progress by now. reporter: progress will take longer, sausalito is having to relaunch the bidding process for the cleanup after failing to meet all of the criteria set forward by fema requirements necessary for that funding. we do not follow it exactly, it is very complicated and we have not done that in the past. we missed a couple of the criteria, the checkoff criteria. the bidding process begins again, this time the city manager will have the authority to accept a bid on behalf of the council if that helps to speed things up. starting over however will push the cleanup back at least another month. we are all very cognizant of the timing issues and try to get that resolved and on its way. all in all yes it is an inconvenience but you know, no one got injured. i could ve been a lot worse. let us step back a little bit and think about the circumstances that sausalito finds itself in. earlier, not too many months ago, we were in paradise with the city council was t
you started as an intern and then receptionist atjersey films, the production company that made pulp fiction. you went on to be assistant to the co founder and actor and director danny devito. what was that like? and what were your first impressions of the movie business back then? well, the movie business back then was pretty exciting. it was 1995 when i moved here and i went to emerson college and they had this wonderful programme, this internship programme. so that s how i obtained the internship through them. it was fantastic. it was exciting. i mean, like driving onto the. they were, at the time, on the sony lot. so driving on the sony lot, which is the old mgm lot, like, feeling the history of film, and being this kid from newjersey, i couldn t even believe this was happening. and it was so cool because it wasjersey films, too. and i knew. i hadn t met danny right away as an intern, he was off making a film, but he would call the office every day and i would answer the
powerful women in hollywood, now at the helm of one of the movie industry s biggest players warner brothers motion picture group, the ioi year old studio that first brought us the talkies, ushering out the silent movie era with its jazz singer, and the studio behind beloved classics from casablanca to batman. but in recent years, warner s faced challenges, notjust problems caused by covid and strikes by actors and writers, but others of its own making. not least a falling out with director christopher nolan, who took his award winning oppenheimer to universal instead. the company is also now riding high with barbie, the biggest grossing film in the company s history. 50 cool. welcome to the media show. pam abdy, thank you so much for having me on the lot, and hello. just to talk about your career for a little bit first. you started as an intern and then receptionist atjersey films, the production company that made pulp fiction. you went on to be assistant to the co founder
she s one of the most powerful women in hollywood, now at the helm of one of the movie industry s biggest players warner brothers motion picture group, the 101 year old studio that first brought us the talkies, ushering out the silent movie era with its jazz singer, and the studio behind beloved classics from casablanca to batman. but in recent years, warner s faced challenges, notjust problems caused by covid and strikes by actors and writers, but others of its own making. not least a falling out with director christopher nolan, who took his award winning oppenheimer to universal instead. the company is also now riding high with barbie, the biggest grossing film in the company s history. 50 cool. welcome to the media show. pam abdy, thank you so much for having me on the lot, and hello. just to talk about your career for a little bit first. you started as an intern and then receptionist atjersey films, the production company that made pulp fiction. you went on to be assist
he ll tell you why, he debates whether he s rights. heb it was amazon, it might have been apple too, netflix, apple is hitting an all-time high. $156 a share. we ll have those details coming up. and then a rare interview, she was the first woman to head a hollywood studio back in the day, not too long ago. sherry lansing will join us. there is a new buy biography about her i can t wait to talk with her on what she d do today. we have mothers day this weekend, may be a well-timed placism of the book, maybe a good gift. i see you re selling the book now okay. i just realized that would make sense. yeah. we ll ask her about that. we do start with retail which is struggling so much. it s jp penny getting hit hard after reporting disappointing numbers this morning. we also have the retail report from the government this week. courtney reagan joins us with more. it s very hard in terms of the department stores. the numbers are down 20% this week. the numbers are ba