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The Deadline blog is thriving, but seems jammed with less focused content. Many folks are giving their announcements to Fleming, who handles them with his usual delicacy. And Andreeva is running trade TV news. Just as Deadline has become blander and more institutional, of all places, Film Comment steps off its ivory tower late in the day to run yet another admiring feature positioning Finke as the maverick journalist going up against the establishment. No wonder Bill Condon wanted to base a series on her.
2 Comments
Bob Westal | June 12, 2010 6:50 AM
I'm not sure I'd call that Film Comment feature "admiring," exactly.
"....the (by Finke’s claim) million or so unique monthly visitors that click on Deadline Hollywood are asked to pay, they can continue to enjoy, gratis, Finke’s near-patented style of innuendo, unsourced quotes, outright vilification, and attempts to redact her mistakes into 'updates.' It appears that the Internet, Hollywood, and Nikki Finke were made for each other.
Anne Thompson | June 12, 2010 4:30 AM
The writer saves that for the end--and after reading it over, I'd say that overall, the piece is, indeed, admiring.