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When Carrie Fisher Hung With the SNL Crowd

 Inside the hard-party days that fueled and finished her friendship with John Belushi. By Sheila Weller
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Mati Diop’s Ocean of Longing

 The French-Senegalese filmmaker’s Cannes sensation Atlantics is a migrant-ghost story for our time. By Maya Binyam
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Hot Cocoa, Glen Coco, and Absolutely No Lori Loughlin

 Roaming the floors of Hallmark’s first-ever ChristmasCon. By Madison Malone Kircher
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Jennifer Aniston Is a Great Actor. The Morning Show Proves It.

 It’s the closest Aniston may ever come to playing a pastiche of her own career and celebrity. By Hillary Kelly

The Race to Animate

In 2019, animation is big business.

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    How Don Hertzfeldt Survives as an Indie Animator The End of the World author talks watching his own back, turning down studio work, and whether or not we’re all doomed.
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    Tony Hale Leaves Forky Voicemails for Friends’ Children, and Now We Want One Too “Hey Jonathan, this is Forky. I just wanted to say hi. I hope we get to meet.”
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    High School Musical Swallows Itself Whole The Disney+ original High School Musical: The Musical: The Series is as absurdly referential as its convoluted title suggests.
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    Scarlett Johansson and Chris Evans Want Their Marvel With a Side of Auteur Films “I just believe there’s room at the table for all of it.”
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