{"id":6661,"date":"2015-08-03T20:58:11","date_gmt":"2015-08-04T03:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=6661"},"modified":"2015-08-14T21:01:19","modified_gmt":"2015-08-15T04:01:19","slug":"nikki-finkes-hollywood-dementia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2015\/08\/03\/nikki-finkes-hollywood-dementia\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikki Finke’s Hollywood Dementia"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Nikki Finke Is Now Making Up Her Stories (Sort Of)<\/h1>\n

By Jessica Pressler <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"Photo: Jen Rosenstein<\/cite><\/p>\n

For Nikki Finke, fiction was always the enemy. \u201cAs a journalist, that was the worst thing you could say about something,\u201d she says. \u201cThat\u2019s fiction.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the years she spent covering the entertainment industry for the L.A. Times<\/em>, L.A. Weekly<\/em>, and her own Deadline website, Finke became famous \u2014 and famously feared \u2014 for telling the unvarnished (and highly entertaining) truth about everyone in Hollywood, even her own business partner, Jay Penske<\/a>. \u201cI am a very old-school journalist,\u201d she says throatily over the phone from her home in Los Angeles. \u201cI believe you make the comfortable uncomfortable, and that\u2019s the whole point of doing it. A friend of mine who is in the business always used to say, Why do you always act surprised when people hate you for something you have written?<\/em> And I said, But it\u2019s the truth!<\/em> My feeling was always the truth trumps everything. You know, the point is to try and get at that. As uncomfortable and difficult as it is.\u201d<\/p>\n

One thing the truth doesn\u2019t trump: non-compete clauses.<\/p>\n

Last year, a legal battle with Penske over Deadline resulted in Finke walking away with a reported multi-million-dollar settlement and a sworn promise not to report about the industry for anyone else. For a while, it seemed Penske had done something people in the industry had been trying to do for years: Put Finke out of commission. Under their agreement, Finke couldn\u2019t even go online and expound about the Sony hack \u2014 the kind of cataclysmic event that would have had the old Finke, who goes on reporting benders the way studio executives used to go on coke binges, sleepless for days.<\/p>\n

Finke clears her throat. (\u201cIn 2010, I completely had an operation to remove a parathyroid and they paralyzed one of my vocal cords. I couldn\u2019t talk, I would croak. Of course all the agents would go, \u2018That\u2019s so sexy.\u2019\u201d) “The hack presented Hollywood the way it really is,\u201d she says. \u201cIt demonstrated what Hollywood insiders have always known.\u201d (She\u2019s being careful, but you can hear it in her voice: TOLDJA!)<\/p>\n

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from VULTURE Nikki Finke Is Now Making Up Her Stories (Sort Of) By Jessica Pressler Photo: Jen Rosenstein For Nikki Finke, fiction was always the enemy. \u201cAs a journalist, that was the worst thing you could say about something,\u201d she says. \u201cThat\u2019s fiction.\u201d In the years she spent covering the entertainment industry for the L.A. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}