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Sharon Waxman

Sharon Waxman

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Let This Be the Final Word on Culture War Feuding

Let This Be the Final Word on Culture War Feuding

The success of “The Odyssey,” and the potent political ideas at its core, only prove how tiresome the prerelease debate about “woke” really was.

22.07.2026 4

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‘We Used to Be the Belle of the Ball’: The New Isolation of the Israeli Cultural Scene

In Tel Aviv, there’s a feeling that “we are on our own.”

14.06.2026 10

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Hollywood Ghosted the Cannes Film Festival This Year

Fewer movie stars, fewer oligarch megayachts in the bay, fewer parties and ever more desperate paparazzi.

21.05.2026 30

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The Man Who Ate Hollywood

As the sale of Warner Bros. Discovery to Paramount Skydance hurtles toward board approval, David Zaslav is about to be more than an accidental mogul.

20.04.2026 20

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David Ellison Won the Empire He So Desperately Wanted. Nobody Is Cheering.

Anxiety about Netflix gives way to anxiety about layoffs.

02.03.2026 40

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Everybody in Hollywood Secretly Hates Netflix. So Now What?

The Warner Bros. deal has the town on edge.

07.12.2025 50

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Hollywood Is at War With Itself Over Gaza

Should filmmakers have to take a stand on the Israel-Palestine conflict?

08.09.2025 30

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The End of Woke Hollywood

The entertainment industry is tired of being so progressive.

09.08.2025 40

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