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[Richard S.-Lyons 🪶✍🏼🕎 @Native_Xyz]

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[The Playlist @ThePlaylistNews]

Kane Parsons Says Talk Of A ‘Backrooms’ Sequel Is A “Hallucination,” Isn’t Interested In Legacy IP & Wants To Stick To “Original Projects” https://t.co/5sj7zjzG5e

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

Two fans involved in a selfie-seeking incident during Game 1 of the NBA finals received lifetime bans from all NBA arenas

https://t.co/u7Xf5AQhfk

[Rock History Live! @KTrain939913]

Random Song of the Day

Seek and Destroy
Metallica
live -1983

[Rock Photography @Photomusicrock]

Metallica’s Kirk Hammett pays tribute to Japanese tribute artist, Kazuaki "Kirz" Kanetoyo, who passed away at age 52 after a battle with cancer.

[🎸 Rock History 🎸 @historyrock_]

It's amazing how Metallica sounds just as fresh today, 40 years later.

Time flies, but not for them!!

[Punt Road @punt_rd]

….And Metallica For All!!!

[Cindy Begel @CindyBegel]

#newbies NBC has opened submissions on its TV writing program. No application fee. You need 2 original pilots of the same basic type, a resume, & 2 personal essays of 400 words apiece. They accept submissions until June 21. Check out NBCU's many programs!
https://t.co/bf7O96ybjr

[The Hollywood Reporter @THR]

Martin Scorsese is teaming up with the artificial intelligence company Black Forest Labs, where he will serve as an advisor with the research lab. https://t.co/BK7AON7yPK

[NYC Indie Filmmaker Sujewa Ekanayake @sujewafantastic]

The New Theory For Indie Films - Indie fiction features can be made for $0 - $200K (to make and release), and be released using a 2 year theatrical run (1 screening a week, 1 city/1 theater at a time), then released on wide VOD, can be promoted worldwide and be made famous.

[New York Magazine @NYMag]

Mindy Kaling’s latest show seems to ask, ‘Would you watch a sitcom about everyone you swipe past on Hinge?’ https://t.co/p8cdKs4Q11

[INEVITABLE/DBLOCK🎙️🥊 @AdrianReyn79551]

🚨𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠: Keyshawn Davis has officially been installed as the WBO #1 contender at welterweight (147 lbs) right behind the reigning champion, Devin Haney.

Despite Davis's past hesitation over paying high sanctioning fees, his team is fully expected to use this mandatory position to push for the Haney title fight.

[Cindy Begel @CindyBegel]

I never went to ANY of my graduations. So I was thrilled to be invited to lead the commencement procession w/my alumni class. In full regalia! College officials loved how my TV career turned out & asked me to speak to Media students.@Jon_Favreau & @JasonKatims also alum! @QC_News

[Neal Edelstein @NealEdelstein]

An executive at a major studio once told me, “horror does not work, it’s just a short term play when politics are bad in the country.” This was late 90’s. Proving what I learned very quickly, the people in positions of making decisions in hollywood mostly, have no fucking idea what they are doing. The Ring was rejected by 27 of 29 buyers and Dreamworks initially passed on it. The longer story for another day…

https://t.co/hFVJnZfigy

[Ember Spotted Elk @SpottedElk7]

They were never for sale! Keep your blood money, we want Unci Maka (Grandmother Earth) back.
#FtLaramieTreatyof1886
#LandBack

[New York Magazine @NYMag]

“The human costs of Louisiana v. Callais are both overwhelming and underrated,” writes Zak Cheney-Rice. As a legal precedent, the Supreme Court decision allows legislatures to redraw their congressional districts to ensure that few, or none, have more Black voters than white. In the South, where Black people make up the Democratic base, this has allowed a power grab by the GOP: Louisiana and Tennessee have already redrawn maps to rid Congress of two majority-Black districts.

“But there’s something perverse about boiling down Callais to crude partisan strategizing,” continues Cheney-Rice. “Its implications are more personal: The soldiers and heirs of the civil-rights movement — many of them elderly and ailing — are seeing their life’s work dismantled.”

For 88-year-old Dr. Press Robinson Sr., who was a plaintiff in the case that led to Louisiana v. Callais, Callais is a national indictment, proof that “racism in this country is alive and well.”

The Voting Rights Act was wildly effective in transforming the politics of the South and creating opportunities for Black voters. Now, instead of vigilant stewardship of the movement’s gains, what Americans got was decades of a convenient, and often cynical, presumption of victory from across the political spectrum. This confidence that the fight was already won allowed the movement’s enemies to undermine its successes. The result is that the movement’s heroes are now dying and getting buried alongside their accomplishments.

Read Cheney-Rice’s full report on the consequences of Callais: https://t.co/ON3u3wA6jN

[Denise Cruz-Castino @cruzwriter]

Off Campus which was an amazing show, is from a female author, directed by all women, and staff writers are mostly women. 96% on Rotten Tomatoes, 3rd most watched debut series on Amazon Prime Video, with 36 million viewers in 12 days.

Guess we need more female storytellers!

[Hollywood Script Reader @HwoodScrptReadr]

You want to write a great first page? Give us a mystery. At least one, maybe more. Create a need to know in the mind of the reader. Compel us to keep reading like there's an itch we need to scratch. "Who's behind the mask?" "What's in the box?" "When is this taking place?" "Where are they?" "Why are they doing that?" "How did they get there?" It's like the six elements of journalism: who, what, when, where, why, and how. Read p. 1 of any script you like and chances are you'll find a dramatic question just like one of these.

[ABC7 Eyewitness News @ABC7]

The parents of 26-year-old OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji, who was found dead in his San Francisco home a month after he went public accusing the company of breaking laws to train ChatGPT, are intensifying their efforts to challenge the official ruling of suicide. https://t.co/NauiV65GQi

[Cindy Begel @CindyBegel]

Love to put older writers in my groups! Billie Jean King finished her B.A.(26) in History 60 yrs later."It's never too late to learn, to grow, or to chase the dream that still quietly calls your name. Bec sometimes the most meaningful victories arrive after the longest journeys."

[Dead Wrong History @deadwronghist]

Richard Pryor in 1977: capitalism needs racism to function. Keep people separated by race and they never figure out who the real problem is.