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How One Entrepreneurial PA Is Navigating the Strike
The WGA strike has forced some to consider alternative employment, including temporary jobs and side hustles. Andrea Alba Von-Buren, a writers PA on The CW’s Gotham Knights, launched a business by keeping scribes caffeinated. In late May, she introduced Dean’s Coffee, a mobile pop-up that offers $4 coffee, tea, lattes and more for striking writers on the picket lines. “Everything is out of my trunk and a little table with a bunch of coolers in the car,” she explained to THR’s Lesley Goldberg, adding that some showrunners and other anonymous individuals have generously chipped in to “sponsor” her so she can dole out free cups some days. “It’s just been incredible and keeps getting bigger and bigger — maybe a little bit bigger than me,” she says. “We’re technically not on strike,” she says of PAs and support staff who are left with no shows to work on, “but we’re basically on strike in solidarity.” Don Cheadle Introduces ‘DonVersations’ With First Guest Cedric the Entertainer
An intimate and engaged group of Black entrepreneurs gathered on June 5 to take in a conversation between Don Cheadle and Cedric the Entertainer at Culver City’s Blackbird, the private work-andwell-being collective for women of color and allies founded by Don’s wife, Bridgid Coulter Cheadle. The chat — dubbed a “DonVersation” — covered a range of topics, with a focus on Cedric’s diverse business empire, which includes AC Barbeque, the label he recently launched in partnership with
Anthony Anderson (as featured in a forthcoming A&E Network series, Kings of BBQ). Don asked Cedric what the future holds for his career, to which the comic answered that he’s motivated by seeing Black entrepreneurs in the mix to acquire a network like BET ( Tyler Perry and Byron Allen have put in bids, among others). “I love the idea that that’s in the atmosphere,” he said, adding that he wouldn’t rule out one day running a network. “That inspires me to keep building. I love the idea of taking talented people and painting the picture.” Joshua Jackson on Why He Needs a ‘Love Story’
In the last three years, Joshua Jackson has played a husband and father with his home life in chaos in Little Fires Everywhere, a murderous surgeon in
Dr. Death and, now, adulterer and accused murderer Dan Gallagher — the role originated by Michael Douglas in 1987’s Fatal Attraction
— in the Paramount+ series adaptation of the film. “I don’t know what’s going on with me,” Jackson joked to THR recently. Whatever it is, he needs a break. “I’m shooting a romance right now; I needed a love story after [ Dr. Death’s] Christopher Duntsch and Fatal Attraction. I needed to hold hands and make goo-goo eyes at somebody.” That somebody would be Lauren Ridloff,
whom he’s starring (and exec producing) alongside in an untitled Starz romantic drama series from Ava DuVernay.