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Two writers this week set their own terms. Hayley Kiyoko wanted her song “Girls Like Girls” turned into a film; when Hollywood dragged its feet, she just wrote the book first, and the movie followed (The New York Times). Judy Blume, 50 years in, has decided she’s said enough and now runs a bookstore instead (NPR).
The movie Obsession has grossed $300 million on a $750,000 budget, yet its art director cleared $6,741 for three weeks’ work (The New York Times). The Atlantic, meanwhile, maps the mountain of music quietly pulled into AI training sets that was never “supposed to be free” (The Atlantic).
With Roku going to Fox, right-leaning owners now sit astride much of what reaches the living-room screen (Salon).
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