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Nina Metz

2 years

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

🩷 Rebekah Weatherspoon Book Updates! 🩷

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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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I don’t want AI on my anything

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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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Sometimes I think how lucky we are that our policy forebears were like “sure, creating an entire system of modern plumbing will be expensive and logistically complex, but it’s better than everyone getting cholera and typhus all the time!” cuz if that were now … ? Man, good luck

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Use of air purifiers at two daycare centres in Helsinki led to a reduction in illnesses and absences among children and staff Air purifiers of various sizes and types were placed in two of the city's daycare centres during cold and flu seasons.

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How does Colin Farrell do that with his eyebrows

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I didn’t mention this in my review of “The Bear” but the guy who plays Liza Colón-Zayas’s husband is played by her husband IRL David Zayas 🤗

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@shelbyn_23 @LexDirects 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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I mean this in all seriousness: We are in a moment where younger generations have a profound disconnect from pop culture that pre-dates them My theory is that much of it is the result of no longer casually absorbing info via radio/reruns/old movies airing on TV all the time

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Girl what lol

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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!

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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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Uvalde parents say cops are harassing them in the wake of the Robb Elementary School shooting One parent says that the harassment takes place daily, with officers telling families to leave town Via Salon

Uvalde parents say cops are harassing them in the wake of the Robb Elementary School shooting

One parent says that the harassment takes place daily, with officers telling families to leave town

www.salon.com

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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

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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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He just doesn’t miss. She looks amazing!

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@Blackamazon @blackpowerpufff @lmartods The “ha-ahhh” !!!🥹🥹🥹

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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?

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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

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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”

‘Crazy Rich Asians’ writer’s dilemma illustrates how Hollywood pay gap is alive and well

With a worldwide box office of more than $238 million, “Crazy Rich Asians” was a hit for Warner Bros. and a sequel was inevitable. But a recent story in The Hollywood Reporter has revea…

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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

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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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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 miss the I Love… series!!! #throwback #VH1

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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

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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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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.

Column: Hollywood won’t save us from school shootings. Neither will cop shows.

It’s not the job of any one TV show or film to persuade politicians to care about the people they serve. That didn’t stop a viewer from reaching out to “Abbott Elementary” c…

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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

Julia Louis-Dreyfus Talks Possible SAG-AFTRA Strike, Says More Actors Should Be Able to ‘Make a...

Julia Louis-Dreyfus spoke to Variety at the premiere of her latest film, "You Hurt My Feelings."

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Laid-Off HBO Max Execs Reveal Warner Bros. Discovery Is Killing Off Diversity and Courting "Middle America" Via The Daily Beast

Laid-Off HBO Max Execs: They’re Killing Off Diversity and Courting ‘Middle America’

Warner Bros. Discovery has axed about 13 non-white executives as it tries to climb out of debt. It will likely affect the shows and movies that are made.

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ABC really failed to build on “Abbott’s” success and launch strong new shows around it. “Abbott” is proof that 22-episode non-cop network shows — sitcoms! — can still work and draw an audience if they’re good! … and instead it is more is less an island on that network

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Quinta Brunson on having more episodes for Season 4 of #AbbottElementary #D23

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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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Hasn’t had a pay increase in 18 years 18 years

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@chaedria Oh it was worse than that … more like one tenth!

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It’s fascinating that the decision was made (by who?) that his character would have no hair on his chest when the actor clearly has a bunch and it’s fine!

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Glen Powell on his new levels of fame and attention: “I kept coming back to something that Cruise had said, which was, 'The world’s going to become really loud, and it’s your decision how much you turn up or down the volume'"

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@OgLakyn not food and drink in the Telfars 😂

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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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One of the reasons this is important: Writing is *thinking* When we teach people how to write we also teach them how to sit and sort through ideas and connections and contradictions. Soooo much thinking and realization happens when you write!

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This is probly obvious and I'm just slow on the uptake but I think part of what's going on w/ conversations about AI and writing instruction is that a student can either use AI or learn to write and there's not really a middle ground there. The technology impedes learning writing

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Mayor of Burbank

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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 @Jwhitbrook

Damn, What Does Disney Have Against Nia DaCosta?

The middling response to The Marvels has created a situation where the Hollywood giant has taken an unprecedented stance of throwing its director under the bus.

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@chescaleigh @offbeatorbit 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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@RdotSpoon She's so charming (on screen and off) which is essentially for movie stardom! Let's go!

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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”

‘The Idol’: Suzanna Son Not Returning To HBO Drama Series Amid Creative Overhaul

EXCLUSIVE: More details about the creative overhaul of HBO drama series The Idol are starting to emerge. Deadline broke the news yesterday that director Amy Seimetz had exited the series, which comes...

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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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I present: $100 of groceries.

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Why was she dressed like this in Miami?

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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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"On our show, we have a lot of playwrights in our room ... [and] We hire a lot of theater actors that have theater training" Long live people with theater backgrounds cuz, baby, they're bringing something to the screen every time Via Collider

'Interview with the Vampire' Creator on Telling a Haunting Season 2 That Will "Stay in Your Bones"

Showrunner Rolin Jones and executive producer Mark Johnson also talk about the future of Anne Rice's Immortal Universe.

