Nina Metz
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The TV and film we consume seeps into our subconscious and shapes the way we think about the world — and what’s possible.
What if there were more stories of regular people working together to solve problems and balance the scales?
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Remembering that the 2018 Warner Bros. film “Crazy Rich Asians” made about $239 million globally. When it came time to make a sequel the two original co-writers were offered wildly different deals: The white guy around $1 million; the Asian woman around $110K
WB: Wow Barbie made a gajillion dollars.
Striking Unions: Great. Pay us.
WB:
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This part of the Jane Fonda/Lily Tomlin/Sally Field/Rita Moreno interview isn’t making the rounds probably because it’s not cute or uplifting or funny — but real. First of all I don’t think it’s uncommon to not have many friends left at 91. But her reticence is very relatable too
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Notice the *impeccable* way his coat is not thrown over his arm but sharply folded. I feel like this is an essential character detail!
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@shelbyn_23
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The old “8 hours for sleep, 8 hours for work, 8 hours for recreation” formulation never took into account: Cleaning, cooking, food shopping, errand running, being your own secretary for your life, caring for others 😭😭
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The idea of showing two adults absolutely tickled by one another — amused to be in one another’s presence — has been so conspicuously absent on screen, just generally, for a long time. I really hope their new movie together captures this delight!
george clooney & julia roberts did more for romcoms and romantic chemistry in this single vanity fair interview than any romcom has done in the last decade
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The Russian revolution/fate of the Romanovs scared the British royals into reshaping their public image into one of “service” and “duty” (aka don’t kill us too!) QEII was the only one to really retain a memory of that mindset whereas younger gen royals think they are untouchable
The queen kept that bullshit together for 75 years and it’s crumbling in two.
I know she’s in hell PISSED
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I feel like Keke Palmer should have a “Carol Burnett Show” deal — a weekly comedy variety show on network television with a standing cast of really talented people
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Re: nepotism babies … I always appreciated how Bryce Dallas Howard talked about it when I interviewed her a couple years ago
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I keep banging on about this but Gen-Z is the first to not absorb pop culture through reruns and catching movies on cable just cuz they’re on … it was passive for us (it was just there) and therefore relatively easy become aware of pop culture that existed before our time 😭😭😭
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This is why I probably didn’t respond to “May December” as a comedy. The tone is definitely arch and ironical (so much of Todd Haynes’ work is) but none of it was ~funny~ to me because I remember these MKL interviews and they’re so disturbing
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I've said this before: High fashion at this level is not made with shorter curvier women in mind and yet every time Bryon Javar has crafted looks that fit her — and her personality — to a T. It's really brilliant and glamorous.
Where is the big profile on Bryon Javar?
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Did anyone ask Phoebe Waller-Bridge — who had the $60 million/3 year Amazon deal that resulted in no TV or film; a deal that was just renewed — about the writers strike? She’s one of the highly paid outliers, has she discussed the issues facing the majority of writers who aren’t?
Kathleen Kennedy on the writers strike: "You can't do any of this without great writing. All of us who create anything on television, I am in full support of the writers getting what they deserve."
#Cannes
#IndianaJones
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Dr. Gates is usually very nuanced when talking with his guests about cruelty their forebears experienced and he’s very frank (Ben Affleck excepting) if his white guests had ancestors who enslaved people. So I was taken aback by how insensitively this information was treated
Through a direct paper trail leading to Pocahontas and John Rolfes’ 1614 marriage certificate,
@EdwardNorton
learns that his family lore appears to be true. His 12th great-grandmother is Pocohantas!
Tune in TOMORROW night on
@PBS
at 8/7c for the Finding Your Roots premiere!!
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I wrote about that here
“Crazy Rich Asians” writer’s dilemma illustrates how Hollywood pay gap is alive and well
That writer btw was Adele Lim, who would go on to write and direct “Joy Ride”
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I don’t know how someone can be accused of choking a child and still have a career in one of the most competitive and exclusive industries there is.
Choking. A. Child.
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Sir you have a cat now
A cat was saved from under the rubble in Turkey. It now refuses to leave its rescuer's side.
