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SOLDJA! Movieline Welcomes General Manager, Editor in Chief, and Founder of Deadline Hollywood Daily Nikki Finke to MMC Family
Like a Decepticon bulldozer fusing itself to a sun-eviscerating robot colossus with wrecking-ball nuts, Nikki Finke has joined the MMC family. (This metaphor makes more sense if you’ve seen Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Rest assured, it’s highly complimentary.)
To celebrate today’s exciting announcement, we sent over the finest Edible Arrangement $7.99-or-less could buy, and received this gracious thank-you e-mail in return:
“I received the equivalent of the GNP of a small country.
I’m now working for a 30-year-old.
I’m a business cougar.
And what the hell is Movieline?”
Oh, Nikki — you irrepressible mountain lioness, you. Quit licking those paws and come on over here and give us a big puma hug.
UPDATE: To appease concerned readers, let me just make it clear that we’ll both be playing in adjoining, but completely independent, sandboxes — though we may occasionally share shovels.
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Posted 23 Jun 2009, 10:47 AM
Whoa.
Posted 23 Jun 2009, 10:57 AM
zoinks!
Posted 23 Jun 2009, 10:58 AM
Well check YOU guys out.
Posted 23 Jun 2009, 11:28 AM
I bet she gets a good parking space for her broom.
Posted 23 Jun 2009, 11:46 AM
Nicki, as long as you can pants Michael Bay by the end of the week, you're alright in my book.
Posted 23 Jun 2009, 11:50 AM
Hey, look who just hired a fact-checker.
Posted 23 Jun 2009, 12:04 PM
Somehow I doubt it. Hey, I read Nikki every (other) (other) day, but if she ever hired a fact checker DHD would be one big web page of blank.
Posted 23 Jun 2009, 12:31 PM
Better watch what you say about Nikki. Wasn't there some unpleasantness years ago when someone at Gawker Media referred to her as "crazy but in a good way" or something? Am I remembering this right, or just hallucinating (it's so hard to tell once summer begins...)
Posted 23 Jun 2009, 1:54 PM
I looked it up. She has said less than pleasant things about a couple of the guys here. But that was another life ago...
Posted 23 Jun 2009, 12:38 PM
"SOLDJA" is an awesome headline. Seth, that had to be all you.
Posted 23 Jun 2009, 12:44 PM
So, you guys are "reporting" this? SWEET, moving up in the world!
Posted 23 Jun 2009, 12:46 PM
So, you guys are "reporting" this? SWEET, moving up in the world!
Posted 23 Jun 2009, 1:25 PM
Defamer and DHD under the same roof? Who ever knew this day would come...
Posted 23 Jun 2009, 3:04 PM
Man, those staff meetings are going to be awk! Ward!
(Of course, Nikki will probably be taking them via videophone from her four-poster bed, surrounded by six aging Corgis, a stack of French toast, and the rest of that bottle of Gordon's.)
Posted 23 Jun 2009, 5:49 PM
Does her last name rhyme with her first name or is it pronounced more like Rat Fink? The only picture of her on Google's image search resembles Kathleen Turner, not a compliment.