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Hello, and welcome back to What I’m Hearing.
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I’m planning a mailbag issue for July 4th, so send me questions you’d like me to (attempt to) answer, or hot topics on which you want my take. I won’t mention names. Just reply to this email.
Discussed in this issue: David Young, Maha Dakhil, David Bergstein, Chris Silbermann, Natalie Portman, Samuel L. Jackson, Ari Emanuel, Gloria Steinem, and Nancy Meyers’ pool-house banquette.
But first… nobody won the week, so let’s start with…
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“How’s Uncle Clarence feeling about overturning Loving v Virginia??!!”
–Samuel L. Jackson, tweeting about Justice Clarence Thomas’s concurring opinion rejecting Roe v. Wade in which he suggested revisiting past civil rights cases. (Loving struck down laws against interracial marriage.)...
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| Did you hear about this meeting? Yesterday morning, a few dozen women in Hollywood and other industries jumped on Zoom to strategize how to respond to the repeal of Roe v. Wade. The gathering, which was quickly assembled amid the widespread outrage by producer and activist Katie McGrath, CAA’s Maha Dakhil, consultant Ngoc Nguyen, and Rebecca Goldman and Catherine St-Laurent of the philanthropy consultancy Acora Partners, began with the reading of an Amanda Gorman poem. Gloria Steinem joined the group, vowing a swift and aggressive response to the rollback of reproductive rights. And the women, which included stars like Natalie Portman, Amy Schumer, Debra Messing, and Ashley Judd, as well as executives like attorney Nina Shaw, Universal Music Publishing Group C.E.O. Jody Gerson, longtime Glamour editor Cindi Leive, and many others, were provided detailed explanations from doctors and lawyers about the state of play post-Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. And, more importantly, what this group of powerful women can do to help now.
It’ll be interesting to see how the entertainment industry responds here. This feels like the beginning of something major. The anger among people I’ve talked to this weekend seems more searing than even at the height of #MeToo and Trump. The next fronts—facilitating travel for women in red states, litigating the issue of whether FDA-approved abortion pills can be distributed in states that have outlawed the procedure, and protecting against further erosion of civil rights—seem like they are now front-and-center for the industry’s donor and activist class... |
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