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Tuesday Jul 22, 2008

How Will Batman's Assault Hurt the Brand?

x40454508-22073906.jpgWithin seconds... seconds...of receiving the Batman news, we were flooded by e-mails from PR folks, therapists and life coaches about the implications of Christian Bale's assault arrest on the Bat brand. Surprisingly, nobody has written to speculate how the arrest will affect, say, Bale's mom and sis.

Here's one interesting missive:

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Monday Jul 21, 2008

Does Alexandra Jacobs Need an Overqualified Intern?

We were tipped off to this Craigslist ad by anonymous:

I wonder who this is--Alexandra Jacobs lives in Silverlake.

Can we assume that the 'la magazine' is Jossip? Here's the ad:

intern (edit/research) for la magazine writer (silver lake)
Reply to: job-762026435@craigslist.org
Date: 2008-07-19, 8:26PM PDT


Intern (editorial/research) available with national magazine writer/author who holds contributing editorships and contract masthead positions. Please don't apply if you're not available to start in August, and please live in Los Angeles, own a laptop with access to broadband Internet, and have a means of transportation.

Applicants will likely be in an MFA program or at the end of their undergrad programs. Please sustain interest in: technology/gadgets, travel, food, culture (from mainstream film/TV to books, serious music to one-hit wonders), health (including recent medical news), style, nutrition, design, literary nonfiction, and essay/memoir. Tasks will introduce you to traditional magazine and newspaper research methods, fact-checking, copy-editing, writing in different tones, different journalistic forms, the writer's marketplace, how to pitch, editor communiques, putting together book proposals, transcribing, interviewing prominent newsmakers (from the famous to obscure), etc.

The rest of the ad is after the jump but we'll save you the suspense - there's no pay. And for the record - we need an intern/slave too. Preferably one that can cook and make furniture.

UPDATE: It's not Jacobs. She lives somewhere other than Silver Lake. Oh well...we still need an intern that can fact check and hang dry wall.

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Friday Jul 18, 2008

DHD: Kirk Kerkorian and Steve Bing May Testify in Pellicano Trial

pelcbb.jpgThe story is breaking. Deadline Hollywood Daily promises they'll have it here.

American Idol: WGA Still Trying to "Represent"

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As the American Idol production team winds through the country for audition season, the Writers Guild of America is in hot pursuit. Having chartered a "Truth Tour" bus to shadow AI auditions, the WGA hopes go get attention for its long-running battle against the hit TV show over the right to represent reality show workers.

Has it worked? Not so far. A quick scan at coverage of the WGA's first stop yields a whole lotta nothing.

Why? Well, let's see, the media could write stories about sticky labor disputes starring sickly-looking writer types, or they could focus their attention on the 8,000 lithe and lovely 20-somethings sleeping in piles on the ground outside this country's biggest auditoriums. Hmm. Good luck, WGA.

Tuesday Jul 15, 2008

You Know Gas Prices Are Too High...

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This story seems to be its own parody.

Friday Jul 11, 2008

Cops Shot Up Your Morning Commute

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All those kids heading to their offices at Us Weekly, E! Entertainment and Edelman Public Relations (to name but a few) found roads closed around their buildings after an undercover LAPD unit shot a Beverly Hills robbery suspect. More here.

Wednesday Jul 09, 2008

Copping To Failure

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Remember that MacArthur Park melee?

The LAPD does, too. On Tuesday officials announced that 17 officers and two sergeants from the department's elite Metropolitan Division should be punished for the "May Day melee," that left several people injured, including a few reporters.

What the recommended punishments would be, however, remains a secret. More here.

Monday Jul 07, 2008

SAG Roundup

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Deadline Hollywood Daily says the SAG talks are on hold until the results of the AFTRA ratification comes in tomorrow.

The Hollywood Reporter says is trying to get dual members to vote the AFTRA contract down.

Robert DeNiro thinks a strike is a bad idea.

Tuesday Jul 01, 2008

Good Morning FBLA Readers -- Hands Off That Phone!!

hands-free.jpg Just a reminder that the new "hands free" law goes into effect today. You can't hold a cell phone up to your ear. We think you can still text while watching Finding Nemo - but you have to have a bluetooth to call your spouse.

