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The SAG Deal Sends a Clear Message About AI and Workers
14Nov By adminNo Comments
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The SAG Deal Sends a Clear Message About AI and Workers

On Monday, the leadership of the Screen Actors Guild–American Federation of Television and Radio Artists held a members-only webinar to discuss the contract the union tentatively agreed upon last week with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. If ratified, the contract will officially end the longest labor strike in the guild’s history.For many in the industry, artificial intelligence was one of the strike's most contentious, fear-inducing components. Over the weekend, SAG released details of its agreed AI terms, an expansive set of protections that require consent and compensation for all actors, regardless of status. With this agreement, SAG has gone substantially further than the Directors Guild of America or the Writers Guild of America, who preceded the group in co...
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Hollywood Actors Strike Ends With a Deal That Will Impact AI and Streaming for Decades
9Nov By adminNo Comments
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Hollywood Actors Strike Ends With a Deal That Will Impact AI and Streaming for Decades

After 118 days on the picket lines, the longest such strike in Hollywood’s history, the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists has reached a deal with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. Both sides were mum about the terms of the deal Wednesday night, but it comes following a long struggle over the use of artificial intelligence on actors’ performances and actors’ demands for residual payments for shows and films that play on streaming services.A committee from SAG, which represents thousands of film and television actors, approved the agreement Wednesday. The strike itself, which has featured pickets outside the offices of Netflix, Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery, and others, will end Thursday morning. It’s expected that the tentative ...
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Matthew Perry Was a Friend to Gen X
30Oct By adminNo Comments
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Matthew Perry Was a Friend to Gen X

As much as his contemporary Kurt Cobain, Matthew Perry was an icon of Generation X. “Friends” was the sitcom that defined us, and Mr. Perry’s Chandler Bing was its defining character. “Hi, I’m Chandler. I make jokes when I’m uncomfortable” was his signature line. When people say things like, “Could this be any more awkward?” it’s a Bingism.Chandler was nearly Perry’s double: a tortured loner for whom cynicism was body armor. To the surprise of no one who read his nightmare addiction memoir, “Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing,” he died prematurely on Saturday, at 54. His life finally ended in his hot tub in Los Angeles, but there were many occasions in which he nearly died from the effects of his addiction to alcohol and drugs. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rig...
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Matthew Perry Deserved Better Than #DiedSuddenly
30Oct By adminNo Comments
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Matthew Perry Deserved Better Than #DiedSuddenly

It didn’t take long for news of actor Matthew Perry’s death to go public. TMZ broke the story so early that paparazzi had already camped out to photograph the Friends star’s grieving parents as they arrived on the scene.The vulturous routines of the celebrity death news complex are, at this point, predictable. Tabloids compete for 911 call recordings, statements from famous friends, autopsy reports, even glimpses of remains; the cause of death, if unclear, is fervently debated. It is a tough business, brazen and disrespectful, but one that looks wholly quaint next to a newer post-death ritual that emerged during the Covid-19 pandemic.In the past few years, anti-vaccine activists have latched onto tragedies by insinuating or flat-out stating that unexpected deaths of all kinds were caused ...
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‘Sorry’ for Being So Blunt
30Oct By adminNo Comments
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‘Sorry’ for Being So Blunt

What a luxury anonymity is. In the Dark Age of cancel culture, the un-self-conscious behavior and unpoliced thoughts of a private citizen are underrated. Yes, the fervent hordes clattering around TikTok and reality TV attest that many still prize celebrity, influence and their attendant financial promise. But fame’s pitfalls, heightened by the eternal internet, also are underrated.Consider Emily Blunt, a movie star who recently prostrated herself after being savaged online for fat-shaming. Her offense? Describing a woman who served her at Chili’s as “enormous.” Ms. Blunt unleashed the epithet more than a decade ago on “The Jonathan Ross Show,” a U.K. television program where she was appearing to flog her latest film. Mr. Ross, who like Ms. Blunt is British, was whooping it up with his gue...
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The Real Reason You (Still) Watch Reality TV
29Oct By adminNo Comments
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The Real Reason You (Still) Watch Reality TV

On day one of shooting season five of Love Is Blind, a junior staffer walked into the control room and told executive producers Chris Coelen and Ally Simpson, who oversee every aspect of the popular Netflix dating series, that there was a problem. “There’s two people who know each other and appear to have had a relationship of some sort,” the staffer said to them. In the show’s short but relatively iconic run, this was a first.Coelen and Simpson’s initial instinct was to send the participants home. “We said, look, the essence of the experiment is that you get to know someone without knowing anything about them in the material world,” Coelen told them. “We don’t know how we can keep you here.” The show, which attempts to pair 30 men and women together over the course of seven weeks, testin...
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The Animated TV Show You Never See
28Sep By adminNo Comments
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The Animated TV Show You Never See

Animated comedies told from a Black perspective have an uncomfortable relationship with TV. The Boondocks relied on sharp observational humor as proof of its genius. The PJs portrayed The Black Struggle as a clownish depiction of daily life in a housing project. A character like Tolkien Black on South Park (first introduced into the series as Token Black) was only useful as a prop. Black animated comedies, and thus Black characters, have had to rely on the pageantry of identity to win over audiences: the subtext of their stories is always the overperformance of race.There’s nothing wrong with that. The predicament of being Black in America is a cycle of repeated ironies. You are hypervisible and erased at the same time, a reality based in the surreal. Some days it can feel like you’re a c...
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9 Best Projectors (2023): Short Throw, Portable, Low Latency
16Sep By adminNo Comments
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9 Best Projectors (2023): Short Throw, Portable, Low Latency

Projectors offer larger screen sizes and a more cinematic viewing experience than their TV counterparts, but that doesn't mean they're easier to set up. That's why we have an entire guide to How to Buy a Projector to check out!Unless you're going for a portable option, you'll want to make sure you have a projector mount ($24) and audio cables properly routed to the location of your projector. This is because setting up full-size projectors to fit your screen, be in focus, etc., can be a pain, so once you get everything dialed in, you'll want to leave it as-is.Make sure you get enough lumens (how bright your projector will get at its peak, the higher the number the better). Over 2,000 lumens is a good starting space for any kind of lit viewing, but we recommend 3000 or above if you're view...
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