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• Frankie Boyle's Tour of Scotland review – och aye, it's the new travelogue king!

  07-02-2020 23:30
  
  There comes a time in every comedian’s career, says Boyle, when its time to sign up for a televised jolly. If only they were all as hilarious as this spiky, Billy Connolly-style adventureIt is so rare that I laugh – actually laugh out loud – at a programme that I cannot remember the last time. I smile plenty – sometimes wryly, sometimes balefully, sometimes properly – sigh in appreciative recognition of a beautifully crafted joke often, and mentally prostrate myself
  
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• Matthew McConaughey Can't Stand Kate Hudson's Love Fern From How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days

  07-02-2020 23:08 via feeds.eonline.com
  
  Our love fern! You let it die!Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson are still arguing over "that damn fern" from How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days. The actors, who co-starred in the...
  
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• Tika Sumpter Raves About Jim Carrey & ''Dynamic'' Mixed-ish Role on Daily Pop

  07-02-2020 22:32 via feeds.eonline.com
  
  Tika Sumpter has always admired Jim Carrey's work."I look up to him," Sumpter says of her Sonic the Hedgehog co-star in this exclusive interview clip from Friday's Daily...
  
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• Stars urged to ditch the red carpet sequins to save the oceans

  07-02-2020 22:24
  
  Although shiny on the red carpet they ‘hide serious socio-environmental impacts’Fashion insiders are warning the great and the good of Hollywood not to wear sequins on the Academy Awards red carpet because of their terrible environmental impact.Last Sunday at the Baftas, despite guests being urged to opt for more planet-friendly fashion choices, Scarlett Johansson wore a sequinned pink Versace dress, Rebel Wilson was wrapped in a red sequin custom-made Prabal Gurung gown and Naomie H
  
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• Inside Margot Robbie's Heavily Populated Private World

  07-02-2020 21:12 via feeds.eonline.com
  
  Where did Margot Robbie come from?Well, Australia--we know that. But it seems as if one day she wasn't on Hollywood's radar and the next she was one of the most sought-after...
  
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• These 10 Foreign Language Films Have Been Nominated for Best Picture

  07-02-2020 21:11 via nytimes.com
  
  The Korean thriller “Parasite” may become the first non-English language film to win the Oscar for best picture. Here’s a look at the previous nominees that lost.
  
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• Review: Blood Runs Too Thick in ‘Doctors Jane and Alexander’

  07-02-2020 20:23 via nytimes.com
  
  Edward Einhorn’s playful play takes on a lot: his scientist grandfather, his aging mother and his own doubts about putting their lives onstage.
  
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• Level up! Mythic Quest is the TV video game adventure that just keeps getting better

  07-02-2020 19:00
  
  It may not be a nerdfest of Silicon Valley proportions, but – like the best games themselves – Apple TV+’s new comedy starring Rob McElhenney will soon have you hookedIt hasn’t been around for very long, but Apple TV+ has already gained a reputation for substandard first episodes. Plenty of people were turned off by the rote prestige of The Morning Show, for example, which meant that they missed out on a great series. And the first episode of See was also very bad. Admitt
  
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• When Are the Oscars? What Time? We Have Answers!

  07-02-2020 18:36 via nytimes.com
  
  Here’s everything you need to know so you can sound like you were paying attention all along.
  
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• This Little Girl Reenacting Her Favorite Frozen Scene Will Melt Your Heart

  07-02-2020 18:16 via feeds.eonline.com
  
  Let it go!
  Meet adorable Madelyn, the sweet toddler who was so excited that it snowed, that she started reenacting her favorite song "Let It Go" from the hit Disney animated film...
  
