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• Crime and Punishment review – a damning look at our desperate prison system

  16-09-2019 23:00 via theguardian.com
  Two years in the making, this heavyweight new series starts by meeting prisoners with deeply controversial indeterminate sentences – and the damage done is crystal clear
  When Pandora gave in to temptation and opened the boxful of ills that humanity had until then been spared, she managed to keep just one from escaping. Out flew disease and death and destruction, but hope was saved because, the ancient Greeks knew, it was the one thing without which mortals cannot survive.It is this eternal
  
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• Hustlers IRL vs. the Movie: What They Changed and Left Out

  16-09-2019 21:00 via feeds.eonline.com
  Truth is stranger than fiction...or is it?
  Based on journalist Jessica Pressler's December 2015 story for The Cut titled The Hustlers at Scores, Hustlers tells the story of the four...
  
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• Theatrical Moles Put Out Their Paws for a Visit

  16-09-2019 19:22 via nytimes.com
  Washington Square Park has certainly seen its share of eccentrics. But a parade of fur-clad, claw-footed Frenchmen turned a head or two.
  
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• Government ends probe of Evening Standard stake sale

  16-09-2019 19:21 via ft.com
  Ofcom follows CMA in rejecting probe into editorial independence over Saudi investment
  
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• Immersive Wolf of Wall Street actors get personal alarm buttons

  16-09-2019 18:40
  Theatre company reacts to sexual assaults at previous events like The Great Gatsby The company behind The Wolf of Wall Street, the latest production to tap into the trend for immersive theatre, has introduced safeguarding measures to protect actors and participants following a series of incidents at previous high-profile shows.The adaptation of the debauched memoir of former stockbroker and convicted fraudster Jordan Belfort opens in London this week. But the huge success of the immersive format
  
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• Brad Pitt Knows He Can't Compete With These Two Stars for Roles

  16-09-2019 17:01 via feeds.eonline.com
  No Hollywood A-lister is a fit for every role--just ask Brad Pitt.The Oscar-winning actor and star of the upcoming Ad Astra has a laundry list of roles to his name in the course of a...
  
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• Media group Endeavor plans to raise as much as $712m in IPO

  16-09-2019 16:37 via ft.com
  UFC owner would be valued at around $8bn at midpoint of proposed price range
  
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• Lizzo Is Feeling Good as Hell While Making It Rain at the Strip Club

  16-09-2019 16:22 via feeds.eonline.com
  Lizzo is feeling good as hell.The 31-year-old artist took to Instagram on Sunday to share a video of herself making it rain at a strip club in Atlanta."I COULD CRY,"...
  
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• 21st-century box: TV writers on their best shows since 2000

  16-09-2019 16:01 via theguardian.com
  From Sharon Horgan and Sally Wainwright to Armando Iannucci and Julian Fellowes, the creators whose shows feature in our top 100 pick their favourite TV of the centuryThe 100 best TV shows of the 21st centuryNurse Jackie
  I nominate Nurse Jackie created by Liz Brixius, Linda Wallem and Evan Dunsky. I don’t think I’d have written Happy Valley if I hadn’t seen Nurse Jackie. You could feel the creative energy buzzing through every episode, in the way it was written, shot and perfor
  
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• BBC scraps public vote and TV show to choose Eurovision song

  16-09-2019 15:02 via theguardian.com
  In a ‘turning point for the UK at Eurovision’, the corporation is teaming up with a record label to choose the artist and track for the competitionThe BBC is overhauling how the UK act for the Eurovision song contest is selected, scrapping the public vote in favour of teaming up with a record label to choose the singer and the song.Mel Balac, the creative director of BBC Studios, the corporation’s commercial arm, described the deal with the record label, BMG, as a “turnin
  
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• Harvey Weinstein told Cara Delevingne to 'get a beard'

  16-09-2019 14:20
  Actor says the former producer advised her she would never make it in Hollywood as a gay womanCara Delevingne has revealed that she was told by Harvey Weinstein to “get a beard” to cover up her sexuality in order to succeed in the film industry. In an interview with Net a Porter, Delevingne said that “one of the first things Harvey Weinstein ever said to me was, ‘You will never make it in this industry as a gay woman – get a beard.’”The term “beard
  
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• 'Bollywood Oscars' comes home with first ceremony in India

  16-09-2019 13:32
  20th international Indian film academy awards will be held in Mumbai this weekThe international Indian film academy awards – known as the Bollywood Oscars – are to be held in India for the first time in their history this week.Mumbai will host the 20th IIFA awards ceremony on Wednesday, where the megastars of a booming Hindi film industry will celebrate another bumper year, including in huge markets such as China. The event has been held in countries around the world since it began i
  
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• TV tonight: a harrowing, vital look at life in prison

  16-09-2019 07:00 via theguardian.com
  A landmark documentary begins by following inmates on the notorious indeterminate sentences for public protection. Plus: David Cameron surfaces to plug his book. Here’s what to watch this eveningThe criminal justice system can seem a monolithic entity – one that swallows up prisoners and spits them out into society. This landmark documentary, filmed over the course of three years, follows each step of the process, from arrest to trial, incarceration and the aftermath. In this first e
  
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• The 100 best TV shows of the 21st century

  16-09-2019 07:00 via theguardian.com
  Where’s Mad Men? How did The Sopranos do? Does The Crown triumph? Can anyone remember Lost? And will Downton Abbey even figure? Find out here – and have your sayWe interview the No 1 show’s creatorMore of the best Film | Albums | ClassicalContinue reading...
  
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• David Chase on why he wrote The Sopranos: 'I needed help. I needed therapy'

  16-09-2019 07:00 via theguardian.com
  As his mobster-in-therapy masterpiece is named the best TV of the century, its creator says he was just thrashing out his own issues with his domineering, suffocating motherThe 100 best TV shows of the 21st centuryThe first image David Chase had in mind for the show that became The Sopranos was a closeup of Tony Soprano opening his eyes, “waking up for the day”. That scene ended up falling later in the pilot. The opening scene, as any of the show’s superfans will happily inform
  
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• Phyllis Newman, Tony Award-Winning Broadway Star, Is Dead at 86

  16-09-2019 06:24 via nytimes.com
  The actress, who won a Tony in 1962 for her role in the musical “Subways Are for Sleeping,” also raised millions of dollars to help women in entertainment deal with health problems.
  
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• Review: Being Brainwashed Into Joy in Derren Brown’s ‘Secret’

  16-09-2019 05:16 via nytimes.com
  This one-mentalist show, in which Mr. Brown peers into the minds of his audience, offers exhilaration and comfort to New York City’s head cases.
  
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• Succession recap: season two, episode six – Logan is losing it

  16-09-2019 04:10 via theguardian.com
  An entertainingly perilous episode in which old scandals come back to haunt the Roys ... and threaten to bring everything crashing down
  Spoiler alert: this recap is for people watching Succession season two, which airs on HBO in the US and Sky Atlantic in the UK. Do not read on unless you have watched episode six. Continue reading...
  
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• Hulk actor Mark Ruffalo smashes PM's attempt at incredible Brexit metaphor

  16-09-2019 02:51
  Ruffalo pointed out to Boris Johnson that the Marvel character only fights for the good of the whole, as PM’s comments drew widespread derisionEU dismay as Boris Johnson compares himself to HulkEU officials reject Boris Johnson claim of ‘huge progress’ in Brexit talksHulk might be strong, but he works best as part of team, says Hollywood star Mark Ruffalo, who probably knows a little bit more about the Marvel superhero than the prime minister.The actor, who has portrayed the an
  
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