Sharon Waxman, is the founder, CEO and Editor in Chief of TheWrap. She is an award-winning journalist and best-selling author, and is a contributing writer to the opinion page of The New York Times. Twitter: @sharonwaxman
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Viacom’s Marva Smalls Talks About Creating a ‘Culture of Inclusion’
“It’s necessary to start this work at the top,” Smalls tells TheWrap’s Sharon Waxman
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Ronan Farrow’s Target Isn’t Harvey Weinstein – It’s NBC News: a Media #MeToo
A tale of how institutions — even those devoted to telling the truth — will sometimes choose self-preservation and the status quo over exposing powerful people in their own social, political and business circles
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Director Todd Phillips on Making ‘Joker’: Art Is ‘Meant to Be Complicated’
“What’s astounding to me in this discourse in this movie is how easily the far left can sound like the far right when it suits their agenda,” filmmaker says
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MoviePass Parent CEO Bids to Buy Shuttered Service, Take it Private
Ted Farnsworth resigned the top post of Helios and Matheson Analytics in order to bid for MoviePass
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Letter From Toronto: Noah Baumbach’s ‘Marriage Story’ and Julie Delpy’s ‘My Zoe’ Offer a Split View of Divorce
The two films treat the same subject matter, but the difference in perspective is vast
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Letter From Toronto: Films on Striving to Be Black in America
Toronto Film Festival 2019: Beyond Black Lives Matter, “Waves” and “American Son” depict a netherworld where the upper middle class black experience teeters on the edge of tragedy
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‘When They See Us’ Cast Speaks Out on Injustice: ‘America Is Allowing This to Happen’
TheWrap Emmy magazine: “I’m praying this will be a catalyst to start the conversation,” says Michael K. Williams of the Emmy-nominated miniseries
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ViacomCBS Merger Caps Hollywood’s ‘Eat or Get Eaten’ Consolidation Era
Consolidation is essentially achieved across the industry. Now the mergers have to work
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Rosanna Arquette Says FBI Told Her to ‘Lock’ Twitter Account After Blowback From White ‘Shame’ Tweet (Exclusive)
Actress says she was targeted by “toxic and very vicious people” after tweeting she was ashamed of being white
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Power Women Summit 2019 Welcomes Chrissy Metz, Amazon’s Jennifer Salke and Gigi Gorgeous
Activists, actors and leader join the conversation about achieving 50/50 parity
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5 Things to Do After El Paso From Get-It-Done Gun Control Activist Shannon Watts
WaxWord talks to the founder of the grass roots group, who says, “There is not a parent in America today that is not afraid that their kid is next”
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Sony Chief Tom Rothman on Quentin Tarantino and Original Films: ‘You Have to Commit’
Sony’s movie chief savors a glowing first screening of “Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood” at the Cannes Film Festival
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Why Robert Mueller’s Testimony Feels Like Such a Throwback
In historic testimony before Congress, Mueller often looked weary of being the foil for partisan speechifying
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STX Entertainment Seeks Saudi Arabia Investment as Indie Studio Struggles
Robert Simonds’ studio has sought to raise capital following a string of box office disappointments and an abandoned IPO last fall
