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Harry Evans Has This to Say About Today's Media
At 92, the legendary editor calls the press ‘deeply polluted’ as he explains how he was fired by Rupert Murdoch, why The New York Times and The Washington Post have lost their influence, wife Tina Brown’s mistaken decision to work with a ‘seductive’ Harvey Weinstein and his own current foray into the Oscar race — with said Harvey Weinstein.
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May 27, 2016
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Chris Jackson
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Eddie Huang and Jay Z are in his stable as he talks Trevor Noah’s memoir and the fate of Prince’s.
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October 7-14, 2016 Double Issue
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No Need To Be Dramatic, It's Time To Have A Laugh
While the Academy rarely favors funny, the Globes’ comedy/musical category considers a lighter pool of contenders — from big kahuna La La Land to movies as varied as Deadpool and Florence Foster Jenkins
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Awards Playbook Special 2 - Nov. 2016
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Bill Condon
The Beauty and the Beast director on why musicals are back (thanks, La La!), how Disney approached the remake and who makes Julian Assange crazy.
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March 10 - 17, 2017
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This Is 'Oldchella,' Hollywood Style: A Producer's Desert Trip Diary
Woodstock? Hardly. An Oscar nominee takes off (with a THR press pass?!) for a once-in-a-lifetime weekend of the Stones, Dylan and McCartney — but forget the tent in the mud, he’s got a mansion, luxury golf and a VIP skybox.
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October 21, 2016
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Love In Black And White
In the early hours of July 11, 1958, a sheriff and two of his deputies burst into the rural Virginia home of a young married couple, Richard and Mildred Loving, and went straight to their bedroom.
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October 28-November 4, 2016 Double Issue
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Keith Cox
The TV Land chief has a rarity in today’s cable — rising ratings and buzz — as he reveals how many times Darren Star passed before bringing Younger to the network, what it takes to age down an audience and the end result of a Viacom-CBS deal.
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October 28-November 4, 2016 Double Issue
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Genevieve Angelson
Genevieve Angelson might have missed the 1970s, but the self-described “free-love hippie who just wants to roll around in a field and wear flowers in my hair” was a natural for her first leading television role as a tenacious potsmoking flower child on Amazon’s Good Girls Revolt (Oct. 28).
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October 28-November 4, 2016 Double Issue
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Brian Goldner
Hasbro’s CEO on the future of Transformers, Disney’s Princess bonanza and why buying a studio is ‘very compelling’ By Tatiana Siegel
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June 14, 2017
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'Who Am I If Not The American Idol Guy?'
Ryan Seacrest spent a year trying to figure out what he should do post-Idol; then, days into his next act as host of Live With Kelly and Ryan, ABC announced the singing competition is coming back — thus began a fraught and frenzied negotiation to return him to the show that made him famous: ‘If I could do it forever, I would do it forever’
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June 14, 2017
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The Business
The Univision CEO talks ‘firing’ Donald Trump, how to reverse his ratings slide, the fate of the telenovela and snapping up Gawker sites
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March 29, 2017
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One Trump Promise He Can Deliver: Killing AT&T's Time Warner Deal
Obamacare is staying, but the president doesn’t need Paul Ryan to dismantle an $85 billion media merger he hates and stifle CNN’s Jeff Zucker in the process
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March 29, 2017
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A Hollywood Hostess' Stylish Secret Weapons
The Reagans and Jimmy Stewart were regulars at Betsy Bloomingdale’s legendary dinners, painstakingly planned by the L.A. doyenne whose china, furniture, art and couture now are up for auction at Christie’s
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March 29, 2017
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5 Shows To Add To Your Binge List
Dance, Dystopia And Danish Drama Loom Large On Foreign Screens
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March 29, 2017
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Harvey Weinstein
The indie king on TV’s appeal, wooing Trayvon Martin’s family and his dream to produce the Oscars (with Spielberg) — just don’t ask about Malia
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April 13, 2017
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How Movies Can Attack Back At Trolls
So-called ‘downvoting’ is haunting Hollywood marketers online — but a new Armenian genocide film has a strategy to ‘fight fire with fire’
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April 13, 2017
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An Agency's Hip New Wall Street Heights
Paradigm brings its music and Hollywood talent teams together in offices with Banksy and Baldessari on the walls, a central performance venue and killer city views even for (gasp!) assistants
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April 13, 2017
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The 35 Most Powerful People In Media
Trump bumps? The new normal for the players on THR’s annual list: setting the news agenda, sparking Twitter tirades and creating great TV (and magazines … and Snapchat video) — starting with CBS’ comeback kid
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April 13, 2017
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Can Hollywood Rescue The Chinese Box Office?
The Middle Kingdom looks to star-driven tentpoles to drive profits
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April 13, 2017
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This Man Has All of Letterman's Neckties
JIMMY KIMMEL is Emmys host for a second time (ABC, Sept. 18) as the 48-year-old sits down with longtime pal TIM GOODMAN, THR’s chief TV critic, to talk about his hatred of the phrase ‘late-night landscape,’ why he refused to campaign for an award this year (‘it makes you feel like a real piece of shit’), the penis picture he’s going to text when he wants out of the business and that final gift he got from his idol
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September 23, 2016
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A Nip and Tuck for Staples Center
A three-year, $20 million upgrade culminates in slick new event suites with curated L.A. themes, as the 17-year-old arena looks to win the war in an increasingly venue-dense city
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September 23, 2016
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SNL's Bigly Season
Thr Gets Backstage Access to a Historic Year, Lorne Michaels’ Post-election Speech, How Melissa Mccarthy Became Spicer (With Help From Kristen Stewart), Alec Baldwin’s Future as Trump and the Show’s Biggest Ratings in Decades: ‘you Almost Feel Like a War Profiteer’
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May 15, 2017
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Indian Summer At The Spring Box Office
Baahubali 2: The Conclusion breaks records in the U.S. powered by social media and a burgeoning population
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May 15, 2017
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How To Reinvent Yourself On Broadway
Tony-nominated stars share secrets of the stage: ‘I was really excited by the idea of scaring myself’.
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May 15, 2017
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Robert Mills
ABC’s reality chief says American Idol will launch after the Oscars as he lets loose on the best picture debacle, his Richard Simmons dream and the first black Bachelorette.
5 min |
May 15, 2017
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Curing TV's ‘Spec Script Fatigue'
The Stranger Things phenomenon sparks a deluge of material and backlash from execs and agents expected to read all weekend long.
4 min |
May 15, 2017
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‘This Place Really Misses The Hookers'
A reporter searches in vain for the ‘Slutton’ — the legendary actor party scene at the luxurious Sutton Place Hotel in Vancouver: ‘The thing now is networking’
5 min |
May 15, 2017
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Megyn Books Putin For NBC Sunday Launch Is Trump Next?
The ex-Fox News star is betting on a last-minute sit-down with the Russian president as she tackles one ‘big ego’ at a time
3 min |
May 31, 2017
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How To Make A Toon For A Less Dough
Outsourced to Canada with a budget of just $38 million, DreamWorks Animation’s Captain Underpants is a radical experiment in low-cost studio animation. Is it the future?
4 min |
May 31, 2017
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Rise Of The Wonder Women
Can Patt Y Jenkins Make The Superhero World Safe For Female Directors? Warner Bros. Gambles $150 Million On Its First Woman- Centered Comic Book Movie With A Filmmaker Whose Only Prior Big-Screen Credit Was An $8 Million Indie: ‘ I Can Only Make The Greatest Wonder Woman I Can’
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