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☆ Anthony Bourdain died 5 years ago. Here's 5 ways he helped reshape the food industry.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-10 | by ( Ryan Hogg | Nathan Rennolds | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Anthony Bourdain was a maverick chef who helped change the food industry. Here are five ways Bourdain changed the way many people eat and think about food. Here's how he helped change the restaurant industry and the way we eat. Don't eat fish on a MondayIn "Kitchen Confidential," Bourdain appeared to expose a common money-making ploy in the restaurant business — often at the expense of the customer. It's unclear if his advice affected fish consumption in New York restaurants on Mondays.

Persons: Anthony Bourdain, Bourdain, —, Bourdain's, Barb Stuckey, Barack Obama, Bun, Lien, Jim Watson, Patrick Radden Keefe, Alan Richman, Keefe, Richman, CNN Bourdain, KF Seetoh Organizations: Service, Travel, CNN, Forbes, The Food Institute, GQ, Singaporean hawker Locations: New York, America, Vietnam, Hanoi, New York City, Manila, Singaporean, Singapore

☆ Who is Amy Entelis? CNN exec who lead award-winning documentary unit will take over from Chris Licht
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-07 | by ( Trisha Gopal | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Entelis notably led the network's original series and feature-length documentary unit. Entelis, who joined joined CNN in 2012, revitalized the network's original series and feature-length documentary unit, launching high-profile shows like "Parts Unknown" with Anthony Bourdain and "Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy." Entelis notably lead the charge at CNN Films, the network's longform documentary unit. According to the company's website, Entelis has been responsible for overseeing 45 documentary series and 60 feature length films, earning CNN 100 awards and 445 nominations. Before joining CNN, Entelis spent three decades at ABC, where she managed talent for shows like "20/20," "Good Morning America," "Nightline," and "World News Tonight."

Persons: Chris Licht, Amy Entelis, Entelis, Jeff Zucker, Anthony Bourdain, Stanley Tucci, Alexei Navalny, Licht, David Zaslav, David Leavy, Zaslav's, Virginia Moseley, Eric Sherling, Chris, Zaslav Organizations: CNN, Morning, CNN Worldwide, CNN Films, BAFTA, ABC, Warner Bros, Discovery Locations: Italy

☆ Jeremy Strong ‘terrified’ the ‘Succession’ creator during that last scene
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-06 | by ( Lisa Respers France | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —It was an improvised scene the audience didn’t see, but Jeremy Strong freaked out the “Succession” creator with his performance in the series finale. The creator, Jesse Armstrong, appeared on a recent episode of NPR’s “Fresh Air” and was asked about Strong climbing over the railing at the river as if he may jump in during the improvised final scene of the Emmy-winning HBO series. I was terrified that he might fall in and be injured,” Armstrong said. “I did try and go in the water,” Strong said. Your job is to give the writing heart and a nerve and … all that stuff.”Strong said he “didn’t feel like (Kendall) could come back from what happens to him.”

Persons: Jeremy Strong freaked, Jesse Armstrong, “, ” Armstrong, ”, ” Strong, Kendall Roy, CNN’s Anderson Cooper, Kendall Organizations: CNN, HBO, Warner Bros .

☆ Chuck Todd will depart NBC's 'Meet the Press'; Kristen Welker to become host
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-04 | by ( Daniel Arkin | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

"Meet the Press" host and moderator Chuck Todd announced on Sunday that he will step down this year after nine years hosting the public affairs talk show. "'Meet the Press' has sustained its historic role as the indispensable news program on Sunday mornings," Blumenstein and Budoff Brown said. She is the second woman — following its inaugural host, Martha Rountree — and the first Black journalist to moderate "Meet the Press." Todd — the 12th moderator of "Meet the Press" and a five-time Emmy-winning journalist — saw himself as a custodian of the show. Welker has regularly filled in for Todd on "Meet the Press."

