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• Pete Davidson Jokes About Rehab and Being "So Lame" in High School

  28-01-2019 23:35 via feeds.eonline.com
  Live from the Sundance Film Festival, it's Pete Davidson.The Saturday Night Live comedian sat down alongside close friend Machine Gun Kelly as well as Jon Cryer, Griffin Gluck and...
  
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• Issa Rae and Robin Thede’s Sketch-Comedy Show Is Headed to HBO

  28-01-2019 23:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  Issa Rae is teaming up with former BET late-night host Robin Thede for a new sketch-comedy series in the works at HBO. The network announced today that it’s given a series order to a half-hour show titled A Black Lady Sketch Show, which will include “narrative sketches performed by a...More »
  
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• Inside Europe: 10 Years of Turmoil review – the road to Brexit

  28-01-2019 23:00
  Despite the notable absence of Theresa May and David Cameron, this impressive feat of analysis lays bare the machinations of Britain and Europe One of the hits of last summer’s Edinburgh fringe was Kieran Hodgson’s ’75, an unlikely comedy set that compared our current European crisis with that of the mid-70s. It was surprisingly soothing, and it made the point that Britain’s relationship with the rest of Europe has always been fraught and divisive. Inside Europe: 10 Years
  
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• A Brief History of Rock Musicians Who Went Electronic

  28-01-2019 22:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  Last year, Stephen Malkmus delivered a new album to his longtime label, Matador. Rather than be stoked about the first Malkmus album in three years, they were instead nonplussed. “They didn’t want to put it out,” Malkmus told the Washington Post. “It was a head-scratcher. Maybe some of my more...More »
  
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• Lindsay Lohan Is in a Movie, a Movie About a Werewolf War

  28-01-2019 22:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  Life comes at you fast. One day, you’re Lindsay Lohan, partying it up in Mykonos. The next day, you’re Lindsay Lohan and you’re in the middle of a power struggle between werewolves and humans. In the trailer for Among the Shadows, LiLo hires an investigator because her husband is [checks...More »
  
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• The ’90s Live! The Alanis Morissette Musical Jagged Little Pill Is Coming to Broadway

  28-01-2019 22:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  And we’re here to remind you that they made a musical around the songs from Alanis Morissette’s album Jagged Little Pill. Today, the musical’s producers announced that after premiering at Boston’s American Repertory Theater last summer, the musical (also titled Jagged Little Pill!) will transfer to Broadway this fall. The...More »
  
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• How Accurate Are the Fake Vulture Headlines in Late Night?

  28-01-2019 22:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  My first night at Sundance served me up a cold lesson, as I was turned away from Friday’s world premiere screening of Late Night just because I got there “late” and it was “full.” This was unfortunate not just because it meant I had to wait one more day to...More »
  
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• Getting Deep with Jenny Slate at Sundance

  28-01-2019 21:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  Approximately four minutes after I walk into Jenny Slate’s Park City hotel suite, we are both weeping. Our tears are likely a result of two things: the fact that we both have altitude sickness and feel like absolute shit, and the fact that talking to the radically self-aware, empathetic Slate...More »
  
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• You Will Not Mispronounce the Word Melancholy in Front of Jake Gyllenhaal!

  28-01-2019 21:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Sundance Film Festival is for seeing indie movies and spotting Robert Redford out in the wild, but it is not for mispronouncing the word melancholy in the presence of Jake Gyllenhaal! When the cast of Velvet Buzzsaw — Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo, Billy Magnussen, Natalia Dyer, and Zawe Ashton —...More »
  
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• Alanis Morissette’s ‘Jagged Little Pill’ Musical Heads to Broadway

  28-01-2019 21:30 via nytimes.com
  The show, which uses Ms. Morissette’s song catalog to tackle sexual violence and addiction, had a sold-out run in Massachusetts last year.
  
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• An Appraisal: Swept Up in the Whirlwind Known as Michel Legrand

  28-01-2019 21:28 via nytimes.com
  The singer Melissa Errico recalls the mix of wild energy and plaintive emotion that made the composer so enthralling to be around.
  
