Sharon Waxman

Sharon Waxman

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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

  • Women in Hollywood

    I’m already getting lots of mail from readers in Hollywood and elsewhere, weighing in today’s story on the dearth of women executives at the top of the moviemaking power structure, and its effect on the movies. To me, the most remarkable fact I learned in reporting this piece is that only 15 percent of those…

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  • Alec’s Rant

    I tried hard to ignore the sordid affair of the leak into the public domain of Alec Baldwin’s private rant to his daughter on a phone message. Alas, reporters don’t always get to choose what is newsworthy. Here’s my take on the brave new world we’re now in, published in today’s Styles section: "Did anybody…

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  • A Sudden, Terrible Loss

    I am still reeling from the news that one of my journalistic heroes, David Halberstam, was killed in a car accident yesterday near San Francisco. This is a terrible tragedy, a loss to journalism, the passing — without warning — of one of the greats of the last half of the 20th century. Halberstam, who…

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  • Santa Barbara Soap Opera

    Here’s the latest craziness up in Santa Barbara. Nasty stuff; one wonders where it all will end: "An ugly conflict involving a wealthy local publisher turned even uglier Sunday as The Santa Barbara News-Press published a front-page article suggesting that the paper’s former editor had kept child pornography on his work computer, a claim that…

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  • Carlos Picon at the Met Opening

    This is Carlos Picon, the curator of the Greek galleries, in front of a beautifully restored fresco from a home in southern Italy, only about 1,000 years old. This photo was taken on the day of the press preview of the new Greek and Roman galleries. He told me of the new collection: "We are…

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  • Curtain’s Up On the Met

    Beautiful. Breathtaking. Inspiring. I was in New York all last week, in part to be present for the opening of the new Greek and Roman galleries at The Met. The galleries, vast and spacious, have made room for no less than half of the Met’s classical antiquities collection, which has been hauled out of mothballs…

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  • Curtain’s Up On the Met

    Beautiful. Breathtaking. Inspiring. I was in New York all last week, in part to be present for the opening of the new Greek and Roman galleries at The Met. The galleries, vast and spacious, have made room for no less than half of the Met’s classical antiquities collection, which has been hauled out of mothballs…

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  • Who Is Anand Jon?

    There’s a lot to be said, and a lot more that will be said, about the story I’ve been intensively working on this past week (hence my quietude in this space) and that appears in tomorrow’s Styles section. Anand Jon is a young, Indian-born designer who is facing 32 counts of rape and other types…

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  • addendum to dog years

    Housekeeping stuff: Just wanted to note that I had the unique pleasure of speaking to a director in the wake of his getting first whiff of a glowing, almost poetic review by my colleague and pal, Manohla Dargis. I happened to be talking to Mike White (see below, writer-director of "Year of the Dog") in…

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  • Year of the Pup

    Today will be a photo gallery, and you’ll see how my photography skills are improving. (Right?) To the left, Mike White, the writer-director of "Year of the Dog," which premiered last night at Paramount. He’ seems to be a rather sweet, talented guy — his friends Ben Stiller and Jack Black, the old comedy posse,…

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  • The Passion of the L.A. Times

    None of us in journalism feel particularly joyful over the latest series of events to rattle the institution that is the Tribune Company, based in Chicago. And none of us in L.A. feel reassured that the main broadsheet in this metropolis continues to hang in a state of suspended animation. Here’s a story I wrote…

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  • Media and the War

    The Art Deco Wolfsonian Institute on South Beach in Miami , Florida (see left), is dedicated to the idea that the power of images and propaganda are worth observing, recording, studying. They have a fascinating collection, worth visiting if ever you are in the neighborhood. I was, because they invited me to speak (late last…

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  • A Really Good Movie!

    I saw a wonderful movie tonight, such a rare experience as to make it all the more notable. It’s called "Once" — or,at least, it used to be called "Once" — and is a musical told in cinema verite style by a new writer-director from Ireland, John Carney. The movie tells  a touchingly simple story…

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  • Skater Boys

    Hard to believe all the things I’m missing sitting in front of my computer. And being over 40. This afternoon, I ventured into a room full of spinning, jumping, flipping and sliding teenagers, boys with long hair and skinny jeans showing off their tricks in a local skateboard competition. I went because my nine-year-old’s life…

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  • Grazergate?

    Sometimes I think our profession is bent on self-destruction. In the breathtaking space of not-quite -24 hours, the Los Angeles Times publisher David Hiller has killed an opinion section that featured guest writers invited by Hollywood producer Brian Grazer. And the editorial page editor, Andres Martinez, has, in response, resigned. Why? Because a publicist who…

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