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Michael Cieply (born 1951) is an entertainment industry writer, first for the Wall Street Journal and then for Talk magazine. In the 1990s, he also worked as a film producer for Sony.

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Oscar Short List of Documentaries Draws Controversy

LOS ANGELES “Tyson,” a critically acclaimed movie about the boxer Mike Tyson, was not among 15 feature documentaries that qualified on Wednesday for possible Oscar nominations, and James Toback, the filmmaker behind it, is fighting mad. Reached by ...

From MICHAEL CIEPLY, The New York Times,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Mike Tyson

A Surprise Gets Buzz for Oscars

LOS ANGELES A few weeks ago “Crazy Heart” was just another invisible movie, one with so little promise that the company that made it refused to put it into theaters. Now, suddenly, this low-budget film about a washed-up country singer finds itself at ...

From MICHAEL CIEPLY, The New York Times,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Academy Awards,  Viacom, Inc.,  Country Music Television,  Jeff Bridges,  Google Inc.

A Writer Tries to Take the High Road as the Low Jokes Fly

This much was learned at a panel discussion last week about “The Future of Funny”: It is not Ken Auletta. Mr. Auletta, who has chronicled the media elite in The New Yorker and in a series of books, the latest being “Googled: The End of the World as We ...

From MICHAEL CIEPLY, The New York Times,  15 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Ken Auletta,  Judd Apatow,  Andy Borowitz,  Sarah Silverman,  Barry Diller

Hollywood Dinner Has Oscars on Menu

LOS ANGELES Lauren Bacall admitted she had a thing for Gregory Peck, but his wife got in the way. Kirk Douglas said he tried to seduce Ms. Bacall, but she wasn’t interested. Warren Beatty confessed that all his best stories seemed to wind up serving ...

From MICHAEL CIEPLY, The New York Times,  15 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Academy Awards,  Lauren Bacall,  Roger Corman,  Gregory Peck,  Kirk Douglas

Hollywood Gets Honest at Governors Awards

The first annual Governors Awards banquet, created to bestow career-oriented Oscars on the worthy without taking up time on the annual awards broadcast, was loving, lustrous and long. Held in a giant banquet room near the Kodak Theater, where the ...

From MICHAEL CIEPLY, The New York Times,  15 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Academy Awards,  Lauren Bacall,  Roger Corman,  Steven Spielberg,  George Lucas

J. Nicholas Counter III, Labor Lawyer, Dies at 69

LOS ANGELES J. Nicholas Counter III, a lawyer who changed the face of labor relations in Hollywood during his long tenure as chief negotiator for hundreds of film and television companies, died on Friday after collapsing earlier at his home in the Bell ...

From MICHAEL CIEPLY, The New York Times,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Writers Guild of America,  International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees,  Paramount Pictures,  Los Angeles Times

A Budget That Pops From the Screen

LOS ANGELES Can a movie studio make money on a film based on an original and unfamiliar story, with no Hollywood superstars, a vanishing DVD market and a price tag approaching $500 million? An audience wearing 3-D glasses at the screening of the ...

From MICHAEL CIEPLY, The New York Times,  8 Nov 2009

Related Topics: News Corporation Limited,  James Cameron,  Rupert Murdoch,  Paramount Pictures

Martin and Baldwin to Host Oscars

LOS ANGELES The coming Oscar show will have a pair of hosts who are not so much matched as deliberately mismatched: Steve Martin, the versatile comic, and Alec Baldwin, a straight man who sometimes reaches for a laugh. “We’re expecting a spirit du ...

From MICHAEL CIEPLY, The New York Times,  3 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Academy Awards,  Steve Martin,  Alec Baldwin,  Meryl Streep,  Nancy Meyers

It’s Nearly a Wrap for Hollywood Power Lunches at Orso

LOS ANGELES Late last week the buzz around the tables at Orso, a film industry hangout since it opened here 20 years ago, was about, of all things, the imminent demise of Orso. Like Morton’s, Chasen’s and the original Spago on Sunset Boulevard, Orso ...

From MICHAEL CIEPLY, The New York Times,  3 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Lindsay Lohan,  Clark Gable,  Carole Lombard,  David Thomson,  Wolfgang Puck

ArtsBeat: Date Set for Oral Arguments in Polanski Case

Let the arguments begin: a California appeals court in Los Angeles has scheduled oral arguments in its review of Roman Polanski’s three-decade-old sex case for Dec. 10. Mr. Polanski and his lawyers have been asking the appeals court to clear the way ...

From MICHAEL CIEPLY, The New York Times,  2 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Roman Polanski,  Steve Cooley

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