Following weeks of public engagement to discuss plans to enhance Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles City leaders announced measures today to improve pedestrian safety and mobility options for the area.
At a Thursday morning news conference, City Council members Hugo Soto-Martinez and Nithya Raman, who represent the Hollywood area, announced bike lanes, bus lanes, wider sidewalks, and other safety improvements such as crosswalks, will be coming to Hollywood Boulevard. The city is aiming to install the improvements by early 2025.
“This project is about making our community safer and transforming how residents, workers and visitors use Hollywood Boulevard,” Soto-Martinez said in a statement.
He added, “We know that if people come here, they will eat here, they will shop here and they will spend their money here. By building Hollywood around people instead of cars, we can revitalize this iconic destination.”
The area is one of the most congested in the city...
At a Thursday morning news conference, City Council members Hugo Soto-Martinez and Nithya Raman, who represent the Hollywood area, announced bike lanes, bus lanes, wider sidewalks, and other safety improvements such as crosswalks, will be coming to Hollywood Boulevard. The city is aiming to install the improvements by early 2025.
“This project is about making our community safer and transforming how residents, workers and visitors use Hollywood Boulevard,” Soto-Martinez said in a statement.
He added, “We know that if people come here, they will eat here, they will shop here and they will spend their money here. By building Hollywood around people instead of cars, we can revitalize this iconic destination.”
The area is one of the most congested in the city...
- 3/21/2024
- by Tom Tapp
- Deadline Film + TV
Updated 7:30 Pm Wednesday: Phones in the L.A. area have exploded with yet another flash flood warning from the National Weather Service. The advisory called it a dangerous and life-threatening situation, and warned residents not to travel unless fleeing a flood area. It extends to 2 a.m.
The National Weather Service also issued a Severe Thunderstorm Warning for the region stretching from Thousand Oaks to Glendale (west to east) and from Santa Clarita to Inglewood (north to south) until 8:45 p.m. “This storm will contain wind gusts to 70 Mph!” reads the Nws statement. It also warns of the potential for pea-sized hail.
Severe Thunderstorm Warning including Glendale CA, Santa Clarita CA and Thousand Oaks CA until 8:45 Pm Pst. This storm will contain wind gusts to 70 Mph! pic.twitter.com/q2OmnjftkU
— Nws Los Angeles (@NWSLosAngeles) February 8, 2024
Updated with latest: A series of mudslides hit Mulholland Drive today...
The National Weather Service also issued a Severe Thunderstorm Warning for the region stretching from Thousand Oaks to Glendale (west to east) and from Santa Clarita to Inglewood (north to south) until 8:45 p.m. “This storm will contain wind gusts to 70 Mph!” reads the Nws statement. It also warns of the potential for pea-sized hail.
Severe Thunderstorm Warning including Glendale CA, Santa Clarita CA and Thousand Oaks CA until 8:45 Pm Pst. This storm will contain wind gusts to 70 Mph! pic.twitter.com/q2OmnjftkU
— Nws Los Angeles (@NWSLosAngeles) February 8, 2024
Updated with latest: A series of mudslides hit Mulholland Drive today...
- 2/8/2024
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
Fred Rosen doesn’t mind if people consider him a villain. He made that clear during his fortune-making run at Ticketmaster, which he turned into a polarizing behemoth. “I was running ‘the evil empire’? I was running a business. You know who liked me? My clients. Did I love being called an asshole? Not particularly. Could I live with it? Sure.” He adds, “You can’t build a business without pissing somebody off.”
The same attitude prevails in his current venture: attempting to kill a proposed subway through his Bel-Air neighborhood. “You have to come to grips with the fact that not everyone’s going to like you,” he says.
Rosen, an 80-year-old grandfather, is aware of his pugnacious intensity. “Guys like me make coffee nervous,” he jokes during lunch in a booth at his “commissary,” the Hotel Bel-Air’s restaurant. (Rosen did stand-up in the Catskills as a teenager.
