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When Deadline launched a Facebook game with Paramount — a 2011 cross-promo curio
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2011) · Wayback archive → In July 2011 Deadline.com partnered with Paramount Digital Entertainment and Liquid Entertainment to launch a Facebook game letting players experience the equivalent of running a Hollywood studio. Then The pitch was a Facebook-platform game built around the studio-mogul fantasy genre —…
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Hailee Steinfeld at 14 — the True Grit launch and a career that has very much continued
By Cassidy Lee · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2010) · Wayback archive → In December 2010, fourteen-year-old Hailee Steinfeld — Thousand Oaks resident, newcomer star of the Coen brothers’ True Grit — was the awards-season story everyone in LA media was writing about. The FishbowlLA framing placed her in a small lineage: Keisha Castle-Hughes…
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The #MooreandMe Twitter pile-on — and what it told us about a platform that no longer exists
By Sasha Park · Originally reported by Pandora Young (2010) · Wayback archive → Before “platform pile-on” was a fixed phrase and before X stopped being Twitter, the December 2010 #MooreandMe campaign was the genre’s prototype: a hashtag aimed at two cable-left celebrities, a refusal to let them off the hook, and a public figure…
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The Hollywood Reporter brings in a Variety veteran as associate publisher
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-21 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, 2010 The Hollywood Reporter’s 2010 reinvention was not only an editorial project. It was a business one — and that meant hiring on the sales side, too. Then In December 2010, FishbowlLA reported that Variety veteran Craig Hitchcock had signed on…
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The kilt-wearing Scotsman who crashed awards season with a camcorder
By Cassidy Lee · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, 2010 One of FishbowlLA’s reliable pleasures was the small story about an outsider talking his way inside. In late 2010 that outsider was Douglas McFarlane, a London-based Scotsman with a day job in bank security and a tongue-in-cheek DVD to sell.…
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Gustavo Turner vs the LA Times on Echo Park — gentrification, anachronism, and a 2010 dust-up
By Maya Trent · Originally reported by Pandora Young (2010) · Wayback archive → In early December 2010, LA Weekly music editor Gustavo Turner — a Los Feliz resident who knew the territory — published a sharp critique of a recent LA Times piece on Echo Park’s gentrification. He called the Times piece “an epically…
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Meghan Daum’s 2010 LA Times typhus columns — and what came next for her career
By Maya Trent · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2010) · Wayback archive → In late November 2010, LA Times columnist Meghan Daum used her column to disclose a near-fatal medical episode: what she’d thought was an ordinary flu virus had turned out to be murine typhus, transmitted via flea feces from backyard rodents. The…
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Remembering reality-TV producer Denise Cramsey
By Cassidy Lee · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, 2010 In November 2010 FishbowlLA noted Variety’s tribute to a reality-television producer whose sudden death stunned her colleagues. Then FishbowlLA pointed readers to Variety’s Stuart Levine, who had written what it called a tasteful tribute to Emmy-winning reality producer Denise Cramsey.…
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David Macaray’s 2010 ‘replacement worker’ essay — and the strike-coverage vocabulary fight
By Sasha Park · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2010) · Wayback archive → In late November 2010, LA playwright and former union representative David Macaray published a Dissident Voice essay arguing that the term “replacement worker” — the media-neutral phrasing for someone hired to do a striking employee’s job — was a deliberate vocabulary-shift…
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Tom Christie’s 2010 exit from LA Weekly — and the last of the old guard
By Maya Trent · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer (2010) · Wayback archive → In mid-November 2010, Tom Christie spent his last day at LA Weekly, ending a 15-year tenure as senior features editor. The original FishbowlLA framing — “the last true stalwart of the old LA Weekly editorial guard is moving on” — is…