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...section of Glendale, Calif., several freeway exits away from the swanky Warner Bros lot. Still, it's a fitting setting for the gritty brand of journalism practiced by the site that bills itself as an on-demand entertainment news network. Its 25 staffers are led by managing editor Harvey Levin, an Emmy-award-winning former legal affairs and investigative reporter for the Los Angeles CBS and NBC affiliates and creator of the syndicated show Celebrity Justice...
...first learned of the DUI arrest when one of Levin's sources phoned him on midday Friday. When he subsequently heard that the episode didn't occur without incident, as the Sheriff's office had asserted, Levin obtained from his sources accounts of Gibson's actions and comments, as well as the complete report the arresting officer, deputy James Mee, filed that quoted Gibson's statements about Jews. Thus, a scoop was born...
...Stan Rosenfield, whose clients include George Clooney, says that from now on, "TMZ is going to be a major player. Harvey Levin and his staff are getting more stories than the others." Among the vast array of blogs and websites devoted to celebrity news, Rosenfield says TMZ is one that he and his colleagues will "have to learn to deal with like any other form of communication now." Mintz has noticed that the scope of TMZ's reach has jumped beyond the Internet. "I've seen video clips used on network affiliates and in the body of syndicated television entertainment...
...Largely due to TMZ's virtual 24/7 presence, Mintz has admonished his clients to be careful about what they say and do in public. Hilton, in particular, is a favorite object of TMZ's attention, so much so that she recently granted Levin a rare interview in which she complained about the "hurtful" comments posted about her by readers on the TMZ website. Now, that's access, Hollywood...
...documents as much as ten years old. Such subpoenas need not be part of a grand jury investigation and can be issued either by an executive agency with sufficient statutory power or by the Department of Justice at an agency’s behest. Yale University President Richard C. Levin issued a statement via e-mail to Yale staff last Friday, pledging to “cooperate fully with these government investigations” and stating his expectation that the faculty would do the same. “We will spare no effort to remedy any deficiencies in our practices...