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Launched in 2022, The Hollywood Reporter‘s annual New York Power Broker Awards, presented by luxury real estate publicity company The Society Group, bestow honors on the biggest sellers and savviest marketers in NYC and the Hamptons.

In addition to revealing the 2024 Team of the Year and the Philanthropic Impact Award winner, THR is sharing the nominees in six categories. Winners will be announced in July.

The Power Broker Awards are chosen by THR editors and are based on sales numbers, media presence, and the prestige of properties listed and sold.

Team Of The Year Winner Compass’ Hudson Advisory Team, which did $752 million in deals between April 15, 2023, and April 15, 2024.

Philanthropist Impact Award Winner Corcoran Group’s Cathy Franklin, for her longtime support of the Breast Cancer Research Foundation and its annual Play for P.I.N.K. fundraising luncheon.

Stratospheric Sale Award Nominees (for a major single deal) Adam Modlin, Holly Parker,...

The Hollywood Reporter‘s designers in 2022 commissioned more than 100 illustrations from more than 80 artists for stories across all genres. Below is a selection of the art team’s favorite pieces over the last year.

Beverly Hills Spy: How a WWII-Era James Bond Betrayed the Allies

Illustration by Barbara Gibson

Art direction by Peter Cury

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Immunity Building: Hollywood Doctors on Upping Your Well-Being Amid Omicron

Illustration by Maite Franchi

Art direction by Nicholas Brawley

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Why Rihanna, Kevin Hart and More Stars Are Rushing to Buy the House Next Door

Illustration by Audrey Malo

Art direction by Kelsey Stefanson

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Guest Column: How ‘Tick, Tick … Boom!’ Revealed the Power of Collaboration

Illustration by Ana Miminoshvili

Art direction by Kelsey Stefanson

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2022 Oscars Issue Cover

Illustration by Yadi Liu

Art direction by Peter Cury

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The title character of Steven Spielberg's 1993 film "Schindler's List" performed numerous heroic acts during World War II, but is not depicted as being the least bit conventionally "heroic." He's a flawed alcoholic who, at the outset of World War II, sees a business opportunity in hiring Jewish workers. In so doing, however, his employees were protected from being apprehended by the Nazis. All told, Oskar Schindler rescued some 1,200 people from the Reich. 

Spielberg looks the horrors of the war right in the eye. The film features multiple harrowingly accurate scenes of death, torture, and vicious wartime brutality. Hate and fear undergird far too much of the world. In a potent symbol -- based on real life -- a walkway into a concentration camp is paved by pilfered tombstones. In the film's most famous sequence, a young girl in a red coat is seen wandering among chaotic wartime streets, death...

DirecTV has made a direct-to-series order for Entertainment One Television’s romantic comedy series “You Me Her.” Ten half-hour episodes of the series will air on Directv’s Audience Network. Inspired by the Playboy Magazine article titled “Sugar on Top” by John H. Richardson and created for television by John Scott Shepherd, the series is billed as television’s first “polyromantic comedy.” “We are excited to partner with eOne again to bring You Me Her to our viewers, ” said Chris Long, DirecTV’s Svp of Original Content and Production. “Audience Network always strives to feature a wide-ranging slate of programming that is unlike anything else.

DirecTV has made a straight-to-series order for the Entertainment One TV comedy You Me Her, created by John Scott Shepherd and inspired by the Playboy Magazine article "Sugar on Top" by John H. Richardson. Ten half-hour episode series will air on DirecTV's Audience Network. The news means a reteam of eOne and the satcaster, whose drama series Rogue starring Cole Hauser, Richard Schiff and Thandie Newton is in its third season. The series is described as a twist on the…...

A Tangled Web: D. Dominick Lombardi, Curator Causey Contemporary Through January 29, 2015

The group show is one of those things that can either be done well or becomes an exhibition overwhelmed by variety -- or worse, a clutter of objects that don’t relate to each other without the benefit of lengthy wall texts. D. Dominick Lombardi, a veteran New York curator, has managed to pull together a visually interesting exhibition at Causey Contemporary, which was based on the simple premise of pairing the artists represented by the gallery with an outside artist of Lombardi’s choosing whom he felt complemented the work. What results is a show that is short on theory and long on visuality. He has turned the exhibit into a kind of dance, with one wondering (without looking at the cheat sheet) which artists are waltzing with each other.

To paraphrase the ninth-century Tang Dynasty poet Du Fu,...

Loretta Young films as TCM celebrates her 102nd birthday (photo: Loretta Young ca. 1935) Loretta Young would have turned 102 years old today. Turner Classic Movies is celebrating the birthday of the Salt Lake City-born, Academy Award-winning actress today, January 6, 2015, with no less than ten Loretta Young films, most of them released by Warner Bros. in the early '30s. Young, who began her film career in a bit part in the 1927 Colleen Moore star vehicle Her Wild Oat, remained a Warners contract player from the late '20s up until 1933. (See also: "Loretta Young Movies.") Now, ten Loretta Young films on one day may sound like a lot, but one should remember that most Warner Bros. -- in fact, most Hollywood -- releases of the late '20s and early '30s were either B Movies or programmers. The latter were relatively short (usually 60 to 75 minutes) feature films starring A (or B+) performers,...

Jean Arthur films on TCM include three Frank Capra classics Five Jean Arthur films will be shown this evening, Monday, January 5, 2015, on Turner Classic Movies, including three directed by Frank Capra, the man who helped to turn Arthur into a major Hollywood star. They are the following: Capra's Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, You Can't Take It with You, and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington; George Stevens' The More the Merrier; and Frank Borzage's History Is Made at Night. One the most effective performers of the studio era, Jean Arthur -- whose film career began inauspiciously in 1923 -- was Columbia Pictures' biggest female star from the mid-'30s to the mid-'40s, when Rita Hayworth came to prominence and, coincidentally, Arthur's Columbia contract expired. Today, she's best known for her trio of films directed by Frank Capra, Columbia's top director of the 1930s. Jean Arthur-Frank Capra...

