Clive Davis-adoring gossip columnist Roger Friedman has been given his walking papers by Fox, thanks to his posting about watching a leaked copy of Wolverine, a big potential moneymaker for the company’s film division, last week. The fact that this furor erupted after his column was published—and not at some point beforehand when, presumably, editors would be going over his work and tailoring it to house style—explains a lot about his general hostility toward facts. [Gawker]