Being disliked in Hollywood isn't too hard, but usually you have to at least be universally known in order to be universally hated. Apparently not anymore.
Former journalist turned internet troll masquerading as a "film critic" Jeffrey Wells does not play nice on the internet. His latest target? Mentally disabled people.
Two point nine percent. In 38 years, a mere 2.9% of Saturday Night Live's cast has been both female and black. But according to a man who played Pierre Escargot on national television for half a decade, the reason Saturday Night Live has no black women on air is because black women aren't good enough to be on SNL.
Dan Harmon is a colossal dick. Any modicum of talent he maybe possesses is besmirched by his colossal dickishness in every other gross pig way. He was such a colossal dick to work with, NBC fired him off of his own show (when your show is airing on a network that was run into the ground by hard-partying douchebag Ben Silverman, and even they won't look the other way on your cocaine-snorting workdays, you know you're a dick). Then, when they hired him back, instead of projecting a deservedly smug image, Harmon compared the season not run by him to watching his family "get raped on a beach." Pleasant.
Things aren't coming up roses for NBC President of Entertainment, Jen Salke. Just hours after Defamer posted a profile about her powder-hitting, ghost-hunting ways, we received this tip from a source who works on NBC's The Michael J. Fox Show. (The claim was subsequently backed up by someone familiar with the situation.)
Being the president of a floundering, working-its-way-out-of-fifth-place network is hard! So what's NBC President of Entertainment Jen Salke doing to help right the rapidly sinking scripted ship? Skiing, chatting with her old bosses, avoiding work, and embarrassing Sean Hayes, of course. Also: hunting ghosts.
There's an important thing you should to know about (current? who can keep track, really) journalist turned filmmaker Peter Landesman, a thing that can just barely be gleaned from the oddly self-congratulatory Vanity Fair and Hollywood Reporter interviews that came out last month as his directorial debut Parkland—a Tom Hanks-produced JFK assassination biopic—was set to open at the Venice and Toronto film festivals. Peter Landesman is a colossal dick.
Being a PR flack isn't easy. Much of the job revolves around using Exacto knives to perfectly clip Us Weekly articles for EPKs without slitting your own wrists, shuttling celebrities from point A to point B (point A being the top of the red carpet, point B being 3 feet down the red carpet), and staying out of the camera's watchful eye themselves, all while subsisting on a diet of Diet Coke and Parliament Lights. It's no wonder most publicists have got one hell of a bitchy resting face.
As the mystery feud between major agency UTA and manager Shelley Browning's Magnolia Entertainment rages on—UTA recently vowed never to work with Magnolia again, on the heels of Browning pulling almost all her clients from the agency—the lurking question remains: why do UTA and Browning suddenly hate each other? I put in some calls to get to the bottom of it, and learned that the blow-up may have come down to Browning's Svengali-like hold over her clients
After fewer than two years at CAA, fashion agent Mitch Grossbach is already looking to set up camp at a new talent agency - and carting around a hilarious Powerpoint deck to sell himself.
