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"Girls Gone Wild" empire founder Joe Francis is blaming his tax troubles on a trio of former employees in a new lawsuit. The complaint, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Tuesday by "Girls Gone Wild" production company Mantra Films,...
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After the coffee. Before realizing an hour without Gmail isn't that big a deal. Maybe it's under the couch. The Financial Times says U.S. media lost $10 billion in advertising in the first half of this year. The 15.4% year-to-year...
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Vanity Fair's much-anticipated "New Establishment 2009" list is out and on it are Kathy Freston for her "cruelty-free fashion" and Kelly Ripa for her "effortless dressing that's chic and modern." Oh wait, that's from the magazine's "2009 International...
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After the coffee. Before checking what Marvel characters you still have rights to. Dissecting Disney-Marvel: Lots of analysis and over-analysis of Walt Disney Co.'s $4-billion deal to buy Marvel Entertainment. What's driving the deal? Did Disney overpay? Will this lead...
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After the coffee. Before deciding if your Marvel Comics just shot up in value. Disney buys Marvel. Walt Disney Co. announced a deal this morning to buy Marvel Entertainment for about $4 billion. Marvel's characters include Spider-Man, Iron Man, Captain...
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After the coffee. Before deciding when to go through the rest of those pilots. Is 50 the new 49? Broadcast networks are always talking about the 18-to-49 age demographic, but heading into this season ABC, CBS, and NBC are all...
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After the coffee. Before deciding whether remaking "Heathers" into a TV show is such a hot idea. Too much love? Viacom's VH1 says it is reassessing its lineup of relationship and dating-themed reality programming and its heavy reliance on the...
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After the coffee. Before checking out Kindle and Reader Daily Edition. Are Stewart and Colbert fans more passionate? Comedy Central commissioned research to determine whether viewers of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert were more engaged with those shows than other...
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After the coffee. Before shopping for back-to-school supplies. "Inglourious" defies trends. It was supposed to be a hard sell, with a running time of, really, 2 1/2 hours, during a summer when stars weren't shining and R ratings really weren't...
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In his post-News Corp. life, the entrepreneurial Peter Chernin is cooking up more than just movies and TV shows. The veteran media executive-turned-independent producer is quietly moonlighting as a restaurateur in Martha's Vineyard, where he and his wife, Megan, have...
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After the coffee. Before the "Project Runway" numbers come in. Rupert Murdoch's secret plan. News Corp., parent of The Wall Street Journal and New York Post, is looking to team up with other major publishers including The New York Times...
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Forbes doesn't think as highly of women in media this year. The magazine's annual "100 Most Powerful Women" ranking just came out, and booted from the list were "CBS Evening News" anchor Katie Couric, ABC's Barbara Walters and Diane Sawyer,...
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After the coffee. Before a final salute to Don Hewitt. Round up the usual suspects. NBC Universal, Scripps Networks and News Corp. are among the companies kicking the tires of Cox Communications' Travel Channel, according to Bloomberg. More interesting is...
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After the coffee. Before deciding if Brett Favre should just hang it up. MGM's new lions. Harry Sloan is out as CEO of MGM, the struggling studio that hasn't released a movie since December's "Valkyrie" and is trying to manage...
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After the coffee. Before deciding if the USOC or Comcast has more egg on its face. Move over, Will Smith. The hottest international stars of the moment are a woolly mammoth, a squirrel and a sloth from 20th Century Fox's...