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This still from “Bullet Train” — lit in such a way that you can hardly make out Brian Tyree Henry — remains an issue in Hollywood. I haven’t seen the film so can’t speak to how this scene looks in motion. But publicity stills shouldn’t be rendering Black actors barely visible!
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Regardless of where you stand on this, it’s important to understand the unique nature of the deals behind both concert films from Beyoncé and Taylor Swift: There there is no distributor — both bypassed that entirely to cut a deal with AMC directly, no middle man
Beyoncé is not the distributor of the movie. She can’t “pull” the film bc that’s not how contracts work. Y’all anger should be with the distribution company, not her.
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Everyone is realizing in hindsight that these shows did so much heavy lifting in terms of familiarizing people with pop culture from earlier gens ... and I wonder if anyone involved at the time understood that? My guess is the shows were made just cuz they were super cheap & fast
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I like it when Jennifer Coolidge uses her real voice to deliver outrageous lines
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Ironically HBO had an entirely different GoT prequel in the works from an actual female perspective — female creator, female director and starring at least two Black women in lead roles. They shot a $30 million pilot and then canned it in favor of … this
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COLUMN: Hollywood won’t save us from school shootings. Neither will cop shows.
Either way, leave Quinta Brunson and "Abbott Elementary" out of it.
Copaganda, though? Let's talk about the disconnect between fantasy and reality.
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When the Emmy winner was asked if she will join the picket lines if the union calls for a stike, she told Variety on the red carpet, “You bet your fucking ass.”
Via Variety
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Via The Daily Beast
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@CocoaNo5
And why should it be on the writers to figure out pay parity amongst themselves when these figures are determined by the studio!
Not to mention: “Crazy Rich Asians” was WB’s 3rd highest grossing movie of the year. Let’s not pretend executives don’t get bonuses based on success!
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"I was never contacted about the show. I feel like Netflix should've asked if we mind or how we felt about making it. They didn't ask me anything. They just did it. But I'm not money hungry, and that's what this show is about, Netflix trying to get paid."
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Daniel Dae Kim is talking about “The Good Doctor” here (of which he is a producer) and I know he’s explaining the strange way Hollywood works and the need for perseverance but all I hear is that networks said no when an Asian woman was attached as creator and yes when it was a WM
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Mayor of Burbank
Law Enforcement Warns Strike Supporters Outside of Warner Bros. About Excessive Horn Use
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"Disney’s increasingly public critiques of DaCosta are just starting to feel weird, and weirder the higher up the food chain they start coming from"
Thank you
Via
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it's basically adults "discovering" Kool Aid?
(Look I use those packets to make lemonade regularly, I'm not above this and I'm aware that artificial crap abounds in these ... but I'm also just dump-it-in-a-water-bottle-and-go, not turning it into some artisanal beverage)
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Just a reminder this show went thru a “creative overhaul” after much of it was filmed because the star felt it was leaning too much into a “female perspective”
From the sick and twisted minds of Sam Levinson and
@TheWeeknd
, starring Lily-Rose Depp,
#THEIDOL
is coming soon to HBO Max.
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I was recently behind someone at the checkout and they were clearly being very careful and frugal and intentional: Bag of oranges, bag of beans, rice, ground beef, loaf of bread, eggs, milk, toilet paper, a few other produce items. No snacks/splurges/processed food. Bill was $84
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Erika Alexander is featured this coming week in
#MyWorstMoment
and as an aside she told me how she got not one sitcom offer after “Living Single” and this makes me livid because she truly has Lucille Ball-type talent. This moment from The Flavorettes makes me laugh every time
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I love how Jane Birkin didn’t treat the (yes, super expensive) bag named for her as some precious fetish status symbol, but that she stuffed it full of things and would even adorn it with random doodads
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The royal family and their representatives in a tizzy about “The Crown” making them look bad when in fact they do that all by themselves
Mixed feelings about yesterday's visit to Buckingham Palace. 10 mins after arriving, a member of staff, Lady SH, approached me, moved my hair to see my name badge. The conversation below took place. The rest of the event is a blur.
Thanks
@ManduReid
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@SuzanneEJacob
for support🙏🏾
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The more I watch Ayo Edebiri in various roles and Jessica Williams in various roles, I feel like they have a sympatico smart/awkward energy that would be believable if they were cast as sisters at some point in the future ...
