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Ben Svetkey

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  • Truth or Dare: Hasan Minhaj Gets Caught Telling Whoppers | Commentary

    Does comedy need to be true or is funny good enough? The potential future host of “The Daily Show” is about to find out

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    Benjamin Svetkey
    September 20, 2023 @ 6:00 AM

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  • Film Festival Audiences Get Up for Anything These Days. Maybe they Shouldn’t | Commentary

    This article will take you 10 minutes to read — about as long as Yorgos Lanthimos’ standing ovation last week in Venice

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    September 8, 2023 @ 2:32 PM

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  • I Watched Fox News So You Don’t Have To | Commentary

    An MSNBC and (sometimes) CNN viewer takes a walk on the wild side to see how the conservative network covered Donald Trump’s arraignment

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    August 4, 2023 @ 2:10 PM

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  • Warning! This Article Will Trigger Jonah Hill | Commentary

    The “Superbad” actor’s ex-girlfriend has posted text messages that make him seem like a manipulative, psycho-babbling jerk. Was it wrong for her to expose him? Or is Instagram the best revenge?

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    July 12, 2023 @ 3:07 PM

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    Warning! This Article Will Trigger Jonah Hill | Commentary

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  • Netflix Ex-Insiders Explain Those Bare-Bones Blurbs, AKA I Was Right

    Turns out the reason the streamer’s once snappy descriptors are now so crappy is because the people who used to write them got fired last summer

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    Benjamin Svetkey
    July 6, 2023 @ 7:01 PM

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    Netflix Ex-Insiders Explain Those Bare-Bones Blurbs, AKA I Was Right

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  • Hey Netflix, What the Heck Happened to Your Blurbs? | Commentary

    If this were a descriptor for a Netflix movie, it would tell you absolutely nothing that makes you want to read it. That’s a problem

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    July 5, 2023 @ 4:49 PM

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  • What in the World Happened to Gigi Levangie Grazer? God, Guns and a Hollywood Kiss-Off

    After the sudden death of her new husband, Brian Grazer’s ex-wife’s surprising new lifestyle has her friends mystified. TheWrap looks for answers

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    Benjamin Svetkey and Sharon Waxman
    June 7, 2023 @ 6:00 AM

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    What in the World Happened to Gigi Levangie Grazer? God, Guns and a Hollywood Kiss-Off

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  • How ‘Succession’ Captured the Zeitgeist of Our Mean, Bitter Times | Commentary

    Sunday’s final episode of HBO’s darkly satirical series marked the end of an era — at least on TV. The rest of us have to deal with reality for a while longer

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    Benjamin Svetkey
    June 1, 2023 @ 6:31 PM
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    How ‘Succession’ Captured the Zeitgeist of Our Mean, Bitter Times | Commentary
  • Hello, He Lied: CNN Goes After Trump Lovers – and Fox Viewers – With a Fabrication-Filled Town Hall

    The news network flirts with disaster by giving the twice-impeached, soon-to-be-indicted ex-president 70 minutes of prime time air to fume and spew

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    May 11, 2023 @ 6:15 AM

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    Hello, He Lied: CNN Goes After Trump Lovers – and Fox Viewers – With a Fabrication-Filled Town Hall

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  • Sensitivity Readers Take Aim at 007: No, Mr. Bond, They Expect You to Cry | Commentary

    Ian Fleming’s classic spy novels have just been rereleased, but some of the late author’s original words have been removed or replaced to protect 21st-century sensibilities

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    Benjamin Svetkey
    May 8, 2023 @ 6:15 AM

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  • AI and the Rise of the Machines: Is Hollywood About to Be Overrun by Robots?

    ChatGPT and the artificial intelligence revolution may — or may not — change everything everywhere all at once about the film and TV industry

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    Benjamin Svetkey
    March 27, 2023 @ 6:00 AM

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    AI and the Rise of the Machines: Is Hollywood About to Be Overrun by Robots?

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  • Fox News vs. ‘A Face in the Crowd’: How a 1957 Elia Kazan Movie Foretold a News Credibility Crisis

    The Dominion lawsuit has revealed what Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham really think of their viewers

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    Benjamin Svetkey
    February 21, 2023 @ 6:15 AM

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    Fox News vs. ‘A Face in the Crowd’: How a 1957 Elia Kazan Movie Foretold a News Credibility Crisis

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  • Sit On It, Ojai! How ‘Happy Days’ Star Anson Williams Lost a Mayoral Race to a Yoga Instructor

    Recounts! “Popping” Ballots! Lawsuits! Inside the bonkers politics of a tiny mountain town where nothing is as mellow as it seems

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    Benjamin Svetkey
    January 27, 2023 @ 6:00 AM
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    Sit On It, Ojai! How ‘Happy Days’ Star Anson Williams Lost a Mayoral Race to a Yoga Instructor
  • Why the Academy Needs to Give ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ the Best Picture Oscar

    If AMPAS wants to save the Oscars, it can start by handing a trophy to Tom Cruise

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    Benjamin Svetkey
    December 19, 2022 @ 10:55 AM
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    Why the Academy Needs to Give ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ the Best Picture Oscar
  • Elon Musk’s ‘Twitter Files’ Are Turning Hunter Biden’s Penis Into a Constitutional Crisis. No Joke.

    Twitter’s CEO and GOP lawmakers’ “shocking” reveal is a self-own, of their own lack of understanding about the First Amendment

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    Benjamin Svetkey
    December 5, 2022 @ 7:30 AM
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    Elon Musk’s ‘Twitter Files’ Are Turning Hunter Biden’s Penis Into a Constitutional Crisis. No Joke.
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