In a Trumpian Hollywood, men honored for playing tortured geniuses, women for playing sex workers
The stars of 'Oppenheimer,' 'The Brutalist,' 'Anora' and 'Poor Things' deserve their accolades, but there's a disturbing pattern here
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Some people are outraged that a new exhibit portrays Hollywood's Jewish founders as sometimes behaving badly — which, in fact, they did
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Fast Forward LA’s Academy Museum to revise exhibit on Jewish founders after criticism from Jewish Hollywood figures
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