BILLY THE KID - In NYC

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• Above: Billy Price, star of Billy the Kid, goes to New York, crosses the street, and suddenly finds himself shirtless in an impromptu dance party. I watched this video for the first time on mute, whilst on a conference call, and thought I was having a psychotic break. Thanks, Kevin.
• Woody Allen’s Speechless vid, via United Hollywood. This wouldn’t even be on here if it wasn’t such a slow week.
• This has nothing to do with movies, really, except that James St. James wrote a book that became two of them. And it’s totally tasteless. But SO TRUE. And I don’t know what you guys are doing, but my RSS is DEAD this week. Should I just blame Google?

Nikki Finke says “a very reliable source” has passed along word “that there appears to be a deal seemingly in place between both sides” of the writers strike. But don’t expect to hear about it anywhere but Deadline Hollywood Daily for awhile. Noting that she was “told not to expect an agreement this week,” Finke says no one else will be covering the story because “the negotiations starting today will have a news blackout.” Though she cautions that in Hollywood, “defeat is snatched from the jaws of victory nearly every time,” she seems pretty confident that she’s revealed a story that may not break elsewhere for weeks.

I’m sure Finke’s source is reliable, and I’m certainly not going to knock her strike reporting, which has been amazingly thorough, if not exactly impartial. But you have to admit, this is lovely timing for an exclusive–if this news hadn’t come out until next week, there may be room to doubt that the Speechless series of WGA propaganda videos (which Finke hosted on her site and which I wrote about in semi-depth here) played a significant part.