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The article shows the waning of Hollywood's #MeToo fervor as old habits of sexual harassment and discrimination return and business culture starts to regress. It reveals the exhaustion of diversity, equity and inclusion executives and raises doubt over the commercial viability of inclusion-minded films and shows. It reports the compliance of entertainment companies like Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery with sexual harassment policies.

A review is offered for the restaurant Polo Lounge at the Beverly Hills Hotel, located in Los Angeles, California.

The article reports that coronavirus pandemic has outmarched movie places of Los Angeles, California with Chinese Theater with towering columns and copper pagoda as symbol of Hollywood. Topics discussed include concern of cinema owners about television (TV) sets would make theaters irrelevant, Warner Brothers Western Theater which spent as Hollywood postcard and theater which has become outpost for cinephines.

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The article discusses the need for actresses to remain skinny in Hollywood while stating the examples of actresses Danielle Macdonald and Nikki Blonsky who had found initial success in the industry but have struggled since then due to their plus-size.

The article discusses mistakes happened in announcing the winners due to the exchanging of envelopes at the Hollywood's Oscar award ceremony. It mentions mistake and apologize by a partner at the accounting firm PwC, Brian Cullinan for announcing the wrong name for the best picture at the 89th Academy Awards as "La La Land" instead of "Moonlight" and mentions that this mistake was happened because of identical sets of sealed envelopes.

The article discusses the peoples from the field of Hollywood, Los Angeles, California and the continuous changing of their jobs including chief executive officer (CEO) Jeffrey Katzenberg of animation company DreamWorks Animation, and former Vice Chairman Rob Moore of film company Paramount Pictures. It informs that the renowned peoples have made the decisions on their own ground focusing on their status.

The article discusses the presence of British and other foreign actors in the motion picture industry based in Hollywood, Los Angeles California. Emphasis is given to Oscar award nominations for actors such as Alicia Vikander and Michael Fassbender, the training of British actors, and Hollywood's interest in foreign markets.

The article offers cultural news briefs including the altered 'Hollywood' signboard reading 'HOLLYWeeD' , film audiences' continued interests in superheroes, and Vogue editor Anna Wintour and actor Mark Rylance being named on this year's New Year's Honors 2017.

The article talks about the Miss Golden Globe award given by Hollywood Foreign Press Association to Sistine, Scarlet and Sohia, daughters of actor Sylvester Stallone.

LOS ANGELES THE Oscar race now comes down to one man's hand, and how he intends to play it. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

LOS ANGELES -- Hollywood has had enough of the sharp consumer shift toward renting movies through Netflix. Desperate to raise home entertainment profits, studios want people to start buying movies outright again, either digitally or on little silver discs. But what's the best way to force that pendulum to swing? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Until now, tiny Summit Entertainment has been largely ignored by the major studios and looked down on by A-list agents and managers. But because of a classic bit of Hollywood bungling, the fledgling movie company finds itself sitting atop one of the biggest pop-culture phenomena of recent years. When ''Twilight,'' based on the first of Stephenie Meyer's hugely popular teenage vampire novels, opens in theaters on Friday, audiences will be greeted not by the Warner Brothers shield or the 20th Century Fox drum roll but by Summit's logo: an abstract squiggle evoking a mountain ridge. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Screen Actors Guild wants the government to become involved in its prolonged quest for a contract that is sharply richer than agreements reached by Hollywood's writers and directors unions. The actors union's national board, meeting over the weekend for the first time since September elections tilted the guild in a less confrontational direction, decided to ask for a federal mediator to join stalled contract talks with the major film and television studios. The board also decided not to put a strike authorization vote before its membership. The studios in July issued what they called a final offer to the actors and have refused to reopen talks despite the guild's repeated requests. Although the studios will probably accept the addition of a mediator -- they want to spend a few days mulling it over -- a spokesman indicated that a mediator would not make a difference. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Democrats are hoping voters will be colorblind at the ballot box on Nov. 4. Does Hollywood have the same trust in America when it comes to the box office? Studio bosses like to portray themselves as high-stake gamblers who spend tens of millions based on instinct. The truth is that they are the most risk-averse crowd around. Executives chatter about building ''four-quadrant'' films -- pictures that appeal equally to men and women, over and under the age of 25. Superheroes have been hitting those marks big time lately. (Cut to movie executive pounding his office intercom: ''Find me more superheroes!'') [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The quest by the Screen Actors Guild for a sharply improved labor contract has a new plot line: mutiny. Infuriated by hard-line tactics used by SAG leaders in contract talks with Hollywood's largest studios -- talks that broke down a month ago -- a less militant collection of actors has started a campaign to take over the guild. ''What has been happening so far is not working,'' said Kate Walsh, the star of ''Private Practice'' on ABC and a member of the dissident faction. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Paramount Pictures said it had withdrawn from a planned film finance deal that was meant to raise as much as $450 million through a now-disbanded entertainment venture of Deutsche Bank. The deal's collapse is yet another indicator that the overall credit squeeze continues to afflict Hollywood. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

To understand why Hollywood is taking the threat of a strike by the Screen Actors Guild seriously, look no further than Alan Rosenberg's actions during a solidarity march last November with striking screenwriters. Mr. Rosenberg, the president of the 120,000-member actors' union, made Patric M. Verrone, his counterpart at the West Coast writers' guild, look like a pacifist during the march down Hollywood Boulevard. While Mr. Verrone mostly smiled and waved, Mr. Rosenberg screamed, ''On strike! Shut 'em down! Hollywood's a union town.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]