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• Harvey Weinstein: judge postpones sex crimes trial of disgraced movie mogul

  26-04-2019 23:11
  Decision comes after judged barred the public and press from Weinstein’s Friday court appearance A judge on Friday postponed the sex crimes trial of Harvey Weinstein until September.The trial of the disgraced movie mogul had been due to begin in New York on 3 June. Continue reading...
  
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• Want a Break in the 3-Hour ‘Avengers’ Movie? You’ll Need a Passport or a Time Machine

  26-04-2019 20:34 via nytimes.com
  Some theaters overseas are providing an intermission for the blockbuster “Avengers: Endgame,” but American moviegoers who want to step away must strategize.
  
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• Avengers: Endgame makes like the Hulk and smashes opening day records

  26-04-2019 20:04 via ft.com
  Disney reports $60m take at US and Canadian box offices, outstripping Star Wars sequel
  
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• The Guardian view on critics: thin-skinned artists beware | Editorial

  26-04-2019 19:25
  US rapper Lizzo took to social media when angered by an unflattering review. But the wisdom of crowds hasn’t altered the need for independent, expert adviceCritics who don’t themselves make music “SHOULD BE UNEMPLOYED”, the American rapper Lizzo tweeted to her 222,000 followers this week. The star was reacting angrily to an unflattering, though far from hostile, review of her new album Cuz I Love You. The battle between offended artist and critic is a well-established one
  
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• ‘Almost Famous’ Musical to Open in San Diego

  26-04-2019 19:05 via nytimes.com
  The work, based on Cameron Crowe’s Academy Award-winning screenplay, will open the Old Globe’s 2019-20 season in September.
  
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• Avengers: Endgame Scores Record-Breaking $60 Million Opening Night

  26-04-2019 18:49 via feeds.eonline.com
  Snap! That's the sound of Avengers: Endgame shattering records.The fourth and final film in the Disney-owned Marvel superhero film series has made more than $60 million from Thursday...
  
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• Harvey Weinstein trial: judge bans public and press from courtroom

  26-04-2019 18:38
  Judge says letting public in would ‘result in a violation of both the defendant’s right to an impartial jury panel and his right to a fair trial’A judge barred the public and the press from the disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein’s New York court appearance on Friday, after both prosecutors and defense lawyers asked for the hearing to be held in secret.Judge James Burke ejected reporters and spectators from the courtroom in Manhattan as prosecutors argued that more
  
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• Steve Golin Is Dead at 64; Producer Built a Small Hollywood Empire

  26-04-2019 18:03 via nytimes.com
  His company, Anonymous Content, produced TV series, music videos and two candidates for the 2016 best-picture Oscar, including the winner, “Spotlight.”
  
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• Watch Chadwick Boseman in This Week’s Best Trailer

  26-04-2019 18:01 via nytimes.com
  “21 Bridges” looks like a throwback to New York City cop movies like “The French Connection. Other interesting clips include a teaser for “Gemini Man.”
  
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• Watch Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston Run for Their Lives in Murder Mystery Trailer

  26-04-2019 17:59 via feeds.eonline.com
  Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston reunite and bring the laughs again in a film about...murder.In the movie, set for release on Netflix, Sandler plays a NYPD officer who takes his wife,...
  
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• Step Up or Strip Down, Because It's Channing Tatum's Birthday! Celebrate With His Best Roles

  26-04-2019 17:00 via feeds.eonline.com
  Step up your game and get ready to break out your best dance moves, because today is Channing Tatum's birthday.The Alabama native turns 39 years old today and let's be honest,...
  
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• Avengers: Endgame Thanos Easter egg lets users throw down Google gauntlet

  26-04-2019 16:59
  Site search for ‘Thanos’ gives users the same power as Marvel’s Infinity GauntletAvengers: Endgame fans go to extraordinary lengths for finaleGoogle has joined in with the hype around the release of the Marvel movie Avengers: Endgame, with an Easter egg for people searching for information on one of the franchise’s main villains.A search for “Thanos” on the site brings up, as usual, a little information box about the character played by Josh Brolin in the movi
  
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• John Singleton’s Family Fights for Control of His Affairs After Stroke

  26-04-2019 16:04 via nytimes.com
  His mother is seeking to be appointed his temporary conservator, and says Mr. Singleton is in a coma — which several of his children dispute.
  
