MCN Curated Headlines Archive for January, 2014
Scarborough Uses Morning Show To Slam Tarantino And To Support Gawker
And – An Oral History Of Gawker, By Reddit, Compiled By Choire Sicha
“I think we are going to have some good surprises to be honest with you the movie is not much different in its longer form, it’s just longer versions of scenes. Nothing really got cut out so it’s a lot more of what you’ve already seen.”
Daily Mail Insists Wolf Of Wall Street Blu-Ray Will Hold Four-Hour Cut
Earlier – 13 Reasons Not To Trust The Daily Mail
And – “Well, I think there are some scenes we could make available, so to speak. Quite honestly, the four-hour version was just the first cut.”
“We are being sued for contributory copyright infringement for linking to a site that is being sued for direct copyright infringement. We are not being sued for publishing copyrighted information. As far as I can tell (but I’m no lawyer!), no claim of contributory infringement has prevailed in the U.S. over a news story. We’ll be fighting this one.”
Gawker’s John Cook Responds To QT’s Copyright Sally
“My hair is a great deal gayer than I am, and sometimes accidentally cashes cheques that my heart and loins don’t deliver.”
Laurie Penny On “Short-Haired Girls” And “Recreational Sexist Linkbait”
“Gawker Media has made a business of predatory journalism, violating people’s rights to make a buck. This time, they went too far.”
Tarantino Files Suit Against Gawker For Publishing Link Via Anonymous Host Of Stolen Screenplay
And – If Tarantino Were On The Same Sidewalk As Gawker vid
“It’s like a laundry list: Searchlight, A24, IFC (‘Ariana’), Magnolia, Goldwyn, Sony (or ‘Michael and Tom’ as people like to say), Roadside, ‘Harvey.'”
Sachs On Selling Love Is Strange At Sundance
“The people who are most outraged are also the most ignorant of the facts.”
Bob Weide On The Woody Allen Allegations, In 5,600 Patient Words
A First Look At Omidayar’s First Look Media with Omidayar vid
“Unfortunately, the NYT does not permit comments on Dargis’s stories, as she prefers not to engage directly with her readers.”
Thompson Again Asks, Should NY Times Review All NYC One-Week Theatrical Bookings For Films, No Matter How Mercenary?