March
16
Back to Blogging
Well, my last blog post at Riskybizblog was on Monday, March 5, the day I left The Hollywood Reporter for its arch-rival, Variety. My first day at Variety's mid-Wilshire office was Monday; I filed my first weekly column on Wednesday. It appears online each Friday, and in the weekly Variety print edition on Sunday. Yesterday we nailed down the new URL, www.thompsononhollywood.com.
No more Risky Business, sadly. Although I wrote the Risky Business column at L.A. Weekly for seven years, and filed some more Risky columns for Filmmaker Magazine in 2003 and 2004, and convinced the folks at THR to let me use Risky Business for my weekly column there, they want to hang on to it. It's a hard-won part of my identity. But I'm moving on.
I'm starting this new blog from scratch. Building up the links, categories and traffic from ground zero! There are more bells and whistles in the works. If you have anything to tell me about what you'd like it to be, for better or worse, fire away.



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good to have you back, though while changing my favorites, noticed the hollywood reporter still has your photo up on the risky business column url.
Posted by: mitkid | March 17, 2007 at 06:19 AM
congrats anne! riskybiz was probably the best hollywood industry blog out there... now i am excited to add this one to the top of my RSS reader! all the best!!
Posted by: eugene hernandez | March 17, 2007 at 08:40 AM
Out with the old bookmark (and sorry you couldn't keep the name, since I've been reading that column since the beginning) and in with the new...
Looking forward,
Cotty
Posted by: bebop69 | March 17, 2007 at 10:32 AM
Congrats on being back in the blog biz. I don't think having Risky Business snatched away will hurt you. It's about you, not a handle. And you'll do superbly regardless.
RR
Posted by: Ray R. | March 17, 2007 at 06:06 PM
Congratulations on the shiny new blog!
Posted by: hillaryjohnson | March 19, 2007 at 11:07 AM
Whew! I was finally able to track down your new site.
Posted by: Christian Johnson | March 19, 2007 at 02:45 PM