Hollywood
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Arts
Amid Outcry, Academy Museum to Revise Exhibit on Hollywood’s Jewish Roots
When the museum first opened, it was criticized for omitting Hollywood’s Jewish pioneers. Now it is under fire for what its new exhibit says about them.
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World
My Life in the Brat Pack, Reconsidered
When I was a very young man I became very successful very quickly in a string of movies. It was the 1980s, and I was in the right place at the right time, as a cultural shift was taking place. It’s difficult to imagine now, but Hollywood was not ...
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World
What Does Hollywood Owe Its Jewish Founders?
The Jews who founded Hollywood — and make no mistake, the big studio heads were overwhelmingly Jewish — shared several things: ambition, creative vision and killer business instincts. But more than anything else, the men who were the driving forces ...
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Real Estate
$1.5 Million Homes in California
A Spanish-style house in Los Angeles, a Craftsman bungalow with a guest apartment in Sacramento and a two-bedroom home with a guesthouse in San Diego.
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Arts
Academy Museum to Highlight Hollywood’s Jewish History After All
The museum was criticized earlier for failing to acknowledge the contributions of the Jewish pioneers who helped establish the American film studio system.
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Arts
David Mamet Names the Books That Explain the Real Hollywood
What’s the last great book you read? “A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States,” by Frederick Law Olmsted. Also note: “The Life of George Brummell, Esq., Commonly Called Beau Brummell,” by Captain Jesse, and “A Diary in America,” by Frederick Marryat ...
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Business
How David Zaslav Blew Up Hollywood
It was April 2022, and David Zaslav had just closed the deal of a lifetime. From the helm of his relatively small and unglamorous cable company, Discovery, he had taken control of a sprawling entertainment conglomerate that included perhaps the most ...
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Business
Reaction to Hamas Attack Leaves Some Jews in Hollywood Feeling Unmoored
The response to the Oct. 7 assault, and to Israel’s retaliation, has revealed a schism in the entertainment world that many did not realize was there.
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Magazine
The Last Days of Hollywood’s Most Reviled Reporter
Toward the end of her life, Nikki Finke, the journalist who struck fear into the hearts of Hollywood power players, believed she was onto one last story. “She said she wanted to write a piece about dying,” Diane Haithman, a friend and former ...
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Business
Highbrow Films Aimed at Winning Oscars Are Losing Audiences
The kind of critically praised dramas that often dominate the awards season are falling flat at the box office, failing to justify the money it takes to make them.