The same attitude prevails in his current venture: attempting to kill a proposed subway through his Bel-Air neighborhood. “You have to come to grips with the fact that not everyone’s going to like you,” he says.
Rosen, an 80-year-old grandfather, is aware of his pugnacious intensity. “Guys like me make coffee nervous,” he jokes during lunch in a booth at his “commissary,” the Hotel Bel-Air’s restaurant. (Rosen did stand-up in the Catskills as a teenager.
- 1/29/2024
- by Gary Baum
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
One week after it voted to install fencing on Mulholland to block some views of the sign and protect pedestrians, the Los Angeles City Council has approved a motion seeking to potentially prohibit tour bus operations in hillside neighborhoods in proximity to the Hollywood Sign.
The council voted 11-0 to approve a motion instructing the Department of Transportation to report within 120 days on possibly prohibiting tour bus operations in the area bounded by Barham Boulevard, the ridgeline of the Santa Monica Mountains, Western Canyon Road, Franklin Avenue and U.S. Route 101.
Council members Eunisses Hernandez, John Lee, Tim McOsker and Current Price were absent during the vote.
Specifically, the motion seeks to address concerns regarding public safety in the neighborhoods of Hollywood Knolls, Hollywood Dell, Lake Hollywood, Hollywoodland, Beachwood Canyon and Oaks that sit adjacent to the Hollywood Sign.
According to the motion, introduced by Councilwoman Nithya Raman, who represents the Fourth District,...
The council voted 11-0 to approve a motion instructing the Department of Transportation to report within 120 days on possibly prohibiting tour bus operations in the area bounded by Barham Boulevard, the ridgeline of the Santa Monica Mountains, Western Canyon Road, Franklin Avenue and U.S. Route 101.
Council members Eunisses Hernandez, John Lee, Tim McOsker and Current Price were absent during the vote.
Specifically, the motion seeks to address concerns regarding public safety in the neighborhoods of Hollywood Knolls, Hollywood Dell, Lake Hollywood, Hollywoodland, Beachwood Canyon and Oaks that sit adjacent to the Hollywood Sign.
According to the motion, introduced by Councilwoman Nithya Raman, who represents the Fourth District,...
- 8/31/2023
- by Tom Tapp
- Deadline Film + TV
Come Tuesday, Los Angeles landlords will be looking to collect the rents that were legally withheld because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
That’s when the rent debt repayment program enacted in the height of the pandemic’s first wave will come into effect. Ironically, the program – designed to help those whose jobs were shut down by the initial wave of the disease – arrives at a time where the city is again faced with an economic crisis. This time, the twin SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes have affected the guild memberships and the ancillary businesses that rely on their work product and patronage.
As a result, many already struggling to recover from the pandemic and hit by the strikes will now have to come up with a massive lump sum in rent that may be beyond their reach.
“My hope is that the impending August 1 rent debt repayment deadline actually push us...
That’s when the rent debt repayment program enacted in the height of the pandemic’s first wave will come into effect. Ironically, the program – designed to help those whose jobs were shut down by the initial wave of the disease – arrives at a time where the city is again faced with an economic crisis. This time, the twin SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes have affected the guild memberships and the ancillary businesses that rely on their work product and patronage.
As a result, many already struggling to recover from the pandemic and hit by the strikes will now have to come up with a massive lump sum in rent that may be beyond their reach.
“My hope is that the impending August 1 rent debt repayment deadline actually push us...
- 7/30/2023
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
The boundary of NBCUniversal’s lot is now a flashpoint for the on-the-ground mistrust of Hollywood’s double strike. On July 18, the WGA and SAG-AFTRA filed mirrored complaints with the National Labor Relations Board, alleging NBCUniversal had engaged in “illegal conduct” by having picketers march along blocks of Lankershim Blvd. sidewalk on the west end of its campus which were improperly obstructed by the studio’s ongoing campus construction work. The filings contend that the studio has ignored an advisory from the Los Angeles Police Department to establish concrete barriers for pedestrian safety.
