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• IS THIS A MELTDOWN? More Big Actors And Directors Caught In Capitol Crunch
• Jim Gianopulos/Tom Rothman Form New Unit, Fox International Productions; Panitch Leaves Regency To Head FIP
• Primetime Pilot Panic: ‘The Unit’ On CBS, ‘Reaper’ On CW, Both Renewed
• 5TH UPDATE: ‘Nailed’ Tip Of The Iceberg: Capitol’s Money Woes With ‘Bad Meat’; Indie Shut Down Suddenly Friday, Too
• More ‘Speed Racer’ Fallout: Emile Hirsch Exits United Talent; “Total Shocker”
• 4TH UPDATE: ‘Nailed’ Shooting Resumed; But More Capitol Films Suffering
• Primetime Pilot Panic: ‘Moonlight’ Not On CBS Fall Schedule But Not Dead; Show Lobbying For Back 13-Episode Order
• TOLDJA! ‘Speed Racer’ Finishes Only 3rd; Facts Show Warner Bros Inflated Figures
• ‘Back To You’ Memorial Erected At Fox
• Primetime Pilot Panic: UPDATED ABC/CBS Orders, Renewals & Cancellations
• Primetime Pilot Panic: My Summary
• Building A Better Screenwriter: Behind The Scenes At The 2008 Sundance Labs
• Primetime Pilot Panic: ‘Filthy Rich’ OKed
• Primetime Pilot Panic: SAY IT AIN’T SO! Tori Spelling In ‘90210′?
• Attention, Les & Barry: Broadcast Giant Files For Bankruptcy, Blames CW Ratings
• Primetime Pilot Panic: CBS ‘Unit’ Probably
• Primetime Pilot Panic: ‘90210′ Picked Up; ‘Rich Girls’ Probably; CW Renews ‘Game’
• Primetime Pilot Panic: Fans Can Rejoice; Joss Whedon’s ‘Dollhouse’ Welcomed
• Primetime Pilot Panic: CBS Pickups
• Primetime Pilot Panic: ‘Boston Legal’ OK; Kelley’s ‘Life On Mars’ Probable At ABC
• 3RD UPDATE: David O. Russell Film Drama
• WHAT A DISASTER! ‘Speed Racer’ $20M Weekend Half What Warner Bros Hoped; Rival Studios Accuse WB Of Inflating #s
• Primetime Pilot Panic: CBS Rejects Geena
• Primetime Pilot Panic: Fox Nixes ‘Spaced’; And Good News For Shaun Cassidy Pilot
• Primetime Pilot Panic: CW’s ‘90210′ News
• Primetime Pilot Panic: 2 ABC Renewals? And There’s Something About Ashton…
• Primetime Pilot Panic: Fox Yeas & Nays
• ON SET DRAMA UPDATE: SAG Orders Actors On David O. Russell Film To Leave; Jessica Biel & Jake Gyllenhall Sidelined
• ‘Speed Racer’ Crashes & Burns To Become First Summer Bomb: ‘Iron Man’ Still No. 1
• EXCLUSIVE: David O. Russell Film Drama! Jessica Biel & Jake Gyllenhaal Sidelined
• Primetime Pilot Panic: Fox Sitcom ‘Back To You’ Cancelled; ‘The Inn’ Picked Up
• No Pellicano Jury Verdict After First Week (…But You Can Judge This Letter)
• Paradigm Hiring A Lot Of Ex-ICM Agents
• Primetime Pilot Panic: Still More News
• NYT Music Industry Reporter Laid Off
• Primetime Pilot Panic: UPDATED Info
• 2008 Cannes Film Festival Events Sked…
• Paramount Finally Hires New Mouthpiece
• Weekend Prediction: Problem-Plagued ‘Speed Racer’ Distant No. 2 To ‘Iron Man’
• Lindsay Lohan Now Hollywood Pariah…
• Brad Grey Brings ‘Sopranos’ David Chase To Paramount To Write/Direct/Produce
• Harvey Weinstein vs Nancy Pelosi: …But Why Not Accept His Offer To Find Funding For Michigan & Florida Dem Primaries?
• End Of Picturehouse Was Predicted; But End Of Warner Independent Not So Much
• CAA Has Signed Kate Bosworth…
• Unemployed ‘Ugly Betty’ Crew Blame Schwarzenegger For Show’s NY Move
• SAG Contract Report #5: Actors Clips
• SAG Contract Report #4: Actor Issues
• So Robert Redford Did It…
• URGENT! AMPTP Walks From SAG Talks; Repeat Of Big Media Arrogance Towards WGA; SAG & AMPTP Spar In Statements
• AFTRA Starts Its AMPTP Talks Tomorrow

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• Hollywood Hose-Down Who’s All Wet This Week

• Will the [Crappy] WGA Deal Go Down? Don’t be surprised if writers revolt over this one

• Sinking Globes, Rising Cruise, and Winning Blus Golden Globes: Going, Going, Gone

• Disaster in the Making The longtime Hollywood maxim is that he who loses his temper first loses.

• Strike By The Minute Hallelujah. The haggling has begun.

