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DANCE DRAMA DESIGN & PRODUCTION FILMMAKING MUSIC Sports UFC Deal Why Ari Emanuel hasn’t found linear TV takers. p. 8 The Re ort ↑ Television Upfronts Spin Behind the Headlines Five narratives the networks are selling now. p. 10 says it “strongly disagrees” with the CBS interpretation of the pro- vision in question and that there Heat Index never was any intention of forcing a merger. Clearly Shari recoils at any suggestion that her now-ailing father meant to stymie her. While certainly Sumner did not always express a fond parent’s Tim Cook The Apple CEO reveals Apple faith in his daughter’s ability to Music has hit 50 million users, still behind Spotify’s succeed him, she takes the posi- 75 million but up 10 million in tion that Sumner supported her 2018: “We are very interested in the content business.” in 2005 when the companies were split and supports her today. (Whether Sumner, now a frail 94 and unable to speak, is capable of expressing an opinion on this issue could become a very sensi- Randall Stephenson tive part of the dispute.) The AT&T CEO admits a ICK ICK When Shari seized control of “serious misjudgment” when the company paid $600,000 Viacom in 2016, then-chairman to Donald Trump’s personal Philippe Dauman did not attempt lawyer Michael Cohen, whose ofice was raided by the FBI. to invoke the so-called “nuclear TY IMAGES. option,” choosing instead to take a very large check (about $72 mil- lion) to go away. But to many Les’ ‘Nuclear Option’: observers, Dauman had long appeared to be phoning it in and John Skipper A Boardroom Brawl stashing the cash while Viacom Six months after leaving ESPN amid a cocaine extortion drifted deeper and deeper into dif- . REDSTONE:. TODD WILLIAMSON/GETTY IMAGES. SAMBERG: FREDER plot, the former president ficulty as its cable channels (MTV, lands a job overseeing a Len Spills Into Court Nickelodeon) and Paramount Blavatnik-owned sports The fate of CBS-Viacom is in uncharted territory as Moonves streaming service and the studio faltered and the media Sporting News website. places a last-ditch bet on a Redstone legal showdown, or is he landscape changed. hoping to get fired and collect a $280 million golden parachute? At the same time, Moonves — BY KIM MASTERS AND ERIQ GARDNER

ER: DREW ANGERER/GETTY IMAGES. VANDENBERG: ALBERTO E. RODRIGUEZ/GET also richly remunerated (he made s Shari Redstone the protago- questions now that Moonves, $69.3 million in 2017) — has long nist in a drama that could 68, has launched open and poten- been the undisputed master be titled “Daddy Dearest,” in tially very personal warfare with of his domain and has delivered Veronika Kwan Vandenberg I The longtime Warner Bros. which her domineering father Redstone, 64. CBS is arguing that good results even in turbulent distribution exec is leaving as the studio looks to remake years ago quietly devised a a largely unknown (until now) times for CBS and the broadcast itself under the leadership of method to block her from eventu- provision in its charter allows the industry. He commands the Toby Emmerich. ally taking control of his media company to dilute the Redstones’ loyalty of his board and the sup- : COLUMBIA PICTURES/PHOTOFEST. MOONVES: AXELLE/BAUER-GRIFFIN/FILMMAGIC empire? Or is CBS Corp., which long-standing control by issuing port of many, though not all, Wall stunned Redstone by suing new voting shares to stock- Street analysts.

STRANGELOVE Showbiz Stocks CHAEL COHEN/GETTY IMAGES FOR . SKIPP May 14 to prevent her from forc- holders. The implication is that Under pressure to deliver scale GE, ing a merger with Viacom, in 2005, when mogul Sumner in an advertising market increas- $56.93 (+7%) just playing the long odds with an Redstone split his media empire ingly dominated by Google and AMC NETS. (AMCX) The TV networks company audacious legal argument? Has into two stand-alone companies Facebook, Shari has decided the beats expectations amid CBS chairman Leslie Moonves cal- — CBS and Viacom — he slipped best path for her family empire momentum for Killing Eve on BBC America, Brockmire on culated that even if his side loses, in a provision giving the respective is to merge CBS and Viacom into IFC and The Terror on AMC. he’ll be paid handsomely to leave boards a way to block his daugh- one $32 billion company. But while sparing himself a possibly ter should she eventually try to Moonves’ insistence on main- $0.68 (-68%) HELIOS AND futile struggle to make a suc- impose her will. taining control does not come as MATHESON (HMNY) cess of the combined companies? The Redstones’ National a surprise to anyone who knows The parent of MoviePass says it is spending $21.7 million Those are among the looming Amusements holding company him. And Shari was willing to monthly on the ticket service while it has $16 million banked and is owed $28 million. M. BROWN/GETTY IMAGES. COOK: JUSTIN SULLIVAN/GETTY IMAGES. STEPHENSON: MI ON THE COVER, TODD WILLIAMSON/GETTY IMAGES FOR AMAZON STUDIOS. THIS PA May 7-14 7 MAY 16, 2018 The Report

CBS claims Shari Redstone (with father Sumner in 2012) “acted to undermine the management team, including … talking to potential CEO replacements.” Behind the Headlines meaning the family’s Or Moonves may have another super-majority voting goal in mind. One longtime control, has long been industry insider — the veteran leave him in charge of a combined viewed by Wall Street of his own Redstone wars — company — for now — though as “a potential cloud says the odds of CBS prevailing initially she insisted on some and depressant on in court seem to be so long that meaningful role for Bob Bakish, the market value of “it smells to me like Les wants her handpicked Viacom CEO. CBS stock.” In other to get canned, collect his pay Some observers thought she had words, CBS share- and go home.” That go-away fee in effect blinked when she then holders suffer under could be much larger than agreed that Moonves didn’t have characterization of recent events. Redstone rule, so the solution Dauman’s, between $180 million to give Bakish, 54, a top job as NAI had absolutely no inten- should be independence. Pointing and $280 million, according to long as he got a board seat. But tion of replacing the CBS board to registration and proxy state- an analysis of recent SEC filings. CBS apparently saw that as allow- or forcing a deal that was not ments through the years, CBS And the clock is ticking. Unless ing the camel to poke its nose into supported by both companies.” claims the company has been held a deal is reached, the nuclear the tent, as lawyers like to say. The move to dilute the out to regulators and anyone buy- war could take an additional toll Now CBS has rejected the whole Redstones’ 80 percent voting ing common stock as an entity on two companies struggling idea of a merger, opting instead power certainly is unusual, that would be governed by an inde- to keep pace with digital goliaths. to go to war. In legal papers filed in according to legal experts. “I don’t pendent board. The first test of Viacom disclosed about 100 Delaware, the company questions know if it’s going to work,” this bold theory comes at a hear- additional cost-cutting layoffs Shari’s earlier tactics in taking says University of Pennsylvania ing May 16 in Delaware Chancery on May 15. control of National Amusements law professor Jill Fish. “Maybe Court. But that’s only the begin- Analyst Steven Cahill warns and Viacom and explicitly nobody’s ever thought of it.” ning. It won’t settle the big issues that if Redstone goes to the mat to argues that she “presents a sig- Columbia Law School professor such as Moonves’ continued role at keep control and push through a nificant threat of irreparable John Cofee agrees CBS’ move CBS and Shari’s potential fidu- merger, that could lead to “names and irreversible harm” to CBS. It is “radical” and references two ciary-duty counterclaims against being dragged through the mud also claims Shari stymied a other corporations with dual- the CBS board. and uncertainty over leadership potential acquisition of CBS — class share structures designed to And, of course, a deal could still and corporate structure for some sources say the suitor was Verizon ensure voting power. “Remember, be in the cards. As top Delaware months or even years as legal — that would have benefited if this can happen at CBS, it could corporate lawyer Francis Pileggi cases play out, likely with a fair CBS shareholders. In response, happen at Facebook or Google notes, “A lot of the time, litigation amount of name-calling along the National Amusements says it years from now.” is used as a negotiating tactic.” way.” The only sure thing: The “is outraged by the action taken In the suit, CBS argues that the Especially when it comes to the lawyers will prosper and Moonves by CBS and strongly refutes its so-called “Redstone discount,” Redstone empire. will, too.

Ari’s Uphill Fight for UFC Deals While Disney’s $750 million digital pact for ESPN+ is a start, Emanuel has yet to spur a bidding war among TV networks for the league BY MARISA GUTHRIE hen UFC and Disney revealed on May 8 $175 million annually. And Emanuel has apparently STEVE MARCUS/GETTY IMAGES. W that they had reached a five-year, $750 mil- been unable to spur a bidding war for linear TV lion deal to make the ESPN+ platform the mixed rights. One industry insider puts it bluntly: There is martial arts league’s digital rights holder, many “zero linear interest. Zero.” industry watchers called it a win-win. UFC — and Mark Shapiro, IMG co-president, disputes its parent Endeavor, run by Ari Emanuel, which this, and NBC reportedly has kicked the tires on also includes WME-IMG — scored a rich a linear deal. “We’re in conversations now rights agreement. And ESPN+ got a needed with several providers. But we’re not in a stream of content for its $5-a-month OTT rush to strike anything,” Shapiro tells THR, ofering. At a May 15 upfronts presentation, adding, with regard to the ESPN+ pact, UFC fighter McGregor is one of the league’s top stars. ESPN chief Jimmy Pitaro stated his Emanuel “It was important for us to be compensated for ESPN+ “to be the destination for in the upper echelon of sports properties.” sidelined by assault charges and Ronda Rousey UEL: ILYA S. SAVENOK/GETTYUEL: ILYA IMAGES FOR MCGREGOR: COMPANY. FAST combat sports.” Shapiro has called UFC the new “anchor tenant” defecting to WWE. Ratings for UFC on Fox’s The deal is notable, say industry insiders, given for ESPN’s digital service. But the OTT land- FS1 were down double digits last year. Still, the that UFC has been on the market for several scape is largely unproven. BTIG analyst Richard Disney deal will get Emanuel close to a $300 mil- months. Fox Sports, which is nearing the end of its Greenfield estimates that ESPN+, which launched lion annual rights target needed to amortize $115 million annual deal to carry UFC (the top bouts in April, has about 100,000 subscribers, “far the $4 billion Endeavor paid for UFC in 2016. “He still remain on pay-per-view), has balked at a hefty below ESPN’s expectations.” ESPN will promote definitely pulled a rabbit out of his hat,” says increase, allowing its negotiating window to expire UFC on its linear networks; but name-brand an insider. “That’s Ari at his best; so relentless he in the fall. Sources say Fox Sports’ ofer is around fighter ranks have thinned, with Conor McGregor gets something done.” REDSTONE: KATY WINN/INVISION FOR LA HOUSE/AP FRIENDLY IMAGES. EMAN

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Five key narratives dominated time, Walden’s network made Walden made a case to Fox higher- Lethal showrunner Matthew Miller : RAFY/SYFY. conversations as Hollywood began some eyebrow-raising program- ups to keep the pricey comedy) was over in Paris reconceiving crisscrossing Manhattan the week ming decisions, wiping clean and Last Man Standing’s switch the drama. In that eleventh-hour EXPANSE of May 13. its edgier, single-camera come- from ABC to Fox. What got consid- scramble, producers are said to dies (Brooklyn Nine-Nine, The erably less airtime: Lethal Weapon, have approached Karl Urban and : COURTESY OF OWN. 1. THE ROSEANNE EFFECT As one stu- Last Man on Earth and The Mick) which replaced fired star Clayne Johnny Knoxville; both passed. NISHIJIMA/DISNEY. ATSUSHI : dio chief says, “We can’t try to be and picking up only two of six half- Crawford with Seann William Scott HAVES WRINKLE cable anymore.” Indeed, in a 500- hour pilots to make room for the days ahead of the Fox presenta- 4. WHAT’S OLD IS NEW (AGAIN) “At show universe, audiences have too rebooted Last Man Standing and a tion. (It was enough time to have this point, there are two kinds of many other places to find edgier, CBS-style multicam companion, Scott, who was offered and passed development execs: ones who ROSE. ABC/ADAM : serialized fare. It’s among the rea- The Cool Kids. The moves didn’t sit on the role two years ago, glad- develop new ideas and ones who sons the broadcast networks have well with the network’s comedy handing at the postparty.) Walden rummage through the storage ROSEANNE returned to ultradigestible, eco- team, with sources suggesting the said the decision was not Fox’s closet trying to see if we still have nomical multicamera comedies group was fuming heading into but rather a reality presented the ALF puppet,” Seth Meyers (Fox ordered three) and closed- the net’s May 14 presentation. At by Warner Bros., which was sit- quipped at NBC’s May 14 upfront. E. ALBERTO FITHIAN: DOMINIQUE HASTINGS: IMAGES. CHARRIAU/GETTY MICKSHAW/FOX. RAY : ended dramas. Another reason: least one took to social media to ting on a thick complaint file on The joke landed in part because, LETHAL : HOPPER STONE SMPSP/WANRER BROS. ENTERTAINMENT. the breakout success of ABC’s lament internal “challenges.” Crawford. Still-furious co-star well, every other former hit is PARTY Roseanne, which with 21 million- being resuscitated (see Murphy plus weekly viewers even has Brown, Magnum P.I. and Charmed). ABC’s rivals doling out praise. UPFRONTS BY THE NUMBERS Of course, not every reboot : JOHN P FLEENOR/FOX. scored a pickup, with NBC passing 37 24 18* BROOKLYN 2. RETOOLING FOX’S COMEDY BRAND Total scripted Total number of Shows from 2017-18’s on its Bad Boys spinoff starring Plenty of time is being spent try- series orders at the drama series freshman class that Gabrielle Union and Big 5, down from orders, down slightly are getting second : CHUCK ZLOTNICK/MARVEL STUDIOS. ing to read the tea leaves at Fox, 54 five years ago from 26 in 2017 seasons (*so far) (it was “good, not great,” says one : ABC/PHOTOFEST. : ABC/PHOTOFEST. LAST AVENGERS which remains several months source), ABC saying no to Greatest RODRIGUEZ/GETTY INGRAHAM: WONG/GETTY CINEMACON. FOR ALEX IMAGES. IMAGES

Laura Ingraham’s Advertisers Haven’t Fully Returned Despite strong ratings, the host is suffering from a boycott spurred by a Parkland student BY JEREMY BARR n March 28, after Laura Ingraham tweeted the show averaged just more than seven minutes of remaining the top advertiser (the company is led O mockingly that David Hogg, an 18-year- nightly advertising for the same week, down about by a strong Trump supporter). old survivor of the Parkland, Florida, high school 50 percent, the analytics firm found. (A source Yet Angelo Carusone, president of the left-lean- shooting, had been rejected by colleges, dozens close to the show put the number higher, between ing Media Matters for America, says of shows that of corporate advertisers — including Hulu, Honda nine and 10 minutes on an average night.) Ingraham have been added to its clients’ “Do Not Run” lists, and Expedia — abandoned her Fox News show, Angle, however, has maintained its strength in the “No one’s going to put themselves on the which airs nightly at 7 p.m. PT. Despite Ingraham’s ratings, drawing an average 2.7 million total viewers line to advocate for going back on the program.” March 29 tweeted apology to Hogg, which he for the week of May 7, and also rebounded some- At the very least, it will be an uphill battle spurned, many advertisers have not yet come back what in the same week, averaging 21 ads per night. for Fox News, notes Kantar chief research oficer to the program. Fox News says it isn’t worried about the drop in Jon Swallen: “The advertisers who declared a During the first week of May, The Ingraham Angle sponsors, with a spokesperson noting, “Advertisers boycott have held firm in their avoidance of the averaged 12 ads per night, down from the 35 aired are returning, and we expect things to return to program.” in the three days preceding the boycott, accord- normal.” Ingraham’s show has skewed toward → Ingraham has called the boycott of her Fox show an attempt ing to data provided by Kantar Media to THR. And direct marketers, with pillow retailer MyPillow by “the bullies on the left aiming to silence conservatives.”

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 10 MAY 16, 2018 The Report

Behind the Headlines

Box Office Broadcast TV Cable TV Domestic International 18-49 Audience Viewership Gross Cume % Chg Gross Cume Total Live+3 Live+3 Live+3 LOSER! 1. Avengers: Infinity War DISNEY 1. Roseanne ABC 1. Fear the Walking Dead AMC 62.1 548.1(3) -46 281.3*55 1.06B 1.6B 4.0 14.6M 3.6M The Marvel mash-up has become the No. 1 Roseanne is assured its victory as the superhero film of all time at the worldwide biggest hit of the season, with a 2. The Good Witch HALL box ofice after passing 2012’s The Avengers 5.7 rating in the key demo and 20.1M 2.7M ($1.518 billion, not adjusted for inflation). viewers in live-plus-7 through the first six episodes — No. 1 on all counts. 3. Westworld HBO 2.4M ↑ From left: Last Man Standing, 4. The Haves and Have Nots OWN Brooklyn Nine-Nine and Lethal Weapon 2.0M With one year left at OWN before Tyler Perry makes his big Viacom move, his flagship drama stumbles in its American Hero with Hannah midseason return — of 31 percent from Simone (“too off-brand”) and CBS the previous opener. hitting the brakes on Cagney & 2. Life of the Party WARNER BROS. Lacey (“too soft”). 17.9 17.9(1) - 2.9*8 2.9 20.8 Melissa McCarthy sufered her worst opening 2. The Big Bang Theory CBS since becoming a breakout star. The comedy 5. GROWING PAINS AT SONY TV In its also came in well behind Sunday estimates 3.6 16.5M ($18.5 million) to nearly lose to Breaking In. first upfront with new chiefs Jef 3. Young Sheldon CBS Frost, Jason Clodfelter and Chris 2.8 14.6M Parnell, Sony TV went 0-for-5. 4. Grey’s Anatomy ABC Among the season’s most surpris- 2.6 9.3M 5. The Terror AMC ing passes: Union and Alba’s 5. Empire FOX 1.7M L.A.’s Finest, which sources say 2.3 6.9M 6. Into the Badlands AMC the studio tried to package with 6. NBA Playoffs ABC 1.6M Norman Lear’s passion project, 2.3 6.4M 7. Billions SHO 3. Breaking In UNIVERSAL 7. American Idol ABC 1.5M Guess Who Died?, and a potential 17.6 17.6(1) - 1*5 1 18.6 third season for last year’s miracle 2.1 9.8M 8. The Last O.G. TBS 4. Overboard PANTELION 8. Survivor CBS 1.4M pickup, Timeless. (At press time, 9.9 29.4(2) -33 8.2*12 11.3 40.7 both pilots were passed over; Sony 2.0 9.3M 9. Krypton SYFY 5. A Quiet Place PARAMOUNT 9. The Middle ABC 1.4M plans to shop both. Timeless is on 6.5 169.6(6) -17 2.8*55 100.4 270 the bubble at NBC.) The trio’s lone 2.0 7.7M 10. The Americans FX 6. I Feel Pretty STX ENTERTAINMENT 10. Modern Family ABC 1.4M new series joining the schedule? 3.8 44(4) -25 3.5*14 15 19.9 The Goldbergs spinoff Schooled, 2.0 6.6M 7. Rampage WARNER BROS. 11. Mom CBS developed a season earlier by the 3.5 89.8(5) -25 6.4*64 307.4 397.2 One to Watch execs’ predecessors, Zack Van 1.9 10.5M 8. Tully FOCUS/UNIVERSAL 12. The Voice NBC Amburg and Jamie Erlicht. (2) 2.2 7 -32 NA 551K 7.6 1.9 9.9M 9. Black Panther DISNEY 13. Chicago Fire NBC (13) 2.1 696.3 -36 NA 646.7 1.3B 1.8 8.8M 10. RBG MAGNOLIA 14. Law & Order: SVU NBC 1.2 2(2) +106 NA NA 2 The Expanse SYFY 1.8 8.1M Syfy pulled the plug on the space 11. A Wrinkle in Time DISNEY drama after it dipped below 1 million 15. NCIS CBS (10) viewers during its third season. (The 1.16 96.8 +182 NA 31.6 128.4 1.7 15.2M producer is shopping it elsewhere.) Ava DuVernay’s A Wrinkle in Time will lose $100 million-plus for Disney, but it did manage to enjoy a Mother’s Day boost when increasing its theater count timed to the holiday. Closer Look Digital Video Ad Dollars Way Up Revenue in the U.S. has doubled since 2015

1st half year 2nd half year $11.9 $8.9 $6.7 $5.9 $5.1 12. Blockers UNIVERSAL ($ Billions) (6) *39 $3.3 1.11 58.1 -36 1.2 26.9 85 $5.2 $2.6 $3.8 13. Isle of Dogs FOX SEARCHLIGHT (8) *38 1.07 30 +33 1.9 24.7 54.6 FY ’15 FY ’16 FY ’17 14. Super Troopers 2 FOX 983K 27.4(4) -48 NA NA 27.4 Source: Internet Ad Revenue Report by PricewaterhouseCoopers

15. Truth or Dare UNIVERSAL 916K 39.7(5) -52 7.5*55 30.8 70.5 Box-ofice source: comScore; estimates in $ millions; ( )Weekends in release; *Territories. Broadcast source: Nielsen, live-plus-3, week of April 30. Cable TV source: Nielsen, live-plus-3 scripted series, week of April 30.

