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John Oliver Talks Legal Battles, Late Night Turmoil and Clapping Back at His Owners hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features…

Incest, MAGA, and Lorazepaaam: A terrific oral history of #TheWhiteLotus season 3 with Mike White and full cast, from @laceyvrose @mikeyoconnell hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features…

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For @THR’s first Creators A-List Issue I embedded with @jakepaul at his Puerto Rico compound as he prepares to take on @MikeTyson in the ring Nov. 15 on @netflix. hollywoodreporter.com/business/digit…

UPDATE: CBS News has invited self-described “mental health expert, DEI strategist and trauma trainer” Dr. Donald Grant to moderate conversation on this issue in an all-staff meeting tomorrow.

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Also, Lorne’s life is … wild. He’ll be 80 this year, + Colin insists the dude’s still up til 3, 4 am nightly — in fact, he says, lorne “has certain people he knows are always up then too, & they’ll have communication between 2 + 4am — just a regular noon conversation but it’s 3am.” (Fwiw, if I see 10pm, it’s a miracle.)

Ahead of SNL’s 50th, I spent time with a remarkably chatty Lorne Michaels and his Weekend Update duo, who also nailed their photo shoot. The highlights are as follows…. hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features…

25 years to the day after The West Wing debuted, I’m resurfacing our juicy oral history of the heady, liberal, poli-sci fantasy, which includes the fact that Sidney Poitier was the 1st choice for president. In fact, he’d been offered the role. hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/wes…

“People think (superhero movies) are laid out in neat phases for 10 years. Then you hear about producers on set having 8 versions of the same script open, and they go through each, cherry picking lines, and then they Frankenstein a scene out of nothing” hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features…