Protestors To Dog “Dogma”? [New York Post]

The Toronto Star also has a blurb today summarizing the same ‘ol stuff, as well as the Pittsburgh Post…And then there’sour favorite piece of the day, ‘cuz it linked to a story here at News Askew (though we didn’t score a mention by name, dammit)…It’s from TNT Roughcut, and actually makes some excellent points:

My final homage to trouble is about Disney’s trouble with Miramax’s Dogma.Jeffrey Wells at Mr. Showbiz has been on this story since last summer. Histake, in short, is that Michael Eisner will not let Miramax release the filmand that Miramax has been trying to sell it. No other media wrote much aboutit last summer (though it created quite the brouhaha on Kevin Smith’s ViewAskew bulletin board), but I guess it’s a hotter topic now. Especially withKevin Smith announcing that the film was screened this Tuesday forconsideration by the Cannes Film festival. Assuming this is true, it’s hardto believe that if Eisner, The King of All Things Mickey, really wants thisfilm to go away. Why? Because letting Miramax send it to Cannes would be theworst idea possible. It might make the film more valuable, but it would alsorip the lid off of any “quiet” sale of the film to another company. No onewants to get ripped as a censor like Universal and October did last yearwhen they sold off Happiness. And where did Happiness get hot? Cannes.

Anyway, I went of on a rant within a rant. My point was that Wells’ storygot picked up by at least two outlets, The Drudge Report and the New YorkPost’s gossip sheet, Page Six . The Post credited Mr.Showbiz, but not Wells, who was on the story before he even started his Mr.Showbiz column. (For the record, Mr. Showbiz started their ShowbizConfidential column about seven months after I started The Hot Button hereat roughcut.com and Jeff took it over about six months after that.) On theother hand, the Internet-only Drudge Report didn’t acknowledge anyone but”published reports” and bizarrely titled the report, “Alanis Morissette FilmDebut in Jeopardy” Huh? Gee, Matt, not very honest move there, pal.Especially when you realize that he links to both Page Six and Wells’column. (No, he doesn’t link to me. Tell him he should by e-mailing Matt atdrudge@drudgereport.com.) In any case, Kevin Smith has responded openly toWells and Premiere magazine, which has jumped on the story’s bandwagon. Toread it, click here <../april99/> and look under”Kevin On Premiere…”). For those of you who keep writing to tell me thefilm has a fall release date, Kevin indicates otherwise in this story, soread on.

That’s the end of my rant. I feel better. And the beginning of Kevin’s, Iguess.