A Memoir of Hollywood, With a Deadline Founder in It
Deadline's weekend roundup of long-form features from the past week includes a sit-down with Ari Emanuel about his new memoir, Roll the Calls, which the site describes as rocking Hollywood. Among the recollections in the book: Deadline's own founder, Nikki Finke. A memoir whose early buzz runs through the trade publication that chronicles the industry — and includes the person who built that publication — is a tidy little loop even by Hollywood standards.
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The circularity is the entertaining part: recollections of Nikki Finke, printed by the outlet she founded, in a book being talked about across the industry she covered.
It's also the most audience-specific anecdote available — Deadline readers are precisely the people who know who Finke was and why the mention carries weight.