How about a shout out for the ‘Mad Women’?
Not just for Betty Draper, and Joan, and Peggy Olson, whose return to AMC this Sunday we fervently await. Or for the show’s costume designer Janie Bryant, highlighted in last Sunday’s Chronicle by the...
View ArticleMC Hammer: Please IRS, don’t hurt me (anymore)
Speaking of celebrities’ money issues, M.C. Hammer, contrary to stories that he’s in “serious financial trouble” says he doesn’t owe $671,000 (reportedly owed in back taxes to the IRS and the state of...
View ArticlePlug pulled on ‘Trauma’ (Sorry, S.F., but the show stunk)
The efforts of San Francisco’s Film Commission, and the rebates agreed to by the Board of Supervisors didn’t go entirely for naught, but … NBC has decided not to order any more episodes of the freshman...
View ArticleNeed CPR? “Trauma” is back
It’s true, Stefanie Coyote of the SF Film Commission tells me. Three more episodes, at least.”We’re thrilled,” said Coyote, who was instrumental in bringing the production to San Francisco — the first...
View ArticleMeg Whitman — movie financier, or a different kind of player?
How to explain her $1 million investment in an “entertainment/production” company called “Tools Down! Productions”? The questions mount, as the New York Times explains, when it turns out a the...
View ArticleSpotify moves into S.F.’s Warfield
Here’s a musical match that makes sense: Spotify and the Warfield. The fast-growing Swedish music streaming company is moving into the Warfield building on San Francisco’s Market Street, where it will...
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