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• More Salinger Is Coming, Possibly Before 2030!

  01-02-2019 23:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Salinger fans everywhere, rejoice: J.D.’s son Matt has confirmed in a new interview with the Guardian that all of — yes, you read that correctly, ALL OF — Salinger’s unpublished writing will be published at some point, likely over the next decade.As of now, the younger Salinger is busily sifting...More »
  
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• Watch Hilary Duff in Terrifying The Haunting of Sharon Tate Trailer

  01-02-2019 23:10 via feeds.eonline.com
  Hilary Duff plays her most harrowing role yet in The Haunting of Sharon Tate.The 31-year-old Younger star and Lizzie McGuire alum plays the actress, who was murdered at age 26 in 1969 by...
  
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• Murdoch’s News UK takes potshot at BBC radio

  01-02-2019 23:00 via ft.com
  Face-off highlights media mogul’s increasing focus on commercial radio interests
  
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• Amber Ruffin Has a New Seth Meyers–Produced Comedy in the Works

  01-02-2019 22:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  One of our favorite Late Night With Seth Meyers writer-performers has a new television project in the works at NBC. The network announced today that it’s ordered a pilot presentation for a single-cam comedy starring Ruffin titled Village Gazette, which centers on a woman — named Amber, if you’re wondering...More »
  
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• The Carpetbagger: Sundance 2019 Movies That Could Become Oscar Contenders

  01-02-2019 22:52 via nytimes.com
  Could Adam Driver, Awkwafina, and Emma Thompson be among next year’s nominees?
  
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• Maroon 5 and the Super Bowl Halftime Controversy

  01-02-2019 22:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  Along with nearly everything else in modern American life, professional football has seen itself smack-dab in the middle of the culture wars over the last few years — but one aspect of the NFL has been at the center of controversy for much longer than that. Ever since Janet Jackson’s...More »
  
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• Advertising’s big play stalls as Super Bowl prices plateau

  01-02-2019 22:17 via ft.com
  TV commercials for championship match are selling for same price as 2017
  
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• Dev Patel Is The Wedding Guest But the Wedding Is Unfortunately Not Ours

  01-02-2019 22:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  Some personal news: Dev Patel might not be a very good wedding guest, which is bad news for all of us who plan on marrying him! Instead of bringing gifts or rings to the titular wedding in The Wedding Guest, Patel arrives with two guns and a cheap rental car....More »
  
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• Russian Doll Recap: Control Freak

  01-02-2019 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  New elevator (pffft, elevator) pitch: Russian Doll is Groundhog Day meets Lost. And Alan (Charlie Barnett) is a Tailie! Trapped in the same cruel time loop as Nadia, he’s just been out here trying to survive, exactly as she’s been, and this episode is when we get to find out...More »
  
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• Did Lady Gaga Save the Oscars?

  01-02-2019 21:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  As the Oscars continue to lose its freaking mind right before our very eyes, a benevolent goddess has apparently arrived to right at least one of its wrongs: Deadline is reporting that the Academy’s last-minute announcement that all five of the songs nominated for Best Original Song would be performed...More »
  
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• Late Night’s Roast of Roger Stone

  01-02-2019 21:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s true what all the old men say: PC culture has ruined comedy. It used to be that late night was dominated by fat jokes, wife jokes, and fat-wife jokes. And we were grateful! But today, jokes about people’s appearance are relatively off-limits. But when an evil guy dresses weird,...More »
  
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• Which Ex-Socialite Had This Out-of-Touch Quote: Alexis Rose or Tahani Al-Jamil?

  01-02-2019 21:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  The demise of a socialite is presented very differently on The Good Place and Schitt’s Creek, given that one suffers an untimely death via toppled statue, while the other just loses her massive fortune due to reasons beyond her control. Still, both Tahani Al-Jamil (Jameela Jamil) and Alexis Rose (Annie...More »
  
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• Critic’s Notebook: The Sundance Film Festival Comes Through (Again!)

  01-02-2019 20:43 via nytimes.com
  With “The Last Black Man in San Francisco,” “Clemency” and more, this year’s festival had plenty of good and even great movies if not a consensus favorite.
  
