Posts Tagged ‘Deadline Hollywood’

Go get ‘em Nikki! Only you can fix NBC! If not, watch Ok, America!

So I’m no Nikki Finke. In fact, I don’t do anything remotely close to what she does. That woman works like mad. But let me tell you why I love her. If you want to know what is going on in the entertainment industry NOW, wait how about now…now…how about NOW. She is the go to person.
For example, I thought and news agencies just reported that Conan O’Brien quit the Tonight Show but if you check her site NOW (2 min. afterward) you can see that Conan is refusing to change the time of the Tonight Show! He’s at WAR with NBC!
Go to her site here:Deadline Hollywood

http://www.deadline.com/hollywood/

In honor of Ms. Finke I give you the film Okay, America! (1932)

Here’s a quick snippet of a film description:Back in the days when radio jingle singers harmonized words like ba-na-na to a Latin rhythm, the airwaves broadcast ‘tell-all’ shows in which a host like Louella Parsons or Walter Winchell would dish about which celebrity or scion had been caught doing what. The host of Okay, America! is Larry Wayne (Lew Ayres). He writes columns by day, with the help of his gal Friday, Barton (Maureen O’Sullivan), and reports sensational happenings by night over the air. He collects stories about the well-to-do from the cigarette girl at a cafe and a homeless drunk. But he tracks them down, too. His appearance at a night club makes wandering husbands wish they’d never stepped out with that pretty young thing and their wives wish it wasn’t their turn to be humiliated by the next morning’s paper.

Go get ‘em Nikki! Only you can fix NBC!