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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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Sunk! How Hollywood Lost the PR Battle Over SOPA
Hollywood had Chris Dodd and a press release. Silicon Valley had Facebook
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Golden Globes in the Ballroom: Things I Learned by Attending
By 6 p.m. everyone is starving and charges out during commercials to forage for tea sandwiches in a backroom
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Out of Prison, West Memphis 3 Ex-Con Seeks Justice
Baldwin, one of three freed men, wants to go to law school to help others wrongfully accused
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A Game-Changer for Television? Sesame Street Will Be First Interactive Show
This strikes me as an entirely new way of experiencing television – personal, interactive and engaging
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TheWrap Names Lisa Fung Executive Editor
Fung joins TheWrap from The Los Angeles Times, where she most recently has been the Online Editor for Arts and Entertainment
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Tech’s High Rollers, Media Machers Compare Notes at CES Opening
It’s some kind of high-class tech-media scrum inside the Tryst nightclub at the Wynn Hotel
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5 Remedies for 2012 and What Ails Hollywood
What’s the reason for the miserable box office performance in 2011? Here are five ideas
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Steve Jobs: Bully. Cry-Baby.
I knew Steve Jobs was a visionary. What I didn’t know was that he was such a cry-baby
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National Geographic Films Shutting Down, Say Insiders (Exclusive)
The studio has brought in a scant $1.7 million in revenue this year, with five films in release including “The Last Lion,” “The First Grader,” “Life in a Day”
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Christopher Hitchens: A Salute to Intellectual Honesty
He wrote the best, most piercing, most clarifying prose of his career as he faced down the specter of his own demise
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Gilt’s Susan Lyne at TheWrap’s Power Women Breakfast: ‘My Friends Thought I Was Out of My Mind’ (Video)
At TheWrap's 3rd Power Women breakfast, the ex-entertainment exec shared the thrill and peril of running an Internet start-up
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Execs Exit, Money Tight — Ryan Kavanaugh Needs a Miracle, but Christmas Is Coming
Kavanaugh’s demise is predicted regularly — has his luck finally run out?
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Fox Accuses ‘The Muppets’ of Brainwashing Kids Against the Rich
“Is liberal Hollywood using class warfare to brainwash our kids?” Duh
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Disney Seeks to Replace Marketing Chief MT Carney (Exclusive)
Disney has reached out to two major executives to recruit a replacement, TheWrap has learned
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Ryan Kavanaugh’s 9 Lives: $200M Loan From Ron Burkle Saves ‘Immortals’ (Exclusive)
The involvement of the L.A. billionaire is a new wrinkle for Relativity and its swashbuckling chief, Kavanaugh