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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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50 Young Hollywood Workers Tell All: ‘My Bank Account is So Sad’
A new wave of grads is about to flood the market — even as earlier ones still struggle to find their way
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Spencer Pratt’s Surge: The Hollywood Donor List
Haim Saban, Nicole Avant & Sir Lucian Grainge join the Pratt Pack as anger grips L.A. Dems — and billionaires
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How Casey Wasserman’s Olympic Agenda Warped L.A.’s Fire Recovery
An excerpt from Jonathan Vigliotti’s ‘Torched’ reveals how Newsom, Bass & the billionaire prioritized the 2028 Games
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L.A.’s Rat Attack: Panic Hits Hollywood’s Hot Tables
Orkin already crowned the city with a dubious honor. Then came hantavirus alarm
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