Weekly Journal #9
News
Ronan Farrow Reveals How Black Cube Spies Tracked His Harvey Weinstein Investigation (Hollywood Reporter)
David Matheson Was A Leading Gay-Conversion Therapist. He Is Also Gay. (The California Sunday Magazine)
The People Behind The Memes They Can’t Escape (The California Sunday Magazine)
‘Boys Don’t Cry’ 20 Years Later: For Trans Men, a Divisive Legacy (The New York Times)
Film
‘Dolemite Is My Name’ Befits the Legacies of Both Rudy Ray Moore and Eddie Murphy (Paste Magazine)
Amazon Studios, Once an Indie Haven, Concludes That Films Are Products (IndieWire)
Film and TV Biz Help U.K. Stave Off Recession Fears (Variety)
The Less You Know About ‘Parasite’, the Better (The Atlantic)
Sad Dad Space Movies: A Taxonomy (Vulture)
Television
Jeffrey Katzenberg’s Mobile Start-Up, Quibi, Makes a Deal With ESPN (The New York Times)
Chuck Lorre Comedy About U.S. Veteran & His Afghan Friend From ‘Big Bang’ Duo Gets Big CBS Commitment (Deadline)
Mindy Kaling Says the TV Academy Tried to Strip Her of Producer Credit on ‘The Office’ (LA Times)
‘El Camino’ Explains the Past, Present, and Future of Television (The Ringer)
Follow Focus: Anna Drezen
SNL’s Anna Drezen Comes From a Long Line of Murderous Horse Thieves (Vulture)
Anna Drezen Is The Comic and Former Reductress Editor Obsessed With Murder (Dazed)