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Movieline Welcomes Defamer Founder Mark Lisanti to the Family
For anyone who toiled in the Hollywood trenches between the years ‘04 and ‘08, or merely observed from a safe distance, the name Mark Lisanti should instantly conjure a host of overwhelmingly positive and/or deeply fearful associations. As the founder and editor of Defamer.com, Lisanti’s brilliantly written and hysterically observed commentary on the goings on inside studio walls, Century City offices, and ladies’ room stalls of some of L.A.’s most exclusive social institutions became a daily addiction for millions. Along the way, Mark coined countless showbiz neologisms: we have him to thank for the CAA Death Star, the Butterscotch Stallion, Grazerhead™, fauxteurs, Lesser Baldwins, future galactic despot Les Moonves — the list goes on and on. I had the pleasure of working alongside Mark for a significant portion of that time, and it’s with a great deal of excitement that I announce today that we’ll be working together once again.
Only this time, the tables will be turned, and it will be he who is pinned helplessly beneath the weight of my imperious editor’s thumb. As Movieline’s new editor at large, Mark will contribute three commentaries per week, covering topics as far afield as telepathic tigers, racist robots, and sundry other critical Hollywood issues of the day. (I realize this news will instantly erupt into wide speculation as to just how much it cost us to lure him back to the fold. Suffice it to say, it was in the neighborhood of 14 million Umami burgers.)
Please now, give Mark a warm welcome back. His first column will run a little later today.
- Seth
· MARK LISANTI, the Original Defamer, Joins MOVIELINE.com, Hollywood’s Buzziest Entertainment Web Site [PR Newswire]
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Posted 06 Jul 2009, 8:48 AM
Welcome, welcome Mark! It's great to hear you're going to be a part of Movieline!
Posted 06 Jul 2009, 8:55 AM
I'm in tears.
Posted 06 Jul 2009, 8:58 AM
The Four Horsemen of the Entertainment Apocalypse is now complete.
Posted 06 Jul 2009, 9:19 AM
My defection from defamer/gawker etal is now complete, welcome home!
May the snark be with you.
Posted 06 Jul 2009, 2:37 PM
second that
Posted 06 Jul 2009, 3:45 PM
Tritto. Welcome!
Posted 06 Jul 2009, 9:30 AM
Reunited, and it feels so good
Reunited, 'cause we understood
There's one perfect fit
And, sugar, this one is it
We both are so excited
'Cause we're reunited
Hey, hey...
Christmas in July, truly.
Posted 06 Jul 2009, 10:11 AM
Congratulations! You get to Saran Wrap Nikki Finke's toilet! If she's not out for three months with a cold.
Posted 06 Jul 2009, 10:21 AM
ahhh, this is great news!
Posted 06 Jul 2009, 10:28 AM
I'd say I was "happy dancing", but that seems so very inappropriate here in Snarkland. I shall, instead, sing my own version of the "Lisanti's Back" song to anyone who will listen (as soon as I write it, of course).
PS - love the picture! Someone's Photoshop skills deserve serious recognition!
Posted 06 Jul 2009, 10:36 AM
But where's Molly?!
Posted 06 Jul 2009, 10:37 AM
Yay! Papa's home!
Welcome back, Mark. So glad to see you here.
Posted 06 Jul 2009, 10:44 AM
all sorts of awesome.
Posted 06 Jul 2009, 10:52 AM
Now I can read his Tweets in paragraph form!
Posted 06 Jul 2009, 10:54 AM
The band's back together!
Posted 06 Jul 2009, 11:31 AM
Does this mean the demise of Lisanti Quarterly?
In any event, add mine to the chorus of Huzzahs.
Posted 06 Jul 2009, 11:40 AM
Short of The Beatles getting back together, this is the best news I could have heard.
Posted 06 Jul 2009, 12:00 PM
You magnificent bastard.
Posted 06 Jul 2009, 12:00 PM
good to have you back!
Posted 06 Jul 2009, 1:22 PM
Hurrah!
Posted 06 Jul 2009, 2:06 PM
This ought to work out better than Michael Jordan's tenure with the Wizards!
Posted 06 Jul 2009, 2:15 PM
I guess he got tired of being paid by the word for 140 characters. I had a feeling it wouldn't be long...
Posted 06 Jul 2009, 4:27 PM
yay us!! :)
Posted 06 Jul 2009, 7:30 PM
Yes! Return of Zorro Pascal!!
Posted 06 Jul 2009, 9:01 PM
U M A M I !!! ! !! ! !! ! ! !!! (!)
Posted 06 Jul 2009, 11:28 PM
I like this. I like it a lot.
Posted 07 Jul 2009, 5:29 AM
YAY!!!! Longtime Defamer lurker; wasn't witty or connected enough to garner posting privelages, but I guess I can give my two cents here: WELCOME BACK, MARK!!! You've been missed!
Posted 07 Jul 2009, 4:16 PM
Dear Daddy Mark,
I'm sorry you left because I was bad. Please stay this time so our family can be together forever. I promise I'll clean my room and stop crying when you yell at Mommy because, "She's got the wit of a Hilton."
I love you.
Jr.
Posted 07 Jul 2009, 8:01 PM
Damn! that's a good picture . . .looking forward to the fun!
Posted 08 Jul 2009, 2:18 PM
Hosanna! (Bro-sanna?)