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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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Friday, November 19, 2004

Posted 5:13 PM by Gene

I went to Playbill.com to search for another risible hed only to encounter the sad news that the jazzman turned Broadway songwriter Cy Coleman has died. His best work was in the sixties, with Little Me (a sort-of cult show with a small charming score and Neil Simon's first musical book -- and Sid Caesar) and Sweet Charity, which had melodies plaintive and boisterous (and another Neil Simon book -- and Gwen Verdon). After those he imitated himself and others, with cutesy-pie stuff like I Love My Wife (typically seventies show about wife swapping) and the vastly overpraised City of Angels and The Will Rogers Follies, each two hours of musical filler. He'll inevitably be best known for the ultimate gimmick tune, "Witchcraft" -- a gimmick in that Blue and Elvis duetted on it. He was hardly the most inspired of musickers, but those early scores are quite entertaining, and will likely outlive anything from our shrivelled time.

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