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Lisa Gizara: The Woman Behind the Art Behind the Mad Men

Lorraine Devon Wilke | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Variety, Christina Hendricks, Jon Hamm, Art Pic, Bloomingdale's, Annenberg Space for Photography, Castle, Entertainment Weekly, Modern Family, Claudia Didul, Roger Sterling, Elizabeth Moss, People, Don Draper, Peggy Olson, John Slattery, Mad Men, St. John's Hospital, Lisa Gizara, Joan Harris, Californication, AMC TV, TV News
Lorraine Devon Wilke

When Mad Men's set decorator needed paintings with the specific panache to match Roger's sly and savvy personality, she turned to the collection of photographer and painter Lisa Gizara.

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Who Will Buy Variety Magazine?

The Wrap | Posted 03.28.2012

Read More: Variety, Reed Elsevier Variety, Reed Elsevier, Variety Magazine for Sale, Future of Magazines, Variety for Sale, Variety Magazine Buyer, Variety Magazine, Trade Magazines, Entertainment News

The last issue of Variety magazine hit stands on Friday, and this week speculations are swirling about who will buy the iconic entertainment industry ...

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Iconic Entertainment News Magazine Goes Up For Sale

Posted 03.23.2012

Read More: Variety, Variety Magazine for Sale, Future of Magazines, Reed-Business-Information, Entertainment Industry, Variety Magazine, Variety Magazine Entertainment, Entertainment News, Variety Entertainment, Trade Magazines, Entertainment Trade Magazines, Magazines, Media News

Variety magazine's parent company Reed Business Information (RBI) announced on Friday that it has started the process of selling the iconic entertainm...

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Miami: Epicenter Of Ridiculous Plots, Gratuitous Slapping, And Heaving Bosoms

www.variety.com | Posted 02.19.2012

Read More: Variety, Telenovela, Eva Luna, Miami News, Miami News

Miami has long been the unofficial showbiz capital of Latin America. Since 1986, it's been home to the world's longest-running TV variety show, "Sabad...

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Michael Calderone

Following Departures, Murdoch's iPad Paper Makes A Big Hire

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Calderone | Posted 08.17.2011

Read More: Variety, Tom Lowry, Rupert Murdoch, The Backstory, Tom Lowry the Daily, The Daily, The Daily Tom Lowry, Media News

The Daily made a big hire Friday, scooping up Variety’s Tom Lowry as the tablet publication’s new business editor. Daily editor-in-chief Jesse...

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'Deadline' Owner Considers Buying Variety

WWW.THEDAILY.COM | Thursday, April 28, 2011 | Posted 06.28.2011

Read More: Variety, Jay Penske, Variety Magazine, Hollywood Life, Deadline, Movieline, Los Angeles News

Jay Penske, the heir to the Detroit car-racing clan, is mulling a bid to buy Variety from the Amsterdam-based Reed Elsevier company, sources say....

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PHOTOS: Amazing Vintage Elizabeth Taylor Ads And News Pages

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Variety, Elizabeth Taylor Ads, Elizabeth Taylor Variety, Elizabeth Taylor Dead, Slidepollajax, Elizabeth Taylor, Media News

Elizabeth Taylor's death has prompted the world to look back at her historic life. Below, see just a few amazing vintage ads and news pages featuring ...

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'Like, What's The Difference?': Users Weigh In On AT&T and T-Mobile

The Huffington Post | Yepoka Yeebo and Jack Mirkinson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cell Phones, T-Mobile, Verizon, Wireless Carriers, Dropped Calls, Acquisition, Poll, AT&T, Lily Fisher, Shana Fox, Variety, Ben, Manfred Leon, Jean Carislil, Malu Peoples, Customer Service, Technology News

NEW YORK –- Cell phone users are skeptical of AT&T's claims that their planned$39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile will result in faster service and...

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Getting Social at Digital Hollywood

Julie Spira | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Google, Variety, Iphone, Digital Media, Social Media, Digital Hollywood, Aol, iPad Apps, Social Networking, Babelgum, America Online, Michael Eisner, iPhone Apps, Conan O'Brien, Ipad, Technology News
Julie Spira

Digital Hollywood's annual fall conference is taking place this week at Loews Hotel in Santa Monica, CA. On day one, the event coincided with the Var...

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CNN: The Axe Has Dropped, But Will the Ratings Rise?

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Variety, Time Warner, Ken Jautz, Rick Kaplan, Jon Klein, Hurricane Katrina, Headline News, Tom Johnson, Eason Jordan, Cbs, CNN Ratings, Fox News, Media News
Reese Schonfeld

CNN has been rotting for the past twenty years, and it's not going to be fixed in a matter of months. But maybe with a new president in the driver's seat, the station will at least have a chance to take off in a new direction.

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What Works in Hollywood? Even the Trades Can't Decide

Candy Spelling | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Variety, Trades, Hollywood History, Hollywood Reporter, Entertainment, Gossip, Celebrities, Entertainment News
Candy Spelling

It is said there are no coincidences or irony in Hollywood, so I'll just say it's interesting that today's Hollywood trades are making news themselves, rather than reporting other show business news.

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THEATER: The Inexorable Rise of Variety and Cabaret At Edinburgh Festival

guardian.co.uk | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Variety, Cabaret, Edinburgh-Festival, Edinburgh, Theater, Performance Art, Musicals, Music, Edinburgh-Film-Festival, Arts News

Everywhere you look this year in Edinburgh there's cabaret and variety: the genres have been becoming more popular over the years, notably with the hu...

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Hollywood and Mass Transit: Buddy, Can You Spare a Dime?

