Thursday, May 18, 2006

Inside LBC-TV. I received this from F. (a reliable and "highly placed" source in Beirut):
"Ibrahim Al Amine is finishing his documentary on the Resistance in Lebanon (a very good production) and it will be aired VERY shortly on LBCI ..The Strida faction at LBCI tried to undermine the event, but apparently, the [Pierre] Daher folks overrode her...the final financial showdown at LBC between the Strida (and Samir [Ja`ja`]) faction and the Daher people is at the end of the month: both factions will be making proposals to each other, as Samir [Ja`ja`] is expected to buy back his "shares" from Pierre...many of the so called pragmatists at LBCI will soon be out of a job ... again.(a little incident between Marcel G[hanim] and Strida before the Samir [Ja`ja`]'s Kalam il Ness show .... Strida went i , kissed Samir and started small talk WITHOUT even looking at Marcel ... to which Marcel said :"I am Marcel Ghanem 1.80cms..."she did not even look at him ... to which he added, "it is not of my habits to be ignored".... she turned and looked at him and said"All beit Ghanem are not worth the dust on my shoes..."All hell broke lose between them two, and Samir had a hard time containing the scuffle...The tension was obvious during the show!"