Janice Min Takes Hollywood Reporter Reins

COMMENTS (10)

• I can’t believe they hired the devil. She’s been telling lies about Hollywood elite at US mag/tabloid for years. Does this mean THR will start turning tabloid ? YUK! I’m sticking with Deadline more then ever.

  Comment by lame — Wednesday May 26, 2010 @ 1:14pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Waxman already saw the UNwelcome she got from the town for her pack of lies. This woman will surely be given the same silent treatment.

  Comment by Jen Lewis — Wednesday May 26, 2010 @ 2:56pm PDT  Reply to this post

• If you look at many publications nowadays, they all have tabloid and/or gossip areas and if you watch the morning programs, they also have moved into more tabloid reporting and only the first 30 minutes may have actual news. It is a shame that this person who made her living lying about celebrities or overembelishing simple stories to seem trashy was able to get this position. You may as well add the Hollywood Reporter to the list of tabloids that make up stuff or print the junk about the C and D list antics of the Hiltons, Lohans and other reality show types who are on the covers now. There will be no actual news or reporting any longer. Though the owners of this site also publish one of the worst blogs on the planet in Hollywood Life. So, no one is exempt from trash.x

  Comment by Mary Anne — Wednesday May 26, 2010 @ 3:07pm PDT  Reply to this post

• THR’s newest colum:

  Stars – THR just like us.

  Comment by Nanea — Wednesday May 26, 2010 @ 3:48pm PDT  Reply to this post

• When I was a wee lad I met a young up and coming editor with Vibe magazine. She was hip, spoke the hip-hop ‘lingo’ and was trying to come off with street cred in the company of a then-popular hard core rap group. She felt I had a ‘flow with language’ — her words, not mine — and asked me to apply for a writing internship by contacting her directly. I did. By letter. By phone. Repeatedly. She never had the courtesy to send a form letter of rejection, which sucks because she seemed so drippingly sincere. (When I ran into her years later, she asked: ‘How come you never got in touch with me, sweetie pie?’)

  Friends later told me that this rising editor — Janice Min — would throw her on kids under the bus to get ahead and would tell anyone (even gun-toting rappers or naive college-age writers like I was at the time) what they wanted to hear to get her way or get what she needed. And if you could not advance her career you were an impeding annoyance, like chewed over Chiclet on the sole of her Jimmy Choos.

  Ms. Min eventually shed her Vibe cloak to take the helm at US, where my writing friends there had none too nice things to say. She has changed in one way: She is now a RICH, shallow editor.

  Admittedly, she is good at putting out the kind of “blitzkrieg, prurient journalism” that works for her corporate infotainment overlords. But I’ll stop short of calling her an insufferable, insincere, preening, shallow….. oh, hell, let’s just say she is NOT the coolest lady in the world, though she so wants to be; she should fit in Hollywood just fine.

  Comment by bobbythesaint — Wednesday May 26, 2010 @ 7:21pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • Wow, bobbythesaint!! I’m shocked. The world is shocked! You mean Meanie is so uncool? (to be read in a sarcastic tone!) LOL

    Comment by lylian — Thursday May 27, 2010 @ 12:36am PDT  Reply to this post

• Schtick Chick Picked to Fix Sick THR

  Comment by Pistol Pete — Wednesday May 26, 2010 @ 7:30pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Does this mean every sentence and headling in the Reporter will now end with an exclamation point (!)?

  Comment by Walt — Wednesday May 26, 2010 @ 10:51pm PDT  Reply to this post

• At least they didn’t hire Bonnie Fuller!

  Comment by SD — Thursday May 27, 2010 @ 2:58am PDT  Reply to this post

• As a New York book agent (she was at People I think) she had a client contact me on her behalf. She wanted to do a parody of “The Rules.” She was six months too late, plus didn’t have the credentials.

  She’ll be trying to segue into the industry is my guess.

  Comment by Bennett Cerf — Friday May 28, 2010 @ 3:59pm PDT  Reply to this post