While the lawsuit apparently filed today by the parent company of Nikki Finke's Deadline against the parent company of the Hollywood Reporter is largely about "misappropriating wholesale content" from Deadline, the fun begins when you see they accused the Reporter of straight up stealing code from their site TVLine. (The copyright infringement on the code seems pretty cut and dry. [PDF]) BUT THEN there's also a section on how the Reporter tried to "lure away" Deadline's employee, Ms. Finke, with a decent salary and a "ONE MILLION DOLLAR MALIBU HOME." Then there are like a thousand examples of stories that Deadline posted first and then the [...]

The New York Times was blown away by Jimmy Kimmel's routine at yesterday's ABC upfront; Nikki Finke, who has been covering the presentations since CBS announced its first fall cave-painting schedule (it was the year that "Thok Say 'Urg'," "Find Warm Thing Make Light And Cook Food" and "The Simpsons" all debuted) adds some historical perspective and trashes the Times's Dave Itzkoff, ("a former Maxim editor," she snidely notes) for his excitability.

Last night I had a dream about Nikki Finke-just in passing. Like, she was at a party or something, and we had a conversation about toast. She looked great! But I awoke with a strange sympathy for her. In particular, I am thinking of some recent Gawker posts about her-some of which don't add up entirely.

And finally, the ongoing feud between ex-friends Sharon Waxman (late of the Times and now the editrix of Starbucks-backed The Wrap) and Nikki Finke (the blogess of Deadline Hollywood Daily) has exploded. Because, really, how much more time would we have to spend considering ecology or our tiny lifespans if we didn't get to hear about this. It's reality T.V. except no one is filming!

The lawsuits that divine Hollywood blogger Nikki Finke (I refer to her in that fashion because getting emails from her is just too intense, and also? She is rather divine) has filed, according to today's front page (!!!) New York Times mini-profile:

1. "The New York Post, the News Corporation and the Walt Disney Company" for wrongful termination. 2. A class action suit against E*Trade for non-disclosed recording of phone calls. 3. A contractor working on her house, because she injured her foot. 4. A car dealership, over an extended warranty.

WHO WILL BE NEXT? Maybe you!