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• Kendrick Lamar and SZA Settle Lawsuit With Artist Over ‘All the Stars’ Video

  27-12-2018 23:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  Artist Lina Iris Viktor is suing Kendrick Lamar and SZA for allegedly reproducing a version of her original work in the music video for “All the Stars,” reports TMZ. The song is off Lamar’s new critically well-received release Black Panther: The Album. The artist claims that the video copied the...More »
  
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• Anatomy of a Scene: Watch Emily Blunt Sing With Animated Birds in ‘Mary Poppins Returns’

  27-12-2018 23:37 via nytimes.com
  The director Rob Marshall discusses how this scene, which combines live action and hand-drawn animation, came to be.
  
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• The ABC Murders Trailer: It’s Hercule Poirot, Now With a Goatee

  27-12-2018 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  We have a bunch of dead bodies splattered around ’30s-era England, so you know what that means. Break out the Hercule Poirot, baby! As the newest installment in the Poirot canon, John Malkovich and his Big Facial Hair Detective Energy are patrolling the country in The ABC Murders, searching for...More »
  
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• ‘Mary Poppins Returns’ | Anatomy of a Scene

  27-12-2018 23:29 via nytimes.com
  The director Rob Marshall narrates a sequence from the film that mixes live action with animation.
  
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• Kevin Spacey’s Accuser Made Video of Encounter, Massachusetts Documents Say

  27-12-2018 22:44 via nytimes.com
  An 18-year-old man who said the actor groped him at a bar told the police he sent video of the incident to his girlfriend, according to a criminal complaint released this week.
  
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• Details of Kevin Spacey Inquiry in Massachusetts Are Released

  27-12-2018 22:44 via nytimes.com
  Mr. Spacey’s accuser told the police that he sent his girlfriend video of his encounter with the actor, according to a criminal complaint released this week.
  
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• King of Stunts Macaulay Culkin Has Let the Internet Pick His New Middle Name

  27-12-2018 22:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  Christmas Eve marked the culmination of a monthlong publicity stunt by Macaulay Culkin. Or should I say Macaulay Macaulay Culkin Culkin? Let’s just go with Mac. Back in November, Mac announced that he would be changing his middle name to whatever the good visitors of his website, Bunny Ears, voted...More »
  
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• Morecambe & Wise in America review – Eric and Ern are back! What a joy

  27-12-2018 22:00
  It’s a true Christmas treat, witnessing magical footage of the comedy nonpareils, seen for the first time in the UK. May our hearts bubble over with helpless laughter
  This has been, I think we can all agree, a hard year. Perhaps even harder than 2016 and 2017, which themselves … weren’t great. And last night I went for dinner with a friend, who pointed out that this is not even the end but barely the beginning – let alone the beginning of the end – for either Trump
  
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• Kevin Spacey Groping Video Obtained by Police

  27-12-2018 21:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  A few days after Kevin Spacey resurfaced in a bizarre video message to his fans, the Massachusetts State Police confirmed that they are in possession of a video that shows the actor groping an 18-year-old man. Per CNN, a criminal complaint filed in Nantucket District Court details how investigators were...More »
  
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• Aretha Franklin Tribute Concert to Include Céline Dion, Patti LaBelle, John Legend, and More

  27-12-2018 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  The remembrances for Aretha Franklin are nowhere near over. Clive Davis has finally announced the details for his all-star tribute concert to the Queen of Soul, partnering with the Recording Academy to hold it in Los Angeles at the Shrine Auditorium on January 13. It’ll be hosted by Tyler Perry,...More »
  
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• Mrs. Doubtfire Child Star Lisa Jakub Turns 40: See the Cast Then and Now

  27-12-2018 19:57 via feeds.eonline.com
  Wanna feel old?Last month marked the 25th anniversary of Mrs. Doubtfire and one of its child stars, Lisa Jakub, just turned 40.The actress was 14 years old when she played the...
  
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• Behold the Steamie Awards, the First Annual Fast-Food Awards Show

  27-12-2018 19:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  In case you weren’t aware, television writer and producer Bill Oakley (The Simpsons, Mission Hill, Portlandia, Disenchantment) took on a new calling in life in 2018 with the start of his fast-food reviews on Instagram. They’ve been going strong since May and have covered everything from KFC to Alaska Airlines’...More »
  
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• Hollywood Producers Originally Wanted an Angry Martin Ginsburg for RBG Movie

  27-12-2018 18:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  If we were to analyze the billions of men who have walked this earth over the millennia, Martin Ginsburg would probably be sandwiched in-between Mahatma Gandhi and Tom Petty in the top one percent: His vocal, unflinching support of his wife, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and her burgeoning law career made...More »
  
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• What America Loved to Watch in 2018, According to Comcast’s VOD Ratings