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 11 MAY 16, 2018 The Report 7 Days of DEALS Who’s inking on the dotted line this week

CANNES BUYERS SEND A DEFIANT MESSAGE: WHO NEEDS NETFLIX?

Cannes’ showdown with Netflix initially looked like Deal a matchup between David and Goliath. of the The festival had stood up to the streaming giant, Week banning it from competition for debuting films on its platform without allowing them to screen in French theaters first. The enforcement pleased local exhibitors as well as some auteurs (including Christopher Nolan, who hailed Cannes as “the festi- val that cares most about cinema”). In response, the company pulled its titles from the festival alto- gether, and in addition, sources say it plotted to buy as many Cannes titles as possible, a not-so-subtle From left: Cruz, Cotillard, Chastain, Nyong’o and Fan. Bening F-you to festival director Thierry Fremaux. But a funny thing happened on the way to the acquisition, paying nearly $20 million for worldwide FILM Croisette: Sellers balked at Netflix’s overtures. rights to Taika Waititi’s stop-motion film Bubbles, Meryl Streep (CAA, On at least three occasions, the streamer lost out about Michael Jackson’s pet chimp. Gendler & Kelly), Gary to distributors with much smaller wallets: The The dealmakers for this year’s splashiest pact, Oldman (APA, Douglas, opening-night drama starring Penelope Cruz and the $75 million-plus female-fronted spy pic 355, Loeb & Loeb) and Antonio Javier Bardem, Everybody Knows, went to Focus; decided early against seriously entertaining a Banderas (Paradigm, the Mads Mikkelsen starrer Arctic to Bleecker Netflix offer, holding out for a theatrical release. Hirsch Wallerstein) will Street; and the Colombian drug trade drama Birds Universal beat other players that could offer that — star in Steven Soderbergh’s of Passage to The Orchard. Netflix wanted Birds namely Lionsgate and Donald Tang’s upstart Global Panama Papers drama The so much — perhaps as companion programming to Road Entertainment — in a U.S. rights deal Laundromat. Narcos, its most successful series worldwide — that valued at $20 million (Huayi Brothers paid $20 mil- it made a low-seven-figure offer for the Spanish- lion for China rights to the film, which stars Cruz, Winston Duke (Abrams language film. But no dice. Jessica Chastain, Marion Cotillard, Fan Bingbing and Artists, Management One top sales agent cites the streamer’s desire Lupita Nyong’o). “We went this route because 360, Hansen Jacobson), to own worldwide rights as a deterrent. “You’re Jessica felt really good about how it worked for Molly’s Lupita Nyong’o (CAA, giving up theatrical and every ancillary revenue Game, and we all wanted as much creative control Del Shaw) and Elisabeth for a just slightly better upfront fee,” he adds. In and sense of ownership as possible,” says 355 director Moss (WME, the U.K.’s

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TM & © 2018 TCM Interactive Group Inc. All Rights Reserved. Clockwise from left: Harry and Markle announced their engagement Nov. 27. The queen in 2011 after Prince William and Kate Middleton’s nuptials. The wedding will take place at St. George’s Chapel, where Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles’ union was blessed in 2005.

THE ROYAL WEDDING Should Showbiz Celebrate an Actress Princess?

‘There’s a thin line between royalty and Hollywood royalty,’ says one Brit-born producer as Meghan Markle’s industry pals jet to London and champagne pops from New York (Hugh Dancy) to Berkshire (Emilia Clarke) By Alison Brower

e have the queen, and you champagne, cucumber sandwiches, Victoria husband, manager-producer Trevor Engleson have Donald Trump,” says Nigel sponge cake,” she says. Producer Cassian — they divorced in 2013 — has been fending W Lythgoe. The U.K.-born Elwes says he’ll watch with “a toast of off Daily Mail reporters since the engagement.) reality producer won’t be rosé” from Cannes. “Someone of color Suits castmembers and showrunner will pile attending Prince Harry and Meghan and a star to boot is marrying into into the pews at St. George’s Chapel, as will E: PEL: Markle’s May 19 wedding. But as a close the royal family,” he says. “It’s a reflec- NBCUniversal cable entertainment group chair royal observer and occasional collabora- Lythgoe tion of where humanity should be Bonnie Hammer and the royal fiancee’s tor (for the Royal Variety Performance, heading and a reflection that there key reps: Gersh’s Nick Collins, attorney an annual televised fundraiser), he’s toast- is a thin line between royalty and Rick Genow, business manager Andrew ing the modern match. “An American Hollywood royalty.” Meyer and Sunshine Sachs’ Keleigh commoner being invited into the royal Not to say that seven seasons on Thomas Morgan. Pal Priyanka Chopra family,” he says. “It’s wonderful.” Clarke USA’s Suits elevates Markle, 36, to also is attending. (Markle’s father, Longtime publicist Bumble Ward, who Hollywood royalty, but the indus- Thomas, a onetime TV lighting recently moved home to England from L.A., try will make a bigger-than-usual splash director who was to walk her down will enjoy “a viewing party with girlfriends, at the Windsor nuptials. (Markle’s first the aisle, no longer will attend

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THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 15 MAY 16, 2018 About Town

People, Places, Preoccupations ‘The Worst Hosting I Have after apparently staging photos with paparazzi.) Ever Seen’ Luke Parker Bowles, chairman of BAFTA New York and nephew Will Ferrell and Molly Shannon of Camilla, is organizing (with the take their Rose Parade alter egos to Windsor Castle British consul general) a view- By Bryn Elise Sandberg ing party for 250, including Hugh Dancy, Claire Danes and director Tom tep aside, Savannah Guthrie. Will Hooper, at Harry’s in S Ferrell and Molly Shannon are crossing Manhattan. “I’ve the pond to host HBO’s coverage of “I think if I spot Hugh Grant out there I might lose my mind,” witnessed the ups and the royal nuptials in character as TV personali- Shannon’s Cattigan (with Ferrell’s Hosenbeck) tells THR. Parker Bowles downs, given the ties Cord Hosenbeck and Tish Cattigan. From tough time that my Ferrell’s Funny or Die, The Royal Wedding Live Why cover this event, and why the move to HBO? aunt and Charles went through,” With Cord and Tish! marks the pair’s second CORD HOSENBECK Are you kidding me? We were says Parker Bowles of royal life. gig after their coverage of the 2018 Rose Parade planning on covering this wedding even if we “But it’s a real break from the norm for Amazon (“This was the worst hosting I didn’t have a broadcast partner! and something that no studio have ever seen,” wrote one of many disgruntled TISH CATTIGAN Then HBO came along! We basi- can create.” reviewers who didn’t quite get the joke. “Cord cally will work with any network out there, so Not every Hollywood Brit was rude and even cut one of the co-hosts off it was a natural fit. is making a fuss. Elizabeth Hurley and dug into an old girlfriend. He should be HOSENBECK It’s true, we treasure our relation- will be on a plane, though she fired!”) Luckily, the duo won’t face ship with anyone willing to put us on air. curated a special Words With pesky online commenters when Friends dictionary (crikey!) for the they go live May 19 at 7:30 a.m. ET. Why should viewers tune in to the wedding? occasion. “Sadly my invite was Hosenbeck, ostensibly a TV and CATTIGAN That’s easy! The pageantry, the gowns, lost by the Royal Mail,” says man- Meadows radio host and author dedicated the luxury! It’s all so romantic! ager Sarah Jackson (clients to physical and mental wellness, HOSENBECK Kings and queens and lords and and Cattigan, a former Miss Arizona who’s ladies, come on, that’s why we do this! apparently known for her two-episode stint as an assistant DA on L.A. Law, also will have Tish, how will you choose your hat? correspondent Tim Meadows along for the trip. CATTIGAN I have no idea what kind to wear.

Hammer (left) with Markle at MEET ‘PRINCE GEORGE,’ THE KING OF INSTAGRAM a New York TV writer Gary Janetti plots imagined insults — from the mind of a fundraiser for scathingly Markle-averse 4-year-old potentate — like a By Michael O’Connell the UJA in June 2015. include Morena Baccarin). “I’ll obody seems less enthused about the as a sitcom unto itself; May 19 will be a very wait for The Crown season 15.” N royal wedding than Prince George special episode. “I find Meghan Markle super But Piers Morgan, for one, will — or, at least, the catty persona that appealing,” says Janetti, 52, whose credits watch with his “staunch royalist” one Instagram account has cultivated for the include the original Will & Grace and ITV’s mum in the south of England. 4-year-old since September. Vicious. “The irony is that Royals “have the worst job in the As rendered by Family Guy this is my way of celebrat- world,” he says. “Does [Markle] producer and scribe Gary ing her. It’s a bit twisted.” As really know what she’s letting Janetti on his personal stream, to whether he’ll head to the herself into? But let’s not be churl- the mini-Machiavelli is drip- U.K. with his stylist husband, ish on the eve of such a happy ping with disdain for his Brad Goreski, who’s covering day.” And Emilia Clarke will tune future aunt. “There’s ONE star the nuptials for E!, “No in from Berkshire. “My village in this family, bitch,” read a comment,” says Janetti. “Infer is actually having a party,” says the post the day the match was from that what you will.” Solo star. “I just want to see the announced. Janetti’s follower dress. Do you know what I mean?” count has surged from 70,000 Any idea what George might to 350,000 (including the wear to the wedding? Stephen Galloway, Marisa Guthrie, likes of Lisa Rinna, Kaley Cuoco I hope not what he wore to Natalie Jarvey and Peter Kiefer and Lea Michele) this year, and Pippa Middleton’s wedding. contributed to this report. he now looks at the account I need a new look.

→ Janetti’s (@garyjanetti) Prince George parody on Instagram

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 16 MAY 16, 2018 These British women can staple some fake birds to a paper plate and clip it on sideways BURBERRY TO GUCCI, and call it a hat. … So the options are limitless. WHICH DESIGNERS SAW A BRIDE-TO-BE BUMP What did you learn from covering the Rose Guthrie (left) and Kotb rode around London in Starting from her engagement day, preparation for NBC’s May 16 primetime special. Parade that will help you on Saturday? the ‘Markle Sparkle’ took effect HOSENBECK Tish and I have covered that parade By Carol McColgin for the last 23 years. In some ways, the wedding Network Stars and won’t be any different. If you think about it, Their Royal Ringers Meghan and Harry are just one big float pass- Wedding coverage drop-ins ing us all by. 193% include Tina Brown and Meghan Markle’s drama prof increase in purchases of By Jeremy Barr Are you rooting for “Harkle”? Mackage peacoats CATTIGAN “Harkle,” “Mary,” “Frickle,” “Frackle” Markle wore a navy “Elodie” — if they are in love, I say hooray to that! coat (about $750) with ABC Harry on Dec. 1, driving a HOSENBECK As someone who is single by choice, Anchors Robin Roberts, David Muir buying spree on fashion I can only say, “Goooooood luck!” The morning star and World News Tonight resale site Poshmark. anchor lead live coverage starting at 5 a.m. ET on Good Morning America (Michael What kind of access are you getting? Strahan also will be in the U.K.). 20/20 airs HOSENBECK It’s actually surprising we haven’t hourlong specials May 18 and 19. received our official press credentials. 95% Royal ringer Biographer Andrew Morton, author of Meghan: A Hollywood Princess England is 24 hours ahead of us here in L.A., Mulberry satchels She carried a small so maybe we just haven’t gotten them yet? CBS navy Darley bag ($925) for Anchors Gayle King, Kevin Frazier Commonwealth Day What other events do you hope to cover? CBS This Morning’s and at Westminster Abbey on Entertainment Tonight’s HOSENBECK We’ve had a lot of great ideas from March 12, her first oficial co-hosts will broadcast our fans on Twitter, everything from the event alongside the queen. live from 4 a.m. ET, and a Olympics to the St. Paddy’s Day parade. I per- two-hour special, Royal sonally would love the Westminster Dog Show. King Romance, airs at 8 p.m. ET. CATTIGAN It’s my dream to cover the Royal ringer Ex-Vanity Fair Victoria’s Secret fashion show or the Met Gala. 214% editor and Diana biographer Tina Brown Gucci mini bags CNN Will the Brits have a sense of humor about you? On April 19, she clutched a Dionysus mini ($830). In Anchors Anderson Cooper, HOSENBECK Tish and I can be a laugh riot, the U.S., Poshmark shoppers Alisyn Camerota, Don Lemon that’s for sure, but this will be a serious broad- in Georgia are the most Live from 4 a.m. ET, the trio will welcome cast, so no need to worry about that. influenced by Markle’s style, contributors including Meghan Markle’s followed by Massachusetts. onetime Northwestern theater prof Source: Poshmark (now a Boston U dean), Harvey Young. Royal ringers Along with CNN’s Max Foster, Harry biographer Angela Levin

FOX NEWS There isn’t a wealth of George photos available. Have you gotten any negative feedback for Anchors Shepard Smith, Sandra Smith C. Starting at 6 a.m. ET, the chief news anchor It forces you to be creative, having limited portraying him as so scathing? and America’s Newsroom co-anchor resources. I’ve got to use what’s available to Sure, but it’s all meant with affection. It’s fun. will be joined by Ainsley tell a story. When his brother was born, and Even though he says horrible things, it’s done Earhardt (co-hosting there were new photos of George going to in a way that’s meant to be so ridiculous that Fox & Friends from the U.K. from May 17 to 19). the hospital, I was like, “Thank God! I need you couldn’t possibly take it seriously. I’ve Royal ringers Diana pal MAGES. GABBE/GETTY IMAGES FOR TIME. SMITH: ROBIN more expressions!” given him these Shakespearean ambitions and Smith Harry Herbert and former thoughts to use this forum to tell that story. I Buckingham Palace com- The wedding should give you new visuals. think of him as a character in any series. munications oficer David Pogson Yes! To me, the holy grail will be a NBC picture of Meghan with George. There’s Will you keep it up after the wedding? Anchors Savannah Guthrie, Hoda Kotb never been a photo of them together. The royal wedding is a season finale. “It’s not every day you get to cover an There’s never been a plan, but I’m treat- American princess,” says Guthrie. Adds What makes her such a target for George? Janetti ing the Instagram account as if it’s a Kotb, “We have our fascinators. ... Pinkies : COURTESY OF HBO. MEADOWS: WINKELMEYER/GETTY MATT IMAGES FOR CLINI VENICE FAMILY out!” The Today duo will broadcast from an

CORD The spotlight had been on George since he TV series. It has an arc, there are little

ROWN/GETTY IMAGES. GUTHRIE: COLIN HUTTON/NBC. KING: BEN “exclusive vantage point” starting at 4:30 was born. Everybody was so consumed with storylines that play out independently, and a.m. ET, with Megyn Kelly and Kathie Lee : MAX MUMBY/INDIGO/GETTY IMAGES. GUCCI: CHRIS JACKSON/AFP/GETTY I George as the star of the show. Then, here there are standalones. But I think of each post Gifford at a nearby pub. Sharing a parent comes this beautiful American woman, and as an episode. I’m trying to play with the form. with USA, home of Markle’s former show, he’s relegated to the sideline in his mind. He’s Suits, NBC gained access to her Hollywood eaten alive by jealousy, that’s how I see it. The If George is the star and Meghan is his main foil, circle — including NBCU’s Bonnie Hammer, who spoke about the star’s commitment closer we get to the wedding, the bigger she who’s No. 3 on the call sheet? to women’s causes and more — for a May 16 becomes, and the more intense this gets. The Probably the queen. I’m obsessed with The special, Inside the Royal Wedding. fact that she is so appealing and winning is Crown, and for me, this is a modern-day comic Royal ringers Historian Andrew Roberts what’s so galling to George. The Crown. and Diana bodyguard Ken Wharfe PARKER-BOWLES: NOAM GALAI/WIREIMAGE. HAMMER: LAURA CAVANAUGH/FILMMAGIC. LAURA CAVANAUGH/FILMMAGIC. HAMMER: GALAI/WIREIMAGE. NOAM PARKER-BOWLES: INSTAGRAM: GARY JANETTI/@GARYJANETTI/INSTAGRAM. JANETTI: FREDERICK M. B MARCHANT/GETTY SAMIR IMAGES. HUSSEIN/WIREIMAGE. PEACOAT: PURSE

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Yes, I Did Say That! Quotes A l o o k a t w h o’s s a y i n g w h a t i n e n t e r t a i n m e n t Compiled by Seth Abramovitch

“I have not participated in “It’s horrifying. any formal investigation I left. Multiple Physical by NBC on sexual harassment.” Assaults.” ANN CURRY PAULEY PERRETTE The former Today co-host, The NCIS star, who departed the CBS series on contradicting an NBC News report the May 8 season finale, hinting on Twitter at what that its investigators had “a led to her departure after 15 seasons. discussion” with her regarding Matt Lauer’s alleged behavior toward female stafers.

“It was a great gesture of support on Scarlett’s “They don’t care. “There were part to wear a They don’t want factions within the beautiful dress like to know.” band that had lost that on such a TED SARANDOS their perspective.” The Netflix content chief, telling public occasion.” a UBS conference that his LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM ANNA WINTOUR streamer’s two new mega-producers The musician, addressing Vogue’s editor, on The Late — Shonda Rhimes and Ryan a Democratic fundraiser, on Show With Stephen Colbert, Murphy — will find “great comfort” what led to his firing from endorsing Johansson’s Marchesa in not having access to ratings. Fleetwood Mac after 43 years. gown at the Met Gala (designed by Georgina Chapman, who is divorcing Harvey Weinstein).

“You know a “Oprah has also “Collective hysteria network has some IMAGES. IPASUPIL/GETTY smoked a little of the kind that range when they marijuana, sometimes happens have a black Jesus too, I don’t mind in the society.” and Megyn Kelly.” saying.” ROMAN POLANSKI SETH MEYERS GAYLE KING The director, a fugitive from the U.S. The comic at the NBC upfront, The CBS This Morning co-host, after the 1977 statutory rape of a noting that his network claims revealing on The Ellen DeGeneres 13-year-old girl, criticizing #MeToo to both Jesus Christ Superstar starring Show that her best friend, Winfrey, the Polish edition of Newsweek. John Legend and the former occasionally indulges in pot. Fox News star, who once said “Jesus was a white man.” R/GETTY IMAGES. MEYERS: JAMIE MCCARTHY/GETTY IMAGES. CREWS: DIA D

NINE Stars took news of Fox’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s NINE cancellation hard, from Lin-Manuel Miranda (“I ONLY WATCH LIKE 4 THINGS”) to Mark Hamill IS JUST (“I’m SO not ready to say #ByeBye99”). But after FINE, NBC saved the show, actor Terry Crews thanked FINE Hamill and “the force” for bringing it back. PERRETTE, SARANDOS: ARCHULETA/FILMMAGIC. PAUL KING: KEVIN MAZU

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The Red Carpet

Cannes Film Festival Cannes, France, May 8-14

2 Fan Bingbing

1 Francois-Henri Pinault, Patty Jenkins and Carla Simon

4 Benicio Del Toro (left) and Denis Villeneuve 6 7 Laura Harrier and Julianne Corey Hawkins Moore

9 10 THR editorial director UCLA’s Teri Schwartz (left) and Nadja Matthew Belloni 5 Swarovski at THR and Swarovski’s event for the and Jessica Chastain documentary Waterschool at the Carlton Hotel. Salma Hayek Pinault

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 20 MAY 16, 2018 Party Crawler A Serious Fest When jury president Cate Blanchett (3) opened the 71st Cannes Film Festival, she said that her leading philoso- phy would be to “check 12 our agendas, preconcep- From left: tions and expectations Alden Ehrenreich, at the door.” Attendees Kathleen Kennedy and Ron Howard had to engage a similar mind-set as the focus this year fell more on cinema 13 and less on soirees. That Emilia said, highlights included Clarke and Kering’s Women in Motion Solo: A Star Woody Harrelson Awards honoring Patty Wars Story Jenkins (1), where Salma Hayek Pinault (5) Hollywood, May 10 3 sang “Besame Mucho” From left: Kristen Stewart, Lea and danced with Agnes Seydoux, Khadja Nin, Ava DuVernay, Varda (3); THR and Cate Blanchett and Agnes Varda DirecTV’s gathering for GETTY IMAGES.

