Awards Season Comes into Focus with Critics Choice Pix
The first major televised award show of the season has suddenly clarified the rest of the campaign leading up to its grand finale, the Academy Awards. The 17th Annual Critics Choice Movie Awards, presented by the influential Broadcast Film Critics Association and aired on VH1, anointed some surprise winners during the two-hour telecast live last night from the Hollywood Palladium. “The Help,” released last...
Tough Times for Newspaper Subscribers
In this era of newspapers bleeding red ink, cutting staff and losing subscribers, one would think these old media entities would do all they could to keep what they have. That was why it was a particularly rude awakening as a longtime Los Angeles Times subscriber to come back from vacation – a rather lengthy one at that – to find out some really bad news over my morning coffee. (The good news was that they had caught the...
Shame: Michael Fassbender’s NC-17 Sex in the City Thrill Ride
Deep, dark, gloomy and, dare we say, penetrating. That’s the feeling you get from the very beginning of the new thriller, “Shame.” If you missed seeing the Irish born actor Michael Fassbender in “X-Men: First Class,” “Jane Eyre,” “Hunger,” or this season’s “A Dangerous Method,” you’ll never forget him as Brandon in the Steve McQueen directed...
As Rumors Become Fact, Kutcher’s Boss Lauds the TV Biz
As the news broke that “Two and a Half Men” star Ashton Kutcher’s marriage to Demi Moore was in fact over, CBS Corp. president and CEO Les Moonves was engaged in a conversation before an audience of hundreds of people in the media business at the HRTS newsmaker luncheon at the Beverly Hilton. Although the impending divorce was not a topic of conversation, Moonves had plenty to say about the show, and the...
Where There’s Smoke, There’s Fire. Herman Cain’s Amnesia About Sexual Harassment
Perhaps Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney summed it up best when he said he found the sexual-harassment allegations being lobbed at Herman Cain “disturbing.” After watching Cain’s news conference in Phoenix, I would use another word. Unbelievable. Not the claims of harassment against him. But the fact that he claimed not to even know Sharon Bialik or recognize her name and that he...
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