Comments on Crazy Days and Nights: Today's Blind Items

You're welcome, marian. Hope all of this other st...

2007-11-09T05:21:00.000-08:00

You're welcome, marian. Hope all of this other stuff is behind us and we can get back to just having fun here. That's the way it will be on my end.

Thanks, Twisted Sister, for taking the time to exp...

2007-11-09T03:01:00.000-08:00

Thanks, Twisted Sister, for taking the time to explain the Timmy/Shimmy fiasco to me - I appreciate it. I had no idea there was such backlash from it.

Phooey, I want to thank you for that exchange of e...

2007-11-08T14:52:00.000-08:00

Phooey, I want to thank you for that exchange of emails we had this morning.

My anger at you completely dissolved and I am glad we got to a point of mutual understanding. I feel really good about it now. I thanked you on my blog, too.

Thanks and best wishes to you and yours...

marian, I will calmly ask you to go back and read ...

2007-11-08T05:55:00.000-08:00

marian, I will calmly ask you to go back and read through what I wrote. I never said being gay is sick. NEVER. It isn't. I won't even try to explain what I meant for fear I'll be misquoted again. And yes, I swear when I'm mad and being misquoted so that I'm made to look like I'm something I'm not. It infuriates me. If there are rules here about language, kindly point them out to me because I never got the memo.

The Timmy/Shimmy fiasco. You know the story, right? Then you know that part of the story on the front end was that the man received an award for a role he played, that he was in movies playing the part of a woman, etc. This gave off an impression that wasn't the story that was given during the reveal. The real story is that Timmy did some stand in work for Shimmy and Shimmy won the award for the work she did. Timmy didn't win anything. He was just a stand-in. It was very misleading and a lot of people lost trust in anything posted here and decided to leave.

If you do a search for Timmy/Shimmy, and read through all his hints and read the reveal, you'll see what I'm talking about. The blind item sounded like one thing and ended up to be something else. A lot of people spent time researching things, so they felt duped and misled and left. Some of us felt duped and misled and stayed. And I don't know about the rest.

Hey Twisted Sister - what's with all the swearing?...

2007-11-08T03:38:00.000-08:00

Hey Twisted Sister - what's with all the swearing? A little too defensive. Yes, I'm a lesbian but no agenda here. You lost your vocabulary to swearing because you believed you were misquoted. I simply pointed out you indeed did not use the word "sick" - what's with all the hate?

On another subject, several posters have referenced the "Timmy/Shimmy disaster" - can anyone explain the disaster part to me please? I'm familiar with Timmy/Shimmy as I read most of the postings here on the blog, but what about it made people leave the site?

To set the record straight, I never questioned whe...

2007-11-07T22:52:00.000-08:00

To set the record straight, I never questioned whether the conference took place, I questioned why you (Hez) couldn't get audiotape or video of DS.

I am sorry if you feel "shat upon," Hez. You have provided so much information about your personal life to the people on this site (via your blog, saying you correspond with Ent and he asked you to be a moderator, saying DS emails you personally, and finally setting up this conference and CDANCON site). It is a little hard to feel sorry for you feeling that your privacy is violated. No one is demanding that you "prove yourself" to not be Ent, or asking for your head. I expressed my opinion that you are Ent, based on what appears to me to be logical connections. If you aren't, laugh it off and be flattered that you have developed such a personality on this site.

You opened yourself up to all of this. Every link to your blog or your CDANCON site lists bios and resumes of yours, and you do hold yourself out to be a public relations person with extensive experience at seminars and conferences. You post your photography and you filmed videos for your blog and you bragged up a job at "a behind the scenes of making movies" site where you blog with indepth knowledge about movies/producing. It is not believable that you wouldn't know how to organize a small get-together and videotape or somehow get footage of DS at the lunch. Overall, you didn't, who cares? Don't worry about writing about the lunch or your trip there, I don't think anyone really cares at this point anymore, so don't do anyone any favors. If you are NOT ent, maybe you should just focus on other blogs because your involvement in this one got a little weird.

you sure ad alot of time to reply, yet no time to ...

2007-11-07T20:11:00.000-08:00

you sure ad alot of time to reply, yet no time to post about the conference in the past- what- days of hectic activity surrounding your job?

i'm just sayin...

#2 - I don't think it could be Heaton considering ...

2007-11-07T19:58:00.000-08:00

#2 - I don't think it could be Heaton considering this pic http://admin.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/photo.jpg

But what do I know?

I think there are only about 4 of us from Vancouve...

2007-11-07T19:03:00.000-08:00

I think there are only about 4 of us from Vancouver (cyberfriends like Jax, bmini, orbison - anyone I missed?) so there goes that tired old canard. And yes, I have friends on my Flickr page that are also on CDAN. SHOCKING, I know! Sorry, be right back - I think 60 Minutes is at the door.

