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Palm Royale's Laura Dern on Big Little Lies' Future and Working With Meryl Streep

Palm Royale's Laura Dern on Big Little Lies' Future and Working With Meryl Streep
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Palm Royale's Laura Dern on Big Little Lies' Future and Working With Meryl Streep

Palm Royale's Laura Dern on Big Little Lies' Future and Working With Meryl Streep
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Billy Bob Thornton on how Taylor Sheridan wrote 'Landman' with him in mind For the 'Goliath' actor, the opportunity to work with the series creator in a very lived-in role was too good to pass up.

File this under "just happy to be nominated department."
I'm a finalist for this year's National A&E Journalism Awards!

G2. Celebrity News or Feature, One reporter or a team

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‘Boston Blue’ Review: Donnie Wahlberg-Led ‘Blue Bloods’ Spinoff Sticks to the Formula Despite a new cast and setting, CBS’s “Boston Blue” has all the bones of the original series "Blue Bloods"

CBS's Blue Bloods cancellation left fans wanting more. Now there's a sequel called Boston Blue starring Donnie Wahlberg debuting Oct. 17. I explain what's good &bad about that.
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‘Red Alert’ and ‘One Day in October’ Reviews: Paramount+ and HBO Max Offer 2 Gripping Accounts of Oct. 7 Attacks "Red Alert" and "One Day in October," two scripted dramas about the Oct. 7 attack in Israel, vividly show the human price of conflict

My review of two new series that explore personal stories from October 7, 2023.
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Journalists were arrested & some critics killed under suspicious circumstances. By the 2010s, nearly all significant media voices that challenged the Kremlin had been silenced, either by regulatory pressure, or revocation of broadcasting rights. The justification was always framed as “public order”

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When Putin consolidated power in Russia, one of his earliest and most decisive moves was to seize control of the media environment. Independent television channels such as NTV, once critical of the Kremlin, were stripped of their licenses or taken over by state-aligned companies in the early 2000s.

Over time, the state either directly owned or heavily pressured every major outlet, ensuring that no independent national broadcast platform survived. Print and radio followed. Licenses for independent newspapers and radio stations were revoked or transferred.

if you want to understand tailoring, you only need to watch mid-century movies, when actors were dressed by tailors, not brands. in the 1944 film cover girl, gene kelly's suit drapes beautifully, moving with him, not against him. collar stays on his neck, even as he dances.

Exclusive: No evidence of primary residence violation by Fed Gov Lisa Cook, says Michigan official The property tax authority in Ann Arbor, Michigan, said that Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook hasn’t broken rules for tax breaks on a home there that Cook declared her primary residence.

NEW: Reuters asked the Michigan Tax Authority whether Lisa Cook violated any mortgage tax rules for her home in Ann Arbor. They said no. That's in addition to Reuters earlier reporting that nothing was wrong with the documents for her home in Atlanta. www.reuters.com/world/us/no-...

Colin Farrell dubbed a 'king' as he goes viral for hilarious Emmys 2025 moment

Colin Farrell stole the show at the 2025 Emmys - and fans were quick to react to the hilarious moment on social media.

Official Defies GOP Governor's Order To Fly Flags At Half Staff For Charlie Kirk He said he did not want to honor a man "who did so much to harm not only the marginalized, but also to degrade the fabric of our body politic."

An Iowa official defied the governor’s orders to fly flags at half-staff for Charlie Kirk, writing he wouldn't honor a man who "did so much harm"

Authorities say student who had been radicalized fired revolver at Colorado school, wounding 2 Authorities say a 16-year-old boy who had been radicalized by an unspecified extremist network fired multiple shots with a revolver during an attack at a suburban Denver school.

Authorities say a 16-year-old boy who had been radicalized by an unspecified extremist network fired multiple shots with a revolver during an attack at a suburban Denver school.

YouTube video by WISH-TV WISHstory: RFK gives speech in Indy the night of MLK's assassination

We need unity, not division. We need to remember history so we don't keep repeating it. Retribution and postering will never bring peace.
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Fall TV Preview 2025: Exclusive Scoop and Photos on 30+ Returning Favorites! TVLine's Fall TV Preview is here! Get scoop on more than 30 returning favorites, including '9-1-1,' 'Matlock,' #OneChicago and many more!

Fall TV Preview 2025: Exclusive Scoop and Photos on 30+ Returning Favorites!

BREAKING: BlueSky is blocking access to Mississippi.

This is the No. 1 platform for @mississippifreepress.org.

We ditched X for BlueSky early this year.

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Prosecutors link LA contract to Smartmatic 'slush fund' as voting tech firm battles Fox in court The voting technology company suing Fox News for defamation is now entangled in a widening bribery investigation.

Prosecutors allege proceeds from a $300 million LA County contract with Smartmatic were diverted to a “slush fund” used to bribe foreign officials. This comes as the voting machine company sues Fox News for $2.7 billion over 2020 election disinformation.

Due to a number of email inquiries we’ve received, we’d like to make it clear that LAFCA is NOT affiliated with the “Los Angeles Film Critics Festival" (lacriticsfilm.com). We don't know who is running this, and have reached out to festival submission site Film Freeway to investigate further.

In case you missed any videos from today's #TCAAwards announcement, you can find them all here on the official TCA site: www.tvcritics.org/2025-tca-awa...

