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Oscars Rewind: How ‘American Beauty’ Lost Its Luster

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Oscars Rewind: How ‘American Beauty’ Lost Its Luster

It was March 2000, and everything was coming up roses for “American Beauty.” There were the box office receipts (more than $350 million worldwide, not adjusted for inflation, against a budget of roughly $15 million, according to the data site Box Office Mojo). The rave reviews (“a hell of a …

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Sterling K. Brown and Dan Fogelman, a Team Again in “Paradise’

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Sterling K. Brown and Dan Fogelman, a Team Again in “Paradise’

Sterling K. Brown and Dan Fogelman realize that some viewers might want another “This Is Us.” That tear-jerking NBC hit, which Fogelman created, was a sprawling, time-hopping family drama in which Brown played Randall Pearson, the adopted Black son in a white family who is grappling with his mental health. …

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