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Weekly Roundup: Muse Interviews & Year-End Reviews

VIVE Katerin has exciting interviews from the 2014 MUSE awards! (Video) Sarah Silverman and HBO partner to bring humor to the “modern midlife crisis.” From A to Z, Women and Hollywood lists women in film 2014, Parts I and II. There’s still time to submit that “family-friendly” script you wrote this year. We’re waiting with bated breath, Nikki Finke! 2014 is almost...

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Weekly Roundup: Dinners, Movies, Podcasts & ‘Wonder Woman’!

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Weekly Roundup: Gia Coppola, ‘Murphy Brown’ & a Media Internship

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