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• Anne Hathaway Ascends to Grand High Witch for the Witches Remake

  16-01-2019 23:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  In last year’s Ocean’s 8, Anne Hathaway made a whole meal out of simply touching her neck while looking in a mirror. Now she’s going to play an evil, ultrapowerful witch with a whole fake face she can take off. Variety reports that Hathaway has been cast as the iconic...More »
  
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• January Jones, TV’s Best Resentful Mom, to Play Figure-Skating Mom in Netflix’s Spinning Out

  16-01-2019 23:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  Spiritually, every character January Jones has ever played has been a former figure skater who is taking out her resentment on her children. Now she is actually playing one. The former Betty Francis née Hofstadt formerly Draper has joined the cast of Netflix’s figure-skating drama Spinning Out to play Carol, “a...More »
  
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• Jo Andres, Innovative Choreographer and Filmmaker, Dies at 64

  16-01-2019 23:13 via nytimes.com
  In her dances and short films, she created dreamlike, surreal tapestries. “I describe my aesthetic style as ‘perceptual mischief,’ ” she once said.
  
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• Revolution in Ruins: The Hugo Chávez Story review – essential, chilling viewing

  16-01-2019 23:00 via theguardian.com
  In an era of populism, this documentary about the president-cum-TV superstar Chávez feels appallingly familiarSix years after his death, we get Revolution in Ruins: The Hugo Chávez Story (BBC Two), a dense and deeply depressing precis of his 14-year rule of Venezuela: a country with the largest proven oil preserves on the planet where 90% of the population live in poverty. Why this, now? Probably because of the rise in populism and the cult of personality in politics, which collide
  
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• Frankie Shaw Responds to Allegations of Misconduct on SMILF Set

  16-01-2019 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  In an interview promoting the second season of Showtime’s SMILF on The Today Show, the show’s creator, Frankie Shaw, responded to the allegations that she had behaved inappropriately on set. “I’m really glad you asked me,” Shaw said, when Hoda Kotb brought up the reports, and specifically mentioned that actress...More »
  
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• A New Ghostbusters Movie Is Coming in 2020: See the First Sneak Peek

  16-01-2019 21:11 via feeds.eonline.com
  Who you gonna call? Ghostbusters!Jason Reitman is resurrecting the classic supernatural comedy by directing and co-writing a brand-new version."Finally got the keys to the...
  
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• ‘Fyre’ and ‘Fyre Fraud’ Reviews: Behind the Scenes of a Music Festival Fiasco

  16-01-2019 20:57 via nytimes.com
  Two documentaries try to unpack a spectacular scheme by Billy McFarland, now in prison, who used social media to sell a music festival in the Bahamas.
  
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• Chris Evans, Robert Pattinson, and More Perfect Jawlines Join Netflix’s New Movie

  16-01-2019 20:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  The devil is in the details, and the devil is also in the number of sharp jawlines and high cheekbones in the cast of Netflix’s new movie The Devil All The Time. Chris Evans, Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson, Bill Skarsgard, Mia Wasikowska, and Eliza Scanlen will star in the project,...More »
  
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• Star Trek: Discovery Season Two Is More Typical and Less Interesting

  16-01-2019 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  The season-two premiere of Star Trek: Discovery puts me in the unexpected position of rooting against changes that the streaming network CBS All Access made because it thought it knew what the audience really wanted. Co-created by Bryan Fuller and Alex Kurtzman (and worked over by half of Hollywood, if...More »
  
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• Disney Orders Live-Action The Hunchback of Notre Dame [Bell Tolls Ominously]

  16-01-2019 20:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  The world is cruel, the world is wicked, it’s remakes alone Disney can trust in this industry. They are its only friend. After meticulously re-creating Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Lion King, and soon Mulan with a combination of live-action and CGI technology, Disney has set its sights on...More »
  
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• Critic’s Notebook: Trump, Trauma and a War That Won’t Go Away

  16-01-2019 20:19 via nytimes.com
  Performers revisit their own fraught memories in recent productions, including one inspired by women who have accused the president of misconduct.
  
