In the basement of a car dealership in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District last spring, The Messenger chairman and CEO Jimmy Finkelstein addressed a throng of New York’s media elite. Finkelstein was there to unveil his grand plans for a new website that he claimed would revolutionize the news, talking a big game in the process.
“When I was at The Hill, we did 125 million visits a month,” he told the gathering that featured media heavyweights Barry Diller, Kara Swisher, Chris Licht and Jen Psaki. “It was the second highest political site next to CNN. That’s with 70ish journalists and maybe 90 people in the editorial. Here, we are going to have hundreds of journalists. We are not just covering politics, we are covering sports, we are covering business, we are covering entertainment. So it’s hard to imagine why we couldn’t do it.”
Sitting in the crowd watching...
“When I was at The Hill, we did 125 million visits a month,” he told the gathering that featured media heavyweights Barry Diller, Kara Swisher, Chris Licht and Jen Psaki. “It was the second highest political site next to CNN. That’s with 70ish journalists and maybe 90 people in the editorial. Here, we are going to have hundreds of journalists. We are not just covering politics, we are covering sports, we are covering business, we are covering entertainment. So it’s hard to imagine why we couldn’t do it.”
Sitting in the crowd watching...
- 2/6/2024
- by Lachlan Cartwright
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
London is hunkering down and getting its cold-weather head well and truly on. Why not try out some of our top picks for the forthcoming week? Listen to a living legend.On Nov. 20, legendary journalist Tina Brown is in town to promote her new book, ‘The Vanity Fair Diaries’. She’ll be talking Princess Di, Annie Leibovitz, and persuading a very pregnant, very naked Demi Moore to turn cover girl. (Tickets: £5) Enjoy a happy ending?Actor Toby Jones and director Michael Haneke will be answering questions following a screening of their new film ‘Happy End’ on Nov. 23. It’s a rare chance to catch Haneke, who has been described as one of cinema’s ‘most provocative and challenging directors’ in full flow. (Tickets: £17.50) Watch a film with a view.This won’t take much selling. Possibly one of the greatest films ever made, ‘Casablanca’, is being shown at the top of the Shard,...
- 11/20/2017
- backstage.com
Famed magazine editor Tina Brown is opening up about President Donald Trump’s past, and it got messy. She sat down for an interview with Tony Dokoupil for “CBS Sunday Morning” where she talked about her career — and her working relationship with Trump before he became president. With decades of experience in media that includes stints editing the New Yorker and Vanity Fair, Brown was on the scene during Trump’s New York City heyday. In one story she shared with CBS, she said that Trump once poured wine down the dress of a reporter after she wrote a story that enraged.
- 11/9/2017
- by Jon Levine
- The Wrap
2017-10-10T14:30:03-07:00Former New Yorker Editor Compares Harvey Weinstein to Donald Trump
As the list of Weinstein's accusers grows - it now includes Gwyneth Paltrow and Angelina Jolie - the picture is emerging of a man who used his status as a way to sexually harass and abuse women. And to Tina Brown, former New Yorker editor and Weinstein colleague, that picture looks like a certain would-be president who boasted about just such behavior on the 'Access Hollywood' bus.
Via The Hollywood Reporter.
Tina Brown knows Harvey Weinstein well; Brown left her plum position editing The New Yorker in the late 1990's to go into business with Weinstein and Miramax Films and start a new, ill-fated magazine called Talk.
On Tuesday, she described her experience working with him (The New York Times described their relationship as a "strained collaboration" in 2002) and weighed in...
As the list of Weinstein's accusers grows - it now includes Gwyneth Paltrow and Angelina Jolie - the picture is emerging of a man who used his status as a way to sexually harass and abuse women. And to Tina Brown, former New Yorker editor and Weinstein colleague, that picture looks like a certain would-be president who boasted about just such behavior on the 'Access Hollywood' bus.
Via The Hollywood Reporter.
Tina Brown knows Harvey Weinstein well; Brown left her plum position editing The New Yorker in the late 1990's to go into business with Weinstein and Miramax Films and start a new, ill-fated magazine called Talk.
On Tuesday, she described her experience working with him (The New York Times described their relationship as a "strained collaboration" in 2002) and weighed in...
- 10/10/2017
- by EG
- Yidio
Bruna Papandrea’s Made Up Stories has optioned Tina Brown's upcoming book, The Vanity Fair Diaries, for development as a limited series. The book, to be published next month by Holt, follows the British editor’s rise and eight-year reign at the helm of Vanity Fair in the 1980s, when she arrived from London scarcely out of her 20s and was tasked with rescuing the struggling magazine and establish herself in a male-dominated industry. The book is based on Brown's detailed…...
- 9/26/2017
- Deadline TV
Bravo Media has turned the page on All That Glitters, the story of the rivalrous relationship between New York magazine editors Anna Wintour and Tina Brown that was planned as its first scripted event series. The project from Universal Cable Productions and exec producers Gale Anne Hurd and Judith Verno had been ordered to series in May. Bravo did not specify a reason for axing the show. All That Glitters was the true story of the behind-the-scenes rivalry, relationship…...
