Sharon Waxman, is the founder, CEO and Editor in Chief of TheWrap. She is an award-winning journalist and best-selling author, and was a Hollywood correspondent for The New York Times. Twitter: @sharonwaxman
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Thompson Strikes Out on Her Own, With IndieWire Support
Anne Thompson has become the latest journalist to branch out and become an entrepreneur. She has signed up with Rick Allen, the CEO of SnagFilms and IndieWire, to promote and sell advertising on the Thompson on Hollywood blog, which will be dropped from the Variety.com platform on July 31. Thompson will own and run the…
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SnagFilms’ Movie Matcher a Gift to Movie Lovers
SnagFilms.com is one year old tomorrow, and to celebrate, the website devoted to distributing documentaries online is launching a snazzy redesign and an online film festival. That’s cool. But the most interesting new feature is something they’re calling Movie Matcher. It’s brilliantly simple and presumes that movie lovers need help thinking of new movies to…
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VIdeo: Farewell to TheWrap Guest House
Call me sentimental, but it was beautiful July day in southern California, and I took a moment to chronicle a typical day at TheWrap at the same time as I took the Flip by the horns and set out to do more video, dammit! The first phase of TheWrap is coming to a close. We’ve…
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There’s Smoke, But No One Fired at Universal
Something is up at NBC-Universal, but exactly what is a Hollywood chess game.With juicy items showing up in the media and my own phone ringing with talk about Vivendi and the “put” it has at GE, the waters are being stirred for a reason. But what? If NBC-Universal is not being sold (and…
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Social Networking Making Friday The Only Day That Counts
Twitter, Facebook have changed what ‘word-of-mouth’ really means.
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ABC and the Posthumous Michael Jackson Economy
I swear I’m almost done with writing about Michael Jackson, but honestly — was anyone else gobsmacked to see photos and video of Michael Jackson with his children on ABC’s Primetime Live? It’s almost too much information for a single day. For more than a decade the singer managed to raise his three kids without…
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Jackson’s Final Act: Sainthood
In death, Michael Jackson is suddenly some kind of a saint. A humanitarian. A philanthropist. A civil rights leader. “Like our father Martin,” said Martin Luther King III before a live television audience of millions around the world at the memorial. “He was indeed a shining light.” What a difference two weeks and…
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I’ll be at WashingtonPost.com Tuesday at 9 PST
I’ll be answering questions about the life and death of Michael Jackson tomorrow from 12 to 1 pm EST at my old haunt, The Washington Post’s chat room. Here’s a link to submit questions and join the conversation. https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2009/07/06/DI2009070602733.html See you then.
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Jackson’s Finances: TheWrap Shows You the Money
“There is a real opportunity to restructure (his debt) so they can keep all those assets.”
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Firing John Arthur Won’t Fix the L.A. Times. What Will?
L.A. Times executive editor John Arthur probably sealed his fate last Friday with a memo to his boss, editor Russ Stanton, in which he extolled the virtues of the newsroom. The staff is doing great journalism, he observed, while questioning the rampant rumors of reductions to the masthead and impending changes to their jobs. Thursday…
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AEG Has 100 Hours of Video; May Make Movie
Promoter confirms Wrap report that Wednesday night run-through was recorded in multi-camera high-definition.
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AEG Could Make Bundle on Unreturned Jackson Tix
Jackson fans don’t want the refund, they want the ticket.
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Taped Jackson’s Last Night Alive Could Be CD, DVD (upated)
“We have a live album in the can,” AEG official boasts.
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From King of Pop to Wacko Jacko: A Tragedy in Black & White
Michael Jackson’s life is a modern day tragedy. A star at 11, a teen idol as an adolescent and the King of Pop before he hit 30, Jackson spent what should have been the best years of his life confused, hounded and haunted, an Alice in Wonderland creature in a world of pop culture that…