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Weekly Roundup: Celebrity News & Great Career Advice


Allison Janney and Anna Faris
will host the 2015 People’s Choice Awards.

Producer Betsy Beers wants girls to be “strong and complicated.”

Despite success, Hilary Swank didn’t always embrace her strength.

Valuable advice from a failed Kickstarter fundraiser.

Lisa Kudrow encourages actors to “try to get as much as you can because you never know when you’re [sic] time’s up.”

A screenwriter reveals what really happens when you get an agent.

A+E Chairman Abbe Raven to retire. 20th Century Fox names Stacey Snider as its new co-chair.

— KELLY GLOVER

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