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David Crow Sep 27, 2017

David Simon's The Deuce arrived last night in the UK. Spoilers ahead in our Us chums' review of episode 1...

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1.1 The Pilot

The New York City of 1971, the New York City of The Deuce, is before my time. The days of fabled sleaze and seduction, vibrancy and violence, which piled onto the sidewalks like so many ripped garbage bags, have long passed… albeit, the garbage stacks remain. Even upon first visiting the Big Apple nearly 20 years ago, Giuliani Time was deep in the rearview, for better or worse. The crime rate is still way down, and you could walk through Times Square without being bombarded by trash, porno theaters, and rented...

It's a grab-and-go lifestyle when you're a part of the most buzzed about couple in the biz! Ben Affleck and his new girlfriend, Saturday Night Live producer Lindsay Shookus, had all eyes on them when they grabbed some iced coffees to go at Starbucks near Central Park in New York City on Wednesday. Previously the two have been spotted out and about in Los Angeles, where Ben lives. This is the first time they've been seen together as a couple in the City That Never Sleeps. A source tells E! News that the duo were talking and walking happily together on the bustling streets of the Big Apple around 2:30 p.m. The two were outfitted in casual ensembles with Ben, donning a low-key t-shirt and jeans. Lindsay...

How did Kiss Me Deadly come to be restored? The real question should be, how did filmdom lose track of its original ending in the first place? Savant uncovers evidence that may explain when, and why, United Artists mutilated the finish of Robert Aldrich’s apocalyptic film noir.

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Before home video the final home for Hollywood films was Television. Robert Aldrich’s 1955 Kiss Me Deadly never saw a theatrical reissue, and it dropped out of major TV visibility in 1962. I saw the documentation in United Artists’ legal folder on the film. To secure capital to launch more movies, Robert Aldrich sold all of his ‘Associates and Aldrich’ pictures back to UA after their original releases were concluded. More papers showed Kiss Me Deadly being included in at least two TV syndication packages, and then each time pointedly removed.

Indian cinema’s grandest celebration, the 18th Edition of Iifa is all set to delight fans with its premiere edition in New York. The highly anticipated Iifa Festival New York 2017 promises to be a mélange of glitz, glamour and star power with stunning performances from Bollywood megastars such as Salman Khan, Alia Bhatt, Katrina Kaif, Shahid Kapoor, Sushant Singh Rajput, Kriti Sanon, A. R. Rahman among others.

With the excitement growing across the world, people can now get that hot seat for the spectacular Iifa Awards New York 2017 at MetLife Stadium as tickets go Live to the general public beginning Wednesday, from April 19th, 2017, 9.00 am Est. exclusively available online at ticketmaster.com or by calling (800) 745-3000 (The ticket link: http://bit.ly/2pensyz) or by simply clicking the ‘Tickets Tab’ on the official Iifa website http://www.iifa.com/. A special treat for the fans, they can also purchase the...

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As per usual, Khloé Kardashian is telling it like it is on her app. This week’s topic of choice? Sex Books. That’s right, Miss Kardashian is dropping some serious knowledge, sharing the most helpful books in her sex and relationships arsenal with her legions of followers.

Who better than the outspoken reality star to advise us in the language of love? It seems Khloé’s sick of society’s attitude toward matters of romance.

“Honey, ain’t no such thing as Tmi,” Kardashian wrote in her post. “Sex, intimacy and relationships play...

Au revoir, Luis D. Ortiz!

The former Million Dollar Listing: New York star, who announced he was leaving the Bravo series in last year’s season finale, is changing his permanent address from the City that Never Sleeps to the City of Love.

“I can’t believe a month ago I decided to move to Paris and in three days from now it will actually happen,” the real estate agent, 30, wrote on Facebook on Sunday. “Always trust your gut! Don’t ignore it, or worst, convince it that is wrong.”

Ortiz also admitted in the post that he has never actually visited his soon-to-be-home.

What better way to ring in the new year than with a loved one?

Nicole Kidman surprised Keith Urban on stage as the singer headlined Jack Daniel's Music City Midnight: New Year's Eve in Nashville, Tennessee on Saturday. The father of two put on an incredible tribute to artists lost in 2016, including Prince, David Bowie, Merle Haggard, Leonard Cohen and Glenn Frey -- with Kidman joining her husband on stage and dancing in the background.

