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2020
May
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SERIES PREMIERE: When Ryan Murphy moved from FX to Netflix, this was the kind of series he and the streaming service had in mind. It’s glitzy, easily promotable, and aggressively “woke,” even though it’s set in 1930s Hollywood. As a tale of starlets and handsome young men with dreams of stardom, and of studio heads and scribes with their own ambitions and secrets, Hollywood feels very, very much like a modern version of Bracken’s World. But since
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
1
 
 
Tonight’s virtual interview guests, so to speak, include one guest who used to visit Real Time all the time by actually showing up on set: Rolling Stone writer Matt Taibbi. These days, he just phones it in. But these days, that’s the norm…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
1
 
 
Among tonight’s not-in-person guests: Jeff Goldblum, who always seemed to love sharing the couch with other celebrities on Norton’s show (pictured, in pre-virus days). Here, the technology is making them do more traditional, one-on-one interviews. But, I guess, that prospect is more entertaining than one more Zoom chat…