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Harvey Plans a Talkshow |
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Posted Monday, September 27, 1999 [Note: You can sign up for the free kausfiles.com e-mail service at the end of this column.] Andrew Stengel, spokesman for Miramax, denies that Miramax chairman Harvey Weinstein is thinking of doing a fictional television comedy about life at a magazine very much like Miramax's Talk, with a lead character being a female editor much like Talk editor Tina Brown. "It's not true," says Stengel. ... So why publish this denial? Because, Stengel nothwithstanding, kausfiles.com has good reason to believe that Weinstein is indeed making plans for just such a project. On first glance, it's actually not such a bad idea, in a cliched, self-important and creepily incestuous way. Talk could provide a steady supply of realistic plot lines to the show's writers; the show would make the mag more visible and glamorous. Synergy City! Nor is it clear that Talk's journalistic purity would be compromised by this added Miramax link any more than it already is. ... But why not just put a camera in the magazine's offices and eliminate the middleman? Who needs an actor playing senior editor Sam Sifton puking under Tina's pressure, when you can see the real thing? Either way, a new Talk-based show would mean there would be two series on TV with a character based on publisher Ron Galotti, which seems like at least one too many. [What's the other series? -- Ed. HBO's "Sex and the City." Galotti is reputedly "Mr. Big." Also, Sifton says he didn't puke. Time reported that, but they apparently got it wrong -- Ed. Doesn't Sifton know he shouldn't deny it, even if it isn't true? When it's truth v. legend, go with the legend!] New E-mail service: Sign up, using the ListBot gizmo below, and you will be notified by e-mail whenever there's a new item on kausfiles.com. [Note: this service is free. You'll be asked a couple of demographic questions; if you find them annoying just leave them unanswered.] Recently archived: Fact For the Hacks The coming race to crunch the new poverty numbers; plus WETA's defensive Ifillophilic propaganda. Is Daniel Patrick Moynihan the Devil? A review of the evidence to date. Special Times-Bashing Edition Bernard Weinraub covers Hollywood like a lazy foreign correspondent; plus Richard Berke's hot quote. Hillary's Bilingual Blues? She may suffer more damage if she shuns Unz. Rudy's N.Y. Malathiathon Plus the Yent-A-Matic! Harvey Scores Again! An exciting new Talk contest. Is It Over? Clinton's Pathetic Second Term Revealing the one Big Thing he still might accomplish.
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