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The same night, Justin Bieber performed poolside at Fontainebleau Miami Beach, taking the stage right before the clock struck 12 to perform his hit songs, "Sorry," "What Do U Mean," and "Boyfriend," before DJs Marshmello and Skrillex joined the singer onstage for "Where Are U Now." As for who was in attendance for Bieber's New Year's performance? That would be Johnny Manziel, Jeremy Piven, Ansel Elgort, Lala Anthony, and Jonathan Cheban.

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Yes, it is a perfect title for a horror picture, but it belongs to an early film noir -- or as we discover, a murder thriller that previews the classic '40s noir visual look. Victor Mature is the man on the spot for a killing, Betty Grable and Carole Landis are a pair of sisters in danger, and Laird Cregar is the creepiest police detective in the history of the force. I Wake Up Screaming Blu-ray Kl Studio Classics 1941 / B&W / 1:37 flat Academy / 82 min. / Street Date November 1, 2016 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95 Starring Betty Grable, Victor Mature, Carole Landis, Laird Cregar, William Gargan, Alan Mowbray, Allyn Joslyn, Elisha Cook Jr. Cinematography Edward Cronjager Art Direction Richard Day, Nathan Juran Film Editor Robert L. Simpson Original Music Cyril J. Mockridge, Harold Barlow Written by Dwight Taylor from the novel by Steve Fisher Directed by H. Bruce Humberstone

Reviewed by Glenn Erickson

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Here’s your daily dose of an indie film, web series, TV pilot, what-have-you in progress, as presented by the creators themselves. At the end of the week, you’ll have the chance to vote for your favorite.

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Logline: “[Blank] My Life” is a surreal, comedic webseries which follows Susan on her quest to find love and simultaneously not end her life.

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In the second season of this acerbic, dreamy show, “[Blank] My Life,” Susan is more lost than ever and in a last ditch effort to find herself falls in love with a dull lawyer. Meanwhile, her best friend Brendan is applying to acting grad school to try to get the hell out of this dead-beat city called New York. In a vignette quest, the two of them encounter sexually woke baby-sitting charges,...

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It’s night and a ship moves in the water through a dark curtain of fog. We see George Raft as Captain Johnny Angel on the bridge peering out into the pea soup as another vessel looms ahead suddenly in the darkness, abandoned and drifting in the water. Raft sounds the foghorn but there’s no response. He boards the derelict with several of his crew to search for clues as to what happened. They go below to the captain’s quarters and finds it wrecked. A picture lies on a desk in a shattered frame. Raft picks it up and we see it is a picture of him as a younger man standing next to an older one. A crew member enters the cabin and says there is blood below, and water in the hold, but no signs of life.

“Maybe your father’s okay,...

Jeanne Parr may be recognized nowadays for being The Good Wife and Sex and the City actor Chris Noth's mother, but the 92-year-old who died last Friday made a name for herself decades ago as a trailblazing journalist, model, author, and so much more. After modeling and working on local news stations, the Madison, Wisconsin-native became one of the first female news correspondents for CBS. And it all started with a blooper. While doing the weather on a local news station in New Haven, Connecticut, Parr couldn't find the state of Arkansas on a map, according to Wisconsin State Journal.

Jeanne Parr may be recognized nowadays for being The Good Wife and Sex and the City actor Chris Noth's mother, but the 92-year-old who died last Friday made a name for herself decades ago as a trailblazing journalist, model, author, and so much more. After modeling and working on local news stations, the Madison, Wisconsin-native became one of the first female news correspondents for CBS. And it all started with a blooper. While doing the weather on a local news station in New Haven, Connecticut, Parr couldn't find the state of Arkansas on a map, according to Wisconsin State Journal.

Shall we sing the praises of actress Marie Windsor? A self--assessed Queen of the Cheapies, she was anything but cheap, gracing some of the better films noirs and delivering some of the most deliciously acidic dialogue ever heard on screen. The woman doesn't just have bedroom eyes, she has bedroom everything, and a wicked smile to go with it.

No Man's Woman Blu-ray Olive Films 1955 / B&W / 1:66 widescreen / 70 min. / Street Date October 27, 2015 / available through the Olive Films website / 29.98 Starring Marie Windsor, John Archer, Patric Knowles, Nancy Gates, Jil Jarmyn, Richard Crane, Louis Jean Heydt, Percy Helton, Morris Ankrum. Cinematography Bud Thackery Film Editor Howard A. Smith Original Music R. Dale Butts Written by John K. Butler story by Don Martin Produced by Rudy Ralston Directed by Franklin Adreon

Reviewed by Glenn Erickson

Marie Windsor is really something in Abraham Polonsky's Force of Evil, lounging around in an effort to seduce John Garfield.

