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A Hollywood Healing
“It’s going just great, Charles! The director has no idea I’m sleeping with his wife!”
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Charles Yarborough -
‘Lottery’ Director — ‘When Will We Prioritize the Children?’
If we are systematically providing low-income children with a sub-par education, how can we expect to break the cycle of poverty?
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Madeleine Sackler -
Didn’t Get into Sundance? Don’t Despair
Helpful hints on how to market and distribute a film without the platform of a top tier festival
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Jon Reiss -
The Best Film of 2010 — It’s Yogi Bear
No, not that thing in theaters — it’s this animated spoof of “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford”
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Documentary Pats Down the TSA — But the Festivals Turn Away
‘I’m beginning to think that it’s a prejudice associated with the topic more than the film’
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Fred Gevalt -
Best, Worst, Whatever
The end of the year always brings lists some sour grapes and some confession
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Mali Perl -
My Conversation with Michael Moore on Julian Assange, Part 2
The Oscar winner talks Cablegate, freedom of speech, the banks and what a journalist is in 2010
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Laurene Williams -
10 Things You Don’t Know About Steve McQueen
Hollyblog: He has a lost half-sister, he was almost a Manson victim — and the list of movies he turned down, including “Apocalypse Now” and “Butch Cassidy”
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Marshall Terrill -
Malibu Christmas Mitzvah
“I’m worried about Harry. He lost a contract with one of the major studios today and he’s so miserable I’m afraid he’s going to hurt himself”
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Charles Yarborough -
Year-End Wrap-Up: The Women Writers Speak
I asked a variety of women who cover the business about films they liked and what was going on with women in film — here’s what we found
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Melissa Silverstein -
My Conversation with Michael Moore on Julian Assange, Part 1
“He’s not been formally charged with any crimes in any country. If you call yourself an American, he’s innocent until proven guilty”
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Laurene Williams -
Wikileaks: My Unposted Interview with Michael Moore
What is the real problem with the whistleblower website and what are the stakes?
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Laurene Williams -
Angelina Jolie’s Children Paparazzi Law: an Idea Worth Celeb Lobbying
Celebrities should mobilize on this type of legislation, learn a little bit about lobbying, and hit the Hill in a bipartisan, informed, passable stab at advocacy
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Maury Litwack -
Hollyblog: What I Hope HBO Gets Right on ‘Game of Thrones’
The network has to go into George R. R. Martin’s still unfinished mammoth project without fully knowing where it will all end up
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Obama Tax Bill Resurrects Credit for Indie Filmmakers and Investors
The new tax bill, extending Section 181 Federal Film Tax Credit, is great news for independent filmmakers
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Jeff Steele