Weekly Journal #18

News

Disney Drops Fox From 20th Century Name (The New York Times)

The Sex Scene Evolves for the #MeToo Era (NYT Magazine)

Hearing On Uber-Agencies’ Motion To Dismiss WGA’s Antitrust Suit Delayed One Week (Deadline)

Netflix Projected to Spend More Than $17 Billion on Content in 2020 (Variety)

Film

Watching Movies in a Theater Can Count as a 'Light Workout,' Study Finds (Complex)

Watch: ‘Goldman v Silverman’, a Short Film From the ‘Uncut Gems’ Team of Adam Sandler and the Safdie Brothers (SlashFilm)

Alex Winter’s Frank Zappa Doc ‘Zappa’ Premieres at South by Southwest (Rolling Stone)

Twin Peaks Creator David Lynch Interrogates a Monkey in Netflix Short Film (Polygon)

Television

Hollywood Bets On a Future of Quick Clips and Tiny Screens (Wired)

HBO's 'Watchmen' to End After Incredible One-Season Run (Mashable)

“Sex Education,” Season 2: The Doctor Is In (The New Yorker)

Critic's Notebook: TV's Fat Women Are No Longer a Joke (The Hollywood Reporter)

Follow Focus: Bess Kalb

Virago picks up Kalb's 'memoir with a difference' (Bookseller)

Bess Kalb, Jimmy Kimmel Live Writer, Is The Best Thing In Donald Trump's Twitter Mentions (The Huffington Post)

Obituaries My Mother Wrote for Me While I Was Living in San Francisco in My Twenties (The New Yorker)

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John Wells