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• Velvet Buzzsaw’s Art-World Evisceration Is Pleasantly Perverse

  28-01-2019 21:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  Velvet Buzzsaw is perhaps the first-ever art-world horror satire, but it has the feeling of a bawdy night at a mystery dinner or an anti-Establishment mummers play — and I mean this in the most complimentary way possible. Its colorful, uniformly narcissistic ensemble enter and exit in fabulous outfits as...More »
  
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• Reporter’s Notebook: ‘DAU’ Has Finally Opened in Paris. Does It Live Up to the Hype?

  28-01-2019 20:51 via nytimes.com
  The immersive experience, with its frequent problems yet mounting mystique, is beginning to court comparisons with the Fyre Festival.
  
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• Terry Crews and Other Sexual Violence Survivors Narrate New ‘Me Too’ Videos

  28-01-2019 20:46 via nytimes.com
  The advocacy group at the front of the #metoo movement released four animated public service videos featuring the voices of people victimized by sexual misconduct.
  
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• Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Recap: Ill-Gotten Gains

  28-01-2019 20:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  Perhaps unsurprisingly for a show with a heavily female cast and crew, a lot of Kimmy Schmidt is about coping with gatekeepers. Rich Upper East Side moms, sneering MRAs, bad boyfriends, worse husbands, snarky co-eds, the hydra-headed rejection machine that is the entertainment industry — Kimmy and friends hear a...More »
  
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• Rumble Shines a Light on Native American Rockers

  28-01-2019 20:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  In 1988, Stevie Salas was only three years removed from gigging around the San Diego area with his high-school band, This Kids, when he realized his rock-and-roll fantasy. At 23, he joined his next band, playing guitar on the biggest of stages behind Rod Stewart. The Out of Order Tour...More »
  
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• It’s Alive, It’s Aliiiiiiive! Universal’s Dark Universe Is Resurrected, Sort of

  28-01-2019 19:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  Universal giveth, Universal taketh away, and Universal giveth again, but with a different name and a different creative direction. Per Variety, the studio is once again planning a reboot of its catalogue of monster properties: Leigh Whannell will direct an Invisible Man movie, to be produced by Jason Blum and...More »
  
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• Rent: Live Was the Least-Watched Live TV Musical

  28-01-2019 19:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  Three million five hundred seventy-four thousand viewers … is how Nielsen measured Sunday’s night’s not-live-after-all staging of Rent on Fox, a number unlikely to have execs at the network singing with joy this morning. While these are preliminary numbers and will go up once delayed viewing is tallied, as of...More »
  
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• Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Recap: Nevada Pizza

  28-01-2019 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  The question at the heart of Kimmy Schmidt has always been whether people can eventually recover from trauma and move on with their lives —and its answer has mostly been yes. But that tends to surface another question: Can the people who perpetuate the trauma ever change? To that, the...More »
  
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• What the SAG Results Tell Us About the Oscar Race

  28-01-2019 19:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  At Sunday night’s Screen Actors Guild Awards, the acting community finally got its chance to weigh in on this year’s Oscar race. Thanks to their significant overlap with the largest branch of the Academy, the SAGs are considered one of the stronger Oscar precursors, though they’re not immune from making...More »
  
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• The Death of Dick Long Is a Delirious Symphony of Stupidity

  28-01-2019 18:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  Three years ago, Daniel Scheinert and his directing partner Daniel Kwan brought to Sundance Swiss Army Man, one of the strangest things the festival had ever seen. (To jog your memory, that was the melancholy tone poem where suicidal castaway Paul Dano used flatulent carcass Daniel Radcliffe as a fart–Jet...More »
  
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• ‘Mary Poppins,’ and a Nanny’s Shameful Flirting With Blackface

  28-01-2019 18:32 via nytimes.com
  The racial caricatures of the original P.L. Travers novels find disturbing echoes in the new movie and its beloved 1964 forerunner.
  
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• Review: In ‘Joan,’ a Photographer Tries to Focus Her Past

  28-01-2019 18:26 via nytimes.com
  Stephen Belber’s time-traveling drama, starring Johanna Day, connects the dots of woman’s conflicted existence during six decades.
  
