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  • The NYT Goes Way Off-Broadway and Other Big Hits

    published July 8, 2004

    The Los Angeles Times ain’t taking it lying down: Its management is fighting back from its talent losses to the NYT... More >>

  • Invasion of the Body Snatchers Part Deux

    published July 1, 2004

    WHAT WAS ALL-OUT WAR is now a nuclear nightmare for the Los Angeles Times. L.A. Weekly learned that The... More >>

  • That Giant Sucking Sound

    published June 24, 2004

    It’s full-on war between The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. On Thursday, the NYT snatched away thre... More >>

  • Say It Ain’t So, Mrs. Robinson

    published June 24, 2004

    Imagine you’re flying first class on Air France from Los Angeles to Paris, and seated next to you is an impossibly handsome stranger... More >>

  • Bonfire of the Vanity Affairs

    published June 17, 2004

    Let us set the fantasy sequence for you: Karl Rove is determined to destroy the reputation of an anti-Bush crusader who’s ... More >>

  • Bye Bye, Bonzo

    published June 10, 2004

    I don’t often brag about this, but members of the Reagan White House press office nicknamed me “The Jinx” because, every time I got near ... More >>

  • They Can’t Handle the Truth

    published June 3, 2004

    Remember Bizarro World? That cube-shaped planet populated by perversely skewed alter egos of DC Comics characters? Where garbage men... More >>

  • The Blind Leading the Mauled

    published May 20, 2004

    NEXT TO CONAN O’BRIEN’S and Jimmy Kimmel’s skewering of their networks at TV’s annual “upfront” pre-season presentat... More >>

  • Driven

    published May 13, 2004

    Hitch a ride with a Hollywood mogul in his BMW 760Li, affectionately known in show biz as the “Jew Canoe,” and the first thing you notice ... More >>

  • Get Carter?

    published May 6, 2004

    The Wall Street Journal is now following the investigation by the Los Angeles Times and The New York Times into whether... More >>

  • L.A. Times and N.Y. Times investigating Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter

    published May 6, 2004

    Both the Los Angeles Times and The New York Times are working on major stories about whether Vanity Fair editor Graydon... More >>

  • Poker with The Simpsons

    published May 6, 2004

    So everyone not in showbiz is focused on the final episode of Friends Thursday. Admit it, didn’t we in the know stop watchin... More >>

  • Dave the Brave

    published April 29, 2004

    Leno may be the ratings winner. Stewart is the critics’ darling. But, day in and day out, Letterman is the hands-down leader when it... More >>

  • 9/11 and Iraq War as Shtick

    published April 15, 2004

    Anti-war Hollywood is being very careful of what it says right now, especially because the news is so tragic out of Iraq and the talk... More >>

  • Hey, Donald, You Should Be Fired

    published April 1, 2004

    During the next two weeks, we’ll be Trumped to death by NBC and the rest of the media. The Donald will host Saturday Night Liv... More >>

  • The Republicans’ Passion Play

    published March 11, 2004

    In a semihilarious Back Page send-up in The New Yorker, Steve Martin imagines studio notes to Mel Gibson. Besides trying to change... More >>

  • Under-Siege Eisner Pulls Disney Board’s Strings

    published March 4, 2004

    What happened at Disney yesterday demonstrates everything that’s wrong with Corporate America. Let’s bottom-line it: The board delivered... More >>

  • Exorcising Demons

    published March 4, 2004

    What a week it was. But not because of Sunday’s Oscars, which will go down in history as arguably the worst ever. It’s as if everyo... More >>

  • Disney Goes to the Dark Side

    published February 26, 2004

    Everything in life can be related to one of two Hollywood movies, The Godfather and Star Wars. So it is with the Battle... More >>

  • Brat Brawl

    published February 19, 2004

    What’s important when it comes to Hollywood isn’t the financials but the friendships, foes and families. So, while Wall Stre... More >>

  • Les Moonves’ Hole Keeps Getting Deeper and Deeper

    published February 5, 2004

    His CBS refused to run the MoveOn.org Voter Fund’s ad criticizing the Bush administration’s soaring budget deficit, but his network has n... More >>

  • Les Should Be No More

    published February 5, 2004

    Les Moonves should resign. Yes, resign, even though the CBS chairman/CEO is hands down today’s most adept television toppe... More >>

  • The Dwarf Got Dissed

    published January 29, 2004

    Imagine police cars and fire trucks racing toward a building where a fat man, a short guy and a woman teeter on the roof’s ledge whil... More >>

  • Stark Naked

    published January 22, 2004

    The first time I met Ray Stark, he threatened me. In the daily jousting between Hollywood business journalists and moguls, that’s nothin... More >>

  • Hollywood OVERHEARD

    published January 1, 2004

    Some of these statements are uncommonly stupid (though nothing can match the Jessica Simpson “I don’t eat buffalo” comment about me... More >>

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