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    Taylor Swift Rips Netflix for 'Deeply Sexist Joke' in 'Ginny and Georgia'

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    The Sarah Lampert-created drama series upsets the ‘Shake It Off’ hitmaker and her fans after its season one finale features 15-year-old Ginny taking a jab at the pop star’s love life.

    Mar 2, 2021
    AceShowbiz – Taylor Swift has laid into Netflix bosses and writers behind TV show “Ginny & Georgia” for including a “deeply sexist” joke about her love life in the season one finale.
    The pop superstar’s fans initially took issue with the throwaway line on Sunday night, February 28, after viewing episode 10 of the comedy-drama, which focuses on the life of a mixed race teenager and her young mother in a fictional New England town.
    The instalment in question was written by creator Sarah Lampert and Debra J. Fisher, and featured the mother and daughter arguing about relationships, as 15-year-old Ginny quipped, “What do you care? You go through men faster than Taylor Swift.”
    The backlash was swift as the singer’s devotees took to social media and turned “#RespectTaylor” into a trending topic, and the “Shake It Off” hitmaker herself has now weighed in on the controversy, making it clear she wasn’t laughing.

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    “Hey Ginny & Georgia, 2010 called and it wants its lazy, deeply sexist joke back,” Taylor tweeted on Monday. “How about we stop degrading hard working women by defining this horse s**t as fuNny (sic).”
    She then turned on Netflix officials, with whom she had worked for her hit 2020 documentary “Miss Americana”.
    “Also, (Netflix) after Miss Americana this outfit doesn’t look cute on you,” she added, alongside an emoji of a broken heart. “Happy Women’s History Month I guess.”

    Taylor Swift called out ‘Ginny and Georgia’ for taking a jab at her love life.
    Representatives for Netflix or the “Ginny & Georgia” writers have yet to comment on the uproar.

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    Golden Globes: The Projectionist’s Takeaways

    Golden Globes: The Projectionist’s TakeawaysSacha Baron Cohen with his wife, Isla Fisher.Christopher Polk/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesWant a catch-up on last night’s Golden Globes? It was a weird one — and considering how weird a typical Globes ceremony is, that’s saying something.Watch the standout moments → More

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    Golden Globes 2021: Where to Stream the Winners

