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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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Meltdown at Abu Dhabi’s Imagenation: $100M Losses, Executives Ousted
Film fund doled out hundreds of millions in movie deals over the past two years – without almost any hits.
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Roseanne Barr Grilled About Macadamia Nuts & Monsanto Poison
Exclusive! “I’m creating a utopia based on everything that isn’t bullshit”
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The Day After the Revolution: Puncturing the Myth of Arab Immaturity
Privately the West has never believed that the Arabs were mature enough for democracy. Now change has arrived, and we better decide where we stand
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The Daily’s Richard Johnson Flops With Nikki Finke Photo
It’s not even the Deadline founder — after two months in Hollywood, this is the best the iPad-only publication’s entertainment editor has got?
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Super Bowl Surprise! Ryan Kavanaugh’s Getting Hitched
The irrepressible young mogul proposed to his ballet dancer-girlfriend at the Super Bowl. Guess what she said?
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Exclusive: Arianna Huffington Will Not Make AOL a Leftie Blog (video)
The new editor-in-chief of AOL’s Huffington Post Media Group says there’ll be “absolutely no” leftist political slant. But Tim Armstrong says to expect cuts
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The Nikki Finke Photo: The Daily vs. Deadline (Updated: Nikki responds)
The blogger faces the thing she fears most: a photo, in Rupert Murdoch’s new Daily. Now it’s war
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Andrew Breitbart: Huffington Wants to Be a ‘Murdoch of the Left’
One of HuffPo’s founding editors, he says of AOL’s current readers: “I think a lot of people will not be happy. I don’t know how many.”
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The Internet Remembers: Nikki Finke’s DOA Verdict on HuffPo (updated)
In 2005, Finke called HuffPo — which sold on Sunday for $315 million — “the sort of failure that is simply unsurvivable”
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How Egypt’s Social Media Revolution Could Spread Across the Middle East
The one party, strong man rule that has dominated the land of the Pharaohs for decades is coming apart before our eyes in an information-driven uprising. What and who is next?
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Exclusive: Leading Egyptian Actor Calls on U.S. to Support Protesters
Says the Egyptian star: “We are very disappointed with America. You have to follow the people.”
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Charlie Sheen to Everybody Else: You Turds Don’t Get It
The actor, now in rehab, texts: “Guy can’t have a great time and do his job also?”
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Warner Brothers: ‘Two and a Half Men’ Secondary; Let’s Get Charlie Healthy
Shooting on the show next week may have to be postponed if Sheen has surgery on Friday
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Happy Second Birthday to TheWrap! (Includes Photo of Cake)
It’s been a wild ride thus far, full of unexpected twists and turns and the most unpredictable changes in media and in Hollywood media in particular. I’m proud to say we are now a company 20 people strong
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Flushed! Jeff Gaspin, Steve Burke and the $200,000 Bathroom
Gaspin’s overpriced bathroom started Steve Burke’s dissaffection with the executive, who will leave his job at the top of NBCU next week

