Movies
-
Who Holds SAG Accountable?
Re-Update: In response to comments from readers, I'd like to clarify that SAG has not denied the story. The guild's response to my specific questions about the meeting can be read below in the original post. It's a day later, and the guild has still not denied the story. Nikki Finke saying the guild denies the…
-
Anand Jon Trial: Holly Gavel In the CrossHairs
Trial Update: Two alleged victims of the former designer have testified this month. The first Heather, had a blonde bob and a sweet smile. She testified that when she was just 14 in 2003, Jon tongue-kissed her at a fashion event. She trembled and teared up on the stand. Jon “terrified” her, she said. Under…
-
Does SAG Have Your Money? $25 Mill in Unclaimed Cash (Part I)
Michael Douglas, do you know where your money is? Twenty-five million dollars. That’s the sum the Screen Actors Guild says it owes you, and thousands of your fellow actors. In answer to questions from Waxword, the guild acknowledged last week that it is holding millions of dollars in unclaimed residual payments owed to actors, both…
-
Farewell to Art
My dear friend Art Buchwald was buried on Sunday in Martha's Vineyard, at the century-plus cemetery a short walk from his house. It's the spot where his wife Ann was already laid to rest, and where three plots were bought together for bosom buddies ("the blues brothers") to stay close — Art, Mike Wallace and…
-
Buchwald Lives
They had a memorial today for my friend Art Buchwald, who died earlier this year, at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC. I couldn’t be there, but it sounded like just the kind of event Art — Artie, as many called him — would have loved. There were loads of Kennedys, and Tom Brokaw, and…
-
Lasseter Leads
In the quiet becalming of Hollywood that occurs in the days post-Oscar, my colleague Laura Holson has weighed in with a fascinating, and fairly rare, glimpse into the style and substance of John Lasseter, the founder of Pixar, come lately the chief honcho at Disney animation. He has been charged with reinventing the place, and…
-
Post-Oscar, in the Wee Hours
This is your humble correspondent on her way into Vanity Fair’s Oscar party. You’ll notice I found a last-minute replacement for the old white pantsuit. There’s a story in today’s paper about what it’s like on the inside of the celebrity circle of cool, gleaned from crumpled, inky bits of paper — that’s what I…
-
The Mystery of the Missing Moviemakers
FOR fans of Kimberly Peirce 2007 may be a banner year. More than seven years have passed since this 39-year-old writer-director gave the world a movie. Her first effort in 1999, ''Boys Don't Cry,'' was indelible. It won a best-actress Oscar for the unknown Hilary Swank and catapulted Ms. Peirce to a spot among the…
-
Salon.com – The revolution that failed
Quentin Tarantino and the indie rebels who followed him changed Hollywood in the '90s — but in the end, Hollywood also changed them. BY ANDREW O'HEHIR | Talent isn't democratic and doesn't play fair. That's one of the things we already know about human existence — after all, van Gogh was an insufferable pill and…
-
Rebels on the Backlot: Six Maverick Directors and How They Conquered the Hollywood Studio System
Reviews | Buy the Book | Autographed Copies INDEPENDENT FILMMAKING GOES HOLLYWOOD Autographed copies – You can buy a signed copy of the hardback book, which is no longer available in stores, from the author directly for $20.00 plus shipping and handling. Send requests to sharon.waxman@gmail.com for details. New York Times correspondent Sharon Waxman reveals…
-
Washington Post: Reeling them in
BY ROBERT SKLAR | For a few golden years, a generation ago, Hollywood film directors preened as artists (also known as auteurs, the French word for authors). Then the movie moguls figured out how to make big bucks producing and marketing comic-book blockbusters, and the pretense was over. Most studio directors became faceless functionaries who…
-
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: Author documents revolutionary filmmakers
BY MICHAEL MACHOSKY | There's an infamous scene in "Pulp Fiction" where an adrenaline-filled needle is plunged through Uma Thurman's heart, to resuscitate her from a drug-induced coma. For many moviegoers, "Pulp Fiction" itself was that literal shot of adrenaline, jammed into the heart of a complacent, artistically comatose industry. It forced Hollywood to sit…
-
SAG Letter from National Board Majority – Jan. 26, 2009
A Message to Members from the SAG National Board Majority Today we took an important and necessary action to address the leadership crisis at Screen Actors Guild. Representatives from SAG’s National Board majority delivered a "written assent" document to SAG headquarters which authorized the following: Doug Allen is immediately replaced as National Executive Director…
-
Hollywood Compensation
A list of top execs in Hollywood, what they make, and how their stock prices have performed.
-
Alan Rosenberg Union Song
“We don’t care about the future, we only care about us. and if you don’t earn what I think I can earn, I will throw you underneath a bus.