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Thread ID: 13950 | Posts: 6 | Started: 2004-05-29
2004-05-29 13:10 | User Profile
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[url]http://news.bostonherald.com/national/view.bg?articleid=29820[/url]
E!-gad, network cans battle ax By Greg Gatlin Saturday, May 29, 2004
Mindy Herman, the controversial head of E! Entertainment Network, reportedly will walk away with a $20 million golden parachute after getting ousted from the cable network amid allegations of bizarre and abusive behavior including a parking lot brawl at a Hollywood club.
Herman, 42, described as hugely talented but abusive and undignified, had a four-year E! career that could have come out of one of its ``True Hollywood Story'' episodes.
Herman took the chief executive post at E! in 2000, saying she wanted to make it as important to the entertainment world as MTV is to the music world, and many would say she succeeded. During her tenure, E!'s subscriber base grew from 59 million to 85 million.
But co-workers were in open revolt, reportedly pleading to executives at E! co-owners Comcast and Walt Disney for her ouster. Herman got involved in ``hand-to-hand combat'' with an unidentified woman in a Hollywood burlesque club parking lot, the Los Angeles Times reported.
**Herman, a former Fox executive with management and law degrees from the University of California at Los Angeles, reportedly threw herself lavish baby showers on the company tab and strong-armed staffers into buying her expensive gifts. They did, fearing being fired.
She also was said to have swiped Grammy Award gift bags sent to E! personalities Steve Kmetko and Jules Asner. The bag booty, which included a Tumi suitcase, an Apple iPod, a weekend at an Ian Schrager hotel and 10 massages at the SportsClub LA, was reportedly worth several thousand dollars.**
Herman also reportedly ditched young co-workers stranded in New York after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, traveling solo back to Los Angeles in a rental car and corporate jet.
In a statement, Comcast confirmed Herman would step down and praised her for increasing network revenue to $350 million last year from about $200 million when she took over, and boosting cash flow to more than $160 million from $58 million.
2004-05-29 13:46 | User Profile
[QUOTE]Herman took the chief executive post at E! in 2000, saying she wanted to make it as important to the entertainment world as MTV is to the music world, and many would say she succeeded. During her tenure, E!'s subscriber base grew from 59 million to 85 million. [/QUOTE]
This means something, but not what the writer wants you to think it means.
No cable or satellite company has ever handed me a list of 200-odd channels and asked me to choose only those I want. They offer me 'packages' in which a preset number of channels have been bundled together. There are a few cable providers who offer you choice of channels for a preset monthly price, but very very few of them - and this 'option' is generally price-gouging designed to make you kick up the extra $ for the full 'package'. (One such plan I saw offers your choice of five channels - for 17 bucks a month!)
The fact is that "number of subscribers" reflects [I]the block-booking of cable companies[/I] and not the purchasing will of the end user. If cable subscriptions reflected the 'free market', no one would get BET except for blacks. Yet the FCC [I]punishes[/I] those providers who do not automatically bundle BET into all of their packages for [I]insufficient commitment to diversity[/I], thus ALL of them include BET whether you want it or not.
Then later, the head Ubangi at BET gets to boast that his 'black entrepreneurship' is one of the most successful businesses in America....thus 'proving' the race-quota system really and truly [I]works[/I].
Same deal with E! Since this Jewess' ascension to the top spot, E! is notable for its empty-calorie show-biz biographies - but first and foremost as a purveyor of softcore porny sleaze. Building on the Howard Stern show, an E property predating Herman's tenure, most of her 'innovations' consisted of always finding an excuse to run footage of drunk college co-eds in thong bikinis decadently partying until the wee hours at any number of jet-set meat markets (the WILD ON shows).
It's no coincidence that the E Channel's paid programming hours are entirely taken up by Girls Gone Wild infomercials, since bombarding your daughter with the message that [I]whores are popular and fun and 'strong' and self-actualizing [/I] has been the fulcrum by which they added all those 'subscribers' in the first place.
