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Bianco filed the formal complaint April 30 in the United States District Court for the Central District of California, also claiming that Manson (whose real name is Brian Warner), along with Ciulla and his management company, broke human trafficking laws in bringing her from London to Los Angeles under the guise that she’d be acting in a music video. The video was never made. When Bianco first made allegations against Manson in February, she told New York Magazine that the abuse took place in 2011 when the two were an item....

Set at an elite academic institution in Massachusetts, “Master” — now streaming on Prime Video after a very well-received premiere at Sundance in January — follows three Black women in different positions of power. From the jump, the specter of institutional racism pervades every scene, whether in not-so-subtle micro-aggressions or dusty racist memorabilia. Much like it must feel for Black people to exist in a racist society, these markers of white supremacy can pop up at any time and any place....

What Monroe may not have been able to anticipate is how that obsession would eventually outlast the mediums that had defined it — that not even the demise of cheap tabloids or the movies themselves would be enough to let her rest in peace. Hard as it was for her to be newspaper copy, Monroe could never have fathomed the absurdity of becoming internet content. It’s one thing for someone to be grist for the rumor mill, and quite another to be the subject of a feature-length Netflix documentary that lightly perfumes their memory across 100 minutes of hot air....

In 2021, the query is growing all the more variable. Acquired staples like “The Office” and “The West Wing” are gone, forcing viewers to replace their perma-loop series, and the pandemic disrupted Netflix’s routine release of many favorite recurring originals. (When will we see “Ozark” Season 4? Not in April!) Netflix itself seems focused on new shows anyway, whether it’s the constant sampling of experimental content (like docuseries that interpret the dictionary or soothing sounds that double as mental health exercises) or the now-regular axe-drop on shows that have hit their third or fourth season....

“Chris Nolan and I went down to Universal City Walk and I projected the IMAX version of ‘Justice League’ for him to watch there. We don’t share notes,” Snyder said. “When I show him the movie, I’m like, ‘Okay, the movie’s done, so just enjoy it.’ He always says it to me, too, like when I saw ‘Tenet.’ The last thing I want to do with Chris, and Chris is a genius, of course, is have my two cents, so it actually is really liberating to be able to just go like, ‘Okay just show me your movie because I want to get my mind blown....

In an appearance on “Good Morning America,” the Oscars telecast producer discussed how LAPD was ready to arrest Will Smith after he slapped Best Documentary presenter Chris Rock onstage. However, Rock didn’t want Smith to be removed, according to the producer. (Sources at Deadline, however, dispute Packer’s version of events and claim that Rock was never asked if he wanted Will Smith to be removed.) When the slap happened, Packer said he thought it was a bit....

“After a few minutes of small talk, the director/producer told me to stand up and twirl for him,” Chopra Jonas writes. “I did. He stared at me long and hard, assessing me, and then suggested that I get a boob job, fix my jaw, and add a little more cushioning to my butt. If I wanted to be an actress, he said, I’d need to have my proportions ‘fixed,’ and he knew a great doctor in [Los Angeles] he could send me to....