    #masthead-section-label, #masthead-bar-one { display: none }Awards SeasonGolden Globes: What HappenedBest and Worst MomentsWinners ListStream the WinnersRed Carpet ReviewAdvertisementContinue reading the main storySupported byContinue reading the main storyGolden Globes 2021: Where to Stream the WinnersNearly all of the big winners from the evening are available to stream. Here’s a look at where to find them and what The Times first had to say about them.Sacha Baron Cohen in “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm,” which won the award for best musical or comedy at the Golden Globes.Credit…Amazon StudiosMarch 1, 2021, 11:31 a.m. ETDuring a normal year, when many of the awards-contending movies are released late in the season, home viewers often have to wait for a month or two to catch the winners on various streaming services. But the one benefit to an awards show during a pandemic year is that all the winners are immediately available — or so we might have assumed.To the surprise of many Golden Globes prognosticators — and to the actress herself — Jodie Foster won best supporting actress for “The Mauritanian,” a 9/11-themed legal drama that’s currently in theaters, but will arrive on VOD on Tuesday, March 2nd. (Our critic, Jeannette Catsoulis, would advise you to proceed with caution.) Otherwise, the night’s big winners on the film side are scattered among the streaming giants, with “Nomadland” and “The United States vs. Billie Holiday” on Hulu, “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm” on Amazon Prime and “The Trial of the Chicago 7,” “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” and “I Care a Lot” on Netflix.The awards were not distributed quite so democratically for the TV slate, where the fourth season of Netflix’s “The Crown” took best drama as well as prizes for three of the four acting categories. Netflix also has The Queen’s Gambit,” which won for best limited series or TV movie and for Anya Taylor-Joy’s performance as an American chess grandmaster of humble origins. And the service is streaming all six seasons of the best musical or comedy winner “Schitt’s Creek.”Here’s a guide to the major-category winners that are currently a click away, along with excerpts from their New York Times reviews or features.Movies‘Nomadland’Won for: Best picture, drama; best director“In a fine Emersonian spirit, the movie rebels against its own conventional impulses, gravitating toward an idea of experience that is more complicated, more open-ended, more contradictory than what most American movies are willing to permit.” (Read the full Times review by A.O. Scott.)Where to watch: Stream it on Hulu.‘Borat Subsequent Moviefilm’Won for: Best musical or comedy; best actor, musical or comedy“Would I call this the best movie of 2020, from the standpoint of cinematic art? Look, I don’t know. It’s been a weird year. But I would insist that this sequel to a cringey, pranky, 14-year-old classic is undeniably the most 2020 movie of all time.” (Read the full Times article on the Best Movies of 2020, in which A.O. Scott put Sacha Baron Cohen’s satire at #1.)Where to watch: Stream it on Amazon Prime.‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’Won for: Best screenplay“‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ is a mixed bag. While [Aaron] Sorkin draws some of his dialogue from court transcripts, he also exercises the historical dramatist’s prerogative to embellish, streamline and invent. Some of the liberties he takes help to produce a leaner, clearer story, while others serve no useful purpose.” (Read the full Times review by A.O. Scott.)Where to watch: Stream it on Netflix.‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’Won for: Best actor, drama“Of course it’s hard to watch Levee — to marvel at [Chadwick] Boseman’s lean and hungry dynamism — without feeling renewed shock and grief at Boseman’s death earlier this year. And though ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ has been around for a long while and will endure in the archive, the algorithm and the collective memory, there is something especially poignant about encountering it now.” (Read the full Times review by A.O. Scott.)Where to watch: Stream it on Netflix.‘The United States vs. Billie Holiday’Won for: Best actress, drama“Andra Day, who plays Holiday, is a canny and charismatic performer, and the film’s hectic narrative is punctuated with nightclub and concert-hall scenes that capture some of the singer’s magnetism. Rather than lip-sync the numbers, Day sings them in a voice that has some of Holiday’s signature breathy rasp and delicate lilt, and suggests her ability to move from whimsy to anguish and back in the space of a phrase.” (Read the full Times review by A.O. Scott.)Where to watch: Stream it on Hulu.‘I Care a Lot’Won for: Best actress, musical or comedy“An unexpectedly gripping thriller that seesaws between comedy and horror, “I Care a Lot” is cleverly written (by the director, J Blakeson) and wonderfully cast. Marla is an almost cartoonish sociopath, and [Rosamund] Pike leans into her villainy with unwavering bravado.” (Read the full Times review by Jeannette Catsoulis here.)Where to watch: Stream it on Netflix.‘Judas and the Black Messiah’Won for: Best supporting actor“‘Judas and the Black Messiah’ represents a disciplined, impassioned effort to bring clarity to a volatile moment, to dispense with the sentimentality and revisionism that too often cloud movies about the ’60s and about the politics of race.” (Read the full Times review by A.O. Scott.)Awards Season More

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    The Best and Worst of the Golden Globes

    #masthead-section-label, #masthead-bar-one { display: none }Awards SeasonGolden Globes: What HappenedMoments and AnalysisGlobes WinnersGolden Globes ReviewAdvertisementContinue reading the main storySupported byContinue reading the main storyThe Best and Worst of the Golden GlobesAmid deeply moving moments (like the speech by Chadwick Boseman’s widow), there were technical difficulties and the strange sight of long-distance hosts pretending to be on the same stage.March 1, 2021, 4:57 a.m. ET More

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    'Oprah with Meghan and Harry' Teases 'Shocking Things' in First Promos

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    According to CBS, ‘Oprah with Meghan and Harry’ features Oprah speaking with Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle as well as her husband Prince Harry in a wide-ranging interview.’