Hours after The Hollywood Reporter first publicized the Labor Board complaints (the studio says it will cooperate with any agency inquiries), L.A. City Controller Kenneth Mejia — an outspoken progressive who holds the municipal office that audits government agencies — tweeted that his department would be “investigating the tree trimming that occurred outside Universal Studios where workers, writers,...
Hours after The Hollywood Reporter first publicized the Labor Board complaints (the studio says it will cooperate with any agency inquiries), L.A. City Controller Kenneth Mejia — an outspoken progressive who holds the municipal office that audits government agencies — tweeted that his department would be “investigating the tree trimming that occurred outside Universal Studios where workers, writers,...
- 7/19/2023
- by Gary Baum
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Writers Guild of America strike continued Thursday with a demonstration at Netflix headquarters in Los Angeles that featured appearances by Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin, as well as a slew of Dolly Parton drag queens on the picket lines.
The event, put on by the WGA’s LGBTQ+ writers committee, was titled “Striking 9-5 Picket — A Dolly Drag Event.” Fonda, Tomlin and the real-life Parton starred in the 1980 comedy that scored an Oscar nomination for Parton’s chart-topping title song. The picket was organized by the film’s screenwriter Patricia Resnick, who also attended and spoke to the crowd that swelled to more than 400.
On the scene at the Striking 9-5 Picket – A Dolly Drag Event outside of Netflix in LA today #WritersStrike...
The event, put on by the WGA’s LGBTQ+ writers committee, was titled “Striking 9-5 Picket — A Dolly Drag Event.” Fonda, Tomlin and the real-life Parton starred in the 1980 comedy that scored an Oscar nomination for Parton’s chart-topping title song. The picket was organized by the film’s screenwriter Patricia Resnick, who also attended and spoke to the crowd that swelled to more than 400.
On the scene at the Striking 9-5 Picket – A Dolly Drag Event outside of Netflix in LA today #WritersStrike...
- 6/29/2023
- by Rosy Cordero and Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
A week after the Writers Guild called its strike against the studios, portions of the sidewalk immediately outside the NBCUniversal lot, where picketers had begun marching, were fenced off and torn up. Now several blocks of that footpath along busy Lankershim Blvd. are gone and WGA members are crying foul. Some are suspicious of the timing, and many believe that the situation is a threat to their safety and an infringement on their right to protest.
Jan Kimbrough, a Guild member since 1992 walking with an injured hip, recalls no trouble during her 2007 picketing of the same studio. This time, she contends she’s dubious of the literal barriers to dissent. (Behind tarped fencing, asbestos and other materials are being unearthed.) “Whoever thought this up is a nasty little Machiavellian,” Kimbrough says.
Union officials are more measured. “It’s hard to tell if it’s purposeful,” says WGA counsel Jeremy Bennie.
Jan Kimbrough, a Guild member since 1992 walking with an injured hip, recalls no trouble during her 2007 picketing of the same studio. This time, she contends she’s dubious of the literal barriers to dissent. (Behind tarped fencing, asbestos and other materials are being unearthed.) “Whoever thought this up is a nasty little Machiavellian,” Kimbrough says.
Union officials are more measured. “It’s hard to tell if it’s purposeful,” says WGA counsel Jeremy Bennie.
- 6/9/2023
- by Gary Baum
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Nury Martinez has stepped down from her seat on the Los Angeles City Council amid the furor over the comments she made on a leaked audio of a conversation with two other colleagues and a top labor official.
“It is with a broken heart that I resign my seat for Council district 6, the community I grew up in and my home,” she said in a statement on Wednesday.
Martinez resigned as City Council president on Monday and then announced the next day that she was taking a leave. But a chorus of top Democrats, including President Joe Biden, have called on her and the two other council members, Kevin de Leon and Gil Cedillo, to also exit.
The leaked audio, in which Martinez was heard making racist remarks about the Black son of one of her council colleagues, Mike Bonin, as well as disparaging remarks about other ethnic groups, has set off a furor.
“It is with a broken heart that I resign my seat for Council district 6, the community I grew up in and my home,” she said in a statement on Wednesday.
