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The Switch Crunches Some Academy Membership Numbers

From Art's Deli in Studio City to the Washington Post's data journalism pages, more #OscarsSoWhite.

The front page illustration for today’s edition of Washington Post free daily Express is for a story inside by AP film writer Jake Coyle, about the kinds of films that typically have the most success each year at the Oscars. However, it’s the article on the facing page, taken from the Post’s The Switch, that leaves the lasting impression.

Reporter Drew Harwell leads off with the same story writer-director Rod Lurie shared last month in The Hollywood Reporter, about running into fellow Directors branch members at Art’s Deli in Studio City and discussing with them Straight Out of Compton, a film that only one had half-seen.