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Hollywood
Reporter Spat Continues
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It's
one of those issues that's really of no interest to anyone except
the parties concerned, but the Hollywood
Reporter continues to air its laundry in public.
In case you missed all of this (and who could blame you), David Robb,
a labor reporter for the Reporter was working on a story about another
Reporter employee, George Christy, who writes a "society"
column. Christy's column is one of those "who was where"
things, with plenty of photos of celebrities and executives and lots
of fawning copy. Nothing salacious or bitchy about it. Dull, in fact.
But apparently Mr. Christy is under investigation by the Screen Actors
Guild. It seems he's also an erstwhile actor and his producer friends
have been claiming that he appeared in their movies so that he would
be entitled to health and welfare benefits from the union. Only it
looks like he may not have been in the movies at all. Robb started
looking into this, and into the fact that Christy uses office space
provided by producers and may have accepted gifts from them.
A society columnist on the take! We are shocked...shocked
to the core.
I mean, honestly, such people aren't really journalists are they?
Anyway, Hollywood Reporter boss, Robert Dowling, told Robb to back
off. He promptly quit. Dowling accused Robb, in print, of being unethical.
Then Reporter editor Anita Busch quit in sympathy. Then Robb wrote
a story for Inside.com making
the whole thing look like All The President's Men. Dowling
responded with a piece in today's Reporter.
Are these people insane? I mean, who cares? The guy writes
a society column.
We think these WGA talks must have everyone on edge. Maybe it's time
for the whole town to take a vacation. |
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Today
in history... |
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68 - Roman
Emperor, Nero commits suicide at the age of 31. Initially
a popular ruler, it didn't take him long to mess things up.
Killing his mother didn't do much for his rep, either.
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