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Clash of the Hollywood PR firms
On one side, the Screen Actors Guild has just hired Sitrick and Company, Nikki Finke reports. AFTRA, on the other hand, uses 42West, the firm whose Hollywood practice is headed by Allan Mayer, who used to do the same for—Sitrick. "It was an amicable parting: though Sitrick wasn't thrilled at losing Mayer, the boss did let Allan out of his contract in October 2006," Finke says. Here are the LAO posts from Mayer's move in 2006.
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| The new owner is Minneapolis-based US Bancorp, which suddenly becomes a much bigger player in California and Arizona.
| Forget plastics, the real action these days is arranging going-out-of-business sales.
| Without referencing its recent layoff, the Ventura County Star's editor says the suburban LA paper is now "more streamlined and, in many ways, much more efficient."
| We stripped the Indians of their ponies, and now we're doing it to ourselves.
| When the sun looks like that, there's a big fire somewhere regardless of whether we see or smell smoke.
Lee Abrams, Tribune Company's chief innovation officer, doesn’t seem too impressed with the Los Angeles Times. That’s the feeling I got when he appeared at the Los Angeles Press Club.
Seven or fifteen minutes from now I can definitively say I didn't hear the sound of sirens.
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