Amazon Blocks Mainstream Press From Watching ‘Melania’ Documentary at Kennedy Center

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• But by 6:30 p. m., when members of the administration began walking the carpet, it became clear that most of the mainstream press would be blocked from attending the Amazon MGM Studios film.
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• The only press from the carpet allowed into the screening (not counting those separately invited) were One America News anchor Dan Ball and his wife Peyton Drew, a producer for the far-right news channel.
• Popular on Variety “I feel overdressed,” Drew, who wore a floor-length glitter ballgown on the press line, told her husband before talent arrived.
• “But,” she quickly reassured herself, “we’re attendees.” Members of the Trump administration — Robert F.