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James Carville: Democrats’ ‘Civil War Starts Wednesday’
5 Election Day dramas for your watch party with Carville and Mike Murphy — and the Oscar winner Nithya Raman snubbed
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Netflix Regime Change Explained in 5 Shocking Charts
Its originals aren’t hitting the zeitgeist — or Nielsen charts — the way they once did. Peter Rice, you’re up
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‘I’m Not Successful Enough to Get Away With Being Old’
As careers stall, Hollywood professionals confess they’re on a costly hamster wheel of treatments to stall their faces, too
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George Clooney Should Buy Warner Bros.
Op-ed: The actor couldn’t afford the studio alone. Then again, neither can the Ellisons
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Hollywood’s Over-40 Style Rules — and Which Execs Get It Right
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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
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Photos: Sun Valley Players’ Private Thoughts Behind Those Ray-Bans
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Men Who Don’t Read Books: MrBeast, Clavicular — and Me
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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
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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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