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• finally agree with something you say. don’t forget to mention that the voting is anonymous and you can vote as many times as you want. Somebody had it in for Emmett.

  Comment by totally agree — Tuesday October 13, 2009 @ 9:34pm PST  Reply to this post

• Also if you look at the list, very few people actually voted. Many people with as few as 5 votes, which could obviously all be from one disgruntled person, ended up on there, so the whole thing is incredibly inaccurate and irresponsible.

  Comment by Anonymous — Tuesday October 13, 2009 @ 9:34pm PST  Reply to this post

• Don’t know about the brown list, but do know that the LA times is so behind, that last week when they reported on the crisis of employment in show business, I felt better. As if to say, well this must be old news if the la times is reporting on it.

  Comment by The Realist — Tuesday October 13, 2009 @ 9:51pm PST  Reply to this post

• This list is as much BS as any list that Hollywood creates from the blacklist to the 100 most powerful people in town

  Comment by karl — Tuesday October 13, 2009 @ 10:18pm PST  Reply to this post

• THANK YOU for not reposting the list and giving it any kind of validation. It is absolutely a load of shit.

  At least the Black List has some semblance of statistical accuracy since it’s compiled from the opinions of a pool of pre-selected agents, managers, executives and producers that are chosen to represent the gamut of the town.

  The 100 Most Powerful People lists are created by professional entertainment journalists that quantify hard data (like box office numbers) as well as polling those people’s direct peers and rivals.

  This brown list is compiled from the opinions of a bunch of catty junior executives and assistants with nothing better to do than to shit talk people they’re jealous of. It’s also completely statistically unsound since there’s no way to monitor the votes. The fact that five votes can get you into the top ten list of people hated in town is pretty indicative of how crap this list is.

  Comment by anon — Tuesday October 13, 2009 @ 10:42pm PST  Reply to this post

• Hey, that’s how American Idol’s voting system works and it’s the number one show on television.

  Comment by James — Wednesday October 14, 2009 @ 6:52am PST  Reply to this post

• Anon,

  While the blacklist might have been what you claim it to be a few years ago, it has turned into a list a projects that agents, producers,managers, and executives use to promote their writers or their projects. Of the 20 or so scripts on that list, a handful might be some of the more popular scripts around town, but the majority of them are on that list for another reason. Hollywood is obsessed with lists. The ten best to watch, the 20 most this, the 50 most important that, etc, and each and everyone of them is some type of smoke and mirrors self promotion of some kind.

  While I agree that this list is a new low and quite frankly, fails and even being catty or a fun trashy tabloid read, it is still nonetheless a meaningless hollywood list. If any good can come from it, maybe the people who are on this list could realize how silly and inaccurate any hollywood list is and spend less time concerning themselves with making list or trying to get on a list and more time doing their jobs.

  Comment by karl — Wednesday October 14, 2009 @ 8:48am PST  Reply to this post

• Come on people, the Brown List was a joke. The writer even said it meant nothing. The whole thing was just for a laugh. If you took it seriously, that is your own problem.

  Comment by LOL — Wednesday October 14, 2009 @ 9:16am PST  Reply to this post

• Also, they probably didn’t even come across the list firsthand. They probably saw the Gawker story on it and then decided to follow Gawker’s lead. How sad.

  Comment by Chris Finley — Wednesday October 14, 2009 @ 1:41pm PST  Reply to this post

• Patrick Goldstein should apologize for his own existence in general. The guy thinks who he is. I remember working as an assistant in my early days and working a special screening just for him and his family on Thanksgiving and the guy never even made eye contact with me or thanked me for hanging around just so he could watch some film. Critics are a joke and the LA Times et al are no exception.

  Comment by Doug Lewis — Wednesday October 14, 2009 @ 2:00pm PST  Reply to this post