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• URGENT! Actors Guilds And Advertisers Agree To 6-Month Contract Extension
• TOLDJA! Alli Shearmur Joining Lionsgate
• TheDeal.com Also Says MGM Is For Sale…
• Pellicano/Christensen Trial Goes To Jury
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• IATSE Member Petition Urges Leadership To Stop ‘Corporate Welfare’ For HBO
• Delay Those Flights By At Least A Day…
• Closing Arguments Set For Today In Pellicano/Christensen Trial: End In Sight
• SAG Warns Agents, Managers, Producers, Casting Directors: Hands Off Our Election!
• ‘Valkyrie’ Nazi Extras Sue Tom’s UA Studio
• Cinemax Going All HD Starting September
• MGM Now Claims It’s Not On The Block
• Primetime Pilot Panic: ABC Picks Up 5
• ‘American Idol’ Adds 4th Judge; Other Changes Planned To Stop Ratings Slide
• SAG Election: Eric Bogosian, Independent
• SAG Election: Brenneman, Jolliffe
• SAG Election: Membership First’s Jo Beth Williams Replies To Unite For Strength
• Cheers & Jeers For NBC’s Beijing Olympics
• Ben Stiller’s ‘Tropic Thunder’ Hops Past ‘The House Bunny’ For No. 1; Overall Box Office Equal To 2007 Summer’s Record
• Joe Biden: Supportive Of Hollywood Policy But Hardly Supported By Hollywood $$$
• Goldman Sachs Shopping MGM — Again
• SAG’s Doug Allen Answers DGA’s Apted
• SAG Election: ‘Unite For Strength’ Slate Releases ‘Membership First’ Emails
• HUH? Grazergate Now Turns Into Litigate
• SAG Election: Martin Sheen, Mike Farrell
• Now Bond Plays Xmas Release Date Game
• Yet Another Deal For Ryan Seacrest Inc.
• Jennifer Lopez Lands At United Talent
• BIG LETDOWN: Kerkorian Says Nothing Really New At Pellicano/Christensen Trial
• Paramount Famous Productions Beefs Up
• Is Ryan Seacrest Now In Play? His Agent About To Become His Production Partner
• New Line About To Party Like It’s 2007…
• UPDATE: Kirk Kerkorian Called To Testify Wednesday At Pellicano/Christensen Trial
• TOLDJA! Older TV Writers & ICM Reach $4.5M Settlement; But Lawsuits Still Pending Against Much Of Hollywood
• ‘Watchmen’ Contracts & Court Documents
• DHD Advisory: 3-Hour Comments Outage
• ABC Studios Stays Inside To Replace EVP
• More Back & Forth Between SAG/AFTRA
• SAVE US! Warner’s ‘Watchmen’ In Legal Peril After Judge Won’t Dismiss Fox Suit
• SAG Election: “Unite For Strength” Slate Makes Statement On Qualified Voting
• TV Writers in Ageism Lawsuit About To Settle With First Hollywood Defendant
• AMPTP Accuses SAG Of Lying, Then SAG’s Doug Allen Accuses AMPTP Of Lying…
• SAG NY Division Wants Federal Mediator If No Contract Movement By August 25th
• Why Is LAPD Trying To Fix A Hollywood System On TV/Film Sets That Ain’t Broke?
• August 15th-17th: ‘Tropic Thunder’ $26M, ‘Dark Knight’ $17M, ‘Clone Wars’ $15.5M
• ‘Dark Knight’ Today Became 2nd Highest Domestic Grosser Behind Only ‘Titanic’
• Joan Hyler Victim Of Serious Car Accident
• TOLDJA! Ex-DirectTV’s Eddy Hartenstein Named New Los Angeles Times Publisher
• ‘Tropic Thunder’ Rumbles Box Office; ‘Dark Knight’ #2, ‘Clone Wars’ #3; Batman Becomes 2nd Biggest Grosser
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• Hollywood Hose-Down Who’s All Wet This Week

• Will the [Crappy] WGA Deal Go Down? Don’t be surprised if writers revolt over this one

• Sinking Globes, Rising Cruise, and Winning Blus Golden Globes: Going, Going, Gone

• Disaster in the Making The longtime Hollywood maxim is that he who loses his temper first loses.

• Strike By The Minute Hallelujah. The haggling has begun.

• Strike Fix Talks Unproductive “Game of Chicken”

• Secret Agent Men How the tenpercenters formed a road map to peace during the strike’s dark days

• On a Collision Course Why TV showrunners could be the collateral damage of this writers’ strike

• Deals, Lies and Back Channels Why the WGA strike is a bigger mess now than ever

• WGA Strike Q-and-A The 411 on the “Holloween” fear and loathing

• Strike Happy The writers want it, the moguls want it… what a bunch of idiots

• Hollywood’s He-Man Woman Haters Club Charter member Jeff Robinov to get rewarded

• I Know What You Did Last Summer, Again What Hollywood should learn, but probably won’t, from the tent-pole season

• Moonves Should Pull the Plug on Kid Nation A mogul with no conscience

• The Worst Talent Deal Ever Jim Carrey succumbs to voodoo economics

• Agency Clients, an Old Coot, and Counting Chads What’s making news while Hollywood vacations

• The Hollywood Reporter’s New Editor Is she a get or just an also-ran?