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• Oscars speeches expected to be more 'direct, forceful and correct'

  07-02-2020 18:15
  
  Winners and presenters pressured to provide memorable moments at Sunday’s Academy Awards, while previous winners weigh in on what makes a good acceptance speechWhen Joaquin Phoenix used his Bafta acceptance speech to call out the “systemic racism” of the film industry last week, the uncomfortable silence that fell upon his A-list audience was reflective of a particularly confusing awards season. Phoenix was praised for his stance later, but in the moment, stars seemed unsure wh
  
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• Locke and Key review – step inside Netflix's house of horrors

  07-02-2020 18:01
  
  Based on an established comic series, this fantasy epic wrings new life out of the old haunted house trope via demons, family trauma and some very powerful keys‘A great decade for horror’: Joe Hill on the doom boom in comics
  Much is made of Netflix being a slave to the algorithm, cancelling beloved shows judged to have underperformed by the streaming behemoth’s mysterious metrics and rushing to commission new content that echoes proven hits. At first glance, their latest global
  
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• Who Are the Birds of Prey, Exactly? A Guide to Harley Quinn’s Team

  07-02-2020 17:34 via nytimes.com
  
  With the movie “Birds of Prey” in theaters, we offer a character explainer.
  
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• Frozen's Idina Menzel Will Be Joined by 9 Elsas from Around the World At the 2020 Oscars

  07-02-2020 16:36 via feeds.eonline.com
  
  The 2020 Oscars are going into the unknown.On Friday morning, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and Good Morning America announced that when Idina Menzel takes the Oscars...
  
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• The Hashtag That Changed the Oscars: An Oral History

  07-02-2020 16:17 via nytimes.com
  
  Five years ago, #OscarsSoWhite rewrote the narrative in an industry with entrenched disparities. Here, Spike Lee, Ava DuVernay and other insiders tell the story as they lived it.
  
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• Rom-Com Movie Tournament: Round 3! Vote for Your Favorite Romantic Comedy to Send to the Finals

  07-02-2020 15:00 via feeds.eonline.com
  
  We've narrowed down the romantic comedies you're still crushing on!During the last round of our tournament, you sounded off on your favorites to get them to the next level of the...
  
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• Readers React to ‘The Inheritance’: ‘We Are All Just Humans Looking for a Purpose’

  07-02-2020 14:12 via nytimes.com
  
  Did reaction to Matthew Lopez’s award-winning play about gay history vary by generation? We put that question to readers of our theater newsletter.
  
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• What I Wanted to Say in ‘The Inheritance.’ And What I Didn’t.

  07-02-2020 14:11 via nytimes.com
  
  Matthew Lopez on what inspired his two-part play about gay culture in the wake of AIDS, and the limits of “affirmative representation.”
  
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• Disney C.E.O. Apologizes to P.T.A. Asked to Pay After ‘Lion King’ Screening

  07-02-2020 14:09 via nytimes.com
  
  Two months after a Berkeley, Calif., elementary school showed a privately owned DVD of the film at a movie night, a licensing representative for Disney told the school to pay a $250 fee.
  
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• So much for the techlash

  07-02-2020 14:00 via ft.com
  Nearly every issue flagged as a potential problem for Apple, Amazon and their like seems to be passing by in a haze
  
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• Liam Hemsworth Is in a Race to Stay Alive in Most Dangerous Game Trailer

  07-02-2020 14:00 via feeds.eonline.com
  
  Liam Hemsworth is ready to play the Most Dangerous Game.E! News has your exclusive first look at Hemsworth's new series, Most Dangerous Game, for the upcoming Quibi streaming...
  
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• Investigating the Missing 2000 Oscar Statue Heist

  07-02-2020 14:00 via feeds.eonline.com
  
  With four wins from 12 nominations, the late Katharine Hepburn holds the record for most Academy Award wins. Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson and Daniel Day-Lewis trail her with three a piece....
  
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• Crooked preachers and sexy priests: has TV got a problem with Christianity?

