While the honorary Academy Awards no longer get a devoted segment during the televised ceremony, the awards are still a big deal–a chance to honor those who slipped through the cracks and never ended up with a statue. This year’s four recipients don’t include a single actor (unlike recent years when recipients have included Read More
In the interest of drumming up maximal funds—or "transparency"—Barack Obama‘s Presidential Inauguration Committee has released a chart (to be updated in real time) listing the names, employers, cities, and contributions of everyone who donates money to help make January 20 the best inauguration ever. The PIC won’t be accepting any more than $50,000 Read More
On March 17, Cobble Hill–based Web prankster Ze Frank will end his daily, year-long Internet video show to go all Hollywood. “The one thing I took away from my meeting with Jeffrey Katzenberg is that the work begins now,” said Mr. Frank, who was accidentally rewarded with fame after a jokey video, “How to Dance Read More
If you haven’t witnessed it yourself, someone has surely told you about the scene in DreamWorks SKG’s Shrek in which the title ogre finds his beloved swamp overrun with Disney characters, from Cinderella to Tinkerbell. “Dead broad off the table!” Shrek bellows in a Scottish burr, in reference to the casketed, comatose Snow White, exiled Read More
Your diarist is filing this dispatch from a small village named Halton, some 50 miles northwest of London.
To be more precise, I am filing this dispatch from inside an American-made motor home sitting on the great lawn of a 52-room English country manor house, built by the banker Alfred de Rothschild in 1882. Read More
On Friday, Nov. 7, Katzenberg v. Walt Disney Company looked like a sure bet to go to trial. Los Angeles attorney Bert Fields had begun the intensive process of prepping his client, Jeffrey Katzenberg, for trial against his former employer.
The lawyers at Disney may not have been whistling while they worked, but they were Read More
We know the date, the time and the place: Nov. 18, at 9 A.M., in a grungy room in California Superior Court in Los Angeles. What we haven’t known, up until now, is the choice of weapons.
Sources have said that in his $250 million breach-of-contract lawsuit against the Walt Disney Company, Jeffrey Katzenberg will Read More