Persons: Chuck Todd, Kristen Welker, It's, Todd, I've, we've, Rebecca Blumenstein, Carrie Budoff Brown, Budoff Brown, Welker, Tim Russert, Martha Rountree —, Barack Obama's, Donald Trump, Kellyanne Conway, Sean Spicer, Conway, Spicer, Trump, Todd —, —, I'm, She's, Joe Biden, David Gregory, Chuck Organizations: NBC News, White House, NBC, Press, America, U.S, Capitol, Trump, GOP, Republican National, MSNBC, White, The, CNBC, Comcast Locations: America, Washington

☆ Padma Lakshmi announces her departure from ‘Top Chef’
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-02 | by ( Megan Thomas | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

After 17 years and 20 seasons, Padma Lakshmi has announced she will step aside as host and judge of the cooking competition series, “Top Chef.”“After much soul searching, I have made the difficult decision to leave Top Chef,” Lakshmi wrote in an Instagram post on Friday. Lakshmi received 13 Emmy nominations for her work on the show. “She will always be part of the Top Chef and the NBCUniversal family and has a seat at the judges’ table anytime.”No replacement for Lakshmi has been named. She described the “Top Chef” cast and crew as family and said she would “miss working alongside them dearly.” Lakshmi concluded her post with a message of gratitude to the show’s viewers. “I am deeply thankful to all of you for so many years of love and support.”

Persons: Padma Lakshmi, ”, ” Lakshmi, “, Lakshmi, Padma Organizations: CNN, New York Times, ”, NBC Universal

☆ For companies, the stakes are high this Pride
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-01 | by ( Danielle Wiener-Bronner | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

New York CNN —Companies have long embraced Pride Month in June as an uncomplicated way to market to members of the LGBTQ+ community while telegraphing progressive values. Gavin Newsom called out Target’s CEO for “selling out the LGBTQ+ community to extremists.”The current landscape “is alarming,” Todd said. “That middle ground is going away.”So this year, companies that want to participate in Pride have to be prepared to take a real stance. Some of those lashing out have described a campaign against Pride itself, rather than Bud Light or Target (TGT) specifically. It won’t be worth whatever they think they’ll gain.”It’s no coincidence that the anti-trans assault comes as trans rights are under legal attack across the nation.

Persons: Bud Light, Bud Light’s Instagram, Bud, BUD, Eric Thayer, ”, Daniel Korschun, “, —, Jared Todd, Gavin Newsom, ” Todd, ” Korschun, Sen, J.D, Vance, J, Justin Sullivan, Anna Moneymaker, Matt Walsh, Sarah Kate Ellis, Ellis, Trevor, Seth Wenig, ” Ellis, Todd, It’s, didn’t, Colin Kaepernick, Drexel’s, Korschun, Jared Watson, ” Watson, Watson, Pattie Gonia, ’ ” Watson, ’ Organizations: New, New York CNN — Companies, Target, Bud Light, Anheuser, Busch, National LGBT Chamber of Commerce, Bloomberg, Getty, Drexel University, Wall Street, Foundation, Human Rights, HRC, California Gov, —, Pride, Twitter, HumanRights, UCLA School of Law, GLAAD, Morning, Nike, New York University, “ Locations: New York, Ohio, Target, California, America, New Jersey

☆ Amanda Seyfried, who played Elizabeth Holmes in 'The Dropout,' says the Theranos founder's 11-year prison sentence is 'fair,' but she sympathizes for Holmes' kids
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-31 | by ( Sarah Jackson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Amanda Seyfried, who played Elizabeth Holmes in "The Dropout," says Holmes' 11-year prison sentence is "fair." Holmes reported to a women's prison in Bryan, Texas, on Tuesday to start serving her sentence. Amanda Seyfried has weighed in on Elizabeth Holmes' prison sentence after portraying the disgraced Theranos founder in the Hulu miniseries "The Dropout." Seyfried appeared on "Good Morning America" on Tuesday, the day Holmes reported to a minimum-security women's prison in Bryan, Texas, to begin serving her 11-year sentence. But she added that she thought Holmes' sentence — 11.25 years in prison with three years of supervision following her release — was "fair."