As BroadwayWorld previously reported, Atlanta-based actors Jeremiah Parker Hobbs and Jessica De Maria have recently launched a KickStarter to help fund their new musical The Last Time We Were Here's participation in the acclaimed New York Musical Theatre Festival Nymf. As part of their KickStarter campaign, running through May 9th, the pair has recently begun a series of interactive videos that asks you to share your favorite story of visiting the 'City that Never Sleeps'...

Nerdist wants to tickle your nerd bone, and then rub some confusion into the wound as it mashes two of your favorites together.

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Also, don’t miss Louie.

In the comedy series Chewie, the galaxy-weary Chewbacca offers us a look inside the Louis C.K-esque day-to-day ordeals of his quest to find love, someone who will let him win at dejarik and perform his hilarious brand of guttural stand-up. Produced by Nerdist Industries and shot on location in New York City, this Louie parody brings a slice of the galaxy far, far away to the City That Never Sleeps. Just don’t interrupt one of his sets at the Comedy Cellar, because this Wookiee will tear you limb from limb — like so many Trandoshan slavers.

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Now that "Mad Men" is winding down to its last 11 episodes, so are the plots and story action. Not much happens, let's face it. Lately, this program has been all about character study. But, hey, isn't "Mad Men" supposed to be about the cutthroat, hedonist, hurlyburly lives of the glam ad boys who can't resist being naughty in the City that Never Sleeps? Join the fierce 'Mad Men' chat going on right now in our message boards -Break- In recent years I think "Mad Men" lost its biggest opportunity when Peggy (Elisabeth Moss) broke free to work for a rival ad firm, then too-quickly capitulated and returned dutifully like whipped dog to the fold. Boring! I was so upset about the missed opportunities for mischief and conflict that I even complained to series creator Matt Weiner, "Why didn't you think of having Peggy and Don go at it...

Exclusive: Will Les Moonves have to install a party line? One day after getting a call from NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio urging the CBS boss to keep Late Show in the City That Never Sleeps after David Letterman steps down next year, I’ve learned that Moonves got a call today from La Mayor Eric Garcetti and Film Czar Ken Ziffren imploring him to bring the late-night franchise to the West Coast. The three spoke this afternoon, I’m told. Related: NYC Mayor Called Les Moonves Directly To Keep Post-Letterman ‘Late Show’ In Big Apple Of course, this isn’t the first time Garcetti has tried to persuade Moonves to put the City of Angels in his late-night future. On the day Letterman announced that he would be retiring in 2015, the SAG-aftra card-carrying mayor wrote to the CBS chief on the matter of Letterman’s successor and where that show would be located.

In a reaction to Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti's plea to CBS to move the Late Show west after David Letterman retires in 2015, the speaker of the New York City Council, Melissa Mark-Viverito, on Friday sent a letter to Les Moonves as well, urging him to keep the program in the place where it originated in 1982. Photos: David Letterman's Career in Pictures "What better place for Late Show," she writes, "than the City That Never Sleeps?" Here is the text of her letter: Leslie Moonves President & CEO CBS Corporation New York, NY 10019 Dear Mr.

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Cute as a button, with an indie heart of gold, Matthew Schuler still could not be saved on Tuesday night’s The Voice, even by the supreme powers of Twitter. But don’t you worry about him! He’s got plans brewing, and when EW caught up with him bright and early Thursday morning, he had already gotten himself to the City That Never Sleeps. There’s no rest for the weary, after all, and certainly not those with dreams of a music career and 79,000 Twitter followers asking when his first single will drop.

Schuler’s confidence and versatile sound...

Here we go: Glee has officially set the wheels in motion for relocating the entire show to New York City.

While it's only been a few weeks since reports of the sea change surfaced, several main characters revealed their intent to move to the Big Apple upon graduating from McKinley High. Blaine hopes to get into Nyada (the New York Academy of the Dramatic Arts), Sam sees it as the best place to fulfill his dream of becoming a model, and Artie – well, for now, he just has a generic "college" excuse.

Glee may soon be taking a bigger bite out of the Big Apple.

Fox’s groundbreaking musical — which for the past year-plus has been splitting its focus between New York and Lima, Ohio — may shift the action entirely to the City That Never Sleeps as early as this season, sources confirm to TVLine exclusively.

