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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Ronni Chasen Murder Tipster Sues for $125K Reward
But Palm Springs festival, which offered the reward, says there’s insufficient evidence in the case
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Uncertainty at IMG as Board Wrestles With Removing Ovitz
Senior management conferred with legal counsel over the weekend as to how to remove Ovitz from the board
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New Hulu Bids Due This Week, But Sale Probability Wanes
While bids may be close to the desired $2 billion, the owners are vacillating over whether a sale is the best outcome
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Nikki Finke Exposed, Part 1: Desperate, and Out of Control
WaxWord will be exposing Finke’s poisonous maneuvers going forward in this space – here’s the latest one
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Michael Ovitz IMG Takeover Bid Fails, Board Aligns 7-4 for Ouster (Updated)
EXCLUSIVE: The former super agent made his play while CEO Ted Forstmann battles life-threatening brain cancer
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Conrad Murray Trial, Day 2: Assistant Says Doctor Tried to Get Back Into MJ’s House (Live Feed)
After an emotional first day when a photo of Michael Jackson’s corpse was shown in court, Conrad Murray’s trial continues
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Why Haven’t Lionsgate and Summit Merged Yet?
It’s crushingly obvious that this merger is a deal that needs to happen. Both companies are too small to thrive in today’s brutal marketplace
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Summing Up TheGrill 2011 — a Buffet for the Engaged Brain
Spend a day and a half talking to some of the smartest people about the changes in the entertainment and media and you’ll feel full, too
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Charlie Sheen Pending ‘Settlement’ With WB Is Really Just Back-Pay
The deal is is really made up mainly of money the actor is owed for back-end profits on “Two and a Half Men”
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Harry Sloan & Jeff Sagansky: The Future Is Content — and It’s Outside the U.S.
“Media companies haven’t taken enough risks in the past 15 years, and they’re paying the price for it today”
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Why Nikki Finke’s Content Theft Lawsuit Is Interesting, If Still Batty
Finke is attempting something that is almost certainly impossible: Stopping reporters from picking up the phone and confirming news that her site has published
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Harvey Weinstein Invites Michele Bachman to Premiere of ‘Butter’
“I would of course be more than happy to fly in the other leading members of the Tea Party movement to make an entire day of it”
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Michelle Yeoh Takes on Aung Saan Su Kyi; Lucy Walker Films Tsunami Aftermath
Aung Saan, ably played by Michelle Yeoh, is a pacifist, which doesn’t make for big action scenes
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‘Shame’ Shocks With Pitiless, NC-17 Sex
British director Steve McQueen's drama takes a piercing, pitiless look at the culture of sexual excess in Western society