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Shirley Li

Reporter · US

Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Sep 15, 2026
Outlet visibility, for The Atlantic
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Jul 6, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 15, 2026 · Shirley Li

    A Night for Actor’s Actors, Not Movie Stars (opens the original)

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    When the Widow’s Bay creator Katie Dippold accepted her Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series last night, she joked that she was so proud of her win, she intended to display her trophy as prominently as possible in her home. The award would be mounted on a rotating turntable, she explained; mirrors would be set up around the space so that visitors could always see it, wherever they were. “This is going to become my entire personality now,” she warned. This year’s Emmys essentially tur

  2. Article · Aug 29, 2026 · Shirley Li

    The Terrible Movie That Chinese Audiences Can’t Stop Watching (opens the original)

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    One of the only compliments I can offer the new Chinese animated film Niu Lai is that it certainly qualifies as a film. There is sound. The pictures move. But beyond the basics of what makes a movie a movie, Niu Lai, which translates to “The Ox Comes,” contains little artistic merit. The plot, about a calf coming of age with the help of a leopard, a bird, and his mother, is thin, and the characters have been so nightmarishly rendered on a rudimentary computer program that they might as well be s

  3. Article · Aug 13, 2026 · Shirley Li

    The Trouble With Trying to Turn Viral Videos Into Blockbusters (opens the original)

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    Almost 14 years ago, the producer Scott Glassgold stumbled on a short film on Vimeo about a woman who believes she’s encountered an alien. The project, by a pair of filmmakers named Zeek Earl and Chris Caldwell, was “a wonderful, lo-fi science-fiction story” that conveyed a distinct storytelling voice, Glassgold told me. He immediately set out to work with them, hoping to introduce the pair to Hollywood as fresh directing talent. “That was an early moment for me on the internet,” he explained. “

  4. Article · Jul 7, 2026 · Shirley Li

    The Corner of Hollywood That’s Most Susceptible to AI (opens the original)

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    Years ago, when the Simpsons animator Chuck Sheetz was a lecturer at UCLA, he invited a producer colleague of his from the series to attend a screening of his students’ work. That was a Saturday night; when Sheetz entered the Simpsons offices the following Monday morning, he found a handful of his pupils in the reception area. The producer had offered them jobs, they said, and they were ready to join the team—the students had the animation skills required of a thriving production. These days, Sh

  5. Article · Jul 7, 2026 · Shirley Li

    Of Course It Happened at Madison Square Garden (opens the original)

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    At roughly 7:30 p.m. on Friday, July 3, the words JUST&T MARRIED! appeared on the jumbotrons outside Madison Square Garden. The sign meant that the “T&T” in question—the pop star Taylor Swift and her footballer fiancé Travis Kelce—had just wed. Onlookers outside the venue who’d braved the heat wave for any glimpse of the festivities cheered. A reporter for NBC News was caught speechless upon seeing the message. And I, seeing a photo of the screens on Instagram, thought, Wait, did AT&T sponsor th

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