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It is Hollywood’s most glamorous night of the year, with dozens of Tinseltown’s brightest young actors and actresses swanning down the red carpet. But this year’s Oscars ceremony could be a rather more sedate affair with only ‘wrinklies’ in attendance.

Mae Hamilton Last year, increasingly prominent Tinseltown writer Olivia Purnell inked a multiyear deal with Skydance Television to create and produce original scripted content.

There’s no denying it: From global pandemic to social unrest and from economic recession to a polarizing presidential election, 2020 has been a tough year. Of course, amid the usual stresses of life and the extraordinary stresses of lockdown, many people have struggled to keep things together — things like their longtime relationships — and that includes some of Tinseltown’s most famous couples.

Mark David Retired actor and dyed-in-the-wool Tinseltown scion Bridget Fonda and New Wave musician turned four-time Oscar nominated film composer Danny Elfman (“Milk,” “Good Will Hunting”) have sold one of their two mansions in L.A.’s fancy-schmancy Hancock Park-adjacent (and somewhat under-the-radar) Fremont Place enclave for $8.75 million, a small bit below the $8.8 million asking price.

So what does Tinseltown think of Tom Cruise’s expletive-filled coronavirus rant?On Tom’s

Mark David Tinseltown treasure Diane Ladd would very much like to sell her Victorian-style estate in the gorgeously scenic, agriculture-meets-New Age community of Ojai, Calif., about an hour-and-a-half drive outside downtown Los Angeles.The three-time Oscar nominated octogenarian, who has appeared in more than 120 films and TV programs and currently holds down a co-starring role on Hallmark Channel’s hit series “Chesapeake Shores,” has been trying to sell the nearly two-and-a-half-acre spread

Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez, but there are also plenty of stars who have found love outside the spotlight.In fact, some of Tinseltown’s longest-standing twosomes are those who either met ahead of their life-changing fame, such as Elizabeth Banks and Max Handelman, who met in college, or childhood sweethearts Jon Bon Jovi and Dorothea Hurley.“I didn’t meet my husband and think, I’ve met the man I’m going to marry,” Banks told Allure of her spouse in May 2015. “I was like, He’s cute.

Mae Hamilton After more than 16 years in the neighborhood, Tinseltown businesswoman and TV personality Tracey Edmonds has publicly slapped a $10 million pricetag on her lavish mansion in the guard-gated Mullholland Estates community.

Mark David Gorgeously gravel-voiced rock star and Tinseltown scion Elle King — for anyone who somehow does not know her parents are actor Rob Schneider and model London King — has sold her professionally decorated Hollywood Hills home for $1.8 million, well above the asking price of $1.665 million.

tracks production in Tinseltown.The group added in its report late Wednesday that the film industry’s “road to recovery hinges on a planned October restart for scripted television and feature projects of scale.”While smaller-scale productions resumed filming in the LA-area in mid-June, larger shows that require more people on set have been delayed since mid-March under coronavirus-related restrictions.The report showed that advertising also continued to struggle, as the filming of commercials

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticTurns out the Hollywood Foreign Press Association don’t think being member of the organization is really that helpful in Tinseltown.

Mae Hamilton Veteran Tinseltown screenwriter Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, the Miami native best-known for writing and directing the 2019 Netflix film “Someone Great” and for co-writing the upcoming Marvel film “Thor: Love and Thunder” with Oscar winner Taika Waititi, has paid $2.6 million for an updated midcentury modern house above L.A.’s leafy Bronson Canyon.Sited at the end of a quiet cul-de-sac, the residence is located on one of the many winding streets for which the area is famed.

ski resorts and limousines wearing non-boring cardigans, streamlined coats and snow-friendly down jackets.We can’t book you a room at a resort, but we can help you recreate star style for fall and winter. At Vici, we always keep our eye on the trends, which (obviously) tend to start in Tinseltown.

Mae Hamilton “Crank” actress Amy Smart and her infamously amorous carpenter hubby Carter Oosterhouse are packing it up out of the Malibu home that they purchased for $2.9 million back in 2016, though it appears that they’re not entirely ready to completely relinquish ownership of it quite yet.

The disastrous debut of Warner Bros’ spy thriller “Tenet” at movie theaters has Hollywood studios fingering the panic button. “Tenet” — a $200 million Christopher Nolan production which has amassed less than $30 million in ticket sales since it hit US theaters on Sept.

Dominic Patten, Ted Johnson EXCLUSIVE: Senator Kamala Harris has long been tight with Hollywood, and yesterday Tinseltown’s biggest donors handed over some very big bucks to the Democrats’ Vice-Presidential nominee.In a virtual fundraiser put together by The Politician EP Ryan Murphy, Disney TV Studios boss Dana Walden, PR ace Chrisette Hudlin and Laura Shell, California’s junior Senator raked in over $8 million for her and Joe Biden’s poll leading White House bid.Announced on August 27, the

James McClain Earlier this year, prolific TV producer Doug Robinson (“The Goldbergs,” “Rules of Engagement”) inked another major deal to extend his stay with Sony Pictures Television — his professional home base since 2002 — for five more years.

Matt Grobar Assistant Editor, AwardslineWhen Jim Parsons was approached for Netflix miniseries Hollywood, he jumped at the chance to play a complicated, real-life figure, unlike any he’d played before, whose experiences force us to reflect on the entertainment industry as it is today—and the extent to which it has or has not changed over the last 70+ years.Created by Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan, the drama follows a group of ambitious actors and filmmakers in Post-World War II Tinseltown,

canceling their gigs due to the coronavirus, one enterprising Tennessee RV firm has devised a novel way to stay afloat — by renting celebrities’ idle tour buses to the public.“We had to pivot our business,” said Joey Hemphill, co-owner of Nashville’s Hemphill Brothers, which has been servicing Tinseltown’s travel needs for 40 years.