PINAULT: PINAULT: Jessica Chastain’s (9) film 355 at the Majestic Hotel; Nikki Beach’s series of par- ties where Carey Mulligan and Luke Evans danced well into the evening; and the Women’s March orga- nized by French movement 5050x2020. At the march, SIA/GETTY IMAGES. BEETZ: HECTOR RETAMAL/ AFP/ RETAMAL/ SIA/GETTY BEETZ: HECTOR IMAGES. Blanchett delivered remarks with Varda, saying that in 15 Cannes, like Hollywood,

: NICHOLAS HUNT/GETTY IMAGES. DEL TORO: COURTESY OF LIONSGATE. 14 the time for change is now. Joonas Suotamo (right),  CHRIS GARDNER Bob Iger (left) and fiancee Milla Pohjasvaara Donald Glover and Chewbacca Going Solo “It feels like I get to be a part of the Bible or some- thing,” Donald Glover (14) Deadpool  told THR at the world pre- New York, May 14 miere of Solo: A Star Wars Story. The Millennium Falcon flew in for the Dolby Theatre event, where stars Alden Ehrenreich (12), RSESE, MOORE, BINGBING: TONY BARSON/FILMMAGIC. SWAROVSKI, BELLONI

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Ron Howard (12) walked Lupita Nyong’o (left) the carpet, while Harrison and Marion Cotillard Ford — the O.G. Solo 16 — was missing in action. Zazie  MIA GALUPPO Beetz 11 Deadpool Duo Martin “We had no preconceived Scorsese pie-in-the-sky notion GETTY IMAGES. HAWKINS: M. DAVID BENETT/GETTY IMAGES. SCO : ALEX J. BERLINER/ABIMAGES. IGER: CHARLEY GALLAY/GETTY I that we would ever get an opportunity to do Deadpool 2,” star Ryan Reynolds (18) told THR at the sequel’s AMC Loews Lincoln Square screening. Meanwhile, Reynolds’ onscreen rival Josh Brolin confessed: “I’m just an anxiety-ridden 1 guy. I like the pressure of 17 telling a story.” Terry Crews Blake Lively and Executive producer Kelly Ryan Reynolds and Zazie Beetz (16), McCormick and her husband, among others, also walked director David Leitch JENKINS: VITTORIO ZUNINO GETTY CELOTTO/ IMAGES. ANDREAS STEWART: RENTZ/ VENTIRELLI/GETTY IMAGES. HOWARD, SUOTAMO: ALBERTO E. RODRIGUEZ. CLARKE the carpet.  HILARY LEWIS

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 21 MAY 16, 2018 “Can I bring you a Birkin Bag?” Ratner’s Cannes Pizza Run up being right. I sat wait- Brett Ratner has kept a low profile ing for almost an hour for him since being accused last fall of to tell me that. So when you get sexual misconduct by a half-dozen rejected from a casting agent or women, including actress Olivia they don’t want you for an audi- Munn. But the director and former tion, it doesn't compare to that Warner Bros. financier was feeling. I was ready, I was ready spotted by THR spies in Cannes for rejection.” When asked if, as during the festival, noshing on Denzel’s eldest son, he’s audi- pizza al fresco at around 3 a.m. tioned for parts he hasn’t gotten, Three young women were enjoy- Washington says: “All the time. ing a slice on the Cafe Roma I’m zero for about a hundred right patio across from the Palais with now.”  T.S. Ratner, who might not have been recognizable but for the Warner Happy 15th to Brown Bunny, Bros. hat he wore. From Cheryl Tiegs Forty-two years ago, exiting Lionsgate chair Wachsberger was British-French icon Birkin’s driver. Vincent Gallo’s NC-17 The Brown BlacKkKlansman Star’s Secret Bunny debuted 15 years ago in Sex and the City Obsession Cannes, shocking with an unsim- Rambling Reporter John David Washington — star ulated oral sex scene starring of Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman, the filmmaker and 2018 Cannes By Chris Gardner which is vying at Cannes for the Critics Week jury member Chloe Palme d’Or — boasts a hidden Sevigny. Cheryl Tiegs, the film’s Jane Birkin’s Farewell to Her Former Driver talent. The Ballers actor can quote other lead, recalls how she ended On May 11, some of Cannes’ heaviest hitters watched transfixed as verbatim from all 94 episodes up in the movie. “I didn’t know British-French icon Jane Birkin serenaded Patrick Wachsberger at of Sex and the City. “Ask me trivia who Vincent Gallo was,” says the the Hotel du Cap to honor the exiting Lionsgate Motion Picture Group on Sex and the City, and I will co-chairman. “Patrick and Jane have a backstory,” Lionsgate CEO know it,” dares Washington. “I Jon Feltheimer told THR. “It was his first job, and he was her driver. rewatch it every year. Samantha? That’s why she performed tonight.” Wachsberger, 66, and Birkin, Charlotte? Those are my girls.” HOT NEW mother of actress Charlotte Gainsbourg and the inspiration for the As for his other, more publicized RESTAURANT eponymous Hermes bag, met in 1970 when Wachsberger was 19 and talent, breaking tackles as a for- a second assistant director on the set of Cannabis. “While I may take mer St. Louis Rams running back, a few moments to enjoy the Mediterranean this summer, this is not Washington says he learned a retirement party,” Wachsberger told the crowd. “There is much I all about acting rejection through intend to do between Lionsgate and pearly gates.” In attendance were football, recalling a general man- Christopher Nolan, Jim Gianopulos, Simon Kinberg and Doug Liman. ager who “told me I’d never play  TATIANA SIEGEL in the NFL again, and he ended

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THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 22 MAY 16, 2018 About Town He’s a very good kisser.” Though unproduced screenplays but on she’s watched the film several the portion of the website that Heard Around Hollywood Tiegs times, she doesn’t always make hosts, reviews and distributes it through. “Vincent told me about scripts). In mid-April, prompted [the oral sex scene] many, many by the billboards, writer-producer times. I feel comfortable doing it, Brian Scully (not The Simpsons’ just not watching someone else do and Family Guy’s Brian Scully) it. I wish he hadn’t included that started live-tweeting his reac- scene because it might’ve hurt the tions to the material, which film,” says Tiegs, who runs into includes a dog that may have been Gallo infrequently, “but I know he reincarnated as a shark. After doesn’t care.” eviscerating the script, inspiring onetime supermodel. “He told When a Wannabe Writer’s me, ‘If you don’t know who I am, Marketing Goes Too Far watch Buffalo 66,’ [and] oh my A screenwriter named Henry God, I loved the film so much.” C. King rented out billboards After Tiegs signed on, Gallo drove (right) — one on Cahuenga straight to her summer rental Boulevard across from Universal home in Minnesota, where they Studios and another on Venice Kidder died May 13 at her home in Livingston, Montana. filmed her one scene from a Boulevard in Culver City — to She was 69. highway rest stop. “Vincent said advertise his spec script, Van’s “What goes around, swims around.” he wanted to shoot in silence,” Best Friend. The billboard teases 1948-2018 recalls Tiegs. “So he comes in, that it’s “available at The Black a Reddit thread and backlash, sits down and we started kissing. List” (not as a pick of the annual Scully defended himself, tweet- Margot All that we did all day was kiss. list that selects the year’s best ing, “He blew a ton of cash on Kidder public requests to read his script,” Marc McClure, who likely $2,000 to $15,000. “I played Jimmy Olsen in Somni responded just as publicly to a poor the Superman movies, The Quick Pitch remembers his co-star A decade after Jose Andres opened The Bazaar script loaded with sexism, misog- at the SLS Beverly Hills, he’s rechristened the experimental who rose to fame Saam — his tasting-menu-only restaurant-within-a-restau- yny and racism.” The billboard as Lois Lane and died May 13 at 69 rant — as Somni. Basque chef Aitor Zabala, an Andres disciple company, Outdoor Advertising, did who has helped his boss teach a cooking course at Harvard, is in not return requests for comment, argot was one Ferran Adria charge. (Zabala also has worked under at El Bulli.) and attempts to track down King of the stron- Expect ultramodernist interpretations of everything from tomato were unsuccessful. Black List M gest women I’ve bread to mocha rice pudding. ever known. She and The Inside Dish founder Franklin Leonard says that The striking animal head sculptures at Somni are Christopher Reeve were Okuda San Miguel the script has since been removed by the noted Spanish pop surrealist artist . polar opposites — he was 465 S. La Cienega Blvd.  GARY BAUM from . a Juilliard-trained actor and she was a cowgirl. She came from a farm. It was like city meets country, but integrated marketing Christopher S. Spicer added to the television, died she spoke her mind. She was so tough. She stood and Michael Nieporent was tapped as head name of the law firm April 22 at his home in up for people and even to vp brand, marketing of Akin Gump’s enter- Jackoway Tyerman, Scottsdale, Arizona. protected me on the set — and digital strategy on tainment and media which is now titled He was 93. I was just a kid at the time. May 8. practice May 7. Jackoway Austen She stood up for Richard Tyerman Wertheimer Donner, too, [specifically] when he got fired after Principato-Young LAMF (Los Angeles Mandelbaum Morris the first Superman, right Entertainment Media Fund) hired Bernstein Trattner before we rebranded as Artists Alisa Tager as head of & Klein. finished First on May 10. creative May 11. shooting Superman 2. You barely FremantleMedia Coates McClure see her in upped Joni Day to Superman 3 senior vp alterna- Anne V. Coates, the — Lois Lane gets a bikini tive programming prolific film editor who and goes on vacation and development won an Oscar for her in that movie — because Margot was so upset about and hired Colin Nash Rosemont work on the 1962 classic what happened to Richard. Ayvaz and Jean Shi in the Lawrence of Arabia We were all like a family. same role May 11. Deaths and most recently cut All of us who’ve survived, Vedia Ayvaz joined Norman Rosemont, Fifty Shades of Grey, we stayed in touch. Forty Comedy Central Partners Jef an Emmy-winning died May 8 in Woodland years later, Margie and I were still friends. That as senior vp brand Bernstein and Darren producer who brought Hills, California. She doesn’t happen very often creative May 8. Trattner have been movie classics to was 92. in this business. — AS TOLD TO BENJAMIN SVETKEY

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s an AOL executive in Silicon Valley in the early A 2000s, wit- nessed firsthand what happens to an industry after it goes bust. Jim Bankoff “I learned that it’s one thing to The chief talks about the get a lot of traction and a whole future of the digital media different thing to build a business business, his Hollywood ambitions with a strong foundation,” recalls and what he learned when the chairman and CEO, the dot-com world went belly-up who during his seven years with By Natalie Jarvey the internet portal oversaw such brands as Mapquest, and TMZ. It’s a lesson that stayed with him when he took control of a small collection of sports blogs just after the financial crisis with the goal of turning that three-per- son startup into a modern media company. And it’s something he still references as he focuses on helping the now-1,000-employee Vox Media — publisher of such sites as (science and culture), (food and dining) and (tech) — weather the storm brewing in media amid growing competition for digital ad dollars from the likes of Google and Facebook. Rivals BuzzFeed and Vice missed 2017 revenue pro- jections, and The Wall Street Journal reported in February that Vox was slightly unprofitable last year, though it did meet revenue targets. “We try to spend money on things that matter,” says Bankoff, 49. “I don’t have an assistant, which I think annoys people more than delights them.” In February, Vox laid off AOL’s Live 8, on which Bankof about 50 employees, mostly served as an The company — which in March ↑ “The optimist in me looks around and exec producer, won says, ‘Wow, what an amazing, inspiring social video producers — an Emmy for reached 78 million unique visi- time we’re in,’ ” says Bankof, photographed a response to Facebook’s video content for tors — has begun selling access May 10 at Vox’s New York headquarters. nontraditional de-prioritization of content delivery platforms. to its technology and advertising from media brands. It was platform to third-party media How have Facebook’s news feed a rare move for the company, partners, including Funny or Die changes impacted ? and Vox is now hiring again. and Bill Simmons’ The Ringer. It’s still early to tell. There are Amid this challenging time for including podcasting and televi- THR caught up with the fewer stories being surfaced media, Vox also faced its own sion production. Already this year, father of three (his wife is Diane generally, so everyone is seeing #MeToo moment when, in the NBCUniversal-backed Vox has Elson Bankoff, the founder of a decline in traffic. But there’s fall, it fired editorial director sold the docuseries Explained to rug designer Elson & Co.) on one an uplift for “quality,” too, and over misconduct Netflix (May 23), the food travel of his weekly trips to Vox’s New our brands are considered quality. allegations. series No Passport Required to PBS York headquarters from his [Facebook head of news partner- Looking ahead, the company (July) and the four-part show home in Washington, D.C., where ships] Campbell Brown and others is expanding into new formats, American Style to CNN (2019). the company also has an office. have used us as an example of

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THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 24 MAY 16, 2018 protected is the top of that list, and We’re taking anti-harassment very fake news. All those are legiti- seriously, making sure we have mate, important discussions. At RÉSUMÉ a code of conduct that applies to the same time, the work has never the company and that everyone CURRENT TITLE been better. So the optimist in Chairman and CEO, understands they’re accountable me looks around and says, “Wow, Vox Media for their behavior and there will what an amazing, inspiring time PREVIOUS JOB be consequences if they’re not. we’re in.” Our position vis-a-vis Senior adviser, Providence And we’re making sure the people Equity Partners our peers is: We’re outperforming who manage them know how to BIG HIT them, but that doesn’t mean that Vox’s YouTube channel report when they see something, we will forever if we’re not smart. recently passed 4 million know how to deal with people Our approach, which was to always subscribers as Vox who may be victims of abuse or Shaquille O’Neal’s focus on quality and focus on prepares to debut its first alleged abuse. agent gave Netflix show, Explained. Bankof (then at scale, has led to some good results AOL) this jumbo during a very difficult time where, What’s an area of growth for Vox? shoe as they explored a partnership unless you are a major platform, Podcasting. We’re having enor- that didn’t come none of us really has a precise companies were spending a lot mous success with Today to pass. understanding of how the future of money to achieve high growth. Explained, which is a real hit out is going to unfold. We wanted to find that balance of the gate. It’s doing things in a between being aggressive but not different way than some of the You recently conducted the first being reckless. other daily podcasts. We have Ezra major layos in Vox’s history. Why? Klein’s show and Kara Swisher It’s such a fast-moving indus- Early on, Vox was more conservative with Recode Decode. The Verge and try, and you hire people with about expanding into Hollywood SB Nation are doing great work particular skill sets, and then than some peers. Why? in audio and building up a really the industry moves. When you’re You saw a lot of companies make strong podcast network. Then, a small startup, you can often announcements or rush into we’re starting to see real traction just be like, “Oh, instead of doing things and not have anything of in what I’ll call affiliate commerce that, do this.” But as you get to be value or stumble along the way. work. Our Chorus platform has 1,000 people, it’s harder. If busi- We wanted to set things up and do a reputation [as] the best kind of ness models change, and you don’t it the right way, to make sure that media and publishing platform adjust your allocations, you’re we had strong stories and were in the industry. If we can come in going to get into trouble over the working with strong partners. All and, for half the cost, provide a long haul. So we wanted to make that stuff takes a little bit of time. better platform so that a company sure to not act that way. At the We’re starting to really see the can funnel those costs into creat- same time, we’re hiring this year, fruit of that work, and it’s start- ing content, everyone’s going to be three times as many people as ing to accelerate now. I suspect better off. we laid off. And we’ve hired prob- we’ll have hits and misses just like ably 500 people in the past couple everyone else. But we’ve certainly You spend many hours on the train of years. That hyper growth had a lot of success in launching between D.C. and New York. How in and of itself is a lot to manage. great creative concepts. And we’re do you pass the time? considerably past any one of our I’m a big podcast consumer. Fashion site Racked was hit hard peers in our success in the first [Vox’s The Weeds and Recode Media in the layos. What’s the future of half of this year. are some of Bankoff’s favorites.] that brand? I always try to walk to work just so Racked had a big social video As a veteran of the AOL-Time I can catch up on podcasts. I also program, and that was an area Warner merger, what do you think like to keep up on what’s going on where we had to make a tough of the consolidation happening in in the world. I’m the same media call. It was a really talented team, Hollywood today? nerd I was growing up, so I’m a but it just didn’t make sense You see companies seeking scale voracious reader of the media people who are doing it right. to invest to create a big Racked in different ways. You just have reporters who focus on the stuff But we view the Facebook feed video presence in social right to make sure that the integra- that happens in our industry. as more of an awareness and now. I will say, the Racked content tion will lead to something truly marketing platform as opposed to is doing better than it ever has in transformative. It will be hard a consumption platform. So we’re terms of audience numbers, even to compete against Google just by not building our business around post the layoffs. We’ve been able to having twice as much undiffer- Facebook. We never have. We’re invest in the really talented jour- entiated advertising banners as considerably bigger than any of nalists on that team. It’s not going you had before your merger. So our digital peers, and we don’t anywhere. It’s going to evolve; all these companies, in their quest rely on any one platform for that. I don’t have answers on how yet. for scale, also should make sure they have something that allows What’s missing from the discussion Will Vox be profitable this year? them to compete in a unique way. A hat from the about the challenges that digital early years of Yes. We’ve always taken finan- SB Nation, the group media companies are facing today? cial discipline pretty seriously, How has #MeToo impacted the of sports blogs that served as the How data and privacy are even when other venture-backed culture at Vox? foundation for what would become Vox Media.

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Analysis

LEGAL  ERIQ GARDNER Is Stormy Daniels Getting Her Money’s Worth? Attorney Michael Avenatti is the toast of cable news, turning his client into the most famous adult film star on the planet. But is he advancing her court case against Donald Trump — or is the real winner just Michael Avenatti?

agents, allowing Cohen’s potential future criminal trial — with its Fifth Amendment complications — to slow Avenatti’s civil proceedings. Avenatti, though, makes no apologies for his tactics. He believes his daily (sometimes hourly) CNN and MSNBC appearances ulti- mately will win the day. “You can argue with me about a lot of things,” he tells THR, “but you can’t argue that the media strategy hasn’t worked. We’re crushing it on the PR front. The strategy has elevated my client’s stature — she’s revered now across many demo- graphic groups. It’s elevated the importance of her lawsuit. And it’s resulted in damaging information being provided to us by members of the public who have heard about the case through the media strategy.” Nor is he letting up. On April 30, he filed a defamation suit against Trump on behalf of Daniels after the president dismissed as a “con job” her claims that she’d been threatened in 2011 to keep silent about the Trump affair. Then, on May 8, Avenatti released documents that accused Cohen of getting $500,000 from a Putin-connected Russian billionaire, raising the question of whether some of that money was used to pay Daniels’ hush fee. t THR’s annual New York party on interests are to maximize publicity in order Avenatti has been successful in highlighting April 12, by far the most popular media to enhance future income, then he’s doing an the murky nature of that $130,000 payment, A star was Michael Avenatti, the fast- excellent job,” notes entertainment litigator but it’s not clear he’s advanced his stated goal talking 47-year-old lawyer who has become Howard King. to invalidate her contract. He hasn’t won any — together with his client, adult film actress But many lawyers believe Avenatti’s strat- significant point in court, and he can’t truly Stormy Daniels — a household name. In a egy is risky. His argument — Trump didn’t sign take credit for the actions of New York prosecu- room packed with anchors and cable news the contract with the nondisclosure agree- tors investigating Cohen. If the real strategy hosts, Avenatti was swamped by admirers ment, so it isn’t valid — isn’t terrible, but it’s is to embarrass Trump and Cohen enough that expressing the same sentiment: “Thank you no slam dunk. After all, Daniels did accept they’ll let her out of the hush deal, he hasn’t for your service to the country.” $130,000 for her silence and hasn’t returned achieved that yet either. But just how much service is Avenatti pro- any of it. But if Avenatti ends up losing, the cost On the other hand, nobody has been helping viding his client? For all his constant TV to Daniels could be ruinous. One court docu- Avenatti’s cause more than Trump himself. appearances and expert trolling of the presi- ment suggested the damages owed to Trump The fact that the president has not been able dent on social media, is he really mounting might reach as high as $20 million. to keep his story straight about the Daniels the best possible legal case for Daniels? That high risk is one reason Avenatti’s media payment — first he didn’t know about it, then He’s turned a skirmish with Trump over an ubiquity is something few lawyers would he did — has provided immeasurable assis- iffy hush agreement about a decade-ago recommend. Indeed, in the early days of the tance to Avenatti’s PR push. If Avenatti did affair into a high-stakes political battle with case, a federal judge took a not-too-subtle indeed plan to nudge Trump into a minefield the White House. And most observers assume dig at Avenatti, declaring that the Daniels suit of potential campaign finance violations and the more Daniels is in the headlines, the was “not the most important matter on the bank fraud laws, then Trump fell into his trap. more Avenatti is succeeding. “If both of their court’s docket.” That same judge later ruled The president simply could have let Daniels against Avenatti by delaying Daniels’ case tell her story (as she’s been doing anyway), and ERIQ GARDNER is The Hollywood Reporter’s after the office of Trump’s onetime personal the Stormy headlines would have fizzled out senior editor, New York. lawyer Michael Cohen was raided by federal after a couple of news cycles. An old affair

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ADVERTISEMENT The Business 5 Urgent Things Analysis to Know About Michael Avenatti, Esq. The Newport Beach-based with a porn star would today be the least of lawyer is more than Stormy’s the president’s troubles. mouthpiece. He’s sued But that hasn’t happened, and Trump is Paris Hilton and the NFL and nothing if not stubborn and litigious. He and raced with McDreamy Cohen could play this whole case out, endur- ing the negative press and intrigue with an eye HE DRIVES REALLY, REALLY FAST on winning the ultimate case and potentially Between filing motions and appearing on cable news, Avenatti races sports cars, sticking Daniels with a massive judgment that especially Porsches and Ferraris. At one would generate its own headlines. (Avenatti point, he was on a racing team with Patrick insists his bills are being paid by Daniels, real Dempsey, but he and Dempsey appear to name Stephanie Clifford, or by crowdfunded have had a falling donations, and any suggestion he’s backed by a out (the actor sued him over a dispute left-wing PAC is “utter bullshit.”) even as Giuliani has copied Avenatti’s tactics Daniels and Avenatti about a shared And even as he takes risks for his client, by going on TV at every opportunity (although on The View business venture Avenatti seems to be positioning himself for with considerably less flair; Trump is rumored on April 17. with Tully’s Cofee). a bright future. Vanity Fair reported that he to be already vexed with his new attorney “He’s an adrena- approached MSNBC president Phil Griffin for numerous on-air blunders). A more accu- line junkie,” says Avenatti’s GWU law about getting his own show, although Avenatti rate assessment, though, is that Avenatti is school professor later claimed it was the other way around. another Gloria Allred, litigating in the press Jonathan Turley. Regardless, Avenatti’s profile-boosting pos- (or, in this case, cable news) and seizing a plat- turing certainly will be a win for him. “This form for himself in a nonstop media age that ceased being about ‘the law’ and ‘her rights’ demands constant punditry. For now, Avenatti HE’S SUED TRUMP BEFORE about three seconds after they filed the law- is advocating for Stormy Daniels, but it’s not Back in 2005, Avenatti represented a producer named Mark Bethea, who suit,” says Robert Schwartz, a litigation partner hard to see The Avenatti Show expanding to claimed he’d come up with the idea for The at Irell & Manella. “There is no meaningful other clients and causes for future seasons — Apprentice. His version was called “CEO,” downside. The coverage will drive business to er, cases. To corner this business, the depth of but it, too, involved him for years.” his legal acumen or the wisdom of his strategy contestants compet- Rudy Giuliani, who (for the time being) hardly matter. Avenatti can keep boasting that ing in a corporate environment, and has the gig of Trump’s personal lawyer, has he’s winning, and these days, with this presi- Bethea even pro- been calling Avenatti an “ambulance chaser,” dent, that seems to be all that’s necessary. posed Trump as the host. The case was settled out of court.

