You have a problem running an event when Mayor Mike is your most charismatic speaker. Such was the case at the opening press conference of the Tribeca Film Festival where he joined festival co-founders Bobby De Niro, Charlie Gargano and others to try out a few zingers, as witnessed by our Jake Read More
It looks like Katherine Oliver, the fancy-footed commissioner of the Mayor’s Office of Film, Theatre and Television, will be heading to the Cannes Film Festival after all. Things weren’t looking so good last week, when an e-mail from Ms. Oliver under the subject heading “URGENT PLEA” made the rounds asking for donations to help send Read More
It’s not quite tsunami relief, but Mike Bloomberg’s Commissioner of Film, Theater, and Broadcasting, Kate Oliver, is circulating an email to raise $30,000 for her own favorite charity: sending Kate Oliver to Cannes.
“The New York Production Alliance, is asking each of its member organizations to help us raise $30,000 to defray the Read More
“Is that Nell’s?” a harried young man asked, standing on the north side of 14th Street near Eighth Avenue and pointing across the street at the awning of NA. Anticipating a fashion show that night, a fair number of low-grade scenesters were milling about in front of the nightclub that had indeed once been Nell’s Read More
Wednesday, Jan. 4
It’s starting to look a little ugly. Earnings are down, stocks are sinking and layoffs are on the rise. People are using the dreaded R-word with alarming frequency.
As the American economy slows, what does it portend for the world of television financial news? No development better signified the late-90′s stock-market Read More
