Posted 8:19 AM by Gene

When news hacks aren't doing favors for someone, they're doing favors for themselves. Here's a classic example of both. The Greatest Show of All Time has brought back The Greatest Comedians of All Time for a ninety-day run, and you know it's sold out already, and boy we wanted to get our tickets, so this cretin ran an ad on the front page of THE NEW YORK POST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The truth is no doubt more sinister: Kerngershwin Hammerstein, alarmed at his steadily declining royalties, pleaded with Nathan and Broderick, then screamed at Harvey Whiner and Lowsy Mays, and gave a ticket or two to a pliable hack, and more to his craven editors, and VOILA! Instant sell-out. Well, he'll get his sellout, but who wants to bet after the stunt is over the show goes back into free fall -- and God knows Kerngershwin and his clan have already angered many theatregoers with their $10,000 seats -- possibly a reason the show was in free-fall, along with its vastly enduring excellence. Another demonstration, Andy S. (thankfully on vacation), of why RUPERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! is such a danger to all of us.