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• Canadian hockey broadcaster Don Cherry fired after immigrant rant

  15-11-2019 23:00 via ft.com
  Dispute highlights country’s culture wars and the changing face of its national sport
  
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• Martin Sorrell denies slapping former WPP protégé

  15-11-2019 22:30 via ft.com
  Advertising mogul in explosive confrontation at Lisbon conference
  
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• How Watching Hallmark Christmas Movies Could Earn You $1,000--Yes Really

  15-11-2019 20:44 via feeds.eonline.com
  
  It's the most wonderful time of the year!
  It always starts to feel like Christmas whenever Hallmark releases their annual movie line-up. This year marks the 10th anniversary of the...
  
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• Twitter sets out exemptions to political ad ban

  15-11-2019 20:38 via ft.com
  Company grapples with criticism from Elizabeth Warren and others over curbs on campaign groups
  
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• Bloomberg faces €5m fine for reporting fake press release

  15-11-2019 20:38 via ft.com
  French regulators accuse US group of spreading false information over 2016 Vinci hoax
  
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• Kit Harington Ditches Jon Snow for Good in The Death and Life of John F. Donovan Trailer

  15-11-2019 20:28 via feeds.eonline.com
  
  It's Game of Thrones' Jon Snow like you've never seen--or heard--him before.Kit Harington plays the title character, an American TV star, in the film The Death and Life of...
  
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• A Director Asks, Would Jesus Stand With Today’s Migrants?

  15-11-2019 20:28 via nytimes.com
  
  In his telling of the life of Christ, the director Milo Rau envisages a champion for the downtrodden. In Italy, seasonal migrant workers fit that bill.
  
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• Review: An ‘Evita’ Newly Tailored for Our Time

  15-11-2019 20:19 via nytimes.com
  
  City Center’s gala production of the 1979 Broadway musical gives our favorite fascist enabler a feminist makeover.
  
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• 11 of Our Best Weekend Reads

  15-11-2019 19:18 via nytimes.com
  
  Tom Hanks. An Alison Roman Thanksgiving. A review of the third season of “The Crown.” Trump, Ukraine and impeachment. The SoftBank effect. And more.
  
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• Frontline Media

  15-11-2019 18:58 via ft.com
  
  Disney launches streaming services, tech leaders are under fire over disinformation
  
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• Make Way for the Carnal Clowns of Stand-Up

  15-11-2019 18:41 via nytimes.com
  
  Three rising comics share an aesthetic that marries crass physical humor with disarmingly sexual themes. They’re unsettling and hilarious.
  
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• Slackers, stars and soft denim montrosities: why Freaks and Geeks is still the ultimate high school show

  15-11-2019 17:36
  
  The truly cult, infinitely relatable, career-launching series is back on UK screens. All hail this who’s who of megastars that changed the course of teen telly foreverLittle by little, while the world’s attention has been diverted by the big-budget Maclunkeyisms of Disney+ or Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon on Apple TV+, All4 is quietly staking a claim as a streaming service of some repute. Last month it did the country an enormous favour by getting the rights to ER. It’
  
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• ‘Ford v Ferrari’ | Anatomy of a Scene

  15-11-2019 17:19 via nytimes.com
  
  The director James Mangold narrates a scene featuring Christian Bale and Matt Damon.
  
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• Watch Christian Bale Burn Rubber in ‘Ford v Ferrari’

  15-11-2019 17:14 via nytimes.com
  
  The director James Mangold narrates a Le Mans racing scene featuring Bale and Matt Damon.
  
