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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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Inside the Warner Bros Shakeup and What It Means for AT&T Merger
Analysis: If AT&T merger doesn’t happen, the studio must prepare a backup plan
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A Wolff in the West Wing – How ‘Fire and Fury’ Was Reported
No chance somebody buttonholed the guy with the notebook and the vaguely familiar face and asked, “So, dude, what exactly are you doing here?”
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Letitia James, Shelley Zalis, Sarah Ann Masse Join BE Conference 2018 as Speakers, Mentors
James is the New York Public Advocate, Masse is a sexual assault survivor and comedy writer, they join as speakers, mentors for second annual event March 11 & 12, 2018 during SXSW in Austin, TX
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Hollywood in 2018: The Old Order Ends, a New One Rises
Change is about to come barreling through the established order of Hollywood, leaving companies in pieces, shattering long-accepted norms and anointing a new set of power brokers
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Sasha Alexander, CAA-GBG’s Kendra Bracken-Ferguson Among Speakers at 2018 BE Conference for Millennial Women
Second annual event for millennial women in media, entertainment and technology will be held March 11-12, 2018 in Austin, Texas
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Behind the Disney-Fox Merger: 7 Things We Still Need to Know – and 3 We Already Do
For starters, what happens to all the top talent at Fox?
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Elvis Costello, T Bone Burnett, Common and More to Talk Up Their Oscar Song Contenders
Hollywood’s top composers and lyricists to gather at TheWrap’s screening series event on Monday
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How They Saved Ojai: A Letter From a Town to Its Firefighters
On Saturday, all along the road into Ojai, homemade signs dotted the path: “Thank you for saving our town”
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Matt Lauer, Russell Simmons, Garrison Keillor and the Upending of Everything
Now we have to think of Matt Lauer wielding a sex toy
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Hollywood Panics as Post-Harvey Housecleaning Continues
It’s a new day and the rules that prevailed for decades are out the window. Zero tolerance for sexual misconduct is the order of the day
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Hollywood Reels From Post-Harvey Flood of Sexual Misconduct Accusations
“It’s not one explosive story, it’s something new every day. It’s hard on your spirit,” one industry insider tells TheWrap
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‘American Idol’ Producer Peter Hurwitz Pushed Out as Core Media CEO (Exclusive)
Hurwitz served as The Weinstein Company’s general counsel from 2006 to 2009
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How Fabrizio Lombardo Became Harvey Weinstein’s Hustler
“I met the overly ambitious street hustler Lombardo as a naïve young model,” says my correspondent
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Jennifer Salke, Kelly Bush Novak, Claire Forlani, Lauren Sivan Join Power Women Breakfast LA
Special #MeToo Town Hall added to memorable program of truth-telling and empowerment
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Peter Bart Denies Covering for Harvey Weinstein: I Was Protecting Variety
He tells WaxWord: “My policy was to say: ‘Let’s run the story if you can nail it. But if you can’t, then let’s not”