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• Velvet Buzzsaw’s Dan Gilroy on Bringing a Buzz Saw to an Art Fight

  01-02-2019 20:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  There are theoretically a whole lot of people whom Dan Gilroy stands to piss off with Velvet Buzzsaw, his art-world horror-satire, which debuts today on Netflix. It’s an outsize takedown of the speculative, hype-fueled market, which happened to premiere at the Sundance Film Festival this past week, a speculative, hype-filled...More »
  
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• Tekashi 6ix9ine Pleads Guilty to 9 Federal Counts

  01-02-2019 20:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  Tekashi 6ix9ine pleaded guilty to nine federal counts in a proceeding last week following his arrest in November on a racketeering rap, and cut a deal to cooperate with the Feds in the hopes of landing a less severe sentence.Information from the proceeding wasn’t posted publicly on the online case...More »
  
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• Kenan Thompson, Chrissy Teigen, and More to Lead NBC Comedy Competition Series

  01-02-2019 20:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  NBC is bringing back Last Comic Standing … kind of. The network announced today that it’s teamed up with the Just For Laughs comedy festival for a comedy competition series titled Bring the Funny, which will include more than just stand-up comedy and boasts a star-studded panel of judges. Comedian...More »
  
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• Review: A Lesbian Romantic Comedy, Sort of, by Way of Bollywood

  01-02-2019 20:00 via nytimes.com
  The romance is pushed to the edges of “Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga” so lessons of tolerance can take center stage.
  
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• Sundance Asks: Could Pete Davidson Be a Movie Star?

  01-02-2019 19:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  Every year the Sundance Film Festival mints a handful of new stars, and the 2019 edition gave us a small fortune. Lulu Wang’s The Farewell showed a slightly more serious side of Awkwafina, the wrestling dramedy Fighting With My Family let Florence Pugh prove she could handle a role worlds...More »
  
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• Can Merrily We Roll Along Finally Find Its Ideal Self?

  01-02-2019 19:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ever since Merrily We Roll Along premiered and then quickly closed on Broadway in 1981, people have been trying to find a way to resurrect Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s showbiz musical. The latest iteration comes from Fiasco, an in-house theater company at the Roundabout, which is staging a new...More »
  
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• Holy Blank: The Long-Lost Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour Returns to TV After 35-year Absence

  01-02-2019 19:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  Throughout much of the 1970s, Match Game and The Hollywood Squares were among the most successful game shows on TV (as well as a steady source of employment for a slew of C-list celebrities). So back in 1983, when NBC decided to combine the two programs into one — called,...More »
  
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• Vice Media to cut 250 jobs amid digital media gloom

  01-02-2019 18:58 via ft.com
  ‘Strategic restructure’ come days after similar moves at BuzzFeed and Huffington Post
  
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• Piercing Is Designed to Get Under Your Skin

  01-02-2019 18:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  Alternately alluring and repellent, Nicolas Pesce’s Piercing is designed to get under your skin. A tribute to Italian giallo movies, it has that genre’s love of texture and color and light, not to mention its fondness for eerily melodic, synth-drenched blasts of music. To those aesthetic properties, Piercing also brings...More »
  
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• Adam Levine ‘Absolutely 100 Percent’ Thought About Decision to Play Super Bowl

  01-02-2019 18:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  Maroon 5 decided against holding a press conference ahead of their Super Bowl halftime show performance this weekend, but front man Adam Levine has given a single preshow interview to Entertainment Tonight where he addressed the controversy surrounding the band’s decision to perform. “No one thought about it more than...More »
  
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• The Carpetbagger: Oscars Rewind: When a Woman Won for Playing a Male Character

  01-02-2019 18:40 via nytimes.com
  Linda Hunt made history in 1984 as the first actress to play a cisgender character of the opposite sex in “The Year of Living Dangerously.”
  
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• Brennan Murphy’s Videos Are Comedy Sorcery

  01-02-2019 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Brennan Murphy is a digital producer and comedian living in Brooklyn. He is currently working on the digital team for Showtime’s Our Cartoon President and creates funny viral videos on the side, which you can check out on YouTube or @brenonade.This week, Murphy spoke with me about watching the news, editing...More »
  
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• Alita: Battle Angel Is Ungainly, Hokey, and … Kinda Charming

  01-02-2019 18:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  The most impressive aspect of Alita: Battle Angel is its cliffhanger ending. The entire film teases a shadowy Big Bad, who is only seen in silhouette and then in the film’s final moments, played by a Surprise Big Name Actor, is alive and well and waiting to be conquered by...More »
  
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• Dusan Makavejev, 86. Eyebrow-Raising Serbian Director, Dies

  01-02-2019 18:14 via nytimes.com
  His films, among them “WR: Mysteries of the Organism,” were full of sex and metaphor. They were celebrated on the festival circuit but also sometimes reviled.
  
