Welcome back to What I’m Hearing from soggy Los Angeles, a little earlier tonight because my wife and I are taking a rowboat to the Grammys. Great seeing so many music people last night at Clive Davis… music parties are objectively better than Hollywood parties.
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More Super Bowl 🚨🚨: I’m doing another LIVE episode of The Town, this one with Bloomberg’s LucasShaw and maybe a surprise guest, on Feb. 10 at 3 p.m. at the Endeavor/TKO Lounge near the Aria in Las Vegas. We’ve got a few spots for WIH readers, click here to request one!
Programming note: This week on The Town, Lucas and I dissected the Netflix/WWE deal, filmmaker Ed Zwick told fun movie star anecdotes from his new book, and Rolling Stone’s Ethan Millman and I debated whether TikTok needs Universal Music or vice versa. Subscribe here and here.
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Discussed in this issue: Byron Allen, Chris McCarthy, Joe Rogan, Shari Redstone, Issa López, CordJefferson, Taylor Sheridan, Yorgos Lanthimos, Michelle Pfeiffer, Kelly Reilly, David Ellison… and Scientology’s latest atrocity.
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