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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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Airbnb and the New Shared Economy: I Hated the Age of the Hummer
I love the idea of being able to put wasted space to use for a shared benefit
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Former NYT Columnist Anna Quindlen Had Issues With Bill Keller’s Cancer Column
“My concern with that situation with both Bill and Emma was I wondered whether they’d taken good care,” she says
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TheWrap Bolsters Editorial Team With New Hires Across Film, TV and Media
Jordan Zakarin joins as Film Reporter, while James Crugnale and L.A. Ross are named staff to cover media and TV. Inkoo Kang also joins as film critic.
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What the Comcast Purchase of Time Warner Cable Means for Cord-Cutting – and Consolidation
“It certainly forces the rest of the cable industry to consolidate,” one analyst tells TheWrap
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How Larry Kramer Will More Than Double USA Today’s Circulation This Year (Exclusive)
“We are mimicking TV ..USA Today appearing in a local newspaper is like NBC News appearing on the local affiliates airwaves,” the publisher tells TheWrap
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Producer of Egypt’s ‘The Square’: Oscar Nomination Has Created Controversy
“You’re entering a space where the dust hasn’t settled in a time when certain groups are trying to rewrite history”
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Hollywood Salutes Tom Sherak the Man, Not the Mogul
More than a thousand mourners gather in a Woodland Hills Thursday morning to pay tribute to the former studio exec and Academy president
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Indiegogo Founders on Their $40 Million Raise: ‘We Don’t Really Know How Big It Can Get’
TheWrap stopped by the crowdfunding platform’s office on the day of their big news
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From TheWrap Founder: Our First Five Years, Happy Birthday to Us!
It’s only in retrospect that we realize how terrifying it was to jump into the deep end of digital media
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WaxWord: 5 Cold Truths From an Uninspiring Sundance
Too many films, not enough distribution, crowdfunding is a mixed blessing and movie star politics
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Bill Maher on Keeping His Edge, Getting Over the Clintons and Chris Christie Douchebaggery
Fresh off his renewal by HBO, the Friday night satirist talks to TheWrap
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Inside Guggenheim’s Plans for THR, Billboard – A Cable Channel (Exclusive)
An insider tells TheWrap what the bigger picture looks like
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The Naked Truth About Lena Dunham, Judd Apatow and TheWrap’s Tim Molloy
Why does a question about female nudity from a male reporter spark charges of misogyny?
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Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg on Re/code, NBC Investment and Keeping the Chairs (Exclusive)
“We wanted our own company,” says Swisher. Now she has it.
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TheWrap Staff Picks Its Favorite Stories From 2013
Editor-in-Chief Sharon Waxman and Executive Editor Joseph Kapsch asked the staff to pick the stories this year that they were most proud of. We decided to share their picks with our readers.