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Variety blogger Anne Thompson launched the daily Thompsononhollywood blog in March 2007, when she joined Variety as a weekly columnist and deputy editor of Variety.com, a post she held through January 2009. From January 2005 through February, 2007, she was deputy film editor of The Hollywood Reporter, where she wrote the weekly syndicated column "Risky Business"  and the Riskybizblog. She has contributed to Premiere, Wired, Filmmaker, New York Magazine, The New York Times, More, The Washington Post, and The London Observer. From 1996 to 2002, she headed Premiere's Los Angeles bureau as West Coast Editor. Before joining Premiere, she tracked behind-the-scenes Hollywood as a senior writer at Entertainment Weekly and as West Coast Editor at Film Comment Magazine. From 1985 to 1993, she wrote the first iteration of "Risky Business" for L.A. Weekly and The Los Angeles Times Syndicate. A graduate of the Department of Cinema Studies at New York University, Thompson teaches Film Criticism at USC, and hosts Sneak Previews at UCLA Extension.
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