George Shapiro, the deeply respected talent manager, producer and co-founder of Shapiro/West & Associates, died Thursday evening of natural causes at his home in Beverly Hills. He was 91.
13.05.2022 - 06:09 / deadline.com
For the past few months, the entertainment industry has been one of hardest hit — if not THE hardest hit — sectors in Los Angeles, consistently logging the highest number of Covid outbreaks in the county.
Now, as studios are setting return-to work-dates for employees, at least three lots are seeing sizable outbreaks, with other clusters at a studio headquarters, a TV production, a production facility and a performing arts venue. In all, they account for roughly 18% of the total currently recorded non-medical outbreaks at businesses in the county, per officials.
The good news is that that percentage is actually down compared to last month, when the entertainment industry accounted for 20% of outbreaks. The bad news is the total number of infections it represents is much higher. In point of fact, there were 108 clusters at all worksites last week and this week the total jumped to 140, per county data.
Case numbers are up across the board in Los Angeles, with the average number of daily infections at about 2,400 today, according to a county public health department briefing. There has been a 20% rise in that metric in the past week, remarkable for a number that is averaged over seven days to smooth out temporary fluctuations.
Atop the list of showbiz-related outbreaks sits Lionsgate. Its Santa Monica headquarters shows a tally of 21 cases this week. That puts it second countywide in terms of infected employees, behind a camper and RV manufacturer in Lancaster. Late last month, Lionsgate had a cluster of 6 infections.
A source familiar with the situation tells Deadline that 12 of those 21 cases at Lionsgate were among employees returning from CinemaCon in Las Vegas. The company is said to have mandatory vaccination for
George Shapiro, the deeply respected talent manager, producer and co-founder of Shapiro/West & Associates, died Thursday evening of natural causes at his home in Beverly Hills. He was 91.
Earlier this month, during the defamation trial of Johnny Depp vs Amber Heard, 36 year old Amber gave fans an insight into where she lives. After taking to the stand, the London Fields actress confirmed her name to be “Amber Laura Heard” and said that “I live in Yucca Valley, California”.
It’s felt like the longest court case in showbiz history, as we enter the sixth week of Johnny Depp’s $50m libel case against Amber Heard. But fans were left confused last week, when it was revealed that the actress – who has accused Johnny of domestic abuse – hadn’t yet made that much-talked-about $7m charitable donation from her divorce payout – despite suggesting that she’d done it years ago.
John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent“Bonnie is legendary for her boundless energy on the Crosiette,” AGC Studios head Stuart Ford said of his marketing head Bonnie Voland, whose 40th Cannes Festival was celebrated by Ford and friends at an elegant beachside cocktail on Friday evening.“This is my 15th Cannes with Bonnie Voland and I’m not sure I still have the energy to keep up with her,” he confessed in a speech in her honor at the cocktail.Voland has had a rich career to date, – she insists she’s certainly not done yet – graduating as a French major at Hunter College, and working as an actress in Paris before first attending Cannes in 1982 for Passion – The Magazine of Paris. She ran the Toronto Festival press office in the mid-eighties, then worked in Los Angeles for Samuel Goldwyn, Buena Vista International and Chris Blackwell’s Island Pictures, and created her own PR agency and consultancy B.
The ongoing trial between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard took on a new dimension on Wednesday, when Amber’s pal Raquel ‘Rocky’ Pennington testified about an infamous alleged blowout between the couple back in 2016.
Amber Heard admitted that she has not donated millions of dollars to charity from her divorce settlement as she had previously promised - and blamed Johnny Depp for bringing legal action as to why.
“Aquaman” actor Amber Heard told jurors in a defamation case on Monday that she filed for divorce from Johnny Depp in 2016 because she worried she would not survive physical abuse by him.
Amber Heard is denying a claim that she defecated in her and ex-husband Johnny Depp's bed following a fight the couple had regarding her 30th birthday.On Monday, Heard returned to the stand and addressed an alleged incident that occurred in 2016, where Heard allegedly pooped in her and Depp's bed after the couple spent the night prior fighting because he missed her birthday celebration. The 36-year-old actress told the court that it was the couple’s Yorkshire Terrier, Boo, who defecated in the bed at her and Depp's former penthouse apartment in Los Angeles.
Sidley Austin, a law firm with offices in the U.S., Europe and Asia-Pacific, is going big on sports law. Our sister site Sportico has learned that Charles “Chuck” Baker and Irwin Raij, most recently co-chairs of O’Melveny & Myers’ sports industry group, are joining Sidley as co-chairs of its Entertainment, Sports and Media industry group. The move will bring expertise in ownership transactions, stadium construction, media rights and international deal making.Baker has negotiated on behalf of buyers and sellers of pro teams.
“We’ve got a lot of virus circulating now. And it’s on its way up,” said Santa Clara County Health Officer Dr. Sara Cody at a press briefing earlier this week.
Fans told People magazine they camped out in their cars outside the Fairfax, Virginia, courthouse and even spent up to $30,000 on travel expenses to wait to get in.Hordes of eager enthusiasts revealed they arrive in the wee hours of the morning to secure wristbands that grant access into the courtroom each day to watch the A-listers’ testimonies.“I’ve never been to a public trial before. I’ve never stayed up overnight for anything in line, and I came at 12:45 a.m.,” Sabrina Harrison of Madison, Wisconsin, told People. “I’ve never done something like this in my 46 years of life.”Sharon Smith, 52, told People she crossed the ocean to see the trial.
The average number of daily new Covid infections in Los Angeles County has jumped by just about 300% over the past month and roughly 25% in the past week alone. Today, they topped 3,000 for the first time since mid-February. One month ago, the number of daily cases in L.A. was 1,060. But the increase has not translated to a meaningful rise in local hospitalizations or deaths thusfar.
Sharon Osbourne has shared a picture of herself in bed attached to a drip after catching Covid-19 from husband Ozzy.The former X-Factor judge, 69, flew back to Los Angeles after learning that her husband, 73, had been struck down with Covid-19 last week, but she ended up contracting the illness herself along with their daughter Kelly. Sharon has updated her fans with an image of herself hooked up to an IV whilst cosying up in bed with her pet dog Elvis. Sharon was worried about her husband Ozzy, who suffers from Parkinson's disease, when she headed home to LA to care for him and the reality TV star shared earlier this week that the whole household, including daughter Kelly, had contracted Covid-19.