  17-12-2018 23:45 via ft.com
  Board finds cause to fire Moonves for violating company policies
  
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• A Totally Necessary Debate About Saturday Night Live’s Weezer Sketch

  17-12-2018 23:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  The most recent episode of Saturday Night Live featured a sketch where an entire dinner table got into a debate about whether Weezer is still a good band, prompted by their cover of Toto’s “Africa” coming up on shuffle. In the interest of taking this sketch to its very extreme...More »
  
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• 24 Hours in A&E review – trauma, tears and triage in real-life Casualty

  17-12-2018 22:59
  High drama at St George’s in south-west London as the consistently excellent docu-series reaches its 200th episodeSo, the NHS is 70 and 24 Hours in A&E (Channel 4) is 200. Episodes, that is, not years old, although sometimes it does feel as if we’ve been gripped by this particular strain of long-term docu-series for a couple of centuries. Anyway, don’t expect cake, although there is a jaunty song about a cup of tea. What you are guaranteed is another 24-hour cycle stuffed w
  
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• SMILF Creator Frankie Shaw Accused of Misconduct on Set, Inappropriately Handling Sex Scenes

  17-12-2018 22:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  Frankie Shaw, who developed the Showtime series SMILF out of her Jury Prize–winning Sundance short film, has been accused of abusive behavior on the set of her series, according to a report from The Hollywood Reporter. The allegations revolve primarily around claims that Shaw was inappropriate while filming sex scenes...More »
  
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• Maya Rudolph’s Delivery of ‘Bubble Bath’ Has Been Immortalized in Drag-Queen Form

  17-12-2018 22:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  Nick Kroll’s Netflix comedy Big Mouth gifted us all with the most memorably delivered phrase on television this year when Maya Rudolph perfectly uttered the words “bubble bath” as her character Connie the Hormone Monstress during the show. Fans have already transformed “bubble bath” into a handful of catchy musical...More »
  
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• Upon Further Review: Readers Tell Us What Deserved to Be Top 10

  17-12-2018 21:34 via nytimes.com
  The Times’s chief theater critics chose the best productions of 2018. Some readers beg to differ.
  
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• Apple Lures Justin Lin Away From Sony With One of Its Fancy Development Deals

  17-12-2018 21:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  Add another one to the original content talent roster at Apple. The tech giant has now locked in contracts with the likes of Oprah, M. Night Shyamalan, A24, Maya Rudolf and Natasha Lyonne, Jennifer Garner and J.J. Abrams, and Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston. Now they’ll be rolling out the...More »
  
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• American Renegades Is a Bit of a Slog

  17-12-2018 21:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s not a great movie, but there’s occasionally — occasionally — something pleasantly old-fashioned about American Renegades, a military-heist adventure set during the Bosnian War. Released in Europe last year under the title Renegades, the film has actually been on the shelf for a bit, but one wonders if its...More »
  
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• Your Very British Streaming Guide to Georgian Period Dramas

  17-12-2018 21:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Georgian era wasn’t really a sexy time to be alive. Cholera and typhoid were Britain’s hottest exports, the reigning king was often deemed too German for the country’s liking, and the brothels, my God, all the brothels. But lucky for us, creative licensing has infiltrated the small screen in...More »
  
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• Runaways Finally Fulfills Its Premise, and Some of Its Promise, in Season Two

  17-12-2018 21:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the first season of Hulu’s Runaways, the outline of a promising series combining teen drama with superhero antics and a solid dash of snark was buried in plot that slogged along through endless side tangents. Season two suggests that Runaways is still laboring under some misapprehension about which of...More »
  
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• The Best Movies You Can’t See (Yet)

  17-12-2018 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  This week marks the release of the 14th edition of the Black List — the annual rundown of the most-liked unproduced screenplays to make the rounds in Hollywood as voted on by 300 studio and production-company executives. Over the past decade, the list has become not only an index of...More »
  
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• The Carpetbagger: How Dolly Parton Nearly Hired Our Columnist Away

  17-12-2018 20:43 via nytimes.com
  Spoiler alert: He’s still writing for us and not singing for her. But it’s just one example of the way the star has sweet-talked her way into the Oscar race.
  
