![]() How to Survive the Documentary Apocalypse by Staying Small and Strange - Column ![]() (He’s still attached to Spike Lee’s Amazon project “Da Understudy,” probably because Spike is such a fighter that he won’t let go of his star until someone forces his hand.) So did a number of upcoming projects, including Protagonist Pictures’ adaptation of the Walter Mosley novel “The Man in My Basement,” a series of ads for the Texas Rangers baseball team, and an unannounced Otis Redding biopic from Fifth Season. Majors’ attorney claims evidence of his innocence, but his agency and publicity team dropped the actor this month. When you build projects around movie stars, you create a liability. Now, as various Majors projects let him go, the fallout exposes a film-business fallacy. After Majors was arrested and charged with assault and harassment, the news cycle cast immediate uncertainty on his future. (OK, maybe not Paltrow, who defeated a lawsuit, scored $1 in damages while wearing expensive clothes, and resurrected the grotesque spectacle of a live-streamed court trial from the dregs of the Depp/Heard horror show to reclaim it as camp.)Īnyone living in the spotlight faces the potential for a public reckoning and with that, collateral damage. ![]() ![]() It’s been a tough couple of weeks for fame, whether you’re Donald Trump, Jonathan Majors, or Gwyneth Paltrow. ![]()
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