Hollywood

'Mad Men' writer visits Syracuse University
By Emily Shearing
October 19, 2011 - 11:41am
SU alum Chris Provenzano finds success as a screenwriter in Hollywood.

As a writer for the first season of "Mad Men," it almost drove Chris Provenzano crazy.

"It was very, very intense," Provenzano said of working in the "Mad Men" writers' room. "(On the show) everyone is so terrible to everyone else ... and the demand was to pull the most terrible stories from your own life. I found it a hard place to spend most of my waking hours."

Legendary actress Elizabeth Taylor dies
By Amy Lipman
March 23, 2011 - 1:39pm
Taylor suffers congestive heart failure.

Famed actress Elizabeth Taylor died early Wednesday morning at age 79. According to People, Taylor had been in Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Center since February 11 for congestive heart failure.

Britney Spears debuts new video
By Misyrlena Egkol...
February 18, 2011 - 1:49pm
Long-awaited ‘Hold It Against Me’ music video arrives.

Britney Spears has done it again. The international pop star is back with another music video for her most recent song "Hold It Against Me," reports People. 

New York State's highest paid employee
By Nena Garga
March 10, 2010 - 5:04pm
Also, Philadelphia woman arrested for aiding terrorists, and actor Corey Haim found dead.

New York State's highest paid employee made almost $1 million this past year, and it wasn't Governor David Paterson. After adding in overtime and extra pay, Dr.Stephen Onesti, a doctor at the Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, made $958,047 in 2009 and came out on top of the state almost 300-thousand employees. 40 other Downstate Medical employees were among the top 50 wage-earners in the state. As for Governor Paterson? There are 900 other state employees who made more than his $178,509 last year. Paterson isn't even the highest paid in the state's executive branch.

Scott Sanders unscripted
By Jason Berger
February 23, 2010 - 9:47pm
Writer and director of 'Black Dynamite' discusses the creative and racial challenges of the entertainment industry.

Scott Sanders, writer and director of the film Black Dynamite, came to Syracuse University on Tuesday to participate in a Conversation on Race and Entertainment Media with television, radio and film professor Richard Dubin. The free-flowing discussion, held in the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium in Newhouse III, focused on the changes in the entertainment industry over the past two decades and on Sanders’s thoughts on opportunities for African-Americans in film.