Launched in 2005, the site has seen its fair share of illustrious editors over the years including Claude Brodesser-Akner, Mayrav Saar and Tina Dupuy. Thanks to all of them as well as to Matthew Fleischer, Pandora Young and Marcus Vanderberg for keeping us in the LA loop.

We’re keeping the Twitter account @FishbowlLA active with news and updates. So follow us there, if you don’t already. Within the next few weeks, all existing FishbowlLA content will be folded into the FishbowlNY archives.

We look forward to interacting with you elsewhere on the Mediabistro blog network. If you haven’t seen the redesigned Mediabistro home page, which launched last week, check it out here.

Hasta la vista…

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It’s got a much cleaner look featuring the four main features behind the brand: Jobs, Courses, Events and News, with mega drop-down menus to take you further into the site.

There are more prominent sharing buttons for our Facebook and Google+ pages, our Twitter stream and our YouTube Channel. We’ve enhanced the search bar and simplified the overall experience.

We say it’s not quite finished because this is just phase one. Stay tuned for phase two in the New Year, with even more functionality with the same great content you’ve come to expect.

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When I moved from Toronto to Los Angeles in the late fall of 1993, I did what any self-respecting Canadian would: I drove around at night with the convertible top down, marveling at the balmy low-50′s temperatures. As winter season approaches, a new wave of Canadian and Scandinavian west coast transplants will no doubt soon be cruising down Sunset Boulevard in similar fashion.

Since my arrival in L.A., I have hung out at the House of Blues Foundation Room with Jimi Hendrix Jr.; helped filmmaker Brian Herzlinger land a date with Drew Barrymore; felt the wrath of Mel Gibson after authoring an article about video piracy; and become fascinated with North Korea as a result of starting a grassroots Twitter and WordPress campaign in 2009 on behalf of detained Current TV journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee.

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A hearty, and belated, welcome to both of our new (no-longer-guest) editors of FishbowlLA.

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I’m a humor columnist with a piss-poor blog, a yippy dog and a cute kid. I like dark chocolate, giant underpants and juicy news tips. So if you have any of those things, stick them in that little Tips Box in the corner there, and send them my way!

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After today, I am handing off the vaunted FishbowlLA to a variety of guest bloggers over the next week or two, until our vast international search comittee secures the services of a permanent media and culture business scrutinizer-in-chief.

It was great fun blogging for you here, and most of you were very patient as I learned the ropes of blogging. As a reporter, I have mixed emotions about blogs: They can be the most insightful, inventive and open areas of discussion and discoure on the web, though some are simply places that indulge the lazier, sloppier aspects of journalism. We’ve always tried to be the former and not the latter. Hopefully, you’ll continue to check back in the coming weeks to keep the ‘bowl honest with your engaged, thoughtful criticism – and, of course, your helpful tips.

So, as they say in the movie business, “That’s a wrap… print it!”

With best regards,

Claude Brodesser-Akner

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This means that we’re looking for my replacement. Might it be you?

Well…Can you, potential blogger, do 6-10 posts/day every business day? Can you write for an intelligent, professional audience and break news while also injecting clever opinion or piercing analysis? Do you have great Hollywood contacts? Do you own a Members Only jacket?

OK, forget the jacket: Do you also want to have a lot of fun, gain entree to the inner sanctum of entertainment and media, and write for a relentlessly obsessive, smart audience?

Then write 2-3 posts of up to 250 words each and send them with your qualifications (perhaps even a resume) to jobs AT mediabistro DOT com with “FishbowlLA tryout” in the subject line.

And, may the Fish be with you.

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We should be up to full speed within the half hour.

-CB

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We’re taking off now to to visit the relatives in Brooklyn for the final two days of Pasover, but you’ll be in the able mitts of Ben Fritz for the next 48 hours.

Until Friday, tah!

Claude Brodesser

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Like yesterday’s guest blogger, I also have the horrifying distinction of having shared desk time with Claude at Variety, though that was during a far off time known as the 20th Century. While I have been writing about the entertainment industry for too many outlets to for nigh on a decade, this morning is my first time bloging — as I am sure most of you can tell.