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• Armie Hammer Cooked for the On the Basis of Sex Cast to Get Into Character

  17-12-2018 20:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  According to Ruth Bader Ginsburg, you do not want to try her cooking. Not only is her tepid skill set as a chef a recurring joke in On the Basis of Sex, Mimi Leder’s new biopic of the Supreme Court justice, but Ginsburg even poked fun at it herself after the film’s New York...More »
  
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• An Honest Evaluation of LL Cool J’s Entire Career

  17-12-2018 20:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  Last week, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announced its 2019 inductees, a class of 7 acts culled from 15 nominees spanning the pop spectrum. For the fifth time in a decade, LL Cool J was left stranded in the green room, his journey to the shores of Cleveland...More »
  
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• Kevin Beasley’s Cotton Gin Motor in a Glass Box at the Whitney Evokes the Legacy of Slavery

  17-12-2018 20:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  Don’t let the name fool you, the newest exhibition to open at the Whitney, “Kevin Beasley: A View of a Landscape” is not some easy, pastoral scenes. Taking over the entire eighth floor of the museum are three large-scale sculptures, a cotton gin motor in a soundproof glass box hooked...More »
  
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• Taron Egerton and Every Other British Actor Will Lend Voices to Netflix’s The Dark Crystal

  17-12-2018 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Not to be outdone by the all-your-British-faves cast of BBC’s forthcoming Watership Down, Netflix’s The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance series has recruited an even bigger roster of U.K. talent that you also love. Taron Egerton, Anya Taylor-Joy, and Nathalie Emmanuel will lead the show as the Gelfling heroes Rian,...More »
  
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• Watch the First 4 Minutes of Runaways Season Two

  17-12-2018 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Season one of the Hulu original series Marvel’s Runaways didn’t actually feature that much in the way of people, well, running away. Instead, we got a scintillating saga about a group of Los Angeles teenagers who learn their parents are supervillains (albeit sympathetic ones) and subsequently stay at home while...More »
  
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• Netflix Hires Ex-ABC Exec Channing Dungey

  17-12-2018 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Former ABC Entertainment president Channing Dungey — the exec who fired Roseanne Barr and developed hits such as Scandal and The Good Doctor — has landed a big new job at Netflix. Dungey is joining the streaming giant as vice-president of original content, a newly created and wide-ranging position which...More »
  
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• ‘Vice’ Review: Dick Cheney and the Negative Great Man Theory of History

  17-12-2018 18:55 via nytimes.com
  The star of “The Dark Knight” and the director of “Anchorman” join forces to make a real-life supervillain biopic.
  
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• RuPaul’s Drag Race: All Stars 4, Episode 1: We Have Thoughts

  17-12-2018 18:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ooooooh girl, RuPaul’s Drag Race: All Stars season four has officially entered the building, and our What the Tuck correspondents have feelings on the returning queens sashaying into the werkroom for a second (or third) time. In the premiere episode of your new favorite Drag Race podcast, Joel Kim Booster...More »
  
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• Mahershala Ali Apologized to His Green Book Character’s Family After Controversy

  17-12-2018 18:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the new film Green Book, Mahershala Ali plays Don Shirley, a genius black concert pianist who travels on a concert tour of the South with his white bodyguard and driver, Tony “Lip” Vallelonga. The movie is based on stories Tony Lip told to his son, a screenwriter on the...More »
  
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• Concord Music Acquires Samuel French in Big Push Into Theater Business

  17-12-2018 18:05 via nytimes.com
  The music industry conglomerate also owns the Rodgers & Hammerstein organization and has a joint publishing-licensing venture with Andrew Lloyd Webber.
  
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• Vice Is Gimmicky, But Christian Bale’s Dick Cheney Impersonation Is Spot-on

  17-12-2018 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  In Vice, writer-director Adam McKay has devised a rollicking comic style for what amounts to an anti-hagiography, a scabrous portrait of Dick Cheney the Unholy One, cursed be He. The film tracks Cheney (Christian Bale under heavy but seamless makeup) from a young Wyoming screwup scolded after a second drunk-driving...More »
  
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• Former Model Christina Engelhardt Says She Secretly Dated Woody Allen at 16

  17-12-2018 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  When she was 16 in 1976, Babi Christina Engelhardt, then an aspiring model, approached Woody Allen at Elaine’s in New York and gave him her phone number, which she claims led to an eight-year affair with the director, who was 41 at the outset. Engelhardt, who now goes by Christina,...More »
  
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• The Quake Is a Little Too Good

  17-12-2018 17:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  John Andreas Andersen’s The Quake, a sequel to the excellent 2015 Norwegian disaster film The Wave, should be required viewing for all of today’s Hollywood franchise jockeys. It shows you how to make one of these things without sacrificing your characters’ souls (or your own, for that matter).In the earlier...More »
  
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• Review: In Robert Lepage’s ‘Kanata,’ the Director, Too, Plays the Victim

  17-12-2018 17:53 via nytimes.com
  The Canadian stage director has seen some of his productions derailed by accusations of cultural insensitivity. In a new show in Paris, he can’t resist pointing to his own suffering.
  
