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AS the rambunctious entertainers of the Internet make their plays for the showbiz big leagues, these overnight superstars are enjoying the standard introduction to Hollywood. Which means not just glad-handing agents and Kafkaesque "lunch meetings" but also the bitter falling-out with your partners from the 'hood, complete with morning-after mudslinging.

Amanda Congdon's fame, at least among Web-heads and media nerds, bloomed online last year with her snappy, three-minute daily news segments on Rocketboom.com, the New York-based indie video blog that dallies with the day's headlines. But Hollywood beckoned. So after a very public falling-out with the site's creator last summer, she packed up and headed to L.A.