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After years of work on this, it's here. "Would the courts cast Carrington as an imperfect victim who did not have the support or wherewithal to argue his case, or as a scammer trying to take advantage of a social movement for his own gain?"
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www.theguardian.com A Hollywood ‘heir’ made horrific abuse claims against four industry titans. How did he end up in... Rovier Carrington thought his cases against MTV and Paramount executives should have been the biggest of the #MeToo era. Instead, they raised unsettling questions about victimhood About 15 years ago, I made a supercut exploring how horror movies get around the ubiquity of cell phones (which could make their predicaments a lot more solvable). No signal, dead battery, broken phone, etc. Well, today it's still happening:
nytimes.com/2024/07/24/mov…
nytimes.com/2024/07/24/mov…
www.nytimes.com A Smartphone Can’t Help You Now: How Horror Movies Solve Their Cell Problem (Published 2024) When one quick call can eliminate danger and undermine screams, filmmakers have to figure out a workaround. Sometimes it can even deepen a story. 
Jane Kamensky's great big biography of Candida Royalle is out today. Here's why I think you should read it:
nytimes.com/2024/03/12/boo…
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www.nytimes.com A Biography of a Feminist Porn Pioneer Bares All (Published 2024) In “Candida Royalle and the Sexual Revolution,” the historian Jane Kamensky presents a raw personal — and cultural — history.