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• In Praise of Corporate’s Refreshingly Pessimistic Comedy

  15-01-2019 23:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  The first season of Comedy Central’s Corporate was something of a minor miracle. Following the lives of two depressed, cynical junior executives (Matt Ingebretson and Jake Weisman, the show’s co-creators) working at an openly evil multinational corporation, Corporate spent every week examining the bleak reality of 21st-century life through the...More »
  
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• Improv Theater to Set Man on Fire to Honor Nicolas Cage

  15-01-2019 23:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you’re looking for a worthy cause to donate to, look no further. A Michigan improv theater has created a crowdfunding campaign that’s hard to turn down. For the past six years at Planet Ant — which was co-founded by Keegan-Michael Key — has hosted a Nicolas Cage film festival...More »
  
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• West Side Story Remake Casts Its Maria and She Hasn't Even Graduated High School Yet

  15-01-2019 23:29 via feeds.eonline.com
  Steven Spielberg has just cast Maria for the West Side Story remake: 17-year-old Rachel Zegler.The fresh-faced actress will make her film debut in the much-anticipated remake, and while...
  
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• Streaming Movie Review: ‘The Last Laugh’ Review: A Mawkish Attempt at an Old Kind of Schtick

  15-01-2019 23:21 via nytimes.com
  Though seemingly an effort to showcase the talents of Chevy Chase, this moribund project’s single saving grace is his co-star Richard Dreyfuss.
  
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• An Appraisal: Even From Afar, Carol Channing Served Up That Broadway Wow

  15-01-2019 23:17 via nytimes.com
  How her outsize presence — and that “Hello, Dolly!” cast album — helped entice a burgeoning theater critic to New York.
  
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• Fast Food Deserves Better Than Donald Trump

  15-01-2019 23:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  While he’s perhaps best known for his work as a writer-producer on The Simpsons — including being the mastermind behind “steamed hams” — Bill Oakley is also a comedy writer who has worked on Mission Hill, Portlandia, and most recently Disenchantment. Over the past year, Oakley has made a name...More »
  
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• Unpacking The Bachelor’s Pageant Feud

  15-01-2019 23:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  Only a Bachelor virgin might be unaware that the show’s producers are some of the pettiest and most virtuosic in showbiz, but even by those high standards they still managed to outdo themselves for Colton Underwood’s current season. These conniving geniuses didn’t even wait to stir up some fresh beef...More »
  
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• The Passage review – a vampire drama to sink your teeth into

  15-01-2019 23:00
  The hunt is on to create a super-vaccine to save humanity from a vampiric vaccine-gone-wrong in this credible, pacy take on Justin Cronin’s bestsellerHow wise dear Blaise Pascal was when he wrote: “All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” If only the good doctors in the opening scenes of this adaptation of Justin Cronin’s bestseller The Passage (Fox) had imbibed his words before they went spelunking for vampires.Tha
  
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• The Bachelor’s Colton Underwood Spent an Entire Day Filming Shower Scenes

  15-01-2019 22:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s the biggest mystery of The Bachelor this season: Why in the world does Colton Underwood take so many showers? Nary a 15-minute vignette of screen time goes by without him engaging in some kind of sensual shower moment — shirtless, of course — with slow-mo effects to heighten the...More »
  
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• Memories of Carol Channing, for Whom Going On Was a Must

  15-01-2019 22:52 via nytimes.com
  Theater colleagues recalled Ms. Channing, the Broadway legend who died Tuesday, as a tireless performer and promoter who had little use for doctors’ orders.
  
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• Everything You Need to Know About Hulu's Fyre Festival Documentary, Per Chrissy Teigen

  15-01-2019 22:34 via feeds.eonline.com
  Chrissy Teigen and John Legend were "so happy" to watch Hulu's documentary about the infamous Fyre Festival.On Monday, the streaming service surprised everyone by releasing...
  
