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NYC: Come To The Distraction LIVE On October 4

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Columnist. Author of many <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Drew-Magary/e/B001JS8R52/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_book_1">fine works of literature</a>, including Point B. Handsomest man in the world.

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DW Griffith, Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks signing contract establishing United Artists motion picture studio. (Photo by: Photo12/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

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Funbag

A Unified Theory Of The Death Of The Movie Star

Katharine Trendacosta writes about tech policy, the entertainment industry, pop culture, and where those things intersect. In her day job, she&#8217;s the Associate Director of Policy and Activism for the digital civil liberties nonprofit the Electronic Frontier Foundation. In her spare time, she writes things like this.

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Actor and writer Daheli Hall, left, joins WGA members as they cheer on the first day of their strike in front of Paramount Studios in Hollywood on May 2, 2023.

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Capital

The Writers Are Striking For The Future Of Entertainment

Arts And Culture

Movies Have A Reality Disease. ‘Sisu’ Is The Cure

John Semley is a writer and researcher based in Philadelphia.

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Clint Eastwood at a podium, it's an animated GIF, and different Clint Eastwood fake twitter accounts slowly fill the screen

This Is So Stupid

A Fistful Of Eastwoos: Inside The Battle For Clint Twitter

Nicholas Russell is a writer from Las Vegas.

Nicholas Russell

Keanu Reeves as John Wick, holding a handgun, with the text "Check Out the JW Collection" and a "shop now" button

The Gunplay Of ‘John Wick’ Is A Bit Too Real For Comfort

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Defector At The Movies

Tom Sizemore’s Characters Made Movies Better

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Mac McClung is congratulated by a bunch of much more high-profile NBA players after winning the Slam Dunk Contest at the 2023 NBA All-Star Weekend in Utah.

Podcasts

Mac McClung And The Soft Bigotry Of Low Expectations, With Israel Daramola

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Year In Review

The Best Things We Watched In 2022

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Please Remove Me From This List

Still image from the movie Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead.

Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitter’s Dead, Or That Christina Applegate Is Now Older Than Her

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