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• Detective Rachel Brosnahan Reports for Duty in This Week’s SNL Promo

  16-01-2019 19:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel star Rachel Brosnahan heads to Saturday Night Live this weekend to make her hosting debut, and the show dropped the first promo today. True to the retro world of Brosnahan’s TV character, the promo is in black-and-white, and she transforms into a detective tasked with investigating...More »
  
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• Steve Carell and Greg Daniels Reuniting for Space Force Comedy at Netflix

  16-01-2019 19:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you’re an Office fan who has long hoped for Steve Carell to return to his TV-comedy roots, we’ve got some very good news: It’s happening.Netflix announced today that Carell has reunited with Greg Daniels (King of the Hill, The Office, Parks and Recreation) for a workplace comedy at the...More »
  
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• Actually, Colin Kaepernick Isn’t Cool With Travis Scott’s Super Bowl Performance

  16-01-2019 19:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  This year’s Super Bowl halftime show has really taken on a hefty symbolic weight, and an alleged détente between blackballed quarterback Colin Kaepernick and Travis Scott, who has agreed to participate in the show, is apparently based on bad intel. A source “close to Scott” recently told Variety that the...More »
  
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• Which Fyre Festival Documentary Is Right for You?

  16-01-2019 19:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you had a pulse and an internet connection when the Fyre Festival turned from fantasy tropical concert into overpriced, disastrous failure last spring, then you already know the basics of the story told in two new documentaries about one of modern history’s greatest moments in schadenfreude.Knowing the basics doesn’t...More »
  
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• Temptation Island Hasn’t Changed. We Have.

  16-01-2019 19:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  When Temptation Island first launched in January 2001, it followed the usual trajectory of Fox’s early reality-TV experiments, with intense moral outrage followed by intense ratings success. The idea was as devious as it was simple: Take four (straight) couples at a crux point in their relationships, ship them off...More »
  
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• The Carpetbagger: What Do the Oscars Gain by Losing a Host?

  16-01-2019 18:59 via nytimes.com
  With Kevin Hart gone and a plan to proceed with no comic in charge, the show theoretically should be shorter. But the host’s importance is both overrated and underrated.
  
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• R. Kelly Protesters Gather Outside Sony Headquarters Demanding They Drop Him

  16-01-2019 18:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  On Wednesday, eight activist groups swarmed the NYC headquarters of Sony demanding that the label drop R. Kelly from their roster for good in the wake of a new Lifetime documentary that further exposed his history of alleged sexual abuse. Members of #MuteRKelly, Black Women’s Blueprint, Care2, Color of Change,...More »
  
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• 10 Powerful Captain Marvel Movie Posters Revealed

  16-01-2019 18:35 via feeds.eonline.com
  Can't get enough Captain Marvel? You're in luck.Marvel Studios just released 10 new posters to promote the upcoming blockbuster, hitting theaters nationwide March 8. Set in the...
  
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• Rape scenes no longer allowed in films rated suitable for under-15s

  16-01-2019 18:24
  New UK guidelines for films depicting sexual violence follow societal shift, says BBFCScenes of rape and other forms of sexual violence will no longer be allowed in films classified for under-15s in a shake-up of the British ratings system.The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) will on Thursday publish new classification guidelines explaining in detail why films get the ratings they are given, from U up to R18. Continue reading...
  
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• How Green Book and Bohemian Rhapsody Became This Year’s Oscar Villains

  16-01-2019 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  A musical love letter to classic Hollywood, a dark comedy about a woman’s rage, a civil-rights road movie, and a VH1-style rock biopic are not four films that you would immediately lump together — unless you follow the Oscars, in which case you know that La La Land, Three Billboards...More »
  
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• All Your Questions About R. Kelly’s Criminal Investigations, Answered

  16-01-2019 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  For over 20 years, bestselling R&B artist R. Kelly has been dodging accusations of sexual misconduct ranging from child pornography to underage sex. In 2008, Kelly was acquitted in one trial in which he was alleged to have had sex and urinated on a 13-year-old. He’s also paid monetary settlements...More »
  
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• Julia Roberts And Her Homecoming Wigs Won’t Come Back For Season 2

