Ingles, reports the Los Angeles Times, was then fired. But Adams can't take all the blame: Ingels had to know it was coming. If you're going to tweet about which musician didn't wear a bra in your restaurant (Ali Harter), which Office star was hungover (BJ Novak) in your restaurant and which actress looked hot (Tori Spelling) in your restaurant, you probably aren't long for that restaurant. Especially if it's located in Beverly Hills.

Update: We had Adams' name wrong in the lead.

Bob, who used to be known as the money-maker of the duo until the Weinstein Co. started steadily going broke, lets his big bro hog the limelight (basically he's played quiet Prince Geoffrey to Harvey's Prince Richard in the Weinstein Family Players' production of Lion in Winter). But he's just as legendary in the scary boss department. Many moguls have whole fleets of scared, skittering assistants—the one who survives the longest wins... something—but it looks like the recessiony times have forced Bob to cut down to just one "fuckface" around the office.

Whoever lands this plum position will be miserable. On call twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week (wouldn't it be great if there was some snappy way to abbreviate that phrase??), and forced, basically, to do everything. From answering phones to running random personal errands to booking travel — which includes what can only be called consensual kidnapping — to entertaining obnoxious "A-list talent" to the ominous-sounding "gate-keeping."

There is, of course, no mention of pay.

A top NYC entertainment executive is looking for an executive assistant.

The ideal candidate should have excellent communication skills, excel under high pressure, and be motivated, dedicated and extremely loyal. This person will be representing the executive and the company, and must be professional at all times. This is a 24/7 job; you will be the only assistant to this executive. You must be available on nights and weekends, and expect to spend long hours in the office.

Responsibilities include:

· Managing heavy phones, rolling calls, and maintaining call sheet

· Scheduling meetings and managing calendar for all work and personal related matters

· Supply constant mobile communication and attend to personal errands

· Preparation and submission of expense reports

· Liaison between executive and studio presidents, financial institutions, talent agencies, principal investors, fortune 500 CEOs, writers, directors, producers, and A-list talent

· Able to juggle multiple tasks, deadlines, and responsibilities

· Booking all travel and travel arrangements

· Traveling with executive, usually at the last minute and for unknown periods of time

· Superb gate-keeping skills

· Ability to travel on a moments notice and stay away from home for uncertain amounts of time

· Ability to stay on top of an ever-changing day and night

· Attending events and company-related functions with executive

· Take dictation and be responsible for speaking on behalf of executive

· Coordinate screenings, meetings, private lodging, parties, etc. for executive and senior staff

Experience and qualifications must include:

· BA/BS degree

· Expansive knowledge of film and the film industry

· Must know how to do script coverage

· Minimum 2-3 years experience assisting another top-level executive or high-level professional

· Organized and detail-oriented

· Excellent writing and communication skills

· Personable and professional demeanor

· Minimum of three references

· Must know how to use blackberry and Microsoft Outlook

· Mac & PC literate

If you meet all necessary qualifications and are interested in this position, please send your cover letter, resume, and list of references to: filmexecasst@gmail.com

Image via Getty

Pasetsky announced the move on Cover Awards. He later told us he'll be consulting on the print side of OK! while continuing to work on his own website, adding more coverage of events and celebrity branding.

Pasetsky hasn't always been kind to OK!; he called the troubled celebrity weekly's recent Hills front "one of the worst covers I've seen in a long time" and said of its photoshoot with minor Hills star Lo Bosworth, "When it comes to bonehead moves, this one takes the cake."

But OK! has recently dropped hints it would like to merge its existing celebrity coverage into the sort of fashion/lifestyle coverage published in Elle. And Pasetsky is well acquainted with the challenges of such an approach, if only because he served as editor in chief and general manager of Bauer's Life & Style, which was created expressly to offer hybrid celebrity-plus-lifestyle coverage.

