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
Experience:
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Be Obama
Here’s the journey, and here’s the moment of arrival, and here we all stand together at the threshold of opportunity. An inauguration. Change has arrived. Barack Obama is our president. This man, so young and untested, so average in height, and slight of build, is telling us – he is showing us by his existence…
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Inauguration ushers in new era
Change has arrived with Barack Obama, but he also seems sure to usher in a period of radically changed relations between Hollywood and the power structure in Washington.
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The Park City Scene: Party Fatigue Sets In
By Monday evening, crowds at the Eccles theatre had quieted for the premiere of “Adventureland,” Miramax’s 80s tale of love between two post-college kids who spend their summer working at a depressed amusement park. The film is from director Greg Mottola, who worked on “Superbad” and directed episodes of “Undeclared” and “Arrested Development.” The idea…
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Hollywood closes retirement facility? Where’s the Katzenberg telethon?
Am I the only person confused at the embarrassing news that the Motion Picture & Television Fund had run out of money and had to close its long term care and acute care facility in Woodland Hills? This means 100 elderly sick people are being turned out on the street, a third of the staff…
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The Golden Globes: Making Hollywood Irrelevant
The Golden Globe awards may have recaptured their party spirit on Sunday after last year’s strike-induced cancellation, but by the end of the evening the awards flirted dangerously with national irrelevance – rewarding one small film seen by few moviegoers, and indulging long, earnest speeches by well-lauded celebrities. “Slumdog Millionaire,” the raucous, inspirational tale of…
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Stolen antiquities returned from NY to Egypt
The latest returns to Egypt, this time from our own government: 12/3/2008, 2:09 p.m. EST By TOM HAYS The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Dozens of ancient artifacts stolen by a former U.S. Army helicopter pilot were returned to the Egyptian government on Wednesday during a ceremony in Manhattan. Officials said the items,…
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Letters in Response to the Op-Ed
Dear Ms. Waxman – I read with great interest your article in today’s New York Times but I suggest that there is an aspect of artifact ownership which you have neglected to consider and that is the caretaker and protective responsibility that goes with such ownership. There is a responsibility to preserve for future generations these…
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NYT Op-ed: Thoughts for Tom Campbell at the Met
I have an op-ed in today's New York Times that talks about the imminent arrival of Thomas Campbell as the head of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York on January 1. I write: "Mr. Campbell, who will take over one month from today, is a 46-year-old curator from the Met’s department of European sculpture and decorative arts, and…
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The Moguls Speak: Let’s Be Reasonable
In a full page ad in tomorrow's L.A. Times, the moguls speak up and sound oh so reasonable when they say: Actors, take the deal! Let's not have another strike! It's hard to trust the moguls, to be sure. It feels a little bit like Wily Coyote warning Bugs Bunny to steer the runaway coach…
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Re comments: Keep it civil, please
To my readers, The comments on this blog go up unfiltered. It is part of my belief in the give and take of journalism in the age of the Internet. But I ask you all to remain civil in your discourse. Some of the comments are becoming intemperate. If I find the discussion turning ugly,…
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Cold-Blooded Murder in India; Outrage, and Sorrow
How is it possible that in this 21st century, we must be witness to the sort of butchery that took the lives of a young Brooklyn rabbi and his wife, Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg, left their infant orphaned, and led to the deaths of three others – just a few of the 150 victims –…
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Who Holds SAG Accountable?
Re-Update: In response to comments from readers, I'd like to clarify that SAG has not denied the story. The guild's response to my specific questions about the meeting can be read below in the original post. It's a day later, and the guild has still not denied the story. Nikki Finke saying the guild denies the…
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FAMOUS STARS GIVE THUMBS UP TO GUILD STRATEGY IN SECRET MEETING
Note: This post has been updated to correct errors and reflect further reporting. LOS ANGELES – They met in the private room of an Italian restaurant, like in a scene from one of the Godfather movies: Warren Beatty, Jack Nicholson, Meryl Streep, Nick Nolte, Annette Bening — about 20 of Hollywood’s great stars from the…
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STRIIIIIIKE??? HOW CAN THIS BE?
I'm back doing a toe-touch in the midst of my book tour, but even so I cannot believe that the Screen Actors Guild is calling for a strike vote after the no-progress meetings with a federal mediator and the AMPTP this week. How can this be? I'm hearing from SAG members that they are furious that…
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The Anand Jon Verdict: Justice? An Analysis of the Case
In retrospect, Anand Jon’s lawyers have a great deal of explaining as to why they put on such a limited defense of a man accused of raping and otherwise assaulting a parade of underaged or nearly underaged models. One wonders if they drank the Anand Jon Kool-Aid. From the start, Jon has suffered from…