Posts Tagged ‘hollywood’
Thomas Walsh and Karen Maness on the lost art of the Hollywood backdrop
Thomas Walsh and Karen Maness are the co-curators of “Art of the Hollywood Backdrop: Cinema’s Creative Legacy,” opening at Boca Raton Museum of Art on April 20. It showcases a collection of monumental scenic backdrop paintings that were an essential…
Read MoreErich Schwartzel on how China may deal Hollywood a fatal blow
Erich Schwartzel has covered Hollywood for the Wall Street Journal for almost a decade. This week, the author of “: Hollywood, China, and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy” joins the California Sun Podcast to talk about how two big stories —…
Read MoreRichard Rushfield talks the future of movies
Richard Rushfield has been covering Hollywood for several decades and he says has never seen it as vulnerable as it is today. Your Netflix cue is shrinking, movie theaters may not open for months if at all, production has stopped, even well-paid…
Read MoreNaomi McDougall Jones and the exclusion of women in Hollywood
Naomi McDougall Jones lays out the battle lines for gender parity in Hollywood. The actress, writer, and producer — whose Ted talk “What it’s like to be a woman in Hollywood” has more than a million views, and whose new book is “The Wrong Kind…
Read MoreKen Turan talks Oscars, Hollywood and Netflix
Kenneth Turan, L.A. Times film critic for almost 30 years and the regular film critic for NPR’s “Morning Edition,” looks at the state of Hollywood on the eve of the Oscars. He describes a business edgier than some of this year’s movies, one…
Read MoreHollywood’s Golden Age told through the passion of personal letters
Producer Rocky Lang and film archivist Barbara Hall share the intimacy of personal letters from the likes of Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn, Frank Sinatra, John Huston, Ingrid Bergman, and others. Their collection, “” is a voyeuristic but heartfelt…
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