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A TV director’s satirical answer to Kim Dotcom
By Sasha Park · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, 2012 In July 2012, as the Megaupload case ground on, FishbowlLA highlighted a working filmmaker’s wry rebuttal to Kim Dotcom’s overtures to Hollywood. Then Kim Dotcom had published a conciliatory July 17 open letter in The Hollywood Reporter. Writer-director Bruce Leddy…
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Patrick Goldstein’s 2012 trades ranking — Deadline 1st, Variety 4th, and the awards-ads tell
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2012) · Wayback archive → In July 2012, Los Angeles Times columnist Patrick Goldstein spent a week calling Hollywood and asked an awkward question — where does Variety actually rank now? — and got an awkward answer. The trades had been reordered, and Variety’s century-long presumption…
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Nic Harcourt returns to LA morning radio at CSUN’s KCSN — October 2012
By Sasha Park · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, October 2012 In mid-October 2012, Nic Harcourt — the former KCRW Morning Becomes Eclectic host who had handed the show to Jason Bentley in December 2008 — returned to LA morning radio. His new home was CSUN’s 88.5 FM (KCSN), the…
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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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KPCC’s August 2012 schedule shuffle — Patt Morrison out of mid-mornings, Brand & Martínez expand
By Sasha Park · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Marcus Vanderberg on FishbowlLA, August 2012 In late August 2012, KPCC announced a substantial weekday-schedule shuffle effective September 10. The Brand & Martínez show — co-hosted by Madeleine Brand and A Martínez — was expanded from one hour to two, taking the 9-to-11 a.m. mid-morning…
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KPCC president Bill Davis fields impromptu open-house questions — and confirms Madeleine Brand’s TV exit
By Sasha Park · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, October 2012 On October 2, 2012, KPCC held a “Millennials mixer” open house at its Pasadena headquarters. Among the small-group attendees was LA journalist Luis Gomez, who happened to encounter station president and CEO Bill Davis emerging from his office. Davis…
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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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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…