- 9/16/2017
- Deadline TV
Many have heard the stranger-than-fiction stories on Aaron Mahnke's podcast, and soon it will be time to see some of them come to life on Amazon's new series Lore, premiering on Prime Video beginning Friday, October 13th, and you can watch a new teaser video for the new series right now.
Press Release: Seattle--Aug. 29, 2017-- (Nasdaq:amzn)—Amazon announced today the Amazon Original Series Lore will premiere on Friday, October 13 on Prime Video. Based on the popular podcast of the same name, which has an average of five million monthly listens, the anthology series presents the frightening and often disturbing tales based on real people and events that have led to our modern-day myths and legends. All six episodes of the series, from Executive Producers Ben Silverman (The Office), Howard T. Owens (The Biggest Loser), Gale Anne Hurd (The Walking Dead), Brett-Patrick Jenkins (Face Off), Glen Morgan (X-Files), Jon Halperin...
Press Release: Seattle--Aug. 29, 2017-- (Nasdaq:amzn)—Amazon announced today the Amazon Original Series Lore will premiere on Friday, October 13 on Prime Video. Based on the popular podcast of the same name, which has an average of five million monthly listens, the anthology series presents the frightening and often disturbing tales based on real people and events that have led to our modern-day myths and legends. All six episodes of the series, from Executive Producers Ben Silverman (The Office), Howard T. Owens (The Biggest Loser), Gale Anne Hurd (The Walking Dead), Brett-Patrick Jenkins (Face Off), Glen Morgan (X-Files), Jon Halperin...
- 8/30/2017
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
In the days following Princess Diana's tragic death on August 31, 1997, the royal family went about business as usual. They even attended church services the very next morning without mention of her death. In fact, things seemed so normal that Prince Harry—who was 12 at the time—didn't actually know whether the news was real or not. Biographer Tina Brown's Channel 5 documentary Diana: 7 Days That Shook The Windsors revealed heartbreaking details about how Harry and his older brother, Prince William—who was 15 at the time—had to handle the painful loss. "Prince Harry actually asked his father, 'Is it true that Mummy's...
- 5/30/2017
- E! Online
This is the right way to do Emmy campaigning. In a historic move, CBS’ “Mom” is foregoing an Emmy campaign this year and is instead donating it’s $250,000 to Planned Parenthood. Let’s hope other shows follow suit as the organization needs support now more than ever. (Hollywood Reporter) Joss Whedon continues his tour of wokeness. Speaking of Planned Parenthood, the director teamed up with the organization to produce a short film about what happens when Pp is shut down. You would think that with all the high-profile pro-Planned Parenthood campaigning taking place, the current administration would take a hint and realize what a huge mistake defunding it would be. (EW) Kirsten Dunst on Hollywood: 'It's always harder for women.'In conversation with director Sophia Coppola to promote their new film “The Beguiled,” the actress got candid about how the industry changes as women age and her difficulty finding funding for “The Bell Jar,...
- 5/19/2017
- backstage.com
Big news from Bravo. Today, the network announced they've ordered their first scripted event series, All That Glitters.Based on the book Newhouse by Thomas Maier, the six-part drama "will examine the rivalry and friendship between pop-culture and fashion icons Anna Wintour and Tina Brown." The Walking Dead's Gale Anne Hurd and Judith Verno (Masters of Sex) are executive producing.Read More…...
- 5/16/2017
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Bravo is following in the footsteps of networks like FX in its newest series “All That Glitters,” which is a limited series based on the lives of real people. “All That Glitters,” a six-hour event series that will follow the friendship and rivalry between fashion icons and media sensations Anna Wintour and Tina Brown as depicted in the book “Newhouse” by Thomas Maier. For the uninitiated, Wintour and Brown both rose to prominence in the media scene in the 1980s — Wintour over in fashion periodicals like “Vogue” and Brown in celebrity gossip publications like “The Tatler and Vanity Fair. Both were.
- 5/15/2017
- by Carli Velocci
- The Wrap
Kevin Costner is moving into Yellowstone.
The film actor will star in Paramount Network’s sweeping family drama series, written and directed by Oscar nominee Taylor Sheridan (Hell or High Water, Sicario).
RelatedMTV’s Shannara Chronicles Moving to Spike TV for Upcoming Season 2
Costner — who previously graced the small screen in the History miniseries Hatfields & McCoys — will play John Dutton, who controls the largest contiguous ranch in the United States, an area constantly under attack by its neighbors: land developers, an Indian reservation and America’s first national park.
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The film actor will star in Paramount Network’s sweeping family drama series, written and directed by Oscar nominee Taylor Sheridan (Hell or High Water, Sicario).
