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• ‘Cold Pursuit’ Review: Liam Neeson Is a Killer Snowplow Driver

  05-02-2019 23:15 via nytimes.com
  Neeson’s latest sad-dad winter action thriller feels familiar and also different.
  
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• Disney’s theme park and broadcast divisions offset film weakness

  05-02-2019 22:53 via ft.com
  Profits fall as company invests in streaming service
  
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• The Bachelor’s Kirpa Sudick Reveals the Extremely ‘Basic’ Way She Hurt Her Chin

  05-02-2019 22:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  Forget Colton jumping the fence: The mystery of this week’s episode of The Bachelor came thanks to Kirpa Sudick, the delightful 26-year-old dental hygienist who appeared from her very first scene in Thailand with a noticeable bandage stuck on her chin. Annoyingly, the explanation for Kirpa’s injury was never revealed...More »
  
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• How The Matrix Got Made

  05-02-2019 21:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  Though made for a (relatively) big budget by a major studio and starring a recognizable name, The Matrix arrived as an unknown quantity in the spring of 1999. Would critics get it? Would audiences even show up? The answers were yes (mostly) and yes (decidedly). What first caught filmgoers’ attention...More »
  
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• Crypto exchange boss’s death locks away $150m

  05-02-2019 21:03 via ft.com
  QuadrigaCX founder was the only person with vital passwords
  
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• In FX’s Latest War With Netflix, Who’s Right and Who’s Wrong?

  05-02-2019 20:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  FX Networks chief John Landgraf is once again lashing out at Netflix, this time taking issue with the streaming giant’s decision to self-report viewership numbers for a handful of titles, including Sex Education and You. Appearing in front of journalists at the TV Critics Association winter press tour in Pasadena...More »
  
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• Charles Busch’s New Phase Isn’t Drag. It’s Green Paisley.

  05-02-2019 20:39 via nytimes.com
  Busch’s latest cabaret show, “Native New Yorker,” brings a change of sartorial style and the music of the 1970s to Feinstein’s/54 Below.
  
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• ABC Renews Modern Family for an 11th and Final Season

  05-02-2019 20:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  Long-running ABC comedy Modern Family is nearing its end. At the Television Critics Association today, ABC announced that it had renewed the multiple-Emmy-winning, Christopher Lloyd and Steven Levitan–created series for an 11th season, which will also serve as its final season on the network. The show, which debuted back in...More »
  
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• Billy Eichner’s Romantic Comedy Is Coming, You Gays

  05-02-2019 20:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  Billy Eichner is making a romantic comedy with a high-concept, deeply-unrelatable premise: “two men who have commitment problems and are attempting a relationship.” Never heard of gay men with commitment problems, no sir. Anyway, according to Deadline, Eichner is writing and starring in the untitled comedy, which Neighbors’s Nick Stoller...More »
  
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• The Rise and Fall and Rise of the Backstreet Boys

  05-02-2019 20:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  Pop fandom can be warfare. Rivalries and chart battles require you to pick a side, to “get off the fence” and throw your support behind a winner. These wars have been raging for decades. In the ’60s, it was the Beatles versus the Stones. In the ’70s, it was punk...More »
  
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• Leslye Headland on Russian Doll, Her Harvey Weinstein Play, and Why New York Is a ‘Graveyard’

  05-02-2019 20:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  The story behind Russian Doll largely comes from the life of star and co-creator Natasha Lyonne, who’s said that its Groundhog Day premise and New York sensibility are adapted from her life as an artist and addict. But when Lyonne and co-creator Amy Poehler began developing that idea into a...More »
  
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• PEN15 Is an Irresistible Millennial Coming-of-age Series

  05-02-2019 19:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  The first time I watched Big Mouth, I thought, Okay, this is the only way to make a truly frank, no-holds-barred TV show about middle schoolers.But it turns out that there is another, non-animated approach that also works. It’s the one taken by Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle in PEN15,...More »
  
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• The Wu-Tang Clan Looks Back on 25 Years

  05-02-2019 19:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Yo, can you get some vegetarian tacos for the crib?” Ghostface Killah asked a helper. He was wearing a bright-yellow puffer jacket with a yellow faux-fur-trimmed hoodie that made him stand out even more than he already stands out, oozing badassery wherever he goes.The Staten Island band of brothers had...More »
  
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• 7 New Books You Should Read This February

  05-02-2019 19:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  Each month, Boris Kachka offers nonfiction and fiction book recommendations. You should read as many of them as possible. See his picks from last month and next month....More »
  
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• BBC and Discovery to pool wildlife programming

  05-02-2019 18:58 via ft.com
  Subscription service to cash in on popular natural history output
  
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• Amber Ruffin on Prepping for Drunk History and Why She Loves Her Job

  05-02-2019 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Since 2014, Amber Ruffin has been bringing her extremely specific energy to Late Night With Seth Meyers. Nobody mixes goofy with angry in quite the same way. Especially since Trump was elected, Ruffin has often been the voice of “Shit has been terrible, where have you been?” on Late Night....More »
  
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• Buttocks, sponges and snogging: are British chatshows sexist – or just smutty?

