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Gabrielle Union and Larry Sims were photographed Oct. 14 at L’Ermitage in Beverly Hills. Photographed by Joelle Grace Taylor From left: Vera Steimberg, Zoe Saldana and Mara Roszak were photographed Oct. 12 at Pendry Residences West Hollywood’s Estate 705 in West Hollywood. Photographed by Jonny Marlow Dakota Johnson (left) and Tracey Cunningham were photographed Oct. 13 at Holloway House in West Hollywood. Photographed by Jonny Marlow Says actress Lola Tung of hairstylist Dana Boyer, “With every makeup look, she is somehow able to read my mind.” The Summer I Turned Pretty star was photographed Oct. 12 at PMC Studios in New York. Photographed by Nina Westervelt…
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Clarissa Ward was about to begin a top-of-the-hour CNN live shot in Sderot, Israel, when a Red Alert siren started to blare. The alert is “telling us to find shelter,” Ward said, as her crew hurried toward a bomb shelter. They didn’t make it in time. As Hamas rockets whizzed overhead and Israel’s Iron Dome intercepted some, creating explosions in the sky, Ward and her colleagues ducked in a ditch. The pulse-pounding scene showed that, as Ward said on air, “even with the most sophisticated military technology, the Israelis are still up against a really tough fight.” The world’s biggest news outlets, now in 24/7 war coverage mode, are up against a parallel fight against disinformation and defamation. Reporters say they have never seen it this bad. Ward’s compelling Oct.…
Like the rest of the world, Hollywood is rattled and on high alert following the Oct. 7 Hamas attack that killed at least 1,400 people and saw the abduction of hundreds of hostages into Gaza. In its wake, attention has turned to beefing up security among Hollywood’s Jewish community. “We’ve had a sharp increase in requests from our Jewish clients,” says Kenneth Bombace of Global Threat Solutions, which services billionaires, stars and Fortune 500 corporations. “They’re afraid they could be a target.” The crisis comes amid a backdrop of already heightened antisemitism — both worldwide and within L.A. The Anti-Defamation League released a study in March that found recorded incidents of anti-Jewish hate in L.A. had increased 30 percent in 2022 over the previous year. (In total, there were 237…
Ever since Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel, celebrities from Amy Schumer to Michael Moore have weighed in on the crisis, with mixed results. Stars are increasingly wading into hot-button topics, but who is swayed by their opinions? According to a THR/Morning Consult poll of over 2,000 U.S. adults from Oct. 18-20, more people than you might think. Forty-one percent of American adults think stars are effective at influencing the public on political subjects. (That’s 17 percentage points more than 2018, when THR last polled on the subject.) But a plurality of Americans (47 percent) still think political celebrities are shouting into the wind. There’s now more potential for backlash: 25 percent of respondents said they would not watch a show or movie if they didn’t like a castmember’s politics,…
By the time the final episode of The Office aired on May 16, 2013, the NBC sitcom already had inked lucrative TV syndication deals. And its parent company, NBCUniversal, had decided to sell the streaming rights, too, to Netflix. Over the next few years, Netflix’s subscriber base discovered the show, ultimately forcing NBCU to buy back the rights for $500 million and make it a centerpiece of its new streaming service Peacock. Since 2013, there has been a whole lot of change in the streaming space. But you might not know it if you look at the streaming ratings charts. Once again, Suits, an NBCUniversal show, is finding new life on Netflix, as the service reestablishes itself as the place to find TV shows and movies from every company. But…
