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Thank God Social Distance Is Sad Despite its title, “You Gotta Ding-Dong Fling-Flong the Whole Narrative” — starring Peter Scanavino, Ali Ahn, and Scanavino’s own son Leo Bai-Scanavino — may be  Social Distance ’s bleakest entry.  Photo: Netflix I’m not sure what to describe as the first episode of  Social Distance , Netflix’s new coronavirus anthology show created by Jenji Kohan and Hilary Weisman Graham. When I open Netflix, the episode that begins playing for me as the first one of the series is called “Delete All Future Events,” and it’s just the kind of awkward, unpleasantly topical episode you’re probably already imagining when you hear the phrase “new coronavirus anthology show.” The main character, played by Mike Colter, is a barber struggling to maintain some kind of career, and also cling to his sobriety, while stuck at home alone in the early spring lockdowns. When I watched  Social Distance  as the screeners provided for critics, “Delete All Future E...

Hillbilly Elegy movie

  Netflix releases trailer for 'Hillbilly Elegy' movie shot in Middletown Al Behrman FILE – This March 13, 2008, shows AK Steel's Middletown Works plant in Middletown, Ohio. Author J.D. Vance's book "Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis" provides a vivid tour of the stark world he grew up in, set mainly in the southwestern Ohio city of Middletown hit hard by the decline of its dominant steelmaking company, but also in his familial eastern Kentucky hills region. (AP Photo/Al Behrman, File) SOURCE: Al Behrman Updated: 5:57 PM EDT Oct 14, 2020 Netflix released a trailer for its movie, "Hillbilly Elegy," which was shot in Middletown.The movie stars Amy Adams and Glenn Close.Andy Lipschutz of the movie production company said some 125 people were involved in shooting that began Aug. 5, 2019 in Middletown. Middletown native J.D. Vance wrote the 2016 bestselling, colorful memoir about growing up in a struggling family. He wa...

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