A longtime employee of L.A.’s New Beverly Cinema says Quentin Tarantino’s new management has forced her out and is ruining the beloved repertory theater. Julia Marchese, one of a few staffers who stayed on through Tarantino’s takeover last month, was told she would be co-manager of the New Beverly when it re-opened this month after renovations. She says this week she was demoted and unceremoniously forced to quit by Tarantino’s longtime personal assistant Julie McLean, who is now acting as General Manager.
“I went through the last six weeks really thinking Quentin was going to make it better,” Marchese told me today. “The thing that’s most shocking to me is that he’s allowing it and I can’t even talk to him about it. To not even be allowed to state my case is unfair.” She says through the Tarantino-led renovations and October 1 re-opening,...
“I went through the last six weeks really thinking Quentin was going to make it better,” Marchese told me today. “The thing that’s most shocking to me is that he’s allowing it and I can’t even talk to him about it. To not even be allowed to state my case is unfair.” She says through the Tarantino-led renovations and October 1 re-opening,...
- 10/15/2014
- by Jen Yamato
- Deadline
The latest wrinkle in owner Quentin Tarantino's takeover of the New Beverly Cinema is a blog post "I Will Not Be Censored" from disgruntled ex-employee Julia Marchese, who was hired at the theater in 2006. At first, Tarantino's team offered her a much better salary to co-manage the theater after he took over operations on October 1, but she was then "frozen out" by Julie McLean, the new general manager of the Beverly, who demoted her as "not manager material," Marchese writes. "I am done." There's been some controversy about Tarantino letting go of Michael Torgan, who took over the day-to-day running of the theater when his father Sherman died in 2007, as well as Tarantino's insistence on showing films in 35 or 16 mm only. "I want the New Beverly to be a bastion for 35 millimeter films," he told the La Weekly. "I want it to stand for something. When you see a...
- 10/15/2014
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
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