Persons: Amanda Seyfried, Elizabeth Holmes, Holmes, Seyfried, sympathizes, William, Billy, Evans, —, Naveen Andrews, Ramesh, Sunny, Balwani, Theranos, Elizabeth Organizations: Hulu, Globe, Los Angeles Times Locations: Bryan , Texas

☆ ‘Succession’: Jeremy Strong on Kendall’s ‘Catastrophic’ Ending
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-30 | by ( Alexis Soloski | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

When filming on the final season of “Succession” wrapped this winter, the actor Jeremy Strong flew to the Danish fishing village where he and his wife have a home. For Strong, who began filming the HBO drama seven years ago and won an Emmy for playing Kendall Roy, this was a happy ending. But for the character, “Succession,” created by Jesse Armstrong, concluded on bleaker terms. Kendall began Sunday night’s finale episode believing that he would emerge as the chief executive of a giant conglomerate. But the final scene, which also took place at the water’s edge, also at sunset, left Kendall numb, friendless, bereft.

☆ ‘Stealth Wealth’ and Bare Feet: How Power Dresses on ‘Succession’
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-28 | by ( Guy Trebay | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

On Sunday, the show reaches its finale and so a final check-in with Michelle Matland, the Emmy-nominated costume designer responsible for crafting a 21st-century version of Machiavellian chic and inadvertently spurring the “stealth wealth” fashion genre, seems in order. Looking back, could you could have predicted where this show would take you? Jesse Armstrong wrote an incredible brilliant story, but I’m not sure he knew where it was going to go. The one constant was the trajectory of each character, and over the seasons, they developed story lines and these inherent qualities you couldn’t have foreseen. And it must have been an unusual challenge for a designer, since the setting is contemporary and the characters’ wardrobes don’t read as costumes.

☆ Read ChatGPT's 'insulting' and 'garbage' 'Succession' finale script
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-28 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Here's an AI-generated script of the 'Succession' finale — and what experts thought of it. Next, Insider asked ChatGPT to write a scene from the finale based on that prediction. The most striking difference, he said, is how the AI-generated script contains "zero subtext," which he said "Succession" excels at. Jim Burnstein, another screenwriting professor at the University of Michigan and a WGA member, told Insider the script is "really insulting" and "should be off the table right away." "A bunch of monkeys" can write "Hamlet" better than ChatGPT can write "Succession," he added.

CNN —Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his partner Lauren Sánchez are engaged, a source close to the couple tells CNN. No additional details about the proposal or pending wedding plans were immediately available. Bezos and Sánchez, a former broadcast journalist and now philanthropist, first went public with their relationship in 2019. Since Bezos and Sánchez began dating, they have kept details of their lives together mostly private outside of being photographed at various events. Sánchez has three children from previous relationships, and was married to Hollywood agent Patrick Whitesell for 13 years before finalizing their divorce in 2019.

☆ Nina Gold on creating film stars, audition tapes, and why she'll never act
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-19 | by ( Thomas Page | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

This is the same Nina Gold who’s made a successful career casting some of the defining films and TV shows of this century. “I still don’t really understand what it is that makes acting good,” she says. For “Bad Sisters’” smarmy, abusive antagonist John Paul, Gold cast Claes Bang. For Gold and her team – rising to six people, depending on projects – it’s a lot of logistics and audition tapes. Gold cast Taylor-Johnson in his breakout role as John Lennon in “Nowhere Boy” (2009) at age 18-20, she guesses, but had been auditioning him since about the age of nine.

☆ 'I got a check the other day for $8': TV and film writers share why they're on strike
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-13 | by ( Gili Malinsky | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

TV and film writers at the picket line in New York on the first day of the WGA strike, May 2, 2023. Every three years, the Writers Guild of America, the TV and film writers' union, negotiates a contract with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. "You go from job to job," and each contract can look different from writer to writer depending on their experience, for instance. TV writer Sheri Holman on strike in New York. TV and film writer Chisa Hutchinson.

