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• Bryan Singer Will Still Direct Red Sonja Despite New Allegations of Sexual Abuse and Molestation

  24-01-2019 23:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  On Wednesday morning, The Atlantic published an extensive report on the molestation and sexual abuse allegations against Bryan Singer, including interviews with four new accusers, but the reporting has not affected Singer’s job directing the film Red Sonja. Millennium Films, which hired Singer to direct a reboot of the 1985...More »
  
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• The Oscars Might Only Let Two Original Song Nominees Perform During the Telecast

  24-01-2019 23:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  Because apparently the Oscars need to be even shorter, only two of the five Academy Award–nominated original songs will be performed live during the telecast. Per Variety, multiple sources say that Kendrick Lamar and SZA’s Black Panther song “All the Stars” and Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper’s Star Is Born...More »
  
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• This Week in Rap: YNW Melly’s Star Turn, Future’s Breakneck The WIZRD, and More

  24-01-2019 23:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  Every week, Vulture runs through the best, most interesting, and sometimes most confusing rap releases. In this installment: Future’s dense, often brilliant The WIZRD, a star turn from YNW Melly, Aesop Rock’s collaboration with Black Moth Super Rainbow’s Tobacco, and Blockhead’s latest beautifully produced compilation.Future, Future Hndrxx Presents: The WIZRDIt’s strange to...More »
  
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• James Blake, Future, and the Power of Voice

  24-01-2019 23:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  It takes more than deep breaths and steady pitch to be a great singer. Karaoke and open-mic nights brim with vocalists who have a strong handle on both, and they’re a marvel to watch. But the voices that make it into the national consciousness are vehicles for peculiar tones and...More »
  
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• That Female-Fronted Fast and the Furious Spinoff Now Has Writers, and It Better Star Letty

  24-01-2019 22:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Fast and the Furious franchise is set to expand this year with the dangerously sexy Hobbs & Shaw (Idris! Statham! The Rock!), and Vin Diesel just confirmed that development is officially underway on a female-fronted chapter in the fastest of all movie universes. The star and producer posted to...More »
  
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• This Chris Hardwick Impersonation Is Brutal

  24-01-2019 22:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you’re not familiar with New York–based comedian Brett Davis, allow the below clips to serve as your official introduction. Davis, who hosts The Podcast for Laundry as well as the public-access show The Special Without Brett Davis, has built an arsenal of recurring characters and impersonations over the years,...More »
  
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• This Week in True-Crime Podcasts: Elizabeth Holmes, Conan O’Brien, and More

  24-01-2019 21:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  The true-crime podcast universe is ever expanding. We’re here to make it a bit smaller, a bit more manageable. There are a lot of great shows and each has a lot of great episodes, so we want to highlight the exceptional, the noteworthy. Each week, our crack team of podcast enthusiasts and...More »
  
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• Star Trek Legend Jonathan Frakes on Discovery, ‘Movie Jail,’ and Life As an Actor’s Director

  24-01-2019 21:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  On Star Trek: The Next Generation, Jonathan Frakes always found himself in some extraordinary crisis: imprisoned in an alien mental hospital or duplicated in a malfunctioning transporter, kidnapped by mercenaries or violated by a telepathic being. When I called Frakes one morning recently, he was navigating a crisis of a...More »
  
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• Rami Malek on ‘Bohemian Rhapsody,’ Queen and Bryan Singer

  24-01-2019 21:36 via nytimes.com
  With his first Oscar nomination, for best actor, the star of the Freddie Mercury biopic looks back on a role he doesn’t want to leave behind.
  
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• Senate committee issues subpoena for Michael Cohen

  24-01-2019 21:07 via ft.com
  Panel takes action after ex-Trump lawyer and fixer postpones House appearance
  
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• DMX to Be Released From Jail Tomorrow

  24-01-2019 21:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  DMX is getting out of federal lockup first thing Friday morning, his lawyer told Vulture.The rapper, whose legal name is Earl Simmons, had been sentenced to one year behind bars in March 2018 for tax fraud after pleading guilty the fall prior.He was jailed in late January 2018, however, after...More »
  
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• Hundreds of Punks Hit the Desert. The Modern Music Festival Was Born.

  24-01-2019 21:04 via nytimes.com
  From 1983 to 1985, Stuart Swezey organized a series of guerrilla punk shows in Southern California. His new film, “Desolation Center,” tells their story.
  
