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Wednesday, September 9, 2015

'Late Show' Review: Colbert Trumps Bush, Courts Clooney & OD's On Oreos by Jeremy Gerard

Jeb Bush only got seven minutes on Stephen Colbert’s inaugural Late Show, and they came nearly at the and of a slightly stretched program. But that proved to be all the time needed for…

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Tuesday, September 8, 2015

Broadway's Summer Ends With A Box Office Ace As 'Hamilton' Love Hits $1.7M by Jeremy Gerard

With gratis national-TV plugs from the likes of tennis god Roger Federer, it’s not surprising that the Hamilton phenom just keeps growing more, you know, phenomenal. (In a post-matc…

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L.A. Times Publisher Beutner Ousted In Latest Chicago-Based Coup by Jeremy Gerard

The Los Angeles Times, for decades a microcosm of the downward spiral of the print news industry, suffered its latest gut-wrench this morning with the announcement that publisher and chief e…

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Monday, September 7, 2015

British Comedienne Judy Carne Dies: Free-Spirited 'Laugh-In' Star Was 76 by Jeremy Gerard

UPDATE Tuesday morning with more information throughout. Carne, the gamine actress who became famous as “the sock-it-to-me-girl” on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In died Thursday…

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Friday, September 4, 2015

Culture Clashes, Missed Connections In Plays By A.R. Gurney & Deborah Zoe Laufer " Reviews by Jeremy Gerard

The line between homage and ripoff confronts and confounds artists all the time: “Good artists copy, great artists steal,” Picasso famously said (practicing what he preached). It…

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Broadway & Film Dancer Vivien Eng Dies At 51 In Hell's Kitchen Fire by Jeremy Gerard

Eng, a one-time member of the famed Martha Graham Dance Company who appeared in musical ensembles and played a nurse in Lee Daniels’ 2009 breakout film Precious, was found unconscious …

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Thursday, September 3, 2015

Broadway Follies: Roth & Gerard On 'Grey Gardens', 'Spring Awakening', Ticket Lotteries And Political Correctness by Jeremy Gerard

Jeremy Gerard has covered the shifting fortunes of Jujamcyn Theatres since it became a formidable competitor to the larger Shubert and Nederlander organizations in the late 1980s. In 2013 pr…

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Hamptons Film Fest Adds Paolo Sorrentino's 'Youth' To Opening Lineup by Jeremy Gerard

Dividing its opening night in half, HIFF will present the East Coast premiere of Youth on Friday, October 9 at its Southampton venue. The film, from Academy Award winner Sorrentino (The Grea…

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Alan Glazer, Former Atlas Exec, Will Produce Under New Trimax Media Shingle by Jeremy Gerard

Glazer, former EVP at Atlas Entertainment, said today he’s launched Trimax Media to develop feature films, television, digital content and applications. The company has an ove…

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Wednesday, September 2, 2015

Michael Feinstein Links With 54 Below, Returning To New York Cabaret Scene by Jeremy Gerard

Feinstein, the one-time assistant to lyricist Ira Gershwin and impresario of his own high-end club at the tony Upper East Side Regency Hotel, has settled on a new perch in the Theater Distri…

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Dean Jones Dies: Star Of Disney's 'The Love Bug' And Sondheim's 'Company' Was 84 by Jeremy Gerard

UPDATED with more information, video: Dean Jones, the affable actor best known for leading roles in several Disney films of the 1960s and ’70s including The Love Bug and That …

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Stephen Colbert Will Gab With J.J. Abrams For Montclair Film Festival by Jeremy Gerard

It’s being billed as “Celebrity Nerd-Off” — Garden State trouper and ascender to the Late Night throne will host an evening with the Star Wars: The Force Awakens dire…

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Tuesday, September 1, 2015

Bloomberg News Sacks 80 Journalists, Including A Critic Of Bloomberg News by Jeremy Gerard

While subordinates sent some 80 staff members home for Labor Day weekend never to return, Bloomberg News editor in chief John Micklethwait emailed a manifesto to the remaining staff to…

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Zachary Levi Replaces Josh Radnor in Broadway's 'She Loves Me' Revival by Jeremy Gerard

The Chuck and Tangled star has taken over the lead role of Georg opposite the Amalia of Tony winner Laura Benanti (Gypsy) in a revival of the 1963 romantic musical about shop clerks in lo…

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FilmRise Will Release 'Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans' In NYC, LA & VOD by Jeremy Gerard

FilmRise has acquired select U.S. rights to the Cannes Classics documentary Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans, shot during the production of the film that nearly destroyed him. The Brookl…

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First Look: Eddie Redmayne & Alicia Vikander In 'The Danish Girl' by Jeremy Gerard