"Consultants" at OK! have a way of replacing their bosses, but Nixon would seem safe in this case, if only because Pasetsky has already announced he plans to keep working on his website and with other clients.

But there's no telling what Richard Desmond, CEO of OK!'s parent company, is going to do next. Pasetsky could soon find himself with less free time on his hands.

Pic via Jossip)

It's unclear who instigated the move. But VVM didn't make life easy for Ochoa.

Critics say LA Weekly's quality began declining after it was merged into New Times (now VVM) in 2005. The alt-newspaper chain reportedly went over Ochoa's head in late 2006 to install an unpopular news editor.

There's no word yet on what Ochoa's next move is — and the Weekly has no replacement lined up.

UPDATE: Marc Cooper, a former LA Weekly senior editor now on faculty at USC, writes:

It was inevitable. Laurie defied laws of gravity for four years. She protected the little she could and kept the peace. When everyone was gone and she was no longer needed they disposed of her as well.

(Again, we haven't verified that this was VVM's decision.)

(Pic: Ochoa, right, celebrates a Pulitzer Prize for food critic Jonathan Gold, left. Via On The Media.)

Nevertheless, the reports in The Wrap and Variety say it's true: Carey is apparently close to a deal to become vice chairman at News Corp., replacing longtime number two Peter Chernin, who left the media conglomerate back in February. Murdoch's son James had long been considered the odds-on favorite for Chernin's job.

Murdoch is still widely expected to pass control of News Corp. to one of his children, giving Carey a limited future at the company. His work is also likely to be constrained by the direct lines of control Murdoch has established at News Corp. in the wake of Chernin's departure. Murdoch's involvement is now sufficiently extensive that the chairman was expected to personally screen new shows for Fox TV this past spring.

The image associated with this post is best viewed using a browser.If things don't work out with Murdoch, Carey will can always fall back on his role as the Pringles mascot, as Seth Abrmovitch notes over at Movieline. After all, the tasty snacks can officially be called "chips" now, making the Procter & Gamble brand more respectable than ever.

A 35-year-old "Entertainment executive in Los Angeles" posted this listing on Barefoot Student, the already creepy-sounded job site for college students.

You are his dynamic, fun personal assistant. What does that entail?

Tasks: errands like drycleaning, corrspondence, reservations and such. Companion to events around town and sometimes out of town, Hostess at parties, social events and private dinner parties. Extra skills such as being bilingual, great hands for massage are a bonus! There is opportunity for travel, as well — work trips to Vegas, New York and Chicago at least once a month.

Non-smoker is preferred, but attractive young woman willing to escort him to Vegas is required!

The celebrity weekly is in the midst of a shakeup; its British owners have curtailed the generous funding once used to buy splashy cover photos of celebrity babies, and the title hasn't found a new formula for success. OK! staffers are in the process of being re-interviewed by a consultant, and Caperton has jettisoned her underling, Cover Awards reported today.

Now it sounds like Caperton, too, is in danger of being dumped: Rumor has it Nixon will review Tuesday her answers to the written questionnaire everyone at the magazine has been filling out ("2 to 3 sentence explanation of your job," "What are two hot, buzz-worthy lifestyle topics," "Give me one non-news celebrity lifestyle cover package"). Her ideas had better be the sort that can be accomplished on the cheap.

If you can shed any further light on the situation, we'd love to hear from you.

It was Bart's longtime rival Tad Smith who shunted him aside and gave him another title ("vice president and editorial director").

The bad blood between the relatively young Reed Business Information CEO, based in New York, and Bart goes back at least eight years, to Amy Wallace's devastating 2001 profile of Bart for the debut issue of Los Angeles magazine. Wallace alleged "Hollywood's Information Man" had trafficked in racist and homophobic comments over the years, and that he was in business with his sources; this earned him a suspension.

Bart could have been fired, but his standing at the paper and influence in Hollywood gave him the upper hand, not only in the dustup over the Los Angeles article but in the years to come, when the paper faced pressure from Reed to cut costs in the manner of its hollowed-out rival the Hollywood Reporter.

