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• 12 Movies to See Over the Long Weekend

  18-01-2019 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  With Oscar nominations fast approaching, it’s the perfect time to squeeze in a trip to the theater and judge for yourself which movies actually deserved their nods. Even though January is historically a dump month, there’s still time to enjoy the awards-season darlings, catch up on some bigger releases, and...More »
  
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• SMILF Season Two Is an Intimate Portrait of Womanhood, With an Unavoidable Asterisk

  18-01-2019 22:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you’ve heard about the Showtime series SMILF in recent weeks, it probably hasn’t been for good reasons.In December, SMILF creator, star, and showrunner Frankie Shaw was accused of workplace misconduct, including inappropriate handling of sex scenes between two of her co-stars, Samara Weaving and Miguel Gomez. According to The Hollywood...More »
  
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• Deerhunter Front Man Bradford Cox Dissects Some of Deerhunter’s Best Songs

  18-01-2019 22:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s natural to feel control slipping away when you’re talking on the phone with Deerhunter front man Bradford Cox, and that’s probably a good thing. Offhand comments can lead to 15 unbroken minutes of response, rotating boasts, poignancy, or wry meta-commentary on the whole endeavor of making music, being in...More »
  
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• How Mary Oliver’s Biographer Finally Met the Legendary Poet

  18-01-2019 22:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  The acclaimed and wildly popular poet Mary Oliver died yesterday. Lindsay Whalen, whose authorized biography of Oliver is forthcoming from Penguin Press, remembers her subject, and the importance to Oliver of meeting fellow writers and poets “on the page.”Mary Oliver wrote the poet James Wright for the first time in...More »
  
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• Surviving R. Kelly and the Problem With Modern Fan Culture

  18-01-2019 21:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Cancel culture” is fake. The value of the term is its ability to make public outcry seem disingenuous, to reduce what are often reasonable quibbles to histrionics, tokens of an era where people’s ability to handle opposing viewpoints is being ground to dust. There’s nothing nefarious about wanting to create...More »
  
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• A Very Simple Guide to True Detective’s Multiple Timelines

  18-01-2019 21:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  True Detective’s third season is a story of obsession: Arkansas detective Wayne Hays (Mahershala Ali) spends decades investigating the crime that changed his life — the murder of a young boy and the disappearance of the boy’s sister — as the HBO drama slips between three separate time periods in...More »
  
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• David Letterman Interviewed Kanye West for His Netflix Talk Show

  18-01-2019 21:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  This week Kanye West taped an interview with David Letterman for an upcoming episode of the latter’s Netflix talk show, Vulture has confirmed. Multiple sources say Ye and Dave chatted Monday in Los Angeles, with one person who was in the audience saying a big portion of the conversation revolved...More »
  
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• Unsolved Mysteries Revived by Netflix, Because Your True Crime Thirst Cannot Be Quenched

  18-01-2019 21:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  Can the viewing public’s appetite for true crime and spooky cold cases ever be sated? Netflix hopes not, because they’re dusting off Unsolved Mysteries and need you to watch. The streamer announced today that the cultural touchstone is being revived by the original creators alongside Stranger Things co-creator Shawn Levy,...More »
  
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• Misty Copeland Brings Things Full Circle With The Nutcracker Role

  18-01-2019 21:00 via feeds.eonline.com
  Misty Copeland was dancing on air while making The Nutcracker and the Four Realms.In this exclusive sneak peek at one of the bonus features included in the film's Blu-ray and digital...
  
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• Sharon Van Etten Gets Free

  18-01-2019 20:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  The day before the release of Sharon Van Etten’s new video for “Seventeen,” the third single off her new album, Remind Me Tomorrow, she darts downstairs in jeans and a sweatshirt to open the front door. “This is my first ‘grown-up’ apartment,” Van Etten says as we enter the Carroll...More »
  
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• The Best Show’s Tom Scharpling Is Writing a Memoir

  18-01-2019 20:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  Good news for fans of The Best Show: Tom Scharpling has a memoir in the works. The comedian and longtime radio host turned podcast host announced today that the book, titled It Never Ends, will be published by Garrett McGrath at Abrams Press and hit bookstores sometime in spring 2021....More »
  
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• The PEN15 Trailer Will Dredge Up All Your Crusty Teenage Hormones

  18-01-2019 20:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  TRL countdowns, a dial-up connection to AOL, crushes on prepubescent boys, and if you’re lucky, a telephone in your bedroom — these are just some of the hallmarks for many women who had the lucky honor of starting their teenage years as the new millennium began, and that’s the world...More »
  
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• The Standoff at Sparrow Creek Is a Memorable Feature Directing Debut

