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• The Internet’s Dirtiest Secrets review – the human toll of detoxifying social media

  19-03-2019 23:25
  A masterful edition of Storyville exposed the awful plight of the moderators tasked with purging tech platforms of violent and sexually abusive imagesOne woman wanted to quit her job as a moderator for an unnamed tech company during training, after hearing descriptions of the content and images she was likely to see. Once she had started, she came across pictures of a six‑year-old girl having terrible things done to her and asked to leave. Her manager told her this was what she had signed
  
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• Netflix Reveals What's Coming and Going in April 2019

  19-03-2019 22:37 via feeds.eonline.com
  A new month means one important thing: New movies and TV shows on Netflix.As millions of Americans prepare for the official start of spring and the start of April, Netflix has announced...
  
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• Cardi B Is Making Her Movie Debut as a Stripper in New Film With Jennifer Lopez

  19-03-2019 21:16 via feeds.eonline.com
  Cardi B is making money moves!The rapper will be making her big screen debut when she stars alongside actresses Jennifer Lopez and Constance Wu in the film Hustlers. Not to forget the...
  
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• ‘7 Rings’ Is a Hit for Ariana Grande, and a Knockout for Rodgers and Hammerstein

  19-03-2019 20:16 via nytimes.com
  The company that controls the composers’ catalog cut a deal for 90 percent of the royalties for the singer’s remake of “My Favorite Things” just weeks before its release.
  
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• Richard Erdman, 93, Character Actor Known to Generations, Dies

  19-03-2019 19:38 via nytimes.com
  From “Stalag 17” to “Community,” Mr. Erdman showed up for more than 70 years in roles that were usually small but often memorable.
  
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• Review: Bullies and Victims Face Off in ‘After.’ But Who’s Who?

  19-03-2019 19:35 via nytimes.com
  A threatening text message with a homophobic epithet leads to catastrophe for two families in a new play by Michael McKeever.
  
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• The bookman of Mosul dreams of restoration

  19-03-2019 19:08 via ft.com
  An Iraqi academic is determined to restore a library ransacked by Isis
  
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• Facebook settles with civil rights groups in discrimination cases

  19-03-2019 19:01 via ft.com
  Targeting, based on age, race or gender, stopped users from seeing job and housing ads
  
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• The Act review – true crime drama tells a staggeringly disturbing story

  19-03-2019 17:58
  Patricia Arquette and Joey King give strong performances in an uncomfortable new series about a horrifying case of Munchausen syndrome by proxyAt the conclusion of the first episode of The Act, Gypsy Rose Blanchard (Joey King) sits up in bed next to her mother, Dee Dee (Patricia Arquette). She slides her feet out from under the covers and skims the floor with her toes, which crack under her weight. Then she stands up and, without waking her mother, walks to the kitchen for a midnight snack. Rela
  
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• She Dances. He Directs. How They Created a Balletic Battle of the Sexes.

  19-03-2019 17:47 via nytimes.com
  The wife-and-husband team of Sara Mearns and Joshua Bergasse talk about working together on “I Married an Angel” for Encores! Reader, she Lindy Hops.
  
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• Murdoch adds former Speaker Paul Ryan to Fox board

  19-03-2019 17:33 via ft.com
  Board appointments come as company completes sale of Hollywood assets to Disney
  
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• Critic’s Pick: ‘Buddy’ Review: Who’s a Good Pup? This Pack of Lifesavers

  19-03-2019 17:27 via nytimes.com
  The director Heddy Honigmann uses her documentary skills — and her humanity — to illuminate the relationships between service animals and their people.
  
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• Have ‘Flute,’ Will Travel: Mostly Mozart Announces Its Season

  19-03-2019 17:00 via nytimes.com
  The festival will feature a globally popular production of “The Magic Flute,” a new Mark Morris dance and a musical adaptation of a Langston Hughes poem.
  
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• Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese to Reunite at Tribeca Film Festival

  19-03-2019 16:49 via nytimes.com
  The actor and director will be in conversation ahead of their next crime drama, “The Irishman.” Also on the Tribeca Talks slate are Jennifer Lawrence and Queen Latifah.
  
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• James Corden to Host Tony Awards for Second Time

  19-03-2019 16:23 via nytimes.com
  Mr. Corden, a musical theater enthusiast who won a Tony Award himself in 2012, will preside over the award ceremony on June 9 at Radio City Music Hall.
  