Up until Tuesday, I thought blogging was what you do with the Scientologists while you are holding tin cans on the Hollywood Blvd — though apparently I wasn’t as far off as some people.

What’s my name? I would tell you, but I am convinced that you would extort me for my entire collection of vintage Washington Bullets trading cards. You people have become so hard to trust ever since you all started wearing a monocle.

So call me Bones — and I shall play the cynical and overworked McCoy to Claude’s chest-puffed Kirk. Only I’m slightly less hemorrhoidal.

I said slightly.

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Turns out, however, it’s real. And it’s why nobody in Hollywood was returning my calls last night (at least that’s I choose to tell myself). In fact, as Nicole LaPorte revealed in the New York Observer, it’s kind of a big deal with some people in Hollywood:

Certain Hollywood Seders are the stuff of legend. When Roman Polanski was shooting Chinatown and wanted to return to his native Poland in order to celebrate Passover, the film’s producer, Bob Evans, intervened and threw one of his own. The Kiddush was read by Kirk Douglas.

These days, the Passover invitation of note is issued by music mogul Guy Oseary, who lives in Beverly Hills. Guests have included Madonna (Mr. Oseary’s former partner at Maverick Records), comedian Chris Rock, Anthony Kiedis of the Red Hot Chili Peppers and “It” director McG.

Now I don’t know much about Jewism Judaism (just looked it up… who knew?!), but I have to admit I’m extremely suspicious of any religion whose sacred texts holds up McG as the “It” director.

But I do have to admire Nicole’s cajones in writing this article. Now not only is she risking retribution from Spielberg, Katzenberg, and Geffen, but every non-goy in Hollywood as well. (or should that be “every other non-goy…”?)

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Filling in for Claude today, next Wednesday, and Thursday will be me.… Ben Fritz. I’m here because I sat next to Claude in the Variety newsroom for a year and he was able to see every website I surfed and thus gathered enough incriminating evidence not just to get me to be his guest blogger during made up holidays like “pass over,” but to write a positive review of “The Business” podcast on iTunes every day for the next three years.

When I’m not writing about box office and animation and the Internet and video games for Variety (and scoring free video games in the process — but I swear I do it for love of reporting!), I’m writing for the satirical entertainment news site Dateline Hollywood and writing/producing video for our resident fake film critic Woody Wittman, about whom Claude recently said “[Woody] does for morning show movie critics what Borat has done for foreign correspondents.”

Of course now I owe him another year’s worth of iTunes reviews for that.

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Claude started at mediabistro in September 2005, after an eight year stint as a film reporter at Daily Variety and Variety. He continues to serve as the host of KCRW’s “The Business,” the National Public Radio show about the business of entertainment that’s carried in Los Angeles, New York and Washington D.C., among other markets. Claude’s freelance work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Premiere, Entertainment Weekly and US Weekly. In his spare time, he is the lucky fiance of mediabistro.com West Coast Director of Education Taffy Akner.

Claude will be blogging about film and entertainment.

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The Editors…

Tina Dupuy (tee-na*doo-pwee) – Tina is an award-winning writer, syndicated political columnist, accomplished comedian and a freelance investigative journalist. She has lived all over the world and was once called “a filthy whore” by Pastor Fred Phelps but has not let that prejudice her against other mental patients…many of whom are her close friends. www.TinaDupuy.com.

Matthew Fleischer is a journalist who came up in the alt-weekly world, first as a staff writer with the LA Weekly and then as senior editor of the now defunct LA CityBeat. He got tired of newspapers laying him off or going out of business, so he started freelancing, both in print and online. You find his work in the Los Angeles Times Magazine, High Country News, and on his blog at True/Slant.

Pandora Young is a career secretary who has made coffee for some of the most brilliant journalists in Los Angeles. She enjoys typing, filing, and settling sexual harassment lawsuits.

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