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One of his clients, actress TTY IMAGES. CARREY: ERNESTO RUSCIO/GETTY IMAGES. The Math of a Nonstop Media Blitz Zeta Graf, alleged in 2005 Michael Avenatti hasn’t yet pulled of a Full Ginsburg — the media hat trick named after Monica Lewinsky’s onetime that Hilton had been planting lawyer William H. Ginsburg, who appeared on all five Sunday news programs in February 1998 — although he’s come negative stories about her close. On May 6, Avenatti shuttled among NBC, CBS and ABC to press Stormy Daniels’ case against Trump lawyer Michael in the media. The case set- Hilton Cohen. His appearance with Daniels on 60 Minutes on March 25 scored a decade-high 22 million viewers, while their tled out of court. April 17 appearance on The View (Daniels’ first live interview) brought in 3.34 million viewers, a three-month record. Now it’s on cable news where Avenatti can be found most nights. Below, THR counts his recent guest spots: … AND THE NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE … 40 In 2013, Avenatti repre- Total cable news appearances from March 9 to press time sented customers who had purchased tickets for Super Bowl XLV who ended up not getting their seats because of construction at Cowboys Stadium. The case was settled out of court. JON: NBC/PHOTOFEST. HILTON: KOPALOFF/GETTY IMAGES. STEELERS: MIKE EHRMANN/GE APPRENTICE … AND JIM CARREY Just before taking on Stormy Daniels as a client, Avenatti represented the 9 30 1 family of Cathriona White appearances on MSNBC, appearances on CNN, including appearance on Fox News for Carrey in a wrongful death suit including four spots on The Last seven on Anderson Cooper 360º, Shannon Bream’s late-night Fox against the comedian, who Word With Lawrence O’Donnell, six on The Situation Room With News@Night. Avenatti was set had dated White before she commit- three on and one on Wolf Blitzer and three on The Lead for Martha MacCallum’s The Story but ted suicide. White’s family withdrew the . With Jake Tapper. canceled, leading to a feud with Fox. suit.  E.G.

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BEFORE Style How commentators embody both personal Press Corp and cable-news Makeovers aesthetics on-air for the Trump News Cycle KIMBERLY GUILFOYLE stuck to the Fox As all eyes lock on cable news, News playbook print reporters upgrade while discussing N.Y. their wardrobes for pundit duty: Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s ‘Maggie Haberman is developing Costa’s jacket makeover from July 2017 to May 6 on MSNBC, resignation with great style’ By Vincent Boucher talking Robert Mueller’s threat to subpoena Trump. a body-con dress in patriotic blue. he hourly barrage of headlines generated by music videos were for rock musicians; [it’s] impossible T President Trump’s administration (Mueller! to ignore their presentation.” (Ironically, print journal- Russia! North Korea summit!) has raised up a ists don’t like to appear concerned about it, as they and small army of print journalists and legal commentators their publicists declined to comment.) serving as de facto, on-call correspondents for Fox News, Even cable-news hosts are noticing the uptick in their MSNBC and CNN. Reporters from Maggie Haberman, guests’ appearance, though they are, by and large, RONAN FARROW Matt Apuzzo and Jeremy Peters of The New York Times; to operating without stylists and buying their own clothes. punched up his ’s Robert Costa, Ashley Parker and “Maggie Haberman is developing great style,” says CNN preppy style with a red Phil Rucker; to the Boston Herald’s Kimberly Atkins and AP’s Tonight anchor Don Lemon. Exhibit A: The Times’ White necktie on CNN as he Jonathan Lemire are having to file a print scoop, then rush House correspondent recently appeared on CNN look- discussed breaking the Schneiderman story into the studio to do a cable-news hit to discuss it — or ing coolly telegenic in a sleek navy jacket and magenta in The New Yorker. are called in to comment on what the president did, said T-shirt the day after Trump attacked her on Twitter for or tweeted (or on someone’s reaction to what he did, said a story she wrote about his relationship with attorney or tweeted) that same day. “Every hour there is something Michael Cohen. It was a dramatic sartorial from breaking, and every hour it has been insane,” says Jill Wine- earlier in the administration, when she was photographed Banks, a former Watergate prosecutor turned MSNBC legal clad in perfunctory office slacks and top. Likewise, the analyst who says she often goes on-air several times a Post’s Costa, who also hosts PBS’ , has day. “I go to the studio prepared to talk about the 14th or leaned out and sharpened his style since Trump took KIMBERLY ATKINS Fifth Amendment, and the producer says: ‘Forget every- office, trading poorly fitting jackets for tailored suits of the Boston Herald favors prints when thing. Rudy Giuliani just went wacko.’ You’re commenting on shows like MSNBC’s The 11th Hour With Brian Williams. discussing Michael live, there’s no prep, and that’s just how it is.” Carter says he constantly scans cable news for new Cohen finances on From the breakneck pace of Trump’s Real Time guests. “We are visual animals, and in the first MSNBC. Twitter feed to panel discussions that act 15 seconds of a broadcast, you make a judgment about as nightly programming cornerstones, that person’s appearance — often you aren’t even listening so-called ink-stained wretches have had to what they say,” he says. New York wardrobe consul- to step up their style game to keep apace tants Jesse Garza and Joe Lupo, who style media stars as with their increased appearances. Scott founders of Visual Therapy, say the advent of HDTV has Carter , executive producer of HBO’s allowed for a greater latitude of on-camera style. Men “can CHARLES HURT BEFORE Real Time With Bill Maher, says, “Cable wear patterns; you can wear pinstripes without it being of The Washington news has become to journalism what distorted,” says Lupo, but “you don’t want to wear a micro- Times wore a check.” Garza advises against getting dapper brown suit too creative, though, citing those and mint patterned necktie as he parsed who “go overboard with accessories.” AFTER a Trump immigration Wine-Banks’ love of brooches might deal on Fox News. be the exception, having inspired a Twitter meme with its own hashtag, #jillspin. Her pins range from an eagle

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ONE SATURDAY MORNING IN LATE 2006, center in Washington state, where she several dozen people filed into an unremark- still lives, and had taught courses in Ireland able hotel conference room in , and Mexico. She embraced the teachings of British Columbia, for a two-day introduction Raniere, who had adopted the title “Vanguard” to Jness. The program was billed as a “wom- from a favorite arcade game he’d played as a en’s movement” within Nxivm (pronounced kid, in which the destruction of one’s enemies NEX-ee-um), an umbrella organization increased one’s own power. As Dones listened offering a host of personal growth courses to Salzman that morning, she deduced that attended by thousands of people around the “they were introducing the idea of polygamy, world. Chairs were arranged classroom-style but with a soft sell, laying the groundwork.”

Mack arrived for her bail hearing in Brooklyn on May 4. in the room, coffee and tea on offer in the back. Dones, who would leave Nxivm in 2009, knew According to one of her alleged sex slaves, Mack threatened Nxivm’s president, Nancy Salzman, a bespec- from personal experience that Raniere main- that if she refused sex with Raniere she would be destroyed. tacled brunette with a bob and acute, sharply tained a harem of more than a dozen women. drawn eyebrows, rose to speak. Salzman, a In private conversations, Salzman had repeat- nurse who co-founded Nxivm in 1998 with its edly told Dones, a lesbian, that “the world leader, , began with a brief his- wasn’t ready” for Raniere’s radical ideas about tory of gender relations. “She talked about polygamy, incest, sociopathy and power. how women have been raised to be monoga- For this particular Jness weekend, Raniere mous and how men’s general nature is to had dispatched key members of his senior be more polygamous, to spread their seed,” team. Sara Bronfman — who, along with her recalls Susan Dones, a Nxivm member at the sister Clare, was an heir to the vast Seagram time. “I found it really archaic.” Co. fortune and a source of substantial finan- Dones wasn’t some recent Nxivm initiate. cial backing for Raniere — had flown out on She was a “field trainer” with her own Nxivm her private jet. Salzman’s daughter Lauren,

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CW’s on The actress an 23 then and Mack, Allison that son knew They offensive: for charm the rea- The came. member, also a high-ranking time,” says Dones. great a having was she said “She players. the at contentedly smiling bleachers, the in sitting Mack shefound of volleyball, game a weekly for gym public anearby in female, and male followers, his gathered Raniere when night, Friday One there. still Mack see to surprised of shewas Albany, north Colonie, in facility training Nxivm’s and to offices corporate later, A couple traveled of when Dones weeks granted an in-person meeting with Vanguard. being $7,500 of before cost a at “intensive” one 16-day at complete least to had initiates mosthigh-profile development, even for aVIP; arare was This career. her acting her with help could her told Raniere They flesh. the in NewYork, Albany, to back jet Raniere meet to private Bronfmans’ the on fly to invitation an accepted concluded, Mack seminar the When shesays. friends,” best were like Allison and her. Lauren weekend, end of the the “By with meals eating weekend, that Mack to herself it special. make to ers wanted group’s the and lead- senior Nxivm, to exposure eyes and a bubbly charisma. This was her first green vivid favorite abig with one —afan was but she catch, Hollywood first the wasn’t Mack droves. in Nxivm to flocking been had who politicians, Mexican daughters of disgraced and for uber-wealthy sons and the Evans Linda ing”) for VIPs. They’d done it for for VIPs. ing”) it “love-bomb- (Dones calls carpet red out the group. the joined recently had who Kreuk, Kristin brought by co-star Dones says that Lauren Salzman attached attached Salzman Lauren that says Dones This wasn’t the first time Nxivm had rolled rolled had Nxivm time first the wasn’t This Smallville , would be in the audience, the in be , would Executive Success Programs (ESP), which also had its ofices, pictured here, i here, pictured ofices, its had also which (ESP), Programs Success Executive 1 3 Times Actress Edmondson showed of the brand she was given as a DOS sex slave, an account she detailed in To most members, Nxivm was not a nefarious sex traficking cult but the sponsor of a self-improvement course 1 . Dynasty 2 A 2009 photo of Raniere in Albany, New York, where Mack bought a house to be closer to the Nxivm founder. star star prosecutors remain open to talks. Mack was was Mack talks. to open remain prosecutors says case the with familiar Asource struck. yetbeen none has although deal, aplea ing of mak- possibility up the opening trial, speedy M. Aand R, K, initials: Raniere’s of Mack’s and amalgam an out be to turned welt that stamp-size aragged, form: would that scar of the nature the victims the ing tell- without also and consent, without and done forcefully was say this Prosecutors pen. ahotcauterizing with branded slaves and byother were helddown who Nxivm within as a “master” and recruited “slaves” from her) above was (only position Raniere senior second-most- the occupied allegedly Mack group, this Vow.”) In “The it called have reports Women. (Other Slave Over Master or Sororium, Obsequious for Dominus stands which DOS, called structure Nxivm the within cult sex tive bubbly charisma was also the leader of a secre- the with actress the that believe Prosecutors 20. April there 2012;since arrested shewas where she’d living been Brooklyn, to returned Mack them. after chased Mack and Salzman Lauren while abluesedan away in him hauled Federales staying. been had Mack, including women, several where Mexico, heand Vallarta, $10,000-a-week Puerto near lavish compound a to investigators FBI led six-week manhunt group. Raniere was arrested in March after a the with breaking against a form of insurance as “collateral” damaging other and pictures compromising sexually over turn to subjects its requires that ring sex coercive for abrutal, cover provides Nxivm that alleging labor, forced of sex trafficking and conspiracy to commit 57, 35, felony Raniere, Mack, and counts on three NewYork in prosecutors federal indicted In early May, Mack waived her right to a a to May, her right early In waived Mack meeting, first that after years 12 April, In n Albany. influence,” says Way, Chapman who directed have cultural people those because Hollywood in out people seek “Cults brand. their ing embrac- celebrities from benefit product, any manager.”agent or your your you getfrom can’t that of support forms offer other go for to “They going it,” says Wille. they’re leader of or Nxivm, Weinstein the it’s whether Harvey mix, the in get apredator you if so and damaged, or lost “are whom of many artists, empathic vulnerable, with filled is 1970s.the It doesn’t Hollywood help that in heran sect ’n’ rock and roll-fueled drugs- sex-, Father about Yod radical the and film and who directed directed who and cults researching spent years has who Wille, Jodi people,” says loving kind, open-minded, intelligent, extremely are groups these join searches. arcane even esoteric, up in bound often of self-worth are sense and to unconventional spirituality whose careers openness an with people minded artistically Andrew Keegan. Hollywood attracts creative, Full Circle, founded by former former by founded Circle, Full called sect spiritual hippie-ish the to family Manson of the long reign the from destruction, and allure of cults’ stories with through SHOT IS OF HOLLYWOOD HISTORY THE least 15 years behind bars. bars. behind years 15 least at face Raniere and Mack both convicted, If 1. Oct. begin to set is trial pathology. The of Raniere’s recesses darkest the into and identity Nxivm of the reaches nether the Vancouver, to in traveled shehad seminar Jness the women’s to sure empowerment expo- her first since years the In custody. parents’ her into bail million $5 on released Cults, like companies or NGOs or virtually or virtually or NGOs companies like Cults, “I find that the vast majority of people who who of people majority vast the that “I find The New York New The called The Source Family Source The 2 Party of Five 3 , a feature , afeature star star

PREVIOUS SPREAD: JEMAL COUNTESS/GETTY IMAGES. THIS SPREAD: EDMONDSON: RUTH FREMSON/THE NEW YORK TIMES. NXIVM: NATHANIEL BROOKS/THE NEW YORK TIMES. RANIERE: PATRICK DODSON. I [have become] very comfortable chalking things up to the fact that I don’t have a ‘proper education,’ ” Mack wrote on her blog in 2007. “The truth is … I am an eternal student, and I am loving all the opportunities I have to grow.” “ HER CELEBRITY WAS HER APPEAL. Meanwhile, Nxivm’s push into Vancouver’s film and TV community had SHE WAS SOMEBODY WHO COULD been spearheaded by Barbara Bouchey, REALLY SELL IT. SHE WAS THE TOM a businesswoman and senior Nxivm execu- tive who dated Raniere for several years. One of Bouchey’s first targets was director CRUISE OF NXIVM.” CULT DEPROGRAMMER ROSS, ON MACK Mark Vicente, whose film What the #$*! Do We (K)now!? explored the meaning of life. the recent Netflix cult docuseries Wild Wild life — in show business. “She was so hungry Bouchey had courted him aggressively. “I Country with his brother Maclain. In 1955, for something bigger, some kind of sign [that helped enroll these people,” says Bouchey, Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard announced would show] the purpose and meaning of who left Nxivm in 2009. Vicente, in turn, an initiative called “Project Celebrity,” encour- life,” says Step by Step actress Christine Lakin, had recruited Sarah Edmondson, a Canadian aging his adherents to “hunt” a list of some 60 who was friends with Mack as a fellow child actress based in Vancouver who, with luminaries, including Walt Disney, Greta Garbo actor in the ’90s. Mack also was undeniably Bouchey’s help, opened up doors to locally and Orson Welles, like “quarry.” famous, with a capacity to draw in others. filmed productions like Wild Wild Country, about the Rajneeshpuram “Her celebrity was her appeal,” says Rick Ross, (whose actors Grace Park and Nicki commune in Oregon in the mid-1980s, touches a self-proclaimed cult deprogrammer Clyne were also recruited) and Smallville. briefly on the story of Francoise Ruddy (ex-wife who has been involved in decades of litigation By the time of that first Jness meet- of Godfather producer Albert Ruddy), who rose against Nxivm and Raniere. “There were ing, Mack was into her fifth season of the to the sect’s highest levels. “If you’re success- other women who were pretty, but she was the show. She began taking Nxivm intensives ful in Hollywood, you’re a rare breed who has one who was so poised, so good on camera. She more regularly. In the early days of her achieved your goals,” says Chapman Way. was somebody who could really sell it.” Nxivm membership, she hosted a dinner “When people find that success doesn’t bring The middle child of three, Mack was born in at her apartment overlooking Vancouver’s them the absolute fulfillment they thought 1982 to American parents in Preetz, Germany, Coal Harbour. She had adorned her place it would, they go on these journeys, and cults where her father was performing as an opera with the trappings of a spiritual seeker: art often fulfill that vacuum.” Jessica Goldberg, singer. Two years later, the family moved from the subcontinent and many Buddhas. who created the Hulu drama The Path, starring to Southern California, where at age 4 Mack Bouchey was one of the guests. Aaron Paul as a cult follower, found herself started acting in commercials. She enrolled at “It was really Bouchey that put her under asking whether actors might be particularly the famed Young Actors Space in Los Angeles, her spell,” says Mack’s former roommate. “I susceptible. “You have to wonder what that training ground of Keri Russell, Elijah Wood heard three years of how wonderful Barbara kind of adoration does,” she says. “There’s a and Leonardo DiCaprio, and made her film Bouchey was and how she was so great with need to feel like your life is more important debut in 1989’s Police Academy 6. Steady work business. Allison had such a desire to be than everyone else’s.” followed, and by 16 she had moved from north- a strong businesswoman and have a mentor.” By the time Mack joined Nxivm in 2006, west Orange County to L.A., where she lived During dinner, Mack told her guests that she had spent 20 years — nearly her entire with friends in an apartment complex. “It was “she grew up in a more progressive, uninhib- as normal as ‘normal’ can be in this business,” ited environment,” recalls Bouchey, trying says someone who worked closely with Mack to make sense of Mack’s later trajectory. “Maybe throughout her career and who, like many of the more bizarre sexual things didn’t seem so the more than a dozen people who spoke to bizarre to her.” THR about her, asked to remain anonymous. “Her parents were just like, ‘This is what she NXIVM DIDN’T EXPOSE MOST OF ITS wanted to do.’ ” followers to anything overtly sexual. Raniere After high school, Mack was planning to had designed it that way, with a curricu- study theater abroad when a casting direc- lum that ranged from childhood education tor persuaded her to audition for Smallville, to an acting studio called The Source. a new WB drama about Superman’s teenage Nxivm’s flagship enterprise was its Executive years. “I was 18, recently in love and getting Success Programs (ESP), which melded ready to go to theater school in London, courses on business with self-help philoso- so my life was going in a very specific direc- phy. Advancement through levels (and fees) tion … and it wasn’t a TV show that filmed in promised increasing knowledge and achieve- Vancouver!” Mack recalled in a 2011 interview. ment, much like Scientology. But she booked the part of Chloe Sullivan, Prosecutors allege that Raniere ran Nxivm a proto-Lois Lane who becomes the best like a pyramid scheme, as he had done in the friend of a young Clark Kent. She relocated to 1990s with his previous company, Consumers’ Canada, where the show was shooting, and Buyline. Officials in New York had shut that seemed to settle into a stable, healthy rou- down after a long investigation. Nxivm was tine. But some of her friends say she also was more deliberately New Agey, with an empha- insecure about having missed college, and sis on self-expression and personal growth. compensated by seeking alternative sources of Raniere espoused a philosophy that he wisdom. “I have a tendency to say I am stupid. invented called Rational Inquiry, based on

