James Marsters is opening up a few disturbing scene he needed to movie for Buffy the Vampire Slayer, calling it “the darkest skilled day of my life.”
The actor, who performed Spike on the hit supernatural drama collection starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, made an look on a latest episode of the Inside You podcast, the place he recalled his traumatic expertise filming the controversial scene.
“It’s a problematic scene for lots of people who just like the present,” he instructed host Michael Rosenbaum. “It’s the darkest skilled day of my life.”
The scene within the season six episode “Seeing Crimson” (which initially aired in Might 2002) sees Gellar’s Buffy reject advances from Spike, her former vampire lover. However Marsters’ character finally ends up making an attempt to sexually assault Buffy to persuade her that she nonetheless has emotions for him. Nevertheless, Buffy manages to combat him off and shoves him into the wall.
“The writers have been being requested to give you their worst day, the day that they don’t speak about, their darkish secret, the one which retains them up at night time, once they actually harm anyone or once they actually received harm or made an enormous mistake of some sort — after which slap metaphoric fangs on prime of that darkish secret and inform everyone about it,” Marsters mentioned of how they determined which tales and themes to characteristic within the present.
However the particular assault scene was primarily based on an expertise one of many present’s feminine writers had in school, Marsters defined. “She had gotten damaged up with, and she or he went to her ex’s place and thought that in the event that they made love another time, every little thing could be fastened,” he recalled. “And she or he form of compelled herself, and he needed to bodily take away her from the premises. And that was similar to probably the most painful reminiscences of that point of her life.”
The Runaways actor continued, “[The show’s writers] thought that since Buffy was a superhero, that they may flip the sexes since Buffy may defend herself very, very simply from this. They thought that they may have a person do it to a girl, and it will be the identical factor, I believe.”
Nevertheless, Marsters disagreed with the writers’ thought and was anxious about how viewers would understand the assault from Buffy’s viewpoint.
“I mentioned, ‘You recognize, guys, we’re offering a vicarious expertise for the viewers,’” he recounted. “And so I used to be saying, ‘You recognize, everybody who’s watching Buffy is Buffy, they usually’re not superheroes. So, I’m doing this to each member of the viewers, they usually’re gonna have a really totally different response.’”
Filming the season six episode was notably tough for Marsters as he doesn’t “like sexual predation scenes” it doesn’t matter what, whether or not he’s performing in a undertaking or watching it on the display screen. And “simply having to do this to Sarah” and “having to dwell by way of that actuality” actually took a toll on him.
“Something that has that to do with it, I don’t audition for these issues,” the actor mentioned. “If there’s a film with that form of materials, I don’t go to see the film. If it pops up on tv, I’ve received to show the tv off earlier than I break it. I’ve a really visceral response to that stuff.”
And he did certainly have a bodily response to filming the Buffy scene, noting that he had a earlier neck harm “pop off like a gunshot” whereas on set that day.
“I simply collapsed to the ground,” Marsters recalled. “I’m like, ‘I assume I’m form of tense proper now,’ you understand. And we received the scene within the can, and it was — it was hell. I used to be in private hell.”
Jamie Kellner, the charismatic and artful government who expanded the published tv panorama by serving to hatch the Fox and WB networks in 1987 and 1995, respectively, had died. He was 77.
Kellner died Friday at his Montecito, California, house after a battle with most cancers, The Hollywood Reporter has discovered.
Whereas nonetheless using excessive atop The WB, Kellner in March 2001 was given extra tasks overseeing TBS, TNT and CNN as chairman and CEO of Time Warner sister firm Turner Broadcasting System. However he was at that for simply two years, earlier than he retired and served out the rest of his contract again in Burbank.
In the meantime, Kellner was chairman of the station possession group ACME Communications — named after the corporate within the Highway Runner cartoons at Warner Bros. — from its launch in 1997 till it was liquidated in 2016. He was the uncommon community TV exec who additionally had a hand within the station enterprise; ACME’s first 9 stations, in truth, have been WB associates.
The boyish Kellner was president of Orion Leisure Group when he was among the many first folks employed by Rupert Murdoch and Barry Diller in February 1986 to develop a community at Fox to compete with CBS, NBC and ABC.
