Innholdsfortegnelse for Wednesday February 28 2018 i The Hollywood Reporter

It doesn’t take a 200-page issue of The Hollywood Reporter to tell you that this Oscar season was different. The Harvey Weinstein sexual misconduct claims broke in early October, just as the awards race was beginning to take shape. As the guild and critic accolades arrived, they competed for headlines with disturbing harassment allegations and calls for industrywide reform. By the time THR’s annual Producer Roundtable, shot on Oct. 7, ran in print just a few weeks later, Ridley Scott’s laudatory comments about his All the Money in the World star Kevin Spacey had to be edited out because Scott had disappeared Spacey from the movie. Throughout this reckoning (and no, I don’t think it’s nearly over), prominent industry figures have used the global platform of the Oscar race to…

John Oliver A judge dismisses a lawsuit by coal baron Robert Murray over an in-depth segment by the Last Week Tonight host that described the mogul as a “geriatric Dr. Evil.” Maria Contreras-Sweet and Ron Burkle The potential Weinstein Co. buyers’ $500 million bid seemingly collapses as the company instead chooses to file for bankruptcy after being sued by the New York attorney general. Adina Pintilie The Romanian director’s provocative sex-and-bondage drama Touch Me Not is the surprise Golden Bear winner at the Berlin Film Festival. Liz Gateley The Lifetime head of programming exits without a job lined up as owner A+E Networks taps two execs to fill the void. Showbiz Stocks $246.78 (+9%) MADISON SQUARE GARDEN (MSG) Activist shareholder Silver Lake takes a 4.9 percent stake in the owner…

Paul Thomas Anderson, 47 Phantom Thread The auteur has yet to unveil his next feature, but throughout awards season he has voiced his desire to work with Girls Trip star Tiffany Haddish. Greta Gerwig, 34 Lady Bird The first-time feature helmer hasn’t set a follow-up directing project, but she’s currently acting in her partner and frequent collaborator Noah Baumbach’s next feature. She also voice stars in Wes Anderson’s upcoming Isle of Dogs. Christopher Nolan, 47 Dunkirk He took his name out of the running for Bond 25 and is taking his time picking his next feature. Jordan Peele, 39 Get Out He has said he’ll start shooting a new feature later this year for Universal, and he produced Spike Lee’s 2019 feature Black Klansman. Peele is also developing a reboot of…

Yara Shahidi (CAA, Principal, Hirsch Wallerstein) is in talks to star in MGM and Warner Bros.’ YA adaptation The Sun Is Also a Star, with Before I Fall’s Ry Russo- Young directing. Sam Rockwell (Gersh, Untitled) has joined Angelina Jolie in Disney’s adaptation of The One and Only Ivan. Lupita Nyong’o (CAA, Del Shaw) will play Trevor Noah’s mother in the Daily Show host’s adaptation of his memoir Born a Crime. Paddington franchise director Paul King (WME, the U.K.’s Independent, Nelson Davis) will helm Disney’s live-action Pinocchio. Octavia Spencer (WME, Jackoway Tyerman), Transformers: The Last Knight’s Isabela Moner (CAA, Peikoff Mahan) and Tig Notaro (ICM, Integral, Ziffren Brittenham) will join Mark Wahlberg and Rose Byrne in Paramount comedy Instant Family. Robert Rodriguez (WME, Loeb & Loeb) will direct and produce…

My first Oscar party was Irving “Swifty” Lazar’s at Spago with Wolfgang Puck. My husband at the time, Harris Katleman, ran Fox TV, and Irving liked him. We were TV and not film, but Irving didn’t care. If he and his wife, Mary, liked you, you were golden. Swifty took the Academy Awards very seriously, the way everyone took the theater seriously in All About Eve. If you had to go to the bathroom during an acceptance speech, I don’t think you’d be back the next year. He loved everybody who was a movie star, and he was close to all the wives, too. I remember someone once came up to him and said, “Why is so-and-so here?” and he replied, “Why are you here?” Spago was high on the…

