Trade Round-Up: No More Negative Oscar Campaign Ads
· AMPAS says no more negativity in Oscar campaigns. Related: Harvey Weinstein fires ad team commissioned for series of full-page "Spider-Man Fucks Babies" spots in the trades. [THR]
· Pink slips on the set of CSI. Supporting actors George Eads and Jorja Fox are the sacrificial lambs in a salary debate, serving as an example to other castmembers that hey, this show is about visual effects and death, you can be replaced. This is not a joke: We heard that Eads wasn't "making a statement," he just overslept his morning call. Time for an alarm clock, Georgie! [THR]
· Business mogul/doily-pushing ice-queen Martha Stewart gets 5 months in prison, but Gawker gets the tea towel. (Actually, we got one too! Thanks, Smoking Gun!) [THR]
· First Paramount, now this. Val Kilmer has been brought on to play Moses in the upcoming musical The Ten Commandments. Show opens in Hollywood first, where Kilmer can uses his Method-derived Moses powers to part the urinating homeless on his way to work. [Variety, sub.req'd]
· Four young agents at UTA sent packing. Sure, we knew last night, but we have priorities. [THR]