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Who Are David Carr’s Anonymous Hollywood Friends?

7:17AM Defamer Hollywood | As David Carr’s enjoyable New York Times awards column, The Carpetbagger, winds down for the season, he leaves us with two unanswered blind items. Who are the 20-year-old-eating showbiz mogul and the benevolent-turned-slightly-wicked producer? More »

Massacred Film Critics Have a Friend in Scott Rudin

4:35AM Defamer Hollywood | The film-critic deathwatch we launched here way back in January (and continued yesterday) hit The New York Times this morning, when part-time Oscar gadfly and inveterate media observer David Carr surveyed the carnage from the sidelines. It’s not a story we haven’t been hearing for years, but Carr’s essential access to insiders from Scott Rudin to Michael Lacey — the bloodthirsty boss of the New Times chain currently decimating New York’s Village Voice — hints that conventional wisdom among film and publishing types won’t be reconciled any time soon: “For those of us who are making work that requires a kind of intellectual conversation, we rely on that talk to do the work of getting people interested,” said Mr. Rudin, who produced No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood, two Oscar-nominated and critically championed films last year. “All of the talk about No Country, all of the argument about the ending, kept that film in the forefront of the conversation” and helped it win the best picture Oscar. … More »