Freelance journalist Dominic Patten is covering the trial for Deadline: The awards show is over, but the legal showdown is about to begin. More than a week after the Golden Globes were broadcast on NBC, the longsimmering feud between the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and Dick Clark Productions over who controls the lucrative TV rights finally goes to trial this morning in federal court in Downtown La. The witness list over the next week includes CBS honcho Les Moonves (who may turn out to be the star witness), outgoing NBC bigwig Marc Graboff, Dcp top execs Dick Clark and Fran La Maina and Mark Shapiro, and past and current HFPA presidents Aida Takla-o’Reilly and Philip Berk and Judy Solomon. O’Melveny & Myers’ Daniel Petrocelli is repping the HFPA while Ron Olson and Marty Katz head up Dick Clark Productions and Red Zone Capitol’s team. Like everything concerning Hollywood,...
- 1/24/2012
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
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