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• Future/magazines: print mint

  15-11-2019 17:10 via ft.com
  Putting more publications online should lift earnings per share by a third by 2021, say analysts
  
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• Young women and older men lead Oscars gender equality

  15-11-2019 16:38
  
  Exclusive: Analysis of this year’s awards contenders reveals three youngest best actor hopefuls have never made a film with a female directorStriking contrasts in the choices of male and female awards contenders – and their potential impact on gender parity in Hollywood – have been uncovered by the Guardian.The three youngest men likely to be in the race for next year’s best actor Oscar have never worked on a film directed by a woman, while the category frontrun
  
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• Hollywood's gender divide laid bare by analysis of this season's Oscar contenders

  15-11-2019 16:38
  
  Exclusive: Data on this year’s awards contenders reveals three youngest best actor hopefuls have never made a film with a female directorStriking contrasts in the choices of male and female awards contenders – and their potential impact on gender parity in Hollywood – have been uncovered by the Guardian.The three youngest men likely to be in the race for next year’s best actor Oscar have never worked on a film directed by a woman, while the category’s frontrunner, J
  
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• These impeachment hearings are unlikely to change minds

  15-11-2019 16:32 via ft.com
  Television and the nature of Congress have changed since the landmark events of 1973
  
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• What Taron Egerton Really Thinks of Rami Malek Lip Syncing In Bohemian Rhapsody

  15-11-2019 15:23 via feeds.eonline.com
  
  Taron Egerton and Rami Malek both know what it's like to play a music icon.Malek won an Oscar for his portrayal of Queen front man Freddie Mercury in 2018's Bohemian Rhapsody,...
  
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• Netflix to amend Holocaust documentary after complaints from Polish government

  15-11-2019 14:33
  
  The streaming giant will make changes to The Devil Next Door, after drawing criticism for showing concentration and extermination camps within modern–day Polish borders Netflix is to amend its Holocaust documentary The Devil Next Door, amid criticism from the Polish government about maps that located concentration and extermination camps within the country’s current borders. Released on 4 November, the five–part true-crime series tells the story of John Demjanjuk, a Ukrainian m
  
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• Last of the Summer Wine's Jean Fergusson dies at 74

  15-11-2019 14:24
  
  Actor played flirtatious Marina in sitcom and Dorothy Hoyle in Coronation StreetJean Fergusson, who played Marina in Last of the Summer Wine for more than two decades, has died aged 74. She died at home in the early hours of Thursday.She played Marina in the long-running sitcom from 1985 until it ended in 2010. She also appeared in Coronation Street as different characters in 1987 and 1999 and as Dorothy Hoyle from 2010 to 2011. Continue reading...
  
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• BT retains ‘must-win’ UK Champions League rights

  15-11-2019 14:22 via ft.com
  Deal to keep screening Europe’s top club football competition vital to group’s sports channels
  
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• This week’s best home entertainment: from The Crown to I'm a Celebrity

  15-11-2019 13:00
  
  Netflix’s megabucks royal ’em up is back with added Olivia Colman, and more slebs prepare to debase themselves on TV for our amusementWith Olivia Colman as the now “settled monarch”, this third series of The Crown follows the 13 years from 1964 to the Silver Jubilee – and there is much ground to cover. Helena Bonham Carter is on excellent form as Princess Margaret, while Colman gives the Queen some much-needed emotionality amid continuing power-grabbing crises.
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• It's Never a Bad Idea to Reboot Charlie's Angels: How the New Kickass Trio Compares

  15-11-2019 12:00 via feeds.eonline.com
  
  The names and hairstyles have changed, but the intent behind Charlie's Angels remains the same.
  Women can kick as much, and often times much more, ass than men, especially in...
  
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• Very Ralph review – a flashy designer documentary that's so last season

  15-11-2019 11:36
  
  HBO’s look at Ralph Lauren’s multi-billion-dollar fashion empire delves into an American Dream come true. But post–Trump, it feels more grotesque than glitzyThe rags-to-riches story of Ralph Lauren is something to behold. Born Ralph Lifshitz on 14 October 1939 in the Bronx to Ashkenazi Jewish parents from Belarus, he shared a bedroom with his two brothers and had no formal fashion training. Instead of going to a prestigious fashion school, he started his career flogging ties fr
  
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• Will Streaming Kill the Art of Cinema or Grant It New Life?

  15-11-2019 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A co-chief film critic of The New York Times debates himself on the subject.
  
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• ‘The Report’ and the Untold Story of a Senate-C.I.A. Conflict

  15-11-2019 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The Adam Driver film dramatizes a contentious investigation into post-911 torture. But it leaves out a tense episode that could have buried the results altogether.
  
