Film Independent and the Los Angeles Film Festival is staging a poolside chat at Westwood’s W hotel next Tuesday night (6.26) from 7 to 8 pm called “Who Let The Blogs Out?” Possibly to be hosted by Variety columnist Anne Thompson and definitely to be attended by yours truly, the topic will be “the on-line merging of celebrity, industry news, and popular culture, and the rise of the blogger as the arbiter of information in modern day Los Angeles.”
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There’s no telling if Deadline Hollywood Daily‘s Nikki Finke, Kevin Roderick, MCN’s David Poland, Defamer‘s Mark Lisanti or Perez Hilton will show, but the organizers are trying to reach these guys and/or get them to commit. It’ll be entertaining if Poland shows just to see his “I’m looking at you but I don’t see you because you don’t exist” look that he gives me whenever we cross paths.
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