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Cloverfield [BLU-RAY] (Paramount Home Entertainment, 6.3.2008) Disguised under deliberately goofy, yet deliciously edible-sounding, aliases such as Cheese and Slusho, Matt Reeves' Cloverfield was produced and rushed into theaters under an equally appetizing shroud of secrecy. From last year's incredibly elusive Super Bowl ad to the film's viral marketing campaign, Cloverfield had everybody scratching their heads and drooling in anticipation. Aside from the as-yet untitled title and the Blair Witch-ian visual style, the film's biggest appeal was the enigmatic creature who was last (un)seen hurling the decapitated head of the Statue of Liberty onto the crowded streets of New York City. All we knew about the mysterious beast was that it was big and angry. Now that the highy-anticipated project has come and gone, one question has fortunately been answered: Cloverfield was a major success. (continued)

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Two days ago former Hollywood Reporter, Variety, Entertainment Weekly and L.A. Times journalist Anita Busch testified at the Anthony Pellicano wiretapping trial about the heavy intimidation she received in '02 (the "stop" note, the dead fish, etc.) at Pellicano's behest to back off from writing a tough story about one of his clients. Variety's Anne Thompson filed a story about it early Wednesday evening.

Busch, thought to be a pretty tough and shrewd reporter in her day, wept a bit, talked about how scared she was about her life back then and whether or not she could financially survive, declared that she "stopped writing" and that she'll never write a book about the threats, and so on. I never had a dead fish put on my car windshield, but my phone was tapped by Pellicano in '93 and he tried to shake me up psychologically during the same period. It was unpleasant as hell, and I was angry for a time, but I got over it. You ride it out and you move on.

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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on April 11, 2008 at 02:30 PM

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storymark says ...

I'd imagine an implied death threat is a bit more jarring to the psyche than a phone tap.

Posted by storymark at April 11, 2008 03:08 PM

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gruver1 says ...

Wells to Storymark: I imagine so as well. I guess I was kind of wondering about that old truism -- "that which doesn't kill you makes you stronger." Doesn't seem to have worked out in poor Anita's case, does it? I mean, to hear her tell it.

Posted by gruver1 at April 11, 2008 07:47 PM

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