Sharon Waxman, is the founder, CEO and Editor in Chief of TheWrap. She is an award-winning journalist and best-selling author, and was a Hollywood correspondent for The New York Times. Twitter: @sharonwaxman

Sharon Waxman
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The Odyssey of Endeavor and WME – It’s Back to Agenting, Again | Analysis
Was it worth all the effort? All the merging and acquisitioning?
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The End of Ari and Patrick: Whitesell Set to Leave Endeavor, Buy WME Football While Emanuel Eyes CEO Exit | Exclusive
Endeavor will be taken private by Silver Lake on Monday, leadership changes include the purchase of the football division of WME Sports
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Jeremy Zimmer on Leaving UTA, Hollywood and the MediaLink Mistake | Exclusive
The UTA co-founder and CEO built the agency for decades, but let Michael Kassan get the better of him
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Would Patrick Soon-Shiong Sell the LA Times? Would Anyone Buy It?
The owner and the newsroom are at war. But so far other west coast billionaires have shown no interest in the asset
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‘Apprentice’ Director Ali Abbasi Apologizes for ‘Slap on the Rear’ of Actor, Says He Dropped CAA and Management 360 | Exclusive
The director is up for a Spirit Award on Saturday and said he made a mistake but wanted to keep focus on the film
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Malibu Fire: The Aftermath Is a Stark Landscape of Empty | Photos
WaxWord tours the legendary coastal community more than a month after the devastating Los Angeles wildfires
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Surviving Trump 2.0: Buckle Up for a Long Haul and Don’t Give In to the Chaos
How do we respond – and be neither passive, nor a piñata in the circus of this administration?
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‘It’s All or Nothing for Me’: How Mikey Madison Gave Her Powder Keg Performance in ‘Anora’
TheWrap magazine: “I don’t like to do anything halfway,” says the soft-spoken actress whose turn as a sex worker earned her an Oscar nomination for Best Actress
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With ‘Emilia Pérez’s Oscar Campaign in Crisis, the Hollywood Finger-Pointing Has Begun
Oscar campaigns are “warfare,” says one insider
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Low Sales. No Standouts. Slow Sundance. Where Does Independent Film Go From Here?
The weakness of independent film has a knock-on effect – and not a good one – on the entire entertainment ecosystem
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Sundance: Tame Stories Reflect an Indie World Battered by Economics, Culture Wars
The 2025 indie festival finds filmmakers tackling prickly material with a warmer lens — or avoiding it altogether
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‘I Took the Photo’: Stunning Sundance Doc Challenges Authorship of Famous Napalm Girl War Photo
Sundance 2025: The AP has attributed the Pulitzer Prize-winning photo to Nick Ut since 1972
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The Remains of Malibu: Ashes and Embers in the Sand
A photo essay, WaxWord visits Malibu days after the ferocious Palisades Fire
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Pacific Palisades Is Gone. Up Close and on the Ground It’s Even Worse
A photo essay covering the gut-wrenching devastation of flattened neighborhoods and charred storefronts
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Truthbombs of 2024: Media Is Over, Antisemitism Is Cool, DEI Is Kaput
The shifting landscape of 2025 follows reversals of 2024
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