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Bill Higgins leaves Variety for a fast-expanding Hollywood Reporter
By Cassidy Lee · Republished 2026-05-21 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, 2010 In the autumn of 2010, every few weeks seemed to bring another byline defecting from Variety to The Hollywood Reporter. Bill Higgins was one of the more telling departures. Then FishbowlLA, citing Anne Thompson’s indieWIRE blog, reported that Bill Higgins…
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When The Hollywood Reporter’s web traffic first overtook its digital rivals
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-21 · Originally reported by Tina Dupuy on FishbowlLA, 2010 For years the conventional wisdom held that the old entertainment trades had been left behind online. In August 2010, a set of traffic numbers complicated that story. Then In the summer of 2010, The Hollywood Reporter — long dismissed as…
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KCRW UpClose’s October 2010 Matthew Weiner and Alan Ball events at NPR West
By Sasha Park · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Tina Dupuy on FishbowlLA, September 2010 In late September 2010, KCRW and NPR announced the next two installments of UpClose — their live-event series staged before an intimate audience at NPR West in Culver City. The October 12 event paired The Treatment host Elvis Mitchell…
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KCRW DJ Chris Douridas’s December 2010 on-air recovery from a rainy-night Hotel Cafe crash
By Sasha Park · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, December 2010 In mid-December 2010, KCRW DJ Chris Douridas paused mid-set on his weekly New Ground show to tell listeners he had been in a car accident the night before — on the way home from Hotel Cafe’s tenth-anniversary party. The…
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Denis Dutton, founder of Arts & Letters Daily — December 2010 obit and the durable link-curation legacy
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, December 2010 In late December 2010, philosophy professor Denis Dutton — founder of the link-curation site Arts & Letters Daily — died in New Zealand at 66. Dutton, who taught at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, was Los Angeles-born and…
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Bill Carter’s October 2010 ‘War for Late Night’ — and the long arc of the Conan-Jay conflict
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, October 2010 In late October 2010 — only ten months after Conan O’Brien had been forced off NBC’s Tonight Show by the late-night-schedule rearrangement that returned Jay Leno to the post-11 p.m. slot — New York Times television writer Bill Carter’s…
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Cutie and Pop Pop — the LA Times’ 2010 profile of the Boyle Heights nonagenarian bloggers
By Cassidy Lee · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer (2010) · Wayback archive → In mid-June 2010 the Los Angeles Times ran a feature on Barbara “Cutie” Cooper, 93, and her husband of 72 years, Harry “Pop Pop” Cooper, who were running a blog called The-OGs.com — short for Original Grandparents — out of their…
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Janice Min’s first THR hire was Kim Masters — and the show is still going
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer (2010) · Wayback archive → The single hire that announced Janice Min’s intention to remake The Hollywood Reporter wasn’t a deputy editor or a publisher — it was Kim Masters, brought in as Editor-At-Large with her KCRW show kept intact. Sixteen years later, that show is…
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The 2010 scoop on Fox’s Napoleon Dynamite animated series — and the six episodes that aired
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Alex Weprin (2010) · Wayback archive → Three days before Fox’s 2010 upfront presentation, Alex Weprin landed the network’s official confirmation that Napoleon Dynamite was being developed as an animated television series, with the original cast attached. The pilot was greenlit, the show aired, and it didn’t make…
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Alan Rich dies at 85 — the migratory music critic of LA Weekly, Newsweek, and Variety
By Maya Trent · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2010) · Wayback archive → In late April 2010, Alan Rich — one of the most-bylined American classical-music critics of the post-1960 era — died at 85 of natural causes. His career had taken him across the NY Times, Variety, LA Daily News, California magazine, the…