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• Jim Gaffigan Will Star in Amazon’s First-Ever Stand-up Special

  24-01-2019 20:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  Amazon is getting into the stand-up business, and it’s enlisted Jim Gaffigan to kick off the new venture. The streaming network announced today that Gaffigan’s next special, titled Quality Time, will debut on Amazon Prime Video sometime later this year. Quality Time will mark Amazon’s first-ever original stand-up comedy special...More »
  
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• The Magic Mike Musical Will Strip in Boston on the Way Toward Broadway

  24-01-2019 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  The movie-to-musical stage adaptations just keep, uh, coming. Today, the producers of the long-gestating Magic Mike musical — including Channing Tatum, Steven Soderbergh, Gregory Jacobs, Nick Wechsler, Reid Carolin, and Peter Kiernan — announced that the musical will premiere at Boston’s Emerson Colonial Theatre this fall, aiming to eventually transfer...More »
  
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• Sylvia Plath’s ‘New’ Story Shows Us the Career That Might Have Been

  24-01-2019 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Few American authors are better known and documented, and yet as little understood, as Sylvia Plath, whose writing has long outlived her suicide of 56 years ago. The perception of a writer overshadowed by her own dark legend — that vision of the abandoned woman in despair — may help...More »
  
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• ‘Never Look Away’ Review: A Lush Adventure in Sex, Politics and Painting

  24-01-2019 20:01 via nytimes.com
  This film, based on the life of Gerhard Richter, follows a German artist from the Nazi era to the 1960s.
  
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• Mo’Nique Regrets Nothing

  24-01-2019 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Last January, comedian and actor Mo’Nique posted a video on her Instagram urging her fans to join her in boycotting Netflix due to what she alleged was gender and racial bias. In the video, Mo’Nique explained that Netflix offered her $500,000 for her own stand-up special, then cited Amy Schumer’s...More »
  
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• How to Survive Having an Internet-Famous Relative

  24-01-2019 19:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s 2019, we’re all helplessly addicted to our phones, and mainstream pop-culture is finally starting to catch up. From influencer satire Ingrid Goes West to horror films like Unfriended, in the past few years, shows and movies are finally reflecting the new technology-centric, social-media-dominated world we’re living in. TV’s latest...More »
  
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• Digital media: buzz off

  24-01-2019 19:20 via ft.com
  The wider the audience, the smaller the revenue opportunity
  
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• You and The Magicians Showrunner Sera Gamble Is Having One Hell of a Season

  24-01-2019 19:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s been quite a winter for Sera Gamble, the co-creator of both Syfy’s The Magicians and the breakout hit series You, a dark romantic thriller that began on Lifetime and has since erupted on Netflix. In a conversation ahead of this week’s Magicians premiere, Gamble spoke to Vulture about the...More »
  
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• How Death, Dismemberment, and Jesus Helped ‘Baby Shark’ Become a Hit

  24-01-2019 19:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you’ve spent any time around children in the last five years, you’ve almost certainly heard “Baby Shark.” Maybe you’ve even learned the viral hit’s accompanying choreography, with its chomping jaws, illustrating the tale of the titular shark and its family as they search for prey. Then, after futilely trying...More »
  
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• Vampire Weekend Return With an Album Title Catering Specifically to Steve Martin

  24-01-2019 19:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  Vampire Weekend, that band you dug way too much in college and have since kept around for nostalgic purposes, are actually back this time. After a six-year semi-hiatus that partially got extended due to co-founder Rostam Batmanglij leaving the band in early 2016, VW have announced their fourth album, due...More »
  
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• The Best Part of Vanity Fair’s Hollywood Issue Cover Is All the Dancing

  24-01-2019 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Vanity Fair’s Hollywood Issue dropped Thursday morning, celebrating 25 years of the magazine’s sprawling, three-panel cover image featuring the hottest stars of the day. On this year’s cover: Chadwick Boseman, Saoirse Ronan, Timothée Chalamet, Nicholas Hoult, Rami Malek, Regina King, Yalitza Aparicio, John David Washington, Henry Golding, Elizabeth Debicki, and...More »
  
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• This Week in Comedy Podcasts: Jason Mantzoukas on Reply All

  24-01-2019 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The comedy podcast universe is ever-expanding, not unlike the universe universe. We’re here to make it a bit smaller, a bit more manageable. There are a lot of great shows and each one has a lot of great episodes, so we want to highlight the exceptional, the noteworthy. Each week,...More »
  
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• ‘Magic Mike’ Heads for the Stage, as a Broadway-Bound Musical Starting in Boston

  24-01-2019 19:00 via nytimes.com
  The musical will be a prequel to the film, telling the story of how Mike Lane became a stripper.
  
