Nikki Finke

Michael Jackson isn’t the only accused child molester in Hollywood. Add to the list the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, whose victim is Golden Boy. We raged in 1998 after Miramax screwed the rules so that Shakespeare in Love could murder Saving Private Ryan with an obscene $10......

Arnold Schwarzenegger asked once-celebrated and now-celled private investigator Anthony Pellicano to see what dirt could be unearthed on the actor if he entered the 2002 gubernatorial race, Pellicano’s former legman Paul Barresi tells L.A. Weekly. Less than a week after the 27-page file was turned in, Schwarzenegger opted out of......

It was an inevitable plot twist, really. That, one day, an investigative journalist celebrated by Hollywood, and an FBI organized-crime expert unknown to Hollywood, and a pit-bull Harvard lawyer honored by Hollywood would find themselves enmeshed in a case revolving around a scumbag Sunset Boulevard gumshoe hired by Hollywood. Superficially,......

On the eve of the California recall election, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s gubernatorial campaign was responsible for using Los Angeles and national media to perpetrate a dirty trick against a Hollywood stuntwoman after she accused him of groping her. Spurred by a provocative e-mail sent by Schwarzenegger campaign spokesman Sean Walsh, some......

If only the Bush administration could convince The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times to offer employment to everyone. After two of Hollywood’s highest-profile media jobs were finally filled this past week, some lucky entertainment journalists, just for being courted, scored bigger pay and better gigs. After a......

The New York Times has finally picked a new Hollywood correspondent and, drumroll please, it’s Sharon Waxman, the Los Angeles–based Style section entertainment writer for the Washington Post, L.A. Weekly has learned exclusively. Sources in New York and Washington, D.C., say that new NYT features czar Adam Moss called October......

That Jay Leno will do anything for ratings is hardly a Hollywood secret. After all, his August 6 hosting of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s recall-candidacy shocker gave The Tonight Show a nice shove upwards in the overnight Nielsens. But his high-profile pop-up at the new California governor’s victory party suddenly puts Leno......

We all knew it was in the works, and even people at the paper despaired whether it would ever see the light of day, but the word was that the Los Angeles Times was trying to be exhaustive in its investigation of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s background. The more fitting word to......

Did a book agent at Hollywood’s venerable William Morris Agency stop representing a proposed warts-and-all biography of Arnold Schwarzenegger because it got too hot to handle? Or did he never start representing it in the first place? As the L.A. Weekly first reported, New York–based freelance journalist John Connolly was......

Talk about pathetic: The recall coverage gets uncuriouser and uncuriouser. Which just shows that, when it comes to Hollywood curiosities, history keeps repeating itself. We had to wait for the book to learn the scope of David Begelman’s embezzlement. We had to wait for the book to learn the degree......