  07-02-2020 13:29
  
  Christians on TV were once limited to ethical debates and Songs of Praise. But from Fleabag to The Righteous Gemstones, portrayals are now less pious and more provocativeShocking as it may seem to newer viewers of British TV, there used to be a BBC-ITV ratings battle between shows in which viewers sang hymns and told Bible stories.The Sunday stand-off between the public service Songs of Praise and the commercial Highway was the biggest manifestation of what broadcasters called the “God slo
  
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• This week’s best home entertainment: from Pale Horse to Castle Rock

  07-02-2020 13:00
  
  Rufus Sewell stars in a chilling Agatha Christie adaptation, while JJ Abrams brings back Castle Rock for a second seasonAn Agatha Christie chiller for your wintry Sunday nights, starring a panicked Rufus Sewell as Mark Easterbrook, who is grieving the sudden death of his first wife when his name is found on a list in a dead woman’s shoe. When others on the list also die, Easterbrook must clear his name, before he too becomes victim to this mysterious force.
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• A New Era for the Berlin Film Festival, With Two at the Top

  07-02-2020 12:44 via nytimes.com
  
  The event, which starts this month, joins many other German arts organizations in having two equal leaders rather than a single all-powerful figure.
  
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• Phillip Schofield, This Morning presenter, announces he is gay

  07-02-2020 11:54
  
  ITV show host appeals for kindness, particularly to wife and daughters who support him
  Phillip Schofield, the co-presenter of ITV’s This Morning programme, has announced he is gay.In a statement released on the programme’s Twitter account, the presenter, who has been married to his wife for almost 27 years, paid tribute to his family. Continue reading...
  
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• Phillip Schofield, ITV presenter, announces he is gay

  07-02-2020 11:19
  
  This Morning host appeals for kindness, particularly to wife and daughters who support him
  Phillip Schofield, the co-presenter of ITV’s This Morning programme, has announced he is gay.In a statement released on the programme’s Twitter account, the presenter, who has been married to his wife for almost 27 years, paid tribute to his family. Continue reading...
  
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• How a Champion of Female Filmmakers Spends Her Sundays

  07-02-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  When Melissa Silverstein is not spending time with her beloved dog, she is taking Hollywood to task.
  
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• TV tonight: Frankie Boyle on a cynic's tour of Scotland

  07-02-2020 07:20
  
  The comedian explores his home country as he prepares new material for a UK tour. Plus: French crime thriller Just One Look. Here’s what to watch this evening“There comes a time in every comedian’s life where he ends up doing travelogues,” says Frankie Boyle, and so we join the comic on a bucolic tour of his home country as he prepares new material in small clubs for an upcoming UK run. Boyle is typically caustic, spending time with a hermit, Jake, in Aberdeenshire and co
  
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• The truth about the British empire – podcasts of the week

  07-02-2020 07:00
  
  Journalist Afua Hirsch hosts a new series about the complex legacy of colonialism. Plus: sad tales and silver linings in Susan Calman’s Mrs BrightsideWe Need to Talk About the British Empire
  Journalist and author Afua Hirsch hosts this thoughtful new pod for Audible about the untold stories of a power that, at its peak, covered 25% of the globe. Digging into its history and legacy, she interviews six figures, including Benjamin Zephaniah and broadcaster Anita Rani, who – in discoveri
  
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• The financiers who struck it rich on ‘Joker’

  07-02-2020 06:00 via ft.com
  Oscar-nominated movie was wildly profitable, but studio Warner Bros had to share spoils
  
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• Why are the Oscars still so white?

  07-02-2020 04:00
  
  Following a strikingly white and male list of Bafta nominees, this year’s Academy Awards shortlists are barely more diverse. It’s a chronic problem in an industry running out of excuses for its slow pace of change. Lanre Bakare examines why the Oscars are still so white. Plus: Joan E Greve on a hectic week of US politicsWhen the lists of nominees for the major film awards in 2020 were announced, there was, once again, a glaring anomaly. Not a single person of colour was nominated in
  
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• Len Blavatnik-backed Warner Music files for IPO

  07-02-2020 00:22 via ft.com
  Record label’s stable of stars includes Ed Sheeran and Bruno Mars
  
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