Martinez resigned as City Council president on Monday and then announced the next day that she was taking a leave. But a chorus of top Democrats, including President Joe Biden, have called on her and the two other council members, Kevin de Leon and Gil Cedillo, to also exit.
The leaked audio, in which Martinez was heard making racist remarks about the Black son of one of her council colleagues, Mike Bonin, as well as disparaging remarks about other ethnic groups, has set off a furor.
- 10/12/2022
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
About 35 employees of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures gathered on Wednesday across the street from the 500 million shrine to the Oscars and filmmaking to deliver a letter informing new Academy CEO Bill Kramer that they have gathered majority worker support for a new union and asking for voluntary recognition.
Three weeks ago, the new union Academy Museum Workers United went public with its intention to unionize with Afscme Council 36, which represents unions in local government and private nonprofit groups. After the Academy released a statement saying it would move forward with a union election through the National Labor Relations Board, the Amwu filed its petition this past week for such an election, which if successful would give the Academy Museum’s 180 workers labor representation.
But now, Afscme and Amwu have announced that a major of the museum’s employees have signed unionization cards and are asking the Academy to...
Three weeks ago, the new union Academy Museum Workers United went public with its intention to unionize with Afscme Council 36, which represents unions in local government and private nonprofit groups. After the Academy released a statement saying it would move forward with a union election through the National Labor Relations Board, the Amwu filed its petition this past week for such an election, which if successful would give the Academy Museum’s 180 workers labor representation.
But now, Afscme and Amwu have announced that a major of the museum’s employees have signed unionization cards and are asking the Academy to...
- 6/22/2022
- by Jeremy Fuster
- The Wrap
The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures keeps on partying.
Just four nights after a gala opening celebration was held at the new complex located on the Lacma campus in Los Angeles, Robert Pattinson and H.E.R. co-chaired, along with museum director and president Bill Kramer and Vanity Fair editor Britt Hennemuth, the Premiere party on Wednesday night. The guest list included Rebel Wilson, Zooey Deschanel, Clea DuVall and more.
“It’s strange that it doesn’t exist already in L.A.,” Pattinson told Variety of the long-in-the-works museum. “It’s bizarre. So I’m very very honored to be a part of it.”
As a film buff and a newly minted Academy member, the “Batman” actor was particularly eager to take in the Hayao Miyazaki exhibit and the 1,000 seat David Geffen theater. “Being really geeky about it, the technical specs sound insane,” he added.
One piece of Academy history...
Just four nights after a gala opening celebration was held at the new complex located on the Lacma campus in Los Angeles, Robert Pattinson and H.E.R. co-chaired, along with museum director and president Bill Kramer and Vanity Fair editor Britt Hennemuth, the Premiere party on Wednesday night. The guest list included Rebel Wilson, Zooey Deschanel, Clea DuVall and more.
“It’s strange that it doesn’t exist already in L.A.,” Pattinson told Variety of the long-in-the-works museum. “It’s bizarre. So I’m very very honored to be a part of it.”
As a film buff and a newly minted Academy member, the “Batman” actor was particularly eager to take in the Hayao Miyazaki exhibit and the 1,000 seat David Geffen theater. “Being really geeky about it, the technical specs sound insane,” he added.
One piece of Academy history...
- 9/30/2021
- by Marc Malkin
- Variety Film + TV
Hoping to quell a rising tide of homeless encampments that have become a political lightning rod in the city, a City Council anti-camping ordinance went into effect today.
The new law bars homeless encampments in specific areas, such as parks and near schools. However, the details of the new ordinance are still being worked out. The selection and processing of the areas where such encampments will be banned has yet to be determined. Moreover, outreach teams to the area homeless will be required to talk to the affected campers before citing them.
Those details mean the impact of the new law isn’t going to be apparent for some time. Still, its implementation is yet another step in quelling growing community outrage at a seemingly out of control problem that has taken over many parts of the city.
Major encampments at Venice Beach and Echo Park Lake have drawn widespread attention,...
