Reed Business has put Variety up for sale, and once it sells God help those on the payroll. Five years ago who would’ve figured that The Hollywood Reporter, for decades the Avis to Variety‘s Hertz brand, would be the survivor and Variety would go down to the sea in ships? Indiewire‘s Anne Thompson has summarized what went wrong, but in all fairness what went wrong can be summarized in four words — cluelessness, corporatism and Neil Stiles.
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Can’t decide which performance is better, although I’ve always leaned toward Tina Vitale, her cynical New Jersey moll behind the...
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A friend suggested a list of the Ten Best American Crime Flicks of the ‘70s. By which he meant films...
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I’ve never been able to give myself over to Sam Peckinpah’s Major Dundee, a 1965 Civil War–era western, and I’ve...
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