  16-01-2019 17:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  Homecoming will continue onto its second season without Julia Roberts. According to The Hollywood Reporter, sources say Roberts and her mysterious case-worker Heidi Bergman were one and done and will not return. Roberts will stay on as an executive producer with showrunner Sam Esmail. It’s currently unclear if any of...More »
  
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• Maria Bamford’s Stand-up Makes Facing Nightmares Fun

  16-01-2019 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  A young comic is onstage. Another comedian watches their act, nursing a beer he bought with a drink ticket. He leans in to a friend and whispers, “Gaffigan.” Jim Gaffigan is an outstanding comic, but it’s not a compliment. He watches the next act and whispers, “Hedberg.” To him, these...More »
  
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• The Unlikely Rise of Schitt’s Creek

  16-01-2019 17:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  Schitt’s Creek is a Peak TV rarity: Instead of steadily shrinking over time, the Canadian-produced comedy from co-creators/stars Eugene and Dan Levy has actually gotten bigger with age. Since launching on cable’s Pop network in 2015, the show has seen its linear ratings more than double and its overall audience...More »
  
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• Harvey Weinstein’s Lawyer Has Dropped Out of the Case

  16-01-2019 17:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  Harvey Weinstein’s high-profile lawyer, Benjamin Brafman, said he’s withdrawing from the case.The New York Post on Tuesday quoted Brafman as saying  that he would depart from the case, in light of a new Esquire profile in which he reportedly said, “In terms of the timing, it is somewhat ironic that...More »
  
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• In a Children’s Theater Program, Drama Over a Peanut Allergy

  16-01-2019 16:52 via nytimes.com
  The conflict over accommodating a child’s allergy turned into a legal battle that highlights the isolation that people with food allergies often face.
  
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• Dan Levy Made Schitt’s Creek With His Dad. But It’s His Weird Little Baby.

  16-01-2019 16:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Here’s what I think we should do,” Dan Levy says as he leafs through a rack of Balenciaga, selecting an oversize matte gray hoodie with “europa!” emblazoned on its front. “We should lean into the moment here, because this is the kind of thing people come here for.”It’s a December...More »
  
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• Watch Zoe Saldana Transform Into Gamora in This Time-Lapse Video

  16-01-2019 16:50 via feeds.eonline.com
  It's not easy being green.Zoe Saldana has been playing the Guardians of the Galaxy's Gamora in the Marvel Cinematic Universe for nearly five years, and yesterday, the 40-year-old...
  
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• Rewind: ‘Shiraz,’ a Silent Spectacle of India, Returns

  16-01-2019 16:43 via nytimes.com
  This alt version of the back story of the Taj Mahal features real footage of Rajasthan that is more luxuriant than anything Hollywood could have created in 1929.
  
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• D’Arcy Carden Lost Her Mind Prepping for Her Standout Good Place Episode

  16-01-2019 16:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  Last month, D’Arcy Carden stunned Good Place fans everywhere with the standout season-three episode in which she was tasked with impersonating all of her castmates, and it turns out that her stellar performance came at a great mental cost. Speaking with Seth Meyers last night, Carden looked back on her...More »
  
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• Abbi and Ilana Wept While Shooting Their Last Broad City Scene

  16-01-2019 15:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer’s Broad City returns for its fifth and final season next week, and as they revealed to Jimmy Kimmel last night, shooting their final scene was a very emotional experience. “So the characters are weeping, but we are truly weeping, as is the crew,” Glazer recalls....More »
  
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• Sex Education’s Emma Mackey Doesn’t Mind Those ‘Weird’ Margot Robbie Jokes

  16-01-2019 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Netflix’s raunchy teen dramedy Sex Education kicks off with an enterprising outsider — the hard-edged, down-on-her-luck Maeve Wiley — who spots an opportunity to make a little cash. Her classmates are hopelessly clueless about sex, and Maeve guesses that they might pay real money for an amateur sex clinic. Over the course...More »
  
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• Glenn Close Ranks Her Movie Husbands

  16-01-2019 15:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  In The Wife, Glenn Close plays Joan Castleman, the long-suffering spouse to a literary behemoth. Joe Castleman (Jonathan Pryce) has written a hugely successful series of books that have scored him a Nobel Prize. When he answers the phone call alerting him to his award, he asks that they please...More »
  
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• You: the stalker show that will make you delete your social media

  16-01-2019 14:35 via theguardian.com
  The bookseller psychopath in the Netflix hit is appallingly compelling – and he’s here to share some uncomfortable truths As deep as we are into TV’s golden age, by now we are all inured to the antihero. We think nothing of rooting for a mob boss, drug kingpin or serial killer. Keep us entertained and your shortcomings are really your own business. It should therefore be no problem whatsoever for us to warm to You, now showing on Netflix. An adaptation of Caroline Kepnes’
  
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• How Did the Villainous Bitch Become the Most Boring Trend in Literature?

