In 2015, Donald Trump was to play a tree standing next to the Giving Tree, the Shel Silverstein character who gives and gives of herself until she’s reduced to a stump.
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Susan Morrison,
The New Yorker,
13 Jan. 2025
The two beetles face off in battle, until the first manages to get enough leverage to toss his romantic rival off the stump in a deft display of insect jujitsu.
When the deal was made, SAG-AFTRA claimed the streaming bonus would bring in up to $40 million a year in additional residuals for actors.
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Katie Kilkenny,
The Hollywood Reporter,
30 Jan. 2025
Crudup and Parker lost both copyrights and residuals from their catalogs thanks to industry practices that still target artists today, but Thornton no longer should be seen as a victim, Lauterbach writes.
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