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• Matthew McConaughey Doesn't Remember Going Full Frontal in Serenity

  24-01-2019 18:45 via feeds.eonline.com
  Matthew McConaughey wasn't aware that he went full frontal for his new movie.The Oscar winner appeared on The Late Show on Wednesday night, where he talked to host Stephen Colbert...
  
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• Broad City’s 40 Best Running Gags

  24-01-2019 18:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you go back and watch every episode of Broad City, you’ll quickly notice that Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer have left a trail of hilarious little Easter eggs across all five seasons of the Comedy Central series. While it’s not episodic in the typical sense of the word, Broad...More »
  
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• A Timeline of John Mulaney and Pete Davidson’s Blossoming Bromance

  24-01-2019 17:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  This is the story of two nice comedy boys, or rather, two nice comedy boys who found each other at just the right time: John Mulaney and Pete Davidson, who, on the surface, with their 11-year age difference, have absolutely nothing in common. One’s a clean-cut former SNL writer who...More »
  
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• Netflix setting bad example for China’s video streamers

  24-01-2019 17:21 via ft.com
  Losses widen amid content arms race but platforms will struggle to retain subscribers
  
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• More F Is for Family Is in the Works at Netflix

  24-01-2019 17:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  Just a few months after Bill Burr and Michael Price’s animated Netflix comedy F Is for Family debuted its third season, a fourth one has been officially locked in. Netflix confirmed today that it has handed out a ten-episode renewal for the series, which will debut sometime next year. Burr...More »
  
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• The Other Two Is the Year’s First Great New Comedy

  24-01-2019 17:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  Entertainment industry satire has been done on TV, and it’s been done often. Just recently, Better Things, BoJack Horseman, Love, Barry, UnREAL, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Difficult People, and Episodes have smartly skewered the hypocrisy of the entertainment/media business and/or the self-involved trappings of celebrity. It is not a new subject...More »
  
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• Kristen Bell Was Told How The Good Place Will End But Has Since Forgot

  24-01-2019 17:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  As the star of The Good Place, Kristen Bell gets special privileges, like the chance to know about major twists in advance, such as the big reveal at the end of season one. But as a very busy person who also has a lot on her mind, Kristen Bell also...More »
  
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• Conversations With A Killer: the Ted Bundy Tapes review - harrowing, but pointless

  24-01-2019 17:00
  Netflix’s true-crime documentary delves deep into the archives, but emerges with nothing new on the infamous serial killer. The most chilling thing here is how unchilling it is I wonder how many times over the last 40 years someone eyed the cache of tapes containing 100 hours of interviews with Ted Bundy – conducted by the journalist Stephen G Michaud after Bundy claimed wrongful conviction and offered his story in return for a re-examination of his case – before the decision w
  
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• David Cross’s New Comedy Special Oh, Come On Debuts in May

  24-01-2019 16:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  David Cross has a new comedy special coming out this year — but don’t look for it at one of the typical outlets like Netflix, HBO, or Comedy Central. Production company Comedy Dynamics announced today that it will release Cross’s new stand-up special, titled Oh, Come On, on Friday, May...More »
  
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• Critic’s Pick: Review: Revisiting a Film from Ida Lupino, Hollywood Star Turned Director

  24-01-2019 16:20 via nytimes.com
  “Never Fear,” a 1949 movie directed by Lupino that has been superbly restored, tells the story of a dancer felled by polio.
  
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• ‘Jihadists’ Review: Interviewing, but Not Challenging, Islamic Extremists

  24-01-2019 15:43 via nytimes.com
  In this French documentary, extremists in Mali, Tunisia and Mauritania preach to the camera. If its directors offered any pushback, it doesn’t show.
  
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• London Theater Reviews: Cate Blanchett’s S-and-M Play Is More Tiresome Than Titillating

  24-01-2019 15:18 via nytimes.com
  “When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other” opened at London’s National Theater on a wave of controversy and hype. But it’s pretty boring, our critic writes.
  
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• Chris Kelly and Sarah Schneider on The Other Two, a ‘Show About Family That Is Not a Family Show’

  24-01-2019 15:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  As former head writers on Saturday Night Live, Chris Kelly and Sarah Schneider made a name for themselves with a distinct series of sketches like “The Beygency,” “Back Home Ballers,” and “(Do It on My) Twin Bed” that lived in and poked fun at the day-to-day chaos that is pop...More »
  
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• Tired of Reading Gory Thrillers? Try Crime-Solving Cats.

  24-01-2019 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The day after my daughter was born, she was whisked off to the NICU after nurses noticed a funny little wheeze every time she took a breath. Her (blessedly) quick birth had left her with fluid in her lungs, something a few days of oxygen support would clear up. But...More »
  
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