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Cinematic Segregation? New Plan for Oscars Misses the Mark
Instead of creating a new category for “popular” films, limit Best Picture contenders to box office champs.
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The Avengers Approach ‘Infinity'
“Avengers: Infinity War” arrives amid the high expectations raised by “Black Panther” and the biggest assemblage of Marvel heroes yet.
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Tracy Morgan's New TV Life
With “The Last O.G,” the comedian who beat death proves the original gangster is a comeback kid.
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Stephen Hawking Made Geek Culture Cool
How the scientist who traveled the cosmos in his mind became a staple of the pop culture universe.
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Last Year's Super Bowl Ads Worth a Replay
Super Bowl ads usually offer brief opportunities for escapism – from both reality and the big game. Last year’s commercial crop did an OK job of entertaining between plays.
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Why Barack Obama and David Letterman Make a Great Match
Their Netflix interview marks an opportunity for both to set the tone for life after the biggest jobs either will ever have.
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Still Gotta Have Spike Lee
The Netflix series version of Lee’s ahead-of-its-time 1986 film, “She’s Gotta Have It,” arrives just in time.
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McConnell Admits Effort to Repeal, Replace ‘Obamacare' Will Fail
After the third and fourth Republican senators said they cannot vote for the latest GOP health care bill, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., admitted the bill will not be successful.
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'The Gong Show' Rings Again
The late Chuck Barris’s talent competition burlesque returns to mock the TV absurdity it helped create.
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Out of Bounds: Has a Contrite Bill Maher Learned His Lesson?
The HBO host’s first show back since spouting a racial slur represents a test for him – and for the bounds of comedy.
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The ‘Late Night' Alternate Ending to the Kendall Jenner Pepsi Ad
Seth Meyers and his “Late Night” team offer a different ending to the “tone deaf” Pepsi ad featuring Kendall Jenner.
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Hard to Swallow: Kendall Jenner's Pepsi Generation Gap
The idea behind the commercial was simple – perhaps too simple: Showing Kendall Jenner keeping up with the times by leading a cola-fueled protest as the new, defiantly lipstick-free face of the Pepsi Generation.
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Louis C.K.'s ‘Magic' Week Includes ‘SNL' Host Stint
The comic’s latest stand-up special, which explores his fascination with “Magic Mike,” debuts Tuesday on Netflix as he gets ready to host “Saturday Night Live.”
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New ‘Beauty and the Beast' Puts Disney Classic to the Test
The live-action remake of the classic animated musical arrives Friday amid huge expectations.
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Jimmy Kimmel Mixes Humor, Politics Hosting 89th Oscars
Jimmy Kimmel’s 3 1/2-hour search to find the right tone for an Academy Awards broadcast that uneasily mixed humor and politics ended appropriately: in mass confusion. The stunning, apparent “wrong-envelope” debacle in which favorite “La La Land” was announced as the best picture winner by Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway – only to be given to “Moonlight” moments later –...
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Lost in ‘La La Land'
Sure, it’s a good movie. But the musical’s prospects of Oscar glory Sunday represent a tired song-and-dance from a Hollywood in love with itself.
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Five Things to Watch for at the Oscars
“La La Land” arrives as a heavy favorite. But expect some drama beyond the musical.
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NBC Marks a Big Birthday
The network’s 90th anniversary special, airing Sunday, offers a chance to look back and look ahead.
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Baldwin SNL Hosting Gig Promises to be Fun Ride
The actor’s latest “Saturday Night Live” hosting stint arrives amid buzz over Melissa McCarthy – and President Trump.
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Ricky Gervais' New ‘Office' Song
The comedian revives his cringe-worthy breakout TV character David Brent – and takes him on a timely concert tour, via Netflix.