AI Ruined The Fun Of Mega Viral Moments From The Oscars

AI Ruined The Fun Of Mega Viral Moments From The Oscars

Welcome to Rendering, a Deadline column reporting at the intersection of AI and showbiz. Rendering examines how artificial intelligence is disrupting the entertainment industry, taking you inside key battlegrounds and spotlighting change makers wielding the technology for good and ill. Got a story about AI? Rendering wants to hear from you: jkanter@deadline.com. Confession: I didn’t watch the Oscars on Sunday night….

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“Judy Blume: A Life” and the Problem of Biography

“Judy Blume: A Life” and the Problem of Biography

When Blume started writing, the market category of young-adult (as opposed to children’s) literature was defined by politically motivated novels that took up social issues, such as drugs and teen pregnancy—“problem novels,” Oppenheimer calls them, using the terminology of the time. Blume didn’t write “problem novels,” he stresses. He quotes her in an interview, somewhat…

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