“sooo does anyone else not open Snapchat anymore?”KYLIE JENNER The social media star, tweeting her disappointment over the platform’s “sad” redesign to her 24.5 million followers. Snap shares immediately tumbled 6 percent, dropping $1.3 billion in market value. “Hey @DCComics I can write your batgirl movie, no prob.”ROXANE GAY The Hunger author, responding on Twitter when THR revealed that Joss Whedon had exited the project over story problems. Warner Bros. vp Michelle Wells tweeted back, “If you’re serious … contact me.” “I got through about three minutes of it. I put in a good, solid three.”JENNIFER LAWRENCE The Red Sparrow star, admitting on Marc Maron’s podcast that she was bored by Paul Thomas Anderson’s Phantom Thread, adding, “Is it just about clothes?” “He reaches around, grabs my ass cheek, and…

Weddings Screenwriter Theodore Riley (Psych, the upcoming Amazon series Fairfax) married Betsy Rosenberg on Feb. 18 at the Four Seasons Hotel in Austin in front of 250 guests. The couple, who became engaged in May, will honeymoon in Hawaii. Births Jared Sheer, a talent agent at WME, and wife Kaitrin Sheer welcomed son Jake Scott Sheer on Feb. 10 at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. Congrats Tanya Lopez was promoted to executive vp movies, limited series and movie acquisitions at Lifetime and LMN, and Gena McCarthy was upped to executive vp to head Lifetime unscripted programming and FYI programming after Liz Gateley exited Feb. 22. Peter Micelli joined Entertainment One as chief strategy officer Feb. 22. Deena Beach and Dalia Ganz were promoted to vp posts at Freeform on…

Each year around this time, I sit down with an Oscar voter who, under the warm cloak of anonymity, spills his or her true feelings about the current season’s crop of contenders. Not just who or what got his or her votes, but also exactly why and how he or she came to those decisions. It’s not meant to be a scientific analysis; it’s just the candid, unsugarcoated opinions of one voting member (out of 7,258) of the most important and powerful movie club in the world. Below is a lightly edited transcript of one such conversation: This year it was with a male member of the 524-member producers branch who — this season, anyway — is not associated with any of the nominees. — SCOTT FEINBERG Best Picture I…

Etiquette expert Lisa Gache, founder of Beverly Hills Manners, says that standard tips these days should range “between $2 and $5.” Adds Ari Hodosh, a valet veteran and former owner of C&A Valet, “If you spend $700 on a meal at Spago and you tip the valet $2, there’s something that’s not right there.” If you’re expecting toplevel service, Gache suggests tipping the valet captain upon arrival “anywhere from $10 to $20. And make sure to tip the valet attendant the same amount [when exiting] as a sign of appreciation.” Adds Fox Sports executive vp content Charlie Dixon: “I always pre-tip. You get much better service.” While this sort of pre-tipping doesn’t guarantee that your car will be left up front, it likely will be nearby for easy retrieval when…

As lead valet at the Beverly Wilshire for nearly four decades, Ervin R. Asencio, 61, has seen his fair share of dignitaries and personalities, from Margaret Thatcher to Roger Moore — the one person who left him starstruck. “He was a very nice guy,” says Asencio. Over the years, the valet scene has greatly changed, from the rise of ridesharing apps (Asencio observes Uber and Lyft drivers are nicer than cabbies) to the decline in tips, saying, “In the beginning, people sometimes gave $100. Now it’s just like everybody’s getting tight.” The Guatemala native shares that “for people who pay attention, this is like a school,” where he admits to learning “everything” from manners to crowd control to how to approach people. “I love people,” he confesses. “We don’t do…

