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  "id": 800258,
  "title": "Inside the Disney Machine: How the Iconic Brand Is Discovering the Next Generation of Stars",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/13/inside-the-disney-machine-how-the-iconic-brand-is-discovering-the",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-08-13T19:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Variety",
    "slug": "variety",
    "url": "https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/disney-next-generation-stars-1236832245/"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "It’s a tale as old as time — or at least the late ’90s. Young actors cut their teeth on Disney youth programming and blossom into fully fledged pop stars or Academy Award-nominated actors. Some of today’s biggest stars — Zendaya, Selena Gomez, Olivia Rodrigo, and Sabrina Carpenter, for example — got their start in the […]",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}