Rushfield Lunch
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Be Original, Not a Try-Hard — More Advice From Hollywood’s Best
Jane Fonda, James Ellroy, RZA and others on finding your voice, ignoring ‘cool’ kids and making work only you can
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Lena Dunham Says ‘Say No’ — Advice from Hollywood’s Smartest
Marc Platt, Michael Moses, Parvati Shallow and more on the rules for surviving from those who’ve actually done it
Latest Rushfield Lunch stories
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Rushfield Lunch: Franklin Leonard on the ‘Inevitable’ WBD Sale & Why He Has Hope
‘I’m very much a pessimist by nature and an optimist by practice,’ The Black List founder and CEO tells me
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Rushfield Lunch: Delia Cai Tries to Explain Today’s Internet to a Gen Xer
An indispensable conversation with Deez Links’ writer about being young online — and what Hollywood can learn from the youths
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Jane Fonda’s Free Speech Warning: ‘They Come for One of Us, They Come for All of Us’
The Hollywood legend speaks for the first time about the Committee for the First Amendment relaunch on Rushfield Lunch
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Rushfield Lunch: Garry Kasparov Sounds the Hollywood Alarm
Don’t relax about Kimmel, warns the Russian dissident, as ‘evil doesn’t die’ and comes back ‘the moment we lose our vigilance’
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The Rushfield Lunch: First, They Came for Kimmel, with Jonathan V. Last
The Bulwark editor paints a bleak picture after Trump’s latest encroachment on Hollywood: ‘Do not surrender in advance’
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🎬 The Rushfield Lunch: Why Awards Actually Matter with Christopher Rosen
I talked to Ankler Media’s own deputy editor about Dwayne Johnson, Netflix & his early bet on Oscar contenders
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The Rushfield Lunch: Nicholas Stoller & Francesca Delbanco
The ‘Platonic’ co-creators on comedy, theatrical and how they write: ‘We’re both hard on the material’
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The Rushfield Lunch: Lauren Greenfield
The ‘Social Studies’ creator and director says teens would ditch social media if they had the choice and are ‘nostalgic for the ’90s’
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The Rushfield Lunch: Joshuah Bearman
The writer/producer, whose work spawned ‘Argo’, has now written an account of Altadena and what was lost
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The Rushfield Lunch: Priyanka Mattoo
The author and former WME and UTA agent explains how writing gigs have become a more glamorous factory job: ‘The optics of it have changed’
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The Rushfield Lunch: Franklin Leonard
‘This town seems allergic to innovation,’ The Black List founder tells me. ‘But that can be a good thing’
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The Rushfield Lunch: Parvati Shallow
The ‘Survivor’ champ and author tells me: ‘I was doing really well, but internally, I was a mess. I didn’t have a real connection to my heart’
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The Rushfield Lunch: Claire Zulkey on the Kids’ Screen Time Debate
Says the Evil Witches writer: ‘We reserve the right to take it away, usually for the younger child if he’s being a dick’
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The Rushfield Lunch: Ted Gioia on What the Media Doesn’t Understand
The cultural critic tells me how the Substack revolution will impact legacy media. When ‘you’re dealing directly with your audience, the rules all change’
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The Rushfield Lunch: Talking Young Hollywood with Tepper
How to convince someone to leave the doom scroll and come to the TV show
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