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Wednesday, 26 May 1999

RANTING & RAVING

IN OTHER LAWSUIT NEWS: Alex Ben Block, who left the editorship of The Hollywood Reporter to go be top flack (is that term offensive to our Ethnic Publicistian friends?) at Morgan Creek Productions, is now suing after being summarily fired by notorious rage-monger (and Morgan Creek topper) Jim Robinson. The rumor is that Ben Block was fired for tardiness. After just a few weeks work (That part is a fact.) Two lessons here. One, if Ben Block left The Reporter for a $250,000 a year job, the pay in this business isn't that good. Second, never leave a boss as mellow and self-contained as Bob Dowling. Sure, you have to smooch a lot of butt over a career there, but Bob would never fire anyone for being late. In fact, as far as I recall, the only way to get fired at The Reporter is to put Bob directly into harms way and then, you only get suspended until you curse him to his face. Good job.

http://216.239.41.104/search?q=cache:ZpH_vxGyHR4J:www.thehotbutton.com/today/hot.button/1999_thb/990526_wed.html+Alex+Ben+Block&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

IN OTHER LAWSUIT NEWS: Alex Ben Block, who left the editorship of The Hollywood Reporter to go be top flack (is that term offensive to our Ethnic Publicistian friends?) at Morgan Creek Productions, is now suing after being summarily fired by notorious rage-monger (and Morgan Creek topper) Jim Robinson.

AHA! It's a vendetta by Block against guys named Jim Robinson!

Huh? Our Jim Robinson?

Wednesday, 26 May 1999

RANTING & RAVING

IN OTHER LAWSUIT NEWS: Alex Ben Block, who left the editorship of The Hollywood Reporter to go be top flack (is that term offensive to our Ethnic Publicistian friends?) at Morgan Creek Productions, is now suing after being summarily fired by notorious rage-monger (and Morgan Creek topper) Jim Robinson.
That would be THIS guy, from http://www.icommag.com/june-2000/video-news.html:

Towson University Honors Jim Robinson With Lifetime Achievement Award
Towson, MD - Towson University and the Board of Visitors for the Department of Mass Communications Studies have presented the annual Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award to James G. Robinson, Chairman and CEO of Morgan Creek Productions for his outstanding contributions and lifetime career in film and electronic media. “I am of course deeply honored by this recognition and am grateful to Towson University for selecting me,” says Robinson.

Jim Robinson is chairman and CEO of three highly successful entertainment companies: Morgan Creek Productions, Morgan Creek International and Morgan Creek Music Group. In addition, he serves as President of Premier Automotive Service Inc., and owner of Realty Associates. Under Robinson’s leadership, Morgan Creek Productions has become one of the leading independent production entities in the film industry having produced an assortment of highly successful and critically acclaimed feature films including; Young Guns, Major League, the critically-acclaimed Pacific Heights, the blockbuster Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, as well as the hit comedy Ace Ventura: Pet Detective and the smash sequel Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls. Robinson has served as producer or executive producer of every Morgan Creek film. Most recently, Morgan Creek Productions released the action-comedy Chill Factor, starring Cuba Gooding Jr. and Skeet Ulrich and will release the teen psychological thriller The In Crowd this summer...

Pretty clear from the illustration that Alex Ben Block (is it Block? Or Ben Block, like Ben-Hur?) ate his entire $250k salary at that PR job that sacked him.

"International journalist" who got sacked from a PR flack gig, and soft-landed in a non-profit ED job. I guess that he isn't as in-demand as a journalist might be... think this has anything to do with his Dan Rather sphincter crawl?

Naaah. This guy has to be all about integrity... that's why he got the names and facts, uh, wrong.

d.o.l.

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