My Publicist Note Book

Taylor Swift Paints Scooter Braun as Manipulative Bully as Big Machine Sells Her Catalog Swift is losing the rights to her first six albums, thanks to a deal announced Sunday by Ithaca Holdings. From 2006's self-titled debut to 2017's "Reputation," Swift was with country-pop record company Big Machine Label Group. That company has been acquired by Ithaca, which is owned by Scooter Braun, a manager, and businessman who represents pop stars' Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande, and Carly Rae Jepsen. The 29-year-old Swift is fuming. In a Tumblr post, she wrote, "For years I asked, pleaded for a chance to own my work." Taylor Swift has described herself as “sad and grossed out” by Scooter Braun’s acquisition of Big Machine Records, which holds the rights to her entire catalog up through 2017’s “Reputation,” calling the deal “my worst case scenario.” Swift said she was shocked to first learn of the transfer of her work through news accounts Sunday morning. ...

The  drama is based  on a Vanity Fair story on Jewell, a security guard who was falsely accused of the pipe-bombing at Centennial Park during the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. ATLANTA -- While lesser-known celebrities and Hollywood executives continue to protest or cancel productions because of Georgia's new abortion law, one of entertainment's biggest names is moving full-speed ahead with his latest movie. Clint Eastwood is set to start filming this summer his latest film, "Richard Jewell." The movie is about the security guard who was initially accused in a pipe-bombing that rocked Atlanta's 1996 Summer Olympics. Olivia Wilde and Jon Hamm will be joining Eastwood’s cast. Jewell was eventually cleared by the FBI, but only after then-AJC reporter Kathy Scruggs reported that Jewell was a suspect. What followed was arguably the nation's first 24-hour media firestorm, with news choppers circling almost 24 hours a day over Jewell's Brookhaven apartment and new...

Gloria Vanderbilt, the society heiress who stitched her illustrious family name into designer jeans and built a $100 million fashion empire, crowning her tabloid story of a child-custody fight, of broken marriages and of jet-set romances, died on Monday at her home in Manhattan. She was 95. Her death was confirmed by her son CNN's Anderson Cooper in a broadcast. To millions of women (and men) who wore her jeans, blouses, scarves, shoes, jewelry and perfumes, who saw her alabaster face, jet-black hair and slim figure in magazines, and who watched her move across a television screen and proclaim that her svelte jeans “really hug your derrière,” Ms. Vanderbilt was an alluring, faintly naughty fashion diva in the 1970s.   Gloria at the age of 7 with her maternal grandfather, H.H. Morgan, on the sands at Juan-les-Pins in southeastern France in 1931. She had a lonely, insecure childhood. But behind the flair and the practiced, throaty whisper — a plummy voice redolent o...