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Broadway’s Back But the Audience is Tentative: Except for “Music Man” Ticket Sales Are Slow So Far, Even for “Hamilton”

It used to be you could not get a ticket to "Hamilton" to save your life. Then the pandemic hit. And the filmed version of...

Scooter Braun Isn’t Worried About $50 Mil Lawsuit from Ex-Goldman Sachs Exec: “Got to love a good opportunist”

Scooter Braun. superstar manager of Justin Bieber and Ariana Grade, Tweets this afternoon: "One day I woke up to find out that a guy...

Social Media Was Wrong about Ellie Kemper and Veiled Prophet: My Interview with One of Several Black Members (Exclusive)

I don't know what Veiled Prophet was in the distant past, but it's not a racist organization. Social media has become a lynch mob, looking...

Box Office Bonanza as “A Quiet Place 2” Makes Noise with $19.3 Mil Opening Night, Heads to $57 Mil Weekend

The box office is back! "A Quiet Place Part 2" made an astounding $19.3 million last night in wide release. John Krasinski's middle chapter horror...

The Hamptons Are Getting a New Player in the Media Wars: Grazia Gazette Hits Town At All the Hot Spots

Who said newspapers were dead? Not Dylan Howard, the former tabloid wunderkind from American Media before it rebranded as A360 Media. Since leaving the...

Bad Billionaires Trying for Makeovers, Will It Work? James Murdoch with Tribeca Festival, Steve Cohen Sponsors Love Rocks

Some bad billionaires are trying like crazy to reform themselves in public. Next week, Steve Cohen, who paid the government $1.8 billion in fines a...

Box Office: Paramount’s “A Quiet Place” Scores $5 Mil, But Cruella Is a Dog With $1.5 Mil Previews

I told you yesterday that "Cruella" was in trouble. Now it's come true. Thursday previews were just $1.5 million. Disney may be barking up the...

Cool: Howard University to Rename Fine Arts School for Chadwick Boseman Per New Dean Phylicia Rashad

T'Challa will now be king of fine arts! Howard University is renaming its Fine Arts school for late actor Chadwick Boseman, a star graduate. It...

Disney’s “Cruella” May Be in Trouble at the Box Office as “Dalmatians” Update Doesn’t Make Fandango Top 5, Has Little Advance Sale

I was worried that Disney's "Cruella" might be in trouble. A totally amateur look at Fandango reservations for Memorial Day weekend by yours truly...

$8.45 Billion Sale: James Bond, Aretha Franklin Get “Respect” as Amazon Decrees that for MGM “This is No Time to Die”

Amazon is buying MGM Studios for $8.45 billion. For MGM, Amazon has decreed, this is "No Time to Die." That's the name of the James Bond...