Gerald Peary, a film critic and columnist for the Phoenix for more than 10 years, is working on a documentary, "For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism." The feature film, which Peary is directing with his wife, Amy Zeller, includes an interview with the late Pauline Kael, reports the Boston Globe (see item at bottom of page). MORE MOVIE NEWS: Zoo, a documentary about a man's fatal sexual encounter with a horse, which was written by The Stranger's Charles Mudede, premieres next week at Sundance, according to the Seattle Times.
Judge David Stockdale denied a request to drag former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld before a Hamilton County court as a material witness in a trespassing case involving CityBeat news editor Greg Flannery, reports a local Fox affiliate. Flannery was one of seven anti-war protesters arrested after occupying the Cincinnati offices of congressman Steve Chabot, a supporter of the war in Iraq. A lawyer for the defendants admits that it was always unlikely that Rumsfeld would be forced to testify.
Village Voice columnist and VH1 commentator Michael Musto plays the viola, still goes home to Bensonhurst for the holidays, and does a mean Diana Ross, reports the Times in a 'Night Out' profile of what the paper calls "the city’s most punny, raunchy and self-referential gossip columnist." Oh, and they also mention his new book, "La Dolce Musto," a compilation of two decades worth of the columnist's favorite "blind items, outings, hissy fits and scandals concerning everyone from Madonna to Anita Ekberg."
After roaming the halls of the Montana legislature for more than 20 years as a professional lobbyist, George Ochenski leaves it all behind to focus on his career as a political analyst for Missoula's alt-weekly. Ochenski announced the decision in his latest column, in which he admits that his dual role created problems. "As a writer, the obvious conflicts between what I wanted to be able to convey and the sometimes not-so-good reactions those stories elicited from one party or another within the Capitol, certainly had the potential to create problems for a lobbyist trying to get legislation passed or funded," he writes. NOTE TO READERS: Last week, based on an inaccurate report in The Billings Outpost (see second item), AAN News briefly reported that Ochenski had decided to quit writing.
Backfence, publisher of a family of "hyperlocal" news sites, has seen the resignation of its CEO and the firing of two-thirds of its staff of 18, reports Paid Content by way of Poynter. Original co-founder Mark Potts (who disputes the layoff figures without providing a number of his own) has returned to lead the beleaguered company. In the last year and a half, Backfence has grown from its original community site in the D.C. area to include 13 sites across the nation. A Poynter contributor surmises, "some of Backfence's revenue trouble could be attributed to the reliance on a single, spotty advertising revenue stream rather than developing multiple revenue streams."
In an interview discussing his sophomore effort, The Blonde, Duane Swierczynski says his journalism career has made him a better writer. "It has beaten some of the bad writing out of my system," he tells the Journals. "Journalism teaches you to be concise; space, after all, is precious." But fiction has also helped make him a better editor and journalist. "I think writing fiction has helped me realize that story is king, even in non-fiction. When I edit stories for the City Paper, I find myself mostly looking for structure flaws -- hiccups in the storytelling -- and craving strong narratives that unfold like a novel. After all, journalism is just storytelling with the truth."
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