  27-12-2018 18:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  There were no new episodes of Game of Thrones in 2018, but by at least one metric, it remained the most popular show on TV anyway. Cable and broadband giant Comcast says HBO’s megahit was the No. 1 series on the company’s Xfinity video-on-demand platform during 2018, attracting more on-demand...More »
  
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• Hamilton Cast Reunites at the Kennedy Center Honors for Belated Holiday Present

  27-12-2018 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Once again, for the easy joke, we can be in the room where it happens without dropping $600 on a mezzanine seat. We love the fiscally responsible Kennedy Center Honors! Hamilton co-creators Lin-Manuel Miranda, Thomas Kail, Andy Blankenbuehler, and Alex Lacamoire were honored at the annual ceremony for their outstanding...More »
  
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• Cher Cries, Doesn’t Disturb a Speck of Makeup, During Adam Lambert’s ‘Believe’ Cover

  27-12-2018 17:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  There go those pesky Kennedy Center Honors reducing people to tears again. At the 2018 ceremony, which aired on Wednesday night after taking place earlier this month, Cher was among the honorees, along with Reba McEntire, Philip Glass, Wayne Shorter, and the team behind Hamilton. Adam Lambert, of American Idol...More »
  
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• Calling All Movie Goers: Which 2018 Film Blew You Away?

  27-12-2018 17:00 via feeds.eonline.com
  New Year's Eve might not play out like the movies this year (or maybe it will), but that doesn't mean movies shouldn't be on your mind as 2018 comes to a close.With so many...
  
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• Our 5 Favorite 2018 Video Picks, and 5 We Missed

  27-12-2018 16:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  I watched over 500 shorts this year, give or take. That’s no different from 2017, 2016, or any of the five years before that. You know what was different? The number of those 500 that broke form. From Caron Clancy’s unflinchingly odd and wonderfully jarring My Show to Matt Barats...More »
  
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• Critic’s Notebook: How #MeToo Changes ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’

  27-12-2018 16:00 via nytimes.com
  In 2018, the rape accusation at the center of Barry Jenkins’s film became more complicated than James Baldwin could have imagined.
  
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• Black Mirror: Bandersnatch Trailer: It’s a Deadly, Adaptation Hit Factory

  27-12-2018 15:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  Relax! Don’t do it, especially if you’re suppose to be adapting a sprawling fantasy novel into a brand spankin’ new video game. The trailer, premise, and just about everything you want to know about Black Mirror: Bandersnatch is finally here, and if you can stop boogying down to Frankie Goes...More »
  
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• Sky/Comcast: waiter service

  27-12-2018 15:00 via ft.com
  Best and worst deals of 2018: good things come to those who wait
  
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• Doctor Who Companions, Ranked

  27-12-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the world of Doctor Who, there’s plenty to be amazed by: time travel; faraway planets; killer alien-robots with kitchen utensils for arms; and of course, the eponymous Doctor Who him/herself, master of time and space and sonic hardware. But for all of the show’s marvels, Doctor Who and its...More »
  
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• 10 Great Laurel and Hardy Movies to Watch Before Stan & Ollie

  27-12-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Checking into a Newcastle hotel early in the new biopic Stan & Ollie, Stan Laurel (Steve Coogan) and Oliver Hardy (John C. Reilly) decide to delight the clerk with a bit of business. Dusting off an old routine, Stan bumbles his way through the lobby carrying way too many pieces...More »
  
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• I Make Plays. I Write Criticism. I’m Not My Own Enemy.

  27-12-2018 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  I never thought I’d be a writer.No, that’s not true. For most of middle school, I thought I’d be the next Lloyd Alexander or Ursula Le Guin. I used to come home from school and write for fun, my progress in various fantasy realms marked by the height of a...More »
  
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• Celebrity Big Brother most complained-about TV show of 2018

  27-12-2018 13:27
  Ofcom received more than 25,000 complaints about incident involving actor Roxanne PalletCelebrity Big Brother was the most complained-about television programme of 2018, marking a suitable finale to a programme which had always gone out of its way to seek controversy.The show, which ended its lengthy run on British screens this year, topped the list of most complained-about programmes after 27,602 people contacted the media regulator, Ofcom, to raise concerns that it may have breached the broadc
  
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• ‘The 20th Annual Animation Show of Shows’ Review: A Charming, Safe Collection

  27-12-2018 13:00 via nytimes.com
  The 15 short films here are mostly well-executed, our critic writes. But only a few push boundaries.
  
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• ‘Stan & Ollie’ Review: Laurel and Hardy, a Double Act as Romance

  27-12-2018 13:00 via nytimes.com
  This portrait of the comedians features the comic bits, but the focus never strays far from the men’s prickly friendship.
  
