Ankler Features
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SpaceX Millionaires Are Coming for L.A. Homes
The IPO has agents bracing for bidding wars in a soft market — and Palisades Fire families caught in the middle
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L.A.’s Most Exclusive Clubs Are Book Clubs
Waitlisted salons to raucous theme nights: New Hollywood meet-ups fight the algorithm and AI and, yes, also scout for adaptations
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Paramount’s 28-Day Time Bomb: Settle, Fight or Walk
Every bad choice out of Monday’s ruling comes at a steep price. Here’s where each one lands and what it means for WBD
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BookTok Called the Hockey Boom. Shadow Daddies Are Next
Dark romances, dragons and morally ambiguous men are Hollywood’s next adaptation challenge — and big hope
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Photos: Sun Valley Players’ Private Thoughts Behind Those Ray-Bans
Joel Stein imagines what’s going on inside the heads of Allen & Co. attendees
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Men Who Don’t Read Books: MrBeast, Clavicular — and Me
Inside the storytelling slump, plus recs from Bruce Bozzi, Chuck Klosterman and 5 more men who defy the data
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‘Lost’ Producer: I Gave L.A. 33 Years. Now I’m Leaving — Here’s Why
An Emmy winner’s new chapter, even as ‘the 7-year-old boy’ with dreams ‘hates 56-year-old me for making this choice’
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100 Notables’ Summer Book Picks: Kathy Kennedy, Neal Mohan, Zohran Mamdani, Triple H & More
Stars, creators, politicos and power players reveal what they’re reading
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Roll Credits: What’s Next After a Hollywood Career Fades
As jobs shed, three industry veterans describe the messy, humbling, sometimes liberating work of starting over
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What State AGs Could Dig Up on Paramount-WB
A division-by-division look at where a lawsuit could find consumer harm the DOJ didn’t — from HBO to movie screens to (bad) news
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Cannes Lions to Hollywood: Did My Ad Actually Work? Prove It
The fest opens with the upfronts unsettled, Fox the only seller to move all its inventory, and ‘agentic AI’ on everyone’s lips
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Baby Boomers Keep Outfoxing the Young Onscreen. Why?
Meryl Streep, Brad Pitt & Jean Smart eclipse younger generations. Amy Madigan in ‘Weapons’ is the warning
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The World Cup Is Exposing Sports Media’s Big Blind Spot
Telemundo is smashing records on the Spanish-language feed — proving why U.S. rights sold in two separate packages may not last
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The Hell of Runaway Production on Families: ‘Not a Way to Live’
Writers and crews are spending months away from home. The toll lands hardest, again and again, on women
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Nepo Babies Are Taking Hollywood’s Last Entry-Level Jobs
Yep, that’s Bob Chapek’s kid at Marvel. As the pie shrinks, famous last names take a bigger slice. But at what cost to the industry?
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James Murdoch’s Revenge Tour Starts at ‘New York’
Cut out of the family business, the scion is spending his payout on the kind of cultural cachet money usually can’t buy
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