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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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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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THR’s 2012 Skype interview with Kim Dotcom — and the 13-year extradition fight that followed
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2012) · Wayback archive → In July 2012 The Hollywood Reporter senior writer Daniel Miller landed a Skype interview with Kim Dotcom from New Zealand, days after a court postponement of his U.S. extradition hearing. Dotcom called the January 2012 raid on his Auckland mansion “an…
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TheWrap questions the Hollywood Reporter’s finances; Janice Min responds
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, 2012 In July 2012 TheWrap put hard numbers on a question the trade press preferred to leave vague: was the relaunched, glossy Hollywood Reporter actually making money? Then With Richard Beckman exiting Prometheus Global Media and Dottie Mattison replacing him, TheWrap’s…
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Sharon Waxman’s 2012 ‘ugly THR picture’ — and Janice Min’s response
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2012) · Wayback archive → In early July 2012, with Richard Beckman exiting Prometheus Global Media and Dottie Mattison taking over the THR-and-Billboard parent company, TheWrap’s Sharon Waxman ran a piece painting an ugly behind-the-scenes picture at the trade publication. Janice Min responded publicly. Then Waxman’s…
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Dan Abrams fires back at a Hollywood Reporter legal item
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, 2012 In July 2012 FishbowlLA refereed a pointed dispute between two media operations — The Hollywood Reporter’s legal desk and Dan Abrams’s Mediaite — over how a story about a lawsuit had been reported. Then The trigger was a Hollywood Reporter…
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Chris Krewson jumps Variety for THR — the 2012 hire that signaled which way the trades were tilting
By Jordan Vega · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2012) · Wayback archive → In late June 2012 Variety.com editor Chris Krewson — half of the duo, with Josh Dickey, that ran Variety’s digital news desk and most recently the public BlogDogger watchdog feature — left to take the equivalent role at THR.com. Three months…
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Jeffrey Jolson-Colburn, longtime Hollywood Reporter music editor, has died
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-21 · Originally reported by Pandora Young on FishbowlLA, 2012 Before entertainment news fractured across a hundred websites, a handful of trade-paper bylines defined how Hollywood understood its own music business. Jeffrey Jolson-Colburn was one of them. In June 2012, FishbowlLA marked his death. Then Jeffrey Jolson-Colburn, a veteran entertainment…
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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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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 —…