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• When a Corporate Picnic Plus Shakespeare Is Anything but Routine

  16-07-2020 22:26 via nytimes.com
  
  For a Cantor Fitzgerald lawyer, a summer ritual in Central Park is a reminder of how New York can heal the hurting.
  
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• The Time I Saw Angela Lansbury Instead of the Horse Show

  16-07-2020 22:24 via nytimes.com
  
  Not so long ago, top stars brought top musicals to suburban arenas that started their lives as tents.
  
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• Netflix shares slide after weak subscriber growth warning

  16-07-2020 22:24 via ft.com
  Lockdown-fuelled boom in membership is slowing down, says streaming group
  
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• Netflix shares slide after warning over weak subscriber growth

  16-07-2020 22:24 via ft.com
  Lockdown-fuelled boom in membership is slowing down, says streaming group
  
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• Netflix shares slide after it forecasts weak subscriber growth

  16-07-2020 22:24 via ft.com
  Lockdown-related sign-up boom is slowing, says streaming pioneer
  
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• Missing Theater Under the Stars (Even the Bugs and the Rain)

  16-07-2020 22:06 via nytimes.com
  
  Shakespeare in the Park and other outdoor venues are shut. But for performers and directors, open-air memories are as sharp as the bite of a mosquito.
  
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• Do Cinematographers Have a Signature? Let’s Try a Test

  16-07-2020 20:56 via nytimes.com
  
  The very different “Elephant Man” and “Cape Fear” share similarities that you might put down to the work of one director of photography, Freddie Francis.
  
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• Winona Ryder says Johnny Depp was never violent to her

  16-07-2020 17:34
  
  Ex-partners Ryder and Vanessa Paradis say allegations against actor are ‘impossible to believe’Two of Johnny Depp’s former partners, Winona Ryder and Vanessa Paradis, have said he was never abusive or violent towards them and that allegations he is a “wife-beater” were “impossible to believe”.The two women had been due to give evidence at the high court in London on Thursday via remote video links from the US. Continue reading...
  
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• Leonardo Villar, Venerated Brazilian Actor, Dies at 96

  16-07-2020 17:14 via nytimes.com
  
  From telenovelas to a winner of the Palme d’Or, this member of Brazil’s cinematic royalty devoted himself entirely to his work.
  
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• Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith's 'entanglement' proves social media is the new reality TV

  16-07-2020 16:46 via theguardian.com
  
  Skipping the mainstream media, the actors chose to discuss – and monetise – their relationship on Red Table Talk. And they’re not the only ones This will likely go down as one of the most dramatic years in recent history. So much so, that Jada Pinkett Smith sitting across from her husband Will Smith, to discuss a romantic relationship she had with the musician August Alsina while they were married, is unlikely to even rank in the top 10 most surreal moments.The couple candidly
  
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• ‘The Sunlit Night’ Review: A Trip to the Arctic to Find Her Muse

  16-07-2020 16:46 via nytimes.com
  
  Jenny Slate stars as a creatively stunted painter searching for inspiration in the Norwegian summer.
  
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• Now That Studio Ghibli Is Streaming on HBO Max, Where Do You Start?

  16-07-2020 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  If you’re new to the riches of the Japanese animation studio, our guide can help you sort through its wonderfully deep catalog.
  
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• Charlize Theron Totally Freaked Out Her Valet With Her Fake Ax

  16-07-2020 14:15 via feeds.eonline.com
  
  Charlize Theron appeared on Wednesday's episode of Late Night With Seth Meyers and spoke about her new movie The Old Guard.The 44-year-old actress played an immortal warrior named...
  
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• Johnny Depp did not retaliate to abuse from Amber Heard, court told

  16-07-2020 13:12
  
  Bodyguard claims Heard threw bottles and glasses towards Depp when she was drunk Amber Heard threw bottles and glasses at Johnny Depp and was abusive towards him when she was drunk, Depp’s bodyguard has told the high court. Depp, it was said, did not retaliate.Sean Bett, who has worked with Depp for 14 years, said he never saw the Hollywood actor inflict physical violence on anyone. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘The Painted Bird’ Review: Horrors That Can’t Be Unseen

  16-07-2020 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  An ambitious adaptation of Jerzy Kosinski’s debut novel doesn’t quite translate to the screen.
  
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• ‘Flannery’ Review: Stories About a Writer

  16-07-2020 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Flannery O’Connor created a still-disturbing body of work; but this documentary is surprisingly flat.
  
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• ‘Father Soldier Son’ Review: Service and Sacrifice

  16-07-2020 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  This Netflix documentary from New York Times journalists tracks a long-serving soldier and father for a decade after he is grievously wounded in action.
  
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• ‘Dirt Music’ Review: Damaged Lovers and Dreamy Landscapes

  16-07-2020 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In this gorgeous Australian drama, Kelly Macdonald and Garrett Hedlund play lonely souls haunted by their pasts.
  
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• ‘Blessed Child’ Review: Leaving the Fold, but Not Family

  16-07-2020 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A former member of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s Unification Church interrogates her relationship with the movement, widely regarded as a cult.
  
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• Entering a Paris Theater, Warily, and Finding a Weight Lifted

  16-07-2020 12:22 via nytimes.com
  
  Audience members seemed to be asking one another, “Are we really doing this?” But the over-the-top physicality of “Ionesco Suite” was worth it.
  
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• 16 Sweet Secrets About A Cinderella Story Revealed

  16-07-2020 12:00 via feeds.eonline.com
  
  Raise your hand if you used "Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game" in your AIM profile in 2004.16 years ago, A Cinderella Story hit theaters and...
  
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• 'I’ve seen how uprisings have come from pain': Idris Elba on Black Lives Matter

  16-07-2020 10:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Elba and Bill Bailey reflect on the lessons we can learn from past as their 80s-set sitcom, In the Long Run, returns to Sky“History maketh the man,” says Idris Elba. The actor is quoting his late father, a man who he has spent the past two years playing a version of in his 1980s-set Sky sitcom, In the Long Run.“The 80s saw massive explosions in politics and culture – from Mandela and apartheid to Thatcher – and it was also when I grew into a teenager and experienced
  
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• ‘Fatal Affair’ Review: Close Stalker

  16-07-2020 09:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Nia Long and Omar Epps ignite a dangerous obsession in this hackneyed romantic melodrama.
  
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• Unlocking the Secrets of Inception, Christopher Nolan's Most Mind-Bending Movie...So Far

  16-07-2020 09:00 via feeds.eonline.com
  
  Ah, Inception, the movie you saw and then needed to see again because you were all like "wait, what?"The most mind-bendy of Christopher Nolan's pleasantly mind-bending...
  
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• TV tonight: an emotional ride with an ambulance team

  16-07-2020 07:20 via theguardian.com
  
  Gripping stuff as paramedics deal with a cardiac arrest and a possible plane crash. Plus: Martin Scorsese gets the retrospective treatment. Here’s what to watch tonightIt has been a tough and emotionally demanding five weeks for the North West ambulance service in the BBC’s gripping documentary series, filmed pre-lockdown. In tonight’s finale, we follow paramedics Gareth and Gabby as they first attend to a patient who has collapsed in a shopping centre and then rush to a trauma
  
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• Final call for the in-flight magazine?

  16-07-2020 06:00 via ft.com
  It has survived the challenge of onboard movies, iPads and WiFi, but Covid-19 presents a bigger threat
  
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