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When the trades fought over Angelina Jolie’s rumored Fifty Shades involvement — and what actually happened
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2012) · Wayback archive → In early June 2012 Variety’s film editor Josh Dickey and Variety.com’s Chris Krewson posted public, biting tweets about a Mike Fleming Deadline item that floated the possibility of Angelina Jolie directing the Fifty Shades of Grey adaptation. The trade war erupted…
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When Deadline’s Mike Fleming moonlighted as Playboy’s celebrity interviewer
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, 2012 Long before he became one of the most-cited bylines in Hollywood deal coverage, Mike Fleming had a side gig: he conducted the marquee Q&A for Playboy. In 2012 FishbowlLA noted that the Deadline editor was still keeping that tradition alive,…
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Trade Fools, the anonymous 2012 Blogspot watchdog that the trades survived
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2012) · Wayback archive → In the spring of 2012 a brand-new Blogspot site appeared called Trade Fools, written anonymously, with the single mission of grading and ribbing the four Hollywood trades. FishbowlLA gave it a welcoming hand. Fourteen years later, the trade-watchdog model it represented…
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Jon Thurber retires, the LA Times books editor search begins — May 2012
By Maya Trent · Originally reported by Marcus Vanderberg (2012) · Wayback archive → In May 2012, longtime LA Times books editor Jon Thurber announced his retirement, and the paper opened the search for his successor. The transition was a small structural moment in the city’s books-and-criticism beat. Then Thurber had been one of the…
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The Hollywood Reporter’s website adds three editors
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, 2012 A routine April 2012 masthead item from FishbowlLA captured The Hollywood Reporter staffing up its website during the Janice Min expansion years. Then THR.com announced that Seth Abramovitch had been appointed deputy editor, while Erin Carlson and Jordan Zakarin joined…
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Ken Kobré’s ‘Deadline Every Second’ AP-photographer documentary
By Maya Trent · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2012) · Wayback archive → In April 2012, San Francisco State University professor Ken Kobré released Deadline Every Second, a documentary about twelve Associated Press photojournalists — including SoCal staffer Chris Carlson — capturing news from national and international hot spots. Then Kobré had been a…
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Eriq Gardner’s 2012 promotion to THR senior editor — and the Hollywood, Esq. franchise
By Jordan Vega · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2012) · Wayback archive → In early April 2012 The Hollywood Reporter promoted Eriq Gardner — the prolific contributor behind THR’s Hollywood, Esq. legal column — to the full-time senior editor role, partly to fill the New York gap created by Georg Szalai’s move to London.…
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When Entertainment Weekly trimmed a Jennifer Love Hewitt ad
By Cassidy Lee · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, 2012 A small FishbowlLA visual catch from April 2012: the same Lifetime ad campaign appeared in two magazines — and the two versions were not quite the same. Then The post set up a side-by-side. The back cover of The Hollywood…
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How Deadline got caught by a Prometheus April Fools’ joke
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, 2012 April 1 is a hazard for fast-moving trade reporters, and in 2012 FishbowlLA caught Deadline.com failing the test — then declining to admit it cleanly. Then The prank originated at worstpreviews.com, in a fake item claiming James Cameron wanted to…