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Peter Bart: Companies Are Pitching MOGA (Make Offices Great Again), But AI-Wary Workers Are Barely Budging
For a glimpse of turmoil these days, look no further than the nearest office. "It's an incipient war zone," says a McKinsey study.
That's despite the fact that offices are mostly empty — both federal and corporate. The MAGA-era U.S. government…
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Peter Bart: It’s One Battle After Another On Paul Thomas Anderson’s Latest Awards-Season Journey
Nothing about Hollywood should surprise Paul Thomas Anderson. The 55-year-old, Los Angeles born-and-bred filmmaker has made most of his movies in or about his hometown — films praised or challenged by his critical community.
His darkly satiric new…
Peter Bart: The Jimmy Kimmel Saga Is A Great Hollywood Tale, But Would Anyone Make The Movie?
The protests and petitions over Jimmy Kimmel reflected Hollywood's politicized mood this week but also raised this question: Will this '70s-type zeal impact policy, or even color content?
Hollywood veterans see a sad irony in the passing of Robert R…
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Peter Bart On Robert Redford, A Man Of Contradictions Who Challenged What A Movie Star And Indie Film Could Achieve
Robert Redford, who died Tuesday at age 89, was a major movie star with the soul of a '60s rebel but the appetites of a Hollywood celebrity. He loved movies but distrusted studios and disliked Hollywood and Los Angeles as places to live or…
Peter Bart: Peacock Delivers ‘The Paper’ In Toledo While Rupert Murdoch Plots Tabloid Takeover Of L.A.
The new TV comedy called The Paper depicts the clumsy re-start of a newspaper ambitiously named The Truth Teller. The crises faced by the fictional Toledo-based venture may resonate in Hollywood, which uneasily awaits the start-up of a “new” tabloid…
Peter Bart: Both ‘The Naked Gun’ And Its Studio Are Banking On The Promise Of Reboots
The Naked Gun reboot arrives this week from Paramount Global, its distributor, which is also heralding its own massive reboot — a study in contrasts.
The three Naked Gun films over nearly 40 years hilariously chronicled a litany of organizational…
Peter Bart: With YouTube Soaring, PBS Fading And Film Struggling, Critics As We Know Them Might Be An Endangered Species
The three news stories ran back to back last week but only one stirred much attention. One story warned that both NPR and PBS are facing a dire squeeze, even extinction, due to funding cutbacks. A second disclosed new data revealing YouTube's more…
Peter Bart: Big Brands Boom At Box Office But Don’t Forget To Nurture The Summer Surprises
This summer's glowing box office numbers have put smiles on Hollywood's corporate faces, if also a hint of concern. The message: The mythic summer blockbuster is alive and well, but is someone missing from the party?
On one level, the soaring…
Peter Bart: Barbara Walters Built A Career On Trust In A Bygone Era Far Removed From Today
"Tell me everything," Barbara Walters used to urge her TV guests. She believed she could coax the truth out of anyone, whether revered or disgraced, and so did her viewers.
Her confidence would be challenged today when every fragment of news, even…
Peter Bart: George Clooney And Tom Cruise Building Strong Third Acts For Their Careers
Tom Cruise and George Clooney may seem to have little in common except for this: Pushing through their mid-60s, the two stars proved this year that it's possible to defy the odds and create strong third acts for their acting careers. And to relish the…
Peter Bart: Barry Diller’s New Memoir Might Be The True Final Reckoning
Studios celebrate their box office hits — unless it’s Paramount, where even success becomes opaque.
Tom Cruise's $400 million Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning was produced by Skydance Films for Paramount, but Skydance also wants to acquire…
Peter Bart: Cannes Strong On Debuts, Long On Ovations And Short On Surprises
The Cannes Film Festival proved itself to be strong on resilience this year, but short on big surprises.
Dial back to 1985: "What am I doing here?" asked Clint Eastwood, whose French hosts seemed puzzled that the cowboy star was also becoming an…
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