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• Love Is __ Canceled After Domestic Abuse Lawsuit Filed Against Co-creator

  19-12-2018 23:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  OWN is canceling its plans for a second season of the romantic drama Love Is __, weeks after series co-creator Salim Akil was accused of domestic abuse and copyright infringement by a woman claiming to be his former mistress.Last month, actor Amber Dixon Brenner filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles...More »
  
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• New Year, New You Trailer Confirms Your Suspicion That Influencers Are Murderers

  19-12-2018 23:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  Blumhouse is serving you friend-on-friend violence this New Year’s Eve in their next installment of Hulu’s Into The Dark anthology series. Always Shine director Sophia Takal is behind the project, which focuses on a group of friends coming together for one last NYE bash in one of their childhood homes....More »
  
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• CBS Has To Pay For Les Moonves’s Legal Battle With CBS

  19-12-2018 23:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  CBS announced this week that Les Moonves was fired with cause, which means that he won’t get $120 million in severance. Moonves can challenge the decision from CBS’s board of directors, and can also sue the company for breach of contract. The board’s decision is “far from over,” Moonves told...More »
  
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• Director Quits ‘All My Sons’ Amid Dispute Over Cast’s Racial Makeup

  19-12-2018 23:19 via nytimes.com
  A Broadway revival of the Arthur Miller play has become entangled in a disagreement over the races of actors in key roles.
  
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• The World’s Most Extraordinary Christmas Dinners review – hark! The £150,000 cracker

  19-12-2018 23:00
  From Christmas in space to diamond-encrusted cracker cuffs, this was the sort of undemanding, off-beat fare just right for this time of yearIf you want to get back to the true spirit of Christmas, just sew the back end of a pig to the front of a capon. That’s how they do it at the Weald and Downland Living Museum in West Sussex, recreating a 14th-century festive centrepiece based on a mythical beast called a cockatrice (or “cokyntryce”, as their recipe has it). Lest you think i
  
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• Macaulay Culkin Is Back as Home Alone's Kevin McCallister in Remake Video

  19-12-2018 23:00 via feeds.eonline.com
  Kevin McCallister is all grown up!On Wednesday, Home Alone star Macaulay Culkin took to social media to share a "remake" video of the iconic holiday movie for Google....
  
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• ‘Second Act’ Review: Jennifer Lopez Deserves Better

  19-12-2018 22:38 via nytimes.com
  “Second Act” is enough like “Working Girl,” Mike Nichols’s corporate-ladder romantic comedy from 30 years ago, that you wish it was even more like it.
  
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• Eliza Dushku Details the ‘Most Cruel, Most Aggressive Humiliations’ of the Bull Set

  19-12-2018 22:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  Last week, the New York Times broke the news that Eliza Dushku received a $9.5 million settlement from CBS over the harassment targeted at her while she filmed a role on the Michael Weatherly series Bull. Dushku did not comment in the original story, but now, in a piece for...More »
  
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• What Happened After Amber Heard Spoke Out About Johnny Depp

  19-12-2018 22:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the wake of the allegations made against Harvey Weinstein and other people who have abused their power in a variety of industries, and thanks to Tarana Burke’s #MeToo movement, more people than ever are opening up about sexual harassment, and the culture that has turned a blind eye to...More »
  
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• See a Very Horn-y David Harbour in the First Hellboy Trailer

  19-12-2018 21:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  Fans have spent years pining for a third and final film to wrap up Guillermo del Toro and Ron Perlman’s Hellboy series, and while they will never get that movie, David Harbour hopes his Big Red can fill that Hellmouth in your heart. The reboot finds Hellboy a bit more...More »
  
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• Finally, We Get a Picture of Our Mom Laura Dern in Little Women

  19-12-2018 21:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  ❤️ Emma Watson (@EmmaWatson) December 19, 2018...More »
  
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• Pop Music Was 2018’s Greatest Movie Villain

  19-12-2018 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Since their respective debuts at the fall festival season, A Star Is Born and Vox Lux have seemed like dark mirrors of each other. A Star Is Born hit theaters first, and as the discussion about the remake’s take on pop music ramped up over the fall, I had to...More »
  
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• The Carpetbagger: Nicole Kidman Still Can’t Believe What ‘Destroyer’ Did to Her

  19-12-2018 20:39 via nytimes.com
  Her detective character is so dangerous “a lot of times I would let out a huge yell or a growl before I would start, which I know sounds insane.”
  
