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Deadline Hollywood Daily's Nikki Finke reported this evening that there may be layoffs "in both the business and editorial sides" of Variety happening this week, perhaps as soon as Monday. One tipster told her the number or rolling heads "might be as high as 30."
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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on January 26, 2009 at 12:17 AM
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T. Holly
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Nikki Finke thinks John Anderson shouldn't be allowed to write for Variety anymore.
I hope this dissuades her:
Here's the The Dude's video of his experience:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZUbAbo5uvY
I know I'd have felt very threatened if Dowd sat down at my table, whether he were speaking to me or I were a guest at the table or one nearby. Aren't restaurants supposed to throw people out who are harassing customers not twice, but thrice? Can't someone defend themselves and/or their guests if the restaurant doesn't?
Posted by T. Holly
at January 26, 2009 8:57 AM
comment #2
T. Holly
says ...
I offered the youtube video to someone as a scoop, since no one has put it up yet and the reply was, in part, "this is like Exhibit A for the permanent closure of YouTube."
I don't get why? A man explains how he threatened another man. And puts a website address at the end, not of the movie, but of Jackie Martlins joke site.
Posted by T. Holly
at January 26, 2009 9:48 AM
comment #3
T. Holly
says ...
David Poland finally piped in saying:
Yeah... that [youtube] video was shot at Tom Bernard's birthday party, drunk, the next night after we shot both our re-creation and the explanation. It's Jackie's edit. Jeff told me
about it yesterday, but I hadn't tracked it down."
I replied:
What's the difference? He says the same thing in yours.
As Tim at Anne's said, "intimidation is violence with or without fists."
Intimidation, or feeling threatened or having people at your table being subjected to it, is violence, with or without fists.
Even if someone were interested in reviewing the movie at Spout or All These Wonderful Things or indieWIRE, I don't think they would out of fear.
So aside from the movie being harmed in more ways than a bad review ever could hurt it, there's residual cost to freedom of the press and
critics.
What was Michael Barker thinking appearing at the end of the youtube video? He's the one bemoaning the loss of critics to the indie world
in part one of The Sundance Panic Button Panel here:
http://trulyfreefilm.blogspot.com/2009/01/sundance-panic-button-panel.html
Posted by T. Holly
at January 26, 2009 3:08 PM
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