Just because I "do" Communications and PR doesn't mean I'm making money from it... or have any skill at event planning. If someone with actual CORPORATE PR experience like Mistik had run the conference, I can assure you all it would have been smooth as silk. We would have had a working video camera, a real venue and a lot of other stuff. As it is, we had a gathering and I had a bloody good time.

I don't know why on earth I am explaining this, but PR is a sideline - I work for friends and artists and am usually paid in beer, bathing suits or bud. Wanna make me feel bad about that? The line forms behind my dad.

I've never met Ent in person, I don't know who he is, and I've stopped thinking I ever will after being unable to connect with him in LA. Yeah, I was pissy about that. So sue me.

I offered to put on a "conference" for fun, to meet the people I like, to meet DS and to help out an internet buddy who kept me entertained this last year when some heavy personal shit was going down for me.

To get shat on after the fact by someone who didn't attend, didn't support it, doesn't even believe it happened and is going to trash talk me and this blog no matter what anyway... well, I guess I expected all of that, and that's why I'm busy with a lot of other things right now, none of which have included revealing personal details about my life in little comment boxes on this website. I think I'll be doing even less of that in the future.

The blind item about the producer is a little too ...

2007-11-07T17:47:00.000-08:00

The blind item about the producer is a little too much candid. Royalty calculation one of the most widespread source of litigations between producers and other parties supposed to get a share on grosses. Many deals don't specify if the share is net or gross. The guys who sign the deal assume it is gross, the studio claim it is net, minus the costs of promotion, distribution, etc. Through "creative accounting", fairly successful movies can actually stay in the red for years. And for big hits, hundreds of millions are at stake. Just look at the litigations over "Lord of the Rings". Saul Zaentz (who owns the rights to the novel) won $94m as his share was miscalculated and Peter Jackson and his wife have also sued New Line for similar reasons.

The same methods are also quite widespread in music. For instance, Roger McGuinn, leader of The Byrds, claims he has never received any royalty from his labels as a recording artist (writing royalties are handled separately). He just got the advancee from the record company and after 35 years, "Mr. Tambourine Man" was still supposed to be in the red (the album reissue costs are put in the expenses column, for instance). Most active artists never notice the trick from the beginning because they're living on the advances. It's only a few years later that they realize they have never got a dime from their big hit and it's too late for them to renegociate their contracts.

Any entertainment lawyer in L.A. is supposed to know this. Artists get screwed everyday. The only original thing about this blind item is that the guy shags the female lead (then, why did Steve Bing, if it's him, invest $40m of his own money into "The Polar Express"?) and declares every time bankruptcy for the company that produced the movie. It's quite shady and would get the attention of many investors and insiders.

The Timmy/Shimmy thing ruined it on one level for ...

2007-11-07T13:11:00.000-08:00

The Timmy/Shimmy thing ruined it on one level for me, but I still enjoy reading a lot of the gossip here rather than going to several sources - and to be honest, I trust outside gossip more now that the Timmy/Shimmy incident took place. And again, I like the people. Even when I get into scraps with people, it's over the next day as far as I'm concerned (well, in almost all cases - there are a couple of people whose names I see and just blow past their posts without wasting my time reading them).

I'm not getting what the fiasco is about the lunch, though. Why is it a fiasco?

I miss some of the oldies too. Timmy really ruine...

2007-11-07T12:36:00.000-08:00

I miss some of the oldies too. Timmy really ruined it for me. Now this fiasco with the convention. I really think it's just not the same anymore.

LM - I completely agree with you. There is NO WAY...

2007-11-07T11:53:00.000-08:00

LM - I completely agree with you. There is NO WAY that an attorney in any industry would have the time to sit on the computer. NO WAY! In fact, no attorney would want to. They're too stressed out to bother with bullshit like celebrity gossip.

Of course EL isn't an attorney. And I think Phooey is right in saying that more than one person "contributes" to the blog.

It's too bad the Shimmy/Timmy fiasco led to hard feelings and jumping of the ship. I miss a lot of the regulars that used to come here. I think some of us stay because we enjoy the community, not because we believe it's one attorney putting the site together.

The main thing that has never added up for me rega...

2007-11-07T11:39:00.000-08:00

The main thing that has never added up for me regarding Ent vs. Hez as being owner of this blog is how the hell do you post three, four times a day, complete with carefully uploaded photos, and wonderfully snarky text (because I love it all!) while maintaining a career as an entertainment lawyer? Unless you're very low down on the totem pole, like a legal assistant or something? But even then, don't they work your ass ragged because you're still a flunky?

I had a blog for a while devoted to Angelina Jolie. It was an experiment to see if I could earn money via Adsense while having fun posting about a fascinating celeb. I very quickly found out that even posting once or twice a day was EXTREMELY time consuming. So when I look at how many posts are going up here, it just doesn't add up as a lawyer doing all this work.

