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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…
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The CSI creator pushes his ‘digi-novel’ experiment
By Cassidy Lee · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, 2010 In late 2010 the creator of CSI sat down with Mediabistro to talk up a format he was sure would be the future of storytelling: the ‘digi-novel.’ Then Anthony Zuiker, the mastermind of the CSI franchise, freely admitted that his…
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Anthony Zuiker’s 2010 ‘digi-novel’ bet — and the format the streaming era replaced it with
By Cassidy Lee · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2010) · Wayback archive → In November 2010, CSI franchise creator Anthony Zuiker gave FishbowlLA an exclusive interview about the next installments in his “digi-novel” trilogy. Level 26: Dark Origins (2009) had been the first attempt; Dark Prophecy was the new release. Then The digi-novel format…
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Michalene Busico’s 2010 move to Robb Report — and the long Spring Street Project diaspora
By Jordan Vega · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer (2010) · Wayback archive → In late October 2010, CurtCo Media announced that Michalene Busico — formerly executive editor of Entrepreneur, deputy features editor of the LA Times, food editor of the New York Times for five years before that — was joining Robb Report as…
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April 2010: the HBO ‘Tilda’ pilot, the Nikki Finke resemblance, and the lawsuit question
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Pandora Young on FishbowlLA, April 2010 In late April 2010, FishbowlLA weighed in on the HBO pilot Tilda — a project about a powerful Hollywood blogger who used her website to take on Tinseltown’s power players. When THR’s Matthew Belloni revealed the script details, the…