Between the tanking economy and the rise of Web publishing, Hollywood studios have lately been less inclined to advertise. Bart, 76 and notoriously hostile to the online world, has seen his influence shrink with the paper. In January, Reed laid off 30 Variety staffers.

Reed abandoned an effort to sell itself in December, after nearly a year on the block.

Now that Bart is gone, it has placed his nominal successor Tim Gray under Group Publisher Neil Stiles — abandoning a tradition where the editor and publisher of Variety were coequal and, one might plausibly speculate, leaving the paper far more vulnerable to Smith's whims, in terms of restructuring generally (a more aggressive online strategy is expected for starters) and layoffs specifically.

As for Gray, he's already made one Web-savvy move: rushing news of Bart's departure onto Variety.com before Nikki Finke could post it to her widely-read website. His reward? Finke is already trafficking in speculation he's placeholder for someone else.

Friedman is set to meet tomorrow with Fox News chief Roger Ailes and John Moody, the news network's executive vice president for editorial, the source said. Friedman will have a chance to plead his case, but the meeting could well end with the columnist losing his job.

Friedman is in hot water for posting to FoxNews.com Thursday a review of the forthcoming movie Wolverine. The freelance columnist based his comments on an unfinished version of the movie that leaked onto the internet last week. "It's so much easier than going out in the rain!" he wrote. "I was completely riveted to my desk chair in front of my computer."

You can imagine how this went over at Wolverine producer 20th Century Fox, which last week called in the FBI to find out who leaked the film. The studio complained corporate sibling Fox News, according to Nikki Finke, and parent company News Corp. publicly condemned the review and requested its removal. Fox News promptly deleted the piece.

Finke wrote that Ailes then fired Friedman, a development seemingly confirmed by a statement News Corp. supplied to the New York Times, reading, "Fox News… terminated Mr. Friedman."

But Fox News' only statement on the affair (also given to the Times) is that "This is an internal matter that we aren't prepared to discuss at this time."

And in fact Friedman has not been fired, according to the Fox News source, although he could well be terminated during tomorrow's meeting. The delay in firing Friedman (despite News Corp.'s announcement) could be read as a play by Ailes to assert the news division's independence from film studio 20th within the News Corp. empire.

The meeting also gives Fox News time to reconcile its own definition of journalistic ethics with 20th Century Fox's. The film studio says Friedman shouldn't have broken the law in the service of a story. But Fox News seems more comfortable with such mischief. Network anchor Shep Smith wasn't fired after he was arrested for running over a competing reporter with his car so he could snag parking space, even though the incident resulted in felony battery charges (later apparently dropped without explanation).

When Bill O'Reilly's former producer accused the Fox News host of sexual harassment, producing lengthy conversation transcripts O'Reilly never denied, sibling publication the New York Post slammed her in a story headlined "'Lunatic' O'Reilly Gal Went Nuts in Bar." O'Reilly settled the suit and, of course, retains his job.

And Fox is unrepentant about stalking a liberal blogger, sending a camera crew to tail her from her apartment across state lines to Virginia.

The company, which has produced all 257 seasons of Real World as well as other reality dreck, has put an ad on EntertainmentCareers.net looking for a "FULL TIME" production accountant for an as-yet-unnamed reality series filming in the Beltway area:

Really this makes complete sense. Ever since Barry O. came shuffling up to politics, his groundswell populist hat in hand, DC is a cool, inspiring, exciting place to be. You couldn't have been a bigger square in squaresville if you lived and worked in the city during Bush's millennium kick-off reign of terror. But now everyone wants in. The cast mates could be, like, political volunteers or something! Imagine the effect! The change! The hope!