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• Sofia Coppola Is Back With Bill Murray and They’re Bringing Rashida Jones for On the Rocks

  15-01-2019 22:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  The first film made under the development deal between A24 and Apple is very on-brand for this partnership. Sofia Coppola will direct Rashida Jones and her Lost in Translation star Bill Murray in On the Rocks, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The story will center on “a young mother who...More »
  
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• The Grand Tour’s Richard Hammond on His Road to Recovery and Incredible Goatee

  15-01-2019 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Two summers ago, Richard “Hamster” Hammond experienced an unfortunately familiar event while filming Amazon’s The Grand Tour: He lost control of his supercar and crashed into a Swiss mountain range, barely escaping the vehicle before it was engulfed in flames. (It was so bad, co-presenters Jeremy Clarkson and James May...More »
  
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• 10 Great Food Shows That Aren’t About Food

  15-01-2019 21:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  Food, I think we can all agree, is good. So is TV; both are things most of us enjoy bingeing on, on occasion. Personally, food and TV are probably my two most frequent comforts in this dark, dark world. So when I’m eating food, and I’m watching TV, and the...More »
  
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• Rihanna Sues Her Dad for Sullying the Fenty Name, Posing As Her Agent

  15-01-2019 21:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  Rihanna has been forced to take her own father to court. TMZ reports that Rihanna is suing her dad, Ronald Fenty, for using her Fenty brand and name for his own financial gain. According to the lawsuit, her father and his business partner, Moses Joktan Perkins, started a talent development...More »
  
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• M. Night Shyamalan’s Biggest Twist? Coming Full Circle

  15-01-2019 21:22 via nytimes.com
  The director said his new film, “Glass,” was the toughest he has ever made. Yet the man once called “the Next Spielberg” says he is back where he wants to be.
  
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• All the Artists Who’ve Denounced R. Kelly

  15-01-2019 21:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the wake of Lifetime’s bombshell doc Surviving R. Kelly that outlines years of Kelly’s alleged abuse, the movement to mute the embattled singer has never been stronger. For the first time, both his peers and collaborators are taking a moral stance against the Pied Piper of R&B, some going...More »
  
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• Meet Raúl Castillo, the Star of an Indie That Will Give You Daddy Issues

  15-01-2019 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Raúl Castillo is, in short, a heartthrob. And his face is likely familiar, thanks to the fact that he’s bounced around a lot of your favorite TV dramas: He starred in two seasons of the HBO drama Looking, an episode of Netflix anthology Easy, and had arcs on the Regina...More »
  
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• James Franco and Former Student Settle Disaster Artist Lawsuit

  15-01-2019 21:02 via feeds.eonline.com
  James Franco and his former film student have settled a lawsuit over Franco's movie, The Disaster Artist.According to Variety, Ryan Moody filed a lawsuit in March 2018 against...
  
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• Carol Channing Dies at 97; a Larger-Than-Life Broadway Star

  15-01-2019 20:38 via nytimes.com
  Her performances as the gold-digging Lorelei Lee in “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” and the matchmaker Dolly Gallagher Levi in “Hello, Dolly!” made her a Broadway legend.
  
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• Extreme Makeover: Home Edition Has Been Flipped, Will Return on HGTV

  15-01-2019 20:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  The 2000s-era favorite Extreme Makeover: Home Edition is coming back, but this time you can catch it on HGTV. The network purchased the rights to air 100 episodes of the original ABC series, and will be producing ten new episodes of its own. Those are expected to premiere in 2020....More »
  
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• A Brief History of Korean Hip-hop

  15-01-2019 20:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  Drunken Tiger, the godfathers of Korean hip-hop, recently announced that their latest album would their last one. Drunken Tiger — which debuted as a duo of Tiger JK and DJ Shine in 1998 and operated as a one-man band after DJ Shine left the group in 2005 — finished their...More »
  
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• Tracy Morgan and Tiffany Haddish Are Back in The Last O.G. Trailer