• Strike Fix Talks Unproductive “Game of Chicken”

• Secret Agent Men How the tenpercenters formed a road map to peace during the strike’s dark days

• On a Collision Course Why TV showrunners could be the collateral damage of this writers’ strike

• Deals, Lies and Back Channels Why the WGA strike is a bigger mess now than ever

• WGA Strike Q-and-A The 411 on the “Holloween” fear and loathing

• Strike Happy The writers want it, the moguls want it… what a bunch of idiots

• Hollywood’s He-Man Woman Haters Club Charter member Jeff Robinov to get rewarded

• I Know What You Did Last Summer, Again What Hollywood should learn, but probably won’t, from the tent-pole season

• Moonves Should Pull the Plug on Kid Nation A mogul with no conscience

• The Worst Talent Deal Ever Jim Carrey succumbs to voodoo economics

• Agency Clients, an Old Coot, and Counting Chads What’s making news while Hollywood vacations

• The Hollywood Reporter’s New Editor Is she a get or just an also-ran?

• Nasty, Nasty, Nasty ICM and Ed Limato viciously call it quits

• Grey the Transformer Paramount Pictures’ chief now obeys his DreamWorks masters

• They Must Be High Hip NBC Hemp, MySpace Duo, Cruise Control

• Evan Almighty Is In Need Of A Miracle Is the big-budget sequel going to hell?

• Fade to Black If HBO doesn’t wise up, it could get whacked

• That Zucks! NBC’s CEO screws up network shakeup

• Aging Stormtroopers, Bland Blockbusters, Dream Deals and Ingénues Things to chew on this Memorial Day weekend

• No More Monday Nights at Morton’s Remembering a Hollywood legend

• The Blockbusters Cometh It could be a Promised Movieland this summer, unless…

• High Rollers, Humbled Harvey and The Hills Why is nothing in show biz as it seems?

• Across an Alternate Universe A Beatles cover-music movie needs straitjackets for all involved

• Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid The Sopranos-like takeover of Tribune Co. could mean cement shoes for employees

• Dangerous Liaisons More hanky-panky than a whorehouse in LAT opinion section

• Bearing the Scars of Oscars For chrissake, somebody free the frigging show . . . and the Benjamin Franklins too

• Goodbye Baquet, Hello O’Shea The Chicagoan comes out fighting

• The Scars of Oscars Envy and spite will determine Academy Award winners

• Brad Grey’s Performance Less Than Golden Mogul earns scorn, not envy, at Globes

• Phone Sex, Kiss-offs and Showmances Hollywood starts new year with a bang

• Orgy of Sequels Climaxing in 2007 Will the public get off? Or is it just studio masturbation?

• It’s a Wonderful Life? Hollywood stuffs its stockings with Mel-odramas, shame, backstabbing and bloodbaths

• ’Tis the Season for Tinseltown’s Stupid Human Tricks Mel’s persecution complex, Russell’s bloody bling and Hollywood’s overpaid divas

• Screenwriters in the Shit While Akiva Goldsman fiddles, more accomplished movie scribes burn

• Bond and Gagged A flock of singin’ and hoofin’ penguins flip off 007

• Stars Get Caught in Hirsch’s Hornets Nest Names drop and accusations fly as Barry goes to trial

• Blood from Stones The diamond cartel’s campaign against Leo’s upcoming movie gets dirty

• Deal Or No Deal Broad, Burkle, Geffen… when it comes to the Times, whose briefcase is bigger?

• Tasty Tidbits From Hollywood’s Frenzied Fall Borat slumps, Dubya dies, Fields goes free and Lansing dishes?

• It’s Ugly Out There Networks throw mad money, but catch only two beauties

• Dean of Sycophants All the news the Times should be covering and isn’t

• Baquet’s Billionaire Boys’ Club Is Dean of Arc playing a dangerous game with the Times’ integrity?

• Cash and Carrey Jim firing his agent is juicier than any episode of Entourage

• The Mouse Who Whored Where was George Mitchell while Disney sold out 9/11?

• Savage TV From freak shows to freak accidents to freakin’ mayhem, Reality TV goes wild

• War of the Worlds Cruise And Redstone do battle – prepare for a true epic.

• The Iceberg Cometh Inside ICM’s “Project Beta”

• Too Fast and Too Furious Not just Mel, but sanctimonious Hollywood, too

• Brokespoke Alp Jake Gyllenhaal’s ride to nowhere?

• Go Johnny Go Depp gives Disney the pirate’s booty

• Moguls Will Be Moguls At Camp Allen Shareholders get burned around the Big Media campfire

• Super-Manly Makeovers, Slackers and Perkbusters It’s gonna be a long, hot summer in Hollywood

• The Passion of the Cash Da Vinci Cannes the world

• TV’s Promiscuous Bitches The creator of Grey’s Anatomy on women, sex and her hit show

• Screwing the TV Viewer The CW Network is the bastard child of The WB and UPN

• Who Hates Their MTV? How the rebel network sold its soul for bimbos, princesses and bucks

• Oh Shit! The Vultures Are Circling CAA picks off Steinberg’s prime NFL meat

• Pellicano’s Rat Pack Loose Lips and Sinking Ships

• Two Tonys Is One Too Many for Mogul Brad Grey would rather be in bed with Soprano than Pellicano

• Oscar Hangover Finke’s five-step program will end the misery

• How Gay Will Oscar Go? Handicapping who’ll win, who’ll lose, and who’ll just jerk off

• Blame Ovitz When Art Started Imitating Hollywood