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• Glenn Close Feels Like She’s Fulfilling Her Aunt’s Acting Dream

  28-01-2019 18:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  Glenn Close is the front-runner in the Best Actress Oscar race for playing a wife whose writing talent is overlooked in favor of her award-winning husband’s. After picking up a SAG award for her role in The Wife on Sunday, Close spoke in the press room about what the movie,...More »
  
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• RuPaul’s Drag Race: All Stars 4, Episode 7: We Have Thoughts

  28-01-2019 18:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  The dream team has returned! That’s right, your illustrious (but very busy) What the Tuck co-hosts Joel Kim Booster and Nicole Byer have reunited once again to discuss this week’s “Queens of Clubs” — and they’ve brought guest Drag Race commentator Brendan Scannell (UCB, Heathers, Bonding) with them! Did this...More »
  
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• The Dude imbibes – Jeff Bridges returns for Super Bowl beer commercial

  28-01-2019 17:45
  Following speculation about a return of Bridges’ character from The Big Lebowski, the actor has tweeted an advert for Stella ArtoisAfter a much-discussed social media post suggesting a comeback for the Dude, his fondly-remembered character from The Big Lebowski, Jeff Bridges has revealed the details of the Dude’s return: a beer commercial.On Thursday Bridges had tweeted a 15-second clip captioned: “Can’t be living in the past, man. Stay tuned.” It triggered an avala
  
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• Miss Her? Margot Robbie Shares First Look at Harley Quinn in Birds of Prey

  28-01-2019 17:40 via feeds.eonline.com
  She's back.
  Of course, we're talking about Margot Robbie as the one and only Harley Quinn. More than two years after the Oscar nominee's silver screen debut as the DC Comics...
  
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• Julie Klausner’s Fight for Gender Equality Through Vagina Jokes

  28-01-2019 17:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  Over the course of a three-season run on Hulu, Difficult People featured hundreds, if not thousands of jokes. Jokes about celebrities, jokes about New York, jokes about relationships, jokes about narcissist mothers. Hell, probably at least half of them were about Kevin Spacey. It’s because the show’s creator, Julie Klausner,...More »
  
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• Moon and Me: the new baby TV show from the genius behind Teletubbies

  28-01-2019 17:10
  He’s been accused of ‘dumbing down’ toddlers, but Andrew Davenport is still the top hit-maker of preschool TV – and the name Pepi Nana is about to become very familiar to every parent in the world
  We’ve not even started watching Moon and Me, the new CBeebies show by Teletubbies creator Andrew Davenport, and it’s already a hit in our house.“I need that one! I need that one!” pleads my two-year-old daughter, pointing at a tiny thumbnail image of the
  
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• The Carpetbagger: How the SAG Awards Clarify and Confuse the Oscar Race

  28-01-2019 17:01 via nytimes.com
  Some front-runners appear locked, especially in the best acting competitions, while a few categories remain fluid.
  
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• Why Rent: Live Wasn’t Actually Live

  28-01-2019 16:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  On Sunday night, Fox had promised to air a live staging of Rent, but after a cast member was injured, the network decided to air footage from a dress rehearsal instead, up until the closing moments of the show. Brennin Hunt, the former X-Factor contestant and country singer who was...More »
  
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• The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Fight Night

  28-01-2019 16:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  Maybe it’s because I’ve spent the last four hours watching WWE with my boyfriend, but this episode felt like an emotional Royal Rumble. (If you’re unfamiliar, the Royal Rumble is a WWE match in which 30 wresters enter the ring — one every 90 seconds — and are eliminated by...More »
  
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• Did You Catch All the Changes In Rent: Live?

  28-01-2019 15:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  Creators and producers for Rent: Live touted the Fox production in the lead-up to its January 27 premiere as the Rent we love on “steroids,” while also clarifying that edits would be made to fit network standards and cut for length. The claims proved more or less true with last...More »
  
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• The Upper East Side Gets a Rap Tribute on SNL Thanks to Leslie Jones

  28-01-2019 15:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  During James McAvoy’s episode of SNL over the weekend, a misunderstood Manhattan neighborhood got some love thanks to Leslie Jones when she starred in a rap tribute to the place she currently calls home. “In my life I’ve lived in some of the hardest neighborhoods in America: Compton, Spanish Harlem,...More »
  
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• ‘Rent Live’ Review: How Do You Measure a Show You Were Never Meant to See?

