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Tom Tapp

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Tom has covered the entertainment industry for more than 20 years. He joined Deadline in 2020 after working on the homepage teams of both Yahoo and AT&T. His work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Premiere magazine and on The Daily Beast. Tom founded the popular industry website and newsletter HollywoodWiretap.com, which he later sold. Before that, he spent seven years at Variety, where he was the Managing Editor of Features. While there, he created the trade’s award-winning lifestyle publication, V Life, and was its Executive Editor.

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Newsom Recall Effort Organizers Announce Over 2 Million Signatures Collected, Reaching Goal

Late Wednesday night, the group organizing the recall of California Governor Gavin Newsom announced it had collected over 2 million signatures. Orrin Heatlie, Chairman of The California Patriot Coalition, RecallGavin2020 Committee said in a statement, "The People of California are speaking loud and clear. We have…

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Los Angeles County Will Issue Its Own Rules For Reopening Movie Theaters, Restaurants, Outdoor Concert Venues On Thursday

Los Angeles County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said the county plans to release its own operating guidelines for restaurants, movie theaters, gyms, outdoor live events and theme park reopenings as the county anticipates moving into the less-restrictive “red” tier of California’s reopening blueprint…

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Los Angeles And Orange Counties Can Reopen Movie Theaters, Theme Parks This Weekend, Per Newsom Announcement

The morning after his less-than-stellar State of the State speech, Gov. Gavin Newsom delivered some good news to about 15 million Californians. Newsom said the state on Friday will meet its threshold of administering 2 million Covid-19 vaccine doses in low-income, hard-hit communities, triggering a change in the state…

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Los Angeles Teachers Agree To Return To Classrooms; Some Grades Using Hybrid Model

Los Angeles Unified School District campuses will resume in-person instruction in mid-April for preschool and elementary students. By the end of April secondary students will be on campus. That, under a tentative agreement announced tonight between the district and the teachers’ union. “The agreement provides for the…

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Ineligible Hollywood Types Jump Line At Pasadena Vaccination Clinic, Forcing Event’s Cancellation; Just One Of Many Holes In Appointment System

“It has come to our attention that a registration link for this Thursday’s Pasadena Public Health Covid-19 vaccination clinic was shared with a large group of entertainment, news and production individuals,” read a statement from the Pasadena officials this week. “This group is NOT currently eligible to receive…

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Unsteady Gavin Newsom In Full Campaign Mode In State Of The State Speech As Governor Faces Likely Recall Election

Facing an almost certain recall and harsh criticism over his handling of the coronavirus pandemic and vaccination rollout, California Gov. Gavin Newsom was in full campaign mode tonight in his third annual State of the State speech. “The state of our state remains determined,” the former San Francisco mayor said from…

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How To Watch California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s State Of The State Speech On Tuesday

On Tuesday at 6 p.m. California Governor Gavin Newsom will give what is likely the most important speech of his political career. Faced with a recall effort on the verge of triggering a vote, a vaccination drive that is riddled with failures and a state where an epidemic of homelessness is second only to the Covid-19…

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Los Angeles County Qualifies For Red Tier Of California Reopening Plan; Must Hold Steady One More Week To Get Restrictions Lifted

Los Angeles County’s one-week numbers on Tuesday dipped into the red tier of Governor Gavin Newsom’s Covid-19 reopening plan. It’s the first time since the governor introduced his Blueprint for a Safer Economy that the state’s largest county has sniffed the possibility of the most restrictive purple tier and into the…

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Los Angeles County’s “Reasonable” Reopening Plan May Not Include Indoor Dining At Restaurants

Thanks to decreased case numbers and changes implemented by the state in response to vaccination efforts, Los Angeles County officials said Monday that they are preparing to advance to a less-restrictive tier of the state’s Covid-19 economic reopening blueprint as early as next week. But whether the county will…

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LAUSD High Schools May Reopen In Late April Pending Union Pact; NYC Sets March 22 Date

LAUSD chairman Austin Beutner at a Monday briefing confirmed plans for a mid-April opening for preschool and elementary school students and targeted the end of April for secondary schools. Elementary schools could have opened this month. However, the District has been negotiating with the United Teachers Los Angeles…

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Newsom Says Tomorrow’s State Of The State Speech Will Be About Farm Workers, Women, Children, Caregivers And CA’s Bright Future

“I want to highlight farm workers. I want to highlight women, children, caregivers and a bright future for California,” said Governor Gavin Newsom when asked on Monday about the State of the State speech he will deliver Tuesday. “This is not going to be state of the state that lays out policy initiatives,” said…

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Fully-Vaccinated People Can Now Socialize Indoors Without Masks, Says CDC

If there wasn’t a scramble to get vaccinated before, the CDC’s newly-issued recommendations may ignite one. On Monday, the Centers for Disease Control issued its first set of public health recommendations for Americans fully vaccinated against the coronavirus. A growing body of evidence, according to the CDC…

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