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‘The Studio’ creators say guest stars like Ron Howard helped ground the show in reality

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For his episode of “The Studio,” Ron Howard really wanted to do his best. The director of “A Beautiful Mind” — a former child star — was playing himself in Apple TV+’s Hollywood comedy, created by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, about a beleaguered executive portrayed by Rogen. But this Ron Howard was an alternate … Read more

‘The Studio’ lampoons the Hollywood showbiz machine with a deep bench of stars

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“Millions are to be grabbed out here,” Herman J. Mankiewicz wrote Ben Hecht in 1926, “and your only competition is idiots.” Here was Hollywood, in particular the picture business, and Hecht, a former journalist and already the co-author of “The Front Page” and other plays, would take him up on it, writing or co-writing the … Read more