Hollyblogs
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How ‘Son of Saul’ Director Feels He Succeeded Where Other Holocaust Movies Have Failed
László Nemes’ 10-year effort forgoes typical tropes of victims and villains to “make one face visible for the public”
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Gun Reform Needs Help From Hollywood (Guest Blog)
“It’s not enough for the Hollywood community to advocate for positive and bloodless scripts, we need to implore our movie stars to take action,” Aviva Kempner says
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YouTube Red Launch: 4 Lessons for Companies Looking to Break Into SVOD (Guest Blog)
The recent introduction of YouTube’s subscription video service exposes pitfalls and opportunities for those lacking Google’s resources (i.e., everyone)
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MPTF Home Under Fire Again for Care of Silent Star ‘Baby Peggy’ (Guest Blog)
But in the case of actress Diana Serra Cary, Motion Picture & Television Fund’s long-term care facility is playing by rules with full transparency
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How a 1993 Craig T. Nelson TV Movie Predicted the Climate Change Debate
As politicians meet in Paris for COP21, Hollywood asks why more films about global warming haven’t been greenlit since CBS’ “The Fire Next Time”
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Who’s Really to Blame for the Lack of ‘Empire’-Sized Comedies? (Guest Blog)
When trying to finger the culprit for a failed sitcom, it’s always the last place where execs look — themselves
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From ‘Bridge of Spies’ to ‘Suffragette’: Historical Fall Movies That Could Be Ripped From Today’s Headlines (Guest Blog)
“As Americans go to the movies in the coming weeks they cannot help but be struck by how much art is imitating life,” Aviva Kempner says
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Why TV’s Content Bubble Is a Good Thing for Creators (Guest Blog)
“There is a lot of video out there right now, muddying the waters, but out of that mud grow beautiful flowers — some of the best content we’ve ever seen,” Nate Hayden, VP of Originals and Branded Content at AOL, says
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Harold Perrineau: Stop Saying My Daughter’s Not Black Enough for ‘Jem and the Holograms’ (Guest Blog)
“Can we stop looking to Hollywood to define who we are and find ways that we can define ourselves?” the “Lost” actor writes
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How I Made Yogi Berra Sore (Guest Blog)
Filmmaker Aviva Kempner sought a personalized Yogism from the Yankees Hall of Famer and got more — and less — than she bargained for
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U.S. Visa Rules Debunked: How International Stars and Entertainment Professionals Get to Work in the U.S.
L.A.-based attorney Fuji Whittenburg explains the hurdles foreigners must clear to work on U.S. productions
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How a Shower Scene Changed Television History (Guest Blog)
TV in the 1970s was a lot racier than you might think, until the “family viewing hour” crashed the party 40 years ago this month
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A New Year’s Reflection on One of Hollywood’s Most Beloved Rabbis (Guest Blog)
“This may be the only Temple whose musical director is a twice-Emmy nominated film, television and concert music composer,” Richard Stellar writes of Temple of the Arts, Beverly Hills
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When Julia Roberts Was a Nobody to Superagent Sue Mengers (Exclusive Book Excerpt)
In a passage from his new biography “Can I Go Now?” Brian Kellow describes the brash Hollywood legend’s bumpy return to the agenting business in the late 1980s
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When Will America Cancel Trump TV? (Guest Blog)
“It will take about 120 days, or four months, for Mr. Trump’s numbers to decrease,” branding guru John Tantillo writes