  15-01-2019 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Jordan Peele–produced and co-created TBS comedy The Last O.G. earned a season-two renewal last year, and now the next batch of episodes have a premiere date and trailer. In addition to returning stars Tracy Morgan, Tiffany Haddish, Cedric the Entertainer, Ryan Gaul, and Allen Maldonado, the upcoming season will...More »
  
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• The Stars of Corporate Want to Keep You Up at Night

  15-01-2019 19:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  2018 was a landmark year for Matt Ingebretson and Jake Weisman. It marked their biggest step forward into the entertainment industry yet after a long journey involving the usual open mics, writing gigs, and short films that many comics go through but rarely result in creating and starring in a...More »
  
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• Jenna Fischer Developing National Parker Comedy at Freeform

  15-01-2019 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Office and Splitting Up Together star Jenna Fischer has a new show in development at Freeform. Titled National Parker, the half-hour series would center on Fischer as a “social media-obsessed” woman named Parker Adams, whose “world comes crashing down after a breakup” and “decides to put her New York...More »
  
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• Welcome to Puberty TV

  15-01-2019 18:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  When I was in ninth grade, I sat with my peers in a dingy basement classroom in some forgotten corner of the school, trying to hold back giggles as we watched our gym teacher roll a condom onto a banana. It’s pretty much the only thing I remember from my...More »
  
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• Critic’s Pick: ‘The Heiresses’ Review: A Surprising Drama of Status and Sexuality

  15-01-2019 18:44 via nytimes.com
  Marcelo Martinessi’s debut feature from Paraguay will probably defy your initial expectations about the story.
  
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• Colbert: Trump as a secret Russian agent? 'There's nothing secret about it'

  15-01-2019 18:00
  Late-night hosts look into whether the president, unwittingly or not, worked for Russia, covered up talks with Putin and ate paperLate-night hosts break down the “revelation” that the FBI looked into whether Trump was working on behalf of Russia. Continue reading...
  
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• Netflix Is Raising Its Subscription Price, If That’s a Thing You Actually Pay For

  15-01-2019 17:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  The cost of Netflix is going up. The streaming giant said Tuesday it was raising U.S. prices across the board, with its most popular plan — two simultaneous streams in HD — increasing to $12.99 monthly, about 18 percent above the current $10.99 price. The entry-level, single-stream plan is going up by...More »
  
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• Russian Comedy Plays on YouTube, Not in Movie Theaters, to Avoid Censors

  15-01-2019 17:26 via nytimes.com
  Aleksey Krasovskiy faced an uproar for a film about a tragic event in Russian history. So he paid for it himself and didn’t bother asking for permission to show it.
  
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• Nun the wiser: how Call the Midwife secretly became TV's most subversive show

  15-01-2019 17:06
  Despite its ‘comfort TV’ tag, the long-running drama always tackles challenging subject matter with sensitivity and smartsIs Call the Midwife the most misunderstood show on television? The hugely popular series is frequently dismissed as mere “comfort TV”, yet those critics are wrong. Eight series in (the most recent began on Sunday), Heidi Thomas’s adaptation of midwife Jennifer Worth’s memoirs continues to be one of the smartest and, in its own way, most sub
  
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• Sasheer Zamata Reworked Louis C.K.’s Leaked Parkland-Kids Joke in Her Own Stand-up Set

  15-01-2019 16:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  In mid-December, an audience member at a Long Island comedy club recorded Louis C.K.’s hour-long stand-up set, in which the comedian covered, among other things, the survivors of the Parkland shooting. “They testify in front of Congress, these kids? What the fuck? What are you doing?” C.K. said during the...More »
  
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• Alicia Keys Steps Up to Host 2019 Grammys

  15-01-2019 16:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  Unlike a certain other vacant awards-show hosting gig, the Grammys have theirs all booked with a surprising choice. Alicia Keys will host the 2019 Grammys, breaking James Corden’s two-year streak, the Recording Academy has announced. Her selection comes after a tumultuous year for the Grammys after its president, Neil Portnow,...More »
  
