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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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Coppola & Lucas Started a Studio in the 1970s. Disaster Followed
Excerpt: Warners backed two promising film school grads. They fought, fell into debt and had nowhere to go — until a certain project came calling
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Lorne Michaels vs. NBC: The Epic 1990s War That Nearly Cost Him His Job
Excerpt: It was the ‘SNL’ era of Sandler, Farley, Carvey. But ratings fell, and the suits wanted its producer out, Judd Apatow to take over and O.J. erased
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Terrence Malick’s Lost Decades: What Really Happened
EXCERPT: He burst on the scene with ‘Badlands’ and ‘Days of Heaven’ and then disappeared. A new biography solves the mystery
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