Intro for August 7, 2026

Dear Gossips,Here’s a blast from the past, Nikki Finke resurfaced this week. Not literally, as she passed away in 2022, but the specter of her long-rumored fictionalized telling of Hollywood tales has emerged from the shadows and is being shopped for publication by her estate.It’s crazy to think back twenty years to the power Nikki Finke wielded from her blog, Deadline.com. Today, we know Deadline as an entertainment industry trade, one of the “big three” owned by Penske