Richard Rushfield
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Hayden Panettiere, the Final Blow of Child Stardom — and Hollywood’s Shame
Another lost soul joins an awful list of tragedies. When will this horror show make the industry realize something is wrong?
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First Look: Hollywood’s Secret AI Talks Go Public. Here’s the Plan
Kathleen Kennedy quietly convened Oscar winners, actors, studio execs, Silicon Valley — and me. Now our first public framework draws a line in favor of human-controlled AI
Latest Richard Rushfield stories
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🎧 When ‘American Idol’ Had a Pastor Who Helped Katharine McPhee and More
Richard Rushfield talks with Leesa Bellesi, a powerful figure in the wings of Fox’s OG ‘Idol,’ who prayed for future superstars and helped them navigate sudden fame
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The Rushfield Lunch: Tom Segura & Jeremy Konner on the State of Comedy
I sat down with the ‘Bad Thoughts’ creator and exec producer to talk pushing boundaries and social media
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🎧 Bruce Vilanch & the Wild World of 1970s Variety TV Spectaculars
The maestro recalls his infamous trio: the ‘Star Wars Holiday Special’ George Lucas disowned, the ‘Paul Lynde Halloween Special’ and the ‘Brady Bunch Hour’
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Joe Biden & Hollywood: Gerontocracy, Kleptocracy, Kakistocracy?
A new book names names in the Worst Generation web of DC’s leaders and ours
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The Biggest Studio Bet of the Year is in a Swamp
Universal just opened the first major U.S. theme park in 24 years. This is why it matters more than you think
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🎧 Richard Rushfield’s ‘Hollywood Stories’: ‘Big Mouth’ Creators Nick Kroll & Andrew Goldberg Tell (Almost) All
The pod’s season 2 debuts! Mark Levin and Jennifer Flackett also join to reveal how the beyond-bawdy animated hit rose from Netflix’s ‘Wild West’ early days
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The Rushfield Lunch: Sonny Bunch on Critics & the State of Studio Films
I sit down with The Bulwark’s culture editor to talk reviews, the Rotten Tomatoes problem and his Letterboxd 4
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Penske Scoops: SXSW Leak; Golden Globes-Attorney General Mess Builds
I have 11 mins of leaked audio from an internal meeting, and dish on the nepo baby-of-media’s legal entanglement over his awards show
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The Rushfield Lunch: Ben Dreyfuss on the Left’s Failings, Social Media & Drudge
I sit down with the incisive cultural commentator to figure out the great question of our age: ‘What the hell is wrong with everybody?’
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THAT’S TARIFFIC!
What sitting in Trump’s crosshairs will mean for us. And oh Newsom, this is what finally got you to step up?!
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The Rushfield Lunch: Gen X Culture, ‘Catastrophe’ with Meghan Daum
I sit down with one of the voices of her generation to figure out its fate, with a lot of fun digressions along the way
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The FOMO Era vs. Movie Marketing (as We Knew It)
It’s time to embrace bottom-up, influencer-driven Chicken Jockey novelty — if only Hollywood can figure it out
A must-read for industry insiders, Richard Rushfield’s columns are unfiltered and unflinching analysis of the people and forces reshaping the business.