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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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The Sony Emails: Hollywood Preserved in Amber
In the future, the flesh and blood people revealed in the emails will recede into archetypes of Tom Wolfe proportions
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7 Takeaways from CinemaCon 2015
Disney and Fox are strong. Sony is climbing back. Warner makes blockbusters (duh). Michael B. Jordan is a scorching movie star.
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Chelsea Handler Is Featured Speaker at TheWrap’s 1st Power Women Breakfast in San Francisco
Handler joins Kara Swisher, Ruth Vitale, Karen Appleton and editor-in-chief Sharon Waxman
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WikiLeaks Exposes Bromance Between Sony TV Chief Steve Mosko, Jay Penske: ‘You’re a 10 In My Book!!’
How close are Steve Mosko and Jay Penske? Closer than you knew
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I Won’t Vote For Hillary Just Because She’s Running and Female
I’d like to believe that Hillary Clinton’s being a woman would not matter to most of us. But we all know that’s hogwash
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Olivia Munn Joins TheWrap’s 1st Power Women Breakfast in San Francisco As Series Expands
Munn joins Kara Swisher, co-CEO and co-owner of Revere Digital and Ruth Vitale, Executive Director of CreativeFuture
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‘The Hunting Ground’ Director Kirby Dick on Rolling Stone Retraction: ‘Keep the Bigger Story in Perspective’
“False reporting of sexual assault is in the two-to-eight-percent range … People have to realize that the vast majority of sexual assaults are true,” he tells TheWrap
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Rolling Stone Retracts Rape Story But – No Consequences, Jann Wenner?
According to Wenner, this lapse was a one-off. Everybody at Rolling Stone can go about their business. Also, they’re super-sorry it happened. Um – what?
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STX Entertainment Chief Robert Simonds on Why He’s Spending $750 Million Making Movies This Year: ‘We Believe in It’
Simonds tells TheWrap: “We are throwing a lot of capital around, but we believe in it”
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UTA Takes Leap Forward, CAA Dealt Blow in Daring Agency Raid
It was a quantum leap for the smaller agency run by Jeremy Zimmer
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Robert Durst Murder LAPD Case: Four Experts Confirmed Handwriting on Cadaver Letter
Los Angeles law enforcement failed to file charges against the subject of HBO’s “The Jinx” until now
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Shocking Robert Durst Confession Marks Extraordinary Moment in Documentary History
“It was the tail end of a piece of the interview,” Jarecki said
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Russell Brand Doc Director on Sparring With Comedian: ‘It Was Like Non-Violent Protest’
Ondi Timoner reveals that the comedian intervened in the filmmaking process of “Brand: A Second Coming”: “Most things I just couldn’t do”
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5 Fast Impressions of SXSW 2015 From a Newbie
I was unprepared for the vast smorgasbord of knowledge, networking and innovative stuff going on
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HBO NOW’s Standalone Service – Cable and Content Companies Face the Watershed
Content providers need to move fast since cable companies are starting to push back against networks that are not delivering the audience
