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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…
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The KCBS newsroom-cat story — Dorothy Lucey, Michael Horowicz, and the Columbia Square rodent fix
By Cassidy Lee · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, September 2012 In early September 2012, FishbowlLA caught a second wave of reaction to former Good Day LA anchor Dorothy Lucey’s blog launch. A previous-day Lucey-coverage piece had prompted longtime KCBS producer Michael Horowicz to share a story from the early…
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Moebius (Jean Giraud) dies at 73 — and the Hollywood lineage of his visual influence
By Cassidy Lee · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, March 2012 In mid-March 2012, the French graphic artist Jean Giraud — better known by his pen name Moebius — died at 73 after a long battle with cancer. The LA Times’s obituary led the coverage; FishbowlLA picked up the piece…
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Myles McNutt’s 2012 critique of Emmys mainstreaming — how AwardsLine and EW worked
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2012) · Wayback archive → In July 2012, University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate student and Cultural Learnings/A.V. Club TV critic Myles McNutt published an Antenna piece arguing that Deadline.com’s AwardsLine supplement and Entertainment Weekly’s For-Your-Consideration coverage had functionally become extensions of studio campaign promotion rather than independent…
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Karina Longworth’s December 2012 LA Weekly exit — and the long arc to You Must Remember This
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, December 2012 In mid-December 2012, LA Weekly film critic Karina Longworth announced she was leaving the staff to go freelance. Her stated reason was that a book project had come along — a Cahiers du Cinema commission on Meryl Streep —…
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Scott Feinberg’s 2012 Malibu sitdown with Martin Sheen — the long-form videotape interview as a Hollywood-coverage form
By Cassidy Lee · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, March 2012 In late March 2012, Hollywood Reporter writer Scott Feinberg published a nearly two-hour videotaped conversation with Martin Sheen at Sheen’s Malibu home. The interview had originated when Sheen heard, “through the grapevine,” about Feinberg’s fondness for The Way —…
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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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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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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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Discovery Channel cuts ties with Bear Grylls
By Cassidy Lee · Republished 2026-05-21 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, 2012 In March 2012, one of cable’s most bankable adventurers and his home network had a very public falling-out. Then FishbowlLA, citing reporting in The Hollywood Reporter, noted that the coming season of Man vs. Wild looked likely to be its…