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His chiseled body, stripped to his glistening skin, was what sold tickets and shot “Voodoo” to platinum status, courtesy of the “Untitled” video, a one-shot, minimalist wonder co-directed by Paul Hunter and D’Angelo’s manager Dominique Trenier.

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It’s not a gimmick but a device — much as the one-shot production of “Adolescence” was not performative cleverness, but the right fit for the material — both in the sense of the child being the parent of the adult, and because it allows for a different, deeper sort of performance than one is liable to get from a first or a third grader.

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For drivers, we had gen AI, one-shot models, reasoning, moving to agentic autonomous agents, and physical AI.

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“And that’s really critical to making a one-shot feel like it is part of the language of the show and not a gimmick. For the audience, it acts as a remedy for our terrible attention spans by not cutting.”

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Scottie Scheffler battled the worst of the torrential downpours that battered Royal Portrush to shoot a commanding 64 and open a one-shot lead over Matt Fitzpatrick at the halfway stage of The Open.

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