  18-01-2019 20:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  I’m overselling it wildly, but The Standoff at Sparrow Creek feels like what might happen if David Fincher shot a variation on Reservoir Dogs written by Rod Serling. Somehow both chasmic and claustrophobic, chatty yet somber, Henry Dunham’s film presents a series of mind games that might as well be...More »
  
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• ‘The Whole Thing Should Be Your F*ckin’ Nose’: Behind A Star Is Born’s IRL Ally Billboard

  18-01-2019 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ally Campana is just a cater waiter moonlighting as a singer-songwriter when country singer Jackson Maine quite literally stumbles upon her in A Star Is Born: He’s at a drag bar trying to get a drink when he hears her belt out “La Vie En Rose.” So begins their romance:...More »
  
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• Sony Has Cut Ties With R. Kelly

  18-01-2019 19:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  After reports that Sony has all but blacklisted R. Kelly, the label and musician have “agreed to part ways,” Billboard reports. Amid the fallout from the Lifetime documentary Surviving R. Kelly — which featured allegations of over 25 years of sexual abuse — Sony will no longer work with the...More »
  
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• Salma Hayek Is Scary and Has Magnificent Silver Hair in The Hummingbird Project Trailer

  18-01-2019 19:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  Alexander Skarsgård is bald, Salma Hayek has extremely chic silver hair, and Jesse Eisenberg is tightly wound in this first trailer for The Hummingbird Project. It’s one of those high-intensity, high-aggression finance-world dramedies where everyone’s kind of a bad guy because we all want to eat the rich anyway. The...More »
  
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• 24-Year-Old Saoirse Ronan Listening to 10-Year-Old Saoirse Ronan Squeal Is So Pure

  18-01-2019 19:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  The last time Saoirse Ronan appeared on a late-night show with one of her Lady Bird co-stars, she and Lucas Hedges both identified as little spoons. This time, she’s on The Graham Norton Show with Timothée Chalamet (and Laura Linney!), and Norton plays a clip from her childhood: When she...More »
  
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• 6 New Paperbacks You Should Read This January

  18-01-2019 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Each month, Maris Kreizman offers nonfiction and fiction paperback recommendations. You should read as many of them as possible.Every editorial product is independently selected. If you buy an item through our links, Vulture may earn an affiliate commission....More »
  
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• Spotify to release voice-controlled music player for cars

  18-01-2019 19:17 via ft.com
  Streaming group hopes to push into hardware with new entertainment device
  
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• Danny Lempert Is ‘An Old Gay Man in a Young Man’s Body’

  18-01-2019 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Danny Lempert (@danlempert) is an improviser, stand-up, and actor who can be seen performing in New York City on UCB’s Lloyd and Maude nights at the monthly show he hosts with Sarah Lazarus (Tight Ship) and all around town. If you’re in New York, check him out February 28 at...More »
  
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• Ready for ‘Glass’? Here’s What to Remember From ‘Unbreakable’ and ‘Split’

  18-01-2019 18:50 via nytimes.com
  M. Night Shyamalan’s “Glass” completes an original superhero trilogy that began in 2000 with “Unbreakable.” Need a refresher? We’ve broken down the basics.
  
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• How To Get Away With Murder Recap: Past Sins

  18-01-2019 18:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  As I was firing up this episode, my boyfriend asked “Are they doing that one thing that they flash back to? Are they done with that?” But this episode does something… else. It transports us back in history. The wedding of the Prince of Wales and Camilla Parker Bowles! The...More »
  
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• Former Epic Records Intern Says R. Kelly Sexually Abused Her When She Was 16

  18-01-2019 18:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the wake of Lifetime’s bombshell R. Kelly documentary, another accuser is speaking out for the first time, claiming he also sexually abused her when she was a teenager. Tracy Sampson tells Dateline that Kelly allegedly abused her beginning in the summer of 1999 when she was 16 and working...More »
  
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• Sarah Paulson Has Not Seen Bird Box Yet?!

  18-01-2019 18:20 via feeds.eonline.com
  80 million homes have streamed Netflix's Bird Box--but Sarah Paulson's wasn't one of them.
  During her interview on The Late Show on Thursday night, the Golden Globe-winning...
  
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• Let’s Talk About the Ending of Glass

  18-01-2019 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Major spoilers for Glass below.We deserve something better than the ending of Glass. We need something better than the ending of Glass.In 2000, back before anyone could’ve predicted our present superhero boom, divisive auteur M. Night Shyamalan released one of the greatest superhero pictures ever made. Unbreakable managed to be...More »
  
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• ‘Ghostbusters,’ ‘Spider-Man: Far From Home’: This Week’s Best Trailers

  18-01-2019 18:00 via nytimes.com
  The movies won’t be coming for a while but clips for those fan favorites along with “John Wick 3,” “High Flying Bird” and “Little Woods” were strong too.
  