Though Christian Siriano, Prabal Gurung and Tadashi Shoji dress diverse body types and not just stars, such designers are an emerging class. Personal shopper Dana Asher Levine says luxe labels “never” offer to loan to execs, while designers’ plunging necklines can be too showy for clients like Fox Searchlight’s Nancy Utley. “She doesn’t want to outdo the actresses,” says Levine. For non-sample size gowns, Levine suggests Westfield Topanga Mall’s Nordstrom and Beverly Hills’ St. John (Ava DuVernay and Mindy Kaling are fans), where employees ensure no matching gowns are worn to the same event: “They have a great VIP area; just say you are going to the Oscars.” Other options: ALBRIGHT FASHION LIBRARY, 608 N. ALPINE DRIVE, BEVERLY HILLS Originally stylists-only, now open to the public, this is a resource…

SINCE ITS 2009 opening, the 42-story, Robert Stern-designed Century on the corner of Olympic and Avenue of the Stars has been the gold standard for vertical living in Century City, if not all of L.A. Candy Spelling spent $47 million for a penthouse, Rihanna owns there, and Matthew Perry recently purchased a full floor just below Spelling’s for $20 million. But the two towers currently rising as part of the $2.5 billion redesign of The Century Plaza just blocks away are poised to eclipse The Century when it comes to luxe finishes, amenities and retail access. With the towers’ completion still at least a year off, owner Woodridge Capital Partners built two staging units in a neighboring tower to entice buyers. An extravagant sales ploy, but it seems to be…

Paula Wachowiak sits in her 2009 Honda Fit as it cruises past rows of abandoned factories and a wasteland of disintegrating homes, remnants of a metropolis that once billed itself as the “city of light.” Decades ago, Buffalo was an industrial hub of New York, a gateway for commerce and a magnet for nearly 600,000 residents; but on a blustery February day, much of the city seems more like a manifestation of urban blight. None of that troubles Wachowiak, 62, as she guides a reporter through town. The flamehaired grandmother is no longer the slip of a girl who once studied communications at the University of Buffalo, but she retains sharp memories of the days when she had visions of becoming a filmmaker, until her experience on a real-life film…

“They were tough times in America,” director Norman Jewison, 91, recalls of the 1968 Oscar ceremony, postponed two days for the funeral of Martin Luther King Jr., who was assassinated April 4. It is fitting that Jewison’s drama In the Heat of the Night, about a black cop and a white Southern sheriff overcoming fear and prejudice to solve a murder, won the best picture statuette, topping a field that included Bonnie and Clyde, The Graduate and Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner. “It meant a lot to me that the film was honored,” adds Jewison, who reunited with Sidney Poitier, 90, producer Walter Mirisch, 96, and composer Quincy Jones, 84, for a 50th anniversary photo. The old comrades hugged and laughed, happy to be in one another’s company again. “It…

L.A.’s Only Intentionally Two-Dimensional ‘It’ Girl The life-size cardboard proxy of Agnes Varda, co-director of Faces Places, at the Oscar Nominees Luncheon Food Lust Award Call Me by Your Name’s Peach Runner-Up Phantom Thread’s Mushrooms Second Runner-Up The Boss Baby’s Cookies Best Awards Movie-Inspired Sex Toy The Shape of Water dildo, sold-out on Etsy Achievement in Awkward E! Segues Ryan Seacrest, asking activist Monica Ramirez, who fights sexual violence against Latina farmworkers, “Are you excited to see the Golden Globes?” Viral Star H3N2, the dangerous flu that felled everyone from Octavia Spencer to Sam Rockwell to Nicole Kidman on the campaign trail The Jacob Tremblay Award for Most Nights out at Parties by a Child Under 10 Brooklynn Prince, The Florida Project, (with Tremblay) POP QUIZ! Which of these mangled…

DAN FOGELMAN The creator and executive producer of the NBC drama This Is Us will be named Television Showman of the Year. Since premiering in September 2016, Fogelman’s family drama has been nominated for 10 Emmys (Sterling K. Brown won for lead actor) as well as Golden Globes for best drama for its first two seasons. It won the SAG Award for outstanding performance by an ensemble in a drama series in January. BETTY WHITE The 96-year-old comedy icon and seven-time Emmy winner will be lauded with the Lifetime Achievement Award for her seven decades of work, including on the series The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Carol Burnett Show, The Golden Girls and, more recently, Hot in Cleveland. “Betty White is a joy and a national treasure,” says ICG…