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• In ‘Ford v Ferrari,’ a Race With Plenty of Real-Life Characters

  15-11-2019 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The Matt Damon-Christian Bale movie is based on the still-controversial 24 Hours of Le Mans run in France in 1966.
  
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• Prince Andrew to be quizzed on Epstein in Newsnight special

  15-11-2019 10:16
  
  BBC to broadcast ‘no holds barred’ interview with royal on Saturday nightPrince Andrew has agreed to speak publicly for the first time about his friendship with the paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, in a “no holds barred” interview with the BBC’s Newsnight programme to be broadcast on Saturday night.The prince has been the subject of fierce speculation over his relationship with the financier, who was found dead in a New York jail cell three months ago. Continue reading..
  
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• I’m With the Band: Nasty Cherry review – move over Simon Cowell, here's Charli XCX!

  15-11-2019 07:30
  
  Netflix’s new reality show follows a girl group primed for stardom by the pop rebel – and you will be hopelessly sucked in by their spectacular tiffsHistorically, girl bands have been put together and managed by middle-aged men, often resulting in the gruesome situation of young women being told what to do, say and wear by those men in order to make the men as much money as possible. As much as I’m With the Band: Nasty Cherry (Netflix) is a fairly standard X Factor setup &ndash
  
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• TV tonight: how Blue Note became the epitome of jazz cool

  15-11-2019 07:20
  
  A music lovers’ must-watch celebrating the great record label, home of Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Herbie Hancock and many others. Plus: Children in Need 2019. Here’s what to watch this eveningWith jazz in good health, Sophie Huber’s history of the famous label is well-timed. Like the best label bosses, Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff were fans more than businessmen. They didn’t just create a space for the music they loved; they created an aesthetic (Reid Miles’s beau
  
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• Dollface review – slick but skin-deep female friendship comedy

  15-11-2019 07:15
  
  A new sitcom about re-entering the world of female friendship after a long relationship has some strong ideas, but is limited in heartThe breakup underlying Dollface, a new half-hour comedy from Hulu, seems implausibly cold and abrupt. One minute, Jules (Kat Dennings, now free of Two Broke Girls) is having lunch with her boyfriend; the next, despite the fact that, as she says, they’ve spent every day for the past half-decade together, he doesn’t love her any more. Then again, very li
  
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• Crazy in love with Beyoncé? Here's the show for you – podcasts of the week

  15-11-2019 07:00
  
  The team behind Serial tell the story of a pop titan. Plus: from oil spills to Oscars blunders, what gaffes can really teach usAs podcasting gets more starstudded by the week, expect to see more of the big events you might usually expect from big TV and film launches. Glenn Close hosts a listening party for musical podcast Anthem: Homunculus on 24 November in New York, where all eight hours of the show – featuring Laurie Anderson, Marion Cotillard and experimental South African singer Nakh
  
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• Taylor Swift Drops Purrfect Cats Song ''Beautiful Ghosts''--Listen Now

  15-11-2019 06:05 via feeds.eonline.com
  
  Taylor Swift and Andrew Lloyd Webber's song "Beautiful Ghosts" is out right now.The dynamic duo collaborated on the track for the upcoming movie adaptation of Cats, which...
  
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• Why Apple is aiming to hire former HBO chief Richard Plepler

  15-11-2019 06:00 via ft.com
  Hiring the ex-HBO chief would signal commitment to quality on new service
  
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• Apple takes on doubters by wooing ex-HBO boss

  15-11-2019 06:00 via ft.com
  Hiring Richard Plepler would signal commitment to quality on new streaming service
  
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• Apple aims for streaming big bang with Plepler talks

  15-11-2019 06:00 via ft.com
  Hiring the ex-HBO chief would signal commitment to quality on new service
  
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• Review: ‘Slava’s Snowshow’ Delivers Flurries of Joy

  15-11-2019 01:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A critic who once resisted the charms of this holiday clownfest found herself floating on happiness this time around.
  
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