Lance Armstrong has gone from spinning to swinging. The disgraced athlete opened up to Esquire in its August 2014 issue, revealing that golf is his sport of choice after his doping scandal made headlines in 2012. "The game isn't natural to him," writer John H. Richardson observed of Armstrong's golf game. "You have to swivel your hips and his legs were all about up and down. Now he takes lessons, plays eighteen holes, then goes home to watch golf on TV. [Girlfriend Anna] Hansen jokes about being a [...]...

It's been 18 months since Lance Armstrong's poorly received TV confession to Oprah of his repeated doping, lying and bullying of adversaries over the course of his epic cycling career. In the latest issue of Esquire, John H. Richardson checks in with the disgraced athlete and cancer survivor for a lengthy interview. The piece, titled "Lance Armstrong in Purgatory: The Afterlife" reveals a downsized but still defiant Armstrong ego – a man adjusting and still coping with his remarkable fall from the apex of athletics to widespread derision and infamy. Photos Stars Behaving Badly: From Justin Bieber to Reese Witherspoon, Hollywood's Recent

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This story first appeared in the Feb. 1 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. Maybe he was just imagining things. John H. Richardson, my former colleague at Premiere magazine, says curious incidents began happening after he started reporting on the Church of Scientology in 1993. It didn't seem coincidental to him: People knocking on his neighbors' doors, saying he was under investigation. A phone call telling his wife he had sent her some kind of sex-gram that the caller would read aloud. Former Los Angeles Times writer Joel Sappell, in a recent Los Angeles magazine article, tells of alarming

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"Death disports with writers more cruelly than with the rest of humankind," Cynthia Ozick wrote in a recent issue of The New Republic.

"The grave can hardly make more mute those who were voiceless when alive--dust to dust, muteness to muteness. But the silence that dogs the established writer's noisy obituary, with its boisterous shock and busy regret, is more profound than any other.

"Oblivion comes more cuttingly to the writer whose presence has been felt, argued over, championed, disparaged--the writer who is seen to be what Lionel Trilling calls a Figure. Lionel Trilling?

"Consider: who at this hour (apart from some professorial specialist currying his "field") is reading Mary McCarthy, James T. Farrell, John Berryman, Allan Bloom, Irving Howe, Alfred Kazin, Edmund Wilson, Anne Sexton, Alice Adams, Robert Lowell, Grace Paley, Owen Barfield, Stanley Elkin, Robert Penn Warren, Norman Mailer, Leslie Fiedler, R.P. Blackmur, Paul Goodman, Susan Sontag,...

In her new book, Art and Madness: A Memoir of Love Without Reason (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday), Anne Roiphe candidly recounts her youthful escapades on New York’s literary scene in the 50s and 60s, when writing was worshipped and sexism and alcoholism were rampant. Inspired, yet stifled, by the era’s literary Mad Men—George Plimpton, William Styron, Arthur Miller, and her playwright husband, Jack Richardson—Roiphe dreamed of eventually pushing pen to paper like her male counterparts. Below, the feminist writer-in-the-making relives her introduction to Richardson (“love at second sight”) at The West End Bar in 1956. Listen to the podcast after the jump.

(from left to right) Charlie Sheen, Lindsay Lohan, Nick Nolte, Russell Crowe, Hugh Grant, Tom Cruise, Paul Reubens, Angelina Jolie and Mel Gibson I was going to bring up this topic anyway, but ironically enough it reared its head all on its own following Bill's piece on Olivia Wilde this morning. Inside the article Bill referenced Olivia's work in Haiti, a topic that came up during the Tron: Legacy press junket round tables, but not as a result of Wilde's stumping, but rather only after she was asked. Bill's comment was to say, "The thing that was refreshing was that she didn't talk about Haiti until she was asked about it. She knew this was a Tron junket so she didn't try to mix politics with pop culture. She only answered those questions when asked."

I can understand where Bill is coming from, but this didn't sit well with a few of the readers.

The Hollywood Reporter: Daniel Miller writes that sources close to the investigation into the murder of veteran Oscar publicist Ronni Chasen have told him that their “working theory” is that Chasen’s death “was planned in advance and not the result of road rage or a carjacking gone awry.” Apparently, “police have obtained relevant footage from one or perhaps multiple security cameras located at… the home of Sherry Hackett, widow of the late comedian and actor Buddy Hackett.”

Deadline Hollywood: Pete Hammond documents this week’s frenzy of screenings and Q&As on both coasts for members of the WGA, PGA, DGA, SAG and countless media organizations. (Full disclosure: our own Scott Feinberg moderated two of this week’s New York Q&A’s, for “Frankie and Alice” with best actress hopeful Halle Berry and for “Black Swan” with best director hopeful Darren Aronofsky, best actress hopeful Natalie Portman,...

While AFI Fest opener Love & Other Drugs (check out its naked stars below) failed to yield much Oscar buzz, the fest's surprise screening of the The Fighter (here's the Toh review) boosted the prospects for Christian Bale's performance as the crackhead brother to Mark Wahlberg's punchy welterweight. It remains to be seen what the impact on Academy voters will be of John H. Richardson's lengthy and entertaining interview in Esquire with the Batman star, entitled "Christian Bale May Kill Someone Yet." From Newsies to The Machinist, this actor--who admits to having never seen Bringing Up Baby, The Philadelphia Story or Breakfast at Tiffany's---is as intense in real life as he is on screen. Straddling the line between pulling teeth and Bale's attempts to resist ...