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• Son of a Nutcracker! Vote for the Elf Quote That's Your Holiday Mantra Every Year

  17-12-2018 17:00 via feeds.eonline.com
  Is it really Christmas time if you haven't watched Elf at least 10 times? Ya, we didn't think so!15 years after the holiday film hit theaters we are still laughing and loving...
  
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• 90 Day Fiancé Recap: High Stakes, Low IQ

  17-12-2018 16:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  Wow, we are at the penultimate episode of this season of 90 Day Fiancé and I feel like so much and so little has happened. I mean … several families were destroyed, but were they ever whole to begin with?We start this week with Ashley and Jay packing for their...More »
  
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• The 3 Stages of Pete Holmes’s New HBO Stand-up Special Dirty Clean

  17-12-2018 16:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  Pete Holmes has been extremely busy with a new marriage, new baby, and new season of his HBO series Crashing, which might explain why his newest HBO special Dirty Clean feels a bit like a rapidly assembled cornucopia of all the things he’s been itching to say out loud. Die-hard...More »
  
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• How Does Cecily Strong Breathe During This ‘Jingle Bells’ SNL Sketch?

  17-12-2018 16:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Saturday Night Live’s holiday episode featuring host Matt Damon came bearing plenty of gifts over the weekend, including a new installment of Heidi Gardner’s character Angel, a pitch-perfect Hannah Gadsby impression by Aidy Bryant, and a sketch all about Weezer. Another treat came in the form of the “Jingle Bells”...More »
  
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• The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Truth or Dare

  17-12-2018 16:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  The allure of Truth or Dare certainly wears off somewhere after 12th grade for most people. But these women (who are not in middle school) play way too much Truth or Dare. Someone needs to tell me if these women are all deeply attracted to each other. I wouldn’t be...More »
  
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• Patrick Wilson on Aquaman and His Friendship With Barbra Streisand

  17-12-2018 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Examining Patrick Wilson’s filmography can feel a bit like the parable of the blind men who touched an elephant and believed it to be three different animals. Fixate on Wilson’s early work, with key roles in Joel Schumacher’s big-screen Phantom of the Opera and Mike Nichols’s mini-series treatment of Angels...More »
  
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• Is There a Jewish Spider-Man in Into the Spider-Verse? An Investigation

  17-12-2018 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  For most of the history of superhero fiction, religion was something of a taboo, especially when it came to Judaism. Superman, Batman, Captain America — these were all figures invented by Jews, but the characters never evinced any particular spiritual beliefs, and certainly weren’t depicted as being Jewish. Spider-Man was...More »
  
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• Matthew Leifheit and Nicole Wittenberg’s Art-Historical Machines for Desire

  17-12-2018 15:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  A close-up of a half-closed eye, red and watering, hangs in an oval frame at the entrance to Matthew Leifheit’s exhibition “Fire Island” at Bushwick’s Deli gallery. “It’s like a Victorian ‘lover’s eye,’” the artist attests, “but instead represents a diseased, blurry vision — camera vision. For me that picture...More »
  
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• Moira Stuart leaves BBC for Classic FM presenting role

  17-12-2018 15:05
  Newsreader spent nearly five decades at BBC, most recently on Radio 2 breakfast showMoira Stuart, the first African-Caribbean woman to read the news on British television, is to leave the BBC for a presenting role at Classic FM.After nearly five decades at the BBC, Stuart, 69, will read the news on Classic FM’s breakfast show from February, and from July she will also present her own Saturday afternoon programme, Moira Stuart’s Hall of Fame Concert. Continue reading...
  
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• The 10 Hottest Movie Dads of 2018

  17-12-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The end of the year means end-of-the-year lists. And while, okay, it’s kind of useful to plumb the depths of 2018’s releases to reflect on which films will stand the test of time — even though it’s a moot point, because the answer to that question is “Paddington 2 and...More »
  
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• Emily Blunt's Best Roles Prove She's Practically Perfect in Every Way

  17-12-2018 15:00 via feeds.eonline.com
  Emily Blunt is practically perfect in every way--and she's got the nominations to prove it.
  The 35-year-old actress has already scored several nods this award show season for her...
  
