Three New Year resolutions for the entertainment industry
2014 has been a slog of a year, especially toward the end, and especially if you cover the entertainment industry. It's been a year without a big, transcendent movie hit, a period in which a game-changing TV show, True Detective, reverted to every cliche in the book, and it all ended in the disaster of The Interview. Thank goodness it's over! As we see 2014 out the door, here are three resolutions that pop culture's power players might want to consider for the new year.
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