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So excited for the @OfficialTCA awards, especially my favorite, The Pitt, winning Outstanding New Program, go to @OfficialTCA for more. #TCAAwards #thepitt

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Little Cashton said Mike Flood got his ass handed to him last night- and if you save Cashton’s life- he will boo Flood too- go 2protests with u and help u save the country!

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I promised myself that I'd only post on here if I had something to say, and I think this counts: I'm thrilled to share news of my forthcoming book, "The World of Black Film: A Journey Through Cinematic Blackness in 100 Films". Out 12 Feb UK/17 Feb US via Laurence King Pre-order! linktr.ee/_Ash_Clark

Who’s Out? Who’s In? TV’s Major Casting Moves for Fall (and Beyond!) Get scoop on every TV casting change for fall 2025 and beyond -- who's leaving your favorite show? Who's joining?

Who’s Out?

Who’s In?

200+ Major Casting Moves for Fall (and Beyond!)

Robert Altman glares right back at us in a portrait by Antoine Le Grand.

The Robert Altman centennial is being celebrated with series @brattletheatre.bsky.social, the Siskel Film Center, @bampfa.bsky.social, and @uclaftvarchive.bsky.social — www.criterion.com/current/post...

Email screenshot Sandra Ballentine 5:42 PM From Hank Stuever tl;dr I only ever wanted to work at The Washington Post, and boy, I got to. Two things, before I go: 1. Before you read, listen or click on anything else, please read, listen and click on the work of your colleagues. Deeply, thoughtfully, always. Talk about it. Examine it. Enjoy it. THEN go doomscroll the competition, not the other way around. Originality will always be the answer. 2. If you create something (words, clips, visuals) and you happen to think, you know who would really get a kick out of this? Hank Stuever. Then please send it to him!

Email screenshot: Sandra Ballentine 5:47 PM SB Staff News: Ann Hornaday Dim the lights. After 22 years, Ann Hornaday is stepping down as The Post's chief film critic. Ann is a proud native of Des Moines, lowa (home to her beloved Varsity Theatre), who just as proudly began her career at Ms. magazine as an assistant to Gloria Steinem. She went from freelancing for magazines and the New York Times to staff film critic positions at the Austin American-Statesman and the Baltimore Sun before joining The Post in 2002. In 2008, she was a Pulitzer finalist for criticism. Her first book, "Talking Pictures: How to Watch Movies," was published in 2017. More recently, she's delighted Post readers with a steady stream of memorable reviews, from the four-star heights of "Oppenheimer" to the .5-star lows of "Lisa Frankenstein." She's also regularly churned out an array of columns, appreciations, lists and profiles (see: Nate Parker, Bruce Springsteen, George Clooney), among so many other things.

Email screenshot: Matt Murray 5:48 PM Craig Timberg Dear All, I'm sad to share the news that Craig Timberg, a Deputy Managing Editor since 2023 and a longtime leader in the newsroom, has decided to take the buyout and move on to a new opportunity. Craig joined the Metro staff in 1998, first covering Virginia politics and government from Richmond and then writing about D.C. politics, the mayor and city council. He was Johannesburg bureau chief from 2004 to 2008, after which he co-authored a book, "Tinderbox: How the West Sparked the AIDS Epidemic and How the World Can Finally Overcome It." He returned to Washington and served stints as education editor and deputy national security editor. From 2012 to 2021 he was a technology reporter, and wrote award-winning stories on privacy, surveillance, cybersecurity and disinformation. His work on the role of social media and @Anon in the Jan. 6, 2021, attacks was part of the package that received the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.

Email screenshot: Sandra Ballentine 4:39 PM SB Staff news: Joel Achenbach Joel Achenbach is retiring from The Post after 35 years as a staff writer, columnist, blogger, lede-all anchor and explainer of complicated stuff. Joel arrived in October 1990 as a feature writer in the Style section. He also wrote the weekly column "Why Things Are," answering questions like "Why doesn't a black hole somewhere get so big and powerful that it eventually goes sklurrp! and sucks the entire galaxy, including planet earth, into its dreadful maw?" and "Why is dryer lint gray if my clothes aren't gray?" The column was syndicated by the Washington Post Writers Group to more than 50 newspapers. In 1999, he started the traditional newsroom's first online column, "Rough Draft," for washingtonpost.com, and then became The Post's first blogger with "Achenblog" in 2005. That year he joined the Post Magazine, writing features and a weekly humor column. In 2007, he joined the National Desk and has since worked primarily for the health and science team. He has covered presidential campaigns, NASA space missions, mass shootings, hurricanes, the BP oil spill, America's

Four more WaPo departures: Hank Stuever, Ann Hornaday, Craig Timberg, Joel Achenbach. Source says it feels like the Hunger Games: “My inbox has literally dozens of announcements of departures or newsroom wide goodbye notes.”

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As AI changes how movies are made, Hollywood crews ask: What’s left for us? AI is supplying powerful new tools at a fraction of the cost, forcing below-the-line artists to wonder if the future of filmmaking has a place for them.

Many in the industry may still be dipping a toe into the waters of AI. Verena Puhm, head of studio for Dream Lab LA, a division of AI company Luma, dove in. www.latimes.com/entertainme...

‘Washington Black’ Review: Hulu Drama Blends Magic and Historical Cruelty to Bumpy Results Hulu's “Washington Black” is an action-adventure story that is both a hero's journey and a glaring reminder of the past

Part fantasy adventure, part historical fiction set in a harsh reality. My review.
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