MARK EBNER

'Mark Ebner' is an American investigative journalist who writes about controversial issues in the Los Angeles area, including pit bull fighting in South Central, Scientology, and celebrity scandal. He has been featured as a guest or contributor on Vh1, The Daily Show, South Park, CourtTV, and Fox News.
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''.
In early 2006, Ebner joined Tucker Max's Rudius Media as a blogger and celebrity journalist. His site is HollywoodInterrupted.com.

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Stories

Ebner was a consultant on South Park's controversial Trapped in the Closet episode that was eventually nominated for an Emmy Award.^[1][2]
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 ancestoral burial ground. ^[3][4] One quoted source said "''It's bad enough that Turtle Bay is built upon my ancestors' bones, but the idea that Sean Penn would pay to support what we've been protesting for thirty years makes me sick.''"
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.^[5][6] This story was later picked up by Boing Boing and made the front page of Digg.com.^[7][8]

Bibliography

★ Ebner, Mark and Andrew Breitbart (2005) ''Hollywood, Interrupted: Insanity Chic in Babylon - The Case Against Celebrity''. John Wiley & Sons Inc. ISBN 0-471-70624-8

★ Knowles, Harry, Mark Ebner and Quentin Tarantino (2002). ''Ain't It Cool?: Hollywood's Redheaded Stepchild Speaks Out''. Warner ISBN 0-446-52597-9

See Also

★ Robert Greene

★ Matt Drudge

★ Scientology controversy

Notes

1. Hollywood, Interrupted Basks in the Glow of a South Park Emmy Nod
2. Tom Cruise's Least Fave 'South Park' Episode Up For Emmy
3. Sean Penn Dances on Sacred Hawaiian Burial Grounds
4. Oahu Outrage
5. SICK: Celebrity Cult of $cientology Attempts to Capitalize on Virginia Tech Tragedy
6. First Photos: Scientologists Invade Virginia Tech Campus
7. VA Tech: Scientologists descend on grieving students
8. DIGG: SICK: CELEBRITY CULT OF SCIENTOLOGY ATTEMPTS TO CAPITALIZE ON VIRGINIA TECH

External links

★ http://www.popmatters.com/books/reviews/h/hollywood-interrupted.shtml

★ Hollywood, Interrupted (official site)

★ Meeting Mark Ebner, video footage by Mark Bunker

★ Radar Magazine: First Photos: Scientologists Invade Virginia Tech Campus