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• ‘Bitter Money’ and ‘Bitter Rice’: Migrant Workers Face Toil and Trouble

  26-04-2019 16:00 via nytimes.com
  The sweatshop saga “Bitter Money” and the neorealist melodrama “Bitter Rice” touch on the struggles of migrant workers in China and Italy.
  
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• A Word With: Letitia Wright on ‘Avengers: Endgame’ and Not Singing With Rihanna

  26-04-2019 16:00 via nytimes.com
  The actress, who played Princess Shuri in “Black Panther” and the “Avengers” movies, knows how to keep a secret. She didn’t say a word about “Guava Island.”
  
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• A Century Late, a Giant of Early Cinema Gets Her Closeup

  26-04-2019 16:00 via nytimes.com
  Credited regularly as the first female filmmaker, Alice Guy Blaché had virtually vanished from film history. A new documentary may help change that.
  
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• Let's talk about sex: the hyper-explicit shows laying relationships bare

  26-04-2019 15:51
  Sex Tape and Sex on the Couch see couples sharing their most intimate moments with relationship experts – and millions of viewers at home. They’re cringeworthy, but strangely cathartic“Fingering,” says Nick, a 34-year-old publisher, “and cunnilingus.” He is listing some of the practices his partner, Louisa, is more keen on than he is, for the benefit of the sex therapist Lohani Noor. But he is also doing it in front of potentially millions of TV viewers.Recent
  
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• Why do I never feel the immense joy of a die-hard fan? | Coco Khan

  26-04-2019 15:00
  I like many things, very much, but I cannot obsessI decided to investigate a question that has long been on my mind: how dead inside am I? I started with an online quiz, which told me: 50%. Then I started reading about anhedonia, defined as an inability to feel pleasure. But I only got through two articles before I got bored and made a sandwich instead.What provoked such soul-searching? Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s comedy Fleabag. For weeks, my social media channels have been exploding with love
  
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• Anatomy of a Scene: Watch Charlize Theron and Seth Rogen Fall for Each Other in ‘Long Shot’

  26-04-2019 13:02 via nytimes.com
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• 'Outrage is justified': David Attenborough backs school climate strikers

  26-04-2019 13:00
  Exclusive: broadcaster says older generations have done terrible things and should listen to youngThe outrage of the students striking from school over climate change inaction is “certainly justified”, according to Sir David Attenborough, who said older generations had done terrible damage to the planet.In an interview with the former UN climate chief Christiana Figueres, the broadcaster and naturalist dismissed critics of the widely praised global movement of school strikes as cynic
  
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• ‘Long Shot’ | Anatomy of a Scene

  26-04-2019 13:00 via nytimes.com
  Jonathan Levine narrates a sequence from “Long Shot” featuring Charlize Theron and Seth Rogen.
  
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• From Shafted to Club X: the TV shows so shocking they were taken off air

  26-04-2019 13:00
  Offensive hand gestures, incestuous hillbillies, Hitler – there are plenty of reasons for pulling a show from broadcast. Here are some that suffered a premature endFifty years ago, the biggest flop in television history aired. But not for long. Turn-On was deemed so offensive that, 15 minutes into the half-hour sketch show, US TV executives pulled the plug and filled the rest of the time slot with live organ music and a black screen.“If your naughty little boys have to write dirty wo
  
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• This week’s best home entertainment: from Bake Off: The Professionals to Dead to Me

  26-04-2019 12:59
  It’s time for the amateurs to move over as pro Bake Off returns, while Christina Applegate stars in a new dark comedy No botched baked alaskas here: pro Bake Off returns with 12 super-skilled duos aiming for pastry perfection. As ever, it’s more stern-faced than its sibling, with judges Cherish Finden and Benoit Blin proving less charitable than Prue and Paul. But ex-Bake Off-er Liam Charles and urbane-yet-cheeky comic Tom Allen do a nice job of undercutting the tension.
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• Google's Avengers Easter egg lets you throw down the Thanos gauntlet

  26-04-2019 12:51
  Google searches for Thanos give you the power of Marvel’s Infinity Gauntlet with a click of the mouseAvengers: Endgame fans go to extraordinary lengths for franchise finaleGoogle has joined in with the hype around the release of the Marvel movie Avengers: Endgame, with an Easter egg for people searching for information on one of the franchise’s main villains.Searching for ‘Thanos’ brings up, as usual, a little information box about the character, played by Josh Brolin in
  
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• Google's Avengers Easter egg lets users throw down Thanos gauntlet

  26-04-2019 12:51
  Site search for ‘Thanos’ gives users the same power as Marvel’s Infinity GauntletAvengers: Endgame fans go to extraordinary lengths for finaleGoogle has joined in with the hype around the release of the Marvel movie Avengers: Endgame, with an Easter egg for people searching for information on one of the franchise’s main villains.A search for “Thanos” on the site brings up, as usual, a little information box about the character played by Josh Brolin in the movi
  
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• Why are comics shops closing as superheroes make a mint?

