Television
In Netflix’s thriller premiering Thursday, Robert De Niro, in his first TV role, plays a former president asked to lead an investigation into a countrywide cyberattack.
Hollywood Inc.
Walt Disney Co. Chief Executive Bob Iger was paid $41 million last year, up from the $31 million he made in 2023. Iger has long ranked among the highest paid media CEOs.
Walt Disney Co. and its chief executive have made a sharp pivot since doubling-down on diversity and inclusion efforts in the wake of George Floyd’s murder in Minneapolis four and a half years ago.
Walt Disney Co. said James Gorman will become chairman of its board next year, replacing Mark Parker, who is stepping down after nine years.
The creator of ‘Peaky Blinders’ is back on his Victorian turf with a story of bare-knuckle boxing in East London, starring Stephen Graham, Erin Doherty and Malachi Kirby.
California
Midway through his first term as L.A. County sheriff, Robert Luna told The Times that speculation he might step down is ‘not true.’
L.A. Influential
Bob Iger’s second tour as Disney chief has been far less cheery than the first. The House of Mouse to which Iger returned was beset by problems, and he’s made missteps too.
In Southern California and across the country on Monday, dozens of businesses nationwide closed, schools reported lower attendance and families put off trips to the grocery store in observance of “A day without immigrants.”
Politics
The Senate on Thursday confirmed vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as secretary of Health and Human Services in the Trump administration.
Commercial Real Estate
Cushman & Wakefield has announced today the appointment of Robert Thornburgh, SIOR, CCIM, FRICS as regional president of the Southwest Region, which includes Southern California, Nevada, Phoenix, Colorado, Utah and Idaho.