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Barbaric Blogger Bloodsport Revealed In Hollywood
7:29PM Ryan Tate | Revolution is inevitably followed by a period of chaos. Maybe that’s why a highbrow New York Observer story about the evolution of Hollywood news media devolved into a glorious, shit-throwing media shitstorm. More »
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Layoffs At Variety, Parent Company
6:42AM Hamilton Nolan | After longtime Variety editor Peter Bart was eased out of power last week, the conventional wisdom was that major staff changes could be in store. And here they come, at the entire company. Layoffs! More »
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Peter Bart And Variety’s Future
1:23AM Hamilton Nolan | Longtime Variety editor Peter Bart was finally replaced last weekend—a move that we (and others) interpreted as Bart being, essentially, stripped of his power to make way for new blood. Not true, he says! More »
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Peter Bart Kicked Upstairs At Variety
8:26AM Ryan Tate | After 20 years as Variety’s editor in chief, Peter Bart was replaced with his deputy. Now the question is what the trade’s cost-cutting corporate overlords will do to the paper. More »
Anne Thompson Among Shocking ‘Variety’ Staff Cuts
7:58AM STV | The pink-slip printer had been whirring loudly all day over at Variety. And moments ago, as it produced actual names, it took on the blood-curdling tone of a meat grinder. More »
3:05AM STV | Happy 75th, Variety! Defamer wishes the best of anniversaries to Daily Variety, which today celebrates 75 years in business — albeit a month late, as is customary with so many of its biggest stories, but in a festive, infectious spirit nonetheless. Not to mention surprising as well, according to the blurb featured on its Web site’s front page; we knew Peter Bart had been tottering around the deck for a while now, but to think Bart himself may have once run the printer with one hand while memoing Gone With the Wind notes to Louis Mayer with the other… Well, kudos indeed. And don’t stay up too late partying! [Variety] More »
Potential SAG Strike Causes Blog Baby Peter Bart To Invoke Godwin’s Law Of Nazi Analogism
7:20AM Seth | We’ll admit we’ve been avoiding addressing the big, white, internet-clip-consent-seeking elephant in the room, so let’s just get this out of the way: Today is Tuesday, July 1, 2008. Ring any bells? Yes, it’s Canada Day, but the celebration of the day Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Ontario and Quebec fused into one maple-syrup-slurping nation isn’t important right now. Rather, today is SAG-contract-expiration day. The AMPTP made their final offer—”worth more than $250 million” said they—and lusciously coiffed SAG-head Alan Rosenberg announced the union would be taking the day to look at all 43 of its sumptuous, residuals-detailing pages. Some characterize the mood as calm—perhaps “eerily calm,” suggests the NY Times, as not a single network executive has doused themselves in gasoline and lowered a lit Zippo to their heads in slow motion, mouthing, “But weeee were jusssst makinnng gains in Girrrrls 9-15 demooooo…” before erupting into a ball of skin-searing flames. We turn now to blogger newbie Peter Bart for his showbiz veteran’s take on the highly precarious situation: More »Wes Anderson Still Tired Of Answering The Owen Wilson Question
8:00AM Defamer Hollywood | On yesterday’s edition of AMC’s Shootout, chat-happy Hollywood Peters Bart and Guber invited director Wes Anderson to talk about The Darjeeling Limited, inevitably touching on Anderson’s understandable reticence at having to address the Owen Wilson Situation each time he fulfills his promotional obligations for the film. (The media, it seems, have an annoying habit of comparing the real-life Wilson to the troubled, possibly suicidal character he portrays in the movie.) More »
