Comments (13)

• A single junior CE getting laid off warrants a Nikki Finke post? Wow. Slow news day?

  Comment by Peter Crawford — Friday October 16, 2009 @ 8:40am PST  Reply to this post

• Among Linde’s overstuffed assistant staff, Targan’s duties consisted of pacing the floor while talking loudly on his headset, regaling visitors and callers with a detailed history of himself, and generally setting the hoops the interns had to jump through on fire. I’ve never seen another assistant with the temerity to invite create execs visiting his boss to his backyard barbecue.

  His promotion was the equivalent of buying the boss’s lap dog a fancy new bed. Now that the master is gone, his lap dog’s going to the pound.

  Comment by Name — Friday October 16, 2009 @ 9:05am PST  Reply to this post

  • Sounds like jealousy that you’re still rolling calls douche.

    Comment by Anonymous — Friday October 16, 2009 @ 3:31pm PST  Reply to this post

• Cost cutting, eh Universal? Have fun taking that $80k off your books while you make more $75M comedies that flop. So you fire the one guy with any comedic sensibilities at the CE level. Real vision there Donna and Adam. Oh and I’m sure everything will be cool now because you two had nothing to do with that epic string of flops and even worse marketing campaigns to support them. That one sheet for ‘Funny People’ just screamed comedy. Ok Sandler just stand there. Good now Leslie and Seth, just put your head on his shoulders. Gimmie some half smiles. Now everyone say ‘cancer!’ Perfect.

  Good luck to one of the decent people in town. Any company would be lucky to have him.

  Comment by Bang up Job Uni — Friday October 16, 2009 @ 9:31am PST  Reply to this post

• Dave is a good guy. Feels like a regime change layoff.

  Comment by studioexec — Friday October 16, 2009 @ 10:03am PST  Reply to this post

• Dave is a great guy and a great exec. He goes out of his way to help people in the industry. He is extremely loyal and it is a shame that he was let go. Who ever picks him up will be better off for it.

  Comment by Bobo — Friday October 16, 2009 @ 10:19am PST  Reply to this post

• yes it does, just goes to show you how bullshit this business is.

  Comment by bullshit — Friday October 16, 2009 @ 11:50am PST  Reply to this post

• Dave is awesome. It’s lame he becomes collateral damage.

  Comment by Ashamed — Friday October 16, 2009 @ 12:44pm PST  Reply to this post

• Dave is one of the few genuinely good guys I’ve met in the business. Hopefully he’ll launch his own prodco.

  Comment by Outsider — Friday October 16, 2009 @ 4:38pm PST  Reply to this post

  • His own production company? Producing what…coffee?

    Comment by guy — Sunday October 18, 2009 @ 7:17pm PST  Reply to this post

• And speaking as someone who has been to one of his “backyard barbecues”, it’s not an empty invitation — Dave has a serious gift with BBQ.

  Seems like a cheap shot at Linde to me.

  Comment by Bystander — Friday October 16, 2009 @ 4:59pm PST  Reply to this post

• Here’s to temerity, they need more of it in England where the lesser classes know their places.

  Comment by Melies — Saturday October 17, 2009 @ 4:39pm PST  Reply to this post

• I met Dave a few times – he has tremendous promise and I wish him the best.

  Comment by Me — Tuesday October 20, 2009 @ 9:57am PST  Reply to this post