Here are Oscar winner Eddie Redmayne (The Theory Of Everything) and Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina) in the official trailer for Focus Features’ The Danish Girl. From Academy Award-winn…

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Monday, August 31, 2015

Colbert Gifts 'An American In Paris' With His First 'Late Show' Broadway Plug by Jeremy Gerard

Once a staple of bedtime talk shows, Broadway in recent decades usually has taken a back seat to Hollywood. But while it’s unlikely we’ll be seeing fewer movie stars any time soo…

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Broadway-Bound 'SpongeBob Musical' From Aerosmith, John Legend Won't Be 'Lion King' Knockoff: Director by Jeremy Gerard

Jukebox musical meets superhero adventure (porifera branch) in Nickelodeon’s Broadway-bound show The SpongeBob Musical, which has set its Chicago tryout run for late next spring. Origi…

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First Look: Sony's Dramatic 'Concussion' Trailer With Will Smith Facing Down Pro Football by Jeremy Gerard

The trailer for Peter Landesman’s written and directed Concussion launched this morning via Peter King’s Sports Illustrated column on SI.com. Here’s KingR…

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Friday, August 28, 2015

Rebekah Brooks Will Return To Pre-Scandal Perch At News Corp UK " Reports by Jeremy Gerard

Rebekah Brooks and Rupert Murdoch appear to be thisclose again. British press reports on Friday said that Brooks has agreed to  return to her former post as head of News Corp’s n…

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Terry Kinney Will Turn Rock Band 'Other Lives' Into Next Wave Artists by Jeremy Gerard

Director and Steppenwolf Theatre Company co-founder Terry Kinney is turning a performance by indie rockers Other Lives into a theater work for this fall’s Next Wave Festival, a signatu…

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Cameron Mackintosh Considers Himself A Friend Of 'Oliver!' In Amman, Jordan by Jeremy Gerard

Mackintosh, who controls the licensing rights to the groundbreaking Lionel Bart musical, has lent his support to the first-ever Arab-language presentation of the show, based on Charles Dicke…

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Thursday, August 27, 2015

Faulty Connections Shower Sparks Across 'Whorl' & 'John' " New York Reviews by Jeremy Gerard

Sherie Rene Scott is beautiful, blond and busty, an inspired comic actress with an air of practiced innocence that makes her not only irresistible but also believable — a dangerous thi…

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Broadway Follies: Gerard & Roth On Donald Trump, Bill De Blasio And The New Season by Jeremy Gerard

Jeremy Gerard has covered the shifting fortunes of Jujamcyn Theatres since it became a formidable competitor to the larger Shubert and Nederlander organizations in the late 1980s. In 2013 pr…

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Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Rathergate Film 'Truth' With Robert Redford Will Open Hamptons Film Festival by Jeremy Gerard

After scoring a $6 million distrib deal at Cannes and right on the heels of screenings in Toronto at TIFF, Truth will open the 23rd Hamptons International Film Festival on October 8. H…

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NYPD Steps Up Security At Media Outlets In Response To Virginia Shootings by Jeremy Gerard

As police in Virginia pursue a suspect in the early-morning shooting deaths of a television newswoman and cameraman, police elsewhere were increasing security at media offices. “Out…

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Virginia TV Newswoman And Cameraman Killed In On-Air Attack by Jeremy Gerard

A Virginia TV news reporter and cameraman died early today in a shooting during a live morning-news broadcast. The gunman has not been captured, local police said. The killings took pl…

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Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Julianne Moore, Salma Hayek, Sarah Silverman And Matthew Weiner Will Chat In Toronto " TIFF by Jeremy Gerard

The “In Conversation” interviews at the upcoming 40th Toronto International Film Festival will feature the four creatives in a program that replaces the fest’s “Maver…

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Kevin Bacon Returns To Stage For 'Rear Window' With Broadway In View by Jeremy Gerard

Testing the waters for a Broadway return after 13 years, actor and rocker Kevin Bacon (X Men, Cop Car) is heading to Hartford this fall to take on an iconic James Stewart role in the world p…

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Monday, August 24, 2015

Metrograph, A New Indie Film Duoplex, Will Rise On NYC's Lower East Side by Jeremy Gerard

Orchard Street boutique owner Alexander Olch sells his custom-made ties and haberdashery at high-end retailers, but his heart is L.E.S., where he has taken over a 5,400-square-foot wareho…

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Broadway, Like Wall Street, Lays An Egg As Box Office Slides 10% by Jeremy Gerard

It’s not exactly a collapse worthy of prompting mass defenestrations, but Broadway business echoed the financial malaise sending shivers through the equities markets this week. Of c…

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