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ALuciferian without for and others consideration without — by means any desires his realizes Luciferian “a that writing “Luciferians,” sociopaths these deems acts.” Raniere destructive mits com- …who of sociopath atype “rehabilitate to amethod 2007, be to in one filed purports patents, this bizarre many of One his fringe. were more ideas other of Some his changing. needed and were wrong often childhood in formed heldconvictions deeply that idea the Raniere told the women in his harem harem his women the told in Raniere In hindsight, Raniere could have been harassment and litigation. After her 2009 After litigation. and harassment brainwashed.” he’s“He’s totally whistleblowers; at the mad listen. wouldn’t Raniere, of follower devout a But Porter, occasions. onstop several allegedly to him warned and well him one knows who laws,” says medical some- and of research kinds all breaking was “Porter them. filming while films snuff and rape violent horrifically watch to them forcing by humans on experimenting Brandon Porter, was arrested onofcharges devotee, Raniere and May, doctor early aNxivm and less and less empathy as time went on.” In of a conscience less and less develop people member, ex-Nxivm says “and Isaw another have aconscience,” didn’t who people cussing experiences. “There was an obsession with dis- similar had students former Other bad.” “felt really things good doing while things,” dobad to good “it felt that really it, taught described member Nxivm former a as which, fine.” was that thought “He one members. former harem recalls sexually,” fathers their pleasure to girls little for OK was it that times multiple me to said “Keith 15-year-old. a with another, in girl; a12-year-old with intercourse sexual had have to alleged is he instance, one In 20s. his in was he when 1980s, the to back dating women” and of girls abuse other and assault of sexual a“history had Raniere judge, afederal to officials of Justice Department Warren Mormon the polygamist. Jeffs, likens the coercive method to one used by Those who do speak out are subject to subject out are dospeak who Those Fall, The hecalled aphilosophy had Raniere from letter aMarch to According NXIVM’S OTHER ACTRESSES From left: Kreuk, Clyne, Park Kreuk and Clyne to emcee A Cappella emcee ACappella to Clyne and Kreuk Mack, dispatching students, college recruit her life.” from cated were done,” “You hesays. wereexcommuni- word, you that you used “If cult. a in was Instead, her she told her and he confronted courses. pay for shewould that his him told Mack wealth.” the see immediately up and he Palisades,” says. Pacific the “Youin drive ocean the overlooking property million-dollar at of amulti- soit success, have was image an to wanted “They meeting. recruitment ESP an actually was rendezvous the that find to her, only with have lunch to agreed tations, her solici- rebuffed had Mack’s, previously who else.” everybody over Allison believed I that is Imade mistake “The years. for six Nxivm down].”[push us ended up in woman The to trying just is Ross “Rick her. told Mack informed,” and aware go you in to I want just out and there, of badinformation kinds all “You find critiques. might the her against ing by of way inoculat- group the google to staffer reputati controversial organization’s of the aware already clearly was though, Mack, on herteam.” people cal ‘ethi- wanted sheonly “She said a consultant. her,” as says one whom hired Mack woman of meeting 30 or 40minutes within ESP and “She courses. toldto take me about Jness parents her even convincing proselytizer, MACK WAS AN ENTHUSIASTIC Tom Cruise of Nxivm.” of Nxivm.” Tom Cruise the was “She says, Ross As Mack.” Allison like people went after why they that’s compelling; and wereattractive who people wanted they “And member. former this says kids,” cool the more like more streamlined, appealing, ally —more visu- them more like be to wanted they saying and Scientology ers werestudying group’s poor. “The lead- shoddy, marketing the Itsand website was saw of awave defections. year some badpress gotten that had Nxivm not.) is U.S., the Nxivm including countries, many in areligion as recognized is Scientology profile of ESP as a legitimate class. (While improve the to tactics outreach Scientology’s replicate to tried heactively says that Raniere mission” moving forward. “the keep to said, often or, Nxivm as growing The imperative was to keep the movement and bankroll lawsuits against detractors. Raniere’s back needs to inheritance future their against borrowed even have and lion mil- of $150 out upward shelled have Universal, once owned family whose sisters, Bronfman the that It’s estimated dismissed). have been (all information financial private their Bouchey had caused them harm by releasing claimed who Bronfmans, the and Nxivm by of lawsuits years endured Bouchey exit, Raniere deployed his young TV stars to to stars TV young deployed his Raniere of former roommate and friend A close Around 2009, one former member close to to close member 2009, former one Around 42 on; she told heron; new shetold

KREUK: ARAYA DIAZ/WIREIMAGE. CLYNE: BOBBY BANK/WIREIMAGE. PARK: MIKE COPPOLA/GETTY IMAGES FOR . WILD: NETFLIX. PATH: JEFF NEUMANN/HULU. Innovations, a festival for university sing- ing groups that, according to comments left The Religious Fervor to Find on an online forum right after the event, left several attendees “unsettled” over the hosts’ the Next Wild Wild Country repeated requests for personal information, The industry has long mined cults, but Netflix’s buzzy docuseries, combined such as Social Security numbers. The outreach with Nxivm headlines, has heated up the market BY BRYN ELISE SANDBERG wasn’t entirely successful. “The college kids Below: Sheela, the Rajneesh cult’s second-in- got uncomfortable,” says Bouchey. “Students ults have long been fodder for televi- command, in Wild Wild Country, from executive felt pressured to join the club.” producers Mark and Jay Duplass. Right: Aaron C sion and film, from Paul preaches to the converted in The Path. Mack tried landing other stars too. dramatic depictions like 7th Heaven alum Beverley Mitchell revealed Paul Thomas Anderson’s on Lakin’s Worst Ever podcast that Mack 2012 The Master and Hulu’s once tried to get her to take a Jness seminar. recently canceled The Path to silly treatments, like The two had known each other since they were Netflix’s Unbreakable Kimmy kids. Mitchell declined, and Mack later wrote Schmidt, which will launch its her a sorrowful email lamenting her response. fourth and final season May (She also attempted to entice Kelly Clarkson 30. The past year alone saw and Emma Watson over Twitter, to no avail.) American Horror Story: Cult and Paramount Network’s As Mack drifted away from any friends Waco, starring Taylor Kitsch who declined to join Nxivm, her social circle as David Koresh. grew increasingly insular. With her role on Still, recent NXIVM head- Smallville winding down, she purchased lines, combined with the Carrie Coon as a spiritual Hilary Du is set to por- a house in Clifton Park, near Albany, expand- buzz surrounding Netflix docuseries Wild Wild seeker who becomes the “de tray the murdered actress in ing Nxivm’s presence there and dedicating Country, from Jay and Mark facto leader of a mysterious the upcoming horror film herself to Jness. “She really believed that teach- Duplass — which explores commune.” Breaking Bad’s The Haunting of Sharon Tate, ing the difference between men and women an ’80s Oregon cult led by Vince Gilligan has a limited while Matt Smith stars as was good, that it was pure and noble,” says her Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh series in development at HBO Manson in the indie Charlie about Jonestown, the reli- Says. Emma Cline’s debut former consultant. “I don’t think any of us — have made guru-themed projects especially hot. gious sect led by Jim Jones novel, The Girls, which oers saw where it was going, that it was teaching There’s already a fictional- in Guyana that ended in mass an account of the Manson women to be subservient.” ized Nxivm series in the suicide. Jake Gyllenhaal also family told from the perspec- Several sources close to Mack say that before works at Megan Ellison’s plans to tell the Jonestown tive of the women in the Nxivm, she was driven by genuine humanitar- Annapurna, which optioned story in a scripted cult cult, recently was acquired anthology that A+E Studios by producer Scott Rudin. ian impulses. That started to change soon after the rights of The New York Times’ October exposé is shopping. Meanwhile, Wild Wild she joined. In 2007, her fans donated more “Inside a Secretive Group Though Charles Manson Country itself may be get- than $4,000 as a 25th birthday gift to benefit Where Women Are Branded.” died in November, the ting a scripted retelling. a cause of Mack’s choosing, a microfinance “Cults are absolutely horrific murders his follow- Sources say prominent Indian organization to help female entrepreneurs in in the zeitgeist,” says Justin ers committed continue actor Aamir Khan has bought Benson, who co-directed, to captivate the indus- the life rights for Rajneesh Mexico. The donation was ready to go when with Aaron Moorhead, sci-fi try. Quentin Tarantino is acolyte Ma Anand Sheela. Mack suddenly redirected the funds to World horror film The Endless, finishing casting Once “Our feeling is we kind of did Audience Productions, a company owned by about a UFO death cult, Upon a Time in Hollywood, what we wanted to do,” says Lauren Salzman. A source familiar with the which premiered at Tribeca. starring Leonardo DiCaprio Chapman Way, who made the transaction suspects Raniere got involved, add- Other cult content in the and Brad Pitt, set against docuseries with his brother pipeline includes the second the backdrop of the Manson Maclain. “But I’d be really ing that he taught against giving to charities. season of USA’s anthology murders, with Margot Robbie excited for someone to take “Her personality [increasingly] turned series The Sinner, which stars in talks to play Sharon Tate. the ball and run with it.” inside out,” the former employee says, adding that Mack began berating and humiliating her for small infractions. If Mack’s critiques of others were scathing, her own self-esteem wasn’t much better. She told her employee role in FX’s Wilfred in 2012, but the world she of D.C. socialites and perhaps Raniere’s most she would never choose to have kids of her own turned to increasingly belonged to Raniere. trusted and loyal lieutenant, died of cancer because she was “so fucked up.” “If she did something well, it was [all credited late in 2016. “These three were his best, most One woman who had been a member of to] Keith,” says Mack’s business associate. stabilizing women,” says Frank Parlato, who Raniere’s harem for years but declined to be “She’d say that Keith has unconventional ways was the first person to expose the DOS group named out of fear for her safety recalls run- that no one really understands.” on his blog, which led to a damning exposé ning into Mack after an ashtanga yoga class in The New York Times in October. Parlato, who around 2010. “I took one look at Allison, and I MACK’S INCREASED PRESENCE IN ALBANY has spoken with several of the women who are knew she was involved romantically and sexu- turned out to be a pivotal move. In the com- now part of the case prosecutors are building ally with Keith,” says the woman. “She had a ing years, Raniere would suffer several blows. against Raniere, believes Mack stepped into gray pallor that was common to Keith’s women The women he trusted most — Dones calls this void. because they all start to get a little sickly. I this group “the wolf pack” — began to disap- After leaving Nxivm, Keeffe called Bouchey, know I did. They drop weight. Their heads get pear. One trusted confidante, Barbara Jeske, telling her, “Keith had set his sights on Allison too big for their bodies so they become bobble- died in 2013. Another adviser, Kristin Keeffe, and was thinking about bringing her into heads. It’s scary-looking.” defected in 2014, taking Raniere’s child, Gaelen, the inner circle.” Keeffe also told Bouchey that Smallville ended in 2011, after 10 seasons. and reams of Nxivm documents with her. And Raniere was getting “more intimate” with Mack continued acting, nabbing a recurring a third confidante, Pam Cafritz, the daughter Mack. “She never had what Cafritz had, the

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 43 MAY 16, 2018 ability to be an excellent body servant or valet,” Yet “if you read her blogs, you could see her says Parlato. “But she had the ability to bring mind shattering over time,” says the former women to Raniere’s bed. She procured some consultant. In a series of missives posted last startling beauties.” Parlato did PR for Nxivm summer, Mack seemed to be crying for help: briefly and also is engaged in a lawsuit with “Cold sweats. Constantly. The anxiety of being the Bronfmans, who have sued him for fraud, caught makes my heart thrum like a hum- which led to an FBI investigation against him. mingbird. Someday I will be discovered. I will He says the DOS group Mack ran had more than be found out!” 50 slaves, the same figure cited by prosecutors. After Raniere’s arrest in Mexico, a close The final months of Mack’s journey through friend of Mack’s texted her: “This sounds Nxivm were characterized by dissonance and crazy; I hope you’re OK.” Her response: “I’m a double life. To some, nothing seemed amiss. home and I’m safe.” According to one close friend, she and Mack Hollywood enjoyed coffee and chatted pleasantly at The BY MOST ACCOUNTS, NXIVM IS NOW IN Four Seasons in Beverly Hills in March, just disarray. People once closely associated Loves a Guru before Raniere’s arrest. They spoke daily by with the group are quietly disavowing their Before Nxivm was making headlines phone, and nothing about their conversations connections. The actress Kreuk has refused for turning actresses into alleged sex struck this friend as alarming. “I didn’t think to speak to the press, referring people to an traickers, these three lesser-known she was part of a cult because you think of anodyne statement in which she says she sects had their own industry ties cult members as cutting themselves off from departed five years earlier. Battlestar Galactica family and friends,” she says. “She didn’t do actress Park has remained silent. “Some that [with me.]” people are starting to say, ‘What I learned But another woman who spoke with two of was good, the technology was good, but Mack’s alleged DOS slaves at length says that as with Scientology and David Miscavige, the during the very same period, Mack was deep leader is bad, Keith Raniere is bad,’ ” says into her role as a “master” of DOS and run- Ross, who says he is in touch with a number ning the organization with brutal efficiency. of the recent defectors. “These slaves said Mack was incredibly intimi- There are real questions about how Mack dating, cruel and punitive,” says this woman, should be understood within the Nxivm uni- who declined to speak on the record because verse. Was she herself, as many believe, of the ongoing case. The slaves told her that a victim? “I don’t think she was thinking she The Source Family (Years active: late ’60s to 1975) Mack threatened to release the collateral she was actually trafficking girls,” says the for- Founded by an ex-Marine named James Edward Baker (“Father Yod”) whose Sunset Strip health food restaurant had gathered on them if they didn’t sleep with mer roommate. “It doesn’t mean she doesn’t was a popular hangout for stars including Warren Beatty Raniere. “You made a lifetime vow!” she says deserve punishment, but I think she had and Don Johnson. He preached the virtues of marijuana- enhanced sex, especially with him. Mack screamed at them. “She berated them drunk enough Kool-Aid to really believe that and told them they were worth nothing, these girls were going to save the world with that they were weak and couldn’t uphold their [Raniere’s] super-sperm.” This was similar to word,” says the woman. She told them if they the line of defense used, generally unsuccess- refused her orders, dated other men, left the fully, by many members of the Manson family group or refused sex with Raniere, they would for their role in the Tate murders, as well be destroyed. Both women were in Mack’s as by Patty Hearst, who was kidnapped by the “slave pod,” and both were eventually branded. Symbionese Liberation Army and later con- During the summer of 2017, Parlato and victed for her role in a bank robbery. Do Mack’s , a former Dynasty star alleged horrific actions likewise preclude her whose daughter India is reported to have from the sympathy normally afforded to those been a slave in Mack’s pod, called Mack’s man- who fall into brainwashing? ager, Sheila Wenzel. (Simon & Schuster will Friends and former Nxivm followers The Children of God (Years active: 1968 to present) publish Oxenberg’s book, Captive, about her once close to Mack, as well as those who have Started in Huntington Beach, California, and infamous for leader David Berg’s promotion of underage sex. Its attempt to rescue her daughter from Nxivm, observed her, harbor a fear, based on many membership included the parents of Rose McGowan and in August.) They had learned about DOS, members’ continued loyalty to Vanguard even those of Joaquin and River Phoenix, who once said of the group: “They are ruining people’s lives.” though it was not yet public, and wanted to after his arrest, that Mack may try to exculpate alert Mack’s closest friends and confidants. Raniere by taking full credit for DOS, claim- The manager seemed upset during the call, ing that he had no knowledge of it. “If Allison according to Parlato. “I think she had an intu- testifies that Keith didn’t know, that’s a crock ition something was drastically wrong,” he of shit,” argues Bouchey. says. “I think she was tormented by this.” But Throughout the history of Hollywood, X/SHUTTERSTOCK. CIRCLE: VLUV/AJAX/SPLASH NEWS. when Wenzel brought up Oxenberg’s allega- cults have drawn in sensitive, soul-searching tions with Mack later, she says Mack shrugged people and bound them to their leaders with them off, saying, “This stuff is not true; these ideas that have been nurtured for years. These crazy things are not true.” are hard patterns to sever. During a recent “Allison’s an actress,” says the former room- court appearance in Brooklyn in which Mack mate. “Even when she’s been in pain, she’s and Raniere were both present, Mack stead- good at pretending things are OK. It doesn’t fastly refused to look at him. But as she left the Full Circle (Years active: 2014 to present) surprise me that she could make it seem like court, she turned to Raniere’s lawyers, smiled A spiritual group founded by 7th Heaven star Andrew Keegan. The Venice Beach HQ was raided by the feds in things were fine.” and waved. And then she was gone. a 2015 kombucha sting, though Keegan was not present. SOURCE: COURTESY ISIS AQUARIAN ARCHIVES/DRAG CITY. CHILDREN: ANL/RE

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 44 MAY 16, 2018 Access to safe water (at schools), as part of the Swarovski Waterschool program

SWAROVSKI AND UCLA TFT ARE PROUD TO UNVEIL WATERSCHOOL. TO FIND OUT MORE, VISIT: SWAROVSKIWATERSCHOOL.COM 1 • By Chris Gardner Produced by Jennifer Laski and Fabrizio Maltese Photographed by Fabrizio Maltese • THR’s cameras caught the A-listers and jury members bringing a touch of glitz to a more muted

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46 1. 3 Javier Bardem, Ricardo Darin, Penelope Cruz May 9 | 4:15 p.m.

While the critical reception to the Spanish thriller Everybody Knows (which stars Bardem, Darin and Cruz) was mixed, the opening-night film was scooped up by Focus Features for North America and Hishow Entertainment for China. 2. Marion Cotillard May 13 | 4:20 p.m.

Cotillard packed in a busy schedule, promoting female- action package 355 (also starring Jessica Chastain, Penelope Cruz, Fan Bingbing and Lupita Nyong’o) and debuting her motherhood drama Angel Face. 3. Cate Blanchett May 12 | 3:50 p.m.

The jury president, photo- graphed at the Carlton Hotel’s Yves Montand Suite in Armani Prive and Chopard, posed for THR before she joined 81 other women for the 5050x2020 march, organized by a French version of Time’s Up. “Women are not a minority in the world, yet the current state of our industry says other- wise,” she said. 4. Jessica Chastain May 10 | 1:35 p.m.

Chastain, photographed at THR and DirecTV’s event for 355, will star in and produce the spy film, which was bought by Universal for $20 million.

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1. Carey Mulligan May 9 | 12:45 p.m.

The actress stars in Paul Dano’s directorial debut, Wildlife, a 1960-set family drama adapted from a Richard Ford novel that first debuted at Sundance. 2. Sheila Munyiva May 11 | 11:40 a.m.

Munyiva stars in Rafiki, the Un Certain Regard selec- tion centered on two teen girls who become romantically involved. Ahead of its debut in Cannes, it was banned in director Wanuri Kahiu’s home country of Kenya. 3. Tahar Rahim May 11 | 3:50 p.m.

The breakout of Hulu’s The Looming Tower plays a gambling addict in Marie Monge’s Treat Me Like Fire. “Tahar has just never really been thought of in this way. I don’t know if it’s a lack of imagination or what,” says Monge of casting Rahim.

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5 4. Sofia Boutella May 14 | 3:20 p.m.

Boutella, star of 2017’s The Mummy and this year’s Directors’ Fortnight entry Climax, hit the red carpet with Michael B. Jordan to promote their HBO movie Fahrenheit 451. 5. Denis Villeneuve 2 May 12 | 1:38 p.m.

The Blade Runner 2049 helmer, who sits on the jury, has had four of his previ- ous films play in Cannes. 6. Michael Shannon May 13 | 12:15 p.m.

Also in town to promote the HBO movie Fahrenheit 451, the actor proved to be up for anything during his photo shoot at the Carlton Hotel, cruising through the setups with a smile and playfully pretending to dodge faux paparazzi at the hotel. 7. 3 Chloe Sevigny May 13 | 1:55 p.m.

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5 1. John Travolta, Kevin Connolly, Kelly Preston May 14 | 1:15 p.m.

Connolly, who helmed Gotti (which stars Travolta as Gambino crime family head and Preston as his wife, Victoria), was nervous ahead of the film’s Cannes debut: “I’m holding it together now, but when I’m getting dressed and it really hits me, my hands will be shaking.” 2. Diane Kruger May 14 | 2:35 p.m.

4 Kruger, serving as Chopard’s 2018 Godmother, is back at the festival one year after earning the best actress prize for In the Fade. Photographed in the Martinez Hotel’s Chopard Suite wearing Chopard, she says of winning in 2017: “It was kind of a blur, it was so overwhelming. I remember going up the steps that night, and it felt like the first time. It’s hard to describe what the feeling is.”

3. Zhao Tao May 13 | 3:40 p.m.

Director Jia Zhangke reteamed with his wife, Zhao, for Ash Is Purest White, the story of a woman putting the pieces of her life together after being imprisoned five years for protecting her gangster beau. 4. 2 Mads Mikkelsen

May 12 | 2:05 p.m.

In the survival drama Arctic (acquired for North America by Bleecker Street during the fest), the Danish actor plays a plane crash survivor stranded in the Arctic who must decide whether to stay in the safety of his camp or embark on a dangerous trek. 5. Barbara Lennie

May 10 | 5:30 p.m.

The Madrid native is doing double duty at the festival this year, starring as the heroine in Petra and as the wife of Javier Bardem’s character in Everybody Knows. 6. Topher Grace 3

May 14 | 11:45 a.m.

The actor has two major American titles at the festival — he plays David Duke in Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman and opposite Andrew Garfield in David Robert Mitchell’s Under the Silver Lake. But the new father, photographed at the Carlton Hotel, says he’s getting more rest than he would be at home. “My wife can’t know that I’m getting eight hours of sleep here,” he says. “I’m telling her, ‘Oh, it’s terrible. I’m tossing and turning all night long.’ Meanwhile, I’m sleeping like a log.”

