Book Expo Of America

Peter Bart Joins Our Clan! BlogNosh 06/02/08

By Karina Longworth posted 1 year ago

We’d like to extend a hearty, totally sincere “welcome to the blogosphere, dude!” to Variety editor-in-chief/known blog skeptic Peter Bart, who has launched his own bloggy shingle. The first person to send in a Photoshop mockup of Bart wearing typing whilst pajamas and/or in bed and/or in a basement wins a free Spout t-shirt. Via Anne Thompson.
Attendees of the Book Expo of America were greeted with a giant banner bearing a picture of Michael Moore and the phrase, “He’s Back!” According to FishbowlLA, Michael Moore didn’t actually show up.
This headline on a story about the Universal Studios fire at The Playlist sent us to YouTube, looking for the Public Enemy video for “Burn, Hollywood, Burn,” which we’ve always like a lot. Instead, we found the above clip, described as “A music video for D.W. Griffith’s repellently racist 1915 film, The Birth of a Nation, set to Public Enemy’s “Burn, Hollywood, Burn!”