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Why Can't SAG and AFTRA Get Along?
The uneasy alliance between the two actors' unions has turned into outright hostility. Plus, the unions want money from the digital future. When will…
18 years, 5 months ago
Everything You Wanted to Know about Agents
There's been a mad game of musical chairs in the agency business in the last few of weeks. The agency business is changing, but the relationship betw…
18 years, 5 months ago
Celebrities Can Be Taxing
Using Tax Day as a very weak hook, we talk to the man who helped clear Wesley Snipes of tax fraud conspiracy charges. The question: what are the spec…
18 years, 5 months ago
AFTRA-SAG Split; a 'Miss Guided' Novice Writer
Hollywood's actors' unions file for an untimely divorce. Then, what happens when a novice TV writer gets her own show?
18 years, 6 months ago
Qualified to Act?; The ShoWest Goes On
In a town where actors are more likely to wait tables than wait in the wings, how do you define a working actor? That's the central question in our …
18 years, 6 months ago
Big Gulp to Blockbuster
Jim Keyes was the former CEO of 7-11 stores. Now he's applying the lessons of the Big Gulp to the small screen at the troubled video-rental giant Bl…
18 years, 6 months ago
Gaming Goes Casual; Pilot(Less?) Season
Video games are an $18 billion business in the US, and they just keep growing. Will Hollywood studios get in on some of that interactive action? Plus…
18 years, 6 months ago
A Studio Executive 'Wants to Direct;' Goodbye, HD-DVD
What happens when a studio executive comes out from behind his desk to direct a major motion picture? We talk to Kent Alterman, formerly New Line Cin…
18 years, 6 months ago
Variety up for Sale; Oscar Prognosticators
The venerable Hollywood trade paper, Variety, is up for sale. What will a new owner mean to the business? We'll have a lively conversation with blog…
18 years, 7 months ago
How Green Is My Oscar?
The divide between movies that make money and movies that get awards has been growing in the last few years. Why? And what does that say about how Ho…
18 years, 7 months ago