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• The Most Political TV Moments of 2018

  19-12-2018 20:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  In 2018, TV of all shapes and genres was about, against, incorporating, responding to, or attempting to dodge the current political moment. In many instances, shows invited that clash of the political and the cultural, either by including plotlines that called out specific real-world policies, or by embroiling its characters...More »
  
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• What You Need to Know About the Harvey Weinstein Case So Far

  19-12-2018 20:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  Harvey Weinstein’s May 25 arrest on sexual-assault charges was a pivotal moment for the #MeToo movement. It seemed like the criminal-justice system might finally listen to sexual-assault accusers, even if the men who had allegedly attacked them were rich and powerful. By July, the disgraced movie mogul would find himself...More »
  
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• John Ford Noonan, ‘Coupla White Chicks’ Playwright, Dies at 77

  19-12-2018 20:05 via nytimes.com
  His plays, produced frequently in the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s, often threw polar opposites together to explore themes both comic and serious.
  
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• The Season 6 Drunk History Trailer Features a Boozy Amber Ruffin

  19-12-2018 20:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  Derek Waters’s Comedy Central series Drunk History returns in January, and today the network dropped the first trailer for the next batch of episodes. As previously announced, season six will feature an Are You Afraid of the Dark parody set around Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein featuring Rich Fulcher, Evan Rachel Wood,...More »
  
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• Juelz Santana Sentenced to Two Years in Prison for Bringing a Gun to an Airport

  19-12-2018 19:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  Juelz Santana has been sentenced to more than two years in prison for gun and drug possession. TMZ reports that the Dipset rapper (né LaRon Louis James) pleaded guilty to possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, carrying a weapon on an aircraft, and possession of a controlled substance;...More »
  
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• What to Know About Justice League Before Seeing Aquaman

  19-12-2018 19:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  Hey, remember Justice League? Expensive movie with two directors? Came out a little over a year ago? Ben Affleck was in it, I think? He and his friends fought some CGI dude named … Stepstool? Stepdad? Steppenwolf! Right, the guy was named Steppenwolf. The film was conceived of as the...More »
  
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• People Are Not Happy About Will Smith's Genie and Aladdin's Shirt in Live-Action First Photos

  19-12-2018 19:38 via feeds.eonline.com
  Fans have been introduced to the whole new live-action world of Aladdin--and they're not so happy about it.
  Entertainment Weekly published first-look photos of the upcoming Disney...
  
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• Oscar Isaac Recalls "Excruciating" Time Making X-Men: Apocalypse

  19-12-2018 19:35 via feeds.eonline.com
  Making X-Men: Apocalypse was no picnic for Oscar Isaac.As the 39-year-old actor recalls in a recent video for GQ, suiting up as the movie's titular villain was a labor-intensive...
  
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• Remembering Penny Marshall, a Hollywood Legend With a Radical Legacy

  19-12-2018 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Penny Marshall was a sly revolutionary.As both a performer and a filmmaker, Marshall, who died Monday at the age of 75, stood counter to the prevailing wisdom of what women like her were supposed to be, and do. From her breakthrough as a sitcom star to her subsequent success as...More »
  
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• Swedish Government Thinks Festival for Women Discriminated Against Men

  19-12-2018 19:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  Presenting a lesson in how to completely miss the point: Sweden’s government has declared it unlawful that a festival created by and for women didn’t want any men. The inaugural Statement Festival, held in August, was promoted as the world’s first festival “completely free from cis men,” inviting only people...More »
  
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• ‘Aquaman’ Review: Our Hero Swims. His Movie Sinks.

  19-12-2018 19:14 via nytimes.com
  James Wan’s film has Jason Momoa, but even he’s not enough to save this lackluster mash-up of “Thor,” “Black Panther” and “Avatar.”
  
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• Anatomy of a Scene: Watch ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ Build a Dream Home

  19-12-2018 19:14 via nytimes.com
  Barry Jenkins narrates a scene from his film, featuring Kiki Layne, Stephan James and Dave Franco.
  
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• 'If Beale Street Could Talk' | Anatomy of a Scene

  19-12-2018 18:54 via nytimes.com
  The director Barry Jenkins narrates a sequence from his film that features KiKi Layne, Stephan James and Dave Franco.
  
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• What’s Up With Zayn’s Solo Career?