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• Wait, Is Maggie Rogers a Pop Star Now?

  18-01-2019 17:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  The CliffsNotes version of 24-year-old Maggie Rogers’s rise to stardom goes something like this: In March 2016 in her final year at New York University where she did a double major in Music and English, Rogers attended a Masterclass with Pharrell Williams. She had just written a song — “Alaska”...More »
  
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• How Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Changed the Animation Game

  18-01-2019 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Spider-Man, Spider-Man, he does whatever a spider can — but with the web-slinger’s latest feature outing, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, an elite creative team set out to redefine just what a spider could do.The blockbusting animated feature instantly won over audiences (not to mention awards voters, who honored the film...More »
  
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• A Ragtag of Oddballs Show Up in the At Home With Amy Sedaris Trailer

  18-01-2019 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Amy Sedaris returns to TruTV next month with a new season of her series At Home With Amy Sedaris, and we’ve got the first trailer right here. The second season features a ton of new and returning guest stars, including Justin Theroux, Ana Gasteyer, Cole Escola, Susan Sarandon, Fred Armisen,...More »
  
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• Late Night Amuses Itself During the Shutdown

  18-01-2019 16:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  As Stephen Colbert said this week, the shutdown has been going on for so long that we’re running out of jokes about it. We had that egg and the hamberders and the dueling Fyre Fest docs, but the main story yet again was about something not happening. So how do...More »
  
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• The Carpetbagger: Oscars Rewind: A Charming Win Filled With Drama and Rancor

  18-01-2019 16:00 via nytimes.com
  Tatum O’Neal, clad in a mini-tuxedo, won over viewers when she was named best supporting actress in 1974, but family woes and a tainted competitor clouded the victory.
  
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• A Word With: Anne Hathaway Dares You Not to Look Away

  18-01-2019 16:00 via nytimes.com
  She talks about playing a femme fatale in “Serenity,” doing “The Hustle” with Rebel Wilson, stealing the show in “Ocean’s 8” and Hollywood’s echo chamber of men.
  
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• Emilia Clarke and Henry Golding Flirt in Last Christmas First Look

  18-01-2019 15:45 via feeds.eonline.com
  Christmas came early Friday morning.Henry Golding shared the first look at the Universal Pictures film Last Christmas, co-starring Emilia Clarke. Directed by Paul Feig, from a script by...
  
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• The Times and Sunday Times seek to pool resources

  18-01-2019 15:05 via ft.com
  Publisher News UK looks to change legal undertakings that protect newspapers’ independence
  
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• The 25 Greatest January Movies of the Last 30 Years

  18-01-2019 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  January is often thought of as Hollywood’s prime “dump month”: that time when studios and distributors release all the films that, in their eyes, aren’t quite worth too much effort. These are the movies that most feel have no shot at awards consideration, hence don’t need to be released closer...More »
  
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• Oscar Nominations: Who’s Safe and Who Could Be Snubbed?

  18-01-2019 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Globes and Critics’ Choice Awards have been handed out, and the guilds and the Brits have made their favorites known. Finally, on Tuesday, the Academy itself will weigh in with its own nominations, when we’ll finally see if, after four months of predictions, we’ve actually learned anything this season....More »
  
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• This Week in Arts: Ionesco Gets a Mash-Up, ‘High Maintenance’ Returns

  18-01-2019 14:00 via nytimes.com
  The Paris-based company Théâtre de la Ville brings a blend of five Ionesco plays to the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
  
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• How Surviving R. Kelly Landed at Lifetime

  18-01-2019 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The decades-overdue downfall of R. Kelly sounds like a plot ripped straight out of a Lifetime special, but thanks to Surviving R. Kelly, it’s the reality presently staring the Pied Piper of R&B in the face. Earlier this month, Lifetime aired the bombshell six-part series — a painstakingly detailed rehashing...More »
  
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• Ben Bailey Smith (AKA Doc Brown) webchat – post your questions now

  18-01-2019 13:39 via theguardian.com
  The rapper, standup and actor will be joining us on Tuesday 22 January at 1pm GMT 11.54am GMT If you’re not familiar with the name Ben Bailey Smith, you’ll like recognise the moniker of his on-stage alter ego, Doc Brown. The younger brother of the novelist Zadie Smith, Ben emerged as rapper Doc Brown in the early 00s and went on to perform alongside Lily Allen and Amy Winehouse as part of Mark Ronson’s live show. In the middle of the decade, he stumbled into comedy after workin
  
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• This week’s best home entertainment: from Danny Dyer’s Right Royal Family to Tin Star

