For those who thought cinematized stasis had nowhere else to go after “My Left Foot,” in which a massively impaired Daniel Day-Lewis wriggled his toes for two hours and was rewarded with an Oscar, think again.  Today, HollywoodReporter.com reveals that HBO has started developments on “Tilda,” a half-hour comedy series centering on the exploits of a ruthless Hollywood gossip blogger with an unmissable resemblance to Nikki Finke.  Just so we are clear, that means HBO is going to be televising a show about blogging about television – a premise that makes me, anyway, feel abruptly in need of oxygen.

Finke, whom hardly anybody in Hollywood knows, but everyone fears, has made a name and a living for herself, in a handsome symmetry, by tearing down the names and lives of Hollywood’s ruling class.  Of course, Finke’s ability to do this is a function of her prodigious, and at times prophetic, reportorial powers.  Above all, Finke is renowned for breaking stories before the principals of these stories even know there is a story.

The HBO comedy is to be written and directed (the exact division of labor was not divulged) by Cynthia Mort and Bill Condon.  Mort recently scored acclaim for her single-season HBO series, the divertingly randy “Love Me.”  Condon, a bigger fish, has won an Oscar and directed “Dream Girls,” but is not yet famous enough to escape near-universal confusion, in the ears of the public, with the popular form of contraception.

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You've got to hand it to Gawker for turning the process of writing blog posts into fun and profit for all. They've complained in the past that the photo of Finke to the left, which Defamer's Richard Rushfield says looks like an "audition photo for the role of the evil headmistress in a 1940's film," is one of only two available on the Web (here's the other).

Rather than resign themselves to that fact, they've made a contest of it: the first person to bring them a recent photo of Nikki Finke wins $1000.

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Journalists and mediaites might have been a little bitter that they missed out on federal stimulus. But thank god for Megan Fox — a more potent stimulus package than Obama himself could have dreamed up.

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