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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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Big Warner to Trim New Line Further; Hopes Emmerich Will Stay
The independent division will shrink from the current staff of 50 to about 35, TheWrap has learned
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Man Shot Dead in Dispute Over Eating Popcorn Too Loudly During ‘Black Swan’
Police in Latvia arrested a 27-year-old man for shooting dead a fellow audience member after he was criticized for eating popcorn too loudly
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At the Speed of Twitter: The Revolution Spreads to Libya, Bahrain, Yemen
Twitter is the pulse of the fast-moving wave that is overtaking the Middle East as Gaddafi trembles, and Bahrain blinks
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Meltdown at Abu Dhabi’s Imagenation: $100M Losses, Executives Ousted
Film fund doled out hundreds of millions in movie deals over the past two years – without almost any hits.
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The Day After the Revolution: Puncturing the Myth of Arab Immaturity
Privately the West has never believed that the Arabs were mature enough for democracy. Now change has arrived, and we better decide where we stand
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The Daily’s Richard Johnson Flops With Nikki Finke Photo
It’s not even the Deadline founder — after two months in Hollywood, this is the best the iPad-only publication’s entertainment editor has got?
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Super Bowl Surprise! Ryan Kavanaugh’s Getting Hitched
The irrepressible young mogul proposed to his ballet dancer-girlfriend at the Super Bowl. Guess what she said?
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Exclusive: Arianna Huffington Will Not Make AOL a Leftie Blog (video)
The new editor-in-chief of AOL’s Huffington Post Media Group says there’ll be “absolutely no” leftist political slant. But Tim Armstrong says to expect cuts
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The Nikki Finke Photo: The Daily vs. Deadline (Updated: Nikki responds)
The blogger faces the thing she fears most: a photo, in Rupert Murdoch’s new Daily. Now it’s war
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The Internet Remembers: Nikki Finke’s DOA Verdict on HuffPo (updated)
In 2005, Finke called HuffPo — which sold on Sunday for $315 million — “the sort of failure that is simply unsurvivable”
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Charlie Sheen to Everybody Else: You Turds Don’t Get It
The actor, now in rehab, texts: “Guy can’t have a great time and do his job also?”