Ankler Features
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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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The Gulf Buys Big Into Paramount. What It Wants in Return
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The Live Nation Verdict Won’t Fix Tickets. It Should Rattle Hollywood
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‘Love Story’ Is a Hit. JFK Jr.’s ‘George’ Staff Refuse to Watch
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Cigarettes Get a Sequel: Hollywood’s ‘Cool’ Bad Habit Is Back
‘People are stressed out of their fucking minds’ as the industry lights up again
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‘Can You Be Less Black?’: Arsenio Hall’s Impossible Late-Night Note
Excerpt: The host was squeezed by Paramount, Black celebrities and the NAACP over the ‘right’ amount of Blackness
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Kevin Williamson on His Post-‘Scream’ Dream and the Truth About His Netflix Cancellation
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Analysts warn that debt, shaky financing and a Middle East war could derail history’s largest test of legacy media
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