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A prominent entertainment “industry” figure is blackmailed by a man with a film “treatment” that describes the prominent entertainment “industry” figure’s misdeeds.
Robert Joel Halderman’s “Letterman”?
Well, I had in mind Robert Altman’s 1992 film The Player, based on the book by Michael Tolkin (who also wrote the screenplay).
Halderman’s derivative plot (and considerably less serious misdeeds than in the Altman/Tolkin collaboration), however, did not end as neatly for both players.
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October 7th, 2009 at 1:31 pm
I guess that CBS News is so desperate now that they’re manufacturing their own “stories”: would Mr. Paley or Edward R. Murrow ever stood for any of this pathetic producer-as-wronged-man-in-debt BS? Yes, Murrow did start the celebrity interview under Paley’s watch, but he never became the breaking-news scandal for Thursday night (except for that little bit of dirt from the 1930s about his early Commie sympathies coming out a generation later.)
What’s next — Katie Couric being blackmailed for NOT paying for the Palin interview last fall?
November 28th, 2009 at 10:44 am
The latest episode in victimolatry, which the Right has successfully appropriated after decrying it, with what they falsely claim are its Lefty identity-politics ressentiment origins (e.g. feminists, minorities). The earliest instance of victimolatry that I can think of is Nixon: “You won’t have Dick Nixon to kick around.”
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