As founding president and COO of Fox Broadcasting Co., he set about constructing the affiliate community, promoting programming to advertisers and establishing relations with producers.
“One of many first checks we apply [with a show] is: Would one of many three networks do that? And very often, if the reply is sure, then we disqualify it,” Kellner instructed The New York Instances in March 1987. “There isn’t a motive for us to exist if we’re going to do what they’ve already finished.”
Married … With Youngsters kicked off the primary official evening of Fox primetime on Sunday, April 5, 1987, and The Simpsons, Beverly Hills, 90210, Melrose Place and In Dwelling Shade would arrive later. He additionally spearheaded the creation of the Fox Youngsters’s Community.
Kellner resigned in January 1993 — Diller had stop 11 months earlier — and was given a berth on Fox Inc.’s board of administrators. However having launched a fourth broadcast community, he joined Warner Bros. in November 1993 itching to begin a fifth.
Kellner obtained an 11 % stake in The WB, with Warner Bros. taking 64 % and the Tribune Co. 25 %. (The community was constructed round six unbiased stations owned by Tribune, together with WPIX in New York and KTLA in Los Angeles.)
After beating the bushes in a fierce battle for associates with rivals from fellow community upstart UPN, Kellner celebrated the kickoff of The WB when The Wayans Bros. aired on Jan. 11, 1995, 5 days earlier than UPN acquired going.
The family-friendly drama seventh Heaven was The WB’s first massive hit, adopted by such different common reveals as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Gilmore Women, Dawson’s Creek, Felicity and Charmed.
“He had a Mr. Spock-like indifferent high quality at instances,” onetime WB exec Suzanne Daniels wrote of Kellner in her 2007 ebook Season Finale, co-authored with Selection‘s Cynthia Littleton. “He wasn’t simply excitable, but he demonstrated such apparent ardour and dedication that he impressed a group of younger executives, none extra so than I.”
One in all 5 children, James Kellner was born in Brooklyn in 1948 and raised on Lengthy Island. His father, additionally James, was a Wall Avenue commodities dealer; his mom, Jean, was a volunteer with the North Shore Hospital Auxiliary for greater than three many years. He was an avid sailor who competed in yacht races as a teenager.
Kellner graduated with a level in advertising and marketing from Lengthy Island College’s C.W. Submit campus, then acquired into the CBS government coaching program in 1969 with assist from his dad.
Mentored by Hank Gillespie, he landed a job within the community’s program gross sales division and went with that unit when it was spun off as Viacom Enterprises, rising to turn out to be vp first-run programming, growth and gross sales.
In 1978, Kellner jumped to producer-distributor Filmways, the place he had the concept to boil down the 90-minute Saturday Night time Reside episodes right into a half-hour format preferrred for syndication. After Orion Photos acquired Filmways in 1982, he oversaw programming, house video, pay TV and syndication there and presided over the launch of Cagney & Lacey and a reboot of Hollywood Squares.
At Fox, it was his revolutionary concept to counterprogram a stay episode of In Dwelling Shade reverse the halftime present of the 1992 Tremendous Bowl, airing on CBS. These halftime reveals was once boring, however that may rapidly change: Michael Jackson carried out in ’93.
Because the No. 2 exec at Fox Broadcasting behind Diller, he had been given one % stake within the community. When he left after seven years, he obtained a payout of $10 million-$15 million, a “sliver of what [he] hoped to achieve from his involvement with The WB,” in keeping with Season Finale.
At his subsequent cease, Kellner reteamed with Garth Ancier — he had employed him as leisure president at Fox — they usually programmed an evening of “city” sitcoms, together with The Wayans Bros.,The Steve Harvey Present and The Jamie Foxx Present. The brand new community would goal a youthful viewers, one which the maturing Fox had deserted.
“Jamie Kellner was the right mannequin of a CEO. Good all the time, pugnacious generally, all the time considering and infrequently smiling, Jamie gave the executives fortunate sufficient to work for him a lot of runway. He would finish conversations with, ‘Do we all know what we’re doing?’ When issues didn’t work out as deliberate (they usually generally didn’t) there was no angst, only a ‘subsequent time we’ll do it otherwise,’” John D. Maatta, former EVP and COO of The WB Tv Community, wrote in a press release. “The ambiance that Jamie Kellner and Garth Ancier created at The WB was a once-in-a-career second for which I’ll all the time be grateful.”
