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Katzenberg tightens control at DWA: David Geffen relinquishes all super-voting stock
VarietyCEO Jeffrey Katzenberg is officially top dog at DreamWorks Animation with 61% of voting control after his former DreamWorks partner David Geffen relinquished all super-voting stock. The company said in an SEC filing Tuesday that Geffen has converted 3...Tags: Viacom Inc., DreamWorks Animation SKG Incorporated, Voting, News Corp., Elections
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Is Malibu turning into the Larry Ellison beach club?
The membership roll in Malibu's unofficial Billionaire's Beach club is shrinking. Former Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Terry Semel and his wife, Jane, have sold their spot to Oracle Corp. CEO Larry Ellison, who already has eight other houses along Carbon...
Tags: Phyllis Diller, Larry Ellison, Personal Service, Pump Room, Celebrities
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Rise of e-book trade causing a lit snit: The venerable book business is experiencing a moment of turmoil, as evidenced by two events last week.
VarietyThe venerable book business is experiencing a moment of turmoil, as evidenced by two events last week. A glitzy party on Wednesday triggered the most extravagant book launch of the year (if not the decade). It is being funded by a neophyte publisher...Tags: Kevin Reynolds, Regis Philbin, Book, Amazon.com Inc., MGM Inc.
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N.Y. turns out for Penny Marshall's 'My Mother Was Nuts'
Liz Smith"Whatever you have read I have said is almost certainly untrue, except if it is funny in which case I definitely said it." -- Tallulah Bankhead. Speaking of old-time stars who really twinkled reminds me of something I read in The New York Times last...Tags: Book, Diane von Furstenberg, Anjelica Huston, Madonna, The New York Times
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TIFF ratchets up femme focus in docs: Toronto Int'l Film Festival 2012
VarietyFrom veteran documaker Barbara Kopple to two-time Oscar nominee Lucy Walker to first-person doc aficionado Nina Davenport, TIFF has a long history of spotlighting female nonfiction helmers. But this year, the fest ratchets its femme focus up a notch:...Tags: Liz Garbus, Lucy Walker, Movies, Festive Events, Toronto International Film Festival
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Johnny Carson doc scores big for PBS: 'American Masters' documentary drew 6.3 million viewers
VarietyAuds flocked to the PBS documentary on Johnny Carson in May, with final Nielsen tallies making it the most popular "American Masters" production to date. "Johnny Carson: King of Late Night" averaged 6.3 million viewers including repeat broadcasts and...Tags: Television Industry, Culture, Blu-ray Discs, Television Stations, Carl Sandburg
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News Corp. donates $20 million to MPTF: Murdoch hopes gift will spark others to do the same
VarietyNews Corp. has made a $20 million gift to The Motion Picture & Television Fund's campaign goal of $350 million -- one of the largest recent donations to fund. The announcement was made Wednesday, six weeks after Barry Diller and his family made a $30...Tags: Joe Roth, Charity, Patrick Soon-Shiong, University of California, Los Angeles, Barry Diller
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Kirk Douglas, wife donate $20 mil to MPTF: Fund inches closer to campaign goal of $350 mil
VarietyAnne and Kirk Douglas given $20 million to the Motion Picture and Television Fund's campaign goal of $350 million in one of the largest recent donations to the fund. The contribution was announced Monday, a dozen days after Rupert Murdoch made a $20...Tags: Joe Roth, Patrick Soon-Shiong, Barry Diller, University of California, Los Angeles, Todd Phillips
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Sony-led group closes EMI pub buy: Acquisition was cleared by FTC
VarietyWrapping the biggest music publishing deal in history, an investor consortium led by Sony/ATV Music announced Friday that it had closed the $2.2 billion purchase of EMI Music Publishing. Hours earlier, the Federal Trade Commission approved the...Tags: Federal Trade Commission, Rihanna, Norah Jones, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Bob Dylan
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Daum: Under Nora's wing
If you're a particular kind of writer, the kind with a taste for "social observation" and a belief in the divine partnership of unbridled humor and unapologetic honesty, Nora Ephron, who died Tuesday, almost certainly fell into the category of Central...
Tags: Meghan Daum, Rob Reiner, Personal Service, Nicole Kidman, Arianna Huffington
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'The Scream'? Painting By Numbers Seems Harder
The Hartford CourantSo I'm looking at a painting called "The Scream," which just sold for $119.9 million, when it occurs to me: I could have done that. I mean, all we're talking about here is a central figure with a head shaped like a light bulb. How hard would that be to...Tags: Carly Simon, Arts
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Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne sell oceanfront house in Malibu
Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne have sold their oceanfront house in Malibu for $7.925 million. Their 2.5-acre estate in Hidden Hills remains on the market at $12.999 million.
The three-story beach house features a walled garden, five bedrooms, five bathrooms...Tags: Billy Dee Williams, Television Industry, Jewel, Priscilla Barnes, Tracey Ullman
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