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That clip is pretty much the entirety of information coveted — it’s all very neutral: She married John Rolfe & Norton is a descendant of that union. Next.
But even a cursory mention of her story is completely absent including her kidnapping by white settlers who held her captive
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This is extremely gross and upsetting and dispiriting. He currently co-stars in the extraordinary “Beef” and it is notable that telling this story years ago didn’t cut him off from the kind of connections that enabled him to be part of the show
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@Blackamazon
@somebadideas
I’ve genuinely thought about how this was accomplished because the shoes need to stick to the floor so each foot slides our seamlessly (and don’t stick to her soles) plus was she (or whoever’s feet these are) holding onto something to keep that perfect balance?
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Just randomly thinking about how Hollywood loves to jump on a bandwagon especially if there's preexisting IP and yet so far Bridgerton’s success hasn’t led to a wave of announcements from streamers or TV networks that they intend to adapt historical romances from authors of color
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This is why the absence of reruns in people’s lives is killing pop culture literacy! Carol Brady was the original!
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Are streamers paying actors and writers residuals when putting full episodes on TikTok?
Is TikTok the new TV?
This week, Peacock started uploading full episodes (for free) on the app.
The pilot of a new comedy show racked up 4.5M views in 3 days 🤯
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In the new year I'd like someone to cast Brian Tyree Henry in a lead role. The primary lead. The story pivots around HIM. As in: Name above the title on the poster.
And he gets to have chemistry with a romantic interest cuz the man's got charisma TO SPARE
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I hate that this happened to him and I’m glad he doesn’t shy away from bring it up — the studio did what it did and we should talk about it
“he wasn’t on the movie posters when they came out”
Via THR
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Remember Nicole Beharie's character in the first episode of "Scenes From a Marriage"? I'd love to see her star in a film or series where she's playing someone similar but is the star, not just a one-time guest appearance.
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That she doesn’t trust people in showbiz (present company excepted) is rational and as she says, it’s based on first-hand experience.
I like that she’s willing to talk about this. She did something similar when I interviewed her for My Worst Moment
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For
#MyWorstMoment
: Even after the success of "Living Single," Erika Alexander was back at square one.
She tells me the story ahead of the premiere of the PBS documentary she directed about reparations called "The Big Payback," premiering MLK Day Jan. 16
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It would be compelling if other veteran show creators/executive producers/wealthy stars said similar things publicly
David Simon, the creator of The Wire, says he’s on strike to protect new generations of writers and make sure they aren’t exploited by studios.
He also explains how studios are cutting jobs to please shareholders and making TV shows almost impossible to run. cc
@AoDespair
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COLUMN: As a TV and film critic, I think a lot about who gets opportunities in Hollywood and who doesn’t.
I’m baffled that David Choe was given a role on
#BeefNetflix
considering his history: Made up rape story or not, his remarks have long been public
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“For a terrible, terrible moment I was going to do the scene. And then I thought: Are you crazy? What is wrong with you?”
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It just occurred to me that all those fancy pants who have been in Paris for fashion week ... will be flying stateside in a few days
If they bring bedbugs back with them 🫨
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wow
Kate Middleton is living a nightmare. It’s time to end the monarchy
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Don’t get it twisted, Nicole Beharie is very good but also woefully underused in this season of “The Morning Show.” She gets just two storylines and they are strictly issue-related, whereas her co-stars get to play women with messy personal lives
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*That should be “entirety of information conveyed” in that previous tweet.
This piece relies on both written documentation and oral history. I know “Finding Your Roots” is all about the paper trail but that means ignoring/erasing a lot of Native history
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Obviously apropo cuz Fran Drescher is president of the actors union and just announced their strike today
BUT I just wanna point out once upon a time you’d see something like this on an episode of TV … and now any union or strike related storylines have all but disappeared 🤔
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Oh no, then Ed Norton says a version of the “everybody here is an immigrant!” (and Gates concurs!) after he literally just learned that one of his ancestors is Native. This is such cognitive dissonance!
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I think he makes some good points here. I'm also curious how much of "Behind the Candelabra's" $50 million budget was due to actor salaries. We're in a phase where big name actors are getting a disproportionate % of the budget of even midbudget movies.