After a public and protracted bidding conflict, Kellner allowed twentieth Century Fox Tv’s supernatural drama Buffy the Vampire Slayer, created by Josh Whedon and starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, to go to UPN after its fifth season (and its WB contract) resulted in Might 2001.
The WB had been paying $1 million an episode in licensing charges. UPN wound up forking over $2.3 million an episode for 44 episodes over the present’s closing two seasons.
Kellner had a 5.3 % stake in ACME when he based it with Tom Allen, former CFO of Fox Broadcasting, and station exec Doug Gealy. The corporate acquired underperforming stations in such markets as St. Louis; Salt Lake Metropolis; Albuquerque; Portland, Oregon; Inexperienced Bay, Wisconsin; Dayton, Ohio; and Knoxville, Tennessee. One report referred to as the connection between ACME and The WB “vaguely incestuous.”
ACME had 9 stations when it raised about $105 million with an IPO in September 1999. It grew to 12 stations earlier than starting the method of exiting the enterprise in 2003.
Kellner didn’t endear himself to professional wrestling followers when he canceled World Championship Wrestling reveals on TBS and TNT in certainly one of his first programming choices at Turner. He additionally tried and didn’t carry buzz to CNN in its battle with the upstart Fox Information Channel and pushed to merge the community with ABC Information.
After he was changed by Phil Kent, Kellner remained with The WB by the top of his contract in June 2004, when Ancier — who had exited The WB for a prime NBC put up earlier than coming again — Jordan Levin and Jed Petrick took over. It might be his final massive job.
“It looks as if solely yesterday when the partnership between Warner Bros. and Jamie started, as he and Bruce [Rosenblum] traversed the nation in all sizes of planes and all forms of climate signing up associates,” Warner Bros. Leisure chairman and CEO Barry Meyer mentioned then. “Jamie and his group have executed on the imaginative and prescient past the expectations of all these naysayers that loudly proclaimed that there was no room for greater than 4 broadcast networks. Boy, have been they fallacious.”
Kellner noticed The WB vanish in September 2006 when Warner Bros. and CBS Corp. changed it and UPN with one community, The CW.
Survivors embrace his second spouse, former leisure banker Julie Smith; his daughter, Melissa Kellner Berman, who labored with TV producer Greg Berlanti as a growth exec; son Christopher; and siblings Thomas, Ronald and Nancy. His sister Karen died in 2005 at age 44.
“I don’t suppose there’s one other particular person within the historical past of TV that may say they helped begin two new main broadcast networks (Fox and The WB),” Berlanti wrote in a tribute. “Jamie Kellner was a titan and a visionary in our business and but he will likely be remembered by anybody fortunate sufficient to work for him as an government or as a showrunner as a heat, humorous, charismatic, artistic and sort mentor, buddy, husband and Dad.”
He continued, “He devoted his life in TV to fostering and betting on generations of expertise each in entrance of and behind the digital camera. I do know I communicate for thus many others after I say my life was modified by the Camelot-esque house he created for all of us who labored at The WB. He will likely be drastically missed.”
What celebrities put on to awards reveals is, at this level, fairly predicable. The protocol of Hollywood legacy calls for they costume not less than comparativelytame.
However trend folks going to an awards present the place they’re the celebs? There aren’t any decorum dictates there! From robes to shorts, heels to moto boots, fur to chiffon, minis to maxis, trad plaids to 3D florals, it was all on present at The Day by day Entrance Row’s Eighth Annual Style Los Angeles Awards on Sunday night time on the Beverly Hills Lodge — on women and gents.
At this awards present — the place honorees included the legendary Bob Mackie, A-list hairstylist Adir Abergel, make-up artist Rachel Goodwin, fashions Elsa Hosk and Amelia Grey, and The Hollywood Reporter co-editor-in-chief Maer Roshan — the costume code “something goes” is an understatement.
The Day by day, for many who don’t know, is a two-decade-old broadsheet journal stuffed with supermodels, designers and editors, handed out day by day at trend weeks — with a deliciously gossipy web site, Fashionweekdaily.com.
