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Hello and welcome back to What I’m Hearing.
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As I mentioned Thursday, I’m out this week (my new nose will look fantastic, I promise), so you’re in the very capable hands of Puck’s Eriq Gardner and Julia Alexander. Eriq’s got an exclusive report on Anthony Pellicano’s financial and literary (really) endeavors, and Julia dives deep into Netflix’s acqui-expansion into animation. But first…
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| Who Won the Week: Marvel Studios |
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| The company returned to Comic Con’s Hall H for the first time since 2019 and announced its next slate of blockbusters through November 2025. Not only does that almost guarantee Marvel some huge Avengers-style wins for the next few years, but Comic-Con is always about who won the most press. Marvel still reigns...
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| The Final Kiss Off from Hollywood’s Secret Keeper |
| Anthony Pellicano, the notorious former “private investigator to the stars,” has quietly returned to Hollywood and resumed pitching his services—only for a group of his long-ago victims to resurface, seeking nearly $4 million of justice. |
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| This past week, I slogged through a book that features a rather peculiar perspective. This novel tells a tale of two best friends from a rough Italian neighborhood in Chicago—one who grows up to be a private investigator for the mafia, the other who becomes an F.B.I. agent. The premise is promising, but what’s most remarkable is the author’s clear affection for the fictional gangsters, and even for mob justice. What kept me reading to the end was the identity of the author, Anthony Pellicano, and the publisher’s word that this was “his first work of not-so-fictional fiction.”
Pellicano, of course, is one of the most notorious figures in Hollywood history—a former private investigator who once helped half the town spy on the other. A-list clients like Tom Cruise, Michael Jackson, Michael Ovitz, Brad Grey, Chris Rock, and on and on, used his services. Then, one day in 2002, a nosy Los Angeles Times reporter found a dead fish, a rose, and a “stop” sign on her car’s windshield. The F.B.I. began investigating Pellicano, and a whole world of secrets began spilling out into view.
The ensuing revelations (and a dozen lawsuits) ripped the band-aids off of many of the town’s recently resolved disputes. Many of Pellicano’s victims (Sylvester Stallone, Garry Shandling, Keith Carradine, etc.) learned they had been secretly wiretapped or hacked in the midst of divorces, business quarrels, paternity demands, and so forth. When Pellicano went to trial... |
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