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  1. comedy
    Donald Trump Is a Gift, and a Quandary, for Late-Night HostsThe new politicization of TV.
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    Trump Thinks Journalists Should Act Like Publicists and GhostwritersAnd journalists who sully his reputation are failing at their jobs.
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    Hollywood’s Protests Are Getting to TrumpThe inauguration standoff is also a preview of what the creative class will face over the next four years.  
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    The Hamilton-Pence Incident Was More Than Just a DistractionWhat should oppositional entertainment be in the age of Trump?
  5. dialogues
    Is There Even Such a Thing As ‘Oscar Bait’?Two Vulture editors debate whether it’s a helpful designation, or just a way of not seeing a movie.
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    The Indie Movie Market Is Being Badly MishandledVOD is the future of indie movies, so when will distributors give us audience numbers?
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    Lady Gaga Might Be Perfect for A Star Is BornLady Gaga surely knows a thing or two about the rough road that gets you from Esther Blodgett to Vicki Lester.
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    Actresses Over 60 Are the New Box-Office PowerhousesMeryl Streep is no longer an outlier defying conventional wisdom about the box-office viability of an actress north of 50; she’s part of a trend.
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    The Sequels of 2016 Aren’t About Storytelling; They’re Just Brand Extensions I don’t consider “sequel” a slur. But the impetus behind them has changed, and with it, their very nature.
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    Why Was Renewing Carmichael Show a Tough Call?Getting behind an acclaimed, newsmaking show with an all-black cast and decent enough ratings seems like a no-brainer.
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    Why Does Hollywood Keep Disrespecting Melissa McCarthy?There’s no cautionary tale more sobering than a movie star who makes five profitable movies in a row.
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    Can The Academy Really Diversify the Oscars?If the nomination roster next spring, or in 2019, or 2021, looks enough like America not to generate an OscarsSoAnything protest, that will be a victory.
  13. fall preview 2014
    Obsession With an Obsession: The Making of FoxcatcherThe Oscar contender about a du Pont heir’s dangerous fixation on two Olympic wrestlers.
  14. profile
    How Spike Jonze Made the Timely Romance, HerAs with so many love stories, the making of the movie was equal parts turbulence and passion.
  15. movies
    Inside the Making of Zero Dark ThirtyThey had eighteen months to turn the Bin Laden raid into a film.
  16. conversations
    Sorkin on The Newsroom and Sounding SmartThe banter auteur is back on the small screen after a sojourn in Hollywood. And in talking about television, he just can’t contain himself.
  17. TV Is Not TV AnymoreA revolution in how we watch was just the start. Now comes the good stuff.
  18. Fame: a P&LStardom’s changed. So have its benefits. And invoices.
  19. After DVDsThe meaning of Netflix’s stumbling summer.
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    Jonah Hill on Moneyball, Idolizing Joe Pesci, and Being All Grown Up“I’m not living in a frat house with a bong plastered to the table.”
  21. Brad’s PitchWhy an A-list actor was willing to go to bat for Moneyball—an adventure story about sabermetrics.
  22. A Drug Called Charlie SheenThe star of Two and a Half Men is on it, perhaps fatally so. And, for a moment, so were we.
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    Social Network’s Justin Timberlake on His Acting“David, all of a sudden, said, ‘Now scream it at each other!’”
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    The Vulture Transcript: An In-Depth Chat With David Fincher“I felt like it was easy to do the Revenge of the Nerds version of this, but there was something more compelling about doing it this way … “
  25. Inventing FacebookIn Internet wunderkind Mark Zuckerberg, TV wunderkind Aaron Sorkin may have found his perfect subject: the wunderkind genius jerk. But is Th […]
  26. Shorting TinseltownThe failure of the Hollywood Stock Exchange exposed the movie industry’s worst fear: financial transparency.
  27. 4. Plotting Doesn’t Have to be PloddingA complex procedural is made exquisitely simple.
  28. 12. Write the Perfect JokeOr just hire Tina Fey.
  29. 7. Accept the InevitableProduct endorsements aren’t going away, so you better work them.
  30. The Red Carpet CampaignInside the singular hysteria of the Academy Awards race.
  31. Will Somebody Please Save NBC?The beleaguered and tattered Peacock Network deserves better than Jeff Zucker, Jay Leno, and maybe even Comcast.
  32. The Gay Generation GapForty years after Stonewall, the gay movement has never been more united. So why do older gay men and younger ones often seem so far apart?
  33. They Should Live So LongA new website archives the best of a disappearing art: old Jews telling jokes.
  34. Twilight of the TummlersWoody Allen and Larry David have just made a new movie together. Take a good look—you won’t see the likes of them again.
  35. Enter the QueenSusan Sarandon returns to Broadway for a challenge—and isn’t disappointed.
  36. A Wishy-Washy OscarTwo days after Barack Obama’s inauguration came the announcement of this year’s Oscar nominations, and … did Academy voters not get the memo fro […]
  37. Checkout Time at the AsylumBellevue has long been as much metaphor as hospital–the focal point for what we understand, and don’t want to understand, about going insane. So […]