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• Conan O’Brien Has Finally Landed His Dream Interview

  06-02-2019 22:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  Last year, the New York Times published a fascinating interview with Conan O’Brien, in which he revealed that despite his 25 years as a late-night host, he still hadn’t been able to land the interview he wanted most of all: Pulitzer-winning author Robert Caro. O’Brien, who said he’s been a...More »
  
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• Fox Exec Probably Wishes He Didn’t Tell Rent: Live Cast to ‘Break a Leg’

  06-02-2019 22:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you’re looking for someone to blame for the #RentNotLive controversy that happened after star Brennin Hunt broke his foot last month, look no further than Charlie Collier. The new Fox Entertainment CEO told journalists during Television Critics Association in Pasadena on Wednesday that, days before the show, he wrote...More »
  
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• ‘Lords of Chaos’ Review: Where Anomie and Speed Metal Meet Doom

  06-02-2019 22:14 via nytimes.com
  Inspired by a sordid, true story, this English-language movie tracks a group of Norwegian death-metal musicians whose lives go murderously wrong.
  
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• Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt Revisit (500) Days Of Summer After 10 Years

  06-02-2019 22:10 via feeds.eonline.com
  It's been more than 10 years since audiences first got a glimpse at the movie (500) Days Of Summer, the perfect time for stars Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt to reunite, rewatch and...
  
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• A Hercules Musical Will Go the Distance in Central Park This Summer

  06-02-2019 22:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  Disney’s next movie-to-theater adaptation is arriving in an unexpected format. After premiering big, yet conventional, movie-to-theater adaptations like Frozen and Aladdin on Broadway (and stranding that adaptation of Hunchback out of town), Disney is bringing Hercules to Central Park for a short run this summer. An adaptation of the 1997...More »
  
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• BAFTA Removes Bryan Singer’s Name From Bohemian Rhapsody Nomination Following Abuse Allegations

  06-02-2019 22:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  BAFTA has removed Bryan Singer’s name from Bohemian Rhapsody’s Best Film nomination, according to The Hollywood Reporter. “In light of recent very serious allegations, BAFTA has informed Bryan Singer that his nomination for Bohemian Rhapsody has been suspended, effective immediately,” BAFTA said in a statement. “BAFTA considers the alleged behaviour...More »
  
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• Rick Rubin and the Early Days of Hip-hop in New York City

  06-02-2019 21:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  Geoff Edgers is a journalist and author. He is the national arts reporter for the Washington Post, hosts the Edge of Fame podcast, and his work has appeared in GQ, Spin, and the Boston Globe, among others. He also produced and starred in the 2010 documentary Do It Again, and he is the author of multiple children’s...More »
  
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• If Women Have Power in the Bachelor-verse, Why Can’t They Propose?

  06-02-2019 21:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  Yesterday at the Television Critics Association winter press tour, new ABC Entertainment boss Karey Burke praised the producers of the Bachelor franchise for “a remarkable job” holding themselves to “ethical standards.” When reporter and Vulture contributor Andy Dehnart followed up by pushing Burke to explain what she meant by “ethical...More »
  
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• Critic’s Notebook: Blackness, Gayness, Representation: Marlon Riggs Unpacks It All in His Films

  06-02-2019 21:24 via nytimes.com
  He saw the past, present and future at once, and his timeless, masterful works are now the subject of a film series in Brooklyn.
  
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• These New Game of Thrones Photos Reveal So Much, By Which We Mean Nothing

  06-02-2019 21:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the final season of Game of Thrones, everyone will be cold. That’s pretty much all you can learn from these new photos HBO has released from the show, which returns April 14 for its final six feature-length episodes. HBO has been pretty much silent about what exactly will happen...More »
  
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• An Unexpected Hero Will Visit Central Park: Here Comes Hercules

  06-02-2019 21:00 via nytimes.com
  The newest feat to be undertaken by the Public Theater’s Public Works program will be an adaptation of the Disney musical “Hercules.”
  
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• Tracey Thorn’s 10 Favorite Books

  06-02-2019 20:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  Bookseller One Grand Books has asked celebrities to name the ten titles they’d take to a desert island, and they’ve shared the results with Vulture. Below is English singer-songwriter Tracey Thorn’s list....More »
  
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• The Carpetbagger: The Path to Oscar Victory for Every Best Picture Nominee

  06-02-2019 20:53 via nytimes.com
  In a wide-open year, how can each of the eight contenders win? We show you.
  
