![]() ![]() In creating the 2022 list of entertainment’s top female players, editors considered portfolio sizes, series loads, TV ratings, box office returns, awards, deals, employees overseen, revenue and profit generated, subscriber counts and, let’s be honest, leadership. (Spoiler alert: ALF didn’t brush himself.) Here, they reveal who they’d trade places with for a day, make their predictions for Hollywood in 2023 and reflect on bizarre first jobs in the industry. That’s why they made THR’s definitive annual rundown of the most powerful women in the entertainment industry - which includes first-time honorees Taylor Swift, Quinta Brunson, Selena Gomez and Lizzo this year. Executives bankrolling the most popular and relevant film and TV, creators shifting perspectives, reps brokering every deal and talent making sure people pay attention… they’re all at the top of the game. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() 2018's The Grinch similarly depicted him having a hard childhood, where he grew up unwanted and alone in an orphanage before heading to the mountains to get solitude on his own terms. Seuss's How the Grinch Stole Christmas! from director Ron Howard, the Grinch was depicted as an outcast, who only became cruel because his early attempts to fit in with Who culture were met with ridicule. Subsequent adaptations of How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, stretched into feature-film length, took more liberties with the source material, which led to fleshing out the character's backstory and motivations in a way not explored in the original book. Seuss was credited as a writer and producer on both. While neither of those two specials were based on Seuss books, Dr. Four years later, The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat was released. ![]() By 1977, it had become so popular that the same producers made a Halloween-themed prequel titled Halloween is Grinch Night. The Grinch is a bitter, grouchy, cave-dwelling creature with a heart 'two sizes too small' who is living as a hermit on the snowy Mount Crumpit, a steep high mountain just north of the town of Whoville, home of the merry and warm-hearted Whos. The 1957 book was first adapted for the screen in 1966, in a now-classic animated special. Seuss The story was published as a book by Random House in 1957. This is the first original book set as an official sequel to How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, although it is hardly the first thing to follow up on the story. ![]() ![]() ![]() You certainly don't get that same sense of desperation from Buford-the fiction editor at The New Yorker for eight years until he left in 2002 to begin researching his book-who treats his detour from the editorial desk as an earnest quest for another skill set. Orwell was literally starving when he accepted the most menial job in the grand hotel's sub-basement. Ever since Down and Out in Paris and London-Orwell's gritty account of, in part, life as a lowly plongeur (dishwasher) at "Hotel X" in Paris in the 1920s-the gastronomic milieu has been represented in literature as a manifestation of purgatory on earth, populated by misfits and renegades unable to secure conventional employment elsewhere. ![]() |