The night before Joe Halderman was busted in a sting operation for trying to extort David Letterman out of $2 million, the Late Show aired a parody of a Geico ad that seems, in retrospect, rather prescient. The skit comes to us by way of Kansas City Star TV critic Aaron Barnhart , who credits one of his readers for picking up on it.
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Did David Letterman Try to Warn His Blackmailer?
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Nikki Finke reports today that Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner has fired Kater Gordon , his personal assistant, turned writers assistant, turned Emmy-winning staff writer. But why? Gordon had a metoric rise to the top, peaking with an Emmy win.
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Why Did Matthew Weiner Fire Mad Men’s Kater Gordon?
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And why exactly is the word wife in quotation marks?
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Boycott Wanda Sykes!
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Lawsuit claims author copied Jordan Scott’s ‘The Nocturne’ when writing ‘Breaking Dawn.’ By Gil Kaufman Stephenie Meyer’s “Breaking Dawn” Photo: Little, Brown and Company Two weeks after receiving a cease-and-desist order over claims that the fourth book in her “Twilight” series, “Breaking Dawn,” plagiarized another novel, Stephenie Meyer was sued on Wednesday over the alleged infringement.
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‘Twilight’ Author Stephenie Meyer Sued Over Alleged Plagiarism
How does the other-other half live?
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Washington Post Empathizes With Family "Squeaking By" On $300K A Year
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Or so goes today’s lacerating NYT piece on The Weinstein Company ‘s fate, “The Weinsteins Scamble to Regain a Golden Touch in Hollywood.” Like old Miramax films, it’s juicy, exciting, illuminating, and troubling. It also lays their survival strategy bare.
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Harvey Weinstein: Sad, Senile, Barely Surviving The Next Big Thing
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How does the other-other half live? You know, the families who are now forced to “squeak by” on $300K a year? Leave it to the Washington Post to not only find out, but to attempt to elicit empathy! Yes: “squeak by,” as in the article’s title: “Squeaking By On $300,000.” Now, give the writer the benefit of the doubt.
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Washington Post Empathizes With Family "Sqeaking By" On $300K A Year
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Publishers release “advance copies” for the Literary Elite to have before the masses/Oprah ruins them for you. Being spotted with one sometimes merits “status”…that we’re about to ruin. Today’s selection is TwitterWit , The Big Book of Collected Tweets! A quick reminder of what a Status Galley is, via Leon Neyfakh at the New York Observer : Basically the term refers to an advance reader’s copy of a highly anticipated book that hasn’t been published yet.
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Gawker’s ‘Status Galley’ Book Club: Twitter Wit, The Authorized Book Of Tweets
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