For the cover, conceptual illustrator Hanna Barczyk, 34, depicted women breaking barriers in Hollywood with an image of a female shattering the Oscar statuette. “It conveys patterns of patriarchy cracking and women fighting in unison to be heard,” she notes. On its 60th anniversary, documentarian/author Cari Beauchamp, 67, looks back at the first Governors Ball in 1958 (page 114), when such stars as Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward attended the dinner dance. “It was a smash success,” she says. Novelist Walter Mosley, 66, considers the legacy of In the Heat of the Night (page 174) 50 years after its best picture win. He says his recent book, Down the River Unto the Sea, catches “the spirit and the hope for freedom,” not unlike, say, Heat in 1968. Fashion icon Diane…

In March 2017, Bernie Sanders and other lawmakers penned a letter insisting that the SEC enact a long-awaited rule requiring companies to disclose how much their CEOs earn relative to the staffers they employ. With the Feb. 21 revelation that Snap CEO Evan Spiegel earned $638 million in 2017, it appears Sanders may have been onto something. While Spiegel’s eye-popping paycheck can be considered an outlier — the result of a one-time stock award granted for taking the company public in March — it has reopened the debate over pay equity, perhaps especially in media, where CEOs typically earn more than their counterparts in every other industry, even when stock in their companies underperforms. Witness: Philippe Dauman, who made $93 million in 2016, the last year he was CEO of…

Deepfakes — viral clips and GIFs that use artificial intelligence technology to swap faces — are being banned by online platforms over pornographic content featuring star actresses. But their machine-learning approach might have increasing applications in Hollywood as a cost-cutter for VFX studios. Execs at Industrial Light & Magic and Digital Domain say they are exploring machine learning as a way to save on production costs. “It’s been talked about here,” says John Knoll, chief creative officer of ILM. “If there’s technology that potentially allows us to get a satisfactory result with a lot fewer man-hours, there’s a desire to [use that].” Knoll says that the concept of face-swapping, which had limited use in films with AI — since 1993’s Jurassic Park — could potentially be used for background characters…

WHY ARE AGENTS PRODUCING SHOWS? WRITERS GUILD WOULD L IKE TO KNOW Deal of the Week The expanding scope of the talent agency business may motivate the Writers Guild to take action. WGA West executive director David Young is planning to initiate an April renegotiation of a key document — the “franchise agreement” between the guild and the Association of Talent Agents — that governs the relationship among writers and agents, a well-placed source tells THR. The focus of these talks, according to this source: packaging fees and “ownership,” a buzzword that covers scenarios in which talent agencies engage in production or financing or are affiliated or owned in whole or in part by companies that do. These issues aren’t new, but the formation of WME-affiliated Endeavor Content in October…

A Spy in Time (CALIFORNIA COLDBLOOD BOOKS, AUGUST 2018) BY Imraan Coovadia AGENCY Pontas Literary & Film (Spain) Pitched as Black Panther meets Timecop, the award-winning South African writer’s forthcoming novel is about a temporal secret agent who leaps among global metropoli and from century to century to save the timeline from a shadowy cabal. To Kill a Kingdom (FEIWEL & FRIENDS, MARCH 6) BY Alexandra Christo AGENCY UTA This dark twist on The Little Mermaid — a siren princess who kills human princes (she has 17 hearts so far) is transformed into a human as punishment and meets a siren-killing prince — already is going into a second printing.…

I only went to the Oscars once, and it’s the least glamorous thing, all these people moving seats. I wore my own dress. It was 1979, when Barry, who was head of Paramount, had Heaven Can Wait nominated for nine awards. When we started our pre-Oscars Saturday picnic, it was like 10 people in Malibu. Eventually it got big, too big. But the picnic is the nicest because there are no photographers, people bring their kids and put their blankets on the lawn. Industry friends from many different generations come — Warren Beatty, Steven Spielberg, Jack Nicholson, Meryl Streep and Bradley Cooper. What makes a good party is if the hostess manages to have fun and behave as a guest, and I do. For four years, I’ve also been having…