  19-12-2018 18:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  Zayn Malik, the 25-year-old former One Direction member, is still far from the type of world-beating success that some of his former colleagues are currently enjoying. His sophomore effort, Icarus Falls, could’ve represented a second chance to establish himself as one of pop’s leading lights. Instead, it is a monolithic...More »
  
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• No Regrets: ‘Mockingbird’ Opens on Broadway

  19-12-2018 18:35 via nytimes.com
  Last week’s parties also included Susanne Bartsch’s toy drive and the premiere of “Mary Poppins Returns.”
  
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• ‘You’ve Got Mail’ Is Secretly a Tragedy, Too

  19-12-2018 18:25 via nytimes.com
  Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan starred in the film, which came out 20 years ago this week. It is about opposites attracting, but it is also about capitalism.
  
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• LOL! Jimmy Kimmel Condenses Hallmark's 38 Christmas Movies Into One Hilarious Mashup

  19-12-2018 18:21 via feeds.eonline.com
  Don't have time to watch all of Hallmark's Christmas movies this year? Jimmy Kimmel has you covered.
  The late-night host took clips from the 38 films released this season and...
  
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• These Are Michelle Obama’s Last Words for the White House and Its New Occupant

  19-12-2018 18:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  Our SCOTUS is back on her book tour, back in our hearts, and back with more zingers. Michelle Obama stopped by the Tonight Show on Tuesday to jump out of gift boxes for Jimmy Fallon’s amusement, talk about how Barack was “trifling” for always being late when they started dating,...More »
  
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• Feel the Christmas Spirit With Boccamazzo Construction

  19-12-2018 18:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  “This is the first wall that our father ever built, back in 1962 … It’s pretty simple back then, it’s just cinder block and mortar, you know? No tricks. And then, they added the, uh, the barbed wire later on, I think, just to keep ‘the element’ out. You know...More »
  
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• Welcome to Marwen Is a Totally Confounding Movie

  19-12-2018 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Mark Hogancamp is a photographer and storyteller, but prefers to think of himself as a film director.” So reads the opening line of the artist bio for Hogancamp, made art-world famous in 2006 for his elaborately realized miniature WWII tableaux, indie-documentary famous, and now mainstream-holiday-movie famous in 2018, courtesy of...More »
  
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• Colin Quinn’s New Off-Broadway Show Red State Blue State Debuts Next Month

  19-12-2018 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Colin Quinn returns to off-Broadway next month with a brand-new one-man show. Titled Red State Blue State, the show will debut at the Minetta Lane Theatre on January 5 then begin its limited run from Tuesday, January 22 through Sunday, March 3. In the show, Quinn “lays bare the absurdities,...More »
  
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• Netflix Swears It Didn’t Read Your Facebook Messages in Weird Tweet

  19-12-2018 17:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  According to a big New York Times report, Facebook gave several tech companies, including Microsoft, Amazon, and Netflix, more access to users’ personal data than it ever disclosed to the public, including giving Spotify and Netflix “the ability to read Facebook users’ private messages.” That’s a pretty big breach of...More »
  
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• Germany’s Der Spiegel admits star journalist faked stories

  19-12-2018 17:38 via ft.com
  News magazine says award-winning Claas Relotius invented quotes, people and whole articles
  
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• Jennifer Lopez Joins Kim Kardashian and Sia for the Movie Night of Your Dreams

  19-12-2018 17:11 via feeds.eonline.com
  Talk about the greatest movie night ever!Kim Kardashian got to experience the epic event firsthand when she hosted Jennifer Lopez and Sia for a screening of the triple threat's...
  
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• Karen Dotrice Opens Up About Her Mary Poppins Returns Cameo: "It Was an Honor"

  19-12-2018 17:00 via feeds.eonline.com
  It's been 54 years since Mary Poppins was released, and now Karen Dotrice has returned for a cameo in the film's sequel, Mary Poppins Returns.Dotrice starred as Jane Banks in the...
  
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• Happy Holidays! Countdown to Christmas by Voting for Your Favorite Holiday Film of All Time

  19-12-2018 17:00 via feeds.eonline.com
  In less than a week we will all be gathered around the Christmas tree sipping on eggnog and toasting to our favorite holiday, but until then we have a lot to do.For starters, we need to...
  
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• First Photos From Aladdin: How Do We Unsee Will Smith’s Beard?

