“I really don’t see covering Hollywood as all that different from covering the Kremlin”
A Hollywood Blogger Feared by Executives
In the three years since she started Deadline Hollywood Daily, a daily blog about the entertainment business, her combination of old-school skills  she is a relentless reporter  and new-media immediacy has made her a must-click look into the ragingly insecure id of Hollywood.
Among movie executives, the stories of Ms. Finke’s aggressiveness are legion, but they remain mostly unspoken because people fear being the target of one of her withering takedowns.
“I’d prefer not to ever deal with her,†said a senior communications executive at a studio who declined to be identified. Many others declined comment saying, variously, “she gave me a nervous breakdown,†“she terrifies me,†and “there’s no percentage in me saying anything to you about Nikki no matter what it is.â€Â
