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edendale.typepad.com - 1/27/2009
Variety Axes Vet Anne Thompson, Fest Editor Mike Jones in Layoff
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Monday, Variety announced that it was laying off 30 employees, with editor Peter Bart claiming, "The modest staff cuts will in no way compromise the editorial integrity of Variety or Daily Variety."By late afternoon, however, it was clear that the...

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Layoffs at Variety Include Anne Thompson
blog.spout.com - 1/27/2009
Layoffs at Variety Include Anne Thompson
— blog.spout.com — Last week in Park City, we joked more than once about being thankful for both the recession and global warming, for making Sundance 2009 the most pleasant installment of the festival I’ve ever attended - diminished crowds and screenings and ... (more) Layoffs at Variety Include Anne Thompson

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A Shock to the System
carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com - 1/28/2009
A Shock to the System
— carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com — On a day when news of more than 75,000 layoffs came down in all sectors of the economy, it is silly to point to a single one that suggests Armageddon is nigh, but the Bagger can tell you seeing Anne Thompson's name on the cut-down list at Variety sent ... (more) A Shock to the System

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A Shock to the System
Carpetbagger — ... has significant value. And here’s the other thing: If there is such a thing as a film community, Ms. Thompson sits pretty much at the nexus of it. She was more than comfortable chatting up the newbie indie director about making movies on someone else credit card or the studio head about erecting his or her next tentpole. It’s the kind of layoff that signals that something in the middle is breaking, that something besides retrenchement is underway. All Those Wonderful Things puts it nicely : Thompson, who wrote her Risky Business blog for The Hollywood Reporter before she ...

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Damn this economy
eddieonfilm.blogspot.com 1/27/2009 — By Edward Copeland I was distressed to learn moments ago that Anne Thompson, deputy editor and film columnist at Variety, was among several staff members at the venerable Hollywood institution who were let go in a series of staff cuts today. Anne ...
Heart Goes Out
hollywood-elsewhere.com 1/27/2009 — I feel as if the 2nd Great Depression has finally hit me personally, as Nikki Finke is reporting that Variety columnist and reporter Anne Thompson -- an excellent reporter and commentator, and one of my oldest friends in this racket -- is among the ...
The Thompsonator — Some Came Running
I'm sure that, aside from her understandable irritation at the circumstance, my old pal Anne Thompson is at least a little chuffed to see her layoff from Variety cited as pretty much akin to the opening of the seventh seal in the Book of Revelations or some such thing, by no less an authority ...
The axe keeps falling, the toll keeps mounting — MovingPictureBlog
Two esteemed colleagues -- Anne Thompson and Michael Jones -- are among the newly decommissioned in the wake of layoffs at Variety . To paraphrase Hunter S. Thompson 's oft-quoted remark about the Nixon Era: Now is a good time to keep your head down.
The Changing Landscape — Awards Daily
Anne Thompson reports that she will no longer work for Variety but she will maintain her blog there (if she’s being laid off I don’t understand how she keeps the blog). Thompson writes: On a recent trip to the wine country, I bought four bottles at $9.99 apiece of the ...
Variety ankles Anne Thompson — The House Next Door
Just picked this up from Ed Copeland's blog . Anne Thompson (a frequent House linkee) has been let go from Variety . The second link will take you to her personal announcement at her blog Thompson On Hollywood , which she says will continue. In addition, she is fielding other offers and ...
Commentary Track: Is Anyone Safe When Variety Fires Anne Thompson? — Film School Rejects
For many film journalists, today was a return to normalcy. Most film journalists, much like our own intrepid editor Neil Miller, braved the parties, open bars and blogger fights to give us our amazing Sundance coverage . Today though would be sure to bring back the cruel reality of the daily ...
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We're All Fucked I need to break the Playlist fourth wall for a second. Anne Thompson got laid off . If someone of that high caliber news writing and commentary can get laid off at Variety , what does it mean for the rest of us lower hanging fruit? I just want to hang it up right now. She'll ...