Today's Page Six reports that Nicole Kidman has been questioned by the FBI in connection with the Anthony Pellicano Wiretapping Trial of the Century, as Pellicano had seemingly recorded the actress talking to Tom Cruise during the couple's divorce proceedings:

In her new column, the LA Weekly's Nikki Finke generously offers to help jog the memory of amnesiac Paramount emperor Brad Grey, who recently told the NY Times that he was only "casually acquainted" with Wiretapping Trial of the Century subject Anthony Pellicano, by reminding him about a project the two men were involved with in the past:

It should be a pretty fun day over at the New Paramount (motto: "Maintaining a Scandal-to-Release Ratio of 3:1 Since Early 2005"), where an examination of studio boss Brad Grey's connections to illegal wiretapper Anthony Pellicano (who was hired by Grey's Scary Hollywood Lawyer, Bert Fields) landed on page one of the NY Times today, the Hollywood equivalent of arriving to work on Monday morning and finding one's office full of dead hookers. The Times landed an interview with Linda Doucett, the Garry Shandling ex who found herself a victim of Pellicano wiretapping while caught in the middle of Shandling and Grey's ugly legal battle following the break-up of their professional partnership back in Grey's relatively carefree managing days. Doucett explains her cooperation with the NYT as an opportunity for the "little people" to stand up to better-funded and more famous Hollywood bullies. (And, apparently, to land a picture of her horse in the paper.) She tells the Times:

Before yesterday's announcement of the indictment of attorney Terry Christensen in connection to the Anthony Pellicano Wiretapping Trial of the Century, we'd never heard his name. Sure, we'd collected Scary Hollywood Lawyer cards like every other kid, and while we can recite the stats from
Bert Field's card from memory (lead the league in cease-and-desists for three straight years!) and tear up with nostalgia when we think of the pleasing sound Marty Singer's rookie card made flapping against the spokes of our Schwinn with the banana seat, we're pretty sure our incomplete set didn't include one for former MGM boss Kirk Kerkorian's longtime counsel. Today's LAT fills us in on Christensen's "in-your-face style," which helped elevate him to the "top tier" of "hardball Hollywood lawyers":

Just when we finished complaining that nothing spicy is going on in the Anthony Pellicano Wiretapping Trial of the Century, prominent attorney Terry Christensen became the first Hollywood lawyer indicted in the case. Christensen allegedly paid Pellicano to tap the phone of client/former MGM boss Kirk Kerkorian's ex-wife. Reports The Smoking Gun:

We're a little tired of waiting for the Anthony Pellicano Wiretapping Trial of the Century to yield some of the Hollywood-players-frog -marching-out-of-Kate-Mantilini's excitement we've been anticipating for months to finally materialize. Today, at least, we're tossed a proverbial bone as the NY Times reports that prosecutors are poking around an old dispute between Michael Ovitz, the former Most Powerful Man in Hollywood (and current Most Powerful Man in Line At Starbucks, If He Avoids The One In Brentwood), and Cathy Schulman, a producer who once worked for Ovitz at the now-defunct AMG:

The Anthony Pellicano Wiretapping Trial of the Century is turning into a bit of a disappointment, offering not the Skittles waterfall of celebrity secrets we all were hoping for, but instead only popping out a stale gumball of dirt here and there. In this latest chapter courtesy of NY Daily News, we find out Pellicano had a mysterious grudge against surveillance target Sylvester Stallone (though paying to see Driven would seem motive enough), and learn of a desperate call from Naomi Campbell that makes the fierce runway glamazon sound more like a last-legs Marilyn Monroe:

The Anthony Pellicano Wiretapping Trial of the Century has finally put its indictments where its mouth is, charging professional eavesdropper to the stars Pellicano, an ex-LAPD cop, and five others with racketeering (a PDF of the entire document is available here). As was feared by many, and anxiously anticipated by many more, the indictment names a long list of celebrity clients who fell victim to Pellicano's allegedly crooked surveillance services, Sylvester Stallone and Gary Shandling among them:

There's finally some movement in the Anthony Pellicano Wiretapping Trial of the Century, but indictments to an anticipated net full of big Hollywood fish have yet to materialize. Yesterday, Keith Carradine's ex-wife pleaded guilty to perjury for earlier denying she knew that Pellicano (also her boyfriend, in an interesting twist) tapped Carradine's phone. Hardly thrilling stuff. But we now have our first, beautiful only-in-Hollywood moment of the proceedings, courtesy of a Pellicano case involving scary lawyer Bert Fields. Says the NY Times:

Hollywood is still holding its breath as it awaits indictments in the Anthony Pellicano Wiretapping Trial of the Century. Radar Online reports that the wait could be over very soon, giving the town something to chatter about over turkey and stuffing:

Hey, all you people who care about stories of "national importance," breathlessly awaiting your fancypants indictments for CIA leaks. Hollywood's got its own problems, thank you very much, as its collective face turns blue waiting for indictments to be handed down in the Anthony Pellicano Wiretapping Trial of the Century, when we will finally find out which of the industry's players wind up groped by the cold hand of scandal. The NY Times runs down the all-star roster of names tied up in the case against the eavesdroppingest private detective in town: