Hollywood
Subprime Goes Hollywood by Nick Baumann
If you thought the mortgage-backed securities and other complex financial instruments that crashed the economy were risky, you’ll love Wall Street’s latest brainwave: a new financial market in which players can gamble on whether upcoming Hollywood movies will be blockbusters or bombs.
The 10 Most Notorious Sex Scandals in Hollywood History by Phil Nugent
When Swiss police apprehended director Roman Polanski (Chinatown, Rosemary's Baby) after he'd spent more than thirty years as a fugitive from justice, they couldn't have known that the arrest would set off a fiery international debate between those who see Polanski as an important cultural figure who is being persecuted, and those who can't believe that anyone would rush to the defense of a convicted child molester.
Hollywood's Nightmare Couple by Diane Dimond
The arrest of actor Randy Quaid and his wife Thursday for unpaid hotel charges was just the latest in a pattern of skipped bills, paranoia, and premonitions of his violent death.
The 5 Best Novels on Hollywood by Jane Ciabattari
From F. Scott Fitzgerald to Joan Didion, some of the greatest writers have tackled the world of L.A. In time for the Oscars, Jane Ciabattari picks the 5 best on the subject.
Nollywood Rising by Gbemisola Olujobi
For an industry that started purely by accident, the Nigerian movie industry (known as Nollywood) has not done badly at all. According to a new United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) report, the Nigerian film industry has overtaken Hollywood and closed the gap on India’s Bollywood, the global leader in the movie business, in terms of the number of movies produced each year.
You are Living in the Golden Years of Cinema by Michael Barrett
The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, also called The Oscar People, has voted to expand the nominees for Best Picture to ten titles, thus “widening the field” and reflecting earlier practice during the first 15 years or so of the ceremony. I see that someone has finally gotten my memo.
Politics And Hollywood: Business As Usual by Matthew Alford & Robbie Graham
Tom Cruise – “the world’s most powerful celebrity” according to Forbes Magazine – was unceremoniously sacked in 2006. His dismissal was particularly shocking for the fact that it was carried out not by his immediate employer, Paramount Studios, but rather by Paramount’s parent company, Viacom.
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