February 2012
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WatchYep, this happened: Watch Sacha Baron Cohen, dressed as his character from The Dictator, dump an urn full of “Kim Jong-il’s ashes” on Ryan Seacrest on the Oscars red carpet. (Read my full Oscars recap - with video! - at The Daily Beast.)
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Rushfield Babylon: NikkiLeaks: Up the Academy →
richardrushfield:
In the HBO/Entourage fantasy version of the Nikki Finke story, Hollywood’s most ruthless blogger stops at nothing to punish a source who gives a scoop to a rival publication. In that fantasy, she meticulously plots her revenge and goes in for the kill by dropping an item about, let’s say, a deal…
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“We were the dorkiest of dorks. An oddball on her own is a pitiable creature, but two weirdos together are a fortress.”
— Lauren Fox, Friends Like Us
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Breaking Into the Media Boys Club
Good has a great article up right now, called “Boys Will Hire Boys: The Media Is Male and Getting Maler”:
It’s easy to hide behind that old journalistic convention of objectivity, but when your “unbiased” hiring strategy results in the systematic underrepresentation of women, something very biased is going on. And the problem compounds itself—male workforces mean...
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