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What Fire Wants: Understanding the Enemy
What long has been considered merely a chemical reaction perhaps is best compared to another all-too-familiar scourge — a virus.
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David Lynch Was L.A.’s Dark Poet Laureate (Guest Column)
The auteur's enigmatic masterpieces capture the emotional truth of life in Los Angeles with palpable clarity.
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Ali MacGraw, Whose Malibu Home Burned Down in 1993, on Devastation of Loss and Best Ways Forward
The breakout superstar of 1970's 'Love Story' recalls the events of a fateful day when a fire claimed her Malibu home while offering advice to those experiencing much worse tragedy right now in Los Angeles.
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Your Hollywood Career: How to Tell When the End Is Nigh
A scribe who survived the newsweekly apocalypse and then the scripted comedy crash offers some handy tips on when to bail on a failing industry.
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Why Donald Trump’s Name Went Unmentioned at the Golden Globes
Once a platform for political expression, the 2025 awards season kickoff party saw Hollywood players rein in their opinions.
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Enough With the Dylan-Splaining: ‘A Complete Unknown’ Isn’t a Documentary! (Guest Column)
The creative liberties taken by the Bob Dylan biopic are short-circuiting its target audience.
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Critic’s Notebook: Mariah Carey’s Christmas Tune Could Become the Greatest Song of All Time
Here's why "All I Want for Christmas Is You," which reemerges on the charts each holiday season, is on track to become the most successful song ever released.
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Dear Elton John: Lighten Up, and Maybe Light One Up (Guest Column)
The EGOT once sang a different tune about cannabis.
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In ‘Gladiator II,’ Ridley Scott Sifts Through the Past to See Our Future
"The filmmaker stares down the world as it rolls forward, a chariot holding all we could be," writes Richard Newby in an essay on the epic sequel.
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‘Wicked’ and Hollywood’s Bumpy Road to Oz
Jon M. Chu’s musical starring Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo is defying gravity at the box office — but it was a winding yellow-brick road of Hollywood adaptations to get here from 'The Wizard of Oz' (1939).
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On Camerimage and the “Think Cinematographer, Think Male” Problem (Guest Column)
Dr. Stacy L. Smith, the founder of the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, the leading global think tank studying issues of inequality in entertainment, weighs in on the controversy out of the DP-centric film fest in Poland.
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How ‘The Penguin’ Succeeds as a Comic Book Adaptation in an Era of So-Called Fatigue
The hit Max series dances in and out of the character’s comic, TV and cinematic history to create a compelling vision of one of Batman’s most iconic rogues.
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