Matt Damon explains why they don't make movies like they used to.
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These deals are extraordinarily unique. There's no standard contract they are bound to. Beyoncé & Swift have considerable leverage to negotiate whatever terms they see fit
That's because exhibitors have been **struggling** and both concert films look like a sure box office bet
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The Pentagon fails its 5th audit in a row. It only managed to account for 39% of its $3.5 trillion in assets
“The U.S. military has the distinction of being the only U.S. government agency to have never passed a comprehensive audit”
This is wild.
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If streaming is going to resemble old school TV with ads and the ability to carry live (sports) programming … aren’t we mostly back where we started?
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A consistent thing that happens whenever there’s reporting around this legitimately gross incident is that it mentions the party’s theme — “native and colonial” — then glides right by it as if THAT isn’t messed up too, so that everyone else is left off the hook but Harry
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It’s just this big gaping hole in the conversation whenever a guest can trace their roots back a few centuries on U.S. soil.
So the one time they DO find a paper trail back to a famous Native person, there’s no in-depth conversation about that person’s life and circumstances.
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I’m curious about this point specifically because the two big shows she’s been on recently — “Euphoria” and “The White Lotus” — are HBO shows not HBO Max (altho obviously you can stream them on HBO Max). Are premium cable wages better/same/worse than streaming?
Sydney Sweeney says she wouldn’t be able to afford a six-month break from acting:
“I don’t have income to cover that. I don’t have someone supporting me… They don’t pay actors like they used to, and with streamers, you no longer get residuals,”
🔗:
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This is one critique the show hadn’t really sorted through: I don’t know if it’s ever featured a Native guest? Maybe Gates and potential guests both agree that’s outside his lane of expertise. I just found this section to be so “oh by the way, fun fact!” in tone
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By her 60s she wasn’t landing roles much and then got the script for a big Tony Scott Western. She read it, loved the role and then went to audition … and it all went downhill from there because they ~actually~ wanted her to play, in her words, a “Mexican whorehouse madam”
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As an aside I will hate this phrasing: "HBO highlighted shows like Euphoria, Rap Sh!t, A Black Lady Sketch Show and Los Espookys, all of which are led by diverse characters."
Stop using "diverse" to mean Black and Latinx people! Just say Black and Latinx people!
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Anyway “Rap Sh!t” premieres this week in HBO Max and it’s also about the music industry and it is unabashedly from the female perspective … and it’s really good!
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@hellresidentNY
Oh that’s right. The way he sat up straight when his dad called on the phone 😂
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It’s tin-eared bc he then tells Julia Roberts (also a guest this week) that one side of her family was here “before America was America. You have a deep purchase on the United States of America.” The intimation is: This is a source of pride. The Indigenous are invisible I guess.
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COLUMN: If you think the CGI on a Marvel movie isn’t up to snuff, don’t blame the VFX artists. Blame their terrible working conditions.
Hollywood probably hopes audiences won't notice. But it's affecting livelihoods — and what we're seeing on screen.
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This is a really odd takeaway! If the average CW viewer is indeed 58, that means people in that demo are seeking out the CW's current programming. Changing that to appeal to whatever some executive THINKS 58-year-olds wanna watch instead is ... kooky
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Oscar-winning cinematographer & dir. Haskell Wexler made a documentary in 2006 called "Who Needs Sleep" about the dangers long work days present to ~everyone~ on set driving home
If we're going to have this very good conversation about safety, it needs to be about crew as well
tom welling also almost died sleeping at the wheel while working on smallville and i’m starting to realize the common denominator is wb. what’s up with them not wanting to give drivers to actors?
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I like Sarah Polley. This is not about Sarah Polley.
But these live-action adaptations completely disregard what makes animation so unique and sort of wondrous: You're eye will believe pretty much any visual because the medium ISN'T literal
Via Deadline
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In a historic move, Marvel Studios’ visual effects worked unanimously voted in favor of unionizing with the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE)
Via Variety
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The Racial Integrity Act of 1924 — which “reinforced racial segregation by prohibiting interracial marriage and classifying as ‘white’ a person ‘who has no trace whatsoever of any blood other than Caucasian’” — had a Pocahontas exception
How rich
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Next time a muckety muck claims they would love to hire more POC but there just aren't enough qualified people in the running let's remember this:
No credits. They had NO CREDITS.