Fashion Week New York, London and Milan, Feb. 8–Feb. 27 Party Crawler Hollywood (and the Queen) on the Runway At New York Fashion Week, Calvin Klein boasted the most A-list-heavy front row, with Nicole Kidman (3), Margot Robbie (3), Lupita Nyong’o (4), Michael B. Jordan (4), Millie Bobby Brown (1), Laura Dern (3) and many more sitting ankle-deep in popcorn to watch designer Raf Simons’ latest take on Americana on a set piled with 50,000 gallons of popped kernels. It wasn’t royal-to-be Meghan Markle but Queen Elizabeth II (5) who caused a stir at London Fashion Week, where she sat (on a velvet cushion, natch) next to Vogue’s Anna Wintour (5) in the front row of Richard Quinn’s show. Also in London, designer Christopher Bailey took his final bow at…

When Charles King left his perch as one of WME’s top talent agents in early 2015, it seemed like a big gamble. The first African-American partner at the agency, King, 48, put together scores of deals for such big names as Tyler Perry, Tim Story, Terrence Howard, Janelle Monae and Oprah Winfrey. Three years later, as head of his own production company and media brand Macro, with a mission of reaching multicultural audiences, his gamble is paying off in the form of five reasons to attend the Oscars this year. Macro is behind two films that have nabbed nominations: Roman J. Israel, Esq. (a best actor nom for Denzel Washington) and Dee Rees’ Mudbound, up for four awards after being picked up by Netflix at Sundance for $12.5 million. King’s…

ANYTHING CHANGED IN THE CAR? Nothing was changed inside. PARKING TIPS “A lot of people selfpark” at the Hilton, says Epstein. Make a quick right when entering the driveway. Or park in the nearby residential neighborhood off of Whittier and walk over. If there’s a prepaid parking option, take it. And here’s an insider secret for all of these hotels: Snag a validation from the lobby concierge or restaurant (all you have to do is ask), as parking prices for events are higher. COST $7 for first four hours (valet or self-parking) with lobby-bar validation. BOTTOM LINE Self-park over valet, even though the service remains professional. BEVERLY WILSHIRE Showbiz events from charity galas to Oscar parties — including THR’s 2018 Nominees Night — book this hotel year-round. SERVICE The valet…

Original song nominee Diane Warren admits she skips out of events ahead of time to avoid valet gridlock: “I always leave early, so it’s efficient for me.” It’s often hard, though, to know when is the appropriate time to leave without being rude. “Charity events are important — if you’ve paid to be there or are a guest of someone who has purchased a table, you stay until the end,” says Event Eleven party producer Tony Schubert. At luncheons like the BAFTA Tea at the Four Seasons L.A., he urges staying until it’s over: “There’s no sneaking out in the daylight.” As a rule, Schubert notes, “The smaller the event, the longer you stay.” If you do sneak out early, make sure to have a good excuse. Screenwriter Kay Cannon,…

The Body Armor Stars “have to be in front of millions of people already kind of knowing they lost; they do have this inherent trepidation,” says Dawnn Karen, Fashion Psychology Institute founder. Laura Dern in 2015 and Naomi Watts in 2013 exemplify what Karen calls “mood illustration” dressing or “the act of dressing congruently to your feelings.” Both women stepped out in modern metallic gowns like suits of armor. “They are protecting themselves,” she says. “You inherently feel protected wearing a garment like that.” The Trendsetter “Either clients pull back, or they feel inspired and want to go outside of their comfort zone” and push the fashion envelope, says Cristina Ehrlich, who styled 2007 runner-up Penelope Cruz in a high-impact Versace gown. Other style statements: Emma Stone’s chartreuse Elie Saab…