The Late Night host is quoted on his reaction to the news in tomorrow's New York Times. It's at least his third version of the story. Notice the subtle and not so subtle evolution:

1. 'Thrilled'

Seaking on his show after Leno's 10 p.m. slot was announced, O'Brien said, "I've known about this for a while... I am thrilled. I am absolutely thrilled that Jay is staying at NBC. " OK!

2. 'An hour and a half' of deliberation

In his first interview after the Leno announcement, O'Brien told the Times the move was actually a surprise: "I don't think any of us were expecting a Monday through Friday thing for Jay like that... And there was a period where everybody was just trying to figure out: what does this mean? ...After about an hour and a half I just started asking if I was still going to be getting the ‘Tonight Show With Johnny Carson' that I used to watch with my father in my living room in Brookline, Massachusetts."

3. Oh, so now it's an hour and forty five minutes!

In the new Times article, O'Brien basically retold the same story, in slightly different words. But for some reason he added 15 minutes to period of inner turmoil:

The move gave Mr. O'Brien pause for about 'an hour and 45 minutes,' he said. 'The 10 p.m. thing, Monday through Friday, I don't think that was something anybody necessarily saw coming.'

O'Brien isn't the only who has second guessed NBC's thinking. "I feel a little sorry for Conan," one industry source told the Times, echoing much of the chatter from the past three months.

O'Brien's comic friend Norm MacDonald even teased O'Brien on his own show last week, saying Leno got the better of the Late Night host (see clip up top). If O'Brien is owning up to more of his own doubt these days, maybe it's because he's gotten so much outside validation for those feelings.

(Video via Hulu via TVTattle)

1. Be honest: The worst thing a layoff can be is full of shit. At least have the common courtesy to tell the truth. From MTV's memo today:

We all know there's a fundamental restructuring of our entire economy going on, and it extends beyond our borders. This is not just about MTVN, Viacom or even sister media companies – it's happening in every industry, all over the world. This doesn't make it easier to say goodbye to people we love and respect, but it is the hard truth. In these tough times, we are responsible for sustaining and reinventing our company as thoughtfully as we can. The changes we're making today are necessary, difficult, and the responsible way for us to move forward.

This is true, straightforward, and not patronizing.

2. But not too honest: Perfect honesty demands admitting that the people you laid off are the ones you consider disposable. Don't do that. You must, must fellate your departing employees to the extent possible without seeming absolutely fake. Elsewhere in that MTV memo:

Everyone here contributes to MTVN and Viacom every single day and night without exception. We hate to see dedicated friends and co-workers leave us, and we say goodbye with care, gratitude, support and respect.

The first sentence is patently false for any large organization. The second sentence may or may not be true. Still, it's a nice thought.

3. Remember your audience: Your audience here—your most important audience—is people who are being laid off. Employees with safe jobs, the media, and the general public will all get hold of these memos and read them, but really, you have to cater to the dead here. From Viacom's memo today:

Viacom's long-term health will depend on our shared commitment to adapt, to innovate and to make difficult choices. To compete and thrive, we need to create an organization and a cost structure that are in step with the evolving economic environment.

Do you know how much newly laid-off employees care about Viacom's long-term health? Not much. They just got laid off. Keep the focus on the people.

4. Look like you put some thought into it: Being cold and perfunctory is almost as bad as being a see-through fake. Sure, executives and their flacks would rather be sniffing blow in a golf cart than approving layoff memos. But you people still have jobs, so suck it up and try to say something non-robotic. Universal Pictures' memo today is only four short paragraphs, the last three of which say this:

While much has been accomplished to find necessary savings, we regret that we must also reduce headcount by around 3%. No company likes to have to make these kinds of decisions, and certainly we are no exception. We want to assure you that everyone has done their best to keep job cuts to an absolute minimum.

The process of communicating with those individuals whose positions are affected has begun today and will continue for the next few days.

We appreciate the effort from everyone who has participated in this difficult process.

Yada yada. The tone is indistinguishable from an internal memo announcing that staplers must be signed out of the supply closet from now on. Shed a tear or two, fuckers.