RelatedMTV’s Shannara Chronicles Moving to Spike TV for Upcoming Season 2
Costner — who previously graced the small screen in the History miniseries Hatfields & McCoys — will play John Dutton, who controls the largest contiguous ranch in the United States, an area constantly under attack by its neighbors: land developers, an Indian reservation and America’s first national park.
Ready for more of today’s newsy nuggets? Well…
* Jessica Meraz...
- 5/15/2017
- TVLine.com
Americans just can’t seem to get enough of Canadian Prime Minister and self-declared feminist Justin Trudeau. Trudeau was a guest at the Women Of The World summit in New York City on Wednesday where he participated in a chat with summit host Tina Brown, talking all things feminism and politics to the mostly-female crowd. The […]...
- 4/6/2017
- by Rachel West
- ET Canada
Scarlett Johansson famously played Ivanka Trump in a recent “SNL” spoof commercial for a new fragrance called “Complicit”, and the “Ghost in the Shell” actress didn’t hold back when discussing the First Daughter during Tina Brown’s Women in the World Summit in New York City on Thursday. During a Q&A with Arianna Huffington, Johansson talked about her growing frustration […]...
- 4/6/2017
- by Brent Furdyk
- ET Canada
Even in these deeply partisan times, it seems there is one thing that can still unite many Americans: a mutual love of Justin Trudeau.
The Canadian prime minister and self-declared feminist has become something of an Internet sensation since he took office in 2015.
Trudeau was a guest speaker at the 2017 Women in the World Summit, where he took the stage for a conversation with event producer and host Tina Brown. Taking the stage at the David Koch Theater at Lincoln Center in New York City to a round of applause on par with those usually reserved for rock stars, Trudeau...
The Canadian prime minister and self-declared feminist has become something of an Internet sensation since he took office in 2015.
Trudeau was a guest speaker at the 2017 Women in the World Summit, where he took the stage for a conversation with event producer and host Tina Brown. Taking the stage at the David Koch Theater at Lincoln Center in New York City to a round of applause on par with those usually reserved for rock stars, Trudeau...
- 4/6/2017
- by Diana Pearl
- PEOPLE.com
Samantha Bee is going full frontal with Hillary Clinton. The “Full Frontal With Samantha Bee” host has been tapped to introduce Clinton at Tina Brown’s annual Women in the Word summit, which is set to take place April 5 – 7 at Lincoln Center in New York City. Clinton will be on hand for a conversation with New York Times columnist and author Nicholas Kristof. Also Read: Samantha Bee Edits Trump Tweet to Call President a 'Giant Baby' Other participants at this year’s summit include Tracee Ellis Ross, Lena Dunham, Cecile Richards, Scarlett Johansson, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Masha Gessen, Dr. Annie Sparrow,...
- 3/23/2017
- by Tim Kenneally
- The Wrap
Princess Diana
As played by Emily Blunt?
We already know that Emily Blunt can totally kill the Princess Di look, thanks to a Halloween costume she wore in “The Five-Year Engagement.” But Blunt is also an incredibly nuanced actress who deserves a meaty lead role like this — and if the film world isn’t going to give it to her, then we happily welcome her to the world of television.
Read More: ‘Feud: Bette and Joan’ Review: Why Care About the Facts When a Show Feels This True?
Prince Charles of Wales
As played by Ben Mendelsohn?
Just look at that side-by-side above. Just look at it. Originally from Australia, the Emmy winner is simply perfect. We did briefly consider Tom Hiddleston, but then we looked at Ben Mendelsohn again. Yeah.
Queen Elizabeth II
As played by Jessica Lange?
The grand dame of Murphy-dom may as well have a literal crown at this point.
As played by Emily Blunt?
We already know that Emily Blunt can totally kill the Princess Di look, thanks to a Halloween costume she wore in “The Five-Year Engagement.” But Blunt is also an incredibly nuanced actress who deserves a meaty lead role like this — and if the film world isn’t going to give it to her, then we happily welcome her to the world of television.
Read More: ‘Feud: Bette and Joan’ Review: Why Care About the Facts When a Show Feels This True?
Prince Charles of Wales
As played by Ben Mendelsohn?
Just look at that side-by-side above. Just look at it. Originally from Australia, the Emmy winner is simply perfect. We did briefly consider Tom Hiddleston, but then we looked at Ben Mendelsohn again. Yeah.
Queen Elizabeth II
As played by Jessica Lange?
The grand dame of Murphy-dom may as well have a literal crown at this point.
- 3/1/2017
- by Hanh Nguyen, Liz Shannon Miller and Steve Greene
- Indiewire
It seems the rest of the world has nothing on some California sunshine!
George and Amal Clooney touched down in Los Angeles on Friday after recent trips to Switzerland and England.
The duo looked stylish together as the 38-year-old human rights lawyer wore a gray sweater with a heavy coat, while the 55-year-old Oscar winner looked casual in jeans and a collared shirt.
