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Monday, October 6, 2008

A semester abroad … in Tinseltown

California | Local | By Larry Gordon | 7:00AM
Forget about Paris and a semester at the Sorbonne. Read more
 

Thursday, October 2, 2008

Getting a cut of the bailout?

Business | By Richard Verrier | October 2, 2008
Hollywood would get a little unexpected boost from the proposed $700-billion bailout of the nation’s financial system. Read more
 

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Hollywood studios sue to stop sale of DVD-copying software

Business | By Dawn C. Chmielewski | October 1, 2008
A legal fight erupted Tuesday over the ability of consumers to copy DVDs onto their computers, setting the stage for a new battle between Hollywood and a purveyor of technology that could alter how consumers watch movies at home. Read more
 

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

SAG seeks to rekindle bargaining with studios

Business | By Richard Verrier | September 30, 2008
Seeking to jump-start stalled contract talks with the studios – and to hang tough at the same time – Screen Actors Guild leaders called on News Corp. Read more
 

Saturday, September 27, 2008

Hollywood in slo-mo on Prop. 8 resistance

Entertainment | By Tina Daunt | September 27, 2008
IS HOLLYWOOD afraid of Proposition 8 – or has it just been slow to notice its presence on the California ballot? Read more
 

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Parties need Hollywood’s handouts

Entertainment | By Cause CÉlÈbre | September 24, 2008
ANYONE NYONE WHO doubts, or resents, Hollywood’s importance to American politics these days simply needs to watch where the candidates and their surrogates go when the going gets tough. Read more
 

Friday, September 12, 2008

Actors Guild dissidents cry foul over ‘special bulletin’

Business | September 12, 2008
No Screen Actors Guild election would be complete without controversy, as evidenced by the latest drama inside Hollywood’s most discordant trade union. Read more
 

Saturday, September 6, 2008

Sarah Palin’s star turn

Entertainment | By Rachel Abramowitz | September 6, 2008
LIKE MANY around Hollywood, I’ve spent an embarrassing amount of time during the week trying to decide which actress would be best to play Sarah Palin in the story of her life. Read more
 

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Major studio film shoots in Los Angeles grind almost to a halt

Business | By Richard Verrier | August 26, 2008
If not for an epic struggle between alien robots, the streets of Los Angeles might be devoid of major studio drama. Read more
 

Video game night becomes networking in Hollywood

Business | By Alana Semuels | August 26, 2008
It was dark and drizzling when screenwriter Justin Marks did what many in Hollywood have fantasized during their bleakest career moments: He attacked his agent with a chain saw. Read more
 

Monday, August 25, 2008

The lost art of glamour

Entertainment | By Scarlet Cheng | August 25, 2008
FROM THE time he was a schoolboy, John Kobal was in love with Hollywood. Read more
 

Monday, August 18, 2008

N.Y. group blasts SAG leaders on talks

Business | By Richard Verrier | August 18, 2008
New York members of the Screen Actors Guild national board issued a sharp rebuke of their own leaders Sunday, demanding that they seek help from a federal mediator if contract talks don’t progress by Aug. Read more
 

Thursday, August 14, 2008

Looking for history in Hollywood

California | Local | By Bob Pool | August 14, 2008
Los Angeles city officials are seeking help to pinpoint historically important homes and structures in a 2 1/2 -mile-wide swath of Hollywood that includes some of the entertainment industry’s most significant sites. Read more
 

Saturday, July 26, 2008

It’s the Sid and Marty show

Entertainment | By Geoff Boucher | July 26, 2008
Hollywood is often described as a dream factory, but really it’s just as often a salvage yard. Read more
 

Monday, July 21, 2008

Urgency is missing in SAG pact talks

Business | By Richard Verrier | July 21, 2008
Hollywood’s long, hot summer does not appear to be ending any time soon. Read more
 

Monday, June 30, 2008

Screen Actors Guild aims to thwart AFTRA contract with studios

Business | By Richard Verrier | June 30, 2008
Some actors are lining up behind Tom Hanks. Read more
 

Saturday, June 14, 2008

SAG role is raising concerns

Business | By Claudia Eller and Richard Verrier | June 14, 2008
When the Hollywood studios recently crafted a new contract with the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, they were adapting an old script that had played well for them before. Read more
 

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Actors rally to show support for SAG

Business | By Richard Verrier | June 10, 2008
Several hundred actors rallied outside the headquarters of the Screen Actors Guild on Monday to support their leaders and blast a contract with the Hollywood studios recently negotiated by the smaller actors union, the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. Read more
 

Saturday, May 31, 2008

Sidekick, not second fiddle

Entertainment | By Robert Lloyd | May 31, 2008
In comedy as in dance, there is an art to partnering: It takes strength and grace, a willingness to step back, to blend. Read more
 

Friday, May 16, 2008

This role would test anyone

Entertainment | By Lynn Smith | May 16, 2008
In the summer of 2003, Austin Highsmith, a young actress from North Carolina, packed a suitcase and drove cross-country in pursuit of the Hollywood dream. Read more
 
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