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A Bleak Picture for Big Studios
The economic downturn hit while audiences were already turning to the Web. Experts expect more layoffs for the local industry. There is no Hollywood ending in sight in 2009 for the entertainment industry, which along with the rest of the nation is experiencing its worst economic slump in decades. The fallout from declining local ...
Hugh Hefner's First True Love? It Wasn't Women
'Everything I learned about love I learned from the movies,' says the famous Playboy. “You've caught me with my pants on," Hugh Hefner said with a sad smirk. There are days (or entire decades) when Hefner greets the midday sun in silk pajamas and a robe, but on this particular December afternoon, well, the playboy just ...
Update: Screen Actors Guild Delays Strike Vote
The union, which has been rocked by internal dissent, will convene a special meeting of its national board to discuss the matter. Rocked by growing internal dissent that is splintering Hollywood's largest union, the Screen Actors Guild has postponed plans for a controversial strike authorization vote until after the union's national board meets to discuss the ...
Screen Actors Guild Postpones Strike Authorization Vote
BREAKING NEWS The Screen Actors Guild has postponed the strike authorized by the guilds board of directors last month. The mailing of ballots to the members was about to be sent January 2, 2009. Securing such a vote in the current climate could be difficult for SAG. The referendum would require 75% approval from members who ...
Ten Moments That Shook 'American Idol' in 2008
To some (myself included), it was the greatest season in American Idol history. To others, it was sagging proof that the series was overdue for a reboot. We had controversies, surprises, tragedies, outrages and amazing triumphs, and in the end hints of big shake-ups in the year to come. Below is my list of the most ...
Australia' Boasts a Banquet of Music
Australia boasts one of the more complicated and diverse soundtracks in recent memory. But will the Academy reward what director Baz Luhrmann calls “as musically layered a world as the film is culturally layered"? The Australia score is a patchwork quilt of David Hirschfelder's orchestral underscore, spiced with such indigenous Australian instruments as the digeridoo, wobbleboard ...
Roy Hargrove, Gloria Lynne, Sonny Rollins, and "Jazz for Obama" Featured in New Jazz It Up! Episode
New York, NY - The second episode of season 2 of Jazz it Up! is now available! To subscribe and see a five-minute preview of the new episode: Jazz it Up! Each episode of Jazz it Up! features two main artists; each performs two songs. This edition features ensembles led by trumpeter Roy Hargrove and vocalist ...
Oscar Short Sparks Controversy
The collision of entertainment, media and pop culture. If youre a documentarian, you know that while its a great honor to make the academys short-list for best documentary short, its almost impossible to get anyone in the media to write about your movie, since theyre almost totally obsessed with handicapping the ups and downs of the ...
Extinction-Level Television Event
IM a runt of Generation X, which means 1) Im supposed to define myself entirely through ironic references to pop culture, and 2) as a member of the last generation to come of age in an era of only three TV networks, I assume everyone will understand when I drop a quote from Scooby-Doo or The ...
