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Murphy was relieved to cut short the promotion of the film. “I think it’s a broken model,” he said of red-carpet interviews and junkets. Outdated and a drag for actors. “The model is—everybody is so bored.” Look what happened when they went on strike, he said. It all stopped. But the fact that the film was good, and Barbie was good, two at the same
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John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
Netflix has 222 million subscribers.
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Will Tavlin in N+1 on how Netflix has moved towards forgettable, low-end-of-middlebrow content. This is a function of the invisible base rates problem: when Netflix launched its streaming service, it was great for people who loved movies; these people raved to their friends who merely liked movies, and there are simply more people with taste close ... See more
Neil McDonough, a devout Catholic actor known for his refusal to do kissing or sex scenes out of respect for his wife, Ruvé, recently made a rare exception—but with a twist. In his latest film, the script called for a kiss at the end, so McDonough convinced his wife to play the role of the woman he kisses. That way, he could stay true to both the c... See more
What are the unwatched programmes on your Sky+ but taunting reminders of who we might really like to be?
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
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Griffin Dunne • The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
I didn’t need to ask what he had done all evening, because I knew he’d been lobotomizing himself in front of the television—scripted