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TV's Top 5. Lesley Goldberg and
Dan Fienberg break down the latest TV news. This week the guys discuss the big raises for the stars, writes and producers of
Ted Lasso. They preview the Emmys and speak to Lynette Rice about her forthcoming
Grey’s Anatomy book. Saladin K. Patterson, the showrunner behind
The Wonder Years, drops by for a chat. And Dan offers reviews of
The Morning Show,
The Lost Symbol,
The Wonder Years and more.
Listen here.
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Awards Chatter. Awards analyst
Scott Feinberg talks to the great and the good of Hollywood.
In the latest episode, Scott speaks to Hayley Mills. One of the all-time great child stars reflects on anchoring six films for Disney (including
Pollyanna and
The Parent Trap), breaking into grown-up roles and writing her new memoir
Forever Memoir.
Listen here.
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Behind the Screen. Tech editor
Carolyn Giardina's podcast focuses on the filmmaking crafts. In this episode, Carolyn speaks to Jonas Poher Rasmussen, director of the the upcoming animated doc
Flee.
Listen here.
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Hollywood Remixed. Senior editor
Rebecca Sun's podcast about inclusion and representation in the entertainment industry. In this "Documenting the Undocumented" episode Rebecca speaks to Pulitzer-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas and
Blue Bayou director/star Justin Chon.
Listen here.
In other news... —TIFF film review: Keira Knightley and Lily-Rose Depp in
Silent Night. —TV review: Netflix's
Chicago Party Aunt. —TIFF film review: Scott McGehee and David Siegel's
Montana Story.
—Oldenburg film review: Na Gyi's
What Happened to the Wolf?
—Oldenburg film review: Scott Monahan’s
Anchorage.
—Cannes winner
Titane to
open Beyond Fest.
—How the Curtain Up! outdoor experience
will celebrate Broadway's big comeback.
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Bill Maher praises Norm Macdonald for keeping cancer battle private.
—Bob Saget discusses
final conversation with best friend Norm Macdonald.
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Joel Rapp, sitcom writer on
McHale's Navy and
Gilligan's Island, dies at 87.
What else we're reading... —"Clint Eastwood Takes on Toxic Masculinity—and Himself—in
Cry Macho" [
Daily Beast]
—"How Facebook Hobbled Mark Zuckerberg’s Bid to Get America Vaccinated" [
Wall Street Journal]
—"How Epic Games Made a Dent in Apple’s App Store Domination" [
New Yorker]
—"20 Times Norm Macdonald Was the Best TV Guest" [
Vulture]
—"Andrew Garfield Can’t Remember Who He Was Before
Tick, Tick … Boom!" [
New York Times]
Today... ... in 1964, ABC debuted a new half-hour comedy
Bewitched. The show, which starred Elizabeth Montgomery as witch Samantha and Dick York as her normie husband Darrin Stephens, with Agnes Moorehead as the mother-in-law, ran for eight seasons.
The original review.
Today's birthdays: Kyle Chandler (56),
Neill Blomkamp (42), Bobby Lee (50), Mena Massoud (30), Baz Luhrmann (59), Sam Esmail (44), Paul Feig (59), James Urbaniak (58), Ella Purnell (25), Matthew Settle (52), Bruce Spence (76), Sunrise Coigney (49)