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Design Miami 2009: Laser Guitars, RockShelves, Corporate Patronage

7 December 2009 5:30 AM, PST | Fast Company | See recent Fast Company news »

Glitzy packaging and top-shelf sponsors aside, Design Miami remains a cherry on the international design circuit: A nice topper to the year, but no substantial meal. But that should be of no surprise, as since its founding five years ago by property developer Craig Robins, the fair has been about cultivating moneyed collectors, not breaking new work. These commercial underpinnings were apparent Dec. 1 to 5 at the fair's latest installment. As with parallel event Art Basel Miami Beach, the preference was for the tried and tested. Big-name pieces commissioned by Design Miami partners Audi, Hsbc, Fendi, and Swarovski dominated the show, upstaging--and perhaps even atoning for--the sparse number of exhibitors and satellite events. But there were bright moments amid the fray, the best of which are detailed below.

As part of its world launch of the A8 luxury sedan, Audi commissioned British designer Tom Dixon to create a product that reflected »

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Rachel and the Gossip Girls Keep the Fashion Fun Coming

17 September 2009 11:00 AM, PDT | Popsugar.com | See recent Popsugar news »

Spring Fashion Week is moving right along in NYC, with lots of celebs turning out to take it all in. Rachel Zoe put aside her fashion flu to join Blake Lively and Brad Goreski last night at Marchesa to check out their Madame Butterfly-inspired collection. Leighton Meester kept her show stamina up after seeing 3.1 Phillip Lim yesterday, attending Proenza Schouler's urban scuba collection alongside Rachel McAdams and Anna Wintour, whose recent chumminess has people speculating about her future Vogue collaboration. Janet Jackson even stepped out for her first time, taking in Ralph Lauren today with his daughter Dylan. View 45 Photos › To see more from the shows, just read more. View Marchesa Photos › View Proenza Schouler Photos › View Kimberly Ovitz Photos › View Anna Sui Photos › View Ralph Lauren Photos › Images include: Blake Lively, Rachel Zoe, Emmy Rossum, Alexa Chung, Katharine McPhee, Georgina Chapman, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Harvey Weinstein, Brad Goreski, Becki Newton, »

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Pellicano To Stand Trial Over Intimidation Charges

5 August 2009 6:41 PM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »

Shamed Hollywood private investigator Anthony Pellicano will stand trial over allegations he threatened a Los Angeles Times journalist who reported on one of his clients.

Last year, Pellicano was convicted of wiretapping while working for several high-profile clients and sentenced to 15 years behind bars. His partner in crime, revered Hollywood lawyer Terry Christensen, was also found guilty of aiding and abetting a wiretap and he is currently serving a three-year sentence.

The disgraced detective is now set to face an L.A. jury after he was accused of hiring Alexander Proctor to intimidate reporter Anita Busch, who was working on a story about Hollywood agent Michael Ovitz.

Proctor is alleged to have placed a dead fish with a rose in its mouth on the bonnet of Busch's car, put a bullet-sized hole in her windshield, and wrote a note saying 'Stop' - all on Pellicano's orders.

Pellicano pleaded not guilty to the accusations during a court hearing in June, but on Tuesday, Superior Court Judge William Pounders ruled the case will go to trial because his alleged actions caused Busch "to fear for her life". »

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Pellicano Pleads Not Guilty To Reporter Threats

18 June 2009 5:10 AM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »

Shamed Hollywood private investigator Anthony Pellicano has entered a not guilty plea over claims he threatened a Los Angeles Times journalist who reported on one of his clients.

Pellicano, along with revered Hollywood lawyer Terry Christensen, were convicted last year of breaking the law while acting for high-profile clients.

The detective was convicted of wiretapping and Christensen was found guilty of aiding and abetting a wiretap. He was sentenced to three years in jail in November while Pellicano started a 15-year stretch behind bars a month later.

And on Wednesday the disgraced detective was up in front of a Los Angeles judge again for allegedly hiring Alexander Proctor to threaten L.A. Times' Anita Busch.

Prosecutors told the court that in 2002, Proctor - on Pellicano's orders - had placed a dead fish with a rose in its mouth on the bonnet of Busch's car, put a bullet-sized hole in her windshield, and wrote a note saying 'Stop'.

Both men pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiracy and making criminal threats.

The incident allegedly occurred after Busch wrote about the financial woes of Hollywood agent Michael Ovitz - one of Pellicano's powerful clients at the time. »

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Ester's Weekly 'Wrap': Ari, Carradine & Glambert

11 June 2009 4:42 PM, PDT | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »

By Ester Goldberg

Catch up on all the top schmooze in Hollywood, as Ester gives her own outrageous take on the week on TheWrap. In this episode: Ari Emanuel, whose ass is on the line to become the new Michael Ovitz; the Thai newspaper photos of David Carradine in fishnets; and Adam Lambert on the cover of Rolling Stone (he's gay ... huh!). So sit your tookus down and watch ...

 

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- Lew Harris

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Ari Emanuel: He Might Be the New King of the World

10 June 2009 8:05 AM, PDT | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »

By Sharon Waxman

Michael Ovitz should officially hand over the keys of the kingdom to a fast-talking, trash-mouthed, steam-rolling successor to his Hollywood dominion.

 

It is a rare moment in time and space that allows Ariel Zev Emanuel to hold the kind of power that even Ovitz could only dream about, chronicled today on the front page of the New York Times and concurrently noted by Kim Masters at the Daily Beast.

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Ari Emanuel: Hollywood's Next Don

9 June 2009 12:14 PM, PDT | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »

After snatching up the William Morris Agency, Rahm’s younger brother is vying to become the next industry strongman -- but does he have the muscle?

By Kim Masters

Hollywood hasn’t had a real strongman since Michael Ovitz built up the Creative Artists Agency in the 1980s and called the shots from his sleek I.M. Pei-designed headquarters in Beverly Hills.

 

There’s been such a long gap since he took a fatal step by accepting the No. 2 job at Disney in 1995 that a person had to wonder whether nature really did abhor this particular vacuum.

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'After Michael Ovitz Sued Me ... '

31 March 2009 1:01 PM, PDT | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »

By Cathy Schulman (to Eric Estrin)

Cathy Schulman’s rise from Yale theater studies major and playwright to her current position as president of Mandalay Pictures included stints in film production, development, acquisitions, financing and three years programming the Sundance Film Festival. She won an Academy Award as producer for best picture “Crash,” and suffered through a much publicized legal battle with Michael Ovitz, whose one-time production company, Apg, she briefly headed. Schulman talks with Eric Estrin about going from the depths to the heights -- and how it feels to be sued by the most powerf »

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