February
13
An open letter to the hoaxster behind the Lindsay Lohan rumor
FROM: dana.harris@variety.com
Hi -- my name is Dana Harris and I'm the editor of Variety.com. As you know, JustJared.com received an email from this address from someone claiming to be Andrew Form with information about Lindsay Lohan starring in "Nightmare on Elm Street." It was a clever ruse in that the quote named her manager, which helped give it an air of authenticity, and he bit. For that matter, so did I (via our blog HAL), Defamer, Hollyscoop, IMDB, and probably many others.
My question now is: Who are you? I've emailed JustJared (he kindly shared your email) and spoken to Andrew Form; as I told him, while he's a respected producer, he's not the first person I'd got to for stealing a Hollywood identity. Or maybe that's the point: Pick someone with power, but not too much power; famous, but not too famous and you're that much more likely to be believed.
Either way, it was bad form on my part (no pun intended), and JustJared's, not to check out a story like this; and when you think about it, the email address you chose was a little too obvious to be real. But I'm in no position to throw stones on this one; it occurred to me that this was a weird sort of story for a producer to give directly and then I posted it anyway.
You wanted your moment of fame and/or infamy; you got it. Now you can even stretch it out: Who are you?
dh
Dana Harris| Editor, Variety.com and HAL
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