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Contributing Editor, Vanity Fair. My book: Burn It Down: Power, Complicity & a Call for Change in Hollywood. Find me at moryan.bsky.social and moryan.com
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How Hollywood Keeps Its Secrets

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By Maureen Ryan Verified
| The New York Times Verified
The allegations of sexual misconduct against the Oscar winner Jared Leto that came out last week in a BBC documentary were not a surprise to some in Hollywood. This was another case of, in certain circles, “everybody knows,” as the industry saying goes. Yet that widespread knowledge has been insufficient to produce meaningful consequences.
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An open letter to Grammarly and other plagiarists, thieves and slop merchants

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By Maureen Ryan Verified
| moryan.com
To everyone at Grammarly, I am writing a book right now, a really challenging endeavor that no doubt someone in Silicon Valley will think it’s fine to steal the day it’s published. I’ve been a professional writer for decades, even though the number of ways to make money from writing has gone down. I keep going because I love it — I love the challenge of making prose sing, of weaving many interviews into a fascinating chronicle. But it’s hard.
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Postcard From Chicago: There’s an ICE Facility in My Backyard

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By Maureen Ryan Verified
| Vanity Fair Verified
Last Friday, with a newly purchased gas mask in my backpack, I went to the ICE building in Broadview, Illinois—which is so close to my Chicago suburb that I could have walked there. The ICE facility is in an industrial part of this working-class enclave, in a nondescript area with lots of low-slung warehouses and workaday businesses. If you’ve ever rented a party bus in Chicago, that vehicle likely lives in Broadview.
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