• Nasty, Nasty, Nasty ICM and Ed Limato viciously call it quits

• Grey the Transformer Paramount Pictures’ chief now obeys his DreamWorks masters

• They Must Be High Hip NBC Hemp, MySpace Duo, Cruise Control

• Evan Almighty Is In Need Of A Miracle Is the big-budget sequel going to hell?

• Fade to Black If HBO doesn’t wise up, it could get whacked

• That Zucks! NBC’s CEO screws up network shakeup

• Aging Stormtroopers, Bland Blockbusters, Dream Deals and Ingénues Things to chew on this Memorial Day weekend

• No More Monday Nights at Morton’s Remembering a Hollywood legend

• The Blockbusters Cometh It could be a Promised Movieland this summer, unless…

• High Rollers, Humbled Harvey and The Hills Why is nothing in show biz as it seems?

• Across an Alternate Universe A Beatles cover-music movie needs straitjackets for all involved

• Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid The Sopranos-like takeover of Tribune Co. could mean cement shoes for employees

• Dangerous Liaisons More hanky-panky than a whorehouse in LAT opinion section

• Bearing the Scars of Oscars For chrissake, somebody free the frigging show . . . and the Benjamin Franklins too

• Goodbye Baquet, Hello O’Shea The Chicagoan comes out fighting

• The Scars of Oscars Envy and spite will determine Academy Award winners

• Brad Grey’s Performance Less Than Golden Mogul earns scorn, not envy, at Globes

• Phone Sex, Kiss-offs and Showmances Hollywood starts new year with a bang

• Orgy of Sequels Climaxing in 2007 Will the public get off? Or is it just studio masturbation?

• It’s a Wonderful Life? Hollywood stuffs its stockings with Mel-odramas, shame, backstabbing and bloodbaths

• ’Tis the Season for Tinseltown’s Stupid Human Tricks Mel’s persecution complex, Russell’s bloody bling and Hollywood’s overpaid divas

• Screenwriters in the Shit While Akiva Goldsman fiddles, more accomplished movie scribes burn

• Bond and Gagged A flock of singin’ and hoofin’ penguins flip off 007

• Stars Get Caught in Hirsch’s Hornets Nest Names drop and accusations fly as Barry goes to trial

• Blood from Stones The diamond cartel’s campaign against Leo’s upcoming movie gets dirty

• Deal Or No Deal Broad, Burkle, Geffen… when it comes to the Times, whose briefcase is bigger?

• Tasty Tidbits From Hollywood’s Frenzied Fall Borat slumps, Dubya dies, Fields goes free and Lansing dishes?

• It’s Ugly Out There Networks throw mad money, but catch only two beauties

• Dean of Sycophants All the news the Times should be covering and isn’t

• Baquet’s Billionaire Boys’ Club Is Dean of Arc playing a dangerous game with the Times’ integrity?

• Cash and Carrey Jim firing his agent is juicier than any episode of Entourage

• The Mouse Who Whored Where was George Mitchell while Disney sold out 9/11?

• Savage TV From freak shows to freak accidents to freakin’ mayhem, Reality TV goes wild

• War of the Worlds Cruise And Redstone do battle – prepare for a true epic.

• The Iceberg Cometh Inside ICM’s “Project Beta”

• Too Fast and Too Furious Not just Mel, but sanctimonious Hollywood, too

• Brokespoke Alp Jake Gyllenhaal’s ride to nowhere?

• Go Johnny Go Depp gives Disney the pirate’s booty

• Moguls Will Be Moguls At Camp Allen Shareholders get burned around the Big Media campfire

• Super-Manly Makeovers, Slackers and Perkbusters It’s gonna be a long, hot summer in Hollywood

• The Passion of the Cash Da Vinci Cannes the world

• TV’s Promiscuous Bitches The creator of Grey’s Anatomy on women, sex and her hit show

• Screwing the TV Viewer The CW Network is the bastard child of The WB and UPN

• Who Hates Their MTV? How the rebel network sold its soul for bimbos, princesses and bucks

• Oh Shit! The Vultures Are Circling CAA picks off Steinberg’s prime NFL meat

• Pellicano’s Rat Pack Loose Lips and Sinking Ships

• Two Tonys Is One Too Many for Mogul Brad Grey would rather be in bed with Soprano than Pellicano

• Oscar Hangover Finke’s five-step program will end the misery

• How Gay Will Oscar Go? Handicapping who’ll win, who’ll lose, and who’ll just jerk off

• Blame Ovitz When Art Started Imitating Hollywood