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• Sorry episodes: the most disappointing TV shows of 2018

  27-12-2018 10:00
  From the squandered promise of Who Is America? to the glacial pacing of McMafia, this year featured plenty of turkeys that failed to take flightIn theory, McMafia had lots going for it. A captive January audience. A topical edge involving dubiously financed Russians in London. James Norton’s glowering charisma. Plenty of viewers bent over backwards to give it a chance. But, dear God, it was dull. The sterility of these lives was probably partly the point, but it didn’t lend itself to
  
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• Bringing to Life the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Only Her Family Knows

  27-12-2018 09:44 via nytimes.com
  Her nephew wrote the new biopic about her, “On the Basis of Sex.” Her grandson has a part. And the justice and her daughter reviewed draft after draft.
  
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• China factory profits fall for first time in 3 years

  27-12-2018 09:36 via ft.com
  Move comes as authorities tighten control of economic news as slowdown and tariffs bite
  
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• Morecambe & Wise in America: how the duo made it in the US

  27-12-2018 08:00
  Many who followed them failed, but Eric and Ernie were a hit in the US. Gold’s new three-part series, which features new footage, explains whyRepeats of old Morecambe & Wise episodes are a British TV Christmas tradition. But this year’s schedule includes material from the comedy pair that is new to UK viewers. Morecambe & Wise in America, a Gold three-parter hosted by Jonathan Ross, includes numerous sketches of theirs performed in the 1960s on the CBS variety series The Ed S
  
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• Sister Wendy Beckett, the Nun Who Taught Us to Love Art, Has Died

  27-12-2018 07:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sister Wendy Beckett, whose art appreciation shows made her an unlikely TV star, died on Wednesday. She was 88. Sister Wendy had a fondness for art that was infectious. According to The New York Times, Sister Wendy’s BBC shows often took 25% of the British viewing audience, and were guaranteed...More »
  
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• Thursday’s best TV: Morecambe and Wise in America; The Snow Wolf: A Winter’s Tale

  27-12-2018 07:00
  A fascinating look at Eric and Ernie’s Ed Sullivan Show appearances plus a documentary that follows a female wolf’s struggle for survivalThe night that Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise made their US debut on the massively influential Ed Sullivan Show with a routine more suited to Blackpool Pier, they went down like the proverbial cup of cold sick. The second time they were on, they were hitting and wrestling one another to the floor. They had learned their lesson. Jonathan Ross presents
  
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• Doctor Who Is Bringing Back an Old Foe for 2019

  27-12-2018 06:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  Spoilers for Doctor Who!Doctor Who fans didn’t get their usual Christmas special this year. But a new present awaits them on New Year’s Day. The BBC released a teaser trailer Xmas day for “Resolution,” in which we briefly heard the voice of a Dalek. “This is the DNA of the...More »
  
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• Europe’s divisions more than just east-west

  27-12-2018 06:00 via ft.com
  Elections will pit liberals against conservative nationalists in each of the bloc’s 27 countries
  
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• Courtney Act Reminds Us All That Queerness is the Real Reason for the Season

  27-12-2018 06:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  England truly has our Christmas content beat. They get a Doctor Who special (usually), a Big Fat Quiz, and now a shiny floor special starring a cavalcade of Drag Race alums. Courtney Act’s Christmas Extravaganza! started with a big number about how queer Christmas is when you really think about...More »
  
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• Kelly Clarkson Absolutely Demolished ‘Fancy’ at the Kennedy Center Honors

  27-12-2018 04:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  From now on, every Kennedy Center Honors ceremony needs at least one song about a sex worker. It can be “Fancy” every time, if need be. As part of the celebration of Reba McEntire, Clarkson did what we mere karaoke singer cannot: utterly crush “Fancy” and look cute doing it....More »
  
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• Roseanne Barr To Address Israeli Parliament in January, Proving 2019 Will Be Just as Surreal as 2018

  27-12-2018 04:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  Roseanne Barr will be speaking out against hatred and bigotry in the Israeli Knesset January 30. Is she apologizing for her past tweets? Nope. In a statement released to Deadline, Barr said that she would be coming to Israel as a voice against the insidious and anti-Semitic BDS movement.” BDS...More »
  
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• The Alien Franchise Is Turning 40 & Desperate for Instagram Attention

  27-12-2018 02:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  Alien was released back in 1979, which means it’s turning 40 next year. And like many fun and flirty women approaching middle age, the Xenomporph is posting Instagram thirst traps like mad. The official Alien Anthology Instagram seems to be teasing a new video game in the Alien-verse for next...More »
  
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• Holmes & Watson Doesn’t Make It Easy, But There’s Fun to Be Had

  27-12-2018 00:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  One of the year’s most critically shellacked movies (the pros were forced to watch it in theaters on Christmas Day alongside the common hordes), Holmes & Watson begins as ineptly as any comedy I’ve seen, and then settles into an agreeably silly groove that had the common hordes around me...More »
  
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