Fixers, Flubs and F'ed up

Did the Fixer Fic flub up?

Screenwriter Brian Larsen, is claiming that Showtime stole his idea to create the Hollywood-fixer hit Ray Donovan. Southland creator Ann Biderman is credited with coming up with Donovan and is an Executive Producer on the Mark Gordon Company show.

Larsen is claiming former Showtime Original Programming VP Danielle Gelber, who's called a “development executive” in the complaint, took a pitch meeting with him about his Writer's Guild of America registered script  about a San Francisco-based fixer who discreetly handles high-profile clients problems and has a messed-up family – like Donovan - in Northern California on November 5, 2010.

In the 11-page breach of implied contract and breach of confidence complaint filed February 13 in L.A. Superior Court , creditless Larsen and his Radical Pictures LLC  says Donovan “mimics” his 2009 fixer concept The Swissman. He says that the series has “enriched Defendants to the tune of millions of dollars,”an is seeking to have production on Ray Donovan stopped via an injunction and is also seeking wide ranging but unspecified damages of more than $25,000.

Interestingly the credited show creator Ann Binderman nor producer Mark Gordon are named as a defendants in the suit.

 Will Showtime have to hire their own fixer to get them out of this one?



Quick fix = big flub?


While this picture popped up yesterday in V-day splendor

Why does it look like it came from a photoshoot Austin did with Davis Factor while he was on OTH?

Olympics for ALL Moment:

This is how Sweden shows their opposition to Russia's anti-LGBT legislation just days before the Olympics began.

The short film, titled Live And Let Love, features a diverse group of people from all walks of life, surrounded by rainbow flags, singing the Russian national anthem and supporting the LGBT community in Russia.