Michael Sonnenschein |
Posted Friday February 16, 2007 at 02:21 PM
- Um, isn't that off-message? Daphna Ziman, one of Hollywood's leading Hillary Clinton fundraisers, on why her candidate should win: "The nation is in deep need for a mother figure who will lead the people out of a violent world and back into caring for the poor and the disabled, mostly caring for our children, our future." But, you know, a mother hawk who isn't afraid to use military force when necessary.
- Note from the Phil Anschutz / Clive Cussler proceedings, the thinking Hollywood trial enthusiast's Pellicano: today the jury will take a field trip to the Paramount lot to watch 'Sahara' in a fancy screening room, because, per Anschutz's lead attorney, "it is important for the jury to decide whether audiences enjoyed this movie or not." The two sides skirmished about whether the jury should just watch the thing in the courtroom.
- A new study determines that the counterfeit goods trade cost the Los Angeles economy about $5.2 billion in 2005. About half of which is from the movie industry. Of course, Hollywood also gives away about $6 billion of crap in gift bags every year, but who's studying that?
- Oh, and remember Michael Richards? We don't, but he's declining to appear at a fake trial.
