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Tom Tapp
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Tom has covered the entertainment industry for more than 20 years. He joined Deadline in 2020 after working on the homepage teams of both Yahoo and AT&T. His work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Premiere magazine and on The Daily Beast. Tom founded the popular industry website and newsletter HollywoodWiretap.com, which he later sold. Before that, he spent seven years at Variety, where he was the Managing Editor of Features. While there, he created the trade’s award-winning lifestyle publication, V Life, and was its Executive Editor.
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2024-25 Awards Season Calendar – Dates For Oscars, Emmys, Grammys, Guilds & More
UPDATED with latest: The Oscars, strike-delayed Writers Guild Awards and the 2023-24 awards season are history, and it’s time to look at what’s ahead trophy show-wise.
Here is a list of awards shows, events and the like ahead as we cruise into Emmy season and look ahead to Cannes, the fall film…
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Disneyland Workers Vote To Approve New Contract, Averting Strike Threat
UPDATED: Late today unions representing 14,000 cast members at Disneyland, Disney California Adventure, Downtown Disney and the Disney hotels announced their members had voted to ratify new three-year contracts with Disney.
“Today’s vote is a historic win for cast members, who stood strong against…
Kim Johnson Dies: ‘Survivor Africa’ Runner Up Was 79
Survivor Africa runner up Kim Johnson, who remains the oldest woman to ever reach the final stage in the longlived reality competition, died on July 23 according to her children. She was 79.
Johnson, then 56 and a onetime elementary school teacher, was underestimated in her time on the show and seen…
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Charles Barkley Says He’s Spoken To Amazon, NBC & ESPN About New Gig Covering The NBA
One of the great things about being Charles Barkley is that you get to change your mind.
The all-time NBA great and analyst on TNT’s Inside the NBA told Dan Patrick this morning that, despite previously saying he would retire after the 2024-2025 season, he has had discussions with the three…
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2024 Presidential Election Debate Schedule: Dates, Times, Who’ll Be There And Who Won’t
UPDATED: Democratic White House nominee-in-waiting Kamala Harris said July 25 that she will debate former President Donald Trump on September 10, but the GOP nominee’s campaign had declined to commit until “Democrats formally decide on their nominee.”
On July 21, President Joe Biden declared that he w…
Jon Stewart Calls Out NBC & CNN, Saying They “Refuse To Allow Their Reporters To Come On” His Podcast
“I would think it’s an embarrassment to those news organizations,” said Jon Stewart today at the top of his The Weekly Show podcast.
Specifically, he was speaking about NBC and CNN which, he said, “refuse to allow their reporters to come on a podcast (his) to talk about the issues of the…
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Nacelle Announces Seasons 4 & 5 Of ‘The Toys That Made Us’
EXCLUSIVE: Nacelle, the Burbank-based diversified media company known for Netflix's The Movies That Made Us, Disney's Behind the Attraction, and the upcoming animated series Biker Mice from Mars (co-produced with Ryan Reynolds) and RoboForce (with Dwayne Johnson), is bringing The Toys That Made Us back…
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Jennifer Aniston Rips Trump VP Pick J.D. Vance For “Childless Cat Lady” Remarks
J.D. Vance isn’t making many friends of late.
Most recently, Donald Trump’s newly-minted running mate has been grilled for resurfaced comments he made to Tucker Carlson in 2021 in which he said the U.S. was being run by "a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the…
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14,000 Disneyland Cast Members Vote To Authorize A Strike If Negotiations Are Unsuccessful – Updated
UPDATED with vote results: The vote is in, and it turns out many of those who work at the Happiest Place on Earth aren’t so happy.
The largest bargaining unit of Disney workers in California representing more than 14,000 cast members, announced last week that those same employees had voted…
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Half A Dozen Wildfires Ring Much Of Greater Los Angeles
Today, after a number of mostly spot fires throughout the region in recent weeks, Los Angeles finds itself partially ringed by blazes: one in La Tuna Canyon, two more in the Angeles National Forest, one in Redlands, another one to the north near Palmdale and a sixth — the largest in the state this year — c…
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Remembering Bob Newhart: A Career In Photos
Bob Newhart, who passed away July 18 at 94, had a 60-plus-year career that spanned stage, screen, and even radio. He fronted his own hit TV shows, voiced animated characters in everything from The Rescuers to The Simpsons, and stole scenes from Hollywood’s biggest movie stars including Steve McQueen, Gene Wilder and…
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Naomi Pomeroy Dies: ‘Top Chef Masters’ Contestant And James Beard Award Winner Was 49
Naomi Pomeroy, the Portland-based Top Chef Masters contestant who was the recipient of the James Beard Award for Best Chef Pacific Northwest in 2014, died Saturday in an accident on the Willamette River, according to multiple reports. She was 49.
Pomeroy was reportedly one of several people floating…
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