Over on the Huffington Post, agent Ari Emanuel comes to the defense of HBO's deposed president Chris Albrecht, who was arrested last weekend for allegedly assaulting a female companion. Emanuel decries the media for their treatment of Albrecht, claiming that they "dusted off the cobwebs" from a sixteen-year-old incident to create "a pattern" of behavior. Though we're not convinced that Albrecht's behavior warranted a firing from a job he was indisputably fantastic at, we do think it's a little callous of Emanuel to bemoan the media's treatment of Albrecht without even nodding at Albrecht's treatment of women — not an invented pattern, but an actual pattern, if you believe Nikki Finke, anyway, who may be overly desperate for credit but is rarely wrong.

In Defense of Chris Albrecht [Huffington Post]