Columns
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Union-Busting 101 for First-Time Filmmakers
Hollyblog: Film financier Jeff Steele’s tips for negotiating with SAG, WGA, DGA, IATSE and the Teamsters. Teaser: Get to know Eastern Europe!
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Jeff Steele -
LaVyrle Spencer Hits Gold and Pays Back
Even in Hollywood, one good turn can lead to another
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Arthur Axelman -
Airsickness to Addiction: I Was a Real-Life Pan Am Stewardess
Flying the skies as a stewardess in the ’60s wasn’t anything like they show it on TV
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Charts: Tony Bennett Becomes First Eightysomething to Top Billboard Chart
The octogenarian’s “Duets II” album sold 179,000. On the other end of the age spectrum, teens Demi Lovato, Mindless Behavior, and Cody Simpson all made strong album-chart impressions
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A ‘Whale’ of a Tale — but Should It Be About the Story, or Advocacy?
Which technique is actually more powerful to change minds and affect lives?
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Review: Wilco’s ‘Whole Love’ Has Beatles’ ‘White Album’ Unpredictability
The critically beloved band splits the difference between its experimental and acoustic leanings
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Review: Blink-182 Grows Up a Little Too Much on ‘Neighborhoods’
Having jettisoned the jokiness for good, the band has a harder time making adult angst memorable on its first album since 2003
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My Own Book – The Best Time I’ve Ever Had Talent-Booking
Not until I talent-booked my own book, “Hire Me, Hollywood!” did I learn how fun the process could be
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Review: Seth MacFarlane’s Big Band Album Is No Joke
Playing it straight on an earnest album of lesser-known Sinatra-era material, the “Family Guy” creator avoids meriting his own roast
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Captured by Captcha — So How Do You Type Hebrew?
Filling out the security box for a Facebook message ended up a linguistic feat
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Dan Bloom -
Celebrating Sheila MacRae’s 90th in Song — a Dynasty Ritual
As it does every year, family and friends will gather round the baby grand for a slew of husband Gordon’s hits
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Carole Mallory -
‘The Mormon Murders’ — the Mini-Series the Latter Day Saints Shut Down
It is said that LDS President Gordon B. Hinckley called CBS founder and chief William S. Paley and asked, “How would you like some outsiders doing a vicious four hour attack on your Jews?”
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Saving Ferris: My Charlie Sheen Years and Yours
It was only in watching Monday’s “Two and a Half Men” that I began to realize how intertwined all of our stories had become
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Lady Antebellum Owns ‘Night’ — and Billboard Chart
Easily aced failed comebacks by a whacked Bush and petered-out Primus
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Review: ‘SuperHeavy’ Moves Like Jagger, With Good Reason
Mick Jagger and Joss Stone have natural duet chemistry in a supergroup project that’s good fun, if you don’t take it super-seriously