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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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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The Nudist Buddhist Borderline-Abusive Love-In
September 19, 2004 FILM; The Nudist Buddhist Borderline-Abusive Love-In By SHARON WAXMAN DAVID O. RUSSELL had developed something of a reputation. The screenwriter and director of ”Flirting With Disaster” and ”Three Kings” had become known for smart, wildly original movies, and for attracting top actors despite relatively modest budgets. But he was also known for…
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Strange Appearances
A strange, short film appeared for a brief time on YouTube today. It was a much talked-about, little-seen tirade by director David O. Russell from the set of his 2004 film, "I Heart Huckabees." (I was on the set a fair amount, took some pictures on a happier day, see left.) I had described this…
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History for Sale
Now we’re talking. Ron Stodghill has written an interesting article in the Sunday Times about the Aboutaam brothers, two seasoned antique art dealers whose lives are being made increasingly complicated by the new realities of the art trade. The subject, it so happens, is one that I am currently investigating for my new book, "Stealing…
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no shows at showest
….and just to close the loop, here’s the article about the studio no-shows at this year’s ShoWest: "The major Hollywood studios are following similar no-frills scripts at what is the principal industry showcase for mainstream movies. A frayed relationship between the major studios and exhibitors, cost-cutting across the board and consolidation among the national theater…
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ShoWest Shimmy
LAS VEGAS — Your intrepid correspondent sends greetings from ShoWest, the annual convention for theater-owners and managers from all across the country. Here’s all you get of Spider-man 3 at ShoWest (see left). A nice big image, liberally posted around the Paris Hotel, with no hint at all of what this movie will be like.…
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Winterstern’s Tale
In today’s paper there’s a Hollywood morality tale: same story, new protagonist. Henry Winterstern resigned last week as the CEO of First Look Studios, an independent that he’d been trying to build over the last two years. Winterstern, it seems, is quite successful at raising money. Not so successful at creating profit. He brought a…
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Visit With Art
By Sharon Waxman WASHINGTON, June 15, 2006 — Art Buchwald isn’t dying, as it turns out. “Do you think he scammed us?” asks my editor at the Times. I say I’m not sure, but I better go find out, and make an appointment to visit Art at the hospice in Washington…
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Buchwald Lives
They had a memorial today for my friend Art Buchwald, who died earlier this year, at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC. I couldn’t be there, but it sounded like just the kind of event Art — Artie, as many called him — would have loved. There were loads of Kennedys, and Tom Brokaw, and…
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Lasseter Leads
In the quiet becalming of Hollywood that occurs in the days post-Oscar, my colleague Laura Holson has weighed in with a fascinating, and fairly rare, glimpse into the style and substance of John Lasseter, the founder of Pixar, come lately the chief honcho at Disney animation. He has been charged with reinventing the place, and…
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Hollywood Junk
This (see photo) arrived in the mail the other day in the form of a paperweight. Why a paperweight? Do I, does anyone for that matter, need a silver and pink and yellow Simpsons paperweight? Will this want to make me see the movie? No. Unfortunately, this is not the only absurd bit of junk…
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Post-Oscar, in the Wee Hours
This is your humble correspondent on her way into Vanity Fair’s Oscar party. You’ll notice I found a last-minute replacement for the old white pantsuit. There’s a story in today’s paper about what it’s like on the inside of the celebrity circle of cool, gleaned from crumpled, inky bits of paper — that’s what I…