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  • Orgy of Sequels Climaxing in 2007

    published December 21, 2006

    IT’S OFFICIAL: HOLLYWOOD HAS RUN OUT of original ideas.If you thought 2006 was bad, just wait. In 2007, the studios will... More >>

  • It's a Wonderful Life?

    published December 14, 2006

    Disney’s Oscar Campaign Is A-Crock-AlyptoOkay, I wish this were a bad joke, but it’s real: Disney’s behind-the-scenes... More >>

  • ’Tis the Season for Tinseltown’s Stupid Human Tricks

    published December 7, 2006

    Mel Versus the Mental MidgetsIn yet another of Hollywood’s gross miscalculations, the filmmaker whom the Industry declared dead... More >>

  • Screenwriters in the Shit

    published November 30, 2006

    EVERY YEAR, ONE OF THE MAJOR Hollywood talent agencies conducts a running tally of all studio jobs snagged by screenwriters.... More >>

  • Bond and Gagged

    published November 23, 2006

    Bond vs. BirdsDoes anybody really give a shit about James Bond, or, in this case, James Bourne, anymore? Does anybody give a crap... More >>

  • Stars Get Caught in Hirsch’s Hornet’s Nest

    published November 9, 2006

    EVEN ON OSCAR NIGHT, it’s hard to imagine talent like Owen Wilson, Jennifer Lopez, Julia Roberts, Richard Gere, Sean Penn,... More >>

  • Deal or No Deal

    published November 9, 2006

    MORE AND MORE, THE NEWSPAPER on Spring Street is beginning to resemble Deal or No Deal. Forget all those ink-stained news males:... More >>

  • Blood From Stones

    published November 2, 2006

    FOR MORE THAN A DECADE NOW, rap and hip-hop have made bling the thing, and no one more than Russell Simmons, who even started his own... More >>

  • Tasty Tidbits From Hollywood's Frenzied Fall

    published October 26, 2006

    49deadline_boratSnakes on Kazakhstan?It may seem far-fetched to compare Borat with Snakes on a Plane. But both may... More >>

  • It's Ugly Out There

    published October 19, 2006

    This prime-time season, the uglies have it.No one could ever have predicted that a Japanese geek (Masi Oka, a Brown University... More >>

  • Dean of Sycophants

    published October 12, 2006

    I’M NOT VERY POPULAR ON SPRING STREET nowadays. (Then again, I wasn’t much liked when I worked there either.) An editor at... More >>

  • Baquet's Billionaire Boys' Club

    published September 28, 2006

    NOT LONG AFTER DEAN BAQUET became editor of the Los Angeles Times, influential entertainment mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg sought a... More >>

  • Cash and Carrey

    published September 21, 2006

    Few Hollywood talent agents have ever worked as long and loyally for an actor and his managers as United Talent’s Nick Stevens. For 15... More >>

  • The Mouse Who Whored

    published September 14, 2006

    There were many inexplicable facets to the political sham, and shame, that was ABC’s The Path to 9/11 miniseries. But the... More >>

  • Savage TV

    published September 7, 2006

    THIS WEEK MARKED A REALITY TV milestone: Los Angeles restaurateur Mike “Boogie” Malin threatened violence against one of the... More >>

  • War of the Words

    published August 24, 2006

    If there’s suddenly a litmus test for insanity to be administered by Hollywood moguls, then start with the studio’s executive suites.... More >>

  • The Iceberg Cometh

    published August 10, 2006

    THOSE WHO KNEW HIM as an abnormally normal teenager say that Jeff Berg never betrayed any burning ambitions while growing up in wealthy... More >>

  • Too Fast and Too Furious

    published August 3, 2006

    WHERE IS THE HOLLYWOOD OUTRAGE? Where is the industrywide condemnation? No, I’m not talking about Mel Gibson’s drunken... More >>

  • Brokespoke Alp

    published July 27, 2006

    A Ride To Nowhere?Jake Gyllenhaal is the “it” guy of moviedom right now. Every time a new project is developed, his name... More >>

  • Go, Johnny, Go!

    published July 13, 2006

    BEFORE THE FIRSTPirates of the Caribbean opened back in 2003, Entertainment Weekly wouldn’t put Johnny Depp on its... More >>

  • Moguls Will Be Moguls at Camp Allen

    published July 6, 2006

    GAS UP THE GULFSTREAM G550, Jeeves, it’s time for your Master of the Media to attend Camp Allen, that annual summer sleep away in... More >>

  • Super-Manly Makeovers, Slackers and Perkbusters

    published June 29, 2006

    Straight Eye for the Queer GuysI NEVER THOUGHT THE DAY would come when iconoclastic Johnny Depp would become the biggest... More >>

  • The Passion of the Cash

    published May 25, 2006

    IF WESTWOOD LOOKED LIKE a ghost town this month, it’s because all the movie hoopla moved overseas. Sony Pictures skipped the usual... More >>

  • TV's Promiscuous Bitches

    published May 18, 2006

    UP-FRONT WEEK IS WHEN THE NETWORKS unveil their fall TV schedules to advertisers at fancy New York City venues, then attempt to mask the... More >>

  • Screwing the TV Viewers

    published April 27, 2006

    EVERYONE LOVES LES.Fortune just sucked up to him. The New York TimesMagazine recently smooched his ass. And Bill... More >>

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