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- 18 Jul 2023
- News
The First Five Years: Brooke Biederman (MBA 2019)
What inspired you to launch Forby Entertainment Partners? I started working on film and TV shoots in New York City during college. My first boss, an executive producer, recommended Edward Jay Epstein’s book, The Hollywood Economist: The... View Details
Keywords: Robert Bochnak
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Now Starring: Single Dad
5, 2010). It was also a time when the concept of “single dad” was largely unfamiliar to many Americans. After graduating from Harvard College, Wand and Robby lived in Arlington, Massachusetts, while Wand was a student at HBS. Despite the movie’s View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Action Plan: Life Study
painter: “There’s an artistic spark in everybody,” he says. +ONLINE: Rip Torn’s Three Steps to Becoming an Actor: Things were a little different in 1965, when Ted Hartley bumped into actor Rip Torn on Hollywood Boulevard. Hartley was... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Turning Point: Listen to the Music
Marnie Tattersall: (MBA 1972) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Marnie Tattersall: (MBA 1972) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) I was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka, and came to the United States in 1958 with my parents and my brother because my parents thought it was... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Joseph J. O'Donnell, MBA 1971
in the Northeast, responsible for everything from running the projectors to selling more than 1 million pounds of popcorn each year. To help Hollywood fill seats, O'Donnell bought Allied Advertising, which, with the clout befitting the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
John Crowley’s Extraordinary Measures
members they’d been cast to play: John; his wife, Aileen; John Jr.; Megan; and Patrick. But the eeriest moment was coming face-to-face with his Hollywood “family.” “They were putting together photo shoots re-creating our family pictures... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Remix
soon the storm of allegations would draw undeniably close. In November, the award-winning screenwriter Jenny Lumet published a first-person account in the Hollywood Reporter of being violated in 1991 by Russell Simmons, the king of... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Student "Treks" Lead to Jobs and Opportunities
Angeles for the premier Hollywood Trek, where they joined a total of 45 HBSers interested in the entertainment industry and the Internet. Meanwhile, in London, more than 90 students from the School were experiencing a full agenda of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Every Trick in the Book
Barnes & Noble took over B. Dalton, and Borders came to run Waldenbooks. With the fall of the mall chain and the rise of the superstore, analysts announced the death of the independent bookstore for a second time. Hollywood even wrote a... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Working the Street
Monte (“End of the Santa Fe Trail”) remains a magnet for prostitutes, particularly transvestites. Police dub them “heeshees” (he/shes); some dress in spiky heels and miniskirts, sporting silicone implants (done in Mexico) that a Hollywood... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Wei Zhang (MBA 1999)
Facebook are all in the entertainment space. Alibaba Pictures doesn’t replicate a traditional Hollywood studio. We want to use the data and resources Alibaba has gathered in our e-commerce and internet ecosystem to create, market, and... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 14 Oct 2021
- News
Disney’s Alan Horn to Retire
notes that he is distinct in his field. Hollywood can be a cutthroat world, and many successful people leave a wake of damage, but Alan Horn is not one of them. Former and current colleagues are in awe of his talent, his demeanor, and his... View Details
- 11 Jul 2013
- News
The Good Writer
Dick: From Les Bizerables to Hollywood and the Emmys. Courtesy Leonard Dick It’s been “a very kooky couple of weeks” for television writer Leonard Dick (MBA ’90). Season Three of the critically acclaimed CBS show The Good Wife premieres... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 10 Dec 2015
- News
The Most Powerful Woman in Chinese Entertainment
The Hollywood Reporter scored the first interview with Zhang Wei (MBA 1999), president of the Alibaba Group’s new film division. In a Q&A, Zhang, whom the publication calls “most powerful woman in Chinese entertainment,” shared her vision... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Roll the Credits
the ratings system, to challenge government boards that censored Hollywood content” (USA Today, March 24, 2004). In those days, the movies were the country’s undisputed entertainment choice; today, by contrast, there is an “onslaught of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Climate Change as Must-See TV
ABBASI: With the participation of HBS alumni and Hollywood heavyweights, bringing climate change drama into US living rooms. Related Link Preview: Years of Living Dangerously (video) by Garry Emmons Last spring, when a Hawaiian... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Lego Stays on Script
Dan Lin on what it takes to be a Hollywood producer on our new Skydeck podcast MORE Dan Lin on what it takes to be a Hollywood producer on our new Skydeck podcast Play is at the center of the Danish... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Working Behind the Scenes — Alan F. Horn (MBA 1971)
what many don't know is that playing the Hollywood executive is only one of Horn's roles. He's also a dedicated environmentalist and an avid collector of art. Horn is visibly passionate about his work with numerous environmental... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Cathy A. Nichols
Hollywood theme park, home of the highly acclaimed City Walk, Back to the Future, and Jurassic Park attractions. Named chairman and CEO of Universal Studios Recreation Group in June, Nichols is back in Los Angeles on a July afternoon... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
A Man of Influence
be introduced to this man’s remarkable life in This Time, This Place: My Life in War, the White House, and Hollywood (Harmony Books, 2007). It’s not a bad substitute. Given the book’s conversational, anecdotal style, it’s easy to get a... View Details