Who is Hollywood producer Carol Baum who slammed Sydney Sweeney?
nypost.comaccording to the Daily Mail.“She’s not pretty, she can’t act,” Baum reportedly said. “I don’t get Sydney Sweeney.”The film producer referred to Sweeney’s recent rom-com “Anyone But You,” in which she stars opposite Glen Powell.“I wanted to know who she is and why everybody’s talking about her,” Baum reportedly told the audience, calling the film “unwatchable.”Who is Baum to make these comments?
Here’s everything to know. Carol Baum, 81, nee Carol Friedland, grew up in New Jersey. She began her career in the world of book publishing, where she helped turn Stephen King’s “The Shining” into a film. “I had a job in the film business early on, a tiny company called the Producer’s Circle.
But, my job in New York was to find manuscripts before they were published and decide whether they were going to be movies. That was my job,” she said during an April 2 interview on the podcast “Industry Standard With Barry Katz.” She’s married to novelist and screenwriter Tom Baum (“Journey to the Center of the Earth”).
During that same podcast, she said, “I married my high school sweetheart,” and they’ve been married for 60 years. She described her upbringing in South Orange, New Jersey, in the 1950s. “You were geared to marry…not to be a producer, not to be a businesswoman.
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