  05-02-2019 18:03 via theguardian.com
  Maureen Lipman says women now have to tell their ‘juiciest genitalia stories’ on TV. She has a point: shows such as Graham Norton are full of childish innuendo‘Remember the days when the guest was the important person in the chatshow?” asks Maureen Lipman in this week’s Radio Times. If getting you to feel sorry for celebrities on sofas feels like a tough sell, at least hear her out: English actors now have to tell their “juiciest genitalia stories … cho
  
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• Green Book Is the ‘Best Movie for Grownups’ of 2018, According to the AARP

  05-02-2019 17:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  Last year, our Mark Harris asked a pressing question: “Who was Green Book for?” And last night, at its 18th annual “Movies for Grownups Awards,” the AARP answered: It’s for grown-ups, silly! The magazine awarded Peter Farrelly’s movie the top prize, anointing it the “Best Movie for Grownups” of 2018.The...More »
  
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• Russian Doll, But Only the Death Scenes

  05-02-2019 17:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  If Nadia Vulvokov has a life motto (scratch that: death motto), it might be, “Live fast, die often.” Inexplicably stuck in a purgatory-like time loop — she gets killed on the reg, only to “reset” in her friend’s bathroom, alive and intact — Russian Doll’s irascible antiheroine (played with great...More »
  
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• Frank Ocean Teases New Song With SZA, Kendrick, Andre 3000

  05-02-2019 17:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  Gone are the days of being on call 24/7, 365 in the Olympic sport formerly known as Frank Ocean Watch. Having mercy on our souls and schedules, our elusive prince has given a rare warning that new music is imminent. Ocean just shared a Tumblr post teasing a new song...More »
  
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• Bestselling author of The Woman in the Window 'lied about having cancer'

  05-02-2019 17:39
  Investigation by the New Yorker finds that Dan Mallory, who writes as AJ Finn, repeatedly fabricated serious illnessDan Mallory, author of the bestselling thriller The Woman in the Window under the pseudonym AJ Finn, has admitted to lying about having brain cancer for years, after a lengthy New Yorker profile accused him of a long history of falsehoods around his professional history and health.Mallory made headlines in 2016 when his identity as a book editor was revealed during a heated auction
  
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• How It Feels to Publish Your Wife’s Memoir About Dying

  05-02-2019 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  When Julie Yip-Williams was a few months old, her parents almost had her murdered. She was born in war-torn Vietnam with blinding cataracts, and her grandmother insisted that Julie be taken to an herbalist who would feed her a poisonous tincture, thus removing the burden of a helpless girl. But...More »
  
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• The 2019 Oscars Class Photo Is Here: See the Star-Studded Pics From Years Past

  05-02-2019 17:10 via feeds.eonline.com
  While the 2019 Oscars are still a few weeks away, the nominees kicked off the celebrations early on Monday with the annual luncheon at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles. As per tradition, this...
  
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• Best Picture Tournament: Which Oscar Winner From the Past 50 Years Is Your Favorite Film?

  05-02-2019 17:00 via feeds.eonline.com
  The countdown to the 91st Academy Awards has begun!Now that it's February we are only weeks away from the biggest award show of the year with the 2019 Oscars airing on Feb. 24 on...
  
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• Liam Neeson says he is not a racist in wake of rape comments

  05-02-2019 16:36
  The actor tells US TV he was ‘trying to stand up for my friend’ but now thinks his response was ‘horrible’Liam Neeson has denied he is a racist in an interview on US television, saying that he had grown up surrounded by bigotry during the Troubles in Northern Ireland.Neeson sparked outrage in a newspaper interview in which he said that, as a young man, he had wanted to kill a black person after finding out someone close to him had been the victim of rape. Related: Liam Ne
  
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• Just Wanted To Take Another Look At You, 2019 Oscars Class Photo

  05-02-2019 16:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  For better or for worse, the Oscars are only 19 days away! On Monday, many of this year’s nominees gathered for the annual Nominees Luncheon at the Beverly Hilton ballroom, where wannabe winners mingle with other wannabe winners: Lady Gaga was seated at a table with Marvel Studios president Kevin...More »
  
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• Ashleigh Murray Will Suddenly Become a 20-Something Josie in the Riverdale Spinoff Pilot

  05-02-2019 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  After giving up on finding anything to do with Josie aside from singing odd Cole Porter covers, Riverdale is trying to send her off to her own show as a grown-up version of herself. According to Variety, Ashleigh Murray, who plays Josie (whose Pussycats have pretty much disappeared from the...More »
  
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• Celebrity Big Brother Recap: Et Tu, Tamar?

