Ubiquitous L.A. freelancer and personally revealing blogger Nancy Rommelmann is now about six weeks from Leaving Los Angeles. She's been coming to peace with her impending move to Portland on the blog, and also writing about the famous actor's guest house in Beachwood Canyon where she's staying, and discovering that Billy Bob Thornton may be a volunteer parent in her daughter's school cafeteria. Her latest entry introduces the new blog Fly on the Wall, written by a guy (apparently) who is known for his anonymous comments on various blogs around town. Now he has his own place to gossip -- with enticing specifics -- about the people he knows and meets in Hollywood.

Speaking of anonymous Hollywood dish, the Defamer has posted some suggestions for tipsters:

·Send tips from a free email account, like Hotmail or Yahoo. This will help keep you anonymous, and safe from the creepy IT guys that read your corporate e-mail. You may even want to open an account anonymously, just in case.

·Name names! Blind items are no fun for us. We want to know who you're talking about. And if a tip is too potentially explosive, we might turn it into a blind item anyway.

·We love all kinds of tips: spoilers, first-person accounts from movie sets/sound stages/TV tapings, whatever. Let us know when you see something juicy.

·We'll delete your e-mails if you ask us to, so that your identity stays safe.

So whether you catch Mr. A-List Actor creeping around an agency that doesn't represent him, or your producer boss is notoriously brutal to his assistants or constantly makes them do humiliating things, we want to hear about it! (We're very fond of assistant abuse stories; we've been there.) And trust us--the rest of the world wants to hear about it, too.

The Defamer is having a fun first week. Though Mickey Kaus suggests they should have gone all the way with the name and just called the site The Defendant.

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