Brenden Gallagher
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Television Writer and Screenwriter and Director. Rep: Art/Work Entertainment. Not on here a ton so follow me on IG
Joined March 2010
Now that @clairecdowns & I's wonderful festival run is over, we are excited to present the online PREMIERE of our short film “Only Worn Once” starring @MarthaKelly3 @natdogkatdog @DoctorTomG Eve Donnelly & @ScarletEnvyNYC! Watch here:
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you miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Museum worker hangs up his own painting hoping for a big break, gets fired instead
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Only active area of innovation in the American economy.
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This is one of my least favorite types of film twitter post. Why do you need them to play siblings? So you can remark out loud in the theater "wow they look like siblings!" Would that make you feel good? Would that make things better?.
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Kubrick really nailed the thing where even when right-wingers want to look sexy/fun/triumphant the images they capture end up looking evil and unsettling because they have no respect for aesthetics so they can't hide the rot.
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This post ought to mention he also wrote School of Rock lol.
I'll never get over the fact that Ned from School of Rock created The White Lotus
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absolutely spreadsheets.
Would you rather make spreadsheets in someone else's office, or haul manure on your own farm?
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I am starting to kind of like how the new Twitter exposes you to the stupidest people in the world.
I start every year with a brand new MacBook Pro. Fresh Start. Brand new install - nothing transferred from the last one . If it makes me even 1% more efficient it pays for itself in the first week
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pay should actually be transparent for all workers in all fields. That actually raises wages! look at sports!.
Millie Bobby Brown Says Her Salary Contracts 'Should've Been Protected So They're Not on the Record' After Reports of $10 Million 'Enola Holmes' Pay Leaked
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His Eagles wings here are definitely those of a man who has taken a movement class at a reputable theatrical conservatory.
Bradley Cooper will introduce the Eagles in the tunnel as they take the field for the Super Bowl.
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Gunning for the rare “nepo daddy”.
Ron Howard Says He Would ‘Probably’ Return to Acting If His Daughter Bryce Dallas Howard Cast Him
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Truly insane how the economy and artistic incentives of TV have changed in 10 years.
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Yeah if you don’t think critically about anything you might be very content.
‘Woke’ people more likely to be unahppy, anxious and depressed, new study suggests
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She's always moving like a starlet under contract for 17 films for Louis B. Mayer.
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Rhetorically very funny because a guy from a small town shot him, a guy from the big city, which is the very threat outlined in the song.
Jason Aldean Dedicates ‘Try That in a Small Town’ to Former President Trump After Assassination Attempt
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Carrie Coon was right that when a titanic theater-trained actor dies and their obit reads “known for Harry Potter and Marvel” it is an affront to god.
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a major contribution to American letters.
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One of the most pernicious lies on here is that you will not be rewarded for “putting yourself out there.” Lots of data says you’re wrong lol.
this but for people who think they’ll find love by joining a running club
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Jared Harris is an example of how no one cares if you're a nepo baby if you're goated with the sauce.
"Mad Men" star Jared Harris says “no, thank you” to playing Dumbledore in HBO's "Harry Potter" series. Jared's father, Richard Harris, was the original Dumbledore actor. “Also, why do it? I don’t understand. The films were fantastic – leave them alone.".
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A good thinkpiece would be to interview healthcare executives and ask them how it feels to know most Americans would love to see them die.
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Get that youth vote by banning TikTok and teargassing the dorms.
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If anyone knows about staying in too long and ruining everything you’ve worked for it’s Liz Warren.
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Has anyone written anything about how high-powered boomers decided they never have to retire? Silent Generation was for sure taking the gold watch and the steak dinner at 65.
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Yes you can shoot your short film on an iPhone. It’s just that you probably also need $30,000.
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There’s an epic bacon vibe sneaking into Twitter in the last month or so and it’s actually Musk’s greatest crime.
Being an adult means having unrestricted access to shopping on the internet. Because I 100% needed a Freudian slip #fashion
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Thrilled to announce Scottish candy has the names you imagined it did.
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What if there were public spaces for community that were neither workplaces nor retail establishments?.
"Without Dunder Mifflin, how would Jim have met Pam? How could the utterly ridiculous Michael Scott have entered your sympathies without seeing him every day, and knowing him?"