The new law bars homeless encampments in specific areas, such as parks and near schools. However, the details of the new ordinance are still being worked out. The selection and processing of the areas where such encampments will be banned has yet to be determined. Moreover, outreach teams to the area homeless will be required to talk to the affected campers before citing them.
Those details mean the impact of the new law isn’t going to be apparent for some time. Still, its implementation is yet another step in quelling growing community outrage at a seemingly out of control problem that has taken over many parts of the city.
Major encampments at Venice Beach and Echo Park Lake have drawn widespread attention,...
- 9/4/2021
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
“The Real Housewives of Potomac” will return for Season 6 on July 11 at 8 p.m. on Bravo.
New housewife Mia Thornton will join returning cast members Gizelle Bryant, Karen Huger, Ashley Darby, Robyn Dixon, Candiace Dillard Bassett and Dr. Wendy Osefo in a 75-minute premiere episode.
Dixon’s friend Askale Davis, also known as Ethi-Oprah, will also join this season, unafraid to stir the pot.
In the show’s sixth season, the housewives will balance home life and work, chasing their dreams while also focusing on building their families and relationships with friends.
Watch a trailer below.
Also in today’s TV news roundup: Dates
Financial justice will be served in the all-new CNBC series “Money Court,” featuring Kevin O’Leary, Katie Phang and Ada Pozo, premiering on August 11. Along with trial attorney Phang and former judge Pozo, “Shark Tank” investor O’Leary will preside over a wide range of financial disputes,...
New housewife Mia Thornton will join returning cast members Gizelle Bryant, Karen Huger, Ashley Darby, Robyn Dixon, Candiace Dillard Bassett and Dr. Wendy Osefo in a 75-minute premiere episode.
Dixon’s friend Askale Davis, also known as Ethi-Oprah, will also join this season, unafraid to stir the pot.
In the show’s sixth season, the housewives will balance home life and work, chasing their dreams while also focusing on building their families and relationships with friends.
Watch a trailer below.
Also in today’s TV news roundup: Dates
Financial justice will be served in the all-new CNBC series “Money Court,” featuring Kevin O’Leary, Katie Phang and Ada Pozo, premiering on August 11. Along with trial attorney Phang and former judge Pozo, “Shark Tank” investor O’Leary will preside over a wide range of financial disputes,...
- 5/24/2021
- by Ethan Shanfeld
- Variety Film + TV
Warner Bros. has decided not to pursue a $100 million plan to build an aerial tramway from its Burbank studio lot to the iconic Hollywood sign atop Mount Lee.
The studio confirmed Thursday that the Hollywood Skyway project would no longer be pursued, primarily due to safety concerns as well as a number of logistical challenges.
“Warner Bros. has decided not to move forward with the Hollywood Skyway project. After exploring the challenging construction issues, required zoning changes and protocols necessary to protect guests during emergencies, we determined that our focus would be better placed on our core business interests. We know there are other solutions being explored to provide access to the iconic Hollywood sign and address neighborhood congestion. We look forward to seeing those come to fruition for the citizens of Los Angeles and the millions of tourists eager to visit the sign each year,” the studio said in a statement.
The studio confirmed Thursday that the Hollywood Skyway project would no longer be pursued, primarily due to safety concerns as well as a number of logistical challenges.
“Warner Bros. has decided not to move forward with the Hollywood Skyway project. After exploring the challenging construction issues, required zoning changes and protocols necessary to protect guests during emergencies, we determined that our focus would be better placed on our core business interests. We know there are other solutions being explored to provide access to the iconic Hollywood sign and address neighborhood congestion. We look forward to seeing those come to fruition for the citizens of Los Angeles and the millions of tourists eager to visit the sign each year,” the studio said in a statement.
- 3/19/2021
- by Pat Saperstein
- Variety Film + TV
Less than 24 hours after the LAPD broke up a peaceful Black Lives Matters protest and arrested an activist outside the official residence of Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, Joe Biden has named Garcetti one of the co-chairs of his inaugural committee.
