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Sleater-Kinney at the Palladium

May 4, 2015 by Kaleb Horton 1 Comment

What’s most impressive about No Cities to Love is that it’s a pretty good Sleater-Kinney album. It’s not a desperation-fueled statement of purpose, it’s not a classic, and it doesn’t represent a major sonic departure for the group. Really, there’s no proof that it came out a decade after their last album. It could have…

Filed Under: Critic Tagged With: Hollywood, palladium, sk, sleater-kinney

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Bitter Brief 17: Skinamax, Words with Friends, and the New WWITB Standard

August 25, 2011 by Bitter Brief 8 Comments

The What What in the Butt parody case, Words with Friends, and a skinamatic turn toward the surreal. This one is NSFW.

Filed Under: Columns, Lawyer Tagged With: Bitter Brief, caselaw, Hollywood, litigation, sex

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Top 6 Jobs Lawyers Wish They Had

July 20, 2011 by Bitter Staff 19 Comments

Obviously, nobody reading this site actually enjoys being a lawyer. We tolerate because this is the path we’ve chosen and it’s just too late to do anything else … or is it? For those dreamers out there with the gumption to give up the safety of law firm life to do what they were meant…

Filed Under: Columns, Lawyer Tagged With: alternative careers, Hollywood, jobs

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Celebs and Prenups

July 6, 2011 by Gianna Scatchell 9 Comments

Love will conquer all … well, everything except a good divorce attorney. Hollywood marriages are as fleeting as the season’s fashion trends. A prenuptial agreement is a contract between two people prior to marriage where various terms including property distribution and spousal support are spelled out if the marriage ends in divorce. Prenups are often…

Filed Under: Columns, Lawyer Tagged With: celebrities, Hollywood, marriage, prenups

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I Either Want to be a Studio Lawyer or a Talent Agent

May 18, 2010 by Ex-Bitter 9 Comments

It would at least be nice to know whether or not being a talent agent is something worth reaching for.

Filed Under: Columns, Lawyer Tagged With: Advice from an Ex-Bitter, entertainment law, Hollywood

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Bitter News, 9-16-09

September 16, 2009 by Bitter Newsroom Leave a Comment

Headlines from the Bitter Newsroom as entirely relatable as the People of Wal-Mart: • Tax attorney William Halby was given a not-so-happy ending this week when a tax court denied deductions of more than $100,000 that Halby spent on porn and sluts, which he claimed as medical expenses. Mainly because he didn’t have receipts?  “The…

Filed Under: Lawyer, News & Views Tagged With: Hollywood, tax law

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“Raising the Bar” Goes for Two

September 17, 2008 by Bitter Newsroom Leave a Comment

“Seriously, it is hard to take the show very seriously.” —The Washington Post “It ends up as pretty middle-of-the-road TV fare.” —Zap2It “Nothing in it argues that it needed to be made other than to give the people who made it something to do.” —Los Angeles Times And most importantly: “The legal and romantic plot…

Filed Under: Lawyer, News & Views Tagged With: Hollywood, tv

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TV Review: Raising the Bar

August 29, 2008 by Bitter Staff 1 Comment

RAISING THE BAR Premieres Labor Day, TNT, 10 p.m. Synopsis: Life of a righteous public defender and his friends, who just so happen to be prosecutors and judicial clerks.  And really cute. Pedigree: A+.  Steven Bochco.  The Cravath, Swaine & Moore of television producers.  Emmy Award winning credits include L.A. Law, Hill Street Blues and…

Filed Under: Columns, Lawyer Tagged With: bitter exclusive, celebrity, Generally Bitter, Hollywood, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Melissa Sagemiller, tv

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Carlos Goodman, Entertainment Attorney

August 26, 2008 by Bitter Success 7 Comments

Title and Employer? Partner in Bloom, Hergott, Diemer, Rosenthal, LaViolette & Feldman, LLP, an entertainment firm in Beverly Hills that specializes in motion pictures and television. So what does a hotshot entertainment lawyer really do? Complain about “the business” while eating lunch at a fancy Hollywood restaurant. When not busy doing that, an entertainment lawyer…

Filed Under: Interviews, Lawyer Tagged With: celebrity, entertainment law, Hollywood

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Jared Leto: Maybe Just Stick to Guitar Hero Next Time

August 19, 2008 by Bitter Newsroom Leave a Comment

Oh, actors and their sort-of-bands—can they ever really do any harm? Turns out, if you’re Virgin Records/EMI and the band in question is headed by doll-face actor Jared Leto, then, yes. Leto’s vanity-project-cum-band, 30 Seconds to Mars, apparently signed a five-record deal with Virgin/EMI back in 1999—but funnily enough, the band has only come out…

Filed Under: Lawyer, News & Views Tagged With: celebrity, Hollywood, Jared Leto, lawsuit, music

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