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    Image of Richard Blakeley Richard Blakeley
    11/05/09

    In reply to Ben Silverman's New College Buddy
    Ricky Van Veen is super talented, so how is this a bad thing? #bensilverman
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    Image of TheSometimesWhy TheSometimesWhy
    11/05/09

    In reply to Ben Silverman's New College Buddy
    I hate to break it to you, but Mr. Silverman has fallen a lot farther than you know. At the Coffee and Tea Bean on Sunset this morning, he made me the tastiest chai-latte, and it only took him three tries.

    This man has a future.

    Oh, and with the money I left for a tip, I suggested that he take his friend on over to Fantastic Sam's for the Emo Phillip's Special.

    Talk about a win-win....
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    Image of Trai_Dep Trai_Dep
    11/05/09

    In reply to Ben Silverman's New College Buddy
    With a haircut like that, Van Veen is definitely straight. Limits the "benefits" part of the friends-with-benefits equation, no? #bensilverman
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    Image of FormerEnglishMajor FormerEnglishMajor
    11/05/09

    In reply to Ben Silverman's New College Buddy
    Wait, isn't Bee Schaeffer at College Humor as well? Maybe Ben can do a multi-platform deal where it's Electus, Notional, CollegeHumor AND TeenVogue, where Grace Coddington will argue against Ben's ideas and come off as the real leader. #bensilverman
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    Image of Motoko Kusanagi Motoko Kusanagi
    11/05/09

    In reply to Ben Silverman's New College Buddy
    "besties" must die. #bensilverman
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    Image of Magister Magister
    11/05/09

    In reply to Ben Silverman's New College Buddy
    Was it all a plot? Did Ben Silverman fatally wound broadcast television to boost demand for 'net video? #bensilverman
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    Image of TheHonJudgeSmails TheHonJudgeSmails
    11/05/09

    In reply to Ben Silverman's New College Buddy
    This would make a great buddy flick. Silverman could play the guy whose abilities are too small for his position, while Van Veen plays the guy who makes comedy that isn't funny. #bensilverman
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    Image of mattchew03 mattchew03
    10/26/09

    In reply to Nikki Finke Now Addicted to Self-Unawareness

    I'm actually proud of Nikki for only having three cases of the Finkes (thanks, Foster) since John Cook called her out last month. Or is three in about a month not so good? Relatively speaking, of course.

    Also, has no one been able to come up with a recent picture of her? Seriously? The woman is worse than Howard Hughes. #nikkifinke
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    Image of Cynical Media Bitch Cynical Media Bitch
    10/26/09

    @mattchew03: From what I've read of her, I would consider her insufferable in person, and I'm grateful that I'm not at all connected to The Industry. (Unless someone wants to option an unfinished story treatment, hmmm?)

    That said, I just paged back through a couple of weeks of her site and on a very superficial reading, I admit that I'm impressed by her work ethic. She rarely takes a full day off, has at least one post on Sunday and a few on Saturday. On most weekdays, she seems to average a post every hour or two, which isn't bad for what appears to be a one-person operation. Yes, she might be able to even out the workload if she had an assistant who was deputized to post a bit of filler to cover the occasional absence, but the readers would be able to smell the ersatz from Palm Springs.

    To her credit, she acknowledges when there's been an unusual lapse in posting, unlike some sites I could name. If I were Jay Penske, I would insist that she post those apologies up front, but the current scheme does drive up page views. It's the tone of those apologies that makes my teeth hurt, especially when she says she's been "AWOL" -- who would she answer to besides Penske? #nikkifinke
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    Image of mattchew03 mattchew03
    10/26/09

    @Cynical Media Bitch: Yeah, I share your observation. I've read her site for a few years, actually, and definitely give her kudos for turning out a lot of posts when she's actually posting. And I totally agree re: things like the "AWOL" comment -- hilarious. #nikkifinke
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    Image of limber limber
    10/22/09

    In reply to NBC Chief Says He's Not Playing to Lose While Leno Loses to Cable
    He can do whatever he wants, unless that includes canning "Chuck".

    Touch "Chuck", and NBC is dead to me. #nbc
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    Image of lionboy lionboy
    10/22/09

    In reply to NBC Chief Says He's Not Playing to Lose While Leno Loses to Cable
    The only upside to having my marketing job cut at an NBC affiliate is that I didn't have to stick around desperately trying to pump up the Leno crapfest. Please keep these us posted on the calamity that is NBC. It's truly a bright spot in my unemployed gloom. #nbc
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    Image of BxgrlJeri BxgrlJeri
    10/22/09

    In reply to NBC Chief Says He's Not Playing to Lose While Leno Loses to Cable
    I still have no clue why Leno chose to humiliate himself like this. He should have retired gracefully. #nbc
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    Image of ampersandparade ampersandparade
    10/22/09

    @BxgrlJeri: Blondie wrote 'Fade Away And Radiate' and even they didn't heed their own warning. #nbc
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    Image of Hands Hands
    10/22/09

    @BxgrlJeri: Twasn't Leno, it was NBC. Leno was doing fine at 11:30. Now he's sucking it at 10 and Conan O'Brien continues the suckage, boldly going where neither men sucked before. #nbc
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    Image of Trai_Dep Trai_Dep
    10/22/09

    In reply to NBC Chief Says He's Not Playing to Lose While Leno Loses to Cable
    Slaying Wells' Southland puts to rest Gaspin's claims that NBC is managing for anything else except for roaring mediocrity.
    It wasn't a canary in a coal mine, it was the entire avian genus.
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    Image of daveyjonesisdead daveyjonesisdead
    10/22/09

    In reply to NBC Chief Says He's Not Playing to Lose While Leno Loses to Cable
    I guess Leno is finding out it's a different world when you're not just playing against syndicated reruns (and other late night shows...). #nbc
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    Image of badasscat badasscat
    10/22/09

    Well, his ratings are the same as they ever were.

    What he's finding out is that the expectations are different at 10PM than they are at 11:35PM. That this took anybody at NBC by a surprise, including Leno, is the real stumper. #nbc
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    Image of naugahydeinplainsight naugahydeinplainsight
    10/22/09

    In reply to NBC Chief Says He's Not Playing to Lose While Leno Loses to Cable
    Losing to Sons of Anarchy? Cool. Guess we know which way the young motorcycle-loving audience is breaking.
    Unfortunately, even at a 1.8, Leno is delivering more than the 1.5 that NBC promised advertisers and the bucks will keep coming in. #nbc
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    Image of La Mareada La Mareada
    10/22/09

    In reply to NBC Chief Says He's Not Playing to Lose While Leno Loses to Cable
    The Atlantic named Zucker a Brave New Thinker for the Leno show in the Nov. issue. Think maybe they should have waited to see how that turned out?
    (Most of the other BNTs are equally pathetic choices, not Brave or not New or not Thinkers. Gawker needs to do a post on it.) #nbc
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