Academy Noms Are in and Race is on
By Jordan R. Young

HOLLYWOOD,CA(Hollywood Today)2/2/2010–The scenario repeats itself every year: media types of every sort, from snoozing nooze reporters to bleary-eyed blogsters, report for dawn patrol. At 5:30 a.m. they dutifully gather at the Beverly Hills HQ of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts [...]

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Final BAFTA Noms Also Are In
By Jordan R. Young
LONDON (Hollywood Today) 1/22/10 –The Orange British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA) upped the ante in the Oscar race this morning, announcing their final nominations—narrowing each category to five selections from the 15 noms in their preliminary “long list.” Only the Academy Award noms themselves, and of course [...]

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Oscars 2010: Hurt. Precious, even Hangover in running – Air still running in Pole Position
By Jordan R. Young
HOLLYWOOD, CA (Hollywood Today) 1/19/2010 – It’s an atypically wet day in Los Angeles, but the heat is on. That would be the steam heat of the Oscar race, natch, with the Golden Globes on the books, and [...]

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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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