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• A Living Room Art Gallery in Brooklyn Focuses on the Abject and Alien

  17-12-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  15 Orient is both the name and the address of a gallery inside an inconspicuous Brooklyn home located near the Graham Avenue L train station. Its proprietors, Paul Gondry and Shelby Jackson, first repurposed the living room into an exhibition space to showcase their own work back in 2016 and...More »
  
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• New Plagiarism Accusations Spark a Twitter Debate on ‘After’ Poems

  17-12-2018 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  When Claudia Cortese took to Twitter to accuse another writer of stealing her work, she didn’t mince words. In a thread published December 7, Cortese called out poet Lisa Low for a litany of literary sins:Lisa Low not only plagiarized my words, images, lines but — even worse — she...More »
  
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• How Rosalind’s fatal lift plummet marked the death of LA Law

  17-12-2018 14:00
  The legal drama was once the cream of the soapy drama crop. But as the familiar faces began to disappear from the series, viewers soon followed suitLift manufacturers across the globe would probably wish me to point out that it is impossible to fall down a lift shaft in the manner in which Rosalind Shays meets her spagbol end, halfway through season five of mid-80s legal drama LA Law. They would like it to be known that modern lifts are designed with a series of interlocking gears, rendering the
  
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• 10 Magical Things You Never Knew About Mary Poppins

  17-12-2018 13:00 via feeds.eonline.com
  Yah, we'll say it! We are supercalifragilisticexpialidocious-ly excited for the 2018 sequel to Mary Poppins.But first, we must reflect on some of our favorite fun facts from the...
  
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• Tell us: what was your favourite TV show of 2018?

  17-12-2018 12:30
  As our critics’ countdown continues we want to hear what you’ve been watching this year and which moment stood out the most
  Jodie Whittaker’s first series of Doctor Who, the surreal second season of Donald Glover’s Atlanta, Michael Palin’s journey to North Korea and a live Halloween episode of Inside Number 9 – all feature on the Guardian’s varied rundown of the top TV in 2018. Our rundown concludes on Thursday, where our number one show will be revealed
  
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• From Black Panther to Troye Sivan: How 2018 Was the Year That Changed Hollywood for the Better

  17-12-2018 12:00 via feeds.eonline.com
  The call for representation is nothing new.For years, media watchdog groups have kept tabs on all manner of entertainment, pushing for strides in inclusion with every annual report they...
  
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• From the Minion jive to judging chaos: the best of Strictly Come Dancing 2018

  17-12-2018 11:54
  Sexy sambas, Minion goggles and Fred Astaire quicksteps … forget the tabloid scandals – here are the most sensational moments of this year’s competitionAlthough it was Stacey Dooley and Kevin Clifton who lifted the coveted glitterball, dance was the real winner of Strictly Come Dancing. Despite the odd tabloid scandal, the performance levels and choreography this year have been outstanding, and the BBC’s entertainment flagship shows no signs of wear and tear despite bein
  
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• Mortal Engines Slowly, Painfully Grinds to a Halt Opening Weekend, Could Lose $100 Million

  17-12-2018 08:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you see London sadly chugging its way into the sunset, give it some space. It must be devastated after hearing how Peter Jackson’s Mortal Engines bottomed out during its opening weekend, bringing in approximately $7.5 million domestic and $42.3 million worldwide. The film’s budget was over $100 million, potentially...More »
  
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• The 50 best TV shows of 2018: No 4 – Patrick Melrose

  17-12-2018 07:00
  David Nicholls turned Edward St Aubyn’s books into a heart-wrenching account of abuse and addiction, carried by a majestic Benedict CumberbatchThe louche, addled aristocrat Patrick Melrose is dining in New York with Marianne, an old friend of a friend who doesn’t drink because it “dulls the senses and blurs the edges”. “Your point being?” Melrose replies. In the opening episode of this stunning five-part drama, adapted by David Nicholls from Edward St Aubyn&rs
  
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• Monday’s best TV: 24 Hours in A&E; Danger Mouse: Melted

  17-12-2018 06:59
  The medical observation documentary reaches its 200th episode, with a potentially broken pelvis and a possible brain injuryTime flies when you are wading through gore, heartache and life-affirming tales from inside the casualty department, and so this medical obs-doc reaches the end of its latest series, and its 200th episode overall. This week’s instalment highlights the elements that makes it so watchable, bookending medical traumas (a potentially broken pelvis and a possible brain injur
  
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• Dirty John Recap: Wigging Out

  17-12-2018 05:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s a true Christmas miracle. Not only do we get national treasure Jean Smart in one Emmy-award-winning wig, we get national treasure Jean Smart in two Emmy-award-winning wigs. Well, they haven’t won yet, but if there is anything right in this world they will surely be nominated. But she’s not...More »
  
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• Escape at Dannemora Recap: Pipe Splitters

  17-12-2018 05:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Be a person,” Sweat implores of his buddy Hacksaw (a.k.a. Richard Matt a.k.a. Ricky Matt a.k.a. Inmate Matt), who’s having a hard time getting his bearings outside the prison walls. Looks like Matt, not Lyle, might be the glitch. And since we know how this story ends — with Matt...More »
  
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