  05-02-2019 15:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  In Big Brother, as sometimes in life, there can be no greater liability than skill. It breeds jealousy in allies and in adversaries fear, and the greater the display, the more intense the feelings it arouses in consequence. This is the crisis at the heart of all Big Brother strategy....More »
  
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• How to Train Your Dragon soars over Green Book at UK box office

  05-02-2019 15:50
  Escape Room breaks into Top 10 ahead of Oscar hopefuls Melissa McCarthy and Richard E Grant in Can You Ever Forgive Me?No film opened at UK cinemas above £3.5m in January, but now the first of the year’s blockbusters has arrived: How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World. The final film in the DreamWorks Animation trilogy kicked off with £5.32m from 556 venues. Related: How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World review – running out of puffRelated: Green Book review &nda
  
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• The Bachelor Recap: Kiss Off

  05-02-2019 15:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  It can be hard sometimes to imagine what it would have been like to live in the past. We can do our best to read the words of those who came before us and listen to their stories. There are museums dedicated to putting you in the shoes of people...More »
  
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• The Story Behind Eighth Grade’s Heart-wrenching Box-Burning Scene

  05-02-2019 15:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  Over the next few weeks, Vulture will speak to the screenwriters behind 2018’s most acclaimed movies about the scenes they found hardest to crack. Which pivotal sequences underwent the biggest transformations on the way from script to screen? Today, writer-director Bo Burnham — who has been nominated for a Writers...More »
  
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• Ray Romano’s Netflix Special Is Stand-up Without Fuss

  05-02-2019 15:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ray Romano’s first stand-up special in 23 years is totally on-brand. Right Here, Around the Corner is more of a documentary of a veteran getting his feet wet again than a recording of a polished, intricately written bit of theater being performed for posterity. Romano does sets at two New...More »
  
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• A Conversation With Marlon James and Victor LaValle

  05-02-2019 14:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  The other day, Victor LaValle, a Queens-born author who employs the form of the fairy tale as a barbed hook to lure readers into serious treatments of race, parenting, and the internet, ordered dim sum with Marlon James, a Jamaican author of sweeping social epics that delight in challenging all...More »
  
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• Doctor Who: Whoopi Goldberg was turned down as the first female Doctor

  05-02-2019 14:57 via theguardian.com
  BBC bosses turned her request down, but the actor is ‘dying’ to appear on the show and remains a huge fan
  Whoopi Goldberg has revealed that she petitioned the BBC to cast her as the first female Doctor, long before Jodie Whittaker was given the role.Speaking to another Doctor Who star, David Tennant, on his new podcast, the actor and View host said her pitch for a New York-based Doctor was turned down by bosses, but that she remains a fan of the series. Continue reading...
  
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• Doctor Who: Whoopi Goldberg reveals she wanted to be the first female Doctor

  05-02-2019 14:57 via theguardian.com
  BBC bosses turned her request down, but the actor is ‘dying’ to appear on the show and remains a huge fan
  Whoopi Goldberg has revealed that she petitioned the BBC to cast her as the first female Doctor, long before Jodie Whittaker was given the role.Speaking to another Doctor Who star, David Tennant, on his new podcast, the actor and View host said her pitch for a New York-based Doctor was turned down by bosses, but that she remains a fan of the series. Continue reading...
  
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• Sky News Raw: a meta live stream of a newsroom? What a mad gamble

  05-02-2019 14:12 via theguardian.com
  Sky News’ decision to show the world its inner workings feels incredibly cavalier, with editors lobbing around bad ideas and everyone looking miserableAt 9:46 this morning, Sky News ate itself. During the morning editorial meeting, broadcast live to the nation under the vaguely ridiculous banner of Sky News Raw, an editor looked up from her pile of papers and sighed “Should we do a piece about Sky News Raw?”There followed some back and forth, right there on Sky News Raw, about
  
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• Liam Neeson reveals he wanted to kill a black person following rape of friend – audio

  05-02-2019 13:54
  The actor Liam Neeson has told the Independent that many years ago he walked around with a cosh hoping to get into an altercation with a black person in order to kill them, upon learning that his friend had been raped. Neeson was promoting his new film, Cold Pursuit, in which he plays a man avenging the murder of his son, when he recounted the story to a journalist Liam Neeson: after a friend was raped, I wanted to kill a black man Continue reading...
  