The selection that has been met with derision and concern by BLM LA and could bode badly for the President-elect with one of his and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris’ core constituencies.
“It’s beyond disheartening that Biden would ignore the calls of Black organizers who helped elect him and appoint Garcetti to any position the very day after LAPD violently assailed protestors in front of the mayor’s mansion,” BLM LA co-founder Dr. Melina Abdullah told Deadline on Monday. “We hope that this will be no more than a consolation prize and that Biden will heed the calls not to appoint one of the most problematic mayors in the nation to his cabinet.
The selection that has been met with derision and concern by BLM LA and could bode badly for the President-elect with one of his and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris’ core constituencies.
“It’s beyond disheartening that Biden would ignore the calls of Black organizers who helped elect him and appoint Garcetti to any position the very day after LAPD violently assailed protestors in front of the mayor’s mansion,” BLM LA co-founder Dr. Melina Abdullah told Deadline on Monday. “We hope that this will be no more than a consolation prize and that Biden will heed the calls not to appoint one of the most problematic mayors in the nation to his cabinet.
- 12/7/2020
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
Among the accomplishments that Nithya Raman can lay claim to in her astonishing 2020 race for a Los Angeles City Council seat is having enticed a number of major Hollywood figures to care deeply about a local race.
Though industry figures frequently endorse, mug and stump for national candidates, the extent of those who did so for Raman, whose opponent conceded the race for District 4 on Nov. 6 and became the first an incumbent Councilmember to be unseated in L.A. in 17 years, was exceedingly unusual. Over the course of the urban planner’s campaign, Raman won the ...
Though industry figures frequently endorse, mug and stump for national candidates, the extent of those who did so for Raman, whose opponent conceded the race for District 4 on Nov. 6 and became the first an incumbent Councilmember to be unseated in L.A. in 17 years, was exceedingly unusual. Over the course of the urban planner’s campaign, Raman won the ...
- 11/17/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Among the accomplishments that Nithya Raman can lay claim to in her astonishing 2020 race for a Los Angeles City Council seat is having enticed a number of major Hollywood figures to care deeply about a local race.
Though industry figures frequently endorse, mug and stump for national candidates, the extent of those who did so for Raman, whose opponent conceded the race for District 4 on Nov. 6 and became the first an incumbent Councilmember to be unseated in L.A. in 17 years, was exceedingly unusual. Over the course of the urban planner’s campaign, Raman won the ...
Though industry figures frequently endorse, mug and stump for national candidates, the extent of those who did so for Raman, whose opponent conceded the race for District 4 on Nov. 6 and became the first an incumbent Councilmember to be unseated in L.A. in 17 years, was exceedingly unusual. Over the course of the urban planner’s campaign, Raman won the ...
- 11/17/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Nithya Raman, the former executive director of Time’s Up Entertainment, has been elected to the Los Angeles City Council. Her opponent for the District 4 seat, incumbent David Ryu, conceded the race today.
As of late Friday, Raman had 52.4% of the vote, beating Ryu by about 6,000 votes. “The voters of District Four have spoken, and I respect the outcome of this election,” Ryu said.
Raman, an urban planner and community advocate, worked for the City Administrative Officer of Los Angeles, where her focus was homelessness. That and climate change are at the top of her platform. She also said she wants to remove armed officers from situations in which they aren’t needed, while maintaining the ability to protect people against violence.
Raman had led the entertainment division of Time’s Up, which launched behind a phalanx of Hollywood A-listers in January 2018 in an effort to ensure a safe, fair and...
As of late Friday, Raman had 52.4% of the vote, beating Ryu by about 6,000 votes. “The voters of District Four have spoken, and I respect the outcome of this election,” Ryu said.
Raman, an urban planner and community advocate, worked for the City Administrative Officer of Los Angeles, where her focus was homelessness. That and climate change are at the top of her platform. She also said she wants to remove armed officers from situations in which they aren’t needed, while maintaining the ability to protect people against violence.
Raman had led the entertainment division of Time’s Up, which launched behind a phalanx of Hollywood A-listers in January 2018 in an effort to ensure a safe, fair and...