  26-04-2019 12:29
  The latest Avengers film is expected to take $1bn in its opening week, but the shops that are those characters’ natural homes are battling to stay in business With Avengers: Endgame set to break box-office records – it is predicted to make $1bn in its first week – it seems that the superhero business really is the one to be in. In Hollywood, at least.But what of the medium in which the superhero originated – the comic book – and the purveyors of the hundreds of comi
  
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• Avengers: Endgame fans go to great lengths for franchise finale

  26-04-2019 12:02
  Denouement of Marvel’s superhero juggernaut in line to break all box-office records“I’m having a baby tomorrow but I need to know how it ends,” says Jo from Clapton, east London, who was among the first wave of fans to see Avengers: Endgame on Thursday.“We were offered a C-section earlier in the week, but because we had the Avengers booked we decided to have it later,” she said outside the Vue cinema in Stratford’s Westfield complex. Related: Avengers: E
  
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• Chambers review – not even Uma Thurman can save this supernatural slog

  26-04-2019 12:00
  The story of a mardy teenager haunted by the donor of the heart she receives after a sex-induced coronary is a predictable sulk-festSex equals death in any TV or film venture involving teenagers and the supernatural – we know this. Chambers takes the trope literally, giving its sullen 16-year-old protagonist Sasha (Sivan Alyra Rose) a heart attack as she tries to lose her virginity to her boyfriend, one dark and stormy night in a small Arizona town.Alas for us all, she is somehow delivered
  
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• WPP sales slip following ‘significant’ client losses

  26-04-2019 09:12 via ft.com
  Loss of business last year was behind the drop in sales, but WPP said sale of its market research arm ‘progressing well’
  
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• WPP sales slide following client losses 

  26-04-2019 09:12 via ft.com
  Advertising group struggles for growth in post-Sorrell era as spending moves online
  
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• Pearson revenues edge higher amid digital restructuring

  26-04-2019 08:59 via ft.com
  Group reshaping its business as it switches from physical to digital publishing
  
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• TV tonight: Nas, J Cole and Rakim deliver a must-watch history of hip-hop

  26-04-2019 07:00
  Sacha Jenkins’ impressive doc explores the evolution of hip-hop. Plus: smart espionage thrills in The Looming Tower. Here’s what to watch on TV tonightSacha “Burn Motherfucker, Burn!” Jenkins’s must-watch documentary about the lyrical history of hip-hop makes up for what it lacks in structure with an impressive array of artists – Nas, Big Daddy Kane, Anderson .Paak, Rakim – ready to articulate their take on the evolution of the genre. Most thoughtful of
  
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• Mark Zuckerberg gets into the podcasting game – podcasts of the week

  26-04-2019 07:00
  The Facebook co-founder has launched a series considering the relationship between tech and society. Meanwhile, a new pod analyses the ludicrously entertaining John Wick franchiseLuminary, the paid-for podcast app that hopes to become the medium’s answer to Netflix, endured a slightly rocky roll-out this week, with several high-profile pods, including The Joe Rogan Experience and The Daily, withdrawing from the platform. Luminary, which boasts exclusive podcasts from Lena Dunham, Russell B
  
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• Harvey Weinstein trial should be public, news organizations argue

  26-04-2019 07:00
  Defense and prosecution seek to hearing behind closed doorsMedia to tell judge ‘there is no rational basis’ for secrecyNews organizations are fighting to open Harvey Weinstein’s next court appearance to the public, after both prosecutors and defense attorneys asked for it to be held behind closed doors.At a hearing set for Friday, ahead of the disgraced movie mogul’s trial in New York on rape and sexual assault charges, the sides will argue over whether some of the many w
  
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• Review: In ‘Beetlejuice,’ the Afterlife Is Exhausting

  26-04-2019 03:45 via nytimes.com
  Adapted from Tim Burton’s 1988 film, this hyperkinetic musical, starring Alex Brightman as a madcap ghoul, tries too hard to haunt.
  
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