Golden Celebrity

· Music round-up: Shout Out Louds at the Henry Fonda; The Pity Party at the Viper Room; Brand New with Thrice and mewithoutYou at the Wiltern.
· Largo unleashes an all-star lineup on a semi-suspecting, comedy-craving public, gathering Paul F. Tompkins, Janeane Garofalo, Dana Gould, and Louis CK on its hallowed Fairfax Avenue stage. (Probably not [...]

Today’s most popular headlines are ‘Talkshow With Spike Feresten’ Writer First Casualty of Labor War (3,510 views today), Jon Stewart Reportedly Offering Two-Week Strike Fund To His Picketing Staffers (3,491) and The Strike: Day One (2,796).

Hollywood Chantwatch, Serenading Les Moonves Edition: The chanting-related issues at Paramount we noted earlier, it seems, might be a more widespread problem than we’d previously believed, as lackluster efforts have been reported elsewhere: “Picketers in front of CBS Television City weren’t chanting this morning, much to the chagrin of one of the organizers. ‘Getting a [...]

Last Wednesday, we momentarily paused from the unrelenting gloom of our StrikeWatching activities to sneak in a smile at the goat-despoiling adventures promised by an ad for Kill Buljo, a Norwegian import in which a katana-wielding, Boratesque protagonist embarks on a Kill Bill-inspired quest for revenge upon the fiends who slaughtered his family. Today, we [...]

At least one hard-to-please critic at Paramount feels let down by the WGA picketers’ early attempts at creating some megaphone-enhanced excitement within the non-striking population at the Melrose lot: “The chanting has begun. It’s already getting old. I love a good strike as much as the next person but you would think writers could come [...]