  28-01-2019 15:36 via nytimes.com
  Fox’s TV production of the hit musical hardly went off as planned. What to make of this barely live show?
  
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• Michael Che Remembers Late Comedian Kevin Barnett on Weekend Update

  28-01-2019 15:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  This weekend, Michael Che memorialized the late writer and comedian Kevin Barnett with a shout-out on Saturday Night Live. “For Weekend Update, I’m Bird Luger,” he signed off, referencing the nickname the Rel co-creator had earned co-hosting the Round Table of Gentlemen podcast, on which Che was a frequent guest.The...More »
  
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• Shipwrecked is back – and it's the Love Island/Fyre festival mashup you need

  28-01-2019 15:16
  The first true reality show has reinvented itself. Frankly, there’s never been a more apt moment to throw a bunch of attractive nitwits into a tropical hellscape
  The return of Shipwrecked has come at the perfect time. Thanks to all the Fyre festival documentaries, there has never been a more apt moment to throw a bunch of gormlessly attractive nimrods into a tropical hellscape and make them fight each other for basic essentials. If producers were smart, they would re-edit tonight’s o
  
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• Rent: Live Should Have Made TV History. Instead, It Wasn’t Even Live.

  28-01-2019 14:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  Rent: Live, a mostly prerecorded telecast cobbled together in the wake of cast member Brennin Hunt’s broken foot, should have been called Rent: Live-ish. I can’t remember the last time a live TV event on a major broadcast network made so many elementally wrongheaded decisions in response to a sudden,...More »
  
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• How even Ellen got bored of The Ellen Degeneres Show

  28-01-2019 14:00
  The comic’s comeback as a talkshow host may have been triumphant, but season upon season of feelgood memes and dancing have come at a costWhen The Ellen DeGeneres Show premiered in 2003, it was to low expectations. At the time, anyone who’d ever been on TV was trying to rebrand as a talkshow host and, for the most part, not succeeding (Sharon Osbourne, John McEnroe, Caroline Rhea – AKA Aunt Hilda from Sabrina the Teenage Witch).A standup comedian-turned-actor, DeGeneres had a s
  
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• Michael Jackson's family denounces documentary as 'public lynching'

  28-01-2019 13:46
  Family said they are ‘furious’ Leaving Neverland’s accusers, Wade Robson and James Safechuck, are receiving renwed attentionMichael Jackson’s family members said on Monday they are “furious” that two men who accuse him of sexually abusing them as boys have received renewed attention because of a new documentary about them. Related: 'Secrets will eat you up' – inside the shocking Michael Jackson documentaryContinue reading...
  
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• Monday’s best TV: Steph & Dom: Can Cannabis Save Our Son? Cold Feet

  28-01-2019 12:23
  The Gogglebox favourites explore treatments for their son’s autism and epilepsy, while for light relief, the Cold Feet families head to a festival Continue reading...
  
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• Black Panther reigns at SAG awards; best of winning speeches – video

  28-01-2019 11:17
  Black Panther won the top film award at the 25th Screen Actors Guild awards in Los Angeles on Sunday, putting it in strong contention for an Oscars win next month. Emily Blunt scooped the award for best female supporting actor in the film section for her role in A Quiet Place, while Mahershala Ali took home the award for best male supporting actor for his performance in Green Book. In the TV categories, Sandra Oh’s much-lauded performance in Killing Eve netted her the award for best f
  
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• Huawei will struggle to soothe western fears

  28-01-2019 11:00 via ft.com
  Suspicions are as much about China’s system as about the company itself
  
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• The Passage review — cult vampire novel loses bite on small screen

  28-01-2019 09:00
  A troubled adaptation of Justin Cronin’s much-loved horror doesn’t transcend its apocalyptic vampire conceits, but its use of comfortable TV tropes might secure viewers anywayYou learn a lot in the first five minutes of The Passage: a 250-year-old man is caged in the Bolivian highlands, the word “vampire” won’t be used but they exist, “death would’ve been better” for anyone bitten by one, there’s a global bird flu pandemic and while the story
  
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