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Media CEO Salaries Flourished in Pandemic as Industry Cratered

May 14, 2021

Ten top media and entertainment CEOs earned a combined $350 million last year, buoyed by hefty stock and option grants during the worst economic disruption since the Great Depression. Members of compensation committees on

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Confusing Messages from Officials on CDC Mask Announcement

May 14, 2021

“At businesses, whether indoors or outdoors, masks are still required to be worn,” said Los Angeles Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer Thursday afternoon. Just minutes before, President Joe Biden delivered a different message.

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‘We are the Met’: Opera Unions Rally Against Proposed Pay Cuts

May 13, 2021

The serious tensions that remain with the company’s unions were put on vivid display outside Lincoln Center on Thursday, as hundreds of union members rallied in opposition to the Met’s lockout of its stagehands and management’s demands for

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AMC Stock Trends Again as Value Increases 24%; Theater Chain Raises $428M

May 13, 2021

Top movie theater circuit AMC Entertainment said it has raised $428 million in new capital from the sale of 43 million shares at an average price of $9.94. The results of the sale followed a plan laid out in an April 27 SEC filing.

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A.O. Scott in the NYT: What I Learned About Democracy from the Movies

May 13, 2021

“In the past few years I’ve found myself questioning my assumptions and doubting what I thought I knew about my country,” writes A.O. Scott in The New York Times. “What if the good guys don’t always win? What if people can’t find

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NYC Met Opera Strikes Deal with Musicians Union; IATSE Local One is Still Locked Out

May 12, 2021

The Metropolitan Opera reached a tentative agreement Tuesday on a four-year contract with the American Guild of Musical Artists, one of three major labor deals needed for the New York company to resume performances in September.

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Actor Norman Lloyd, Who Died at 106, is Remembered

May 12, 2021

Norman Lloyd, who has died aged 106, had the privilege of working as an actor, director and producer with such towering figures as Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Jean Renoir and Charlie Chaplin; they were also his close friends.

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CEO Pay Skyrocketed While Their Low-Wage Workers Suffered in the Pandemic

May 12, 2021

During the pandemic, low-wage workers have lost income, jobs, and lives. And yet many of the nation’s top-tier corporations have been fixated on protecting their wealthy CEOs, even bending their own rules to pump up executive paychecks.

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HFPA Responds to NBC Dropping 2022 Golden Globes

May 11, 2021

On Monday afternoon, in the aftermath of NBC’s decision to not air the Golden Globe Awards in 2022, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association issued a statement suggesting it will proceed with efforts to reform itself throughout the coming year

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L.A. County Expected to Hit COVID-19 Herd Immunity by End of July

May 11, 2021

Los Angeles County could reach herd immunity from the coronavirus among adults and the oldest teenagers by mid- to late July, another milestone that underscores the region’s rapid recovery from the pandemic. Herd immunity, sometimes

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