Welcome back to What I’m Hearing, today I’ve got a few shorter news and notes items for your summer Sunday.

Also, thanks to our Inner Circle members who signed up this week for office hours and the book party event with Matthew Ball. Both are now closed, but we’ll have more Inner Circle opportunities soon.

Discussed in this issue: Casey Bloys, Melissa McCarthy, Scott Stuber, Spencer Baumgarten, Spencer Neumann, Peter Rice, Beanie Feldstein, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Barbra Streisand’s mud mask.

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I never thought Bloys was going anywhere, but it’s weird that in his Emmy victory lap interviews this week, nobody asked him about his own status. Inside HBO, people knew Bloys’s deal was coming up...