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Women's Wear Daily's subscriber-based website has one of the dumbest web-search engines currently operating, so there's no finding Jacob Bernstein's profile of Deadline Hollywood Daily's Nikki Finke, which apparently went up within the last day or two. (Media Bistro's Kate Coe sent me the text, but there's no link on her site to the original piece.)

Bernstein's article seems throughly researched and reported, although I'm sure Finke will have a beef with it one way or the other. She comes off as smart, headstrong, dogged, hot-and-cold, obsessive -- a tough cookie in a tough town.

Significant Finke quote #1: "It's not my fault these people do what they do to each other. It's not my fault they make stinky movies. I just report it." Quote #2: "Would I like to cure Hollywood? Yes." Quote #3: "My problem, it's a tragedy actually, is that I'm a Cassandra. I'm a canary in a fucking coal mine." Quote #4: "I'm not good with bosses. And I love what I do now. I love this website. It's the most fantastic and freeing thing in the world. I make my deadlines. I decide what I write. I have total control."

Left coasters may be unaware that Bernstein, a WWD columnist (it's hard to be rock-sure with WWD's idiotic site refusing to spit out information), is the son of Nora Ephron and Carl Bernstein.

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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on July 14, 2007 at 10:39 AM

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BurmaShave says ...

I thought their son was in a band with Sean Lennon? Is there more than one? They only ever tak about Max when I see either of them interviewed.

I got to give props to Nikki for railing against Torture Porn, even if she's using the same insane tactics she did after the Sopranos finale. That was a sad and idiotic episode in her life. Generally not a very big fan of hers, but she seems to have a lot of access.

On this site a few months ago I called her the worst entertainment journalist working today, and admonished you for linking her so much. I guess that was a bit harsh. She's very funny on The Dennis Miller show whenever she goes on it.

Posted by BurmaShave at July 14, 2007 11:35 AM

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George Prager says ...

You have to stop admonishing people so much, Burm, it is beneath you.

Posted by George Prager at July 14, 2007 11:40 AM

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tholl-yung says ...

You must mean Dennis Miller radio. He's a creep and a half. I don't think you saw my last three rant/entries on the latest Sopranos thread. Allow me to bring you up to speed in a moment. Yes I like Nikki. She uses old bald photos of Mel Gibson.

Posted by tholl-yung at July 14, 2007 11:53 AM

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tholl-yung says ...

Thanks for waiting.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnT7nYbCSvM

In the last side angle of the show, where Members Only Guy would be approaching behind Tony, the waitress happens to be there. To see what it would look like, through the camera, if someone was behind Tony go to 3:31-3:32.

So, Tony didn't get popped from behind and the screen went black.

I should have been a cop or a Crime Scene Investigator.

On the other hand, someone mysterious enters the restauant at 3 min. And the B side of the time cut (the 5th shot) is not present tense, so Chase has artistic license not to finish the story from Tony's point of view.

And that's all she wrote, be back tomorrow. Talk about me amongst and between you.

Posted by tholl-yung at July 14, 2007 12:44 PM

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