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Although its multimedia approach to kids’ content has helped expand its audience, it has also raised questions about screen time and what kind of content — if any — very young children should be watching.

Lloyd’s “Sunset Blvd.,” by contrast, blasts away with impunity to create a vastly different experience — a kinetic multimedia concert, in which Andrew Lloyd Webber’s music and Don Black and Christopher Hampton’s lyrics are freed from the procedural nature of Black and Hampton’s book.

Jones was a crucial connector of talent and repertoire; he had an instinctive sense of where artists should go to find success; he built a multimedia empire with an eye toward empowering people for whom show business didn’t always make room.

“Martha” offers a slightly more nuanced version of this journey, showing how Stewart overcame her humble origins to create a multimedia lifestyle company worth billions by, as she once put it, “celebrating something that’s been put down for so long.”

Collage and collision are their preferred multimedia modes.