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• On the Set of One Day at a Time, Gloria Estefan Is Everyone’s Hero

  01-02-2019 18:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  For two seasons, we’ve heard Gloria Estefan’s deep, raspy tone on One Day at a Time’s salsa theme song, a blessing of the highest Cuban-American order for Norman Lear’s reboot of his ’70s hit show. But on this summer day in Los Angeles, it’s not Estefan belting “This is it!”...More »
  
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• Clive Swift, actor in Keeping Up Appearances, dies aged 82

  01-02-2019 18:10 via theguardian.com
  RSC veteran was best known for starring as the beleaguered husband of Hyacinth Bucket in the BBC sitcom, and also appeared in Doctor WhoActor Clive Swift, who played Hyacinth Bucket’s beleaguered husband Richard in Keeping Up Appearances, has died aged 82, his family has confirmed.A former member of the Royal Shakespeare Company who enjoyed a lengthy career in film and television, Swift was nevertheless best known for his appearance in the BBC sitcom, which ran between 1990 and 1995. Conti
  
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• Arctic Is Grim, But Worth Watching

  01-02-2019 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  Can a movie be both enjoyable and excruciating? Depends if you’re a glutton for punishment, which I’m usually not. But seeing what Mads Mikkelsen goes through in Joe Penna’s Arctic made me feel less prone to complain about the polar vortex. Mikkelsen plays a man named Overgård whose plane has...More »
  
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• Russian Doll Recap: Sweet Surrender

  01-02-2019 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Good morning and welcome back to the fuckpile! In this series that has fast become my most favorite lit-crit play-putty, “fuckpile” is a word with both textual and subtextual meaning. Having miraculously made it to sunup without croaking again/yet, Nadia wakes up on her friends’ blue-velvet chesterfield to once more...More »
  
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• Jussie Smollett Says ‘I’m OK’ After Racist, Homophobic Attack

  01-02-2019 17:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  Jussie Smollett has given his first public statement since being hospitalized after a racist and homophobic attack in Chicago late Monday night. “Let me start by saying that I’m OK,” the Empire actor said in a statement to Essence. “My body is strong but my soul is stronger. More importantly...More »
  
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• Big Mouth Is Bringing You a Special Valentine’s Day Episode Next Week

  01-02-2019 17:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  Nick Kroll’s animated Netflix series Big Mouth might be on hiatus, but thankfully there’s a very special episode in store for you while you’re waiting for the third season to roll around. The streaming platform just announced that it will debut a Valentine’s Day (or, Valentime’s Day?)-themed episode next Friday,...More »
  
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• Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham vs. Idris Elba in ‘Hobbs & Shaw’ Trailer

  01-02-2019 17:17 via nytimes.com
  The ‘Fast & Furious’ spinoff due this summer also stars Vanessa Kirby from “The Crown.”
  
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• True Detective Recap: Everybody on the Road Is Running From Somebody

  01-02-2019 16:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  Editor’s note: This week’s episode premiered early on HBO’s streaming platforms; it will broadcast on HBO at its normal time Sunday, February 3.There comes a point in every season of a television series attempting to tell one long, sustained story when it becomes obvious whether the show has a story...More »
  
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• Facebook: false friends

  01-02-2019 16:22 via ft.com
  Number of ad-generated sales rather than fake accounts are advertisers’ main concern
  
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• Hobbs & Shaw Trailer: The Fast & Furious Spin-Off Is Between The Rock and a Deckard Place

  01-02-2019 16:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  The ever-growing Fast & Furious franchise has gotten so big that it’s spawned a spinoff full of Hollywood’s biggest dudes. Hobbs & Shaw pairs up Dwayne Johnson’s Luke Hobbs and Jason Statham’s Deckard Shaw (who killed Han, though apparently we’re ignoring that) to face Idris Elba’s new superpowered villain, with...More »
  
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• Miss Bala Isn’t Quite the Clunker It’s Been Made Out to Be

  01-02-2019 16:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  The director Catherine Hardwicke (Thirteen, Twilight) and the actress Gina Rodriguez (Jane the Virgin) have done their damnedest to make something honest out of the U.S. version of Gerardo Naranjo’s 2011 Mexican hit, Miss Bala, and the movie is not quite the clunker some reviewers have made it out to...More »
  
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• 'Fiji Water girl' suing company following Golden Globes hostess gig

  01-02-2019 15:54
  Fiji Water says lawsuit by model Kelleth Cuthbert, whose images on the red carpet went viral, is ‘frivolous’ and ‘without merit’Forget Glenn Close. Ignore Sandra Oh. The real breakout star of this year’s Golden Globe awards was – without question – the Fiji Water girl, the hostess who stole attention from A-listers in a series of red carpet snaps.Since then, bottle profferer Kelleth Cuthbert has picked up work promoting dog food in similar style and a wa
  