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• The Matrix’s Bullet Time Made 3-D Redundant

  05-02-2019 12:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  In 1999, before they were widely imitated, widely parodied, and finally old hat, the “bullet time” sequences in The Matrix were — what is a suitably retro phrase? — da bomb. Everything we thought we knew about movies (about the time-space continuum, really) was, in an instant, up for grabs....More »
  
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• How the Other Kids Live: the most pleasant show of the year is here

  05-02-2019 11:08 via theguardian.com
  Children from different backgrounds have playdates at each other’s houses, and there’s not a tantrum in sight. It’s Come Dine With Me with no sarcasm – and the TV tonic we all need
  In this crowded media space, it has never been more important to have a distinct brand identity. BBC One, for example, has established itself as broad and mainstream. ITV is where you go to watch the Harry Potter films for the billionth time. And then you’ve got Channel 4: the channel tha
  
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• 'Yes! I made it!' Paul McCartney wins gold Blue Peter badge

  05-02-2019 10:00 via theguardian.com
  The former Beatle receives the highest Blue Peter badge, then admits he ‘doesn’t really know how to write songs’Paul McCartney has won countless awards, but he says he has finally “made it” after being presented with perhaps the greatest accolade of all: a gold Blue Peter badge.On receiving the badge, which is shaped like the ship logo of the children’s television programme, the former Beatle said: “That is beautiful … I will wear it with great pr
  
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• Andy Cohen’s Baby Boy Is Here, and You Will Not Believe What He Just Said About You

  05-02-2019 08:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  Big, cute and, despite all the screaming and pants pooping, everyone can’t get enough of them. No, it’s not your fantasy Real Housewives cast member. It’s Andy Cohen’s brand-new baby boy. The Watch What Happens Live host revealed the impending birth of his son on his late-night show in December....More »
  
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• Tuesday’s best TV – Icons: The Greatest Person of the 20th Century

  05-02-2019 07:19 via theguardian.com
  Seven celebrities make the case for a worthy finalist before the public decides. Plus: Martin Clunes tours the islands of the USThe time has come for the overall winner from the seven categories – leaders, explorers, scientists, entertainers, activists, sports stars, and artists and writers – to be decided by the public. First, the seven corresponding advocates – Trevor McDonald, Dermot O’Leary, Chris Packham, Kathleen Turner, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Clare Balding and Lily Cole
  
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• The Carpetbagger: A Lunch Where Sound Mixer and Star Get Equal Billing

  05-02-2019 06:15 via nytimes.com
  At the annual academy luncheon, Viggo Mortensen was seated near crew nominees and Sam Elliott was in demand.
  
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• NBC Gives Hair Live! Musical Event the Chop

  05-02-2019 04:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  Between the challenge of adapting the musical’s anti-establishment themes for a network audience, translating full-frontal group nudity for TV and getting the merkin order in on time, Hair Live! just didn’t make the cut. According to TVLine, NBC has shorn the 1968 counterculture Broadway show from their future slate of...More »
  
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• I Am the Night Recap: In a Lonely Place

  05-02-2019 04:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the disappointing second episode of TNT’s I Am the Night, two people are trying to pick up the pieces of their broken pasts, and both need to find the mysterious George Hodel to do so. Disgraced reporter Jay Singletary is investigating a new string of murders with the sensational...More »
  
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• Vanderpump Rules Recap: Tom Tom Snub

  05-02-2019 04:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Lisa Vanderpump is a master of reality television and, yet again this episode, she shows us how. She and the Toms are opening Tom Tom for the first time for the Daily Mail TV party. Lisa tells the Toms that they can’t invite all of their friends. James has been...More »
  
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• Fox Developing Movie Based The Hate U Give Author’s New Book On the Come Up

  05-02-2019 03:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Fox 2000’s adaptation of Angie Thomas’s 2017 young adult novel The Hate U Give debuted this past September, and starred Amandla Stenberg, Regina Hall, and Common. On Monday, Variety reported the studio’s plans to give the author’s upcoming sophomore work the same treatment, buying the movie rights for On the...More »
  
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• Atlanta’s Third Season Will Be Delayed, And You May Cry Out To The Heavens Now

  05-02-2019 03:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  At today’s Television Critics Association event, FX CEO John Landgraf gave America some tough news: You will likely be waiting an extra long while for the third season of Atlanta. The critically adored series was expected to be back this year, but that’s looking basically impossible now. Landgraf did, however,...More »
  
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• Edgar Wright’s Going Horror and Taking Anya Taylor-Joy With Him For Last Night in Soho

  05-02-2019 03:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  Edgar Wright’s previous forays into genre-light cinema with Shaun of the Dead and The World’s End make up some of his best work. So it’s a good thing he’s drifting into horror material again with Last Night in Soho, and as Variety reports, he just picked up Anya Taylor-Joy for...More »
  
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• The Walking Dead Lurches Forward Into a Tenth Season at AMC

  05-02-2019 02:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  Boy, if you thought these zombies were rank now, just wait until they get another season on ‘em. Then the never-ending zombie apocalypse will really be intolerable. With The Walking Dead returning next week for the latter part of its ninth season, AMC released a teaser Monday announcing the show’s...More »
  
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