5. Every time you use corporate doubletalk, an angel dies: Actual human sentences—try them! When ushering hundreds of people out the door, avoid standard management-speak, like this from Paramount's memo today:

Without question, the changes we implement today required us to make difficult choices. We take these steps after a careful analysis of our overall business and as part of a broader strategy to overcome the challenges of this unusual time in the market and to chart a successful course for the future.

As we look ahead, we are encouraged by the strength of our slate, the quality of our creative partners, the innovation we see on the lot every day and the projects we have in development. These assets, coupled with your talent and hard work, I believe will enable us to remain strong over the long term.

With that, your newly unemployed workers may leverage their strategic capabilities to steal a lot of stuff on the way out. [Pic via]

The young man was a Tucker fan, and quit a real job to go be a paid assistant on the set of Tucker's film, where we pick up his experiences:

I quit my stable job at a publishing house and moved out there. He said I could stay at his house, but when I arrived he made me sleep in the backyard the first night. Tucker had other assistants but I detected animosity right from the start. One guy continually tried to commit assault on me. I figured because of my lesser stature it was all part of the "breaking in" process. Well, 5 days into production, I'm being threatened with crossbows and berated at every turn. Tucker has me doing ridiculous tasks like getting him water at a perfect temperature. The first few times he'd say it was 10 degrees too hot. I knew he was joking, but I'd take it back and add some of the cold water (which I realize is poposterous, but if you'd seen this guy he'd sic on me with choke holds or really hard arm punches, you'd understand). Finally on day 8, I bring him a paper cup filled with water; he takes a sip and throws it right in my face. I practically fell over a chair. This was in front of Jesse Bradford who even cautioned Tucker that it was a little too far. Tucker told Jesse to shut up, and then Nils (the "other" Tucker) intervened.

After two weeks of constant abuse, including Tucker letting me use the bathroom in his house, which had his shit in the toilet that he didn't flush. I quit on the spot. Nils first tried to comfort me by saying that Tucker is a jerk, and that it wasn't worth quitting over. I said I understood until HE confides that it was him that left the gigantic log in the toilet for me.

I understand that guys like to laugh and joke and get along. I do the same thing with my friends. On the IHTSBIH set, however, it was a very different story. These people weren't funny. They were "fratastic" in that douchebag sense. On my last day on set I talked to Matt Czuchry, who I got to know rather well. He told me that the Hollywood business was cut throat, and that he'd had his share of lumps. He said everyday he was losing respect for Tucker and that he worried this role my be career ending because the character doesn't have any redeeming qualities. Actually, he said the character Tucker as it was written might appear to, but after studying Tucker himself, he realized the guy was a fucking prick.

You'll notice there are no party picks of Tucker and the actors after the first week or so. This is not a coincidence. I've never been so incensed with an individual. Perhaps I was asking for it, chasing a pipe dream with no regard, but nobody should have to deal with what I did. I haven't even scratched the surface...

I'm done with the fucking asshole for good. I've found a new job, similar to what I'm doing before, but I don't' think I'll ever forget the sheer humiliation I faced.

After quitting, the assistant sent Tucker a pretty polite email asking for his check, and wondering if Tucker would be putting up any photos of him in the film's Flickr page. The response:

From: Tucker Max
Date: Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 10:19 PM
To: [Former assistant]

It's not MY fault you couldn't hack it. Don't come crawling back AND don't waste my time with bullshit promises if you wont back them up. You know something about photos? The person who takes them — or the person who employs the person who takes them — owns the copyright. I OWN THEM. You want them? Pay me.

You want your money? Jeff has it. Get it from him. I warn you, he's been in an extra bad mood lately.—

"...highly entertaining and thoroughly reprehensible..."
-NY Times describing TuckerMax.com

He asked for his check to be mailed to him, and said that he just wanted the photos to show his friends. Tucker wasn't fooled:

From: Tucker Max
Date: Thurs, Aug 14, 2008 at 5:20 PM
To: [Former assistant]

You want the photos so you can cry to Gawker. I didn't get where I am today by being a moron. You'll get your photos like everybody else – when the movie is done shooting.

