Hollywood's 2024 To-Don't List
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Hollywood's 2024 To-Don't List
Rob Long bemoans our focus on corporate machinations instead of... comedy!
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An entertainment CEO’s to-do list for the year could include, among other boring and depressing things: layoffs, a merger with Paramount, a sell-off of local TV stations, an acquisition of Lionsgate, and the making of one’s quarterly debt payment. Long to-do lists are, however, as a psychiatrist once told Rob Long, self-sabotage. So instead, he suggests to the powers-that-be: Make a big, crowd-pleasing comedy instead, one in the vein of Anchorman or Zoolander. It’ll be the perfect antidote to doom and anxiety — and might even win your audience back.
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Rob Long I follow Roy Price as well , as to both your wonderment and perplexity about the lack of comedy there seems to be an elephant in the room you and everyone in the Ankler universe skates around . As I will to. Except to say there’s a recent South Park episode that hits a few nails on the head. Maybe the answer to your and Roy’s question lay there?