Welcome to LA, Richard Johnson

Tabloid Baby pal Richard Johnson is leaving his job as editor of the New York Post's Page Six and moving to Los Angeles. Johnson has been at the helm of the most influential gossip column of our time for close to twenty five years, and a made a little gossip himself along the way while steering the column from the days of Sukhreet Gabel and Mark Gastineau. We'd have thought Johnson would have headed West fifteen years ago to become a television star, but he was to be respected as one of the last of the print guys. His skipping of the medium and move to a News Corp, "digital venture" signals the death of print gossip as far as we're concerned. Long live Jim Brady and Neal Travis.

Click here to read Richard Johnson's goodbye to New York. Last line:

In the words of J.J. Hunsecker, "I love this dirty town."

Pink Slip web series goes to The Dance

Writer, producer, director and Tabloid Baby pal Muriel Campbell can be called a full-fledged Internet cinema auteur, now that's she's unleashed the fourth part of her continuing comedy webisode series, Pink Slip. The series has crashed through boundaries of sexuality, age, economics and art as it features a wide array of up-and-coming Hollywood talent throughout its course of comic twists, biting zingers and surprising hot romance.

Check out the shoutout to Page Six in this latest episode, called The Dance. That's where it takes place and more than a few threads come together, though Muriel assures us there's more to come. This combination of Billy Wilder and Penny Marshall is just getting started...

...and check into the new Pink Slip website at PinkSlip.tv.

Parts I, 2 and 3 below: