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THE NEWS HACK'S CREED:
I know more than you.
I make lots more money than you.
I'm smarter than you.
I'm sexier than you.
I appear on TV all the time.
I work ten minutes a day.
I rule the universe.
I'm going to live forever.
You are an idiot.

THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 2:
A lie isn't a lie when it tells THE TRUTH.

THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 3:
I've come to realize that the looseness of the journalistic life, the seeming laxity of the newsroom, is an illusion. Yes, there's informality and there's humor, but beneath the surface lies something deadly serious. It is a code. Sometimes the code is not even written down, but it is deeply believed in. And, when violated, it is enforced with tribal ferocity.
--JOHN "OMERTA" CARROLL.

THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 4:
News isn't news when we don't report it.

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Wednesday, July 30, 2003

Posted 6:31 AM by Gene

The PR fiasco that is Giggly -- er, Geally? -- is the fiasco of film in the age of JACK, of an industry making movies every bit as bad as it can, concentrating solely on marketing and its core audience of shareholders, movie ad-blurb copywriters, and dumb blind teens. But the ruse isn't working as well as it did -- as I've said before, the more movies excel in explosions, the less bang the audience gets -- and we see mounting signs of anger and impatience at the product; the rebellion against GENERAL JR. owes in no small way to biz' continued excellence. In time perhaps the people will do to Hollywood what the Indians have done to Bollywood. Movies are long overdue for serious retrenchment.

P. S. Yesterday I posted on the East Coast fee collector with the funny name. Why would somebody give a movie a title that looks like "Giggly" -- especially given the cloying tabloid romance of its lovey-dovey stars?

P.P.S. If it helps, JACK, take the L from the title and you have Gigi, the best-picture Oscar® winner of '58. Bring back Lerner and Loewe!

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