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Michael Cieply
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Michael has covered the business and culture of film as a reporter and editor for the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal and others. He has written for Deadline since 2016. Earlier, he was a Los Angeles-based editor for the online news service Inside.com, and in the 1990s worked as a film and television producer. A native of Western Pennsylvania, Cieply lived there and in the Detroit area before attending the University of Michigan, and then graduate school at Stanford University. He has lived in Southern California since 1982, when he joined Forbes Magazine as a correspondent in its Los Angeles bureau.
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Michael Cieply: When The Dust Settles, It Might Be Time For A Hollywood Political Reboot
Robert De Niro ranted. Bette Midler blared about “autocracy.” Lea DeLaria declared war. But Donald Trump, though convicted in New York and shot in Pennsylvania, is still marching toward Milwaukee, where the Republican National Convention begins tomorrow.
Meanwhile, George Clooney called for a new…
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Michael Cieply: Thought For A Hot July – Why Not Shake Up The Oscars With a “Midsummer Rule”?
It's July 1, summertime, a hot one. Political storms threaten. In West L.A., one of the awards-friendly billboards on Wilshire is blank; another is selling spring water. Not a moment to be worrying about the Oscars.
Or is it?
Last year on this…
Michael Cieply: Searching For The Jewish Soul In The Academy’s ‘Hollywoodland’
Pondering Will Smith's recent triumph at a local Cinemark and Donald Trump's post-conviction surge, I got to thinking about “movie-think.”
You know, the way we've become accustomed, after watching hundreds and hundreds of mainstream films, to thinking…
Michael Cieply: Where Movies Wither, Museums Suddenly Bloom
A happy surprise on Friday — gleaned from a soggy copy of the Santa Monica Mirror left in the curbside box — was news that we almost have a spanking new science fiction museum in these parts. Called SCI-FI WORLD: The Experience, it occupies the old Sears…
Michael Cieply: The New Hollywood–Elites, The Audience And A Wall Of Indifference
In morose moments, and I'll admit to having a few, I sometimes stare at a framed illustration on my work desk. Entitled "HOLLYWOOD 1988," it is a whimsical map of the motion picture business as it existed back then. The concept and a lot of the sight gags were mine; but Nancy Ohanion was the artist who…
Michael Cieply: Hollywood Can Still Schmooze, But Not At Patrick’s Roadhouse
As of Friday, Patrick's Roadhouse was still closed. Plates and pitchers were stacked inside. The old-style coffee maker seemed ready to go, and there were even some bright green lights shining along the roof. But the place looked like a radioactive version of the Spanish Kitchen, frozen in time, plus…
Michael Cieply: Haim Saban Roars Like A Mogul, And The Echoes Still Sound
The loudest voice in Hollywood last week belonged to Haim Saban. "Bad . . . Bad . . . bad decision, on all levels," he roared, in an email to President Joseph Biden, sent via White House aides, denouncing the Administration's announced plan to withhold bombs and artillery shells from Israel if it proceeds…
Michael Cieply: Two Weeks Out, The Academy Museum Preps A Cautious But Correct ‘Hollywoodland’ Opening
Two weeks from today, finally, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures will open its new permanent exhibition, Hollywoodland: Jewish Founders and the Making of a Movie Capital. For many, it amounts to an act of completion. A Hollywood film museum without a special tribute to Jewish roots has felt for the…
Michael Cieply: Participant Sank When Everyone Jumped In
At first, I was shocked by the news that Participant Media was dying. Such an appealing company. Smart. Mindful. Vibrant. Forward-thinking. The producer of intelligent films like Spotlight and Green Book, with a distinctly progressive message.
How could…
In A Twist, The Film Academy’s Hersholt Humanitarian Award Now Talks About “Rectifying Inequities”
On Monday, some sharp-eyed members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences were surprised by a small but perhaps significant twist in an invitation to recommend recipients for the next round of honorary Oscars.
That is, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, historically given to those…
Michael Cieply: From Campaign Flicks To ‘Civil War,’ The Political Genre Has Followed Us Down
I'm not overly fond of politics. Given a choice, I'd rather talk food, or faraway places.
But I do have a weakness for political films — or, more precisely, films about political campaigns.
The best of them have been sharp, often witty, and…
Michael Cieply: For Hollywood, Q1 Was A Bust; Will CinemaCon Bring Some Q2 Hope?
All due respect to Godzilla, but the first quarter of this year was a bust for Hollywood. There's no getting around it. The news read like an April Fool's joke without a punchline.
Disney gave up its fight with Florida, better to face its battle with inv…
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