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I would be so mad if I directed as many good movies as Affleck has and people still thought I was stupid lol.
Didn’t expect Ben Affleck to have the most articulate and realistic explanation where video models and Hollywood is going
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There’s always one “union” that doesn’t support strikes. Guess which one? 🐷.
While a tow truck driver hauling a prop vehicle to the set of the TV show ‘Billions’ idled in the street in Brooklyn on Thursday morning, blocked from entering a production parking lot, a WGA union representative told police officers at the scene that striking writers had the
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I have finally seen Megalopolis and it did very much give me the same feeling you get when you see a Shakespeare play with a "concept" where everyone is wearing suits and the characters work at like "Denmark Corp.".
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AOC and Luigi have reminded us in recent years that an unfortunately vital ingredient in the secret sauce of revolutionary potential is being hot.
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Yes, I think she is aware that his films have female characters. But it is also true that Scorsese has not made a film with a female lead in his last 23 films and Kidman generally plays leads at the moment.
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RayGun is millennial excellence:. - Useless graduate degree.- Intense interest in an activity most would feel she is too old for.- In competition with Gen Z because there were no opportunities when she was younger.
I could live all my life and never come up with anything as funny as Raygun, the 36-year-old Australian Olympic breakdancer
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If a store or chain restaurant you like suddenly gets incredibly shitty, google if it was recently purchased by private equity, and 100% of the time, it was!.
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The New York Post has such a gift for finding stories that will make boomers so fucking mad lol.
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I can't get over this. Biblically your "neighbor" is just everyone that isn't in your family lol The Bible doesn't say you should love people in your town more than people the next town over.
JD VANCE: There is a Christian concept that you love your family and then you love your neighbor, and then you love your community, and then you love your fellow citizens, and then after that, prioritize the rest of the world. A lot of the far left has completely inverted that
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Nepotism has become a new kind of aristocracy in this second gilded age and this is actually happening all over entertainment and many other sectors.
North West performs I Just Can’t Wait to Be King at the Lion King: 30th Anniversary Concert at The Hollywood Bowl
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It's kind of jarring to see people on here complaining that Sabrina Carpenter is too sexual when to me she is giving "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" pin-up mid-century de-sexualized-sexuality.
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This guy fucking rules.
United Auto Workers members walked off the job and joined picket lines at midnight Friday morning.
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I don’t think anyone outside of Southern California knows that men also get cosmetic surgery.
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I see a lot of David Lynch in Colin Jost's work.
More tributes come in for David Lynch including from stars Colin Jost and James Gunn:
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Hard to quantify how historically stupid Obama interfering in the 2020 primary to coalesce the party around Biden turned out to be. Everyone involved in that scheme should be purged from party leadership.
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I would love to see the campaign done exactly the same but with people who have tweeted something that destroyed their careers.
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Steve Martin is perhaps the smartest and most culturally attuned comedian who ever lived so trying to dunk on him for a pre-woke period is really funny.
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DiscussingFilm is challenging long-held journalistic ideas of objectivity. Objectivity does not exist and pretense to objectivity always benefits corporations and institutions. Look how different these posts look than other journalism and ask yourself why.
Rather than going back to the negotiating table to give a fair deal to writers, the studios are beginning to consider terminating some of their first look and overall deals with writers as soon as Tuesday. (Source:
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How many stars’ first thought when asked a question is to big up the writer?.
Jack Black says "I'm ready" for a "School of Rock" sequel, but Mike White needs to write it. "He wrote the first one and he’s a genius. And we’d have to have Mike back in the saddle, but he’s real busy right now with ‘White Lotus,’ the best show on TV.”
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Toys R Us isn't even really a company anymore because private equity destroyed it. Commercial made by no one to advertise a company that doesn't exist featuring childhood experiences that will never happen again.
Toys "R" Us has released the first OpenAI SORA generated brand commercial. The use of generative AI in commercial work is here.
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Fascinating seeing free-market conservatives trying to make the argument that the principles they deeply believe in are not acceptable when applied specifically to them and their friends.
Clients of our friend were trying to lease a house while their home was being renovated. The lease was for $18,000 per month. They were to sign the papers the day of the fire. Now the people renting want $30,000. The vultures are circling and the flames aren’t even out yet.