- 11/7/2020
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
As Joe Biden and Donald Trump close out the final two weeks before the election with fights over fundamental differences between the left and right, a very different race is playing out in Los Angeles. Nithya Raman, the Bernie Sanders-supported progressive candidate, and David Ryu, the more moderate liberal incumbent, are in the last days of a runoff election for City Council District 4, stretching from the San Fernando Valley to Silver Lake.
The race — which became a runoff after Ryu received 45 percent of the vote to Raman’s 41 percent in March’s election, as neither earned a majority — has engaged ...
The race — which became a runoff after Ryu received 45 percent of the vote to Raman’s 41 percent in March’s election, as neither earned a majority — has engaged ...
- 10/21/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
As Joe Biden and Donald Trump close out the final two weeks before the election with fights over fundamental differences between the left and right, a very different race is playing out in Los Angeles. Nithya Raman, the Bernie Sanders-supported progressive candidate, and David Ryu, the more moderate liberal incumbent, are in the last days of a runoff election for City Council District 4, stretching from the San Fernando Valley to Silver Lake.
The race — which became a runoff after Ryu received 45 percent of the vote to Raman’s 41 percent in March’s election, as neither earned a majority — has engaged ...
The race — which became a runoff after Ryu received 45 percent of the vote to Raman’s 41 percent in March’s election, as neither earned a majority — has engaged ...
- 10/21/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Nithya Raman, the executive director of Time’s Up Entertainment, is leaving the organization, a week after she announced she was running for Los Angeles City Council.
Time’s Up interim CEO Rebecca Goldman confirmed the news Thursday and said film producer and PR veteran Ngoc Nguyen will take over Raman’s role on an interim basis. Nguyen’s film credits include producing A Brave Heart: The Lizzie Velasquez Story and Google’s “Power On” film series, and she previously worked in PR at companies including Miramax, CAA and Paramount.
Raman, an urban planner and community advocate, worked for the City Administrative Officer of Los Angeles, where her focus was homelessness. That and climate change are at the top of her platform in the District 4 race.
“I’m so proud that our own Nithya Raman is among the many women who’ve seized this historic moment by running for office.
Time’s Up interim CEO Rebecca Goldman confirmed the news Thursday and said film producer and PR veteran Ngoc Nguyen will take over Raman’s role on an interim basis. Nguyen’s film credits include producing A Brave Heart: The Lizzie Velasquez Story and Google’s “Power On” film series, and she previously worked in PR at companies including Miramax, CAA and Paramount.
Raman, an urban planner and community advocate, worked for the City Administrative Officer of Los Angeles, where her focus was homelessness. That and climate change are at the top of her platform in the District 4 race.
“I’m so proud that our own Nithya Raman is among the many women who’ve seized this historic moment by running for office.
- 8/16/2019
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Time’s Up entertainment director Nithya Raman is leaving the organization to run for office.
Raman, who describes herself as an urban planner and community advocate, had been in her post for nearly a year at the Los Angeles-based operation which works for gender equality and supports victims of sexual assault and harassment with a dedicated legal fund. She announced last week she was seeking a Los Angeles City Council office.
“I’m so proud that our own Nithya Raman is among the many women who’ve seized this historic moment by running for office. Under Nithya’s leadership, Time’S Up Entertainment has grown to be a force to be reckoned with and we’re greatly indebted to her integrity, strategic thinking, and fearlessness,” said Rebecca Goldman, interim CEO of Time’s Up.
Goldman told Variety that Raman’s interim replacement is Ngoc Nguyen, a producer on films like...
Raman, who describes herself as an urban planner and community advocate, had been in her post for nearly a year at the Los Angeles-based operation which works for gender equality and supports victims of sexual assault and harassment with a dedicated legal fund. She announced last week she was seeking a Los Angeles City Council office.
