2ND UPDATE, 11:33 AM: THR staffers are returning to the building after getting the all-clear from authorities.
PREVIOUS, 11:08 AM: The Hollywood Reporter‘s Mid-Wilshire headquarters has been evacuated and an LA Fire Department haz-mat unit is now on the scene. The LAPD is also at the building, located at 5700 Wilshire, after receiving a call at 9:47 AM reporting a suspicious package. Staffers numbering as many as 150, according to KNX Radio reports, have been escorted from the building and are milling around the courtyard outside; it’s unclear whether other floors of the building have been cleared out. There have been no injuries reported, according to LAFD spokesman Erik Scott, though an ambulance is on the scene. Scott said the situation is “static”, meaning it is not escalating.


The bomb squad would have been there faster but they were still cleaning up the mess that Seth MacFarlane made with his mega Oscar bomb disaster. My hunch is that the suspicious package contains the script that Seth used last night, someone must have mailed it to the Reporter office so they could expose it before the show but it arrived late and naturally they are terrified of it, the script Seth used is extremely dangerous and should be exploded in a safe location far from any cameras or people.
Or maybe it is all the worn out jokes the uptight people in Hollywood keep making about Seth “bombing.” He was fine. I would much rather see Seth do a solid job than Billy Crystal’s worn out old face try to sing and equally worn out jokes only Fatty Arbuckle and Al Jolson would appreciate.
Sorry but Seth really did bomb last night and all his fans posting everywhere on the web can’t change the reality of what happened the perception by the majority of viewers is that he bombed. Accept it and stop trying to make excuses for him he was terrible.
Which side do you think is trying to make the other side (or Berman/Ovitz/Clinton/Pellicano/Chicago sides)look like they did it Facebook lovers?
my theory is that the suspicious package was a check from an advertiser, and they simply haven’t seen one in such a long time, they didn’t recognize it.
Or a new subscription. Same issue.