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Has anyone ever explained why her hair is pinned up on one side and completely loose and down on the other?
I’m convinced the “down” hair was photoshopped in because someone at the studio decided it looked more … something
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Ray Liotta, James Caan, Tony Sirico ... a trifecta of onscreen (and, in the case of Sirico, offscreen) tough guys so vividly rendered.
Boy voyage fellas
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I wrote about the Hollywood pay gap as it pertains to Black actresses here
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Column: The complicated legacy of Norman Lear and "Good Times"
The cast of "Good Times" and the show's co-creator Eric Monte pushed back on the show's depiction of Black people. Lear called those concerns "extraneous to the needs of a show" in his PBS doc
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wrt Warner Bros. Discovery "killing off diversity and courting middle America":
It betrays how EMPTY those black square corporate statements were in the weeks after George Floyd's murder. All it took was a mere 2 years to go by and a new executive team to say "nah, screw that"
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Bob Barker had numerous lawsuits filed against him during his career about workplace conduct. People who grew up watching the show may be unaware because much of this was successfully buried. Time magazine story from 2011
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Scrolled by a tweet that said “it’s not like they didn’t earn their billions” and baby, yes it is exactly like that. NOBODY “earns” their billions. There are a confluence of factors — from inherited wealth to tax incentives/write-offs to cronyism to legal but scummy deals.
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@BryanUF
@leahfrombklyn
In addition to managers who want to *see* people work and therefore reject remote options, my theory is that these stories result from an amalgam of PR efforts from various industries predicated on in-office work: Commercial real estate, auto/commuter rails, etc.
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“The rep said they had several clients ask which pickets to attend, and if they should book hair and makeup for potential media spots. The rep cautioned that the strikes were a “‘very serious matter, not a red carpet opportunity’”
Via Variety
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For a long time whenever someone would post on here about journalism layoffs someone else would say nastily: “learn to code” — I always think about that whenever there are layoffs at tech co’s. It’s really scary & destabilizing to lose your job … being snarky about that is B A D
Amazon is gearing up to lay off 18k
Google may be laying off up to 11k
This is terrifying
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#BEEFNetflix
star David Choe slammed after podcast detailing “rapey behavior” resurfaces: Social media users are questioning Choe's casting in the Netflix show, pointing to a 2014 podcast in which he said he was “a successful rapist”
Via NBC News
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There's the obvious hypocrisy that HBO — sorry now it's **MAX** — is all too happy about the "very online conversation" when it fuels interest in "Succession" and "The White Lotus" and "Euphoria"
But when it comes to this? Nothing to see here, folks
"I don’t think this is the forum," Bloys said when asked about Rowling's views. "That’s a very online conversation, very nuanced and complicated and not something we’re going to get into."
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She beautiful. We know this. My beef with this look is not only that it’s nowhere near Gilded age but that’s she’s worn version of this in for The White Princess and The Last Duel and therefore this just looks like another costume for another role
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@hiimbobbi
To me it’s directly related to their skills as actors — Chastain/Issac are better and more nuanced performers than Sweeney/Lowell even when doing the PR side (they’re older and more experienced … but also just more talented imo 😂)
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Ethan Hawke is just so great talking about the world around him — and by that I mean, expressing sometimes complicated or nuanced ideas in ways that are extremely accessible and thoughtful and fueled by an intellectual energy that doesn’t feel like his head is up his ass
@KevinRBrackett
One time a quick little video of Ethan Hawke I stumbled across on instagram literally reshaped the way I thought about art
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I can't with her
Nepotism isn't *just* about getting your foot in the door btw. It's about having access to info and support others just don't. Having a family that teaches you how things WORK in Hollywood — and also provides financial support — is as important as anything else.
Gwyneth Paltrow: Nepotism babies have to ‘work twice as hard & be twice as good’
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@CarrieCnh12
All of this. It’s not unrealistic to assume she was coerced into that marriage as a condition of her release from being captivity. They were holding her hostage!
If this is going be mentioned as part of the show, it’s worth reckoning with that history
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