TheWrap Staff
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Diddy’s Famous White Party Heads to BevHills
For the Fourth of July, West Coasters clamored to get all up in Diddy’s grill: The rap mogul moved his infamous annual White Party from the Hamptons to Beverly Hills. This time, he teamed up with fellow Twitter addicts mrskutcher and aplusk — that would be Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher, for those non-followers…
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Oscars: A Look Back At Coulda-Been Contenders
The public was caught off-guard by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science’s announcement that the best picture category would now allow for 10 nominations. Which prompted me to whip up this made-up memo. The Academy likes memos. To: All Academy Members After much consideration and extensive deliberations, the Academy has…
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Like Nothing We’ve Seen Since Princess Diana
Michael Jackson’s death is the most globally devastating and consequential celebrity passing since that of Princess Diana nearly a dozen years ago and surely the most axis-altering entertainment story since at least the dawn of the Blog Age. Possibly even the Internet Age altogether. Here, after all, is a chronicle that embodies pretty much every aspect…
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Let’s Hear It for Maya Rudolph!
Whenever I bring up leading "Saturday Night Live" ladies, nearly all of my pop culture obsessed friends proclaim Tina Fey is the best and brightest. There is no disputing that her comic skills are untouchable when it comes to writing — "30 Rock" is perhaps the best comedy on TV right now. And her…
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Video of Iranian Election Protest – YouTube Leads the Movement
Thousands of people make their voice heard during a Sunday demonstration in Tehran.
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Trailer for New Disaster Film ‘2012’ (Video)
Sony offers a first view of the next film from Roland Emmerich, director of “Independence Day.”
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From Ellen to Adam …
A chronology of high-profile actors who’ve come out … usually to People magazine.
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Yes, Indie Filmmakers Can Use Big Effects
“They can do anything in movies these days.” The technology to create a backyard “Lord of the Rings” has been around for years, but only recently the community & filmmaker support has reached a level where, yes, anything is possible. My 11-minute short “Rain Rain” had three days of on-set photography and one…
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More Stars Taking Stance On SAG
Scott Bakula, Sally Field, Melissa Leo make their case for or against the guild.
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‘The Bachelorette’ Goes Old School With the Harlem Globetrotters
A few nice things happened in the second episode of "The Bachelorette." Jillian more or less abstained from saying “cool” and “totally,” which brings Jillian back on our side (good thing), but at the same time brings our drinking game to a grinding halt (bad thing — damn it!). Two, it took a…
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A Slimmed-Down Cannes Was the Best Cannes
It was Cannes in a time of crisis. Less money, fewer parties and less ostentation, significantly fewer people, the bars of the big hotels virtually empty at times, tables easily available at many popular restaurants, the various trade publications noticeably slimmer as advertizing plummeted, a decline so steep that they simply stopped publishing by…
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Hot Tweeters
Some of the top tweeters are news organizations. Here’s the top 10 tweeters and their followers as compiled by Twitterholic.com, whose “twittastic” robots scan the Twitter public timeline to pinpoint Twitter usage: 1. CNN Breaking News (cnnbrk) 414,684 2. Barack Obama (BarackObama) 385,667 3. Twitter (twitter) 338,883 4. Britney Spears (britneyspears) 315,523…
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Oscars: TheWrap-Up
It’s just like you were there: winners, backstage interviews, red-carpet slideshow, lots more!
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Backstage with Heath Ledger’s Family
Kate, you seem to be relatively calm and you must have been very nervous, and secondly, you mention that you and Heath had had the discussion that maybe this would be something he would be at. Tell us about that discussion. Kate – When he came home for Christmas a year ago, he had been…