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Hugh Hart

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Covers:  movies, television, architecture, design, art, technology
BYLINES L.A. Times, The Credits, USC, Wired, N.Y. Times MUSIC Dog Park EP soundcloud.com/hughhart/ CONTACT mr.hughhart@gmail.com

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Hugh Hart’s Biography

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I cover entertainment for Los Angeles Times, Fortune Magazine online, The Credits and half a dozen other outlets.

For Fast Company, Wired.com and New Yorker.com, I have also reported on art and design with pieces about surveillance, illustrated manuscripts from the 14th century, Geek culture, sci fi, architecture, graphic design, comic books and art, including a museum story I co-authored with Pulitzer Prize winner Christopher Knight.

After the New York Times ran my surveillance sculpture piece…

Hugh Hart’s Journalist Portfolio

BEYOND THE CITY LIMITS

BEYOND THE CITY LIMITS

New York may be the nation`s foremost breeding ground for standup comics, but it took Chicago City Limits to …

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For 'The Morning Show,' Mark Duplass just acts like he's a producer

For 'The Morning Show,' Mark Duplass just acts like he's a producer

Writer-director-actor-producer Mark Duplass dropped just about all those hyphens for a few weeks last year an…

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Big Brother, Armed with a Spotlight

Big Brother, Armed with a Spotlight

Interactive artist Christian Moeller makes sculpture that keeps an eye on local beachside community.

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Articles

Inside the Mind Games of “The Beast in Me” With Emmy-Nominated Creator/Writer Gabe Rotter and Writer Daniel Pearle

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| motionpictures.org
| TV viewers who knew Matthew Rhys from his role as a quiet Russian spy in The Americans were in for a shock when he tore through The Beast in Me earlier this year (and then again later when he was pitch-perfect in Katie DiPold’s hilarious, spooky Widow’s Bay).The Emmy-nominated limited series from Netflix cast the Welsh actor as murder suspect Nile Jarvis, a sometimes-charming real estate mogul who takes the direct approach when trying to convince his Pulitzer-winning Oyster Bay neighbor to...
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Foghorns, Ghosts & Gamba: Emmy-Nominated Composer David Fleming Conducts the Weird Wonders of “Widow’s Bay”

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| motionpictures.org
| By the time Widow’s Bay creator Katie Dippold needed music for her haunted island horror-comedy series, she had already assembled a crackerjack cast and filmed the first two episodes. Composer David Fleming, fresh off last summer’s Superman movie, got the call. “Katie talked to me about this idea of feeling like you’re on a ride where the fun and the scary are not very far apart,” Fleming tells The Credits.
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Inside “Beef” Creator Lee Sung Jin’s Twisty Blueprint: Rise-Fall Graphs, Wealth Wars & Human Frailty

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| motionpictures.org
| A real-life episode of L.A. road rage inspired Lee Sung Jin to create the first Beef. His tale of toxic drivers turned existential combatants earned the South Korean-born writer-director-producer and his team eight 2023 Emmys, including Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series. This year, Jin raised the stakes with a multi-generational portrait of unhappy couples whose lives collide catastrophically in and around a deluxe Southern California country club.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

writing a theater column for a now-defunct Chicago newspaper.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes

How is social media changing news?

Everything's faster.