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*The March 29 issue of The Hollywood Reporter details an internal study commissioned by producers of “The View” that showed co-hosts Joy Behar and Elisabeth Hasselbeck – on the political left and right, respectively – were too “polarizing” for audiences. “They’re out of sync with the audience,” notes one source. The study, conducted earlier this [...]
*Arsenio Hall will be in Miami Beach this week promoting the Sept. 9 premiere of his new talk show at the 50th anniversary NATPE/Content First market and conference. It’s been 19 years since he was last a late night syndicated talk show host; in this interview with The Hollywood Reporter senior editor Alex Ben Block, [...]
*The Hollywood Reporter sat down with Oprah Winfrey to chat about the huge reversal in fortune of her OWN cable channel and the lessons she’s learned. “I’m not doing the hula yet …but compared to a year ago, it feels like a sigh of relief,” says Winfrey between sips of iced tea on her sprawling [...]
*The Hollywood Reporter has crunched the numbers and revealed the talk shows that are earning the most African American viewers on daytime TV. In a nutshell “Wendy Williams” and newcomer “Trisha” lead the pack, but “Maury” and “Jerry Springer” are right up there in the top five. [See the chart below.] [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS [...]
*Brad Pitt may be a proud supporter of President Obama, but his mama sure isn’t – and she just took steps to make sure everyone knows it. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] Jane Pitt calls the president “a liberal who supports the killing of unborn babies and same-sex marriage” just months after her famous son [...]
*The daughter of Sammy Davis Jr.’s second wife has spoken out about the controversy surrounding Billy Crystal’s Oscar bit in which he portrayed her father in blackface. While many folks found the sketch uncomfortable, as Twitter reflected almost immediately, Tracy Davis tells The Hollywood Reporter, “I am 100 percent certain that my father is smiling,” [...]
*It’s been a very busy news day and to cap it off comes word, via The Hollywood Reporter, that Eddie Murphy is set to play former Washington, DC mayor Marion Barry (pictured below). HBO Films is developing the as yet untitled television biopic. Spike Lee will be at the helm while John Ridley is attached [...]
*In the wake of Sunday’s season finale of HBO’s “Treme,” the show and one of its characters have been given extraordinary props by two separate media outlets. Below, The Hollywood Reporter’s Tim Goodman, in his piece “How ‘Treme’ Found Greatness In Ordinary People And Counterintuitive Storytelling,” tries to pinpoint the exact ingredients that make this [...]
*The director of Rihanna’s controversial new video “Man Down” is refusing to apologize for depicting the singer shooting a man who sexually assaults her. “It’s doing exactly what Rihanna and I hoped it would do, which is shine a light on the very dark subject matter,” Anthony Mandler tells The Hollywood Reporter in his first [...]
*Kanye West’s performance at Coachella over the weekend is not just receiving rave reviews from a variety of outlets across the Web. At least one critic has called it “one of the great hip-hop sets of all time.” Below, the review from the Hollywood Reporter’s Jeff Miller: Kanye West doesn’t have the best track record [...]
*The following story appears in the upcoming issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine on newsstands now. It’s written by Pamela McClintock, Tim Appelo. When Kenneth Branagh cast Idris Elba as Heimdall in the upcoming summer tentpole Thor, a furious debate erupted among fanboys, with some insisting it was wrong for a black man to play a [...]
*Below is the first review of “Phunny Business: A Black Comedy,” a documentary described by The Hollywood Reporter’s Todd McCarthy as “a fast-talking, sharp-witted documentary about a black-owned Chicago comedy club of the 1990s.” Narrated by John Ridley, the film is currently screening at the Santa Barbara Film Festival. McCarthy writes… Generous archival video footage [...]
*Halle Berry was on hand to salute fellow Oscar winner Helen Mirren at an event in Hollywood, saying the legendary actress has single-handedly broken down barriers in Hollywood. Berry lauded Mirren’s efforts as she was presenting the 65-year-old actress with The Hollywood Reporter’s Sherry Lansing Leadership Award at the annual Women in Entertainment breakfast. Berry [...]
*The Hollywood Reporter sat down with syndicated radio host Laura Schlessinger to discuss the aftermath of her multiple use of the N-word last week on her radio show. While trying to make a point to caller about racism, she repeated the epithet over and over, setting off a firestorm of criticism. During an appearance on [...]
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