Related | Glee Series Finale Speculation — What’s Your Final Wish For Rachel, Kurt and Santana?

It’s one of several ideas Fox is discussing with Glee creators Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan, who have been forced to reexamine all aspects of the show in...

Moviefone's Blu-ray of the Week "Jurassic Park 3D" What's It About? God creates dinosaurs. God destroys dinosaurs. God creates man. Man destroys God. Man creates dinosaurs... Dinosaurs eat man. Woman inherits the earth. Why We're In: It's "Jurassic Park 3D" from the comfort of your home. What more do you need? Moviefone's New Release of the Week "The Impossible" What's It About? Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor star as the parents of a vacationing family that gets separated from each other during the devastating 2004 tsunami of Southeast Asia and struggle to locate each other and their missing children. Why We're In: Watts earned an Oscar nomination and it's easy to see why; as harrowing as the story can be at times, it's an incredibly moving, and even more remarkably, true tale that will keep you captivated. New on DVD & Blu-ray "Any Day Now" What's It About? Alan Cumming stars in...

And what about Argo and Zero Dark Thirty? Joe Queenan on why Hollywood keeps making the same films twice

A few weeks back, I felt a burning desire to see a movie about a person with deep psychological problems who is sometimes given to violent episodes, whose marriage is a complete disaster, and who has trouble finding the right medication to deal with these assorted personality disorders. It was one of those long, grey, miserable afternoons where you just know at some primal level that seeing a movie about a deeply disturbed human being will make you feel better about your own sad little life. This, after all, is what movies are all about.

Unfortunately, I arrived at the multiplex too late to see Bradley Cooper weave his special magic in Silver Linings Playbook. So instead I caught Side Effects, in which Rooney Mara plays a person with deep psychological...

Live from New York, it’s Saturday Night! Also live from New York? Me! I’m here working on some upcoming projects, but I’m still reporting for duty (albeit with frigid fingers) here in the City That Never Sleeps. On deck tonight: host Adam “Moves Like Jagger” Levine and musical guest Kendrick Lamar. Levine was a semi-controversial choice as host in some circles, but if Bruno Mars taught us anything this year, it’s that someone used to performing in front of live audiences often is a great choice to host “SNL”. Levine’s musical persona is fairly cocky, so let’s see how much he...

How's this for a family reunion? Billy Ray Cyrus was joined by his wife, Tish, and four of their children—Miley, Braison, Brandi and Noah—backstage on Sunday at New York City's Ambassador Theater, where Billy Ray is starring in the Broadway musical Chicago. "So glad to be back with my daddy (@billyraycyrus) for the first time in 3 Months!! He was so great on broadway," tweeted Noah. And it looks like Billy Ray isn't the only one who's acquired admirers in the City That Never Sleeps. "What a dope morning. So many fans outside my hotel this a.m. in NYC. If there's this much chaos Now imagine when I drop this record! #ohsnap," tweeted Miley on Monday,...

Lil Wayne was born in New Orleans and maintains an affinity for the Big Easy, but he is not too fond of the Big Apple. When the rapper dissed New York City, his comments angered one politician so much that he demanded an apology from the Ymcmb prodigy.

Lil Wayne, Dwayne Michael Carter, expressed his disdain for NYC during an interview with MTV News, saying, "Flat out: I don't like New York." Weezy spoke with MTV while promoting his new sneaker line with Supra in Las Vegas.

The rapper had touched down in the Big Apple to hit the stage with Nicki Minaj, who performed a free show at the Roseland Ballroom on Aug. 14, a make-up set for her missed Summer Jam appearance back in June.

It's a bit surprising, given that Nicki Minaj and Busta Rhymes, two of the biggest stars on Wayne's label, are from New York.

Although...

MTV Geek draws our attention to this Saturday’s 826Nyc Charity Scrabble Tournament, where New Yorkers can help raise money for NYC public school programs by playing “Scrabble For Cheaters” against the likes of Peter Dinklage, John Hodgman, Jonathan Marc Sherman, and Michael Showalter (and probably mostly against each other, but who cares, those dudes will be there.) So basically, your ultimate doublefantasy of playing Scrabble with Peter Dinklage is not only a plausible reality, but it’s this weekend. Provided, of course, you live in New York City, which you should, because you can play Scrabble with Peter Dinklage here – it truly is the City That Never Sleeps On Sometimes Having Things Like Scrabble With Peter Dinklage Happen. (Plus the other three guys are all awesome, just focusing on Dinklage to keep up the Thrones-beat and make the Photoshopping easier). If you do end up against Dinklage, just make...

