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  Variety Steals /Film News Scoop?

  By Peter Sciretta January 22nd, 2009

  On Tuesday, we ran an exclusive news scoop about the next project from the director and writers of 500 Days of Summer  -- Marc Webb and writers Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber are developing a big screen adaptation of Tim Tharp's The Spectacular Now. Tonight Hollywood tradepaper Variety is running the same bit of…

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  VOTD: Variety Slanguage

  By Peter Sciretta November 24th, 2008

  Anyone who has ever clicked over to a Hollywood trade newspaper like Variety has surely been subjected to a bevy of insider slang words, some of which appear to have been created on the spot. FunnyorDie put cameras in a Monday morning Variety writers meeting to find out exactly how this Slanguage is created. Watch…

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