Waxword


Sharon Waxman On the Business of Entertainment
The founder and editor of TheWrap’s take on life on the left coast, high culture, low culture and the business of entertainment and media. Waxman writes frequently on the inside doings of Hollywood, and is is also the author of two books, Rebels on the Back Lot and Loot
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How Anita Hill Paved the Way for American Women to Spill Their Secrets
These women finding their voices is a remarkable moment in our country’s history
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TheWrap Publishes 13-Part #AfterMeToo Series, Revealing Powerful Testimony of Accusers
The multimedia project looks at the aftermath for women and men who have broken their silence about powerful men in Hollywood
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Errol Morris on Steve Bannon in ‘American Dharma’ Doc: He’s ‘Deeply Disturbing’
Toronto Film Festival: Waxword debated Errol Morris about his revealing new doc
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At TheGrill 2018: How Do You Bring Casting into the Digital Age?
TheGrill speakers Rafi Gordon and Alex Amin discuss disrupting the casting process
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The New Yorker-Steve Bannon Scandal: Buying Stock in Outrage Inc.
Have we so lost the thread of our national narrative that this is where we spend our time?
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#MeToo Blowback Over the Winds of Change in Hollywood
There are two quiet conversations going around in Hollywood right now — both are wrong
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Finalists Announced for 2018 ShortList Film Festival
Voting begins today and runs through August 22
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TheWrap Expands Events Division, Digital Strategy With High Level Hires
Nina Brown, Glenn Walker join senior leadership at TheWrap
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AMC Networks CEO Josh Sapan, Dolby Chief Scientist Poppy Crum, Helios & Matheson CEO Ted Farnsworth Join TheGrill 2018
Artificial Intelligence, movie subscriptions and the future of media are hot topics at TheWrap’s annual gathering of thought leaders
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Anxiety in Hollywood Over Firings, Tweets and Crying in the Office
The new rules? Be careful of objectionable language when assistants are listening in on business calls
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The Confused Ethics of Mark Zuckerberg – Let’s Definitely Not Judge Those Holocaust Deniers
Bizarrely, Zuckerberg this week used Holocaust denial as the example of free speech that he would not want to suppress on Facebook-
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6 Top Takeaways From the Latest Mueller Indictments: The Audacity of Spies
As our president-king prepares to sit down with Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Helsinki on Monday, here is what leaped out
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To Report or Resist? A Journalist’s Struggles in the Age of Trump
There comes a time when you wonder if staying on the sidelines is the responsible thing to do
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Lea Thompson, Madelyn Deutch Join Power Women Breakfast San Francisco
The fourth in TheWrap’s 2018 series on leadership will also feature the mayors of Compton and Oakland, digital diversity strategist Kathryn Finney
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The Unbearable Darkness of Trump – South of the Border Edition
President Chaos and Captain Evil have decided that the best way to spend the summer is to spin the country into a heart-rending, sanity-testing tailspin