Here are your headlines from the Bitter Newsroom, where we don’t leave our $100m ATM receipts lying around: The Supreme Court cut through the crap and stated, unequivocally, that video games are art and subject to full First Amendment protection. We in the Newsroom applaud this decision for a number of reasons: Now a violent [...]
Quick headlines from the Bitter Newsroom: The woman who ran Eliot Spitzer‘s favorite call-girl ring got six months in prison. A Manhattan federal judge lightened the sentence on Cecil (Katie) Suwal because of the “Svengali-like power Emperors Club VIP boss Mark Brener once had over the 24-year-old.” An indication being her label-her-like-sports-equipment “Property of Mark [...]
Quick headlines from the Bitter Newsroom. In ghosts of creative collaboration past, John Landis, who co-wrote and directed the groundbreaking video “Thriller,” is suing Michael Jackson. He claims MJ lacks the rights to adapt the 14-minute video in a Broadway show. And if someone’s gonna “thrill ya, thrill ya tonight,” he wants his cut. [Associated [...]
Quick headlines from the Bitter Newsroom. Do you know what, other than your ass, is growing at four times the rate of inflation? Attorneys’ fees in bankruptcy cases. Lawyers at Kirkland & Ellis are charging as much as $18.50 PER MINUTE. Now even going broke is unaffordable. [Bloomberg] “From the ‘Any jokes I would make [...]
Quick headlines from the Bitter Newsroom. “Brazil” has some dirty talk for you: Tax evasion. Stanford Law grad-cum-professional escort, Cristina Warthen, pleaded guilty in federal court for not letting Uncle Sam in on some of that action. She got three years probation and a $313K fine for being naughty. [San Francisco Chronicle] It’s a hard-knock [...]
Quick headlines from the Bitter Newsroom. Good morning, and happy lunar New Year. Too bad that the international economy is still so crazy that even the year of the ox can’t live high on the hog. [BBC News] Zoinks for Zsa Zsa. A lawyer for the 91-year-old Hungarian actress Gabor and her husband says they [...]
Quick headlines from the Bitter Newsroom: Harvard and Yale are apparently the two newest signs of the political Zodiac. And what does your Ivy League sign say about you? It represents your law school socialization and different theories of governing. President Clinton, like most born under the YLS sign, was “creative, deep-thinking, [and] engrossed by [...]
