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Variety, one of Hollywood’s most influential trade publications, is being raked over the coals with social media users blasting the outlet for failing to invite female writers to an event meant to highlight the industry’s top talent.

PBS has indefinitely suspended longtime talk show host Tavis Smiley over “troubling allegations” that he sexually harassed staffers, and retaliated against those who refused him.

Rose McGowan claims she told actor Ben Affleck that Harvey Weinstein allegedly raping her. Not only did she tell Affleck, she claims to have told him almost immediately after the alleged crime way back in 1997.

Out of the growing fear that the Harvey Weinstein sex scandal is about to spin out of control, is about to bring down those (like Ben Affleck) who are not useless has-beens like Harvey, the bombshell news that The Weinstein Company board knew of Harvey’s payoffs to women is being downplayed, especially by the Hollywood trades. Nevertheless, it is still a bombshell.

Thursday’s New York Times bombshell, which has effectively ended Oscar-winning producer and Democrat super-donor Harvey Weinstein’s career, contains two equally disturbing pieces of news, only one of which the national media will report and explore.

The awesome news is that cord-cutting *is* accelerating. There is no question about it.

During comments aired on Friday’s edition of CNN’s “The Lead,” Joe Bel Bruno, Managing Editor of Variety, argued that there hasn’t been anyone among the Hollywood left saying that violent remarks about President Trump go too far, and the left

Golden Globe-winning actress Jessica Chastain says she fears “good people will become crazy”under the Trump administration.

Chelsea Clinton opened up about her political activism, Donald Trump’s presidency, the next chapter of the Clinton Foundation and her social media use in a wide-ranging interview Tuesday for the cover of Variety’s “Power of Women New York” issue.

Chelsea Clinton will receive a “Lifetime Impact Award” as one of Variety magazine’s Lifetime Impact Honorees for humanitarian work.

Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly, Girls star and showrunner Lena Dunham, Ghostbusters actress Leslie Jones, Buzzfeed editor-in-chief Ben Smith, late-night host Jimmy Fallon and Grammy Award-winning musician Alicia Keys are among those featured in Hollywood trade publication Variety’s 2016 “New Power of New York” list.

Hollywood trade publication Variety will host its first conference on diversity and inclusion in the entertainment industry in November, the outlet announced Monday.

Talk show host Chelsea Handler ripped Donald Trump in an interview at Variety’s Entertainment and Tech Summit this week, calling the Republican presidential candidate a representation of “everything that’s wrong in the world.”

The first reviews for the all-female-led Ghostbusters reboot are in, and they’re not good.

Actress Rose McGowan defended fellow actress Renée Zellweger and blasted Variety’s new chief film critic Owen Gleiberman — who wrote an article late last month taking a critical look at Hollywood’s obsession with plastic surgery — in an essay for the Hollywood Reporter this week.

Veteran actor Robert De Niro told an Obama birther joke and followed it up with a one-liner about Republicans while honoring Morgan Freeman at the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Chaplin Award ceremony in New York on Monday.

Kelly shares this year’s honors with actresses Lupita Nyong’o and Julianne Moore, fashion designer Vera Wang and renowned ballet dancer Misty Copeland. The five women will be feted at Variety’s Power of Women luncheon in Manhattan on April 8. As part of the outlet’s special issue, Kelly spoke at length about her public battle with GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump, her desire to interview Democrat frontrunner Hillary Clinton and her future at Fox News.

Left-wing actress Lena Dunham says she has received “more hostility” from supporters of democratic socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders than she ever has from conservatives.

Startup film distributor Supergravity Pictures is now marketing the 2015 Australian documentary Gayby Baby, which tells the stories of four different children being raised in gay and lesbian families.

Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly has been selected along with four other female entertainment industry leaders to receive Lifetime Impact honors at Variety’s annual Power of Women: New York event next month.

Former 60 Minutes journalist Michael Bronner is developing a feature film based on the upcoming memoir of Canadian-Egyptian former Al-Jazeera reporter Mohamed Fahmy, who spent more than a year in Egypt’s most notorious prison on allegedly false charges.

Actor Stephen Furst, who is best known for playing the role of Flounder in 1978’s “Animal House,” has accused the Academy of “ageism and sexism” in choosing to “scapegoat” its older white male members “in order to deflect the criticism about the lack of diversity” in this year’s all white acting nominees.

During a recent interview with Variety, Sylvester Stallone revealed he once considered going into politics and said he thinks Republican frontrunner Donald Trump is of a rare breed of people who are “larger than life.”

In evaluating his least favorite films of 2015, Variety film critic Peter Debruge slammed leftwing filmmaker Michael Moore’s latest project as “an embarrassment to America.”

While discussing wage inequality for women in Hollywood, actress Sandra Bullock said she’s glad the film industry is being held accountable for its business practices.

In Variety’s new “Power of Women” issue, actress and activist Ashley Judd claims she was sexually harassed by one of Hollywood’s “most famous, admired-slash-rivaled bosses” in the late 1990s.

The actor who plays a character that is generally on the right side of the ruse might have been deceived out of a large sum of money. Two months ago, James Bond actor Daniel Craig gave nearly $50 thousand to a super

NBC chairman Robert Greenblatt downplayed the network’s severed relationship with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump Thursday, when announcing Celebrity Apprentice will return, just not for the upcoming season. Speaking at the Television Critics’ Association press tour in Beverly Hills, CA,

Pirated HD-quality pilots for a number of upcoming 2015-16 season TV shows began showing up on torrent sites Monday, in what is being called a coordinated action by Variety.

Jill Soloway, the creator of Amazon’s transgender-themed original drama Transparent, wants to change the way stories are told in TV and film by ridding the industry of its so-called “male privilege.”

During Variety’s fourth annual Purpose: Family and Faith-Based Summit Thursday, family-friendly entertainers gathered to discuss the state of the industry, as well as strategies to make faith-based stories more enticing to mainstream audiences.

Author E.L. James has announced she will be releasing a new novel edition of Fifty Shades of Grey, titled “Grey,” that will be written from character Christian Grey’s point of view.

While doing promotional interviews for her upcoming film Carol, a lesbian love story, Academy Award-winning actress Cate Blanchett revealed to Variety magazine that she has had “many” past relationships with women.

Hollywood trade publication Variety published its guide to “7 Names to Know in Transgender Hollywood” on Wednesday.

Lena Dunham isn’t the only victim of her sexual assault, and yet despite the fact that her unconscionable behavior resulted in an innocent family man being accused of her rape, the “Girls” creator is still being celebrated and honored as

A new study commissioned by both the Sundance Institute and Women in Film found the gender gap between directors to be at its widest in top-grossing films.