The couple kept pretty busy schedules while overseas. Last week, they attended the Women of Impact Dinner hosted by publisher Tina Brown in Davos, Switzerland, where Amal was one of the honored guests.
Earlier this month, they...
George and Amal Clooney touched down in Los Angeles on Friday after recent trips to Switzerland and England.
The duo looked stylish together as the 38-year-old human rights lawyer wore a gray sweater with a heavy coat, while the 55-year-old Oscar winner looked casual in jeans and a collared shirt.
The couple kept pretty busy schedules while overseas. Last week, they attended the Women of Impact Dinner hosted by publisher Tina Brown in Davos, Switzerland, where Amal was one of the honored guests.
Earlier this month, they...
- 1/28/2017
- by Alexia Fernandez
- PEOPLE.com
All eyes were on Amal Clooney at the World Economic Forum in Davos Tuesday. The 38-year-old barrister was honored at the Women of Impact dinner in Switzerland Tuesday. Joined by her husband George Clooney, Amal wore a vintage Chanel ensemble, which she styled with Paul Andrew pumps. Amal and her Nobel Peace-nominated client, 23-year-old Nadia Murad, were honored for their continued fight against the militant extremist group Isis. The theme of the event was "Mastering the Fourth Industrial Revolution." The gathering, hosted by publisher Tina Brown (and co-hosted by Credit Suisse), brought together everyone from U.S. Vice President Joe Biden to Tidjane Thiam, CEO of Credit Suisse. Other notable...
- 1/18/2017
- E! Online
Amal Clooney is a glowing goddess!
The 38-year-old civil rights lawyer was honored at the Women of Impact dinner during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday, stepping out in a gorgeous (and very glitzy!) number.
Watch: Amal Clooney Pulls a Kate Middleton, Recycles a Stylish Floral Dress
Amal donned a vintage ivory Chanel crop top and skirt combo, which she styled with burnt orange statement earrings, black Paul Andrew pumps and a black-and-gold chain purse.
But her best accessory of all? Her husband, George Clooney, who looked dapper in head-to-toe black.
David Biedert / credit suisse
The gathering, which was hosted by publisher Tina Brown, was attended by powerful men and women from across the globe, including U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and Tidjane Thiam, CEO of Credit Suisse.
David Biedert / credit suisse
Amal and her client, 23-year-old Isis survivor Nadia Murad, were recognized at the star-studded soiree for their continued fight for victims...
The 38-year-old civil rights lawyer was honored at the Women of Impact dinner during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday, stepping out in a gorgeous (and very glitzy!) number.
Watch: Amal Clooney Pulls a Kate Middleton, Recycles a Stylish Floral Dress
Amal donned a vintage ivory Chanel crop top and skirt combo, which she styled with burnt orange statement earrings, black Paul Andrew pumps and a black-and-gold chain purse.
But her best accessory of all? Her husband, George Clooney, who looked dapper in head-to-toe black.
David Biedert / credit suisse
The gathering, which was hosted by publisher Tina Brown, was attended by powerful men and women from across the globe, including U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and Tidjane Thiam, CEO of Credit Suisse.
David Biedert / credit suisse
Amal and her client, 23-year-old Isis survivor Nadia Murad, were recognized at the star-studded soiree for their continued fight for victims...
- 1/18/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
Amal Clooney was among the most influential women in the world gathered at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Switzerland on Tuesday.
Along with her husband, George Clooney, Amal attended the Women of Impact dinner hosted by publisher Tina Brown (and co-hosted by Credit Suisse) in Davos, Switzerland, where the World Economic Forum is hosting its 46th annual meeting.
The gathering hosts powerful men and women from around the globe, including Chinese president Xi Jinping, Nigeria’s female finance minister, Kemi Adeosun, and U.S. Vice President Joe Biden. The theme of the event, “Mastering the Fourth Industrial Revolution,...
Along with her husband, George Clooney, Amal attended the Women of Impact dinner hosted by publisher Tina Brown (and co-hosted by Credit Suisse) in Davos, Switzerland, where the World Economic Forum is hosting its 46th annual meeting.
The gathering hosts powerful men and women from around the globe, including Chinese president Xi Jinping, Nigeria’s female finance minister, Kemi Adeosun, and U.S. Vice President Joe Biden. The theme of the event, “Mastering the Fourth Industrial Revolution,...
- 1/17/2017
- by m34miller
- PEOPLE.com
It’s hard to imagine a film more timely than Gavin Hood’s “Eye in the Sky,” which follows a high-ranking British military officer — Helen Mirren as the conflicted Colonel Katherine Powell — who is tasked with directing a top-secret drone operation. The tension-filled film sees Powell and her subordinates often struggling with the decisions they have to make while in pursuit of a band of terrorists in Kenya, a mission that is made all the more complicated when they are asked to target a kill zone that includes various innocent bystanders, including a young girl.