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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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Fly high Jane🕊🤍

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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

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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 & @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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(frustrated sigh) For those who do not know, more than 700 people (primarily older POC) died in less than a week during the Chicago heat wave of 1995. It is NOTORIOUS. Klinenberg wrote a whole book about it (hence his tweet lol). This is so irresponsible of them to erase this

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Me listening to @nytimes The Daily podcast on the history of AC, when the reporter recalls how heat in Chicago was no big deal in the 1990s because people could just hang out in their cool brick apartment building. Was her family at their beach house in 1995?

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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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Wallace Shawn on Gaza: “The Anger of the Palestinians Cannot Be Ended by Killing Their Children” The playwright, actor, and member of Jewish Voice for Peace challenges the notion that all Jews support Israel's actions Via THR

Wallace Shawn on Gaza: “The Anger of the Palestinians Cannot Be Ended by Killing Their Children”

The playwright, actor, and member of Jewish Voice for Peace challenges the notion that all Jews support Israel's actions

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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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Is this a new haircut trend? 😧

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Are streamers paying actors and writers residuals when putting full episodes on TikTok?

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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

Brian Tyree Henry to Receive Creative Impact in Breakthrough Performance Award at Palm Springs...

Brian Tyree Henry will receive the Creative Impact in Breakthrough Performance Award for his role in the Apple Original film "Causeway."

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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

Ernie Hudson Says ‘Ghostbusters’ Affected Him Psychologically: “It Wasn’t an Easy Road”

The actor also called the classic film "the most difficult movie" he's ever worked on.

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This is less a "kids these days" kind of observation, but one that I think about increasingly, which is: We don't have a collective frame of reference anymore and so without that shared context and pop cultural literacy, it makes it harder to talk about things in depth

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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

My worst moment: Rita Moreno and weathering a heartbreaker of an audition

On the Netflix comedy “One Day at a Time,” the role played by Rita Moreno is based — at least in part — on show co-creator Gloria Calderón Kellett’s own mother. &…

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Granted, Levi's is a company that currently exists! It's not a niche denim company ... probably the most famous maker of jeans. So I'm not sure how this person — even if they're not buying or wearing Levi's — never heard of them But this is such a consistent trend

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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

My worst moment: Even after the success of ‘Living Single,’ Erika Alexander was back at square one

Best known for playing Maxine Shaw on the iconic sitcom “Living Single,” Erika Alexander is making her directorial debut with the documentary “The Big Payback,” about the fi…

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maybe Emmy voters will start watching now! 🙃 (Season 1 got zero nominations. Madness!)

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#InterviewWithTheVampire Season 2 is now Certified Fresh at 97% on the Tomatometer, with 27 reviews:

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It would be compelling if other veteran show creators/executive producers/wealthy stars said similar things publicly

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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

Column: Made up rape story or not, David Choe’s remarks were public long before ‘Beef.’ Our silence...

The Netflix TV series “Beef” stars Ali Wong and Steven Yeun as strangers who become locked in an unwinnable battle to destroy one another’s lives after a road rage encounter. I ad…

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Column: Why aren’t you watching one of the best shows on TV? AMC executives clearly have a longterm plan wrt adapting the novels of Anne Rice. But what they haven’t figured out is how to exploit the best show in their arsenal: #InterviewWithTheVampire

Column: Why aren’t you watching one of the best shows on TV?

AMC hasn’t been boasting about streaming numbers for “Interview with the Vampire,” which remains a niche series

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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

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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

Pocahontas' First Marriage: The Powhatan Side of the Story | NMAI Magazine

Mother, widow, brainwashed kidnap victim. That, according to tribal tradition, was Pocahontas before her much romanticized wedding with English planter John Rolfe, the 400th anniversary of which will...

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My frustration with the Emmys these past few years is that, maybe because there are SO MANY shows in the streaming era, it feels like voters aren't trying to see as many as possible but only watch the same 6 shows their Hollywood pals are watching so those are the ones nominated

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This is from American Indian Magazine

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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 🤔

Screen Slate

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1 year

Fran Drescher, as The Nanny, on crossing picket lines

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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.

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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.

The Pentagon fails its fifth audit in a row

If the Defense Department can't get its books straight, how can it be trusted with a budget of more than $800 billion per year?

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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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These social media skits are sort of a genre all their own (they always look staged to me!) but I’m curious about the psychological impact of living in a world where we are increasingly asked to determine if things (specifically AI generated words and images) are real or fake

Rolling Stone

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The Viral Fake Bus Hammock Man Was A Skit Viewed more than 100 million times across social platforms, this absurd clip reveals how we fall for engagement bait. More:

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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?

Pop Crave

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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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@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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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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It's not that previous generations were more well-read ... I just think there were more opportunities to passively absorb info without even trying. It was in the air (literally radio and TV airwaves lol!) so there was an osmosis that doesn't happen the same way today

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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.

If you think the CGI on a Marvel movie isn’t up to snuff, don’t blame the VFX artists. Blame their...

Update: As of Sept 13, 2023, Marvel VFX workers have successfully unionized. According to Variety: “In a historic move, Marvel Studios’ visual effects worked unanimously voted in favor …

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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

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