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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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Daily Beast: Michael Wolff Report of $100 Million Loss ‘Wildly Inaccurate’ (Exclusive)
“Those numbers are wildly inaccurate,” a Daily Beast spokesman tells TheWrap
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A Rare Survivor Still Bears Witness: Meet Martin Becker
I have met many Holocaust survivors in my life. Martin Becker is different
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Why Won’t Disney’s Anne Sweeney Lean In? Women and Leadership Dilemmas
This decision, personal as it is, is a blow to larger hopes for women’s leadership.
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Jon Klein on His New Online Venture: ‘We’ve Created the Company That I Feared Would Come Along’
Klein and former NBCU chief Jeff Gaspin will launch their multichannel online network within a month
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Inside the Oscars’ Governors Ball: Triumph, Defeat and The Ellen Pizza Situation
After three and a half hours captive in the Dolby theater, the guests inside the Governors Ball spread out, reach for a drink and an Oscar-shaped smoked salmo
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Oscar Season 2014 Comes to An End: My Pick, Our Picks – And Thanks
It’s been a fantastic ride, an awards season rich with excellence and rife with surprises
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Airbnb and the New Shared Economy: I Hated the Age of the Hummer
I love the idea of being able to put wasted space to use for a shared benefit
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Former NYT Columnist Anna Quindlen Had Issues With Bill Keller’s Cancer Column
“My concern with that situation with both Bill and Emma was I wondered whether they’d taken good care,” she says
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TheWrap Bolsters Editorial Team With New Hires Across Film, TV and Media
Jordan Zakarin joins as Film Reporter, while James Crugnale and L.A. Ross are named staff to cover media and TV. Inkoo Kang also joins as film critic.
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What the Comcast Purchase of Time Warner Cable Means for Cord-Cutting – and Consolidation
“It certainly forces the rest of the cable industry to consolidate,” one analyst tells TheWrap
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How Larry Kramer Will More Than Double USA Today’s Circulation This Year (Exclusive)
“We are mimicking TV ..USA Today appearing in a local newspaper is like NBC News appearing on the local affiliates airwaves,” the publisher tells TheWrap
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Producer of Egypt’s ‘The Square’: Oscar Nomination Has Created Controversy
“You’re entering a space where the dust hasn’t settled in a time when certain groups are trying to rewrite history”
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Hollywood Salutes Tom Sherak the Man, Not the Mogul
More than a thousand mourners gather in a Woodland Hills Thursday morning to pay tribute to the former studio exec and Academy president
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Indiegogo Founders on Their $40 Million Raise: ‘We Don’t Really Know How Big It Can Get’
TheWrap stopped by the crowdfunding platform’s office on the day of their big news
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From TheWrap Founder: Our First Five Years, Happy Birthday to Us!
It’s only in retrospect that we realize how terrifying it was to jump into the deep end of digital media
