Prestige Junkie
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Hiro Murai on ‘Widow’s Bay’ and Its Ouija Board Magic
Plus: ‘Spider-Man’ director Destin Daniel Cretton’s bittersweet weekend
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‘Obsession’ Star Inde Navarrette Crashes the Best Actress Race
Plus: ‘Task’ and ‘The Gilded Age’ director Salli Richardson-Whitfield on her history-making Emmy noms
Latest Prestige Junkie stories
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‘Thunderbolts*’: Making Marvel Cool Again (With a Prestige TV Assist)
Florence Pugh, an A24-approved director and a box office win: the MCU experiment is back in action
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‘The Pitt,’ Nurse Dana & an Actor’s Breakout Turn in Her 50s
Katherine LaNasa was once on ‘Seinfeld’, married to Dennis Hopper and endured a major audition dry spell before nailing the unforgettable Nurse Dana
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🎧 ‘Hacks’: How to Keep a ‘Toxic Relationship’ Fresh (and Funny)
Star Hannah Einbinder and co-creator Paul W. Downs take me inside the hit’s enduring fight, four seasons in. Plus: Tom Oyer on new Oscar rules
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An Indie’s 8-Year Saga to Getting Made
Isaiah Saxon and Evan Prosofsky on what it took for an A24 greenlight on fantasy kids’ movie ‘The Legend of Ochi’
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🎧 ‘The Residence’ Finds Comedy in the White House. Really
Uzo Aduba lets me in on her Cordelia Cupp, the fast-talking sleuth trying to solve a murder at 1600 Pennsylvania
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‘The Studio’ & Emmy’s Stingy History With Shows About Showbiz
As Seth Rogen’s satire about a bumbling film exec gathers steam, I look at how insider comedies from ‘Dick Van Dyke’ to ‘Hacks’ fared on awards night
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A Case for Bleak TV & Feel-Bad Entertainment
I finally got up my courage to watch ‘The Pitt’, finding catharsis and community in dark shows. Plus: Every awards show now has a good host!
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🎧 Inside ‘The Wedding Banquet’ Romcom Redux
I talk to Andrew Ahn and James Schamus about their reinvention of Ang Lee’s 1993 classic. Plus: Karina Longworth on Hollywood’s ‘old man’ problem
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🎧 Inside ‘The Wedding Banquet’ Romcom Redux
I talk to Andrew Ahn and James Schamus about their reinvention of Ang Lee’s 1993 classic. Plus: Karina Longworth on Hollywood’s ‘old man’ problem
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The Masters’ Lessons in Swagger: Awards Shows, Are You Watching?
Golf’s greatest event reminds me why the Academy needs to own its showbiz supremacy. Recognizing stunts is a good start
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🎧 ‘If You Can’t Tell a Good Story, Forget It’: Jane Rosenthal & Lesli Linka Glatter
I talk to the legends and friends onstage at NAB about not fearing technology: ‘It’s creating a world for a new kind of creator to come into our industry’
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🎧’White Lotus’ Star Jason Isaacs: ‘I’m a Seeker of Extreme Experiences’
The Ratliff family patriarch on life inside the bubble of a hit show, ‘selfie hell’ and his career advice to his on-screen children
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‘The Friend’ & the Indie Diehard Friends Behind It
Directors David Siegel and Scott McGehee tell me about their long partnership. Plus: Find me onstage in L.A. and Vegas this weekend
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🎧 ‘White Lotus’ & Southern Discomfort
I talk to Mississippi-born TikTok star Landon Bryant about Parker Posey’s drawl and Dixie doyenne archetype
Prestige Junkie from Katey Rich tracks the intersection of awards, culture and industry power — the breakthroughs, contenders, campaigns and conversations shaping film and TV.