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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There I Go Again
I wrote an op-ed article in today’s Los Angeles Times revisiting one of my favorite causes: cleaning up the Golden Globes. It’s titled, "Hollywood’s Con Job." This year’s cancellation of the show gives NBC what I call "a golden opportunity" to make the Hollywood Foreign Press Association finally open its ranks to the quantity and…
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Making Changes
A quick announcement to friends and readers: As many of you know, I have spent the last six months on book leave, with the intent of returning to a new position at the Times, based in New York. During that time I have also being thinking hard about the future, and as of this week…
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Malkovich Doesn’t Vote
I want to meet Diablo Cody, the writer behind the sharp, funny and heartfelt movie, "Juno," which premiered last night in Westwood. How she lasers into the lingo of American youth, ‘fer shiz,’ and creates a heroine so dazzlingly fearless and yet completely terrified at the same time, played by Ellen Page, is some feat. …
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“Rebels,” in French
Exciting, for me, anyway. I just received word that "Rebels on the Backlot" has come out in French under the title, "Les Six Samurais," from the publisher Calmann-Levy. This is a first for me. (I never saw the Russian edition, but apparently there was one.) The subhead translates as: "Hollywood was sleeping, they woke it…
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Relief for True
Marion True has finally caught a break: a Greek court threw out criminal charges against her in the case of a golden wreath bought by the Getty in 1993, and returned to Greece earlier this year. The AP is reporting that a three-judge panel ruled today that the statute of limitations in the case had…
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Nefertiti News
Is anyone keeping score here? Word comes from Cairo that Germany has agreed to establish a joint committee to decide whether the famed bust of Nefertiti (that’s her along the left column of this blog) can go back to Egypt on loan, as has been requested by the country’s leading archeological gadfly/pharaoh, Zahi Hawass. Hawass…
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The Getty Empties Out
A sad sight. I went to the Getty Villa in Malibu today to see the last of the 40 objects that are in the process of being returned to Italy over the next few weeks. It was a quiet day, and a sunny one. Pieces have been quietly disappearing from one day to the next.…
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DreamWorks Plays Chess
If you are surprised to see me weigh in on DreamWorks moves to exit its relationship at Paramount in today’s NYT, mmm, well, so am I. But a tip came my way, and the reporter in me couldn’t pass it up. The story is essentially that DreamWorks is looking to make a deal to move…
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A Glimpse From Inside
This is what it looks like from inside the working world of Hollywood, now a strike zone. The screeching sound you hear is the shut-down of show after show, from Santa Monica to Burbank to Rockefeller Center. That is the sound of the brakes applied to a multibillion dollar entertainment industry. Here is one partial…
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A Tale of Two Hollywoods
At the PEN USA awards last night in Beverly Hills, it was no surprise to hear a lot of talk about the Hollywood writer’s strike. The theme was the First Amendment (isn’t PEN’s theme always the First Amendment?), and some made strained — even angry — comparisons between the screenwriters’ standoff over money, and the…
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Italy Scores: Now it’s the Dealers
Who’s next? Why, the dealers are next. Jerome Eisenberg, the long-time and much in-the-mix antiquities dealer, has given Italy eight pieces of art valued at about a half-million dollars, according to reports today. (See AP and Bloomberg .) Eisenberg, now 77, has claimed to be doing so "for ethics and good will," but we may…
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True Grit
Every year I look forward to attending the "Courage in Journalism" awards, given annually to a few women who demonstrate true fearlessness in the pursuit of truth. The event is a lesson in humility and a reminder of what price some journalists pay for their ideals. This year’s ceremony, held last night at the Beverly…
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Tune in Tomorrow
Friends and Readers: Hope you will tune in tomorrow, 2:30 pm PST, Tuesday, October 30, as I guest-host "The Politics of Culture" on KCRW for the first (and, depending, very possibly the last) time. You can listen live at 89.9 FM if you are in Los Angeles, or hear it online at KCRW.com, and it’s…
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The Twisted Tale of a Body Part
It was bound to come to this: ancient body parts held hostage by a French bureaucracy fearful of creating a precedent. That’s the truth behind a strange tale playing out in France this week. The mummified, tattooed head of a Maori warrior was what an enlightened deputy mayor in Rouen decided was not a work…