And, Mirren, as ever, is more than happy to discuss the kind of topical questions the film raises — and so much more — when asked about them. At a luncheon held in the film’s honor today at Manhattan’s Le Bernardin restaurant, Mirren and director Gavin Hood participated in a twenty minute chat moderated by...
And, Mirren, as ever, is more than happy to discuss the kind of topical questions the film raises — and so much more — when asked about them. At a luncheon held in the film’s honor today at Manhattan’s Le Bernardin restaurant, Mirren and director Gavin Hood participated in a twenty minute chat moderated by...
- 10/18/2016
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
NBCUniversal's CEO Steve Burke lauded Lester Holt's moderating of the first televised debate between U.S. presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Speaking in a keynote conversation with former editor of The New Yorker Tina Brown at the Royal Television Society Conference in London on Tuesday, Burke praised the NBC Nightly News anchor and said Holt "ended up doing a very good job." Burke said that the whole event was "nerve-wracking" for him. He confessed…...
- 9/27/2016
- Deadline TV
Steve Burke, CEO of Comcast's NBCUniversal, on Tuesday discussed the first presidential TV debate, Donald Trump's past working for NBC, the company's opportunity to grow its international business and his interest in possibly acquiring U.K. TV giant ITV. In a keynote conversation with Tina Brown at the Royal Television Society Conference in London, which this year has the tagline "Full Stream Ahead: Commissioning, Producing and Distributing Content in an Age of On-Demand," he also discussed the partnership of content and the changing media landscape. Burke said more than 100 million people likely caught the first head-to-
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- 9/26/2016
- by Georg Szalai
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
All they planned to do was take a selfie and share it with a friend. But that photo, taken by Indianapolis high school student, Kaylan Mahomes, and featuring her twin Kyla and their lookalike mom, has been shared a bit more than that. A few days after it hit Twitter in early February, the image embarked on a viral, worldwide tour. "Who would have thought that people in Argentina would be looking at my face?" mom Tina Brown tells People. "We've had a lot of people checking in: 'It's reached Nigeria.' 'It's reached Paris.' That picture has been...
- 2/12/2016
- by Darla Atlas, @djatlas
- PEOPLE.com
All they planned to do was take a selfie and share it with a friend. But that photo, taken by Indianapolis high school student, Kaylan Mahomes, and featuring her twin Kyla and their lookalike mom, has been shared a bit more than that. A few days after it hit Twitter in early February, the image embarked on a viral, worldwide tour. "Who would have thought that people in Argentina would be looking at my face?" mom Tina Brown tells People. "We've had a lot of people checking in: 'It's reached Nigeria.' 'It's reached Paris.' That picture has been...
- 2/12/2016
- by Darla Atlas, @djatlas
- PEOPLE.com
Curios and documentaries outshone the glut of middling biopics and fact-based films brazenly touting for awards
For fans of whippet-thin Brits of a certain age, this year’s Toronto film festival afforded some real rock star moments. One involved an actual rock star: Keith Richards, subject of a new documentary and recipient of the longest queue for a press conference. That he had nothing newsworthy to say (likes Ed Sheeran; doesn’t like rap: “I prefer Mary Had a Little Lamb without a bad drum beat”) wasn’t a problem. Just a few wheezy cackles, a flash of his lemon snakeskin blazer, and everyone was happy.
The previous evening, Jeremy Irons, who has two movies playing, was interviewed by Tina Brown at a supper in front of an audience pulsing with lust. Irons is 67. Richards 71. The other toasts of this year’s Tiff were a touch younger, more American: Michael Moore...
For fans of whippet-thin Brits of a certain age, this year’s Toronto film festival afforded some real rock star moments. One involved an actual rock star: Keith Richards, subject of a new documentary and recipient of the longest queue for a press conference. That he had nothing newsworthy to say (likes Ed Sheeran; doesn’t like rap: “I prefer Mary Had a Little Lamb without a bad drum beat”) wasn’t a problem. Just a few wheezy cackles, a flash of his lemon snakeskin blazer, and everyone was happy.
The previous evening, Jeremy Irons, who has two movies playing, was interviewed by Tina Brown at a supper in front of an audience pulsing with lust. Irons is 67. Richards 71. The other toasts of this year’s Tiff were a touch younger, more American: Michael Moore...
- 9/20/2015
- by Catherine Shoard
- The Guardian - Film News
There's only so much Bobby Brown can take ... which is why his friend of 40 years, Ricky Bell says there's no way to comfort him over the impending loss of Bobbi Kristina. Ricky, one of Bobby's New Edition mates explained it's hard to find the right words when he talks to Bobby, because he's suffered so many tragic losses (4 of them) in the last few years. He added ... his heart goes out to the Brown and Houston families.
