GBK provides 2009 Emmy nominees and celebrities with latest in gifts
By Gabrielle Pantera
HOLLYWOOD, CA (Hollywood Today) 10/4/2009 – The 2009 Emmy Awards celebrated the best of television as voted by the Television Academy. It’s also a commentary on the culture of today’s television.
Referring to the new Jay Leno Show that airs at 10pm weekdays on [...]

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Tina Fey’s Upper West Side story ‘30 Rock’ gets 22 Emmy noms, while ‘Mad Men’ follows suit with 16
By Darrah Le Montre
HOLLYWOOD, CA (Hollywood Today) 8/1/09 – The 2009 Emmy Awards bestowed nominations to Hollywood’s most watched actors and actresses, including New York’s sweetheart Tina Fey, whose brainchild “30 Rock” tipped the scales with 22 [...]

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Robin Rowe asks TV executives from the Discovery Channel, Fox Reality Channel, and Zodiak Entertainment what we can expect to learn about the market for reality television at the NATPE LATV Fest conference and market on July 8th and 9th
HOLLYWOOD, CA (Hollywood Today) 7/4/2009 – “Reality shows have a higher rate of success than scripted,” [...]

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Suites take a bit of a beating but no Obama to bail them out
By Karen Loftus
HOLLYWOOD, CA (Hollywood Today) 2/20/09 — Oscar, the biggest and glitziest award week of the year hit Hollywood with  whimper, not a bang. Due to the economic climate, The Big O arrived in slightly more tempered fashion. He’s still cinema’s [...]

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Only a real strike could shut down Academy Awards, but producers play hardball in sensitive time
By Jeffrey Jolson
HOLLYWOOD, CA (Hollywood Today) 2/20/09 — The Screen Actors Guild and studio chiefs broke off negotiations last night, just days before the Oscars. The producers said it was ‘the last and final offer,” mostly over Internet pay for [...]

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WGA members, reality TV writers, Teamsters rally during live broadcast of American Idol at CBS TV City
By Jeffrey Jolson
HOLLYWOOD, CA (Hollywood Today) 2/19/09 – “American Idol” has been known for making dreams come true – but not for its employees and allied industries.
As such it is the center of controversy between the show and [...]

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“Milk” screenwriter Dustin Lance Black wins two awards and the hearts of the black tie crowd in L.A.
By Alex Ben Block
CENTURY CITY, CA. (Hollywood Today) – Remember the name of Dustin Lance Black not just because he was a double winner at the 2009 Writer’s Guild Awards where he stole the hearts of the black [...]

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Actor reps SAG and AFTRA finally agree on something
By Jeffrey Jolson
HOLLYWOOD, CA (Hollywood Today) 2/7/09 — SAG and AFTRA, who battled it out during the WGA strike and on into the summer appear to be finally getting along – or at least they agree on something, TV commercials.
TV and radio ads were always a [...]

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Red hot “Slumdog Millionaire” favorite among feature nominees in a final tune up before Oscars
By Alex Ben Block
HOLLYWOOD, CA (Hollywood Today) -Steve Carell (The Office, The 40-Year-Old Virgin), Frank Langella (Frost/Nixon), Jon Hamm (Mad Men), Kate Walsh (Private Practice), Alfre Woodard (Desperate Housewives), Zach Braff (Scrubs), Sarah Silverman (The Sarah Silverman Program), Bryan Cranston (Breaking [...]

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Later this morning, the Writers Guild nominees, and tomorrow, the Directors Guild nominations
LOS ANGELES, (Hollywood Today) 1/7/09 – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button photographed by Claudio Miranda; The Dark Knight shot by Wally Pfister, ASC; The Reader by Chris Menges, BSC and Roger Deakins, ASC, BSC; Revolutionary Road by Deakins; and Slumdog Millionaire by [...]

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Actors pull the trigger on a strike vote
By Jeffrey Jolson
HOLLYWOOD, CA (Hollywood Today) 11/22/08 — The Screen Actors Guild is calling for a strike authorization that would halt Hollywood — saying even Federal mediators could not help.
SAG said early this morning that all has failed in negotiations with producers (AMPTP) and they [...]

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Kid’s pensperson gets Ani writers biggest bow
By Jeffrey Jolson
HOLLYWOOD, CA (Hollywood Today) 11/11/08 — Star Disney writer Linda Woolverton has been chosen by the Writers Guild of America, West’s Animation Writers Caucus (AWC) as the honoree of its eleventh annual Animation Writing Award for lifetime achievement, recognizing her creative contributions to advance the [...]

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