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Hollywood Playbook: Thursday's Top 5 News Items

Hollywood Playbook: Thursday's Top 5 News Items

1. THR: ‘Slave’ Oscar-Winner Too ‘Dark-Skinned’ for ‘Industry Prejudices’ Hollywood is apparently very open about how it is almost impossible for a light-skinned black actress to achieve the same career heights as a Julia Roberts or Angelina Jolie, and outright

Pew: MSNBC Loses Quarter of Primetime Audience

Pew: MSNBC Loses Quarter of Primetime Audience

According to Pew, year-over-year numbers show that the business of left-wing cable news is in trouble. The cable news viewing audience overall declined for everyone, but MSNBC lost 24% of its primetime audience. CNN dropped 13%. Fox only lost 6%.

Hollywood Playbook: Wednesday's Top 5 News Items

Hollywood Playbook: Wednesday's Top 5 News Items

1. Critics Pummel Cesar Chavez Biopic For critics to murder “Cesar Chavez” with a 46% Rotten rating, this thing either has to truly suck or be a little too Catholic for critical comfort. Everyone knows that politically correct films are

Who at CNN Ordered the Break-In?

— 2 CNN Producers Arrested for Trying to Break Into World Trade Center. http://t.co/ucuzLAbuqZ via @mashable pic.twitter.com/lBukuelxrb — Jim Roberts (@nycjim) March 26, 2014 — Two CNN producers were allegedly arrested for allegedly attempting to MAKE news when their job

CNN Doubles Viewership Still Gets Crushed By Fox News

CNN Doubles Viewership Still Gets Crushed By Fox News

For all the talk of CNN turning its obsessive coverage of the missing Malaysian airliner into “big” ratings, the network still got crushed by Fox News last week. You can double your ratings, but two times zero is still zero.

Hollywood Playbook: Tuesday's Top 5 News Items

Hollywood Playbook: Tuesday's Top 5 News Items

1. Muslim Country Bans ‘Noah’ But Hollywood Will Keep Bashing Christians Indonesia has joined Qatar, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates in banning the film “Noah” for religious purposes. Muslims consider Noah a prophet and Sharia Law forbids depicting a

Ratings: Season Finale of HBO's 'Girls' Flops

Ratings: Season Finale of HBO's 'Girls' Flops

Deadline Hollywood puts the best spin they can on the disastrous season finale ratings for HBO’s impossibly low-rated series “Girls.” Deadline calls the a dismal 670,000 viewers “steady.” Yeah, “steady” in the same way the Titanic steadily sank. After three

Budapest Pests

Every couple of years I’m told by elite critis: Wes Anderson has done it again! Another irreverent classic! Another masterpiece! Whoo-hoo Wes Anderson! And here we go again with “The Grand Budapest Hotel.” Like everything else We Anderson, someday I

Universal Is Really Going to Remake 'Scarface'

In 1983 when Brian DePalma chose to remake Howard Hawks’ 1932 game-changing gangster film “Scarface,” the world was a completely different place. There was no home video and the 51 year-old version starring Paul Muni had not achieved mythical status.

Disgraced Ex-Congressman Anthony Weiner Joins Business Insider

Disgraced Ex-Congressman Anthony Weiner Joins Business Insider

Disgraced former-Congressman and failed New York mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner will join Business Insider as a monthly political columnist. The column will be titled “Weiner!” and debut on March 28. Weiner was a sitting Congressman and Democrat rising star when,

'Wayne Arnold' Digs Tennessee, Harleys, and Guns

For six glorious seasons, between 1988 and 1993, on “The Wonder Years,” Jason Hervey owned the franchise for playing obnoxious older brothers. Via Twitchy, today Hervey is loving life in Tennessee and all my neighboring state has to offer —

Hollywood Playbook: Monday's Top 5 News Items

Hollywood Playbook: Monday's Top 5 News Items

1. RIP: James Rebhorn Dead at 65 Great character actors accomplish two things. The first is that upon arrival, they make the audience feel better. It is not just about familiarity and comfort, but also competence. No matter how bad

Muppets Pay Price for Left-wing Politics at Box Office

Muppets Pay Price for Left-wing Politics at Box Office

The industry is stunned by the disappointing opening weekend for “Muppets Most Wanted,” but this is the price any franchise is destined to pay after tainting itself with divisive, partisan political positions.   Under the guidance of creator Jim Henson