Mark Ebner

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Mark Ebner

HollywoodInterrupted.com
Born 1959
Providence, RI
Occupation Writer, Blogger,
investigative journalist
Website
Official Website,
About Mark Ebner

Mark Charles Ebner (born 1959) is an American investigative journalist. Ebner writes primarily about issues in the Los Angeles area, including pit bull fighting in South Central, Scientology, and celebrity scandal. He has covered celebrity culture for Spy, Rolling Stone, Details, and Salon.com. He has been featured as a guest or contributor on VH1, The Daily Show, South Park, CourtTV, and Fox News.

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Ebner graduated from Bard College in 1982, where he edited the Bard Times.[1]

In 2002 he co-authored Ain't It Cool?: Hollywood's Redheaded Stepchild Speaks Out with Harry Knowles. With Andrew Breitbart, he wrote the New York Times and Los Angeles Times 2005 best-seller Hollywood, Interrupted. [2]

In early 2006, Ebner joined Tucker Max's Rudius Media as a blogger and celebrity journalist. His site is HollywoodInterrupted.com.

Ebner was a consultant on South Park's controversial Trapped in the Closet episode that was eventually nominated for an Emmy Award.[3][4]

In mid-2007, Ebner broke that actor and activist Sean Penn was frequenting a Hawaiian resort in the center of a controversial debate between natives and visitors over an ancestral burial ground. [5][6]

Shortly after the on-campus shooting at Virginia Tech, Ebner reported that Scientology leaders had dispatched "grief counselors" to the scene. According to Ebner and a supposedly sourced document, their intent was to investigate the psychiatric history of killer Seung-Hui Cho.[7][8] This story was later picked up by Boing Boing and made the front page of Digg.com.[9][10]

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  1. ^ Bard Times archive, vol. 1 no. 1, 19 November 1981.
  2. ^ Devers, Deirdre (3 August 2004). Fear and Loathing in LA. via PopMatters
  3. ^ Hollywood, Interrupted Basks in the Glow of a South Park Emmy Nod. Hollywood, Interrupted (06 June, 2006). Retrieved on 2007-08-27.
  4. ^ Tom Cruise's Least Fave 'South Park' Episode Up For Emmy. Access Hollywood (06 July, 2006). Retrieved on 2007-08-27.
  5. ^ Sean Penn Dances on Sacred Hawaiian Burial Grounds. Hollywood, Interrupted (09 April, 2007). Retrieved on 2007-08-23.
  6. ^ Oahu Outrage. New York Post (11 April, 2007). Retrieved on 2007-08-23.
  7. ^ SICK: Celebrity Cult of $cientology Attempts to Capitalize on Virginia Tech Tragedy. Hollywood Interrupted (16 April, 2007). Retrieved on 2007-08-27.
  8. ^ First Photos: Scientologists Invade Virginia Tech Campus. Radar Online (20 April, 2007). Retrieved on 2007-08-27.
  9. ^ VA Tech: Scientologists descend on grieving students. Boing Boing (18 April, 2007). Retrieved on 2007-08-27.
  10. ^ Digg: Sick: Celebrity cult of Scientology attempts to capitalize on Virginia tech. Digg.com (18 April, 2007). Retrieved on 2007-08-27.

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