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Hollywood Playbook: Thursday's Top 5 News Items

Hollywood Playbook: Thursday's Top 5 News Items

Box Office: ‘Jump Street’ and ‘Dragon’ Sequels Fight for #1 Two extremely well reviewed sequels hit nearly every theatre in America Friday and both are expected to clear $50 million by Monday. Sony’s “22 Jump Street” sits at 89% fresh

Paula Deen Tells Hollywood Gatekeepers to Shove It

Paula Deen Tells Hollywood Gatekeepers to Shove It

Paula Deen, the 67 year-old celebrity chef who was personally and professionally destroyed last year by America’s bigoted elite for having a Southern accent and enjoying food, announced Wednesday that Hollywood and the media can shove it. Backed by an

WSJ: Dave Brat Fears Hitler Will Rise Again

WSJ: Dave Brat Fears Hitler Will Rise Again

Former Politico reporter Reid Epstein just jumped to the Wall Street Journal but seems to have taken the worst of Politico’s instincts with him. In an uncharacteristically bizarre WSJ piece, Epstein attempts to manufacture from thin air a political controversy

Hollywood Playbook: Wednesday's Top 5 News Items

Hollywood Playbook: Wednesday's Top 5 News Items

The Fall of ‘Entertainment Weekly’ Ann Helen Petersen has written a lengthy history of the rise and fall of Entertainment Weekly, the 24 year-old publication that is now nothing more than a pamphlet. Online, EW is even worse – everyday

Poll: Plurality of 48% Want Full Repeal of ObamaCare

Poll: Plurality of 48% Want Full Repeal of ObamaCare

A new poll from the Brookings Institution shows that a full 48% of the 1538 adults polled want a full repeal of ObamaCare, 44% oppose. Of the 48%, 25% strongly favor repeal, 23% favor. Among the primary talking points the

Hollywood Playbook: Tuesday's Top 5 News Items

Hollywood Playbook: Tuesday's Top 5 News Items

Sigourney Weaver Resurrected for ‘Avatar’ Sequels … Will Play Different Character I don’t remember much about “Avatar” — I mean other than the numbing of the ass about halfway through. But I do remember the characters played by Sigourney Weaver

Hollywood Playbook: Monday's Top 5 News Items

Hollywood Playbook: Monday's Top 5 News Items

Variety: Taxpayers Will Subsidize Hollywood Forever According to Variety, 40 states out of 50 now offer some kind of incentive to attract Hollywood film and television productions. Permanency — of what is known as “corporate welfare” when Hollywood’s Top 1%

Hillary: 'We Came Out Of The White House Dead Broke'

Hillary: 'We Came Out Of The White House Dead Broke'

In an ABC News interview, anchor Diane Sawyer asked potential 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton about the $100 million plus she and former President Bill Clinton have made over the years. The former-Secretary of State claimed that when she and

Left Questions Susan Rice's Credibility

Left Questions Susan Rice's Credibility

Eugene Robinson is not only a left-wing Washington Post columnist, he is also a frequent MSNBC contributor. And like few others, Robinson has been a vigorous dead-ender when it comes to defending Barack Obama’s failed presidency. But even he is

Hollywood Playbook: Friday's Top 5 News Items

Hollywood Playbook: Friday's Top 5 News Items

Hysterical Stephen Colbert Takes Matt Drudge’s Troll Bait Stephen Colbert is either an idiot or a willful idiot. I guess the walking/talking/glib-faced cancer on truth can be both. But his mind-numbingly moronic, hysterical and knee-jerk defense of The State Hillary

MSNBC Cancels Weekend Political Show 'Disrupt'

MSNBC Cancels Weekend Political Show 'Disrupt'

After a year on the air, TVNewser reports that Karen Finney’s weekend political show, “Disrupt with Karen Finney,” had been canceled due to low ratings. Although there was a Twitter campaign to create a culture of “Disruptors,” ratings for the

Sex Abuse Accuser Drops Suit Against Former Disney-Exec

Sex Abuse Accuser Drops Suit Against Former Disney-Exec

Michael Egan, the former child model and aspiring actor who filed suit against “X-Men” director Bryan Singer and three other Hollywood executives accusing them of sexually abusing him as a teen in the 1990s, has dropped one of his suits.