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Article: Stars struck: Harvey Levin brings his intensity to celebrity news.(Media)
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
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- June 16, 2008
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HARVEY Levin, managing editor of celebrity news Internet site TMZ.com and executive producer of its offshoot TV show, has been called a modern-day Walter Winchell, the gossip columnist of bygone days who could break a career with the turn of a devastating phrase.
For Levin, that power comes not with the clever phrase but with the quick distribution of an embarrassing video. And he pursues those images with the same intensity he was known for in his days as a Los Angeles legal reporter on local television.
In the most famous example, Levin got his hands on a video clip of former "Seinfeld" regular Michael Richards spouting ...