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A heated wax museum war takes shape in Hollywood Los Angeles Times Starting this week, Madame Tussauds will begin placing a celebrity replica in its lobby alongside a life-size cut-out photo of the same figure snapped at the Hollywood Wax Museum. First up is Jolie. The message: Our Angie is hot. Theirs is not. ... See all stories on this topic » Los Angeles Times

Can Struggling Hollywood Ride Broadway's Coattails? Reuters By Kurt Orzeck at TheWrap Broadway is enjoying a renaissance -- and Hollywood is hoping to get a piece of the action. With the motion picture box office in a slump, and Broadway on an upswing, an increasing number of film franchises are being ... See all stories on this topic »

It's Time Hollywood Faced the Music Over Preventing Internet Piracy: View Bloomberg But because some overseas websites exist solely to distribute bootleg content, and are beyond the reach of US law, Hollywood is seeking stronger protections. In essence, it wants the right to require American companies to stop doing business with ... See all stories on this topic » Bloomberg

Royal Caribbean And Celebrity Cruises Hit Another Home Run San Francisco Chronicle (press release) For the fourth consecutive year, Royal Caribbean International and its sister company, Celebrity Cruises, overwhelmed the competition by winning nearly every one of the Travel Weekly 2011 Readers Choice Awards for which they were eligible. ... See all stories on this topic »

Hollywood dialect coach Robert Easton dies at 81 The Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Character actor and Hollywood dialect coach Robert Easton, whose successes include teaching Forest Whitaker to speak like Idi Amin in the 2006 movie "The Last King of Scotland," has died in Los Angeles. He was 81. ... See all stories on this topic »

'The Artist' is director's love letter to early Hollywood Chicago Sun-Times BY LAURA EMERICK lemerick@suntimes.com December 21, 2011 6:48PM Michel Hazanavicius insists "Hollywood is not so exclusively American, it belongs to the entire world." | Gabriel Bouys~AFP/Getty Images HOLLYWOOD — Introducing his silent-era homage "The ... See all stories on this topic »

Lionsgate, Saban team with Celestial in Asian JV The Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hollywood independent studio Lionsgate and media mogul Haim Saban's investment firm said Thursday they're teaming up with a Malaysian-owned company in a pay TV joint venture to tap the expanding Asian entertainment market. ... See all stories on this topic »

Hollywood Awards Season has Hundreds of Companies Wasting Money on Gift Suites PR Web (press release) ... frustration and many accusations of fraud." Gift suites fail for brand managers on all levels. They fail the basic requirements for celebrity association. Hollywood gift suites fail at their fundamental structure. Here are the shocking quick facts: See all stories on this topic »

Hollywood Bowl to get improved restrooms for $3 million Los Angeles Times The restrooms at the Hollywood Bowl will be getting a $3-million face-lift for the 2012 season thanks to a measure approved Tuesday by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. The project would renovate 12 existing restrooms at the Bowl complex, ... See all stories on this topic »