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Variety is really mixing it up this week with the Meghan Markle\/Netflix story<\/a>. It\u2019s worth a read because the headlines are \u201cTed Sarandos won\u2019t speak to Meghan without a lawyer present\u201d but the details are much more interesting than the clickbait. The claims \u2013 that the Sussexes rely too much on their royal exit story, they talk the talk but don\u2019t produce tangibles, they play multiple sides when doling out exclusives and executives have really cooled on working with them \u2013 well, it fits with what has been reported about them over the last couple of years. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n It is aligned with the Vanity Fair and The Hollywood Reporter stories. As a production company, Archewell now has a reputation for being unfocused and unproductive. The output just isn\u2019t there. Some of the claims are also swatted down as \u201ccategorically untrue\u201d by Netflix and the Sussexes push back on it as a continued negative narrative directed at Meghan.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Variety ran a piece on Jake Shane\u2019s red carpet reporting for Vanity Fair and this is media-on-media inside baseball<\/a>. There is a valid discussion about how influencers and gimmicky interview set-ups have eroded entertainment media and detracts from really good red carpet reporters\u2026 but I do think there\u2019s also a pile-on happening with Jake Shane. Variety benefits from it because their red carpet reporter has had a few issues over the last few months as well.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0Jeans and a grey sweater and still cooler than most magazine covers.\u00a0<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n There\u2019s a lot of joking about the Bozos and how they looked on the red carpet, people gleefully predicting a divorce. I don\u2019t think they are getting a divorce, I just think they are rotten and ugly on the inside and that seeps through their physical being. How does she make John Galliano look like Temu.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Emma Stone is the unofficial seatmate of Oscar winning families. I like this role for her, she is great for it \u2013 enthusiastic without pulling focus.<\/p>\n Imagine being Viola Davis daughter and Michael B Jordan\u2019s mama\u2026 Only Emma Stone can relate #Oscars<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/UXN3bvN6Ec<\/a><\/p>\n\n