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THB #426: Let's Give Them Something To Talk About... Or Not

THB #426: Let's Give Them Something To Talk About... Or Not

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Nov 02, 2023
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There’s not a damned thing worth writing about today.

The idea of posting a newsletter with the headline “EXCLUSIVE: They Are Still Negotiating” with no other content struck me… but ha ha…

Cut Plepler out of this shot… mwah ha ha!!!

The trades are re-reporting old news. Casey Bloys said pretty much nothing that we didn’t already know. (Here is The Ankler tickling Bloys’ ivories.)

By the way, since I ran a shot of Julia Louis-Dreyfus, check out here podcast, “Wiser Than Me.” I found it recently and really loved her chats with Jane Fonda and Fran Lebowitz. And I am not a podcast person. Julia’s style is smart and loose and truly interested. And you get to hear her do ads for pooping in a box, which made me laugh to myself.

My friend, Anthony at Deadline, is stretching the English language to try to find a silver lining in a bad set of new tracking for Thanksgiving.

“Wish, if it hits its projection, would rep the biggest original animated opening in the past six years since 2017’s Coco whic…

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