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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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Circumcision Ban Withdrawn in Santa Monica – But What’s Behind It All?
A ballot initiative to ban circumcision in Santa Monica is withdrawn. But it’s up for a vote in San Francisco, while some call the move anti-Semitic
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Jeff Skoll’s Participant Media: A Business, or a Hobby?
Participant is making fine movies, but no money, by the admission of Jeff Skoll. Meanwhile, Abu Dhabi’s Imagenation may have had enough
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Santa Monica Mayor Richard Bloom Chats About His Run for Sacramento Seat
After three terms as mayor, Bloom wants to take on the state’s problems in a Sacramento seat. I wonder: why?
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Jill Abramson’s Twitter Account, and a Vision for the New York Times
Abramson is being touted as someone with digital savvy, though she isn’t on Twitter. What she needs is a vision
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Jill Abramson First Woman Editor of New York Times
Abramson, the former managing editor, replaces Bill Keller
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Relativity to Spin Off $600M Financing Fund to Elliott Associates (Updated)
Relativity Media will be spinning off a $600 million finance fund to finance movies with Universal, and handing it to Elliott Associates to manage
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Arnold Schwarzenegger Doesn’t Get It, Tells Friends He Wants Maria Back
“At least I kept it in the home,” is what Schwarzenegger has told his friends.
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Relativity to Sell Elliott Stake to JPMorgan Consortium (Exclusive)
Ryan Kavanaugh is set to sell Elliott Associates’ minority stake in Relativity Media to a consortium of investors led by the investment bank JPMorgan, TheWrap has learned.
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Is Hollywood Finally Joining the Information Age? With Flixster, Warner Bros. Has a Plan
Will Hollywood leave behind a dying home entertainment model for a more audacious strategy that unlocks the power of the giants of the Internet — Information?
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Jane Seymour Denies Knowing of Other Schwarzenegger Children
Exclusive: The actress tells TheWrap she was misquoted that she knew of other out-of-wedlock progeny
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WaxWord: Watch Howard Kurtz, Amy Argetsinger and Me Debate the Arnold Debacle (video)
On CNN’s “Reliable Sources” on Sunday, we debate the ramifications to the media coverage of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s so-called ‘love child’ | VIDEO
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Pick Your Poison: Private Betrayal or a Hotel Sex Crime?
After working a day full of tawdry Schwarzenegger and DSK stories, a group of journalists debates just which situation is worse
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Levinson: Lohan Probably Out of ‘Gotti’ Project, Producer Refutes (Updated)
Exclusive: Director Barry Levinson is rewriting “Gotti” and his new version seems unlikely to include a role for Lindsay Lohan, he told TheWrap in Cannes
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Run, Maria Shriver, Run!
Maria Shriver is restless and needs a worthy challenge to the role of wife and mother. I have a suggestion
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Hollywood Foreign Press Elects 3 New Members
The embattled Golden Globes backer swells its ranks to 85