Life as a young actor when you’re about to become a movie star.

Discussions of character with the Late Show host.

From Driving Miss Daisy to Green Book.

Not knowing what these movies were “about” didn’t mean it wasn’t clear what they were about. They symbolize a style of American storytelling in which the wheels of interracial friendship are greased by employment, in which prolonged exposure to the black half of the duo enhances the humanity of his white, frequently racist counterpart. All the optimism of racial progress — from desegregation to integration to equality to something like true companionship — is stipulated by terms of service.

The Bohemian Rhapsody director Bryan Singer has been trailed by accusations of sexual misconduct for 20 years. Here, his alleged victims tell their stories.

Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s new movie, inspired by Gerhard Richter, blurs the line between fiction and biography. Richter says that it goes too far.

On the choices Fred Rogers made.

With “The Apprentice,” the TV producer mythologized Trump—then a floundering D-lister—as the ultimate titan, paving his way to the Presidency.

A profile of Marlon Brando, 33, holed up in a hotel suite in Kyoto where he was filming Sayonara.

An oral history of the most important deal in sports TV history, when Rupert Murdoch and Fox stole the NFL and John Madden out from under the Big Three networks and launched a television empire.

How the VFX industry plateaued —and where it might go from here.

A profile of Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

When Patricia Douglas was raped by an MGM salesman at a 1937 studio party, the 20-year-old dancer filed charges, taking on Hollywood’s most powerful institution.

The enormous life of Anthony Bourdain, according to those who knew him best.

Lena Dunham comes to terms with herself.

An oral history of Garry Shandling’s secret pickup basketball game.

Searching for the star behind Dlisted.

Ezra Miller is the gender-bending, goat delivering Hollywood star of the future.

Behold the marvel of the animal’s fabrication.

She’s trying to keep comedy alive at a moment when Hollywood—and its audience—can’t seem to crack a smile.

The platform’s entertainment for children is weirder—and more globalized—than adults could have expected.

Should art be a battleground for social justice?

On growing up, writing, and succumbing to bullshit.

On A Star Is Born and the celebrity industrial complex.

Toward a materialist history of the blockbuster movie.

A profile.