  19-12-2018 16:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  Aladdin is the latest Disney classic to get the live-action treatment, and on Wednesday Entertainment Weekly had the exclusive first photos of the cast in character. Mena Massoud in Aladdin’s (Patagonia?) red vest! Naomi Scott in Jasmine’s signature green robes! Will Smith with a ponytail and beard so bizarre it...More »
  
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• The Story Behind Saturday Night Live’s Weezer Sketch

  19-12-2018 16:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  Saturday Night Live sparked a debate last week that has set the internet on fire. Weezer: Still good? Matt Damon and Leslie Jones carried a spirited debate as to whether there are any even serviceable Weezer albums past Pinkerton. Leslie says no, Matt says yes, and everyone else in the...More »
  
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• Sarah Jessica Parker Answers Almost Every Question We Have About The Family Stone

  19-12-2018 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  My favorite genre of movie is “bustling, dramatic upper-middle-class white family loses their minds during one particularly charged weekend.” The Family Stone — released in 2005 to middling reviews — is this genre’s crowning achievement. Sarah Jessica Parker stars as the career-driven Meredith Morton, who spends Christmas with her boyfriend...More »
  
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• Late-Night Philosophy Festival Expands to Five U.S. Cities

  19-12-2018 16:29 via nytimes.com
  This year’s American installment of the Night of Ideas will feature appearances by philosophers, musicians, artists and a puppet of Noam Chomsky.
  
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• Queer As Folk to get American reboot

  19-12-2018 16:04
  TV show about gay men in Manchester to be remade with new characters and set in USThe US cable network Bravo is developing a new version of the hit TV show Queer As Folk, with the creator of the original UK series, Russell T Davies, recruited as an executive producer.The original show, which first aired in 1999, followed three gay men living in Manchester. It starred Aidan Gillen, Charlie Hunnam and Craig Kelly and ran for 10 episodes. A North American remake of the show, set in Pittsburgh, aire
  
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• Filthy rich agents: how shadowy elites conquered TV in 2018

  19-12-2018 16:00
  From Bodyguard to Collateral, nefarious conspiracies were everywhere this year, mirroring the murky political mood and dirty tricks of real life
  It has long been a trope of TV drama that any crime committed has, in its origin, to go “right to the very top”. Down here won’t do, nor will the middle. It has to lead right to the very top. Far from lapsing into cliche, the notion of shadowy elites and elaborate conspiracies has intensified as a small-screen dramatic staple. The intr
  
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• Lin-Manuel Miranda, Emily Blunt, and James Corden Perform 22 Musicals in 12 Minutes, the Nerds

  19-12-2018 15:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  Emily Blunt and Lin-Manuel Miranda, somehow still alive after spending roughly ten years on the Mary Poppins Returns press tour, checked in with James Corden last night to do a bit where they performed pretty much every musical. Okay, there was no Light in the Piazza, but Corden, Miranda, and...More »
  
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• The Year in Comedy Podcasts

  19-12-2018 15:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  Twenty eighteen was another big year for comedy podcasts — so big, in fact, that what was once just a comedy-nerd activity broke into the mainstream. Jessica Williams and Phoebe Robinson’s beloved 2 Dope Queens came to an end with guest Michelle Obama and made its television debut as a...More »
  
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• Aladdin Preview: See Naomi Scott as Jasmine and Will Smith as Genie

  19-12-2018 15:15 via feeds.eonline.com
  When the teaser trailer for Walt Disney Pictures' Aladdin debuted in October, fans got a first look at Mena Massoud as the titular street rat. The sneak peek showed him entering the Cave of...
  
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• 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Bob Dylan’s Never Ending Tour

  19-12-2018 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The music industry will celebrate an anniversary of just about anything — there was a 20th anniversary edition of Joan Osborne’s Relish — and the compliant music press will help push a little product to mark the occasion. As what has come to be known as Bob Dylan’s Never Ending...More »
  
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• From #MeToo to Apu: Lucy Mangan on 2018’s biggest TV controversies

  19-12-2018 13:02
  The Guardian’s TV critic looks back on a year of shows that provided respite from the ‘raging bin fire that is the real world’
  Near the end of the fourth season of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, when Lillian’s boyfriend, Artie, comes back from what Lillian has assumed to be the dead, he needs to prove to her that he is not a zombie. “Say something only an alive person would say,” orders Titus. “Okaay,” says Artie. “You can tell we’re in a g
  
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