Whereas early arrivals to the lodge’s again garden dressed to the hilt, all completely professionally made-up, their faces aren’t acquainted to most outdoors of trend. But many these sartorially splendid creatures — largely high-level trend influencers — have extra Instagram and TikTok followers than most stars on streaming reveals.
Cocktail hour on the garden, on a fortunate 75-degree (uncommon) Los Angeles spring night, was not solely dotted with the newest spring seems to be, however a few of L.A.’s true trend stars. Eddie Roche, The Day by day’s chief content material officer, defined how the honorees (resembling magnificence innovator of the 12 months, model curator of the 12 months) are chosen yearly: “Editor-in-chief and CEO Brandusa Niro and I, plus employees, sit down and hash it out,” stated Roche. However this crew is aware of from whence it speaks: The Day by day’s given out well-attended annual awards for model, stylists and media in New York and L.A. for years. On the Hollywood model, memorable highlights over time, recalled Roche, have included, “Keanu Reeves presenting to stylist Jeanne Yang, and Girl Gaga’s heartfelt 2019 speech to her hair stylist/wigmaker Frederic Asperis — two of my all-time favourite moments.”
The 2024 honoree for make-up artist of the 12 months, Rachel Goodwin — who minds the visages of Emma Stone, Leslie Bibb, Sarah Michelle Gellar and extra — arrived paying homage to her favourite designer, Dries van Noten. “I needed to do it — this costume is from the final Dries ladies’s assortment,” she stated, admiring its black silk with tiny turquoise beading. “I put turquoise liner on my waterline as homage.” How lengthy did it take the grasp make-up artist to do her personal face? “Perhaps half an hour!” she famous with fun. “With actors for crimson carpet, it’s two hours not less than. I simply threw on a crimson lip — that’s my celebration go-to.”
Lisa Rinna, in Wiederhoeft, speaks onstage throughout The Day by day Entrance Row’s Eighth Annual Style Los Angeles Awards at The Beverly Hills Lodge on April 28, 2024 in Beverly Hills.
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Lisa Rinna and husband Harry Hamlin arrived hand in hand, effervescent with pleasure to see their 22-year-old daughter Amelia Grey (Hamlin) named as mannequin of the 12 months.
“That is large,” grinned Hamlin. “She’s been wanting to do that since she was 15 years previous — a dream come true for her. She did all of it on her personal, finding out all of the walks of fashions going again 40 years.” Rinna donned one of many standout attire on an evening filled with standout attire: a cream long-sleeved robe, wrapped in horizontal black ribbons and bows all the way in which down. “It’s Jackson Wiederhoeft,” Rinna described. “My stylist Danyul Brown instructed me, ‘You have to put on him — he’s going to take off any minute.’ I put it on, it match — I stated, ‘Achieved!’” Wiederhoeft is a 30-year-old wunderkind Brooklyn designer of bridal and black tie who labored for Thom Browne and offers his collections names that give prospects an actual sense of his over-the-top aesthetic: a latest one was dubbed “Evening Terror of the Opera.”
Amelia Grey (left) and Delilah Belle Hamlin attend The Day by day Entrance Row’s Eighth Annual Style Los Angeles Awards at The Beverly Hills Lodge on April 28, 2024, in Beverly Hills.
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Then the natty crowd moved right into a ballroom at The Beverly Hills Lodge for the present hosted by Australian comedian-actress Celeste Barber, who’s getting her personal new Netflix present this 12 months. “Sit down, you folks,” she commanded the air-kissy crowd. “Kris Jenner’s right here! Have some respect!” This was Barber’s second The Day by day stint: She couldn’t assist however remind the viewers of her large 2019 second: “It was pre-Ozempic,” she amusingly recalled. “I suppose we’re not allowed to have asses anymore. However 5 years in the past, I used to be right here telling you about that video of me making out with Tom Ford on the subway.” Slightly pleased with this (uncommon) accomplishment, she confirmed it — for emphasis.
