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When the Academy’s first online-balloting year produced a same-day awards-press dustup
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2012) · Wayback archive → The 2012-2013 Oscar season was the first year the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences moved to online member balloting, and the rollout went poorly. The press story that surfaced the problem belonged to Scott Feinberg at THR. The story…
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Animal Radio’s Davy Jones final-interview re-air — a 2012 obit-in-broadcast format
By Sasha Park · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2012) · Wayback archive → In late December 2012, syndicated weekly Animal Radio announced it would re-air its final interview with Davy Jones — the Monkees frontman who had died in February 2012 of a heart attack at 66. The interview had been one of the…
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April 2012: Jay A. Fernandez joins Indiewire from The Hollywood Reporter
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, April 2012 In late April 2012, FishbowlLA covered Jay A. Fernandez officially starting at Indiewire as senior writer and news editor. The move — from The Hollywood Reporter — had first been announced by Anne Thompson on her Indiewire blog. Then…
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April 2012: Deadline gets fooled by a WorstPreviews April Fools ‘Prometheus sequel’ item
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, April 2012 In early April 2012, FishbowlLA documented a small trade-press embarrassment: a WorstPreviews.com April Fools item — a fake story claiming James Cameron wanted to direct a sequel to Ridley Scott’s Prometheus — had been picked up as real. The…
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Harrison Cheung’s Christian Bale biography — July 2012, the Manhattan Beach Barnes & Noble homecoming
By Cassidy Lee · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, July 2012 In mid-July 2012, FishbowlLA covered Harrison Cheung’s return to his Manhattan Beach stomping grounds for a Barnes & Noble appearance promoting his Christian Bale biography. Cheung had spent 1992 to 2002 working closely with Bale’s pre-Batman career. Then Harrison…
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Nikki Finke’s August 2012 Oscar-host TOLDJA — and the Fallon-or-not 2013 ceremony question
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, August 2012 In mid-August 2012, FishbowlLA tracked a Nikki Finke “TOLDJA!” on the question of who would host the 2013 Academy Awards. An LA Times report had Jimmy Fallon in talks to host with Lorne Michaels producing. Then Nikki Finke had…
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August 2012: the THR Kristen Stewart ‘Snow White’ sequel scoop and Marc Malkin’s dispute
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, August 2012 In mid-August 2012, The Hollywood Reporter’s Kim Masters and Borys Kit filed a story indicating Kristen Stewart had been dropped from Universal’s Snow White and the Huntsman sequel plans. E! News’s Marc Malkin publicly disputed the THR item. Then…
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When Sam Rubin’s Twitter got hacked — July 2012, KTLA, and the Gawker pile-on
By Cassidy Lee · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, July 2012 In early July 2012, KTLA entertainment reporter Sam Rubin’s Twitter account was hacked over a weekend — and the situation produced an unusual secondary story when Gawker’s Louis Peitzman read something darker into Rubin’s hacked feed even after Rubin…
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Bill Hader’s 2012 Emmy nomination — Saturday Night Live, John Cleese, and Elvis Mitchell’s KCRW Treatment
By Cassidy Lee · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, September 2012 In mid-September 2012, Bill Hader sat with Elvis Mitchell for an episode of KCRW’s The Treatment. Hader’s appearance came as he prepared for his first Primetime Emmy nomination in the Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series category —…