Graydon Carter: Some Of My Best Friends In Hollywood Are Scumbags
The LAW's Nikki Finke reports that Vanity Fair editor/Hollywood snuggle-buddy Graydon Carter is jabbing a salad fork in the back of his entertainment industry buddies on the eve of his splashy Oscar party:
...Carter seems to launch his diatribes the same way: “I don’t know how anyone works there . . . ,” before segueing into an overwrought condemnation of the entertainment business in general — “Hollywood is filled with nothing but scumbags” — and then a specific targeting of persons whom Carter individually called “scumbags.”
The two people most often named by Graydon, according to these insiders, are Katzenberg and Grazer — the same two Hollywood bigwigs who have been regulars at his Oscar party, who see him socially in L.A. and N.Y., who once offered him an absurdly lucrative gig to work for their joint Internet venture, the short-lived Pop.com.
For one, hasn't anybody told Carter that calling Katzenberg and Grazer "two-faced studio douchebags" would be a lot more lacerating than the quainter-sounding "scumbags"? Both had their people issue denials about any lapse in the dues of their mutual admiration society with the editor, but we'll see how it all plays out at the VF party. After a few martinis, we can see Katzenberg hopping up on Grazer's shoulders and challenging Carter to a boozy chicken-fight to reclaim their honor.
