More from Gary Baum
Inside the $3 Billion ‘South Park’ Fight That May Blow Up Its Future
Paramount Global believed it had a framework for an agreement with series creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone. Skydance, the studio’s likely imminent new owner, balked at the terms. The 'South Park' creators have brought on bulldog negotiator Bryan Freedman to turn up the heat.
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Behind Tyler Perry’s Controversial Hollywood Workplace
A bombshell lawsuit from an actor who had worked on Perry’s productions has put a spotlight on how the Atlanta mogul runs his prolific studio.
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Summer Fiction: How THR Investigations Inspired ‘In Pursuit of Beauty’
Here's how a noirish new plastic surgery thriller set in Beverly Hills materialized out of real-life reporting over the past decade. Plus, an excerpt from the novel, which centers on the fraught relationship between an incarcerated doctor and the ghostwriter of her memoir.
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Will Trump Torch L.A.’s Olympics?
When the Games kicks off at the end of his term, will the president use them to turn the screws on a deep-blue city or will he leverage the spectacle as a lame-duck victory lap?
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Barry Diller and the Twilight of the Hollywood Tell-All
The juicy 'Who Knew' reads like a last-of-the-Mohicans memoir for a business no longer defined by the big personalities and singular tastes of its iconoclasts.
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Do Standing Ovations Signal the Decline of Cinema?
Occasionally, as with Guillermo del Toro’s 2006 'Pan’s Labyrinth,' in-the-moment hosannas (a 22-minute eruption) correspond with lasting acclaim. More often, roars of approval are simply a bizarre admixture.
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After the Fires, How Toxic Are L.A.’s Beaches?
Environmental advocates say the blaze’s runoff is cause for concern, in some spots more than others.
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Dinner in a Show: L.A.’s The Gallery Offers Haute Cuisine With Interactive Tabletop Animation
Founded by veterans of Disney and Jim Henson, downtown’s immersive dining concept combines animation and molecular gastronomy.
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A Long-Forgotten Satire of Jews in Hollywood Gets New Life
The hilarious, long-out-of-print 1931 novel ‘Rabbi Burns’ gets the re-issue it deserves.
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The End of the Hollywood Kingmaker
The decline of Jeffrey Katzenberg, long the town’s chief political power broker, has left the industry’s Democratic elite without a leader, a plan or the clout they once wielded — just as Trump retakes Washington with vengeance on his mind.
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How Hollywood’s “Idiot Plot” Explains the Trump Group Chat Scandal
Satirists, as ever, may be the most astute interpreters of the failures of American power.
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Hollywood’s DEI-Promoting Nonprofits Face Trump Assault: “The Higher Profile You Are, the Bigger the Target”
Many organizations who work with studios, like Women in Film and Color of Change, are facing a newly challenging environment imposed by the White House.
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