AltWeeklies Wire
Deadline Hollywoodnew
AltWeeklies Award - Media Reporting
L.A. Weekly |
Nikki Finke |
04-21-2008 |
Media
Tags: media
Deadline Hollywood Daily: "Hollywood Minorities Complain to Me," "Why Hollywood Gets No Work Done," "'Blood Diamond' Director Ed Zwick Blasts Gossip as Appalling ..."new
AltWeeklies Award - Blog
L.A. Weekly |
Nikki Finke |
04-21-2008 |
Media
Tags: media
Dean of Sycophantsnew
Journalism can stop characterizing the Los Angeles Times editor as “Dean of Arc” and start referring to him as he really is: “Cover-Your-Backside Baquet.”
L.A. Weekly |
Nikki Finke |
10-12-2006 |
Media
Tags: media
The Mouse Who Whorednew
Where was George Mitchell while Disney sold out 9/11?
L.A. Weekly |
Nikki Finke |
09-14-2006 |
Media
Tags: media
War of the Worldsnew
Cruise and Redstone do battle -- prepare for a true epic.
L.A. Weekly |
Nikki Finke |
08-24-2006 |
Movies
How Gay Will Oscar Go?new
Handicapping who'll win, who'll lose and who'll just jerk off.
L.A. Weekly |
Nikki Finke |
02-03-2006 |
Movies
Will Oscar Have the Balls for Munich?new
There will be no press junket, no premiere and, most importantly, no blowout Oscar marketing campaign for Steven Spielberg's certain-to-be-controversial movie, Munich.
L.A. Weekly |
Nikki Finke |
12-05-2005 |
Movies
What Bush Could Learn From West Wingnew
George W. Bush has reportedly switched from watching baseball to reruns of West Wing. Too bad he's not watching this season's episodes in which President Bartlet's top staffers are suspected of leaking a national-security secret to a New York Times reporter.
L.A. Weekly |
Nikki Finke |
11-04-2005 |
Commentary
Tags: Plamegate, United States president
Who Hates Their MTV?new
The rebel network sold its soul for bimbos, princesses and bucks.
L.A. Weekly |
Nikki Finke |
10-14-2005 |
TV
Media Moguls, Not Looters, Killed Media's Truth Tellersnew
For the first 120 hours after Hurricane Katrina, TV journalists were let off their leashes by their mogul owners, but once the crisis point had passed, most broadcasters went back to business as usual.
L.A. Weekly |
Nikki Finke |
09-16-2005 |
Media
The Michael Kinsley Experiment Ends at L.A. Timesnew
Michael Kinsley said he'd done a pretty good job of editing the Los Angeles Times editorial pages but on what planet? He's actually done a pretty horrible job that’s proved disastrous both to his persona and the paper’s prestige.
L.A. Weekly |
Nikki Finke |
07-29-2005 |
Media
Here's to You, Mrs. Robinsonnew
During her acting career, Anne Bancroft veered between two big-screen personas: queens like Annie Sullivan or Mrs. Robinson, or commoners who took their inspiration from her real life as Anna Maria Louise Italiano, native of the Bronx.
L.A. Weekly |
Nikki Finke |
06-10-2005 |
Movies
Tags: The Producers, Mel Brooks
Does Woody Allen Just Write Like Rick Moranis?new
There are startling similarities between the Disney parody written by Woody Allen in the December 13 issue of The New Yorker and a 1999 piece authored by comedian Rick Moranis and novelist Howard Kaminsky that ran in the Los Angeles Sunday Times.
L.A. Weekly |
Nikki Finke |
12-14-2004 |
Media
Transfer of Power Expected at William Morris Agencynew
The oldest, richest and stodgiest of Hollywood talent agencies is undergoing a seismic shift not unlike what’s happening beneath the San Andreas Fault.
L.A. Weekly |
Nikki Finke |
12-08-2004 |
Movies
Republicans Sell Out Christopher Reeve’s Paralysis Actnew
Just a day after actor Christopher Reeve’s death, one or more Republican senators put a surprise hold on the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Act. A source says the move appears to be in response to Reeve's outspokenness on stem-cell research.
L.A. Weekly |
Nikki Finke |
10-13-2004 |
Politics
