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Daily Variety (often referred to simply as Variety) is a daily newspaper for the entertainment industry. A newspaper is a written Publication containing News, information and Advertising, usually printed on low-cost paper called Newsprint.

Now, the unit publishes three paper editions and a Web site. Variety is a tabloid glossy newspaper published weekly and is delivered internationally with a broad coverage of movies, television, theater, music, and technology, written for entertainment executives. Daily Variety is the name of the Los Angeles, California-based Hollywood and Broadway daily newspaper. Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West Broadway theater, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located Daily Variety Gotham, started in 1998, is the name of the New York City edition of the newspaper. The City of New York This edition gives a priority focus to East Coast show business news and is produced earlier in the evening than the Los Angeles version so it can be delivered to New York offices the following morning. Variety. com is the Internet version of Variety, and it was one of the first online newspapers to charge for access when it launched in 1998. The Internet is a global system of interconnected Computer networks

A significant portion of Variety's revenue comes during the movie award season leading up to the Academy Awards. "The Oscar" redirects here for the film see The Oscar (film. During this time, large numbers of colorful, full-page "For Your Consideration" ads inflate the size of Variety to double or triple its usual page count. These ads are Hollywood's attempt to reach other Hollywood professionals who will be voting in the many awards given out in the early part of the year.

For much of its existence, Variety's writers and columnists have used a jargon called slanguage or varietyese (a form of headlinese) that refers especially to the movie industry, and has largely been adopted and imitated by other writers in the industry. For Wikipedia jargon see WikipediaGlossary. For hacker slang see Jargon File. Headlinese is nonconversational language used in Newspaper headlines Such terms as "boffo box-office biz," "sitcom," "sex appeal", "payola" and even "striptease" are attributed to the influence of the magazine[1], though its attempt to popularize "infobahn" as a synonym for "information superhighway" never caught on. Its most famous headline was from October, 1929 when the stock market crashed, "Wall St. Lays An Egg" while another favorite, "Sticks Nix Hick Pix" [1][2] was made popular—although the movie prop renders it as "Stix nix hix flix!"—by Michael Curtiz' musical-biopic Yankee Doodle Dandy where James Cagney is explaining the headline to some kids. STICKS NIX HICK PIX is one of the most famous Headlines ever to appear in an American publication A theatrical property, commonly referred to as a prop, is any object held or used on stage by an Actor for use in furthering the plot or story line of a Theatrical Michael Curtiz ( December 24, 1886 - April 10, 1962) was an Academy Award -winning Hungarian-American Film director The musical film is a Film genre in which several Songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative A biographical motion picture &mdash often shortened to biopic &mdash is a film that dramatizes the life of an actual person or people Yankee Doodle Dandy ( is a biographical film about George M Cohan, the actor-singer-dancer-playwright-songwriter-producer-theatre owner-director-choreographer James Francis Cagney Jr ( July 17, 1899 &ndash March 30, 1986) was an Academy Award -winning American Film Translated, it means that rural audiences were not attending rural-themed films. Television series are referred to as "skeins," and heads of companies or corporate teams are called "toppers. " In addition, more common English words and phrases are shortened; "audience members" becomes simply "auds," "performance" becomes "perf," and "network" becomes "net," for example.

Daily Variety's down-the-street competitor is The Hollywood Reporter. The Hollywood Reporter is a major trade publication of the Film industry in the United States. The papers have a long history of bad blood, but editorial talent migrates between them. Variety 's current editor-in-chief, Peter Bart, once said to a reporter, "They're not journalists at all," though Variety has a history of recruiting Hollywood Reporter writers once they have established bylines, and vice versa. Peter Bart, an American journalist and film producer born July 24, 1932 and has served a lengthy tenure as editor in chief of ''Variety'', know The byline on a Newspaper or Magazine article gives the name and often the position of the writer of the article

The magazine is owned by Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier. Reed Business Information is a large business publisher in the United States United Kingdom continental Europe Australia and Asia Reed Elsevier is a global Publisher and information provider It came into being in autumn 1992 as the result of a merger between Reed International a British Its editor-in-chief is Peter Bart, who worked previously at Paramount Studios and The New York Times. Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American motion picture production and Distribution company, based in Hollywood California. Circulation hovers around 31,622 for the daily editions, and 30,800 for the weekly edition (Audit Bureau of Circulations, March 31, 2005). The Audit Bureau of Circulations ( ABC) of North America is a not-for-profit circulation-auditing organization

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History

It has been published since 1905, when it was launched as a weekly covering vaudeville with offices in New York by Sime Silverman. Year 1905 ( MCMV) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Vaudeville was a Genre of variety entertainment prevalent on the stage in the United States and Canada, from the early 1880s Sime Silverman (1873-1933 was an American Newspaper publisher best known as the founder of the weekly Variety in New York in 1905 and the In 1933, Silverman launched Daily Variety, based in Hollywood.

Silverman was the publisher and editor of the Variety publications until his death from a heart attack at the Ambassador Hotel on Wilshire Boulevard soon after launching the daily. His son Sidne (1901-1950), known as "Skiggie", succeeded him as editor and publisher of both publications. Both Sidne and his wife, stage actress Marie Saxon (1905-1942), died of tuberculosis. Their only son Syd, born 1932, was the sole heir to what was then Variety Inc. Guardian Harold Erichs oversaw Variety until 1956. From then Syd, who graduated from Princeton, took over and managed the company until 1987, when he sold it to Cahners Publishing (now Reed Elsevier) for US$64 million. Princeton University is a private Coeducational research university located in Princeton, New Jersey. Reed Elsevier is a global Publisher and information provider It came into being in autumn 1992 as the result of a merger between Reed International a British

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In popular culture

References

  1. ^ A Century of 'Variety'-Speak. Retrieved on 2008-03-15. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 44 BC - Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus,

In the original edition of the Trivial Pursuit board game, one of the questions was "What is the entertainment industry's only daily publication?" A: Variety

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