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
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The Joe Eszterhas ‘Maccabees’ Script: Bloody Butchery, Heroic Jews (Exclusive)
It’s exceedingly bloody, it’s hardly mainstream – and it is in every way a Jewish “Braveheart,” just as Joe Eszterhas claimed.
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Lawrence O’Donnnell: Mel Gibson Wears a Mask to Restaurants? (Video, Updated)
Just when you thought you’d heard everything about Mel Gibson, we learn something new
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The Mel Gibson Letter: Sharon Waxman and Howard Kurtz Debate (Video)
Howard Kurtz, the esteemed media critic for Newsweek and The Daily Beast, and I discuss the Mel Gibson – Joe Eszterhas brouhaha
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Joe Eszterhas to Mel Gibson: ‘Don’t Call Me a Liar, I Have a Tape’ (Exclusive)
Joe Eszterhas, in an exclusive interview with TheWrap, details Mel Gibson’s anti-Semitic obsession, frequent rages and threats to Oksana Grigorieva
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Mel Gibson on Oksana Grigorieva: ‘I’m Going to Have Her Killed,’ Letter Says
“I’m going to have her killed!” Read the nine-page letter
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Joe Eszterhas Explodes at Mel Gibson: ‘You Hate Jews’ (Exclusive)
Joe Eszterhas, in an explosive nine-page letter to Mel Gibson obtained by TheWrap, writes: “The reason you won’t make ‘The Maccabees’ is the ugliest possible one. You hate Jews”
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Warner Bros. Shelves Mel Gibson Maccabee Movie (Exclusive)
Studio says script didn’t work, move comes after Jewish groups were outraged to learn that Gibson would produce and direct
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Where Does Creativity Come From? Jonah Lehrer Unlocks the Science
The epiphany, that instant of transcendence that leads to Art – how can it be unlocked? Jonah Lehrer tells us in his new book
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Are Power Couple Rick Nicita, Paula Wagner Going Into Business Together?
An insider says the couple will be starting a company to produce Broadway shows, finance and produce movies as well as manage talent
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Olbermann Autopsy on CNN’s ‘Reliable Sources’: ‘An Arrested Adolescent’ (Video)
Said Kurtz: “When you hire a pitbull to growl on TV, don’t be surprised if he claws the furniture at home”
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Remembering Mike Wallace – A Legend With a Dark Secret (Video)
I met Mike Wallace on a waning summer afternoon – golden brown, stripped to the waist, he crashed through the back door of Art Buchwald’s porch on Martha’s Vineyard.
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Legendary Closes $275M in New Financing
Legendary has raised new funding from investors including Breyer Capital, Accel Partners, Peter Thiel and Gordy Crawford
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Former L.A. Times Editor Slams Paper For ‘Blaming Customers, Competition, Technology’
A tweet exchange about the L.A. Times escalates between former editor Matt Welch and writer Joe Flint
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James Murdoch Out at BSkyB: News Corp. Succession Slips Away
James Murdoch’s exit means death by a thousand cuts to the prospect of his succeeding Rupert Murdoch at News Corp.
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Why We Picked ’10 Producers Who Will Change Hollywood’
“10 Producers Who Will Change Hollywood in 2012” list is our first-ever attempt to single out the leading creative voices who are taking risks in the filmmaking space