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Hollywood Playbook: Monday's Top 5 Stories

‘Movie Stars Have Become an Endangered Species’ Writing for Variety, Peter Bart declares the movie star an endangered species about 10 years after the rest of us figured that out: Summer blockbusters make studios happy, but they make stars nervous. That’s

Hollywood Playbook: Monday's Top 5 Stories

Vets Watch as Insurgents Undo Sacrifices in Iraq

Marine Sgt. Colin Archipley’s unit suffered heavy casualties in the savage house-to-house fighting against insurgents holed up in the Iraqi city of Fallujah in 2004. Nearly a decade later, he watched in frustration from his organic farm north of San

Vets Watch as Insurgents Undo Sacrifices in Iraq

California Misses Budget for First Time in Six Months

The California State Controller has announced  that sales, income and corporate tax revenue came in $530.4 million, 7.8%, below budget for the month of May.  That substantial budget miss comes less than two weeks after the California Bureau of State Audits

California Misses Budget for First Time in Six Months

US Reassembles Key Officials for Iran Nuke Talks

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is reassembling key members of the diplomatic team that held secret negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program, leading to a breakthrough agreement, and sending them to Geneva for direct talks with representatives from Tehran

US Reassembles Key Officials for Iran Nuke Talks

Box Office: Jolie Soars, MacFarlane Stumbles

With the Thursday and Friday numbers in, Deadline predicts Angelina Jolie’s fractured fairytale “Maleficent” will land somewhere between $63 million and $70 million by Monday morning. An A from CinemaScore means terrific word of mouth, so it is hard to

Box Office: Jolie Soars, MacFarlane Stumbles

Chemical Weapons Inspectors Attacked in Syria

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — A convoy of chemical weapons inspectors came under attack Tuesday while traveling to the site of a suspected chlorine gas attack in Syria, but all staff members were safe, the international watchdog agency said. The Organization

Chemical Weapons Inspectors Attacked in Syria

'Godzilla's' Box Office Domination Sparks Sequel

LOS ANGELES, May 19 (UPI)–A Godzilla sequel is reportedly in the works at Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros. The remake stomped into theaters over the weekend to a $93 million domestic opening and $103 million overseas. Deadline reports a sequel

'Godzilla's' Box Office Domination Sparks Sequel

'Godzilla' Destroys Box Office with $90+ Million

As late as Thursday the box office prognosticators were estimating “Godzilla” would land somewhere around $65 for this, it’s debut weekend. Normally I stay away from the business of guesswork, especially as it pertains to what a fickle public will

'Godzilla' Destroys Box Office with $90+ Million

Gov. Jerry Brown AWOL in Hollywood Tax Credit Debate

Many Hollywood forces want California to boost the number of tax incentives given to filmmakers to keep projects from fleeing the state. LA Mayor Eric Garcetti is one of the biggest proponents of the potential increase. Gov. Jerry Brown, however,

Gov. Jerry Brown AWOL in Hollywood Tax Credit Debate

LeBron Doesn't Play If Sterling Allowed to Stay

The vice president of the National Basketball Players Association told interviewer Jim Rome that the NBA’s marquee player will sit if the NBA’s pariah owner doesn’t quit.  “I was just in the locker room three or four days ago,” Derrick

LeBron Doesn't Play If Sterling Allowed to Stay

Spike Lee Right on Race Tactics, Misses Big Picture

Spike Lee correctly identified a major weapon used against conservatives today by the left, but he did so through a self-interested lens. The famed director recently had a chummy Q&A with Deadline.com, and the subject of Lee’s image as an

Spike Lee Right on Race Tactics, Misses Big Picture

Hollywood Playbook: Tuesday's Top 5 News Items

‘Colbert Report’: Leftist Comic to Replace Leftist Comic Leaving to Replace Leftist Comic The cultural and political conformity at Comedy Central and CBS lives on now that the rotation is complete. Left-wing Stephen Colbert is leaving Comedy Central to replace

Hollywood Playbook: Tuesday's Top 5 News Items

Fistfighting Teamsters Receive Sternly-Worded Memo

In the real world, where decency and accountability mean something, you will find yourself fired for a lot less than physically assaulting a co-worker. In the dual-Bizarro world of Hollywood and unions, no one is fired over a rash of

Fistfighting Teamsters Receive Sternly-Worded Memo

Hollywood Yuks It Up with Obama at Holocaust Gala

Part of President Barack Obama’s current LA fundraising tour found him accepting an award Wednesday from a Holocaust organization founded by Steven Spielberg. The event stuck plenty of appropriately somber notes, but the gala kicked off with a jokes a-plenty

Hollywood Yuks It Up with Obama at Holocaust Gala

Liberal Law Prof Compares Obama to Nixon

It came as no surprise that conservative and libertarian lawyers sharply criticized the president in Washington Wednesday at the Federalist Society‘s annual Executive Branch Review Conference. Yet even liberal constitutional lawyers were split over President Barack Obama, and would-be defenders offered

Liberal Law Prof Compares Obama to Nixon

Obama to Make 14th Fundraising Trip to L.A. Tonight

President Barack Obama is back in California to snarl traffic and collect even more Hollywood money. The president will kick off a series of Golden State fundraisers tonight, the 14th such trip since he took office in 2009, according to

Obama to Make 14th Fundraising Trip to L.A. Tonight