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We are almost exactly the amount of time away from the Girls premiere as the Sex and the City premiere was to the Girls premiere when it came out, so if you are in your mid to late 20s and you want to make a show about dating in New York City, now is your time.
Lena Dunham has a message for "anyone leading the revival" of #Girls: "I see your TikTok mashups. I feel grateful for them, even though I’m technologically incompetent . I’m getting the love and it’s very felt and appreciated."
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Take a moment away from witnessing the horrors of the police state to look at the work they put into this premiere. There's been like a half-dozen genius bits.
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The only person who has ever been any good at writing about 9/11.
Hunter S. Thompson wrote this one week after 9/11, basically called what the 21st Century would become
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I love every SAG interview because Fran is like “one more wrong step and we’re bringing out the guillotine.” And then Duncan Crabtree-Ireland is like “What we’re saying is we would like AMPTP to return to the table.”.
SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher slams Bob Iger's "repugnant" strike remarks: "If I were that company, I would lock him behind doors and never let him talk to anybody about this, because it's so obvious that he has no clue as to what is really happening."
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George C. Scott in Dr. Strangelove reminds me so much of Tim Robinson
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The language of therapy and self-care has been appropriated to make the same arguments we saw in eras of puritanical censorship and I don't really have any patience for this line of argument.
I haven’t watched Baby Reindeer. I saw the play at Roundabout in 2019 and i felt it to be an extremely unsafe experience for the audience and the actor. I have however seen much of the discourse which has followed. I find it utterly horrifying that 🧵.
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Righteous Gemstones is about a lot of things but one theme that emerged this season is the way the prosperity of the 90s shaped the America that has come since. Macaulay Culkin cameo not an accident.
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Blanket response to the comments: yes the lighting plays a role but the subjects are inviting themselves to be lit in this manner AND they weren't discerning enough to prevent this photographer from taking these photos lol.
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I'm sorry but I'm so fixated on this. Not from a hospital. Not standing side by side with essential workers. Not in a spirit of mourning or reflection. But surrounded by our most beloved IP. Perfect.
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It’s interesting that two of the buzziest shows (Succession and Gemstones) are about boomers who desperately cling to power rendering their millennial offspring frustrated, impotent, and childlike as they approach middle age. Must be a coincidence!.
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It's so funny to call "Killers of the Flower Moon" woke when it is a true story that happened in real life. The historical record is actually woke!.
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I wonder if Vice Principals would have been a bigger cultural hit if it was made a few years later since its basically about two white guys who are mad about DEI.
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Locking in a deal on a flight to Istanbul.
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I love the thing where people misunderstand jokes from like a decade ago and think that we didn't have satire or politics or a left before 2020.
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Surprisingly people who own beach homes do not like taxes lol.
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I love when people outside of NY and CA try to say that LA sucks. Yeah, all those rich and talented people choose to live here because it's horrible sweetie. For sure.
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Interesting. I recommend coming to the Netflix picket line today from 1-5PM.
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If a TV show ceases to be about the thing a TV show is about it is no longer that TV show.
Missed the white lotus premiere, did rich people turn out to have personal foibles exacerbated by their wealth, was travel revealed as less a chance to “get away” but as proof that you never can?.
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Reminder not to look at the NYT needle because the people who actually run it are on strike, so a. solidarity and b. it is def. wrong lol.
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Boy Dinner is purchasing an artisanal sandwich that you have been researching for 48 hours prior to consumption.
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Either you can stomach America's imperial/carceral/capitalist position and engage in electoral politics for harm reduction or you can't. It's your choice but the self-righteousness is exhausting.
stop the stupid Kamala memes and joking about her being your drunk aunt stop obscuring the violence of these people. Kamala Harris is your class enemy and her goofy idioms don’t mean a thing.
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When tv shows get cancelled, creatives love to tweet “okay trolls, 100s of people lost their jobs today, not so funny now” but the reality is the bulk of the crew moved onto other stuff long ago and may not even remember that job very well.
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People who watermark AI generated art are so funny. Nobody steal my prompts!.
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When I worked at this store I was told I wasn't expressing sufficient enthusiasm for a guy who bought the first new iPhone and a manager threatened to send me home for the day.
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Sovereign citizen logic is seeping into the mainstream. This is like saying “actually that’s maritime law” or “fiat currency”.
