Tabloid Witch Award Mini-Documentary

One of our 2007 winners, Erasmo Romero III, has produced a mini-documentary about the Tabloid Witch Awards. I come across as rather wooden. Had I known how I'd look, I'd have made an effort to be more lively and animated. Oh well...

2008 Tabloid Witch Awards Gets Its First Feature Entry

Last week, the 2008 Tabloid Witch Awards received its first feature entry!

As of now, the 2008 Tabloid Witch Awards has one feature entry, and seven short entries. And we're just beginning the year!

The Tabloid Witch Awards is a No Entry Fee horror film contest, sponsored by the Hollywood Investigator. Winners of the 2008 contest will be announced in October, and will receive promotion and trophies! Past winners also received in film screening in Santa Monica, California -- in the Los Angeles/Hollywood area!

WGA Writers ... Anti-Union Hypocrites?

Yesterday, a Los Angeles contractor provided a unique and interesting perspective to the WGA writers strike.

This contractor told me that many of her clients are wealthy writers (and directors, actors, producers, and other Hollywood types) who will hire illegal immigrant (i.e., nonunion) labor to renovate or work on their houses.

So, this contractor reasoned, these actors, directors, and writers are hypocrites. They undercut blue collar union carpenters, plumbers, builders, etc., but expect everyone to sympathize when their own Hollywood unions go on strike.

Hers is a thought-provoking perspective, one that hadn't occurred to me.

Tabloid Witch Award in Argentina

The Tabloid Witch Awards -- and all its winners! -- have been covered by an Argentinian publication, Sin Cortes!

Thanks go to Argentinian winner, Daniel de la Vega (director of Death Knows Your Name), for publicizing the Tabloid Witch in Latin America.

Daniel even uploaded a YouTube of him and his team with their Tabloid Witch plaques in Buenos Aries:

L.A. Weekly Cites Hollywood Investigator's Charles Bukowski Exposé

In 2003 the Hollywood Investigator broke a news story (written by Ben Pleasants) about writer Charles Bukowski's Nazi past.

That news revelation has now been cited in a legal battle over the fate of Bukowski's East Hollywood bungalow. Read the details in the L.A. Weekly, which cites the Hollywood Investigator news story!

Tabloid Witch Award winner Shawna Baca Needs YOUR Help!

One of the 2007 Tabloid Witch Award winners, Shawna Baca requests that you view her new video and vote for it should you find it worthy.

Shawna writes: "Chillin’ with the Gonzalezes is the story of a blue-collar couple whose lives are constantly interrupted by their conniving live-in Grandma and her best friend and partner-in-crime: a cutthroat saleswoman trapped in the body of a nine-year-old neighbor girl. This is the 'Granny Krumps' episode.

Please vote for Chillin’ with the Gonzalezes as featured in the Myspace/FOX Television Storyteller Challenge. Fox and Myspace are looking for the next television show.

This was made in 4 days. Please support independent filmmakers and diversity. Pass this along and help spread the love.

Thanks,

Shawna Baca"

Dead Noon's Obligatory Shower Sequence

In the Hollywood Investigator's recent coverage of the 2007 Tabloid Witch Award recipients, actress Elizabeth Mouton discusses Dead Noon's Obligatory Showers scenes. Now here's your chance to see it!