Jeff will be passing through your area after we wrap. He'll hand deliver the money. We'll bring a camera along for the DVD extras. Now stop fucking bothering me.—

"...highly entertaining and thoroughly reprehensible..."
-NY Times describing TuckerMax.com

[DISCLAIMER: My personal belief is this story is authentic, though as some commenters have pointed out, it could be some ruse by Tucker fans to plant a fake story. Though, counterpoint: the story makes Tucker sound bad, not good, so if it were a plant (and we've seen some bad attempts), it would be a stupid one. Verdict: Real in my considered judgment, but if not, I hope Tucker writes a triumphant note soon so that we can mock it.]

You may have heard that blogs don't pay; that's no longer the case. We offer salary and benefits commensurate with your level of experience. So if you think you've got what it takes, please send me a short letter by week's end (February 15th) explaining your qualifications. Be sure to include links to any writing samples you'd like to share and then send to jobs[AT]defamer.com.

Comedy Writers Wanted for WGA TV Show

YOU *SHOULD* PURSUE THIS JOB IF:

—You're a great comedy writer who's just out of college and dying to write for television.
— You're a great comedy writer who hasn't yet figured out how to break into the biz (i.e. get an agent, etc.)
—You're a great comedy writer who has worked in TV a lot, but are out of work right now because there aren't so many primetime half-hour comedies on television anymore.
—You're a great comedy writer who's willing to work lots of late nights and weekends.

—You're a great comedy writer and making WGA scale (approx. $3,000 per week) sounds REALLY APPEALING to you. —You're a great comedy writer and you're a lot of fun to be with. —You're a great comedy writer and you usually get along GREAT with the people you work with. — You're a great comedy writer and you don't mind at all having your work completely re-written, even though you know your draft ROCKED.

YOU SHOULD *NOT* PURSUE THIS JOB IF:

—You're a great comedy writer who has worked in TV a lot, but now you're bitter about the entertainment business.
—You're a great comedy writer and you want a 10AM to 6PM job.
— You really really really really really want a job writing on Entourage or The Office, but will "settle" for a show on a kids' network, and then be perpetually bummed that you didn't get on The Office.
—You're a great comedy writer and making WGA scale (approx. $3,000 per week) sounds REALLY CRAPPY to you.
— You're a great comedy writer and you're depressing to be with.
—You're a great comedy writer and you're usually DIFFICULT with the people at work.
—You're a great comedy writer and, when you're rewritten (by someone "WAY less talented" than you), you become filled with rage and want to bludgeon the person who rewrote you.
—You would ever write (or laugh at) any of these 6 lines of dialogue:

(1) "Hey, stop eating my dinner, Eatie McEaterson!"
(2) "These nachos are like a party in my mouth!"
(3) "Whooaaa, too much information."
(4) "And by [that] I mean [this]."
(5) "Whoops, did I say that out loud?"
(6) "I think I just threw up in my mouth a little bit."

If you enjoy any of the above 6 lines of dialogue, time to move on to the next Craigslist ad! [...]

If you really hate this ad and you want to tell us how awful, unprofessional, and arrogant it is, please send that email to either your mom or your nearest Home Depot.

Best Regards,

A-TV-Show-That's-Looking-For-Great-Comedy-Writers-Who-Are-Nice-And-Fun-And-Not-Annoying-At-All

The rest of the ad is here; reading the entire thing should have any aspiring, unrepresented comedy writer more than willing to follow the time-honored path of blowing an agent if it means never having to deal with another Craigslist job posting like this one to find a job that comes with WGA benefits.

• Comedy Writers Wanted for WGA TV Show [Craigslist]