With its new state-of-the-art ballroom, The Century Plaza is aiming to lure industry events away from three other stalwart hotel spaces on L.A.’s Westside that are bedrocks of the gala scene — especially during the run-up to the Oscars. THR spoke with a dozen of the city’s top event planners, caterers and party veterans to evaluate the pros, cons and rubberchicken vulnerabilities of each. THE BEVERLY HILTON Clearly the most dominant venue with more than 150 red carpet events a year, the Hilton is known for an excellent staff but can feel cramped when events exceed 1,200 guests. It also suffers from a tight prefunction area and food that is generally considered subpar. THE BEVERLY WILSHIRE The 90-yearold’s stellar staff and elegant building are undermined by one of the city’s…

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Gary Alan Coe, aka “Gary from Chicago” — a tourist unsuspectingly marched in front of the world at the 2017 Oscars — has had a roller-coaster year. “It was great,” Coe, 60, tells THR. “But two days later, [the media] tried to make it something ugly.” Coe, it turned out, had been released from prison just three days earlier, after serving 20 years under California’s controversial three-strikes law. “It was horrible,” he says of the media coverage. “I didn’t ask to be put on the Oscars. I was minding my own business. I was like, ‘Wow, that’s crazy — that’s America for you.’” He adds, “Look what happened to Harvey Weinstein! Come to find out that the people up in really high places are the ones we should’ve been watching,…

Long before they were world-famous movie moguls, and having just successfully produced an indie horror feature, The Burning, in 1984 Bob and Harvey Weinstein decided to try their hand at directing. Playing for Keeps, the tale of inner-city teens who open a rock ’n’ roll hotel, co-starred Marisa Tomei in her second film role. “The movie turned out to be an absolute bloody disaster,” says one executive who helped engineer distribution with Universal. Though Harvey eventually would develop a reputation for ruthless efficiency and earn the moniker “Harvey Scissorhands” for interfering in other directors’ pictures, each day on the set of Playing was a circus — marred by arguments between the brothers over what to shoot and where to set up the camera. Weeks passed with next to nothing achieved.…

Instead of Prom, Natalie Wood Went to the Oscars In the 1950s, the Oscars were to Natalie Wood what prom night was to other teenage girls. “She probably would have been better off at the Van Nuys High School dance,” says Wood biographer Suzanne Finstad. “She would have had a happier life.” In 1956, Wood, a 17-year-old high school senior, attended as a best supporting actress nominee for Rebel Without a Cause. (THR called the film about adolescent angst “a superficial treatment of a vital problem that has been staged brilliantly.”) Tab Hunter was her date, and she repeatedly was photographed with Sal Mineo, her fellow best supporting actor nominee from the film. The next year, she attended as a guest with future husband Robert Wagner, then 27. (She’d won…

Mary J. Blige, 47 Mudbound The Grammy winner will star in the Dark Horse comic adaptation The Umbrella Academy for Netflix and will voice star in Paramount’s animated Sherlock Gnomes. Timothee Chalamet, 22 Call Me by Your Name He’ll be seen in Woody Allen’s A Rainy Day in New York and in meth drama Beautiful Boy, co-starring with Steve Carell. He’ll also star as Henry V in Netflix feature The King. Willem Dafoe, 62 The Florida Project The prolific actor is set for James Wan’s Aquaman; Edward Norton’s Motherless Brooklyn; and At Eternity’s Gate, starring as Vincent Van Gogh. He will reteam with A24 for Robert Eggers’ fantasy horror The Lighthouse, due to shoot this spring. Daniel Day-Lewis, 60 Phantom Thread In June, the actor announced his retirement from acting,…

