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Movie Industry

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
11/7/2021

The Academy Museum Ignores Hollywood Labor History

by Andy Lewis

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was originally established to help studios negotiate contracts with the studio unions. Today, the on-set tragedy in New Mexico reminds that film production is an industry and workers make it run. The Academy Museum misses that part of the story.

SOURCE: New York Times
5/12/2020

In Netflix’s ‘Hollywood,’ One Movie Fixes Racism. Hooray!

Ryan Murphy’s revisionist series is laughably self-satisfied and willfully naïve about complex real-world problems. I also kind of enjoyed it.