Cool Kids Newsletter 4 - Hollywood Pay Gap

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What Ellen Pompeo’s $20 Million Deal Means For the Gender Pay Gap In Hollywood

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Two interesting Hollywood stories came out two weeks after one another: in the first, Michelle Williams was paid practically nothing for reshoots on a film while her co-star Mark Wahlberg made $1,500,000. In the second,

Grey’s Anatomy star Ellen Pompeo inked a massive deal with Disney/ABC to stay on with the show. Both are illustrative of how the Hollywood pay gap works, from the lowliest assistant levels up to the biggest names in the game.

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Cool things I found in the last 30 days:

• The Skimm interview with Michael Wolff, author of “Fire and Fury”. Danielle Weisberg and Carly Zakin do a terrific job. Things get awkward.

• Brawl in Cell Block 99 - Watched this on Brian Balfour’s recommendation. A raw, violent film with an incredible Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Carpenter. Free on Amazon prime

• “Is the job of the writer for the very young to tell the truth or preserve innocence?” Newbery Medal-winning author Matt de la Pena questions the job of an author for your children.

• Melissa Spitz’s Instagram project, You have nothing to worry about. 6,000 haunting photos documenting Deborah Adams’s mental illness. Deborah is Melissa’s mother.

• The Valentine’s Day restaurant for the forgetful. Event activation done right. People without dinner plans grabbed a reservation card off the van, good for a table for two at an exclusive pop-up restaurant called Oublié—a fancy sounding word that means forgotten in French.

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