    Mar 1, 2021
    AceShowbiz – “Oprah with Meghan and Harry: A CBS Primetime Special” has released the first two promos for the highly-anticipated interview between Oprah Winfrey and Meghan Markle as well as Prince Harry. In the promos, which were released on Sunday, February 28, the couple seemingly gets candid in the interview.
    “You’ve said some pretty shocking things here,” Oprah says to Prince Harry. The said shocking revelations seemingly are about the Duke of Sussex’s late mother Princess Diana.
    The British prince goes on to share, “My biggest concern was history repeating itself. I’m really relieved and happy to be sitting here, talking to you with my wife by my side because I can’t begin to imagine what it must have been for her going through this process by herself all these years ago.”
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    According to CBS, “Oprah with Meghan and Harry” features Oprah speaking with “Meghan, The Duchess of Sussex, in a wide-ranging interview, covering everything from stepping into life as a Royal, marriage, motherhood, philanthropic work to how she is handling life under intense public pressure.”
    “Later, the two are joined by Prince Harry as they speak about their move to the United States and their future hopes and dreams for their expanding family,” the statement continued.
    Prior to this, it was said that Meghan and Harry would potentially lose all of their royal privileges ahead of the 90-minute tell-all sit-down. Harry allegedly was more than likely to be stripped of his three remaining honorary military titles, his patronages with the Rugby Football Union, Rugby Football League and the London Marathon. Additionally, he might lose any other links with the Royal Family organizations.
    As for Meghan, the former “Suits” actress might also have to step down as patron of the National Theatre. The report further claimed that Meghan and Harry most likely need to give up their links with the Commonwealth.

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    Jennifer Love Hewitt Has This to Say About Killing Real-Life Husband in '9-1-1'

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    Having met and fell in love with Brian Hallisay on the set of ‘The Client List’, the Maddie Buckley Kendall depicter in Ryan Murphy’s emergency services drama talks about reuniting with him onscreen.

    Mar 1, 2021
    AceShowbiz – Actress Jennifer Love Hewitt reveled in the opportunity to kill off her real-life husband Brian Hallisay in her U.S. drama series “9-1-1”.
    The stars, who met and fell in love on the set of “The Client List”, reunited onscreen in Ryan Murphy’s emergency services drama for its third series, and although Jennifer felt lucky to share her “scary scenes” with Brian, she also had a ball killing him off on TV.
    “He plays a really bad guy in 9-1-1 but it was lots of fun for us,” she told America’s “The Drew Barrymore Show”. “We had a great time getting to do it, but it was nice for us because we had to do some really scary scenes and we obviously trust each other so much that it made it really nice that it was him. I actually got to murder him, which is kind of crazy! And no therapy!”

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    Elsewhere in the interview, Hewitt opened up about the time she got drunk with Betty White. “One of the only times that I’ve been like super drunk was with Betty in public and she veered off into a bush and I thought, ‘Oh my gosh I’m going to kill the national treasure Betty White’, ” she confessed to host Drew Barrymore.
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    Spilling on what the veteran comedienne enjoyed, the 42-year-old actress noted, “Pizza and vodka are her favorites, she also loves hot dogs and she cheats at Scrabble horribly, but she’s Betty White so you just let her win.” She added, “And then [White] loves to end her nights with you by eating gummy bears. She’s everything you want her to be, she’s the best and I just love her to pieces.”

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    What’s on TV This Week: ‘Soul of a Nation’ and ‘Ghostbusters’

    #masthead-section-label, #masthead-bar-one { display: none }What to WatchBest Movies on NetflixBest of Disney PlusBest of Amazon PrimeBest Netflix DocumentariesNew on NetflixAdvertisementContinue reading the main storySupported byContinue reading the main storyWhat’s on TV This Week: ‘Soul of a Nation’ and ‘Ghostbusters’A newsmagazine featuring a look at Black life in America premieres on ABC. And the “Back to the Future” trilogy airs on AMC.March 1, 2021, 1:00 a.m. ET More

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    Golden Globes Winners 2021: The Complete List

    #masthead-section-label, #masthead-bar-one { display: none }Awards SeasonGolden Globes: What HappenedMoments and AnalysisGlobes WinnersGolden Globes ReviewAdvertisementContinue reading the main storySupported byContinue reading the main storyGolden Globes Winners 2021: The Complete ListHere are the winning films, TV shows, actors and production teams at the 2021 Golden Globe Awards.Frances McDormand as Fern in “Nomadland,” which won the award for best motion picture, drama.Credit…Searchlight Pictures/HuluPublished More