3+ mon, 3+ week ago  (493+ words) The Ellisons may have persuaded the Warner Bros. Discovery board to agree to a $111 billion merger, but they have yet to convince Wall Street. That's now Paramount CEO David Ellison's next challenge, and boosting the stock price is a math…...

3+ mon, 4+ week ago  (551+ words) Katzenberg is really like the general that just lost three wars," veteran political consultant Mike Murphy tells me. The Democrats really want to bring up some colonels to take his place, and they will emerge." On Saturday night in the…...

7+ mon, 3+ week ago  (636+ words) Restaurants in Brentwood (median home price: $3. 5 million) that want to install neon signs cause heart palpitations for the board. Billboards? Please " put them up in Westwood. As for the sacred kaffirboom coral trees that line the grassy median on San…...

9+ mon, 1+ week ago  (328+ words) For weeks, I've been shouting into the void, urging the most influential people in Hollywood to stand up against authoritarianism. Today, Jane Fonda answered the call (or maybe I answered hers). "The only thing that can defeat authoritarianism is people…...

9+ mon, 2+ week ago  (202+ words) So much can change in a week. Last Sunday, there was late-night host Jimmy Kimmel at Disney's Emmy afterparty in DTLA, roaming the room in good spirits. A day later, he'd deliver a monologue that would ignite the ire of…...

11+ mon, 3+ week ago  (404+ words) On July 13, 1985, MTV was at the center of the cultural zeitgeist as the basic-cable network broadcast the star-studded Live Aid benefit concert live in the U. S. Now, 40 years later, the flagship network no longer airs the music videos that once dominated…...