- 7/1/2015
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
The Houston and Brown families came together again Monday as they prepare for the death of Bobbi Kristina. Pat Houston left the Peachtree Christian Hospice near Atlanta, hand-in-hand with Tina Brown, Bobby Brown's sister. The families were in a bitter feud for months over the care and the estate of Bobbi Kristina, but it appears there's at least a temporary detente. Bobbi Kristina was taken off all life-sustaining medication keeping her alive last week...
- 6/30/2015
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
It seems that both sides of Bobbi Kristina Brown's family are coming together, despite their differences, during this undeniably difficult time. Bobbi Kristina's aunts, Tina Brown and Pat Houston, were seen leaving the hospice that the 22-year-old has been at earlier today, along with Uncle Ray, who was Whitney Houston's bodyguard. Bobby Brown was seen visiting his daughter over the weekend as well, and all family members appear to be leaving the facility as a united front—which is a major shift in the mood since the two sides have been notorious at odds since Whitney's passing three years ago. Tina's son, Shayne, explained to E! News that the Brown and Houston families are doing...
- 6/29/2015
- E! Online
Bobbi Kristina's family came together Saturday as they kept a vigil for her. Pat Houston comforted Tina Brown outside the Peachtree Christian Hospice near Atlanta. It's the first time Pat and Tina have been seen together since Bobbi Kristina was admitted to the hospital back in January. The two families have put their differences aside, at least for now. As we reported, Bobbi Kristina has been taken off life support and it's only a matter of time until she passes.
- 6/28/2015
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
Hollywood figures have come out in support of Maryland State Attorney Marilyn Mosby’s decision to charge all six officers involved in the arrest and ultimate death of Freddie Gray, which sparked nationwide protests and riots in Baltimore earlier this week. “Baltimore ‘s Marilyn Mosby is a rock star,” tweeted media personality Tina Brown. Gray’s death on April 19 rocked the city of Baltimore, which is now under curfew. Mosby’s announcement Friday morning drew cheers from the assembled crowd at the city’s War Memorial. The officers involved in Freddie Gray’s arrest and death have officially been charged...
- 5/1/2015
- by Itay Hod
- The Wrap
Helen Mirren, "thespian royalty," as Tina Brown described her, appeared at Brown's Women in the World summit on Thursday afternoon. Unlike the serious dialogues about sexual violence, war, and other violations of human rights highlighted at the three-day-long gathering of powerful women, theirs was a more lighthearted conversation. Mirren joked about growing up with the Queen of England (whom Brits apparently love to call "her maj," for short), touched on how her career has evolved, and how she handles misogyny in their 20-minute talk. She learned how to play Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen by watching her childhood videos. Mirren remembers footage of a 12-year-old Elizabeth getting out of a Hearse-like car by herself, presumably to go complete one of her many royal obligations. "She gets out of that car with such a sense of 'I've got to do this,' and it's so sweet. I watched that bit...
- 4/23/2015
- by Dee Lockett
- Vulture
Wednesday night, three powerful female forces in Hollywood — Meryl Streep, Ava DuVernay, and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy — appeared on a panel in New York City at Tina Brown's annual Women in the World summit. But rather than having a chat about their shared experiences of being a woman in the film industry over a glass of wine à la Amy Schumer, the three enlightened self-proclaimed "asshole" Jon Stewart on disrupting the patriarchy. (He's out of The Daily Show August 6, so now's probably their last chance.) Between clips from Streep's upcoming film Suffragette and Obaid-Chinoy's documentary about Pakistani working conditions, the four talked for nearly 40 minutes about art as activism, making men uncomfortable, and the radicalism of being a woman filmmaker. They enjoy making men who watch their films uncomfortable. Obaid-Chinoy, who won an Oscar for her 2012 documentary about acid attacks on women in Pakistan, "enjoys" making men uncomfortable...
- 4/23/2015
- by Dee Lockett
- Vulture
The Bobbi Kristina Brown updates continue to be confusing and cryptic. After questions surfaced Monday following conflicting reports of Brown's purported coma and quality-of-life improvements, both the Browns and the Houstons sought to provide clarity. "Bobbi Kristina's condition has changed since moving from Emory University Hospital and there has been improvement," said lawyer Christopher Brown, representing Bobby Brown, in a statement emailed to USA Today. "Doctors have indicated that she will have a long life. However, Bobbi Kristina is presently embarking on a rehabilitation process and the quality of her life will not be known for years to come."Bobbi Brown is out of the ICU, according to Bobby Brown's wife, who adds that her husband was in an emotional state when he declared his daughter was awake over the weekend. Bobby Brown's sister, Tina Brown, reportedly wrote (in a now-deleted Facebook post): "So many messages,sorry...
- 4/21/2015
- by Sean Fitz-Gerald
- Vulture
Just when it seemed things were over for Bobbi Kristina Brown, her father Bobby Brown and his sister Tina Brown have announced that she is no longer dependent on life support.
The “Every Little Step” singer showed up at Frankie Beverly’s concert at the Verizon Theatre in Dallas on Saturday (April 18) and told the crowd, “I can say today Bobbi is awake. She’s watching me.”
