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
Experience:
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Oscar Analysis
A blogger-friend asked me the other day for my read on the dismal ratings this year at the Oscars. This is what I wrote him, at www.billlucey.com: "I thought the Oscars were about as good as could be expected with a week to prepare, and a group of movies that most viewers had not seen,…
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L.A.’s Newest Museum
Los Angeles has a new acronym, and another new artistic mecca — BCAM, The Broad Contemporary Art Museum, a gift to the city by real estate billionaire Eli Broad and his wife. The musem, opening this Saturday, sits just beside the L.A. County Museum of Art, but could not be more different in style and…
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Rock Stars at the Kodak
HOLLYWOOD – The Kodak Theater, home of the Oscars, was packed to the gills with stars tonight. But for once, the likes of Steven Spielberg, Rob Reiner, Stevie Wonder, Fran Drescher and Brad Whitford showed up to worship someone else. Two someone elses. The debate between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, the final showdown before…
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And Then There Were Four. 3 1/2?
The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library sits nestled at the edge of a breathtaking ridge of verdant mountains in Simi Valley. You can see them through the main hall of the building, where an actual Air Force One Jet occupies the center of the room, on display before a wall of panelled glass. At last night’s…
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A Stunning Raid
Quick breaking news: a stunning raid by federal agents on four museums — including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art — and one art gallery in California this morning, seeking evidence on suspicion of trafficking in looted art, mainly from Asia. Here is the carefully prepared piece by the L.A. Times that has just…
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Obama Was Here
In Van Nuys, yesterday. Just a quick image because that’s why I went – to lay eyes on the guy. Obama sat and talked to four entirely non-random citizens of Los Angeles, all of whom were in hock to credit card companies up to their ears. They asked for relief from predatory lending. Obama listened,…
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There I Go Again
I wrote an op-ed article in today’s Los Angeles Times revisiting one of my favorite causes: cleaning up the Golden Globes. It’s titled, "Hollywood’s Con Job." This year’s cancellation of the show gives NBC what I call "a golden opportunity" to make the Hollywood Foreign Press Association finally open its ranks to the quantity and…
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Making Changes
A quick announcement to friends and readers: As many of you know, I have spent the last six months on book leave, with the intent of returning to a new position at the Times, based in New York. During that time I have also being thinking hard about the future, and as of this week…
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Malkovich Doesn’t Vote
I want to meet Diablo Cody, the writer behind the sharp, funny and heartfelt movie, "Juno," which premiered last night in Westwood. How she lasers into the lingo of American youth, ‘fer shiz,’ and creates a heroine so dazzlingly fearless and yet completely terrified at the same time, played by Ellen Page, is some feat. …
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“Rebels,” in French
Exciting, for me, anyway. I just received word that "Rebels on the Backlot" has come out in French under the title, "Les Six Samurais," from the publisher Calmann-Levy. This is a first for me. (I never saw the Russian edition, but apparently there was one.) The subhead translates as: "Hollywood was sleeping, they woke it…
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Relief for True
Marion True has finally caught a break: a Greek court threw out criminal charges against her in the case of a golden wreath bought by the Getty in 1993, and returned to Greece earlier this year. The AP is reporting that a three-judge panel ruled today that the statute of limitations in the case had…
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Nefertiti News
Is anyone keeping score here? Word comes from Cairo that Germany has agreed to establish a joint committee to decide whether the famed bust of Nefertiti (that’s her along the left column of this blog) can go back to Egypt on loan, as has been requested by the country’s leading archeological gadfly/pharaoh, Zahi Hawass. Hawass…
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The Getty Empties Out
A sad sight. I went to the Getty Villa in Malibu today to see the last of the 40 objects that are in the process of being returned to Italy over the next few weeks. It was a quiet day, and a sunny one. Pieces have been quietly disappearing from one day to the next.…
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DreamWorks Plays Chess
If you are surprised to see me weigh in on DreamWorks moves to exit its relationship at Paramount in today’s NYT, mmm, well, so am I. But a tip came my way, and the reporter in me couldn’t pass it up. The story is essentially that DreamWorks is looking to make a deal to move…
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A Glimpse From Inside
This is what it looks like from inside the working world of Hollywood, now a strike zone. The screeching sound you hear is the shut-down of show after show, from Santa Monica to Burbank to Rockefeller Center. That is the sound of the brakes applied to a multibillion dollar entertainment industry. Here is one partial…