We submit that we maybe a little less distracted by having two hands on the wheel - but twice as distracted noting all the other drivers breaking the new law.

Monday Jun 30, 2008

FBLA EXCLUSIVE: Sara Mattison is Very Attractive...to Operator Error

Saramattison.jpgWhat does the 2003 small engine plane crashing into a Fairfax area apartment and last week's drunk driver plowing into the Improv Olympic West have in common? Writer and comedian Sara Mattison.

Mattison's apartment was ground zero - incinerated in 2003 by a plane crashing into it. Later it was confirmed that the pilot had cocaine in his system. Mattison, a long time performer at IO West, original cast member of the hysterical Big News Show, got on with her life, only to have a drunk driver last week drive into (appropriately) the front bar of, what you could safely call her 'second home'.

FBLA caught up with Mattison for a little sit down:

FBLA: What's up with high people running into places you frequent?

SM: I guess I'm where the party's at.

FBLA: Uhm, is this all the evidence you need to believe you're cursed?

SM: That and Beth Lapides confirming it during an Uncab comedy workshop this past winter. I took it to work out (or at least ignite) some new ideas for material and by week four of revealing personally tragic stories- what I find funny- she stated with all seriousness that maybe I had a "curse" and needed to go get it removed. I decided it was probably best to remove myself from that workshop instead. The only curse I had was dropping $300 on the workshop to hear that. We all strive to be original with our material so if having a curse is my thing, then dammit I'm keeping it! I like to think it makes my material steal-proof. I mean what comedian wants to steal another comedian's curse?

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Previously

Howard Brandy, inspiration for Dudley Do-Right, 79

Great...Record Setting Temperatures...Just Great

Gay Marriage and You

Gays Merry and Marry!

Happy Gay Marriage Legal Now in California Day!

Changes at Los Angeles Times Magazine

Universal's Masters Might Be Fine, But What of the Prints?

LA's New York City Street Burned...Again

Nina Revoyr Reading New Book

Our Bad: Hollywood PR Legend's Passing Was Accidentally Passed Up

Mayor Villaraigosa Will Officiate at Gay Weddings

LA Weekly Has The Most Finalists in AAN AltWeekly Awards Contest This Year

Warner Bros. Axes WIP and Picturehouse

Hollywood Preservation Activist and Author, Robert Nudelman Dies

Production Moving to New York Because It's (GASP) Cheaper?!

The Webby Awards Announced

CBS Local News Change Up?

Tom Hanks And His Typewriter Collection Endorse Barack Obama

Malibu Celebrity Detox Center Could Be Yours For $24 Million

Jossip Disses Los Angeles

Pellicano Case Closing Arguments

HuffPo: Pellicano Mistrial?

Lisa Kudrow's New Friends

X17 Issues Apology to Tony Parker, Eva Longoria

FBLA Exclusive: Bo Bice Prefers Pinto Beans to Paparazzi

Jack Smith Retrospective

Spitzer Isn't a One Prostitution Ring Type of Guy--The LA Link

The Vernal Equinox

Garcetti is Running for Mayor?!

LA Mayor Likes the Ladies

Improv Everywhere Strikes Again

The 14th Anniversary of Bill Hicks Untimely Death

FBLA 20 Questions: Edward Padgett

FBLA 20 Questions: Celeste Fremon

FBLA 20 Questions: Amanda Luttrell-Gerrigas

FBLA 20 Questions: Nancy Rommelmann

FBLA 20 Questions: Mystery Striking Writer

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FBLA 20 Questions: Pat Saperstein

FBLA 20 Questions: Matt Haley

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FBLA 20 Questions: Randi Schmelzer

FBLA 20 Questions: Frank Coffey

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FBLA 20 Questions: Ed Fuentes

FBLA 20 Questions: Mike Winder

FBLA 20 Questions: Kevin Blatt

FBLA 20 Questions: Bruce Feirstein

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FBLA 20 Questions: Sabina Gault

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FBLA 20 Questions: Joel Stein

FBLA 20 Questions: Leslie Gornstein

FBLA 20 Questions: April Winchell

FBLA Has 20 Questions for Ken Levine

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