by Deborah Wilker | Aug 2, 2016 | Articles, Biz, Featured, Interviews, Music, TV and Film
BILLBOARD | July 9, 2016 By DEBORAH WILKER For Chipotle Mexican Grill — its sterling reputation tarnished by a food safety crisis last year and now the drug arrest of a key executive — a new commercial in the form of a winsome musical short is providing a...
by Deborah Wilker | Jun 13, 2016 | Articles, Featured, Interviews, Music, Stage
TRIBUNE PUBLISHING | JUNE 2016 BY DEBORAH WILKER With her 2013 Broadway musical Kinky Boots at $200 million in grosses, and with productions in London, Toronto, Australia, and on tour across the U.S., Cyndi Lauper should be basking in a career triumph. The show won...
by Deborah Wilker | Jun 12, 2016 | Articles, Biz, Featured, Music, TV and Film
BILLBOARD | May 16, 2016 BY DEBORAH WILKER Read this story in Billboard Upfront week in New York — when TV networks and cable outlets woo media buyers for the nearly $9 billion in advertising dollars up for grabs in the coming season with a barrage of sizzle reels,...
by Deborah Wilker | Apr 22, 2016 | Articles, Featured, Music, Reviews, The '90s
KNIGHT-RIDDER/TRIBUNE News Service/SOUTH FLORIDA SUN-SENTINEL | October 5, 1988 By DEBORAH WILKER NEW YORK — By any standard, Prince’s eclectic, erotic, religiously steeped, two-day stand at Madison Square Garden, was a certain critical success. He could...
by Deborah Wilker | Apr 21, 2016 | Articles, Biz, Featured, Music, TV and Film
BILLBOARD.COM | Wed. April 13, 2016 By DEBORAH WILKER Read this story in BILLBOARD.COM The deal calls for a series of one-hour televised Big Machine Rocks concert specials to air live from Nashville on HSN, as well as on HSN.com and mobile platforms. LOS ANGELES...
by Deborah Wilker | Apr 2, 2016 | Articles, Featured, Interviews, Music
CITY & SHORE | April 2016 By DEBORAH WILKER Read The Luxury Issue Here — Work has long been a balm for Rick Springfield, the hit song-maker and actor whose career has spanned continents, generations and genres. In his world, prestige projects with HBO,...
by Deborah Wilker | Feb 14, 2016 | Articles, Featured, Interviews
PEBBLE BEACH THE MAGAZINE | June 2014 BY DEBORAH WILKER Sam Mann wasn’t on the hunt for a special car the day he stumbled upon a broken down ‘38 Delage in a Connecticut restoration shop. In fact, the car was “in pieces, shoved off in a corner with a bunch of junk...
by Deborah Wilker | Jan 30, 2016 | Articles, Biz, Featured, Interviews, Music
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER | Oct. 28, 2005 By DEBORAH WILKER CROZET, Va – While the numbers for recorded and live music have been mostly down again this year, one thriving small-town music operation is bucking industry trends. More than 500 artists – including the Rolling...
by Deborah Wilker | Jan 20, 2016 | Articles, Featured, Reviews, Stage, TV and Film
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER | Thurs July 23, 2015 1:38pm PDT By DEBORAH WILKER For Ali MacGraw and Ryan O’Neal, it seems waiting 45 years to finally star in something together again was the right move after all. [fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes”...
by Deborah Wilker | Jan 18, 2016 | Articles, Featured, Interviews, TV and Film
TRIBUNE PUBLISHING | Oct 2014 By DEBORAH WILKER “I honestly don’t even know how I got into acting,” says 15-year-old Bailee Madison. “It happened so quickly. My mom and sister used to do commercials, and apparently when I was little I would unbuckle myself from the...