Gellar, carrying a tiny pink and inexperienced sparkly strapless Oscar de La Renta, introduced the primary award, to make-up artist Godwin. “I feel I’ve spent extra time with Rachel over time than my husband of 20 years,” Gellar stated with fun. “Rachel’s make-up is flawless. She’s additionally my therapist and confidant. Touching up my face, she’s touching up my soul.” Godwin was already tearing up on the way in which to the rostrum. “My sons ask me why I’m all the time so fancy,” she sniffed. “I inform them it’s my job — they don’t consider me. However I’ve to say, each single superstar who’s ever sat in my chair has taught me one thing. My credo — what the late nice make-up artist Paul Starr as soon as instructed me: ‘Exit and make artwork just like the universe is relying on it.’”
Sarah Michelle Gellar (left) and Rachel Goodwin attend The Day by day Entrance Row’sEighth Annual Style Los Angeles Awards at The Beverly Hills Lodge on April 28, 2024, in Beverly Hills.
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Roshan, THR’s personal co-editor in-chief, was introduced editor of the 12 months by none aside from Ryan Murphy, whose personal Hollywood begin was as a journalist. Murphy recounted highlights of Roshan’s lengthy and prestigious profession in publishing at such shops as Interview, New York Journal and Speak, as founder of websites Radar and The Repair and as editor-in-chief of Los Angeles Journal for 5 years, earlier than occurring to THR final September. “Maer was handpicked as a expertise early on by media stars Kurt Anderson and Tina Brown,” praised Murphy of Roshan’s lengthy profession. “That tells you a large number.”
Accepting his award, Roshan, in a handy guide a rough blue Todd Snyder swimsuit, thanked many colleagues, together with THR co-editor-in-chief Nekesa Mumbi Moody and his total household — mother, two brothers, one sister-law — who cheered him on from mid-crowd. “It’s been nice working, collaborating, with my colleague and co-editor Nekesa Mumbi Moody, as we’re united within the job of taking The Hollywood Reporter to a good increased degree in reporting than it already is,” stated Roshan.
Saying the award for trend entrepreneur of the 12 months, Barber quipped, “Everybody in L.A. thinks they’re an entrepreneur — all of them have three distinct hustles. Everybody else is unemployed. The entrepreneurs could also be, too.” Swedish supermodel Elsa Hosk accepted the award, given in recognition of her 2-year-old line of garments, Helsa, based with buying web site Revolve. “An early nice second was on a flight from New York to L.A.,” described Hosk. “I sat subsequent to a lady who liked my floor-length trench coat. After I instructed her it was Helsa, she purchased it proper in entrance of me.”
Erin Walsh, veteran stylist to such stars as Anne Hathaway, Selena Gomez, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kerry Washington — and a daily on The Hollywood Reporter’s Prime 25 Stylists checklist — was named model curator of the 12 months. She recalled her journey from “lowly trend assistant at Vogue to this. And I’ve seen plenty of folks have a look at trend and really feel unhealthy about themselves. However when you’re courageous sufficient to like all of your self, you possibly can study to curate trend out of your very soul.”
Shocked to listen to “soul” at what may come off like a superficial occasion? It was, oddly, probably the most repeated phrase of the night.
From left: Dani Michelle, Rachel Zoe, Erin Walsh and Adir Abergel at The Day by day Entrance Row’s Eighth Annual Style Los Angeles Awards at The Beverly Hills Lodge on April 28, 2024.
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Momager Lisa Rinna launched super-stylist and journal founder Katie Grand (of Brit mags Dazed and Confused, Love and Good), who launched Grey, after which the 2024 mannequin of the 12 months slithered to the stage in a skintight flesh-toned semi-sheer Alaïa.
“I’ve by no means gained an award,” famous the visibly emotional younger lady. “I don’t know find out how to stand on a podium! Katie Grand put me in my very first editorial, she instructed me to dye my hair black — and it’s labored for me. Being a mannequin makes me really feel entire!”
Um — OK. An Oscar speech, it wasn’t. However it’s a must to minimize a 22-year-old some slack.