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• Chance the Rapper, Ciara, Pussycat Dolls Reportedly Removing R. Kelly Collabs

  15-01-2019 16:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  Slowly but surely, R. Kelly is being erased from the internet. Following decisions from Lady Gaga and Céline Dion to remove their Kelly collaborations from streaming amid the fallout from renewed interest in his alleged sexual abuse, other artists are scrubbing him from their digital discographies, too. TMZ reports that...More »
  
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• 8 Takeaways From Hulu’s Surprise-Released Fyre Festival Doc

  15-01-2019 16:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  On Monday Hulu fought fyre with fyre by surprise-releasing its own documentary on the doomed-from-the-start Fyre Festival just days ahead of Netflix’s scheduled release of its own rival doc on the same fiasco. Fyre Fraud, Hulu’s version, is described by its directors Jenner Furst and Julia Willoughby Nason as “more...More »
  
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• Netflix to lift prices for US customers by up to 18%

  15-01-2019 16:21 via ft.com
  Video streaming service squeezes users after boosting investment in content
  
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• Netflix to hike prices by up to 18%

  15-01-2019 16:21 via ft.com
  Video streaming company squeezes customers after bolstering investment in content
  
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• Spider-Man: Far From Home Trailer: Peter Parker Does a Eurotrip

  15-01-2019 16:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  Half of the Marvel universe, including Peter Parker, disappeared at the end of Infinity War, but that is not going to stop him from going on a Euro trip. Pretending as if nothing terrible has happened, Marvel has released the trailer for Spider-Man: Far From Home, which finds Peter on...More »
  
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• Help Me! Author Marianne Power Read All the Self-help Books So You Don’t Have To

  15-01-2019 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The day after New Year’s is dull and gray, and the whole of London looks like a late-stage hangover, muttering desperately about Dry January and other impossible resolutions. It’s a good day to meet with Marianne Power — a day very much like the morning almost exactly five years ago...More »
  
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• Kim and Kanye Expecting Another Baby Boy ‘Sometime Soon’

  15-01-2019 15:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  The rumors are true: Kim and Kanye are making more mini-clones! Kim Kardashian West and her sisters Khloé and Kourtney stopped by Watch What Happens Live on Monday night where Kim confirmed the news that she and Kanye are once again expecting, this time another baby boy. And according to...More »
  
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• Jackson Pollock Would Be Honored by Jackson Pollock

  15-01-2019 15:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  Listen! Doug Widick is a national treasure, and it’s time we start to recognize.A founding member of hip-hop improv troupe North Coast NYC and a stalwart on the severely underappreciated musical-sketch group Pop Roulette (featuring SNLers Sudi Green and Bowen Yang), Widick consistently creates some of the catchiest musical comedy...More »
  
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• Carol Channing, Star of Hello, Dolly!, Is Dead at 97

  15-01-2019 15:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  Carol Channing, the Broadway legend best known for big personality, smoky belt, and dedication to the musical Hello, Dolly!, is dead at 97. The New York Times confirmed the news, writing that Channing died at her home in Rancho Mirage, California, Tuesday morning and that she had suffered two strokes...More »
  
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• The Bachelor Recap: Pure Camp

  15-01-2019 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Bachelor except it’s Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman looking for a third. That’s it. That’s the recap......All right, fine. I’ll “do” “more.”It’s week two of The Bachelor and we need to TALK ABOUT SOMETHING. Billy Eichner straight up asked Colton if he was gay. Billy Eichner also said that Colton...More »
  
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• Spider-Man: Far From Home Trailer Shows New Look for Peter Parker

  15-01-2019 14:59 via feeds.eonline.com
  Spidey is back! And he looks...different.Tom Holland reprises his role as Peter Parker in Spider-Man: Far From Home, the 2019 sequel to Spider-Man: Homecoming. The new film, whose...
  
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