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Barbaric Blogger Bloodsport Revealed in Hollywood
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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By Ryan TateComment by Lulupasternak: Considering Goldstein's blog doesn't even crack the top 20 at the LAT, I wonder why he's even employed. [www.laobserved.com] more » | Other threads
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Layoffs at Variety, Parent Company
Updated 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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Comment by NowAvailableinExtraStrength: Pity. Dade is one of the good guys over there. 2 Responses | Other threads
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Peter Bart and Variety's Future
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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Comment by SultanaEleusis: Variety's headlines were next in fame only to the supermarket tabloids. I didn't know that actual people did them.... more » | Other threads
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Peter Bart Kicked Upstairs at Variety
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 » -
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Anne Thompson Among Shocking 'Variety' Staff Cuts
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 »
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By STVComment by Super_Kitten: OH CRAP! My friend just got fired and I read about it on defamer. :( 1 Responses | Other threads
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LA Times Makes Fun of Variety for Losing Oscar Ads They Covet
LA Times columnist Patrick Goldstein used his blog yesterday for the entertaining purpose of viciously mocking Variety and its Hollywood fixture editor, Peter Bart. Mocking them for being poor! This column is awesome for the following reasons: because media outlets don't usually air their dirty laundry like this; because Peter Bart and Variety certainly deserve the mocking; and most of all because Patrick Goldstein seems totally unconcerned that his own paper does the same exact thing he criticizes Variety for, and that that very thing keeps him employed. Ha: More »
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Comment by Perhaps Not: Folksy Sex Troll: FYI, HamNo, this column is from yesterday, as is the daily w/ the DK ad reffed in the article. 2 Responses | Other threads
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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]
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By STVComment by NoWireHangers: Congrats on turning 75, Variety. That makes you just 3 years older than John McCain and 10 years younger... more » | Other threads
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Potential SAG Strike Causes Blog Baby Peter Bart To Invoke Godwin's Law Of Nazi Analogism
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 » -
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Entire Internet Calls Bullshit as Peter Bart Goes to War For 'Valkyrie'
An insomniac browse last night at PeterBart.com revealed that the Variety editor's spirited studio defenses have made a remarkably speedy, seamless transition to the blogosphere. Readers seem to be enjoying it as well, alleging stolen stories about DreamWorks on one hand and launching a fascist-tastic comment cascade following Bart's breaking! News! about production resuming on Valkyrie: More »
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By STVComment by misterdirk: INT - NIGHT - BAVARIAN BUNKER: Hitler dances to Bob Seger in his undies. Cruise writes on a chalk board... more » | Other threads
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Curmudgeonly 'Variety' Editor's New Blog Makes Blog-Hating Easier Than Ever
OK, everybody! Raise a glass and extend a warm blogospheric welcome to Peter Bart, the notoriously blogophobic Variety editor in chief who finally succumbed to the medium yesterday at PeterBart.com. We're not sure why he decided to jump in on a summer Sunday of all days, but thankfully, as bloggers, we're free to pass judgment without even asking. We just think of his pleasant column from last September ("[T]he new lexicon of blogdom is all about traffic, not about ideas. ... Here are all these folks sitting at home on their computers, and what's the biggest thing on their mind? Traffic. By the way, I don't have a blog. Not that I know of, anyway") and then his comments last week to Portfolio's Jeff Bercovici: More » -
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By MarkComment by Allie Anne: Yeah, I think drugs were almost certainly involved (two previous stays in rehab?) Although in a lot of interviews (and... more » | Other threads
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Exploring The Matt Damon Problem
In his weekly column in Variety, trade paper potentate Peter Bart dashes off a memo to Matt Damon, hoping to assist the privacy-cherishing megastar in cultivating a public persona somewhere between the "boring and elusive" one he's established by keeping a deliberately low media profile and the tabloid-torment-attracting model developed by the more outgoing characters occupying the genitalia-flashing, DUI-collecting end of the celebrity spectrum. Bart, striving for answers, engages in some deskchair psychoanalysis: Is Damon afraid of a Affleckian career flameout if fans gain US Weekly-supplied information about his daily Starbucks runs? [Ed.note—Please, Jesus, let Matt be a caramel macchiato man!] Does he fear that no one will believe he can kill ten double-agents with nothing more than a soggy phonebook if they know too much about his fancy-boy Harvard education? Probes Bart: More »
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By MarkComment by drewheyman: Lee Marvin didn't have to hide his prep school background because he shot a man in Reno just to watch... more » | Other threads
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