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• Below Deck Reunion Recap: Ship to Shore

  06-02-2019 20:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s that time of year when we get another chance to answer one of life’s great questions: Can the Below Deck cast sustain an hour of television by simply talking and sitting, without being forced to perform an endless sequence of chores?Maybe?As usual, the most interesting things about the reunion...More »
  
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• How the #FuckFuckJerry Movement Was Born

  06-02-2019 20:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  During this year’s Super Bowl, a T-Mobile commercial featuring a text-message joke made people on Twitter very angry. Immediately after it aired, many were quick to point out that the concept of the spot was pulled from a viral tweet by the user @decentbirthday. A knee-jerk reaction followed: “TMobile just...More »
  
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• New York Times boosted by jump in online readership

  06-02-2019 20:17 via ft.com
  Shares jump 12% as publisher eyes 10m subscriptions by 2025
  
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• The Simpsons Gets a Double-Season Renewal at Fox

  06-02-2019 20:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  This might not surprise you at this point, but The Simpsons isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. At the Television Critics Association today, Fox announced that it’s handed out a double-season renewal to the long-running animated comedy, ensuring it will remain on the air for a 31st and 32nd season. By...More »
  
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• What Spotify’s $230 Million Gimlet Deal Means for the Podcast Industry

  06-02-2019 20:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  The podcast world was hit by an earthquake late last week when news broke that Spotify, the Swedish music-streaming giant responsible for those Discover Weekly playlists you love, was “in advanced talks” to acquire Gimlet Media, the buzzy podcast publisher behind beloved shows like Reply All, Startup, and Homecoming. Those...More »
  
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• The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part Is Eager to Grow Up in More Ways Than One

  06-02-2019 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  For us adults, anyway, it’s hard to believe it’s been five years since the first Lego Movie. Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s irreverent animated film defied nearly every expectation for what a film about a brand of Scandinavian building blocks could be, and it had a message rebellious enough to...More »
  
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• Publicis profits rise despite US ad spending slump

  06-02-2019 20:01 via ft.com
  Chief executive highlights key client wins last year
  
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• Here’s What Wedding, Radio, and Event DJs Think About R. Kelly Song Requests

  06-02-2019 19:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sony dropped him from the label. Lady Gaga, Céline Dion, Chance the Rapper, and Ciara deleted him from their songs. Spotify will soon allow the average morally inclined listener to mute his music entirely. Many have heard and known of R. Kelly’s abuse habits for years, but it has never...More »
  
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• ‘Everybody Knows’ Review: Penélope Cruz’s Homecoming Turns Frantic

  06-02-2019 19:25 via nytimes.com
  The intricate plot, about a wedding upended by a kidnapping, revolves around the destructive power of unspoken grudges and half-buried memories.
  
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• ‘The Height of the Storm’ Is Heading to Broadway

  06-02-2019 19:13 via nytimes.com
  The play, by Florian Zeller, is slated for Manhattan Theater Club’s 2019-20 season, along with works by Jeff Augustin and Qui Nguyen.
  
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• Why Did The Bachelor’s Colton Underwood Jump That Fence?

  06-02-2019 18:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  In a Bachelor season already plagued by the mystery of whether Colton Underwood is engaged or not — he’s not wearing a ring, and has refused to comment on his relationship status — it still might come as a surprise that the show’s most-teased moment has been when, in a...More »
  
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• See Yara Shahidi and Charles Melton Get Lovey-Dovey in The Sun Is Also A Star Trailer

  06-02-2019 18:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  Full-lipped heartthrobs Yara Shahidi and Charles Melton cordially invite you to have a crush on them. In the trailer for The Sun Is Also a Star, Natasha Kingsley (Shahidi, star of Grown-ish) meets-cute the appropriately named Daniel Bae (Melton, from Riverdale). He’s a romantic; she’s a realist: “What if I...More »
  
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• Patton Oswalt, Chrissy Teigen, and More Celebs React to the State of the Union

  06-02-2019 18:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  Celebrities, they’re just like us. They grocery shop; they pick up their kids from school; they livetweet the State of the Union Address.The SOTU was broadcast last night, with the Democratic response given by Stacey Abrams. The first black woman to give the SOTU rebuttal, Abrams made waves last year...More »
  
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• Blackness, Gayness, Representation: Marlon Riggs Unpacks It All in His Films

  06-02-2019 18:04 via nytimes.com
  He saw the past, present and future at once, and his timeless, masterful works are now the subject of a film series in Brooklyn.
  