Asked if he is vaccinated, Cowboys QB Dak Prescott: “I don’t necessarily think that’s exactly important. I think that’s HIPAA.”
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Chapo touched something I've been thinking about today. Older centrists (Schumer, Biden) will work with or concede to the left when it makes political sense but Xer and Millennial centrists (Jeffries, Buttiegieg) are ideological hardliners who won't do the left thing when popular.
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The Simpsons and Seinfeld are the great shining examples of an era when capital made the rare mistake of letting artists profit from what they created and have enough control to make something good.
'The Simpsons' Reunion WGA Picket Highlights the Strike Stakes for Writers: 'We Were So Lucky,' Says Conan O'Brien
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All conservatives want is culture and culture will never accept them and in fact the more they win politically the more popular art turns against them. I would tell them to read a book but well. .
For our latest cover story, @BrockColyar reported on the young, gleeful, confident, and casually cruel Trumpers who, after conquering Washington, have their sights set on the rest of America:
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Literally never a bad casting choice on this show.
'The Righteous Gemstones' Adds Megan Mullally & Seann William Scott As Guest Stars In Season 4
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We’ve yassified the victims for their protection.
A lady at the airport brought her own personal tube of mayonnaise. I’ve yassified her to maintain anonymity but she’s my hero.
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@ellorysmith This is a very specific circumstances. Schwartz and Savage created The OC and were known to be tastemakers. The OC soundtrack charted etc. So they got songs for reduced licensing fees.
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What sucks is the vast majority of the "woke" era's impact was cultural and rhetorical, not material or political. So we created a backlash without actually achieving very much. Couldn't be worse.
The pendulum/vibe shift has been in a conservative direction lately. When will it swing back toward liberals?.
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It is unconstitutional to forgive student loans. It is simply too complex to nationalize healthcare. We’re powerless to stop the return of child labor. But….
BREAKING: U.S. Treasury announces it will back Silicon Valley Bank deposits beyond the federally insured ceiling of $250,000.
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This is how everyone in the entertainment industry posts on here every day now.
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The reason you know my man was right is that they already beat him and they still won’t stop kicking him.
Book reveals Bernie's hotel demands: King-size beds and 60-degree rooms
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This trend cracks me up because it’s like “Oh yeah think I’ve become a heartless ghoul? Well, I was once a child.” And that’s literally what is appalling about it. We started from the same place you did but you became an insane piece of shit.
When you call me an alt right fascist this is to whom you're speaking
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I definitely left the movie feeling like Julianne Moore's character's life is awesome and her actions definitely had no consequences for her family and community.
‘May December’ Inspires Conversations Around Everything Except for What It’s About: Grooming
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Though I wish millennials could claim it, 30 Rock is an Xer product, a bizarro satire of Murphy Brown and Mary Tyler Moore in a way that millennials would not be culturally capable. The only millennial character is an entitled assistant who “doesn’t want to work anymore.”.
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The ultimate test of this website is if it can make the most boringly heteronormative couple in American history somehow queer-coded.
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JD Vance's trajectory of misrepresenting his background to gain a national profile among coastal elites then misrepresenting his fealty to coastal elites to those back home to become their senator is a truly American story.
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Ma’am I am a communist theater kid, and these people are not communist theater kids.
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I'll continue to push back on this any time I see it: it was not the "rudeness" of the young left that sunk Bernie Sanders but the refusal of the establishment to take on the concerns of young people --as embodied by Bernie-- that made young people rude.
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People do not need to be consulted if they inspire a fictionalized take on their story in art, sorry. I don’t even think they need to be consulted for pure biopics but I know that’s more divisive.
Mary Kay Letourneau's Ex-Husband Vili Fualaau Reacts to 'May December': "I'm Offended"
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If these stars win a judgement or settlement here, it builds a stronger case for the unions to strike over streaming payment and residual structure.
In light of Scarlett Johansson’s lawsuit against Disney, Emma Stone is also reportedly considering suing Disney over the release of #Cruella on Disney+. (
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We would all do well to recognize that in many ways the 1970s were a more progressive and transgressive moment in the arts than our current moment.
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@billybinion don't you write for a libertarian website? Isn't the whole ideology being able to do whatever you want? What do you even believe then?.
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