Big Deal Agent Michael Kives, who has long straddled the worlds of finance, entertainment and politics, is leaving CAA to set up K5 Global, an international media and financial-services advisory firm for corporations, governments, start-ups and investors. Some of K5’s customers might include such high-profile figures as billionaire investor Warren Buffett (a Kives client at CAA who calls him “one of the most creative and well-connected professionals in his space”) and Snap CEO Evan Spiegel, who also sings Kives’ praises. “I deeply respect and admire Kives,” Spiegel tells THR. “He is a valued adviser, and I appreciate his ability to think creatively and develop unique opportunities.” No immediate K5 clients were named in the Feb. 26 announcement, but Kives’ CAA roster also has included Bruce Willis, Jesse Eisenberg, Eric Stonestreet,…

Oscar nights were sacrosanct for me as a yeshiva boy growing up on Long Island. Nothing could pry me away from the TV set, and my macho Israeli father figured out that his son was very different from the other little boys from Far Rockaway. I had a stake in the game for the first time after I became Katharine Hepburn’s assistant in 1968. I watched from New York with the team from her next project, a stage musical about Coco Chanel: Ms. Hepburn and Barbra Streisand, my favorite performer of all time, tied for best actress! We were in heaven and trooped to Elaine’s to celebrate. My first time at the show was seven years later: I escorted Daphna Krim. Her father, Arthur, head of United Artists — whose…

THURSDAY, MARCH 1 Essence Black Women in Hollywood Awards honor Tiffany Haddish, Danai Gurira and more at the Beverly Wilshire. ... Gersh Agency celebrates its nominated clients, including frontrunners Allison Janney and Sam Rockwell, at Chateau Marmont; Verve’s fete goes down at Paloma. ... Ava DuVernay joins Lancome to Toast Women in Hollywood at Soho House. ... Netflix’s Ted Sarandos and wife Nicole Avant, fete Mudbound and the streamer’s other nominees at their Hancock Park home. ... Universal, Focus and DreamWorks Animation toast their nominees at Spago, and A24 celebrates its second year in the race at Sunset Tower. FRIDAY, MARCH 2 Women in Film’s annual soiree is hosted this year by WIF’s Cathy Schulman and Emma Stone at Crustacean Beverly Hills. ... Common’s Toast to the Arts will welcome 200,…

More diverse leadership, the ability to anonymously report incidents and implementing training and awareness programs are on the industry’s radar to reduce sexual harassment at the workplace. But more is needed beyond Time’s Up activism to foment change. Like, the guys. “The male ally is the single most important person who is going to cause change,” says Janine Yancey, CEO of Emtrain, which helps companies create healthier cultures. (Netflix and Dolby are clients.) “We can’t castigate them. So when a Matt Damon makes an off comment, you can’t beat him up. Don’t be confrontational because that doesn’t work.” When a DP with several women reporting to him featured softporn screensavers on his computer, “lots of other department heads knew about it, but no one wanted to get involved,” says an…

As THR’s resident automotive authority — and someone who has been writing about cars since 2004 — I have been lucky to enjoy my fair share of over-the-top cars thrown my way by makers, usually for a week at a time, for testing. By my estimation, some 700 cars — worth more than $30 million in total — have passed through my driveway. I’ve valet parked everything from a nearly $400,000 Bentley Mulsanne to a $240,000 Day-Glo Alien Green Mercedes-Benz G65S at Los Angeles’ hotels, restaurants and shops over the years. Since parking lots in the city tend to be small, some of what gets left up front is by chance — I’m looking at you, 2012 Dodge Caliber in front of the Waldorf Astoria — but most of the…

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Emma Watson Watson guest-edited the March issue of Vogue Australia, using the tagline, “Now is the time for thoughtful fashion,” to promote sustainability in style. She saw a 118 percent bump in Twitter likes and 9 million Instagram favorites. Chadwick Boseman Three million Instagram favorites (up 219 percent) and 710,000 new followers on the platform were the rewards for the star of Black Panther as the film opened to rave reviews and huge box office. He debuts one spot behind Panther co-star Lupita Nyong’o. Chris Rock His first Top Comedians appearance since September comes via a 794 percent leap in social media conversation metrics. He celebrated the release of his new Netflix stand-up show, Chris Rock: Tambourine, his first special in 10 years, on Feb. 14. Hoda Kotb Like many…