  18-01-2019 12:56 via theguardian.com
  Move over Lucy Worsley, there’s a new royal historian in town, while Tim Roth returns for season two of modern western Tin StarThe revelation that Danny “mad riddle” Dyer was a direct descendant of Edward III made for truly jaw-dropping TV. Understandably then, the Beeb are capitalising on this most unlikely of discoveries with a two-parter that sees Dyer learn more about his storied ancestors, from William the Conqueror to Thomas Cromwell. Proper ruff.
  Wednesday 21 January, 9p
  
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• The Grand Tour review – Clarkson and co skid ever further into irrelevance

  18-01-2019 10:00 via theguardian.com
  The three petrolheads return with more of the same old cars, rants and bants – on Amazon, where they can be safely ignoredAh, Jeremy Clarkson. Remember? We used to talk about him all the time, whether we wanted to or not. Then he punched his producer and had to leave Top Gear, Piers Morgan replaced him as the nation’s foremost choleric millionaire troll, and the world moved on. Wherever did he go? Into the lucrative but fragmented realm of internet TV, where since 2016 Amazon has bee
  
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• Stephen Colbert is Hawking Mugs to Buy Meals for Furloughed Government Workers

  18-01-2019 08:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Jose Andres is doing the most on late-night. Earlier this week, he was on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon bigging up the cuisine of Puerto Rico, and now he’s collaborating with Stephen Colbert to bring food to furloughed workers. Andres has set up a kitchen in DC for workers...More »
  
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• Rachel Brosnahan Thinks Her Awards Belong in the Toilet

  18-01-2019 07:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s one shocking admission after another in this exchange between Rachel Brosnahan and Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show. Rachel keeps her Golden Globes and Emmy on her toilet, so people can take discreet selfies! She still plays Pokémon Go! Jimmy Fallon lured strangers to his house with Pokémon Go!...More »
  
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• The standup whose heart stopped live on stage – podcasts of the week

  18-01-2019 07:00 via theguardian.com
  First Day Back follows Jason Weems as he recovers from the mid-show asthma attack that nearly killed him. Plus: here comes the story of the HurricaneFacebook is the latest company looking to take a chunk of the burgeoning audio market. Its Live Audio feature will allow broadcasters to stream interviews and book readings that will appear in Facebook users’ news feeds. Continue reading...
  
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• Friday’s best TV: On Bass: Tina Weymouth!; Jamie and Jimmy’s Friday Night Feast

  18-01-2019 07:00 via theguardian.com
  The Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club bassist unleashes a cavalcade of great ‘lords of low frequencies’ while Stephen Fry samples Jamie’s apple pieEnthusiastic, knowledgable Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club bassist Tina Weymouth is the ideal host for a “joyride through the deepest register in music”. She begins with the bull fiddle that drove early rock’n’roll and provided the walking bass lines behind boogie woogie, and moves quickly on to Paul McCartney, Mo
  
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• The Complete Unpaid TSA Worker Playlist

  18-01-2019 06:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  TSA workers at JFK have been going without pay for three weeks now, and they are over it. Twitter users are reporting that the airport PA playlist is getting raunchy, blasting everything from “Sicko Mode” to “Misery Business,” to the scoopidy poop song by Kanye. TSA and Port Authority are...More »
  
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• Ariana Grande’s ‘7 Rings’ Is a Neon-Drenched Ode to Excess

  18-01-2019 06:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ariana Grande released her latest breakup anthem, “7 Rings,” about financial independence and/or buying your way out of depression. Cribbing a melody from “My Favorite Things,” the video featured Ari and her six best bitches (the ones she bought matching Tiffany rings) partying in a house flooded with extreme lighting...More »
  
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• The Big Bang Theory Recap: No Noble Nobel

  18-01-2019 05:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  Into every 24-episode sitcom season a smattering of middle installments must fall, and this is as middle-of-the-season as it gets.Yes, more super asymmetry.In what initially appears to be good news, Sheldon and Amy learn via an email they read during an episode of the Fun with Flags podcast (more specifically, Dr. Sheldon Cooper...More »
  
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• Theater Review: On Paris Stages, Gay Artists Look Back

  18-01-2019 05:51 via nytimes.com
  A new theatrical work by Christophe Honoré and an adaptation of a novel by Didier Eribon see prominent French gay artists reclaim their origins with striking honesty.
  
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• Why Little Steven Joined the L.A. Teachers’ Strike

  18-01-2019 05:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  The second largest teachers’ union in America is striking in Los Angeles right now. One of the famous faces on the picket line is Steven Van Zandt a.k.a. Little Steven, he of the Underground Garage. Van Zandt penned an op-ed for Rolling Stone about why the UTLA strike is important...More »
  
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