Welcome back to What I’m Hearing, and happy long M.L.K./Emmys/NFL Wildcard weekend. It was great to see so many people at the Evening Before party last night, especially the woman who came up to me and said, “I loved you on White Lotus.” (I’m gonna pretend she thought I was Theo James… not Michael Imperioli or F. Murray Abraham.) Congrats to the M.P.T.F. and Bob Beitcher for raising $2.5 million in a very tough economic environment.

🚨🚨 Sundance event details! Come to our LIVE taping of The Town on Jan. 22 at 4 p.m. on Main Street in Park City, with a special guest and a little reception afterward. Tickets go on sale tomorrow, but What I’m Hearing readers can get them NOW by clicking here.

Programming note: I was on How Long Gone, the preferred podcast of bicoastal elites (listen here). This week on The Town, Lucas Shaw and I predicted how the Disney proxy war will play out, Ethan Strauss explained why ESPN can’t control Pat McAfee, and Bill Cohan questioned why anyone would buy Paramount Global. Subscribe here and here.

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Discussed in this issue: Jon Feltheimer, Bob Iger, John Mulaney, Ava DuVernay, David Zaslav, Adam Fogelson, Timothée Chalamet, Jeff Sagansky, Eli Roth, Pat McAfee, Meghan Markle… and Binny the Disney World trash can.

But first…