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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Liz was the courtesan of the 20th century -- perhaps the last in a long line of raging show-biz beauties starting with Lillian Russell who could show off and get away with it. From the safe distance of fifty years we can forget she was once the most controversial woman of her day, what with her flaunting of sex and marriage and diamonds. (Hate to ask -- how does Debbie Reynolds feel today?) For her it was easy -- she had a face (and a bazoom) to die for; she could have launched a thousand ships. Even at thirteen she moved men to relive their puberty. Now show-biz females must manufacture controversy, in a way that provokes not drooling envy but headaches. That we've descended from Liz to her very nominal lookalike Lindsay pretty well says despite all the oohing and aahing adjectives of news hacks the golden age of show-biz ended a long time ago.
P. S. at 1:20 p. m.
Paul Newman Calls Elizabeth Taylor 'A Helluva Actress'
From the dead?
We knew Liz had mystical powers, but....
On Sunday April 10, Turner Classic Movies will present a 24-hour tribute to Elizabeth Taylor, with nine films, including the two for which she won the Best Actress Oscar, 1960's BUtterfield 8 and 1966's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Some people will do anything for SYNERGY.