• On the road out of Dubai

  • Now There’s Nine: Anand Jon Trial Opens

    “I am my own God. I can get whatever I want.” Thus did deputy district attorney Frances Young quote the target of her prosecution, former designer Anand Jon, whose trial on multiple rape charges opened on Friday. The prosecutor used a power point presentation, with the previous quote as one of the slides, to paint […]

  • The Getty Story Plays Out

    Here's a new Associated Press story telling readers of this blog what they knew was going to happen: as the ink dries on the newly-signed agreement between the Getty and Italy, in which the museum returns 40 pieces to Italy, Italy is dropping civil charges against Marion True. That should happen when her trial resumes […]

  • Variety

    BY WENDY SMITH | Want to know which hot young director prefers which recreational drug? Which one bathes and changes his clothes so infrequently that he smells bad? Which one hates his mother? New York Times Hollywood correspondent Sharon Waxman zestfully provides the answers in her enjoyably dishy book, obviously modeled on Peter Biskind's bestselling […]

  • New York Observer: Miramax’s Big Morning; Waxman’s War Zone

    BY JAKE BROOKS | “I like being in war zones. And Hollywood is a kind of war zone,” joked Sharon Waxman, the boisterous reporter covering the film beat for The New York Times. A former Middle East correspondent, Ms. Waxman has some basis for comparison. “They’re both very challenging, but Hollywood is much more treacherous […]

  • Four Days That Shook Media

    A list of the media casualties in late January 2009.

  • Bill Gates, Steve Jobs Rap for the Tech World Crown (Video)

    The former Apple and Microsoft chieftains rehash their disagreements on YouTube

    Bill Gates, Steve Jobs Rap for the Tech World Crown (Video)