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Kevin Smith Calls Nikki Finke 'Dangerous Cat Lady'
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Kevin Smith and Nikki Finke have a long-standing beef with each other, and now that rumors are swirling that Finke has been fired from Deadline.com, Smith is taking this moment to trash her as best he knows how.
In an interview with The Huffington Post, Smith told the backstory of his relationship with Finke:
Nikki Finke went after me...she wrote some piece about like, "Clerks 2 lost money," and I was like, it didn't, it was a $5 million movie that made $25 million bucks...so then I wrote a piece like, "this crazy lady says these things that aren't true, here's some facts otherwise..."
From there, he went on to drop one of the meanest insults that can be dropped:
Some people in town have described her as the most dangerous cat lady on the planet. And when I say some people in town, that was me.
It's not clear exactly what's going on with Finke, with some sites saying she's been booted from the website that she founded and others saying it's just a rumor.
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