The Los Angeles Times
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Rashida Jones on escaping our real-life ‘Black Mirror’: ‘You gotta touch grass’
“Capitalism is supposed to be this promise of, ‘If you pull yourself up by your bootstraps, you too can have all of the money,’” sayd Jones. “But the truth is, we just created a new class system. We obviously are having a giant wealth disparity problem, and the worst place we see it is in healthcare. It’s so criminal.”
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With ‘Dying for Sex,’ Michelle Williams proves her comedy chops are no laughing matter
“My best friend recently lost another of her best friends to cancer, and she would tell me about the conversations they would have cheek to cheek lying in a hospital bed and how in those moments they found the thing to point at and laugh about, so [the series] felt very true to me.”
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How Judy Blume’s books became a hot commodity in Hollywood, 50 years later
Mara Brock Akil speaks about ‘Forever’ on Netflix, adapting the Blume novel, and why she thinks the Black boy is the most vulnerable person in society
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With DEI under attack, David Oyelowo calls out Hollywood’s ‘performative’ politics
“We gained traction with Onyeka in the wake of the George Floyd murder and in a moment where there was a cultural correction and people seemed to want to do better. But now we’re in a moment where it’s evident that a lot of that was performative and not bone-deep.”
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‘I’m the evidence’: Anna Kendrick opens up about the abuse that shaped her new film
Anna Kendrick’s latest film, “Alice, Darling,” didn’t need an emotional abuse consultant. Its emotional abuse consultant was Anna Kendrick.
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Meg Ryan on heartbreak and the love language of rom-coms
An interview with Meg Ryan about her long-awaited return to the genre in ‘What Happens Later’
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Toxic Masculinity and Big vs. Aidan: How ‘Sex and the City’s’ love triangle has aged
“We’ve been in a long, 20-year process of undoing the allure of Mr. Big,” a feminist media scholar says.
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If Hollywood gets worse for workers, it will get worse for disabled workers first
"They want to make us so desperate that we’ll take nothing and we’ll decline our way into economic oppression. And I’m happy that I am involved in two unions who say, ‘No, we can’t do this anymore.’”
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Not your abuela’s telenovelas: How Spanish-language streamers are shaking up TV
On Spanish-language streaming platforms, call soapy drama what you like. Just don’t use the term “telenovela.”
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20 years after ‘Love Actually,’ a new rom-com blurs the line between sweet and ‘stalkerish’
In Ghosted, Chris Evans pursues Ana de Armas — and lands them both in hot water. The filmmakers describe how they made an old trope do new tricks.
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New Orleans’ film industry was a ‘secret club.’ ‘Queen Sugar’ blew its doors wide open
Ava DuVernay’s commitment to diverse hiring practices extends to everyone on the call sheet — with ripple effects across the below-the-line community in the New Orleans area.
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Is ‘Ted Lasso’ over? Hannah Waddingham isn’t so sure
The actor who plays Rebecca Welton discusses the season three finale, Tedbecca as soulmates and that AFC Richmond women's team scene with Keeley
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Will Ted and Rebecca become a couple in ‘Ted Lasso’? These fans say they’re ‘soulmates’
For a certain group of fervent “Ted Lasso” fans, football romance is life.