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Hollywood’s Israel War & A Britney Villain

News and notes from Hollywood: CAA’s Maha Dakhil drama, Britney Spears’ memoir, and Netflix’s subscriber boom.

One unreported aspect of Spears’s memoir centers on Lou Taylor, the business manager whose cozy relationship with Britney’s dad came under the microscope during the whole conservatorship fight.
One unreported aspect of Spears’s memoir centers on Lou Taylor, the business manager whose cozy relationship with Britney’s dad came under the microscope during the whole conservatorship fight. Photo: Valerie Macon/Getty Images
Matthew Belloni
October 23, 2023

Just to refresh, here’s an incomplete list of the topics that the Writers Guild recently has chosen to issue statements about: George Floyd, violence against Asian Americans, Harvey Weinstein, an F.C.C. decision, and even Endeavor’s I.P.O.