Jennifer Garner, in a surprising crimson and blue colour block Rosie Assouline sheath, introduced hair stylist of the 12 months to her buddy/stylist, Adir Abergel, one of many best-loved figures within the Hollywood picture machine. “There may be not a head of hair in Hollywood that he hasn’t made higher,” she gushed. “Adir is each artist’s greatest fan.” The whimsical Abergel — donning an avant-garde Namilia black swimsuit lined with a white cage element by Heather Huey — gave such a significant supply, he truly moved this considerably glacial crowd. “In an period of true division, it’s critical we stand collectively as artists,” he heartily declared. “Artwork can change so many lives with our tales. Stars belief us with their tales — and their vulnerability.”
Jennifer Garner speaks onstage throughout The Day by day Entrance Row’s Eighth Annual Style Los Angeles Awards at The Beverly Hills Lodge on April 28, 2024.
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Concern of God’s stylish Jerry Lorenzo took designer of the 12 months in his personal label’s outsized cream sweatshirt and saggy pale gray pants. “L.A. isn’t essentially recognized for trend,” Lorenzo famous. “However we now have a complicated sense and class in our personal method. That’s the L.A. method to trend. Not the whole lot must be luxurious — you possibly can simply be the most effective model of you.”
From left: Claudia Soare, Kris Jenner and Anastasia Soare attend The Day by day Entrance Row’s Eighth Annual Style Los Angeles Awards at The Beverly Hills Lodge on April 28, 2024.
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None aside from Kris Jenner introduced magnificence innovator of the 12 months to eyebrow queen Anastasia Soare, who reinvented the wonder enterprise by creating shapely architectural eyebrows for shoppers like Oprah Winfrey, Madonna, Kate Capshaw — and naturally, the Kardashian Jenners. “That is the very first magnificence innovator award,” the Romania-born entrepreneur introduced. “After I acquired to this nation, I didn’t even converse the language. There have been many doubters about me, however I used to be not certainly one of them. Lots of people on this room have been my shoppers since.” She thanked her daughter Claudia, now president of their firm, recalling, “She put us on the map with Instagram again in 2012. We had been the primary magnificence model to do it.” Seeing Insta’s now notorious scroll of magnificence advertisements, that’s saying one thing.
Brett Alan Nelson and Doja Cat attend The Day by day Entrance Row’s Eighth Annual Style Los Angeles Awards at The Beverly Hills Lodge on April 28, 2024.
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Subsequent up, the superb Doja Cat, in a full-length fur and outsized black glasses, gushing over Brett Alan Nelson, music stylist of the 12 months, who’s put her in such main scene-making seems to be (see: her face painted crimson to match her Schiaparelli couture), that he helped flip her into an immediate trend star. “He’s my voice, my genie and extra importantly, my household,” she purred. Acknowledged Nelson, flippantly wearing crisp white shorts and an identical lengthy duster, “Doja and I’ve carried out some superb seems to be. And we’ll do extra.” Then he exited the stage with one of many extra distinctive closing strains in awards present historical past: “However now, I’ve to pee.” Barber adopted up with none hesitation: “All of us must pee! Let’s get on with it!”
The ultimate award of the night — the lifetime achievement award — went to the nice Mackie, whose documentary of his six-decade profession, Bob Mackie:Bare Phantasm, comes out Might 13. The viewers acquired a sneak peak of Mackie within the doc, each as a costumer and a clothier, at work on such TV reveals as The Sunny and Cher Comedy Hour and RuPaul’s Drag Race. Mackie’s best-known shopper, Cher, in addition to Legislation Roach, Zendaya’s stylist, seem within the movie. Roach then introduced to the 84-year-old Mackie, calling him “The Duke of Duchesse Satin, the Sultan of Silk Chiffon, the Father of Fringe, the God of Glamour” — simply a few of the monikers the grasp costumer has earned over 60 years. Barber added that Mackie designed “17,000 costumes for The Carol Burnett Present alone.”
The ever-dapper Mackie acquired the one (well-earned) standing ovation of the night time. “After sitting right here all night,” he began, modestly, “I stored pondering: The place the hell am I? I’d like to work with the crew on this room!! Seeing all these folks dressed the way in which they’re made me so completely happy to know: They only love dressing up.” He ended the night time appropriately with this line: “Style was all the time so boring to me. That’s why I went into present enterprise.”
Who would assume, six many years later later, they’re now merely one and the identical?
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