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Welcome back to What I’m Hearing+, Tuesday’s flying dropkick
from the top rope of the WIH ring. That’s a pro wrestling reference, thanks to my attendance last night at the big Netflix premiere of WWE Raw at the new Intuit Dome. Netflix invited a bunch of media people, as well as some of its own stars (and multiple Culkins, though weirdly not sitting together), and WWE threw its kitchen sink of “superstars” at the kickoff event: The Rock, The Rock’s cousin, John Cena, Seth
Rollins, Jake Paul—all your favorites. Endeavor’s Ari Emanuel and Mark Shapiro both showed up ringside for the occasion, which seems like the least they could do after Netflix’s Bela Bajaria agreed to pay WWE about $5 billion over the next decade.
Anyway, Eriq Gardner is back today with the latest round in the real-life
cage match between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni. Eriq has pored through the legal filings and talked to tons of sources on all sides, and he’s got a look at the state of legal play and Baldoni’s $250 million suit against The New York Times. All yours, Eriq…
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Eriq Gardner
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New combatants have joined the escalating
battle between the movie star and her director, who’s upping the ante with a somewhat dubious $250 million lawsuit against The New York Times for journalistic malpractice.
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Like many in Hollywood, my New Year’s Eve sparkled with fireworks, champagne, and
a dash of the Blake Lively-Justin Baldoni melodrama. Hours before the ball dropped in Times Square, Baldoni slapped The New York Times with a $250 million defamation lawsuit, accusing the paper of betraying its journalistic mission by coordinating with Lively’s team to publish a sensationalized account of whatever transpired during and after the shooting of It Ends With Us. Bryan Freedman, Baldoni’s attorney, lambasted
the Times for basing much of its story on an “unverified and self-serving” complaint that Lively had submitted to the California Civil Rights Department. The filing, Freedman said, should have...
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A MESSAGE FROM OUR SPONSOR
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NOW PLAYING IN THEATERS & AVAILABLE TO WATCH AT HOME
Starring Emmy, Grammy and Tony winner and Academy Award® nominee Cynthia Erivo and Grammy Award winner Ariana Grande.
From Director Jon M. Chu comes the acclaimed cinematic adaptation of the beloved musical, the untold story of the witches of Oz.
"A musical
masterpiece."
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