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Man, this pisses me off! How did Patrick Goldstein - aside from the fact that he lives in a delusional state of fear and loathing about the evil internet despite the fact that he now is exclusively a blogger (with his blog entries printed now and again) in his job at the LA Times - manage to take an...
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I'm going to bed, so I will keep this missive as short as I can. Nikki Finke decided to slap back at Variety today. And as Kim Masters noted earlier... she's got a fairly easy target. The simple reality remains, Nikki counts on fear to keep studio executives who are not using her to spin stories...
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Peter Bart's latest blog attack - printed on his blog with support from Anne Thompson's blog and indeed, linked to the cover of the MCN website, often called a blog - had the usual dose of "it's not us, it's them." But what really struck me as funny (both odd and ha-ha) was...
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Reading today’s New York Times was a bit of a head spinner. There were two pieces that I felt fit together, not necessarily in a good way. First, there was a Nick Kristof op-ed piece called “The Daily Me.” Unexpectedly, the piece was not an ad hominem attack on the internet, as we read in so many Traditional...
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Once again, Nikki Finke is putting her ignorant self in the middle of DreamWorks Animation business . Has she EVER known anything about how marketing and promotions work in this business... and has for decades? First, she completely misstates the reality of a Monsters v Aliens Super Bowl promotion.....
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The LAT's top neo-con hypocrite blogger (witness: right before the entry debunking that silly ol’ internet for spreading dumb rumors about Judd Apatow being involved with Ghostbusters 3 … an entry about a Bruce Wills/Tracy Morgan project he read about – wait… wait – on an unreliable site on the internet...
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CORRECTION, 7:33p - It's been that kind of day. I am told by a figure of profound authority at the NYT that, in fact, the Paper of Record will hold its review until 9p-pst/12a-est on Thursday night. Huzzah, as the Gray Lady knows, it seems, that being important is not a matter of being first, but...
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I am making this a single entry as I start to write about the weekend, mostly because I don't want the infection that is La Finke to turn anything else I might write sour. But I still feel compelled to point this out... Nikki's coverage of the gossip around The Oscars was based around the two...
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And so it begins... Oh the excitement! A geek loves Watchmen and decides that even though he is employed by Time Magazine, owned by the parent company of Warner Bros, he isn't a journalist, so he can say whatever he wants. Meanwhile, others are forced to wait to offer any opinion. Sigh... The funny...
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Added, Friday 2/13, 11a - Now Sharon Waxman, extending the circle of fun for another day, defended herself against "my friend" (her tag) Patrick Goldstein. See... she was cautious in her language... so being wrong was okay. And she gets to slam the LAT for not PRINTING IN THE PAPER their piece...
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How many online surveys - a form that legitimate surveying companies don't seem to be able to comprehend is much less reliable than old school outcalling surveying - have we seen come and go over recent years? And who sees The Hollywood Reporter as an investagative organization, seeking deep insight...
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I thought Patrick Goldstein had grown out of his personal rage at me and everyone else who knows more about the awards season than he does... but no. Today's late season attack on me and others was a surprise. I am going to reprint my response to his blog entry here... because this way someone might...
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Radar Online (all that's left) ran a story about a $175,000 offering of 2 Oscar tickets and a fancy weekend and travel to go with it. The "news" is that The Academy is suing to stop it. The absurdity is that the $175,000 package is an overt lie, most likely intended to get coverage for...
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Doing the rounds this morning... What are people in the industry talking about? Conversation one today is Variety, WB, etc, and whether you and yours are still gainfully employed. Patrick Goldstein's only post this week was about watching a TV interview with two critics in New York. Peter Bart's...
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I clicked on The Daily Beast, an infrequent click, with all that is going on today with layoffs, etc. And here is what I saw... Nevermind that Blago and Caroline Kennedy for Senator are old news. Do you see what doesn't fit? Embarrassing. Desperate. Clicks through to "Sponsored Blogs & Stories...