“I’m so proud that our own Nithya Raman is among the many women who’ve seized this historic moment by running for office. Under Nithya’s leadership, Time’S Up Entertainment has grown to be a force to be reckoned with and we’re greatly indebted to her integrity, strategic thinking, and fearlessness,” said Rebecca Goldman, interim CEO of Time’s Up.
Goldman told Variety that Raman’s interim replacement is Ngoc Nguyen, a producer on films like...
- 8/15/2019
- by Matt Donnelly
- Variety Film + TV
During back to back panels at Variety’s Inclusion Summit, the founder of Me Too and the executive director of entertainment at Time’s Up, among others, discussed how far the movements have come since they started, and also how much work there still is to do. “How To Get Away With Murder” writer and producer Angela Robinson recalled why the Time’s Up movement originated and its “critical” early moments. “It was born out of Harvey and pain and this moment in our industry. You knew what was going on, maybe not the extent, but it was there,” Robinson said. In the year since it was founded, Robinson and Time’s Up executive director of entertainment Nithya Raman agree that one of its greatest achievements has been setting up the Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund, which helps provide legal and financial aid to people who have experienced sexual harassment in the workplace.
- 5/9/2019
- by Will Thorne
- Variety Film + TV
Jessica Chastain‘s work for gender parity in Hollywood isn’t slowing down soon.
“I have noticed, of course, now that it’s in fashion there are other people that are jumping on board, and honestly, I don’t care what their motives are,” Chastain tells Variety. “Because at the end of the day, the more we focus on creating opportunities for everyone — I don’t care if some people are doing it because it’s the fashionable thing to do. It’s also the right thing to do.”
Chastain was honored as one of Marie Claire’s Change Makers for its April edition, along with “Selma” director Ava DuVernay and “Crazy Rich Asians” star Constance Wu. The event to celebrate women in the entertainment industry, in partnership with Modern Creation München, took place in West Hollywood Tuesday night.
Chastain, the star of “Zero Dark Thirty” and “The Help,” has...
“I have noticed, of course, now that it’s in fashion there are other people that are jumping on board, and honestly, I don’t care what their motives are,” Chastain tells Variety. “Because at the end of the day, the more we focus on creating opportunities for everyone — I don’t care if some people are doing it because it’s the fashionable thing to do. It’s also the right thing to do.”
Chastain was honored as one of Marie Claire’s Change Makers for its April edition, along with “Selma” director Ava DuVernay and “Crazy Rich Asians” star Constance Wu. The event to celebrate women in the entertainment industry, in partnership with Modern Creation München, took place in West Hollywood Tuesday night.
Chastain, the star of “Zero Dark Thirty” and “The Help,” has...
- 3/13/2019
- by Rachel Yang
- Variety Film + TV
The Brett Kavanaugh hearings hung like a dark cloud over Hollywood’s first ever Pay Equity Summit, held today in Burbank. More than 300 attended.
“The hearings were exhausting, emotional and sometimes I was so angry I wanted to throw things at the television,” said summit moderator Tema Staig, executive director of Women in Media. Even so, she said, “It was a week that saw that those who attempt to diminish women are dinosaurs, and we all know what happened to dinosaurs.”
“People need to step up and be heroes,” she continued in her opening remarks, praising the two women who confronted Sen. Jeff Flake in the elevator shortly before he called for an FBI investigation into allegations hanging over Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation.
“We made some small steps in the delay of an accused molester to a really high job,” she said.
Turning to the issue of underpaid women in Hollywood,...
“The hearings were exhausting, emotional and sometimes I was so angry I wanted to throw things at the television,” said summit moderator Tema Staig, executive director of Women in Media. Even so, she said, “It was a week that saw that those who attempt to diminish women are dinosaurs, and we all know what happened to dinosaurs.”
“People need to step up and be heroes,” she continued in her opening remarks, praising the two women who confronted Sen. Jeff Flake in the elevator shortly before he called for an FBI investigation into allegations hanging over Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation.
“We made some small steps in the delay of an accused molester to a really high job,” she said.
Turning to the issue of underpaid women in Hollywood,...
- 9/29/2018
- by David Robb
- Deadline Film + TV
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