James McClain Though she’s still in her 20s, billionaire heiress-turned-Tinseltown film producer Erika Olde (“Home Again,” “Woman Walks Ahead,” “The Female Brain”) is already a veteran player in the high-end Los Angeles real estate market.

Matt Grobar Assistant Editor, AwardslineBoasting a 15-year career as a set decorator, Matthew Flood Ferguson found his first major TV design job in Netflix miniseries Hollywood, on which he took a deep dive into the minutiae of Hollywood’s Golden Age.Created by Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan, the starry drama is set in Post-World War II Tinseltown, following a group of actors and filmmakers who will do whatever it takes to realize their dreams.

PMC administratorA Beverly Hills home leased by scores of Hollywood A-Listers is now on the market for $3.395 million.

The Only Way Is Essex (Towie), the opening sequence reminds us that, while all the people are real, “some of what they do may have been plucked, plumped, trimmed” or whatever other beauty-based pun Denise van Outen uses to mean “heavily scripted”.

Olivia de Havilland, a double Oscar winner and one of Tinseltown's last remaining Classical Hollywood cinema stars, died Sunday at her home in Paris of natural causes, according to The Hollywood Reporter. She was 104.

James McClain Once a card-carrying member of Tinseltown’s A-list, Josh Hartnett (“Lucky Number Slevin,” “Penny Dreadful,” “Pearl Harbor,” “Black Hawk Down”) has largely evaded the spotlight over the last decade, though he still works steadily. Among other projects, the 42-year-old has a starring role in Guy Ritchie’s upcoming drama “Cash Truck,” due for release in 2021.Since at least 2016, Hartnett and longtime partner Tamsin Egerton have split their time between Los Angeles and London.

Singer Adele Adkins grew up in north London, but over the years the stars success and wealth has skyrocketed enabling her to make the transition from Tottenham to Tinseltown.That’s right, our girl Adele now lives in a lavish home in Beverly Hills, one of two mansions she owns in the highly affluent area.The house reportedly cost her a whopping £7.7 million and it is where her and her 7-year-old son Angelo reside.

Mae Hamilton For the first time since it was constructed in 1952, famed architect John Lautner’s so-called Harry and Pauline Williams Residence has officially hit the market with a $1.895 million price tag. Sited just below the iconic Hollywood sign in one of Tinseltown’s most celeb-popular neighborhoods, the modestly sized 1,600-square-foot villa has three bedrooms and two full bathrooms.Lautner first met the Williamses at their grocery store, the petite, still-operational Beachwood Market,

Oliver Stone is unhappy with the state of Hollywood. The Oscar-winning writer-director-producer recently spoke with New York Times Magazine, slamming Tinseltown for becoming too sensitive toward political correctness and coronavirus.

screeched to a halt last quarter as stay-at-home orders brought filming to a standstill in Tinseltown, according to a new report.Unsurprisingly, production in Los Angeles plummeted 97.8 percent, to just 194 shooting days, compared with the April to June year-ago period, a FilmLA study said.The stark report, which called the second quarter “a near total loss for on-location filming,” said the period marked the “lowest filming levels on record.” That’s linked to the fact that production remained

Jeff Vasishta Stunning Central Park views, immaculate furnishings, oversized windows filled with leafy views and the pixie dust of an international Tinseltown superstar sprinkled about the place.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticThe history of labor unions and social change in America are obviously deeply entwinned. Now that a portion of that alliance is marching to increasing inclusion and opportunity in Hollywood with studios, streamers and Tyler Perry.The Editors Guild, IATSE Local 700 has teamed up with SunWise Media co-founder Ri-Karlo Handy and the LA Urban League to provide a new pipeline to Tinseltown training and below-the-jobs for people of color.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorFrom the alternate history versions of 1940s America in Netflix’s “Hollywood” and HBO’s “The Plot Against America” to the very real reflection of the 1970s and 1980s political movements over the Equal Rights Amendment in FX on Hulu’s “Mrs.

James McClain Larger-than-life maverick architect, WWII veteran, avid surfer and all-around Tinseltown treasure Harry Gesner is probably most famous for his iconic Wave House in Malibu. Set directly on the sand, that 1957-built home was recently immortalized in the 2019 film “Yesterday.”That’s not to say the modernist master, now 95 and still active in his Malibu community, is a one-trick architectural pony.

More than 300 black artists and executives are calling upon Hollywood to make a change. After being shot seven times by rubber bullets at a recent protest, "Insecure" actor Kendrick Sampson penned an open letter "to our allies in Hollywood," in which he calls upon Tinseltown to "divest from police," "invest in anti-racist content" and more.

Pete Hammond Awards Columnist/Chief Film CriticStars Jim Parsons and Patti LuPone, along with directors Janet Mock and Jessica Yu joined Deadline’s Contenders Television virtual event to discuss the Netflix limited series Hollywood, a seven-part show set in the Tinseltown of the ’40s but that puts a revisionist spin on things — a kind of wishful look at the town and the industry.“It was always going to be surrounding these outsiders who were looking in and wanting to be a part of the inside,“

Michael B. Jordan, 33, made an appearance at an L.A. area Black Lives Matter protest on June 6 and insisted Hollywood must “commit to black hiring” in a memorable speech. The actor showed up to the protest, which was organized by the Big 4 agencies in Century City, and called out Tinseltown by encouraging them to put their words into action and get more African Americans jobs. He was surrounded by other protesters when he spoke about the important issue.