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A Casino? Not in My Town!
Plus: Two drinks with Lloyd Blankfein, whose reaction to gunshots at the WHCD was to ask his neighbor: You gonna eat that? Kat Rosenfield on Michael…
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The Truth About Reality TV—from the Woman Who Built It
Plus: Why dudes still rock. Michael Jackson’s ‘second family’ takes a turn. And more!
Suzy Weiss
Was Michael Jackson Bad?
Audiences are loving the controversial new biopic ‘Michael’—for the same reason audiences loved the man himself. We want a good show.
Kat Rosenfield
Everything Is Reality TV. And Spencer Pratt Knows It.
The reality-TV villain turned mayoral candidate just used the same tactics that once made him infamous to produce one of the most effective, viral…
Liel Leibovitz
The Filmmaker Using AI to Beat Hollywood
Charlie Curran has spent 20 years making movies. He thinks AI is the best thing to happen to filmmaking because ‘the people who are the best at…
Ryan Hassan
Lena Dunham’s Sickness Isn’t Romantic
Very online millennial women grew up glamorizing their ailments, posting about symptoms as if they were cute. But their high priestess Dunham proves the…
Kat Rosenfield
Epstein in Neverland. Plus . . .
A night out with an angry trucker. What if Kanye West isn’t antisemitic? Suzy Weiss watched ‘The Drama’ with a survivor of a school shooter. Bring back…
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I Went to See ‘The Drama’ with My Friend Who Survived a School Shooting
Plus: Why is everyone obsessed with Belle Burden’s divorce memoir?
Suzy Weiss
I Can’t Wait for the Kristi Noem Biopic
River Page writes the first scene of the former DHS secretary’s movie. Plus: What’s the drama with Zendaya’s new dark rom-com ‘The Drama’?
River Page
She Was Offered Euthanasia. She Said ‘No Thanks!’
Plus: In defense of the spring breaker who’s never heard of the ayatollah. Two drinks with Emily Austin. Sascha Seinfeld on the 20th birthday of ‘Hannah…
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Why Is OpenAI Dropping Video? To Focus On What Really Matters.
If you think the shutdown of OpenAI’s Sora app is a sign of AI failure, you’re not prepared for what’s coming.
Tyler Cowen
The Weekend Press: Bad Therapy, Coming to a Screen Near You
Plus: Afroman is an American hero. Meet the former Disney kid running a multimillion-dollar space start-up. Suzy Weiss loves Ryan Gosling’s new film…
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