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Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex attend the WellChild awards pre-Ceremony reception at Royal Lancaster Hotel on October 15, 2019 in London, England. Last week she called her time in the royal family "challenging."

Column: What ‘The Crown’ can teach us about Meghan Markle’s tabloid war

October 22, 2019 at 9:21 a.m.

Here's what I want to know: What does Olivia Colman think of Meghan Markle? Everyone else on the planet has certainly weighed in. Last week, when British network ITV released...

Commentary: Streaming TV sparked a creative revolution. Now it’s at risk of losing its edge

October 13, 2019 at 8:01 a.m.

Time flies when you're upending an industry, destroying a business model and drowning an unsuspecting populace in content. It may feel as if streaming has been with us forever, but...

Commentary: The surprising wisdom of ‘The Real Bros of Simi Valley’

October 10, 2019 at 12:44 p.m.

There are cars in the auto service garage on Moorpark Boulevard in Studio City, and a young man appears to be attaching hubcaps to the wheels of one of them....

From left, "Today" anchors Craig Melville and Sheinelle Jones interview New York Times reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey and actress Ashley Judd.

‘She Said’ is more important than ‘All the President’s Men’

September 18, 2019 at 1:11 p.m.

An avalanche almost always begins with a trickle of dirt or a few bouncing pebbles, and then the world caves in. So it was for Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey,...

Sometimes you have to cut your losses from the YouTube celebrity wormholes.

Column: What I learned from 5 days of binge-watching YouTube

September 17, 2019 at 3:23 p.m.

Sometimes you just have to cut your losses and get out. This was one of those times. After five full days spent falling through the wormholes of YouTube, I finally...

Who can forget the sight of Rhoda running through the streets of the Bronx in her wedding gown after her ride with flaky Phyllis fell through? Not the 50 million-plus Americans who tuned in to watch Rhoda and Joe wed -- making the special episode one of the most-watched television events of the 1970s.

Appreciation: Valerie Harper and the timeless cool of Rhoda Morgenstern

September 1, 2019 at 10:20 a.m.

In 2013, I wrote an appreciation for Valerie Harper. She had been diagnosed with brain cancer and told she had only a few months to live. I was a television...

Noah Schnapp, from left, Finn Wolfhard, Gaten Matarazzo and Caleb Mclaughlin in a scene from "Stranger Things."

Middle school is the new high school. Catch up, pop culture

August 22, 2019 at 2:07 p.m.

It might have been the full-page dress code or the Instagram photos of the already decorated lockers or all the sleek new haircuts framing expressions of careful ennui as they...

Commentary: Netflix is having a long, cruel summer

July 24, 2019 at 10:01 a.m.

Netflix is having a no good, very bad summer, and the ambient glee is palpable. The third season of "Stranger Things" may have arrived to such record-breaking viewership that the...

'Toy Story 2' casting-couch outtake is not so funny. So Disney deleted it.

Why didn’t Disney just explain why it cut the sexist ‘Toy Story 2’ blooper?

July 6, 2019 at 8:25 a.m.

Disney is not a company known for explaining itself, but why on earth it would do a good thing in a way that makes it look shady really is beyond...

The stage prior to the first Democratic primary debate of the 2020 presidential campaign season on Wednesday in Miami, Florida.

Commentary: The first Democratic debate won’t break ratings records. And that’s OK

June 26, 2019 at 9:54 a.m.

It's safe to say that no one will call anyone a "moron" or a "pathological liar" at the first Democratic debates. No one will insult anyone's parents or use derogatory...

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