☆ When ‘Homicide’ Hit Its Stride
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-11 | by ( Saul Austerlitz | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

The Dallas Cowboys demolished the Buffalo Bills, 52-17, and the broadcast was followed by the premiere of a new NBC drama, set in Baltimore, studying the work of the city’s homicide detectives. The series was called “Homicide: Life on the Street,” and it was based on a book by David Simon, then a Baltimore Sun reporter who had spent a year tagging along with the police department’s homicide squad. Post-Super Bowl premiere notwithstanding, “Homicide” was never a ratings success, but it stayed on the air for seven seasons, winning four Emmys and three Peabody Awards. The show’s fifth episode, “Three Men and Adena,” which first aired in March, was a stark, dramatic example of what made “Homicide” different from other cop shows. Pembleton and Bayliss prod, provoke and rage, but “Homicide” refuses to grant the audience the resolution they crave.

☆ We asked ChatGPT to write a scene from the 'Succession' finale. Experts say it's 'insulting' and 'garbage.'
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-09 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

AI is one of the unresolved issues that has led the WGA to strike, but ChatGPT isn't ready for prime time. Here's an AI-generated script of the 'Succession' finale — and what experts thought of it. To see if AI could actually do the job of a screenwriter, Insider asked OpenAI's ChatGPT Plus to write a hypothetical scene from the series finale of HBO series "Succession." Next, Insider asked ChatGPT to write a scene from the finale based on that prediction. "A bunch of monkeys" can write "Hamlet" better than ChatGPT can write "Succession," he added.

☆ Vice staffers fear salary and severance payments could be impacted as the company moves closer to bankruptcy
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-09 | by ( Claire Atkinson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Vice is expected to file for bankruptcy, and some staffers fear salary or severance payments could be affected. The WGA East represents the Vice Union and said it will work to ensure members receive "everything owed." Vice has cut dozens of staff along with canceling its cable show "Vice News Tonight." Last month Vice said it was axing "Vice News Tonight," which once aired on HBO but shifted in 2019 to Vice's own cable channel, Vice TV. A second Vice insider said: "Hundreds of people lose their jobs and Shane gets his back?

☆ Tears and laughter: Amid harrowing rape testimony, E. Jean Carroll joked of Trump, men, and three-bean salad
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-08 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

"I don't particularly like getting attention because I'm suing Donald Trump," she clarified, pausing a beat, then adding, "Getting attention for making a great three-bean salad? Trump told her he once considered buying Bergdorf Goodman, she told jurors. Tacopina asked Carroll. "So you joked around about having sex with Donald Trump for money in this Facebook post, correct?" Tacopina asked.

LOS ANGELES, May 8 (Reuters) - Writing for a new season of "The Handmaid's Tale" and a coming "Game of Thrones" prequel was halted as a nearly week-long strike by thousands of film and television writers rippled across Hollywood on Monday. Writing of the dystopian drama stopped when the Writers Guild of America (WGA) called a strike last week, Chang told Reuters on Monday. Martin said in a blog post that the writers' room for prequel series "A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight" was "closed for the duration of the strike." Warner Bros has not announced a release date for "The Hedge Knight." The second season of "House of the Dragon," another "Game of Thrones" prequel, began filming in April, Martin said, and will continue in London and Wales.

☆ 'Barry' creator Bill Hader describes 'incredibly lucky' 'SNL' break: 'It was preschool to Harvard overnight'
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-08 | by ( Nicolas Vega | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Before he was an Emmy-winning actor for his critically acclaimed "Barry," Bill Hader struggled to get the career he wanted. Instead, it's been a matter of being in the right place at the right time. In a recent interview with the New Yorker, Hader recalls how he moved to Los Angles in 1999 with aspirations of one day being a director. He spent most of his 20s working as a production assistant, a postproduction assistant and then as an assistant editor on a reality TV show. The "Superbad" actor decided to take improv classes on the recommendation of a friend, and quickly saw his fortunes turn around.

