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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SINCE most New Yorkers probably won't get near the sold-out revival of "The Odd Couple," here are some frontline reports from yesterday's invited dress rehearsal:
* Matthew Broderick, who's been struggling with his lines, flubbed only three yesterday. But the producers weren't taking any chances: They've planted a script girl in the front row.
Now that he seems finally to be getting off script, tension between him and director Joe Mantello should ease up.
* Nathan Lane performed with a big bandage on his finger. He apparently slammed his hand in a door in his apartment.
* Neither Broderick nor Lane is giving what at this point could be called a "deep" performance. "It's pretty much the Matthew and Nathan show all over again," said a person who attended the dress rehearsal.
* The scene stealers are Jessica Stone and Olivia d'Abo, who play the Pigeon Sisters. They got more laughs than Lane and Broderick.