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KCET’s November 2012 set visit — SoCal Connected, Val Zavala, and the Burbank office relaunch
By Sasha Park · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, November 2012 In late November 2012, FishbowlLA published a set-visit feature on KCET — the LA-region public-television station that had recently moved to The Pointe in Burbank and was rebuilding its institutional infrastructure after the substantial 2011 break with PBS. The…
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Marc Malkin disputes the Hollywood Reporter’s Kristen Stewart ‘Snow White’ item
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, 2012 In August 2012 FishbowlLA dissected a disagreement between The Hollywood Reporter and E! News over a single verb — whether Kristen Stewart had been ‘dropped’ from a Snow White and the Huntsman sequel. Then The Hollywood Reporter, in a story…
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Helen Gurley Brown dies at 90 — and the Cosmo legacy at the 60-year mark
By Maya Trent · Originally reported by Pandora Young (2012) · Wayback archive → In mid-August 2012, Helen Gurley Brown — the longtime editor of Cosmopolitan magazine and the author of the 1962 best-seller Sex and the Single Girl — died at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia hospital at age 90. The Los Angeles connection — Brown was an…
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The LA Times promotes Joy Press to books and culture editor
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, 2012 In August 2012 the Los Angeles Times handed one of its most coveted culture jobs to Joy Press — a move FishbowlLA tracked partly because Press and her husband, music critic Simon Reynolds, were a familiar LA journalism couple. Then…
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THR’s 2012 Dodgers four-cover stunt — and what the Guggenheim era actually delivered
By Cassidy Lee · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2012) · Wayback archive → In August 2012 The Hollywood Reporter went all-in on the Los Angeles Dodgers, running four different print covers for a single issue — Clayton Kershaw, Magic Johnson and Peter Guber, Tommy Lasorda, and the Mattingly/Kemp/Ethier triple. Daniel Miller’s cover story and…
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When Deadline’s “TOLDJA!” became a Hollywood trade-press in-joke
By Cassidy Lee · Republished 2026-05-21 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, 2012 Every newsroom develops its own house style. Few have ever been as loud — literally, in all caps — as Deadline’s. Then In August 2012, FishbowlLA caught a small but revealing exchange between the warring entertainment trades. Deadline’s Mike Fleming…
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VFX Soldier breaks anonymity — the 2012 interview and what happened to the union push
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2012) · Wayback archive → In late July 2012, the anonymous entertainment-industry blogger VFX Soldier gave a long interview to electrician-and-organizer Bob Oedy at VFX Success. Eight months later, the broader VFX-industry crisis the interview was warning about exploded into public view. Then VFX Soldier’s two…
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A TV director’s satirical answer to Kim Dotcom
By Sasha Park · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, 2012 In July 2012, as the Megaupload case ground on, FishbowlLA highlighted a working filmmaker’s wry rebuttal to Kim Dotcom’s overtures to Hollywood. Then Kim Dotcom had published a conciliatory July 17 open letter in The Hollywood Reporter. Writer-director Bruce Leddy…
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Patrick Goldstein’s 2012 trades ranking — Deadline 1st, Variety 4th, and the awards-ads tell
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2012) · Wayback archive → In July 2012, Los Angeles Times columnist Patrick Goldstein spent a week calling Hollywood and asked an awkward question — where does Variety actually rank now? — and got an awkward answer. The trades had been reordered, and Variety’s century-long presumption…
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Don Winslow’s Metrolink commute that produced Bobby Z — OC Weekly’s Nick Schou and the Savages release window
By Cassidy Lee · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, July 2012 In mid-July 2012, OC Weekly’s Nick Schou published a cover-story interview with Don Winslow timed to the release of Oliver Stone’s Savages — the film adaptation of Winslow’s Laguna Beach drug-dealing-circle novel. The Schou piece included Winslow’s account of…