  16-01-2019 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In her life, nothing was going to happen,” Flaubert writes in Madame Bovary of his wayward young creation. “Such was the will of God! The future was a dark corridor, and at the far end the door was bolted.” A lot does happen to Emma Bovary, of course, before she...More »
  
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• Germany’s data hack is a European wake-up call

  16-01-2019 13:15 via ft.com
  The digital security of all in the political system must be tightened ahead of elections
  
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• Apple-produced movie On the Rocks reunites Bill Murray and Sofia Coppola

  16-01-2019 13:15
  Comedy star and director who delivered Oscar-winning global hit Lost in Translation spearhead tech giant’s $4bn move into contentTech giant Apple has announced that its first original feature film will reteam actor Bill Murray and director Sofia Coppola for a father-daughter comedy-drama called On the Rocks.According to the Hollywood Reporter, On the Rocks is about a young mother, played by Rashida Jones, who reconnects with her larger-than-life playboy father (Murray) on an adventure thro
  
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• Who ya gonna call? Ivan Reitman sends son Jason to direct Ghostbusters 3

  16-01-2019 12:50
  Up in the Air film-maker to take charge of ‘secret’ sequel to father’s original comedies, unconnected to Paul Feig’s contentious 2016 female rebootJason Reitman, the son of original Ghostbusters director Ivan Reitman, has been hired to direct a “secret” new entry in the Ghostbusters series. According to Entertainment Weekly, Reitman senior will produce the new film, which will act as a continuation of Ghostbusters II and is unconnected thematically with the 20
  
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• YouTube bans dangerous pranks after Bird Box challenge

  16-01-2019 11:58
  YouTube acts after challenge leads to people doing tasks blindfolded, including drivingYouTube has banned creators from depicting “dangerous challenges and pranks”, after a wave of incidents prompted by a viral challenge involving driving blindfolded pushed it to act.The so-called Bird Box challenge, inspired by the Netflix film of the same name, saw YouTubers imitating scenes from the movie in which characters must perform common tasks while blindfolded. A culture of one-upmanship m
  
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• ‘Rent’ in Pictures, in Advance of ‘Rent’ on TV

  16-01-2019 10:00 via nytimes.com
  Rare photographs that take you backstage and inside the audition rooms for the musical that celebrated “La Vie Boheme.”
  
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• He’s 16 Going On Stardom: Meet Broadway’s Next ‘Evan Hansen’

  16-01-2019 10:00 via nytimes.com
  Andrew Barth Feldman, a high school junior on Long Island, is an ardent theater fan who has been acting since he was 8. Now he’ll be leading the cast in his favorite show.
  
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• Pearson hit by falling sales in US higher education

  16-01-2019 08:33 via ft.com
  Educational publisher relies on cost savings to keep itself on track to meet guidance
  
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• Pearson hit by declining sales in US higher education, shares down

  16-01-2019 08:33 via ft.com
  Education publisher relies on cost savings to keep itself on track to meet guidance
  
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• Wednesday’s best TV: Just Another Immigrant; Mythbusters Jr; The Twinstitute

  16-01-2019 07:00 via theguardian.com
  Romesh Ranganathan attempts to take the US, young brainboxes grapple with daft physics and TV’s twin doctors ask how best to get fit fastThe comedian Romesh Ranganathan has been a ubiquitous TV presence this past 12 months, but that doesn’t mean that everything he does will be well received. The jury is very much out on this new docuseries, the conceit of which is: wouldn’t it be funny if he uprooted his family and headed to LA in a bid to make it in the US? In a fairly amusing
  
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