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• ‘Jokes Seth Can’t Tell’ Returns to Cover Lesbian Penguins

  06-02-2019 17:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  Our favorite late-night segment, “Jokes Seth Can’t Tell,” returned to Late Night With Seth Meyers last night, and you should definitely treat yourself to a break today by checking it out. As usual, Meyers took the back seat while writers Amber Ruffin and Jenny Hagel delivered all the punch lines...More »
  
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• The Richard E. Grant Guide to Old New York

  06-02-2019 17:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Marielle Heller’s Can You Ever Forgive Me? is a portrait of a world that, while it hasn’t quite disappeared, has certainly faded somewhat. The movie’s vision of 1991 New York is familiar, thanks in part to Seinfeld reruns, but it’s also a reminder of how much the city has changed...More »
  
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• Nothing Will Stop Erykah Badu From Loving You

  06-02-2019 17:00 via nytimes.com
  The durable R&B-turned-movie star built her legend on the pursuit of enlightenment. It’s taken her to hostile territory.
  
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• Bradley Cooper Is Not Ashamed to Admit He’s Embarrassed by Best Director Snub

  06-02-2019 16:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  In a pivot to utter humility, beard-growth, and softness, actor, director, and Lady Bird stan Bradley Cooper sat down with Oprah on Tuesday afternoon for a SuperSoul Conversation. Among Cooper’s super soul-baring reveals: how he reacted to not scoring an Oscar nomination for directing A Star Is Born. “I was with...More »
  
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• Streaming Movie Review: ‘Dear Ex’ Review: Heartbreaking and Heartwarming Family Dysfunction

  06-02-2019 16:41 via nytimes.com
  A boy is caught between his mother and the man for whom his father left his family in this nuanced portrait of enduring love.
  
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• Spielberg and Mendes Stonehenge war film plans hit by locals' objections

  06-02-2019 16:30
  Proposals to film near ancient site provoke criticism over possibility of undiscovered archaeological remains and disturbance to threatened speciesObjections have been raised to plans by Steven Spielberg and Sam Mendes to film a first world war drama on Salisbury plain, not far from Stonehenge.Entitled 1917, the film is Mendes’s first directorial job since his second Bond film Spectre (2015), and Spielberg’s production company Amblin Entertainment won the rights to finance it in June
  
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• Game of Thrones: assessing the final season's bizarre marketing campaign

  06-02-2019 16:28
  From a Bud Light campaign to an iron throne hide-and-seek, HBO’s plans for the last season of its biggest show seem confusingly off-brandHBO doesn’t really need to promote Game of Thrones. It’s the world’s biggest television series, and this is the finale. It’s the grand culmination of an epic story the scale of which television has never before seen. Even if HBO’s promotional budget for Game of Thrones only ran to a single classified listing in a small town&r
  
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• Spotify makes $500m splurge on podcast start-ups

  06-02-2019 16:09 via ft.com
  Swedish music streaming group seeks to diversify from costly business model
  
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• The Story Behind Russian Doll’s Bathroom ‘Reset Point’

  06-02-2019 16:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  This post contains spoilers for the plot of Russian Doll.If you’re going to have a character keep dying and waking up in the same place over and over again, you’re going to want to build a pretty interesting place for her to do it. That was the challenge Michael Bricker,...More »
  
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• From ‘The Simpsons’ to ‘The Twilight Zone.’ And Now, Trump.

  06-02-2019 16:00 via nytimes.com
  London’s Almeida Theater has become a home away from home for the New York playwright Anne Washburn. Next: a very American comic drama called “Shipwreck.”
  