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• Jay Asher Made a Deal

  01-02-2019 15:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  In April 2017, the leadership of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators received a troubling email. Signed anonymously by seven female members, the note accused Jay Asher, a successful YA novelist who’d recently had his book adapted for a Netflix series, of using SCBWI conferences to lure members...More »
  
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• Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham Battle Idris Elba in Fast & Furious' Hobbs & Shaw Trailer

  01-02-2019 15:34 via feeds.eonline.com
  Daaaaaaamn...That's what people tend to say when they watch Fast & Furious movies, and that's what you're likely say when you see the new trailer for the franchise's...
  
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• Jeremy Hardy: a ferocious talent who radicalised radio comedy

  01-02-2019 14:30 via theguardian.com
  Provocative and political, the stand-up – who has died aged 57 – shook up Radio 4 at a time when it was in danger of resembling a Rotary Club quiz night Although generally excluded from lists of BBC Radio 4 shows of historic longevity, a series presented by the comedian Jeremy Hardy, who has died from cancer at the age of 57, has the distinction of being one of the longest-running successes in the network’s history. Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation ran between 1993 and 2010, f
  
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• How to Get Away With Murder Recap: Burden of Proof

  01-02-2019 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  The only thing I love more than THE LAW on How to Get Away With Murder is THE SCHEMES. I love a scene where Annelise is telling someone that they have to get on the same page. I love someone doing a stealthy Google search and the camera whipping around...More »
  
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• The Big Bang Theory Recap: Break Out the Benadryl, Baby

  01-02-2019 14:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  They help narc on their neighbor, they build illegal additions to their house, and they drug their infants so they can get freaky in their backyard hot tub … let’s hear it for Howard and Bernadette Wolowitz, parents of the year!If only the Wolowitz shenanigans were even interesting enough to...More »
  
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• Russian Doll Recap: Game Theory

  01-02-2019 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Welp, like Nadia tripping down a flight of stairs, my “Russian Doll = Groundhog Day + Donnie Darko” hypothesis has just experienced a swift and grisly death. It was Nadia herself who killed it when she cried out, somewhere between her second and third fatal tumble down the yeshiva stairwell,...More »
  
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• Michaela Coel Isn’t Going to Tweet This

  01-02-2019 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Michaela Coel is napping in the car when I arrive to our interview, but she is immediately and irrepressibly ready to go when we sit down to talk. She’s in New York doing press for Black Earth Rising, Hugo Blick’s limited series that premiered on BBC Two last year and...More »
  
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• 6 Artists on Why They Start Bands, From IUD to Psychic TV

  01-02-2019 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  There’s a long legacy of artists having bands. Mike Kelley, David Wojnarowicz, Yoko Ono, Richard Prince and Jean Michel Basquiat all had them. The artist Genesis P-Orridge started Throbbing Gristle because of what an old man at a pub told her. He was someone she’d regularly chat with and “he’d been...More »
  
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• Grey’s Anatomy Recap: Because of You

  01-02-2019 13:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you haven’t gone and hugged your mom and/or dad after “The Winner Takes It All,” seriously, what are you waiting for? Did you learn nothing? Go now. We’ll wait.Meredith’s voice-over gets to the heart of the episode, and honestly, the biggest lesson our beloved doctors have come to learn...More »
  
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• This week’s best home entertainment: from Surviving R Kelly to Mayans MC

  01-02-2019 12:59 via theguardian.com
  The victims of R Kelly’s alleged abuse get a voice, while Sons of Anarchy spin-off Mayans MC ups the violence
  Already the subject of much discussion in the US, Lifetime’s legacy-ending account of the abuse allegations against the R&B megastar gets its first airing here. Some might find the delivery a little tabloidy, but it’s hard to argue with the affecting testimony of those involved, notably that of backing singer and witness Jovante Cunningham.
  Tuesday 5 February, 10pm,
  
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• Russian Doll review – layer upon layer of dead-good TV comedy

  01-02-2019 12:00 via theguardian.com
  Natasha Lyonne is magnificent as a woman reliving her last 24 hours, Groundhog Day-style, in this endlessly impressive and idiosyncratic show‘I’m sorry for YELLING,” yells the main character, Nadia, in Netflix’s new drama Russian Doll. “But I’m having a very BAD, NEVERENDING day.” And there, roughly, is the series’s premise. After leaving her 36th birthday party in New York’s East Village to search for her missing cat, Nadia is killed by a ca
  
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