Columns
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Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes: Can We Handle the Truth?
Guest Blog: There are certain subjects — and celebrity marital travails can be one of them — that even our increasingly invasive media choose to stay away from
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‘Brave’ and My Audition to be Madame Picasso
Guest Blog: The moral of this tale if that our fate lives within us
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Carole Mallory -
The Return of the Lohan
Guest Blog: Lindsay's re-emergence made me realize that she’s the sole member of a once very active L.A. chapter of the Bad Girls' Club
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Mali Perl -
Opportunity Will Knock – If You Drag it to the Door Step
Guest Blog: There are plenty of opportunities in Hollywood — you just have to create them with hard work, persistence and countless hours
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Keith Fenimore -
A Wake-Up Call for Women Producers
Guest Blog: We cannot accept the lowly statistics without activism
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Barbara Sutton Masry -
Why Can’t Cannes be Like the Silverdocs?
45 of the around 100 films unspooling at the festival are directed or co-directed by women
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Aviva Kempner -
Sorry, It’s Just Not True That ‘One Writer Fits All’
In bouncing between movies, novels and sitcoms, there is some crossover in the required skill sets, but the bulges that don’t intersect lead lots of writers to their real-estate licenses
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Peter Mehlman -
‘E.T.’ 30th Anniversary: Its Magic Still Resonates
Guest Blog: With 'E.T.,' Steven Spielberg introduced audiences to their inner child in a way that was so intense that it forced us to look at, and confont, the real world in a different way
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A Once and Not-Future TV Writer’s Ode to Joy
Guest Blog: In this re-entry into network TV, no matter where I looked — ESE, WSW NNE, SSW — the future was clouded with frigid conference calls, coded notes, oppressive tact and congestive collaboration
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Peter Mehlman -
Paul McCartney: He Had ‘Stardom, Here I Come’ Written All Over His Pretty Face
Guest Blog: Sir Paul McCartney, who turned 70 on Monday, was the smoothest of the Fab Four in their prime — articulate, witty and very gregarious
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Ivor Davis -
‘Rock of Ages’ Recalls My Rod Stewart Connection
Guest Blog: No shame here. No shame there. No shame in the new Tom Cruise rock musical
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Carole Mallory -
Rediscovering ‘Uncle Miltie’
Guest Blog: A look back at "Mr. Television" himself, Milton Berle, given to making his point with a kiss
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Arthur Axelman -
‘Peace, Love & Misunderstanding’ with Norman Mailer
Guest Blog: The filmmakers behind "Peace, Love and Misunderstanding" missed a chance with their take on a mother and daughter healing a relationship
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Carole Mallory -
A Message for Hollywood and Silicon Valley: Grow Up
Guest Blog: For real copyright detente, Hollywood and Silicon Valley should forego the rhetoric, stop screaming and negotiate like adults
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Michael Stroud -
Memo From the RIAA: Legal Action Is First Step to Legal Listening
Guest Blog: The best strategy is all about providing fans with convenient access to music in legal, affordable ways
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Cara Duckworth