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Show Biz Meltdown: Bombs Away! Sep. 20, 2017
The numbers don't lie. Across the entertainment industry, viewers and fans are tuning out. It's no c... Read More
Ask Stacy -- Week of 9/16/17 Sep. 16, 2017
DEAR STACY: Please settle an awards show bet. I say Jay Leno never hosted the Emmys or Oscars. My fr... Read More
Leadership Washington Could Learn From Mar. 04, 2017
Hollywood's critics, of which there has never been a shortage, have long accused that California vil... Read More
The Oscars: The Activism They Left on the Cutting Room Floor Mar. 02, 2017
Imagine the result, with hundreds of millions of people watching worldwide, if Hollywood turned its ... Read More
A Lesson for Planned Parenthood's Pinup Girls Mar. 01, 2017
Glam American actresses Emma Stone and Dakota Johnson adorned their pricy Oscars ceremony gowns and ... Read More
Oscar Rants Feb. 26, 2017
WASHINGTON — Actress Meryl Streep likely set the stage for a very political Academy Award cere... Read More
Ask Stacy -- Week of 2/25/17 Feb. 25, 2017
DEAR STACY: Can you tell me whether there has ever been a Muslim Oscar winner in the acting categori... Read More
The LA Movie That Should Have Won Best Picture Feb. 23, 2017
My candidate lost, and yes, I still can't get over it. I speak of the 1997 movie "L.A. Confidential.... Read More
Trump So Nervous He Is Looking for Hoopla Apr. 20, 2016
I have always believed that if we just let Donald Trump speak long enough, he would finally start ma... Read More
The Color of Hollywood Must Change Mar. 07, 2016
As the 88th Academy Awards show credits rolled on Sunday night, it brought pause to reflect on the e... Read More
USC Hates Hollywood Feb. 26, 2016
Walter Annenberg was a billionaire publisher and philanthropist, and a pal to Richard Nixon and Rona... Read More
Lynda Hirsch on Television -- Q&A Feb. 20, 2016
Q: What is your opinion of the Oscar boycott? — Randi, Las Vegas, Nevada A: I knew that questi... Read More
And the Oscar for Most Stunning Actress Goes to ... Feb. 04, 2016
We are here not to discuss the complex #OscarsSoWhite controversy but to address another sore point ... Read More
Do the Oscars Need Quotas? Jan. 29, 2016
For a conservative, perhaps nothing in popular culture is more amusing than watching leftist Hollywo... Read More
#Oscarsowhite Forces Hard Look at Effectiveness of Diversity Effort Jan. 19, 2016
So the #OscarSoWhite hashtag is back for the second year in a row, with no African American, Asian o... Read More
A Racial Slur and Second Chances Feb. 25, 2015
Let's start at the beginning. A very good place to start. Last Sunday, Lady Gaga brought the Oscar c... Read More
The Oscars: Parsing a Year Filled With Good Movies Feb. 20, 2015
This year's lineup of Oscar nominees demonstrates more clearly than usual the essential irrelevance ... Read More
The Slave Wears Prada: Confusion on the Red Carpet Feb. 19, 2015
Lupita Nyong'o picked up an Oscar last year for her searing portrayal of a scarred captive in "12 Ye... Read More
Oscars' Fantasy on the Left Coast Mar. 07, 2014
The Academy Awards are the left coast's great cultural event of the year, more important to the star... Read More
Where Anyone Can Act Mar. 04, 2014
This year, two big dress-up events fall in the same week. But the Academy Awards and Mardi Gras coul... Read More