☆ A 'Shark Tank' winner and stay-at-home dad who Mark Cuban called a 'compassionate capitalist' doubled down on his business when his wife's health took a sudden turn: 'There is no greater incentive to
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-07 | by ( Jason Lalljee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Freya Williams was a CEO and her family's breadwinner before contracting long COVID. Her husband dove into his small business and landed an investment from Mark Cuban of "Shark Tank." But COVID led to "long COVID" for her. Thousands of Americans have likely left the workforce because of long COVID, and Williams is among them. Delaney added that his wife's suffering and his family's precarious position had changed his drive as a business owner.

☆ Oprah Winfrey almost turned down her first TV job—how a college professor changed her mind
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-06 | by ( Ashton Jackson | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Oprah Winfrey has a highly decorated media career, winning 20 Emmy awards, a Tony award and a Peabody award, amongst many others. These feats may not have happened, however, if it wasn't for a reality check from a college professor. Winfrey, 69, started her sophomore year with a career in education in mind, she told 2023 graduates at Tennessee State University, her alma mater, during her commencement speech on Saturday. When Winfrey told her professor, he looked at her "as if I didn't have a brain that God gave lettuce," she said. "At no time did I ever feel out of place or not enough or inadequate or an imposter," she said.

☆ Striking Writers Guild of America members say they work second jobs in retail, food service, and more to make ends meet: 'I never know when work is going to dry up'
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-06 | by ( Aaron Mcdade | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Writers Guild of America members are currently on strike after their contract expired with no new deal with TV and movie studios. Many have complained of low pay, especially when writing for a show on a streaming service. Several said they applied to or were working retail jobs when they found out they were nominated for awards. Dozens of users responded and quoted the tweet with their support for Carter and other striking writers, saying they assumed writers on successful TV shows made enough to live between writing jobs. "When I got nominated for a Canadian Screen Award (Canada's Emmy) - I was applying for a job at a coffee shop.

☆ There's a real-life 'Succession' drama playing out among the children of Bernard Arnault, the world's richest person and head of luxury behemoth LVMH
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-05 | by ( Pete Syme | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

But there's a similar legacy battle going on inside LVMH, the French luxury house run by Bernard Arnault. The children of the world's richest man are vying for influence within LVMH in a "Darwinian" fight. Showrunner Jesse Armstrong says his fictional Roy family is inspired by several famous dynasties, such as the Hearsts — the family behind Hearst Communications — and the Redstones — the controlling influence behind Paramount Global. There's still plenty of rivalry between the progeny of Bernard Arnault, CEO of luxury goods behemoth LVMH and world's richest person. The Roy family of "Succession."

☆ Mo Willems Finds Yet Another Way to Entertain Kids: Opera
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-05 | by ( David Allen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

The writer for it all? Mo Willems, who, it turns out, really loves opera! “The commonalities between what my industry, or my main industry, does and what opera does are incredible,” said Willems, a six-time Emmy Award-winning former Sesame Street writer, who has earned three Caldecott Honors for picture books and reigns as a near-deity in children’s literature. “It’s big emotions,” he added during an interview at the Kennedy Center before the premiere. That three-year position coincided with the pandemic, to which he responded with invaluable “Lunch Doodles” videos, but it still let him explore a range of genres, including symphonic music, which he said “has always been important to me.”

☆ Martin Scorsese Asked Laura Dern a Question That Changed Her Life
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-02 | by ( Marc Myers | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Laura Dern, 56, is an Oscar- and Emmy-winning actress who starred in the films “Inland Empire,” “Mask” and “Marriage Story” and TV’s “Big Little Lies.” She is co-author with her mother, actress Diane Ladd, of the joint memoir “Honey, Baby, Mine” (Grand Central). She spoke with Marc Myers. When I was 7, director Marty Scorsese asked me a question. I was with my mother, Diane Ladd, in Tucson, Ariz., where she was filming “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore.” Marty said, “Want to watch your mom?”

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