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AND THR FAMILY GUY GUY FAMILY Lacey Rose Lacey gathers more than three dozen people people dozen three more than gathers SHOWRUNNER AND WGA NEGOTIATING AND SHOWRUNNER SHOWRUNNER AND UNITED SHOWRUNNERS SHOWRUNNERS UNITED AND SHOWRUNNER WRITER AND WGA BOARD MEMBER MEMBER WGA BOARD AND WRITER It was brinkmanship. They These new-media models new-media models These THR gathers gathers Lost , then in its its in , then Their e busi- e video, video, so anything that made the companies keep LORENZO DI BONAVENTURA, going, we felt would be detrimental. I’d worked PRODUCER There was at Leo Burnett in the ’80s, so I volunteered to a total panic to get do an ad with pledges from all of the biggest things moving as fast showrunners not to work in any capacity if we as we could in the went on strike. The ad led to some showrun- hopes that the strike would not derail the KEVIN FALLS, THEN JOURNEYMAN SHOWRUNNER ner meetings. Five minutes before the first big movies we were putting together. For G.I. Joe, Journeyman was my first show on the air. I one, we were in a circle; it was Matt Weiner, we brought on three writers and split up the had talked Kevin McKidd, who had just finished me, I can’t remember who else, and someone script. It was really a Rubik’s Cube of trying to Rome, into moving his wife and family to said, “We need somebody to run this meet- map out a process that I had never done before the U.S. from England to be the lead, and I felt ing.” Everybody turned and looked at me. In — and I have never done since. responsible for now upending his life. my mind, I thought, “Oh, fuck.” BILLY RAY, SCREENWRITER I was doing a movie MARTI NOXON, THEN PRIVATE PRACTICE SHOWRUNNER SETH MACFARLANE, THEN FAMILY GUY SHOWRUNNER called State of Play. On the last day before the I was running Private Practice with Shonda Those showrunner meetings were interesting strike, everybody was arguing about the ending. [Rhimes], and part of us was so tired that we because you didn’t have any hierarchy. It was a I knew I couldn’t write another word starting were like, “Please, let’s have a strike.” roomful of people who were each used to being the next morning, so I wrote 10 endings, and BEN SILVERMAN, THEN NBC CHAIRMAN I had been the final voice in their respective rooms. sent them all in and said, “Take your pick.” named chairman of NBC [five months earlier], and I remember asking [then CEO] , “What are we planning if there’s a strike?” The basic feeling there and in town was, “There’ll never be a strike.” Then bingo, it happens. The first thing hit were our late-night shows, FINDING LOVE ON THE PICKET LINE where we built no contingency. We were super- Alone Together showrunner Hunter Covington met future wife and Black-ish well-positioned otherwise. I knew Biggest executive producer Stacy Traub during the walkout: ‘It’s so silly but here we are’ Loser could expand, I greenlit Phenomenon and American Gladiators. Then I came up with the Hunter Covington to the bar [at the idea of doing Celebrity Apprentice. I reached out We had a very gung- Intercontinental] and ho strike captain on getting a drink with my to Mark Burnett, who said, “There’s no way our staf at My Name friend who pointed out Donald [Trump] will want to be around other Is Earl, and I said, half- Hunter. After that, we celebrities. He has to be biggest celebrity.” joking, “If you did a all moved over to picket And I said, “Actually, he’s going to be the big- singles picket, people on Pico [Boulevard]. gest celebrity because he’s going to be the would go.” That’s when Hunter Stacy Traub I’d just and I wound up walking boss.” I called up Trump and he agreed, and gone through a pretty together and talking. we relaunched to huge ratings. gnarly divorce in July. Covington Then I’ve got a 4-month-old we got Philly cheese- and a 3-year-old, and steaks afterward. Hundreds and sometimes thousands of then the strike hits. So, Traub A lot of writers when the thing comes were having get-togeth- writers took to the picket lines, held up about the singles ers because we all daily outside the major studios in L.A. and picket, everyone who had nothing to do. So corporate headquarters in New York. knew me said: “You we saw each other at GREG DANIELS, THEN THE OFFICE SHOWRUNNER I was have to go to this. You one of those and then we the first writer to picket because I had to get to may meet the love of started dating lightly. your life.” Covington Timidly. our set at 4 a.m. to try to prevent the Teamster Covington Also, writ- She had a very compli- Covington married Traub in May 2013. caterers from crossing the line. ers being writers, you’re cated situation. … MICHAEL SCHUR, THEN THE OFFICE WRITER Steve doing it for the irony. Traub Let’s just call it they’ve extended the Traub Then I Carell decided that if The Office couldn’t be pro- Traub I remember put- what it was: I came Presidents Day sale at notice he’s driving duced with the writer-producers on set then ting some efort into with a lot of baggage. So, Room & Board, let’s go to Galaxy Way. … what I was going to wear we dated for a couple get a new couch.” This Covington Once he wasn’t going to make the show. So even that day. weeks and then Hunter was, like, the best news we get on Avenue though the “Dinner Party” episode was done Covington I don’t was like, “I kind of can’t you could’ve told me. of the Stars, she starts and ready to be filmed, he just didn’t show know if I put any efort deal with your situation.” Covington So, I go in to put it together. up, and everything came to a grinding halt. The into what I wore. I said, “I can’t deal with the bathroom and put She’s like, “Holy shit. NBC lawyers and very high-powered suits Traub No, I don’t it either.” But we stayed on my red strike shirt Holy shit.” think you did. (Laughs.) in touch on Facebook. with a big fucking wool Traub By then, I pressured him like crazy, but he just calmly So then we get to the Covington During dress coat over it, and knew we weren’t going told them he wasn’t interested. Galaxy Way gate at Fox, the strike, everyone was I button it up all the way. to Room & Board. J.J. ABRAMS, SCREENWRITER-DIRECTOR It was ridic- and it was a pretty on Facebook. Then a She’s like, “What are So, we walked over to ulous. In the morning, I’d go to picket at good turnout. Like, 20 year later, we got back you doing in there?” Galaxy Way … Paramount as a writer. Then when my call time or 30 people. together. [A year Traub Hunter starts Covington … and Covington You’re later,] we got pregnant. taking a weird route to across the street … happened, I would have to put down the signs just walking around with Traub When our Room & Board, but I’m Traub … to exactly and go in as a director and work on a movie picket signs, and every- daughter was 1, I was not gonna complain. ... where we met. He [] that we couldn’t rewrite because the one’s sort of looking at working on this Mandy Covington She was opened his coat, script had to be locked. each other. Moore pilot, it’s February, definitely complain- and I saw the strike JANE ESPENSON, THEN BATTLESTAR GALACTICA WRITER Traub How do you and I come home ing. “You’re on Olympic shirt. Then he got start a conversa- from a hard day, and [Boulevard]. Why down on one knee I remember young writers — aspiring writ- tion? It wasn’t pretty. Hunter’s like, “I got the the fuck are you on and asked me to marry ers — approaching me to walk beside me on I remember going nanny to stay late, Olympic?” him.  L.R. the picket line. It’s a strange situation, to give

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1 “It wound up being a rainy, fun afternoon,” says Howard of picketing in Manhattan on Nov. 15, 2007. 2 Leno, pictured at Universal into [then News Corp. COO Peter] Chernin, Studios, irked many when he announced he would be writing his own monologue during the strike. 3 “It was an opportunity for the studios to clean house in a way that was startling,” says screenwriter Akiva Goldsman of the force majeure sweep during the strike. and he thought it was fabulous, too. 4 Michael Winship (left) and Verrone announced the decision to go on strike Nov. 2. ZAK PENN, SCREENWRITER My wife was a studio executive at New Line, and people were yelling advice about getting into a business while NOXON People who were single kept asking at the execs as they were driving [onto the you’re in the process of protesting conditions for introductions to other single writers [on lot]. It left a bad taste in my mouth since I was within that business. the picket line]. It was Tinder before Tinder. sleeping with the other side. RENE BALCER, THEN LAW & ORDER SHOWRUNNER TONY GILROY, SCREENWRITER-DIRECTOR We were MACFARLANE There was this animosity Some development guy at Fox nudged his car looking for names to [picket]. I didn’t really between showrunners who shut their shows through the line and bumped into me. He know Ron Howard, but we shared an agent, so down, like we did, and those who didn’t. But came out yelling. The police who investigated I called him and said, “Hey, man, is there any writers are so passive-aggressive, it came in it called it mutual combat and decided not way ...?” The guy was there in an hour. the form of grumbling to each other. to press charges against him. Then I turned it RON HOWARD, DIRECTOR I was in the WGA, but I into an episode of Law & Order, where there also had a production company so I wasn’t sure was a strike and some loudmouth gets run how they’d feel about me. They might feel my Talks between the WGA and AMPTP over. Yep, I monetized my experience. sympathy was on the other side. But I was very broke down Dec. 7, after the two groups ELENA TROPP, THEN SCREENWRITER My daughter much welcomed. remained far apart on the key issue of FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS BOUYS/AFP/GETTY IMAGES. WINSHIP: MCNEW/GETTY DAVID IMAGES. Rosie was born in August 2007, so she came KERRY EHRIN, THEN WRITER new media. with me. We thought it would be funny to make I remember we were having a mother- MICHAEL LYNTON, THEN SONY CEO There came a signs for her, like, “Stop milking us.” The plus son event at the school in my neighborhood, moment where I was encouraged by a number of wearing your baby while you’re doing this and this woman, who was the wife of an of people to go visit [WGA executive direc- is that a lot of people came up to us, like Mindy agent, just pointed at me: “She’s one of them!” tor] David Young at the Writers Guild. I sat in Kaling, who asked to take a picture with my It was funny and awful — like we were the waiting room at the appointed time. And baby. Then we were on Defamer. The headline just a few steps away from the torches and waited and waited. After 45 minutes, the recep- was, like, “Strike Baby spotted!” Once we knew pitchforks. tionist called for the second or third time up to we had an audience, we thought, “Let’s have LEVITAN I remember at one point being at a Young, and I could hear him say, “You should some more fun with it.” rally where people were chanting these child- allow Mr. Lynton to wait there a while longer.” ish things aimed at the executives, and I’m When I finally got into his office, it resulted in PRESS. LENO: IMAGES/GETTY IAN WEST/PA IMAGES. PICKET: GABRIEL thinking, “We’re not doing ourselves any favors absolutely nothing. here.” I just felt like it was beneath us. There LEVITAN I was really optimistic that a deal was was one sign that still makes me laugh, though: going to happen before the holidays, and then “Gary Newman’s wine has too many tannins.” I heard on the way to this Hanukkah dinner Now, that was funny. that [talks had broken down]. I was crushed. I JOHN WELLS, SCREENWRITER AND FORMER WGA get to this dinner, and [Disney CEO] Bob Iger WEST PRESIDENT I remember walking the Fox and Michael Lynton are also there. I’m friends picket with people chanting, “Hey, Chernin, with those guys, and I make eye contact with 4 what you earnin’?” after the executive [pay at them. The first moment that we could break Fox] came out, which was pretty great. I ran off, the three of us walked off to a side room. TRAUB: COURTESY OF SUBJECT. HOWARD: BRUCE COTLER/GLOBE PHOTOS/ZUMA

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 55 MAY 16, 2018 I remember going, “What the fuck happened? Why can’t we solve this?” LYNTON Running into friends who were writers in living rooms and kitchens was much more awkward than crossing a picket line. LEVITAN Bob had this theory on what the prob- “The only lem was. He thought it had to do with WGA hard part management and their negotiating tactics, and were the diaper I took issue with that, but I quickly realized changes” says Tropp that they wanted to sit down and negotiate of carrying with a Hollywood insider. daughter Rosie, now VERRONE Management kept hammering, “David 10 (inset), Young doesn’t understand the entertainment at protests. industry.” They said, “We’ll meet with you if you bring in an entertainment lawyer.” So, we called in Alan Wertheimer. ALAN WERTHEIMER, THEN OUTSIDE COUNSEL FOR THE WGA I got the call from David Young while I was at the Sundance Film Festival. I didn’t say yes right then. I knew if I got into this, I’d be out of the office for quite a while, and I needed to talk to my colleagues. What I had heard was that things had reached an impasse and that the parties didn’t like each other. record, that was not a good idea. But we were all talking. Nobody wanted to be the first back. We all wanted to go back at the same time. As the strike threatened to drag into JORGE CAMERA, THEN PRESIDENT OF THE HFPA We the new year, many late-night hosts tried every which way we could [to still have announced they’d return, largely the Golden Globes]. I was even told I should sans writers, as early as Jan. 2. The go chain myself to the Writers Guild and not 65th Golden Globe Awards, slated leave until they let us have them. Once the for Jan. 13, was canceled, with the actors joined the strike and would not cross winners announced at a no-frills the picket line, there was no choice for us. press conference instead. SILVERMAN I got in all of this trouble because I JIMMY KIMMEL, JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE! HOST The strike went on the radio and said, “It’s like the guys basically wiped out all my savings because who weren’t invited to the prom are canceling 1 I was paying a lot of the staff that was out of prom even though the Golden Globes have noth- work. That’s a big reason why I had to go back ing to do with the strike.” I was not only furious on the air. I wasn’t making a ton of money at because it was the only awards show canceled the time, and I couldn’t afford to do it anymore. that year and the network was being leveraged concerned about the direction things had been I also felt if we stayed off the air, it was going horribly and hurt financially but also I was going. They were upper-middle-class writers, to do permanent damage to our shows. nominated for three shows [as a producer] and and I was told they were going to go public VERRONE We decided to make a side deal with I wasn’t going to be in that awesome room. with a statement demanding that the Writers David Letterman’s company [Dec. 28] so that Guild pledge, even before the DGA deal was [The Late Show and The Late Late Show] could sealed, to accept the parameters of that deal. I go back to work. That was rife with complica- On Jan. 14 , dubbed by the media “Black was given a name and a number and I called. tions, not the least of which was the fact Monday,” the major studios axed more VERRONE To this day, I have no idea who was in that Jay Leno’s writers suddenly said, “What than 40 writer-producer overall deals, The Dirty 30. about us?” But they were employed by NBC, citing the “force majeure” clause, which JONATHAN PRINCE, THEN CANE SHOWRUNNER Am I while Letterman employed his writers directly. allows a party to break a contract in the only one admitting I was in it? I remember STEVE BODOW, THE DAILY SHOW WRITER It wasn’t the wake of an unforeseeable event. The we left this one meeting and there were fliers an easy time. After years of us being in battle loss of millions of dollars roiled the WGA on each of our cars that basically said, “You’re together every day making this show, for the membership, with some groups pushing a traitor, I know who you are.” first time we were on the opposite side of for a swift end to the strike. GOULD I negotiated a sit-down. Robert King and something. Jon [Stewart] was very frustrated FALLS There was talk that the studios might I went to Jonathan Prince’s house. There — he’d worked out a deal with somebody to force majeure writers’ overall deals, but I were about three dozen of them. And they were offer the same terms Letterman had, but the naively thought I wasn’t going to be one of furious. They tore into us for two hours. Our deal wasn’t accepted [by the guild]. It was them. Then my agent called and told me I message to them was, “We know you’re hurt- uncomfortable because, in general, Jon was was being “forced.” I thought he was joking. ing, but there’s nothing to be accomplished very loyal to the writers and the writers were Then Jennifer Salke [then at 20th Century by doing what you’re going to do before the loyal to Jon, and this tested that. Fox TV] beeped in, and I knew I was a goner. DGA makes their deal. If you do this, it will KIMMEL For the most part, it brought a lot of HOWARD MICHAEL GOULD, SCREENWRITER AND undermine the DGA’s negotiation.” us [hosts] together, especially when the CBS THEN WGA NEGOTIATING COMMITTEE MEMBER I was PRINCE We never undermined the negotiations. shows got to go back [with writers] and we told that there was a group [nicknamed The I know that in order to make any gains, there didn’t. That really made everyone mad. For the Dirty 30] that had been meeting. They were must be pain. We just thought that the pain

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 56 MAY 16, 2018 should have been ours, the writers, it shouldn’t AKIVA GOLDSMAN, SCREENWRITER The emotional There was a sense that some on the board have been others’ to bear. And getting a bigger fuel for the strike had started to outpace the might hold out for animation or DVDs. My feel- piece of the backend of this future technol- potential gains. We were sitting around [at ing was we needed a win, and we needed to ogy doesn’t trickle down to [nonwriters]. How Attanasio’s house] going, “Let’s get our hands be unified. I was getting phone calls from labor would that have helped my caterer who lost her in this in a more direct way.” leaders all over the country throughout say- mortgage or my greensman who had to move MEYER Leslie [Moonves], [Chernin], [Iger] and ing, “Labor’s taking a hit. You have to win this.” out of L.A.? We weren’t traitors. By day, we were I met fairly regularly to talk strategy. We had A public split would have been a disaster. walking the picket line and reporting to our a standing table at the Bel Air Hotel. strike captains; and by night, we were saying, RYAN The issue was we were a group of decision- “How do we get this thing to end?” makers who were empowered to make a deal After 100 days, on Feb. 12, 2008, more RAY We were really afraid that the DGA would and we spent months in a room with people than 0 percent of the WGA voted begin to negotiate their deal while we were who weren’t — people who then had to go back to end the strike. On Feb. 26, WGA mem- still out there. It was all anyone talked about: to some room and call [the CEOs]. bership approved a three-year Is the DGA going to torpedo us? VERRONE So we said, “In exchange for us contract, with the Writers Guild win- KEN ZIFFREN, OUTSIDE COUNSEL FOR THE DGA There bringing Wertheimer, you’ve got to bring ning a piece of digital revenue. was pressure put on by the Writers Guild. But in CEOs.” WINSHIP I had decided to go ahead and have the the DGA firmly believed if you make a deal suf- WERTHEIMER Once we were close to the finish [WGA East] awards because I thought it would ficiently ahead of time to take the pressure line, those guys [Iger and Chernin] started be good for morale. It turned out to be this off of management, you’re going to make a bet- showing up. Then we made some progress. incredible fortuitous coincidence. We had the ter deal than if you stumble into it last minute, VERRONE Chernin and Iger represented the meeting to announce the end [of the strike], or even after a short period of strikes. two factions of the AMPTP. Chernin was the immediately followed by this party. GOLDSMAN Our business — how deals worked, how writers worked within the system — has never been the same. BRYAN FULLER, THEN PUSHING DAISIES SHOWRUNNER It’s no exaggeration to say there was a puni- tive cloud that wove across writers rooms and interactions with studios for years. There was a lot of blame going around. TROPP I stopped writing not that much longer after the strike. It became so much harder to get jobs. Rosie’s in the fifth grade now, we live in South Carolina, and we showed her some of those old pictures from the picket line. She’s going through a social justice phase, so it was a nice entree to, “This is a union and this 2 3 is what unions do. I’m sorry that at the end of that strike there wasn’t room for me writing movies anymore, but that’s OK, too.” 1 Horror writers at Warner Bros. on Nov. 27, 2007. 2 MacFarlane spoke at a Nov. 9 rally at Fox Plaza with 4,000 protesters. FALLS Journeyman never got a second season. 3 With Saturday Night Live dark for the strike’s duration, Seth Meyers and Rachel Dratch attended a Dec. 6 rally in New York. But for Kevin McKidd, I’m relieved to say, it turned into a pot of gold. The next year he The DGA signed its new deal Jan. 17, hard-liner who represented Fox, NBC and started his first of 10 seasons on Grey’s 2008. After that, key factions within the Warner Bros. The other side was Iger, whose Anatomy. He also learned to surf. … EIMAGE. WGA pushed aggressively for the strike best interest was in making sure the Academy VERRONE We absolutely didn’t get everything to end. Both sides returned to the table in Awards went off in a few weeks, and Moonves, we wanted, but getting the jurisdiction in an attempt to hammer out a contract. who was looking to make a deal much earlier new media completely changed the way writ- WELLS Once the DGA made that deal, our bar- than anybody else. ers, actors, directors and the entire industry gaining position was significantly reduced. RYAN If we had been negotiating only with are employed. If we hadn’t done that, Netflix MICHAEL WINSHIP, THEN WGA EAST PRESIDENT That CBS, there never would have been a strike. It wouldn’t be what it is today, which is the com- was a low point. God bless ’em, they got a deal, didn’t make sense for them. For a company pany that employs something like a third of but we felt strongly that they fell on our backs. like Fox, which didn’t have as many hours of our members now. GILROY I was very disappointed in the Directors programming and relied very heavily on WELLS Patric and some of the other leaders, Guild, and angry. If we could’ve pressed just a American Idol at that time, they had a differ- who did a courageous job running this strike little bit further and really threatened to shut ent perspective. and standing up to tremendous pressure, CFARLANE: NOEL VASQUEZ/GETTY IMAGES. MEYERS: JOE KOHEN/WIR down the Academy Awards. ... I would have VERRONE Those final negotiations took about were later punished electorally. But they were been willing to not go to the Oscars. a day and a half. We were at the Luxe Hotel planting seeds for the future. AARON SORKIN, SCREENWRITER Paul Attanasio under a press blackout. RYAN I don’t know that you can look at the called and asked if I’d come to a meeting at his JOHN BOWMAN, WGA NEGOTIATING COMMITTEE landscape in 2018 with everything that’s play- house. There were about 20 people, including a CHAIR At the end, there was a lot of confusion ing online and not see that us caving and not former president and a former vice president about what we would settle on. I’m not sure winning jurisdiction over the internet would of the Guild. The DGA had just approved their we even knew what our bottom line was. The be anything other than an utter disaster for the contract, and people in the room who knew negotiating committee was made up largely creative community. what they were talking about felt that the terms of showrunners, and the board had a slightly were the best we were going to get. more proletarian, workaday-writer feel. Additional reporting by Michael O’Connell. TROPP: COURTESY OF SUBJECT (2. HORROR: MATTHEW SIMMONS/WIREIMAGE. MA

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 57 MAY 16, 2018 ‘My Worst Day Is My Day Off’ WITH HER FIERCE RETURN TO BROADWAY AT 82, OSCAR-WINNING LEGEND GLENDA JACKSON IS A VIRTUAL LOCK FOR HER FIRST TONY, AND HOLLYWOOD CAN’T LURE HER FROM THE STAGE: ‘NOTHING HAS GRABBED ME UP TO NOW’ By Frank Scheck • Photographed by Heather Hazzan

was never a star,” declares Glenda Thatcher, bitterly decrying the late prime Jackson of her storied film and the- minister for treating “vices like virtues” and ater career. But such dismissals are favoring greed over compassion. belied by the theatergoers flocking After leaving government, Jackson returned to see her Tony-nominated perfor- to performing with a vengeance, playing mance in the Broadway revival of the title role in a gender-bending production EdwardI Albee’s 1994 drama Three Tall Women, of King Lear at London’s Old Vic. In typical which has grossed nearly $8 million so far. Jackson fashion, she disdained the rapturous Jackson’s return to the Great White Way at reception when she came onstage to receive the the age of 82 is a certified event for many Evening Standard Award for her performance. reasons. The two-time Academy Award win- “Oh, come on, we don’t do standing ovations in ner (1970’s Women in Love and 1973’s A Touch of England!” she chided the crowd. Class) — whose other notable credits include Her road to New York started with producer the films Sunday, Bloody Sunday; Mary, Queen Scott Rudin, a fan since he saw her onstage in of Scots; Hedda; and the television miniseries 1965 in Marat/Sade. Though she’d turned down Elizabeth R, for which she won two Emmys — a role he offered in the 2006 film Notes on a stepped back from acting in the early 1990s to Scandal (eventually played by Judi Dench), she enter politics. She represented Hampstead couldn’t resist Albee’s “A,” a flinty woman fac- and Highgate in Parliament for 23 years, until ing the end of her life. Playing opposite Laurie her retirement in 2015. And to some, per- Metcalf and Alison Pill as younger versions of haps her greatest-ever performance is a 2013 her character, Jackson delivers such a spell- speech she gave after the death of Margaret binding turn that she’s got a virtual lock on the Tony. Jackson, who’s long divorced with one son, Dan Hodges, a newspaper columnist, has a well-earned reputation for not suffering fools gladly. But she is friendly and engaging — and as passionate about liberal politics as ever — while chatting with THR at an Upper East Side tea shop on the day her Tony nomination (her fifth; no wins) was announced.

