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The Roman Polanski Legal Fight Continues, Now Over Video Of Roger Gunson’s Testimony
If you thought last month's release of previously sealed testimony by former prosecutor Roger Gunson in the Roman Polanski sex case put an end to legal jousting over the secret sessions, you thought wrong.
By way of update, lawyers and others with an interest in the case are now in a tug-of-war over access to the…
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A Tuesday Wish For The Film Academy: Elect A Great Communicator
Here's a wish for Tuesday:
Sometime during the day, governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will meet to elect new officers, including a president to replace termed-out David Rubin. I wish they would choose a Great Communicator for the top job.
The film Academy already has a…
Watch For The Curve In This Year’s Film Awards Season
Film award seasons, most of them, follow a curved track. The action begins in one place (at the Telluride festival), then loops around to end somewhere else (with the Oscars at the Dolby Theater, unless the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences exercises its early termination option with that venue in…
Roger Gunson’s Unsealed Polanski Testimony Offers Not Bombshells, But Details And A Path Through The Thicket
After 12 years in a lock box, former Los Angeles County prosecutor Roger Gunson's conditional testimony in the Roman Polanski sex case was unsealed by court order on Thursday, and copies of a transcript were made available on Sunday night.
What the several hundred pages of testimony—taken over three days in…
Appeals Court Orders Secret Testimony In Polanski Case Unsealed
The California Appeals Court in Los Angeles on Wednesday ordered the Los Angeles County Superior Court to reverse itself and unseal hitherto hidden testimony in the long-running Roman Polanski sex case.
The order cited the need for public examination of claims that Polanski’s rights were violated by the court and…
Predictions, Large And Small, For The Academy’s Kramer Regime
Wow. Bill Kramer's lightning strikes at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences—into the chief's job 17 days early, Chief Operating Officer Christine Simmons out by mid-morning, Jacqueline Stewart in place to take his old Academy Museum post less than a week later—are impressive. Even the Academy's often…
So, Once And For All (We Hope), Bruce Davis Settles Why They Call It ‘Oscar’
If you happen to care about the history of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (at least in its first fifty years), you'll have no shortage of reasons to read Bruce Davis' forthcoming book, The Academy and the Award.
The boardroom fights—Davis, the Academy's former executive director, got access to the…
As The Bruce Davis Academy History Arrives, Bill Kramer Is Writing A Next Chapter
Bruce Davis, say the notices, is finally ready to publish his monumental history of Hollywood’s film Academy. Twelve years in the making; part memoir, part chronicle; the book—The Academy and the Award: The Coming of Age of Oscar and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences—is due this fall from Brandeis…
A Morning Jolt: Our Monthly Media Bill Is Up 13.6 Percent
Bright and early Saturday morning, I got up and paid the cable bill. Then I started thinking, which is never a good thing.
We sure pay a lot for media around here.
At this point, there are only two of us in the house. We haven't added services or purchased much in the way of pay-per-view films (and zero when it comes…
We’ve All Had One — A Tom Cruise Moment
Every journalist who covered Hollywood in the Golden Era that stretched roughly from Risky Business (1983) through Top Gun: Maverick (now) has had a Tom Cruise moment. I had mine in 2002.
My father had just died. It was a rough death, not quick, and as I was driving back for the last time from attending him in…
From Deep In The MPA’s ‘Theme Report,’ Markers Of A Weird New Movie World
It's a bizarre world, this (almost, more-or-less, maybe) post-Covid movie landscape. Pieces are falling into place: Production starts have been up for a year, box-office revenue continues to climb, though it's still a long reach to pre-Covid highs.
But so much is so different, and I don't mean just the obvious shift…
Daydreaming About Daylight At Hollywood’s Film Academy
Here's a thought for a sunny morning: Wouldn't it be nice to see a "daylight slate" in charge of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences?
If precedent holds, next month will bring the election or re-election of almost one-third of the Academy's 54-member governing board (three governors are diversity…
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