2004-05-29 16:17 | User Profile
[QUOTE=il ragno]It's no coincidence that the E Channel's paid programming hours are entirely taken up by Girls Gone Wild infomercials, since bombarding your daughter with the message that [I]whores are popular and fun and 'stong' and self-actuializing [/I] has been the fulcrum by which they added all those 'subscribers' in the first place.[/QUOTE]
IR, you got any info on the guy that owns/operates/makes those Girls gone wild videos? I saw him once on TV and I suspect he is jewish, but don't know for sure. If a father of one of those girls he exploits ever caught up to him and beat the living crap out him, I wouldn't be very upset about it.
2004-05-29 17:45 | User Profile
[url]http://celebrityjustice.warnerbros.com/news/0404/19a.html[/url]
[B]'Girls Gone Wild’ Creator Sues Rape Accuser[/B]
[SIZE=2][FONT=Book Antiqua]April 19, 2004 "I will not sit back and stand to be called a rapist," are the fighting words from "Girls Gone Wild" creator Joe Francis. The 31-year-old entrepreneur has just filed a defamation lawsuit against two women he met on a trip to Miami, who are identified only as Jane and Amy Doe.
Francis recounts the incident: "I was in Miami promoting ‘Girls Gone Wild: Spring Break,’ met two girls, had consensual sex with one and the next thing I know I get a call from the press that she implied I drugged and raped her."
Last month, Amy Doe filed a police report with Miami Beach PD accusing Francis of rape, claiming she woke up naked alongside him in his hotel room with little memory of the night's events, implying that Francis put something in her drink.
Francis flatly denies the allegation, telling a much-different version of the morning after. "What did happen the next day is totally inconsistent with the police report. What she says is that she woke up and went straight to the hospital. They hung out in my room until 1:30 in the afternoon wearing Ritz Carlton robes and ordered hamburgers medium rare."
And that's not all, Francis says, "She then asked me if I was going to call her, and I said, ‘Sure, I’ll call you.’"
But Francis says he never did call. "There are a lot of people who don’t get called," he tells us. "Girls are not my problem. I do not have to drug a girl to have sex with her." [/FONT] [/SIZE]
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[SIZE=2][FONT=Book Antiqua]In the lawsuit, Francis is seeking $25 million for damages -- as well as $36 for room service. "The $36 is for the burgers that I would have never bought had I known they would make up these lies about me."
Francis has reportedly made more than $100 million, and believes high-profile individuals make for easy targets. But this is one accusation he will not tolerate. "I have a mother and three sisters who I love very much. I will not be accused of having sex with a woman without her consent."
Miami Beach Police are still investigating, but Francis says police sources tell him they don't believe any charges will be filed, and Francis expects the case will soon be closed. [/FONT] [/SIZE]
[COLOR=Indigo]I have learned - as regards the very lowest orders of show-biz - to assume Jewishness until definitively proven otherwise. (There's also nothing that says this guy can't be a goyishe front for the usual Hebraic moneymen.) If this [I]Mosaic mollusk's[/I] facial mockieness weren't [I]enough [/I] to earn him a Yellow Star, his outrageous [U]hoots-pah[/U] in suing his own rape victim certainly closes the deal.[/COLOR]
2004-05-29 21:42 | User Profile
[QUOTE=il ragno] E! is notable for its empty-calorie show-biz biographies .[/QUOTE]
...Not to mention its endless "Top 101" countdowns of whatever.
2004-05-30 06:42 | User Profile
E's programming has all the taste & substance of moldy matzoh; the lowest shit imaginable. Right down there with the "new", virtually music-free VH1: those f-cking The Fabulous Life Of.... shows, with that English narrator-bastard drooling over the obscene expenditures of soon-to-be-forgotten bling-bling brillos in that "you'll never have even a fraction of this!" voice......enough to make even Pat Robertson scream "Juden Raus!!"
Oh, that's right - nothing could make him do that.