Electus – R.I.P.

I realize that Electus – the earth-shattering, ground-breaking, cutting-edge new business from Ben Silverman and Barry Diller’s IAC/ InterActiveCorp hasn’t launched, but I have recently climbed aboard Khan Manka, Jr.’s Time Machine and gone into the not-too-distant future to retrieve the press release announcing (sadly)…

$100 million start up fund, Adam Fogelson, Angela Bromstad, Ari Emanuel, Barry Diller, Ben Silverman, Donna Langley, Fortune's 40 under 40, IAC, Jay Leno, Jeff Weiner, Jeff Zucker, Jeffrey Immelt, Jill Kennedy, John Ferriter, Khan Manka, Manka Bros., media analyst, NBC Universal, Nikki Finke, On Medea, OnMedea, OnMedea's Top 40 Failures Under 40, Paul Telegdy, Rick Finkelstein, Ryan Seacrest, Sharon Waxman, Tara Swisher, Terry Semel, The Biggest Loser, the Jay Leno Show, The Restaurant, The Tonight Show, thewrap.com, twitter, William Faulkner

Ben Silverman – Fortune’s 40 Under 40?!

Seriously, Fortune?  Are you fucking kidding me?  What, will you sell 15 more magazines with him on the list?  Couldn’t come up with that 40th name? What about Jeff Weiner – he’s under 40 and was named CEO of LinkedIn.  That’s a pretty big job…

Ayn Rand Was NOT A Conservative

There was a story posted on The Daily Beast by Rebecca Dana titled AYN RAND POWER DRESSING in which she writes: “Ayn Rand–author of The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, mother of Objectivism, and the conservative movement’s most rapacious cougar–leapt back into popular culture this year…

TheWrap.com Blows The Lid Off Nookie

Seriously, Sharon? Are you f-ing kidding me? This is why TheWrap.com is necessary?  “Sex On The Set, Part 2:  How Fake Is It, Really” – a story so probing, so important, so searing that it needs TWO PARTS! When I punched up TheWrap.com this morning…

Adam Kaufman, Allan Arkush, Ashlee Simpson-Wentz, Caprice Crane, Colin Egglesfield, Daniel Thomsen, Darren Star, Darren Swimmer, Davis Guggenheim, Dawn Ostroff, Episode 6 Shoreline, Ethan Erickson, Felicity, Fred Toye, Gossip Girl, Greg Beeman, Jason Olive, Jessica Lucas, Jill Kennedy, Joshua Levey, Katie Cassidy, Kelly Carlson, Khan Manka, Laura Leighton, Manka Bros., media blog, Melrose Place, Michael Rady, Nicholas Gonzalez, Norman Buckley, OnMedea, Patrick R. Norris, Roswell, Roxann Dawson, Shaun Sipos, Stephanie Jacobsen, The Beautiful Life: TBL, The CW, The Vampire Diaries, The WB, Thomas Calabro, Todd Slavkin, Victor Webster

It’s Time To Kill Melrose Place

Attention to Dawn Ostroff and all those concerned at The CW – it’s time. It was a valiant attempt to bring back the 1990s glory days of small network success, but it’s time – time to kill Melrose Place.  The CW IS The WB and…

Southland Canceled – Ben Silverman Strikes Again

From the executive grave, Ben Silverman has struck again.  Southland, the once promising (for one episode) gritty cop show has been canceled (before its season premiere!). Another day – another failed show.  NBC is in big trouble.  Mercy, Trauma, Heroes – all cancellations to come….

Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Love Never Dies

“LOVE NEVER DIES”? That’s the name of the sequel to the Phantom of the Opera? You mean “Love Never Dies” like the tag line to Francis Ford Coppola’s 1992 movie “Dracula” starring the great Keanu Reeves doing one of the worst British accents in the…

The Nobel Prize For Chemistry

YOU’VE GOT TO BE F-ING KIDDING ME!! I apologize but this cannot stand!  I am shocked and saddened by today’s news of the 2009 Nobel Prize winners for Chemistry. Seriously?  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A. Steitz, and Ada E. Yonath? Somebody please tell me if this…

Attention Digital Hollywood!

OK – it’s time to redesign your website.  That’s just hideous! Come on – you’re called DIGITAL HOLLYWOOD!  A site like that makes people go running back to Analog.  Simplified complexity, please. Jill Kennedy – OnMedea

Ben Silverman’s New Company?

OK, Ben. It’s been nearly three months since you announced you were leaving NBC to start a new company that will “capitalize on the ever-evolving world of multimedia production and distribution.”   We’re still waiting. Who knows?  Maybe you actually did stay at NBC to help…