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• Here Come the Directors! The writers' strike gets more complex. Plus: Will Spielberg ankle the Beijing Olympics?
  Kim Masters Dec. 18, 2007
  
• The Big Gun Is American Idol crippling the writers' strike?
  Kim Masters Dec. 5, 2007
  
• A Strike Without Movie Stars Why are A-listers like George Clooney, Tom Hanks, and Brad Pitt avoiding the picket lines?
  Kim Masters Nov. 30, 2007
  
• Who's Winning? A nutshell update on the writers' strike.
  Kim Masters Oct. 29, 2007
  
• The Couch Jumper Can't Win Tom Cruise's new movie gets panned in London.
  Kim Masters Oct. 11, 2007
  
• Trouble With The Kite Runner A rape scene creates all kinds of problems for three Afghan child actors.
  Kim Masters Oct. 5, 2007
  
• No headline 
  Sept. 26, 2007
  
• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Idiocy An extra gives away key plot details of the upcoming movie.
  Kim Masters Sept. 19, 2007
  
• Whoopsy Daisies Barry Sonnenfeld blows the bank on his new television show.
  Kim Masters Sept. 5, 2007
  
• You Don't Want To Do This How Anthony Pellicano talked Dominick Dunne out of getting revenge.
  Kim Masters Aug. 29, 2007
  
• No headline 
  Kim Masters Aug. 16, 2007
  
• Viacom Family Feud Are Sumner Redstone and his daughter heading into King Lear territory?
  Kim Masters July 20, 2007
  
• Without Breasts There Is No Paradise Ben Silverman buys his first show for NBC.
  Kim Masters June 5, 2007
  
• Jeff Zucker's Deep Throat An anonymous e-mail tips off  the shake-up at NBC.
  Kim Masters May 23, 2007
  
• The New TV Swingers, men shows, and Lord of the Flies on CBS.
  Kim Masters May 9, 2007
  
• Let the Games Begin In a crowded summer blockbuster season, someone's going to get hurt. Will it be Spider-Man?
  Kim Masters April 23, 2007
  
• Will Ferrell Tube The story behind the Web site FunnyorDie.com.
  Kim Masters April 16, 2007
  
• Puff Piece Harvard tells Hollywood to ban cigarettes from kids' movies.
  Kim Masters April 2, 2007
  
• The Los Angeles Times' Trump Card A role on The Apprentice!
  Kim Masters March 26, 2007
  
• More on That Slick Bruno Deal How an agent turned his pie-in-the-sky memo into a reality.
  Kim Masters March 14, 2007
  
• Lost in Translation Does Howard Stringer really want his job?
  Kim Masters March 3, 2007
  
• Babel Feud The director and screenwriter fight for credit over a confusing movie.
  Kim Masters Feb. 20, 2007
  
• Democrats in Hollywood Does the town love Hillary or Obama?
  Kim Masters Feb. 6, 2007
  
• Based on True Events What exactly is "true" about The Last King of Scotland?
  Kim Masters Jan. 25, 2007
  
• Please Don't Make Me See Babel Will it become this year's Crash?
  Kim Masters Jan. 16, 2007