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• Mary Anning biopic director defends film's lesbian romance storyline

  19-03-2019 15:05
  Kate Winslet picture about renowned fossil hunter had been criticised by relatives for ‘unconfirmed’ portrait of her sexualityThe director of a new biopic about the celebrated fossil hunter Mary Anning has defended his film after criticism of its lesbian romance storyline.Ammonite, which stars Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan, recently began filming in Lyme Regis, the coastal town in Dorset where Anning lived in the early 19th century. Anning never married and is not known to have had
  
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• Fleabag dressing: how the Phoebe Waller-Bridge character became a style inspiration

  19-03-2019 14:49
  Lace-up shoes and sixth-former clothes wouldn’t normally scream great style, but the leading woman – and her fabulously dressed supporting cast – in the BBC sitcom are just as fashionable as they are funnyFor all its gleeful bad taste, Fleabag has become ridiculously chic. The second series opened with Phoebe Waller-Bridge in the ladies’ loo of a smart, Ivy-ish London restaurant, wearing a truly excellent black evening jumpsuit. Clean-lined and long-legged with the kind o
  
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• Captain Marvel flexes her superpowers at UK box office

  19-03-2019 14:26
  Brie Larson vehicle overtakes lifetime total of many Marvel films, while Britcom Fisherman’s Friends sails into second placeCaptain Marvel may have dropped by 48% from its UK opening salvo, but a haul of £6.64m represents the second biggest weekend takings of the year so far, beaten only by its debut session of £12.75m. Captain Marvel’s total after 10 days is a spiffy £23.7m. Continue reading...
  
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• Frozen musical to reopen London's Theatre Royal Drury Lane in 2020

  19-03-2019 12:38
  Disney’s stage show, directed by Michael Grandage, has been running on Broadway for a year An invasion of tiny Elsas – and a few Annas – will hit London in autumn 2020, as the stage musical of Disney’s hit film Frozen has been confirmed for the West End.The show, which features 12 new songs, has been running on Broadway for a year and was nominated for three Tony awards. It will now reopen Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Theatre Royal Drury Lane, a grade I listed Regency buil
  
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• Love Death & Robots review – prestige TV with added sexbots

  19-03-2019 11:29
  Perfect for anyone with a low attention span, David Fincher’s pic’n’mix show is short, satisfyingly wicked and self-consciously NSFWIf being online constantly has hacked away at our attention spans, commissioning the future-shock pic’n’mix Love Death & Robots seems like a smart move by Netflix. This is prestige TV in convenient pill form: a sprawling anthology of 18 animated shorts that run at an average of just 12 minutes, lashed together by a prominent David F
  
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• Doors Swing Open for Women and Minorities at Top Ranks of American Theater

  19-03-2019 09:00 via nytimes.com
  Artistic directors, the faces of local theater and tastemakers in their communities, have long been white men who have held the posts for many years. That’s changing.
  
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• Doors Open for Women and People of Color at Top Ranks of American Theater

  19-03-2019 09:00 via nytimes.com
  Artistic directors, the faces of local theater and tastemakers in their communities, have long been white men who have held the posts for many years. That’s changing.
  
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• Crushed by a giant cheese: 10 of the greatest celebrity moments on Midsomer Murders

  19-03-2019 09:00
  As the 20th series starts, who can forget Henry Cavill being bitten by a fox or Orlando Bloom being jabbed with a pitchfork?You don’t know DCI John Barnaby? Younger cousin of Tom, in the same line of work, took over from him in England’s deadliest county about six seasons ago? As Midsomer Murders begins, somewhat inconceivably, its 20th season, it is easy to forget that the professional partnership of John Nettles’ Barnaby and fresh-faced naif Troy are no longer the beating hea
  
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• Frozen musical will reopen London's Theatre Royal Drury Lane in 2020

  19-03-2019 08:48
  Disney’s stage show, directed by Michael Grandage, has been running on Broadway for a year An invasion of tiny Elsas – and a few Annas – will hit London in autumn 2020, as the stage musical of Disney’s hit film Frozen has been confirmed for the West End.The show, which features 12 new songs, has been running on Broadway for a year and was nominated for three Tony awards. It will now reopen Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Theatre Royal Drury Lane, a grade I listed Regency buil
  
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• The Theater at the Forefront of Poland’s Culture Wars

  19-03-2019 08:00 via nytimes.com
  The Powszechny Theater in Warsaw faced protests and acid attacks when it staged a play about the Catholic Church. Will its staging of “Mein Kampf” cause more uproar?
  
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• TV tonight: it's Derry Girls v Take That. Could it be magic?

  19-03-2019 07:00
  The boyband hit Belfast, so the girls go on a pilgrimage involving an escaped polar bear. Plus: the electric finale of Shetland. Here’s all the TV to tune in for9pm, Sky Atlantic Continue reading...
  
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• Apple ready to unveil big bet on television

  19-03-2019 05:00 via ft.com
  Will media companies sign up to Apple’s TV platform?
  
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• Review: A ‘Nantucket Sleigh Ride’ with Frozen Disney and Hot Lobster

  19-03-2019 02:45 via nytimes.com
  In John Guare’s Möbius strip of a play, John Larroquette is a playwright who finds himself trapped in a surreal mystery called “Nantucket Sleigh Ride.”
  
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