That said, I still have fun here, and I greatly appreciate all the effort that goes into this place! Put some Googleads on here already so your blog can start paying you something. Blogads don't always pay very much unless there is real synergy behind the advertizer and the blog audience. Is anybody here really interested in blooming teas or whatever? I'd be far more likely to click on a google ad related to some kind of celebrity material like ringtones, dvd's, etc.

Just my two cents! I believe in rewarding bloggers for all their hard work because I know firsthand how much work it involves.

So let me click on your adsense ads, already!

LM

Nicely said Phooey

2007-11-07T11:17:00.000-08:00

Nicely said Phooey

I think the aging tv star is Jean Smart on Samanth...

2007-11-07T09:30:00.000-08:00

I think the aging tv star is Jean Smart on Samantha Who...Christina Applegate's "mother"....

Sorry- More than one "anon".....

2007-11-07T09:19:00.000-08:00

Sorry- More than one "anon".....

Nice job Phooey!!! I like what you said, and I'm ...

2007-11-07T09:18:00.001-08:00

Nice job Phooey!!! I like what you said, and I'm impressed.

TS- PUBIC Relations cracked me up! Too cute!!

I also believe Hezzers is Ent. And I'm fine with it. I have noticed that the Timmy crapola lost alot of regular posters, which is a shame. There are a few names we never see any more, and that's ashame. Although I rarely read now too. I'm no Hezbian though... I really don't care much for her at all.

Oh- and there than one "anon".... I'm the one who thinks Ent is an ASSHOLE :) For the record.

"As for actors and residuals...remember when the c...

2007-11-07T09:17:00.000-08:00

"As for actors and residuals...remember when the casts of "Seinfeld" and "The Simpsons" held out for bigger back-end percentage based on the success of the show? Well, judging by that logic, every project they've been involved with that has failed, they should give their money back to the producers. Because if they feel responsible for a show's success, they should also take the responsibility for its failure."

Wrong! They held out for bigger pay for exactly the right reasons - that they were all to recognizable as characters on hit shows and would NOT be able to carry other shows because of the huge exposure of the successful character.

Friends and Seinfeld actors knew exactly what was coming and wanted some protection. None of them get points in current profits (neither do writers, so you are wrong there, too) so they all opted to hold out for a bigger, per episode, contract.

What's wrong with being a bastard?

2007-11-07T09:07:00.000-08:00

What's wrong with being a bastard?

HARRIET --To answer your question: Guild minimum f...

2007-11-07T09:00:00.000-08:00

HARRIET --

To answer your question: Guild minimum for a 5 day a week talk show writer hovers around $3000/week. For an anonymous sitcom writer, the salary usually is around 4 to 6000 per week, plus $18 to $21000 per full episode script they write. The average staff writer writes two full epsiode scripts themselves per season (at the 18 to 20 per) and in addition collects their weekly salary for 36 to 40 weeks per year.

It definitely is a lot compared to a real world job, but take home pay after taxes, agents, managers, etc. is significantly lower.

Plus they get residuals. (In most jobs, like building homes, people get paid once. and just because the new owner then sells the house, it doesn't mean the original builder gets a percentage everytime it changes hand).

As for actors and residuals...remember when the casts of "Seinfeld" and "The Simpsons" held out for bigger back-end percentage based on the success of the show? Well, judging by that logic, every project they've been involved with that has failed, they should give their money back to the producers. Because if they feel responsible for a show's success, they should also take the responsibility for its failure.

But that's just me.

Sorry, bmini, for being wrong on that part. It do...

2007-11-07T08:00:00.000-08:00

Sorry, bmini, for being wrong on that part. It does seem like there are an inordinate number of Vancouver commenters, but it obviously is coincidence in your case! I am not saying I know anything, just speculating. Of course, I could have the whole thing wrong, who knows!

Maybe it stands for pubic relations.

2007-11-07T07:55:00.000-08:00

Maybe it stands for pubic relations.

Phooey if you read the comments on her site it als...

2007-11-07T07:54:00.000-08:00

Phooey if you read the comments on her site it also sounded like Hez was pissed off because Enty only gave her a one way ticket to LA and didn't help her book a hotel room. I guess when you're a public relations person you can't afford to pay your own way and have no idea how to book a room yourself. P.R. does stand for public relations doesn't it?

Phooey,Thanks for the post, it was interesting.......

2007-11-07T07:47:00.000-08:00

Phooey,

Thanks for the post, it was interesting.....and I admire that you are able to state your well thought out opinion without being rude and/or vulgar. I just have to say though....I am one of the people from Vancouver, and I really do not know Hez or Ent or anyone from this blog, outside of this blog. I don't think any of us know each other in the real world....I don't think there are that many posters from Vancouver (I think there are four of us?)...maybe we are just more vocal about where we are from??