And on Sunday, Tina took to her Facebook page for an update- "So many messages, sorry can't answer them all right now but I will get to them later. Just allow me this time with my family. Yes she woke up and is no longer on life support!!!!!:):)God is good!!thanks for your prayers. Still a process, but she is going to be ok:):):):)."...
The “Every Little Step” singer showed up at Frankie Beverly’s concert at the Verizon Theatre in Dallas on Saturday (April 18) and told the crowd, “I can say today Bobbi is awake. She’s watching me.”
And on Sunday, Tina took to her Facebook page for an update- "So many messages, sorry can't answer them all right now but I will get to them later. Just allow me this time with my family. Yes she woke up and is no longer on life support!!!!!:):)God is good!!thanks for your prayers. Still a process, but she is going to be ok:):):):)."...
- 4/20/2015
- GossipCenter
Bobby and Tina Brown are absolutely wrong ... Bobbi Kristina is not off life support and remains unresponsive ... this according to the Houston family. Sources connected with the Houstons tell TMZ, they have no idea where Bobby Brown is getting his information that Bobbi Kristina was awake, nor do they know why Tina said she's awake and no longer on life support. Gossip Cop first reported the conflicting positions between the Browns and the Houstons. We're...
- 4/20/2015
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
Bobbi Kristina Brown Is "Awake," "No Longer on Life Support" According to Bobby Brown and Tina Brown
Bobbi Kristina Brown is "awake" and has come off her life support machine, according to her dad Bobby Brown and his sister Tina Brown. Bobbi Kristina, 22, has been in a medically induced coma for the past two and a half months, since she was discovered unresponsive in a bath tub on Jan. 31. But now it seems like things are looking up for the daughter of Bobby Brown and the late Whitney Houston, after her dad and aunt sent out messages to fans over the weekend, saying [...]...
- 4/20/2015
- Us Weekly
Now this is some amazing news. After roughly three months of being in a coma, Bobbi Kristina Brown is reportedly awake and no longer on life support. Her aunt Tina Brown took to Facebook to share the extremely happy news, writing, "So many messages,sorry can't answer them all right now but I will get to them later..just allow me this time with my family,,yes,she woke up and is no longer on life support!!!!!:):)God is good!!thanks for your prayers,,still a process,but she is going to be ok:):):):)." The initial question about Bobbi's status comes after father Bobby Brown made the shocking statement that she is "awake" during his concert in Texas. In new video surfacing on...
- 4/20/2015
- E! Online
Peter Bart and Mike Fleming Jr. worked together for two decades at Daily Variety. In this weekly column, two old friends get together and grind their axes, mostly on the movie business. Bart: So this is the moment, Mike, when we all have to get behind our women. Or pay the consequences. Hillary Clinton has just announced her candidacy. Then she's expected next week to deliver a power speech at Tina Brown's Women of the World Summit. There seems to be a Power of Women…...
- 4/12/2015
- Deadline TV
Peter Bart and Mike Fleming Jr. worked together for two decades at Daily Variety. In this weekly column, two old friends get together and grind their axes, mostly on the movie business. Bart: So this is the moment, Mike, when we all have to get behind our women. Or pay the consequences. Hillary Clinton has just announced her candidacy. Then she's expected next week to deliver a power speech at Tina Brown's Women of the World Summit. There seems to be a Power of Women…...
- 4/12/2015
- Deadline
Hillary Clinton will speak at Tina Brown’s sixth-annual Women in the World Summit, event organizers announced on Tuesday. The former Secretary of State and presumptive 2016 presidential candidate will speak on women’s and girls’ advancement around the world during a keynote speech at New York’s Lincoln Center on April 23. The event, which runs from April 22 to April 24 in association with The New York Times, also has lined up speakers including Meryl Streep, Jon Stewart, Padmasree Warrior, Barbra Streisand, Aamir Khan, Ava DuVernay, Sister Rosemary Nyriumbe, Mary Robinson, Obiageli Ezekwesili, Diane von Furstenberg, Elif Shafak and Kennedy Odede. Also Read: Hillary Clinton Hires Former.
- 4/7/2015
- by Greg Gilman
- The Wrap
From his early days as a struggling actor, through his drug-addled years working for Andy Warhol at Interview and Tina Brown at Vanity Fair, and on to a mind-bending journey to the top of Kilimanjaro, Kevin Sessums has led an intensely colorful life — and just barely lived to write about it. His memoir, I Left It on the Mountain, is full of glitzy, debauched yarns, including the one excerpted here, about a very strange night with Courtney Love and Jessica Lange at the 1995 Vanity Fair Oscar party. It was the night of the Vanity Fair Oscar party at Morton’s, March 27, 1995. Courtney Love was at my table since she had also requested that I be her escort that night. We had already been spending a lot of time with each other leading up to a cover story for Vanity Fair that was scheduled to run in its upcoming May issue...