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• Roswell, New Mexico Recap: When the Lights Go Out

  06-02-2019 15:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  Who hurt you, Rosa? That’s the question driving Liz’s sleuthing this week, and it’s a separate one from the ongoing mystery of who killed Rosa. In the weeks before her death, Rosa clearly underwent some major heartbreak that left her jaded and throwing out nihilistic gems like, “People are the...More »
  
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• Everything to Know About Jennifer Lawrence’s New Fiancé, Cooke Maroney

  06-02-2019 15:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  Have you heard? Jennifer Lawrence is engaged to a man, and that man’s name is Cooke Maroney. Cooke Maroney: a great name for a hard-boiled detective in a crime novel, a soap-opera villain, and now, for Jennifer Lawrence’s new fiancé! Here’s everything we learned about her art-world beau when he...More »
  
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• Vulture’s 2019 Grammy Predictions

  06-02-2019 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  This year’s Grammys are utterly unpredictable. For the first time in a long time, the institution, which has historically played favorites (no matter if they’re the popular vote), has chucked the rule book and moved away from monolithic cultural optics. This year, the Grammys have expanded their Big Four categories...More »
  
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• Bradley Cooper Tells Oprah Winfrey He Was "Embarrassed" by Oscars Directing Snub

  06-02-2019 15:25 via feeds.eonline.com
  Despite his remarkable year, Bradley Cooper still faced embarrassment.
  While the first-time director and celebrated actor captivated audiences and launched Lady Gaga's film career...
  
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• Ariana Grande Says Thank U, Next to the Grammys After Being ‘Insulted’

  06-02-2019 15:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Grammys have done what only dummies have dared to do and have crossed Ariana Grande. Variety reports that not only will Grande no longer perform on Sunday’s broadcast, she’s skipping the show entirely. Grande, a nominee, was previously announced as a performer and has been advertised as one of...More »
  
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• Do You Know Which Oscar Nominees Have Appeared in a Superhero Movie?

  06-02-2019 15:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  There’s a good chance the 2019 Academy Awards may go down in history as “the superhero Oscars.” Black Panther became the first superhero film ever to be nominated for Best Picture — racking up six other nominations along the way — while Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is the front-runner for...More »
  
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• Cirque du Soleil Buys Magic Show Company

  06-02-2019 15:00 via nytimes.com
  The company acquired The Works Entertainment, the makers of the Illusionists magic franchise and other shows.
  
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• Oscars 2019: problems mount as Academy aims to reboot TV show

  06-02-2019 14:13
  The lack of a host, trimming the running time and breaking with tradition is proving difficult a difficult act to pull offProblems are continuing to pile up for this year’s Oscars ceremony, the showpiece TV event of the awards season. Having already lost its preferred host in Kevin Hart, and been roundly criticised for its attempt to halt falling ratings by introducing (then abandoning) a best popular film category, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is alienating key supporte
  
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• ‘Angela’s Diaries’ Review: A Tender Journey Through Memory

  06-02-2019 13:00 via nytimes.com
  Yervant Gianikian assembled this film about Angela Ricci Lucchi, his partner in life and art, using diary shots and contemporary home video.
  
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• The new and improved Das Boot – now with added women

  06-02-2019 12:00
  The submarine epic was never begging to be remade. But this sequel is just as compelling, just as claustrophobic ... and has some much-needed moments on dry landPlunderers of TV past will always run into opposition. Never go back, some say, and you can see the argument. Rifling through television’s ever-growing canon will always leave you open to accusations of grave-robbing, sacrilege or being too lazy to come up with your own ideas. Not that this has ever stopped the industry from remixi
  
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• Philosopher Nick Bostrom on Whether We Live in a Simulation

  06-02-2019 12:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  When Morpheus told us our reality was fake, it sounded far-fetched. Since then, though, the idea has picked up steam. In 2001, two years after The Matrix hit theaters, Oxford University philosopher Nick Bostrom circulated the first draft of his “simulation argument,” which posits three scenarios: (1) Humanity will go...More »
  
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• Behind the Play: a Tragedy, a Gift, a Wish to Forgive

  06-02-2019 12:00 via nytimes.com
  Underwriting the heart-rending “Everything Is Wonderful” has prompted a Baltimore couple to learn more about the car crash that killed their son.
  
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• Wednesday’s best TV: Station 19; Cleaning Up; Das Boot

  06-02-2019 07:20
  Seattle firefighters risk their lives in the line of duty, while Sheridan Smith’s insider trading continues apace. Plus: Wolfgang Petersen’s classic film gets a rebootThe producers of the medical drama Grey’s Anatomy launched this companion series last year, following the lives, loves and high‑pressure hoses of the attractive squad manning a nearby fire station. Season two returns to the skyscraper blaze cliffhanger that left many of Station 19’s first-responders in
  
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