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    The Oscars Made Progress This Year (But Green Book Was Still a Bad Choice)You will pry the right of an Oscar voter to support a 1986-style quasi-liberal brotherhood-of-man movie out of their cold dead fingers.
    By Mark Harris
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    Oscar Nominations: The Academy Is a House DividedFinally, the Oscars look like America: in total disagreement with itself.
    By Mark Harris
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    Who Was Green Book For?A particular kind of movie about black and white America may have, at long last, run its course.
    By Mark Harris
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    The Matt Damon Kavanaugh Sketch Proves How Hard It Is to Do Politics on SNL NowNot long ago, an event like the Kavanaugh hearing two days before the season premiere would have seemed heaven-sent. Things work differently today.
    By Mark Harris
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    Disney Should Know the Difference Between James Gunn and RoseanneIn firing Gunn, Disney’s equating the merely tasteless with the actually dangerous.
    By Mark Harris
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    The Oscars Were a Mess, But They (Eventually) Found a MessageIt was awkward and overcalculated, but in its unscripted moments, a theme emerged. (Thanks, Frances McDormand.)
    By Mark Harris
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    The Globes Were the Season-Two Premiere of Hollywood’s Anti-Trump ResistanceIt wasn’t the most suspenseful or funny show, but it felt cohesive, a glimpse not just at women, but at a community of women working in unison.
    By Mark Harris
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    Jimmy Kimmel Is Scaring Politicians Better Than Anyone Else on TVHe’s the most unlikely spokesman for a nation baffled and frustrated by Trump and the Republican Congress in 2017.
    By Mark Harris
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    Taylor Swift’s ‘Look What You Made Me Do’ Is a Pure Piece of Trump-Era Pop ArtThe song is an anthem that turns the abrogation of personal responsibility into a posturing statement of empowerment.
    By Mark Harris
  10. We’re Approaching a Major Turning Point in Trump-Era Pop CultureTrump parallels in movies and TV will soon be intentional instead of just coincidental.
    By Mark Harris
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    Why Is the Edward Albee Estate Afraid of a Black Virginia Woolf?And should playwrights get a posthumous say in who performs their work?
    By Mark Harris
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    Will Hollywood Learn Anything From Get Out’s Success?Over the last two months, the movie has messed with the industry’s head, and with America’s.
    By Mark Harris
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    Trump Thinks Journalists Should Act Like Publicists and GhostwritersAnd journalists who sully his reputation are failing at their jobs.
    By Mark Harris
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    Hollywood’s Protests Are Getting to TrumpThe inauguration standoff is also a preview of what the creative class will face over the next four years.  
    By Mark Harris
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    The Hamilton-Pence Incident Was More Than Just a DistractionWhat should oppositional entertainment be in the age of Trump?
    By Mark Harris
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    The Indie Movie Market Is Being Badly MishandledVOD is the future of indie movies, so when will distributors give us audience numbers?
    By Mark Harris
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    Lady Gaga Might Be Perfect for A Star Is BornLady Gaga surely knows a thing or two about the rough road that gets you from Esther Blodgett to Vicki Lester.
    By Mark Harris
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    Actresses Over 60 Are the New Box-Office PowerhousesMeryl Streep is no longer an outlier defying conventional wisdom about the box-office viability of an actress north of 50; she’s part of a trend.
    By Mark Harris
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    The Sequels of 2016 Aren’t About Storytelling; They’re Just Brand Extensions I don’t consider “sequel” a slur. But the impetus behind them has changed, and with it, their very nature.
    By Mark Harris
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    Why Was Renewing Carmichael Show a Tough Call?Getting behind an acclaimed, newsmaking show with an all-black cast and decent enough ratings seems like a no-brainer.
    By Mark Harris
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    Why Does Hollywood Keep Disrespecting Melissa McCarthy?There’s no cautionary tale more sobering than a movie star who makes five profitable movies in a row.
    By Mark Harris
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    Can The Academy Really Diversify the Oscars?If the nomination roster next spring, or in 2019, or 2021, looks enough like America not to generate an OscarsSoAnything protest, that will be a victory.
    By Mark Harris