What did you think of Three Tall Women From left: Pill, Jackson and when you first read it? Metcalf onstage I’m ashamed to say, I didn’t even know the at the John Golden Theatre play existed until Scott Rudin sent me a in Three Tall Women, set to copy. I thought, “This is a radio play!” There’s close June 24. almost no physical movement. But he was “The older we get, the more gender barriers begin to fray,” says Jackson, photographed May 4 at the Westside Theatre in . TONY AWARDS Preview 1

a bloody good writer! The simplicity of the words [Albee] chooses to use … it’s a big trap, actually. Because he uses certain words a lot. But he puts them in a different place. There is an energy to the play, but you have to dig it out. And I think we have found that energy in our production. You hardly ever get to act with other actresses. Certainly not in contem- porary stuff. Usually there’s only one good woman’s part. To have the opportunity to work with actresses of this caliber was a big thing playing a man’s part. Not at all. One of the for me. I’d seen Laurie’s work on television, and things that I found useful was that the older we she can play anything. I didn’t know Alison, get, the more gender barriers begin to fray. but I think she’s just marvelous in this play. It’s the underwritten part that she’s playing. And You’ve had an incredibly varied film career. Not she absolutely nails it. too many actresses could have had success- ful collaborations with both director Ken Russell Did you have trouble relating to the character? (Women in Love, The Music Lovers) and Walter One of my rules of engagement is that you Matthau (House Calls, Hopscotch). cannot judge the character you play. You have I find it puzzling that you find it puzzling. They to see the world through their eyes. And she may have externally been different, but they saw her world very clearly. (Chuckles.) weren’t actually. Because they both had a third eye. Ken could create a climate that you could How did you get into politics? You starred in a 1989 Los Angeles production of actually work in. He was completely human- I’d always been supportive of the Labour Party, Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? directed being oriented. Walter was exactly the same. He certainly since the mid-’70s. I campaigned for by the writer. What was it like to work with him? was funny, but he was also very serious about candidates. I would go to fundraising dinners, He was completely closed off. I don’t think I the things that mattered to him. Oh, God, did I write begging letters, that kind of thing. Out ever saw him smile. enjoy working with him! of the blue one day, the constituency party of Hampstead rang me up and said, “We’re having When you first returned to acting — after Do you ever look at such contemporaries as trouble selecting a prospective candidate, will decades o the stage and screen — instead Judi Dench and Maggie Smith and envy their you put your name in the hat?” And anything I of easing back in, you chose King Lear. James Bond or Harry Potter money? could have done that was legal to get Margaret The Old Vic approached me, wanting me to do No. I was offered M, or whatever part Judi Thatcher and her government out, I was something. I didn’t like the play they wanted played in the Bond films. prepared to have a go at. My country had been me to do. I said I wanted to play Lear, and they destroyed! Every single shop doorway was a said fine. What was interesting to me was Why did you turn that down? bedroom, bathroom and sitting room for some that nobody ever raised the issue of a woman Because it was boring. homeless person. And in many cases, they were

Harry Potter’s Charmed Trio THE LITTLE-KNOWN STARS OF HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD ARE WINNING CRITICAL KUDOS, HOLLYWOOD FANS AND EVEN A LITTLE RESPECT FROM THEIR KIDS By Suzy Evans etting cast in Harry “Normally you spend the play 10 Tony Awards, including noms Potter and the Cursed convincing people of the world for Dumezweni and Parker — the Only Parker Child is a bit like receiv- and the characters,” says Parker, most of any new play this season. has a Broadway G credit: ing an owl-delivered acceptance 38. “On this one, you hit the The story picks up at the History Boys. letter from Hogwarts: All of a ground running because they epilogue of Harry Potter and sudden, you’re magical. That’s know and love it.” the Deathly Hallows and follows what happened to Jamie Parker, Now the trio are robing up Harry, his friends and their kids Noma Dumezweni and Paul at the Lyric Theatre, where the as they navigate parenthood Thornley, who went from West two-parter set a Broadway play and a new generation of wizards. End players to worldwide names box-ofice record in its first full With the worldwide recogni- overnight when they landed the week of previews at $2.1 mil- tion comes immense pressure, roles of Harry Potter, Hermione lion. It hasn’t let up since, with and fans have opinions about Granger and Ron Weasley in the top tickets going for nearly who the characters should be. blockbuster London production. $300, and it’s nominated for “I need a bit of help to ginger

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 60 MAY 16, 2018 Is there anything I can do to persuade you to become a U.S. citizen and run for Congress? I’m afraid not. 1 Two days after Thatcher’s You worked with Cynthia Nixon in that 1989 death, Jackson accused her of production of Virginia Woolf. Have you been fol- BRUCE HEADLINES “heinous social and lowing her gubernatorial race? economic damage.” A $1. B SEASON 2 With the queen Cynthia came to see the play! She doesn’t look (left) in 2003. hen Sara Bareilles and Josh Groban step 3 From left: John a day older than she did when I last saw her. I onto the Radio City Music Hall stage Lithgow, Jackson, said to her, “If you want me to go knocking on W Center Theatre June 10 to present the Tony Awards, Broadway Group’s Gordon doors, let me know. I have Mondays off.” I hope producers in the audience will be sitting pretty: Davidson, Brian Kerwin and Nixon she does well. I think it’s terrific. With the 2017-18 season wrapping May 27, all worked on grosses already have hit a record high north of a 1989 production What are your thoughts on the #MeToo move- $1.6 billion, a sizable hike of 14.4 percent from 2 of Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia ment in Hollywood and beyond? last year. That’s the good news. The cautionary Woolf? note: Admissions are nearly flat, increasing by When it all broke, I mean the Harvey Weinstein just 1.6 percent over the previous season, when also mentally ill. Everything had just fractured stuff, I thought to myself, “Two women die attendance was pumped by peak Hamilton fever, before your eyes. What I had been taught were in my country every week at the hands of SRO demand for Bette Midler in Hello, Dolly! E GROUP. vices, she said were virtues, such as greed. She their partners. That’s never front-page news and hot-ticket entries like Dear Evan Hansen. Attendance for the current season is 13.2 mil-

: MANUEL HARLAN/ MANUEL : said there’s no such thing as a society. That so or caused the creation of a movement.” The lion with about two weeks to go,

HARRY infuriated me I walked into my closed French idea that this kind of behavior is exclusive to meaning those new dollars are windows and almost broke my nose! certain professions or people with certain coming from premium tickets, not amounts of money is bullshit. It is endemic, it additional butts in seats. Still, as Did you have trouble getting people to take is constant. little as 10 years ago it was rare to you seriously? A movie star with no political Fey see more than a handful of shows crack the $1 million mark on a experience? Now that you’ve re-established yourself, any standard nonholiday week; in the week ending : BRIGITTE LACOMBE. THIS SPREAD: I thought I might. But you know, I was desire to do film or television? It’s certainly less May 13, 17 productions topped that, with three THREE never a star, in that sense. Certainly not in grueling than eight shows a week. (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Hamilton S INC. my home county. Oh, for God’s sake! We’re not digging coal! and Springsteen on Broadway) exceeding $2 mil-

LMMAGIC. MCBRIDE/GETTY GARFIELD: WALTER IMAGES. lion and The Lion King missing that mark only That’s par for the course, you do it eight times because it had seven performances instead of You were a two-time Oscar winner … a week! My worst day is my day off. I would do eight. Broadway’s newest MVP is Springsteen, But that doesn’t make you a star. A star is something if the script was good. Nothing has whose concert memoir (pictured above) has someone people go to see because of who they grabbed me up to now. grossed more than $59 million since its October

: ROB DEMARTIN. QUEEN: IMAGES VIA PA GETTY IMAGES. LITHGOW: COURTESY OF CENTER THEATR are. No one came to see me because of who I opening, even with hiatus periods and short play- ing weeks. Premium tickets also have pumped BRUCE am. They came to see me act. It’s not the same. You should get plenty of oers. We are, after grosses for Mean Girls (with a book by Tina Fey, all, living in an era in which older women who wrote and starred in the film), Harry Potter Did you grow up in a leftist household? are experiencing a renaissance when it comes and the starry revival of The Boys in the Band, Not particularly. My parents voted entirely to acting. which opens May 31 (outside Tony eligibility) and on how well they thought the government Come on! No, they’re not. I’m sorry, they’re not. hit a promising $1 million in its first preview week. If producers are concerned that audience had been doing for them. My grandmother I mean, why is it that contemporary dramatists growth isn’t keeping pace with box ofice, few voted conservative all her life. I never got don’t find women interesting? That has never are complaining.  DAVID ROONEY

PREVIOUS SPREAD: HAIR AND MAKEUP BY KRISTY FOR STRATE IT COSMETICS ENNI AT (2. PHOTOGRPAHY PRODUCTION BROADWAY MICHAELFEY: LOCCISANO/GETTY IMAGES. SCHUMER: AXELLE/BAUER-GRIFFIN/FI into a political argument with her! (Laughs.) changed since I first set foot on a stage.

Handicapping Tony’s Hollywood Hopefuls

up,” says Thornley, 43, of Ron’s Glenn Close, Darren Criss Best Actor, Play Rashad is in the signature red hair. Each of the and Whoopi Goldberg attended Andrew Garfield running for Saint three actors has a child in opening night (Goldberg in is favored for his Joan, but Three Tall the series’ target zone. “If the wizarding robes), and the films’ turn in Angels Women’s Glenda in America. Denzel Jackson has a lock. babies who love the books Emma Watson and Rupert Grint Washington also like it, we’re going to be fine,” saw the play on the West End. earned strong Best Actor, Musical adds Dumezweni (who says While the production reviews and a nom Critics loved Tony she’s “40bla” — that’s Brit for hasn’t changed since London, for a revival, The Shalhoub in 40-something). Adds Thornley, one thing has been added on Iceman Cometh. The Band’s Visit, but look for “Most of the time, being an Broadway: entrance applause. Best Actress, Play SpongeBob’s Ethan actor for your children is really When Parker walks down- Amy Schumer Slater or Carousel’s annoying. For once we’ve stage as Harry in the opening, scored a surprise Joshua Henry got a little currency. We’re in the crowd goes wild. “It’s not nomination for to take this prize. Harry Potter.” me, it’s the character,” he says, Meteor Shower, and Billions’ Condola Best Actress, They’re gaining currency with visibly uncomfortable as he Musical Lauren Hollywood, too. Brooke Shields, acknowledges, “I’m growing to Ambrose earned like it.” Adds Thornley, in true kudos for her ← “It was the greatest risk I have taken by Ron fashion, “He’s our very own empowered spin saying yes to this,” says Dumezweni (left), on My Fair Lady’s onstage with Thornley (third from left). Bette Midler.” Eliza, but The Band’s Visit’s Katrina Lenk has the edge here.

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Reviews Film The Best of Cannes (So Far) Among THR critics’ faves just past the halfway point are a tempestuous Polish romance, a Colombian crime epic, the latest from Spike Lee and Gaspar Noe’s shocker about dancers descending into madness

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ASH IS PUREST WHITE destruction of a close-knit native BORDER 1 Climax 2 Ash Is Purest White 3 BlacKkKlansman (Competition) family that gets caught up in the (Un Certain Regard) Chinese director Jia Zhang-ke international drug trade in the This gripping thriller, adapted was never going to make a conven- ’70s. Both ethnographic chronicle by Danish-Iranian director Inferno, so intensely does it tional jianghu underworld movie, and thriller, this is a superbly Ali Abbassi from a novella by portray a dance troupe’s drug- and even if genre elements and crafted, patiently paced film from Let the Right One In creator induced descent into agony. hard-edged character details are the team behind 2016 foreign- John Ajvide Lindqvist, blends Pairing his boundary-pushing woven into this textured, unhur- language Oscar nominee Embrace supernatural folklore with con- sex-and-drugs fixation with ried drama, it’s of a piece with of the Serpent.  JORDAN MINTZER temporary social realism in a a vital presentation of exuber- the auteur’s contemplative body parable about fear of the other. ant choreography, Noe has of work. Spanning 17 years, the film BLACKKKLANSMAN While the premise — an attrac- made a film that’s seductive provides a transfixing lead role for (Competition) tion between two Swedish in its rhythms and bold in its Jia’s wife and muse, Zhao Tao, as A true story told in a boisterously outcasts with facial deformities visualization of his young sub- a woman from a coal-mining town exaggerated way, this is Spike — shares DNA with the super- jects’ sometimes beautiful, in love with a local mobster (Liao Lee’s most entertaining film in freak allegories of the X-Men other times brutal somatic Fan), their relationship unfolding a while. Telling the tale of a series, the naturalistic presenta- expressiveness. It’s the work of against the backdrop of a chang- rookie Colorado cop (John David tion has more in common with someone ready to startle and ing China.  DAVID ROONEY Washington) who teams up the downbeat grit of Nordic noir. impress again.  T.M. with a Jewish colleague (Adam  STEPHEN DALTON BIRDS OF PASSAGE Driver) to infiltrate the local COLD WAR (Directors’ Fortnight) KKK chapter, the director takes CLIMAX (Competition) Cristina Gallego and Ciro the shenanigans to cartoonish (Directors’ Fortnight) The new film from Pawel Guerra’s Colombian crime epic levels of humor at times — but The latest from French enfant Pawlikowski (2015 foreign- is like an indigenous Godfather, also has a full barrel of ammo, terrible Gaspar Noe might just language Oscar winner Ida) revealing the slow and steady and uses it.  TODD MCCARTHY as easily have been called Gaspar’s is a bittersweet and lovely COURTESY OF CANNES (3 FILM FESTIVAL

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ballad of lovers who can’t stand to stay apart but also can’t stand each other. Achingly romantic, though wryly realistic about the destructive power of eros, the drama spans from the ’40s to the ’60s, tracking the tempestuous relationship between pianist 2 Wiktor (Tomasz Kot) and singer Zula (Joanna Kulig) as they shuttle back and forth across the Iron — is nuts in the best way, imag- SORRY ANGEL 1 Cold War 2 Sorry Angel Curtain, from Warsaw to Paris ined, assembled and played with (Competition) and beyond.  LESLIE FELPERIN wacky panache.  BOYD VAN HOEIJ Sensuality and mortality com- WOMAN AT WAR mingle defiantly in the radiant (Critics’ Week) DIAMANTINO SHOPLIFTERS and wrenching new film from Icelandic auteur Benedikt (Critics’ Week) (Competition) French writer-director Christophe Erlingsson’s second feature Directed by the Portuguese In his typically subtle and tender Honore — his best yet. Tracing (following Of Horses and Men) is a Gabriel Abrantes and the new offering, Japanese filmmaker the intertwining lives of a 35-year- very skillfully crafted and sur- U.S.-born Daniel Schmidt, here Kore-eda Hirokazu contrasts the old gay writer with AIDS and a really told story of an ecological is a movie that takes you com- frigidity of traditional society 22-year-old student in the heat “terrorist” who sabotages her pletely by surprise. Following with the warmth and happiness of his queer awakening, it’s a country’s power grid in order to the out-there adventures of a of a lower-class family in which vibrant, novelistic tale of sex and preserve its breathtaking land- sweet but dimwitted Portuguese money is tight and all methods death, desire and disease, love scapes. With emotional depth, soccer star (modeled on Cristiano of obtaining it are permissible. and friendship. Set in 1993, the exquisite visuals and sharp, timely Ronaldo), the film — which A thoughtful addition to parables movie is also a period-specific political undertones, the movie features a woman posing as a about happy and unhappy clans, examination of gay male identity, starts off on rather playful footing teenage boy, African refugees, the film is studded with memo- or identities, luminously acted but gradually builds into some- right-wing extremists, nuns, evil rable characters and believable by leads Pierre Deladonchamps thing more thrilling, and moving, sisters and long-haired lapdogs performances.  D.Y. and Vincent Lacoste.  JON FROSCH as our heroine goes on the run.  J.M. C. BELL: JASON LAVERIS/FILMMAGIC.