Joel Epstein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Variety, Department of Water and Power, Sarah Pallin, 30/10, Heal the Bay, An Inconvenient Truth, Hollywood, Mark Gold, Bob Iger, Barker Hangar, Toy Story 3, Ari Emanuel, Entertainment, William Morris Emanuel, Toyota Prius, Metro, Fundraiser, Disney, Mass Transit, Gulf Oil Spill, Newsweek, Los Angeles News
Joel Epstein

It's time to celebrate the pro-environment, pro-community, good-for-the-economy and anti-gridlock reality that a positive portrayal of urban mass transit can help create.

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Let's Get Digital - Creating Brands at Digital Hollywood

Julie Spira | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Variety, Television, Internet, Digital Media, Internet TV, Diggnation, Digital Hollywood, Digg, Jim Louderback, revision3, Digital, Branding, Technology, Streamys, Ipad, Media News
Julie Spira

It was a very enthusiastic iPad-friendly crowd at Digital Hollywood's spring event this week at the Loews Hotel in Santa Monica, CA. The theme through...

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Nicole Laporte's Book On Why DreamWorks Was Destined To Fail

The Wall Street Journal | Stephen Kurutz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Judd Apatow, Variety, Dreamworks, Stephen Spielberg, David Geffen, Pixar, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Movies, Books on Movies, Men Who Would Be King, Books News

Not long after moving to Hollywood to cover the film industry for Variety, Nicole Laporte became fascinated with DreamWorks, which she regarded as a "...

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Variety Pitches Subscribers: "Think Of The Paywall As A Velvet Rope"

Deadline Hollywood Daily | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hollywood Trades, Newspapers Online Fees, Online Fees, Variety, Trades, Variety Paywall, Newspapers Online, Media News

This notice sent to subscribers made me laugh out loud. First, Variety tries to liken your forking over money for the trade to membership in a club, c...

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An Open Letter to Variety

Nick Kreiss | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Variety, Nikki Finke, Hollywood, Film Criticism, Films, Media, Celebrity, A.O. Scott, Hollywood Reporter, Tom Mccarthy, Movies, Celebrities, Los Angeles News
Nick Kreiss

We used to rely on you, Variety. At festivals, your film reviews gave insecure acquisition execs the push they needed to buy the tiny little movie they liked.

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Cannes: Dollars and Sense

Ashley Wren Collins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Variety, Film Funds, Variety Magazine, The Man Who Will Come, Lincoln Center, Henry Deas, Cannes Film Festival 2010, The Light Thief, Film Money, Simone Bachini, Silvia Panakova, Cannes Film Festival, Entertainment News
Ashley Wren Collins

It is only Day 7 of the Cannes Film Festival and it is a front-loaded festival at that, meaning most people are getting in and getting out. Offices and studios are sending fewer people for less time.

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News/PR Line Gets Blurrier

Michael Sigman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Variety, The New York Times, Rasmussen, Mark McGwire, Public Relations, Supreme Court, Daniel Boorstein, Georgia, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Cbs Records, Tiger Woods, John McCain, Ozzie Osbourne, Media News
Michael Sigman

Many of the thirty-thousand-plus journalists laid off in the past two years have signed on to corporate public relations gigs, further blurring the already-murky line between PR and news.

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Death of a Theatre Critic, Again

James Sims | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: David Rooney, Variety, Film Criticism, Show Business, Broadway, Theatre, Los Angeles, Theater, Musicals, Criticism, Hollywood, Entertainment News
James Sims

I've been a champion of my hometown, telling Broadway aficionados that LA has immense potential. So it was with dismay that I read about layoffs in theatre critics at LA publications.

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Variety Drops Chief Film And Theater Critics

The Wrap | Daniel Frankel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: David Rooney, Variety, Daily Variety, The Daily Variety, Todd Mccarthy, Los Angeles News

The evisceration of Variety contiues. On Monday, the trade let go of chief film critic Todd McCarthy and chief theater critic David Rooney. Publ...

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Dongria Kondh Ask James Cameron To Help Save Their Tribe: 'Avatar Is Fantasy ... And Real' (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Variety, Dongria Kondh, James Cameron, Bauxite, Amnest International, Na'vi, Avatar, Vamsadhara, Chhattarpur, Niyamgiri, Dongria, Video, World News

James Cameron's Avatar may have broken ground at the box office and with advanced visual effects, but some observed that the Oscar nominated film's pl...

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In Praise of Cinema for Peace: and The 60th Berlin Film Festival

Vivian Norris | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Variety, Leonardo Di Caprio, Cinema for Peace, Denis Carot, Home, Berlinale, Screen and Sound, Joe Berlinger, Berlin Film Festival, Crude, Yann-Arthus-Bertrand, Financial Crisis, Mikhail Gorbachev, Entertainment News
Vivian Norris

Films can change the world, and it starts by affecting one individual at a time, reminding us we are all parts of a whole, world citizens first and foremost. This fact was noticeable at the Cinema for Peace dinner.

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Variety Paywall To Go Up Thursday

AP | RYAN NAKASHIMA | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Paywalls, Online Fees, Variety, Variety Paywall, Media News

LOS ANGELES — The Hollywood trade newspaper Variety is putting its Web site behind a "pay wall" starting Thursday – reserving its online c...

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Telemarketing Scam 356,000 checks to be sent to scam victims

walletpop.com | Mitch LipkaJan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lucid Long Distance, Variety!, Federal Trade Commission, Travel Agents Go Direct, Agents Travel Network, Freedom Gold, Florida Passport, Telemarketing, Capital Vacations, Credit Life, Restitution, Telemarketing Scam, Freedom Ring ULD, Distinct Advantage, Suntasia Marketing, Floridaway, Business News

More than 356,000 victims of a massive nationwide telemarketing scam will be sent checks totaling more than $14 million, the Federal Trade Commission ...

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