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• A Poem for International Women’s Day, Read by Vanessa Williams

  06-03-2020 22:51 via nytimes.com
  
  As part of our series “Read T a Poem,” the actress performs a work by Maya Angelou.
  
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• Christina Aguilera's New Songs Will Get You Even More Excited for Mulan

  06-03-2020 22:43 via feeds.eonline.com
  
  Christina Aguilera just gave us another big reason to get excited for Mulan.Just weeks before the release of Disney's highly anticipated movie, a new song from the soundtrack has...
  
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• Hachette cancels plan to publish Woody Allen memoir

  06-03-2020 21:25
  
  Staff at Hachette’s New York office walked out in protest‘The decision to cancel Mr Allen’s book was a difficult one’Hachette has dropped plans to publish a memoir by Woody Allen, the Oscar-winning film director who has been accused of sexually abusing his daughter. Related: Ronan Farrow condemns his publisher over Woody Allen memoirContinue reading...
  
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• With ‘The Trade,’ Matthew Heineman Puts a Human Face on a Divisive Issue

  06-03-2020 18:30 via nytimes.com
  
  The Oscar-nominated director talked about Season 2 of his Showtime documentary series, which explores the Central American migrant crisis from both sides of the border.
  
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• Cinema bullish in the face of coronavirus despite projected $5bn loss

  06-03-2020 16:33
  
  Blockbuster releases remain largely on track, as do plans for the Cannes film festival but unease increases behind the scenesThe UK’s largest cinema chain says fears over the spread of coronavirus have not yet significantly impacted ticket sales, despite a 20% fall in its shares over the past two days.Following news on Wednesday that the release of new James Bond film No Time to Die would be pushed back from April to November, Cineworld’s shares fell 13%. Continue reading...
  
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• Batman and His Many Robins

  06-03-2020 16:21 via nytimes.com
  
  The famous sidekick turns 80 on Friday. Many people have worn Robin’s costume over the years — and they were not all boy wonders.
  
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• ‘Look Up Here!’: 5 Female Directors Reject the Male Gaze

  06-03-2020 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  These directors are acutely aware of Hollywood’s tendency to objectify female characters. So in their own work, they’re taking steps to avoid that trap.
  
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• Johnny Depp ordered to disclose audio recordings before libel trial

  06-03-2020 13:56
  
  Actor suing publishers of the Sun over article alleging he was violent towards Amber HeardJohnny Depp will have to disclose audio recordings of conversations between him and his ex-wife Amber Heard, as part of his libel claim against a British tabloid newspaper.The Hollywood actor is suing News Group Newspapers (NGN), the publishers of the Sun, and its executive editor, Dan Wootton, over an article that alleged he was violent and abusive towards Heard and that referred to him as a “wife-be
  
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• This week’s best home entertainment: from Mrs Fletcher to The Test

  06-03-2020 12:59
  
  Tom Perrotta’s empty-nester tale gets an HBO adaptation, while Amazon joins the Aussie cricket team on the road to redemptionKathryn Hahn is the titular Mrs Fletcher, a single mother coming to terms with an empty nest and a newfound exploration of her sex life after her son Brendan (Jackson White) moves away for college. Based on Election writer Tom Perrotta’s 2017 novel, it is an intelligent and raucously funny look at two generations coming of age, together.
  Tuesday 10 March, 10.15
  
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• With a 7-Hour Saga, Robert Lepage Returns to Safer Ground

  06-03-2020 11:47 via nytimes.com
  
  The Canadian director’s “The Seven Streams of the River Ota” is set for a world tour, after his most recent productions were embroiled in debates about cultural appropriation.
  
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• HBO to make TV series based on apocalyptic video game The Last of Us

  06-03-2020 11:42
  
  Chernobyl creator Craig Mazin will work on the adaptation with the game’s creative director Neil DruckmannHBO is working on a television adaptation of the bestselling video game The Last of Us.It will be written by Craig Mazin, the creator of highly acclaimed TV series Chernobyl, together with Neil Druckmann, the creative director on the game and its forthcoming sequel, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Continue reading...
  
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• Amazing Stories review – Spielberg anthology is full of heart

  06-03-2020 10:00
  
  Apple has rebooted the director’s hit 80s sci-fi show. It might not be on trend, but it has optimism and nostalgia at its coreDo you remember the first iteration of Steven Spielberg’s Amazing Stories in the mid-80s? An anthology series back in the days when we just called it “TV”. Some episodes were better than others, but they were all solid, satisfying, fully braced tales that left you with a deep sense of contentment. Restorative to the spirit in both form and content
  
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• ‘Spenser Confidential’ Review: Good Guy P.I.

  06-03-2020 09:01 via nytimes.com
  
  The movie may be an easily forgettable action comedy, but as a Mark Wahlberg vehicle it is also easily watchable.
  
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• TV tonight: the return of murder and mayhem in Weimar Germany

  06-03-2020 07:20
  
  Babylon Berlin crashes back on our screens with the city in chaos and an actor mysteriously killed. Plus: Michael Kiwanuka live. Here’s what to watch this eveningBilled as the most expensive non-English language TV drama ever, the adaptation of Volker Kutscher’s bestselling detective novels returns for its third season. We open with Berlin in the midst of the 1929 stock market crash and the city’s further descent into chaos after Germany’s first world war defeat. While th
  
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• Here's to fearless female trailblazers – podcasts of the week

  06-03-2020 07:00
  
  Zandra Rhodes and Judy Collins are among the interviewees in the second series of The Last Bohemians. Plus: quilting with Mel Giedroyc, and coronavirus mythbustingThe Last Bohemians
  Journalist and broadcaster Kate Hutchinson’s podcast, which celebrates female trailblazers, returns for a welcome second series with a brilliant lineup. First up is folk great Judy Collins, who talks through her life from the Leonard Cohen years back in Greenwich Village through to the present day, via an avers
  
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• Falsehoods spread and mutate as a virus does

  06-03-2020 06:00 via ft.com
  Can we contain all this misinformation any more than we are containing Covid-19?
  
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• Hachette workers stage walkout to protest publication of Woody Allen memoir

  06-03-2020 03:52
  
  Workers say company is not listening to their concerns over support for film-maker accused of sexual abuseDozens of Hachette employees staged a walkout of its New York City offices on Thursday in protest against the company’s decision to publish Woody Allen’s autobiography.Grand Central, a Hachette imprint, announced this week it would publish the Hollywood director’s Apropos of Nothing on 7 April. Financial terms were not disclosed for the book, which Grand Central quietly acq
  
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• ‘Girl From the North Country’ Review: Bob Dylan’s Amazing Grace

  06-03-2020 03:45 via nytimes.com
  
  This ravishing and singular musical, written and directed by Conor McPherson, hears America singing — Dylan — during the Great Depression.
  
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• Taika Waititi to make two Charlie and the Chocolate Factory series for Netflix

  06-03-2020 02:26
  
  New Zealand Oscar winner to develop animated show based on the beloved Roald Dahl bookThe Academy Award-winning director Taika Waititi has signed a deal with Netflix to write, direct and produce two animated series based on the works of the children’s author, Roald Dahl.The entertainment giant said Waititi’s collaboration with Netflix would be “based on the world and characters of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, while the second series would be a “wholly origina
  
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• Nick Apollo Forte, 81, Has-Been Singer in ‘Broadway Danny Rose,’ Is Dead

  06-03-2020 00:41 via nytimes.com
  
  In a very brief acting career, Mr. Forte played a small-time lounge singer opposite Woody Allen as his bottom-feeding agent in a hit 1984 comedy.
  
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