Long and twist-filled story short, Wade goes it alone, trying to save Russell from Cable, Deadpool 2 a time-traveling cyborg soldier played by Josh Marvel’s foul-mouthed antihero Brolin. To help, Wade recruits new superpow- learns to play nice with others in a ered oddballs for a crew he dubs X-Force. Most laugh-stuffed sequel By John DeFore exciting of these is Domino (Atlanta’s Zazie Beetz), whose mutant power is that she’s lucky. You may share Wade’s fourth wall-breaking

Good news from sequel land: Deadpool 2 is just concern that this gift will be hard to dramatize A: JB LACROIX/WIREIMAGE. SMITH: JON KOPALOFF/FILMMAGI as entertaining (and funny) as its predecessor. onscreen, but director David Leitch (Atomic As we start, Ryan Reynolds’ Wade Wilson/ Blonde) puts those worries to rest in one of the Deadpool is where you’d expect him to be: using pic’s more enjoyable episodes. his new powers to slice and dice much big- There’s action aplenty, but Deadpool 2 doesn’t ger opponents, taking out gangs of bad guys bog down in it as many overcooked comic- and getting jobs through the divey bar Sister book sequels do. With Reynolds’ charismatic Margaret’s. Wade still lives with girlfriend irreverence at its core, the film moves from Vanessa (Morena Baccarin); they’re talking bloody mayhem to lewd comedy and back flu- about having kids. idly and with panache. If sequels built on Before long, a shocking attack has brought the backs of X-whatever mutants are going to Deadpool so low that he’s ready to follow Logan thrive into the future, this installment needs into the Marvel-hero hereafter. Colossus to convince its loner protagonist that a family (the CG metal hulk voiced by Stefan Kapicic) of trusted partners isn’t something to fear. : COURTESY OF TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX. GLOVER: MICHAEL TRAN/FILMMAGIC. D’ELI wants to cure Deadpool of killing people and And after one surprisingly moving version

make him an X-Man. But on their first outing, of A-ha’s “Take on Me,” it manages just that. DEADPOOL Deadpool gets into trouble trying to rescue an emotionally disturbed young mutant, Russell OPENS Friday, May 18 (20th Century Fox) CAST Ryan Reynolds, Josh Brolin, Morena Baccarin, (Julian Dennison, of Hunt for the Wilderpeople), Zazie Beetz, Julian Dennison, Karan Soni, T.J. Miller Reynolds is back for a second installment that finds Deadpool who calls himself Firefist for reasons that will DIRECTOR David Leitch fighting of a new villain with a motley crew of mutant sidekicks. be self-evident. Rated R, 119 minutes : COURTESY OF CANNES FILM FESTIVAL. ANGEL , COLD

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 64 MAY 16, 2018 THR’S SOCIAL CLIMBERS A ranking of the week’s top actors, comedians and personalities based on social media engagement across Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and more

This Last This Last Week Week Actors Week Week Comedians 1 ↑ I 8 I Roseanne Barr 1 ↑ I - I Donald Glover Glover’s 1,426 percent leap in Twitter mentions stems 2 ↑ I 9 I Chris D’Elia not just from his May 5 D’Elia, who debuted debut hosting gig on SNL on the chart at No. 9 last — he also released the song week, jumped another “This Is America” under his 77 percent in Twitter likes moniker Childish Gambino, to 970,000. The comedian with its much-discussed got into a Twitter spat with music video arriving during online personality Logan the SNL broadcast. Paul beginning May 1 that continued into the latest chart-tracking week. 2 ↑ I 8 I Zendaya MFA PROGRAMS IN THEATRE 3 ↑ I 11 I Ryan Reynolds 3 ←→ I 3 I D.L. Hughley

4 ↑ I 17 I Mark Hamill 4 ↑ I 6 I Tommy Chong ACTING, DIRECTING, DRAMATURGY, PLAYWRITING,

5 ↑ I 15 I Robert Downey Jr. 5 ↓ I 2 I Kevin Hart STAGE MANAGEMENT, THEATRE MANAGEMENT & PRODUCING

6 ↑ I 16 I Roseanne Barr 6 ↑ I - I Ricky Gervais Offering joint JD/MFA with Columbia Law School. Actors’ Equity 7 ↓ I 3 I Cole Sprouse 7 ↑ I - I Colleen Ballinger membership eligibility for all third-year Acting students and two Stage Management students per year. 8 ↓ I 4 I Priyanka Chopra 8 ↑ I - I Mike Epps

9 ↓ I 6 I Lin-Manuel Miranda 9 ↑ I - I Bill Maher VISIT ARTS.COLUMBIA.EDU/THR-MFA FOR MORE INFORMATION. 10 ↓ I 1 I Will Smith 10 ↑ I - I Kathy Grifin

11 ↑ I - I Alyssa Milano This Last Week Week TV Personalities 12 ↑ I - I Tia Mowry 1 ↑ I 2 I Jimmy Fallon TRAIN AT 13 ↓ I 12 I Tommy Chong 2 ↑ I 3 I Steve Harvey 14 ↓ I 2 I Dwayne Johnson THE OLD GLOBE 3 ↓ I 1 I Mike Huckabee 15 ↓ I 9 I Eugenio Derbez 4 ↑ I 5 I Jake Tapper www.GraduateActing.com 16 ↑ I 21 I Gal Gadot 5 ↑ I 8 I 17 ↓ I 5 I Kevin Hart 6 ↑ I 10 I Bill Maher 18 ↑ I - I Zooey Deschanel 7 ↓ I 4 I Jimmy Kimmel 19 ←→ I 19 I Ricky Gervais 8 ↑ I 9 I Stephen Colbert 20 ↑ I - I Madelaine Petsch 9 ↑ I - I W. Kamau Bell 21 ↓ I 20 I Chris Pratt The host of CNN’s United Shades of America ↑ 22 I - I Chris Evans live-tweeted the show’s May 6 episode, discussing ↑ Jada Pinkett Smith the history and culture 23 I - I of the religion of Sikhism Smith makes her debut and interviewing Sikhs living due in large part to 189,000 in America. The come- Facebook likes and 75,000 dian scored 227,888 Twitter shares as she posted May 7 likes, up 538 percent. the premiere episode of her new video series, Red Table Talk. It featured husband 10 ↑ I - I Joanna Gaines Will Smith’s ex-wife Sheree Fletcher and discussed co-parenting. Data Compiled By

↑ Source: The week’s most active and talked-about entertainers on 24 I - I Lili Reinhart leading social networking sites Facebook, Google Plus, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube for the week ending May 8. Rankings are based on a formula blending weekly additions of fans as well as cumulative 25 ↑ I - I Seth MacFarlane weekly reactions and conversations, as tracked by MVP Index. THE OLD GLOBE & UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO SHILEY GRADUATE THEATRE PROGRAM FULL-TUITION FELLOWSHIPS AND STIPENDS

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Top 25 Schools for an Acting Degree MFA programs ranked by Hollywood alums, instructors, influencers and pros throughout the industry By Seth Abramovitch

here are a lot of new deans and directors on drama school the school this year). Yale has out superstars for 50 years, T campuses this year (including one with a role in Ocean’s 8). always attracted the very best from Robin Williams to Viola Davis As a new generation of instructors takes over MFA pro- teachers — and the very best to Jessica Chastain. grams across the country, new courses are also being introduced to young talent, which is why it train the next generation of actors in innovative ways (one university once again tops this list. NYU TISCH SCHOOL recently brought in Anna Faris to teach podcasting; another added 3 OF THE ARTS a class where students act opposite an artificial intelligence machine). JUILLIARD NEW YORK To keep tabs on the latest dramas at the best programs, THR has 2 NEW YORK Unlike NYU’s sprawling under- again consulted with academics, industry professionals, alumni and There’s a new drama grad program, the MFA track other experts for its ranking of the top 25 schools that take acting to a queen on campus — longtime accepts just 16 students a year. A higher degree. Yale professor and Obie-winning full half-semester curriculum stage director Evan Yionoulis is now dedicated to working YALE (both class of 2012). You’ve takes over the program in July — with NYU’s legendary graduate 1 NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT probably also heard of some of the but the mission remains the film program. The downside: If you saw Black Panther school’s more seasoned alums, same: to be the premier acting Tuition is a hefty $60,000 a year, — and a good chunk of the world including Meryl Streep, Sigourney school in the nation (or at least and that doesn’t include the did — then you’re familiar with Weaver, Angela Bassett and south of New Haven). The MFA cost of living in New York. Still, the work of two recent grads: Frances McDormand (who picked program is only 6 years old, it may be worth it: Two very Lupita Nyong’o and Winston Duke up yet another acting Oscar for but Juilliard has been churning recent grads — Jin Ha (class of

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THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 66 MAY 16, 2018 ’16) and Carvens Lissaint Recent graduate Myles Bullock festival. The Big Bang Theory star (’17) — already have appeared (class of ’17) has appeared Jim Parsons, currently starring in Hamilton. on CBS’ S.W.A.T., while Benjamin in a Broadway revival of The Boys Curns (also ’17) guest-starred in the Band, is an alumnus. @RUTGERS UC SAN DIEGO on Quantico. 4 SAN DIEGO COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PROFESSIONAL CONSERVATORY TRAINING It’s a big year for actor UCLA 12 NEW YORK Richard Robichaux. Not only 8 LOS ANGELES Applications have does he take over as head of the UCLA offers a course doubled since last year, when this acting program in the fall, but he in which students act with an Ivy League school was dead last also has a part this summer in artificial intelligence machine on THR’s list; so has financial aid. Ocean’s 8. Thanks to its association (for when Skynet takes over A new theater, built by Academy with the La Jolla Playhouse — Broadway). The more traditional- Museum designer Renzo Piano, where scores of Tony-winning minded can take a class in opened in September, continuing hits have been born — this school Ancient Greek Choral Speaking, Columbia’s expansion into continues to produce super- land a part in one of the presti- North Harlem. And the emphasis successful alumni, like recent grad gious film school’s productions or of the program has shifted more Angela Reed, who’s starring in learn to sew from designer in from theory to practice. Things Harry Potter and the Cursed Child residence Mark Bridges (Phantom are looking up. on Broadway. Thread). Mariska Hargitay and George Takei are alumni. USC SCHOOL OF ROYAL ACADEMY 13 DRAMATIC ARTS 5 OF DRAMATIC ART LONDON ACADEMY OF LOS ANGELES LONDON 9 MUSIC & DRAMATIC ART This nimble program located in A scone’s throw from the LONDON the heart of the entertainment University of London, this iconic In England, an acting school industry is always evolving. Last conservatory has produced some doesn’t achieve “institution” year, Anna Faris taught a pod- of the most legendary actors status until well into its second cast class. Joining the faculty in of all time, including John Gielgud, century — and LAMDA, the 2017 was Scandal’s Kate Burton, Peter O’Toole, Anthony Hopkins oldest school in the U.K., turns who teaches acting. The school’s and Ian Holm. Four of this year’s 157 this year. Unlike its U.S. ties to George Lucas (who donated Tony nominees — Mark Rylance, counterparts, LAMDA’s students $175 million for an expansion in Jamie Parker, Glenda Jackson and (who include such stars as 2006) lead to visits from the likes Diana Rigg — are grads. Benedict Cumberbatch to Chiwetel of Mark Hamill, who recently Ejiofor) earn their degrees in just popped by to share some Jedi mind BROWN UNIVERSITY two years. tricks for actors. 6 PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND Angela Brazil, a long- THE NATIONAL GUILDHALL SCHOOL time actor and director with 10 INSTITUTE OF 14 OF MUSIC & DRAMA the school’s Trinity Repertory DRAMATIC ART LONDON Company, recently took over as KENSINGTON, AUSTRALIA Although not quite as prestigious director of this program, which The renowned acting school as RADA or LAMDA, it’s the U.K.’s accepts 14 to 16 actors per class Down Under has produced scads biggest, most diverse acting and splits each of its three years of global superstars — Cate school, with 900 students from 70 into different themes: realism, Blanchett, Toni Collette — and countries. Among the Brits who’ve verse and style. Best of all, Brown students regularly land roles passed through its Barbican recently became the only Ivy in visiting Hollywood produc- Center-adjacent campus: Daniel League drama school to offer full tions. Last year, alumna Craig, Jude Law, Orlando Bloom, tuition for the acting and direct- Judy Davis directed students Ewan McGregor, Lily James and ing MFA programs. in a play, and George Miller Damian Lewis. ACTING and Margot Robbie stopped by to Yearlong residency for actors at UNIVERSITY OF advise students. CALARTS Shakespeare’s Globe in London 7 NORTH CAROLINA 15 VALENCIA, CALIFORNIA CHAPEL HILL THE OLD GLOBE “It’s controversial, ACTING AUDITIONS: Its affiliation with PlayMakers Rep, 11 AND UNIVERSITY OF always has been,” says a veteran New York City; Chicago; a professional theater in resi- SAN DIEGO acting teacher of this pro- Los Angeles; New Brunswick, NJ dence consistently named among SAN DIEGO gram, which leans into the more the country’s best regional stages Just seven students are chosen experimental end of the drama (actor/folk music great Loudon each year (their tuition is covered) school spectrum. But a disrupter Wainwright III and Orange Is the New and are immersed in a compre- education might be just what the Black’s Annie Golden are com- hensive acting curriculum, which profession calls for when com- pany members) make this program is then put to practical use in panies like Netflix are upending an attractive one for students multiple productions; students conventions. Plus, Saturday 40 MINUTES FROM NEW YORK CITY hoping to enter the workforce with also have the opportunity to Night Live’s Cecily Strong and a guaranteed Actors’ Equity card. perform at a summer Shakespeare GLOW’s Alison Brie both attended.

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THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 67 MAY 16, 2018 Backlot annual living stipend and expe- grads include Beth Malone (who’s include Elizabeth Banks, Drama rience at the Cleveland Play joining the cast of Angels in Annette Bening, Benjamin Bratt Schools House. Mad Men’s Rich Sommer America on Broadway) and Quinn and Denzel Washington. is an alumnus. VanAntwerp (also on Broadway in The Play That Goes Wrong). RUTGERS UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN 23 NEW BRUNSWICK, NEW JERSEY 16 TENNESSEE 19 METHODIST SAVANNAH COLLEGE Yes, it’s in New Jersey KNOXVILLE UNIVERSITY 21 OF ART AND DESIGN — there’s nothing anybody can Jed Diamond, an experienced DALLAS SAVANNAH, GEORGIA do about that — but a perfor- New York stage actor, has put this The late, great James Houghton At the only school on this list mance center is being built in New program on the map. The entire — former director of Juilliard’s with its own in-house casting Brunswick that will open up two class of eight students gets a free drama division who died of office — which comes in handy theater spaces in 2019. In 2020, three-year education and roles stomach cancer in 2016 at age for Hollywood productions the school will add a BFA in musi- at the Clarence Brown Theatre. 57 — earned his MFA here. shooting in Georgia — many cal theater to its roster of degrees. Recent grads include Tramell The three-year program is affili- students start collecting IMDb Some recent grads: Mike Colter Tillman, who just landed a part in ated with the Tony-winning credits even before graduat- (star of Netflix’s Luke Cage series) AMC’s upcoming Dietland. Dallas Theater Center. ing. Alumni include DeRon Horton and Sebastian Stan (Avengers: and Briana Weiss. Infinity War). UNIVERSITY UC IRVINE 17 OF WASHINGTON 20 IRVINE, CALIFORNIA AMERICAN DEPAUL UNIVERSITY SEATTLE This conservatory-style 22 CONSERVATORY 24 CHICAGO The most illustrious actor incu- program, just an hour’s drive THEATER Located in the heart of bator in the Pacific Northwest from L.A., puts plenty of emphasis SAN FRANCISCO Chicago’s theater scene, DePaul has an impressive track record on on on-camera acting. Recent This 53-year-old Bay Area school picks 10 students a year for annual the national stage: Joel McHale gets a new dean this sum- scholarships of between $14,000 graduated from the program in mer: Tony-winning stage and $17,000. Recent grads 2000. The following year, so director Pam MacKinnon include Westworld’s Olga Aguilar. did Ron Simons — who went on takes over from Carey to win three Tonys. Perlof, who stepped down FLORIDA STATE after 25 years on the 25 UNIVERSITY CASE WESTERN job. But MacKinnon is SARASOTA 18 RESERVE UNIVERSITY unlikely to change what’s A three-year program offering CLEVELAND been a winning formula a reasonably solid acting founda- Getting into Case Western is a of basic training by a tion, a full-ride scholarship and little like hitting the acting school strong faculty of working- a professional work environment lottery. If you’re one of the eight artist teachers (this year, at the Asolo Repertory Theatre. accepted students out of 800 voice coach extraordi- Oscar-winning Moonlight direc- applicants, you get a full three- naire Christine Adaire tor Barry Jenkins graduated year tuition waiver, a generous joins the faculty). Alumni in 2003. . GAD: KARWAI TANG/WIREIMAGE.

… AND 5 TOP UNDERGRAD PROGRAMS Just beginning an acting career? The best schools for a bachelor’s degree

CARNEGIE MELLON JUILLIARD NYU UNIVERSITY OF UC SAN DIEGO UNIVERSITY The undergrad program Consistently tops Playbill’s NORTH CAROLINA This B.A. program’s afilia- Josh Gad and Megan Hilty predates the master track list of schools represented Top-tier education that tion with La Jolla trained at this Pittsburgh by 44 years — and remains on Broadway (43 former produced Mary-Louise Playhouse and flexibility institution. Class of 2012’s among the world’s best. students in 2017). Crazy Parker, Kristin Chenoweth (students can take liberal Grey Henson stars in Mean Grads Oscar Isaac and Ex-Girlfriend’s Rachel and Broadway director arts classes, too) make Girls on Broadway. Gad Adam Driver felt its Force. Bloom graduated in 2009. Joe Mantello. Parker for an attractive option. PARKER: DIMITRIOS KAMBOURIS/GETTY IMAGES FOUNDATION FOR LYNCH DAVID PROMOTION

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↑ A SERIES OF n the 56 years since Carol Burnett landed her first UNFORTUNATE EVENTS I Peabody Award in 1962, the legendary comedian has Netflix won just about every other honor possible, including AMERICAN VANDAL a handful of Emmys and a Grammy. So, having exhausted Netflix the pool, it is fitting that Burnett, 85, is the first recipi- BETTER CALL SAUL ent of the Peabody Career Achievement Award, which will AMC ↑ Burnett dominated television from 1967 through 1978 with The Carol Burnett be handed out at the May 19 awards ceremony (hosted by Show, which nabbed 25 Emmys (she personally has won six). HASAN MINHAJ: HOMECOMING KING comedian Hasan Minhaj, also a winner this year) in New Netflix York. Burnett, who revisited her most iconic hit with CBS’ 9 because they don’t censor themselves at that age. They INSECURE HBO The Carol Burnett 5 th Anniversary Special in December come up with such ideas — they’re so smart! LAST WEEK TONIGHT and debuted her new Netflix series, A Little Help With Carol WITH JOHN OLIVER Burnett, on May 4, spoke with THR about the tiny stars of You just had a birthday April 26, which has a bittersweet HBO her new show, her friendship with Lucille Ball and the fun- memory attached to it since it’s also the date your friend SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE niest people she’s ever met. Lucille Ball died in 1989. What was your friendship like? NBC She called me “kid.” Every year she’d say, “Happy THE HANDMAID’S TALE How does it feel to have received a Peabody at the Peabody birthday, kid.” She never gave me advice, but I Hulu Awards beginning of your career and now? watched how she handled herself and handled THE MARVELOUS MRS. MAISEL When I got the first one, I was gobsmacked. Now, it’s May 19 everybody. She gave me a baby shower for my sec- Cipriani Amazon amazing to be the first one to get this one. I don’t Wall Street ond baby. It was a black-tie affair, and the men mean to brag, but it’s quite an honor. were invited. She was married to Gary Morton, who was the emcee. He opened the baby gifts and did a mono- The Carol Burnett Show celebrated its 50th anniversary in logue about each one. When the party broke up, the men 2017, but the primetime variety show, once a network staple, said: “Wow, you girls … these baby showers are so fun!” has pretty much disappeared. You couldn’t do [now] what we did back then. We did Who is the funniest person you’ve known? a mini Broadway musical comedy revue — 65 costumes Tim Conway and Robin Williams — they’re totally different. a week. Today, you would only see that on Broadway. And And there are women today that make me laugh: Kristen DOCUMENTARY CBS left us alone. If I were doing this today, they’d never Wiig, Amy Poehler, Tina Fey, Jane Lynch, Maya Rudolph. It’s WINNERS let me hire [actress] Vicki so wonderful to see so many women now being funny and ↑ AMERICA Lawrence REFRAMED: DEEJ . She was 18, right being accepted. World Channel out of high school, never CHASING CORAL had any professional expe- Many stars who are active into their 80s and 90s have lots of Netflix rience. But the network let younger friends. How does that happen? INDIVISIBLE Fuse us take the chance. I just think, “I’ve made another new friend.” It’s just like LAST MEN IN ALEPPO anything, its chemistry. With Amy [Poehler], it was lovely — PBS : © 2017 ROOY MEDIA AND JAMES. LLC DAVID One old Hollywood adage same with Jane Lynch and Maya. I haven’t really met Kristen DEEJ MAYA ANGELOU: is never to work with kids Wiig, but I’m sure we could get along. AND STILL I RISE or animals, but your new PBS Netflix show features a cast Not many people are taking on new jobs in their 80s. What NEWTOWN PBS

of young kids. How did that keeps you working? OKLAHOMA CITY : EIKE SCHROTER/NETFLIX. come about? It doesn’t feel like work. If it did, I don’t think I’d want to do PBS ↑ From left: Burnett, Ball and Mary Jane Croft on The Lucy Show in 1966. My friend and manager it. I still go on the road and do my one-woman Q&A show. THE ISLAND AND UNFORTUNATE said, “You remember those And I enjoy that because I never know what anyone is going THE WHALES PBS kids shows? Maybe we should do something like that; to ask — it keeps the old gray matter ticking. You have to be TIME: THE KALIEF would you be comfortable with that?” I said, “Let’s go for on your toes. It’s not like I’m sitting at a desk from 9 to 5. I BROWDER STORY it.” There’s a panel of five kids, and they range from 5 to think keeping busy is the thing. Spike TV

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History and Hollywood conspired to make Hedy Lamarr’s life a bit too interesting. She was born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler to Viennese Jewish par- ents in 1913. She became internationally famous as the nude actress in the 1933 Czech film Ecstasy and wed the third-richest man in Austria, a fas- cist arms maker 30 years her senior (Mussolini once came to dinner). She eventually fled her husband and sailed from England to America on a ship with MGM’s Louis B. Mayer, who gave her a seven-year, $500-a-week contract ($8,600 today) along with a new glam name and the title the Most Beautiful Woman in the World. Within a year of arriving in Culver City — and still just 24 — Lamarr made Algiers in 1938 with Charles Boyer. THR said “she had more sex, more rare beauty than the screen has seen for many days” and predicted she was “destined to reach great heights if given the proper material.” That didn’t happen, but other successes did. Most curious is that she and composer George Antheil pat- ented a device that made radio frequencies jump around — technology used today in GPS and Wi-Fi. “Unfortunately, she didn’t make a dime off it,” says Alexandra Dean, director of Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story, which airs May 18 on PBS. Lamarr’s last good film was 1949’s Samson and Delilah (“The wine of parting is bitter, Samson,” is one of her lines). She married five more times; sued Mel Brooks for naming the Harvey Korman character in Blazing Saddles Hedley Lamarr (“She did it for the money, she was broke,” says Dean. “And Mel loved her, so he paid her”); and had her last big splash in the press when she was arrested in 1966 for shoplifting $86 in merchandise from May Co. department store (soon to be the Academy museum). She died in 2000 at age 85; her ashes were spread in Austria’s Vienna Woods, per her wishes.  BILL HIGGINS

↑ Lamarr starred in 1941’s Ziegfeld Girl.

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