Firstly, let me reiterate how difficult this list was for me, as a life-long Simpsons fan, to compile. Of course we know that the Simpsons hasn’t always been at full strength (some of the later series just didn’t do it for me in terms of hilarity or poignancy) and it’s common knowledge that ratings have been slipping steadily since around series ten or eleven; although I do feel that The Simpsons Movie marked a welcomed return to form for the series when it was released in 2007.

They’re one of the most iconic images on TV recognised, within in a fraction of a second by anyone who sees them. With a staggering 22 complete series and 23rd currently airing, it’s the longest running sitcom ever to air and – after questionable, but ultimately satisfactory contract negotiations with the actors – it shows no sign of ending any time soon.

New York City saw the continuation of a steep decline under the mayorship of John Lindsay, who reigned over the city from 1966-1973. Teachers went on strike, riots were fought and mounds of garbage filled the city streets.

Turns out he had some sanitation problems in his personal life, too.

Florence Henderson, most famous for her run as Carol Brady on the campy TV classic, "The Brady Bunch," reveals in her new memoir that she had a one-night stand with the Mayor while they were both in Beverly Hills. Henderson was married to Ira Bernstein at the time.

"I was lonely. I knew it wasn't the right thing to do. So, what did I do? I did it," she writes in "Life Is Not A Stage," the NY Daily News reports. And, following a night's sleep at home, she found out the hard way about the City that Never Sleeps.

Fox The cast of “Glee.”

They made it! They competed at Nationals in New York and walked off, just shy of competing with the top 10 in Glee’s second-season finale, “New York.”

Nothing can compare to the “City That Never Sleeps,” especially when it doesn’t serve only as a background, but rather the star in the firmament of teenage dreams.

New York calls out to artists and serves as inspiration to troubled minds, who’ve been stuck on singing about cups and mattresses.

Years before actress Melissa Leo (HBO’s Treme) picked up an Academy Award for her performance in The Fighter, she starred in the 1985 cult drama-thriller Streetwalkin’, which Shout! Factory will release on DVD on Aug. 2. The film will be priced at $14.93.

2011 Academy Award winner Melissa Leo turns a trick in 1985's Streetwalkin'.

Directed and co-written by Joan Freeman (Satisfaction), Streetwalkin’ features Leo as teen runaway Cookie, who escapes her abusive stepfather and heads for down-and-dirty New York City with her younger brother (Randall Batinkoff, Kick-Ass) in tow. When she arrives in the Big Apple, Cookie meets the charming but violent pimp Duke (Dale Midkiff, Pet Sematary) who quickly introduces her to the harsh, brutal life of prostitution.

A time capsule that does a colorful job in capturing the sights and sounds of the underbelly of 1980s Times Square, Streetwalkin’ also stars Antonio Fargas (Huggy Bear from TV’s Starsky and Hutch...

by Vadim Rizov

Many directors would love to be considered the preeminent auteur of their area. Ben Affleck is not one of those people. Gone Baby Gone restored his reputation and got him critical waves and The Town ended up outperforming expectations to be the weekend's number one movie. Nonetheless, in pre-release interviews he was sheepish about his relationship to the city. Asked whether he'd keep returning, he hedged: "I don't know. I'm nervous. I don't want to be pigeonholed as Johnny Boston filmmaker." Still, he knew what was at stake: "New York doesn't so much care about a New York movie or a New York book or New York story. But Boston knows. Boston knows if you're from there."

Boston certainly does: one reason for Affleck's nervousness might be the burden of waiting for his hometown's verdict. Peter Keogh said it "might be the best movie set in...

Veteran actor Tom Poston has died following a brief illness. He was 85. Poston, who passed away at his Los Angeles home, is best known for his comedic appearances on TV programs The Bob Newhart Show, To Tell The Truth, Mork & Mindy and Newhart. Born on October 17, 1921, Poston enlisted in the US Army Air Corps and served in England for four years during World War II. In a career that spanned more than 50 years, he alternated between appearing on the Broadway stage and acting on TV and in films. Poston turned up in numerous shows including That 70's Show, ER, Cosby, and Will & Grace. He also voiced characters on The Simpsons and King Of The Hill. Poston's big screen roles included parts in The City That Never Sleeps, Cold Turkey, and The Story Of Us. He is survived by his third wife Suzanne Pleshette, who Poston married in 2001, and his three children. Details of a public memorial service will be announced shortly.