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‘Hacks’ Goes Full Sitcom — Without Losing Its Bite
As Deborah (Jean Smart) and Ava (Hannah Einbinder) explore doomed romances, the season’s bigger themes of fame, fandom and friendship snap into focus.
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The U.K.’s Channel 4 Got Louder Under Ian Katz. Not Everyone Heard the Same Thing
As the outgoing chief content officer ends his eight-year tenure, the verdict from inside the industry is complicated — and says as much about the state of television as it does about the man himself.
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‘Love Story’ Finale: Ryan Murphy Delivers the Tears I’d Been Dreading
Reviewing "Search and Recovery," the ninth and final episode of Ryan Murphy's FX series about the JFK Jr.-Carolyn Bessette romance, a former 'George' magazine staffer relives the traumatic moment she learned of her friend's tragic death.
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Why You Can’t “Shop the Red Carpet” Anymore
The clothes designers custom-make for movie stars and the fashion they create for the runway have nothing in common. It wasn’t always this way.
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That Time Matt Bomer Lost His Passport in Japan
The 'White Collar' actor — soon to be seen in Jonah Hill's Apple TV film 'Outcome' — on cherry blossom season, staying at the 'Lost in Translation' hotel and losing his travel documents in one of his "favorite countries in the world."
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What Timothée Chalamet Gets Wrong — and Right — About the Death of Opera
Bangkok-based opera director S.P. Somtow on why the genre's future may lie far from where it began: "Opera is going to survive no matter what anyone says."
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Netflix Just Got an Extra $2.8 Billion. Here’s What It Should Spend On
Bringing creators onto the streaming giant dramatically expands ad inventory with content that is inherently monetization-friendly.
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Is Hollywood Dying?
A public relations veteran candidly admits that the industry he's worked in for over 40 years doesn’t exist anymore. But he sees reason for optimism now, too.
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I Have Tourette Syndrome and I Have the N-Word Thrown at Me. I Have Thoughts on BAFTA.
As New York City Public Advocate, I’m in a very visible space with a very visible disability. Here's what I've learned.
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Cancer, Cosmos and Courage: How a ‘Sex and the City’ Star Taught Me to Laugh at Death
The late Willie Garson, who played Carrie’s gay best friend Stanford Blatch, was closeted about his terminal illness. But in private he helped me make the best of my own diagnosis.
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How Gorillas Mended Her Broken Hollywood Heart
As television writers become an endangered species, a veteran comedy scribe finds unexpected clarity — and hope — on a pilgrimage through the wilds of Kenya and Uganda.
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Hopping Mad Over Bad Bunny as Super Bowl LX Performer? I Can Get You Good Odds He Wears a Maxi Dress
But at +175, a ball gown simply won't pay out.
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