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  • BRESLIN AND HAMILL: DEADLINE ARTISTS

    What Jimmy Breslin and Pete Hamill Can Still Teach a New Generation of Journalists (Guest Blog)

    By Mary Murphy and Michele Willens | January 25, 2019 @ 11:54 AM

    Perhaps new dogs can learn old tricks

  • Marvelous Mrs Maisel

    With Anti-Semitism on the Rise, the Jewishness of ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ Is a Marvel (Guest Blog)

    By Mary Murphy and Michele Willens | January 6, 2019 @ 12:30 PM

    Judaism infuses every frame, every hallah-day, every summer in the Catskills

  • murphy brown thanksgiving special cbs candice bergen

    Is Trump Fatigue Killing Any Movie or Show With a Political Edge? (Guest Blog)

    By Mary Murphy and Michele Willens | December 7, 2018 @ 5:30 AM

    “It’s risky, especially since the real unfolding drama on cable [news] is more compelling,” political reporter and documentarian Jonathan Alter says

  • When Will Washington Catch Up to Hollywood’s Vision of Women in Power?

    By Michele Willens and Mary Murphy | November 19, 2018 @ 5:51 PM

    A short history, from Clare Boothe Luce to Claire Underwood

  • richard nixon watergate

    ‘Watergate’ Director on Why We Need to Revisit the Saga of a Rogue President (Guest Blog)

    By Mary Murphy and Michele Willens | November 1, 2018 @ 7:18 PM

    “No one had ever done a really comprehensive telling of what can only be called a true thriller,” Charles Ferguson says

  • sally field jane fonda

    Sally Field and Jane Fonda, Rebels and Role Models for #MeToo Generation (Guest Blog)

    By Mary Murphy and Michele Willens | October 1, 2018 @ 10:03 AM

    In a new memoir and documentary, the two stars reveal triumphs over powerful men who both loved and demeaned them

  • Bel Canto

    ‘Bel Canto': Inside the Beloved Novel’s Long Path to the Big Screen (Guest Blog)

    By Mary Murphy and Michele Willens | September 14, 2018 @ 8:18 AM

    “Sixteen years is really not all that long to get an independent film made these days,” producer Caroline Baron says

  • star is born

    ‘A Star Is Born’ Again and Again and Again – Will the Movie Remakes Ever Stop? (Guest Blog)

    By Mary Murphy and Michele Willens | August 15, 2018 @ 9:29 AM

    “Hollywood likes stories that have pre-existing audience awareness,” former Fox Searchlight exec Joe Pichirallo says

  • hannah gadsby hedy lamarr

    Why Hannah Gadsby and Hedy Lamarr Are Both Having a Bombshell Moment Right Now (Guest Blog)

    By Mary Murphy and Michele Willens | July 31, 2018 @ 12:53 PM

    If the two women time-traveled to meet, they might both say, “Yeah, me too!”

  • jojo rabbit hitler taika waititi

    Fire and Fuhrer: Why Hollywood Is So Focused on Adolf Hitler These Days (Guest Blog)

    By Mary Murphy and Michele Willens | July 16, 2018 @ 9:00 AM

    “Even if it [Nazism] is not lived or felt history anymore, Hitler and it has become an all-purpose insult and stand-in for evil,” author Thomas Doherty notes

  • roseanne barr

    Roseanne’s Talent for Self-Destruction Gets Her in Trouble Again (Guest Blog)

    By Mary Murphy and Michele Willens | May 31, 2018 @ 7:11 PM

    “I’ve been trying to kill myself since I was a child,” she once told us in an interview

  • broadway revival angels in america children of a lesser god three tall women

    Broadway’s Revival Fever: Do Old Shows Still Play in #MeToo Era? (Guest Blog)

    By Mary Murphy and Michele Willens | March 28, 2018 @ 11:51 AM

    “Children of a Lesser God” cut a jokey reference to “rape,” producer Hal Luftig says

  • A Face in the Crowd

    Did Andy Griffith Pave the Way for Donald Trump? (Guest Blog)

    By Mary Murphy and Michele Willens | March 7, 2018 @ 2:55 PM

    “I’ll say one thing for him, he’s got the courage of his ignorance,” says one character of the budding demagogue Griffith played in 1957’s “A Face in the Crowd”

  • hayley mills party face

    ‘The Parent Trap’ Star Hayley Mills: Thank God I Broke Out Long Before Instagram (Guest Blog)

    By Mary Murphy and Michele Willens | February 22, 2018 @ 11:00 AM

    “I am only grateful I didn’t become famous in the time of social media,” former Disney child star says

  • sam cooke bobby darin

    Is It Finally Comeback Time for Sam Cooke and Bobby Darin?

    By Mary Murphy and Michele Willens | January 30, 2018 @ 2:02 PM

    Michael B. Jordan and Jonathan Groff may make two classic music stars sing to a whole new generation

  • peele gerwig actor turned director

    Greta Gerwig, Jordan Peele and Other Actors Who Direct: More Than Beginner’s Luck? (Guest Blog)

    By Mary Murphy and Michele Willens | January 17, 2018 @ 12:13 PM

    The directors of “Lady Bird” and “Get Out” join a long list of Hollywood auteurs who got their start in front of the camera

  • This Is Us

    How ‘This Is Us’ Tackles Alcoholism Head On – and Not for Laughs (Guest Blog)

    By Mary Murphy and Michele Willens | October 9, 2017 @ 12:30 PM

    Finally, one show that gets that this is no laughing matter

  • malibu cinema

    Will Anybody Save Malibu’s Last Picture Show? (Guest Blog)

    By Mary Murphy and Michele Willens | October 1, 2017 @ 8:53 AM

    The famed Malibu Movie Colony’s last cinema shut down last month

  • angie dickinson candice bergen police woman murphy brown emmy

    How Angie Dickinson and Candice Bergen Shook Up Women’s Roles on TV – and Off (Guest Blog)

    By Mary Murphy and Michele Willens | September 14, 2017 @ 11:09 AM

    Two actresses paved the way for women to play more than just wives and mothers

  • telethon oprah clooney beyonce activism hollywood

    A Brief History of Hollywood Activism, From Helen Douglas to Tonight’s Harvey Telethon (Guest Blog)

    By Mary Murphy and Michele Willens | September 12, 2017 @ 11:25 AM

    The seeds of celebrity activism harken back to this Hollywood couple who put their careers on the line at an equally, if not more, perilous time

  • elvis

    How Elvis Presley’s Death Led to the Birth of Modern Entertainment Journalism (Guest Blog)

    By Mary Murphy and Michele Willens | August 15, 2017 @ 5:17 PM

    “It did not take long for [CBS MNews] executives to realize they’d underestimated the appeal of the singer who made Ed Sullivan blush,” Mary Murphy and Michele Willens write

HOLLYBLOGS

Mary Murphy and Michele Willens

Mary Murphy is magazine and TV journalist and an associate professor at the USC Annenberg School of Communications and Journalism. Michele Willens is a New York-based writer and NPR theater commentator. They are writing a book on the history of entertainment journalism.
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