- 2/17/2015
- by Kevin Sessums
- Vulture
Remember when the Sony hack revealed that Jennifer Lawrence got paid less than her male co-stars on American Hustle? Amy Pascal wants you to know that's a thing of the past. "I've paid [Lawrence] a lot more money since then, I promise you," she reportedly told Tina Brown during a Q&A session at the Women in the World conference on Wednesday. But, Pascal hinted, Lawrence maybe should have just asked for a raise in the first place. "The truth is, what women have to do is not work for less money," she said. "They have to walk away. People shouldn't be so grateful for jobs ... people should know what they’re worth." So apparently, the pay gap, like everything else, remains women's fault.
- 2/12/2015
- by Nate Jones
- Vulture
Amy Pascal Says Angelina Jolie ''Didn't Care'' About Her ''Minimally Talented Spoiled Brat'' Comment
Former Sony exec Amy Pascal is opening up about the nightmare that was and still is the Sony cyber-hacking. In a new interview with Women in the World's Tina Brown, the 56-year-old called the controversy surrounding her leaked emails "horrible" but "strangely freeing." "I ran this company and I had to worry about everybody who was really scared," she said. "People were really scared, all of their social security was out there. People worried about their passports, people were worried about all kinds of things. But nagging in the back of my mind, and I kept calling, going, 'They don't have our emails, right? Tell me they don't have our emails.' 'No, no, no, no!'...
- 2/12/2015
- E! Online
According to Amy Pascal, former co-chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment, Angelina Jolie wasn't phased by being called a "minimally talented spoiled brat" in an email that went public when Sony was hacked late last year.
"Angie didn't care," Pascal claimed during an interview with journalist Tina Brown at the Women in the World conference in San Francisco on Wednesday (via Recode). "Everybody understood because we all live in this weird thing called Hollywood."
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She added, "If we were all actually were nice, it wouldn't work.”
When asked about the leaked emails that claimed Jennifer Lawrence was being paid less than her male American Hustle co-stars, Pascal didn't back down. "I've paid [Lawrence] a lot more money since then, I promise you," she said.
"Here's the problem: I run a business. People want to work for less money, I pay them...
"Angie didn't care," Pascal claimed during an interview with journalist Tina Brown at the Women in the World conference in San Francisco on Wednesday (via Recode). "Everybody understood because we all live in this weird thing called Hollywood."
News: Channing Tatum and George Clooney's Hacked Sony Emails Will Make You Like Them Even More
She added, "If we were all actually were nice, it wouldn't work.”
When asked about the leaked emails that claimed Jennifer Lawrence was being paid less than her male American Hustle co-stars, Pascal didn't back down. "I've paid [Lawrence] a lot more money since then, I promise you," she said.
"Here's the problem: I run a business. People want to work for less money, I pay them...
- 2/12/2015
- Entertainment Tonight
No bad blood here! Former Sony exec Amy Pascal, who recently stepped down from her top post at the company, famously had some less-than-favorable words for Angelina Jolie in a series of leaked emails unveiled in the widespread Sony Pictures Entertainment hack. According to a new interview that Pascal did with Tina Brown, however, she and Jolie are still on good terms. "The first person I talked to was Angie after that email," Pascal, 56, spilled of the star, who was the subject of an argument between [...]...
- 2/12/2015
- Us Weekly
Amy Pascal spoke candidly about stepping down as a chief of Sony Pictures, last year’s embarrassment over leaked emails and the devastating hack that started it all. Appearing at the Women in the World conference at San Francisco’s St. Regis Hotel on Wednesday, Pascal was direct about her turbulent recent months — which culminated in her “transition” to producer a week ago. “All the women here are doing incredible things in this world. All I did was get fired,” Pascal told moderator Tina Brown, according to tech blog re/code. “Everyone knows everything about me. What am I doing here?...
- 2/12/2015
- by Matt Donnelly
- The Wrap
Amy Pascal is opening up about her departure from her Sony post. Pascal, who is stepping down as Sony's co-chairman following the devastating hack on the studio, spoke to journalist Tina Brown at the Women in the World conference Wednesday in San Francisco, where she said she wasn't sure she belonged at the event. "All the women here are doing incredible things in this world — all I did was get fired," Pascal said, according to Recode. It should be noted that official statements about her departure from the Sony gig had implied a mutual parting of ways, rather than a
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- 2/12/2015
- by Ryan Gajewski
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The bloody brawl Bobby Brown's family had last Thursday was blown way out of proportion ... says Bobby's nephew who was hit with a glass, but insists he'd never call his mom a "crackhead." Shayne Brown tells TMZ he's got nothin' but love for his mom Tina Brown -- the two sat side by side at the vigil for Bobbi Kristina Monday night ... he claims she'd been drinking, and was upset a random friend crashed...
- 2/10/2015
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
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